LGP Launches PenguinPlay

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Well in fact, this is kind of old news: At December, 12th, 2008, Linux Game Publishing announced their new website PenguinPlay. This website is aimed to be a Multiplayer matchmaker for Linux. Gamers can use PenguinPlay to find other gamers to play against, post about games on the PenguinPlay forums and keep track of just how good they are on LGPs highscore tables.

LGP also released new versions of Ballistics and Knights and Merchants with PenguinPlay support.

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Security Update: Samba

One security update has been released this week for Samba package. It affected 12.2 and -Current only. Here’s the -Current changelog:

Mon Jan 5 14:09:18 CST 2009
n/samba-3.2.7-i486-1.tgz:
Upgraded to samba-3.2.7.
This fixes a security issue. From the WHATSNEW.txt file:
“This is a security release in order to address CVE-2009-0022.
o CVE-2009-0022
In Samba 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, in setups with registry shares enabled, access to the root filesystem (”/”) is granted when connecting to a share called “” (empty string) using old versions of smbclient (before 3.0.28).
The original security announcement for this and past advisories can be found http://www.samba.org/samba/security/”
For more information, see:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0022
(* Security fix *)

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