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This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of 11 April 2005. |
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1. Gentoo News |
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Web site face lift |
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Xavier Neys[1]has applied some cosmetic touches to the official Gentoo |
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website. While the redesign of the site is still being worked on, the list |
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of changes[2] reveals bug fixes for specific browser problems, the |
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introduction of justified text -- a much needed spring cleaning that irons |
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out some inconsistencies in the color scheme, prevents code samples from |
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running off the right edge of your screen, and includes other less visible |
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adjustments. |
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1. neysx@g.o |
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2. http://www.gentoo.org/news/20050408-cosmetics.xml |
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Just in case the updates have created problems for you rather than solved |
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the ones you may have had, please use Gentoo's bugzilla to file a bug |
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report. |
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Forum staff changes |
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Great reshuffle of moderators and admins over at the Forums these days: |
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Administrator ian! (Christian Hartmann) left the Gentoo project two weeks |
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ago, and also retired from his Forums duties. Thanks again for all the |
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work he did! To compensate for ian! leaving, moderators amne (Wernfried |
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Haas), kallamej (Anders Hellgren) and pilla (Mauricio Lima Pilla) have |
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become administrators, so no one needs to worry about spammers not getting |
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banned or problems with inactive accounts not getting fixed in a timely |
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manner. tomk (Tom Knight) also joined the administrator team, mainly to |
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resume ian's work on improving the forums. Administrating one of the |
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largest user communities takes a lot of time, so it's good to hear that |
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two new global moderators, Maedhros (Jonathan Coome) and curtis119 |
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(Michael Curtis Napier) have joined the moderator ranks: Maedhros is known |
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for being helpful in a lot of the support forums, curtis119 mostly for his |
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presence among the OTW community. no4b (Adrian "Abaddon" Czerniak) and |
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fallow (Michal Kaczmarski) retired from their jobs as moderators in the |
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Polish forum, being replaced by arsen (Andrzej Olender) and _troll_ |
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(Przemysław Maciąg), and last but not least slick (Uwe Hoelzel) joined the |
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German forum moderator team. Welcome on board, Gentoomen! |
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2. Developer of the week |
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"Gentoo has the power to rule the world, but we're just not in the right |
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place yet." -- Jochen Maes (sejo) |
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Figure 2.1: Jochen Maes aka SeJo |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050411_sejo.jpg |
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This week's special is SeJo, known in real life as Jochen Maes, one of our |
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Belgian developers (living in Leuven at the moment). He fills many roles |
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in Gentoo: Developer relations, Gentoo/Java recruiter, Java/PPC lead, GLSA |
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padawan, PPC security liaison (together with hansmi[3]). His Gentoo-work |
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is, obviously, recruiting, drafting GLSA, working on Java ebuilds, stable |
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marking security bugs and general bugsquatting. Asked what he considers to |
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be the biggest OpenSource Project that lives, he points to himself -- |
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albeit that statement leaves his audience wondering under what conditions |
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the source code is made available. |
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3. hansmi@g.o |
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The aquisition of the IBM-JRE/JDK license and adding it to the portage |
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tree as well as his work on porting Java 1.5 to PPC are the things he is |
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most proud of in Gentoo. His "normal" work is being done as a general |
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Linux specialist at the French IT-group Bull[4], where he does everything |
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even remotely Linux- and VMware-related. His impressive skills are |
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self-taught, but he attends an evening school to get a bachelor in |
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computer science, which should be done by next year. After that he intends |
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to study Japanese... |
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4. http://www.bull.com/ |
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"Mozilla, Eclipse, pornview, vi, screen and definitely irssi!" are his |
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favourite applications, running mostly on his Powerbook G4 15" with 1.5GB |
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(!) of memory. Other hardware is a Pegasos PPC, two Sun Ultra10, a Sun |
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Ultra5 and a Compaq Proliant 3000R, hosted in fellow Belgian Gentoo |
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developer pvdabeels[5] basement. Although he seems to be unaware of life |
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outside the computer, he describes the beginning of a normal day as "when |
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I first get up I take a smoke and make some decaf. Then I kiss my |
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girlfriend good morning and all those things, and after that it's off to |
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work." His motivation shows in his favourite quote, borrowed from |
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Shakespeare's play Henry VI: "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends" |
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(Part1, act III, scene III). |
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5. pvdabeel@g.o |
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3. Heard in the community |
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Web forums |
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Banned from OTW |
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* Bans from OTW[6] |
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6. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-317818.html |
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gentoo-dev |
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Virtuals revisited (Round 3) |
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Jason Stubbs[7] continues what he started a long time ago: "Back in my |
