News Linux News for Jan 06, 2003:

Debian Weekly News - December 31st, 2002
(2003-01-06 01:00:48)
Community Roundup: The latest news from the Debian Project.

PostgreSQL Weekly News - January 1st 2003
(2003-01-06 03:00:42)
Community Roundup: The latest news from the PostgreSQL Project.

developerWorks: Context Switching, Part 2
(2003-01-06 05:30:54)
"This [article] looks at two behaviors of the scheduler. The first behavior is the reaction to adding more choices to the scheduler's switching decision. The second demonstrates fairness by performing a uniform workload in multiple threads. Source code is provided so you can experiment on your own..."

Grid Computing Planet: Globus Toolkit 3.0 Coming Soon
(2003-01-06 07:00:55)
The next-generation Globus Toolkit that will combine Grid technology with Web services is expected to be released in alpha form January 13 at the GlobusWorld conference in San Diego..."

ServerWatch: December 2002 Security Space Survey Results
(2003-01-06 08:30:19)
"More than 8.5 million Web sites responded to the December 2002 survey, down for the third consecutive month from the more than 9 million responses received in October. More than 4.6 million of those, or 54.10 percent, had .com domains..."

Linux Magazine: Journaling File Systems
(2003-01-06 10:00:04)
In fact, many now common requirements--large hard-disk partitions, quick recovery from crashes, high-performance I/O, and the need to store thousands and thousands of files representing terabytes of data--exceed the abilities of Ext2.

NewsFactor: Inside the World of Extreme Programming
(2003-01-06 11:30:40)
"'XP works best for medium-sized teams where a product can be delivered in stages, and where there's freedom to experiment with some of the more controversial techniques,' author Ron Jeffries said..."

Linux Journal: Derivative Works
(2003-01-06 13:00:47)
Lawrence Rosen asks: "When is one program a 'derivative work' of another...?"

Release Digest: GNOME, January 5, 2003
(2003-01-06 05:00:00)
This weekend's GNOME apps: GENIUS 0.5.1, GNUsound 0.5.1, Quick Lounge 1.1.1, and Gnumeric 1.0.12.

Release Digest: KDE, January 5, 2003
(2003-01-06 05:00:30)
This weekend's KDE apps: KBudget 0.4.1, Mazes 3D 2002.12.25, K-Track 0.2.1, C-Pec X-ISP 1.0.4, KMMS 0.8beta1, KLogic 1.403, FreeRails 0.0.7, Retail Auto Auction 1.3.2, Knapster2 0.5, KDE 3.1rc6, and Konstruct 20030104.

SOT Linux 2002 Advisory: pine
(2003-01-06 14:11:34)
"Pine 4.44 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and failed restart) via an email message with a From header that contains a large number of quotation marks (")..."

Linux Journal: Red Hat Offers TCO Savings: de Visser
(2003-01-06 16:00:08)
"'When other companies claim big savings in TCO because of Linux, every CEO has to ask himself the question if their organization could afford not to use Linux' says de Visser..."

ZDNet Australia: Start-up Beats IBM for Linux Software
(2003-01-06 19:00:58)
"A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project from a start-up, spurring a retreat by IBM programmers who had been working on competing software..."

LinuxPlanet: Admin Digest: The Basics of Linux Network Security
(2003-01-06 20:30:47)
"The pervasiveness of the Internet has led to more and more opportunities for your company's servers to be attacked from without. Part-time Linux admins, never fear. Our updated network security basics document will get you well on your way to locking your system down..."

The Register: Perens, Prentice Deliver Open Source Books
(2003-01-06 22:00:32)
"'I'm either the anti-Tim, or the Peter Norton of Linux,' says Bruce Perens, who's convinced a major book publisher to go open source for the first time, applying an open software license to their publications..."

Cyberknights.com.au: Areas for Concern
(2003-01-06 23:30:05)
Recently, images from a presentation by Microsoft Belgium were published on the Web. The presentation made some concessions to Open Source, then set about picking apart the GPL. A link to a point-by-point rebuttal to Microsoft's anti-GPL reasoning is within.

Gentoo Linux Advisory: libmcrypt
(2003-01-06 21:58:05)
"limbcrypt versions prior to 2.5.5 contain a number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities that stem from imporper or lacking input validation..."

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