Draft: Debian GNU/Linux on a Toshiba Satellite A80-117
I intended to write up some sort of HOWTO for using the Toshiba Satellite A80-117 with Debian GNU/Linux for quite some time now, but I don't seem to get around to really finish it. So for now, I'll...
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Anthony Towns is the new Debian Project Leader (DPL). Congratulations! More info: detailed results, Well, crap, vote analysis. Voting participation sucked again, only 43% of the Debian developers...
View ArticleNVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver Root Exploit
A security advisory was released today which warns about a severe security issue in the binary-only NVIDIA drivers: The NVIDIA Binary Graphics Driver for Linux is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that...
View ArticleNouveau - Free Software 3D acceleration for NVIDIA cards is making progress
Nice... the Nouveau project, which aims at creating Free Software drivers with accelerated 3D graphics for NVIDIA cards, is making some progress...I'm looking forward to the day when I can replace "nv"...
View Articleflashrom 0.9.2 released -- Open-Source, crossplatform BIOS / EEPROM / flash...
The long-pending 0.9.2 version of the open-source, cross-platform, commandline flashrom utility has been released.From the announce:New major user-visible features: * Dozens of newly supported...
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