Trusted Debian v1.0 Released

Peter Busser writes "The Trusted Debian project releases its first official release, v1.0. Its main focus is solving most (but unlikely all) buffer overflow problems. It features PaX, a kernel patch which does several things. It tries to keep code and data apart, it randomizes stack, code, heap and shared libraries, it does strict mprotect() checking and it also protects the kernel. Trusted Debian also uses the stack protector patch for GCC developed by Hiroaki Etoh at IBM, which adds overflow checks to C/C++ code. It also features FreeS/WAN and RSBAC, an extensive access control framework. More information is available from the website. There is also a demonstration available for the special capabilities of this release."

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The Matrix Reloaded

[Anonymous Coward]

A spectacular car chase. The loss of a crucial figure in the human resistance named "the Keymaster." A withering assault on the refuge city of Zion by a boiling swarm of sentinel droids. Neo screaming, holding Trinity's burned corpse. And then, cut to black.

That's how The Matrix: Reloaded ends.

Now all we need...

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Flava-Flav shaking around like he's having a seizure singing "CAN TRUSS IT!"

John Carmack's Ferrari is on eBay!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's the item: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ewItem&item=2411725682&category=6212

Does anyone have an archived copy of the eBay page when Romero had his on there?

Re:John Carmack's Ferrari is on eBay!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Input error is due to space in URL.

That's not only Carmack's car, but then one Thresh one in the Quake contest, no?

Pretty cool I guess. Too bad Italian cars break down so much. 100% pressure loss on cylinder 10, and only 33k miles on the thing, what a POS. Looks good (no good if you can't drive it though).

It depends

[Anonymous Coward]

So, does this mean that killing an unborn child is now officially considered to be murder?

Let's look at this case: did Laci get to choose?

Dear Sir,

[Anonymous Coward]

It has come to our attention that you are gay.

We thought you would like to know.

Good day.

Re:It's official. Abortion is murder!

[NFNNMIDATA]

Come on, she was almost due. Aren't 3rd trimester abortions already illegal? Even reasonable people who disagree on when life begins will agree that a child's life was taken in this case. Although IIRC there have been a lot of cases where they would bring a double murder charge for killers of women fairly early in a pregnancy... Perhaps your theory has some merit after all. Or maybe I'm just remembering TV lawyer shows.

Re:No Remote...

[dodgyville]

The problem with Linux is that a lot of the time it just exists solely as opposition to Windows. To me, success for Linux will come when people start talking about Windows in terms of Linux. Linux will never be able to set the agenda if people keep comparing it to Windows. It should be that Windows is compared to Linux.

(rant)
I understand that Windows might have more marketshare than Linux, but let's face it, Linux is BIGGER than Windows in every other way ... bigger in ideas, freedom, innovation and support. Linux (and OSS) is almost like a Bill of Rights in a way.

Linux as the default, and everything else discussed in those terms (and please, no mentions of BSD ... don't you know its DYING?).
(/rant)

So to say that we can't call an existing linux product something because some future windows product might use the term is just a very conservative and reactive (rather than proactive) attitude.