Linuxnewbie tutorial to set up USB Creative Video Blaster II for Linux.

The Register reports, The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) – most famous for
bringing court cases against MP3-based companies like Napster and
Diamond Multimedia – has “reached agreement” with National Music
Publishers Association (NMPA) on how to allow licensing of music over the
Internet.

In the world’s first cyberelections, Karl Auerbach defeated six other
candidates to become North America’s representative to the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Associated Press on Wired News.

WebEvent 3.4 BETA 1 source-code now available for public preview, announces Linux PR.

The Free Standards Group today announced the release of the
first version of the Linux Development Platform Specification, LDPS, reports NewsAlert, the LDPS allows portability in application development to all generally available Linux distributions.

Linux PR:
Lutris Technologies Inc., an Open Source enterprise software and
services company, today announced that Lutris will showcase Lutris Enhydra
3.0, the commercially supported Open Source JavaTM/ XML Wireless
application server at the Intel eXCHANGE Expo.

VA Linux Systems, Inc. today announced the immediate availability of Debian GNU/Linux software on its
2200 series Internet servers, complete with technical support, services and free updates via the
Internet, from Business Wire. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

FreeBSD 4.1 is reviewed in this article from osOpinion.

PRNewswire: In the first step to extend its
market reach beyond Microsoft Windows environments, NQL Inc.
today announced beta availability of a Java version of its Network Query
Language that has been qualified for the Linux operating system.

The demand for Unix in Melbourne, Australia is on the move upwards, reports Enterprise Linux Today, over the last 12 months the
market has started to witness a distinct growth in the need for Unix across the board, with Linux and
FreeBSD featuring heavily, according to Gottleibsen Research.