According to a report at Linux Today, a recent report on the 2000 server market found that the penguin now holds a $.17 billion slice of the enterprise pie, up 132 percent from 1999.

“zopeMyAdmin is intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the web. It provides a front-end for easier manipulation of databases. It takes care of MySQL users & their corresponding access privileges.” Details at Linux Programming.

Customers of BTopenworld can breathe a little easier tonight. The British broadband Internet provider announced that will provide all of its users with free security software from Internet Security Systems. Called Online Scanner, the software alerts customers to security hazards including out of date virus programs and Trojan horse programs. The deal was announced Wednesday at ISS Connect 2001 Security Summit in Atlanta. Full story at ZDNet UK.

From Network World Fusion: “OpenReach and Penguin announced last week a turnkey Linux VPN package consisting of OpenReach software and services, and Penguin PCs. The package lets users easily and quickly install and configure a VPN in remote locations that may not have IS support. The package is a follow-on to an agreement announced last month that OpenReach would to distribute its software on Penguin computers. The VPN package could help Penguin further differentiate itself from its larger, better-known rival VA Linux Systems.”

If you really want to be the first kid on your block with a copy of Mac OS X in your hot little hands, hop on a flight to New Zealand. That is where Computerworld says the first copy of Apple’s next-generation operating system will be sold. The PR opportunity isn’t lost on the local Apple sub; they’re planning to take full advantage of New Zealand’s time zone difference and stage a midnight opening at a Mac-centric Auckland shop.

ZDNet News is reporting that Compaq Computer has made an investment in German Linux concern SuSE. The amount invested was not disclosed, but if paired with an earlier announcement, part of the deal would seem to include a seat on SuSE’s Linux Supervisory Board.

From Linux Journal: “By now, nearly everyone who has been using Linux for some time and had their system connected to the Internet has seen attempts to compromise their security. The question that often comes up is what to do about it. Unless it’s a financial or safety issue, it’s probably going to get laughed at by the legal authorities, but it’s worth reporting.”

Napster may be going, going, and almost gone, but it looks like the peer to peer “revolution” is here to stay, at least for a little longer. The Dallas Morning News takes a look at the P2P industry, and the projects waiting to take over wherever it is that Napster leaves off.

In this latest installment of Linux Journal’s system administration series, Marcel Gagne covers Samba, the Linux/Windows file and print services program.

Anti-aliased fonts, a computer graphics tweak that many users believe gives more life and realism to the electronic printed word, are available for Linux. Getting anti-aliasing working on your system may not be the easiest thing in the world, but following Dennis E. Powell’s trials, tribulations, and informal walkthrough might do the trick. More at LinuxPlanet.