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<title>Gentoo Weekly Newsletter</title>
<subtitle>June 2nd, 2003</subtitle>
<abstract>This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of June 2nd, 2003.</abstract>
<summary>North America gets two new source mirrors.  CFLAGS/cpuinfo collection project.  Upcoming infrastructure changes.</summary>
<version>Volume 2, Issue 22</version>
<date>02 June 2003</date>
<author title="Editor">
	<mail link="klieber@gentoo.org">Kurt Lieber</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="aja@clanarmstrong.com">AJ Armstrong</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="nesta@iceburg.net">Brice Burgess</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
	<mail link="citizen428@gentoo.org">Michael Kohl</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="carlos@gentoo.org">Yuji Carlos Kosugi</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="rcm@sasaska.net">Rafael Cordones Marcos</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="david@phrixus.net">David Narayan</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="plate@gentoo.org">Ulrich Plate</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="mail@psharp.uklinux.net">Peter Sharp</mail>
</author>
<author title="Contributor">
    <mail link="kim@thinkit.dk">Kim Tingkaer</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="matje@lanzone.be">Mathy Vanvoorden</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="Hendrik.Eeckhaut@UGent.be">Hendrik Eeckhaut</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="sephiroth@quicknet.nl">Jorn Eilander</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="bernieke@bernieke.com">Bernard Kerckenaere</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="peter@daborg.nl">Peter ter Borg</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="linux@sejo.be">Jochen Maes</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="rgoessen@home.nl">Roderick Goessen</mail>
</author>
<author title="Dutch Translation">
        <mail link="gerard@steelo.net">Gerard van den Berg</mail>
</author>
<author title="French Translation">
    <mail link="mat@frheaven.com">Matthieu Montaudouin</mail>
</author>
<author title="French Translation">
    <mail link="riverdale@linuxmail.org">Martin Prieto</mail>
</author>
<author title="French Translation">
    <mail link="cabec2@pegase.net">Antoine Raillon</mail>
</author>
<author title="French Translation">
    <mail link="seb@cine7.net">Sebastien Cevey</mail>
</author>
<author title="French Translation">
    <mail link="mabouya@petitefleure.org">Jean-Christophe Choisy</mail>
</author>
<author title="German Translation">
	<mail link="madeagle@gentoo.org">Steffen Lassahn</mail>
</author>
<author title="German Translation">
	<mail link="haim@gentoo.org">Matthias F. Brandstetter</mail>
</author>
<author title="German Translation">
	<mail link="lordvan@gentoo.org">Thomas Raschbacher</mail>
</author>
<author title="German Translation">
	<mail link="yanestra@gentoo.org">Klaus-J. Wolf</mail>
</author>
<author title="Italian Translation">
	<mail link="mush@monrif.net">Marco Mascherpa</mail>
</author>
<author title="Italian Translation">
	<mail link="paper@tiscali.it">Claudio Merloni</mail>
</author>
<author title="Italian Translation">
	<mail link="bsolar@bluewin.ch">Christian Apolloni</mail>
</author>
<author title="Japanese Translation">
	<mail link="kage-chan@gentoo.org">Daniel Ketel</mail>
</author>
<author title="Japanese Translation">
	<mail link="hagi@p1d.com">Yoshiaki Hagihara</mail>
</author>
<author title="Japanese Translation">
	<mail link="andy@billydpro.com">Andy Hunne</mail>
</author>
<author title="Japanese Translation">
	<mail link="carlos@gentoo.org">Yuji Carlos Kosugi</mail>
</author>
<author title="Japanese Translation">
	<mail link="yasunori@mail.portland.co.uk">Yasunori Fukudome</mail>
</author>
<author title="Japanese Translation">
    <mail link="088@t.email.ne.jp">Takashi Ota</mail>
</author>
<author title="Polish Translation">
