Joshua Drake has a piece on LinuxWorld discussiong his idea of the top 10 questions and answers from new users to Linux, from recovering root passwords to networking.

MozillaQuest.com has an update to earlier reports that Netscape 6.1 had been released. “Apparently the appearance of the Netscape 6.1 directory tree and files on
the Netscape FTP servers was not a 6.1 release. In an e-mail interview
earlier, Netscape spokes-person Catherine Corre told MozillaQuest
Magazine, ‘We have not released Netscape 6.1, this was a routine system
test.’ “

From the humor site, Segfault: “In resopnse to recent interviews with various proponents of the Open Source and Free Software
communities, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft announced the company’s latest innovation in
software licensing: the Microsoft Shared Source Closed License.

‘Our biggest problem with our Shared Source program is the negative reactions to the details of
the licensing restrictions,’ stated Ballmer at a press confrence held this morning. ‘So we’ve come
up with a solution: All future MS Shared Source community members will not be allowed to
discuss the source code they review, nor will they be allowed to discuss the actual language of the
licensing agreement.’ ”

From LinuxPR: The superior print quality and the comfortable configuration tools of the
TurboPrint printer drivers can now be combined with the benefits of the CUPS
printing system.

TurboPrint is a high-quality printer driver system for Linux built on existing
standards (e.g. ghostscript). It is designed to produce maximum quality photo
printouts as well as high-speed text documents.

TheStandard.com reports that U.S. government antitrust investigators are worried about the potential harm to independent competitors by Pressplay and MusicNet, the two online
music services planned by the major record
labels.

From LinuxPR:
Blue Linux version 1.0 will be released to the general public on January 15, 2001. (Editor: We assume they mean 2002.) This
version will come in several Flavors. They are as follows Blue Linux Enterprise, Blue Linux
Web, Blue Linux Mail, Blue Linux Firewall, and Blue Linux DNS. Each version will contain the
needed software to successfully setup and maintain a server.

From Computing.co.uk: “The Central Scotland Police is just one of the many organisations
angered by changes to Microsoft’s licensing model, which will
leave them paying more for software … Chief Inspector Stewart
Marshall, said the force had moved more than 1,000 users to Sun
Microsystems’ Star Office suite – saving almost a quarter of a
million pounds in the process.”

Anonymous Reader writes, “This week, the most interesting articles include ‘Installing and running Tripwire,’
‘Securing an Unpatchable Webserver,’ and ‘Network Security Policy: Best
Practices White Paper.’ Also this week, two excellent FreeBSD papers were
released, ‘Implementing Security in FreeBSD UNIX System, Part One,’ and
‘FreeBSD Security How-To, Chapter One.’ ” The
roundup is at LinuxSecurity.com.

From LinuxPR: ACCPAC International, Inc., a division of Computer
Associates (NYSE: CA), today announced that it is the first mid-market
business management solution provider to support IBM’s DB2 Universal
Database the most widely used database in the server software market.

Beginning next month, the ACCPAC Advantage Series Enterprise Edition will
be able to run its accounting processes with DB2 running on Linux or
Windows 2000 servers, as well as a wide range of other other databases.

Mark writes, “Just like everyone else I’m getting a bit tired of the CodeRed worm, I’m tired of reading about it, writing about it and really tired of seeing NNNN’s and XXXX’s in my server logs (all 416 of them). Not even sure why I’m writing this…oh yeah because of this….” Read it here at MaximumLinux.org.