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New Arrival: PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 GNOME has released

Naggie — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:08:22 +0000

PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 GNOME is the first release in the PC/OS family to be based on the GNOME desktop environment, as the Linux distribution has traditionally been based on XFCE. According to the developers, they are targeting more high performance users with this release, but the minimum requirements are still very manageable.

Highlights of PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 GNOME:

-GNOME 2.28;
-Linux kernel 2.6.31;
-Empathy replaces Pidgin as the default IM;
-OpenOffice.org 3.1;
-Exaile;
-Gambas2;
-WideStudio;
-Full multimedia codecs;
-Sun Java 6;
-Evolution Groupware Suite;
-GnomeBaker;
-Exaile;
-VLC;
-GIMP (With all plugins);
-Google Chrome;
-Nimbus GTK theme and Metacity.

Minimum system requirements:

1 GHz Processor;
512MB of RAM;
10GB of Hard Drive Space.

One of the biggest updates in PC/OS OpenWorkstation 10.1 is the upgrade of the underlying operating system and the distro is now based on Ubuntu 9.10, the latest stable release of the popular Linux distribution.

PC/OS aims to provide a complete experience out of the box, so it comes packed with all the components a user might need, like video codecs, the Java plugin and others.

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OpenOffice 3.2 Fixes Several Vulnerabilities

Naggie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:21:58 +0000

OpenOffice’s latest version fixes several vulnerabilities that could cause a computer to become compromised by a remote attacker.

OpenOffice.org has issued version 3.2, which adds a lengthy list of new features and improves the suite’s overall performance while also fixing six vulnerabilities.

Three of those problems could allow a remote attacker to execute code. In one of those cases, a malicious XPM file — a type of image format supported by ODF (Open Document Format) — could be maliciously crafted and allow remote user to execute other code on the computer with the same privileges as the local user.

The suite had a similar vulnerability involving the GIF image format, which has also been fixed.

The third vulnerability could allow an attacker to take over a PC by getting a user to open a maliciously crafted Microsoft Word document. All three of those vulnerabilities affect all versions of OpenOffice.org prior to version 3.2.

Increasingly, Hackers look for these three kinds of vulnerabilities, since users can be targeted by e-mail, and various social engineering tricks can be employed to try to get them to open a document.

The latest version can be downloaded from OpenOffice.org.

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