eWeek.com reports on efforts at Red Hat, SuSE and Sun to bring Linux to corporate desktops.

“Linux vendors are showing a renewed interest in developing a desktop version of the operating system to challenge Microsoft Corp. But many corporate users are simply not ready for — or not interested in — such a product.”

From eWeek.com: “The creators of the open-source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL are trying to push them further into the enterprise with new features aimed at better support for transactions, database recovery and replication.”

LinuxPlanet reviews what books there are available for everyone from beginners to corporate officers to programmers. “Some of the books listed in this article are strictly Linux, some are for Unix in general, and some are related items that Linux enthusiasts found particularly useful. I’ll include the full titles and ISBNs to try to help you in your searches, but keep in mind that if there’s a newer edition at some point, that edition will have a new ISBN.”

Computerwire (via The Register) reports that Sun Microsystems says it will develop its own extensions to Linux after confirming that its recently released Sun Linux 5.0 distribution is based almost entirely on Red Hat Inc’s Linux 7.2.

dep writes: “Last week GNU released GCC-3.2, which is supposed to cure problems with the C++ application binary interface that had beset earlier versions of the 3.x series. Anders Johansson takes a first look at GCC-3.2 and reports what he’s found. The report is on Linux and Main.”

LPH writes: “It is time to think about Comdex. Yeah. Some of you yawn because it is too commercial. But what if there was an opportunity to get back some of that ole spirit? TuxReports (and hopefully other sites like newsforge) would like to invite Linux penguins to a Tux Fest. This is your invitation so don’t wrinkle it. Read more at TuxReports.com.”

SF Clustering Foundry writes: “Historically, Open Source software has been developed by individuals or groups of individuals working on software in their spare time, or unofficially at their jobs as part of just ‘getting things done.’ Now that Corporations are playing the Open Source collaboration game, there’s a whole new booger in the machine.” Complete story at Sourceforge.net.”

“A flaw has been discovered in the newest version of the Apache Web server that could allow an attacker to take control of a
user’s system, prompting the release Friday of an upgrade to the software.

PivX Solutions, a network security consultancy in Newport Beach, California, disclosed the vulnerability Friday soon after an
upgrade to Apache Version 2.0 that fixes the hole was posted. The hole could let an attacker remotely access all the files on an
Apache 2.0 Web server, execute them, pass malicious code, and even shut down the system completely, said Geoff Shively,
who goes by the title “chief hacking officer” at PivX Solutions.” More at PCWorld.

“My objection has been that we have launched into this
fairly massive regulation of the innovation process without any [clear
evidence] that it will do good. As I say in my book, where are the
Republicans when you need them? Did anyone do any impact
statements to show that this kind of regulation for a crucial part of our
economy was needed or would actually be productive?” More at DarwinMag.com.

“New KDE binary RPMs have been released, as promised, with a fix for the SSL
certificate vulnerability affecting Windows and Konqueror which we reported last
week.

“KDE 3.0.3 primarily provides stability enhancements over KDE 3.0.2, which
shipped in early July 2002, and also contains a security correction for SSL
(Internet security) certificate handling,” the organization says.” More at The Register.