Mr Smith tells us: grooverider.tv has posted an article today on current books for Linux. Featured are ten recent
books on a variety of subjects, from beginners guides to reference manuals &
specific programmers’ books.
There are a total of ten books reviewed and compared, in this informative article.”
Click
here to go to the article.”

Slashdot’s Jon Katz opines on N2H2’s sale of aggregate surfing statistics and other information gathered from its Bess filtering program, one of the most popular Internet filters used in grade schools and high schools in the United States. One of N2H2’s first customers was the United States Department of Defense. The collection and sale of such data from minors is sanctioned by the Children’s Internet Protection Act passed last year by Congress, and, says Katz, we should expect more of the same legislation soon.

Jon Panker writes “BigStorage Inc. chief executive officer Sam Bogoch talks about how his company won the biggest Linux storage deal to date when his company teamed up with online music distributor Emusic. The two companies actually first met at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo. Read the full story on searchEnterpriseLinux.com“

From a Businesswire press release: Oracle releases the Internet File System and Parallel Server Linux products at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York. The Internet File System “allows
developers to more easily write and deploy content management and
collaborative applications using open, Internet programming languages.” The Parallel Server “is the most mature and trusted high-availability
database technology available for the Linux platform.”

From a press release at Internet Wire: “CodeWeavers, Inc., the leading Windows-to-Linux software developer and consultancy, and MusicMatch, Inc., inventor of the world’s first all-in-one digital music jukebox, today announced the general release of MusicMatch(R) Jukebox(TM) for Linux 1.0. Enabled by CodeWeaver’s key engineering technology, MusicMatch Jukebox is the first digital music system to offer music fans on Windows, Macintosh, and Linux operating systems a complete solution for playing, recording, organizing, and discovering music in one easy-to-use program.”

“MandrakeSoft’s chief executive officer Henri Poole said his company is the top-selling Linux distribution and has been ahead of Red Hat for the last 12 months in downloads. Customers are also buying it when given a choice in the retail sector, said the head of the French company in a question and answer interview. Read the full story on searchEnterpriseLinux.com“

It’s true that application service providers have been around for a while; what’s new here is who will soon be offering such services. CNET News.com reports that “software makers Oracle, Borland, IBM, Rational Software and start-ups including CrossGain have begun to offer Web-based software and services for rent that allow programmers to write, build and test their applications–a strategy intended to boost sagging sales in the software development tool market.”

Wired news reports that competing entertainment sites like the sound of Napster’s new payment plan. The current free status of Napster is killing sales at recently-converted pay-to-play sites like MP3.com and Listen.com.

B Quimby writes “Halcyon Software will bundle its product with TurboLinux’s distribution and Dell will bundle Sendmail with Red Hat Linux, Other companies are announcing partnerships and alliances, including one to move Linux into supercomputers, in this round up of Linux-related news.” Full story at searchEnterpriseLinux.com

From Businesswire: “Coventive Technologies, an international software company specializing in embedded Linux solutions for information appliances (IA) and server appliances (SA), will deliver a total embedded Linux software solution for a hand-held PC to China’s largest IT company and PC market share leader, Legend Computers. The contract won last year, Coventive’s solution is based on its own developed Chinese Linux OS, XTinux 1.0, which is optimized for embedded use in IA products requiring a very small software footprint, yet advanced functionality and high reliability.”