CNN.com reports on five new Linux products, including a patent-free streaming audio format and a content management system for large Web sites.

KDE’s Mathias Ettrich
talks about the evolution of his GUI, in an interview with olinux.com

Mission Critical Linux’s Convolo Cluster product will be highlighted Tuesday in a keynote speech by Albert Y.C. Yu, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Architecture Group, at the Intel Developer Forum Fall Conference in San Jose. The keynote, entitled “Leadership Platforms in all Segments”, will include a demonstration of an IA-64-based Convolo Cluster integrated with an IA-32 Intel web server farm to provide back-end high availability for dynamic data, Business Wire reports.

Trying to further its push into the booming wireless market, Internet consulting company Lante today announced a deal with iPlanet, the alliance between Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications, CNet reports.

From a column at Upside.com: “I’m still amazed at the open source phenomenon. This unlikely method of developing software works amazingly well for a process that seems to resemble nothing so much as a form of voluntary socialism. I have never seen a business model operate this way. Certainly not in a capitalist country like the United States, where Linux is extremely popular and Linux companies are being funded with the faith that we can somehow make money off it.”

Ian Clarke, founder of the Free Network Project and copyright critic, has been slotted to deliver the closing speech at the 2000 NXNW Music and New Media Conference, scheduled September 20-23 at the Embassy Suites in Portland, Oregon, according to a press release on Internet Wire.

Caldera Systems, a “Linux for Business” provider, and the Server Software Division of SCO have
announced a joint initiative to combine and offer Linux and UNIX server solutions and services worldwide. The new offerings include the Linux Kernel Personality for UnixWare 7 — the first technology developed to bring UnixWare 7 into the Linux business market, according to PRNewswire.com.

Linuxiso.org gives a straightforward, step-by-step review the second edition of Corel Linux.

Commercial opportunites abound during the music-sharing service’s legal problems, but there are some pitfalls companies should watch out for, TechWeb reports.

Red Herring follows up on chip-maker Transmeta’s decision to file for an IPO last week, predicting a huge stock offering. “Having Linux creator Linus Torvalds on staff doesn’t hurt the hype factor either.”