Linux Journal Press, a partnership between Specialized
Systems Consultants, Inc. and No Starch Press, announces the
publication of its first book. “Linux Music & Sound” (
$39.95, 350 pp. w/CD-ROM, http://www.nostarch.com/?lms, October 2000) is
the first book to document recording, storing, playing, and editing music and
sound using the Linux operating system. Read more of the press release at LinuxPR.

The singer says Universal Music Group isn’t passing its windfall in its successful lawsuit against MP3.com along to the artists. She wants a cut, Upside.com
reports,

Linux NetworX, a provider of cluster
computer solutions for Web hosting, ISPs, ASPs, video streaming, industry and
research fields, plans to introduce its RapidFlow TM line of switches at the
Networld+Interop 2000 trade show Sept. 26. The RapidFlow Switch
Architecture offers scalability, flexibility, ease-of-use and manageability for
customers requiring accelerated data routing and reliability. The press release is at LinuxPR.

SuSE now supports
PowerPC, Alpha and SPARC in addition to i386, and the Slashdot readers discuss the possibilities.

ZDNet follows up on reports that some members of the Linux community are rejecting the record industry’s request to help it create a more secure technical lock on its digital music. The Linux Journal is sponsoring a boycott of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, which starts Friday and promises to pay $10,000 to any hacker who strips out the watermark from a digital song.

Aimster, the Napster-like program that taps into America Online’s Instant Messenger software to create file-swapping buddy lists, is expanding its file-searching capabilities to support ICQ and to search Napster and Scour Exchange networks, reports CNET News.

KDE.org is offering insights into the people that are behind KDE, starting with its founder, Matthias Ettrich.

Leading Linux companies Red Hat and Caldera Systems will headline keynotes at LINUX Business Expo-Atlanta, reports PRNewswire.

The Standard reports, that on its way down, Napster is attacking its attackers.

If the idea of the internet as a pure tool of free speech appeals to you, take a good look, it could become the most restrictive form of publishing, warns a new book on censorship in the UK, from BBC News.