Grab your pocket protector and put on your favorite “Born to Code” t-shirt! Lulu Tech Circus, the 3-day interactive technology experience sponsored by Bob Young’s Lulu Enterprises, today announces the “Lulus.”
The Lulus celebrate important geek characteristics and signifiers of supreme geekdom such as: Retentiveness, appearance and hygiene, social/asocial activities and habits, arrogance, skepticism, criticality and the rest of the standard and extraordinary measures of geekdom as best personified by an individual.

To be a part of the world’s first Lulus, go to www.lulutechcircus.com/lulus right now and nominate your favorite Lulu, which may very well be yourself!

The Lulus will be awarded at the Raleigh Lulu Tech Circus, which runs from September 27-29, at the North Carolina fairgrounds. Look for the Lulus to be handed out September 27 at 5pm in a ceremony that dares to ask, “Are you Lulu enough”? You must be present at the Lulus ceremony at the show to win your Lulu.

Lulus will be given to Raleigh’s top three entrants. There is no cost to enter the contest, and nominees must be at least 18. Did we mention that you must be present to win? Well you must!

Nominate a friend or nominate yourself! Voting for the Raleigh area’s top three Lulus will take place online at www.lulutechcircus.com beginning right now.

Are you hesitant to be a Lulu? Check out what you could win:

First Place prize: NASA WEEKEND–Dine with an astronaut, and tour the Kennedy Space Center restricted areas, including Launch Complex 39, the Apollo/Saturn V Center and the International Space Station Center. Prize includes roundtrip air travel, two nights at the Radisson at the Port, and car rental during your stay. Find out if astronauts really do drink Tang!

Second Place Prize: ZOOT SCOOTER–Have a SharperImage Deluxe Citybug Electric Scooter delivered to your door. Now that’s traveling in style!

Third Place Prize: THE ULTIMATE GEEK PACK–Enjoy Desktop Ping, Starbucks Exclusive Blends Sampler Pack, a Q Ball Talking Fortune Teller and a Rubber Chicken, as well as many other stylish prizes. Be the envy of your user group!

So go ahead, channel your inner geek and nominate yourself for the Lulus. See www.lulutechcircus.com for details on the show and the Lulus.

About Lulu Tech Circus

Plans for the first Lulu Tech Circus include a wide variety of live and interactive experiences from which attendees can design their personalized days at the Circus– everything from master classes with animation experts and digital film screenings, to networking certification and Local-Area-Network Gaming tournaments. In keeping with the circus theme, the event is divided into five rings–ArtisTeka (Graphic and Media Arts), Expansive Education, Gear and Gadgets, Fun and Games, and Extreme Computing.

Annette Oevermann writes: MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the immediate availability of a Preview Kit for MontaVista(tm) Linux® Professional Edition 2.1. Designed for developers of embedded applications, the free kit demonstrates several key packages and technologies included in MontaVista Linux Professional Edition.
“The MontaVista Linux Preview Kit lets developers of embedded applications get an understanding of the power of the award-winning MontaVista Linux Professional Edition development platform, easily and without risk,” said Sheila Baker, vice president of Marketing, MontaVista Software. “We are convinced this opportunity to experience the performance and the powerful features of our flagship product will make it the development environment of choice for even more embedded developers.”

The Preview Kit is designed to use the same network-based development environment as MontaVista Linux Professional Edition, including components such as DHCP, NFS and tftp. With the Preview Kit, developers receive a full MontaVista Linux kernel running on a range of popular reference platforms including eleven processors from six architecture families. The Preview Kit lets developers explore the building and debugging process and invites them to evaluate MontaVista Linux networking and real-time performance capabilities through a variety of tools and software components. It also offers a hands-on preview of the MontaVista developer environment, designed for cross-platform development of embedded applications.

