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Linux-Announce Digest #706
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Sat Mar 13 04:13:17 2004
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Linux-Announce Digest #706, Volume #4 Sat, 13 Mar 2004 04:13:11 EST
Contents:
NoteEdit 2.5.0: Octaviation (j.anders@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated (Howard Holm)
Reports from Spain... and Namibia ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:46:09 CST
From: j.anders@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Subject: NoteEdit 2.5.0: Octaviation
Version 2.5.0 of the musical score editor NoteEdit is available:
http://rnvs.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~jan/noteedit/noteedit.html
New features:
- Octaviation (va - lines)
- better mouse positioning support: A gray note near
the cursor snaps to the line where the next note
will appear
- (limited) drum export to ABC music
--
J.Anders, Chemnitz, GERMANY (ja@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:35:13 CST
Subject: SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated
From: Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
The SELinux web site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> including the mail
list archive has been updated. The site includes a new release of the
SELinux prototype. Experimental SELinux NFS code has been made
available. The base kernel version for 2.4 has been updated to 2.4.25.
The base version for 2.6 remains 2.6.3, but the SELinux patch has been
updated. Among the improvements in this release: Fine-grained boolean
labeling support has been merged. The userspace AVC has been enhanced to
handle netlink selinux notifications. MLS improvements have been merged
as well as updates to slat and the example policy.
Security-enhanced Linux incorporates a strong, flexible mandatory
access control architecture into the major subsystems of the Linux
kernel. The system provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of
information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements. This
allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security
mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that
can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. The SELinux web
site <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> contains background information,
documentation, source code, and archives for the selinux mailing-list.
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Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Office of Defensive Computing Research
National Security Agency
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:45:29 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Reports from Spain... and Namibia
These reports are from my collagues, who were involved in putting
together the *FLOSS and the Developing Countries* 2003 report in Finland.
Below is Niranjan Rajani (Helsinki) followed by Nico Coetzee in
Johanesburg. I'm penning these lines from a hot and getting-humid Goa on
the west coast of India. The person yet to 'wake up' is Cesar Brod, from
the deep south of Brazil.
If anyone wants to get in touch with these guys, contact me for their
email addresses. And, while on the subject, why not launch an
international GNU/Linux news agency... as seen from the field? Any
takers? FN
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March 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783
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14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | Writing with a difference
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | ... on what makes *the* difference
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========== Forwarded message ==========
Good to hear from you Nico.
It seems we are again waking up a little bit from our sleeps.
First to wake was Fred :-), then Cesar, Nico and finally I am also
getting out of slumber ;-) (let me go to sleep again).
Nico, Say hello to all FLOSSers in Namibia.
I was in Malaga Spain two weeks ago. It was the OSWC
<http://www.opensourceworldconference.com>. organized by the Government
of Andalusia. They have their own distribution of Linux called
GuadaLinex. It was very heartning to see that they expected a couple of
hundred participants, but in the last three days before the conference
about 1500-2000 students registered and appeared, wiht lots of females.
The conference was opened by the Crown Prince, and addressed by former
Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.
How is it in other places?
regards
niranjan
Nico Coetzee said on 2004-03-11 16:13:
> Mmmm... things are hapening fast these days :)
>
> I'm in Namibia next week on the "Africa Source: African Free and Open Source
> Software Developers Meeting" (http://www.tacticaltech.org/africasource).
>
> I'm presenting on Clusters, Security and Project management. Other topics
> include cheap/recycled PC's, OSS Project Management in Africa and tons of
> other stuff. In Africa we are really pulling together, and it seems the
> various governments are starting to notice.
>
> You might also be interested in this:
> http://itfirms.co.za/html/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19
>
> Cheers
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.~. Niranjan Rajani.
/ v \ GSM +358-40-543 1958
/( _ )\ Laivalahden puistotie 7 F 77
^ ^ 00810 Helsinki, Finland.
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