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Updated cvs packages are now available that fix a security vulnerability which may allow cvs to attempt to create files and directories in the root file system, as well as prevent the cvsd from retaining root privileges after a user login.

"This interview with Dr. Inder Singh, CEO of LynuxWorks, is the second in LinuxDevices.com's CEO/CTO interview series. It addresses the emergence of Linux as a standard the embedded industry can unite around, how LynuxWorks is prepared to respond to copyright infringement cases, real-time performance in the 2.6 kernel, and much more. Enjoy . . . !"

Data Design Corp has launched a micro-miniature single-board computer (SBC) which it claims provides a powerful Linux system on a board measuring just 1.75 inches square. Based on a PowerPC 405GPr processor clocked up to 400MHz, the "Linux Rocket" SBC includes DDC's custom PPC Linux kernel and flash filesystem, and targets kiosk, industrial monitoring and control, instrumentation, set-top-box, and vending machine applications.

"When doing research for my evaluation of Solaris 9 on my Ultra 5, I kept running into one comment over and over again: Sun's C compiler produces much faster code than GCC does. However, I couldn't find one set of benchmarks to back this up. (If you know of any, drop me an email.) Could this be yet another case of rumor-taken-as-fact?"

"The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of Linux, today announced that NEC Soft Ltd., one of Japan's leading software development and systems integration firms, has joined OSDL and will participate in the Lab's Data Center Linux and Carrier Grade Linux working group initiatives."

"In this issue, we cover The Fedora Project getting a new leader, the current on-going Bug Day, some new changes with Fedora Core 2 and introduce some applications. We also cover the LWCE Fedora BOF session."

In this interview, NetIQ security experts Todd Tucker and Erik Salwen share their customers' concerns about Linux's security shortcomings and NetIQ's Linux a very small Linux machine based on the PXA255: 20 x 80 mm, '64MB SDRAM,

Get answers to your toughest Apache questions in a live IRC chat with Apache luminary Ken Coar, Thursday, January 29 at 11 a.m. PST (1900GMT; 2 p.m. US EST). A leading author, speaker and Apache visionary, Ken Coar 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 a contributing author to Apache Server Unleashed .

"On January 27th, the KDE Project released KOffice 1.3 for Linux and Unix operating systems. KOffice is a free set of office applications that integrate with the award winning KDE desktop. KOffice is a light-weight yet feature rich office solution and provides a variety of filters to interoperate with other popular office suites such as OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office."

"Steve Kemp discovered a problem in trr19, a type trainer application for GNU Emacs, which is written as a pair of setgid() binaries and wrapper programs which execute commands for GNU Emacs. However, the binaries don't drop privileges before executing a command, allowing an attacker to gain access to the local group games."

"it plans to support Red Hat Enterprise Linux in future versions of its popular control panel software. Customers running Ensim Pro and Ensim Basic, both on the Linux platform, will now have the choice of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Linux operating systems."

"The reason that open source is doing so well, aside from it being free and customizable, is that open source products can be as reliable as their commercial counterparts."

Microsoft Corp. is touting the results of "independent analyses" in its latest effort to show corporate decision-makers the merits of its Windows operating system vs. Linux, its biggest open-source competitor. [Seen on DesktopLinux.com]

Red Hat is accelerating development of Linux for the desktop and for handheld clients, but sees considerable work to complete before facing Microsoft in the

27, 2004--Greenbrier & Russel, Inc. today announced that it is offering certified Red Hat Linux courses in its Minneapolis and Milwaukee training centers.

Microsoft's practice of paying for research on Linux, then publicizing the results in an effort to show Windows' superiority, has been a simmering issue since

Alaska Airlines this week said it has completed the migration of its online travel planning and pricing engine to a PC-based system running the Linux operating distributions, many in the open-source community are turning their attention

The SCO Group has posted a $250,000 bounty for information leading to the conviction of the author of the MyDoom worm currently sweeping the Internet.

It was 1998 when I first got involved with Linux. I was 18, and though I found support on the Web, mailing lists, IRC channels, and other assorted resources, I wanted to meet people face-to-face to discuss Linux. That was when I discovered LUG culture. How can you get involved with a LUG in your area, or even set one up?

This is the fourth in a series of reviews of Debian-based distributions. The first three have covered the best known commercial distributions. The first one looked at LindowsOS 4.5. The second examined newcomer MEPIS Linux. The third was about Xandros 2.0. All three of those are more about providing a familiar environment for those coming to Linux from Windows. This one is different. LibraNet is aimed more at existing Linux users - including Debian users - than those from the Windows world.