LinuxPlanet: “The first release candidate of GNOME 2.0 (GNOME 2.0 RC1, also known as “Fever Pitch”) was announced on June 14, 2002, and is spreading across the ‘Net like wildfire. This article examines what’s new in GNOME 2.0 and the release candidate, where to find it, how to install it, and concludes by discussing whether or not to install it as well as a crystal-ball look at some of the implications of GNOME’s successes to date and GNOME 2.0’s potential for the future.”

“The creators of Apache Web Server software said today that all Apache users are potentially affected by security vulnerabilities that were announced yesterday, even as a controversy continues about how the flaws were initially made public.” Read more in this IDG.net update.

InfoWorld: “Sun Microsystems will announce its controversial Linux server, code-named Big Bear, this August at the LinuxWorld conference, showing a dual-processor system that runs on chips from rival Intel, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans. The Sun server, to be officially named Cobalt LX50, is the company’s first general-purpose server to run Sun Linux and could be attractive to customers looking for a system to handle tasks such as e-mail, file and media serving.”

Kernel.org: Dave Jones today released Linux 2.5.22-dj1. Here are the change logs and links.

Resync with mainline, and get most of the big bits out of the patch queue.
Quite a large amount of changes, so I've held back the remainder of
those in the queue until next time.

As usual,..

Patch against 2.5.22 vanilla is available from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/

Merged patch archive: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/patches/merged/

Check http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/Linux-2.5.html before reporting
known bugs that are also in mainline.

 -- Davej.

2.5.22-dj1
o   Drop bogus warning printk from shmem option parser. (Hugh Dickins)
o   Only allow IGMP packets to multicast addresses.     (Krishna Ramachandran)
o   Back out NFS READDIRPLUS patch pending investigation.
o   aic7xxx has new style error handling.               (Me)
o   ISDN CAPI config fixes.                             (Carsten Rietzschel)
o   Add SiS 7012 to i8x0 audio compatables.             (Carsten Rietzschel)
o   Fix asm constraints in RAID5 XOR functions.         (Andi Kleen)
o   Kill off FAT CVF support.                           (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o   Fix up several compilation warnings.                (Rudmer van Dijk)
o   Region handling fixups for tcic, ixj                (William Stinson)
o   More list_del_init cleanups.                        (Brian Gerst)
o   Cleanup floppy fixes.                               (Mikael Petterson)
    | note VFS & floppy still known to be broken.
o   Keep max_scsihost synced with scsi_hostno_list    (Itai Nahshon)
o   Introduce scsimon driver.                           (Douglas Gilbert)
o   Cleanup ini9100u scsi driver.                       (Douglas Gilbert)
o   Remove VM_FAULT magic numbers.                      (William Lee Irwin)
o   Fix oops on dual head matroxfb.                     (Petr Vandrovec)
    | 2.5-dj framebuffer code is lagging mainline quite a bit.
o   allow_dma option for OPL3Sa4 cards.                 (Gerald Teschl)
o   Mark OPL3sax cards always use opl3sa2 driver.       (Gerald Teschl)
o   GRE initialisation fix.                             (Sam Ravnborg)
o   Fix 'make tags' to include all dirs.                (Kai Germaschewski)
o   EPERM->EACCESS in ext2/ext3_ioctl.                  (Andreas Dilger)
o   Further LVM fixes.                                  (Anders Gustafsson)
o   Compile fixes for SCSI & CS46xx.                    (Stephen Rothwell)
o   Andrew Morton jumbo-patch-o-rama.                   (Andrew Morton)
o   Unbotch IDE TCQ locking.                            (Jens Axboe)
o   rio kdev_t compile fixes.                           (Adrian Bunk)
o   Fix modversions.                                    (Kai Germaschewski)
o   Remove detritus from menuconfig on clean.           (Kai Germaschewski)
o   Fix initrd breakage.                                (Mikael Petterson)
o   Fix copy_from_user bogon in sb_audio                (Mikael Petterson)
o   Hotplug PCI compilation fix.                        (Matthew Harrell)

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

The Register: “HP today announced that something called Walt Disney Feature Animation had fixed on HP Linux workstations and servers as components (we’ll italicise the weasel words) in its next-generation digital animation production pipeline (oh screw, no we won’t).” Read more here.

Jeff gerhardt writes: Tuesday, June 18th, 2002, from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL, tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com . At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc
Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; have another strange and wonderful show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!!
Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks tonight. In particular, we will talk about lots of product releases (Gnome) this past couple weeks (yes Microtel and Lindows), and of course, the absurdity of Disney using Linux.

Segment Two- We Put The Contract Out on Steve Ballmer Our originally scheduled guest canceled due to illness.

