From a Reuters story posted to CNET News.com: “China has mandated that only a handful of domestic companies may assign Chinese-language Internet addresses, striking a blow to the registration service launched last week by U.S.-based VeriSign.”

Updates for BIND, openssh, openssh-clients, and openssh-server are now available for Trustix Secure Linux. More information from Help Net Security.

“Bulls and penguins don’t play together very often. At Comdex this week, however, Groupe Bull SA and Penguin Computing Inc. did a Linux tango when the two companies announced a partnership to sell Linux systems in the European market.” IDG News reports.

In a press release at PRWeb, Teamware Group announced the availability of a 90-day evaluation version of Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux. Billed as a “ready-to-run groupware product with customizable interface and state-of-the-art communications,” the program is available on the Mandrake-Linux 7.2 CD-ROM and Teamware’s Web site.

From a Computerworld report: “Uecomm Limited and Ericsson Australia have deployed the first commercial new-generation Internet standard network (Internet Protocol version 6 – IPv6) across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. A spokesperson for Uecomm, Clare Laffan, said the network will be offered to all customers with an expected 750 companies on board by the end of 2001.”

A remote input validation vulnerability in the DCForum CGI script has been fixed. Details at Help Net Security.

In issue 56 of the Linux Gazette, Jim Dennis gives an overview of Linux e-mail software and protocols.

Aleksandar Stancin (aka D’Pressed) reviews Linux security basics for new users at Help Net Security.

“A powerful OS that runs popular applications would represent a Unix that has finally grown up. And it would present us with a truly interesting question: Should Microsoft be worried? I say yes, because Mac OS X can potentially challenge Windows both in usability and in industrial reliability; but, no, because Apple’s slice of the market is still too small, and Microsoft’s sway with developers and independent software vendors is too high.” FreeBSD Project co-founder Jordan Hubbard reviews Mac OS X for Salon.

Nitrosoft Linux today announced the availability of N-able IT Monitor, its hardware and software server monitoring software for Linux. The program can be downloaded and used on up to three servers per organization at no charge. From a press release at Canada NewsWire.