News Linux News for Feb 12, 2004:

developerWorks: Kernel Comparison: Web Serving on 2.4 and 2.6
(2004-02-12 00:15:37)
"This article presents results from the IBM Linux Technology Center's Web serving testing efforts, comparing the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels from various aspects..."

Linux Journal: Can't Get Enough Desktops!
(2004-02-12 01:00:16)
"Explore new user interface ideas without leaving your regular desktop..."

Arch Linux: An End To My Distro Shuffle?
(2004-02-12 01:45:27)
"One recommendation that popped up by several users was Arch Linux. Although I've tried 27 different distributions in the past couple years, I never managed to stumble upon this one..."

DesktopOS.com: Xandros Desktop 2.0 Deluxe Can Replace Windows
(2004-02-12 02:30:06)
"Its goal is to introduce you to the Xandros Desktop Operating System Version 2.0 Deluxe boxed..."

LinuxDevices: Motorola Launches Enterprise Linux Smartphone in China
(2004-02-12 04:00:50)
"Motorola has launched an embedded Linux powered A-76x-series smartphone in the China marketplace, with VPN capabilities and productivity software targeting enterprise customers..."

DistroWatch: Distributions, February 11, 2004
(2004-02-12 05:00:00)
Today's distributions: Quantian 0.4.9.3 and Vine Linux 2.6r4.

Release Digest: GNOME, February 11, 2004
(2004-02-12 05:00:20)
Today's GNOME app: BEAST/BSE 0.6.0.

Release Digest: KDE, February 11, 2004
(2004-02-12 05:00:40)
Today's KDE apps: Kopete 0.8.0, kdar 1.0.0, Media-Detect 0.43a, Luma 1.2, KFreeRings 1.0beta1, and otetsudaiqt.

ColdFusion Developer's Journal: Intro to Ant - Automate and Improve Your Build and Deploy Process
(2004-02-12 05:30:50)
"Writing shell scripts to automate the build and deploy process for ColdFusion applications is not very much fun. The Jakarta Ant project is an open-source, cross-platform alternative that makes it easy to automate the build and deploy process..."

GUILinux: Downloader for X
(2004-02-12 07:00:36)
"This article marks the beginning of a new GUILinux software series: GUI apps you just can't (or shouldn't) live without..."

CrossNodes: Scripting Clinic: Have A Bash With This Linux Shell
(2004-02-12 08:30:45)
"Understanding what Bash does is fundamental to using Linux. Bash is a command interpreter, the direct interface between you and your Linux system..."

Computerworld Singapore: Apollo Optik Converts to Linux
(2004-02-12 10:00:38)
"Apollo expects to further reduce ongoing costs for the operation of the servers by about 50 per cent through the conversion to Linux..."

Linux.com: Linux Gets Small: LNX-BBC and DamnSmall Linux
(2004-02-12 11:30:32)
"One of the great things about Linux is its versatility, and that versatility is rarely as apparent as it is with Linux-based bootable business cards. Two of these small wonders are especially interesting: DamnSmall Linux and LNX-BBC..."

Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.3-rc2-mm1
(2004-02-12 12:45:04)
Changelog, link within.

Enterprise Linux IT: The Secret World of ReiserFS
(2004-02-12 13:00:08)
"Hans Reiser, author of the ReiserFS program, created benchmarking tests designed to be fairly representative of the file-size distribution of most users..."

Groklaw: Novell Notifies SCO
(2004-02-12 14:00:29)
"Novell, on behalf of The SCO Group, hereby waives any purported right SCO may claim to require Sequent (or IBM as its successor) to treat Sequent Code as subject to the confidentiality obligations or use restrictions of Sequent's SVRX license...'"

Red Hat Linux Advisory: mutt
(2004-02-12 14:44:24)
"New mutt packages that fix a remotely-triggerable crash in the menu drawing code are now available..."

Gentoo Linux Advisory: xfree86
(2004-02-12 14:45:00)
"Exploitation of a buffer overflow in the XFree86 Project Inc.'s XFree86 X Window System allows local attackers to gain root privileges..."

