BBC: “Norway is to bestow one of its most prestigious military honours at a ceremony in Edinburgh – on a penguin.

The king penguin, known as Nils Olav, will be promoted, but his new rank is being kept a closely guarded secret.”

Kelly McNeill writes: “Microsoft again asked a federal appeals court to delay sending its antitrust case back to a lower court for a new penalty while the software giant appeals to the Supreme Court. The filing late Tuesday was in response to the government’s request to proceed with the penalty phase in district court while Microsoft exhausts its review of rulings that it violated antitrust law. The government and some legal analysts have said Microsoft is trying to postpone any court-imposed remedy before the newest operating system is widely distributed.”

LinuxPR: “In a survival mode IT economy, a market such as Linux offers an unprecedented opportunity for companies to expand the market for their existing products”, says Codehost CEO, Sam Bizri. “On one hand they don’t need to invest in the development of new products and product launches; and on the other hand they’re entering into a space where there is a growing demand from customers and a very low number of competitors.”

Web Shepherd writes: “Yesterday, Linux.com offered a comparision of two popular, PHP-based content management systems (CMS). This has appearently fueled a war of words between the original system, PHPNuke, and its fork, PostNuke.com; as is reflected on the former’s website. Yet, outside of the bickering, there loom two questions no one has thought to ask. PHPNuke is distributed with Mandrake. If PostNuke is successful in their re-write efforts, will they win distribution by some other Linux, like Debian or RedHat ? Moreover, will this litte feud then flare into a balkanization of the Linux community similar to that between KDE and Gnome ?”

LinuxPR: “CUPS 1.1.10 adds a new driver for Dymo label printers, a new ClassifyOverride directive, a new BrowseProtocols directive, SLPv2 support, adds Asian language support to the PDF filter, and fixes a number of small bugs.”

“On August 15th, KDE 2.2 was blessed upon our world. (It may have actually been the 14th, but I didn’t see it until about 12:15 AM on the 15th.) After a quick download (of which I was the 238th user of 240 allowed users on ftp.kde.org), I was able to install KDE 2.2 and evaluate the latest work from my favorite desktop project. I know this article is coming at a time when we are about to see a slew of reviews on the release. Thus, instead of boring everyone with how great KDE 2.2 is (and believe me: it is very nice), I am going to offer some constructive feedback to the KDE Project.” More at The Linux Review.

LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for fetchmail, telnet, groff, imp, windowmaker, and openldap. The
vendors include Caldera, Conectiva, Debian, EnGarde, and Mandrake. As always, it is important to maintain
an updated system. Many of the vulnerabilities discussed this week are fixes for remote root exploits.”

Rajesh Goyal writes: “LinuxCertified, Inc. announces the Network Services Bootcamp.

– All students get a free Linux laptop!

Media Contact:

info@linuxcertified.com
http://www.linuxcertified.com/

LinuxCertified.com, a leading provider of Linux training, will start
offering the latest class in its portfolio, the Network Services
Bootcamp, on September 29-30, 2001 in San Francisco bay area(south bay).
This workshop has been designed for network administrators in charge
of providing key network services on Linux servers.

This bootcamp is structured along the lines of the highly successful Linux System Administration bootcamp. Students get a powerful Linux laptop at the start of the class, along with other class materials. Their goal is to create a fully functional and
secure Linux server. This server will provide the most important internet services such as Web, DNS, Mail, DHCP and File serving.

Students start by putting the system securely on an intranet. They are then led by a team of network experts via carefully
designed lectures and labs to configure the network services mentioned above. Students take this laptop with them as a fully
configured network server to further enhance their Linux expertise.

Linux and open source network applications such as Apache, BIND, Sendmail, SAMBA etc. are the building blocks for most network services being offered today within the organizations as well as on the internet. This bootcamp enables administrators
to rapidly and securely provide these services to their clients. A detailed agenda for the bootcamp is available at:

http://www.linuxcertified.com/network_services.htm l

About LinuxCertified.com

The mission of LinuxCertified.com is to bring Linux to mainstream IT
usage. We firmly believe that Linux has an enormous potential, once it
crosses over from the early adopters to the more mainstream users. Our
goal is to help this transition by providing:

– Linux trained and certified professionals

– Linux certified products that cater to mainstream users rather than early
adopters.

Contact:


info@linuxcertified.com
http://www.linuxcertified.com/

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

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

– by Tina Gasperson –
Nicholas Petreley writes a lot of articles for LinuxWorld.com. I guess that just wasn’t enough to satisfy the Open Source blood in him, because he’s created VarLinux.org, a site that feels like a living room with several of your closest friends sitting around chewing the cud, as we like to say down in Florida.If ever there was a spot for the inner circle of the Linux community to gather and gnosh, this is it. But don’t get the impression that you’ll be snubbed if you’re a more recent convert. Paradoxically, VarLinux also seems to welcome the uninitiated in much the same way as Slashdot or Linux Today, but without the immense crowds that can sometimes keep newbies from even being noticed.

There are no surprises when it comes to format. News headlines and original stories are posted straight down the middle in web log fashion just the same way everyone else does it. Comments are invited. If you register, you can customize the look and feel of the site. There are polls, and a place to submit your news tips.

The default color scheme at VarLinux isn’t the prettiest. Sorry, I’m a girl and I like things to be pretty — or at the very least, not ugly. Maybe it’s just my monitor, but the minty green and greyish yellow just look like a 1950s school restroom to me. Maybe that makes Petreley feel at home. I don’t know. Just a thought.

But I like VarLinux, despite the icky colors. They have an interesting slant on the standard happenings in the community. I’ve begun to make it a habit to go and check the discussions to see if I can learn anything new about what’s going on.

Yet, VarLinux’s appearance in the Internet Open Source community begs the question: Do we need another Linux Web log? The answer is yes. Granted, unless Nick has posted an original story, you’re not going to find any headlines here that you wouldn’t find at NewsForge, Slashdot, or Linux Today. However, the market is not saturated yet; each site has its own distinct flavor and will attract and satisfy a slightly different demographic.

We don’t need any monopolies over on the side of the light. So go visit VarLinux.org, change the default color scheme, and read a few comments. You may find that it is just your cup of tea. But if not, make sure you come back to NewsForge.

Kelly McNeill writes “Apple has been working toward an ideal of absolute minimum connectivity hassles rather than the mish-mash of cabling that is common on the other side of the computing populace, and already has inexpensive wireless networking capabilities that allow for transfer rates up to 11Mbps. With even greater speeds rumored to be in the works, it is my belief that Apple is preparing the foundation for what will eventually allow for wireless clustering.”