So Tonight we are going to have a little fun. We are asking that listeners and IRC participants send us their emailed suggestions to respond to Steve Ballmer putting (or better stated as leaving) Linux on the Microsoft HIT LIST. Well Steve, turn about is fair play so tonight we are putting out a contract on Steve Ballmer.

This comment was covered last week by CNN at their web site with the story Ballmer: IBM, Linux, AOL Remain On Hit List As Sun Fades As Threat.

This comment is another in the ongoing series of Open Mouth Insert Foot comments by Microsoft’s President Steve Ballmer. Ballmer made the bizare comment, “We used to be the cheap guys. We were cheaper than Novell, cheaper than Oracle. We can’t do that with this one,” referencing the competitive force that Open Source is creating. When was Microsoft EVER considered cheap??????

So we need a good way of responding to Ballmer. We want to put out a contract on him, and do it in a legal and funny way. Help us out with your suggestions.

Please join us on the show, and check our IRC Chat(irc.thelinuxshow.com
#linuxshow).
Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et. NOTE: we are now on
Daylight Saving Time in the US.
Catch the Linux show at www.thelinuxshow.com.

WWWAC and NYLXS and the Linux Society have made available their 3117 S3kriT
X0d3z to get into the TECHXNY Trade Show for free. Thanks to Bob Frankel,
Michael Richardson, and Bob Gulotta!
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For general information about the trade show:

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From the AP via NandoTimes.com: “A security bug was found in software used by millions of Web sites. Private experts alerted users and the FBI’s computer security division.

The problem is, they didn’t tell the maker of the software. Then they issued the wrong prescription for fixing the problem.”

MIZI Research is set to sell Linux PDA for developers based on its embedded Linux os Linu@(Linu-ette), in full scale, targeting all developers around the world.
A professional embedded Linux developer, MIZI Research(www.mizi.com, CEO; Seo Young-Jin) announced that they would take reservation on sales of “Linu@ PDA developer version to be launched in the market at the end of this month.

This “Linu@ PDA developer version (Linu@PDA for Developer)” is expected to include Software Developer’s Kit, which consists of example samples and sources for development of applications for Linu@ and various development documents together with Linu@ embedded PDA.

Hardware to be supplied is a product (Model name :EnAD C3224) jointly developed by HNT and Wooyoung Telecom, which has StrongARM(SA-1110) processor, resolution of 240*320 and 3.5″ LCD supporting 65,000 colors, as well as 32M ROM/RAM, CF-Type II extension slot, digital FM stereo radio by default.

This product is loaded with Linu@ 1.3 version containing various applications and Office programs, available in English version, or Chinese/English version at the price of $450(US$).

One employee concerned in MIZI Research said “we decided to prepare Linu@ PDA developer version to obtain and support the developers who want to develop Linu@ based softwares” and went on to say “we can shorten the development time since it will get easier to develop related applications, if Linu@ PDA developer version is used.”

MIZI Research plans to promote the Linu@ developer site(www.Linuette.com), intended to share information among developers who want to develop application for Linet upon launching “Linu@ PDA developer version” this time, and ultimately to actively facilitate the development of application for Linu@, targeting developers all over the world.

Seo Young-Jin, president of MIZI Research, said, “he supply of Linux PDA developer version this time is expected to pay the way for the expansion of embedded Linux developers and Linux PDA users,” and declared his commitment, “we will encourage more developers to develop application programs for Linu@ by reinforcing Linu@ developer community for Linu@ developers.”

You can visit and check the homepage of Mizi Research(http://www.mizi.com/en/prod/embed/developer/developer_pda.htm), for more information on application or reservation for purchase of Linu@ PDA developer version (Linu@PDA for Developer), relevant S/W or H/W.

MIZI Research: a software development company that is focused on developing embedded Linux and applications aiming at providing broad solutions to IT appliances and Personal Digital Assistants. Established in September 1997, this company was the first in Korea to present in 1999 a desktop Linux – MIZI Linux. In November 2001, the company developed Linu@ – an embedded Linux.

Linu@(Linu-ette) : Linu@ is currently under development by MIZI for supporting PDA and all kinds of Internet IT appliances, is an embedded Linux total solution that was optimized for various embedded devices and that embraces diverse kinds of applications, such as browser, e-mail client, PIMS, multimedia and file editor.

Mako Shark tells us of this story:
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s=25209& a=28316,00.asp.

“As much as I love Linux though, I am often appalled at the behavior of some of its advocates. Linux, like other operating systems such as OS/2, Mac OS, and even Windows, has its share of advocates. Advocates use, believe in, and genuinely love (in a geek way) the Linux operating system. They tout it to anyone who will listen and vigorously defend it against all attacks. And therein lays the problem–sometimes OS advocates get way too aggressive and don’t know who their real enemies are. Linux folk are particularly susceptible to this trap.”