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quest to rid the tree of the evil virtuals and their plot to destroy my |
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mind. I think I've covered all bases with this one." For a longer |
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explanation of the issue please read the whole mail and the discussion it |
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generated. |
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7. jstubbs@g.o |
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* Virtuals revisited [8] |
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8. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26840 |
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Kernel/Header upgrades & confusion |
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John Mylchreest[9] writes: "To all of you who have had issues with the |
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kernel upgrade, or have confusions over the whole process, etc; Can I |
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please point you towards |
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http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/04/05/kernel_sources" |
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9. johnm@g.o |
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* Kernel/Header upgrades & confusion [10] |
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* johnm's explanatory blog entry[11] |
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10. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26808 |
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11. http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/johnm/2005/04/05/kernel_sources |
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make.profile symlink problems |
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Some user who hadn't updated their Gentoo systems in a while may run into |
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troubles because the 1.4 profiles have been deprecated. This combined with |
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old versions of portage being unable to use cascading profiles makes |
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upgrading a lot more ... interesting. |
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* make.profile symlink problems [12] |
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12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/26892 |
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4. Gentoo International |
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UK: Preparations for UK LWE |
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Rob Holland[13] has assumed the role of coordinator for the group of |
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UK-based Gentoo developers and supporters who are busy preparing for the |
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London edition of the Linux World Expo to be held in October. While |
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there's still plenty of time for preparations, the first information about |
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the event and a call for contributors[14] has already been posted: on a |
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freshly-baked Gentoo UK web server that doesn't hold much information yet, |
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but is scheduled to evolve into the UK's community web site for Gentoo |
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Linux. |
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13. tigger@g.o |
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14. http://gentoo.linux.co.uk/events/linuxworld05/ |
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Germany: Too late to save a drowning Gentoo |
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It may look like a belated April fool's joke, but it's real -- and almost |
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usable... Markus Leonhardt, a long-term Gentoo user and Forum regular has |
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stripped his desktop PC of its case and lowered it into a basin full of |
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vegetable oil. His website[15] is entirely in German, but the pictures are |
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rather self-explaining. |
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15. http://www.markusleonhardt.de/oelbilder.html |
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Figure 4.1: Gentoo host |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050411_oil.jpg |
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Note: Photo courtesy of Markus Leonhardt |
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5. Gentoo in the press |
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NewsForge (4 April 2005) |
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Jem Matzan had an article[16] about the state of OS development for 64-bit |
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architectures in NewsForge last week, giving a short introduction to the |
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benefits of the AMD64 and EM64T instruction set architectures. Generally |
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upbeat about the ease of development for the platform, he finds Linux and |
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FreeBSD maturing particularly well. "While at first it was difficult to |
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find many programs that would compile for 64-bit, today you can have a |
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complete desktop system that is entirely 64-bit without making too many |
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sacrifices," says the author, pointing to Gentoo Linux as one of the |
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sources for operational environments on 64-bit computers. |
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http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/03/30/1242206&tid=152&tid=2&tid=150&tid=74 |
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SYS-CON (11 March 2005) |
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"When I was younger, I ran out to buy the latest Led Zeppelin album - now |
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I run out to get the latest build of Gentoo or Hula," reminisces Kevin |
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Bedell[17], the author of a piece[18] on open-source developers who he |
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thinks have become the same type of role models like the rock stars of his |
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youth. Quoting people who write software for commercial companies, but |
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secretely dream of becoming open source heroes, the article may have been |
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written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the comments look mostly like |
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people are taking the idea quite seriously. |
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17. kevin@××××××××××.com |
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18. http://www.linuxworld.com/story/49072.htm |
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6. Moves, adds, and changes |
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Moves |
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The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: |
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* Michael Tindal |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team: |
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* None this week |
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Changes |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux |
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project: |
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* Sven Vermeulen (swift) - Stepped down from the PR lead role |
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7. Gentoo security |
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Gaim: Multiple Denial of Service issues |
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Gaim which could allow a |
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remote attacker to crash the application. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[19] |
