The NetMAX Professional Suite, Linux
2.2 version, from Cybernet Systems, is designed to easily convert older computers into Linux-based servers. Review at Inter@ctive Week.

Companies that trade oil and gas as commodities now hope to do the same with fiberoptic bandwidth. Yahoo!News story.

Zope security update and fix at lwn.net, courtesy of the Linux-Mandrake security team.

What do you value most about open source? is but one of many questions asked in a poll at linuxdevices.com.

It’s a new site and a new project – BestLinux.org. The original project translated Linux into Finnish, a project that is now complete. The site’s authors say, Our new objectives are distributing the excellent results of the former project to the international
Linux community and achieving similar success worldwide.

Review of the new Compaq/Microsoft iPAQ “Internet Appliance” from the San Francisco Chronicle that is far from 100% favorable.

Announcement at useperl.org about the October O’Reilly University of Perl 2000 four-city tour.

It’s that time again – time to read the latest Linux Gazette. Lots of goodies in this issue, too.

Linuxnewbie.org has a tutorial about installing WINE:
“One of the first things that will happen while you learn to use Linux, is you’ll say to yourself “I wish there was a Linux version of…” You may not need to wish any longer. Now, I’m not saying that there is a version of that program, but, there is a program that is just as good usually. It’s called WINE, and it might make all those wishes come true.”

IBM will invest more than $200 million in the Asia-Pacific region to help customers and software vendors increase productivity within the Linux operating environment, the company announced. IBM will open development centers to help software vendors port their applications to the Linux environment. The centers will be in Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Taipei, Seoul, Sydney and Bangalore, India, IDG reports. More from CBS Marketwatch.