InfoWorld reports: “With the new server corporate customers will be able to scale from a single Intel
processor-based server to a mainframe, maintaining the same class of reliability as
the company’s line of eServers, company officials said.”

Linux Journal is talking about pre-show preparations and looking forward to the start of Linux World in New York City.

MSNBC says that system resources can run low after installing McAfee VirusScan on a Windows system, and offers a fix.

PCWorld reports: “Intel is firing a return shot at low-power chip newcomer Transmeta by releasing two low-power processors it
claims run faster and use less power than Transmeta’s Crusoe. IBM is the first supporter, using one of the chips
in a notebook shipping shortly in Japan.

Making their debut Tuesday were the 500-MHz Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Pentium III with SpeedStep, and a
500-MHz Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Celeron. IBM will use the PIII in its Thinkpad I-Series 1124.”

Here’s a posting about a SuSE security advisory, at Linux Weekly News.

Stephanie Bond writes “Preview of Auran’s Next-Generation Game Architecture. Auran® today released AURAN Jet® Beta 2, an evaluation version of Auran’s next-generation game architecture. Users can download AURAN Jet® Beta 2 at the AURAN Jet® Website (www.auranjet.com) for free. AURAN Jet® is a game authoring environment that enables developers to create responsive and robust 3D applications.
AURAN Jet® was created to support independent game developers by providing game architecture in order to create interactive entertainment with less expense.

Auran has created a dedicated AURAN Jet® Web site, which contains in-depth information on AURAN Jet®, including regular updates on documentation, tips and tricks, forums, example code, bug reports and developer demos. The Beta 2 public release also features extensive documentation.

AURAN Jet® Beta 2 builds upon the feature set in Beta 1 and includes the following additions:
· Progressive Mesh Reduction Support
· Collision Detection & Physics System Implementation
· AI Infrastructure and example
· DirectX Support – Both OpenGL and DirectX are now supported in AURAN Jet®
· General Networking Improvements – channel management, session-joining procedure, still-online checking, etc.
· AURAN Jet® Network System – message management: guaranteed delivery, message order preservation, large messages, multicasting, compression, etc.
· TCP/IP Support
· Host Migration – peer-to-peer sessions continue when the session host leaves the session.
· Client-Server Optimization
· Network Lobby Support – The NetworkLobbyDirectX plug-in provides connections to external launchers built using the DirectX Lobby API.
· Network Statistics
· Plugin Managment System
· Localization Support – Low-level multi-byte support has been added to AURAN Jet®. The Input and Interface Systems now support extended character sets.
· Drag and Drop
· Plugin Support for the Interface & Resource Systems
· Improved Animation – The skeletal, key-framed animation system now supports blending and sub-bone animation.
· Optimized Dynamic Lighting
· Material properties – AURAN Jet® now supports ambient, diffuse, and emissive components for materials with and without textures.
· Volumetric Shadows – AURAN Jet® can now use the stencil buffer to generate shadows.
· Multi-Texturing Support
· Change Textures on Loaded Meshes
· MP3 Support
· 3D Studio Max v3.1 Mesh Exporter – Now includes support for both Progressive and Fixed Resolution Meshes.
· Multithreaded support – A number of classes and systems (including File, PString, String and the Log system) have been modified to ensure correct behaviour when used simultaneously across multiple threads
· AURAN Jet® Tutorial – This extended example implements a simple but complete, functional network game. It provides a sample architecture, identifies and describes core application components and introduces a number of game concepts (To be released separately from the Beta 2 release).”

An anonymous reader writes: “BigStorage Inc. CEO Sam Bogoch tells the story of his company’s big win. BigStorage won the biggest Linux storage deal to date, a deal with with online music distributor Emusic.

http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/search EnterpriseLinux_Q_A_Page/0,285144,518051,00.html“

Linux PR has the announcement that Zelerate Software will be running OSDN’s ThinkGeek site. (Disclosure: NewsForge is a member of OSDN.)

Debian.org has its namesake’s newsletter for this week. The top story is the search for a new leader as the current leader will not seek a third term.

Network World Fusion reports on 2netFX and Linux NetworX’ release of streaming data server clusters at Linux World.