Slashdot readers discuss an EET.com story that notes the battle lines over the proposed Security
Systems Standards and Certification Act.

“Announcing The Unofficial Unsupported
Ximianized ISO Images
(or UUXII for people who like acronyms)…”

The Unofficial Unsupported Ximianized ISO Images
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:17:32 -0500 (CDT)
From: javier dìaz 
To: gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
Reply to: gnome-hackers@gnome.org


Announcing The Unofficial Unsupported
Ximianized ISO Images
          (or UUXII for people who like acronyms)
                   
* What are the UUXIIs?

The UUXIIs are Unofficial Unsupported Ximianized ISO
Images of GNU/Linux distributions. That means we took
the standard ISO images, took out the original GNOME
packages, and put the Ximian GNOME packages on there
instead, so you can install the distribution complete
with Ximian GNOME from the same CDs, in one operation,
from the standard distribution installer.

* But why?

Javier made the first UUXIIs for his own personal use,
and gave a copy to Chema, who liked them a lot, some
other people asked if they could have copies, so we
figured maybe it would be a service to the community
to make them available. It certainly makes the whole
process of installing a full desktop environment on a
new machine a lot less work-intensive.

* What distributions?

We've done this to Red Hat so far (7.1 at the moment).
The images include the most recent Ximian GNOME, and
also all the updated packages from Red Hat. We took
out stuff because space was limited, so the original
RH GNOME packages are not on the CD.

We're planning on doing a similar UUXII set for
Mandrake and Debian. We've started work on the Debian
images, Mandrake will come later.

* Where can I get it?

We don't have the bandwidth to distribute the images
ourselves, so we're soliciting mirror sites. There are
a few mirrors already, however, please see the list at
the bottom of the project homepage.

* Is this a Ximian project?

No. Most of the work is done by Javier, who is not a
Ximian employee. Chema is, but he's doing this on his
free time. The project is in no way affiliated with
the distributions it builds on, or Ximian as a
company.

Ximian has stated before that it's not interested in
entering the distribution business, and there's no
reason to believe that this has changed.

* Where can I find out more?

Go to http://uuxi.cofradia.org/ to get the latest
information about the UUXIIs, and to find a list of
current mirrors, and MD5 checksums for the images.


    Regards
    Javier Díaz...!

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s “BayFF” is Thursday, October 11, at 6 p.m.

WHO:
Ann Brick — Staff Attorney, ACLU of Northern California
Cindy Cohn — Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Panel Moderator
Robert Rubin — Legal Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the
SF Bay Area
Kevin Poulsen — Editorial Director, Security Focus Magazine
Lee Tien — Senior Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation

WHAT:
“BayFF” Panel Discussion on the Anti-Terrorism Legislation,
and its effects on civil liberties

WHEN:
Thursday, October 11th, 2001 6PM

WHERE:
San Francisco Public Library
Room: Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 – near Civic Center Bart Station
Tel: 415-557-4400 (for directions only)

For more information contact Katina: (415) 436 – 9333 x101

This event is free and open to the general public. Food and beverages will be
available. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading
civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world.

This forum is co-sponsored by the Free statement Network (FEN), an alliance of organizations dedicated to
protecting the First Amendment right of free statement and the values it represents.

chris hubbard tells us of a discussion item posted on WildCharacters.com: “I’ve been thinking about the PHP market, as it seems pretty flat. Wondering what I can do to improve the situation while I’m looking for work. I think I’ve got an interesting idea.
What if every open-source developer identified an .asp or .NET site and volunteered to convert the site to PHP &/or Perl? Along the way we could throw in a couple fixes to the logic/flow of the site. Every web site could be tweaked in some way to make the owners happier. Imagine. While it is probable that I won’t get any business out of the site that I’ve converted (I was a volunteer remember?), I do have a larger pool to pull work from.” More here.

CNet has more information on a new proposal being considered by the World Wide Web Consortium that could “open the way for companies to claim patent rights — and demand royalties — on
standards authorized by that body.” Open Source advocates are among those protesting.

Upside.com accuses the U.S. attorney general of invading online and communications privacy, but you might be surprised by its verdict.

LinuxSecurity Contributor writes, “This week, perhaps the most interesting articles include ‘Improving the security of open Unix
platforms,’ ‘Focus on Operating Systems,’ and ‘Denying Denial of Service.’ Also this week,
there are a few good articles in the General section regarding cyber-terrorism.
http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/forums_artic le-3764.html.”

Posted at LWN.net: “The Midgard Community has released a new
version of the Midgard Application Server. The release contains
Midgard core libraries, scripting language bindings for PHP4, Web
application server for the Apache platform and Asgard, the Web-based
administration interface.”

Evil3D.net has the Q&A with the man who brought Jagged Alliance 2 to Linux. He talks about Tribesoft’s future, among other things.

“Available in the usual places..” –Linus

Linux 2.4.11-pre2
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:39:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds 
To: Kernel Mailing List 

---
pre2:
 - me/Al Viro: fix bdget() oops with block device modules that don't
   clean up after they exit
 - Alan Cox: continued merging (drivers, license tags)
 - David Miller: sparc update, network fixes
 - Christoph Hellwig: work around broken drivers that add a gendisk more
   than once
 - Jakub Jelinek: handle more ELF loading special cases
 - Trond Myklebust: NFS client and lockd reclaimer cleanups/fixes
 - Greg KH: USB updates
 - Mikael Pettersson: sparate out local APIC / IO-APIC config options

pre1:
 - Chris Mason: fix ppp race conditions
 - me: buffers-in-pagecache coherency, buffer.c cleanups
 - Al Viro: block device cleanups/fixes
 - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS 1.1.20 update
 - Andrea Arcangeli: VM tweaks