LinuxGram has a brief saying Parabon Computation has added Linux support to its Pioneer compute engine. “The Pioneer engine harnesses idle computing power to process tasks retrieved from Parabon’s Frontier
distributed computing platform, which processes large computational problems by breaking them into
smaller tasks and distributes them to individual computers over the Internet or within an enterprise.”

BSD Today has a how-to article on installing BIND 8 via the OpenBSD 2.8 ports tree.

From LinuxGram: “Digital Spinner has posted an initial release candidate of the PHP-based group collaboration and
knowledge management system it’s written called GroupIT 1.00.

The GroupIT program, which runs on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and other Unixes, organizes content into
an unlimited number of categories and includes plug-in modules for threaded bulleting board
messages, dynamically paginated articles, external web links, photo galleries with automatic
thumbnailing and binary documents with full text search.”

MSNBC (via ZDNet) has a report on the Linux-powered Simputer, being developed in India as a cheap alternative to other computers.

LinuxGram has a followup to reports of the management shakeup at MandrakeSoft. “MandrakeSoft hired Poole, a seasoned young American business exec, last August after financial
house ABN-AMRO asked him to look it over for them and try to figure out a business plan that might
work.

Mandrake co-founder, chairman and now CEO Jacques Le Marois said the plan was Poole’s
downfall.”

From LWN.net: A problem exists with the kdesu component of kdelibs. It created a
world-readable temporary file to exchange authentication information
and delete it shortly after. This can be abused by a local user to
gain access to the X server and could result in a compromise of the
account that kdesu would access.

Joshua Marshall writes, “Devshed.com has a review of ZendIDE and Zend Debugger that’s pretty nice (but then I work for them). Look at it here.”

LinuxGram reports that Compaq plans to open up the source for its Single System Image Clustering technology and make it available on Linux.

A new version of wxDesigner has seen the light of the
day, version 2.5 to be exact.
wxDesigner is a commercial RAD tool for the Open Source
cross-platform C++ library wxWindows (and its Python and
Perl bindings). It lets you create dialogs, application
skeletons, event, getters and classes quickly and includes
a syntax-highlighting text editor, a bitmap editor and
some other goodies.

New in version 2.5 is support for menus and menu events
as well as many dozens of smaller enhancements and bug
fixes. wxDesigner is now also available for IRIX, in
addition to Windows, Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD with
work being done to get wxDesigner working on the Mac
as well.

wxDesigner 2.5 is available from http://www.roebling.de.

LinuxGram reports that OpenCola, “a start-up founded by the former Canadian brand manager for Ivory Snow soap flakes and a sci-fi writer,” released the beta version of Swarmcast, a high-speed open source distribution system for large files.