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Source: CNet News

A small Australian company has released a Linux-based security tool it hopes will help speed corporate acceptance of the open-source operating system.

InterSect Alliance has developed the first security auditing system for Linux, beating much larger organizations to the punch. Its new tool, SNARE (System Intrusion Analysis and Reporting Environment), is the first intrusion detection system to reside on individual computers rather than a network, according to Leigh Purdie, principal security consultant for InterSect.

This tutorial steps you through the process of getting XFree86 4.x, the standard free X server for Linux, up and running on your system. It also covers X usage fundamentals, including running X applications remotely, securing X, and configuring X applications using the X resource database. It'll also show you how to launch your preferred window manager, desktop environment, and applications at Xfree86 startup.

Source: Wired

When Microsoft released a new version of Windows last week, Rob Malda -- one of the creators of the Linux community site Slashdot -- posted this message online in response to a comment about XP:

"I find it amusing that I didn't really even notice (that Windows XP had arrived) until I saw this submission. I know this affects a fair number of users but for the life of me I just don't know why ;)"

This tutorial reviews the origins of TCP/IP and how it works -- including IP addresses, subnets, and routing. With this theoretical foundation laid, we discuss the various network configuration files required by Linux, how to initialize a network interface, and how to edit the system's routing table.

Source: CNet News

Online retailer Amazon.com shaved millions of dollars from its technology costs last quarter by switching to the Linux operating system, a disclosure that could provide some guidance for other companies seeking to cut expenses in a stagnant economy.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the e-commerce giant said it was able to cut technology expenses by about 25 percent, from $71 million to $54 million.

Here are the Linux for S/390 FAQ. It covers Linux for S/390 gigabit ethernet support, S390 intergrated facility for Linux, all the middleware available for Linux for S/390, Linux for S/390 education, HiperSockets and more. Also take a look at an article that provides Linux for S/390 and zSeries porting hints and tips.

Source: AnandTech

Make it easier, faster, prettier, and write more applications and drivers, of course...

Source: O'Reilly Network

Welcome to Security Alerts, an overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories. In this column, we look at a Linux Kernel problem that can be used to bypass quotas; buffer overflows in Solaris's ufsrestore and Oracle Trace Collection; and problems in SSH, RWhoisd, Red Hat's printing system, Linux's iptables, Red Hat Linux's mod_auth_pgsql, Java Runtime Environment, and the Oracle binary.

Read the full story here.

Source: NewsForge

Sometimes, it seems Open Source and Linux news is fused to news from that closed-source software giant from Washington state. This week especially, some of the biggest news about Linux in particular was about ways to make parts of it work with Windows.

Source: Kernel Trap

Kerneltrap interview's Keith Owens this week, an experienced kernel hacker who has long contributed to the Linux kernel. His contributions include updating ksymoops and modutils, both of which he maintains. He also works on kbuild 2.5. Earlier, he built the original Integrated Kernel Debugging patch. He's also working on kdb and XFS.

Read the interview here.