Description

In this episode: There's yet another serious Linux vulnerability to contend with, but there are new Linux machines from Dell. Bodhi Linux is making a return and there's a new version LibreOffice, including a version for Android. We've got lots of tasty Finds and a Voice of the Masses about old hardware.

News:
The glibc GHOST buffer overflow vulnerability is remotely triggerable and potentially a serious threat to your servers. Here's the Super Mario World exploit being performed on a real SNES (rather than an emulator). Dell has updated and expanded its Linux-running Developer Edition range. Bodhi Linux has returned from the abyss, bringing with it a release candidate of 3.0. LibreOffice 4.4 has been released, and there's now a beta version, of sorts, for Android.

Finds of the Fortnight:
From our #linuxvoice IRC channel on Freenode:
Umm... Quodlibet sucks less than Rhythmbox, Banshee etc. Does that count? And its companion tagging app, ExFalso, is teh smartness..
Here's a newbie-friendly one: To get Your Picture Here in the login session "greeter", put a 96x96 pixel PNG file called .face in your home dir. Maybe that's for a newb section in the mag; not really a "find".
For the keyboard-centric anti-mousing fanatic, Conkeror is a web browser based on the same XulRunner engine that Firefox uses. Very efficient. Runs some but not all Firefox plugins -- basically the ones that don't assume Firefox presentation widgets are always present. Very Emacs-y in conception and implementation, including being customizable and even reprogrammable at runtime, using standard JavaScript.
RFC 1149 IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers.

Graham:
Head tracking with OpenTracker and LinuxTrack.
PaperWorks is an open source Evernote/Google Keep note taking platform.

Andrew:
Valve had an in-house economist who is now Greece's new Finance Minister.

Ben:
linux.conf.au 2015 has put all its talks online.
Daala is a completely open and uniquely engineered (by Mozilla and Xiph.Org Foundations) video codec that even has its own Javascript implementation.
Evolve OS's beta Budgie desktop is looking rather good.

Mike:
Lille is actually a rather nice French town.
vsch, a git wrapper that allows you to have several git repositories in a single directory - very useful for your home directory.

Vocalise Your Neurons:
New Year apathy means we have no neurons. But if you'd like yours read out next time, email them to mike@linuxvoice.com.

Voice of the Masses: What's your oldest machine running Linux?