From an InfoWorld story: Big Blue has released its chip road map that will complement its newly released eServers, including its Unix-based pSeries servers.

LWN.net has an advisory: “There are two vulnerabilities in the Apache web server as shipped
with Conectiva Linux.

1) Under certain configurations, the mod_rewrite module could be used
to access any file on the server, provided that filesystem access
rights permitted that. Now the mod_rewrite module makes a one-pass
expansion and is no longer vulnerable to this.

2) The other vulnerability is regarding the handling of Host: headers
in mass virtual hosting configurations. The check for dot (“.”)
charactes in that header was not complete and could permit access to
a parent directory.”

Slashdot readers talk about an OLinux.com.br interview with Richard Payne, Alpha Processor’s tech support manager, about Alpha’s Linux strategy.

From the tech humor site Segfault: “A small group of the local sect of Hasidic Linux
users, who have been using Linux to perform numerology on the Bible, Torah and other religious texts, decided to
use their analysis skills on the source code to the Linux Kernel. Aftering use wc to analyze various portions of the
code, adding and subtracting the results, multiplying it by the time, and gzipping it, they received the hexadecimal
equivalent of hourly snapshots of Microsoft’s stock price from their IPO in 1986 to sometime in the year 2067.”

The latest release of Suneido (Oct. 10) includes a new “Getting Started” guide that leads you through creating an application and deploying it both standalone and client-server.

Suneido is an open source integrated object-oriented language, client-server relational database, and application framework. — Submitted by Andrew McKinlay

Atipa Corporation, a leading provider
of end-to-end Open Source and Linux technology solutions, is pleased to
announce that it has joined The Linda Club, a new partnership initiative
for Beowulf resellers sponsored by Scientific Computing Associates, Inc.
(SCA), a leader in high-performance computing software, from PRNewswire.

All Linux Devices reports, Cobalt Networks,
Inc., a leading provider of server appliances,
introduced today the Qube 3, the next generation of the award-winning
Cobalt Qube product line.

Eclipsys Corporation today announced that
it has released version 3.0 of its eWebIT family of Web-based enterprise application integration (EAI) products, according to Business Wire.

Canada NewsWire reports, Nitrosoft LINUX, Inc., an IT
Infrastructure e-Management company, announced today it has
joined the MSP Association, an international consortium of companies that was
formed to define, shape and promote the emerging Management Service Provider
sector.

CBS News reports, the U.S. Court of Appeals
Wednesday ordered that
Microsoft Corp. and the
government file written briefs in
the company’s antitrust case over
the next four months, leading up
to oral arguments in February.