Linux Journal gives us a postmortum on ALS: “None of Larry Wall’s aquarium fish fluoresce under ultraviolet light. That’s the kind of possibly useful and definitely serindipitous
information you pick up at the Atlanta (now Annual) Linux Showcase, which, for some reason, will be in Oakland next year.”

It’s posted at LWN.net and features the new PTK Release, Zope Book gets feedback, how to control access on a
protocol
basis, WriteLocking proposal, XHTMLTemplate and HiperDOM,
membership, and docs get organized on Zope.org.

LWN.net has the advisory: Security problems have been found in the client code of the NIS
(Network Information System, aka yp – yellow pages) subsytem.
SuSE distributions before SuSE-6.1 came with the original ypbind
program, SuSE-6.2 and later included the ypbind-mt NIS client
implementation.

From a press release at LinuxPR: EdgeMatrix, an Asian technology
company specializing in multichannel enablement, has announced their
partnership with the Sun Wah Linux to bundle their software
packages for the Hong Kong market.

The Jerusalem Post features Jon “maddog” Hall in an article that explains what Linux is. Hall explains why programmers contribute to Linux: “Why do amateur painters paint? They go out with their
easel and brush, and paint, hoping it is going to turn out
to be beautiful. Do they then take that painting and lock it
in a closet? No, they put it up on their wall because they
want people to see it — to have judges look at it and say,
that is wonderful but if you put the paints a little different
you could make the water seem more lifelike. Then they
can take it down and start again, or improve it.”

IDG News Service paints a strange picture of a “hactivist”: “Yetzer’s a hacker and an acknowledged “social engineer” with curious nocturnal
habits. There are thousands of people like him, who by day are system and
network administrators, security analysts and start-up co-founders. When night
comes, they transform into vampire wanna-bes, hedonists, Goths,
cross-dressers and sadomasochists.”

Slashdot readers talk about a DukeOfURL story about how wireless LANs work with Linux.

Slashdotters discuss a report that Yamamori Takenori
has translated his “Linux CD-ROM Game System” to English. It’s a step-by-step
demonstration of how to burn a game, and just the necessary parts of Linux,
onto a PC-bootable CD ROM.

Feedmag.com features the DefCon get-together in Las Vegas: “Is it possible that hackers — long derided as antisocial geeks bent on causing havoc — are actually the last of the true, democratic optimists?”

German open-source operating system vendor SuSE Linux announced
Tuesday it is entering the South Korean market by establishing a joint
venture with Seoul-based Information Network Center, from IDG News Service.