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ZDNet's Weekly Linux Newsletter, featuring LinuxWorld
Aug. 23, 2000

This is ZDNet's "other" Linux Newsletter (the non-embedded one), published weekly by ZDNet's Linux Resource Center. This week, the ZDNet Linux Newsletter contains some interesting coverage about LinuxWorld Expo, held last week in San Jose, CA . . .

Welcome to ZDNet's Linux Newsletter
>>>>SPECIAL LINUXWORLD EXPO EDITION<<<
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August 22, 2000 ==> Put the Penguin to Work
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  1. Security Alert: NFS Vulnerability
  2. Special: Helix Code, Eazel the revelations of LinuxWorld
  3. Special: A walk on the embedded side... of LinuxWorld
  4. VACM cleans up your traffic problems
  5. Sun, Boerries crank up Web-top strategy
  6. Not so fast! IBM's Monterey shambles on
  7. Love's keynote audience asks: What is Linux?
  8. Opinion: Corel going south?
  9. At LinuxWorld, Torvalds looks to future
  10. Michael Dell sings out Linux's praises
  11. IBM to ship SuSE on NetFinity Servers
  12. Judge orders injunction in DVD hacker case
  13. AMD 'Hammer' chip nails open source
  14. Review: Netmachines RedRak Linux Pro 128 Plus
____________________ TOP STORIES _______________________

SECURITY ALERT: NFS VULNERABILITY
If you administer a Linux system -- any Linux system -- please take a moment to update your nfs-common or nfs-utils package! The default installation on some Linux systems may be vulnerable to an exploit involving the rpc.statd daemon. CERT reports that crackers are using this exploit now to install denial of service attack tools similar to those used last February to bring down ZDNet and six other major 'Net sites: story.
...For background on the February attacks, see: story

SPECIAL: HELIX CODE, EAZEL THE REVELATIONS OF LINUXWORLD
Linux became more commercial than ever at the LinuxWorld Expo in San Jose, where the GNOME Foundation was announced with support from 13 major corporate backers. Read about the young companies driving GNOME development, their non-traditional business models and how the free software and open source movements are losing their voices amidst the growing commercial clamor surrounding Linux: story.
...Additional stories on GNOME and the GNOME Foundation:
    GNOME VS. KDE: This means war?
    GNOME Linux to attack Windows
   
GNOME throws down the gauntlet
    Building up Linux

SPECIAL: A WALK ON THE EMBEDDED SIDE... OF LINUXWORLD
LinuxDevices Founder Rick Lehrbaum offers an incredibly in-depth overview of the embedded presence at LinuxWorld, with many links to ZDNet and LinuxDevices.com stories: story
...For more embedded Linux, see also:
    Reach out and Tux someone
    Can Linux rule the M-Commerce world?
    A Linux-based PDA arrives
    Interview with IBM's Linux Wristwatch Project Leader
    IBM stuffs Linux into Dick Tracy's watch
    Red Hat's "un-Linux" OS (eCos) gains another convert

VACM CLEANS UP YOUR TRAFFIC PROBLEMS
VA Linux and SGI's jointly developed VACM technology uses Intel's Intelligent Platform Management Interface to optimize server clusters for high-performance applications and fault tolerance: story
...For more on VA Linux, see also:
    VA Linux offers customization for servers
    Upgrade rekindles interest in VA Linux

SUN, BOERRIES CRANK UP WEB-TOP STRATEGY
Sun is formulating it's response to Microsoft's .NET initiative with a strategy centering around the recently GPL'ed StarOffice Suite under the leadership of Marco Boerries, Sun's VP of Web-top and applications software: story
...For more about Boerries and StarOffice, see:
    Meet Sun's open-source ambassador
    OEM's cast StarOffice in select PCs

NOT SO FAST! IBM'S MONTEREY SHAMBLES ON
Rumors of the Monterey Project's demise were greatly exaggerated, according to Sm@rt Partner reporters Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols and Jacqueline Emigh:
story
...See also:
    IBM kills Project Monterey

LOVE'S KEYNOTE AUDIENCE ASKS: WHAT IS LINUX?
CEO Ransome Love used his LinuxWorld keynote to offer a glimpse of Caldera's plans for System V Unix, aka UnixWare, which could find its way into some "Linux" systems: story
...For more on Caldera and SCO, see also:
    What's next for Caldera and SCO?
    Are Noorda's boys back?
    Caldera buys SCO Unix and Professional Services
    Caldera sales slump in Q3

OPINION: COREL GOING SOUTH?
Longtime ZDNet Linux contributor Evan Leibovitch says that Michael Cowpland's departure from COwpland REsearch Labs (COREL) can mean only one thing: story
...See also:
    Corel's Cowpland calls it quits
    Corel's interim CEO wants post permanently

AT LINUXWORLD, TORVALDS LOOKS TO FUTURE
Linus appeared relaxed and talked about not having to give a keynote and the Web server benchmark record recently set by a Linux system: story

MICHAEL DELL SINGS OUT LINUX'S PRAISES
CEO of America's largest PC vendor, Michael Dell walked a tightrope during his LinuxWorld keynote by praising Linux while remaining carefully diplomatic towards Windows: story

IBM TO SHIP SUSE LINUX ON NETFINITY SERVERS
IBM will ship its largest Linux systems with a version of SuSE Linux, giving Europe's largest distributor a chance to strengthen its influence in the US market: story

JUDGE ORDERS INJUNCTION IN DVD HACKER CASE
In a decision Linux analysts expect to be overturned on appeal, a federal judge handed the film industry a victory and reverse engineering activists a loss in the DVD hacker case: story
...See also:
    Coffee: DVD hacker case ruling sets shocking precedent

AMD 'HAMMER' CHIP NAILS OPEN SOURCE
In addition to hosting one of the biggest parties of LinuxWorld, chipmaker AMD earned a lot of mindshare with Linux developers by offering development tools for its new 64-bit processor: story

REVIEW: NETMACHINES REDRAK LINUX PRO 128 PLUS
Netmachines offers a complete line of Internet Web servers that offer small business standard server functions at an affordable price: story

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