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.

A new international standard for securing digital information was
announced Monday and shortly afterwards received its first
commerical endorsement from Irish computer security specialists
Baltimore, reports ZDNet UK News.

Qarbon.com announced the launch of ViewletBuilder2 Version 2.1, the company’s free development tool for creating Viewlets, from PRNewswire.

NewsFactor Newtwork News reports, an ardent group of software coders working together
over the Internet is creating a standard program that will enable Web
surfers to continue to trade music without going through Napster’s central
computers.

Canada News Wire: Today, Alta Terra Ventures Corp. announced that MaxOS Linux, its Linux-based computer operating system,
is available in retail stores.

Linux Today offers this reprint from the Kernel Mailing List containing updates to USB (ohci controller and device numbering), Sparc, and SCSI module.

Administrative tasks in Windows NT are strikingly similar to the
same tasks in Linux, this comes as little surprise, as one of
Microsoft’s first ventures had been Xenix, a Unix clone, surmises Linux.com.