The sad story’s at Slashdot – read it there, please, especially if you have a project hosted on SourceForge and didn’t get the email they sent out to alert you. (VA Linux owns SourceForge, Slashdot, and NewsForge.)

IDG.net reports that NEC Corp. will open a high-performance computing engineering center for Linux-based clusters in Tokyo this Friday.

In a somewhat unlikely venue, here’s an article about the virtues of Linux, at Automotive Manufacturing & Production magazine.

Patrick Mullen writes, “The Duke of URL has just posted its review of Progeny Debian
Linux 1.0. This review takes a look at Progeny Systems’ distribution, which is
based upon the Debian GNU/Linux project. The article covers history on
Debian, its features, installation, and more.”

tjhanson writes, “Predictably, Microsoft’s ‘help’ in turning ‘Britain’s e-government vision into a reality’ has mysteriously turned into a lockout for users of anything other than IE on Windows. Linux, Netscape and Mac (even with IE, friends …) can look but not touch, because the digital certificate system selected by the developers mysteriously always seems to lead to IE 5.01 or above on Windows.” The story is at The Register.

Interactive Week reports on J.S. Wurzler Underwriting Managers’ insurance against computer cracking. The company has been charging its clients 5 to 15 percent more if they use NT in their Internet operations.

“Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org”

Subject: Linux 2.4.5-ac3
To: editors@newsforge.com
Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:45:46 +0100 (BST)
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.

In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers
still need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write.
Poll creating and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during
write, write during an mmap.

2.4.5-ac3
o       Ignore console writes from an IRQ handler       (me)
o       Make SIGBUS/SIGILL visible to UML debugger      (Jeff Dike)
o       Clean up UML syscalls add missing items         (Jeff Dike)
o       Clean up non portable UML code                  (Jeff Dike)
o       Fix off by one and other oddments in hostfs     (Henrik 
        Nordstrom)
o       Update UML to use CONFIG_SMP not __SMP__        (Jeff Dike)
o       Fix UML crash if console is typed at too early  (Jeff Dike)
o       Clean up UML host transports                    (Lennert
o       Resynchronize UML/ppc                           (Chris
        Emerson)
o       Fix UML crash if it had an address space hole   (Jeff Dike)
        between text and data
o       Fix rd_ioctl crash with initrd                  (Go Taniguchi)
o       Fix IRQ ack path on Alpha rawhide               (Richard Henderson)
o       Drop back to older 8139too driver from 2.4.3
        | Seems the new one causes lockups
o       Experimental promise fastrak raid driver        (Arjan van de Ven)

From Canada Newswire: Alta Terra Ventures Corp. (CDNX: ATT), an
aggressively growing full-service Linux provider, announced today that it has
signed a letter of intent to purchase Univolve Corporation, a private Alberta-
based software company with a wide range of proprietary technology based on
the Linux platform.
Univolve’s major thrust is their breakthrough text-prediction software,
which the company has copyrighted, and which was developed by John Darragh,
who is the co-author of two books on the subject.

Posted at Net-security.org: “I believe there is a vulnerability in InoculateIT for
Linux, and probably other Unix versions of InoculateIT,
which allows local non-root users to delete any file on
the system, and under some circumstances to overwrite any
file on the system, next time the ‘update_signature’ is
run by root. If the recommendations in the documentation
are followed, this will happen every day at 1am.”

ZDNet has a story about Hewlett-Packard official and Open Source advocate Bruce Perens saying he’s bullish on Linux on the desktop, even though companies may currently be skittish about financing Linux desktop projects.