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.”

A Network World columnist says he wouldn’t be surprised to see Novell’s NetWare operating in a Linux microkernal environment. “Novell also has made some interesting moves in the
alliance arena. The company’s recent announcement
of a partnership with Red Hat Software on further
development of eDirectory for Linux and Red Hat’s
commitment to using eDirectory on its forthcoming
Red Hat Network is an interesting development.”

From a Business Wire press release: Eazel Inc., the developer of software and Internet-based
services to make computers easier to use, announced that Brian Croll has joined the company as vice president of
marketing. He will oversee all marketing operations and deliver Eazel’s Nautilus software and Internet-based services to
market.

LinuxPlanet has this review: “KDE2 is here and it is very good. I’d actually forgotten how good … While KDE-1.x was an Open Source
landmark, stable, configurable, easy, bright, and fun, it doesn’t hold a candle
to the new version.”

It’s been reported previously, but LinuxPR has a press release about TurboLinux founders Cliff and
Iris Miller, along with industry renown file system and data storage authority
Dr. Peter Braam, launching a new, global storage
service company, Mountain View Data. Leveraging advanced open source
distributed file systems and commodity hardware, Mountain View Data will
provide ISPs, ASPs, and enterprise data centers with reliable, scalable,
high-performance and cost-effective offsite data storage and management
solutions.