“BigStorage Inc., the market
leader in open-systems storage, today announced its successful
installation of 10TB of its iRAID and nearline data storage at
EMusic.com, an e-commerce music company based in Redwood City,
CA that specializes in the distribution of MP3 audio files over the World
Wide Web. The installation is the largest successful Linux storage
network to date and sets a precedent for Linux’s ability to power
high-volume storage in an enterprise environment.” Full press release at Linux PR.

Linux Journal has a column giving Thomson Multimedia a rough time for assuming the Ogg Vorbis MP3 project infringes on Thomson’s intellectual property. “What we’re talking about is the difference between infringement and an infringement
claim. Unfortunately for us, this is for the courts to decide. Of course, the eminent scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute could look at the Ogg Vorbis
code anytime they want; it’s open.”

Slashdot readers discuss this tidbit: “”Let me inform you about our new MPEG-4-based codec
called 3IVX. You probably heard of DivX 😉 as a movie compression format.
And indeed it’s great. But we (the whole 3ivx.com team… want to go a bit
further. Our goal is to optimize compression so that the file size is smaller, of
a higher quality and fully streamable. Moreover the codec will be supported on
all platforms (Windows, Macintosh, BeOS, *nix (including Linux), Amiga …). To accomplish this
the code of the player will become an open source.”

ZDNet has a column explaining Apple’s BSD derivative, Darwin. “It’s unlikely that Darwin will ever develop anything close to the mindshare that makes Linux the world’s fastest-growing operating system.”

InfoWorld reports that Oracle has extended its $1 million our-servers-run-better-than-yours challenge to BEA in addition to IBM and Microsoft.

Reuters reports that the German government has asked Bertelsmann to stop its partner Napster from allowing users to exchange music by “extreme right-wing bands.”

From PR Newswire: The 3rd Edition of “UNIX System
Administration Handbook,” authored by a team including XOR’s Trent Hein, Evi
Nemeth and Ned McClain, has enjoyed such tremendous success that it is
entering its second printing in less than six months.

From InternetWire: PolyServe, a leading provider of systems software for the
Internet data center, today introduced LocalCluster Enterprise,
a ground-breaking new high-availability server clustering
solution for data replication of web- and IP-based services. It’s available on Linux and soon on FreeBSD.

CNet reports: “A gray market maverick has sneaked an extra 2,500 Sony PlayStation 2 game consoles into the United Kingdom from a
‘secret location’ in Northern Europe.”

The Register reports that an “esoteric buffer overlow bug” in OpenBSD has been upgraded in importance because it could allow a cracker to gain remote access to a server.