Kelly McNeill writes “An ever-growing question often found on Usenet Newsgroups and online tech support forums, as well as in the e-mails I get from my newbie friends is: “I have a computer. How do I install ‘Linus?'”

I’ve never heard of anyone actually “installing Linus,” but being on the cutting edge of technology requires people to try new things. So I set off on a research endeavor to learn more about this new ‘Linus’ installation trend.”

From Network World Fusion: “The PAP (Push And Pull) and POP (Push Or Pull) protocols could
become standard ways for information providers to push updates to
clients in some cases, and let clients pull those updates from a server
in other cases, said Krithi Ramamritham, a professor at the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) in Bombay, who presented the concept in
a paper at WWW10.”

Computerworld: “The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Dell Computer Corp. is voluntarily recalling
284,000 batteries used in its Inspiron line of laptop computers because they can overcharge, become very hot, release
smoke and possibly catch fire.”

“EBIZ Enterprises Incorporated (OTCBB:EBIZ), a manufacturer of specialized
servers and the leading vendor-neutral provider of Open Source products and solutions, today announced that it has reached two
agreements with Linux NetworX whereby EBIZ will manufacture and sell High Performance Computing (HPC) systems designed
and developed by Linux NetworX. Because of the new agreements, EBIZ will no longer seek an acquisition or merger involving
Linux NetworX as previously announced.” Read the press release at Wide Open News.

Guido writes “The LinuxFocus.org May 2001 issue is now available at:
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/This time we have the following articles:

• Building a Linux-controlled walking robot
• Through the tunnel
• Avoiding security holes when developing an application – Part 3 : buffer overflows
• Do your job with make!
• Introduction to BORG
• Real-time mp3 recording, part 2
• Game Review – GLTron

“

BSD Today has an update on the status of ftp.freebsd.org. The capacity problems are due to an ongoing network outage, and not, as rumored, caused by Wind River’s purchase of BSDi’s BSD properties.

It’s the speech the Open Source world has been buzzing about, and now you can read the full text at Microsoft’s site. Titled “The Commercial Software Model,” the speech was delivered today by Microsoft’ Craig Mundie at the New York University Stern School of Business . Excerpt: “The OSS development model leads to a strong possibility of unhealthy “forking” of a code base,
resulting in the development of multiple incompatible versions of programs, weakened interoperability,
product instability, and hindering businesses’ ability to strategically plan for the future. Furthermore, it
has inherent security risks and can force intellectual property into the public domain.”

Gamelan examines “the elements that should be part of a secure Java
code policy, including such safeguards as compartmentilization and cryptography.” The first installment of this series is also available.

LinuxNews.com: “Most corporations allow users to access the outside world for HTTP, FTP & Telnet. However,
access via “Secure Shell” is often blocked (as was my situation in Corporate America). There is a
work-around that is pretty easy.” Author Dave Van Able describes the steps he used via SuSE 7.1 (2.4 kernel) to use an SSH client via the telnet port.

ZDNet’s David Coursey comments on Apple’s new iBook: “This is probably the single best move you can make to keep a real alternative to Microsoft alive–and you’ll be getting a great computer as part of the deal. The new iBook beats a carry-around Linux machine in any number of ways, and you’ll be the envy of your friends without losing your connection to UNIX, since the new iBook runs Mac OS X.