The Register reports that “S3 spin-off Frontpath, the maker of the ProGear web pad, says it
has no connection with a company producing an identical product,
but with a BeOS twist.

The mysterious Envivid has announced details of what it calls the
‘eQ ProGear’ GSM-ready wireless web appliance. The Envivid web
site describes a device apparently identical to Frontpath’s ProGear —

like ProGear, is also based on Transmeta’s Crusoe processor — the
difference being that it runs the BeOS operating system and not
Linux.”

LinuxWorld has part 3 of its Linux firewall series: “The idea is simple — let’s get some custom hardware and
software, put them into one easy-to-install ‘black box’ and write
some software to manage the beast. The end user doesn’t need
to know what OS is inside, or how to install and configure the
software.”

CNet reports that TurboLinux chairman and co-founder Cliff Miller has stepped down to create a start-up focusing
on storing other companies’ data.

Miller has taken the job as chief executive of Mountain View Data, a company that will sell storage services on Open Source InterMezzo file storage software.

The Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO team announces
the creation of a mailing list dedicated to discussion of the topic of their
HOWTO. Bert Hubert, the original author of the HOWTO, stated, “We were
flooded by email with questions on how to deploy Linux in advanced routing
projects. We want our efforts to mean something to the world, and as we
are strong believers in the open source community, we decided to create a
mailing list.” The press release is at LinuxPR.

eWeek reports on the impending release of Rumor, a Napter-like peer-to-peer file sharing services for managing anti-virus updates. It’s from Network Associates Inc. subsidiary MyCIO.com.

Exabyte Asia Pacific, a
maker of network backup systems, has announced the
compatibility of its new 430 Mammoth 2 (M2) Library to Donovan System’s
server co-location solutions offering at Internet Business 2000.
This translates to quick and reliable data storage and retrieval on the Linux
server platform. The press release is at LinuxPR.

The press release is at kde.org: The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.0 (named Kopernicus), KDE’s
powerful, modular, Internet-enabled desktop. “KDE 2.0 is an important release,” stated Ransom Love, president and CEO of Caldera Systems, Inc. “Our customers are anxious to
migrate not only their servers but also their desktops to the Linux technology. KDE 2.0 will be a key component of OpenLinux
eDesktop, our solution for a seamless and cost-effective transition strategy.”

TheDukeofURL reviews Conectiva Linux: “Conectiva Linux features much of what we’ve come to expect, SMP, graphical installation,
optimized kernels, SSL, hardware detection, and more, but also brings to the table a few new
features. One of these new features is two CDs full of commercial applications, something not
normally seen in your typical Linux distributions.”

From a press release on Business Wire: Covalent Technologies, a developer of products and services for the open-source Apache Web server platform, has
introduced an extensive suite of products to serve the Apache Web server community, including new Web server
management tools and an expansion of security and e-commerce products.

Slashdot reports on the latest BSDCon: “The highlights of the security talks were Bill Fumerola’s talk on DoS
attacks and the new ipfw which uses compiled rulesets for better performance, Robert
Watson’s TrustedBSD presentation, and Mark Murray’s explanation of the
/dev/urandom work he has done with FreeBSD using Yarrow.”