News Linux News for Feb 13, 2003:

Chicago Sun-Times: Mozilla Still Champ When it Comes to Stopping Popups
(2003-02-13 01:00:28)
"'It might seem like cutting off one of your favorite arms, but if you replace Internet Explorer with Mozilla it's entirely possible that outside of the improvements, you'll never know the difference,' I advised..."

CrossNodes: SuSE OpenExchange: More Than a Mere Mail Server
(2003-02-13 02:30:16)
"SOHO users have had few solid choices as well. Time & Chaos's inexpensive price tag and ease of use have earned it a faithful following on small peer networks comprised of Windows PCs. More prevalent have been 'outsourcing' services, or Web-based subscription services, where users' data are stored on the vendor's servers and accessed via the Internet..."

LinuxDevices.com: New Study Shows Superiority of Linux TCP/IP Stack
(2003-02-13 04:00:45)
Reasoning Inc. announced that it is making available a study that reports that the TCP/IP protocol stack implementation in version 2.4.19 of the open source Linux kernel has fewer defects than the TCP/IP protocol stacks of several commercial equivalents..."

Release Digest: GNOME, February 12, 2003
(2003-02-13 05:00:00)
Today's GNOME apps: gQueue 0.6, meld-0.6.6, and Battfink 0.1.

Release Digests: KDE, February 12, 2003
(2003-02-13 05:00:30)
Today's KDE apps: Digital Video Recorder 2.7.9.3, KSEG 0.351, KKeyled 0.8.6, Design Recovery Tool 0.2.5, Kile 1.4, KMuddy 0.4.1, KMySQLAdmin 0.6.1, and Kcube 0.55.

Help Net Security: Managing Information Security Risks: The OCTAVE Approach [Book Review]
(2003-02-13 07:00:00)
"OCTAVE, which stands for Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation, enables an organization to sort through the complex web of organizational and technological issues to understand and address its informational security risks..."

Linux Journal: Free- and Open-Source Software in Trinidad and Tobago
(2003-02-13 08:30:40)
"There are businesses here other than tourism; there are people with jobs outside the tourism trade, and they do not always smile at cameras. There are people within the private sector that strive to increase the quality of life in Trinidad and Tobago for the people of Trinidad and Tobago..."

KernelTrap: Fair Queuing Disk Schedulers
(2003-02-13 10:00:15)
"Following the recent release of an anticipatory IO scheduler, Andrea Arcangeli started a lengthy thread in which he proposed an SFQ (Stochastic Fair Queuing) disk scheduler..."

InfoWorld: Has SCO Fired Volley to Start Linux Legal War?
(2003-02-13 11:30:49)
More input on the SCOsource hullaballoo. This one includes comments from Eric Raymond, Nat Friedman, and Bradley Kuhn.

NewsFactor: Perl Features of the Future - Part 1
(2003-02-13 13:00:33)
"New features in Perl 6 include simplifications to the basic syntax of Perl, better interoperability with other programming languages, a more sophisticated type system, and a new regular expression and grammar mechanism, according to design team member Damian Conway..."

Red Hat Linux Advisories: pam, fileutils
(2003-02-13 12:43:10)
Two security advisories from Red Hat Linux.

CNET News: Linux to Power Most Motorola phones
(2003-02-13 14:30:49)
"'We think we'll move millions of units' of cell phones running Linux, Durschlag said. 'I think you'll see it take over the majority of our portfolio going forward,' including lower-end phones..."

eWeek: Moves Afoot for Linux Certification
(2003-02-13 16:00:43)
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Department of Defense announcement for Red Hat, "Oracle Corp. and IBM are jostling for a federal stamp of approval on Linux, with both companies announcing that they will submit their respective software to certification processes..."

DesktopLinux: Xandros: Delivering the Corporate Desktop
(2003-02-13 17:30:08)
"This in-depth interview with Xandros' Chairman Frederick Berenstein and VP of software development, Ming Poon walks us through the global corporate transition to Linux, Xandros' corporate strategy, open source philosophy, and much, much more..."

LinuxPlanet: Embedded Development on the Qt
(2003-02-13 19:00:25)
"Norway's Trolltech AS has formally announced a relationship with IBM, which is using Trolltech's ATopia office application suite as part of its 405LP design. LinuxPlanet caught up with company CEO Haavard Nord to ask him about the IBM deal, the latest on Trolltech's Qt libraries, the embedded device market, and about what Sun could learn from Trolltech's dual-licensing scheme..."

Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: w3mmee-ssl
(2003-02-13 15:48:19)
"The w3m browser does not properly escape HTML tags in frame contents and img alt attributes..."

Information Security: Detecting Server Compromises
(2003-02-13 20:30:24)
"Beyond simple observation, my first tool of choice for detecting server intrusions is the freeware Linux version of Tripwire, which checks files to see if they've been altered..."

Toronto Globe & Mail: Case for Linux is a Cultural One--Thus Far
(2003-02-13 22:00:15)
"One doesn't think of Microsoft as a cultural force, yet the behemoth has figured in two major cultural clashes. The first pitted Macintosh against Windows loyalists; the second is a confrontation between Linux and Windows supporters. The first was limited to individuals; the second is being played out primarily in corporate life..."

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