BusinessWire: “Caldera International, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Caldera OpenLinux Workstation 3.1.1 and Caldera OpenLinux Server 3.1.1.”

Kernel.org: Linux 2.5.3 has been released. You can download it from the main server or from one of the mirrors.

final:
 - Doug Ledford: i810 audio driver update
 - Evgeniy Polyakov: update various SCSI drivers to new locking
 - David Howells: syscall latency improvement, try 2
 - Francois Romieu: dscc4 driver update
 - Patrick Mochel: driver model fixes
 - Andrew Morton: clean up a few details in ext3 inode initialization
 - Pete Wyckoff: make x86 machine check print out right address..
 - Hans Reiser: reiserfs update
 - Richard Gooch: devfs update
 - Greg KH: USB updates
 - Dave Jones: PNPBIOS
 - Nathan Scott: extended attributes
 - Corey Minyard: clean up zlib duplication (triplication..)

pre6:
 - Asit Mallick: mtrr update
 - Patrick Mochel: split up kernel/device.c into drivers/base
 - Mikael Pettersson/Al Viro: fix missing in-core inode initialization
   in ext2 introduced by Al's inode trimming
 - David Miller: sparc and network updates
 - Frank Davis: firewire video mmap page remapping fix
 - me: fix configure help scripts to fix breakage noticed by Dave Jones
 - Greg KH: USB updates
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN fixes, Config.help entries
 - Douglas Gilbert: SCSI doc update
 - Ingo Molnar: x86 taskswitch optimizations, scheduler updates
 - Mikael Pettersson: make APIC work on old external setups
 - Al Viro: more inode trimming

pre5:
 - Patrick Mochel: devicefs locking cleanups, refcount fixes
 - Brian Gerst: apic timer cleanup
 - Adam Richter: fix loop over block device bio breakage, ipfwadm compile fix
 - me: split up Configure.help over the subdirectories where it is used
 - Peter Anvin: bootproto v2.03
 - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
 - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update

pre4:
 - Patrick Mochel: initcall levels
 - Patrick Mochel: devicefs updates, add PCI devices into the hierarchy
 - Denis Oliver Kropp: neomagic fb driver
 - David Miller: sparc64 and network updates
 - Kai M?kisara: scsi tape update
 - Al Viro: more inode trimming, VFS cleanup
 - Greg KH: USB update - proper urb allocations
 - Eric Raymond: kdev_t updates for fb devices

pre3:
 - Al Viro: VFS inode allocation moved down to filesystem, trim inodes
 - Greg KH: USB update, hotplug documentation
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
 - Ingo Molnar: scheduler tweaking ("J2")
 - Arnaldo: emu10k kdev_t updates
 - Ben Collins: firewire updates
 - Bjorn Wesen: cris arch update
 - Hal Duston: ps2esdi driver bio/kdev_t fixes
 - Jean Tourrilhes: move wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless,
   update wireless API #1
 - Richard Gooch: devfs race fix
 - OGAWA Hirofumi: FATFS update

pre2:
 - David Howells: abtract out "current->need_resched" as "need_resched()"
 - Frank Davis: ide-tape update for bio
 - various: header file fixups
 - Jens Axboe: fix up bio/ide/highmem issues
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
 - Greg KH: USB and Compaq PCI hotplug updates
 - Tim Waugh: parport update

pre1:
 - Al Viro: fix up silly problem in swapfile filp cleanups in 2.5.2
 - Tachino Nobuhiro: fix another error return for swapfile filp code
 - Robert Love: merge some of Ingo's scheduler fixes
 - David Miller: networking, sparc and some scsi driver fixes
 - Tim Waugh: parport update
 - OGAWA Hirofumi: fatfs cleanups and bugfixes
 - Roland Dreier: fix vsscanf buglets.
 - Ben LaHaise: include file cleanup
 - Andre Hedrick: IDE taskfile update

Debian: “Zenith Parse found a security problem in groff (the GNU version of troff). The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attack which made it possible to circumvent the `-S’ option and execute arbitrary code.”

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 107-1                     security@debian.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
January 30th, 2002
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Package        : jgroff
Vulnerability  : format print
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no

Basically, this is the same Security Advisory as DSA 072-1, but for
jgroff instead of groff.  The package jgroff contains a version
derived from groff that has japaneze character sets enabled.  This
package is available only in the stable release of Debian, patches for
japanese support have been merged into the main groff package.

