Linux Today Linuxnewbie.org PHPBuilder Linux Programming Just Linux Enterprise Linux Today Linux Start Linux Central BSD Today Linux Apps Apache Today Linux Planet All Linux Devices BSD Central SITE DESCRIPTIONS

Take a look at

The latest HelpDex!

	internet.com Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. Linux/Open Source Web Developer ECommerce/Marketing ISP Resources ASP Resources Wireless Internet Downloads Internet Resources Internet Lists International EarthWeb Career Resources Search internet.com Advertising Info Corporate Info

View Category Security News Press Press Rel. Community Software Opinions

Search Linux Today Search internet.com

linuxcentral.com: New Products •FreeBSD 4.3 (Jewel Case) •Official SuSE Linux 7.2 Personal Edition •Official SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional Edition •OpenBSD 2.9 •PHP and MySQL Web Development •Effective awk Programming 3rd Edition •Yellow Dog Linux CDROM 2.0 (Unofficial) •PHP for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide •The Linux Book •Essential PHP for Web Professionals, 1/e Search for Linux products

Linux Today Newsletters Subscribe News Subscribe PR Subscribe Security Subscribe Jobs

Publish: Why should you care about open source?

(Jul 8, 2001, 17:00 UTC) (2165 reads) (2 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
The ultimate Open Source projects? XML and Macromedia's DreamWeaver, a closed-source product with an open API.

LinuxProgramming: GPL Mumps Compiler available

(Jul 8, 2001, 16:00 UTC) (1041 reads) (3 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"Mumps (sometimes called M) is a language from the late 60's used widely in medicine. We have developed a GNU GPL version of Mumps that translates Mumps code to C for subsequent compilation. The compiler itself is covered entirely by the GPL license and the run-time support routines that are incorporated into the compiled programs, by the LGPL."

GUI-Lords.org: Interview with Shawn Gordon of theKompany.com

(Jul 8, 2001, 15:00 UTC) (1889 reads) (11 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Shawn Gordon, whose company is one of the more aggressive purveyors of desktop software in the Linux/Open Source space, answers a slew of questions from GUI-Lords.org. Among the topics: why he chose KDE over GNOME as a development platform, how he plans to compete with proprietary offerings, and why theKompany.com uses both Open Source and proprietary licenses.

SECURITY: Red Hat Security Advisory: xinetd

(Jul 8, 2001, 14:00 UTC) (1062 reads) (6 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"A vulnerability has been found in xinetd's string handling."

Silicon.com: Caldera and Red Hat at loggerheads over Linux licensing

(Jul 8, 2001, 13:00 UTC) (2015 reads) (10 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Red Hat Software promises to never impose per-seat licensing on Red Hat Linux users.

osOpinion: Microsoft Flatters the Penguinista

(Jul 8, 2001, 12:00 UTC) (2917 reads) (6 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"Expect legislation that will make it easier to patent software, and expect some open source groups to be sued for patent infringement. For example, Microsoft patented the file format of its ASF streaming video and forced a halt to development of VirtualDub, an open-source project, which would have used ASF."

Wall Street Journal: Court Ruling Was No Victory For Microsoft

(Jul 8, 2001, 12:00 UTC) (3892 reads) (16 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
When the Wall Street Journal says you're an evil monopoly, you're an evil monopoly.

Globe and Mail: Microsoft critics are 'tying' themselves in knots

(Jul 7, 2001, 22:00 UTC) (5149 reads) (48 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Here's a column that's bound to make you think: Mathew Ingram argues that the real issue in the ongoing Microsoft litigation is whether users should be protected from themselves, and that Microsoft's critics are really trying to force the government to admit that users are too stupid or lazy to seek alternatives like Linux.

Pinehead.com: Basic Samba config for a Windows network

(Jul 7, 2001, 21:00 UTC) (2412 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Here's another tutorial on configuring Samba for a Windows network.

ZDNet: New OS options galore

(Jul 7, 2001, 20:00 UTC) (3198 reads) (4 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Stephan Somogyi reviews the many operating systems available for the PowerPC platform, including Yellow Dog Linux, SuSE Linux for PowerPC, OpenBSD, and NetBSD. To his surprise, he found that they performed better on the PowerPC architecture than Mac OS X.

CNET News.com: MontaVista signs Linux deals, cuts staff

(Jul 7, 2001, 19:00 UTC) (1266 reads) (3 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
MontaVista has committed heavily to Linux in the embedded space. With customers delaying orders, the firm found it necessary to cut employees.

