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Submission + - Canonical Giveth the Gift of Android-on-Ubuntu (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @04:31PM

An anonymous reader writes: ArsTechnica reports that "At the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, Canonical has unveiled a prototype Android execution environment that will allow Android applications to run on the Ubuntu Linux distribution."

Cracked Linux Boxes Used to Wield Windows Botnets 309

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 05, 2007 @08:43AM from the good-alliteration-but-scary-concept dept.

m-stone writes "Online auction house eBay recently did a threat assessment to better understand the forces ranging against them. The company is keeping the fine details under wraps, but the biggest source of danger for the company is apparently botnets. You're never going to guess who was running them. '[Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information and security officer] noticed an unusual trend when taking down phishing sites. 'The vast majority of the threats we saw were rootkitted Linux boxes, which was rather startling. We expected Microsoft boxes,' he said. Rootkit software covers the tracks of the attackers and can be extremely difficult to detect. According to Cullinane, none of the Linux operators whose machines had been compromised were even aware they'd been infected. Because Linux is highly reliable and a great platform for running server software, Linux machines are desired by phishers, who set up fake websites, hoping to lure victims into disclosing their passwords."

Antarctic Ozone Hole Shrinks 30 Percent 436

Posted by kdawson on Thursday October 04, 2007 @10:46AM from the but-don't-spray-cfc's-in-celebration dept.

polar red sends us news of a story that many outlets have picked up from a European Space Agency press release: the Antarctic ozone hole is 30% smaller than it was during the previous record year. It's still about the size of North America. "Scientists say this year's smaller hole... is due to natural variations in temperature and atmospheric dynamics... and is not indicative of a long-term trend. 'Although the hole is somewhat smaller than usual, we cannot conclude from this that the ozone layer is recovering already,' [one researcher said]."

Comment Sweet Shots (Score 0, Troll) 190

by grayson_DEV on Tuesday August 15, 2006 @12:13PM (#15910785) Attached to: Slackware 11.0 Almost Done

"... OSDir has some sweet shots of Slackware 11.0 RC1 in the Slackware 11.0 RC1 Screenshot Tour."

sweet shots? I hope you're joking - those are some seriously generic, dull, unappealing screenshots.

Yes, there's a lot more to a system than looks - but for a desktop OS, looks count a lot. And those screenshots don't give anyone a reason to give Slackware a second glance.

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