Debian Planet discusses using KDE 3.0 alpha without giving up your installation of KDE 2.2 on Debian/unstable.

From BSD Today: “This book by Annelise Anderson and published by The Bit Tree Press contains over 400 pages of step-by-step directions for installing, configuring, maintaining and using FreeBSD.”

Dave Jones told us about a “lecture” on the kernel-janitor project that was on irc.uninet.edu #linux Dec. 15. For more information, go to umeet.uninet.edu. This was part of the Second International Congress UMEET. “If you missed this or any of the other lectures, you can view a transciption of all at this link. Lots of great information is shared here.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “Understand the tools hackers use to hide from sysadmins.
Read the first of a two part series here at Linux.Oreillynet.com.”

Mikael Pawlo writes, “The discussion web site Kuro5hin (K5) is
back from the dead. On K5 you can discuss the subjects ranging from open source and free software to liberty, politics or just about anything.
Visit Kuro5hin.”

LinuxSecurity Contributor writes “Crypto-Gram is a free monthly newsletter providing summaries, analyses, insights, and
commentaries on computer security and cryptography. This month Bruce Schneier talks about
National ID Cards, Computer Security and Liabilities, more on AES and Fun with Vulnerability
Scanners. Great stuff.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/cryptography _article-4166.html”

From CNet: “Marlon Schafer beat Paul Allen at selling wireless Internet access.

Schafer had a $10,000 bank loan, a grain silo for an antenna tower and
10 neighbors in Odessa, Wash., willing to give wireless access a try.
Allen, the multibillionaire co-founder of Microsoft, plowed a fortune
into Metricom, a company that offered its $1 billion Ricochet network
in 14 major U.S. cities.

Schafer’s business may have been far less ambitious than Allen’s, but
as it turned out, he got the edge over Allen in one category: profits.”

From Help Net Security: “This article is written for a linux newbie or anybody who cares, at least a bit about the data stored on his hard drive. You’ll notice that it’s aimed mainly for home-users, not for large network administration or similar.”

Debian Planet reports that Debian/Woody’s base has gone into a feature-freeze to get the last of the bugs out before the version goes stable.

From ZDNet Australia: “I hear a lot of discussion about how superior Linux is to Microsofts
operating systems. Certainly, there are many more attacks targeting
Windows and IIS platforms.
A good case can also be made that Linux is inherently more stable and
secure than Microsoft products, either because its based on a better
core of code or because its open source, and many individuals have a
stake in monitoring and making repairs.
[trlogo_color.gif] However, with all this discussion, there rarely
seems to be any mention of an even more secure and completely free
version of UNIX: BSD. While Linux is the darling of the hacker set, it
is far from the least expensive or even the most secure open source
operating system available. Linux isnt even running on the widest
range of systems. All three of those distinctions belong to an
academically developed version of UNIX that originated at the
University of California, Berkeley and whose various versions are
often referred to collectively as BSD (Berkeley Software
Distribution).”