    <mail link="messer@7thguard.net">Jaroslaw Swierad</mail>
</author>
<author title="Portuguese (Brazil) Translation">
	<mail link="venturasbarbeiro@ig.com.br">Ventura Barbeiro</mail>
</author>
<author title="Portuguese (Portugal) Translation">
	<mail link="blueroom@digitalmente.net">Bruno Ferreira</mail>
</author>
<author title="Portuguese (Portugal) Translation">
	<mail link="gustavo@felisberto.net">Gustavo Felisberto</mail>
</author>
<author title="Portuguese (Portugal) Translation">
	<mail link="rjlouro@rjlouro.org">Ricardo Jorge Louro</mail>
</author>
<author title="Portuguese (Brazil) Translation">
	<mail link="R.Nogueira@records.usyd.edu.au">Ricardo Nogueira</mail>
</author>
<author title="Russian Translator">
       <mail link="svyatogor@gentoo.org">Sergey Kuleshov</mail>
</author>
<author title="Russian Translator">
       <mail link="dimsuz@mail.ru">Dmitry Suzdalev</mail>
</author>
<author title="Russian Translator">
       <mail link="mazurous@mail.ru">Anton Vorovatov</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="lanark@lanark.com.ar">Lanark</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="ferdy@ferdyx.org">Fernando J. Pereda</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="lpeinado@uoc.edu">Lluis Peinado Cifuentes</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="ZEPHRYNXIRDAL@telefonica.net">Zephryn Xirdal T</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="katossi@usuarios.retecal.es">Guillermo Juarez</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="correo@sevein.com">Jes&#250;s Garc&#237;a Crespo</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="carlos@castillobueno.com">Carlos Castillo</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="julio@castillobueno.com">Julio Castillo</mail>
</author>
<author title="Spanish Translation">
     <mail link="s3r@fibertel.com.ar">Sergio G&#243;mez</mail>
</author>
<author title="Turkish Translation">
        <mail link="aycan@core.gen.tr">Aycan Irican</mail>
</author>
<author title="Turkish Translation">
        <mail link="bugra@myrealbox.com">Bugra Cakir</mail>
</author>
<author title="Turkish Translation">
        <mail link="cagils@biznet.com.tr">Cagil Seker</mail>
</author>
<author title="Turkish Translation">
        <mail link="emre@core.gen.tr">Emre Kazdagli</mail>
</author>
<author title="Turkish Translation">
        <mail link="evrim@core.gen.tr">Evrim Ulu</mail>
</author>
<author title="Turkish Translation">
        <mail link="gurcell@core.gen.tr">Gursel Kaynak</mail>
</author>
<chapter>
	<title>Gentoo News</title>
	<section>
		<title>Summary</title>
		<body>
			<ul>
				<li><uri link="#doc_chap1_sect2">North America gets two new source mirrors</uri></li>
				<li><uri link="#doc_chap1_sect3">CFLAGS/cpuinfo collection project</uri></li>
				<li><uri link="#doc_chap1_sect4">Upcoming infrastructure changes</uri></li>
			</ul>
		</body>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>North America gets two new source mirrors</title>
		<body>
		<p>
		As most Gentoo users in North America know, source mirrors for Gentoo Linux have often been overloaded as the distribution continues to gain in popularity.  Fortunately, the load will be eased somewhat with the addition of two new source mirrors, provided by the <uri link="http://www.ucsb.edu/">University of California, Santa Barbara</uri> and <uri link="http://promote.pair.com/click.pl">pair Networks</uri>.
		</p>
		<p>
		UCSB, located in sunny Santa Barbara, California, was recently ranked the 14th best public university in the United States.  Renown for its scientific research, UCSB professors recently won three Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics for their landmark research.
		</p>
		<p>
		pair Networks provides world-class web hosting services to customers around the globe.  With over 140,000 unique web sites and customers from 150 different countries, pair Networks has established a reputation in the industry for outstanding service at reasonable prices.  
