VI vs. EMACS to be Settled!
In what will undoubtedly be the single most important
achievement in the development of free software, the
vi vs. emacs war will be settled at the
Linux Expo. The war will be settled in the only
fair way:Paintball! Thanks to
Michael Maher for sending
this my way. I hope I can make it... guess which team
I'll be on!
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.
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.
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)'"
Hacking Mot's Linux Phones
An anonymous reader writes "An article at LinuxDevices.com describes an effort underway to create an open source Linux 2.6 kernel for Motorola's Linux-based mobile phones. The project, called OpenEZX and founded by core netfilter/iptables developer Harald Welte, aims to allow users to install and run native Linux applications on their Motorola Linux phones."