AsizBizTech: ”

It was AXE Inc. of Kyoto, Japan, which succeeded in
operating Linux on iPAQ. AXE is a developer of a real-time
operating system. The company realized the graphical
operations by combining Linux for iPAQ developed by a
project called “the Familiar Project” and the company’s
graphical user interface environment “Sikigami,” which still is
under development.”

LWN: “OpenSSH 2.9.9 has just been uploaded. It will be available from the
mirrors listed at http://www.openssh.com/ shortly.

OpenSSH 2.9.9 fixes a weakness in the key file option handling,
including source IP based access control.”

The Dot: “DCOP is KDE’s interprocess communication (IPC)/remote procedure call (RPC) technology. DCOP provides a simple protocol
with authentication over TCP/IP or Unix domain sockets. Two new complementary tutorials on DCOP have just been made
available at the KDE developer site.”

ZDNET: “The Open Source Development Lab has created a code benchmarking
tool–known as the Scalable Test Platform–that it says will allow developers to
easily test their Linux kernel patches from a variety of tests and server
configurations.”

LinuxPR: “Dynasoft Co., Ltd.
today announced the release of Yangchunbaixue KDE Chinese Environment
for Red Hat Linux 7.1. A free version can be downloaded from
http://www.yangchunbaixue.com ( be aware that most contents are in
Chinese ).”

ZDNET: “Outlook is vulnerable by design. If you want all that power to trade data and code with other Microsoft programs like
Excel and Word, security is the price you pay. Even when good users and administrators patch their software, this only
closes the barn door after the horses have fled. So it is that I think the best thing you can do to keep your company
working–and not screaming–at their desktops is to drop Outlook now.”

LinuxSecurity: “Vint Cerf, who helped develop the Internet’s basic communications tools in the 1970s, said hackers “do not contribute in any constructive way to dealing
with the many problems our global civilization faces.” Keeping the Internet smoothly functioning, he said, “will at least offer a way for (the) collective
expression of views and perhaps better understanding.”

MSNBC: “Tim Pozar used to speak only rarely to his neighbors in San Francisco’s foggy Sunset
district, but that changed the day he hung out a wireless antenna and welcomed the world to use his
high-speed Internet line.”

LWN has a new issue out, ready for your reading enjoyment.

Justin Chapweske writes: “Forward Error Correction (FEC) is an essential building block of any
satellite or IP multicast based content distribution system. Onion Networks’ library is the fastest and most mature Java FEC library available. It features: fast multi-threaded I/O routines for encoding and decoding files; native linux, solaris, and win32 accelerators with pure Java fallback; FEC codec plugin interface; and cryptograhic hashes can be used for checking file integrity. Download here.
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