LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for exim, libgtop, mutt, pkg_install, pw, pine, mod_auth_pgsql, bind, proftpd, LIDS, stunnel, and namazu. The vendors include Conectiva, Debian, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, and Trustix.” Read more here.

Rajesh Goyal writes : LinuxCertified, Inc. offers the weekend system administration bootcamp for IT professionals on East Coast. All attendees get a free Linux laptop!

LinuxCertified, Inc., a leading provider of Linux training in Silicon Valley, will offer weekend system administration bootcamp on February 2-3, 2002 in New York. This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas. All attendees get a free Linux laptop.

In addition to carefully designed lecture material delivered by experienced Linux professionals, there is a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning. The training starts two weeks before the actual class, with access to an online Linux server, where students complete few challenging pre-class activities. Attendees get a powerful Linux laptop on their arrival, along with other class materials. They load Linux on their laptop during the class, and use it for all the class activities and assignments. At the end of the class they take this laptop with them to further enhance their Linux expertise. Absolute beginners with no UNIX experience can first come to the popular “Linux Fundamentals” class and subsequently join the system administration bootcamp.

Rapid growth of Linux into corporate and government IT environments is fueling the need for Linux certified professionals. CIOs and managers are eager to have Linux experts in their organizations. A certification provides a tangible mechanism for their hiring evaluation, as well as a means to market the prowess of organizations.

“As an independent IT consultant I am always on my toes to learn new technologies, without much free time to devote to classes. The LinuxCertified bootcamp was a perfect way for me to jump start my Linux knowledge. I can now use Linux as a valuable tool in my career,” said Taylor Cottam, an independent consultant who joined one of the LinuxCertified, Inc. weekend bootcamps.

This weekend bootcamp is specially designed to prepare the attendees for the objectives of Level 1 certification exams offered by Linux Professional Institute (LPI). The workshop also meets the objectives of the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam and Sair Linux & GNU certification (LCA). Our attendees build a strong sense of community with our instructors, fellow students, and our network of recruiters and companies looking for Linux consultants.

About LinuxCertified, Inc.

The mission of LinuxCertified, Inc. is to bring Linux to mainstream IT usage. We firmly believe that Linux has an enormous potential, once it crosses over from the early adopters to the more mainstream users. Our goal is to help this transition by providing:

– Linux trained and certified professionals
– Linux certified products that cater to mainstream users rather than early adopters.

Contact:
info@linuxcertified.com
http://www.linuxcertified.com/
Tel: 408 314 6700

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

MozillaQuest’s Mike Angelo unravels the Mozilla-Netscape relationship. MozillaQuest Magazine (MozillaQuest.com) reports: “Just what is the relationship between Netscape (NSCP) and Mozilla? Is Mozilla truly independent of AOL and its Netscape division? Or, do AOL and its Netscape division run Mozilla? There is little doubt that there is a relationship between Netscape and Mozilla. However, the Mozilla and Netscape people claim they are not the same and that Mozilla is not Netscape. The 235 AOL-Netscape employees working on Mozilla stuff have put 940 person-years into the Mozilla effort at only $50,000 per person-year, that Mozilla investment is $47-million — and still no Mozilla 1.0 as it stands now it appears that Mozilla is not really all that independent of AOL and its Netscape division. Check this MozillaQuest.com story for the details and full story!.”

The Register reports that Jabber Inc., the commercial software house that employs many of the software
libre Jabber IM developers, has released new proprietary server extensions in
Open Source form.

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By John Leyden of The Register –

UK firms are failing to exploit open source software as much as they might because of uncertainty about its business benefits.

That’s the key finding of a report prepared for the UK Department of Trade and Industry by the National Computing Centre (NCC), which offers a series of recommendations to encourage use of the technology.

According to the NCC, quality standards for open source are uneven – open source operating systems compare favourably with proprietary infrastructure products, but this is not the case for office desktop and business systems applications. It calls for a wider, more co-ordinated development effort.

Dr. Andrew Hopkirk, head of research and development at the NCC, said: “the current use of open source software in the UK is a complex and fragmented picture, yet there is clearly great potential for cost savings and increased efficiency.”

Interest in Open Source has increased in the light of rising licence costs of proprietary software. But difficulty in establishing accurate total cost of ownership benchmarks for computer systems is holding back adoption.

Assessing the quality and suitability of open source products, partly “due to the widely collaborative way in which they are developed”, is also seen as an issue for users.

