A new xine-lib vulnerabilities update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new Postfix vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:

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New nVidia Linux display drivers are available

"Release Highlights

Added support for the following new GPUs:
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 280
Improved support for RENDER masks, as well as RENDER repeating modes and transformations, for video memory pixmaps.
Added accelerated support for RENDER convolution filters for video memory pixmaps on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs.
Added an 'AllowSHMPixmaps' X configuration option, which can be used to prevent applications from using shared memory pixmaps; the latter may cause some optimizations in the NVIDIA X driver to be disabled.
Added support for DisplayPort display devices (including 30-bit devices).
Resolved various stability problems on GeForce 8, 9 and GTX GPUs, as well as some GeForce 6 and 7 PCI-E GPUs.
Fixed a bug that resulted in GPU errors when changing the TwinView display configuration while using Compiz.
Further improved the error recovery paths taken in case of GPU command stream corruption.
Removed an old workaround that caused incorrect fake Xinerama information to be reported after enabling a second TwinView display.
Fixed the subpicture component order reported by the NVIDIA X driver's XvMC implementation.
Fixed a problem that could result in IRQs being disabled on some multi-GPU SMP configurations.
Worked around cache flushing problems (on some Linux kernels) that caused corruption and stability problems.
Added experimental support for PCI-E MSI.
Improved compatibility with recent Linux 2.6 kernels."

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Howtoforge published a guide about creating advanced MySQL-based virtual hosts on Lighttpd under Debian GNU/Linux 4.0

"This guide explains how you can create advanced virtual hosts on a lighttpd web server on Debian Etch that are stored in a MySQL database. The method described here does not use the lighttpd mod_mysql_vhost module, and unlike mod_mysql_vhost (which allows you to store only the hostname and document root of a vhost in a database), this method allows to store individual configuration directives for each vhost in the MySQL database."

>> Creating Advanced MySQL-Based Virtual Hosts On Lighttpd (Debian Etch)

SUSE Linux 10.1 is now officially discontinued and out of support

"With the release of an mysql security fix on August 13 we have released the last update for SUSE Linux 10.1. (Actually 10.1 was discontinued on May 31st, but the queue took a bit longer to flush from all updates.)

It is now officially discontinued and out of support.

SUSE Linux 10.1 was released May 2006 and was the base of SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 line of products.

It featured a new package management stack, which had problems in the beginning and throughout its lifetime, but which in the next openSUSE releases has evolved to be the fastest and most feature rich available package management system.

Some statistics on the released patches:

Total: 663 ( -3)
Security: 486 (-43)
Recommended: 168 (+44)
Optional: 9 ( -4)

Top issues (compared to 10.0 for some issues):
15 clamav (-2)
14 MozillaFirefox (+2)
12 seamonkey (+6)
12 opera ( 0)
10 cups (+3)
9 MozillaThunderbird (+1)
8 timezone (+3)
8 java-1_5_0-sun (+1)
8 ImageMagick ( 0)
7 OpenOffice_org ( 0)
7 krb5 (+2)
6 squirrelmail (-2)
6 phpMyAdmin (-2)
6 kernel (-3)
6 ethereal (-2)
6 bind (+1)
6 asterisk (new)
6 php5 (-6)
6 xine-lib ( 0)
5 qt3 (-1)
5 openssh (-1)
5 lighttpd (new)
5 kdepim3 (new)
5 flash-player (new)
5 acroread (new)
4 xorg-x11-server (-4)
... rest 4 and lower cut ..."

The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Geek.com demonstrates how easy it is to roll your own PBX in about an hour or two.

"Provided that the instructions are followed carefully, you too should be able to set up your very own switchboard/PBX system and all for the cost of the hardware of your choice. The beauty of Asterisk (Asterisk.org) is that it is free and offers all this functionality right out of the box. Asterisk is a software implementation of a hardware PBX and can run on a variety of hardware platforms."

>> How to build and customize your own PBX with Asterisk

A new development release of Ubuntu 8.10 is now available

"Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 4 is the fourth in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. You can download it here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-4/ (Ubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-4/ (Ubuntu Education Edition)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-4/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-4/ (Xubuntu)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors."

>> Ubuntu Linux 8.10 Alpha-4 released

A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - Postfix: Local privilege escalation vulnerability. Here the announcement:

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