LinuxWorld reviews the Linux-based NetMAX FireWall, saying “As long as you have some experience with the technology, this product will make your life as a network administrator a lot easier.”

Anonymous Reader writes “OnWOW, Inc., a maker of software products for end-to-end wireless integration, announced its PagerFeed gateway for paging and wireless carriers. PagerFeed implements the Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol (WCTP) standard, and allows application data to be pulled from or pushed to a wireless device.

Paging and wireless carriers use PagerFeed to allow their customers to use inexpensive wireless devices as mobile terminals for their applications. Today wireless devices such as mobile phones, or two-way pagers are widely available, inexpensive, and provide extensive functionality. An example is a Motorola T-900 two-way pager. With a full keyboard, two-way messaging, and a price of $99 this device is an optimal choice for a mobile terminal. However, to actually build support for this kind of device in an application requires that the wireless carrier offer gateway access to their wireless network.

With PagerFeed, either a client application or a wireless device can initiate a transaction. A client’s transaction in the form of an XML contract is translated and delivered to the wireless device. A wireless device’s request is translated into an XML contract and delivered to a client’s application. Client and host applications can be developed with OnWOW’s other products, or by using third-party tools.”

John Gowin writes “In Part 1 of this series, we took a look at AIM clients available for GNU/Linux. In Part 2, it was ICQ’s turn in the spotlight . In our third installment, Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger take the stage as we see how these fast growing IM services measure up on the GNU/Linux platform.”
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LWN.net has posted a Linux Mandrake advisory: “A number of problems were found by the SuSE security team recently
during an internal audit of the CUPS printing package. These problems
have been resolved with the latest CUPS release which include temp
file creation vulnerabilities, potential buffer overflows, and other
security enhancements. It is highly recommended that all
Linux-Mandrake users upgrade to this new version of CUPS. Due to prior
packaging problems, users are advised to completely remove the
following CUPS packages if they are currently installed on your system: cups-common, libcups1, and libcups1-devel.”

From a press release at LinuxPR: “Teamware Group, a Fujitsu subsidiary, and The FIEN Group, a Southern California-based technology consulting organization have signed a partner agreement according to which The FIEN group will sell Teamware Office 5.3 for Linux groupware to customers across the USA.”

LWN.net: “ISC BIND 8 contains a buffer overflow in transaction signature (TSIG)
handling code.” Versions of TurboLinux 6.05 and earlier are affected, as is WorkStation 6.1.

LWN.net: “Sendmail, launched with the -bt command-line switch, enters its special
“address test” mode. Under these conditions, it is vulnerable to a
segmentation fault which can occur when trying to set a class in ad-
dress test mode due to a negative array index.” Affects TurboLinux 6.1 WorkStation and TurboLinux 6.05 and earlier.

From a press release at LinuxPR: “The Colorado Linux Info Quest (CLIQ) board of
directors is pleased to announce our preliminary lineup for invited talks
and Birds of a Feather Sessions for CLIQ 2001.

This years event includes noted speakers such as Scott Draeker of Loki Entertainment Software, Andy Hertzfeld of Eazel, and John Lasser, author of the book “Think Unix.” While not all the invited speaker slots have been filled, and the event day schedule has yet to be finalized, the CLIQ board wanted to get the word out on how things are shaping up.”

From ZDNet News: “Intel will up the stakes in the power-saving mobile processor game next week with a faster mobile Pentium III aimed at smaller notebook PCs, an evolving class of systems referred to as “thin-and-lights.””

Network World Fusion News reports that Sun is ready to give its Solaris operating system a shot in the arm. The company announced Sun Solaris 5 1/01 OE will include a refined Unix file system and other features that increase the OS performance and client network scalability by up to ten percent.