MozillaQuest Magazine (MozillaQuest.com) reports: “AOL announced the release of its AOL 7.0 client software yesterday … There is lots of new and improved stuff in 7.0 for AOL users — party time for AOLers. The news is not so good for the Netscape and Mozilla developers. AOL 7.0 uses Microsoft´s Internet Explorer as its default Web browser. Even worse for the Netscape developers, AOL does not seem to have any plans to include the Netscape browser suite in future AOL software releases either.”
Check this MozillaQuest.com story for details.

http://mozillaquest.com/News01/AOL-701_Release_Story-01.html

The Register reports on a new Zeus Technology server release that the company claims is 45 percent faster than Apache in
delivering dynamic content such as PHP and “roughly equivalent” in Java
performance.

Posted at LWN.net: “Nergal reported a vulnerability in the htsearch program which is
distributed as part of the ht://Dig package, a indexing and searching
system for small domains or intranets. Using former versions it was
able to pass the parameter `-c’ to the cgi program in order to use a
different configuration file.

A malicious user could point htsearch to a file like `/dev/zero’ and
let the server run in an endless loop, trying to read config
parameters. If the user has write permission on the server he can
point the program to it and retrive any file readable by the webserver
user id.”

simdan writes, “On the same topic as the recently posted ZDNet article, Cnet news is running a series of articles over the 7 days called The Gatekeeper. They discusses how Microsoft plans to use XP to gain dominance of the Internet. ‘In this special report, CNET News.com examines the multifaceted strategy from legal, economic and practical perspectives, offering a different angle in each of the seven business days leading up to Windows XP’s formal release Oct. 25.'”

REDSonic, Inc., a leader in
real-time Linux solutions for the embedded market, today announced its plans
to officially release RED-Builder(TM) 2.0 XE on November 8, 2001.

RED-Builder 2.0 XE is the company’s most recent version of its RED-Builder
tool, an easy-to-use integrated development environment (IDE) that enables
developers to efficiently customize, configure and build embedded devices and
systems. RED-Builder 2.0 XE has the additional feature of providing a
flexible plug-in framework for board support utilities, including download
setup, a bootloader, and tools for remote debugging and target connection.
With this plug-in framework, RED-Builder 2.0 XE is extremely versatile and has
the ability to support the cross development of many different kinds of RISC
architectures.

For the marketplace, RED-Builder 2.0 XE provides great flexibility and
scalability. “With RED-Builder 2.0 XE, developers will on longer worry about
the tool becoming obsolete as technology evolves,” stated Dr. Kwei-Jay Lin,
chairman of REDSonic. “The plug-in framework allows the tool to grow as
technology grows.”

From the company’s point of view, the product release marks the latest
milestone in its RED-Builder 2.0 project. “Our goal was to develop the most
user-friendly development tool in the embedded Linux industry and provide the
most capable features and full RISC support capability,” stated Lin. “We
believe we’ve accomplished that goal.”

REDSonic is also planning to showcase its new product at an event on
November 8, 2001 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, where the company will
demonstrate the new product and some of its other IA solutions including
server appliances, thin clients, and gateway solutions.

About REDSonic, Inc.
REDSonic, Inc. is a leader in total real-time Linux solutions for both
embedded and server systems markets. With its headquarters in Santa Ana,
Calif., and offices in Taiwan, China and Singapore, REDSonic offers a complete
integrated development environment (IDE) that includes REDICE-Linux(TM), a
real-time Linux kernel, and builder tools to develop embedded systems and
information appliances. The company also provides professional services,
including training, support, porting, and custom-application development. For
more information, please visit www.redsonic.com or call 949-833-9679.

REDSonic, REDICE-Linux and RED-Builder are trademarks of REDSonic, Inc.
All other trademarks are the property of the companies with which they are
associated.

It’s at NSA.gov: The third public release of the LSM-based SELinux prototype was made. This release
contains several bug fixes and improvements to both LSM and SELinux and is based on
the lsm-2001_10_11 patch against kernel 2.4.12. See selinux/ChangeLog for a detailed
summary of the changes.

From ZDNet: “If there is any doubt about Microsoft’s determination to expand its Internet strategy through
Windows XP, consumers may be reminded of it no fewer than five times as soon as they try the
new operating system.

In the second through sixth attempts to connect to the Net, Windows XP will implore consumers to
sign up for something called Passport — an identification technology that, in many ways, is a key to
Microsoft’s future.”

From Businesswire: Linuxcare, Inc., a provider of Linux products and services to
enterprises, today announced the appointment of Avery Lyford as its new chief executive officer (CEO) and president. Lyford
succeeds co-founder Arthur F. Tyde, III, who will remain on the board of directors. Lyford will lead the company as it begins an
accelerated period of growth and launches a new group of Linux-based products for the Global 2000.

Slashdot readers discuss a newly releated Mozilla 1.0 Manifesto. “People often ask ‘Why should Mozilla have a 1.0? Why not just keep going and let vendors pick good milestones
retrospectively?’ There are several reasons to do a 1.0 …”

Anonymous Reader writes, “B&O introduces the BeoLink PC 2 to complement the free BeoPlayer 1.0.0 released last August.” The story’s at MP3Newswire.net