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Comment: Re:What could be Kermit's most interesting legacy (Score 1) 146

by melios on Sunday April 10 2011, @06:29AM (#35773064) Attached to: Columbia University Ending the Kermit Project

So conceivably an open source Kermit-95 with just the SSH ripped out (if really necessary) could be made avaiable, if that would be all...

Alternativelly a legitimate message could be: C-Kermit is better and allready BSD so it's better in the long run even if Kermit-95 has some adventage in dying old machines ... so we do not bother ..

From the Kermit-95 project page:

On or before June 30th, Kermit 95 source code will be released with the Open Source Simplified BSD License, except for a few modules containing code that is proprietary to other companies.

Comment: Re:Bastards! (Score 1) 151

by melios on Monday August 31 2009, @11:38PM (#29270127) Attached to: Skype Trojan Can Log VoIP Conversations

Skype 2.1 Beta for Linux was released two days ago.

Linux Kernel 2.6 Local Root Exploit 586

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 10 2008, @03:23PM
from the batten-the-hatches dept.

aquatix writes "This local root exploit (Debian, Ubuntu) seems to work everywhere I try it, as long as it's a Linux kernel version 2.6.17 to 2.6.24.1. If you don't trust your users (which you shouldn't), better compile a new kernel without vmsplice." Here is millw0rm's proof-of-concept code.