Alan Cox posts the latest changes to version 2.2.19pre6 of the Linux kernel at LWN.net.

“In the opinion of the GTK+ team, the only correct way to write a
setuid program with a graphical user interface is to have a setuid
backend that communicates with the non-setuid graphical user interface
via a mechanism such as a pipe and that considers the input it
receives to be untrusted.” More at LWN.net.

CNET News.com reports: “Gaming sites have posted what they claim are the first pictures of Microsoft’s future game console, the Xbox, much to the
annoyance of the Redmond giant.”

Signal Ground takes a look at AOpen’s AK73 Pro and Soyo’s 7VTA-B motherboards, evaluating their use for the Linux market.

“Sendmail, Inc. and the Sendmail Consortium are proud to announce the
release of sendmail 8.11.2. This is a maintenance release which contains
bug fixes for problems found after 8.11.1 was released.” Full details at LWN.net.

In a press release at Linux PR, SGI announced that its digital media software development kit (dmSDK) is now available to the Open Source community.

“Boldly going where no database has gone before, Oracle Corp.’s Oracle8i Release 3 is a lot more than a database. Oracle8i is now also a file, mail, Web and Java2 Enterprise Edition application server.” Review at ZDNet.

Anandtech takes a look at the latest low-cost Celeron chips from Intel. Now shipping with a 100MHz Front Side Bus (FSB), chip performance is expected to increase dramatically.

Ananova reports: “Two men in Los Angeles have been jailed for two years after
they sent 50 million e-mails as part of a scam which almost
brought the largest internet providers to a standstill.”

From CNN: “While some contend that Linux has made
headlines but little else, evidence suggests
that Linux is finding a niche — and quite
possibly a large one. A poll of 2,092 IT professionals by Survey.com
reveals that more than 68 percent of companies have or intend to
deploy at least one Linux system.” (Note: the article mentions VA Linux, the company that owns NewsForge).