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Weekly news wrapup
Author: JT Smith
By Grant Gross
Managing EditorNews of the weird?
Probably the weirdest news this week had closed-source giant Microsoft pumping $135 million into competitor and...
Open Source: Is it safe?
Author: JT Smith
Linuxdev.net asks a question heard many times before -- is Open Source secure?
Category:
Linux
Suneido — new Open Source language & database
Author: JT Smith
"Suneido is a free, open source, integrated object-oriented language, client-server relational database, and application framework written in C++. It is a...
Whitehouse.gov doesn’t comply with COPPA regs
Author: JT Smith
The child privacy regulations apparently don't apply to government sites. Bend over once again, American citizens. From a report at Wired.com.
Category:
Linux
If you live in Dallas, will you go crash this party for us?
Author: JT Smith
That's where Microsoft is throwing a big coming-out celebration for Exchange 2000. We could sneak in and wave big Linux signs. Think...
Speculation: Ray Ozzie up to something
Author: JT Smith
CRN believes Lotus Notes creator Ray Ozzie is up to something big, as an announcement is expected on October 24th about his...
Opinion: LSB needs stronger leadership
Author: JT Smith
From a Linux World story: "The Linux Standard Base has accomplished little, and few distributors are complying
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New book: ‘GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool’
Author: JT Smith
New book at NewRiders.com: "Developers who are looking to participate in this growth area will need to learn new Open
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Security update to traceroute
Author: JT Smith
LWN.net has an advisory from Red Hat: A root exploit and several additional bugs in traceroute have been
corrected.
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Linux
Esound security advisory
Author: JT Smith
LWN.net has this advisory posted: Esound, the Gnome sound server, contains a race condition that a malicious
user could exploit to change permissions...