Graeme Philipson points to an Australian survey by the market-research firm Strategic Research and

concludes that it's just a matter of time before Windows is truly everywhere -- with Linux not making a dent in the enterprise. He says, "You would think it was the Next Big Thing, and indeed it is attracting some support for marginal applications. But fewer than 1 percent of data centres intend to use it for serious applications."

In a speech at New York University's Stern School of Business, Richard Stallman defended the GPL against attacks from Microsoft minions. He took a few shots at Caldera, calling it "parasite" on the free-software movement. Stallman addressed everything from the distinctions between open source and GNU/Linux to his take on how Microsoft might be best broken up by the government, in the aftermath of the Department of Justice antitrust trial.

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Two vulnerabilities have been found in the man package that is installed by default in all SuSE Linux distributions. The first error is a format string bug in the error handling routine of the man command that can allow a local attacker to gain the privileges of the user "man" on SuSE Linux systems. The second is a segmentation fault that can be caused by the options "-S ::: foo" to the man command. On SuSE and Debian systems, the code responsible for the bug is different from the one found in other distributions and is not exploitable.

Red Hat Linux 7.1 for the Itanium Processor with the new 2.4 kernel supports the very large address space of Itanium-based systems and scales efficiently to eight or more Itanium processors running as a single system image. It is designed for developing and porting applications that require superior performance on high-end servers and workstations and is equally suited to porting 32-bit applications or RISC applications to Itanium-based systems. New configuration tools and security enhancements are also available.

Slashdot has reported that a system on SourceForge was compromised. The mail sent out to developers who may have been affected simply notes that potentially compromised passwords have been randomized, requiring users to get a new one.

The following are some of the false statements put forth and my arguments refuting them.

"The poor performance of Linux stocks proves that Linux is a failure"

Predictably, Microsoft's 'help' in turning "Britain's e-government vision into a reality" has mysteriously turned into a lockout for users of anything other than IE on Windows. Linux, Netscape and Mac can look but not touch, because the digital certificate system selected by the developers mysteriously always seems to lead to IE 5.01 or above on Windows. A detailed investigation carried out by UK magazine Linuxuser notes that in some cases non-Microsoft browsers are simply refused entry.

Dell Computer and other industry giants may be pessimistic about Linux's chances on the desktop, but HP executive and Linux veteran Bruce Perens believes the open source OS will still triumph in the end.

If you're curious about the best way to preserve your vinyl LP's digitally, this is article for you. It says that some of your most precious LPs can be turned into more durable CDs. With the cost of disk space dropping, consider devoting a drive to music. Maggie Biggs offers a guide to recording and cleaning up the audio quality of your records.