The old advisory said:

Zenith Parse found a security problem in groff (the GNU version of
troff).  The pic command was vulnerable to a printf format attack
which made it possible to circumvent the `-S' option and execute
arbitrary code.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
------------------------------------

  Source archives:

     http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: ba0fffab320b5881f467c4f52788169a
     http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4.dsc
MD5 checksum: e37b47561a5988793fa1da9a145d2ac0
     http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/jgroff_1.15+ja.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: dc1d97074ac73ab0e645a1b80d9639f2

  Alpha architecture:

     
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 5f5eb9347ba9d88e76f10d85350c7c88

  ARM architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 46adbcf3aa0eb0b4772a6a1364d92c72

  Intel ia32 architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 1980d28cf9c24231e3583ba994402388

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 02327d6d85d7a51b2654af373e5508b2

  PowerPC architecture:

     
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 3f08beb01d355399e11bfaa4d28433f1

  Sun Sparc architecture:

     
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/jgroff_1.15+ja-3.4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: a0443303f539c40f3b9415b7035abc7d


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb  http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp:  ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show ' and  http://packages.debian.org/

CNN reports that “A guerrilla advertising campaign that covered San Francisco sidewalks with IBM graffiti has resulted in a $100,000 settlement as the computer giant seeks to placate enraged city officials.”

BSD Today: “Since FreeBSD 4.4 was released last September, hundreds of fixes and improvements have been made. Enhancements include TCP performance and stack improvements, better security for Denial of Service attacks, and improved NFS and FFS filesystems.” Read more here.

Mark Hatch writes “Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS) announced today that it has
released Open Motif 2.2. Open Motif is the publicly licensed version of Motif, the industry standard user interface toolkit for UNIX® systems (IEEE 1295).”Mark Hatch writes”Industry Standard Toolkit for User Interfaces Updated.

Open Motif 2.2 and Release Roadmap Result from Availability to Open Source Community

New York, NY — January 29, 2002 — Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), the leading
supplier of user interface development tools for professionals, announced today that it has
released Open Motif 2.2. Open Motif is the publicly licensed version of Motif, the industry
standard user interface toolkit for UNIX® systems (IEEE 1295). In addition, ICS has released
an 18-month roadmap that defines the next three versions of Open Motif. This announcement
builds on an earlier announcement by ICS of Embedded Open Motif, a version of Motif
optimized for embedded and handheld systems.

“We released Open Motif to the Open Source community for the dual benefit of increasing use of
Motif and growing the number of applications to benefit the end-user,” said Allen Brown,
President and CEO of The Open Group. “We welcome and embrace ICS’s contributions, and
have incorporated them into the reference release of Open Motif 2.2. The Open Group also plans
to work with ICS to produce an update to the commercial version of Motif based on the ICS
contributions. These initiatives ensure that Motif continues to be a growing and useful standard
for enterprise application development.”

Open Motif 2.2 adds ToolTips ? popup hints that appear when the pointer rests over a button,
menu or other user interface control ? to all existing Motif widgets. ICS has also added 10 new
widgets to Open Motif including: support for tabbed user interfaces, tree style layout,
validating data entry fields, and toolbars. Enterprise developer input was the critical factor in
ICS adding these widgets to Open Motif.

“Since Motif was made publicly available, ICS has been inundated with downloads and feature
requests,” said Peter Winston, President of ICS. “The release of Open Motif 2.2 and its associated
Roadmap continues our commitment to enterprise developers who need the reliability,
performance and functionality of Motif.”

Open Motif 2.2 Updates to be Made Available for UNIX Systems

ICS will make the Open Motif 2.2 updates available as a commercial Motif product on UNIX
workstations including Sun, SGI, IBM, HP and Compaq. This will allow developers to use the
latest Motif enhancement on both Open Source systems as well as their UNIX based systems.
First customer shipment of ICS’s commercial version of Motif will occur in April 2002.

Motif Roadmap

ICS has also made available the following Open Motif roadmap:

Q3/2002: Open Motif 2.3 will provide imaging support to Motif for commonly available
formats (jpgs, png, etc.). The XmCanvas widget will be added to provide a powerful
structured graphical display tool.

