Anonymous Reader writes “LG Electronics has developed a Linux-based Web pad, the Digital iPAD. The Web pads support wireless Internet search and AV data transmission and reception, as well as enabling wireless connection with other devices. For the full story go to:
http://www.sprocket.co.za/content/open_source/02_0 1/lge_05_02_01.htm“

Stephen K. Gielda of the Church of the Swimming Elephant says that he’s been threatened with censorship by a software company whose bugs have become the focus of one of COTSE’s exploits. Newsforge did not see any of these alleged threats from the software company, so they are just that: alleged. Here’s what Steve wrote:”Software Firm threatens packetderm.cotse.com because of bug dated back 1999 !!! These guys (NetcPlus Internet Solutions, Inc., http://www.netcplus.com) are saying that they will bring a legal case if the info on this bug is not removed from this site (http://packetderm.cotse.com/mailing-lists/bugtraq /1999/1450.html).

Read it in Usenet (alt.computer.security, thread ‘I have a company demanding that we remove an archived bugtraq post’, dated February 2). Censorship in it’s dumbest form.

Usenet post: The company is NetcPlus Internet Solutions, Inc. This is part of the response they sent me:

“Just remove it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is a) well too old, and b) WRONG !!!!!!!!!! Also, we take a pretty dim view of your actually publishing the code needed to break all this software. You are just saving the hackers of the world the time to work it out themselves. Why on earth would anyone do that, unless of course they support OTHER hackers.”

The archived bugtraq post he is referring to is: http://packetderm.cotse.com/mailing-lists/bugtraq/ 1999/1450.html

The same archive also exists here: http://security-archive.merton.ox.ac.uk/bugtraq-19 9909/0247.html

http://lists.insecure.org/bugtraq/1999/Sep/0243.ht ml

http://www.shmoo.com/mail/bugtraq/sep99/msg00388.h tml

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/199 9-q3/0915.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/templates/archive.pik e?list=1&msg=

So, should I let this one run to court? Or should I just remove the
page?

/steve
-- 
Stephen K. Gielda
http://www.cotse.com
The Church of the Swimming Elephant
Have you gone to church today?

end of usenet post"

– by Grant Gross –

Linux was on display this week in New York, with huge cartoonish booths dominating the trade show floor at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. But some reports from the show floor questioned who dominated the conference, the suits or the geeks.

Indeed, the reports coming from LinuxWorld focused on big tech companies saying how business-friendly Linux is, and how the tech firms drove the show, not the Linux community.

Even the mainstream media got in the act, with sites like ABCNews.com. hailing Linux as “serious business.” Heck, even Microsoft was at the show, gathering not-so-convert intelligence about the main thorn in Microsoft’s side. Doug Miller, the guy who was the spy, predicted that many Linux businesses will falter and interest from mainstream tech companies would wane by the end of the year. If he’s not worried, he could’ve stayed home in Redmond.

Linux: The big business’ friend

We’ll check back on that prediction in 11 months, but for now, LinuxWorld was a virtual love-fest between Linux and the tech giants, sans Microsoft. IBM pledged $300 million more toward Linux development, above and beyond the $1 billion Big Blue had already committed. Intel sent a bigwig to the show, and he asked attendees to help the company “push Linux and Open Source software to their limits.” In what Inter@ctive Week called a “clear break of the tacit Intel/Microsoft alliance,” Intel committed $24 million to the Open Source Development Lab.

Sun Microsystems unveiled Java for Linux appliances, and Hewlett-Packard announced an agreement to make Ximian Gnome the default desktop on its HP-UX. Not to be outdone, Compaq announced plans to market Linux clustering products.

Those were just some of the deals announced at LinuxWorld, Mr. Miller.

A good year for greed

For those fans of the Recording Industry Association of America (and we know there are millions of you out there), the group’s Hillary Rosen posted a 2000 wrapup this week. The folks at RIAA think they had a very good year. Don’t worry, Hillary, the fight’s just begun, and reports are already coming in about the RIAA losing favor with Congress.

New in NewsForge this week

OK, so we had a more than a dozen stories from LinuxWorld — too many to list here. Here are a few:

Hardware reporter Jeff Field caught a glimpse of the “world’s first dual DDR Athlon” and was able to perform some quick benchmark tests on the pre-release 760MP board.

News editor Tina Gasperson’s LinuxWorld journals were fun; here’s part I and part II. Writer Eric Ries’ observations from the floor also made readers laugh. Here’s part I and part II.

Tina also checked out rumors about Applied Data Systems’ sparse booth at the show, and was told that the truck didn’t show up with demos of ADS’s new sleep mode for StrongARM platforms.

Writer Julie Bresnick was fed Argus Systems Group’s marketing about its Pitbull security products and found a security expert who wondered whether the company’s tools were worth the price.

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

An anonymous reader tells us about a story at MozillaQuest.com: “Why settle for a dual-boot computer system when with just a little more effort you can have a triple-boot system?
Today we add the Red Hat 7 Linux distribution as a third boot-option to the existing dual-boot system created in the January 1 Dual-Boot article. A triple-boot PC with Caldera OpenLinux, Red Hat Linux, and Windows should be pretty darn slick. Once you have your triple-boot system completed, you will be able to choose whether to boot into Caldera OpenLinux, Red Hat Linux, or Windows 98 whenever you boot or reboot your triple-boot PC.”

Tim Hanson writes that The Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/16582.html ) is reporting that although Microsoft growth in total web servers is somewhat static, Microsoft handling of secure transactions is increasing steadily, http://www.netcraft.com/survey/: “The relatively static market share for Microsoft on the web as a whole contrasts sharply with its progress in our companion SSL Server Survey where Microsoft makes consistent and relentless gains, month after month, and now accounts for 49 per cent of the sites performing encrypted transactions on the internet.”
Hanson asks, “Does anyone know more about this? Is this right? Does Linux have an alternative?”

ZDNet UK reports that Compaq will use SteelEye Technology’s clustering software to
“help its high-end Linux servers catch up to those running Microsoft
Windows.

The clustering software, which lets one server take over from
another, automatically, if the primary one fails, will also work with
some higher-end Compaq storage devices.”

Information has come out about Transmeta’s Mobile Linux distribution being prepared for release by the company. Linuxdevices details the announcement first made public at LWE.

ABCNews takes a basic look at how Linux support companies make money.

Slashdot has an item about a reader getting Linux running on the Intel 80200 XScale CPU. “We did the final
bug fixes in a hotel room in New York.”