osOpinion article bemoans, “I am fed up with searching for an ‘alternative’
operating system that would actually stick around long enough
to even start challenging Windows on the x86 platform.”

This paper presents the risks posed
by an insecure DNS server and walks through compiling,
installing, configuring and optionally, chroot’ing BIND 8, from SecurityPortal.

LinuxSecurity.com News presents, Linux Security Week for the week ending October 2nd 2000.

As the Open Source OS continues to build on its challenge to Windows, LATimes looks at a quartet of pioneers struggling to ride the wave to success. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

LinuxPlanet article claims, “Since the M17 release, something pretty cool has been going on with Mozilla: it gets noticeably better on a daily basis. Not the sort of “better” that had people calling it “rock stable” six months ago, when it clearly was not. Rather, it’s the sort of “better” than finds me using it continually for most of the day.”

ZDNet Interactive Week reports, Sun Microsystems’ Java Message Service, appears ready to challenge other message-oriented middleware systems, such as IBM’s MQSeries, MQ Express from Talarian and Tib/Rendezvous from Tibco Software.

China published sweeping new regulations on Internet companies Monday that limit foreign investment, require strict surveillance against
“subversive” content and threaten to close down any unlicensed firms, reports Reuters.

Intel still insists it will ship the elusive chip by the end of the year, reports ZDNET UK.

ANSWER: None, they just redefine Darkness (TM) as the new industry standard. This and more hilarity from the ACE 2000 expo, as reported by Fairfax IT.

PI-business.com reports that Amazon.com will continue fighting to protect its patented 1-Click online buying method, arguing in a federal court against challenger BarnesandNoble.com in a case that could influence Internet business practices.