CNET News.com has an interview with Sam Palmisano, IBM’s president and COO, calling him “…one of IBM’s biggest Linux advocates, placing the alternative flavor of the Unix operating system near the center of a broad plan to catch the second wave of technological revolution.”

“The “ed” editor creates temporary files in an insecure way, making it vulnerable to symlink attacks.” Full details at LWN.net.

ZDNet News reports that the popularity (and shortage) of PlayStation 2 units has spawned several Web scams. The story covers ongoing police investigations of PS2 fraud in Canada and Florida.

From a press release at LWN.net: “Linux NetworX, Inc., a provider of large-scale clustered computer solutions for biotechnology, Internet, industry and research fields, announced today that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley Calif., has selected a Linux NetworX cluster computer system for its Drosophila Genome Project.”

O’Reilly has posted a Call for Participation for its next Perl Conference, taking place July 23-27, 2001 in San Diego, California. Proposals will be considered in three classes: tutorial programs, conference presentations, and refereed papers.

LWN.net has posted the latest security updates for pam and Conectiva Linux.

“Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq: RHAT), the leader in developing, deploying and
managing open source Internet Infrastructure solutions, today reported revenue of $22.4 million for the third quarter ended November 30, 2000, an increase of
112% versus the $10.5 million reported for the third quarter of fiscal 2000 and an increase of 21% over the second quarter of fiscal 2001.” Full press release at Business Wire

Nathan Boeger reviews FreeBSD 4.1 for Web Techniques: “…for speed and security, FreeBSD is the way to go. In no way am I trying to say that Red Hat, or Linux, is inferior. Linux has very good desktop uses, and works well in some server situations. But, the FreeBSD 4.x tree is by far the fastest OS running on Intel hardware that I’ve ever seen.”

LinuxDevices.com offers The Embedded Linux Newsletter for the week of December 14, 2000.

P. Fiorini, a ZioBudda.net contributor, reviews Linux Mandrake 7.2.
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“Senza dubbio un’ottima distribuzione per tutti gli utenti che non mi ha dato problemi durante il riconoscimento dell’hardware presente.” –ZioBudda