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BIND updates for various distributions

Author: JT Smith

LWN’s daily section has a list of packages addressing the recent BIND vulnerability: listed are updates for Slackware, Red Hat, Linux-Mandrake, and
Debian.

Category:

  • Linux

TrollTech releases embedded Qt PDA environment

Author: JT Smith

TrollTech will release its embedded Qt PDA code under the Qt commercial license and the GNU Public License. Slashdot has the details.

Category:

  • Open Source

W3 releases Amaya 4.0

Author: JT Smith

Amaya 4.0, an opensource HTML browser and editor which strictly adheres to standards, has been released. The discussion of its capabilties, and links to the binaries, are available with the full story on Slashdot.

Category:

  • Open Source

Debian 2.2r1 is out now

Author: JT Smith

Debian Planet reports on Debian 2.2r1 being released. The new stable update includes patches, bugfixes, and security updates over the original 2.2 release.

Category:

  • Linux

Cantametrix plans to track all MP3s on the web

Author: JT Smith

In an interesting twist, a company is claimg to be able to track music across the web by mining search engines with a ‘special DSP program’ for copyright materials (as reported by Slashdot).

“KDE 2.0 Development” is online (and OPL)

Author: JT Smith

Another Slashdot news report, this time about the release of “KDE 2.0 Development,” a book about developing for the new APIs in KDE 2.0. The book is covered under the Open Publication License.

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  • Open Source

The 3Dsia project: more than a 3DWM

Author: JT Smith

Another 3D interface project, the 3Dsia project (reported by Slashdot) seems to be trying to shoot for a whole new 3D interface concept — beyond the 3D window manager which simply renenders 2D into a 3D space.

Category:

  • Linux

Glibc 2.2 is ready for Woody

Author: JT Smith

Debian Planet brings us more Debian news — this time, about Glibc2.2 being included in Woody for testing and development by the Debian community.

Category:

  • Linux

Is the Public Key Infrastructure outdated?

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot has a story asking if traditional PKI is outdated because of the lack of adoption at large, and because of implementation issues.

Category:

  • Linux

Debian new maintainer process reaches 100 applicants- dupe

Author: JT Smith

Debian’s new package maintainer proccess has been declared a success, according to this story on Debian Planet.