eWeek reports that Guardent Inc. has identified a large security problem in TCP involving ISN values.

TheDukeofURL.org reviews Turbolinux Workstation Pro 6.1. “Installing TurboLinux is a snap. Like Slackware and Debian, it uses a text based install
routine, bucking the trend of the graphical installion tools found in many Linux
distributions. Although it can be precieved by many to be behind the times, it did get the
job done very effectively and with a minimum of mouse clicks.”

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.”