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On Thursday, January 29, DevChannel.org, in conjuction with irc.slashnet.org and its 'sister' OSDN sites NewsForge and Slashdot, hosted an IRC interview with IBM software engineer Ken Coar, a leading author, speaker and Apache visionary. Ken is a core developer of the Apache project, and a vice-president and director of The Apache Software Foundation . He's also the author of Apache Server for Dummies and Apache Cookbook, and a contributing author to Apache Server Unleashed . The following article is a (lightly edited) transcript of that interview.

This is the concluding piece in our recent "Spawn of Debian faceoff" series of reviews. We've looked at the latest offerings from LibraNet, LindowsOS, Mepis, and Xandros. Now we'll sit back and ponder what we've learned. We'll also ask for your help in rating criteria for future Linux reviews.

A sysadmin tool for automating changes across many machines, recording update information and making them all safer.

EclipseCon is not a Linux show. This is a Windows crowd, and it includes Microsoft employees here to check out the competition for dot Net. As I've walked the floor and eaten lunch with conference attendees, I've often felt like the odd man out. I have to keep reminding myself that this is an open source platform and an open source event. The difference between EclipseCon and other open source events I've attended is that the EclipseCon community - especially the community of Eclipse platform developers - is that this community is made up primarily of corporate or business entities instead of individuals. But even in this Windows oriented crowd, it's hard to deny the influence of Tux.

"Open Source Risk Management, LLC (OSRM), an open-source risk management company, announced today that Pamela Jones, the editor and moderator of Groklaw.net has agreed to become the company's Director of Litigation Risk Research. Groklaw.net is the most popular sites devoted to reporting and commentary on the SCO case and other present and threatened litigation against the Linux kernel and other open source software."

It was bound to happen, Sourceforge is now accepting subscriptions for access to premium services.

"MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that MySQL CEO Marten Mickos will join a panel of industry executives to discuss how to succeed using open source software, at an event hosted by the Silicon Valley Association of Start-up Entrepreneurs (SVASE) on Thursday."

"At the NASSCOM 2004 technology forum held in Mumbai today, Sun dispelled many misconceptions on Open Source, besides eagerly pushing its Java desktop system."

Sun Microsystems may be on a roll regarding sales in the Far East. Following the December news that it will supply up to 200 million Java/Linux desktop systems over a period of years to the Republic of China, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based corporation today announced a 10,000-seat sale of its StarOffice 7 software to the United India Insurance Co.

The KDevelop Team has achieved a major new release of KDevelop, a GPL-licensed, customizable, language-independent integrated development environment (IDE) with team development support. KDevelop 3.0 is a "complete re-write" of KDevelop, according to the KDevelop Team.

"A project to port Linux to several smartphones manufactured by HTC of Taiwan and sold under various brand names was announced January 30 on the XDA-Developers project Website. The new 'Xanadux' project aims to support GPRS and phone functions alongside Linux on the devices, and is seeking help from interested developers."

"A read buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the resolver code in versions of glibc up to and including 2.2.5. The vulnerability is triggered by DNS packets larger than 1024 bytes, which can cause an application to crash."

There were two articles in the news yesterday that are not related in any detail except one. The first has to do with a notorious spammer and the second has to do with SCO.

Groklaw reader Lloyd Hanson sent me a parody he actually wrote a couple of years ago but has buffed up. As you will see, it seems to have a modern-day relevance, bottled water being all the rage, I hear. Enjoy.

pgAdmin III is a comprehensive administration interface for the PostgreSQL database. The application is running under GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and MS Windows.

"TimeSys has updated its Eclipse-based TimeStorm Linux Tool Suite, adding support for any 2.6 Linux kernel and lowering the price to $795 per seat. The company claims that TimeStorm is the first development tool based on Eclipse to support 2.6-series kernels."

Another issue of the Fedora News Updates has been released

In this issue: Tab scroller, customizing file types handling, translation languages, sundry news reports, project updates, visitor poll and more.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- How's this for a backhanded yet powerful endorsement of a company's products? Pixar Animation Studios, creator of such movie hits as "Finding Nemo," "Toy Story," and "Monsters Inc.", uses Trolltech's software throughout its operation but won't talk about it publicly because it thinks it would be giving away a competitive advantage.

This is to announce the Trustix Secure Linux 2.1 Technology Preview 2.