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A project to produce a free, dual-kernel, real-time Linux distribution has achieved its first stable release. The Open Components for Embedded Real-time Applications (OCERA) project's 1.0.0 release supports real quality of service scheduling, CAN bus systems, and fault-tolerant and real-time Ethernet, along with standard Linux functionalities.

Red Hat's free Linux distribution, Fedora, has added support for the security enhanced modules created by the NSA and known as SELinux, a media release from the company says.

Its litigation assault on Linux remains shrouded in mystery. What's clear is that the open-source movement isn't slowing down. [Editor's note: This story was contributed by a visitor who included a personal note to me, but they didn't give me their name or email address. Please contact me. :-)]

In a sign that the marketplace sees lots of promise in PHP's growth prospects, Zend Technologies has completed a new venture capital infusion of $6 million. The latest investment, from venture capital fund Index Ventures, together with previous investors Walden Israel and SFK Technologies, brings to $12 million the total of VC investments in Zend in less than six months, since November 2003. Israeli-based news service Globes [online] reports that Zend may actually get $2 to $3 million more in funding before the round closes. And as if to justify investors' faith, the long-anticipated PHP5 First Release Candidate is finally for download from Zend.

Red Hat's mission to woo hearts, minds, and market share brought it to MIT Monday, where the chief executive pitched the Linux distributor's gospel while recruiting new talent to the open source movement.

Interpeak is shipping an integrated Internet Protocol (IP) software stack it claims is the first to support virtual routing for IPv4 and IPv6. Internet Edge Software (IES) provides data routing and forwarding, user administration, secure management, and basic system services. It targets edge equipment developers, along with session control, DSLAM,

Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, has begun selling Microtel PCs that come with Sun Microsystems' version of the Linux operating system. "We are seriously considering Wal-Mart to be the PC supplier for Sun Microsystems," Jonathan Schwartz, head of Sun's software group, said in a meeting with reporters here Tuesday. Separately, he said an unnamed European bank is using Sun's Linux software for 10,000 tellers.

A number of serious issues have been discovered in versions of Ethereal prior to 0.10.2.

A vulnerability was discovered in squid version 2.5.STABLE4 and earlier with the processing of %-encoded characters in a URL. If a squid configuration uses ACLs (Access Control Lists), it is possible for a remote attacker to create URLs that would not be properly tested against squid's ACLs, potentially allowing clients to access URLs that would otherwise be disallowed.

Japan, China and South Korea are expected to reach an agreement to jointly develop a new operating system (OS) based on Linux as an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, government sources said Tuesday.

In a sign that the marketplace sees lots of promise in PHP's growth prospects, Zend has completed a new venture capital infusion of $6 million.

In a new report, Is Linux More Secure Than Windows? from Forrester Research Inc., based in Cambridge, Mass., Computing Infrastructures Senior Analyst Laura Koetzle finds that both Windows and Linux can be deployed securely. Microsoft Corp., however, fixes security problems the quickest—which is a good thing, since it also has the most major security holes.

Welcome to this year's 13th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. The next update to Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is being prepared together with a discussion about the Linux Standard Base. Manoj Srivastava called for votes on the project leader election a second time. Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on April 10th. Two US states proposed an open source repository that would run on a Debian server.

Business Week has published an interview with Michael Sudol, general manager of Motorola's Linux phone division, discussing Motorola's decision to use Linux in some smartphones. The interview suggests Linux-based phones will appear on the global market -- possibly including the U.S. -- just before the Holidays.

Mbedthis Software has added support for the PHP scripting language to its high-security HTTP server for embedded devices. AppWeb 1.1 implements PHP support as a loadable module, and is currently available as a development release. Mbedthis offers AppWeb under GNU and commercial licenses, along with support and security enhancement services.

Following our coverage of other Mozilla applications, this issue is focused in ChatZilla, an IRC client application. If it doesn't tell you much, let's say it allows a group of people to join in virtual rooms and freely talk in it or to a specific person.

The upgrade will be a "'point' release based on the latest Mozilla code" and "will be made available in the very early summer timeframe." Speculation that an update was in the works began last week, when the San Francisco Bay Area's Mercury News paraphrased an AOL spokeswoman as saying that "there will be future versions of Netscape that are essentially repackaged upgrades of Mozilla."

The latest Gentoo Weekly News is now available.

For those who seek enhanced, tightened security control over their Linux systems, SELinux may be the answer. Standing for Security-Enhanced Linux, it is a result of research projects from the NSA (National Security Agency) in the US and focuses on mandatory access controls which offers powerful controls over users and devices as well as applications and services.

Red Hat will face off against new competitor Novell with Enterprise Linux 4.0 and a full-fledged corporate desktop in 2005--but without a "traditional" channel program in place. In a brief interview with CRN at the MIT Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said the Linux software leader continues to work with "large-scale" systems integrators such as Hewlett-Packard and IBM Global Services but won't have a traditional channel program.