Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

OSDL/FSG announce collaboration

The Free Standards Group (FSG) and the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) have announced a collaboration to accelerate enterprise adoption of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) with new services to support software vendors developing applications for Linux.

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Commercial announcements

IBM Rolls Out New Linux Server Using Power5 Chip

IBM has announced a new computer server using its Power5 microprocessor tuned for the Linux operating system. "The OpenPower 720 server will be available Sept. 24 and can be powered by as many as four Power5 chips, IBM said. In the first half of next year, the company will start selling OpenPower servers using two Power5 processors."

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Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing Software announced

Intel has announced a new telecom software package for Linux. "The Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing Software release 1.2 for Linux is the first high density, commercially supported software offering the flexibility and value of open platforms. This software-only building block for communications providers eliminates the need for specialized telephony boards with digital signal processors, but still provides the media processing power to develop applications such as interactive voice response, voice mail, unified messaging and conferencing."

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Modulus Video Introduces Real-Time MPEG-4 AVC Encoding and Decoding Systems

Modulus Video, Inc. has announced a new Linux-based video encoder/decoder. "Built on an open Intel Linux platform, Modulus Video products leverage the entire MPEG-4 AVC standard to offer an easily deployable, highly scalable and cost-effective solution for reliably delivering broadcast-quality video using significantly less bandwidth than legacy MPEG-2 systems."

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MySQL Appoints Maurizio Gianola Vice President of Software Engineering

MySQL has announced the appointment of Maurizio Gianola as Vice President of Software Engineering at its Silicon Valley Office.

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Bernard Liautaud Joins MySQL Board of Directors

MySQL has announced the appointment of Bernard Liautaud to its Board of Directors. "Liautaud is one of the most highly respected software executives in Silicon Valley and Europe. He co-founded Business Objects in 1990 and has built it into a nearly $900 million enterprise software vendor with more than 26,000 customers in over 80 countries. He took the company public on NASDAQ in September 1994, making it the first French software company listed in the United States."

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Navicat 5.0.2 (MySQL tools)

Navicat has released Navicat MySQL tools version 5.0.2, now with Stored Procedure and Batch Job Scheduling.

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Linux-based telemarketing

The next time a telemarketer interrupts your dinner to try to sell you something, you can take some comfort in the fact that they are likely to be running on Linux. SER Solutions, Inc. has announced the availability of Call Processing System 8.0, with lots of great features like "third-party quality monitoring," and "sophisticated predictive dialing." "By utilizing Novell SUSE LINUX, SER is able to take advantage of new hardware and software available on the platform and leverage the reliability, security, scalability, and support Novell and SUSE LINUX are known for."

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Sleepycat/MontaVista provide open source software for Motorola a780 in U.S.

Sleepycat and MontaVista have announced that their embedded solutions have been chosen for the Motorola A780 smart phones.

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Open Source Applications Leader SugarCRM Debuts Sugar Sales Professional

SugarCRM Inc. has announced the release of Sugar Sales Professional, a LAMP based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application.

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New Books

"CSS Cookbook" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt.

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"PDF Hacks" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book PDF Hacks by Sid Steward.

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"Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools by Kerry Cox and Christopher Gerg.

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No Starch Press releases "The Web Programmer's Desk Reference"

No Starch Press has published the book The Web Programmer's Desk Reference by Lazaro Issi Cohen and Joseph Issi Cohen.

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New Book: Foundations of Python Network Programming

APress has published the book Foundations of Python Network Programming by John Goerzen.

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Resources

IOSN Releases Draft Primer on Free/Open Source Software Licensing

IOSN has released a draft version of a primer on free/open source software licensing. The primer is available for review and feedback.

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LDP Weekly News

The September 15, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest documentation releases.

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LPI July/August Newsletter

The July/August edition of the Linux Professional Institute newsletter is online.

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Advances in Samba4

Volker Lendecke's paper Advances in Samba4 is available in PDF format. "The paper offers a nice overview of the reasoning behind creating Samba4, and outlines four areas of code where Samba4 is an improvement over Samba 3."

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Contests and Awards

Linus wins Economist award

The Economist has announced the winners of its 3rd annual "Innovation Awards." The victor in the computing area is Linus Torvalds.

