From a Business Wire press release: InterVideo, Inc., a developer of PC video software, has
announced its LinDVD Linux DVD player/decoder has been selected to provide the DVD video/audio playback
capability in the breakthrough ZapMedia(SM) ZapStation Universal Media Player.

ZDNet reviews Frontpath’s ProGear, “a wireless portable information appliance targeted to vertical market segments. The ProGear uses Embedded Linux as its internal operating system, includes a 10.4′ TFT display, and obtains its user input via either a virtual keyboard or handwriting recognition on its touchscreen.”

CNet reports that the first laptops loaded with Transmeta’s Crusoe chip have arrived in the United States. “Tokyo-based Sony is shipping its Vaio C1 PictureBook — a 1-inch thick, 2.2-pound
machine based on the 600-MHz Transmeta TM5600 Crusoe chip — to the States. Until now, notebooks containing Transmeta’s chips
have been released in Japan only, and in limited numbers.”

From a column at ZDNet : “Last week I introduced you to OpenOffice, the nine million lines of source code Sun has released to the open source world from its StarOffice office productivity suite. As I said, I’m now using StarOffice but am eagerly waiting for something better to come along, and I know it will. But not everyone sees StarOffice’s opening as such a big deal.”

ZDNet’s LinuxDevices.com has a feature on the empeg car audio player, which features full-function embedded Linux computer.

According to a press release at LinuxPR, the Linux desktop
now has a full-featured fax and voice messaging application. PMfax for
Linux has been released and is immediately available at www.pmfax.com.
This product fills a hole in the Linux desktop and provides other Linux
applications with “print and fax” capabilities.

The press release is at LinuxPR: The Simi Conejo Linux Users Group is sponsoring its third LUGFest this
Saturday, October 28th, 2000 at Nortel Networks (directions at
http://lugfest.sclug.org/directions.cgi)in Simi Valley, CA. There Linux users
will demonstrate various applications available under the Linux operating
system. Various vendors of Linux products will also be there showing off
their wares.

LWN.net has the advisory: A local /tmp bug in the /usr/sbin/ppp-off program was found. This bug
could allow a local user to corrupt system files. A fix has been made and
an updated package is now available in the -current branch.

Informix Software, the database
company, a subsidiary of Informix Corporation, today announced Red Brick
Decision Server 6.1, the latest version of the powerful Informix database engine for data
warehousing in Web or conventional decision-support environments. Business Wire has the press release. If that wasn’t enough news in one day, the company also introduced a developer’s edition of its Informix Extended Parallel Server
Version 8.31 for the Linux platform, meeting user demand to make the powerful
data-management functionality of XPS available on the increasingly popular operating system. Here’s that press release, also from Businss Wire.

The announcement is at LWN.net: “The Blackdown Java-Linux Team is happy to announce the availability of
Java2 SE v1.3.0-FCS for i386 and PPC, Java 3D 1.2 for PPC, and Java2
SE v1.2.2-FCS for S/390.”