Info World reports on the Linux World Expo taking place in New York, and how it is more business oriented this year than last over community oriented.

CNet reports that MP3.com is starting a music licensing unit to help artists maintain control over their music.

TechWeb reports that Linux distributions now come in 188 flavours, of which 28 are derivatives of Red Hat.

An anonymous reader clues us to this one: “A slew of partnerships and investments announced at the LinuxWorld Expo, which opened Wednesday in New York and runs through Friday, prove that Linux has not simply arrived — it is now part of computing’s mainstream. The Expo’s first day has been marked by a number of announcements from major high-tech firms including IBM, Compaq Computer and Hewlett Packard, each of which has pledged sizeable investments in the Open Source operating system.” OS Opinion has the article.

From PR Newswire: Despite more than 5.25 million
attack attempts, eWeek’s OpenHack III survived a major test of Web security in
its public challenge to penetrate and corrupt an Internet service provider
(ISP) and a fictitious e-commerce site established by Argus Systems Group.
The test was part of the newsweekly’s attempt to minimize real-world Web
disasters.
An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 individual hackers failed to penetrate
three market-leading platforms — Sun Solaris 7, IBM AIX 4.3.3 and Red Hat
Linux — each of which was secured by Argus’s proprietary PitBull
intrusion-prevention system.

CNet reports that Caldera Systems has inked a deal with Acrylis, a Linux
services company, to “give it features comparable to those of the rival
Red Hat Network.”

The companies signed the deal earlier this week, and the new service will be available in the second quarter of this year.

Is there such a thing? According to this ZDNet story the National Security Agency (that’s your U.S. tax dollars at work) and software emulation firm VMware say they’ve created a “nearly crack-proof” computer that can put senstive date in things called virtual vaults.

Is there such a thing? According to this ZDNet story the National Security Agency (that’s your U.S. tax dollars at work) and software emulation firm VMware say they’ve created a “nearly crack-proof” computer that can put senstive date in things called virtual vaults.

LinuxWorld.com’s Ask the Geek fields questions like, “I have been attempting to transfer a 4 GB QuickTime movie file to Linux over FTP
from an NT (or Solaris) box to a Red Hat Linux 7.0 box. However, it stopped after 2 GB of data
was transferred. Is there a size limitation on FTP file transfers with Redhat 7.0? Please help me to
figure out this issue.”

EET.com has a story about interest in Open Source
“processors, the semiconductor equivalent of open-source software
movements like Linux.

A handful of commercial efforts are experimenting with open-source CPU
cores. Contract-manufacturing giant Flextronics, for example, is laying
plans to tap into open-source hardware for its ASICs. And both
Metaflow Technologies Inc. (La Jolla, Calif.) and IROC Technologies SA
(Grenoble, France) are building products using the Leon-1, a Sparc-like
open-source processor developed at the European Space Agency’s
Technology Center.”