In the latest edition of Apache Week: Development slowed this week, in part due to the apache.org server compromise; announcement of O’Reilly’s 2001 Open Source Convention; and links to Apache-related reviews and features.

Anonymous Reader writes, “With the launch of the Linuxlookup.com website on June 1, 2000, Exologic Inc. (Holder of Linuxlookup.com) modified the traditional approach to the presentation of on-line documentation, reviews & articles by incorporating some important feedback from viewers.”
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LinuxProgramming.com: “There’s a slew of new features in Zope 2.4, including: support for Python 2.1; new restricted execution architecture;
WebDAV Level 2 locking support; new “WebDAV Access” permission; a new built-in ‘Authenticated’ role; product
refresh without restart during development; and new “drop-in indexes” support for ZCatalog.”

According to the Industry Standard, the reason “good will open-sourceniks” are annoyed with Microsoft’s remarks is because they’re all pissed off at the prospect of accpting Microsoft’s dominance in some markets. Via Yahoo Finance.

Pasadena, Paris, 31 may 2001 – In a much awaited move, MandrakeSoft today outlines its Linux Security stategy aimed at individual, small office
home office (SoHo) and small and medium enterprise (SME) users, and announces the availability of the ‘Single Network Firewall’. In line with its
continuing commitment to open source, all MandrakeSecurity products are being developed and made available for free download via the Internet
under the General Public License. It is a well known fact that its UNIX origins give the Linux source code significantly more stability than, for instance, Windows 9x and NT and is also
less vulnerable to virus attacks. However, Linux is a network operating system and since servers are more likely to be the target of attacks than
desktops, security is high on the agenda of Linux users. It is also a key consideration for small companies wishing to transition their networks to Linux
in view of its technical strengths and highly attractive total cost of ownership.

“Linux is the logical alternative for small and medium size companies that typically don’t have the time nor the resources to invest in complex and
difficult-to-managee office networks’, states Frédéric Bastok, Co-Founder and Technical Director at MandrakeSoft. Bastok further explains that “it is
MandrakeSoft’s mission to encourage the take-up of open source technologies. The new MandrakeSecurity product family aims to remove an
important hurdle for potential SoHo, SME and individual Linux adopters, by providing them with specifically designed security solutions for Linux.”

Similar to earlier releases, version 8.0 of the MandrakeLinux distribution,alleviates some of these user concerns, by incorporating the fruits of the
‘Bastille’ project, a set of scripts to help secure the computer on which MandrakeLinux runs, as well as basic firewall functionality. However, to fully
address Linux user concerns and to further encourage small and medium businesses to opt for Linux, the ‘Single Network Firewall’, the first in the new
series of MandrakeSecurity products developed by the Company’s growing community of users and contributors, is an innovative stand-alone
appliance that runs on a dedicated computer, and combines ease-of-use and configuration via a secured and functional Web interface. The Single
Network Firewall caters for an unlimited number of shared Internet connections. As well as making it available for free download at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#security, discussions are ongoing to market the product via leading OEM manufaturers.

The Single Network Firewall’s functionalities are numerous:

Packet filtering
Proxy Squid: integrated and easy to configure (manually, transparent and/or with authentification)
Intrusion detection systems Snort and Prélude.
Graphical (web) tools for monitoring the system activity.

Logging of network activity, attacks, resources utilisation.
Internet acces configuration for analogue and ISDN Modems, LAN and (A)DSL and cable.

Integrated DHCP server
“port forwarding”
Different access restrictions: ingoing traffic,outgoing traffic

Filtering URLs (“parental control”)
Saving of configuration parameters.
Updates through the Internet (web-version of Mandrake Update)
Based on a secure 2.2.19 kernel

“Linux is the logical alternative for small and medium size companies that typically don’t have the time nor the resources to invest in complex and
difficult-to-managee office networks’, states Bob Winslow, MandrakeSoft’s VP of Sales & Distribution. Winslow further explains that “it is
MandrakeSoft’s mission to encourage the take-up of open source technologies. The new MandrakeSecurity product family aims to remove an
important hurdle for potential SoHo, SME and individual Linux adopters, by providing them with specifically designed security solutions for Linux.”

ABOUT MANDRAKESOFT

Mandrakesoft provides a trusted interface between users of information technology and open technologists. The company offers customers in the small
office, home office (SoHo), small and medium size enterprise, government and educational sectors a set of GNU Linux and Open-Source software and
related services, user-friendly and highly competitive information technologies at a very attractive total cost of ownership. In addition, Mandrakesoft
offers technologists committed to open software and courseware a trusted channel to offer their services.

The Linux-Mandrake distribution, which became the leader in US retail sales last year (PC Data), received the awards for « Best Product of the Year
» and « Best Linux-Distribution/Server » at LinuxWorld Expo 99, as well as the PC Answers Platinum Award in April 2000, the Linux Magazine
Editor’s Choice Award in September 2000 and the Chip Magazine « Best Technique and Winner of the Test » in December 2000.

« Born on the Internet » in late 1998, MandrakeSoft established headquarters in Pasadena (U.S.), Montreal (Quebec), England, Germany and Paris
(Europe). Please visit the Web site, http://www.mandrakesoft.com for more information.

In a response to complaints that Microsoft’s gaming site had linked to a porn page, the company’s customer service reps cheerfully told correspondents that “We are unable to reproduce this error.” The link was finally removed when a reporter called to inquire. ZDNet UK.

ZDNet’s Sm@rt Partner reports on the state of Intel’s P2P Working Group. Launched with much fanfare last October, more than half of the group’s original 18 members have since dropped out — or in one case, gone out of business. Other companies flat-out refused to join, opting to create their own P2P flavors, such as Sun with its JXTA technology.

He’s cute, cuddly, and is rumored to have once taken a nip out of a certain Finnish programmer: Tux! Check out the gallery of penguin logos, collected from LUGs and Linux sites fround around the world. Linux Weekly News.

In a message posted at Linux Weekly News, Thomas Lange announces the next major version of Fully Automatic Installation: “A non interactive system to install a Debian GNU/Linux
operating system on a PC cluster. You can take one or more virgin PCs,
turn on the power and after a few minutes Linux is installed,
configured and running on the whole cluster, without any interaction
necessary. Thus it’s a scalable method for installing and updating a
cluster unattended with little effort involved.”

BSD Today interviews Unix programmer and author Wietse Venema, creator of, among other software, tcp_wrappers (a.k.a. TCPD): “Recently, there’s been a lot of discussion and news about Darren Reed’s IP Filter licensing. The IP Filter code
license has the exact same “Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted” statement as
Venema’s tcp_wrappers code. Regular BSD-type licenses say the same thing, but they also include: “with or
without modification.””