LinuxWorld interviews Ian Murdock of Debian Linux, who talks about his company’s new clustering project, “which
doesn’t seek to provide Cray-level number crunching but to make life easier for network
administrators.”

From the BBC: “A group of programmers opposed to censorship is working on
software which will let people share files over the internet securely
and anonymously.

The Freenet programme is similar to the popular Napster file sharing
software, but uses a different storage and retrieval system which
maintains no central index and does not reveal where the files are
stored.”

eWeek reports on Agenda Computing’s impending launch of it’s Linux-powered VR3 PDA. There are even pictures.

From LWN.net: “There are several buffer overflows in imap, ipop2d and ipop3d. These
overflows usually only make it possible for local users to gain access
to a process running under their own UID.

However, due to a misconfiguration, it is possible for remote
attackers to gain access to the ‘nobody’ account and run programs
or further exploits on the attacked machine.”

A ZDNet columnist taks about the “beauty” of Open Source and Linux, that you can customize Open Source programs to your needs. Then he compares Open Source in several ways to pizza, and surprisingly, the analogy seems to work.

Interactive Week has a short profile of Linux kernel developer Ted Ts’o, who manages the 2.4 kernel’s bug list. It’s a “voluminous mailing list,” he says.

From LinuxPR: Tape storage innovators, Ecrix Corp. and Knox
Software, unveiled a reseller program under which the companies, in
collaboration with the Sun CobaltTM server appliance business unit of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (“Sun”), provide complete turnkey storage backup solutions
in concert with Sun Cobalt’s RaQ 4i and Qube 3 server appliance sales.
With these solutions, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can offer increased data
security, adding value to their product offerings. More from Sm@rt Partner.

Posted at LWN.net is a report on a visit to the OpenNMS facilities. “If you’ve built your own kernel, as I had, you’ll probably have to
rebuild it to increase the maximum allowed tasks. The default when
you build a kernel is 256, and OpenNMS uses more than 400 threads.
Edit your include/linux/tasks.h file and rebuild. Users who run
with the kernel that came with a popular distribution probably
won’t have a problem, as the distros are compiled with the value
set high.”

At kt.zork.net: “Welcome to KC KDE! This Cousin covers events on the KDE developer mailing list. A lot of things are
happening on the desktop lately, and it’s very exciting. Hopefully KC KDE will help folks keep up on
these events.”

At LinuxPR: Building on the success of LINUX
Business Expo at COMDEX Fall 2000, Open Source Development Network
(OSDN.com) and COMDEX are collaborating to produce the best LINUX
Business Expo yet at COMDEX Chicago 2001, April 2-5 in Chicago.

With a focus on “Open Source Answers for Business,” OSDN will present a
three-day program with three separate conference tracks aimed at providing
attendees with the right point of entry into the world of Open Source. (NewsForge is part of OSDN.)