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.”

ZDNet has a column explaining Apple’s BSD derivative, Darwin. “It’s unlikely that Darwin will ever develop anything close to the mindshare that makes Linux the world’s fastest-growing operating system.”

InfoWorld reports that Oracle has extended its $1 million our-servers-run-better-than-yours challenge to BEA in addition to IBM and Microsoft.

Reuters reports that the German government has asked Bertelsmann to stop its partner Napster from allowing users to exchange music by “extreme right-wing bands.”

From PR Newswire: The 3rd Edition of “UNIX System
Administration Handbook,” authored by a team including XOR’s Trent Hein, Evi
Nemeth and Ned McClain, has enjoyed such tremendous success that it is
entering its second printing in less than six months.