Linux.com has a column about Transmeta: “It’s still too early to declare Transmeta as ‘Good,’ ‘Bad,’ or
‘Ugly.’ In the
end, I hope Transmeta can overcome the ramblings of
computer journalists (myself included) to create a truly great
product. Of course, I also hope they’ve learned lessons from
those who came before, like Cyrix, to prevent the same old
mistakes from kicking a good idea squarely between the legs.”

The advisory is at LWN.net: A locally-exploitable security hole was found where a normal user could
trick root running GnoRPM into writing to arbitrary files due to a bug in
the gnorpm tmp file handling.

From Business Wire: Sam Ockman, founder, chairman and CEO of U.S.-based Penguin Computing
Inc., a provider of reliable Linux systems for Internet serving, will deliver a keynote speech, “Global Adoption of Linux and
the Impact on the Global IT Infrastructure: the Vision, the Reality”
at NetWorld + Interop Paris 2000. It’s at
Parc des Expositions de Paris, Porte des Versailles, Paris, France, Nov. 7.

LinuxUser.co.uk posts the program for the LinuxUser 2000 Conference, Dec. 5 to 6 at Chelsea Village, London.

The advisory is at LWN.net: The Red Hat 7.0 dump is being released for Red Hat 6.x and Red Hat 5.x
in order to remove root setuid bits to prevent a known dump
exploit (#20111).

The annoucement is at ZDNet, of course: “ZDNet, part of CNet Networks, has just acquired AppWatch, the premiere Free Software and Open Source announcement and download site. AppWatch stands out for two reasons. First, it tracks only currently maintained Free Software and Open Source software projects.”

From CBS Marketwatch: “Transmeta’s upcoming initial public offering is
suffering a blow as IBM confirmed that it won’t be using the company’s
Crusoe chip in an upcoming laptop model. ‘It does raise a lot of questions and dampen their
IPO,’ noted IPO analyst Tom Taulli.” The Standard supplies another view.

KDE Dot News reports that the KDevelop Team will release version 1.3 of its
C/C++ IDE for UNIX within the next couple of weeks. The new
release has a lot of new features regarding KDE 2 and Qt 2.2
development, particularly a project file generator which creates a project file out of
your existing automake/autoconf project on the fly so you can start working with
KDevelop on your former project within seconds.

OS Opinion has an article about the future of VA Linux: “Clearly, there’s a lot more that could be said about the future of a
company as interesting as VA Linux. What will its IA-64 strategy be?
How will they relate to SGI in the future? But, in order to branch out
into bolder future strategies, VA Linux has to reach profitability in its
core x86 server line. And the fastest way to do that is to offer an
unbeatable mix of strategic vision, automatic customization, and
simplified management that none of the competitors can match.” Disclosure: VA Linux owns NewsForge.

LinuxPlanet has a review of CorelDraw 9: “Though we’re still not entirely happy with the way CorelDRAW’s programs
perform, there’s no denying that this product fills a useful niche for any
concept of Linux that includes eventual domination (or even just a healthy
share) of non-technical and home desktops.”