Posted at LinuxPR: “oday, the VP of
Technology for Bynari Inc., Tom Adelstein, and the CIO of the City of Largo,
Harold Schomaker, announced deployment of an “All-Linux” groupware solution
for the west Florida community. The City chose Bynari’s Insight solution for
messaging and collaboration, to replace their existing system running Novell’s
GroupWise product. This announcement follows the July disclosure by Dave
Richards, Systems Administrator for the City that they had gone live with the KDE
Linux desktop.”

Slackware has updated packages to fix sendmail’s input validation error; get more information on the vulnerability and links to the packages at LinuxSecurity.com.

Posted at PR Newswire: “Linux received a huge
boost in the enterprise market today as Clustra Systems, Inc., the leading
provider of always-on technology for the 24×7 world, demonstrated its new
Clustra DataCenter database appliance and the new 4.1 release of the Clustra
Database(TM) at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. The Clustra DataCenter
makes it easy to assemble a cluster of off-the-shelf Linux servers into a
powerful, high-end database that rivals the performance of enterprise-class
SMP servers at fraction of the cost while achieving continuous availability
exceeding 99.999 percent uptime.”

The Register: “It is building a JVM specifically for Windows XP or, more specifically, Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP
theoretically supports the latest JVM version 1.3.1 but Internet Explorer 6 is limited by its agreement
with Sun to JVM version 1.1.4).

Unfortunately, it will be too late for Sun: it will not be able to deliver its code in time for the launch of
Windows XP. While it will ultimately be available as a download, most of the leading PC vendors have
already decided either to ship their PCs with no JVM at all, or with a JVM from some other vendor
(including, in some cases, Microsoft’s own obsolete JVM). It will be much more difficult for Sun to
change hearts and minds once vendors such as Compaq, Dell and Gateway mak their decisions as
to what they will deliver.”

ZDNET: “Sun remains virtually alone in following a proprietary Unix OS and chip
architecture road map, basing its future on its Solaris OS and Sparc
processors. “Sun refuses to buy into the common logic that vendors
who choose the Intel platform architecture can lessen their lock-in to a
tightly coupled hardware architecture and operating system,” Quandt
said. “They’re ideological about their strategy.”

AustralianIT: ” Microsoft security program manager Scott Culp said the free downloadable security tool helped users disable functions and settings that could leave their servers open to an attack.

These included internet printing, advanced search functions and certain scripting technologies that enabled viruses and worms to spread.

The tool is designed for Microsoft’s Internet Information Service (IIS) software, which fell victim to the recent Code Red worm attack.

Since then, some programmers have faulted Microsoft for designing ease-of-use features into its server software that critics say make them too vulnerable to intruders.”

SCIAM: “Most conventional supercomputers
employ parallel processing: they contain arrays of ultrafast microprocessors that work in tandem to
solve complex problems such as forecasting the weather or simulating a nuclear explosion. Made
by IBM, Cray and other computer vendors, the machines typically cost tens of millions of dollars–far
too much for a research team with a modest budget. So over the past few years, scientists at
national laboratories and universities have learned how to construct their own supercomputers by
linking inexpensive PCs and writing software that allows these ordinary computers to tackle
extraordinary problems.”

JigSaw writes: “AtheOS is a modern, Free Operating System (GPL) written from scratch in C++. A big chunk of the OS is POSIX compliant, supports multiprocessing and it is GUI-oriented (fully OOP). OSNews is hosting an interesting interview with the AtheOS creator, Kurt Skauen. Kurt is talking about his views on breaking binary compatibility in future versions, multithreading and the future of his OS in general.”

The Register: “A SYN flood is perhaps the most efficient packet attack, devouring the greatest amount of service
with the least effort. It fakes the initial handshake of a TCP connection with spoofed IPs which the
target machine is unable to answer.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “TechRepublic has this article about when not to recommend Linux to your IT business clients.” Unfortunately, you need a (free) TechRepublic account to read this article – minor frustration, but you only have to do it once.