With supplies of existing iMacs dwindling, Apple is expected to introduce updated versions of its popular candy-colored computers at this week’s Mac World Expo in New York. Most analysts expect that the Cupertino, Calif. computer maker will update the product line with faster processors and new colors, but they’re also betting that CEO Steve Jobs will give attendees a peek at the next generation of iMacs, expected to feature a flat-panel display. Provided, that is, the company will have a prototype ready in time for tomorrow morning’s keynote speech. Full report at ZDNet News.

Waldo Bastian has updated the KDE 2.2 release schedule: The HEAD branch was frozen yesterday, the last three days of July set deadlines for critical bug-fixes, testing, and tarball production, and the official 2.2 announcement should happen on Monday, August 6. Get all the details at KDE Dot News.

From Help Net Security: “vipw, from the util-linux package in Red Hat Linux 7.1, included a new option that allowed editing of the
/etc/shadow file as well as /etc/passwd. However, this option did not take measures to ensure that the file
remained only readable by root.” Read on for more information and new packages to fix the problem.

From Network World Fusion: “Sun is rolling out a
critical customer service application on an
operating system that’s almost completely untried
for handheld devices – Linux.

Why Linux? Sun says the open source
operating system has shown itself to be reliable,
adept at handling multiple applications and
inexpensive. Sun rejected far more prevalent
handheld operating systems, such as Windows
CE and Palm OS, for a variety of ideological
and technical reasons.”

Help Net Security posts an updated advisory from Red Hat regarding the elm e-mail client: “Elm had a buffer overflow when handling very long message-ids. This overwrote other header fields, and could
potentially cause more damage.” Instructions for updating elm included in the advisory.

Commentary from eWEEK’s Jeff Moad: “Microsoft has been gifted with a rare opportunity to show that it’s learned
something from its long antitrust battle. I’m not talking about the breakup reprieve issued recently
by the U.S. Court of Appeals. I’m talking about last week’s news that two key players in the
open-source software movement–the Free Software Foundation and Ximian Inc.–plan to
develop Windows-compatible .Net development tools for open-source platforms including Linux.”

A federal appeals court has given new life to a patent lawsuit initiated by E-Data covering software downloads on computer networks. An en banc decision issued Friday by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals requires a lower court to reconsider E-Data’s patent. If the company prevails in court, it could entitle E-Data to collect licensing fees for all software downloads covered by its patent, which was issued in 1985. Full story at CNET News.com.

From Slashdot: “Dmitry Sklyarov, a
programmer at Russian software company Elcomsoft, [was] arrested after
giving a talk at Def Con 9 in Las Vegas titled “eBook Security: Theory and
Practice.” Elcomsoft publishes a program to remove restrictions from
encrypted PDF files, which has severely annoyed Adobe Corporation.
Adobe was apparently responsible for the arrest, charging that Elcomsoft is violating the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act by publishing the software and giving the presentation at Def Con.”

Tuesday, July 17th, 2001 — from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL — Tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com:
At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, PJ
Hyett, Doc Searls(Linux Journal), and Arne Flones have another great show
lined up tonight on The Linux Show!! (and yes the Loki tribes server is up
and running, jeff will be playing after the show tonight.)

In Segment One – Hot News: We will be covering the hot Linux news of
the last few weeks. In particular, we will talk about the FSF Opening a chapter in India and

In Segments Two- VA Linux What is the next step forward?

We will be joined by Larry Augustin, the President and CEO of VA Linux (we might be joined by a few more of the VA crew as well). With the news out June 27th on VA getting out of the hardware business, we felt it important that we have Larry on the show as soon as possible to talk about the future of VA as a services based company.

VA, one of the Linux communities cornerstone vendors, has had a roller coaster ride since their IPO in 1999. Their stock went as high as $330.00 a share at the IPO and is now down to about $2.50 per share (holding steady since March 1st).

Today VA enters a new era in its history as a services based company, instead of a hardware based company. We will get the inside story behind the choices made by the board of directors, and some insite as to the road forward.

NOTE: IT SHOULD BE KNOWN THAT VA IS A MAJOR SPONSOR OF THE LINUX SHOW.

In Segments Three- “Microsoft, Linux and the Fat Lady PART TWO”- or Contrary to many
opinions, Linux is far from over and Microsoft still has a very very long
road ahead
This is PART TWO of a segment that will carry
over the next several weeks.

We are going to take this segment as an opportunity to re-ignite our (TLS)
position of taking Microsoft to task at will. We have been called to task
on this issue a number of times over the years. We do not accept the
argument that we need to play nice to look make the Linux Community look
“corporate.” The mail so far has been favorable to our renewed “vigor.”

Last week we will focused on the Wall Street Journal article, written by ROBERT H. BORK AND KENNETH W. STARR. You may wish to check this out for background.

Please also check out Arne Flones response to Bill Laberis of computerworld at http://www.thelinuxshow.com/025_view.shtml

This week we will focus on the new trend in main stream media coverage and the new face of the ongoing spinning. Boy oh boy, did you know that because of the new rulling Microsoft “gets to” offer more options to hardware OEM’s??????

This is far from over folks……

Other opinions are welcome at GeekCast. If you would like to join
us on the show, check our IRC Chat
(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow).

Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.
Catch the Linux show at
www.thelinuxshow.com

Anonymous Reader writes, “The Register has a further followup on the Adobe/Killustrator/Kontour issue, which may point the blame at overzealous German lawyers rather than Adobe itself. Apparently, German law allows for firms to independently pursue copyright infringement claims without the prior knowledge of the copyright holder.”