From Wired.com: “Teenage computer hackers will play cyber policemen to help an Indian panel tackle Internet crimes, a top software
industry official said on Wednesday.

The National Cyber Cop Committee set up by the industry will be advised by a group of 19 hackers, all between 14 and 19 years of
age, based in larger cities, Dewang Mehta, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies, told a news
conference.”

The Linux Interest Group is holding an open meeting during the first day of the next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum which takes place Feb. 6 to 8
at the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California. More information is at OpenGroup.org.

In SearchEnterpriseLinux,
Al Brown, chief technical officer of eGrail, an Internet infrastructure software product and services company, talks about his company’s sales approach and technology and Linux’s future in the enterprise market. He says Linux’s advantages are not well understood outside the technical community. -Anonymous Reader

LWN.net has it: “We’re beginning to learn what life with the testing distribution will
be like. Developers now need to keep track of what versions of their
packages are in testing, as well as stable and unstable, and it’s
proving to be rather hard to figure out why an updated package is not
being accepted into testing.”

It’s posted at LWN.net. Among the changes: PPA driver update; fix NFS data alignment on ARM; fix hang on boot with ALi5451 shared irq midi.

Slashdotters discuss a report that publication of The Perl Journal has been halted while some of its sister publications are sold to Internet.com.

Posted at LWN.net: “On December 25, 2000, the machine that runs the www.slackware.com web site
was compromised by an unknown cracker. The compromised machine was
quickly noticed and all services were shutdown. We have audited the machine
and restored from backup files.”

From BusinessWire: Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source Internet infrastructure solutions, today announced that it
ranked Number 193 on the Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
Rankings are based on five-year percentage revenue growth from 1995-1999.

“One of the reasons that Debian is such a cool and intuitive distribution is because of it’s packaging system (*.deb). The installation uses a program called apt to download and install programs from cds, nfs, ftp, or http. Because of this, you can install an entirely current system from an old installation cd. The most remarkable thing about apt, however, is that it checks and maintains dependencies for you, so you do not need to go around hunting for libraries that you need before installing your favorite programs.”
Check it out at Linuxnewbie.org–Sensei

KDE.org: “I was involved from the moment Waldo started to code for KDE. Not that I physically did anything but, I listen to his
complains, plans and frustration for hours. Offered my view on I/O slaves, on GUI, on fonts etc. I’m a Mac person
myself so I have a different view on things than most of the KDE developers. A couple of months ago Waldo and
Cristian asked me If I would do an interview series of people behind KDE and I agreed.”