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Linux News for Jul 24, 2001
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FREE 1.7 is now available (Jul 24, 2001, 23:13)
Speaking of electronic voting projects, here's a new release of
FREE: the GNU e-democracy project. We've said it before, we'll say
it again: there's interesting reading on the site, even if you
aren't a local ward boss or election official.
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FairfaxIT: Linux: The electoral test that pencil and paper meet (Jul 24, 2001, 22:39)
Debian has been selected as the platform to form the foundation
of an electronic voting system in Australia. This article provides
some details behind the contractor's decision to go with open
source/Free Software in general, and Debian in specific. An
election is not fully open if it is based on secret, that is
proprietary, software. "People have a right to know, in as much
detail as they are capable of understanding, exactly how their
elections are conducted. In addition, experts must be able to
scrutinise the system freely for problems. As a general rule,
source code is made more secure the more it is scrutinised by
others."
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Issue #29 of Georg's Brave GNU World Released (Jul 24, 2001, 20:57)
This issue: GCompris, Free Software and education, chemical
development kit, Alma modelling software, and libgcrypt.
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Pierre Abbat: Procmail recipe for getting rid of the Sircam worm (Jul 24, 2001, 18:07)
The Sircam worm is one of those 'net nuisances that Linux users
will feel good about not helping to spread. On the other hand, it's
a real pain if for nothing other than the hammering it gives your
mailbox (55 and counting in two days for one of our editors).
Here's a link describing the worm, and a procmail recipe that
appends a "Precedence: junk" header to mails coming from
SirCam-infected clients. Keep in mind that this recipe sends a
notification to infected clients: if you don't have procmail up,
running, and tested already, it may pay to check out some tutorials
(see related stories). If nothing else, the regexp included in the
recipe may provide a way to move it out of sight for mail clients
with filtering available (like kmail, Evolution, and Netscape
Communicator, for instance.)
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Mosix 1.1.0 Released (Jul 24, 2001, 16:48)
Mosix adds clustering capabilities to the Linux kernel. "MOSIX
1.1.0 is INCOMPATIBLE with MOSIX 1.0.x. Mixed nodes in a Mosix
cluster will not be able to migrate processes between them."
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eWeek: Apache avoids most security woes (Jul 24, 2001, 15:40)
eWeek offers a look at Apache's solid security record ( "the
server's last serious problem (one where remote attackers could run
arbitrary code on the server) was announced in January 1997") and
examines the reasons behind its success. Open source, says the
article, doesn't acount for as much as good design and a usable
configuration process.
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ZDNet: Seventeen years old and state of the art
(Jul 24, 2001, 13:00)
We were whining about an "aging" Pentium II relegated to server
duty just before coming across this column, centered around
building a Mandrake 8.0 machine out of a Pentium 166. Says the
columnist: "Have a look at Windows XP or Macintosh OS X. What's the
oldest hardware that can run them? Two years old? In the
proprietary software world, a system of Mutt's age is a doorstop.
In the open-source world, it's slower and relatively less flexible
than the current stuff, but hardly ready for the dump."
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Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter -- Issue #7 (Jul 24, 2001, 12:00)
This Week's Summary: CNET analysis of MandrakeSoft's IPO; PPC
"Release Candidate" available soon; Spotlight on the Clara OCR Free
Software project; Business Case of the Week; Security-related
software updates; MandrakeForum headlines.
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LWN: LSB-FHS2.2beta test suite available (Jul 24, 2001, 06:55)
"The beta release of the LSB-FHS test suite for FHS2.2, for the
filesystem hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base is now
available."
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BBSpot: Microsoft Bundles Worm with IIS (Jul 24, 2001, 05:53)
"I like the fact that I don't have to go out and install the
upgrade myself. I was expecting one of those confusing Worm Wizard
things that I always choose Typical on," said one network
administrator who should remain anonymous. "The Microsoft rep told
me that they would bill us when the worm installed itself. That's
why I love working with Microsoft, innovation."
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First Beta Relase of KDE 1.1.2 for Windows/Cygwin Available (Jul 24, 2001, 04:41)
The kde-cygwin project has released the first beta of KDE 1.1.2
for Cygwin running under Windows.
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Adobe, Electronic Frontier Foundation Call for Release of Russian Programmer (Jul 24, 2001, 01:57)
"Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and the Electronic
Frontier Foundation (EFF) today jointly recommend the release of
Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov from federal custody. Adobe is
also withdrawing its support for the criminal complaint against
Dmitry Sklyarov."
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Kernel Traffic #127 by Adam Buchbinder and Zack Brown (Jul 24, 2001, 01:00)
Mailing-list threads from the Linux Kernel Development Team.
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internetnews.com: Open Source Is Hot On HP's Coolbase (Jul 24, 2001, 00:15)
"The platform consists of several components including software
for enabling devices to become smart and Web connected; software
for representing people, places and things and a context-aware
relationship with each other; supporting hardware and software
elements; and sample applications that illustrate the use of these
various elements."
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