[CentOS-announce] Impact of the Debian OpenSSL vulnerability

2008-05-15 Thread Daniel de Kok
A severe vulnerability was found in the random number generator (RNG) of the Debian OpenSSL package, starting with version 0.9.8c-1 (and similar packages in derived distributions such as Ubuntu). While this bug is not present in the OpenSSL packages provided by CentOS, it may still affect CentOS us

[CentOS-announce] Artwork SIG created

2008-01-26 Thread Daniel de Kok
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Pablo Picasso The CentOS team is pleased to make computers more useful through the creation of the Artwork Special Interest Group (SIG). A SIG is a smaller group within the CentOS project that focuses on a small set of issues, in order to

[CentOS-announce] Planet CentOS

2007-10-05 Thread Daniel de Kok
The CentOS team is pleased to announce the Planet CentOS website. Are you wondering what is cooking in the kitchens of the CentOS developers? Wait no longer, Planet CentOS aggregates the blogs of CentOS contributors, merging them into one feed. You can read Planet CentOS with your favorite RSS/Atom

[CentOS-announce] Virtualization SIG created

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel de Kok
The CentOS team is pleased to announce the creation of its first Special Interest Group (SIG): the Virtualization SIG. A SIG is a smaller group within the CentOS project that focuses on a small set of issues, in order to either create awareness or to focus development along a specific topic. The V