The World Wide Web seems to have rung in the new year without witnessing any of the massive cyber attacks feared by government computer security experts, says Computeruser.com.

The Register reports: The guy who made Microsoft look foolish in November by breaking into its servers through a known security hole has been fired by his company Getronics.

There are some great news for all GTK+ lovers! You can run your gtk based applications without X! Just a few moments ago, Alexander
Larsson posted information about availability of gtk framebuffer port.
More info and screenshots on LinuxNews.pl–LinuxNews.pl

ZDNet explores what Microsoft would be like if CEO Steve Ballmer and Chairman Bill Gates were to leave the company. Is Microsoft Bill, or are they separate entities?

Linux World explains what, exactly, a run level is. From shutting down (0) to rebooting (6), run levels often confuse users new to Linux.

Linux PR has an announcement by Loki about two new games the company will be porting to Linux. Rune and Heavy Metal F.A.K.K 2 were released for Windows and Mac to positive reviews recently.

Computer World reports that AOL is suing a Floridian company for millions of pornography-advertising unsolicited email messages sent to AOL users resulting in as many as a quarter million complaints in a single day.

“This is the first of two articles by Joe Orton on WebDAV, the distributed authoring protocol for HTTP. The first article
explains what WebDAV is, and the current state of client and server support.” Article at ApacheWeek

From ApacheWeek: “Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL) increase the security of Client Authentication Realms by enabling server
administrators to block client certificates that have been revoked because they are known to have been
compromised.”

“After Netscape claimed that this new version 6 has “the best standards support of any browser engine available. It supports more Web standards more deeply, more consistently across platforms and devices than any other browser engine in history.” We simply couldn’t resist giving this new release a try.” Read the full review at LinuxLookup-Anonymous Reader