By providing simple yet powerful demonstrations, the Preview Kit also reduces the amount of time developers might otherwise spend “test-driving” a particular operating system/hardware solution. In addition, developers will be able to sample MontaVista Linux LSPs (Linux Support Package) for a range of popular reference platforms. Supporting documentation for the hosts and targets covered in the Preview Kit, representative of what customers receive in the Professional Edition, is also provided to ensure a good user experience.

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 is the next generation of the company?s classic and award-winning cross-development platform and set of tool kits. Providing a standard development platform for designs, it enables developers to create a broad range of embedded applications, from solutions for consumer devices to highly available telecommunications and data communications equipment. MontaVista Linux Professional Edition allows developers to focus on their value-add to their customers while enabling them to speed high-performance products to market in a cost-effective manner. For more information, visit http://www.mvista.com/pro/index.html

Availability

The Preview Kit can be downloaded immediately from MontaVista Software?s Web site at http://www.mvista.com/previewkit/index.html. It is available at no charge.

About MontaVista Software

MontaVista Software is a leading global supplier of systems software for intelligent connected devices and their associated infrastructure, for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer electronics. MontaVista powers the embedded revolution by providing GNU/Linux based open-source systems software solutions.

Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista Software’s principal products include MontaVista ™ Linux® Professional Edition and MontaVista ™ Linux® Carrier Grade Edition. The Professional edition comprises a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development environments, and a versatile set of tools for the x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, XScale, Xtensa and other microprocessor architectures. The Carrier Grade Edition is a next-generation high availability product that is the first Commercial Off-The-Shelf Linux (COTS) platform for telecommunications and carrier-grade applications. MontaVista Software also provides several complementary technology products addressing specific customer needs, such as Java development and runtime, powerful graphics capabilities and more.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic and Sony Corporation. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

Contacts:

Joe Samagond,
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications,
MontaVista Software Inc.,
Phone (408) 328-9234,
E-mail: jsamagond@mvista.com

Patricia Colby,
PR Strategy and Business Development,
Pacifico Inc.,
Phone (408) 293-8600 ext. 340,
E-mail: pcolby@pacifico.com

This Week’s Summary: Beta 3 Released; Summer Special at MandrakeStore;
Mandrake Receives LSB Certification; Financial Corner; The Latest
MandrakeClub Activities; Star Trek Actor Wil Wheaton Recommends
Mandrake; Business Case of the Week; Software Updates; Headlines from
MandrakeForum.

Top Story
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Beta 3 has been released.
The third Beta of the upcoming Mandrake Linux 9.0 for x86 is now 
available for download & testing.

Some of the highlights of the new beta include:
 * WebDAV can now be configured in DrakX
 * The first version of DrakCronat is introduced
 * A new & improved "DrakWizard" for configuring servers
 * New GCC with all C++ apps recompiled
 * Drakboot can now configure the bootsplash
 * X starts as a service

Cooker has now entered its first "frozen" state. This means that new 
versions of packages will not be accepted unless they fix critical 
bugs. Lead MandrakeSoft developer 'Warly' says to expect Beta4 or RC1 
by the end of this week or beginning of next week, then a new RC in the 
beginning of September (subject to change).

Read the complete Beta announcement:
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90beta.php3


Summer Special at MandrakeStore
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Don't miss this special offer! Order anything at MandrakeStore during 
August 8 - September 8 and we will ship the order anywhere in the USA, 
Canada or the European Union for FREE. Customers in other countries 
receive 50% off shipping.

This is a great opportunity to purchase MandrakeSoft products, 
third-party products, and Gifts & Goodies at a special price.

Stop by MandrakeStore today:
http://www.mandrakestore.com/


Mandrake Receives LSB Certification
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On August 2nd, Mandrake Linux became the first Linux distribution 
certified by the Linux Standard Base (LSB). LSB Certification verifies 
adherence to community and industry standards. This important 
accomplishment has been achieved for the Mandrake Linux 8.2 ProSuite 
Edition plus the first "Update CD".
http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl?CALLER=display_product.tpl


Financial Corner
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Increase of capital continues.
MandrakeSoft board members recently voted to extend the Warrants 
Operation (BSA) until October 31st, 2002 (barring any unforeseen 
circumstances). As soon as the available warrants are purchased, we can 
close the operation and focus our energy in the continued development 
of the distribution.

