eLink Business rolls out new product line. No more struggles with Windows, balky servers, routers, applications and third-party consulting firms piecing it all together. No more finger pointing. eLink Business introduces the Linxera family of ecommerce router/servers with integrated Linux-based software designed to provide a simple, inexpensive “out-of-the-box” solution for ecommerce and ebusiness needs. Read the press release at LinuxPR.

WireX, a developer of software for “purpose-specific” servers, commonly known as server appliances, today announced it is expanding into Taiwan and Mainland China with a new partner, TSC. WireX’s expansion into the international server appliance market demonstrates their commitment to provide Asia with affordable, easy-to-use server solutions. The press release is at LinuxPR.

LinuxForce.net announced its newest product, AdminForce Remote, which will provide significant administrative cost savings and operating efficiencies to a broad range of business, institutional, educational, and industrial computing systems, according to a
press release at LinuxPR.

From a letter at LWN.net: “You may have noticed a recent announcement by one of Lineo’s competitors
claiming they were the ‘first to deliver hard real-time Linux.’ We at Lineo take issue with this claim … ”

Leading the Linux gaming revolution is a Tustin, California company called Loki Entertainment Software, which converts (or “ports”) popular Windows games for play on Linux. Wired.com
features Loki.

There are two security problems in xpdf, the PDF file viewer.
The first is that temporary files were created insecurely.

The second problem is that xpdf was not cautious enough when the
user clicked on a URL. Xpdf would start the URL viewer (netscape
by default) via the system shell, not properly taking care of
shell meta characters. The advisory is at LWN.net.

Wasabi Systems, a Silicon Alley firm that develops UNIX-like operating systems, has landed $500,000 in first round funding. The round was led by a range of individual and institutional investors, reported @NewYork.

Miguel de Icaza, a 27- year-old programmer from Mexico, thinks nobody should have to pay hundreds of dollars for the latest copy of Microsoft Word for Windows — or any other software, for that matter. He believes it should all be free. There’s a feature on the Gnome guru from Newsweek International.

“In the past two weeks SEUL/edu has talked about our participation in various tradeshows. Our self-defined role is to foster educational applications for Linux. So far we’ve attended and presented at a handful of Linux shows in North America and Europe. It occurred to us that that may not be getting our message across to the people most in need of hearing it: teachers and school administrators.” Check out the full report.

Linuxlab has announced the eGET Service, its custom software service supporting needs of e-commerce providers using the Linux operating system. The press release is at LinuxPR.