From the people at O’Reilly: “In the second installment of his Linux handheld series, Chris Halsall evaluates the sexy Compaq iPAQ, and walks readers through the
reconfiguration process.” http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/06/01/linux_ipaq.html.

Notable quote from Chris Halsall: “Using a Compaq 3650 iPAQ can at first
be a bit of a mind-blowing experience. You’re holding in your hand a
206-MHz StrongArm processor, 32 megabytes of RAM, and a 240-by-320
pixel
color LCD screen. Other than the display, this is better than what we
had on our desks only a few short years ago!”

From LWN.net: Xinetd runs with umask 0 – this means that applications using the xinetd
umask and not setting the permissions themselves (like swat from the samba
package), will create world writable files.

Aduva, Inc., a leading
provider of
network-based, automated system management solutions, today (June 5) announced
Aduva
Manager and Aduva Director for installations using the SuSE
Linux
operating system. SuSE is the international leader and solutions
provider
in open source operating systems.

Aduva provides network-based software technology that automates
management
of both single and multi-system Linux installations. The products,
Aduva
Manager for single systems, and Aduva Director for multi-system
networks,
address the growing need for critical system management tasks
such as
upgrades, patches and new hardware driver and software
installations. In
addition to SuSE, the solutions also support Red Hat Linux.

“We are very pleased to be able to offer Aduva solutions to SuSE
Linux
users,” said Azi Cohen, CEO of Aduva. “SuSE Linux is one of the
most
widely-used and highly regarded Linux operating systems in the world.
SuSE,
like Aduva, is dedicated to providing an excellent solution to
its
customers and this new offering will support that.”

The central foundation of the Aduva solutions is the Aduva Knowledge
Base.
The Knowledge Base includes conflict and dependency information on
hardware
driver, software, and kernel module components for Linux systems.
The
Knowledge Base continually grows and is updated based on new
products,
upgrades, patches, security notices and other developments in the
Linux
community.

“The Aduva Knowledge Base is a very comprehensive repository of
Linux
information,” said Dirk Hohndel, Chief Technology Officer of SuSE.
“After
extensive research and certification by Aduva, our clients can be
assured
that the rules they access through the Aduva solutions will support
their
SuSE installation. We are delighted Aduva extended their product
offering
to include SuSE Linux.”

The Aduva Director software is installed on the system’s
central
administration server. A local software client is also installed on
each
individual system in the network. The local software client
maintains an
up-to-date inventory and profile of all hardware, software and
kernel
module components and makes this information available to the
system
administrator. No user information is sent to Aduva so the
solution is
totally secure. The Aduva Manager software is installed on the
individual
system alone, but utilizes the same Knowledge Base and is also
completely
protected.

To learn more about the Aduva Director, visit www.aduva.com.

About Aduva

Aduva is the leader in network-based, automated system
management
solutions. Aduva reduces the time and effort required to
successfully
maintain and support complex Linux installations for Enterprise users
and
Linux support organizations. Aduva possesses the industry’s most
complete
body of knowledge about Linux component information and has
developed an
extremely effective methodology for deploying that knowledge. Aduva
helps
customers maximize system reliability and reduce costs.

Aduva employees are active members of the Linux community. The company
was
founded in October 1999 and currently has over 50 employees.
Headquartered
in Palo Alto, California, Aduva is a privately held international firm
with
offices in the US and Israel.

From IDG (through CNN.com): “Hoping to
revive the flagging fortunes of Linux on the desktop,
Linux Centers USA, a New York-based software
trainer, is offering to install the open-source
operating system for free on users’ systems.”

Reuters reports that AOL Time Warner is positioning Netscape more as an “Internet media hub brimming with Time
Warner artists and publications, aimed at office workers and Web purists
not already using AOL services” than the browswer we’re all familiar with.

Workstation Solutions, a leader in innovative data protection software, today announced new Windows and Linux platform support for its Quick Restore backup and recovery software. This broadened platform support extends the quick implementation, easy operation, and comprehensive scope of Quick Restore across Microsoft Windows 2000, UNIX, and Linux operating environments. The company also announced new Quick Restore features to improve performance, extend firewall support, control DLT tape format, and support newly available tape libraries from leading vendors.
Quick Restore Supports Windows 2000
Quick Restore Version 2.7.4 supports Windows 2000 platforms, which is growing in favor as an enterprise server choice. Microsoft’s improvements to the performance and reliability of Windows 2000 have encouraged more data center managers to select it as an enterprise operating system environment. As companies increasingly rely on Windows 2000 platforms for mission-critical applications, there is a growing need for powerful and reliable backup software, such as Quick Restore, to protect this vital data.

