“Here we go again. After some time has passed, I decided to write
another article concerning some overall security aspects of installing
and running linux, and as you can see it’s connected to the very first
one ‘Securing a default linux installation’ and makes a good reading
companion to it. To keep it short and simple, here are some good
pointers to enhancing your system’s security. But remember, there’s no
absolute security, so keep your eyes open, subscribe yourself to good
sec-related mailing lists, and keep your software up-to-date” Read the full feature at Help Net Security.

Info World: “Sun Microsystems reported third-quarter net income Thursday
that is slightly higher than analysts’ expectations. The company’s
revenue for the quarter increased slightly over the same period last year.

Sun pulled in $263 million in net income, excluding additional charges,
which translates into $0.08 earnings per share. Analysts polled by First
Call/Thomson Financial predicted that Sun would earn $0.07 per share for
the quarter in a consensus estimate.”

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.