		</p>
		<p>
		Gentoo Linux wishes to thank both pair Networks and the University of California, Santa Barbara, for their generous support of the project.  Without their support, along with the support of our other sponsors, Gentoo Linux would not be the successful distribution that it is today.  Users interested in taking advantage of these new mirrors can find more information on our <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirrors</uri> page.
		</p>
		</body>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>CFLAGS/cpuinfo collection project</title>
		<body>
		<p>
One of the projects being worked on within the Gentoo Linux project is an application that will generate a recommended set of 
CHOST/CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS for a given system. In order to make this application as useful and accurate as possible, we are in
need of much sample <tt>/proc/cpuinfo</tt> data. To facilitate this, a <uri link="http://gentoo.slinky.surrey.sfu.ca/cflagcollect/">web page</uri> has been created with both submission forms and a quick submission tool.  Users are encouraged to submit their information.  The web page contains additional information about specific systems for which we particularly need more data. 
		</p>
		</body>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Upcoming infrastructure changes</title>
		<body>
		<p>
		The infrastructure that supports Gentoo Linux will be undergoing a number of changes over the coming weeks.  These include:
		</p>
		<ul>
			<li>Migrating our DNS to an outsourced provider.</li>
			<li>Load balancing and failover services for the multiple servers that run <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org">www.gentoo.org</uri>.</li>
			<li>Moving <uri link="http://bugs.gentoo.org/">bugs.gentoo.org</uri> to a new, dedicated server.</li>
			<li>Moving <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/">cvs.gentoo.org</uri> to a new, dedicated server.</li>
			<li>Distributing and de-centralizing our mail infrastructure, placing list mail on one server and other mail on another server.</li>
			<li>Significant changes to the security infrastructure, including kernel patches, chrooted environments for many of our public services, iptables scripts and other areas.</li>
			<li>Many other smaller changes.</li>
		</ul>
		<p>
		Considerable effort will be put into ensuring these changes are as smooth as possible, with little or no direct impact to the user community.  However, as with all things technology-related, unforseen circumstances and Murphy's Law generally crop up at the most inopportune times.  Your patience as we work through these changes will be greatly appreciated.
		</p>
		</body>
	</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Gentoo Security</title>
<section>
<title>Summary</title>
<body>
     <ul>
          <li><uri link="#doc_chap2_sect2" >GLSA: heimdal</uri></li>
          <li><uri link="#doc_chap2_sect3" >GLSA: nessus</uri></li>
          <li><uri link="#doc_chap2_sect4" >New Security Bug Reports</uri></li>
     </ul>
</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>GLSA: heimdal</title>
<body>
     <p> 
     A crytographic weakness in Kerberos 4 allows an attacker to impersonate any principal in a realm through using a 
     chosen-plaintext attack.  This vulnerability extends to the implementation of mit-krb5 (see the the GLSA in the
     <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030407-newsletter.xml">April 7th GWN</uri>) and the Heimdal implementation.
     </p>
     <ul>
          <li>Severity: Critical - Authentication compromise.</li>
          <li>Packages Affected: app-crypt/heimdal prior to heimdal-0.6</li>
          <li>Rectification: Synchronize and emerge heimdal, emerge clean.</li>
          <li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56743" >GLSA Announcement</uri></li>
          <li><uri link="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2003-004-krb4.txt" >Advisory</uri></li>
     </ul>
</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>GLSA: nessus</title>
<body>
     <p> 
     The scripting engine in the Nessus security scanner has several vulnerabilities.  Exploiting these vulnerabilities to execute
     arbitrary code would require a malicious user to have a valid account as well as tricking a user into running a script.
