From LinuxSecurity.com: There is a very small buffer overflow in NTP daemon which shipped with
EnGarde Secure Linux version 1.0.1. LWN.net has a similar advisory from Conectiva, and several other distributions are issuing the same warning.

The Linux Journal asks readers to nominate free software advocate Richard M. Stallman. “Only six working days (fewer days now) remain until the deadline arrives to submit nominations for the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Public Advisory
Committee. If you or someone you know has some helpful advice for USPTO and is a US citizen willing to serve, please submit a nomination. A letter
and the person’s resume is all you need to send. It doesn’t take long, and you can do it by e-mail.

Richard M. Stallman, inventor of notable software innovations including the Emacs editor and the software distribution model ‘copyleft’, is our choice
for the committee.”

Slashdot readers debate the merits of a open code/open hardware power
management device featured at Netadmintools.com.

From a press release at BusinessWire.com: MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today
announced the much-anticipated 2.0 release of its Hard Hat Linux operating system. Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is the first embedded OS and tool kit
based entirely on the latest Linux 2.4 kernel and boasts unrivaled support for embedded processor architectures, CPU boards, and software
components. The feature-rich release spans the universe of embedded applications, targeting designs as diverse as consumer electronics,
instrumentation/control, and communications infrastructure. Extremely scalable, Hard Hat Linux 2.0 is equally at home on deeply embedded, diskless
designs with small RAM/ROM footprints, and in complex business-critical applications, with stringent “5-nines” availability requirements, running
hundreds of processes and managing massive loads. PR Newswire also has a release about MontaVista and Trolltech AS demo-ing MontaVista’s Hard Hat Linux bundled
with Trolltech’s Qt/Embedded at MontaVista’s booth 122 at the Embedded Systems
Conference in San Francisco, April 10 – 12.

It’s at kt.zork.net and includes information on KDE
database connectivity, the Kaboodle embeddable media player, and progress on KPrinter, among other things.

IDG News Service reports that a division of PGP Security has partnered
with the “super-secret” U.S. National Security Agency to further develop the NSA’s Security
Enhanced Linux, or SELinux, prototype. More from CNet.

CNet has a short item saying German
Linux users will be able to use their computers to fill out their tax forms. Buhl Data Services’ Tax2001 software for preparing German tax forms is for sale in a Linux version.

Posted at LWN.net: After a year of practically lying
dormant in the Linux OS space, deepLinux has been reformed (or is that re-formed?). The company
brings a host of new Server Operating Systems to the table, including a web
server, a firewall, and a database server.

An advisory from LinuxSecurity.com: Versions of the Network Time Protocol Daemon (ntpd) previous to and
including 4.0.99k have a remote buffer overflow which may lead to a
remote root exploit.

osOpinion has a column suggesting the next kind of Linux advocacy should be paying for stuff. “It’s time to thank the developers. Things like buying at least one boxed copy of every distribution you run shows
the vendors that you appreciate their efforts — and helps keep them in business. Buy games that you think
might be fun. I have at this moment only one game from Loki … I realize the Windows versions are cheaper, but in order to best
serve the community, and Loki, for their efforts I think it’s only fair that I give them their just reward.

Philanthropy goes a long way. Free software will always be around, as long as people want it. Commercial
software is only around as long as it’s profitable.”