Linux Weekly News announces the release of Sketch 0.6.13. “Sketch is closest to the goal of becoming an universal drawing application for GNU/Linux.”

MSNBC: “Microsoft Corp. may dominate the market for desktop computer software, but the company?s first salvo at automobile dash-top computing is just reaching North America after more than five years of work.” Read more of this story here.

LinuxSecurity.com has the report. “Recently, wireless ethernet (802.11b networking, also known as WiFi) has been gaining in popularity, and in the last six or eight months has dropped in price to the point of becoming a commodity — at $80 or $100 USD for a card and $120 USD for an access point, wireless is finally becoming an option for home users looking to avoid running cable through the house for their laptops, for geeks and technophiles looking for something new to explore, and for offices looking to expand worker mobility. Unfortunately, with this wireless boom, security concerns are often overlooked, ignored, or under-supported, either through hardware and protocol limitations or through simple human oversight.”

Jorg Janke writes, Compiere is the smart business solution for small-medium distribution and service enterprises worldwide, is the first Open Source project gaining momentum in the complex application space.

So far, Open Source projects were very successful in well-defined technical areas. A very common problem of Open Source business application projects were endless discussions about approach and priorities – and no releases.

Compiere changed this. Based on a advanced Java J2EE architecture and data dictionary, Compiere experienced over 150,000 downloads and an increasing active user base. As a result, Compiere is usually rated among the top ten projects in SourceForge.

Compiere provides integrated ERP and CRM functionality for small-medium companies worldwide and just released it’s new release 2.4.2. For details see: http://www.compiere.org.

Tom Lord writes, “I’ve been thinking a bit lately about the goals for, state of, and
possible futures of the new revision control system arch. Would you like to see
arch proven to be robust and scalable? Would you like to be able to
get expert help deploying it for your projects? Please read about the
state of arch and respond to my survey at http://www.regexps.com/survey.html.”

From LinuxSecurity Contributors: This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include “Masquerading Made Simple HOWTO,”
“Network Security with /proc/sys/net/ipv4,” “Wireless Authentication Gateway HOWTO,” and
“Sniffers: What They Are and How to Protect Yourself.”
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_artic le-4533.html.

pawal writes, “The Danish open source streaming company MM Manager has recorded all of the presentation from the annual SSLUG conference LinuxForum that was held this weekend in Copenhagen. Recommended viewing is Eric S. Raymond with the presentation The Zen of Unix: Unix’s design as philosophy, and vice versa. All the presentations can be found at SSLUG TV.”

LWN.net has the changelog. From Alan Cox:
“This should fix the weirdness with pre2-ac1 a few people saw (eg patch doing
odd things). One of the mismerges could cause very odd happenings. Please
retest anything that failed in -ac1 before reporting it…”

Mikael Pawlo writes, “Richard M Stallman’s campaign against Word attachments has been translated into Swedish by Gnuheter reader Jesper Larsson. Larsson has translated Example 2 in Stallman’s draft. It would probably be a good thing to spread the information in more languages.”

Posted at LWN.net. Among the changes in ac3: Fix oom expand stack deadlock; SMBfs NLS oops fix; Fix quota deadlock and extreme load corruption; Fix piix4 slave timings