A systems administrator, Luigi Genoni is spotlighted and interviewed by Tink. He explains how KDE should be extended from the System Administrator point of view. Thanks to KDE.news for the story.

Alan Cox has released 2.2.19pre2. “Merge the Andrea VM changes. Nothing else in this pre-patch so we can be sure we know if it broke something. The other stuff is still on my in queue so don’t resend it.” (thanks to lwn.net)

The new shiny and full of colors Evolution 0.8 is out! You can download it via ftp or HelixUpdate (apt if you are a Debian user).
Check out the screenshots and the changelog at LinuxNews.pl. (The page is in English.) -Submitted by the LinuxNews Team

LWN.net has an advisory from Linux Mandrake: “The pam_localuser module, which is a part of the pam package, contains
a buffer overflow vulnerability. This module is not used in any
default configuration and for a user to be exploited, they would have
to manually insert it into a configuration file in the /etc/pam.d
directory.”

News.gnome.org has an announcement about the Linux Accessibility Conference The Linux Accessibility Conference March 22 and 23 at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton Hotel. The tentative schedule includes a speech by Peter Korn of Sun Microsystems’ GNOME Accessibility Lab and a workgroup on GNOME (conducted by Sun Microsystems’ GNOME Accessibility Lab).

LinuxToday has posted Linus Torvalds latest update to the kernel.

“Slackware Linux is pleased to announce the addition of the OpenSSL
cryptography libraries and the highly acclaimed OpenSSH suite of network connectivity tools. Users of Slackware 7.1 and -current can enjoy these new packages by downloading them from our current developmental tree and installing them on their systems.”
Full announcement courtesy LWN.

“A typical real-time application involves a task performing some operation within a deadline. For example: storing some data, or updating a display. The task often is designed to repeat such activities ad infinitum, beginning each iteration at the occurrence of a hardware interrupt. … In this article, we’ll discuss Linux, with respect to aiding such systems.” Linuxdevices.com has the full article.

Slashdot has a link and a discussion to an amiga.org editorial discussing the possibility of using the Amiga OS as a common environment for write once, run anywhere programs.

Salon.com takes a bit of an irreverent look at the “Linux Jihad” in light of recent economic changes. ““Old programmers never die,” writes Ken Macleod, “they just move over to legacy systems.”“