     </p>
     <ul>
          <li>Severity: Moderate - Arbitrary code execution, mitigated by requirement for privileges by exploiter.</li>
          <li>Packages Affected: net-analyzer/nessus prior to nessus-2.0.6a</li>
          <li>Rectification: Synchronize and emerge nessus, emerge clean.</li>
          <li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56744" >GLSA Announcement</uri></li>
          <li><uri link="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&amp;m=105369506714849&amp;w=2" >Advisory</uri></li>
     </ul>
</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>New Security Bug Reports</title>
<body>
     <p>
     The following new security bugs were posted this week:
     </p>
     <ul>
          <li><uri link="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21941"></uri>net-print/cups</li>
          <li><uri link="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21943"></uri>sys-devel/gcc</li>
          <li><uri link="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21942"></uri>net-www/apache</li>
     </ul>
</body>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>User stories</title>
<body>
    <p class="secthead">A little reminder</p>
    <p>Sadly we received no submissions for a user story during the last week. :( So it seems like a good time to remind you to send your experiences with Gentoo Linux which might be interesting to fellow Gentooers to <mail link="user-stories@gentoo.org">user-stories@gentoo.org</mail> like <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030512-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3">Kai</uri>, <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030519-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3">Kenneth</uri> and <uri link="http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030526-newsletter.xml#doc_chap3">Mathy</uri> did!</p>
    <p>Fortunately we already have a candidate (who will be quite interesting, promise!) for the next issue, we just ran out of time for this week...</p>
</body>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Featured Developer of the Week</title>
<body>
<p class="secthead">Jon Portnoy, aka avenj</p>
<figure
link="http://www.gentoo.org/images/gwn/20030602_avenj.jpg" short="Jon Portnoy, aka avenj" caption="Jon Portnoy, aka avenj" />
<p>
This week we feature <mail link="avenj@gentoo.org">Jon Portnoy</mail>, whose duties in the Gentoo development team include recruitment and management of developers (along with Development Manager <mail link="seemant@gentoo.org">Seemant Kulleen</mail>), coordination of releases, caretaking of the distfiles repository, and maintenance of some thirty or so ebuilds, including <uri link="http://www.intel.com/software/products/compilers/clin/">ICC</uri>, Intel's C++ Compiler.  As developer recruiter and manager, Jon is the person project managers talk to when they want to get someone on the team, and oversees the training of new recruits (which is conducted by the original sponsor/mentor).  He and Seemant also handle much of developer policy creation.  As release coordinator, Jon oversees the entire release process, delegating tasks like stage building, QA, GRP building, and works to keep the release process flowing smoothly.  All the while he makes sure the distfiles repository is in shape as much as possible, and has been working to integrate ICC into Gentoo Linux's current GCC-focused environment ever since he joined the development team.  Jon had stopped in at freenode's #gentoo seeking help with a tricky initrd problem, ended up staying and helping people with their problems, and eventually got noticed by Seemant and joined the team as ICC implementor.  He's proud of everything he's done for Gentoo, especially his management of developers and coordination of releases.
</p>
<p>
Jon uses Enlightenment 0.16.5 with the Maw theme, as well as X-Chat 2, Mutt, Mozilla, XMMS, screen, and slrn (he's very active on comp.os.linux.advocacy and alt.os.linux.gentoo) on his workstation - cerberus, a P3 866mhz with 384MB RAM.  He also finds the game Icebreaker very addictive.  He also uses three other boxen: tempest, a P3 development/testing box, eris, a K6-2 nameserver/proxy server, and lucifer, a celeron 1.8ghz dedicated to compilation.  A student living out in the middle of nowhere in New Hampshire, Jon enjoys spending time outdoors away from his monitors, whether it be walking, biking, or kayaking.  He also spends lots of time reading and studying history, especially Russian history.  An aficionado of a variety of kinds of music, from Bob Dylan to Lucinda Williams to Juno Reactor to KMFDM, Jon is a particularly big fan of industrial music.
