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1. Gentoo News |
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Gentoo developer wins award for home entertainment system |
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Congratulations to Gentoo developer Pieter van den Abeele[1] who went to |
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the Freescale Technology Forum in Orlando, Florida -- and away with the |
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"Best of Show" award for his home media entertainment center based on a |
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hardware design prototype by Gentoo-sponsor Genesi's[2], the maker of the |
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Open Desktop Workstation[3]. Features worth highlighting include a |
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THX-certified 7.1 audio system, a 256M ATI graphics card, SATA hard disk |
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capacity measured in terabytes, full-screen video conferencing support |
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with Altivec optimized audio codecs, a dual TV tuner, Vacuum Fluorescent |
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Display for system messages, fast DVD writer, smartcard support to protect |
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recordings, for authentication and encryption, and infrared support so you |
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can run your media center from a remote control just like any old VCR. |
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More details about the show, including video and audio streams can be |
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found at Pieter's blogsite[4]. |
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1. pvdabeel@g.o |
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2. http://www.genesi.lu |
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3. http://vendors.gentoo.org |
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4. http://metadistribution.org/blog/ |
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Figure 1.1: Pieter and his award: Best of Show at the Freescale Technology |
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Forum |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050627_award.jpg |
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Gentoo at the German LinuxTag 2005 in Karlsruhe |
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"Linux everywhere", the motto of this year's LinuxTag, held particularly |
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true again for the Gentoo team when PPC developer Lars Weiler[5] was once |
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again invited to install Gentoo Linux on a machine at the close-by HP |
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booth in the same exhibition hall. After a Quad-Opteron[6] installation, |
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Pylon this year bootstrapped Gentoo Linux on a sleek Dual Intel Itanium 2 |
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server, featuring 1.6GHz processors, 4GB RAM and two 73GB |
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Ultra320-SCSI-Platten, of which 36GB were set aside for the Gentoo |
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installation. The machine had a gigabit network card, but no graphics or |
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input devices: serial console and later ssh were the only ways in. From a |
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chroot environment in an installed SuSE Linux, a flawless stage1 |
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installation was done, including a 2.6.12 kernel that -- interestingly |
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enough -- needed almost no variation from the default config settings. |
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Trying for an ia64 install CD and a catalyst demonstration, fiddling |
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around with the elilo bootloader and some interesting observations kept |
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Lars busy and happy for a day. |
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5. pylon@g.o |
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6. news/en/gwn/20040628-newsletter.xml#doc_chap1 |
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Figure 1.1: HP's Christian Franck, Gentoo developers Robin Johnson and |
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Lars Weiler hacking away |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050627_itanium.png |
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While the total number of visitors to the LinuxTag was somewhat diminished |
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by the introduction of an entrance fee to be paid by all visitors, the |
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Gentoo booth was as popular as ever. Portability was indeed the main focus |
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of this year's Gentoo presence, with PPC, MIPS and x86 architectures on |
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display at the Gentoo stand, and another HPPA host in the same hall at the |
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Linux Portability stand - a 66MHz HP 735 running KDE 3.3.2... 60 T-Shirts |
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were sold, 15 developers and helpers from Germany took care of visitors at |
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the Gentoo booth, backed up by Robin Johnson[7] visiting from Canada. |
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7. robbat2@g.o |
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Figure 1.2: Still smiling on closing day: the Gentoo LinuxTag team 2005 |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050627_linuxtag.jpg |
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Note: Left to right: Stefan Knoblich (stkn), Marc Herren (dj-submerge), |
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Robin Johnson (robbat2),Lars Weiler (pylon), Michael Imhof (tantive), |
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Sebastian Müller (dakjo), Christian Hartmann (ian!), Markus Nigbur |
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(pyrania), Timo Antweiler (azze), Marc Hildebrand (zypher), Stefan |
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Schweizer (genstef) |
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After the show, the inofficial localized Gentoo XLiveCD that has become |
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sort of a traditional treat for visitors at IT fairs with a Gentoo |
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representation manned by the German NFP "Friends of Gentoo e.V." has been |
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made available. Everyone who couldn't buy one of the 120 CDs that went |
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over the table at the booth in Karlsruhe can now download the image from |
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the Fizzlewizzle server[8]or via Bittorrent[9]. x86 is uploaded, the PPC |
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version will follow in a bit. |
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8. http://fizzlewizzle.net |
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9. http://tracker.netdomination.org |
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Figure 1.3: Cover art by Christian Hartmann (ian!) for the Fizzlewizzle |
