From PR Newswire: Zuma Networks,
Inc., a leading-edge provider of layer 2/3/4 switch-routing/IP service
delivery platforms, and Stonesoft Corporation, (HEX: SFT1V), a leading
provider of enterprise-level security and high availability software
solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver the next level
of scalable, high-availability security platforms. The companies are
integrating Stonesoft’s StoneGate(TM) high-availability firewall and VPN
software into Zuma Network’s LightReef layer 2/3/4 switch-routing/IP
service delivery platform. Together, the company technologies will deliver
the industry’s most scalable, all-in-one switching, security and clustering
firewall/VPN platform.

Zuma
Networks LightReef switch routing platforms integrate layer 2/3/4 switching
and multi-processing Linux IP services in a scalable and open platform.

Salon.com has the second part of a story on DivX Networks. “Despite DivX
Networks’ popularity with
hackers and support from open-source software developers, the
company still has a long way to go before it realizes its grand
ambition — becoming the standard for digital video compression
online.” Also, check out the Slashdot discussion about the story.

ZDNet has a look back on IBM’s competition with Sun in the server space. “It wasn’t part of the initial plan, but an unexpected force arrived to inject energy into IBM’s server
overhaul: Linux. The operating system, though not the easy road to riches many start-ups had
hoped, has shaken Microsoft out of its leisurely assault on Unix.”

Slashdotters debate reports that Red Hat no longer allows users to freely and anonymously use Red Hat’s Update Agent to download
updated packages.

LinuxPlanet reports on a Linux-usage and brand awareness study by its corporate parent, Internet.com. Some findings: 39 percent of the respondents said they are using Linux, and another 31 percent are exploring Linux usage.
“Internet.com’s survey also examined Linux vendors, and found that Red Hat is the most well known — familiar
to 79 percent of the respondents and recognized as a major player in the Linux market by 55 percent of the
respondents. Even among non-Linux users, two-thirds have heard of Red Hat. However, the survey
shows that Linux vendors still face an upward climb among IT professionals: 35 percent of the respondents said
they didn’t know who the major players in the Linux market were, while only 18 percent of respondents were
familiar with VA Linux as a Linux vendor …” (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

From PR Newswire: MontaVista Software has announced that it
had demonstrated the first working version of embedded Linux(R) targeting the
Intel XscaleT microarchitecture. The demo, featured on the MontaVista
booth at the recently-concluded Linux World and Expo in New York, highlighted
Hard Hat Linux running on Intel’s XScale reference platform.

At Mozillaquest.com: “The Milestone 0.8.1 edition of the Mozilla browser-suite release set for today has been delayed. So, in the meantime we took a look at Friday’s 0.8.1 release candidate for a sneak preview of what’s new and improved since Milestone 0.8.

Check the MozillaQuest Magazine front page (mozillaquest.com) every now and then to find out when Milestone 0.8.1 is released.

One nifty new Mozilla feature in 0.8.1 that our sneak preview found is the hierarchical history. It does a nice job of organizing the URL history by days. You can add the hierarchical history to the sidebar by using the sidebar customize procedure.”

Anonymous Reader writes “The Web has come a long way from static html pages linked together. We can now provide complete applications over the web that can do same thing as desktop application. But how do we interface the web to the real world? Well in this article I’m going to show you how to use the web to control electric devices around your office, room, or laboratory using a PC parallel port relay board and Linux/Apache/PHP. It even has some practical purposes allowing you to add a web interface to just about any device that uses electricity. So lets get started. Complete Story“

If you want to get the attention of your elected representatives in Congress, put a stamp on that rant and drop in the nearest mailbox. That’s one conclusion supported by a recent survey that discovered most Capitol Hill lawmakers simply ignore the massive amount of e-mail they receive, despite access to sophisticated e-mail filtering and sorting software. From a story at The Standard.

“Free software gurus including Richard Stallman, founder of the free software foundation and Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition, will speak at Cambridge University next month in a meeting to assess the impact of sharing computer code, copyrighted music and ideas over the Internet.” Full story at ZDNet UK.