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Adobe Flash Player vulnerability

Submitted by linuxwolf on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 13:37

Adobe has reported a vulnerability in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 (and earlier), including the Linux version. "This vulnerability could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system." There is a Flash Player 10.1 Release Candidate that does not appear to be vulnerable. More info and links at Linux Weekly news. http://lwn.net/Articles/391207/rss

FreeBSD 8.1 Beta 1 is out for a test drive by users

Submitted by linuxwolf on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 13:28

FreeBSD 8.1 is expected to be released as final sometime this July, The beta of this reelease is now also available for our BSD friends to try. As I mostly focus on Linux I will let the FreeBSD mailing list give you links and more info.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-May/057040.html

Ubuntu releases 10.10 Alpha release for testing

Submitted by linuxwolf on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 13:20

Well for those brave at heart Ubuntu has released a Alpha release of their upcoming Maverick Meerkat release.
The first alpha version of Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) is now out and is inteneded for advanced users, and developers. DO NOT install this on any production based machine, only a Dev server for testing and bug squashing, more info can be found here.
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/maverick/alpha1

Puppy Linux 5.0 released

Submitted by linuxwolf on Sat, 05/22/2010 - 11:05

Now while I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a lot of my PC's, one of my laptops just cant do it. Now there is of course Net-book optimized flavors even they did'nt run well. The laptop a very old IBM Thinkpad slow Pentium II, tiny Hdrive, only has 256mb of ram and no way to add more. I will post later how it goes, but thought I would post that 5.0 of Puppy linux (Lucid Puppy) is out for those in a similar bind as myself.
You can read more about it, http://puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Overview%20and%20Getting%20Sta...

List of bash commands

Submitted by linuxwolf on Fri, 05/21/2010 - 14:23

One of the things a lot of users don't realize, is that its often easier to use Command line to perform functions. This is not to say that GUI tools don't have their place. But what if your Xserver gets messed up, you wont have a access to those tools. Here is a great page I have used over the years to look up what command I need and how to use it, it It is relevant of course to the bash command line but most shells have similar commands.
http://ss64.com/bash/

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