Advogato posts a reminder for those planning to attend the Ottawa Linux Symposium at the end of July: “The early registration discount ends as April ends, 11 days from now. You also need to be registered
before then to be entered into the draw to win one of 20 Agenda VR3d Linux based PDA units and one of 6 HP 8-port Procurve switches.” Attendance will be limited to 500 individuals, and is “now over 65 percent sold out.”

From a press release at WideOpenNews: “1mage Software (OTCBB:ISOL) reports that Linux is emerging
as the operating system (O/S) of choice for its 1MAGE Document Management System customers. An evolving Linux O/S has
gained acceptance to the point that commercial businesses are using it to run key operations.

1mage Software ported its products from UNIX to Linux in late 1999, recognizing that the Linux O/S had much to offer business
users, but not realizing how quickly Linux would gain market acceptance. Since porting the document management software,
the majority of 1MAGE end-user installations have been on servers running Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT) Linux.”

Aaron J. Seigo: “Welcome to KC KDE! Much of this week in KDE development was spent in a code freeze in preparation for an alpha
release of KDE2.2. Only bug fixes were being applied to the CVS tree and new major developments were to be held off
until the release of the alpha tarballs. With the attention of the developers fixed on the little details, the discussions on the
mailing list were correspondingly light and to the point. However, we now get to look forward to both a preview release of
2.2 for general testing as well as the usual addition of new features that occur after any code freeze.”

SFGate reports that Eazel “is on the ropes, running out of cash, and could go out of business within a month.” Should the company pull a last-minute miracle, however, it’s possible that the firm “could play an enormous role in restoring growth to core technology markets.”

Slashdot: “ArsDigita, its CEO Allan Shaheen and the venture capitalists who took over ArsDigita Corp., the company that had everything to be the coolest company on earth, are sueing Philip Greenspun and two other co-founders of ArsDigita (Eve Anderson and Tracy Adams). The lawsuit was mentioned in this post to Philip Greenspun’s site.”

From LinuxSecurity.com: “The cfingerd Debian as distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 was not careful in its logging code. By combining this with an off-by-one error in the code that copied the username from an ident response cfingerd could exploited by a remote user.”

Part of IBM’s “Peace, Love, and Linux” marketing campaign involves drawing advertisements on public sidewalks in major cities, including San Francisco. The ads look like they were spray painted on the pavement, but are actually drawn with biodegradable chalk that will wash away when it rains. The city of San Francisco could care less what was used to create the ads, noting that the company is in violation of a city ordinance which makes it an offense to “erect, construct, or maintain, paste, paint, print, nail, tack, or otherwise fasten or affix” signs to public property — including sidewalks. Full story from IDG (via CNN).

“Whatever you think of open source software, you have to
acknowledge that Linux has ruined the Windows NT party;
that Apache has spoiled the IIS and Netscape server
games; and that Perl, Python, PHP, and Tcl have made Java far more free and
less lucrative than it otherwise would have been.

How did this happen? Why did these open source technologies spring up at the
very time that their proponents could have made their own billions by playing the
commercial game?” Read the essay at O’Reilly.

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

Intermediate diffs are available from:

http://www.bzimage.org.

You may well need to ‘make clean’ before building -ac8 as the GDT
layout
has changed a little.

2.4.3-ac10
o Merge Linus 2.4.4pre4
o Apply the i960 quirk to the DPT I2O controllers (me)
o Etrax100 updates (Bjorn Wesen)
o Fix skge memory leak (Jes Sorensen)
o Handle reiserfs log overflow error (Chris Mason)
o Merge JFFS2 (compressing log flash file system)
(David Woodhouse)
o Merge contributed help texts for options (Eric Raymond,
Steven Cole)
o Further screen blanking fixes (Mikael Pettersson)
o Further binfmt elf DLINFO fixes/alignment (Benjamin
Herrenschmidt)
o Fix reboot notifier unregister in aic7xxx (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix orinoco_cs build on powerpc (David Gibson)
o Neomagic audio didn’t call pci_enable_device (Marcus Meissner)
o Remove superblock file size setting for 2Gb
default size file systems(Al Viro)
o Merge UML gprof support (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up UML slip code (Jeff Dike)
o Allow UML attach to already running debuggers (Jeff Dike)
o Reorder frame buffer probes (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Add __init calls to bluesmoke.c (Dave Jones)
o Add missing pci_enable_device to toshoboe (Marcus Meissner)
o Updated AFFS file system (Roman Zippel)
o DVD-RAM fixes (Jens Axboe)
o Further sundance driver fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix qlogicfc warning (Dave Miller)
o Fix sign handling error in scsi_ioctl (me)
| Found by the Stanford validator

| Found by the Stanford validator
o Fixed I2O posts to be uninterruptible (me)
o Stop IDE layer eating Supertrak slave PDC20265 (me)
o Work around the DPT I2O controller exploding
when asked to quiesce. (me)

2.4.3-ac9
o Fix ac8 pnpbios build bug (me)
o Fix ac8 sysrq build bug (me)
o Fix uml for new semaphores (Jeff Dike)
o Attempt to flush low memory buffers when short
of bounce space on highmem machines (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Kill old filesystem_setup function (Al Viro)
o Small pnp bios tidy up (me)

2.4.3-ac8
o Restore wan router features backed out by the (me)
sangoma stuff Linus merged
o Clean up #ifdefs in Sangoma code a bit (me)
o Fix missing kmalloc return checks in Sangoma (me)
o Fix d_flags bit setting in knfsd (Mikael Pettersson)
o Turn on winchip MCE (Dave Jones)
o IRDA USB driver fixups (Dag Brattli,
Philipp Rumpf, Jean Tourrilhes)
o Tidy up cpu capability mask reporting (Rogier Wolff)
o Refix icmp gcc warnings (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o Remove 2.0 ioremap hacks from ISDN layer (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix request_region ranges on hisax/bkm_a8 (Roland Klabunde)
o Add rx fifo overlfow handling to pci hisax (Werner Cornelius)
o Hysdn driver updates (Ulrich Albrecht)
o Rewrite cisco hdlc keepalive code (Bjoern Zeeb,
Kai Germaschewski)
o Document CONFIG_TMSISA (Jochen Friedrich)
o Fix emu10k memory leak (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix i810 audio SMP lockups (Doug Ledford)
o Merge binfmt_elf changes for PPC (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o Make sysrq keybindings a clean API (Crutcher Dunvant)
| I think I caught all the sysrq updates from after
| the patch was written and got them right – please check
o Merge PnP bios enumeration and PnP BIOS (Christian Schmidt,
parport support (Tom Lees, David Hinds, Gunther Mayer)
o Bit more experimental work on fixing bounce
buffers (Marcelo Tosatti, me)

ZDNet UK has another take on Mandrake’s new 8.0 release. “MandrakeSoft, a French-based company, describes its version of the
popular Unix-based operating system as ‘a user-friendly’ Linux
operating system. It has packed the release with hundreds of desktop
applications, the latest graphical user interfaces and optimised
hardware support.”