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Gentoo XLiveCD |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050627_fizzlewizzle.jpg |
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Developer accounts on donated AMD64 machine now available |
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Several new development systems are being brought online this week! Named |
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pitr, dustball and poseidon,the bulk of the hardware was generously |
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donated by AMD last month[10]. Other donations from various developers and |
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the Gentoo Foundation have facilitated the purchase of parts essential to |
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setting up the boxes, including power supplies and hard disks. |
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Specifications for the three new machines are: |
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10. news/en/gwn/20050530-newsletter.xml |
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* poseidon.amd64.dev.gentoo.org: Dual Opteron 844, 4GB ECC/Registered |
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RAM, one 80GB HDD |
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* pitr.amd64.dev.gentoo.org: Dual Opteron 842, 2GB ECC/Registered RAM, |
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two 120GB drives |
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* dustpuppy.amd64.dev.gentoo.org: Dual Opteron 842, 1GB ECC/Registered |
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RAM, diskless node |
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Figure 1.1: Named after a character on userfriendly.org: Pitr in all its |
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glory |
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http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20050627_amd64.png |
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Two of the systems will be deployed for Gentoo/AMD64 testing/development |
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activities, while the third is destined to become a dedicated release |
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engineering platform. Their deployment is neatly timed to coincide with |
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the release cycle for Gentoo 2005.1 - where their significant processing |
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power will contribute towards the construction of stages, hopefully |
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dramatically reducing catalyst build times! |
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2. Heard in the community |
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gentoo-dev |
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Splitting one source package into many binaries |
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Since most other Linux distros have split packages for binaries and |
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headers, why isn't this done in Gentoo? Where does it help and what |
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problems does it cause? Read on to find out |
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* ebuild splitting [11] |
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11. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/28954 |
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Glibc, non-glibc and external libs |
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As Gentoo/BSD is maturing some problems with the handling of the different |
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libcs become more pronounced. How does one handle the extra libraries |
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needed on BSD systems to get all glibc function? |
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* Glibc, non-glibc and external libs [12] |
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12. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/28900 |
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3. Gentoo International |
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Germany: Gentoo summer camp |
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Bring a tent, enough beverages and food to last for two days, and join the |
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happy Gentoo campers at the first German Gentoo summer camp. From 13 to 14 |
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August 2005, German and other European Gentooists are meeting on a |
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campsite in Wissen, close to Siegen and Koblenz in the Westerwald forest |
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region. Bring a laptop if you like, too, but the camp is mainly targeting |
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real life interaction: just for fun, for getting to know each other and |
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spending a nice weekend a la campagne. Computing -- if at all -- is going |
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to be limited to whatever is stored on the campers' disks, as there will |
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be no internet connectivity. Prices are very moderate at 5 EUR per night, |
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please register at organiser Slick's website[13] (link in German). |
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13. http://gentootreffen2005.deruwe.de/voranmeldung/ |
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4. Gentoo in the press |
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eMediawire (24 June 2005) |
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Sumo Computer[14], known for their Gentoo-driven Kuro-Box[15], has now |
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taken an Asus Pundit-R Booksize Barebones system and added a 3.2 Ghz |
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Pentium 4 Prescott processor, a GB of memory, 400 GB worth of SATA disk |
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space and a DVD/CD-RW drive -- and again ships the small box with Gentoo |
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Linux preinstalled, says the press release[16] posted on eMediaWire. |
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14. http://www.sumocomputers.com |
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15. news/en/gwn/20050523-newsletter.xml#doc_chap6_sect2 |
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16. http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/6/emw254188.htm |
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5. 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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* None this week |
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Adds |
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The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team: |
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* Johannes Traub (_bambam) - PPC arch tester |
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The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux |
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project: |
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* Andrea Barisani (lcars) - Adds sendmail ebuild maintenance to his infra |
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6. Gentoo security |
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cpio: Directory traversal vulnerability |
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cpio contains a flaw which may allow a specially crafted cpio archive to |
