From a Linux World story: “The Linux Standard Base has accomplished little, and few distributors are complying
with the slim specifications it has produced. … Passive leaders
are to blame.”

CNet reports that the long-awaited Crusoe chip for laptops has been released on Sony’s Vaio PictureBook.

Slashdot readers talk about the availability of the AMD X86-64 simulator for Linux, called SimNow!. “Unfortunately, the kernel 64 bit port is not done yet, but hey,
you got a nice simulated machine to play with!”

New book at NewRiders.com: “Developers who are looking to participate in this growth area will need to learn new Open
Source tools. GNU Autoconf, GNU Automake and GNU Libtool are key tools for Open Source
application development. These tools are not easy to learn, so some of the leading authorities
on these tools have worked together on this book to teach developers how to boost their
productivity and the portability of their application.”

LinuxCertified.com, a provider of Linux training, will
offer its next weekend bootcamp on November 18-19th in San
Francisco bay area (south bay). These workshops are
designed for busy information technology professionals and
prepare them for Linux Certification exams. The

press release is at LWN.net.

LWN.net has an advisory from Red Hat: A root exploit and several additional bugs in traceroute have been
corrected.

A press release from Business Wire: Cnation, an eBusiness services firm,
today announced the open sourcing of BingoX, its Web Application Development Framework.

Located at http://opensource.cnation.com, BingoX is the framework that Cnation has used for most of its clients’
applications for more than three years and is now available for public use.

LWN.net has this advisory posted: Esound, the Gnome sound server, contains a race condition that a malicious
user could exploit to change permissions of any file owned by the esound
user.

It was announced earlier, but here’s the actual package. InfoWorld has a package of stories on people its calling “e-business innovators,” including Richard Stallman, the Apache Group, and Phil Zimmerman. Among its companies to watch: FreeNet, Google, and Transmeta.

Slashdotters talk about the 7.0 version of SuSE Linux, which is available for download.