Andrea Arcangeli: Linux 2.4.7pre3aa1 released

(Jul 7, 2001, 18:00 UTC) (2413 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Changelog within.

Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.6-ac2 released

(Jul 7, 2001, 17:00 UTC) (2732 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Changelog within.

EE Times: Axis hitches its 32-bit RISC chip to Linux

(Jul 7, 2001, 16:00 UTC) (2607 reads) (1 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"A modestly performing 32-bit RISC processor with a pedigree dating back to the early 1990s is quietly gaining momentum in the marketplace, having hitched its star to the Linux platform."

GNOME Games 1.4.0.2 released

(Jul 7, 2001, 15:00 UTC) (1944 reads) (2 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"I'm happy to announce a new release of everybody favorite set of games, the version 1.4.0.2 of gnome-games 'Where did all the bugs go?' is now out. This release contains a lot of fixes, so upgrade is recommended."

LinuxPR: 2001 Linux Journal Readers' Choice Awards Begin

(Jul 7, 2001, 14:00 UTC) (875 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"SEATTLE, WA -- Specialized Systems Consultants (SSC), publisher of the award-winning magazine Linux Journal, and its recently launched sister publication, Embedded Linux Journal, is proud to announce the opening of the polls in Linux Journal's seventh annual Readers' Choice Awards."

TMDA 0.22 released

(Jul 7, 2001, 13:00 UTC) (730 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Those of you tired of spam may want to check this out: TMDA is a qmail-based anti-spam system. It's currently in development.

LinuxPR: Easy Software Products Releases ESP Print Pro v4.1.9

(Jul 7, 2001, 11:00 UTC) (842 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
ESP Print Pro v4.1.9 is a bug fix release and includes no new printer drivers.

Datamation: Doors Still Closed to Open Source Databases

(Jul 6, 2001, 22:00 UTC) (4861 reads) (37 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Charlie Garry, an analyst for the Meta Group, looks at the Open Source database sphere and concludes that without the direct support of a major database vendor -- like Oracle or Microsoft -- open-source databases (such as MySQL and PostgreSQL) face formidable obstacles to commercial acceptance.

LinuxProgramming: GNOME: Two Nautilus libraries updated

(Jul 6, 2001, 21:30 UTC) (2302 reads) (1 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
The two libraries are eel and librsvg. While the new libraries aren't essential for any Nautilus user, better performance will result if these libraries are implemented.

CNN.com: Modified game consoles to narrow digital divide

(Jul 6, 2001, 21:00 UTC) (2577 reads) (22 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Here's another plan to narrow the worldwide digital divide: equip Playstations with Linux and let them loose in the Third World.

SECURITY: LinuxSecurity.com: Linux Advisory Watch - July 6th, 2001

(Jul 6, 2001, 20:30 UTC) (960 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"This week, advisories were released for samba, xinetd, zope, scotty, and webmin. The vendors include Caldera, EnGarde, Immunix, Mandrake, and SuSE. It hasn't been an active week, but vulnerabilities still exist. It is always important to stay current by never missing an advisory."

ZDNet: Tempest in a Caldera

(Jul 6, 2001, 20:00 UTC) (2587 reads) (40 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Acknowledging that Caldera's plan for per-seat licensing may "anger the zealots," Evan Leibovitch writes that Caldera's plan may actually work and that "the self-appointed Linux purity police" should applaud Caldera's moves as a show of diversity in the community.

LinuxPR: ESP Package Manager 3.0 Released

(Jul 6, 2001, 19:30 UTC) (1473 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"EPM v3.0 adds support for AIX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD packages, a new graphical setup program, a new packaging manual, and a new install command replacement that builds list files."

ServerWatch: June 2001 Security Space Survey Results

(Jul 6, 2001, 19:00 UTC) (1439 reads) (4 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Here's another survey of Web sites that has a more refined search than the Netcraft survey of Web sites. Apache still dominates the rankings, even with the finer-grained search criteria. "The Security Space Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet broken down by 86 domains. Security Space estimates that even though there are almost 20 million Web sites, nearly 90 percent are 'orphans' to which no other sites link. Security Space's Web server survey includes only those servers referenced on other sites."

Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) 1.1.9 Released

(Jul 6, 2001, 18:30 UTC) (2071 reads) (3 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
CUPS 1.1.9 adds support for AIX, adds several performance improvements to the scheduler, adds support for the Apache Include directive, adds new HideImplicitMembers and ImplicitAnyClasses directives, stores user-defined options as differences from the system-defined options, adds a "natural-scaling" option for printing images, and fixes a number of small bugs.