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extract files to an arbitrary directory. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[17] |
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17. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-16.xml |
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SpamAssassin 3, Vipul's Razor: Denial of Service vulnerability |
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SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are vulnerable to a Denial of Service |
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attack when handling certain malformed messages. |
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For more information, please see the GLSA Announcement[18] |
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18. http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml |
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Tor: Information disclosure |
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A flaw in Tor may allow the disclosure of arbitrary memory portions. |
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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-200506-18.xml |
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SquirrelMail: Several XSS vulnerabilities |
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Squirrelmail is vulnerable to several cross-site scripting vulnerabilities |
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which could lead to a compromise of webmail accounts. |
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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-200506-19.xml |
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Cacti: Several vulnerabilities |
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Cacti is vulnerable to several SQL injection and file inclusion |
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vulnerabilities. |
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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-200506-20.xml |
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Trac: File upload vulnerability |
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Trac may allow remote attackers to upload files, possibly leading to the |
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execution of arbitrary code. |
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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-200506-21.xml |
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sudo: Arbitrary command execution |
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A vulnerability in sudo may allow local users to elevate privileges. |
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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-200506-22.xml |
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7. 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 19 June 2005 and 26 June 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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* 585 new bugs during this period |
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* 397 bugs closed or resolved during this period |
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* 18 previously closed bugs were reopened this period |
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Of the 8396 currently open bugs: 106 are labeled 'blocker', 208 are |
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labeled 'critical', and 597 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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* Jonathan Smith[25], with 38 closed bugs[26] |
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* Alastair Tse[27], with 26 closed bugs[28] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[29], with 20 closed bugs[30] |
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* Gentoo Games[31], with 15 closed bugs[32] |
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* Jeremy Huddleston[33], with 14 closed bugs[34] |
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* Shyam Mani[35], with 12 closed bugs[36] |
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* Gentoo Security[37], with 11 closed bugs[38] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[39], with 11 closed bugs[40] |
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25. smithj@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=smithj@g.o |
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27. liquidx@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=liquidx@g.o |
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29. amd64@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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31. games@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=games@g.o |
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33. eradicator@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=eradicator@g.o |
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35. fox2mike@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=fox2mike@g.o |
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37. security@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=security@g.o |
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39. gnome@g.o |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=gnome@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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* Default Assignee for New Packages[41], with 64 new bugs[42] |
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* Jonathan Smith[43], with 12 new bugs[44] |
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* Gentoo Web Application Packages Maintainers[45], with 10 new bugs[46] |
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* Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team[47], with 10 new bugs[48] |
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* AMD64 Porting Team[49], with 10 new bugs[50] |
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* Gentoo Sound Team[51], with 9 new bugs[52] |
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* Chris PeBenito[53], with 9 new bugs[54] |
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* Net-Mail Packages[55], with 8 new bugs[56] |
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41. maintainer-needed@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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=maintainer-needed@g.o |
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43. smithj@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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=smithj@g.o |
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45. web-apps@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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=web-apps@g.o |
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47. 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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=gnome@g.o |
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49. amd64@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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=amd64@g.o |
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51. 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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=sound@g.o |
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53. pebenito@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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=pebenito@g.o |
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55. net-mail@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=2005-06-19&chfieldto=2005-06-26&assigned_to=net-mail@g.o |
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