If you would like to become a company shareholder, there's still time 
to act:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa


MandrakeClub
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Below are the top-10 applications now in "testing" phase:
 * wine (8.2/i586) -- an implementation of MS-Windows APIs for Linux
 * NVidia Kernel and GLX -- display driver for nVidia graphics card
 * Apache 2.x -- the latest version of the Apache webserver
 * gphoto2-2.1.0 -- program for downloading pictures from digital
   cameras
 * checkinstall -- removes programs that were compiled and installed
   from source
 * mjpegtools --  for video recording and playback
 * SpamAssassin -- a mail filter to identify spam
 * Quanta plus -- a web development tool for KDE
 * Maxima -- computer algebra software
 * LICQ -- a multi-threaded ICQ client

People are needed to test these new packages and provide feedback so
that we can release "final" versions to other Club members.
http://www.mandrakeclub.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=RPM

Final packages can be found in the "/unsupported/MandrakeClub/" 
directory of your local Cooker mirror.

Not yet a Mandrake Club member? To learn more, please visit:
http://mandrakelinux.com/en/club/


Mandrake in the News
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NewsForge.com -- Ex-Star Trek star "world's number one Linux 
cheerleader".
Wil Wheaton, of movie and TV fame, writes in his personal weblog that 
he recently received a Lindows computer as a gift; but when Lindows 
took a dump, he went straight for the real thing -- Mandrake Linux 8.2:

"This install was the easiest thing I have ever done, and there wasn't 
one single problem. The only glitch came when I was trying to get my 
soundcard to work, which was hammered out quickly and painlessly, 
thanks to the monkeys in the soapbox."

"I'm using Gnome, and I've never been happier. I am now going to become 
the world's number one Linux cheerleader."
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/08/15/208231.shtml?tid=23


Business Case of the Week
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Tri-Pacific Software uses & recommends Mandrake for server & 
workstations.
Tri-Pacific Software - located in Alameda, California and Dallas, Texas 
- is a business that provides tools for performing schedulability 
analysis of real-time systems. The company has 15 employees and various 
versions of Linux installed on a number of systems.

"Tom" from Tri-Pacific Software writes:
"My first Mandrake version was 6.0. I was immediately impressed with 
the way the product was packaged and the administration tools that had 
been added. I had been using RedHat versions prior to this and felt 
that Mandrake was doing a better job of providing something that a 
typical end-user would be able to work with."
http://www.mandrakebizcases.com/article.php?sid=354

For many more examples of Mandrake in the workplace, please see:
http://www.MandrakeBizcases.com.


Software Updates
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Security-related software updates have been released for:

bind -- fixes buffer overflow
sharutils -- fixes local file vulnerability
xchat -- fixes dns command insecurities
glibc -- fixes buffer overflow
libpng -- fixes buffer overflow

View the complete list at:
http://www.mandrakesecure.net


Headlines from MandrakeForum
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Mandrake Linux has been LSB-Certified.
Gaël writes: "Mandrake Linux is one of the three first Linux 
distributions to become Linux Standard Base (LSB 1.2/IA 32) certified. 
Isn't that great?" 
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2379

Mandrake Linux 9.0 Beta 3 available.
Thanks to many helpful suggestions and reports, Beta 3 contains 
numerous corrections and improvements to the DrakX installer and 
assorted software. New features, such as webDAV file system support and 
koffice 1.2rc1, are also in the plate for testing. 
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2378

