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SECURITY: (linux-alert) LSF Update#14: Vulnerability of the lpr program.
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1996 Local users can gain root privileges. The exploits that exercise this vulnerability were made available. lpr utility from the lpr 0.06 suffers from the buffer overrun problem. Installing lpr as a suid-to-root is needed to allow print spooling. This LSF Update is based on the information originally posted to linux-security mailing list.
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LINUXEXPO '97 TECHNICAL CONFERENCEDurham, N.C. December 31,1996-- It was announced today that the third annual LinuxExpo Technical Conference will be held at the N.C. Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, NC on April 4-5, 1997. The conference will consist of fourteen elite developers who will give technical talks on various topics all related to the development of Linux. This year the event is expected to draw 1,000 attendees who will be coming not only for the conference, but to visit the estimated 30 Linux companies and organizations that will be selling their own Linux products and giving demonstrations. The event will also include a Linux User's Group meeting, an install fair, and a job fair for all of the computer programming hopefuls. LinuxExpo '97 will be complete with refreshments and entertainment from the Class Action Jugglers.
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Anna Selvia, [email protected]
WWW: Linux Archive Search Site
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996
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Netherlands - Linux Book On-line
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 http://www.cv.ruu.nl/~eric/linux/boek/
And of course from every (paper) copy sold, one dollar is sent to the
Free Software Foundation.
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New O'Reilly Linux WWW SiteDate: 26 Nov 1996Check out the new O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. Linux web site at http://www.ora.com/info/linux/ It has:
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., [email protected]
PCTV ReminderThe "Unix III - Linux" show will air on the Jones Computer Network (JCN) and the Mind Extension University Channel (MEU) the week of January 20, 1997. The scheduled times are:
It is best to call your local cable operator to find the appropriate channel. Tom Schauer, Production Assoc. PCTV |
Software Announcements
daVinci V2.0.2 - Graph Visualization SystemNovember 20, 1996 (Bremen, Germany) - The University of Bremen announces daVinci V2.0.2, the new edition of the noted visualization tool for generating high-quality drawings of directed graphs with more than 2000 installations worldwide. Users in the commercial and educational domain have already integrated daVinci as user interface for their application programs to visualize hierarchies, dependency structures, networks, configuration diagrams, dataflows, etc. daVinci combines hierarchical graph layout with powerful interactive capabilities and an API for remote access from a connected application. In daVinci V2.0.2, a few extensions related to improving performance and usage of the previous V2.0.1 release have been made based on user feedback. daVinci V2.0.2 is licensed free of charge for non-profit use and is immediately available Linux. The daVinci system can be downloaded with this form: http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~davinci/daVinci_get_daVinci.html
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WWW: getwww 1.3 - download an entire HTML source tree
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996
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Motif Interface Builder on Unifix 2.0
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 With object oriented and interactive application development tools, the software developer is able to design applications with better quality and in shorter times. For more information and to download the latest demo version, see: http://www.unifix.de/products/vdx For additional information: Unifix Software GmbH, [email protected]
View Designer/XDate: Fri, 13 Dec 1996View Designer/X, a new Motif Interface Builder for Linux has been released. It enables application developers to design user interfaces with Motif 2.0 widgets and to generate C and C++ code. The VDX provides an interactive Wysiwyg View and a Widget Tree Browser which can be used to modify the structure of the user interface. All resources are adjustable by Widget Resource Editor and by using template files the code generation of VDX is more flexible than those of other interface builders. Bredex GmbH, Germany is distributing the View Designer/X via Web service. Please see following web page for more information and downloading the free demo version: Dirk Laessig, [email protected]
X-Files 1.21 - graphical file manager in tcl/tkDate: Sun, 01 Dec 1996X-Files is a graphical file management program for Unix/X-Window environment developed on Linux.
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