As reported by LWN, the exuberant-ctags program creates temp files insecurely. They have fixed this (hopefully to use mkstemp(3)) in the latest version.

Yet Another Linux PDA project has been annoinced over on Slashdot. Project Mercury is a fusion of the iPaq, Linux, and some ideas from people at MIT.

LinuxPR has a release regarding DeepLinux: “The deepLinux package manager is now available for download from the company website. This manager adds a much needed feature to the deepLinux line of Server OS’s, which is an easy way to add, remove, and build packages for use with deepLinux.”

Mayank writes “Running out of disk space on partitions is a problem commonly and universally experienced by all of us. And although there are various solutions, almost all of them are temporary. In this article we take a detailed look at LVM, which tackles the problem in the most effective manner, making space management easy.

Tutorial here on FreeOS.com“

There’s a couple of stories, one from morons.org and another from the Associated Press that describe a security flaw
in an
Alcatel
DSL modem … that’s not so interesting. What’s interesting is that the document they released about it reveals more than they meant to reveal. It’s a Microsoft Word document, and you can go back and see the changes originally made it in. Here’s part of what supposedly was taken out: “As a result, Alcatel has started an initiative to qualify
firewall software that will provide users with the highest
possible degree of security.

(When and where will the firewall software be available? CERT has
said that they don?t believe that installing a firewall is the
answer. What are you doing to provide a legitimate fix?)”

LWN has posted about the release of PostgreSQL 7.1. Performance improvements are the main enchancements in this release.

Gnotices has a great, big list of Guadec summaries.

Someone dug up an old LinuxWorld talk, and had it posted on Slashdot. It details some of the lighter moments of Linux’s earliest days.

Debianplanet has links and information on a Debian users’ guide.

Anthony writes: “MysqlDump can be used for many different reasons. For one, you can use mysqldump to backup the data
in your MySql DataBase. Mysqldump takes all the information in the selected database or table and dumps it into a
text file. After the information is in a text file you can dump it into any database you want.” Read the

story at Pinehead.com.