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Education

Submission + - Educational Linux distro provides tech-bundle for kids and educators (opensource.com)

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Jason Hibbets
Jason Hibbets writes: "Finally, a version of Linux designed for kids and education. In this interview with Jim Klein, founder of Ubermix, we discover a Linux distribution designed with kids, education, and educators in mind. This could change the way our the next generation learns about Linux and open source software like Celestia, Stellarium, Scratch, VirtualLab Microscope, iGNUit, and more."
Security

Submission + - BackTrack successor Kali Linux launched (scmagazine.com.au)

Submitted by mask.of.sanity
mask.of.sanity writes: Kali, the sixth instalment of the BackTrack operating system has been launched. The platform is a favourite of hackers and penetration testers and has been entirely rebuilt to become more secure, transparent and customisable. Metasploit too has been rebuilt to be more stable with an optional noob-friendly interface. Kali even works on ARM devices and comes ready to go for your Raspberry Pi.
Linux

Submission + - Patching Dependencies (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We were caught in a situation where if we upgraded Postfix, we might break the installed MySQL client. There are a couple of things wrong with this situation. First off, why, oh why, does Postfix require a MySQL client to be installed? Postfix is our MTA, a mail transfer agent, setup because it is easy to configure and we need to do a couple things differently from what is available out of the box. We have absolutely no use for MySQL on every server in the environment. Secondly, why was the third party MySQL (or is that first party, since it is from Oracle?) installed over the default filesystem?
GNOME

Submission + - GNOME Responds To Canonical's Mir By Rushing Wayland Support (phoronix.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Canonical's plan to develop the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu rather than going with their original plans to adopt Wayland has been met with criticism from KDE developers that "Mir is an answer to a question nobody asked. It’s a solution to problem which does not exist." The GNOME response to Ubuntu's Mir is that they will now be rushing support for the GNOME desktop on Wayland. Over the next two release cycles they plan to iron out the Wayland support for the GNOME Shell, the GTK+ toolkit, and all GNOME packages so that by this time next year you can be running GNOME entirely on Wayland while still having X11 fall-back support.
Operating Systems

Submission + - CentOS 6.4 Released (centos.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 derivative CentOS version 6.4 has been released just 15 days after it supstream provider. According to the release notes some of the major changes include the addition of Microsoft's Hyper-V drivers and that Samba is now upgraded to the latest upstream version. Among other new features are full support for parallel NFS as well as the inclusion of virtio-SCSI, which makes it possible to connect directly to SCSI LUNs and offers better scalability compared to virtio-blk.
KDE

Submission + - KDE releases Plasmate 1.0, a Plasma Workspaces SDK (kde.org)

Submitted by
jrepin
jrepin writes: "The KDE Plasma Workspaces team is excited to announce the first stable release of Plasmate: an add-ons SDK that focuses on ease of use. Plasmate follows the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing, and do it well". As such, it is not a general purpose IDE but rather a tool specifically tailored to creating Plasma Workspace add-ons using non-compiled languages such as QML and Javascript. It guides each step in the process, simplifying and speeding up project creation, development, adding new assets, testing and publishing. The goal of Plasmate is to enable creating something new in seconds and publishing it immediately."
Virtualization

Submission + - Linux KVM Ported to ARM64/AArch64 (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: Linux KVM has been ported to ARM64 just ahead of the release of the architecture, it has been revealed. Just last year ARM KVM virtualization support for Cortex-A15 32bit ARM processor was published. Marc Zyngier of ARM released a set of 29 patches that contained the implementation of KVM for ARM that depends on the pre-arm64 rework as well as tiny perf patch published earlier. Some of the newly released port are support for 4k and 64k pages and 32-bit as well as 64-bit guests.
Unix

Submission + - Sudo Authentication bypass Vulnerability Emerges (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: A new vulnerability has been discovered in sudo whereby protection offered by the utility can be bypassed to execute commands which are otherwise only executable through sudo along with the correct password. If a few prerequisites are met; the sudo timestamp is reset using sudo -k; and system time clock is set to epoch the user can execute commands without having to enter password again. The Sudo versions that are affected by this vulnerability are 1.6.0 through to 1.7.10p6; 1.8.0 through to 1.8.6p6. Versions where the vulnerability is fixed have already been made available – 1.7.10p7 and 1.8.6p7.
KDE

Submission + - KDE Software Compilation 4.10.1 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by
jrepin
jrepin writes: "Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications and Development Platform. These updates are the first in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.10 series. Over 100 recorded bugfixes include improvements to the Personal Information Management suite Kontact, the Window Manager KWin, and others. KDE's Development Platform has received a number of updates that affect multiple applications."
Ubuntu

Submission + - Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland (phoronix.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On the Ubuntu Wiki is now the Mir specification, which is a next-generation display server not based on X11/X.Org or Wayland. Canonical is rolling their own display server for future releases of Ubuntu for form factors from mobile phones to the desktop. Mir is still in development but is said to support Android graphics drivers, open-source Linux graphics drivers, and they're pressuring hardware vendors with commercial closed-source drivers to support it too. They also said X11 apps will be compatible along with GTK3 and Qt/QML programs. Canonical isn't using X11 or Wayland with their future Unity desktop as they see many shortcomings from these existing and commonly used components. Will Mir work as Ubuntu's own display server?
Debian

Submission + - Gamer Rewrites Valve's Steam Installer For Debian (thepowerbase.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Gaming on Linux is a very real thing right now, and most of that is thanks to Steam. Initially, Steam committed only to the most popular desktop distribution, Ubuntu but more recently has opened the door to others. So what do you do when you want to game in Linux and you’re using something a little less popular — at least, on the desktop?

If you’re GhostSquad57, you rewrite the installer for Debian and upload it to Github. GhostSquad57 uploaded his efforts to Github yesterday, and has since reached out to the Linux community...

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