LinuxSecurity: “procfs is the process filesystem, which presents a filesystem
interface to the system process table, together with associated data.
procfs provides access to the memory space of processes via the
synthetic /proc//mem file, subject to access control checks.”

Wired: “Tux the penguin’s favorite operating system is turning 10 years old, and parties are scheduled all over the world. The big one, a Linux beer hike in Belgium, is really the one to attend.”

“Hardware compatability issues, software
conflicts and a controversial new antipiracy
policy are threatening to sour consumer
confidence in the new Windows XP operating
system before it even hits store shelves.

The most contentious issue stems from
Microsoft’s boneheaded insistence on making
users activate the software after first linking it
to the hardware setup on that PC.” More at Detroit Free Press.

LinuxSecurity: “When you’ve been hacked, it’s wise to evaluate the damage done before calling in the Feds, San
Diego Supercomputer Center Security Manager Tom Perrine explained during the tenth annual
USENIX Security Symposium in Washington last week, during a talk entitled “Cops are from
Mars, Sysadmins are from Pluto: Dealing with Law Enforcement.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “The GPL Farm project has been launched today. Our
goal is to create GPL applications for Linux, and pay the developers to code it. We are
in the first stage. This means that we are searching for Linux programmers and sponsors. Developers will be paid for their work thanks to sponsors’ donations. There is a
complete FAQ which explains the process.
All the applications developed will be released under the GPL license after the completion. We think
that this project, if we find a few sponsors, can give all us many interesting results and could be a way to bring to Linux users many needed applications nowadays. If you are a Linux
programmer or a potential sponsor, come to our site and fill out the respective online forms,
so we can start making the difference. Hope that all you can enjoy it, any suggestion is
very appreciated.”

Standard changelog included with this notice.

Linux 2.4.8-ac9
From: Alan Cox 
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:48:56 +0100


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/

                 Intermediate diffs are available from
                         http://www.bzimage.org

2.4.8-ac9
o        Possible usb -110 error fix                     (me)
o        Page laundering fix                             (Rik van Riel)
o        Add another vaio to the byteswap list           (Martin Mueller)
o        Fix typos in ide blacklist                      (Arjan van de Ven)
o        UMSDOS split directory entry handling           (Istvan Varadi)
o        Update Configure.help further                   (Steve Cole)
o        Fix bogus mtrr warning on dual pentiums                 (Dave Jones)
o        Update scsi tape driver                                 (Kai Mäkisara)
o        Change memory probe constants on AWE32/64       (Dave Fennell)
o        Tiny endian reiserfs fix (just cosmetic)        (Jeff Mahoney)
o        Make the md resync delay message informative    (Corin Hartland-Swann)
         rather than scary
o        USB printer fixes                               (Oliver Neukum)
o        Add the SIS735 to the SiS AGP                   (Adrian)
o        Kill bogus export_objs entry in lib/Makefile    (Keith Owens)
o        VIA rhine fixes                                         (David Woodhouse)
o        Next set of superblock changes                  (Al Viro)
o        Don't reissue a pid that has a tgid matching    (Dave McCracken)
         it still in circulation

Red Hat E-Commerce Suite now available. Download links & info on MozillaQuest Magazine (mozillaquest.com). MozillaQuest.com reports that the “Red Hat E-Commerce Suite packages open source Interchange 4.8, Apache-SSL secure Webserver, and PostgreSQL database together with commercial support and service to provide a powerful, easy, e-commerce solution.” Plus an interview with Red Hat´s Melissa London. “Red Hat just might have achieved a darn good balance between the Open Source Software philosophy and spirit on one hand, and making a well-justified and necessary return on its investment on the other hand.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Hoping to stay one step ahead of federal prosecutors and challenges from rivals, Microsoft is apparently ready to go into production next week with its Windows XP operating system. The company wants to get copies to PC makers for installation as soon as possible. Speaking to a technology conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reportedly said that he expects work on the controversial XP system to be finished this week and production to begin next Monday.”

Gary Lawrence Murphy writes: “Swarmcast is at it again: Here’s an opportunity for the truly to grab two of the newest Linux beta distro CD sets over a new GPL P2P technology. For those who don’t know Swarmcast, this a JavaWebStart (JNLP) implementation of a different sort of file transfer using forward error correction to enable file ‘sharing’ long before the first download is done. Some call it “RAID for the Web”.

To play the game, you need the Java Runtime 1.2 or better, and it
works best when there are more than two people downloading (or who
are kind enough to stay online after downloading)

RedHat ‘Roswell’ ISOs:
Disk One / Disk Two
Mandrake ‘Raklet’ 8.1-beta1
Disk One / Disk Two

Mozilla/Galeon/Konqueror users who have already installed JWS will need to substitute jnlp= instead of url=

Swarmcast is nearing release, but the current system is still beta; no guarantees are implied or given, your mileage may vary, we take no responsibilities for loss of limbs or property damage. You can repay our efforts by filing trouble reports. For more information on Swarmcast, visit www.swarmcast.com.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Intel Corp. will introduce its 2 GHz Pentium 4 processor next week, the latest salvo in its ongoing chip war with archrival Advanced Micro Devices. Intel’s official introduction and demonstration of the new processor will kick off its annual weeklong developers conference, which begins August 27th. Louis Burns, Intel’s vice-president and general manager of the company’s desktop products group, will act as the keynote speaker and officiate the press conference, in which several hardware and software manufacturers and developers will showcase systems and applications designed for the 2 GHz chip.”