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Multi-touch screens now supported in Linux
As we can see watching a video provided by Interactive Computing Laboratory, multi-touch screens are not only supported in Windows 7 but also in Linux.
Benjamin Tissoires, Stephane Chatty and Gilles Tabart informed that multi-touch technology has been experimentally incorporated into Fedora 12 equipped with modified applications. Some changes have also been applied in X.org evdev driver module and the kernel itself which according to the authors can not be older than 2.6.31.
Mandriva 2010
The final version of Mandriva 2010 has been released. The new version is equipped with KDE 4.3.2, GNOME 2.28 and Xfce 4.6.1, X.org 1.6.3 and kernel 2.6.31.2. Besides this, the guest account is enabled by default and hardware support has been improved.
Chrome for 64-bit Linux and Mac OS
Google Chrome's developers want to release a native 64-bit version of their browser for Linux and Mac OS.
At the moment, Google has published a set of instructions for developers who want to compile the 64-bit version of Chromium - the open source project, which is based on the Chrome browser. As Dean McNamee says, Google has made enormous progress in the work on the 64-bit version of the browser.
Linux Kernel Development report
On the Linux Foundation website, we can find a newly released "Linux Kernel Development" report. The document deals with many issues related to the development of linux kernel.
A bug in linux kernel
All linux kernels released over the past few years have a bug allowing a user to obtain the rights of the root.
The bug is serious and is related to so-called void pointers. By default, the structure of each pointer defines which operations are carried out by the socket. If the operation is not implemented, the pointer should point to a previously defined function such as sock_no_accept (). Despite this, some pointers remain uninitialized. This, in turn, can be used to obtain root's privileges.
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