Kernel space: Linux security non-modules and AppArmor

Linux & Open Source News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by VMware No more software installation Accelerate software installation and configuration with virtual appliances. Run virtual appliances on VMware Player, VMware Server or VMware Infrastructure. Reduce your time to value. Accelerate your success. LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 07/06/07 Welcome, Linux & Open Source newsletter readers. Phil Hochmuth's last Linux & Open Source newsletter was June 27, and we have merged his former Network World newsletter with LinuxWorld.com's news alerts. Watch this space for all the latest Linux news from Network World, LinuxWorld.com, the rest of the IDG network and our partner sites in the Linux community. If you prefer to get your Linux news by RSS, please check out our news feed at: http://www.linuxworld.com/rss/linux-news.xml Thanks for reading, and please mail me at dmarti@linuxworld.com if you have any questions, tips, or items you'd like to see covered. Manage Insider Security Threats Experts say 75% of security threats come from inside your organization. Watch the latest Network World Editorial Perspectives Webcast today, "Security From the Inside," and learn which technologies and processes best protect your intellectual property and assets inside the perimeter. Click Here to View Don Marti Site Editor LinuxWorld.com LinuxWorld.com Feature Story Kernel space: Linux security non-modules and AppArmor - LinuxWorld, 07/03/07: SELinux offers strict but sometimes difficult-to-manage security. Will a simpler approach, championed by SUSE, make it into the mainstream kernel? More of this week's Linux news Denmark to test Open XML, ODF next year - LinuxWorld, 07/04/07: Denmark's government agencies will be required to handle two competing document format standards, the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft Corp.'s Open XML, during a one-year test period that will begin next year. Parallels releases modified Wine source - LinuxWorld, 07/03/07: Open-source developer Parallels finally released the source code for the Wine software used by Parallels Desktop 3.0 on Monday -- but only after weeks of prodding by Wine developers and negative publicity on the IT forum Slashdot. Joint releases to jolt open source: Shuttleworth - LinuxWorld, 07/03/07: Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth has declared more publicity would be generated for open source software if the three large desktop projects of KDE, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org agreed on a common and regular release cycle. BSA raises reward to $1 million for reports of piracy - LinuxWorld, 07/02/07: The Business Software Alliance has temporarily raised the reward that's part of controversial program encouraging people to report software piracy from $200,000 to $1 million, the trade group announced Monday. Hands on with Ruby on Rails - LinuxWorld, 07/02/07: If the thought of diving into yet another hot new technology gives you a headache, I sympathize. I've stuck mainly to PHP and Perl for years, happily ignoring most other development fads. Is the enterprise afraid of Web 2.0? - LinuxWorld, 07/02/07: Few technological shifts in recent memory have challenged corporate America the way Web 2.0 is doing right now. Schwartz mum on GPLv3, reveals licensing fantasy - LinuxWorld, 06/29/07: SAN FRANCISCO – Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz showed up Thursday evening at the Burton Group Catalyst Conference and declared he would not answer questions about the GNU general public license version 3, but he did disclose his lifelong fantasy. Multivendor identity systems can work together, demo shows - LinuxWorld, 06/28/07: User-centric identity may focus on consumers, but corporate users are finding that CardSpace, OpenID and other technologies could solve federation issues and attack privacy, access, management and other concerns. Free Software Foundation to unveil new GPL Version 3 - LinuxWorld, 06/28/07: After several years of debate and more than 18 months of sometimes passionate public comments and revisions, the latest GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) software license will officially be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Linux contributor base broadens - LinuxWorld, 06/28/07: As the number of Linux kernel contributors continues to grow, core developers are finding themselves mostly managing and checking, not coding, said Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of USB and PCI support in Linux. LinuxWorld Community Is "open source" now meaningless?: Now that proprietary software companies are using the open source marketing buzzword for software under restrictive licenses, what's the point of "open source?"

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