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Windows is not the only operating system to suffer from viruses, worms and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, according to experts at the Virus Bulletin conference in Prague.
Jakub Kaminski, of Computer Associates Australia, said that Unix, Solaris and Linux systems have seen some serious threats in the wild for the first time this year.

The amount and variety of Linux worms has risen sharply over the last 12 months, and viruses such as Ramen have spread widely.

Students who register for IBM's Linux Scholar Challenge contest, and who meet requirements for eligibility, will receive a complimentary Software Evaluation Toolkit for Linux CD. The contest gives students the opportunity to solve real-world issues, and to learn how to improve open-source environments. Prizes include 25 IBM ThinkPads, and three 2002 summer internships at IBM's Linux Technology Center.

The Duke of URL has posted their review of SuSE Linux 7.2 Professional. SuSE has
just recently secured new funding, which makes them one of the strongest Linux
distributors at the moment. The review covers what's new, its base of applications, the install, configuration of the systme and much more.

L33tdawg:Linux.org has put up a pretty interesting article about Linux with relation to worms and viruses. Here's an excerpt:

This month begins a series of investigations into operating system programming interfaces, starting with pipes. This article will demonstrate working with pipes on Windows 2000 Advanced Server (with Service Pack 2 installed), Linux (based on Red Hat 7.1), and the newly released Windows XP professional.

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released its second public version of the Security Enhanced Linux operating system. Although still in prototype, the Linux Security Modules based OS is designed to be an almost uncrackable development of the open source platform, which can be confidently used for "certain sensitive or classified applications and environments".

This article covers several Linux DVD players and includes quite a bit of general DVD Linux information:

"The real question is "Do I miss my DVD player?" The answer to that question is "I love my linux box and the more things I can do on it, the more I love it." So sure I miss Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound on a home theater system setup but I get more satisfaction out of watching a movie on my computer than a big home theater system. Why? Because it's open source. How? Because I compiled and installed it."

Note: This article first appeared over at Maximum Linux. The original article can be found here.

By:imhotep.

The Open Source Development Lab has created a code benchmarking tool--known as the Scalable Test Platform--that it says will allow developers to easily test their Linux kernel patches from a variety of tests and server configurations.

Tim Witham, the director of the OSDL--an independent, non-profit lab designed for developers who are adding enterprise capabilities to Linux--believes the STP fulfills a critical need in the open-source developer community.

According to this article some analyst reckon that linux doesn't save as much money as everyone thinks. It's still gotta be cheaper than m$ though. :)