From BusinessWire: Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL), a leader in
e-business implementation platforms, today announced the immediate availability of Borland Kylix. Kylix is the first native
rapid application development (RAD) environment for the Linux operating system.

InfoWorld.com reports that Transmeta has added another customer for its servers, as FiberCycle announced it will use Transmeta processor for its ultra-high-density servers. More from ZDNet.

Posted at LWN.net: “The author of analog, Stephen Turner, has found a buffer overflow bug
in all versions of analog except of version 4.16. A malicious user
could use an ALIAS command to construct very long strings which were
not checked for length and boundaries. This bug is particularly
dangerous if the form interface (which allows unknown users to run the
program via a CGI script) has been installed. There doesn’t seem to
be a known exploit.”

From BusinessWire: The Apache Software Foundation today announced over 70 speaker sessions for this spring’s ApacheCon 2001, the annual
conference and exhibition for Apache-related and open-source software. The next wave of Apache deployed projects will be
discussed at the Santa Clara Convention Centre in the heart of Silicon Valley, 4 through 6 April, 2001.
ApacheCon 2001 will provide a look at the future of Apache technologies from developers within the open source community,
bringing together the key technology vendors, senior Apache figures and open-source followers and observers from around the globe,
in response to the continuing evolution of the open-source software community.

TechLawJournal.com has a transcript of remarks by U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., calling for changes to the fair use doctrine in the context of digital and Internet media.

LinuxPlanet has a column on automatic update features among open source programs. “But in the open-source world, this is all fraught with peril, for several reasons.

The first is that it additionally fragments the community. Distributions are not only cooking up
auto-upgrade features, they’re cooking up ones that are incompatible with everybody else’s. Red Hat
has one now; Debian has for some time; Caldera’s working on one for whatever their next distribution
ends up being, and so on.”

“It never ceases to amaze me; in spite of security concerns and virii that float through E-mail, people
still do nothing to prevent the tide of impersonation and mistaken identity in modern-day electronic
communication. Threats like the “ILOVEYOU” virus could have been avoided if people had used something to
digitally sign their E-mail. For some of us, it’s a no-brainer. E-mail is not a secure medium, it is
usually sent in plain-text for anyone to read. Virii that take control of your mailer agent can send mail
as you, and anyone with half a clue can send an email that to the uneducated looks like it came from
anybody- including you.” Get wise with more words from BinaryFreedom.com.

IDG.net reports that Apple says it’s finished working on Mac OS X and has released it to production. It’s due on shelves March 24.

ZDNet’s Sm@rt Partner reports on the debate within Hewlett-Packard to release its scheduled-to-be-retired program OpenMail as an Open Source program.

“Heard a lot about Linux, want to adopt it but don’t know how? No sweat. For all
Linux newbies, here’s an article that talks of not only the different kinds of
distributions available, but also about how to go about choosing one that is ideal for
you. And all this in a simple and lucid manner, sans tech jargons.” Read more at FreeOS.com.