Operating Systems News and Articles

Adobe cautions in an advisory against a whole series of flaws in Adobe Reader 8.1.2. Most of them also affect Linux.

Californian Ben Kevan, server administrator for Linux and VMware, ponders the future of YaST in his blog.

At the 6th Annual OpenOffice.org Convention in Peking November 5-7, the project could celebrate a new milestone in their 3.0 release: downloads of their office package have reached 10 million.

Hackers of the XDA Forum found a simple hack to gain access to root privileges on the Android platform of G1 mobile phones.

The Enterprise Security API (ESAPI), a set of documentation focusing on application software security, has released a new version 1.4. Javadocs were updated and old interfaces were replaced.

Linux Magazine is broadcasting a live stream from the UKUUG Linux Conference in Manchester, UK (November 7 through 9). It's the yearly event of the UK's Unix & Open Systems User Group.

A current U.S. court case would make it harder for software patent trolls to file for dubious patents and make legal claims based on existing ones.

A competition to design the new 5 euro commemorative coin, set by the Dutch Ministry of Finance, has been won by Stani Michiels, the Belgian artist and free software developer. His winning design, developed entirely with free software, has now been realized and is a legal coin in Holland.