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KTurtle Won 3rd Prize in Dutch Educational Contest

KTurtle, a Logo programming language interpreter for KDE, has won third prize in a Dutch Educational contest. "The technical jury was very pleased with the looks of KTurtle, good configuration options and a very nice manual and the educational jury said "Some renewed attention to LOGO is very much welcome.""

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Fred Trotter Receives 2004 Linux Medical News Achievement Award (LinuxMedNews)

Fred Trotter has been awarded the 2004 Linux Medical News Achievement Award. "Trotter is the founder of the Free Medical Billing (FreeB) project as well as working on the FreeMed poject."

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Event Reports

Open source at medinfo2004 (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews covers the open-source activity at the medinfo2004 conference. "The joint meeting of the IMIA, IMIA-NI and AMIA Open Source Working Groups was held yesterday, 8 September, at medinfo2004. We had a good attendance (40-50 people), with presentations on the 3 groups and then a discussion and session of interactive digital voting."

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Upcoming Events

Italian Code Jam

The Italian Code Jam will be held on October 9, 2004 in the center of Engineering Department of Ferrara's University. "Some of the speakers that will take part are: Andrea Arcangeli, Moshe Bar, Francesco Ciriaci, Dave Cross, Alex Martelli, Allison Randall, Michele Simionato, Simo Sorce, e Larry Wall."

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Events: September 16 - November 11, 2004

Date	Event	Location
September 16 - 17, 2004	YAPC::Europe 2004	Belfast, Northern Ireland
September 16, 2004	Embedded Systems Conference	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA
September 19 - 22, 2004	2004 International Conference on Functional Programming(ICFP)	(Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort)Snowbird, Utah
September 20 - 23, 2004	New Security Paradigms Workshop(NSPW)	(White Point Beach Resort)Nova Scotia
September 20 - 22, 2004	Plone Conference 2004	Vienna, Austria.
September 22 - 24, 2004	OpenOffice.org Conference(OOoCon 2004)	(Humboldt University)Berlin, Germany
September 22 - 24, 2004	php|works 2004	(Holiday Inn Yorkdale Hotel and Conference Centre)Toronto, Canada
September 23 - 26, 2004	FirenzeWorldVision	Firenze, Italy
September 27 - October 1, 2004	4th International SANE Conference(SANE)	(Amsterdam RAI Centre)Amsterdam, The Netherlands
September 27 - 29, 2004	ConSec '04	(J.J.Pickle Research Center)Austin, Texas
September 29 - October 1, 2004	OSCOM 4	(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Zurich, Switzerland
October 2, 2004	Ohio LinuxFest	Columbus, Ohio
October 6 - 7, 2004	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	(Olympia Exhibition Centre)London, England, UK
October 8 - 10, 2004	Linucon	(Red Lion Hotel)Austin, TX
October 9, 2004	Italian Code Jam	(University of Ferrara)Ferrara, Italy
October 10 - 17, 2004	MySQL Swell	Across the Mediterranean
October 11 - 15, 2004	11th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	(Bourbon Orleans Hotel)New Orleans, LA
October 21 - 22, 2004	Web.It 2004	Bari, Italy
October 21 - 22, 2004	5. Encuentro Linux	Valparaiso, Chile
October 26 - 28, 2004	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	Frankfurt, Germany
October 27 - 29, 2004	Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Security(ICICS'04)	Malaga, Spain
November 1 - 6, 2004	International Computer Music Conference(ICMC)	Miami, FL
November 4 - 5, 2004	HiverCon 2004	(The Davenport Hotel)Dublin, Ireland
November 7 - 10, 2004	International PHP Conference 2004	Frankfurt, Germany
November 8 - 10, 2004	MySQL ComCon Europe	(NH Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany

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Web sites

LinuxQuestions.org Wiki Reaches 2000 Article Mark

The LinuxQuestions.org Wiki has reached the 2000 article mile mark. "Released in February 2004, the LQ Wiki allows users to collaboratively build a free, complete and up-to-date Linux knowledgebase and aims to become the largest general-knowledge Linux repository on the web. It is free to join or use the LQ Wiki and any user can add or edit content. All content is licensed under a Creative Commons license, ensuring that it remains freely redistributable."

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Software announcements

This week's software announcements

Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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