A Chicago man accused of spray-painting Linux graffiti ads on Chicago sidewalks for IBM was ordered to perform 30 days of community service in recompense for criminal property damage resulting from his role in an ad campaign that went awry. Howard Bubb, general manager of Intel's converged communications division, told delegates at Intel's Developers Forum in Amsterdam this week that developing Linux to become a robust operating system for telcos would be a key priority for the chip giant. IBM's high-powered ThinkPad A20p notebook blurs the lines between portable computers and desktop PCs. A new worm spreading on Linux systems throughout the world is actually trying to do some good. The worm, called Cheese, attempts to fix any damage created by the Lion worm that plagued Linux servers in March.
Cheese is a new worm spreading on the Linux system.
Upon infection the Cheese worm attempts to install a patch against backdoors installed by the Lion worm. It then scans port 10008 to locate and patch other infected machines. Opera Software has followed up the release of Opera 5.0 for Linux with an IBM coup - the company has announced that IBM will be using Opera 5.0 for QNX for its NetVista Internet appliance.