“BSDi, the leader in Internet infrastructure-grade solutions, and Korea
Telecom Internet Solutions (KTIS) announced today a channel partnership through which KTIS will provide BSDi
software and solutions to the Korean market and provide technical support for the FreeBSD open source operating
system.” From a press release at BSD Today.

From ZDNet: “Torvalds and his team will continue to tweak the 2.4
kernel for some time, with patches and bug fixes released
as 2.4.x versions. At some point he will create the 2.5
development tree and begin the cycle again. Linux
vendors are working on commercial versions of the
operating system, which are due within six months, that
are based on the kernel.”

In Part 2 of a series, Linux Orbit looks at ICQ and its access options for Linux.

From Network World Fusion: Inprise/Borland late Friday posted a software patch
at its Web site that it said will fix a potential security
flaw discovered in Versions 4.0 through 6.0 of its
InterBase product. The company said the flaw could allow illegal access
to the database’s “metadata,” or data which
describes the content of a database for access
purposes.”

ZDNet UK reports: “On the heels of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs’ prediction
that an “avalanche” of third-party Mac OS X software will land
by summer, longtime Mac developer Macromedia took the
stage at last week’s Macworld Expo here to promise new
versions of its core multimedia apps for Apple’s
next-generation OS.”

eWEEK reports: “As IT managers rush to embrace mobile
commerce, many are quickly realizing that wireless
technologies such as PDAs (personal digital assistants)
and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) phones present
unique and urgent security challenges, particularly as they
are increasingly being used by internal employees and
external customers to access critical enterprise data and
systems.”

Slashdot readers discussion the (developmental) resurrection of miniSQL.

CNet reports that MP3.com is making its extensive online music database and streaming technology available for free to developers. “The move effectively gives rivals access to music rights bought by MP3.com for some $150 million in lawsuit
settlements with the record industry. MP3.com said it hopes the move will jump-start online music innovation.”

– by Tina Gasperson –
RLX Technologies, led by CEO Gary Stimac (co-founder of Compaq) announced today that it is launching a new line of servers that will make use of the Transmeta Crusoe processor and the Linux kernel.
RLX is designing an entire line of server products that will run on Red Hat and Debian. According to the RLX Technologies Web site, the company’s target audience will initially be Internet Data Center customers “in the XSP space” — meaning application and Internet service providers.

A publicist for the company confirmed that there are no products available yet. The new servers will roll out sometime in the first half of 2001. “They are in alpha-testing with the manufacturer,” said Vyonne Donaldson. RLX has not released the name of the company it is working with to produce the machines, but Donaldson said that information would be forthcoming.

The “triple-threat” combination of low power requirements (due to the Crusoe processor), low space requirements, and lower price due to the use of Linux, promises to make RLX a strong competitor in the Web server market, and it is this holy trinity that makes RLX unique, because while other companies use dense server technology and offer Linux operating systems, no one else is selling Crusoe-based servers.

Other companies already involved in the ultra dense server arena include Compaq (RLX CEO Stimac’s old haunt), with its ProLiant DL360 whose users have a choice between NT, Linux, Novell, and SCO Unix; VA Linux (ed. note: VA Linux owns Newsforge) with its Linux-based 2U architecture, and Dell, with its PowerApp line.

NewsForge editors read and respond to comments posted on our discussion page.

From LinuxToday: “Transmeta’s Crusoe processor and Linux will be key to a group of ex-Compaq executives’ plans to “redefine server
economics” with a high-efficiency server platform aimed at Internet data centers.

RLX Technologies was unveiled in a teleconference today. Headed by former Compaq Systems Division chief Gary Stimac,
and former president of Compaq’s North America operations Michael Snavely, the company has yet to produce a prototype
of the new platform, code-named “Razor”, but they promise it will leverage Transmeta’s low power consumption and heat
output to provide a more cost-efficient server platform.”