The latest issue of Simple End User Linux’ Linux in Education report includes coverage of Linux usage at Glendale (Arizona) Union High School District, the METADOT Internet School environment, and the Open Source Digital Library System.

Bluetooth first emerged at Comdex back in 1999, but even the most recent promising advances in the short-range wireless protocol have failed to captivate. Described as a “good technology that hasn’t found its market,” hampered by the high price of chips and lingering concerns that Bluetooth could interfere with 802.11b wireless networks. Full story at PC World.

“Lots of bugs… self explained…” writes the person who submitted this particular issue with Unixware 7.1.1 and rtpm at Help Net Security. A bit difficult to describe within the NewsForge NewsVac section, suffice to say that it includes the phrase “Memory fault” on every other line.

MozillaQuest Magazine reports: “Look for Netscape 6.1 Preview Release 1 (NS 6.1, PR1) soon. The directory for Netscape 6 PR1
already is in place on the Netscape FTP server. However, at publication time the Netscape FTP
server NS 6.1-PR1 directory is not open for public downloading.”

An anonymous reader pointed us in the direction of this press release excerpt at LinuxDevices.com: “Two dozen
companies today announced formation of the TV Linux Alliance, which will define a standards-based Linux
environment for the digital set-top box market. The technology suppliers to cable, satelite, and
telecommunications operators have allied to produce Linux standards designed to improve time-to-market and
product robustness in the advanced set-top box market.”

Help Net Security: “Megyer Laszlo found a printf format bug in the exim mail transfer
agent. The code that checks the header syntax of an email logs
an error without protecting itself against printf format attacks.”

ZDNet’s David Coursey outlines his nine reasons “for reforming people’s wrong-headed notions of Linux.” It’s too complex to become a desktop replacement for Windows, client-side Java hasn’t lived up to its promises, the threat of semi-compatible Linux versions, free software ends up costing companies more in the long run, and so on.

In the latest edition of Debian Weekly News: Debian hits the 100,000 bug mark (less than 19 thousand remain open), a report from LinuxWorld Tokyo, and a new site for Debian KDE packages. Posted at Linux Weekly News.

From the announcement posted at Help Net Security: “A bug exists in xinetd as shipped with Mandrake Linux 8.0 dealing with
TCP connections with the WAIT state that prevents linuxconf-web from
working properly. As well, xinetd contains a security flaw in which
it defaults to a umask of 0. This means that applications using the
xinetd umask that do not set permissions themselves (like SWAT, a web
configuration tool for Samba), will create world writable files. This
update sets the default umask to 022.”

Online music provider Listen.com has decided to withdraw from a lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America, PC World reports. Both parties released a joint statement that said the two sides have resolved their differences regarding Listen.com’s Web casting services. Additionally, Listen.com will discontinue some of its online services.