FreeDevelopers will be owned and run by all developers worldwide together
on a democratic basis in a sacred trust for the benefit and protection of the
world’s citizens through free software. It will pay all developers to work on
free software. All software of the free company will be licensed under the
GPL and remain free forever. (It’s in our corporate constitution). The press release is at LinuxPR.

LinuxDevices.com has opened up the product listing area of its popular
“Embedded Linux Portal” website for free product listings from companies in
the Embedded Linux Market. Note: the listings are free — the products
aren’t necessarily free 😉

Effective immediately, all companies offering products or services that
pertain to using Linux in embedded systems or devices are invited to submit
Product Listings, at no charge. The press release is at LinuxPR.

The Canadian Press reports that
Derek J. Burney was
named president and
chief executive of Corel
Corp. on
Tuesday, a position he
had held on an interim
basis since August. The announcement comes fresh after an investment deal with Microsoft.

Linux.com has posted an article on Linux based software synthesizers.

LinuxNews.com has posted an article on IBM’s new line of Linux-based eServers. The article discusses how IBM is working on increasing the security in Linux for business purposes.

O’Reilly’s latest release in the Pocket Reference
series–“GIMP Pocket Reference”–explains the numerous features of the
GNU Image Manipulation Program more affectionately known as “The
GIMP”–and is the essential guide for designers working in a Linux/Unix
environment, from Linux PR.

LinuxWorld looks at TimeSys’ Linux/RT, InterVideo’s LinDVD, VA Linux’s NAS systems, Linux Networx’s RapidFlow switches, and SteelEye’s LifeKeeper high-availability clustering in their news and new product briefs for the week of October 3, 2000.

Bell Canada, IBM Canada
Ltd. and Xybernaut Corporation, three
leaders in advanced communication technology, will hold a joint press
conference in Toronto, Ontario today to announce the launch
of a joint large-scale trial application of wearable computers, All Linux Devices is reporting.

According to BSD Today, TeraSolutions, the FreeBSD-powered ftp.freesoftware.com FTP server has
surpassed a milestone of two terabytes of files downloaded per day from a single server
machine.

Linux PR: Tuxtops, leading the pack in the Linux
mobile computer market, is proud to offer its new Debian software release
specially tuned for laptops.