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  • Linux hits 1% market share

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    This probably sounds like quite an anti-climax, but considering its 60% year on year growth, this is quite an achievement. And Windows has dropped 4% in the last year, which is a considerable dent in its market share. This together with the erosion of Internet Explorer’s browser market, indicates a general downturn for Microsoft. The…

  • The Slackware 12.2 interview

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    Slackware, in my mind, has never been a Linux distribution for novices who aren’t interested in learning about the whole Linux ecosystem. Note that’s not a criticism, just a comment. And in that comment lies the issue with a lot of the Slackware articles that have appeared over the years. Many of them appear to…

  • Debian SSH keys

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    The Debian SSH key fiasco from earlier this year is starting to bear bad fruit. The original issue ( listed earlier in this blog ) is that the Debian project took out some code from the SSH source as part of a code cleansing exercise – this code unfortunately was responsible for inserting randomness into…

  • The Linux Ad

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  • Software design strategies

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    Open Source and its community-based development model is starting to give some in the commercial world a bit of a headache. You’ll remember that I’ve blogged about the fact that I think all software development will go the OS-type way in future and it seems this is happening already. We’ve already seen behemoths like Microsoft…

  • Reiser and ReiserFS

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    Hans Reiser has been found guilty on the charge of 1st degree murder ( of his wife ) yesterday. From the little information I’ve read in the press, I understand that there’s mostly circumstantial evidence in this case, and the body of Hans’ wife hasn’t even been found. Based on this, I’m quite surprised with…

  • Security ( or not )

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    It’s quite interesting that out of the 30 or so contacts I sent information to about the vmsplice issue, only one person came back to me requesting their kernel be updated. This is unfortunately the reality of security these days – with more to lose, people have less concern about security.

  • Linux kernel vmsplice vulnerability

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    The recent vulnerability in the linux kernel pertaining to the vmsplice function has resulted in quite a hole in many Linux PCs all over the world. It is recommended to updated to 2.6.24.2 immediately to close this loop hole. Please note that to successfully exploit this bug, you need to have at minimum unprivileged local…