From Wired.com:
Linux is a highly capable but curt operating system that does not suffer fools gladly.

Likewise, LinuxWorld shows have always been a gathering primarily for the few, the proud, the brave and the extremely nerdy ubergeeks.

But this year LinuxWorld will feature tools that will help bring the alternative operating system squarely into the mainstream.

From Wired.com: “Open source developers and penguin-heads will obviously consider the source, but here’s the latest salvo from a Microsoft manager: The Linux craze is dead, over, kaput.”

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.)