ALPACA is a single nucleotide variant caller for next-generation sequencing data, providing intuitive control over the false discovery rate with generic sample filtering scenarios, leveraging OpenCL on CPU, GPU or any coprocessor to speed up calculations and an using HDF5 based persistent storage for iterative refinement of analyses within seconds. Often, variant calling entails filtering…
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Open Source Software
Ubuntu: 2468-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Software Description: – linux: Linux kernel Details: A null pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the the Linux kernel’s SCTP implementation when ASCONF is used. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service via a malformed INIT chunk. Source: Tech
Top 5 open source project management tools in 2015
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Last year, I covered five of the best open source project management tools , like ProjectLibre and OpenProject. The article struck a chord with readers and continues to prove valuable. Source: Tech
pwntools – CTF Framework & Exploit Development Library
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Written in Python, it is designed for rapid prototyping and development, and intended to make exploit writing as simple as possible. from pwn import * context r = remote # EXPLOIT CODE GOES HERE r.send )) r.interactive() pwntools is best supported on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, but most functionality should work on any Posix-like distribution…
Linux, Distros, and Open Source
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Boy, oh boy, there were a lot of interesting titles in the old newsfeeds tonight. Linux.com has the four distributions to watch in 2015 and NetworkWorld.com has nine. Source: Tech
Open-Source Virtual Reality establishes an open platform for VR…
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Following Facebook’s billion purchase of Oculus VR and Samsung’s launch of their Gear VR Innovator Edition headset, no one doubts that virtual reality is hot. Isn’t it time that someone started on a standard for VR gaming? OSVR sets out to be that standard. Source: Tech
Project Activity in Bug Reports
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Sven Langkamp recently mentiond that Krita had crept up to second place in the list of projects with most new bugs opened in bugzilla in a year. So I decided play around a litte, while Krita is building. Source: Tech
Hel-lo Makulu and Goodbye Zeven
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Today in Linux news, ZevenOS has decided to rest on Ubuntu’s laurels. Jamie Watson says Makulu 7 Xfce is the most beautiful distro he’s ever seen and Dedoimedo says Elementary 0.3 is “purrty.” Source: Tech
Mandriva: 2015:003: ntp
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Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities: If no authentication key is defined in the ntp.conf file, a cryptographically-weak default key is generated . [More…] _______________________________________________________________________ Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:003 http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/ _______________________________________________________________________ Package : ntp Date : January 5, 2015 Affected: Business Server 1.0 _______________________________________________________________________ Problem Description: Updated ntp packages fix security vulnerabilities: If no…
Edit PDF files On Ubuntu Linux using Master PDF Editor
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Ready to be published? LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc. Do you have something to say to the Linux community? Publish it here. Source: Tech