[newsforge daily] May 04, 2003

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May 04, 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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SCO, DRM, Spam, Privacy
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1855240

    Anonymous Reader writes "Linux and Main's The Week That Was: SCO proves     conspiracy theorists right; Linus says Linux is DRM agnostic; Spam     draws unprecedented attention; Internet privacy? Think again"

 Time for a new installation paradigm, Part 4 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1629258

    If developers and packagers flesh out the details of these suggestions,     modify them to iron out wrinkles and then adopt the practices, most if     not all Linux software installations will be trouble-free and     distribution-agnostic. (3,250 words)

Sun rises on acquisition speculation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1627226

    SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Sun Microsystems, which have fallen 92     percent in the past three years, rose 12.3 percent on speculation the     company might be bought by a larger computer rival, an analyst said.

Penguin cracks Windows servers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1624239

    The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even Microsoft     have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the enterprise.

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Marist to test digital media
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/1623213

    Marist College will help pioneer a new generation of online digitized     media through a research partnership with IBM Corp., both announced     Friday at the Town of Poughkeepsie college.

SCO vs. IBM lawsuit: SCO has a problem
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/05/03/141259

    Anonymous Reader writes "This article makes the point that, even if the     trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against IBM has merit, SCO     themselves have knowingly redistributed that same code under the GPL.     And, of course, they can't relicense the code without forfeiting their     own rights to Linux under the GPL. It would appear that Red Hat and     SuSE are in the clear after all and the Linux kernel remains clean."

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."

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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.                                                             

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