Linux Journal explains networking in Linux. What’s happening on your network that you don’t know about? Here are your answers.

Australian IT reports on a computer bank called Computerbank Victoria, which recycles computers and gives them to the underpriveleged, will be opening branches across Australia.

The Linux Documentation Project newsletter is at Linuxdoc.org. Among new documents: “Bandwidth Limiting HOWTO” and “X Window System Architecture Overview HOWTO.”

From a press release at LinuxDevices: Lineo Inc. today
announced the availability of Lineo Availix Horizontal
Clustering 1.3, a new clustering solution providing
customers with performance for non-stop access services.
Availix Clustering is based on the Linux operating system
and provides the CompactPCI hardware architecture with an
immediate, cost-effective solution for high availability,
redundancy, reliability and scalability.

From a press release at InternetWire: Just weeks after iXsystems
(formerly BSDi) adopted its new name and
business focus on the rackmount server market,
the company has announced its first new
product – the ultra-compact iXtreme 1400
1U rack-optimized Internet server. Occupying
one third less space and running up to 20
percent cooler than other 1U servers, the
ultra-compact iXtreme 1400 server delivers
maximum horsepower per square inch of rack
space, while supporting demanding Internet
applications such as e-mail servers, DNS
servers, Web servers and firewalls.

The humor site, Segfault has several examples, including this one: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are in your kernel, but it’s still too big.”

From a press release at LWN.net: The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.20 of the Apache HTTP
server.

This version of Apache is principally a security fix release which
closes a problem under the Windows and OS2 ports that would segfault
the server in response to a carefully constructed URL. It also fixes
some potential configuration quirks present in the 1.3.19 release.
A summary of the new features is given at the end of this document.

ZDNet reports that IBM is setting up one of it 10-processor zSeries mainframes as an “open-access virtual server,” where Linux enthusiasts can explore and develop Linux tools for free.

From Reuters: “VA Linux Systems, which makes products and services for the Linux computer operating
system, on Tuesday said its third-quarter pro forma loss grew more than fourfold, citing
difficult market conditions.

The company’s pro forma net loss totaled $19 million, or 38 cents a share, compared with a loss
of $4.5 million, or 13 cents a year earlier.” VA did beat street estimates of a 40-cent per share loss, however. (VA owns NewsForge.)

LinuxGram has a story about Codeweavers’ efforts to kick-start the Wine development effort. “Wine’s emergence, after years of a development process slow enough to make the Mozilla
program, three years late, look on time, is due to CodeWeavers, which is building its business on
Wine-based products.

CodeWeavers is using some of the $1.8 million in venture capital that it got last August to pay
developers to finish up Wine. CodeWeavers got $1.3 million of the $1.8 million from Linux Global
Partners, the New York operation that is supposed to negotiating the purchase of Corel’s Linux
unit.”