At LWN.net: “0.7.1 Released: If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you’ll want to … To clarify a few of the goals for this release: we found that
trying to push in all the new features we are working on currently,
as well as some of the major bug fixes, it was more difficult to
backport changes to the stable tree, so we did some more testing on
0.7.1 and are trying to focus on that for the time being. The ‘easy
installer’, which we desperately need, is not slated until a later
0.7 release (late April?).”

Fortune.com looks at the winners and losers in the Nasdaq since it dropped from a high of over 5,000 March 10, 2000. “Meanwhile, let me introduce you to the 90% Club. It’s the list of Nasdaq stocks that have fallen more
than 90% since the March peak. Sadly, it is not an elite fraternity. There are 4,231 companies in the
Nasdaq composite. Exactly 421 (10%) are down 90%. Wow! Names? You know ’em, you love ’em:
eToys (-99%), Teligent (-98%), Scient, DrKoop, Priceline, Webvan, and AskJeeves (all down 97%),
CMGI and Netzero (-96%). Then there’s Theglobe.com and NBCi (-95%), iVillage (-94%), Akamai
and VA Linux (-93%), Inktomi and Chinadotcom (-92%), RealNetworks (-91%), and Red Hat,
BroadVision, and Peapod (-90%). And, yes, hundreds more. Simply amazing. It’s just unbelievable that
so many enterprises were created, hyped up, and then whacked like first-season characters on The
Sopranos.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

InfoWorld reports that the worldwide server market was strong in the fourth quarter of 2000, with revenue around $16.7 billion. Linux-based server revenue grew 79 percent in the fourth quarter, generating $1.7 billion in revenue.

Rauch Medien (www.rauchmedien.com) is proud to announce the release of its RM LB Server product. The RM LB Server is a load-balancing system based on Linux that gives you the ability to make a collection of servers appear as one, and distribute the workload across these systems.

How it works
The RM LB attaches to your network and to a private network where the collection of servers is attached. When incoming requests come in, the RM LB distributes the requests over the private network to the servers. The server than answer the requests and the RM LB hands them back on to your network. If a server where to go down the RM LB would mark it as failed and hand the request to any of the other live servers, keeping your services running smoothly. In addition, large amounts of server requests can be handled at once resulting in higher quality high performance service. The RM LB is based on Linux, but the servers themselves do not require to be running Linux. They can be mixed with various OSs like Unix, Solaris, Windows NT, FreeBSD, and Linux.

Features
The RM LB features easy setup and management. It simply plugs in and features an easy to use web interface to setup it up. In addition, administration can be performed remotely with its built-in web-based control panel. Tasks such as setting up new servers, and services can all be performed via this web-based control.

Availability
The RM LB Server is available now, and can be ordered on our web-site at http://www.rauchmedien.com. It comes in a 1U-rack mount chassis and priced at $1,100 (USD).

About Rauch Medien
Rauch Medien is based out of New York, USA, and produces various business and consumer hardware and software. Rauch Medien also maintains a computer tech site called OSFAQ.com (http://www.osfaq.com).

News Release
For Immediate Release
For More Info Contact
Cory R. Rauch
Sales & Marketing
Rauch Medien
sales@rauchmedien.com
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A post at LWN.net announces the first alpha release of Jython 2.1.

“Jython is a Java implementation of the Python programming
language. It allows users to compile Python source code to
Java byte codes, and run the resulting bytecodes on any Java
Virtual Machine. It is a very seamless and smooth
integration with Java: from Python you have complete access
to all Java libraries, can build applets, can integrate with
Java beans, and can subclass Java classes in Python and vice
versa. Like Python, and unlike Java, Jython can also be
used interactively: just type some Jython code at the
prompt and see the results immediately.”

We found this quick and dirty survey; take it and get a chance to win a DVD player from Ximian. (Hint: don’t forget you’re a NewsForge reader.)

At Help Net Security: “A buffer overflow exists in the sudo program which could be used by an attacker
to obtain higher privileges. sudo is a program used to delegate superuser
privileges to ordinary users and only for specific commands.”

From Help Net Security: “Ben Collins identified a temporary file race in the Utah-glx component of the
Mesa package which affects Linux-Mandrake 7.2. The /tmp/glxmemory file is
created by Utah-glx and because it is not created securely could be used in a
symlink attack which allows files to be overwritten the next time the X server
is started.”

Dimdim writes: “Caldera is due to release the first public beta of OpenLinux, codenamed Project 42, on Monday. There’s a short story from ZDNet UK with the details.”

“High school is bizarre enough, but a private high school is an environment uniquely removed from
reality. S. and G., two sophomores at such a school in one of the United States’ hot technology
corridors, put up a couple of private websites with their unflattering thoughts about the school
experience. Last week those sites got them suspended for two days. Worse — because he wasn’t
familiar with the distinction between perl’s scalar and list context, S. now has a police record.” Read more at Slashdot.