Reuters reports the lawyer for ElcomSoft, Dmitry Sklyarov’s employer accused of DMCA violations in the US, has argued that the DMCA does not apply to the Internet and so the violations that ElcomSoft are accused of are outside the jurisdiction of the US.

From BSD Today: “This document covers the basic steps to building a bootable CD containing a live FreeBSD filesystem with a couple of security features enabled and configured. With this CD, it is possible to transform a PC from a mediocre workstation into a VPN Gateway or firewall or both without touching the hard drive.”

Frank writes, “Solaris and Linux are loosely related to Unix, so they ought to be a lot alike, right? Not so – the differences pose a great many ‘gotchas.’ Let this technical porting guide (at IBM.com) show you the ropes for porting your Solaris application to the Linux platform.”

Harlene French point us to this story at ExcessiveHardware.com. It’s not a software company or project, so the site takes a look at the hardware. “To take a quote from their website, ‘Pogo Linux strives to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux by combining the best of both worlds, and delivering services and products that are unparalleled in the market. We are determined to be experts in our field of hardware, enterprise deployment, and consulting services. And we believe in the future of Linux for the consumer, server, and the enterprise.’ One question, will this strategy work to attract customers?”

EcommerceTimes.com asks the question. “Though some Linux advocates say the time is coming when Microsoft will be forced to react to the burgeoning open source movement, the analyst community does not agree.”

Anonymous Reader writes: The Board of Directors of the Embedded Linux Consortium has issued an
“open letter” to companies and individuals within the Embedded Linux Community, urging participation in next week’s platform specification
project kickoff meeting:

“Independent market analysts predict that 2002 is a breakout year for embedded Linux. This forecast translates into two important realities for the embedded Linux community:

1. “A narrow window of opportunity has opened for us to ride this wave of excitement — we need to seize it NOW!

2. “The more successful Linux becomes, the more it will be attacked.

“One of the most important tasks we can embark on together to exploit this opportunity is to construct a platform specification that ensures
embedded Linux will be widely adopted and grow into a highly profitable business …”

LinuxSecurity Contributors writes, “In this article, zenomorph discusses multiple ways attackers attempt to exploit port 80 to gain
control of a web server. Using this information, an administrator can learn to detect potential
attacks and steps that are necessary to protect a server from them. Nice discussion of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, and more.

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/finge rprinting-http.html.”

The story’s at BSDToday.com: “This document covers the basic steps in building a bootable CD containing a live FreeBSD filesystem with a couple of security features enabled and configured. With this CD, it is possible to transform a PC from a mediocre workstation into a VPN Gateway or firewall or both without touching the hard drive.”

Posted at LWN.net. David Jones notes: “Mostly just keeping up with the Torvalds & Tossati’s.
I’ve not merged any of the mips/ia64/ppc etc changes from 2.4,
and I’m looking at dropping whats in my tree that touches those soon.
The rationale being that the arch maintainers can do (and will do)
a better job at pushing those to Linus than I can, and as I’ve no way of
testing a lot of these changes, fixing up rejects in foreign asm is nigh
on impossible.
“

It’s at LinuxDevices.com. Among the articles: “Embedded Real-Time Linux for Instrument Control and Data Logging,” “RTLinux Application Development Tutorial,” and “Quest for PDA Utopia: Qtopia?”