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A seatbelt for server software: SELinux blocks real-world exploits (LinuxWorld)

Over at LinuxWorld, Don Marti takes a look at SELinux mitigating real security threats. "But the announcements of several recent security holes tell a new story: SELinux, if turned on, can prevent an attacker from using an exploit to its full destructive potential. For example, one vulnerability in the Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project's software would have allowed an attacker to run arbitrary commands as root."

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Trade Shows and Conferences

FOSS at HIMSS, Dr. Janice Honeyman-Buck (LinuxMedNews)

Fred Trotter has a report on Janice Honeyman-Buck's talk at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference. "To start her talk, she gave an overview of what Open Source is. Of course for me it is old hat, but she did a good job of informing her large and diverse audience about the basics of Open Source. She covered the basics, MySQL, Apache, Linux, Firefox. But then she talked about OpenEMR."

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KDE PIM Team Meets to Talk Akonadi and KDE 4.1 (KDE.News)

The KDE PIM team got together for three days of hacking, discussing and community building. "The big topics were Akonadi and KDE 4.1. The team settled on the plan to release KDE PIM with KDE 4.1 based on the traditional backends and include the first platform release of Akonadi as the future base for PIM applications in and around KDE. The meeting was kindly hosted by Intevation and supported by the KDE e.V. and KDAB."

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Interviews

Alan Cox on the kernel, patent promise, and the progress of free software (Red Hat Magazine)

Red Hat Magazine has posted the third installment in its video interview with Alan Cox. Topics this time include his current kernel work and Red Hat's patent portfolio.

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Mozilla Europe's Tristan Nitot, interviewed by Sean Daly (Groklaw)

Groklaw is carrying a Sean Daly interview with Mozilla Europe President Tristan Nitot from FOSDEM08. An audio version [Ogg] and transcript are available. "There are many reasons for that. And actually, for every country, I think, there's a mix of reasons, and the top reason may change from country to country. So for example, I'll talk about Germany. In Germany, people are really into privacy and security and, well, we all know the track record of the dominant player in these two areas. And so they have always been reluctant in giving or using Microsoft software. And so when Firefox showed up, you know, well, a lot of people switched to Firefox instantly. And since then, they are kind of leading the pack. They are past 30%, probably closer to 35% with Firefox."

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Miscellaneous

Kommander Leaps Forward in KDE 3.5.9 (KDE.News)

KDE.News takes a look at Kommander's future. "Kommander, the graphical scripting tool, has been radically improved for KDE 3.5.9. While our next goal is a KDE 4 executor, then a full update we wanted to offer some new functionality for KDE 3 users. Best of all, shortly you will be able to run what was built in KDE 3 unaltered and native in KDE 4. In 3.5.9 the focus was on the executor, but new features are in the editor. That includes popup menus, KPart creation, a DatePicker widget, widget creation on the fly, embedded widgets, standard dialogs, and a lot more. There is a new plugin architecture and new plugins for database, KParts, HTTP connections and even a KHTML widget."

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