Suddenly, all manner of companies are declaring themselves
Peer-to-Peer. So what exactly is it? O’Reilly Network’s directory of
P2P companies reveals that the P2P space is poorly defined, constantly
shifting, and quite interesting.

SecurityFocus.com announces, RedHat and Debian have both released patches for this vulnerability. S.u.S.E. users should refer to
a different vulnerability, BID: 1820 for patch information.

CBS MarketWatch reports, CyberCash Japan K.K is joining the global movement to adopt Linux
applications for e-commerce. The Japanese subsidiary of CyberCash of
the U.S. has tied up with TurboLinux Japan to
promote e-commerce credit card settlement services for Japanese
language Linux servers.

It’s been 9 years since Linux was first released to the general
public. This Linux.com.au article asks, “given the current state of Linux today, has Linus achieved what he set out to achieve?”

As Linux continues to
infiltrate businesses everywhere, a need for training on the operating
environment is quickly emerging, reports PRNewswire. According to IDC, Linux training in the
United States alone could be a $311 million market by 2004. InfoWorld reports on the study.

Dell has introduced a new ultra-low-cost $1,039
server, the PowerEdge 300, complementing its already
introduced Dell PowerEdge 1300 and 1400. TechWeb reports, the server ships with the option to
include one of Dell’s portfolio of third-party operating
sytems, including Red Hat Linux.

MSNBC Technology reports, on the other side of
the Atlantic, a place where stealing Internet
access is sometimes a necessity and computer
hardware is often archaic, hacking is hardly a
game, and points to Boris Floricic, a legendary 27-year-old German hacker who was
found dead in a Berlin park in November of 1998. Police ruled it a suicide, but
family, friends and the CCC say foul play was involved.

The Register proclaims, Hatch’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a veritable masterpiece of internal inconsistencies,
contradictions, and fraudulent assurances purporting to protect the ‘fair use’ of
copyrighted material, clearly written by recording and movie industry flacks
who have since delighted in splitting the hairs and treading the thin edges as
they assail the very ‘fair use’ which the Act so touchingly, and impotently,
bleats about.

UnionBuiltBox, is proud to announce the addition of Kondara MNU/Linux
preinstalled on their workstation computers. LinuxPR reports the new Kondara
workstations feature the AMD processor with speeds ranging from 500mhz to 1ghz.

Overland Data, Inc., a technology leader in tape backup products, and Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. announced today that Overland’s AIT(a) LibraryPro automated
backup tape library is certified to run under Linux, from Business Wire.