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 It’s a Microsoft Word document, and you can go back and see the changes originally made it in.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.

David Bucknell writes, “Although there are now quite a few education-oriented open source initiatives — good ones, they have not yet got a journal/news site just for them. I have decided to remedy this with an open source initiative called Open Source Schools which I hope can be of use in disseminating the good work of others more successfully. I hope, moreover, that this will be a place newcomers will find the information they need to get started.

The goal of the project is to help increase the use of open source technology and open source curricula in education — around the world. It seems to me that while schools and teachers in poorer places might be interested, they might need Open Source Schools to help them find the tools and expertise they need to get going. Those in wealthier areas may, however, be missing the point that open source is for them too — price isn’t the only reason we adopt open source, is it?

To get Open Source Schools, itself, going, I’d like to invite any of you interested in the implications of the Open Source initiative for education (software _and_ curricula) to visit the site, make suggestions, post what I’ve left out, or corrections to what I have done. More importantly, I’d like to invite project authors to consider writing stories or letting me know that you’ll do an e-mail interview about what you are working on. Finally, I’m planning to kick off the site’s Webzine (along the lines of http://members.iteachnet.org/webzine/ – International Education Daily) in the near future and would like to talk to those of you willing to:

• be monthly columnists
• edit
• report news
• do Web admin
• improve the layout/appearance of the site
• contribute system admin expertise.

I myself am an English teacher turned Linux enthusiast as a result of working to get my students’ writing online. That was in Thailand in 1995. I quickly realized that students’ teachers needed to understand the potential of the Web as a means of empowering students to write and publish, so I founded iteachnet. I’ve been doing that ever since, but now I’d like to take another step toward getting the right tools to the right people; hence, I’ve decided to put together this little project. I hope that anyone in education who agrees that this might be a worthwhile effort will visit the site and begin building a new open source community.

I’d like to thank Freshmeat, Sourceforge, Slashdot and Seul, among others, for providing the means to find the few tools I’ve already listed.”