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OK,OK so the little mii-vatar portion of the update is really, REALLY stupid. But everything else looks fairly awesome. Netflix movie playback is very cool (auto-detect HD), the ability to install games to your hard drive is also very nice, especially for those cache intensive games (i.e. Oblivion). The Xbox Guide is actually useful now, giving you quick access to almost everything you could need. So let’s hear it for freedom hating.

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New Features in Intrepid

These features are showcased for your attention. Please test them and report any bugs you find on Launchpad: http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu .

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Prof. Avishai Wool has developed “Korset”, a modification to the linux kernel that compares the expected actions of a process (web server, mail server) with the actual behaviour from the process, and if it acts suspiciously, stops the process before the damage can be done.

This takes a more proactive spin on the defense against malware that the current anti-virus/-malware solutions that exist today. These can usually catch the bad software on your system after being having their signature databases updated, allowing the program to run rampant until this is accomplished. From the Linux.Com article:

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Hewlett Packard has released the source code of the Advanced File System (AdvFS) from Tru64 Unix under the GPL 2 license. HP has also made the documentation, test tools and development resources fully available. The project has its own page on SourceForge.

Martin Fink, Vice President and Head of the Department of critical systems at HP said the aim is to integrate the code into Linux and “To a high degree of data security and availability, Linux users need access to well-established technology.” The AdvFS has been used for over 15 years in HP’s Tru64 Unix. According to IDC HP leads the sales ranking for Linux servers

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BeginLinux.com has a good set of articles outlining the confiuration and use of LDAP. This set includes an overview of the basics, along with server and client articles aimed at the Ubuntu long-term support release.

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Fedora 9 has been released. Check out the review at Ars Technica. I am downloading the release currently and will be loading it on a VM. From the article:

Fedora 9 delivers a cutting edge desktop stack with the latest software and version 2.6.25 of the Linux kernel. This release includes GNOME 2.22, which has some significant improvements like the GVFS virtual filesystem abstraction layer. This is also the first version of Fedora to offer KDE 4, a long-awaited overhaul of the KDE environment. Firefox 3 beta 5—which uses less memory and provides a vastly improved browsing experience compared to Firefox 2—is shipped as the default browser.

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