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There were 13 security alerts issued last week: 5 from Red Hat, 5 from Debian, 1 from Fedora, 1 from Mandrake, and 1 from Conectiva.

Did you write an email virus and sic it on the world? I didn't think so. I didn't, either. Still, a recent BBC article headlined Linux cyber-battle turns nasty -- along with articles in many other respected publications -- makes it sound like "run-of-the-mill geeks" who use Linux are responsible for the MyDoom virus, instead of pointing out that this is the work of one or two demented individuals, not of "the Linux community."

There has been speculation about this for years, and this is still speculation, but Cohen is head of an organization that says it is "increasingly being recognized as the center-of-gravity for the Linux industry," and is rapidly proving himself at least as effective a Linux marketer as the freckle-faced boy in IBM's Linux ads, so his speculations carry more weight than most.

The Mozilla Foundation today announced a new preview release of its next generation web browser, Mozilla Firefox 0.8, as well as a name change for the product (previous name: Mozilla Firebird), along with a new preview release of the Thunderbird mail client.

A look at some of CORBA's advanced features, including Naming Services.

"I am afraid that, in the excitement, many users are mixing up the company that they try to escape ( Microsoft ) and companies in general, leading to a very confusing and potentially dangerous situation -- and I am not talking about economics here..."

"Open-source software is popping up everywhere, from PCs and cellphones to giant corporate and government systems. Today the biggest challenge confronting virtually every major software maker is chillingly simple: How do you compete with programs that can be had free?"

With this tutorial, I will try to give you the steps to build Jakarta Tomcat, as an RPM package. This will allow for easy deployment, with the use of mod_jk2 and Fedoras httpd (Apache2).

In Part 1 I discussed how the software development world is about to be turned on it's head. Now in Part 2 I look at how the hardware world may be about to undergo even bigger changes and why it wont be a hardware manufacturer leading the way.

OSNews is accompanied by the tagline "Exploring the Future of Computing". In this article I've decided to do exactly that, to go beyond the daily stream of the latest updates & rumors and cast my eyes at the future. What will happen to Software, Hardware the Companies and Technologies involved and how these are developed. I for one think there will be big changes to come, some for the better, some for the worse.

The ancient version of the Linux kernel has been updated with some security fixes and some other minor issues.

Paul Couture has graciously agreed to write an article for Groklaw on MyDoom. I found him when I was reading about MyDoom on Slashdot for the story I did about the crank calls, and I noted a comment from someone who seemed knowledgeable about protecting companies from such things, who said that he dealt with such issues on a daily basis in connection with his work, and that in his opinion, this had all the emarks of professional spammers, not a Linux enthusiast. How, he wondered, could the media get this so wrong? So I contacted him, after researching a little about him and his work (he did computer work for six years for the US Air Force and now works in network support and does web design). I asked him to explain a bit about MyDoom and why he is convinced from the way MyDoom was written that it is professional spammers. SCO isn't the main target, in his opinion.He isn't alone in that opinion, by the way. Did you know that MyDoom will attack Kazaa next? It seems MyDoom will create worm-laden copies of entertainment software after the attack on SCO.

"The fat margins commanded by US software giant Microsoft have angered Chinese officials, who are keen to promote potential alternatives such as local operating systems based on open-source Linux software."

The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to perform administrative operations without authorization, by stealing a session cookie.

Jonathan Gennick gives Linux to his 8 year old son as an experiment, and it doesn't go completely well.

A New Zealand electronics retailer has temporarily stopped selling preloaded Linux machines, citing poor sales.

The final version of Thunderbird 0.5 is expected within the next few days.

"Honey, I just built a Linux RPM package for UPS!"

And my wife says, "UPS? You mean the those cute guys with brown uniform?"

And I said, "Nooo, :) I meant Uninterruptible Power Supply!"

We'll be able to get a transcript soon, but while we wait, Bob Mims has a delicious morsel. It seems that SCO tried at the hearing to argue that they couldn't tell the court what lines of code in Linux are infringing with specificity unless they get to see AIX first. Again with that argument. It didn't fly. Again. The judge, bless her heart, told them that her order already answered that question: *they* were to go first. Period.

Here is SCO's Document Request, Exhibit 3.