Linux

Linux for Non-Geeks

In what has got to be the most bizarre thing I have ever read, it appears that Asia Carrera, a porn star with her own web site actually runs Linux. She's a newbie and doesn't know exactly what she's talking about in her Bulletin Reports, but she may very well be the ideal woman for most of the guys I hang on with on IRC. Thanks to Scott for this one. Now nobody go to the web site.
Linux

LinuxFocus 'zine

The second issue of LinuxFocus is out, and published simultaneously in several languages. The articles in this issue include a very cool intro to OpenGL programming. This seems to be another very cool source of regular Linux Information... I hope that this and all the other recently popping up linux news magazines can fill the gap the I know I see.
Red Hat Software

Linux Kernel Exploit Affects Red Hat 5 1

B1oodAnge1 writes "Proof of concept code was released last week that exploits a vulnerability in both the 64 and 32 bit versions of the 2.6.30 and 2.6.18 Linux kernel to gain root access. Apparently this affects Red Hat Enterprise Edition 5, which uses the 2.6.18 kernel. From the source code: A vulnerability which, when viewed at the source level, is unexploitable! But which, thanks to gcc optimizations, becomes exploitable :) Also, bypass of mmap_min_addr via SELinux vulnerability! (where having SELinux enabled actually increases your risk against a large class of kernel vulnerabilities)'"

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