Updates are now available for xchat, sharutils, and bind.
Vincent Danen writes: "Updates are now available for xchat which 
corrects some insecurities with the "/dns" command; sharutils which 
corrects some insecurities with the uudecode program; and bind9 which 
makes available 9.2.1 proper (9.2.1RC1 was in the previous update and 
didn't correct the vulnerabilities it was supposed to have corrected), 
and also provides a patch to fix the buffer overflow in the resolver 
libraries."
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?lang=en&sid=2377

Read these and other stories at MandrakeForum.
http://www.MandrakeForum.com/

“In what is being billed as the first Alberta International Wardriving Day, hackers armed with
laptop computers outfitted with wireless networking gear and global positioning systems will
drive around Red Deer looking for unprotected wireless computer networks.

The aim of the game – organizers are calling it a “hobby” – is to see which hacker can find the
most wireless networks in one day.” More at GlobeTechnology.com.

“Record labels are reluctant to discuss spoofing, but their
trade group, the Recording Industry Association of
America, has called it a legitimate way to combat piracy.
And at least one company acknowledges that it has been
hired to distribute spoofs, although it won’t say by whom.” More at WashingtonPost.com.

“Let me tell you, a lot of people are really pissed off at Microsoft because of what they’re doing with licensing.
Microsoft was much more of an engineering company when Bill Gates was in charge. (Steve) Ballmer is a
marketing guy. He’s been sending out letters to customers threatening to audit them. Microsoft will milk you till
you’re dry, and I for one am tired of being milked,” adds Hayes.” More at LinuxPlanet.

From EETimes. “This is the first fab whose IT infrastructure is all Linux-based, controlled by
some 1,700 1-GHz microprocessors able to access some 600 terabytes of
data,” said Perry Hartswick, project manager for factory integration solutions.
“Together with Cisco, we developed this IT manufacturing environment with
off-the-shelf parts.” Hartswick said Linux was evaluated against a Windows-based system and
performed flawlessly for three months, whereas the Windows-based system
failed after six or seven days.

“Last week’s LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco was surreal. If you walked in the front door of Moscone’s North Hall and looked at only
the brand names of the biggest booths on the floor, you might think you were at Comdex ’85 or PC Expo ’92. Clustered together in
sprawling booths at the center of the floor were IBM, HP, Sun, Intel and AMD. All of them were filled with upbeat business folk, talking
business trash, showing off third-party stuff and doing deals. For a suitwatcher like me, it was like pulling the trawler over a school of
tuna.” More at Linux Journal.

Puget Sound Technology is teaching a workshop covering beginning
Samba administration on September 18 in Everett, Wash.
This seminar will cover the basics of Samba installations
and configurations for providing standard Windows file and
printer services.

Samba is a suite of free software that allows Microsoft
Windows and Unix systems to share files and printers.
Samba — combined with GNU/Linux or *BSD — can be used as a low-cost
replacement as a file or printer server for Windows clients.

This seminar is one of a series of ongoing training events covering
open source software provided by Puget Sound Technology. On Saturday,
August 24, in Everett, Wash., they are teaching hands-on workshops
covering beginning Exim Mail Server Administration and Introduction
to BSD and Linux Security.

Seating is limited. For more information and to
register, visit
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/training/.

About Puget Sound Technology

Puget Sound Technology helps companies save money by using
open source software. The IT technical support, consulting,
training, and outsourcing company specializes in BSD,
Linux, free software and open source solutions. Located in
the north Seattle, Wash. area, Puget Sound Technology provides
professional planning and designing, implementation, operations,
training, and maintenance services for computer systems and
networks. For more information, please visit
www.pugetsoundtechnology.com.

Anonymous Reader writes: “Friday the major record labels initiated a lawsuit against the leading Internet service providers (ISP) for contributory copyright infringement. The ISPs, the suit contends, are allowing free access to websites throughout the world that allow the free trading of copyrighted material. This, they claim, make the ISPs accomplices in music piracy.

http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2002/listen4eve r.html“