Linux NetworX, a provider of cluster
computer solutions for Web hosting, ISPs, ASPs, video streaming, industry and
research fields, plans to introduce its RapidFlow TM line of switches at the
Networld+Interop 2000 trade show Sept. 26. The RapidFlow Switch
Architecture offers scalability, flexibility, ease-of-use and manageability for
customers requiring accelerated data routing and reliability. The press release is at LinuxPR.

SuSE now supports
PowerPC, Alpha and SPARC in addition to i386, and the Slashdot readers discuss the possibilities.

ZDNet follows up on reports that some members of the Linux community are rejecting the record industry’s request to help it create a more secure technical lock on its digital music. The Linux Journal is sponsoring a boycott of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, which starts Friday and promises to pay $10,000 to any hacker who strips out the watermark from a digital song.

Aimster, the Napster-like program that taps into America Online’s Instant Messenger software to create file-swapping buddy lists, is expanding its file-searching capabilities to support ICQ and to search Napster and Scour Exchange networks, reports CNET News.

KDE.org is offering insights into the people that are behind KDE, starting with its founder, Matthias Ettrich.

Leading Linux companies Red Hat and Caldera Systems will headline keynotes at LINUX Business Expo-Atlanta, reports PRNewswire.

The Standard reports, that on its way down, Napster is attacking its attackers.

If the idea of the internet as a pure tool of free speech appeals to you, take a good look, it could become the most restrictive form of publishing, warns a new book on censorship in the UK, from BBC News.

Upside Today asks, what’s the difference between a GPL-compatible and a non-GPL-incompatible software license?

VNUnet is quotes, “Raven is now set to ship by the end of the year, and is likely to run only on the Windows NT platform,” said Tony Cocks, UK marketing manager of knowledge management for Lotus. “The next versions after that, which will be months rather than years, are AIX Unix, Linux and Solaris,” he said.