Newsbytes: “Computer users think of the online security industry as consisting of guards, guns and gates protecting them from hackers, crackers and other dangers. According to a study by the Yankee Group, for network security to maintain viable defenses, the industry must evolve into ‘doctors; who treat ‘diseases’ with drugs.'”

C|Net:
“MandrakeSoft, a French seller of the Linux operating system, has begun an initial public stock offering to raise about $3.7 million, shortly after four U.S. Linux companies canceled their IPO plans”

Gnotices: ” Two weeks ago, on the last weekend in June, LinuxTag 2001 -Europe’s largest Linux exposition- took place in Stuttgart, Germany. Again, GNOME was present (together in a booth with the GIMP), and we drew an even larger crowd than last year.”

C|Net: “LOS ANGELES–The arrest this week of a 26-year-old Russian software programmer accused of violating U.S. copyright law has sparked protests and pledges of support from a wide range of free speech advocates, defense lawyers and consumer groups.”

Surprised (or not) by the response to the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov, Adobe is trying to quell protests before they get too much bad PR, by meeting with the EFF (as reported on Wired).

Also posted on Slashdot, the Transmeta webpad has been released. It has such features as a TM3200 400MHz, a 10.7″ touchpad screen, CardBus slots for 802.11b, and USB support.

Slashdot reports on a nan-Apple PPC GNU/Linux VAR which packages custom G4 hardware with the Yellow Dog distribution.

Help Net Security goes through the basics of securing a Red Hat 6.2 system to be more secure than it would be with its default settings before letting it onto the Internet.

Slashdot has the links on where to get it.

Anonymous Reader writes, “Users seem to be moving on, rejecting the notion of a Pay Napster and grabbing the free alternatives out there. Six out of CNet’s top 10 downloads this week were Napster clones drawing a total of 3,876,580 downloads. Morpheus took the number one spot with 1,107,161 downloads and Audiogalaxy Satellite was number two with 977,868 downloads. Napster pulled a relatively paltry 18,296 downloads for the week or a little over 1% of what Morpheus alone did. The article includes the top 10 list.” The story’s at MP3newswire.net.