Terra Soft Solutions, a Linux company specializing in Apple Macintosh and IBM Linux distributions, has announced a distribution for upcoming Sony PlayStation 3. Loveland (CO) - Terra Soft Solutions, a Linux company specializing in Apple Macintosh and IBM Linux distributions, has announced a distribution for upcoming Sony PlayStation 3. Sony officially offered a Linux development kit for the PlayStation 2 and other developments ported the Debian distribution to the popular console. A homebrew version of Linux was made for the PlayStation Portable, but Sony apparently doesn’t like it because the automatic patches disable the distribution. Terra Soft plans on demonstrating the newdistribution to attendees of the SC2006 conference in mid-November....

Intel: Piracy forced music industry to introduce newdistribution models. piracy of digital media. Intel itself recently is engaged in becoming a part of the distribution of digital content : Together with Morgan Freeman’s Revelations Studios, the company founded ClickStar that "could shake up Hollywood’s traditional "windows" model where movies are first released to theaters, then to the hospitality industry - hotels, airlines, pay per view - then for general consumption on DVDs." Brendan Traw, an Intel Fellow, is quoted saying "You do have some innovators in that industry who are willing to try something new - whether its ClickStar or whoever - and once those guys can show there’s money to be made I suspect you’ll see all of Hollywood move (to that business model) as rapidly as they can."...

Federal judges have rejected RIAA’s legal claims in federal courts in Oklahoma, New York, and in Michigan. Instead, more and more universities are beginning to enforce their own piracy policies : For example, the University of Kansas is reported to have implemented a new copyright infringement policy for the students, which says that students who are caught downloading copyrighted material will lose their privileges on the university’s residential network “forever”. They are not going to wake up one morning and say ‘oh, gee, there is a new method of distributing music,’” Lory R. Lybeck, Andersen’s attorney from Lybeck Murphy of Mercer Island, Washington, said. “I think what it is going to take is for the artists and the general public to say ‘you guys are dead. Instead, artists’ compensation should increase with new music distribution methods, Lybeck said. “They should let the music authors actually share some of the profit, which [the RIAA] has had a strong hold on in the distribution scheme for 50 years,” Lybeck said. “There is a whole newdistribution capability, and the [RIAA] guys are not needed—and they know it.”...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with scientists from several other universities and organizations, are designing a newdistributed, self-healing Internet infrastructure that they hope will be resistant to attack and failure. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in collaboration with scientists from several other universities and organizations, are designing a newdistributed, self-healing Internet infrastructure that they hope will be resistant to attack and failure. The project, known as IRIS (Infrastructure for Resilient Internet Systems), aims to take some of the properties of current distributed computing systems - such as redundancy and decentralization - and integrate them into a more secure, reliable architecture....

Embattled video game publisher SCi is to cut the entire sales, marketing and PR staff of its Eidos U.S. operation following on from a deal made with Warner Bros, who will be taking over SCi’s North American distribution operations as part of a $170 million bailout package for the publisher. Warner Bros seems to be taking the capital approach of keeping SCi afloat, taking a bigger and bigger chunk of ownership, and gaining benefits in kind such as a newdistribution channel for video games in the U.S. With Warner taking over the U.S. distribution the Eidos staff involved would now seem to be out of a job, according to industry sources....

SOYO Puts Out New AMD and Intel Motherboards. soyo puts out new amd and intel motherboards. The company just let us know that it has centralized its European operations in an attempt to promote more aggressive growth and to seek newdistribution sources throughout Europe. SOYO is now also seeking newdistribution channels and partnerships for its products and services. The new SY-K7VTA-PRO features the VIA KT133 chipset, and 200MHz system interface. Not new to some, but new to you....

After three years of slowing unit shipments growth, server shipments grew 6.1% year over year in Q2 07 driven by an improved refresh cycle and an expansion of newdistributed computing workload deployments across the market....