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Tread with care, and make sure to report -bugs[5]. The only current known issue has to do with denials from DHCP -when booting from the LiveCD. - - 1. http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ - 2. http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/livecd/ - 3. http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/experimental/x86/stages/ - 4. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/selinux/selinux-x86-install.xml - 5. http://bugs.gentoo.org/ - -For more SELinux-related info (baselayout has been modified to make -/sbin/init the initial policy load), read Chris PeBenito[6]'s message to -gentoo-dev. - - 6. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/15361 - -================================= -2. Featured Developer of the Week -================================= - -Sergey Kuleshov - -Figure 2.1: Sergey Kuleshov -http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20040126_svyatogor.jpg - -This week, we are featuring Sergey Kuleshov[7] (svyatogor), the lead for -the Gentoo Documentation Project's[8] Internationalization Subproject[9], -and one of the Russian translators. His main responsibilities include -co-ordinating and training new translators and translation teams, ensuring -translation accuracy is checked and (of course) doing some of the -translations to Russian. He is also responsible for ensuring that -translation teams continue to update documentation as it evolves. - - 7. svyatogor@gentoo.org - 8. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/index.xml - 9. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gdp/international.xml - -Sergey is a university student, currently pursuing a BSc in Mathematics -Computing and Statistics via correspondence with London University[10]. He -lives on Cyprus and enjoys reading Science Fiction. He is also learning to -play guitar. He normally uses a P4 workstation (2.6 GHz, 1024 MB, 80 GB) -as well as a 600 MHz Celeron Notebook. He is a fluxbox[11] user who -prefers mlterm[12] for console chores and gvim[13] for editing. He -communicates using Mozilla Firebird[14] and Thunderbird[15], as well as -PSI Jabber[16] and XChat[17]. - - 10. http://www.londonexternal.ac.uk/ - 11. http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/ - 12. http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/ - 13. http://www.vim.org/ - 14. http://www.mozilla.org/products/firebird/ - 15. http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ - 16. http://psi.affinix.com/ - 17. http://www.xchat.org/ - -Sergey has been using Linux for the last four years, progressing from -Corel Linux through several iterations of Red Hat and Mandrake before -discovering Gentoo in 2001. His experience with Gentoo began with a few -articles by George Shapovalov[18] and Aleksey Fedorchuk on -linuxshop.ru[19], and moved to the new distro when he finally got his -PCMCIA NIC working with the LiveCD. He explained that his preference for -Gentoo comes out of the fact that it is an "OS where you really know what -is going on." He joined the Gentoo developer team after reading in GWN -that George Shapovalov was heading up Russian translation efforts. Sergey -volunteered his services, and was brought into the project. Sergey has -also started up his own OSS project, the GNSS Neural Network -Simulator"[20], which "is a tool for creating and teaching various types -of neural networks." - - 18. george@gentoo.org - 19. http://linuxshop.ru - 20. http://www.gnns.net - -================== -3. Gentoo Security -================== - -GLSA: honeyd ------------- - -Honeyd is a virtual honeypot daemon that can simulate virtual hosts on -unallocated IP addresses. Identification of Honeyd installations allows an -adversary to launch attacks specifically against Honeyd. No remote root -exploit is currently known. A bug in handling NMAP fingerprints caused -Honeyd to reply to TCP packets with both the SYN and RST flags set. -Watching for replies, it is possible to detect IP addresses simulated by -Honeyd. Although there are no public exploits known for Honeyd, the -detection of Honeyd IP addresses may in some cases be undesirable. - -Honeyd 0.8 has been released along with an advisory[21] to address this -issue. In addition, Honeyd 0.8 drops privileges if permitted by the -configuration file and contains command line flags to force dropping of -privileges. - - 21. http://www.honeyd.org/adv.2004-01.asc - - * Severity: Low - * Packages Affected: <honeyd-0.8 - * Rectification: emerge sync; emerge -pv >=honeyd-0.8; emerge >honeyd-0.8 - * GLSA Announcement[22] - 22. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.announce/280 - -========================= -4. Heard in the Community -========================= - -gentoo-user ------------ - -Backup Techniques - -Backups are critical if your computer has data of any worth on it. -Gentoo-user had a great thread[23] on different backup methods. - - 23. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/63219 - -Gentoo 2004 LiveCD - -Beejay announced[24] that the first Gentoo 2004.0 LiveCD was pushed out to -the master mirror this week. Do your bugtesting part and get downloading! - - 24. