Anonymous Reader writes: “In this guest column at DesktopLinux.com, high school mathematics teacher Gary Frankenbery comments on the growing cadre of high quality — and continually improving — options for high-powered word processing in Linux.”

Ian Bell of DesignTechnica writes: “A new unnamed worm has been released and, once again, Microsoft software is the target. More specifically, this new worm targets Microsoft SQL servers with no administrator passwords set. Once the server is infected, it logs onto Internet Relay Chat (IRC) servers and is ready to receive commands and act accordingly. Although this can be a fairly malicious worm, it is very unlikely to infect many servers due to the fact that majority of Microsoft SQL servers have administrator passwords.” Read more at DesignTechnica.

Debian.org reports that the “Debian Project has been invited to attend the upcoming International Linux Kongress. International Linux Kongress is Europe’s one and only developer congress targetting the Linux community.”

From The Register: “Two days ago the new next version of the Linux kernel, v2.5, was quietly born over at kernel.org. At the moment (or possibly, given the way Linux develops, at that moment) the move is/was a purely administrative one, but it means that the 2.5 kernel will now be developed as a separate entity from 2.4.”

Tom Lopez writes “Linux-tips.net has just opened its doors and is looking for Linux oldtimers to come on in and help out the newbies. Linux-tips promises to be well-maintained and to keep on going. Newbies can come here for tips on everything, from bash to X windows. Questions can be asked and answered in the forums. If you can’t find it here it just hasn’t been posted yet.
So oldtimers, come on in with your tips, scripts and secrets. We can’t do it without you.”

KDE dot reports that the K Desktop Environment (KDE) version 2.2.1 now works under Windows with the help of Cygwin.

From PC World: “With all the attention currently being paid to hackers, viruses, and other forms of Internet intrusion, it’s easy to overlook more-immediate threats to your PC’s data: coworkers, family members, and anyone else who has physical access to your system when you’re not around.”

John Buswell writes “The staff at iMacLinux have put together one of the largest PowerPC specific Linux resources. The new site called TuxPPC covers all PowerPC hardware. The site is aimed at not just people with Macs who want to try Linux, but for Linux users who might be interested in getting into the PowerPC platform. You can find the announcement here.

They have added a browsable interface to their guides and have added
web based discussion forums.”

“So here it goes 2.4.16-pre1. Obviously the most important fix is the
iput() one, which probably fixes the filesystem corruption problem people
have been seeing.”

Subject:
Linux 2.4.16-pre1
Date:
Sat, 24 Nov 2001 16:39:15 -0200 (BRST)
From:
Marcelo Tosatti
To:
lkml CC:
Linus Torvalds

Hi,

So here it goes 2.4.16-pre1. Obviously the most important fix is the
iput() one, which probably fixes the filesystem corruption problem people
have been seeing.

Please, people who have been experiencing the fs corruption problems test
this and tell me its now working so I can release a final 2.4.16 ASAP.

– Correctly sync inodes in iput() (Alexander Viro)
– Make pagecache readahead size tunable via /proc (was in -ac tree)
– Fix PPC kernel compilation problems (Paul Mackerras)

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