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[newsforge daily] May 03, 2003
Date: Sat May 03 2003 - 05:30:25 EDT
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May 03, 2003
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'Exec Shield' - new Linux security feature http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1914223
- by Ingo Molnar - We are pleased to announce the first publically available source code release of a new kernel-based security feature called the "Exec Shield", for Linux/x86. The kernel patch (against 2.4.21-rc1, released under the GPL/OSL) can be downloaded from http://redhat.com/~mingo/exec-shield/
Slap the credits everywhere!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/1859244
- by Hans Reiser - Free software is ego-propelled. People don't get paid, they get famous. Yet we as a community do far too little to prominently credit the names of the authors. I propose we change that by adopting a few simple practices.
Linux Advisory Watch - May 2nd, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/0920234
This week, advisories were released for apcupsd, sendmail, apache, balsa, pptp, kdebase, snort, tcpdump, monkeyd, mgetty, ethereal, squirrelmail, lprng, micq, zlib, man, and xinetd. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, Debian, EnGarde, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
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It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0339241
Timothy R. Butler writes "Well, it seems to be official. After more rumblings, denials of rumblings, rumblings about the denials of rumblings, SCO is now playing hardball (or is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly known as Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the Linux kernel, but will not release the information Free Software developers need to try to fix the problem. Instead, SCO CEO Darl McBride ...
Book Review - Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/0326213
LogError writes "Brian Behlendorf, one of the co-founders of Apache said about the author of this book - "Ryan Bloom (the book's author) knows the internals of the 2.0 HTTP server at least as well as Linus Torvalds knows his way around the Linux kernel". Is the book really that good? Read on to find out."
Aussie leads development of open source O-S for lawyers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/2331213
Perth lawyer and IT consultant, Jeremy Malcolm, is leading the development of an open source operating system specifically designed for use in legal practice. The system, Debian-Lex, is based on Debian/GNU Linux, a free Linux distribution.
Net attack crushes SCO Web site
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/2328217
At 10:45 a.m. PDT, the company was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack that hampered its Internet operations, said spokesman Blake Stowell. In a DDoS attack, numerous computers simultaneously send so much data across a network that the targeted system slows to a crawl trying to keep up with the traffic it's receiving.
SCO says it will revoke IBM's AIX licence in June http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1838226
The SCO Group says it will revoke IBM's AIX licence on June 13 this year, following Big Blue's response to a lawsuit which SCO has filed against IBM over Unix copyrights.
New book: "Building Embedded Linux Systems" http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/178245
O'Reilly has released a new book on embedded Linux, Building Embedded Linux Systems by Karim Yaghmour.
A Source for Schools
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1612253
Like most sensible people, high school teacher Rudy Lopez had never believed in something for nothing. Then again, most people havent met R. Scott Belford, founder of the Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation.
Hopping mad with SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/169256
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier writes "I've just about had it with noise from the SCO folks, claiming that their intellectual property has been stolen and appropriated for Linux but refusing to produce one shred of evidence. No, I take that back. I have had it with SCO.
MS reputation: Tarnished, but fixable
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/162235
Microsoft's decision to overhaul its security strategies may well have been the most important in its recent history, according to one security expert.
Operating system battling non-believers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/02/1524219
Linux is rapidly graduating from a small cult to a mainstream religious movement. Its converts are multiplying rapidly, many as self-anointed evangelists preaching the gospel of open-source software that was created by Linus Torvalds of Finland in 1991.
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