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Linux News for May 31, 2001
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Enterprise Linux Today: MandrakeSoft Announces Linux-Mandrake on Itanium (May 31, 2001, 23:30)
"Bull and MandrakeSoft today announced that as a result of a
successful technological collaboration in the area of Intel Itanium
architecture, MandrakeSoft is making a beta version of its
award-winning Linux-Mandrake operating system for Itanium-based
servers available for immediate download..."
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GNU.FREE 1.6 is now available. (May 31, 2001, 22:44)
This is an interesting project worth investigating not only for
the software itself, but some of the writing you'll find on the
site. The project's maintainers describe it so: "The FREE
e-democracy project aims to create secure, private, scalable and
reliable non-partisan Internet Voting software protected by the GNU
GPL. This software is GNU.FREE and is written in Java."
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Linux Weekly News for May 31, 2001 (May 31, 2001, 22:15)
Leading items and editorials: Linux costs less to insure,
auditing of free software, IPFilter followup, and Linux TV's.
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SouthWest UK LUG: EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1 Review (May 31, 2001, 21:36)
This review of EnGarde Secure Linux is fairly positive, though
the author notes that some of the security features centered around
the e-commerce applications of the distribution are limited to a US
audience.
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Matrox Graphics introduces PowerDesk for Linux (May 31, 2001, 21:00)
PowerDesk is a utility that allows users to configure Matrox
graphics adapters under XFree86. This utility makes it easier to
adjust resolutions, color depths, refresh rates, and screen
positioning, as well as enable Matrox specific features such as
DualHead and TV output.
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Yahoo!/ZDNet: Why 2001 is not the 'Year of the Penguin' (May 31, 2001, 20:19)
Goodness. This guest columnist, a self-described "Linux
enthusiast" and "realist" offers that Linux isn't suited to end
users because its multi-user nature is too confusing for the
"grocery list and e-mail" set, and won't go anywhere with
businesses because it lacks applications and could involve
excessive retraining time.
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Immunix OS Security Advisory: updated security procedures, man, kerberos, gnupg (May 31, 2001, 19:09)
Immunix has released three security advisories (man, kerberos,
and gnupg) plus an update to its security announcement procedures,
which will be signed with its new corporate GPG key (within.)
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LinuxJournal: Linux on the Desktop--an Impossible Dream? (May 31, 2001, 18:25)
Linux Journal weighs in on the dead desktop debate, examining
the comments of the Dell executive who maintained that Linux is
"too technical" for widespread acceptance. The author identifies
the existence of two major desktop environments as a "fork" but
goes on to say that Microsoft will likely contribute to Linux's
gradual acceptance almost as much as any gains made within Linux
itself.
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LinuxProgramming: GNUstep LaunchPad Version 1.0.1 Released (May 31, 2001, 17:45)
GNUstep LaunchPad is a collection of libraries for creating
non-graphical tools and applications using an API based on OpenStep
and the MacOS X API. As with its godfather, the OpenStep system
developed by NeXT, developers have noted that GNUstep allows faster
development time and more flexibility than with other common
application development libraries.
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SourceForge Outlines Nature of Shell Server Compromise (May 31, 2001, 16:42)
SourceForge has posted details on the compromise that led to
cracks of several sites, including php.net, apache.org, and
themes.org.
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Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory: gnupg (May 31, 2001, 16:12)
"A format string vulnerability exists in gnupg 1.0.5 and
previous versions which is fixed in 1.0.6. This vulnerability can
be used to invoke shell commands with privileges of the currently
logged-in user."
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Two Items on DeCSS: 2600 Answers the Court's "11 Questions," Peter Junger on the DMCA (May 31, 2001, 15:10)
Marcia Wilbur wrote in to let us know about an article on the
anti-circumvention measures of the DMCA. Also within, the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and 2600 have filed responses
to the Second Circuit's eleven questions regarding the First
Amendment issues surrounding the DeCSS case.
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More on the UK Government Gateway's Exclusionary Ways (May 31, 2001, 14:30)
LinuxUser, the magazine that broke the story about the UK
Government gateway, has made a copy of their article available. The
previous link we included was to the Register: the linked item is
the original article. In addition, we have a PDF of the rationale
provided for the gateway's current policies regarding assorted
platforms and browsers. The statement includes some statistics on
browser and OS traffic the site's received to this point.
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ApacheToday: Apache Software Foundation Server compromised, resecured. (May 31, 2001, 12:33)
The recent compromise of SourceForge servers had
farther-reaching impact than on the users of that service alone.
This report from Brian Behlendorf of the Apache project explains a
crack one of the project's public servers underwent involving an
ssh client compromised to log outgoing names and passwords. A
rather extensive audit and verification process remains
underway.
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LinuxPlanet: .comment: Road Building (May 31, 2001, 03:25)
There are many questions about Linux that go unanswered because
it would just take too long to do the research. Risking his life on
the dreaded Interstate 95 and associated roadways, Dennis E. Powell
has done the research necessary to answer one of them, satisfying
the curiousity of the thousands, hundreds, scores, dozens (or, when
you get right down to it, probably a number you could count on the
fingers of one hand) of people who were wondering.
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NeTraverse Announces Availability of Win4Lin 3.0 (May 31, 2001, 00:12)
Win4Lin 3.0 is out. The press release and a download link
within.
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