</p>
</body>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Heard In The Community</title>
	<section>
	<title>Web Forums</title>
	<body>
	<p><b>Spam, Spam, Spam, Baked Beans and Spam</b></p>
	<p>Did you know that Episode 25 of Monty Python's Flying Circus is the reason we call it that? SPiced hAM has become a synonym for unsolicited, obnoxious commercial email clutter that enrages the Internet community. Gentoo users are no different, albeit a little more versatile in anti-spam combat, and the forums are witness to some of the more inventive ideas how to deal with the no. 1 nuisance on the Internet these days:</p>
	<ul>
	<li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57073">How about: The Gentoo antispam initiative?</uri></li>
	<li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56944">Causing spammers serious pain</uri></li>
	</ul>
	<p><b>Break My Gentoo</b></p>
	<p>Promoted as "a haven for all those cvs ebuilds left homeless by the Great Portage CVS Purge of '03", links to a website maintained by Forums gurus <uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=2881">karl11</uri> and <uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=2799">Lin_Matt</uri> are occasionally rippling the waves whenever something new is not immediately reflected by the official Gentoo development activities. Breakmygentoo.net does have a bugzilla of their own, but everybody seems to prefer swapping experiences at the Gentoo forums... </p>
	<ul>
	<li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56667">Breakmygentoo.net</uri></li>
	<li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57248">Breakmygentoo.net - Quick howto</uri></li>
	<li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56093">CVS HEAD rhythmbox ebuild</uri></li>
	</ul>
	<p><b>OSnews Poll: And the Winner Is...</b></p>
	<p>Whatever the significance of this may be: Gentoo beat all the other major distributions in this year's Linux popularity poll at OSnews.com, up from 11 percent last year to exactly twice that share of the cake this time around. Interestingly enough, the thread that solicited Gentooists to go and vote (which at the current traffic experienced inside the Gentoo forums may well have contributed to the clear lead in the poll) even triggered one of the rare but welcome visits of <uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=548">Eugenia Loli-Queru</uri>, head mistress of everybody's favourite website, and Gentoo forum user with one of the earliest membership numbers around...</p> 
	<p><ul>
	<li><uri link="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3640">Poll: Vote for your Favorite Linux Distribution</uri></li>
	<li><uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56188">Please vote for Gentoo on OSNews poll</uri></li>
	</ul>
	</p>
</body>
</section>
  <section>
     <title>gentoo-user</title>
     <body>
       <p><b>Performance of nVidia cards</b></p>
       <p>
	In an uncommonly active thread, Spider called for the -user community to submit glxgear benchmark results of their Nvidia graphics cards. The submissions provide a good way to compare your hardware to others, allowing you to gauge any configuration errors that may be sucking precious FPS(frames per second). I'm sure we all appreciate Ernie Schroder <uri link="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/33872">whoopin' it up</uri> in the 3D world.
       </p>
       <ul>
         <li><uri link="http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&amp;root=%3C20030522013416.7051e917.spider%40gentoo.org%3E">Perfromance of nVidia cards</uri></li>
       </ul>
       <p><b>** fixpackages **</b></p>
       <p>
	As portage travels down the road of becoming the best package manager for Linux -- ever --, new features are thrown into the mix. After Tom Veldhouse updated portage, he was soon confronted with an unfamilar prompt to 'fixpackages'. Other community members may have experienced similar confusion. Brett Holcomb <uri link="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/34727">notes</uri> that, &quot;It's a new feature that fixes things when packages move from one category to another&quot; and is located in /usr/lib/portage/bin/fixpackages. The gentoo-forums also developed a <uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55863">thread</uri> discussing the new feature.
