Sexy Jihad

Yes yes. Everyones favourite secure operating system has had a new release. There are oodles of new features, including tons of new and improved wireless drivers, new ports for the Sharp Zaurus and SGI, improvements to OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, CARP, PF, a new OSPF daemon, new functionality for the already-excellent ports & packages system, and […]

A new release of firefox, consisting of security fixes:

MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides
MFSA 2005-43 “Wrapped” javascript: urls bypass security checks
MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL

Get it or get 0wned!

A new version of FreeBSD has just been released:
The Release Engineering Team is happy to announce the availability of FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE, the latest release of the FreeBSD Stable development branch. Since FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE in November 2004 we have made many improvements in functionality, stability, performance, and device driver support for some hardware, as well as […]

Ars Technica has written a fascinating brief history of the GUI. Excerpt:
The history of the development of the graphical user interface is a long and complicated tale. While it is easy to find individuals like Douglas Engelbart and Alan Kay who made great contributions to advancing the state of the art, the truth of the […]

Kerneltrap has written an interesting brief history of http://kernel.org. Excerpt:
Peter Anvin has been involved with Linux since nearly the beginning. When Linus Torvalds purchased his first computer on which he began writing the Linux kernel, the state-of-the art PC with 4 megabytes of RAM and running at 33 megahertz was too expensive for him to […]

Good news for all of us wanting to live in a free virtual world. Eweek reports that SCO’s revenue is continuing to decline. Excerpt:

The SCO Group Inc. has been locked in battles with IBM and other companies over its Unix intellectual property rights, whether any of its Unix code has been stolen into the popular […]

Linus Torvalds is looking for a new SCM for his project’s source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper. ‘I’ve decided to not use BK (BitKeeper) mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives,’ Torvalds said in a posting. ‘Rather than continuing things as normal, I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like

Just came across an Asterisk HOWTO. Excerpt:

What would it mean to you to have your own full-featured PBX system at your home or small office? What would it mean to you if you could build an entire PBX system (minus the phones) on hardware you probably have laying around, AND that it can probably also […]

A new version of firefox has been released. Version 1.0.1 has several security fixes, including a fix for spoofing domain names with unicode. For more information check out the release notes.

On February 15th, exactly 99 days after it was released, Firefox 1.0 smashed through the 25 million download milestone.
Thank you.
Thank you for helping us take this product from 25 to 25 million, from our little corner of the world to yours, from the technically elite to Karen and Rimone.
With a minimal set of tools—an affiliate […]