InfoWorld: French Government to Test Open Source on the Desktop
(2004-02-12 14:45:28)
"Trial is part of plan to computerize the country's administration by 2007..."

OpenLinux Advisory: slocate
(2004-02-12 15:29:23)
"Heap-based buffer overflow in main.c of slocate 2.6, and possibly other versions, may allow local users to gain privileges via a modified slocate database that causes a negative 'pathlen' value to be used..."

Fedora Core Advisories: kernel, mutt
(2004-02-12 15:29:59)
Two security advisories from the Fedora Project.

CNET News: Companies Are Facing a Cannibalizing Dilemma
(2004-02-12 15:30:02)
"Once every three months, Alan Nugent, chief technology officer of billion-dollar software company Novell, sits down with a small group of colleagues to decide what software the company will give away for free..." (Part of CNET's "Pandora's Box for Open Source" Special Report)

Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: cgiemail
(2004-02-12 16:14:58)
"A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to email the contents of an HTML form, whereby it could be used to send email to arbitrary addresses..."

NewsForge: Plenty of Linux Jobs--At the Top, Anyway
(2004-02-12 16:15:19)
"Stacy Holland is a California-based executive recruiter who specializes in finding people with Linux-related skills. Her business card has her photo at the top, and beneath her photo it says, 'The Linux Lady...'"

PR: Fedora Core 2 Test Release 1 Available
(2004-02-12 16:15:59)
"This software's only hope of survival is our community's crack team of developers... secured to their high speed network lines, they will descend to hack on this software, spinning a web of stability in less than 8 weeks...!"

Mandrake Linux Advisories: netpbm, mutt
(2004-02-12 16:59:34)
Two security advisories from MandrakeSoft.

NewsWireless: Psion Looks Past Windows to Linux as Nokia Buys Symbian
(2004-02-12 17:00:03)
"Ignore the comments about the value of Psion shares: concentrate on what Psion is going to do with all the money it got from selling its interest in Symbian. The answer is probably: 'Linux portables...'"

Wired: Groklaw's Jones Looks Beyond SCO
(2004-02-12 17:45:13)
"...Jones spoke with Wired News on the impetus behind Groklaw. She also outlined pending and possible legal threats against open-source projects and developers, her thoughts on software patents and the positive side of the SCO legal saga..."

The Register: Er... MS UK Sponsors Open Source Deployment Workshop
(2004-02-12 18:30:06)
"A tooth-jarring juxtaposition leaps out from the London Connects site: 'Open Source Software - Practical deployment,' it says, then leaps straight into 'Sponsored by Microsoft...'"

SearchCIO: IBM, ISVs Lure NT Users with Linux
(2004-02-12 19:15:03)
"IBM's plan to recruit Microsoft NT users to IBM and Linux may be viewed by some as laughable. But Big Blue couldn’t be more serious about the open source platform..."

Gentoo Linux Advisories: gallery, monkeyd
(2004-02-12 19:54:01)
Two security advisories from Gentoo Linux.

ZDNet: Sun CEO: Open Source Is Our Friend
(2004-02-12 20:00:07)
"Sun Microsystems may have been the last major server maker to embrace Linux, but Chief Executive Scott McNealy argues that the company will benefit more than its competitors from the open-source software..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Enterprises Opening Their Wallets for Linux
(2004-02-12 21:00:05)
"Spending on Linux will climb by as much as 10% at enterprises surveyed recently by SearchEnterpriseLinux.com..."

LinuxPlanet: Linux, SiteScape Save the Green
(2004-02-12 22:00:13)
"When you hear the phrase 'saving the green,' do you usually conjure images of saving the environment? Or, perhaps, saving money...?"

KernelTrap: Linux: How Do You Spell That?
(2004-02-12 23:00:46)
"The topic of proper spelling in kernel code surfaces now and again, often with a flurry of spelling correction patches appearing shortly before a major release..."

Slackware Linux Advisories: mutt, xfree86
(2004-02-12 23:56:45)
Two security advisories from Slackware.

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