CNET News.com reports: In expanding the pool of Internet addresses, the system’s governing body should reject proposals for children and adult domains such as “.kids” and “.xxx” but embrace applications such as “.biz” and “.dot,” a staff report released Friday recommends.

Conectiva’s nameserver has a vulnerability regarding compressed zone tansfers that can be used in a DoS attack. The named daemon will crash if it receives such a zone transfer request from an authorized source address. More information and updated bind packages available at LWN.net.

Following on its successful initial public offering, upstart computer-chip maker Transmeta Corp. today is expected to announce that computer maker Via Inc. will use its low-power Crusoe processor in a wearable computer it plans to produce. Complete Reuters story at ZDNet.

Wired News reports: A new optical storage media that can hold up to 140GB of data on a disc the size of a CD-ROM — the equivalent of putting the data from a DVD video onto a credit card — makes its debut at Comdex.

“Linux gives you the power to define how you work. It gives you choices. When you work with that other OS day in and day out, choice isn’t really something you need to worry about. There is one way to do things, and that is pretty much that. Linux, in an effort to be helpful, complicates the matter. Choice? What am I supposed to do with that? Well, for one thing, by defining how you work and the environment you work in, you may find that you work better–after all, the machine is supposed to mold to your needs and not the other way around. At least that’s what we were originally led to believe.” From a story at Linux Journal.

From a Business Wire press release: Microlite Corporation announces a new release of its popular BackupEDGE backup and disaster recover software for UNIX and Linux.

After years of work by a cast of thousands, the first non-beta release Netscape 6.0 takes a bow. Windows, Macintosh, and Linux versions are now available on the Netscape FTP server in the form of a network installer. Slashdot readers discuss the new browser.

From Slashdot: Jon Katz reviews Russell Pavlicek’s Embracing Insanity: Open Source Software Development, an “impassioned little book that purports to explain to the non-geek world in particular why they should care about the Open Source movement and the success of OS systems like Linux and FreeBSD.”

The Annual Linux Showcase was outstanding. The November Troubleshooting Professional Magazine chronicles the conference, and discusses how ALS shapes GNU/Linux’s future.
– Submitted by Steve Litt

Linux Today reports on Analyst Day, where investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs continued its “market outperform” rating on Red Hat’s
stock and noting that the Red Hat Network shows some promise and “could become a valuable conduit between Red Hat and its end users.”