[newsforge daily] April 06, 2003

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April 06, 2003

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GNU & Linux - Setting the Record Straight http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/31/1527206

• Clinton Goveas - I was reading Richard Stallman's interview in a local Linux monthly the other day and was struck by an important point he was trying to make. The operating system we have all come to love, is not Linux! Let me explain...

Linux Advisory Watch - April 4, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2018249

• Benjamin D. Thomas - This week advisories were released for sendmail, dietlibc, krb4, mutt, lpr, kernel, apcupsd, samba, eterm, evolution, dhcp, openssl, vsftp, kerberos, eog, enetbpm, and mysql. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Gentoo, Immunix, Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, Trustix, and Yellow Dog.

Recent security flaws highlight need for vigilance http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/02/1655255

• Lee Schlesinger - Open source security is looking a lot like Microsoft lately. Last week we heard about a Linux kernel flaw that could allow non-privileged users to gain root privileges. This week the problem is in Sendmail. According to CERT, "An email message with a specially crafted address could trigger a stack overflow" that "could allow an attacker to gain control of a vulnerable sendmail server." Is it time to re-examine the notion that ...

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Too Much Free Software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1521221

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     The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none     working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major     adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we     have to stand united.

   CA turns to Linux for integrated security http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/05/1515259

     Nudging Linux toward adulthood, Computer Associates is ramping up     efforts to portage its core management products to the open-source     platform.

The Linux Test Project ltp-2003DD released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2232239

    Robbie Williamson writes "The Linux Test Project test suite     ltp-full-20030404.tgz has been released. Visit our website     (http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of the     testsuite that contains 1000+ tests for the Linux OS. Our site also     contains other information such as: test results, a Linux test tools     matrix, an area for keeping up with fixes for known blocking problems     in the 2.5 kernel releases, technical papers and HowTos ...

IndLinux.org releases Hindi interface for Gnome http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2050257

    Kodek writes "More news from the translation front. IndLinux.org has     released a Hindi version of the Gnome interface, opening open source     software up to the more than 400 million Hindi speakers globally."

Publisher's Books so Good They Get "Hacked" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1734216

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    Anonymous Reader writes "Linuxlookup.com is running a story on a     popular publisher recently discovered that two of their books have been     illegally circulated on the Internet. Because this was the result of     anti-copying circumvention by the perpetrator, they could have pursued     legal action under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. However, they     have chosen not to, and outline their reasons why in the story."

High-Availability.Com introduces RSF-1 on Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1715253

    Grenville Whelan writes "High-Availability.Com (HAC), a leading     provider of easy and affordable high availability (HA) clustering     solutions for Unix environments, today announced that it has released     an aggressively-priced "all-in" RSF-1 solutions package to provide High     Availability for Linux systems.

   Does an organization have anything to gain from .Net? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1647215

     Despite a vaguely defined purpose, no track record and several known     risks, organizations are starting to implement projects based in .Net.     Carmine Mangione delves into the .Net enigma and explains why jumping     on the .Net bandwagon -- like blindly adopting any technology without     first weighing the pros and cons -- could potentially sink your     organization.

   Text-to-speech software gets Linux voice http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1621244

     NeoSpeech has announced Linux support for its VoiceText 2.0, advanced     Text-to-Speech (TTS) software. The software generates natural-sounding     voices from text input across handheld, desktop, and network/server     applications.

   Dell Feels Linux Customer Demand
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1620259

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     In rolling out low-cost, Oracle-based server clusters on Wednesday,     Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned Linux and Windows as "standards" in     almost the same breath. At the same press conference in New York City,     though, members of a Dell customer panel indicated that momentum for     Linux could be starting to outweigh attachment to Windows and other OS     among Dell's customer base.

Page Clustering, Booting Linux On A 64GB x86 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/1617236

    William Lee Irwin III recently announced on the lkml that he'd     successfully gotten Linux running on a 64GB x86 server. His posts     included two different boot message logs, one without his page     clustering patch, and one with. In the latter case, his patch overcomes     the 1GB mem_map virtual space limitation imposed by x86 32-bit servers,     without which the kernel over-runs allowable memory space.                                                             

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