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Nokia updates Linux tablet

Filed under: Linux — bblackmoor @ 17:18

Nokia has made a major update to the Linux PDA it doesn’t want you to think is a Linux PDA, the 770.

Available for free download, OS 2006 edition introduces version 2.0 of Nokia’s Linux platform, Maemo. Included are system level performance improvements, support for VoIP clients, and Google Talk. There’s a full feature list here.

However, according to Nokia, the update breaks backward compatibility.

“Installed applications designed for OS 2005 will not be compatible with OS 2006 edition and will not be restored even from backup,” warns the company.

So, er … look out.

(from The Register, Nokia updates Linux tablet

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Staking the Vampire: SCO’s case comes to an end?

Filed under: Linux — bblackmoor @ 17:10

Since day one of The SCO Group’s lawsuit against IBM on the grounds that the corporate giant had stolen its Unix intellectual property for the betterment of Linux, SCO’s opponents have shouted that there was nothing to the company’s accusations.

Now, more than three years since the fight began, lawyers think that the court’s recent decision to dismiss many of SCO’s claims has shown that SCO’s enemies were right all along.

What appears to be the real end of the case came on June 28. On that day, U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells dismissed about two-thirds of SCO’s claimed 294 examples of IBM contributing Unix code to Linux.

Is there anything of substance left to SCO’s case? The lawyers say no.

(from Linux Watch, Staking the Vampire: SCO’s case comes to an end?)

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Assess a Web app’s vulnerability to attacks

Filed under: The Internet — bblackmoor @ 08:44

This sample chapter from How to Break Web Software: Functional and Security Testing of Web Applications and Web Services describes the most common and notorious attacks to help developers and testers assess a Web application’s vulnerability:

…sample chapter…

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