UK Online: Online Consultation

(Jul 6, 2001, 18:00 UTC) (1652 reads) (15 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Normally we don't link to online discussions, but this one is so important that we had to note it. Great Britain is seeking opinions on how to better open its government Web sites for all users. As you'll recall, a U.K. government Web site based on Microsoft technology -- which worked only with Microsoft Internet Explorer -- raised the ire of Open Source advocates who saw the site as being unnecessarily exclusionary.

Andrew Morton: ext3-2.4-0.9.0 released

(Jul 6, 2001, 17:00 UTC) (2856 reads) (9 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
An update of the ext3 journalling filesystem for 2.4 kernels is now available.

TheDukeofURL: Promise FastTrak on Red Hat 7.1 HowTo

(Jul 6, 2001, 16:30 UTC) (1715 reads) (7 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
It's a hardware kinda day at Linux Today, apparently. Here's another hardware-oriented piece on how to configure Linux on the Promise FastTrak cards. Careful readers may note that this is an update to an earlier article from The Duke of URL.

SECURITY: Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory: fetchmail

(Jul 6, 2001, 16:15 UTC) (592 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"Wolfram Kleff reported recently that the fetchmail program would segfault when receiving emails with a very large 'To:' header. This is due to a buffer overflow within the header parsing code, which can be exploited remotely."

SECURITY: Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory: xinetd

(Jul 6, 2001, 16:00 UTC) (681 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"A bug exists in xinetd as shipped with Mandrake Linux 8.0 dealing with TCP connections with the WAIT state that prevents linuxconf-web from working properly. As well, xinetd contains a security flaw in which it defaults to a umask of 0. This means that applications using the xinetd umask that do not set permissions themselves (like SWAT, a web configuration tool for Samba), will create world writable files. This update sets the default umask to 022."

Enterprise Linux Today: Singapore-MIT Alliance to Build One of Asia's Largest Linux Clusters

(Jul 6, 2001, 15:00 UTC) (1492 reads) (9 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
" IBM Singapore today announced that two leading research organizations -- the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) will build two Linux clusters using a total of 100 IBM eServer xSeries servers. The system at SMA is expected to be among the largest in Asia and students in both Singapore and the United States will be allowed computing time on this cluster to bolster their knowledge of Linux-based systems."

LinuxOrbit: Easy Steps to Samba: Linux Orbit HOWTO

(Jul 6, 2001, 14:30 UTC) (2482 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
This step-by-step explanation of Samba installation and configuration should help even the most inexperienced newbie enjoy Samba networking.

8wire.com: Review: Xsense MIH-130A Cable/DSL Router

(Jul 6, 2001, 14:00 UTC) (1087 reads) (0 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
The folks at 8wire.com labs provide an in-depth analysis of this midrange cable/DSL router.

Mosix 1.0.5 released for Kernel 2.4.6

(Jul 6, 2001, 13:30 UTC) (2183 reads) (2 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
The Mosix 1.0.5 with Linux 2.4.6 has just been released. Mosix adds clustering capabilities to the Linux kernel.

GNU/FSF Events: RMS does India

(Jul 6, 2001, 13:00 UTC) (1334 reads) (8 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
He'll be speaking in Colaba, Mumbai, on July 17, and in Trivandrum, Kerela, on July 20.

LinuxLookup.com: SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional Review

(Jul 6, 2001, 12:21 UTC) (2907 reads) (17 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
Short and sweet: LinuxLookup comes out strongly in favor of SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional in this review.

Nautilus 1.0.4 released

(Jul 6, 2001, 00:34 UTC) (16437 reads) (20 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
"A new release of the Nautilus graphical shell and file manager is available. There have been many improvements since Nautilus 1.0.3 was released, mostly speedups and bug fixes."

BrowserWatch: Konqueror 2.2 Beta 1 Available

(Jul 6, 2001, 00:34 UTC) (7524 reads) (9 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
It includes better HTML and Java support, support for additional plugins, and more.

.comment: Cold Turkey

(Jul 6, 2001, 00:33 UTC) (5548 reads) (23 talkbacks) (Posted by kreichard)
After spending some time with the horsey crowd, Dennis E. Powell has a new outlook on all the issues facing the Linux world. Reflecting on issues like Caldera's per-seat licensing plans and Adobe's legal wranglings with the KIllustrator developers, he comes to a simple conclusion: Linux and the Internet are not the center of the universe, and it would behoove us all to take a break.