LWN.net has this advisory from Red Hat: LPRng has a string format bug in the use_syslog function which could lead
to root compromise.

Linux World reports: “The lack of a journaling filesystem has kept Linux from being an option for
administrators of busy e-commerce sites. But that will soon change, as IBM’s JFS
and others fill the void.”

LinuxSecurity.com interviews Paul Vixie and David Conrad about the Internet Software Consortium, the changes in the latest major version of bind, and the future of Internet security.

From Inter@ctive Week: “What do Linux, managed Web hosting and a flat initial public offering market have in common? They are three factors that will seal the fate of Rackspace Managed Hosting, a Web hoster that claims to be the second largest player in managed hosting after Digex. “

Free Software guru Richard M. Stallman is endorsing Ralph Nader for president. “I voted for Nader in 1996 and plan to do so again this year. I am very disappointed with the two
Republican candidates, Bush and Gore.”

From a CNet story: “Red Hat may need to trade up to an extra-large fedora if its head gets any
bigger.

The seller of Linux software and support always has been ambitious, but the company grew a step
bolder today, taking credit for launching the open-source programming movement that underlies Linux
and several other software packages.”

Sega of America, saying it has privacy concerns, wants to shut down several Web sites and message boards that discuss the Dreamcast system. Sega has sent cease-and-desist letters to a group of Web sites that provide
news about what the company calls “pirated” Dreamcast games, including release information, reviews, credits and some
instructions, reports CNet.

From a ZDNet opinion: “I want to see some dust settle on this before wondering whether
Microsoft wants to use Corel as a beachhead from which to embrace Linux,
attack it, or simply overpower StarOffice. In the meantime, it appears
that I’m not the only one who looks at this deal and recalls a similar
boost that Microsoft gave, to perceived rival Apple, three years
ago.

Reuters reports that the Recording
Industry Association of America, fighting with Napster over
“unauthorized” downloading of songs on the
Internet, is forming a pool to collect
royalties from Web sites that stream
music online, according to sources.

An OpenSSH-based Secure Shell is now available in the main NetBSD sources. It will be
pulled into the netbsd-1-5 branch, so it will be available in NetBSD 1.5, reports BSD Today.