At LWN.net: “There is now a tool for secure updating of software available for
Trustix Secure Linux 1.2: SWUP. SWUP is short for SoftWare UPdater, and is based on ideas from Debian
apt and rpmfind.”

From LWN.net: “WireX discovered a potential temporary file condition in the gpm
program. This update corrects the problem.”

From LWN.net: “WireX discovered a potential temporary file race condition in the inn
program. This condition is due partly to the way inn is compiled and
configured on some Linux distributions, including Linux-Mandrake, and
partly due to the lack of information in the inn package detailing
potential security problems if you do not tell inn to use a private
temporary directory.”

Lisa Mann writes “We’re looking for exceptional speakers for conference
presentations and tutorial programs at the O’Reilly Open
Source Software Convention, July 23-27, 2001, in San Diego,
California. Submit your proposal now.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon2001/call.html“

From IDG: “Telecommunications company Cable & Wireless PLC (C&W) has teamed up with
French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel SA to build a high capacity IP
(Internet Protocol) trans-Atlantic cable, the companies announced on Friday.”

CNN reports that Hewlett-Packard co-founder William R. Hewlett died Friday morning, of natural causes, in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 87.

ITworld takes a look at the next major release of the popular Apache Web server. The new version will include threaded process modes for request handling, something UNIX Apache users have been wanting for quite some time.

As always, the latest Slashdot interview begins with you. FreeBSD core developer and TrustedBSD member Robert Watson has agreed to answer ten questions from the Slashdot community.

At LWN.net: “It has been an interesting time in the world of Midgard. After a lot of
work, by a lot of people, 1.4 is stable and released. There is concrete
movement towards 2.0 and Ami Ganguli has pretty specific requests for help
and a good timeline marking out where and when we should see pieces along
the way.”

CNet writes that “Borland’s InterBase database software contains a “back door” that allows anyone with the appropriate
password to wreak major havoc with the database and the computer it’s running on.”