The Register’s take on Caldera’s new per-seat license.
“Per-seat licensing is a rarity in the Unix world. That’s because workstations are
traditionally capable of supporting several concurrent users. IDC’s Dan Kusnetzky
told us last week that the next batch of IDC figures will create a new category in
recognition of this. Linux usage is divided three ways between server, workstation
and ‘serverstation’, where a workgroup server is doubling up as a workstation.”

Interactive Week reports on Red Hat’s new offering of PostGreSQL in a $2,295 package that includes Linux.

CNet reports that shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit against chipmaker Transmeta, “alleging that
company executives made false statements about its business and certain products to boost its
stock price.” The lawsuit alleges during and after its IPO, Transmeta made misleading statements about its
Crusoe microprocessors, including overstating the battery life.

From PR Newswire: iXsystems Inc., formerly BSDi,
has released its first Internet server appliance, designed for quick and easy
volume deployment by Internet service providers, content providers, and Web
hosting providers. The new iXtreme Internet Hosting Server is the first
“plug ‘n host” server appliance to combine browser-based administration and
the world’s most reliable Internet operating system in an ultra-compact,
high-performance 1U rack-optimized chassis. Service providers can choose the
processor, memory and disk that best meet their needs now, and easily upgrade
components as their business grows.

From LinuxGram: “Compaq is close to finishing a piece of software it’s been
developing secretly to make it easier for Solaris developers to
port their applications to Linux. It’s going to open source the
stuff.”

Posted at LWN.net: “There is a file overwrite vulnerability in the log facilities
of the Samba filesharing package which can be used by a remote
attacker to overwrite system files and to gain root access.
This requires a specific logging entry to be set.

Caldera OpenLinux is not vulnerable to this problem in its default
configuration, because it does not include a default configuration
file for Samba and the sample configuration we ship has logging
commented out.”

ZDNet has a column trumpeting the virtues of apt-get and how it handles installations of other packages beside the original Debian Linux.

From PR Newswire: StarNet Communications Corp., a
leading publisher of Windows-to-Linux/Unix connectivity software, announced
that users of its X-Win32 PC X server will be provided a fully integrated data
security solution in cooperation with F-Secure Corporation, a leading
developer of centrally managed enterprise security solutions.

A column at osOpinion tries to explain the GPL by comparing it to recipes.
“Next time you cook a meal, pass a bookshop or eat at a restaurant, think it over. What sort of
recipe would you prefer? One that requires you to give it to anyone you cook the meal for, or
one that you can keep secret to yourself?

That’s almost certainly the same way you feel about software licenses. But no matter what
Microsoft or Richard Stallman says, it is your choice what you use and neither can take that
away from you.”

The press release is at BusinessWire: Caldera International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), the global leader “Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business,” Tuesday
announced its release of Caldera OpenLinux Workstation, release 3.1.
The release of this product occurs simultaneously with Caldera’s OpenLinux Server and Open UNIX 8 products.
The successor to the award-winning OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4, the Workstation is a complete, self-hosted Linux-based operating
system for developers who wish to create commercial, Open Source, or corporate applications for an open standard environment,
including the proposed Linux Standard Base (LSB), using Java, C and C++.