News.com: “Online vandals are using a two-month-old security hole in Sun Microsystems’ Solaris and other Unix operating systems to break into servers on the Internet, a security expert said Tuesday.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “I just finished a How-To article describing the installation and configuration of a new SuSE Linux Pro 7.3 PC. It covers installation, and tweaking to get USB Cameras, 3D Graphics, Internet, and various applications and utilities up and running. Check it out in the HOW-TO section of www.linuxorbit.com. A must read for user’s who want to try Linux, but have had a hard time getting the basics going.”

From PRNewswire: Linux NetworX, a provider of
powerful and easy-to-manage cluster supercomputing solutions, is joining
efforts with PolyServe, a next-generation systems software provider, to
present a session titled “Clusters in the Enterprise” at the LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo on February 1, 2002, at 1 p.m. in New York City.

Anonymous Reader writes: “When the specs for the first Athlons were released I was pretty stoked. SMP capability! I had been using the K62 line in my home PCs for a while and was fairly pleased with their performance. What I really lusted for was a low cost multi-processor system. I thought that the AMD Athlon would fulfill my fantasies. Well I was dead wrong! It appeared that AMD had a different plan… Read the full review at Linuxlookup.com“

sblaze writes: “A while back there was a slew of articles flying about the web stating that Linux just simply was not a desktop soloution. Linux has secured its foot in the door as a desktop contending Operating System. However, I feel that it is only a miniscule part of where developers need to focus. There are too many areas of software where Linux lies dormant and void. It’s time to awaken the interests of the developers. Time to prepare for an assault. To conquer the lack of choices and wield the ability the Open Source Community has. The ability Redmond once scoffed at but now fears. The time has come for a call to arms. Read more at linuxguru.net.”

Dave Jones: “This syncs up to pre2 (pre3 next time), and includes Vojtech’s (and
others)
input layer reworking to get it some more testing before it goes
Linuswards.
Anyone with any input device (yes, even just a keyboard)
now has to enable this, and the relevant keyboard driver.”

Some more bits are starting to trickle into Linus tree slowly,
hopefully some of the larger bits (filesystems, vm updates and the
likes) will go next.

Patch against 2.5.2 vanilla is available from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/

 -- Davej.

2.5.2-dj4
o   Merge 2.5.3-pre2
o   Scheduler update to J4.                     (Ingo Molnar)
o   Input layer updates.                        (Vojtech Pavlik,
James Simmons)
o   Matroxfb Configure.help updates.            (Robert love)
o   Framebuffer colourmap improvements.         (James Simmons)
o   Fix FAT infinite loops.                     (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o   Various compile fixes.                      (Me)
o   Small cpqarray cleanup.                     (Me)
o   devfs fixes.                                (Richard Gooch)
    | should fix the no-booting problem some people saw.
o   ipv6 endian fixes.                          (Russell King)
o   Make AFFS fsx-proof.                        (Roman Zippel)

The Register: “This is the perfect occasion for Microsoft to illustrate their commitment to
security and to solidify their new priorities of security before functionality.
Gates flat-out said that the entire company must put security first, and
there is no way for him to back out of it now.”

Henry Valk writes: “HCV Wireless today announced the release of its BlueMod Developer Kit Version 1.0. First demonstrated at at the Bluetooth Developers Conference in San Francisco during December 2001, HCV Wireless has already received substantial interest in the BlueMod product from Europe, Asia and the United States.”

“The initial response has been terrific,” says Henry Valk, founder and Chief Executive Officer of HCV Wireless. “As the wireless industry consolidates around the Bluetooth standard, there’s a real opportunity for application developers to create innovative solutions. BlueMod provides a seamless platform to jump-start these development projects”.

An early tester of BlueMod is Gavin Maxwell, Platform Developer Alliances Manager, Asia Pacific region, with Palm, Inc. “It looks to be an interesting concept,” says Maxwell. “Developers can run components of their software on BlueMod, and wirelessly integrate into client-side networks of Palm handhelds and other devices. I tested it with my Palm m505 handheld with a Bluetooth SDIO card and had BlueMod doing useful things within an hour.”

BlueMod is a compact, fully compliant computing platform incorporating Bluetooth technology. Using BlueMod, new and established solution developers can take advantage of a pre-qualified, embedded wireless platform to accelerate the engineering process and bring their wireless products to market more quickly. BlueMod features a small footprint, powerful 32-bit processor, Linux-based operating system and multiple connectivity accessories. With full Bluetooth 1.1 compliance and multiple profiles, BlueMod’s open programming interfaces allow developers to quickly deploy and test their code inside a Personal Area Network (PAN) space.

The key feature for developers, according to Henry Valk, is the speed at which they can take products to the market. “Once developers place their code on BlueMod, it’s a short process to the final product. Unlike other development kits, BlueMod is production-ready for large volume manufacture. With our small form factor, we can quickly integrate into any end-product design.”

The BlueMod Developer Kit Version 1.0 is available directly from HCV Wireless. HCV Wireless also provides custom engineering services to assist designers in implementing their product strategy. For pricing and additional information, developers may visit the HCV Wireless web site at http://www.hcvwireless.com.

About HCV Wireless

HCV Wireless is an innovative designer and developer of wireless distributed computing solutions. Through implementation of world-class technology and alignment with industry leaders, HCV Wireless seeks to become the preferred choice of application developers and OEMs requiring intelligent infrastructure solutions for wireless connectivity applications.

Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, HCV Wireless sells and distributes developer, module and custom solutions to developers worldwide. HCV Wireless received seed funding from inQbator in September 2001 under the BITS funding program.

Press enquiries are welcome at press@hcvwireless.com, or +61 7 3327 9858.

BlueMod is a registered trademark of HCV Wireless. Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. USA and licensed to HCV Wireless. Palm is a trademark of Palm, Inc. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other names and trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.

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Wired: “Microsoft’s anti-piracy division, buttressed with former law enforcement officials, says software stealers are funding terrorist groups and therefore is stepping up its efforts to bust them.”

Mikael Pawlo writes: “O’Reilly Network published an interesting article on the technical background of the Wayback Machine. A 100 terabyte database (100 million megabyte) is run on a Linux and FreeBSD-based cluster of 400 PCs. Read the entire story.”