NCC’s recommendations for the development of the market include:

• Availability of independent support and guidance to advise the professional IT user community on the availability and suitability of open source products
  
• The establishment of a National Library of Open Source software and compliance tests, to independently evaluate open source products for reliability and interoperability
  
• The creation of standards to promote excellence in open source software development, distribution, and operational implementation
  
• A national focus for the promotion of Open Technologies and Standards – including improved marketing through the support of pilot projects, the generation of case study material and the establishment of a clear cost of ownership model for open source software
  
• The setting up of an independent convenor of open source initiatives to co-ordinate and leverage market opportunities for UK organisations

Michael Gough, chief executive of NCC, said, “the UK would benefit greatly from the establishment of a stable alternative to the use of proprietary software, both in terms of business innovation and competitiveness, and in support of the UK software industry.”

NCC’s report Open Source — The UK Opportunity was compiled after in-depth interviews with 30 IT professionals, representative of a cross section of public and private organisations in the UK, some of whom had already adopted open source solutions.

All Content copyright 2002 The Register

LWN.net has an EFF annoucement: For those who are interested in the Jon Johansen case,
we have set up an email list called:free-jon@eff.org.

You can subscribe on the web at
https://www.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/free-jon
or by email at
mailto:free-jon-request@eff.org?subject=subscribe.

EFF staff are currently consulting with Jon and
his attorneys to determine how we can best help the
his defense.

Turbolinux, Inc., the high-performance Linux company, announced that
the Visualized Interactive Team in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong chose Turbolinux as the underlying operating system for its new Electronic Education Mall.

The Electronic Education Mall promotes the use of the Internet throughout primary and secondary education.

“We chose Turbolinux because it is the only Linux distribution on the market with multi-language support,” said Dr. Herbert Li, leader of the Visualized Interactive team and Dean of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong. “Turbolinux has a well equipped Linux OS and a great high availability solution development and technical support
team.”

The Electronic Education Mall, powered by Turbolinux Server, is primarily for school administrators, teachers, students and parents. The purpose of the mall is to provide a web-based interface so that schools in Hong Kong and Mainland China can set up web pages that accelerate Internet learning.

The Electron Education Mall will be used by teachers to post assignments, syllabi and problem-solving solutions.
Students are able to log into the mall and download assignments, access problem solving techniques and gain valuable Internet experience.

“Turbolinux is proud to be partnering with China’s top school, the University of Hong Kong, to develop platforms which accelerate the Internet learning curve,” said Ashok Pandey, general manager and president, Turbolinux Asia Pacific. “The Electronic Education Mall further illustrates our continued growth in China and our support of education programs.”

The Electronic Education Mall provides free domain name hosting and mapping services to the local Chinese education communities. Members are given 10MB of storage capacity for web site hosting. Users upload their web pages by using the mall’s web-based FTP tool.

About Turbolinux, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Turbolinux is a market leader in Linux software clustering solutions and Linux internationalization,
with investment backing from more than 20 global computer companies, including Compaq, Dell, Intel, NEC, Novell,
NTT and Oracle. Headquartered near San Francisco with offices around the world, Turbolinux solutions are supported
globally by Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The company’s home page is located on the Internet at
www.Turbolinux.com, in Japanese at www.Turbolinux.co.jp and in Chinese at www.Turbolinux.com.cn.”

From LinuxPR: DocPro is a valuable tool for professional technical authors whom maintain a
large amount of SGML/XML based documentation. DocPro will take any
DocBook document and transform it into a user defined format (Postscript,
HTML etc…). DocPro currently runs on x86 Linux only. We will release for YellowDog Linux
(PPC) and MacOS X shortly. The Deluxe version of DocPro comes with the
popular DocParse tools for converting HTML to DocBook.

Slashdot has links to a couple of Linux at MacWorld stories, including one at LinuxJournal.com. From that one: “In past years at Macworld my Linux Journal shirt would have seemed
more out of place than a leisure suit. But this year it fits right in. There
were people in line wearing Sun and SGI schwag too. One guy told me
he thought OS X was ‘subversive’ because it ‘seeds’ millions of
otherwise unsuspecting households with open-source UNIX. ‘I can go
to my Mom’s, fire up her iMac, open a shell, ssh to my own server and
get some real work done’, one guy said to me. Ahead in line a kid parked
an iBook on a recycling bin, turning it this way and that, looking for an
802.11b signal. On one corner of the laptop’s lid was a little blue ‘Linux
Inside’ sticker.”

ZDNet has follow-up information. “Two years after police stormed into his home and seized his computer, a Norwegian
teenager has been indicted on security cracking charges.

Jon Johansen, who helped create software that makes it possible to crack DVD security, faces
up to two years in jail on charges originally designed to protect phone and bank records. On
Wednesday, Norway’s economic crime unit accused Johansen of trying to break through a
security system to gain access to material he’s not entitled to, in this case a movie on DVD.” An EFF press release is posted at LWN.net.