For some Linux distribution projects, new releases come twice a year. That had been the plan for Gentoo Linux this year, until it canceled its current planned release — the second time it’s done so in the past 12 months.

After bouncing back following the cancellation of a distribution release last year, once again Gentoo drops the ball. Or does it?

Securing a public CVS system
Network World Fusion – Binary packages are available for Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD and GenToo Linux installs. For other systems, you have to download and build the source package. After installing and configuring cvsd, create or copy the public CVS

Traffic-Scanning Flaw Hits 90+ Vendors
InternetNews.com – Among those US-CERT lists include: 3com, Alcatel, Avaya, D-Link Systems, Debian GNU/Linux, EMC, Fedora Project, Gentoo Linux, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Linksys (a division of Cisco), Lucent, McAfee, Microsoft, Nokia, Nortel, Novell, Red Hat, Sony, Sun

Parallels: Virtualization for Less
eWeek – Parallels Workstation 2.1 is offered up in RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) for Red Hat, SUSE and other RPM-based distributions, as well as in DEB for Debian-based distributions and the eBuild format for the Gentoo Foundation’s Gentoo Linux. Parallels