From vnunet.com: “The Remote Shell Trojan, disclosed last week by
vnunet.com, has sparked a storm of controversy
among Linux devotees who are arguing fiercely
over the degree of danger posed by the exploit.”

From Space.com: “America’s highly classified
intelligence-gathering satellites were given new
tasks in the wake of Tuesday’s attacks on New York’s
World Trade Center and the Pentagon.”

CNet reports that Web sites including Amazon.com and Yahoo.com are allowing people to make donations to
the American Red Cross through their Web sites.

CNet reports that eBay is banning the sale of any items relating to
the World Trade Center or the Pentagon, out of sensitivity to Tuesday’s terrorist attacks.

JigSaw writes, “GNUstep provides an Object-Oriented application development framework and tool set for use on a wide variety of computer platforms. It is based on the original OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc. (now owned by Apple and endorced into MacOSX). OSNews is hosting an interview with Adam Fedor, of the GNUstep project, where Adam mentions among others that GnuStep has support for the MacOSX API too, which will make porting MacOSX applications to Linux much easier.”

Underlinux.com.br has an interview with Elias Levy, the bugtraq moderator. He talks about the security of several Open Source operating systems.

LinuxCertified, Inc., a leading provider of Linux training, has
announced the availability of first in a new family of distance
learning products: the Linux system administration distance
learning program.

This new program is based on the study material that has been developed and used in highly successful LinuxCertified System Administration bootcamps. This new product creates a comprehensive learning environment for IT professionals to learn at their own pace. Whether the professional is learning in corporate LAN environment or at home, they will find learning using this innovative product to be highly effective and useful in real life Linux environments.

Various components of this program include a study guide, a CD
to complement the study guide as well as containing in-depth articles
on various system administration topics, a Linux distribution, access
to a remote Linux server and LinuxCertified’s instructors. The
program also includes access to LinuxCertified’s e-learning site to
learn the fundamental knowledge assumed by the course. This program
covers all of the objectives of the LPI level 1 certification exam.

Further details about this program are available at:

http://www.linuxcertified.com/distance_learning_sa .html

The introductory price for the program is only $399 per unit, with
corporate discount for bulk purchase. It is immediately available
for purchase.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

All other names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Submitted by Rajesh Goyal

Media Contact:

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http://www.linuxcertified.com/

Posted at LWN.net: “Internet C++/IVM, a high-speed open-source alternative toJava and .NET now
carries a GPL license. Containing a complete virtualized operating system,
C++ programs can beported and run in any environment supporting the virtual
machine. Now,featuring a new OpenGL 1.2 API, IVM promises to deliver
high-speed gaming andentertainment to the Internet. The GCC compiler and
several libraries areavailable, and are now part of an ongoing project at
SourceForge.”

Reuters reports that Nasdaq, the No. 2 U.S. stock market, may make an announcement about resuming trading later today.

Posted at LWN.net: “UUCP is a Unix to Unix transfer mechanism. It is used primarily
for remote sites to download and upload email and news files to local
machines.

zen-parse found[1] a vulnerability in the command-line argument
handling of uucp which can be exploited by a local user to obtain
uid/gid uucp.”