“Because of some extended (but tested) changes in the Berkeley DB interface we decided to still call
this release gamma. If nothing shows up in the next few days we will make a new release without the
gamma prefix to mark that MYSQL 3.23 is now officially ready for production (even if it has been that
in practice very stable for a long time).” Details at Linux Today.

From the Online Journalism Review at USC-Annenberg: “He has been called the “Guru” of Russian Internet. At 34, Anton Nossik has been involved in most of the important Russian Internet projects in the past five years. His ICQ nickname is “Emigrant”, because several years ago he immigrated to Israel, before returning to Russia. He is an online news service editor, a consultant, and a strategist. And when people want to know about the past, present and future of the Russian Internet, people ask him first.”

CNET News.com reports that Philips will debut two reference platforms for new Internet appliances at next week’s Consumer Electronics Expo in Las Vegas. The systems will be compatible with several different operating systems, including Linux.

At Help Net Security: “News Desk 1.2 (newsdesk.cgi) is a news submission script which is written in perl and allows someone on a remote computer to connect to the server and post news submissions without logging into the actual server.”

LinuxDevices takes a closer look at G.Mate’s forthcoming Yopy, a new personal digital assistant that uses Linux for its operating system.

From a press release at Linux PR: “Minoru Development SARL,
CONECTA srl, and Sistema announced today that they have signed a
contract with the European Commission’s Fifth Framework Programme
to implement an open source approach to accelerate the uptake and
improvement of software for regional health care networks.”

From 32BitsOnline.com: “GNOME began as a reaction to licensing issues with the commercially developed QT
library that KDE relies on for its graphical widgets, and some of its users prefer it to KDE because it’s more true to
the Open Source ideal rather than for its technical merit.”

ZDNet notes that Netscape 6 for Solaris was formally released today.

From Help Net Security: “Any current NT server running IIS with Frontpage server extensions (which are installed by default) is vulnerable a remote DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerability stems from Frontpage improperly handling queries to Frontpage Authoring (author.dll) modules as well as shtml calls.”

LinuxWorld: “Many people don’t consider the actual process that Linux takes to enter a usable state. The Geek explains what the various run levels are for and how they fit into the boot process.”