PRNewswire reports, Lineo’s uClinux
is a micro version of Linux that can be used in devices that use processors
without a memory management unit (MMU).

Internet Wire: The need for open standards is critical to the widespread adoption of Storage Area Networks (SANs), according to an independent survey of information technology professionals conducted by International Data Group (IDG).

Linux Today article surmises, “the high-end OS of the future will be a version of Linux that has incorporated all the best code from
SGI’s Irix, IBM’s AIX, Caldera’s (formerly SCO’s) UnixWare, and
probably somewhere down the road from Sun’s Solaris.”

Hundreds of mainly Red Hat Linux servers have been hacked in the past few weeks, according to the US Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT), from ZDNet News UK.

Concerns about its data collection practices threaten Digital:Convergence’s plans to roll out 50 million of the bar-code scanners by 2002, reports ZDNet News.

IDG News Service on PC World News reports, real products using the short-range wireless technology are finally coming to market.

According to All Linux Devices, the
application enables customers to quickly and easily OPC-enable their
Linux- based automation systems.

OSDN invites all to attend the two day summit on October 30 and 31 as the leading database experts in Open Source discuss the leading edge of Open Source database technology. (Full disclosure: NewsForge is a member of OSDN.)

The top selling fax
software for OS/2 now runs on Linux. A free beta version of PMfax for
Linux is immediately available from www.pmfax.com and Keller Group
intends to provide their entire product line on Linux, OS/2 and other
platforms. The PMfax software provides full-featured fax and voice
features and supports a wide variety of modems and fax hardware.
Adding PMfax to the Linux desktop makes Linux a more complete
environment for many corporate, small office and personal users, so claims
the press release at LinuxPR.

The Korean Herald is reporting, Hancom Linux has recently developed a new Linux-based computer operating
system that can run on personal computers and larger-capacity servers.