From aayala at post.com Thu May 5 10:16:22 2005 From: aayala at post.com (Alexander Ayala) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 11:16:22 -0600 Subject: [cAos] cAos 2 install Message-ID: <20050505171622.51C7A101D8@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> Currently, I have an HP Presario XT983 computer with the 1400 AMD processor. I installed cAos 2 through Cinch from an ISO -It was flawless-, however the GUI portion never came up (I only have the command line version of the OS). I've tried different video cards and monitors, and both did not work (is there a Hardware Compatiblity List it doesn't meet?). Is there a different method for installing the GUI, besides the way I went about it? Any information would be appreciated. Thank You, Alex -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm From m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl Thu May 5 10:28:13 2005 From: m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl (Maarten Stolte) Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 19:28:13 +0200 Subject: [cAos] cAos 2 install In-Reply-To: <20050505171622.51C7A101D8@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050505171622.51C7A101D8@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <427A57AD.1090602@datadevil.demon.nl> Hello Alex, did you try just running 'startx' from a commandline? If that fails, please send the text of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log as an attachement to this list. regards, Maarten Alexander Ayala wrote: >Currently, I have an HP Presario XT983 computer with the 1400 AMD processor.. I installed cAos 2 through Cinch from an ISO -It was flawless-, however the GUI portion never came up (I only have the command line version of the OS). I've tried different video cards and monitors, and both did not work (is there a Hardware Compatiblity List it doesn't meet?). Is there a different method for installing the GUI, besides the way I went about it? > >Any information would be appreciated. > >Thank You, >Alex > > > From gmk at runlevelzero.net Thu May 12 21:02:20 2005 From: gmk at runlevelzero.net (Greg M. Kurtzer) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:02:20 -0700 Subject: [cAos] cAos-2 Linux Released! Message-ID: <20050513040219.GA4935@titan.runlevelzero.net> Announcing the formal release of cAos-2 for ia32 and x86_64! The cAos Foundation and the cAos Linux development team are proud to announce the public release of cAos Linux version 2. cAos Linux is a community-managed and openly-maintained distribution of Linux using the LSB standard RPM Package Manager. This release identifies the stabilization and validation of the core operating system as well as stabilization of the extended OS. Members of the community are invited to try, use and love this new Linux Distribution! cAos Linux 2 is scheduled to be maintained for the next 3-5 years. During that time, it will maintain a stable core OS ABI as well as receive prompt security updates. We are very open to receiving donations not only the form of money, but also code, testing, development, and package maintainers. If you want to join in an uprising open source project, then we encourage you to take a look at cAos. cAos Linux is a general purpose Linux distribution that is lightweight, scalable and fast. It is suitable for not only cutting edge performance, but also older hardware which is incapable of running some of the other Linux distribution and operating systems in market. The prerelease has been tested in the following scenarios: Enterprise level servers, development, professional workstations, laptops, desktops, and clustering (HPC, HA, web farm, IO, etc.). Some features of cAos Linux version 2: - Linux kernel version 2.6 - GCC 3.4.3 - Xorg 6.8.2 - File systems supported at install: ext2, ext3, xfs, reiser and jfs - Window Managers: Gnome, XFCE, Enlightenment - RPM 4.4.1 with YUM 2.2.1 - Services included: apache(1&2), thttpd, vsftpd, proftpd, samba, postfix Background: cAos Linux was created out of necessity for a community-managed, RPM based distribution of Linux. The project exsisted prior to the merging of Red Hat Linux and the Fedora Project and continues to exsist independently due to our vastly different goals. It is the intention of the cAos Linux development team to maintain the distribution as a general purpose system with a reasonable life expectancy and package version currency. We are also very open to allow the general public to join in the development and decision making. For these reasons and others, we are the only RPM based, community-maintained and managed Linux distribution. Technical Organization: The cAos Linux distribution is divided into two parts: the Core OS and the Extended OS. The Core OS ("core") is maintained specifically by the project's Core OS Development Team and provides the base system which is responsible for not only building itself, but every package in the extended operating system. The extended OS is maintained by members of the community which allows us to scale properly horizontally as well as allow experts from the community to maintain the packages in which they are most familiar. References: cAos Linux: http://caos.caosity.org The cAos Foundation: http://www.caosity.org -- Greg M. Kurtzer http://runlevelzero.net/ http://caosity.org/ http://warewulf-cluster.org/ -- Do not look anywhere for truth, for all that is needed is to refrain from allowing concepts to arise From m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl Tue May 17 06:27:31 2005 From: m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl (Maarten Stolte) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:27:31 +0200 Subject: [cAos] cAos security update: Firefox and Mozilla Message-ID: <1116336451.8137a8cm.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> Firefox and Mozilla have been updated to the latest version in order to fix the following security problems: MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides MFSA 2005-43 "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL more information is available from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html Please update your systems using 'yum update' as root. From tmattox at gmail.com Tue May 17 07:43:15 2005 From: tmattox at gmail.com (Tim Mattox) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:43:15 -0400 Subject: [cAos] cAos security update: Firefox and Mozilla In-Reply-To: <1116336451.8137a8cm.