Author: JT Smith
From BSDToday.com: Clifford Smith explains the basics of installing, using and troubleshooting FreeBSD’s Linux program compatibility.
Category:
- Linux
Caldera joins Linux-on-Itanium race
Author: JT Smith
From Linuxtoday.com: Caldera on Friday posted an early version of its OpenLinux product designed for the Itanium chip.
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- Linux
Caldera ships developer preview of Linux
Author: JT Smith
From Linuxpr.com: This developer’s preview enables early software development with a beta version of the new Linux 2.4 kernel, Sun Microsystems’ Java, HotSpot technology and glibc 2.1.91.
Category:
- Open Source
Freenet’s Ian Clarke heads to California
Author: JT Smith
The Standard writes: “The man who calls copyright law ‘unenforceable’ is bringing a powerful file-sharing application across the pond.”
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- Linux
Netscape has serious security hole
Author: JT Smith
From Linuxtoday.com: A serious vulnerability has been found in a version of Netscape Navigator and Netscape Communicator Java interpreter that allows Web-based programs to access virtually any file.
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- Linux
Napster gone corporate?
Author: JT Smith
From Wideopen.com: Intel will attempt to prove it can get down with the baddest Net players when it announces a plan to ignite development of more peer-to-peer networking for businesses and consumers.
Category:
- Open Source
Stallman Begs to Differ with Troll Tech’s Allison
Author: JT Smith
Richard Stallman rebuts Warwick Allison in a BeOpen.com letter to the editor.
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- Linux
NetBSD Security Advisory: Netscape 4.73
Author: JT Smith
The buffer overrun in Netscape’s JPEG parser has been fixed in 4.74; here is the
NetBSD Security Advisory.
NetBSD Security Advisory.
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- Linux
Dr. Dobb’s Python-URL
PKI still mired in pilot mode
Author: JT Smith
from ZDNet’s eWeek. Quote from story: PKI (public-key infrastructure) two years ago held the title of most
promising security technology. But in the battle to become a staple of
IT security, PKI has fallen behind intrusion detection, anti-virus
software and e-mail filtering and is in danger of becoming “forever
pilotware,” said Chris King, an analyst at Greenwich Technology
Partners Inc., in Stamford, Conn.
promising security technology. But in the battle to become a staple of
IT security, PKI has fallen behind intrusion detection, anti-virus
software and e-mail filtering and is in danger of becoming “forever
pilotware,” said Chris King, an analyst at Greenwich Technology
Partners Inc., in Stamford, Conn.
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- Linux