Q1/2003: Open Motif 2.4 will provide support for anti-aliased fonts. In addition, several
more widgets will be added including tables and graphs.

Q3/2003: Open Motif 2.5 will improve C++ support.

Six City Tour Offers Free Training on Open Motif 2.2

In March, ICS and the MotifZone (http://www.motifzone.net) will provide developers with free
training classes on Open Motif 2.2 in Philadelphia, Washington DC, Houston, Denver, Los
Angeles, and Boston. More details on this free training can be found at
http://www.ics.com/seminars .

About Motif

Motif is the industry standard graphical user interface toolkit, (IEEE 1295). It is used on more
than 200 hardware and software platforms including Compaq, HP, IBM, Linux, SGI, and Sun. It
provides application developers, end users, and system integrators with the industry’s most
widely used environment for multi-platform graphical applications. Motif is the leading user
interface for the UNIX based operating system.

Open Motif is the publicly licensed version of Motif. The official Open Motif home web page is
at http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/ . ICS hosts the official development tree for Open Motif
at the MotifZone (http://www.motifzone.net)

Commercial Motif is the release of Open Motif for traditional UNIX workstations such as those
offered by Sun, SGI, IBM, HP and Compaq. ICS offers Commercial Motif to maintain
compatibility with Open Motif.

Embedded Open Motif is the lightweight distribution of Open Motif geared towards embedded
and handheld systems.

About ICS

Founded in 1987, ICS was chartered to create software development tools for developers working
with the then emerging X Window System?. The company’s first product offerings included X
training and a version of Motif for systems manufactured by Sun Microsystems. Prior to
widespread adoption of Motif by the UNIX workstation vendors, ICS was the leading
independent shipper of the Motif toolkit. In 1998, The Open Group chose ICS to provide
technical support for its Motif source code licenses.

Today, ICS is the current market leader in Motif graphical user interface development tools. It’s
flagship product, Builder Xcessory, is in its fifth major release and represents over 100 person
years of effort. BX defines a level of sophistication, functionality and ease-of-use that is
unmatched in the industry.

ICS sponsors the MotifZone (http://www.motifzone.net), a community site for Motif developers
to gather additional knowledge and request input on technical problems from other engineers. The
MotifZone hosts the Public CVS source code repository for Open Motif as well as the defect
database. The MotifZone hosts over 5000 active developers, has delivered almost 100,000
downloads of Open Motif, and experiences over 5 million hits per year. It is the most active
website dedicated to user interface software development.

For further information on ICS, its products or services, call 617-621-0060, or visit the ICS
website at http://www.ics.com .

Press Contacts:

Amy Zinkann

ICS

617-621-0060 x192

amy@ics.com

UNIX and Motif are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the US and other countries. The Open Group and the X Window
System are trademarks of The Open Group. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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The Onion: “Calling the theological giant’s stranglehold on the religion industry “blatantly anti-competitive,” a U.S. district judge ruled Monday that God is in violation of anti-monopoly laws and ordered Him to be broken up into several less powerful deities.” Read more here.

Qbertino writes: “Not a Number, producer of Blender, the Linux community’s favorite professional 3D Package (get it for free) has released the beta of their 3D Web Plugin for Netscape 6.1 / Mozilla on Linux/Unix. It offers full integration of Blender’s realtime 3D enviroment based applications into the browsers enviroment. Including OpenGL acceleration and all. Check out the Demos. Feedback on the beta-release is welcome and kindly requested on the Blender Community Discussion Board.”

A statement of various public persons concering the introduction of free software into the German parliament (Bundestag).
Since the end of last year, a heated public debate has been led on which operating system should be used in the German parliament for the coming years. The debate has been especially important for it’s relevance in the general discussion about different concepts of software. Central to the debate are the open source operating system Linux and the currently market dominating system Windows, which – being proprietary – hides its source code from the public.

http://www.bundestux.de/english.html

InternetNews.com reports that “E*TRADE Group Inc.made a splash at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo Wednesday as it revealed that it will migrate its entire customer-facing financial services platform to an open Linux environment including IBM Corp.’s eServer xSeries… Levine said E*TRADE’s move to Linux is now four months old in implementation, and the company has already reduced technology costs by $65 million by reevaluating how it uses technology and moving to open source software.”