ZDNet reports that people trading free music and other stuff over the Open Source Gnutella may be “sharing much more: sensitive data files that could expose them to identity theft.” More from The Register.

CNet has a short item saying that instant messenger service Jabber.com has teamed with business teleconference provider
MeetingOne to integrate Jabber’s technology into MeetingOne’s teleconferencing services.

Wired.com has a followup story on Eric. S Raymond’s The Cathedral & The Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary being updated and rereleased. ESR says it’s a continual work in progress.

From LWN.net: “A buffer overflow exists in Netscape’s HTML parsing code. By using
specially designed code, a remote website could cause arbitrary code to
be run on the local machine.”

LinuxPlanet interviews SuSE CTO Dirk Hohndel. “SuSE’s position in the Linux market is one of contrasts. In the European, Middle East, and African markets,
SuSE Linux not only dominates the Linux categories, but also the general software categories as well. But in the
U.S., it ranks behind other Linux distributions, which all in turn rank behind Microsoft Windows.
Dirk Hohndel, Chief Technology Officer, is all too aware of these inconsistencies, and is fully prepared to make
SuSE a market leader worldwide.”

From PR Newswire: Caldera Systems,
Inc., (Nasdaq: CALD) and The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. (SCO) (Nasdaq: SCOC)
today announced they have amended the agreement to purchase the SCO Server
Software and Professional Services divisions by Caldera Systems. Under the
terms of the new agreement, the SCO OpenServer product line will be included
as part of the proposed SCO Server Software Division acquisition, giving
Caldera complete ownership of SCO’s operating system products. In the
original agreement announced on August 2, 2000, SCO retained the SCO
OpenServer intellectual property and Caldera purchased the rest of the SCO
server business and acted as sole distributor for SCO OpenServer products.

TheDukeofURL.org has a review promoting OpenBSD’s security: “What makes OpenBSD so special? While Linux has always prided itself on being an excellent server operating system, there are factions that
are pulling Linux towards the desktop, and there are others that are trying to keep it with its roots, the server rooms. Neither goal is a good or
bad thing, I’m not here to debate that; but the truth is, when you focus an operating system on a certain objective, you can really tie it together
in a beautiful fashion. OpenBSD is a perfect example of this ideology. Since OpenBSD is designed for security, and is ‘secure by default’ (as
their motto states), users wishing to have a functional and secure server need not toil with permissions and services, and in some cases, one
needs to do nothing more than install the operating system and watch in awe as it does its work.”

Byte.com’s WebTools.com has a how-to story about creating an RSS feed to share headlines between Web sites. NewsForge’s own chief programmer, Jamie McCarthy, is quoted.

– by Robin Miller –
California-based Linux distribution publisher and software provider TurboLinux is laying off staff and announcing a management restructuring today. Jerry Greenberg, senior marketing v.p., says, “We built the company on the expectation of doubling every quarter. We’re growing well, but not at that rate. We had to respond to it.”Greenberg neither confirmed nor denied reports from anonymous sources that TurboLinux was laying off approximately 40 out of 120 employees and eliminating entire departments, but confirmed that his own marketing department was among those being hit hard.

TurboLinux is in the process of acquiring LinuxCare, as first rumored on Slashdot in mid-January, and Greenburg says some of the layoffs “are in anticipation of the acquisition.”

Paul Thomas, TurboLinux CEO, will become CEO of the combined companies, but Greenberg says Thomas’ “role will change” after today; Ly-Huong Pham, currently TurboLinux executive v.p. of worldwide development, is now the company’s chief operating officer.

Greenberg says TurboLinux employees getting laid off are hearing the bad news one by one, rather then in a single mass meeting.

There is no word yet on the exact date when the LinuxCare acquisition will be complete. The best guess Lonn Johnston, TurboLinux corporate communications v.p., could give was, “any day now.”

NewsForge editors read and respond to comments
posted on our discussion
page.

At LWN.net: “Ok, the patch is reasonably big, mainly due to a new architecture (cris)
and some updates to others (arm and mips). But what’s interesting here are actually three very small patches:

– mm/memory.c (PageReserved() check): this could corrupt the shared zero
page if you used direct IO, and thus make your system unusable
– elevator fix (another missed re-initialization in __make_request(), and
this time we made sure to check that everything else _is_ initialized)
– IDE driver multi-mode write fix (ide_multwrite()).”