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/15225 - -======================= -5. Gentoo International -======================= - -Time Out - -There are certainly things worth noting - if only we knew about them. -Please help the GWN team with information about international events, user -stories and interesting projects from your own countries! By all means, do -send suggestions to gwn-feedback@gentoo.org. - -=========== -6. Bugzilla -=========== - -Summary -------- - - * Statistics - * Closed Bug Ranking - * New Bug Rankings - -Statistics ----------- - -The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[25]) to record and -track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the -development team. Between 16 January 2004 and 22 January 2004, activity on -the site has resulted in: - - 25. http://bugs.gentoo.org - - * 619 new bugs during this period - * 365 bugs closed or resolved during this period - * 16 previously closed bugs were reopened this period - -Of the 4818 currently open bugs: 110 are labeled 'blocker', 179 are -labeled 'critical', and 342 are labeled 'major'. - -Closed Bug Rankings -------------------- - -The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs during this period -are: - - * Gentoo KDE Team[26], with 28 closed bugs[27] - * AMD64 Porting Team[28], with 22 closed bugs[29] - * Bob Johnson[30], with 20 closed bugs[31] - * Gentoo Games[32], with 17 closed bugs[33] - 26. kde@gentoo.org - 27. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch -field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01-22&resolution=FIX -ED&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org - 28. amd64@gentoo.org - 29. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch -field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01-22&resolution=FIX -ED&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org - 30. livewire@gentoo.org - 31. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch -field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01-22&resolution=FIX -ED&assigned_to=livewire@gentoo.org - 32. games@gentoo.org - 33. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&ch -field=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01-22&resolution=FIX -ED&assigned_to=games@gentoo.org - -New Bug Rankings ----------------- - -The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during -this period are: - - * Core System Packages Team[34], with 21 new bugs[35] - * Media-Video Herd[36], with 15 new bugs[37] - * AMD64 Porting Team[38], with 15 new bugs[39] - * Net-Mail Packages Team[40], with 14 new bugs[41] - * Gentoo KDE Team[42], with 12 new bugs[43] - 34. base-system@gentoo.org - 35. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s -tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01 --22&assigned_to=base-system@gentoo.org - 36. media-video@gentoo.org - 37. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s -tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01 --22&assigned_to=media-video@gentoo.org - 38. amd64@gentoo.org - 39. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s -tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01 --22&assigned_to=amd64@gentoo.org - 40. net-mail@gentoo.org - 41. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s -tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01 --22&assigned_to=net-mail@gentoo.org - 42. kde@gentoo.org - 43. -http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_s -tatus=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2004-01-16&chfieldto=2004-01 --22&assigned_to=kde@gentoo.org - -================== -7. Tips and Tricks -================== - -Using watch to repeat comands - -This week's tip shows you how to use watch to have commands run -repeatedly. Make sure you have the sys-apps/procps package installed to -make use of watch. - -Whenever you have a long-running process (such as removing a complex -directory tree or creating a large backup with tar), it is common to -periodically check the progress of the task using ls, ps, grep, or a -combination of these and other utilities. Instead of repeatedly executing -these commands, you can have watch do it for you. For the most basic -usage, just append your command to watch and run it. The screen will -update every few seconds (2 by default), and rerun the command for you. - -For example, if you're copying an ISO image that's about 650MB and you -want to see if it's done, you could use a command similar to this one: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -| Code Listing 7.1: | -|-------------------------------------------------------------------------| -|% watch ls -lh filename.iso | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -When the size stops increasing and it's around 650MB, you know the file -copy operation has finished. - -For more information on using watch, see man 1 watch. - -=========================== -8. Moves, Adds, and Changes -=========================== - -Moves ------ - -The following developers recently left the Gentoo team: - * none this week - -Adds ----- - -The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team: - - * Andrew Bevitt (Cyfred) - xfree86 - * Akinori Hattori (hattya) - cjk - * Blake Matheny (jake) - ada, haskell, CL, Lisp - * Gustavo Felisberto (humpback) - jabber - * Leandro Maciel Dorileo (dorileo) - kernel - -Changes -------- - -The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux -project: - - * none this week - -==================== -9. Contribute to GWN -==================== - -Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an -email[44]. - - 44. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org - -================ -10. GWN Feedback -================ - -Please send us your feedback[45] and help make the GWN better. - - 45. gwn-feedback@gentoo.org - -================================ -11. 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