Linux-World Danmark, which is a Danish Linux Web site, is pleased to announce that the website is now official having moved from http://www.dannemare.dk/portal to www.linux-world.dk. The press release is at LinuxPR.

On Sept. 20th at 8 p.m. PST, “In Search of New Media,” a VFS Live production will be airing a live streamed interview with JD “Illiad” Frazer and WebDiva of UserFriendly.org. Frazer was recently named one of the top 50 most influential people in the Linux movement by Linux Magazine. The press release is at LinuxPR.

From a press release at LinuxPR. Free software developers are invited to be involved in participating in Free Developers, where “we are building a free software company for the world.” The free company will be owned and run by all developers worldwide, democratically. All the software will be licensed under the GPL. And the free company will pay developers to develop free software.

Three locale-related vulnerabilities with glibc 2.1.3 were recently
reported on BugTraq. These vulnerabilities could allow local users to
gain root access. The advisory is at LWN.net.

Lineo Inc., a provider of embedded systems, real-time and high availability Linux-based solutions, named Bob Waldie as chief operations officer. Effective immediately, Waldie will be accountable for many of Lineo’s day-to-day operations, according to a press release at LinuxPR. More from CNet.

From a column at SecurityFoucus.com: “This new class of holes is different: a programmer doesn’t understand what somebody else was thinking or expecting, and fails to make a smooth transition between the two pieces of code. Sometimes the transition appears smooth, but the underlying complexity scuttles system security in the end. The key to solving this problem is the open source movement, and its propensity for keeping code development simple and ego-free.”

Support for Dialogic CT boards is added to Extensys, according to a press release at LinuxPR.

The newsletter is posted at LWN.net.

From a Reuters story: America Online and Time Warner Inc on Tuesday said they were confident they could persuade European regulators they had nothing to fear from their merger and from Warner Music’s joint venture with EMI Group.

The high-tech industry is torn over the value — or peril — of p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networking, the technology pushed to the forefront by the highly publicized MP3.com and Napster copyright disputes. But while experts debate whether p-to-p is a valuable way to distribute data over the Internet or a hazard to companies that want to keep their private matters private, vendors are stepping forward on both sides of the issue, hoping to cash in. InfoWorld reports.