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.

Upside Today reports, open source author Eric Raymond discussed his future writing plans, including an upcoming
book on the “Zen and the Art of Unix,” at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco
Monday.

The U.S. government is recognizing the best and brightest of its Linux community, reports LinuxNews, and focusing on the operating system’s future with a conference and awards presentation October 30.

VA Linux Systems, Inc., the world’s Linux leader, today announced the availability of VACM 2.0, the latest official release of VA Cluster Manager software, from Business Wire. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is owned by VA Linux.)

ZDNet News looks at a few applications to administer new TLDs filed Monday with the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

PRNewswire reports, together, HotDispatch and
Caldera will build an online marketplace for Linux developers to purchase and
sell technical expertise.

Programmers don’t want to help the recording industry test its
new security “solution,” reports Salon News,
but the technology insiders behind the
system say hackers could kill it once and for all by
participating.

ZDNet News article proclaims, “There are other reasons Microsoft bought into Corel, in my humble opinion, and none of them has anything
to do with Microsoft gaining the endorsement of a major software vendor for its .Net development platform, as stated in the joint Microsoft-Corel press release.”