       </p>
       <ul>
         <li><uri link="http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&amp;root=%3C013a01c32606%24a5771550%24d037630a%40dh.com%3E">emerge and 'fixpackages'?</uri></li>
       </ul>
     </body>
</section>
<section>
  <title>gentoo-dev</title>
  <body>
  <p><b>XFree</b></p> 
  <p>
  Seemant Kulleen <uri link="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8905">posted</uri> a message announcing the r3 (masked) release of v4.3.0.</p>
  <p>The plan for this 3rd release of xfree is to move all font building into seperate packages. However, though it has been released it still needs some work.</p>
  <p><b>Menu system for all gentoo wm's</b></p> 
  <p>Also an <uri link="http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.devel&amp;first=1&amp;last=50">exciting idea</uri> was brought up to implement a windowmanager-independent menu layout system. A system which maintains entries for installated / removed programs in a non wm specific way. Much like the .desktop system from freedesktop.org.</p>
  <p><b>Assigning unique system uid/gid for new ebuild</b></p> 
  <p>Considerable discussion took place regarding how to decide <uri link="http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8965">what uid/gid</uri> the new package should run as. The plan apparantly is to make the installation process more flexible to include dynamically modifying a list of uids/gids. However for now everything is fixed around /etc/passwd, which is part of baselayout.</p>
  </body>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
	<title>Gentoo International</title>
    <body>
	<p class="secthead">Documentation Translations</p>
<p>Fresh off the presses: Makoto Yamakura has announced an up-to-date Japanese version of the Gentoo Installation Guide (x86), available via the main Gentoo website. While the Japanese, Dutch, French and German translators have thus pretty much synchronized their documents with the current state of things, documentation in Spanish, Italian and Swedish is lagging behind by a few steps. If you want to contribute to the translation efforts for the Gentoo documentation, either by brushing up existing language versions or adding new ones, please contact <mail link="zhen@gentoo.org">John P. Davis</mail>.</p>
</body>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Portage Watch</title>
<section>
<title>The following notable packages were updated or added to portage this week</title>
<body>
<p>
<ul>
<li>sys-kernel/aa-sources: <uri link="http://www.kernel.org/">Full sources for Andrea Arcangeli's Linux kernel</uri></li>
<li>sys-kernel/ac-sources: <uri link="http://www.kernel.org/">Full sources for Alan Cox's Linux kernel</uri></li>
<li>sys-kernel/development-sources: <uri link="http://www.kernel.org/">Full sources for the Development Branch of the Linux kernel</uri></li>
</ul>
</p>
</body>
</section>
<section>
<title>The following stable packages were updated or added to portage this week</title>
<body>
<ul>
<li>app-crypt/heimdal: <uri link="http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/">Kerberos 5 implementation from KTH</uri></li>
<li>app-editors/gvim: <uri link="http://www.vim.org/">Graphical Vim</uri></li>
<li>app-office/gnucash: <uri link="http://www.gnucash.org/">A personal finance manager</uri></li>
<li>app-office/openoffice: <uri link="http://www.openoffice.org/">OpenOffice.org, a full office productivity suite.</uri></li>
<li>app-sci/qcad: <uri link="http://www.qcad.org">A 2D CAD package based upon Qt.</uri></li>
<li>app-shells/pdksh: <uri link="http://www.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/">The Public Domain Korn Shell</uri></li>
<li>dev-db/hk_classes: <uri link="http://hk-classes.sourceforge.net/">GUI-independent C++ libraries for database applications</uri></li>
<li>dev-db/knoda: <uri link="http://hk-classes.sourceforge.net/">KDE database frontend based on the hk_classes library</uri></li>
<li>dev-java/ant: <uri link="http://ant.apache.org">Java-based build tool similar to 'make' that uses XML configuration files.</uri></li>
<li>dev-java/blackdown-jre: <uri link="http://www.blackdown.org">Blackdown Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1</uri></li>
<li>dev-lang/R: <uri link="http://www.r-project.org/">R is GNU S - A language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.</uri></li>
