Northwind writes “Does it get any smaller? These guys packed a workstation Linux computer into a lunch box to be stacked into your computer. It even has a disk drive inside for a full Linux implementation, but it doesn’t run Windows. See www.totalimpact.com/briQ.html for more.”

The Standard reports that as a result of a partnership with Japan’s largest wireless provider, AOL Japan will rebrand itself DoCoMo AOL. Company officials hope the move will bring new members to the service, which has attracted less than one million customers in four years of operation.

WiredNews and Web usability expert Jakob Nielsen talk about “what’s good, what’s bad and what needs to be fixed on the U.S. Executive Branch’s Web window to the world.”

SuSE continues to roll out the announcements today. A post at LWN.net announces that the first beat of SuSE Linux 7.1 for SPARC is now available. Some known bugs: sound configuration isn’t available yet, and XFree86 may not work with Elite3D, Leo video cards as well as all PCI cards.

TechWeb reports: “Agere Systems, the former Lucent Technologies
Microelectronics Group, has selected Linux as the operating system to
be used with a new asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) chip set for
residential gateway, home networking and personal computer equipment.”

From a press release at Business Wire: “Virtual Access Networks, Inc., a leader in PC migration and remote access technologies, today
announced a strategic relationship with premier Linux provider SuSE to deliver the first PC settings migration tool that will enable seamless migration from Microsoft
Windows to the Linux operating system.”

“Today, SuSE Linux, the
international technology leader and solutions provider in Open Source
operating system, and Lotus announced the SuSE Linux Groupware Server. The
new server combines the comprehensive functionality of the Domino
Messaging and Web Application Server with the cost advantages and the
reliability of the Linux operating system. This provides a basis for
improved business processing and customer relations.” Press release at LWN.net.

From LWN.net: “On several occasions, webmin creates temporary files insecurely.
This can be exploited by a local attacker to overwrite or
create arbitrary files and possibly gain root privilege.”

From LWN.net: “With older versions of jazip a user could gain root access for members
of the floppy group to the local machine. The interface doesn’t run
as root anymore and this very exploit was prevented. The program now
also truncates DISPLAY to 256 characters if it is bigger, which closes
the buffer overflow (within xforms).”

From LWN.net: “PkC has reported that there is a buffer overflow in sprintf() in micq
versions 0.4.6, that allows to a remote attacker able to sniff packets
to the ICQ server to execute arbitrary code on the victim system.”