The Register reports that an “esoteric buffer overlow bug” in OpenBSD has been upgraded in importance because it could allow a cracker to gain remote access to a server.

Feedmag.com has an article on dotcom unions: “In late November, the San Francisco local of the Newspaper
Guild-Communications Workers of America submitted a petition to the
National Labor Relations Board to certify union representation for
thirty-six employees at etown, representing perhaps the first dot-com
employees to seek union status. Thirteen of the thirty-six employees
were fired two days later, though Lew Brown, etown.com’s president
and CEO, said the dismissals were for economic reasons, and the timing
‘an unfortunate coincidence.’ ”

“I have seen many people trying to get ther @Home cable service to work under Redhat. Me being somewhat of a newbie myself I decided to write this step by step NHF, to get you though that rough spot. Feel free to add change or just email me with any updates.
Well first you have to make sure your NIC card is working.”
Check it out at Linuxnewbie.org. This link courtesy of Sensei

LWN.net has the new issue: “Testing has entered the main Debian archive. Testing is a new branch
of Debian to complement stable and unstable. New uploads enter
unstable, and if no bad bugs are found in two weeks time, flow into
testing. Thus, testing is always in an ‘essentially releasable state’.
Testing is sure to have
far-ranging implications throughout Debian, from package release
frequency and everyday development, to porting and security fixes, to
release timing and management. Interesting times lie ahead.

From Upside.com: “Call it the open source business paradox. At
a time when public and private investors
seem to be turning up their noses at open
source companies and the notion of selling
software with freely available source code,
large and small businesses alike can’t seem
to get enough of it.

Slowly but surely, companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard (HWP)
and even Oracle (ORCL) have re-positioned themselves as the best
friends of the open source community, while former starlets such as
Red Hat (RHAT) and VA Linux (LNUX) scramble to earn their first
profitable dollar.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

From SearchEnterpriseLinux.techtarget.com:
It is now possible to take a test drive version of the OpenNMS open source management solution. The new version is a single-server solution with features appropriate for Internet service providers to small and medium-sized companies. Submiited by an Anonymous Reader

“Steve Giles, cofounder of the OpenNMS. org project, believes OpenNMS will show that old management solutions are as relevant to today?s enterprise Web environment as the manual typewriter.He talks about OpenNMS in a question and answer interview at searchEnterpriseLinux.-Anonymous Reader“

From searchEnterpriseLinux: ”
Five years ago, open source databases were not on most IT professionals’ radar but today they are making enough blips to keep a full staff of flight controllers busy.

-Anonymous Reader“

Newsforge reader Max Kincora sends us this link: “The lack of right-sized, right-priced systems management solutions for Linux has been a problem for many IT managers. Here is a look at new systems management solutions being offered by Caldera Systems, Red Hat, and Acrylis.”

Linux Planet has this opinion piece entitled, “On being a citizen of the Web.”