Commentary from John C. Dvorak, at PC Magazine: “The Lindows concept was dreamed up by MP3.com entrepreneur Michael Robertson, and is encountering skepticism. Nobody is taking it too seriously except me. I think Lindows might fly if it can conquer one simple roadblock, and that’s running Microsoft Office 97, 2000, and XP. If Lindows can run these versions of Office, then look out below. Bombs away.”

lele writes “Looking for a lite, fast and fully standards-compliant Web browser for Windows, based on gecko (the mozilla rendering engine) and released under the GNU GPL? K-Meleon 0.6 is out: go and get it as long as there are still some copies left! (the Release Notes for this new version of K-Meleon are posted here)”

MozillaQuest: “AOL-Time-Warner’s Netscape division placed its Netscape 6.2 (NS 6.2) browser-suite upgrade for the Linux, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows platforms on its FTP servers today. Much as was the case with Netscape 6.1, Netscape 6.2 could be the make-or-brake, do-or-die, and last gasp Netscape browser offering.”

Reported at PC World: “One of the computing world’s newest networking standards, USB 2.0, will be battling for the attention of visitors at the upcoming Comdex Fall show with IEEE 1394, an already established format that is spreading its wings to encompass a greater number of uses and a soon-to-come speed upgrade. The two formats have their roots in what were once very different fields.”

“A CD-RW can be a dangerous weapon when it falls into the wrong hands,” said RIAA President Hilary Rosen, “You wouldn’t sell a gun to a convicted felon and you shouldn’t sell a CD-RW drive to a Gnutella user. The 3 day waiting period gives us time to verify that no copyrighted material is on the purchasers hard drive and to make sure they have a membership in the Columbia House CD club.” At BBspot, with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

From the Daily Mail & Guardian: “Using a computer is daunting enough for beginners, especially if you are forced to do it in a language that is not your own. But in September South African firm Translate.org.za released the entire computing experience in Xhosa, covering the full desktop, Web browser, word processor, spreadsheet and e-mail application.

The programmes have been translated to run on Linux, the open source software that is rapidly gaining inroads in the computing world.”

The Register: “Citing a controversial U.S. copyright law, a top Linux developer
announced this week that Americans would not be given details
about the security fixes in an update to the open source
operating system, a first for a software development community that prides itself on transparency.”

Serge Dujardin writes: “The first high availability Blade Server platform leverages Red Hat® Linux® 7.2 features for improved reliability, security and cost-effectiveness.”
Sophia Antipolis, France – October 30th 2001 – RealScale Technologies Inc. today announced that its innovative i-Cluster? Blade Server platform supports Red Hat® Linux® 7.2. By embedding this last version on its i-Cluster? Blade Servers, RealScale Technologies enables Enterprises, Institutions and xSPs to deploy an even more efficient and high performing application server environment.

?Red Hat® Linux® 7.2 ships with the new generation Linux® 2.4.7 kernel. This will add significant reliability, security and performance capabilities to our Blade Servers. Moreover Red Hat® Linux® 7.2 will allow our customers to benefit from even easier network, hardware and user management plus straightforward firewall configuration for added security,? said Jean-Christophe Pari, CTO of RealScale Technologies.

RealScale will leverage its unique Blade Server technology embedding Red Hat® Linux® 7.2 to allow Enterprises, Institutions and Service Providers to deploy easily, quickly and cost effectively solutions such as:

– Internet/Intranet applications

– Information Systems (file sharing, e-mail, office applications)

– e-Business Applications (Databases, e-Commerce)

– High Performance Cluster Computing (e.g. Beowulf) etc.

The i-Cluster? offering is ready for shipment. Prices for i-Cluster? based High Availability Blade Servers start at $990. For more information about price and availability, please contact RealScale at: sales@realscale.com.

About RealScale Technologies

RealScale Technologies, Inc. is a pioneer and leader of Blade Server Technology. Early in 2000, RealScale released the i-Cluster?, the first patent pending Intel®-based Blade Server platform. Today RealScale delivers to Enterprises, Service Providers and OEMs the most comprehensive range of Blade Servers in the market. RealScale brings to its clients the most open, flexible and scalable managed Blade Server platform based on an industry proven server architecture (Intel®-based) while enabling unequalled availability, high server density and extremely low power consumption. Founded in 1997 by Serge Dujardin and Jean-Christophe Pari, the company?s European headquarters are located in Sophia Antipolis, France.

RealScale Technologies and i-Cluster? are trademarks of RealScale Technologies Inc. and its affiliates. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

For more information about RealScale, visit www.realscale.com or contact:

RealScale Technologies, Inc.

Serge Dujardin, President

Tel: +33 4 93 95 68 70

E-Mail: press@realscale.com”

Wired: “Napster’s new CEO says the government needs to consider the compulsory licensing of music if the labels can’t make deals with online services.”

PCWorld: “Intel has cut the prices of its three fastest Pentium 4 processors and of some of its 0.13-micron Pentium III Processor-M chips. The cuts could bring down the price
of Intel-based business and consumer PCs between now and the U.S. holiday season.

The price drops took effect on Sunday, according to Intel. The price of the fastest Pentium 4 processor, the 2-GHz version, was cut 29 percent to $401 in 1,000-unit
quantities, a standard measurement in chip sales. The 1.9-GHz version of the chip was reduced 27 percent, from $375 to $273, while the 1.8-GHz version had its
price cut by 12 percent, from $256 to $225.”