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> References: <1116336451.8137a8cm.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> Message-ID: Cool. Our first security update for cAos-2, AFAIK. Should this be also posted on the cAos-announce list, or just the cAos-security list? (or neither?) http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo I personally think security fixes should be posted on the security list, and if it's got a remote exploit (especially ssh or other critical service) it should also be on the announce list. And it should always be posted to the main cAos discussion list. Preferably all done as the same mailing/posting, so that smart mailer's would only see one copy even if the user is subscribed to all three lists. We are a young distribution, so we need to figure these things out. Great work to get these fixes on the mirrors before the embargo date of the exploit details (May 18th). On 5/17/05, Maarten Stolte wrote: > Firefox and Mozilla have been updated to the latest version in order to fix the following security problems: > > MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides > MFSA 2005-43 "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks > MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL > > more information is available from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html > > Please update your systems using 'yum update' as root. -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net/ From m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl Tue May 17 08:10:34 2005 From: m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl (Maarten Stolte) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 17:10:34 +0200 Subject: [cAos] cAos security update: Firefox and Mozilla Message-ID: <1116342634.8185ee4m.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> Hi, agreed on all points. Lets pair these ideas with the idea of Greg of making a template for these kinds of emails and put a 'security notification how-to' on the Wiki. Any volunteers for that? We also need someone watching the exploits, is Russel still around to do this? Maarten -----Original Message----- From: Tim Mattox To: Community Assembled OS Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 10:43:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [cAos] cAos security update: Firefox and Mozilla Cool. Our first security update for cAos-2, AFAIK. Should this be also posted on the cAos-announce list, or just the cAos-security list? (or neither?) http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo I personally think security fixes should be posted on the security list, and if it's got a remote exploit (especially ssh or other critical service) it should also be on the announce list. And it should always be posted to the main cAos discussion list. Preferably all done as the same mailing/posting, so that smart mailer's would only see one copy even if the user is subscribed to all three lists. We are a young distribution, so we need to figure these things out. Great work to get these fixes on the mirrors before the embargo date of the exploit details (May 18th). On 5/17/05, Maarten Stolte wrote: > Firefox and Mozilla have been updated to the latest version in order to fix the following security problems: > > MFSA 2005-44 Privilege escalation via non-DOM property overrides > MFSA 2005-43 "Wrapped" javascript: urls bypass security checks > MFSA 2005-42 Code execution via javascript: IconURL > > more information is available from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/known-vulnerabilities.html > > Please update your systems using 'yum update' as root. -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/ I'm a bright... http://www.the-brights.net/ _______________________________________________ cAos mailing list cAos at caosity.org http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/caos From m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl Tue May 17 10:15:00 2005 From: m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl (Maarten Stolte) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 19:15:00 +0200 Subject: [cAos] cAos-2 security update: gaim Message-ID: <428A2694.2010109@datadevil.demon.nl> Gaim has been updated to the latest version in order to fix the following security problems: CAN-2005-1262 MSN Remote DoS CAN-2005-1261 Remote crash on some protocols More information is available from http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php Please update your systems using 'yum update' as root. From herrold at owlriver.com Tue May 17 11:43:48 2005 From: herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:43:48 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [cAos] Re: cAos] cAos security update: Firefox and Mozilla In-Reply-To: <1116342634.8185ee4m.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> References: <1116342634.8185ee4m.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> Message-ID: On Tue, 17 May 2005, Maarten Stolte wrote: > We also need someone watching the exploits, is Russel still around to do this? hi - Russ From m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl Tue May 17 12:16:17 2005 From: m.stolte at datadevil.demon.nl (Maarten Stolte) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:16:17 +0200 Subject: [cAos] Re: cAos] cAos security update: Firefox and Mozilla In-Reply-To: References: <1116342634.8185ee4m.stolte@datadevil.demon.nl> Message-ID: <428A4301.1060906@datadevil.demon.nl> R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2005, Maarten Stolte wrote: > >> We also need someone watching the exploits, is Russel still around to >> do this? > > > hi - Russ oops..blushes..Hi Russ, you are allowed to call me whatever you want for a year now ;-) The email artist formerly known as Maarten