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.””

From an article at Perl.com: “It seems that the very thing we want to have happen, adding number to our ranks, is the first thing we fight against when beginners
show their faces. Wielding our swords of “RTFM” and shields of “killfile” we smite the very programmers that will carry this language
into the future. I have a co-worker who is known for saying, “It’s a good thing Perl is so powerful and cool, it barely makes up for the
collective, childish ‘elitism’ displayed by its community.” Collectively, this is a sad truth.”

BSD Today discusses the recent licensing spat that led OpenBSD to remove IPFilter from its distribution. A major part of the article includes an interview with Darren Reed, author of the program.

In the first of a two-part series, Macworld’s David Read takes a look at how games are ported to the OS X operating system.

Reuters (via ZDNet): “As the Internet’s global standard-setting
body met on Friday to push for the creation of seven new Web domain
tags, Europe appeared to go against the flow with plans for a pan-EU
geographic domain name.”

“Find out more mysteries of find! See how to suspend a job, even when you no longer have the shell from which the job began! Peruse the painless (well, more
or less) method of switching from csh setenv to /bin/sh (or ksh, bash, zsh) exports! Study up on the exciting world of security! And more…” Get the answers at Daemon News.

“According to various UK media sources today, the buzzwords said to trigger the
US, UK, Canada, New Zealand spying mechanism Echelon have been “posted on
the Internet.”” The Register is a bit skeptical of that report, considering those words haven’t popped up on any of the usual sites where such things are reported, but they do give a quick rundown of what some of those words reportedly are.

Daemon News: “When running a number of servers it is at least interesting, but mostly yet important to be informed about the state of each system. Generally, it is desirable to get
essential information with a quick look. Thus monitoring software should provide data permanently and concisely. Displaying system data by graphical means is
nice, but often unsuitable when monitoring via a modem line or on a (perhaps wireless) PDA. Presenting data on a standard terminal display may seem to be a
little bit old-fashioned, but is still the most generic approach. A remote host monitoring software doing so is rmonitor which will be described in this article.”