ZDNet reports on Sony’s release of its VAIO laptop, powered by the Transmeta Crusoe chip. The Register compares the VAIO to an iMac, saying its aimed at “laptop fashion victims.”

OPP Version 0.2.5 features vastly improved thread and internet components,
freely available under the terms of the GNU LGPL (Library GNU Public
License), according to a press release at Linux PR.

The advisory is at LWN.net: “The security problem in the traceroute program as shipped with SuSE
Linux distributions is completely different from the one reported on
security mailing lists a few days ago (`traceroute -g 1 -g 1′) by
Pekka Savola . SuSE distributions do not contain
this particular traceroute implementation.
The problem in our traceroute was discovered independently and reported
to us by H D Moore . The problem in the
implementation of traceroute that we ship is a format string parsing
bug in a routine that can be used to terminate a line in traceroute’s
output to easily embed the program in cgi scripts as used for web
frontends for traceroute.” Here’s an update.

Beginning with the November 2000 classes in Linux Systems Administration,
LearnLinux will give the LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Certification exam
at the conclusion of the five day SysAdmin Level I and Level II classes. The press release is at Linux PR.

A columnist at SecurityPortal says: “In my time as a
Security Administrator for a Solaris shop,
I had to give the occasional briefing to
my boss: We’re vulnerable. A new
security hole has just been discovered
and every major Unix/Linux is vulnerable,
from Solaris to Irix to Red Hat Linux.
After briefing my boss on our risk and my
plans to do something about such, he asks me the same question: ‘Can you find
an exploit?’ Rather often, I’ve had to answer, ‘nope.’ ”

From a column at KDE Dot News: “Ideally,
even though OpenOffice is technically a competitor to KOffice (Sun
apparently denies this) and despite the naysayers, OpenOffice will be of
sizable benefit to KDE.”

LinuxIT has announced the launch of an anti-virus solution for all mail
servers running Linux. The solution includes the installation and configuration
of established anti-virus technologies within a client’s specific email
environment, providing extensive email scanning and virus protection
particularly where vulnerable Microsoft clients are on the network. The press release is at Linux PR.

From eWeek: “While IBM hopes to dazzle dot-com customers with its newly renamed servers such as the one introduced today as ‘the most power commercial server in history’ some Big Blue faithful are disgruntled by what they see as a misguided marketing move.”

The Register reports that Linus Torvalds has made a Top 300 power list for the UK (he came in at number 39). AOL’s Steve Case, believe it or not, was the fourth most powerful person in the UK, according to the list.

From Fairfax IT: “Analysts from Boston’s Yankee Group have pointed to game playing and often ‘illegal’ MP3 music swapping as the key drivers behind broadband over the next few years.”