<li>dev-python/PyOpenGL: <uri link="http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/">Python OpenGL bindings</uri></li>
<li>dev-python/docutils: <uri link="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">Set of python tools for processing plaintext docs into HTML, XML, etc.</uri></li>
<li>gnome-base/ORBit2: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">ORBit2 is a high-performance CORBA ORB</uri></li>
<li>gnome-base/bonobo-activation: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">Gnome2 replacement for OAF</uri></li>
<li>gnome-base/gnome-applets: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">Applets for the Gnome2 Desktop and Panel</uri></li>
<li>gnome-base/libbonoboui: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">User Interface part of Lib bonobo</uri></li>
<li>gnome-base/libgnome: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">Essential Gnome Libraries</uri></li>
<li>gnome-base/libgnomeprint: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">Printer handling for Gnome</uri></li>
<li>gnome-extra/gnome-media: <uri link="http://www.prettypeople.org/~iain/gnome-media/">Multimedia related programs for the Gnome2 desktop</uri></li>
<li>gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">Procman - The Gnome System Monitor</uri></li>
<li>gnome-extra/gnome-utils: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">Utilities for the Gnome2 desktop</uri></li>
<li>media-gfx/blender: <uri link="http://www.blender.org/">3D Creation/Animation/Publishing System</uri></li>
<li>media-sound/alsa-driver: <uri link="http://www.alsa-project.org/">Advanced Linux Sound Architecture kernel modules</uri></li>
<li>net-firewall/fwbuilder: <uri link="http://www.fwbuilder.org/">A firewall GUI</uri></li>
<li>net-firewall/kmyfirewall: <uri link="http://kmyfirewall.sourceforge.net/">Graphical KDE iptables configuration tool</uri></li>
<li>net-firewall/shorewall: <uri link="http://www.shorewall.net">Full state iptables firewall</uri></li>
<li>net-fs/autofs: <uri link="http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html">Kernel based automounter</uri></li>
<li>net-fs/samba: <uri link="http://www.samba.org">SAMBA is a suite of SMB and CIFS client/server programs for UNIX</uri></li>
<li>net-irc/xchat: <uri link="http://www.xchat.org/">X-Chat is a graphical IRC client for UNIX operating systems.</uri></li>
<li>net-libs/libesmtp: <uri link="http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/">libESMTP is a library that implements the client side of the SMTP protocol</uri></li>
<li>net-libs/libfwbuilder: <uri link="http://www.fwbuilder.org/">A firewall GUI (library functions)</uri></li>
<li>net-libs/nss_ldap: <uri link="http://www.padl.com/OSS/nss_ldap.html">NSS LDAP Module</uri></li>
<li>net-libs/pam_ldap: <uri link="http://www.padl.com/OSS/pam_ldap.html">PAM LDAP Module</uri></li>
<li>net-mail/bogofilter: <uri link="http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/">Bayesian spam filter designed with fast algorithms, and tuned for speed.</uri></li>
<li>net-mail/courier-imap: <uri link="http://www.courier-mta.org/">An IMAP daemon designed specifically for maildirs</uri></li>
<li>net-mail/disspam: <uri link="http://www.topfx.com/">A Perl script that removes spam from POP3 mailboxes based on RBLs.</uri></li>
<li>net-nds/openldap: <uri link="http://www.OpenLDAP.org/">LDAP suite of application and development tools</uri></li>
<li>net-nds/yp-tools: <uri link="http://www.linux-nis.org/nis">NIS Tools</uri></li>
<li>net-nds/ypbind: <uri link="http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypbind-mt/index.html">Multithreaded NIS bind service</uri></li>
<li>net-nds/ypserv: <uri link="http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/">NIS SERVER</uri></li>
<li>net-print/cups: <uri link="http://www.cups.org">The Common Unix Printing System</uri></li>
<li>net-wireless/wireless-tools: <uri link="http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html">A collection of tools to configure wireless lan cards.</uri></li>
<li>net-www/apache: <uri link="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Web Server, Version 2.0.x</uri></li>
<li>sys-apps/di: <uri link="http://www.gentoo.com/di/">Disk Information Utility</uri></li>
<li>sys-cluster/ipvsadm: <uri link="http://linuxvirtualserver.org">ipvsadm is a utility to administer the IP virtual server services offered by the Linux kernel with IP virtual server support.</uri></li>
