See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

Using the xinetd program for system administration (IBM developerWorks). Teodor Zlatanov explains xinetd on IBM's developerWorks. "The classic inetd daemon has been around for a long time. There are several ways to replace its functionality, but the most flexible and easiest way seems to be xinetd. Xinetd does all the things inetd can do, and a lot more. TCP wrapping, modular configuration, connection redirection, and load limits on incoming connections are just a few of the features that make xinetd a nice choice for system administrators."

Andy Oram on the implications of Open Source. O'Reilly editor Andy Oram has published the text of a talk he gave in Japan under the title A summary of research on social and organizational relationships in open source software projects. It's worth a read. "The most inspiring aspect of open source development, and perhaps the most fruitful for social science research, is the transparency it fosters - a form of instantaneous and supremely honest communication. No one can hide a bad decision because source code can be examined by experts everywhere. Furthermore, these expert reviewers risk nothing by reporting problems and disagreeing with the project managers. Contrast this to the employees of a commercial firm, who are constrained by their desire to look good to superiors."

Practical PostgreSQL PDF available online. Command Prompt, Inc has announced a pre-production version of the book Practical PostgreSQL, which is available for download in PDF format.

Events

Events: November 29 - January 24, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
November 29 - 30, 2001	Linux-Kongress 2001	(University of Twente)Enschede, The Netherlands.
December 7 - 9, 2001	PLUTO MEETING 2001	Terni, Italy
December 10 - 12, 2001	Linux Bangalore 2001	Bangalore, India

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

Web sites

New Linux Journal site. The Linux Journal has put up an all new web site built with PhpNuke. It includes a bunch of new features (i.e. discussion groups) as well as extensive archives.

Section Editor: Forrest Cook.

Software Announcements

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