CTitek Inc. has developed a Linux technical support Web site at www.FixMyLinux.com. FixMyLinux.com is designed to support the Linux Community by making Linux easy to use. The press release is at LinuxPR.

The problem: The dynamic linker ld.so uses several environment variables like LD_PRELOAD
and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load additional libraries or modify the library
search path. It is unsafe to accept arbitrary user specified values
of these variables when executing setuid applications, so ld.so handles
them specially in setuid programs and also removes them from the
environment. The
update is at LWN.net.

A class-action was filed Thursday on behalf of Emulex shareholders who sold common stock or call options or bought put options based on information contained in a hoax press release. The lawsuit was filed against Internet Wire, which published the press release at its Web site, and Bloomberg, a news wire that wrote stories based on the hoax information, InfoWorld reports.

RadiSys Corp., a designer and manufacturer of building blocks enabling next-generation Internet and communications systems, has signed a partnership agreement with MontaVista Software Inc., a developer of the Hard Hat Linux operating system for embedded applications, to promote the Linux operating system on RadiSys’ embedded solutions. The full
press release is at LinuxPR.

The DukeofURL releases a Linux buyer’s guide.

The recent announcements regarding the formation of a GNOME Foundation coupled with the Sun/Hewlett Packard decision to use GNOME as their standard desktop has resulted in a deluge of requests to the KDE Core Team asking what our “position” is. Well, this is it. We offer this position paper in the hope that we can put this behind us and get back to coding. The full statement is at Linuxdevices.

SOT, publisher of Linux in Finland, has unveiled its new Best Linux developers’ site, BestLinux.org and joined Linux International as a sponsoring corporate member. The press release is at LinuxPR.

PR News Wire reports that Lineo has announced the availability of the Lineo Embedix GPL Compliance Toolset, which protects OEM and embedded system developers from accidentally violating the GNU General Public License.

From a ZDNet story: “With archrival Sun Microsystems Inc. breathing down its neck, Microsoft needs to make good on its Office 10 ship date and ease-of-use promises. Sun has announced plans to make an open source version 6.0 of its StarOffice suite available on October 13. StarOffice 5.2 runs on everything from Windows 98 and Windows 2000, to Linux and Solaris.”

Publicly, the new Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) hopes to promote Linux in the enterprise. But privately, the OSDL-funded by HP, IBM, Intel and NEC USA-may be plotting against Sun Microsystems. Unlike earlier Linux partnerships, the OSDL was not driven by pure-play Linux vendors. Instead, as Linux pioneer Red Hat confirms, major hardware vendors started the OSDL in mid-July. To be sure, the OSDL’s primary focus is catapulting Linux into the enterprise. But OSDL’s hardware members wouldn’t mind if Linux somehow manages to eclipse Solaris, too. The report is at Inter@ctive Week.