CNet reports on ZF Linux’s plans to put together a $250 PC called the Z-Port. The company plans to license the Z-Port design to Internet service providers for free, as in beer. ISPs could then give away the PCs in exhange for long-term user contracts.

From LinuxPR: Enhanced Software Technologies Inc.
(www.estinc.com), the award-winning world leader in Linux backup solutions,
Tuesday announced its newest data protection product for Linux-centric
networks, BRU-Pro.

BRU-Pro combines the strengths of its No. 1 award-winning sibling, BRU
with the scalability, ease of use, automation and cross-platform compatibility
that small- to mid-sized enterprises and data intensive environments need to
keep their businesses running smoothly while protecting mission-critical data
reliably.

At LinuxPR: KYZO Ltd., the company famed for building the prototype of its PizzaBox file
server in a carry out Pizza box, has announced a new entry level security firewall
product based on its groundbreaking LinuxROM technology. A free evaluation
download is available, which allows users to install and evaluate the product, at
www.kyzo.com.

InfoWorld follows up on reports of the CIA’s interest in software that promises Web users anonymity. The CIA’s venture capital company, In-Q-Tel, has invested about $1 million of its $30 million annual budget in a company called SafeWeb, which is working on software called Triangle Boy.

BSDToday has Part II of its article on DSL, how it works with NetBSD. It even has pictures!

At LinuxPR
: e-smith, developers of the world’s leading open-source network server solution
for small business, is pleased to announce the latest upgrade of its
award-winning flagship software.

e-smith server and gateway version 4.1 contains many new features, as well as
many minor improvements. This release is based on RedHat 7.0, with all
available updates except as noted in the release notes.

Fron LinuxPR: Downright Software, a leading
developer and tester of e-business applications, today announced the launch of
its newly developed LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, and Python) based
performance testing solution, StressMy.com.

StressMy.com gives web-developers the tools they need to test their
application’s scalability and integrity.

Inside.com via MSNBC has a story about the DivX and the DeCSS code’s threat to television. “If
you’ve ever tried to use the demonized DeCSS hacking
software to crack a DVD’s encryption, then compress the file,
then share it over the Net with someone willing to download a
600 MB file, you know that this is strictly for hackers and
hardcore hobbyists. It is no more of a threat to Sony Pictures
than a ham operator is to Clear Channel.
At least not to films. TV? That’s another story.”

LinuxPR has the press release: Mojolin (http://mojolin.com) is
pleased to announce the launch of a sister site dedicated to the Network
Engineering community. Mojosco (http://mojosco.com) is built with the same
engine that drives Mojolin and supports many of the same features. It also
provides the same fast, intuitive and functional service to Network Engineers
that Mojolin has been providing to the Linux Community for the last four months.

From LinuxPR: Recognizing the rapidly growing
market for Linux-based products and services, Oki Data Americas, Inc. today
announced it worked with IBM to develop the new open source Omni Linux
Drivers that are compatible with more than two-dozen OKI Impact Printers.