Using a stolen password, Mallory managed to log into an important server running Linux. The account was a very limited account, but Mallory knew how to cause trouble with it. Mallory installed and ran a trivial program with very odd behavior. Learn what a race condition is and why it can cause security problems.

Novell's web site carries some docs for the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop and some shots: 1, 2, 3.

The company leading the AmigaOS4 project has announced the immediate availability for download of the first Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release update for registered Amiga OS 4.0 users. For an impression with regard to AmigaOS4's current state of development, within this recent show report there are links to some earlier demonstration videos.

Here is a piece explaining the goodies of Novell's Dashboard and Beagle.

This is a message from Patrick Volkerding in regards to his thoughts on Gnome and Slackware. It was originally posted on the Dropline Gnome Forum. Editor's note: Pat has made similar comments to me as well regarding Gnome's bugs and maintainance problems.

Larry Ellison embraces Linux, but don't expect open source databases from Oracle any time soon. (Part Two of six part interview).

Having prepared the FreeBSD 5.2 Netboot server, we can begin to configure our diskless workstations. Let's prepare the kernel and add it to the two-part filesystem (accessible for reading only and accessible for reading and writing) and finally create rc-scripts.

Montavista Software has submitted patches to the linux kernel mailing list which aims to convert the Linux kernel in a real-time operative system.

When experienced Java developers hear about Groovy, their first reaction is often, "Oh, no, not another scripting language for Java." Ian Darwin had the same reaction, until he took a good look at Groovy. Elsewhere, metaprogramming with and without J2SE 5.0.

This article, and the second installment that follows next week, can be considered the fourth and fifth in a series covering Ruby programming on Mac OS X. However, unlike the first three articles of this series, this tutorial can be used as a standalone piece. You only need some knowledge of the Ruby programming language with a little prior experience in Xcode to understand the content found here.

SkyOS Beta 8 was released last week to beta testers, along with a small patch released a day later to fix some issues (updatable by the SkyOS update system). Beta 8 of course includes re-enabled networking, along with a few networking applications (Gaim and Links, with more to follow). Beta 8 also includes an updated ISS with integrated video (allowing for features such as video preview in viewer window), updated GCC to 3.4.0, Blender 3D CGI application and many bugfixes. Up next: USB.

A die-hard PC user's perspective on Macs, by AndandTech.

The developers of Vector Linux have announced that work has started on a next release, version 5.0.

Tom Adelstein seems to know a lot about Sun and sets out here to give the whole story behind Sun and Red Hat's disagreements.