<li>sys-devel/binutils: <uri link="http://sources.redhat.com/binutils/">Tools necessary to build programs</uri></li>
<li>sys-devel/distcc: <uri link="http://distcc.samba.org/">a program to distribute compilation of C code across several machines on a network</uri></li>
<li>sys-devel/gcc: <uri link="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html">The GNU Compiler Collection.  Includes C/C++ and java compilers</uri></li>
<li>sys-libs/db: <uri link="http://www.sleepycat.com">Berkeley DB</uri></li>
<li>x11-base/xfree: <uri link="http://www.xfree.org">Xfree86: famous and free X server</uri></li>
<li>x11-libs/gtk+: <uri link="http://www.gtk.org/">Gimp ToolKit + </uri></li>
<li>x11-libs/gtkglarea: <uri link="http://www.gnome.org/">GL extensions for gtk+</uri></li>
</ul>
<p>Total categories: 82</p>
<p>Total packages: 4478 (82 packages added since last week)</p>
</body>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Bugzilla</title>
<section>
<title>Summary</title>
<body>
<p>
<e>Due to technical difficulties with the bugs.gentoo.org server on Friday, bug statistics will be unavailable this week.  Next week's GWN will include a two-week summary.</e>
</p>
</body>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Tips and Tricks</title>
<body>
<p class="secthead">Export an X Session</p>
<p>
  This week's tip shows you how to run GUI programs remotely by exporting an X
  session and tunneling it over SSH. Note that this is heavily dependant on the 
  speed of your network connection. If you're trying to run Mozilla off of a 
  box on the other side of the country on a 56K modem it is probably not going 
  to work very well. The best application for this is running programs over the 
  same LAN or possibly a high-speed WAN. An easy example application is running
  gvim remotely so you can have a GUI editor.
</p>
<p>
  For this example we assume the local machine has an IP of 192.168.1.2 and
  the remote machine has an IP of 192.168.1.3.  On the local machine you're
  going to need to give the remote machine access to connect to your X server.
  Use the command <c>xhost</c> to do this.
</p>
<pre caption="Local machine">
<codenote>This command allows the machine with the IP 192.168.1.3 to connect</codenote>
# <i>xhost +192.168.1.3</i>
</pre>
<p>
  On the remote machine, you need to export the <c>$DISPLAY</c> variable to
  your local machine. After that, you should be ready to run GUI programs
  remotely.
</p>
<pre caption="Remote machine">
# <i>export DISPLAY=&quot;192.168.1.2:0.0&quot;</i>
# <i>gvim /etc/passwd</i>
<codenote>You should see gvim open on your local machine with the contents</codenote>
<codenote>of the remote machine's <path>/etc/passwd</path> file.</codenote>
</pre>
<note>This is very unsecure and not recommended since everything you type including 
passwords will be transmitted over the network unencrypted.</note>
<p>
To tunnel the connection over SSH and thus encrypt the traffic edit your
<path>/etc/sshd2_config</path> file.
</p>
<pre caption="/etc/sshd2_config">
<codenote>Add or edit the following line</codenote>
ForwardX11     yes
</pre>
<p>
Now connect from the local machine to the remote machine via ssh and start your 
X application.
</p>
<pre caption="Remote machine">
# <i>gvim /etc/passwd</i>
<codenote>You should see gvim open on your local machine with the contents</codenote>
<codenote>of the remote machine's <path>/etc/passwd</path> file.</codenote>
<p>
Notice that you don't have to set the DISPLAY variable, ssh automagically 
does that for you. You do however have to allow access to your local machine's 
X server (see above).
</p>
</pre>
</body>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>Moves, Adds and Changes</title>
	<section>
		<title>Moves</title>
		<body>
		<p>The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
			<ul>
				<li><e>none this week</e></li>
			</ul>
		</p>
		</body>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Adds</title>
		<body>
		<p>The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:</p>
		<ul>
			<li>Rob Holland (robh) -- media-sound</li>
			<li>Ned Ludd (solar) -- Hardened Gentoo, grsecurity</li>
		</ul>
		</body>
	</section>
	<section>
		<title>Changes</title>
		<body>
		<p>The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux project.</p>
			<ul>
				<li><e>none this week</e></li>
			</ul>
		</body>
	</section>
</chapter>
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