Net-security.org has several Turbolinux security announcements. Here’s one about xntp3, another one about dhcp, another about vixie-cron, and LWN.net has one about squid.

From BusinessWire via Yahoo: MontaVista Software Inc., the
company powering the embedded revolution, and PocketIX Software Co. Ltd. have joined forces to
distribute and support MontaVista’s Hard Hat Linux in the People’s Republic of China.

ZDNet has a column nearly a week after a Microsoft executive’s anti-Open Source speech in New York. “What did strike me as interesting about the speech, however, was its tone. It wasn’t a calm,
dispassionate dismissal of open source. Instead, the speech came across as an attack, as if
Microsoft feels the desperate need to discount what people see around them–that open-source
software is doing real and solid computing work for an ever-growing number of computer users,
big and small.”

Posted at LWN.net: “A little update for ‘PS2 Linux Kit’ news.

SCEI began accepting subscription for the purchase of “PS2 Linux Kit”
at 14:00 today in Japan, and all of the 2,000 units (they had doubled
the number of units for sale) went reserved at 14:08. (i.e. They were
reserved at the speed of 4 units per second on the average.)”

From BusinessWire via Yahoo: Egenera, Inc., an
Internet-infrastructure company, today announced that it has joined Linux International, reflecting
the Company’s commitment to sharing its innovations with the open source development
community and to furthering the acceptance of Linux for high-end data-center applications.

– By Tina Gasperson –
The Free Standards Group announced Tuesday that the Linux Standard Base (LSB) is in the final stages of revision before being submitted to the Free Standards Group for adoption.The LSB may be the most widely publicized project sponsored by the Free Standards Group, at least lately. But there are other endeavors that the group is working on, including the Linux Internationalisation Initiative (LI18NUX), which was created to give developers a place to work together on software globalization and localization; and the Linux Development Platform Specification (LDPS), which hopes to create cross-Linux platform usability standards so that developers will produce completely portable applications designed to run on any distribution.

The Linux Standard Base exists in part to manage libraries of Linux distributions for backwards compatibility, make sure certain commands are available, establish a filesystems hierarchy standard, and maintain a procedure for placement and contents of initialization files and scripts. The LSB does these things in order to put in place a unifying standard that will tie together all distributions that adhere to the LSB’s policies. Backers say LSB standards only affect elements of Linux that have to do with application compatibility and will not address any other aspects of distributions creation, leaving interests free to continue to create diversity.

Most of the major distributions, including Mandrake, SuSE, Red Hat, Debian, and Caldera as well as companies such as IBM and Intel, back the LSB’s efforts, which will ostensibly help to create a larger market for all Linux providers because of increased portability. But the LSB won’t create decreased risk of kernel fragmentation, according to Scott McNeil of the Free Standards Group. “The Free Standards Group was organized to create standards that will certainly help keep the forking questions at bay, but the kernel, being freely available, has no protection against forking.”

But forking the kernel isn’t likely to win market share for any developers willing to take that path. “These days, especially in this economy,” says McNeil, “very few companies would be willing to go down a path that has a high probability of being extremely expensive. The market reasons for differentiating a Linux product at the kernel level are pretty much non-existent. An analogy could be drawn with auto makers which don’t differentiate their products by making square tires or engines that run on non standard fuels.”

And that’s one reason for the existence of the LSB — to help Linux gain acceptance and marketability in the business world through commonality — but it’s not the most important reason, McNeil says. “At its core the LSB is about developers being freed to spend time
writing new features and fixing bugs rather than verifying proper
execution on not just the popular Linux distributions, but on each
new version of a given Linux distribution.”

The 0.9 release of the LSB was opened up for a 30-day commenting period. On June 6, 2001, the final draft revisions will be given to the Free Standards Group for an expected release of the 1.0 version. Those who wish to read the 0.9 version and submit comments can visit the LSB review page.

We only posted a story earlier, but some of you might be interested in the press release at Sourcewire.com. In it, Caldera claims to be the world’s largest Linux company now, with its acquisition of parts of SCO. “Caldera Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: CALD) today announced its completion
of the acquisition of The Santa Cruz Operation,
Inc. (SCO) (Nasdaq: SCOC) Server Software and
Professional Services divisions, UnixWare and
OpenServer technologies. Caldera International,
Inc., thus becomes the largest Linux company in
the world with sales, support and marketing
representation in 82 countries. In addition,
Caldera now leads the world’s largest Linux
channel with 15,000+ resellers worldwide.
Application and hardware solution providers
will now have a single Linux company that can
facilitate the marketing and delivery of these
business solutions to all major markets
globally.”

An anonymous reader writes: “Rauch Medien (http://www.rauchmedien.com)
is proud to announce the release of the Prolinium 1800 server system.”

News Release
For Immediate Release
For More Info Contact
Robert Lodato
Sales & Marketing
Rauch Medien
sales@rauchmedien.com

Rauch Medien releases the most versatile 1U Server, the Prolinium 1800 Linux
Server.

New York, USA – Rauch Medien (http://www.rauchmedien.com)
is proud to announce the release of the Prolinium 1800 server system. The
Prolinium 1800 features versatility not found before in a 1U chassis. It
features the capability of 225 GB of storage, Dual 1 GHz+ Pentium III
processors, 4 GB ECC Ram, and remote administration with web based control
panel. All of this fits in a standard 19″ 1U rack-mount chassis.

Power through Versatility

The Prolinium 1800 features power through versatility. The Prolinium 1800
allows you to customize in ways not available before in a 1U. Using a special
air channeling and heatsink system we are able to put dual 1 GHz+ Pentium III
processors in a 1U chassis with up to 225 GB RAID array and 4 GB of RAM. This
allows the user to configure a system without large constraints in hardware
choice. The Prolinium 1800 also includes our standard server features like
remote administration with web based control panel and wide OS support with
compatibility with FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Linux kernel v2.2 or v2.4 based
distributions.

Features

The Prolinium 1800 features easy setup and management. It simply plugs in and
features an easy to use web interface to setup it up. In addition,
administration can be performed remotely with its built-in web-based control
panel. Tasks such as setting up new servers, and services can all be performed
via this web-based control. Email alerts can also be setup to allow the
administrator to be alerted on service failure via email. In addition it allows
you to customize it with up to 225 GB RAID array, two hot-swap SCA SCSI bays
(optional 3rd SCA bay available), one or two 1 GHz+ Pentium III
processors, and up to 4 GB ECC RAM.

Availability

The Rauch Medien Prlinium 1800 Server is available now, and can be ordered on
our web-site at http://www.rauchmedien.com.
It comes in a sleek black 1U rackmount chassis and prices start at $1,974 (USD).

About Rauch Medien

Rauch Medien is based out of New York, USA, and produces various business and
consumer hardware and software. Rauch Medien also maintains a computer tech site
called OSFAQ.com (http://www.osfaq.com).

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ZDNET.co.uk: “Songbird, the software brainchild of a 20-year-old Internet
entrepreneur, was launched on Wednesday with song-swap
company Napster firmly in its sights.

The technology, billed as the first offered to everyone as an Internet
search tool, enables artists and musicians to track down who has done
what with their compositions.”

PCWorld: “Get ready for a hefty price increase in CD-Recordable media, possibly as much as 350 percent over the
lowest CD-R media prices seen this past year.

This summer, discs are expected to cost 30 to 35 cents on average, after being “down as low as 10 cents a
disc” on a spindle, says Peter Brown, removable-storage analyst at IDC.”