eLink Business rolls out new product line. No more struggles with Windows, balky servers, routers, applications and third-party consulting firms piecing it all together. No more finger pointing. eLink Business introduces the Linxera family of ecommerce router/servers with integrated Linux-based software designed to provide a simple, inexpensive “out-of-the-box” solution for ecommerce and ebusiness needs. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

From a review of StarOffice at LinuxWorld: “By now you surely have heard that Sun plans to release StarOffice 6.0 this fall as open source under the GNU General Public License. By coincidence, I had already returned to StarOffice 5.2 as my primary productivity suite after flirting with alternatives such as Applixware and WordPerfect Office 2000.”

The mgetty-sendfax package contains a vulnerability which allows any
user with access to the /var/tmp directory to destroy any file on any
mounted filesystem.
The advisory is at LWN.net

WireX, a developer of software for “purpose-specific” servers, commonly known as server appliances, today announced it is expanding into Taiwan and Mainland China with a new partner, TSC. WireX’s expansion into the international server appliance market demonstrates their commitment to provide Asia with affordable, easy-to-use server solutions. The press release is at LinuxPR.

LyX is being used as a reference that other word-processors and documentation systems are compared to. Sometimes to define what a new system is trying to offer and sometimes as a benchmark product. No surprise, it’s at lyx.org.

libpam-smb contains a buffer overflow that can be used to execute
arbitrary commands with root privilege. libpam-smb was not shipped with
Debian 2.1 (slink), but was included in Debian 2.2 (potato).

A fixed version of libpam-smb is available in version 1.1.6-1 for Debian
2.2 (potato). We recommend upgrading your libpam-smb immediately.
The advisory is at LWN.net.

Candela Technologies’ LANforge is an ethernet traffic generation and testing suite. It utilizes a slightly modified RedHat Linux 6.2 installation with custom software to provide a realistic and cost-effective testing platform targetted at DSL and Cable-Modem providers. Check ot the press release at Linux PR.

Akopia, a provider of Open Source e-commerce software and services, today announced the launch of a Web site where developers of Interchange around the world can exchange information and ideas. The
press release is at LinuxPR.

From a column at ZDNet: “The newest villain is the Internet itself. A bunch of chowderheads from the Turning Point Project are running full-page ads in The New York Times claiming that the whole computer revolution is the incarnation of evil, and a threat to democracy. Why? Because computers let employers measure workers’ output better. Because chip makers use “huge amounts of pure water.” Because while it’s OK for catalog merchants to avoid out-of-state sales tax, greedy Internet merchants are somehow stealing money from sanitation workers.”

Linbox, the inventor of Linbox Network Architecture (LNA) and leading Linux Network Computer designer in Europe, announced the appointment of Jean-Pierre Laisné as its president and chief executive officer, according to a press release at LinuxPR.