Harry Zink writes: “For those of you who want an easy utility to help you install and administer the anti-SPAM utility TMDA, we’ve just finished testing qadmin-tmda from my buddy Sam. You can find it and tutorials, mailing lists, and FAQs at: http://devel.samstech.net. Find out more about tmda at: http://tmda.sourceforge.net. The download section also includes the qinstall scripts, the TMDA installation RPM, and the actual qadmin-tmda installation and admin utility. Once installed, it integrates seamlessly with qmailadmin and vpopmail accounts, and makes administration and configuration of TMDA protected accounts extremely easy. The ease of configuration, and ability to control TMDA protection parameters per account will provide maximum control to admins and users. Currently, the installation target is RedHat 7.2, and qmail but it should work on any tmda installation with minor changes. Hopefully, this will encourage more qmail installations to run TMDA, and thus help combat more SPAM by shielding users from unwanted and unsolicited junkmail.”

LinuxSecurity: “In addition to controlling access to the Internet at the application level, Squid can also “speed up” Internet access by caching
pages you have already visited so they can be retrieved from your proxy server, rather than an Internet server. This provides a
speed increase for two reasons:”

Ian Bell writes: “Believe it or not, Viewsonic the monitor manufacturer has entered into the Tablet PC market and in a big way. The new ViewPad 1000 Tablet PC has a touch screen hi resolution monitor with built in camera, a celeron 800 Mhz Processor and it even has a built in WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi Wireless LAN abilities. This is great for people on the go or those that would like a casual PC at home without a million features. Maybe the Tablet PC market will take off where the Internet appliance market failed. Here is the full story.”

LinuxSecurity: “HP announces a secure server platform for Linux as an enhancement to the HP Netaction software suite. The new product, HP
Secure OS Software for Linux, will help businesses secure their Linux environments by offering intrusion prevention, real-time
protection against attacks, and damage containment. HP is first to market with this business-critical security solution for Linux.”

Linux kernel version 2.4.16 has been released. It is available from:

Patch: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.16.gz
Full source: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.16.tar.gz

Sizes in bytes                  Compressed      Uncompressed
------------------------------------------------------------
Patch                                 5936             17330
Full source                       29652798         129699840

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The following files were changed in this release:

 Makefile                  |    4 ++--
 arch/ppc/kernel/entry.S   |   11 +++++++----
 arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S    |    8 +++-----
 arch/ppc/kernel/process.c |   28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/ppc/kernel/ptrace.c  |   13 ++++---------
 arch/ppc/kernel/signal.c  |   20 ++++++++++++--------
 arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c     |   21 ++-------------------
 arch/ppc/mm/ppc_mmu.c     |    3 +++
 drivers/ide/ide-probe.c   |    2 +-
 drivers/md/md.c           |    2 +-
 drivers/net/8139too.c     |    1 +
 fs/inode.c                |   23 +++++++++++++----------
 fs/super.c                |    4 ++++
 include/linux/blkdev.h    |    4 ----
 include/linux/fs.h        |    1 +
 include/linux/mm.h        |    4 ++++
 include/linux/raid/md_k.h |    2 +-
 include/linux/sysctl.h    |    4 +++-
 kernel/sysctl.c           |    4 ++++
 mm/filemap.c              |   12 +++++++++---
 20 files changed, 100 insertions, 71 deletions

MSNBC: “I am a software thief; we are legion.
Scattered among the tens of millions of hard disks on
desktops and laptops throughout this nation, are just as
many versions of shareware and commercial software
programs that haven’t been paid for. It’s time to grant
yourself immunity from your life of crime as a software
thief -for that is exactly what you and I are – pony up the
money for a license and in the process help lubricate an
economy choking on its own exhaust fumes.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Although Microsoft claims its private antitrust settlement will provide $1.1 billion to more than 12,500 of the poorest schools in the U.S. over the next five years, that’s not exactly the case. The money is not given in cash, but instead must be used to purchase refurbished computers, technical support, teacher training as well as and — here’s the kicker — Microsoft software. If you were not appalled by the proposed settlement between the Department of Justice and Microsoft, you have to be appalled by this deal.”

KDE.org: “I usually run two different KDEs on two X servers on the same machine: The latest released version installed from official RPM packages on one (not so much to have
something that is known to be stable but more to have the same experience as the users and better be able to answer questions) and a leading edge one on the second
display.”

DebianPlanet: “Some of our readers will be interested to know that Debian GNU/Linux is about to gain a whole new
target audience. SonicBlue, who bought the Rio line of digital music equipment from Diamond are
releasing a Debian-based network audio device, the Rio Receiver.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Although analysts warn of the challenges of touting Linux in a sector dominated by Palm and Microsoft, South Korea-based Gmate Co. Ltd. is moving confidently ahead with plans to market a Linux-based personal digital assistant (PDA) in December. The company said its Yopy PDA, which it demonstrated at last week’s Comdex technology show in Las Vegas, will first go on sale in South Korea, with marketing planned later around the world as distribution deals are finalized. It will sell for US$380 in South Korea and for about $450 in the U.S.”