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Debian 6.0 Squeeze Released

by: admin - February 6th, 2011 Filed under: BSD, Linux, Tech News Add Comment

After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name “Squeeze”). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced with this version as a “technology preview”.

Debian 6.0 includes the KDE Plasma Desktop and Applications, the GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments as well as all kinds of server applications. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.

Debian runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of nine architectures are supported by Debian GNU/Linux: 32-bit PC / Intel IA-32 (i386), 64-bit PC / Intel EM64T / x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390), and ARM EABI (armel).

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After nearly 13 years, the Debian website design has been updated….

[Another fine release from Debian. Yeh. Great work guys. I can say that as a person who runs Debian testing.]

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Tags: Debian, Design, kFreeBSD, Squeeze

PHP Hangs On Numeric Value 2.2250738585072011e-308

by: admin - January 7th, 2011 Filed under: BSD, developer, Linux, Security, Tech News, Windows Add Comment

I stumbled upon a very strange bug in PHP; this statement sends it into an infinite loop:

[php $d = 2.2250738585072011e-308;]

(The same thing happens if you write the number without scientific notation — 324 decimal places.)

I hit this bug in the two places I tested for it: on Windows (PHP 5.3.1 under XAMPP 1.7.3), and on Linux (PHP Version 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5) — both on an Intel Core Duo processor.

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Tags: 2.2250738585072011e-308, PHP

FBI Implements Backdoors in OpenBSD

by: admin - December 15th, 2010 Filed under: BSD, Safety, Security, Tech News Add Comment

I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company
they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack. Around 2000-2001.

Since we had the first IPSEC stack available for free, large parts of the code are now found in many other projects/products. Over 10 years, the IPSEC code has gone through many changes and fixes, so it is unclear what the true impact of these allegations are.

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KDE 4.5 Trades Revolution for Evolution

by: admin - August 20th, 2010 Filed under: BSD, Design, developer, Linux, Tech News, User Interface Add Comment

By the standards of previous releases in the KDE 4 series, KDE 4.5 is tame. It has few new applications, and introduces no new technologies. Yet with its combination of small innovations and interface improvements, KDE 4.5 still manages to be a release worth installing. Although it does not try to expand the concept of the desktop, it does make KDE easier to use in dozens of small and satisfying ways.

Released August 10, KDE 4.5 is already packaged for many major distributions, including Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, although in some cases you will have to look in the developmental repositories rather than the main ones. Source code is also available from the project. Those who want to try it before installing can download the latest CD from openSUSE’s KDE Four Live site.

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