Updates and upgrades

Ubuntu Releases Alpha Version of Server 8.04

The first alpha release from the growingly popular Ubuntu Linux is now available. The build is clearly marked as a not ready for prime time player, but offers a sneak peak at the next release, 8.04, expected in April 2008. You can also publicly contribute to the

Security alert: Remote Code Execution in Samba’s nmbd

Samba release manage Jerry Carter once told me that the majority of "bugs" in Samba that get reported by users are actually misconfigurations of that user's system, or a problem with Microsoft Windows, and are not the fault of Samba. In one of the

BIND 9.4.2 RC2 is now available

Fresh from the yesterday's news file, BIND 9.4.2b1 is now available for download. This is a maintenance release candidate for BIND 9.4, but if you are upgrading from BIND 9.4.2rc1 the BIND developer team strongly encourages you to please see the README file...

BIND security update, end of life for version 8.0

There are a couple of BIND notifications and updates this morning that I thought I'd share with you. The first is a security notification from the Internet Systems Consortium, which oversees the BIND project.

I. Description: ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) BIND 8...

BIND releases get version number facelift

According to the BIND mailing list, the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is making a minor change to the way it numbers BIND releases as a way to simplify the upgrade process for our...

OpenOffice 2.4 goes stable on Gentoo

OpenOffice 2.4 went stable on Gentoo this week. Version 2.4 includes a lot of security fixes as well as