From Business Wire: Red Hat Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the leader in
developing, deploying, and managing open source solutions, today announced the Red Hat Linux Desktop Productivity Essentials
training course. The new three-day course is designed for people with no Linux experience who want to achieve maximum productivity
at home or work using Red Hat Linux desktop-based application suites for common office productivity tasks.

Gunder123 writes, “A new (open source in the past, but not anymore) operating system, SkyOS, in its latest version can run Linux binaries unmodified, without the need of a recompilation, enriching its own application base this way. Their Linux emulation layer lies inside the SkyOS kernel, I wonder if there are any GPL violations going on here. Their future plans involve also an emulation layer for Windows applications, pretty much what ReactOS tries to do for the last few years for the WindowsNT model. Interviews and more information about both systems can be found on OSNews’ web site, here and here.”

From LWN.net: The Debian Security Team hereby announces that two people have
volunteered to help and which were appointed as Debian Security
Secretary: Matt Zimmerman (mdz@debian.org) and
Noah Meyerhans (noahm@debian.org)

We haven’t heard about 7thGuard.net, before so you might take this site with a gain of salt, but here goes. honey writes, “There are two bugs present in Linux kernels 2.2.x. It
s at 7thGuard.net. Patch is at OpenWall.com.”

CNet reports that Sony has signed a deal allowing it to
incorporate the Linux-powered TiVo’s personal digital recording technology into its line of
consumer electronics products.

Wired.cm has the story. “A government anti-terrorism commission will recommend that Congress create a shadowy court to oversee
investigations of suspected computer intruders.

Gov. James Gilmore (R-Virginia), the commission’s chairman, said Wednesday that federal judges have been far too
sluggish in approving search warrants and eavesdropping of online miscreants.”

From LWN.net: The Ottawa Canada Linux Users Group
(OCLUG) is pleased to announce The Business of Open Source Software, a
conference taking place on November 25th of 2001.

Here’s The Register’s take: “Microsoft’s security chief has accused the security industry of creating ‘information
anarchy’ by openly discussing exploits when security vulnerabilities come to light.

In an essay, Scott Culp, manager of the Microsoft Security Response Center, said
that the full disclosure approach to issues taken by the security community does a
disservice to end users, and has called for a rethink.”

Posted at LWN.net: “Christophe Bailleux reported on bugtraq that Xvt is vulnerable to a
buffer overflow in its argument handling. Since Xvt is installed
setuid root, it was possible for a normal user to pass
carefully-crafted arguments to xvt so that xvt executed a root shell.

This problem has been fixed by the maintainer in version 2.1-13 of xvt
for Debian unstable and 2.1-13.0potato.1 for the stable Debian
GNU/Linux 2.2.”

John W writes, “Sharp has created a Linux/Java based PDA! I saw a prototype at JavaOne this year, and fell in love with it the minute I saw it. Sharp says that it runs on a 206 MHz StrongARM processor, and has a KDE based GUI. Check it out at: http://more.sbc.co.jp/slj/index.asp“