Linux PR reports that EuroZopeCon Amsterdam will take place the 23rd and 24th of January, 2001, during Linux Expo Amsterdam.

Red Hat has the reputation of catering to geeks but, looking at the installation, you might think otherwise. For experienced users it’s a piece of cake. For new users, those who have had problems during the installation, we have this detailed install guide
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VNU Net reports: “AOL has moved quickly to patch a severe security flaw in its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) client – which also ships with Netscape Communicator. The weakness, a HTTP buffer overflow vulnerability, was described by @stake as “real easy to exploit.””

In issue 226 of Apache Week: a nutshell review of Beginning PHP 4, a chance to win one of four copies of said book, and all the details of the Apache 2.0 alpha 9 release.

From a press release at LinuxPR: ” Jungo today announced the release of GO-HotSwap version 4.42 for Linux operating systems. GO-HotSwap version 4.42 has an improved Kernel Mode Engine to provide a better mechanism of managing and administrating the ompactPCI bus – resources management and allocation, enumeration, event dispatching, and PCI device registers initialization.”

“Microsoft on Thursday issued a warning that its revenues and earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal year, which ends Dec. 31, will be about 6 percent below the software giant’s original expectations.” Story at InfoWorld.

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.”