Joe Barr writes “I wanted to try ACID ever since someone rooted my server last year. Mind you, not the hallucinogen LSD, though at the time I might have been tempted. The ACID I’m talking about is the Analysis Console for Intrusion Databases.

http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2002/0410.a cid.html“

Kelly McNeill writes “To all of the open source software/Free Software (OSS/FS) developers reading this article, I’d like to express the importance of using an existing, widely used license for your software that is known to be compatible with the General Public License. If your project is not GPL-compatible, you may not receive the necessary support from other developers to sustain it. Developers may even create a competing product so they can take advantage of GPL’ed code.”

jblack writes “This article takes a quick look at several PDAs that can (or do!) run Linux. Take a read on this article if you have too much time and money on your hands.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “There’s an insightful commentary over at monolinux about IBM’s recent profit warning to Wall Street and how a one or two billion dollar loss resulted in a 17 billion dollar slap on the wrist from investors.”

Anonymous Reader writes “According to this story on Linux and Main, theKompany.com is about to ship an Ogg Vorbis player for the Sharp Zaurus. If the story is true, it would make the Zaurus the first PDA capable of playing .oggs.”

IDG.net reports: “After three years in the making, the leading server software for delivering Web pages to a user’s browser has graduated to its next version.

The Apache Software Foundation, an organization dedicated to the popular open source Web server Apache, announced the availability late Friday of the production release of Apache Version 2.0. Developed by a collective of open source programmers, the release adds support for multithreading systems as well as more complete support for a full range of operating systems.”

Luciano Chavez writes, The EVMS team is announcing the first full release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 1.0.0 is now available for download at the project web site:
http://www.sf.net/projects/evms.

Please see the notes and changelog at:
http://sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=817 52

We are also announcing an improved homepage thanks to Kevin Corry. The EVMS homepage is located at http://evms.sourceforge.net

The EVMS Project uses a layered, plug-in model to provide unparalleled flexibility and extensibility in managing storage. This allows for easy expansion or customization of various levels of volume management.

EVMS provides native support for Linux LVM, MD (Software RAID), Bad Block Relocation (BBR), Generic Snapshot, and more. It also provides a GUI, Ncurses user interface, and command line utility.

JRZiviani writes, “The University of Campinas(Unicamp) has been created the first team to study the benefits of Free Software for the University.
Even the team have just started the job, this research work is getting good results with high quality systems that will be also enjoyed for all the community. Up to now we have a lot of docs to download, articles, news, newsletters, tips and projects section which will be available soon. This Portal may be viewed at www.softwarelivre.unicamp.br.”

We are pleased to announce that Ari Jort will be presenting at our next
GNUbies meeting this Wednesday, April 10, 2002. His topic will be “I’ve
Decided to Install GNU/Linux – Now What?” Ari is an engineer with the New
York office of V.A. Software (previously V.A. Linux) and is the VP of NYLUG
(The New York Linux Users Group). Previous talks he has given at GNUBIES
have been quite successful. He is very clear and quite responsive to the
interests of those who attend.
Please note the IBM security procedures mentioned below.

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2002
Times: 6:30 – 7:00pm General Questions and Answers
7:00 Ari Jort
Speaker: Ari Jort
Topic: “I’ve Decided to Install GNU/Linux – Now What?”
Location: The IBM Building
590 Madison Avenue
(57th Street and Madison Avenue)

As usual the most up to date information is on our web site at
http://www.gnubies.org or http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux.

Security Procedures

Our meetings are always free and open to the public, but you will have to
submit your name in advance for IBM security and you will have to bring a
photo ID when you come. You can use to the web page.

http://www.gnubies.org or http://www.eskimo.com/~lo/linux

or send an email with your full name to lo+ibm0204@eskimo.com if you plan
on attending.

Please reply as soon as possible. In addition to the monthly attendance
list, in case you forget to notify us one month, IBM has suggested that we
also keep a cumulative list (which I believe will be resubmitted each
month). Please let us know whether or not you want your name on the
cumulative list as well.

After the meeting anybody interested can join us for dinner or drinks after
the meeting. If you are interested in keysigning please bring a hard copy
of your key.

Mikael Pawlo writes, “The TIIP (Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property) newsletter, launched today, ‘summarizes new research on technological innovation and intellectual property as an aid to both scholarly
researchers and interested non-academics.’ TIIP provides brief summaries of research in economics, law, history, management and sociology covering topics including patents, licensing, innovation, open source/free software, public goods, copyrights (non-artistic) and trade secrecy. Probably a must for Lessig readers .-)

More info and subscriptions.”