Extended Linux Support
This new version of Quick Restore extends Workstation Solutions’ early support of Linux platforms to the newest version of SuSE Linux, Release 7.1. The most recent release of the popular operating system includes the new 2.4 kernel. IDC has cited Linux as the fastest-growing operating system for servers, with a 24 percent increase in sales between 1999 and 2000. SuSE Linux offers a robust, scalable, and comprehensive platform for enterprises, especially for e-commerce and Web server needs and Quick Restore offers high performance backup and restore capabilities for Linux operating environments. Workstation Solutions was the first to offer an enterprise-ready Linux-based backup server.

“IT managers face the difficult challenge of managing increasingly complex data centers with a multitude of operating system platforms and diverse applications, and insuring that the right data is always available,” explained Jim Ward, president of Workstation Solutions. “Data protection software should provide support for multiplatform environments and offer an easy-to-implement remedy to insure the safety and availability of this vital information. Quick Restore 2.7.4 does this across the environments of choice in large enterprises.”

Quick Restore is based on the Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), an open standard that enables interoperability among NAS server platforms and backup applications. It uses NDMP for local or remote backup of NAS systems to industry-leading tape drives and libraries.

Extended Firewall Support
Quick Restore has added the ability to backup and recover clients that exist on the unsecured side of a firewall, allowing the software to easily adapt to infrastructures with unsecured clients in the administrative domain.

DLT Tape Format Controls
Quick Restore now provides increased control over DLT tape format. This adds new flexibility to adapt to an enterprise?s infrastructure by providing another option when configuring backup solutions to meet user specifications.

Tape Library Support Added
Workstation Solutions has added support for the latest technology in tape libraries. These include:
* Breece Hill Q70, Q140, and Q210

* Qualstar TLS-68120
* StorageTek L209

Quick Restore’s support of these new devices provides companies with the ability to select the newest and most up-to-date storage devices available on the market today. Quick Restore also supports Exabyte Mammoth-2 8mm tape drive, HP SureStore DLT Libraries 2/20, 4/40, 6/60, Spectra Logic Gator series, ADIC Scalar AIT 220 and Scalar 1000 Libraries, Qualstar TLS-Series 412180, 412300, 412360, and 412600 Libraries, StorageTek 7430 Tape Library, and Compaq SSL2000 Series.

About Workstation Solutions
Workstation Solutions provides the Quick Restore enterprise backup and recovery software to Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, e-businesses, and ISPs, such as Advanced Micro Devices, Boeing, Department of Defense, Genome Therapeutics, Intel, Johns Hopkins, Motorola, and NASA. Quick Restore protects data on heterogeneous networks of NAS, UNIX, Linux, and Windows systems. Workstation Solutions was an early adopter of the NDMP protocol and is a leader in the NDMP Working Group of the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), defining the architecture and standardization of NDMP. Ward is a co-author of the NDMP V4 Specification submitted to the IETF. Visit www.worksta.com.

NetworkWorldFusion: “Windows XP, Microsoft’s forthcoming operating system, has the potential to escalate denial-of-service attacks to a level never before seen, according to a computer security researcher.”

IDG.net: “Napster’s MP3-swapping service has fallen 90 percent in the three months since court-mandated filters were installed to block the trading of copyrighted music, according to a new study set to be released Wednesday by digital entertainment research firm Webnoize.”

Yahoo: “AOL Time Warner Inc is remaking its pioneering Netscape
software business into an Internet media hub brimming with Time Warner artists and publications, aimed at office workers
and Web purists not already using AOL services.

“The browser is a crown jewel. However, six months from now, you won’t consider Netscape to be a
browser company,” Netscape President Jim Bankoff told Reuters in an interview, referring to its early role
in creating the first popular tool for surfing the Web.”

Grant Johnson writes: “It’s official, the pot is calling the kettle black. Check out this article from The Register. This is truly nuts. Gates is claiming that a group of cell phone guys got together, and created proprietary standards to shut MS out of the market, then they started using Sun products “just to hurt MS.”