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19. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml |
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phpWebSite: Arbitrary PHP execution and path disclosure |
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Remote attackers can upload and execute arbitrary PHP scripts, another |
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flaw reveals the full path of scripts. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[20] |
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20. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-04.xml |
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xli, xloadimage: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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xli and xloadimage are vulnerable to multiple issues, potentially leading |
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to the execution of arbitrary code. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[21] |
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21. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-05.xml |
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BidWatcher: Format string vulnerability |
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BidWatcher is vulnerable to a format string vulnerability, potentially |
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allowing arbitrary code execution. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[22] |
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22. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-06.xml |
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phpMyAdmin: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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phpMyAdmin contains multiple vulnerabilities that could lead to command |
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execution, XSS issues and bypass of security restrictions. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[23] |
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23. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-07.xml |
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8. Bugzilla |
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Summary |
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* Statistics |
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* Closed bug ranking |
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* New bug rankings |
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Statistics |
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The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[24]) to record and |
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track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the |
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development team. Between 03 April 2005 and 10 April 2005, activity on the |
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site has resulted in: |
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24. http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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* 798 new bugs during this period |
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* 471 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 23 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 8518 currently open bugs: 88 are labeled 'blocker', 247 are labeled |
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'critical', and 634 are labeled 'major'. |
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Closed bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[25], with 51 closed bugs[26] |
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* Xavier Neys[27], with 21 closed bugs[28] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[29], with 21 closed bugs[30] |
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* Gentoo's Team for Core System packages[31], with 16 closed bugs[32] |
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* Sven Vermeulen[33], with 13 closed bugs[34] |
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* Java team[35], with 12 closed bugs[36] |
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* Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers[37], with 11 closed bugs[38] |
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* Netmon Herd[39], with 11 closed bugs[40] |
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25. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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27. neysx@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=neysx@g.o |
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29. kde@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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31. base-system@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=base-system@g.o |
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33. swift@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=swift@g.o |
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35. java@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=java@g.o |
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37. toolchain@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=toolchain@g.o |
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39. netmon@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=netmon@g.o |
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New bug rankings |
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The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during |
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this period are: |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[41], with 24 new bugs[42] |
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* Gentoo KDE team[43], with 14 new bugs[44] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[45], with 13 new bugs[46] |
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* media-video herd[47], with 11 new bugs[48] |
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* Desktop Misc. Team[49], with 11 new bugs[50] |
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* Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers[51], with 10 new |
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bugs[52] |
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* Text-Markup Team[53], with 9 new bugs[54] |
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* Mozilla Gentoo Team[55], with 9 new bugs[56] |
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41. sound@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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43. kde@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=kde@g.o |
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45. gnome@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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47. media-video@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=media-video@g.o |
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49. desktop-misc@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=desktop-misc@g.o |
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51. kernel@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=kernel@g.o |
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53. text-markup@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=text-markup@g.o |
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55. mozilla@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2005-04-03&chfieldto=2005-04-10&assigned_to=mozilla@g.o |
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67. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt_br/gwn/gwn.xml |
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68. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml |
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69. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml |
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70. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml |
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71. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml |
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Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o> - Editor |
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Wernfried Haas <w.haas@×××××××××××××××××××.at> - Author |
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Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> - Author |
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