From this week’s update, posted at LWN.net: “Effective today, 0.4.1 has been released, and it incorporates fixes to
a couple of bugs from 0.4.0. If you haven’t gotten it yet, and you
aren’t heavily invested in your 0.4.0 install yet, make life easier
for yourself–download the RPMs for 0.4.1 and install those.”

From LWN.net: “Continuing the popular tradition of our 1998 and 1999 Linux Timelines, here is our attempt to summarize what has happened in the Linux world over the last year.”

The tenth issue of LyX Development News is now online at LyX.org.

The final candidate for 1.4 should arrive this week, a nightly build system has been instituted, and news about Midgard 2.0, all in this week’s edition of MWS as posted to LWN.net.

LinuxDevices has posted a message from one of Indrema’s PR people, clarifying the certification process for third-party game developers, and hinting at a possible release date.

Posted to LWN.net: “A potential security issue exists in versions of Zope up to and
including 2.2.4. This issue involves incorrect protection of a data
updating method on Image and File objects. Because the method was not
correctly protected, it was possible for users with DTML editing
privileges to update the raw data of a File or Image object via DTML
though they did not have editing privileges on the objects themselves.
This update replaces the previous Zope update noted in MDKSA-2000:083.”

LinuxWorld’s Lee Anderson takes a look at ten popular games available for Linux, incuding Heavy Gear II, Freeciv, and Sim City 3000.

“BigStorage Inc., the market
leader in open-systems storage, today announced its successful
installation of 10TB of its iRAID and nearline data storage at
EMusic.com, an e-commerce music company based in Redwood City,
CA that specializes in the distribution of MP3 audio files over the World
Wide Web. The installation is the largest successful Linux storage
network to date and sets a precedent for Linux’s ability to power
high-volume storage in an enterprise environment.” Full press release at Linux PR.

Linux Journal has a column giving Thomson Multimedia a rough time for assuming the Ogg Vorbis MP3 project infringes on Thomson’s intellectual property. “What we’re talking about is the difference between infringement and an infringement
claim. Unfortunately for us, this is for the courts to decide. Of course, the eminent scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute could look at the Ogg Vorbis
code anytime they want; it’s open.”

Slashdot readers discuss this tidbit: “”Let me inform you about our new MPEG-4-based codec
called 3IVX. You probably heard of DivX 😉 as a movie compression format.
And indeed it’s great. But we (the whole 3ivx.com team… want to go a bit
further. Our goal is to optimize compression so that the file size is smaller, of
a higher quality and fully streamable. Moreover the codec will be supported on
all platforms (Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, *nix (including Linux), Amiga …). To accomplish this
the code of the player will become an open source.”