The tour, sponsored by Vagrant Records and Napster, kicks off Aug. 23 in San Diego, according to Business Wire.

Wondering what happens at the Geek Bowl? The San Jose Mercury News features the LinuxWorld event.

RedHerring.com quoting Linus Torvalds in a LinuxWorld roundup: “I used
to worry about Linux becoming too commercial, but I don’t anymore. It
turns out that it’s been very important to see the old-fashioned Linux
community become augmented by the new people. I’d really hate to see
Linux turn into some self-centered, navel-contemplating kind of thing.”

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced expanded distribution for the Java 2 platform on the Linux operating system through agreements with SuSE and TurboLinux, reported M2 Communications.

NewsAlert reports, that SuSE Linux AG and Tech Soft America (TSA) have announced an agreement to freely distribute TSA’s HOOPS 3D Application Framework with SuSE’s Linux Operating System.

OpenSales, Inc. today announced that its software is now bundled with the packaged Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Complete operating system
from MandrakeSoft, the arrangement provides for the worldwide distribution of the two products, reports Business Wire.

Linux Today announces a security advisory due to a typo in the rpm spec file for apache-ssl.

LinuxPlanet reviews Red Hat Linux 7.0.

NewsAlert reports, that Sanchez Computer Associates Inc. today announced the company has completed a port of its PROFILE/Anyware enterprise banking system to Linux, the open source operating system.