The 36th edition of the Linux in education report is now available at SEUL.ORG. Topics include tips for finding and using plotting tools, an update on the Debian Jr. project, and several announcements of new Open Source education software.

“The DB-Box database software is constructed completely in PHP and
MySQL running on Linux, can handle up to 500 users, comes complete
with RAID level 0 data protection, and includes an Uninterruptible Power
Supply.” Read the full press release at LinuxPR.

From PHPeveryWhere: “Perl is one of the most useful programming languages ever created. The email system I use at work is glued
together by Perl scripts. The regular expression support in Perl is the best in the world. I have used Matt
Wright’s FormMail (who hasn’t?) However for generating web pages Perl has a lot of deficiencies compared to
PHP.”

“In the first part of this two-part series about Linux on the Mac, Pawel Leszek will show you how Mac users can
benefit from Linux and what they should expect from Linux on a PowerPC.” Full article at LinuxWorld.

At Linux Today: Alan Cox posts the latest updates for Linux kernel 2.4.0prerelease-ac4.

“A vulnerability exists in Emacs 20.6 and prior that allows any user on a multiuser system to eavesdrop
on, or forge responses to, an Emacs client. The vulnerability stems from Emacs’ failure to properly set
permissions for slave PTY devices.” More information and updates at Linux Today.

From ZDNet: “Linus Torvalds, the “father” of the Linux operating
system, sent testers and developers a 2.4 prerelease
kernel over the weekend. While Torvalds had previously said he hoped to release
the final code for the 2.4 kernel by the end of December,
testers got the prerelease instead.”

“It’s amazing to think today, with the Web now spanning
some 7 million sites, that its creator could barely get his colleagues interested at
first.

Ten years later, Tim Berners-Lee has different worries: keeping the Web from
growing out of control as commercial developers pile layer after layer of software on
top of the Web’s foundation.” More at SiliconValley.com

BBC News reports that Napster has formed an alliance with Germany’s Edel Music, one of the world’s largest independent music labels.

ZDNet News looks at the facts and the hype surrounding peer-to-peer networking.