Mandriva Linux 2009 Alpha 2 Released (Saturday 12th of July 2008 11:35:16 AM)

AdamWill writes "The Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring Alpha 2, marking the first public pre-release
of the approaching Mandriva Linux 2009. This alpha introduces several expressive changes, most
evidently the inclusion of KDE 4 — 4.1 beta 2, specifically ...
(more)Package Managers As Achilles Heel (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)

An unnamed reader writes "Researchers from the learning mash of Arizona have released a study
that takes a look at the safeguard of ten popular package managers. They were able to show all
ten were vulnerable to attacks from a mirror or man-in-the-middle ...
(more)Suspicious Package At The Red Rock Casino (KTNV Las Vegas) (Wednesday 18th of June 2008 04:55:30 AM)

Action News has learned extremity command are responding to the Red Rock Casino. There are
reports of a likely
copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus hazmat site at
the casino. embassy say a accusatory package was found at the casino. ...
(more)Debian Bug Leaves Private SSL/SSH Keys Guessable (Tuesday 13th of May 2008 08:15:03 PM)

SecurityBob writes "Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the
package they are discussion so that it better fits into the distribution itself. However, most
of the time, their changes are not sent back to upstream for ...
(more)AARP Calls Medicare Bill "Woefully Inadequate" (Monday 31st of December 2007 08:00:00 AM)

As brotherhood approaches the end of the ordaining year, AARP organizer of statecraft
domestic-relations court David Sloane issued the following alliance on efforts to pass a
package of major medical improvements. "Given the inability to find consensus ...
(more)Hynix 48-GB Flash MCP (Friday 07th of September 2007 01:15:09 AM)

Hal_Porter writes to let us know that the third-largest NAND chip maker, Hynix, has announced
they have stacked 24 flash chips in a 1.4mm thick multi-chip package. It's not entirely clear
from the article whether the resulting 48-GB device is a proof ...
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