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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The New York Times ad for Mozilla Firefox (MozillaZine)MozillaZine mentions a fund raising campaign which is aimed at Firefox advertising. "A portion of each donation will go towards taking out a full-page ad in The New York Times celebrating the release. All donors will be listed in the ad."
PostgreSQL for Co-operative banks in Keralam a southern state of IndiaThe PostgreSQL News mentions a new banking project in India that uses the PostgreSQL database and Linux. "Sanghamitra is a new generation information technology tool to assist primary and urban co-operative banks and co-operative credit societies. Sanghamitra is a service rendered by Open Software Solutions industrial Co-operative society Ltd, Ernakulam."
Towards a "World Intellectual Wealth Organisation"The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has sent out a press release concerning the concept of creating a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation. "We need a World Intellectual Wealth Organisation, dedicated to the research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage the production and dissemination of knowledge. Granting limited monopolies and limited control over some kinds of knowledge may be part of this new organisations tool-set, but not the only one, and maybe not even the most important one."
Commercial announcements Astaro Announces New Astaro Secure Client for VPNsAstaro has announced their new Astaro Secure Client software. "A major upgrade to the existing Astaro IPSec Client, Astaro Secure Client combines an advanced IPSec VPN client offering superior encryption and authentication with a personal firewall and an integrated dialer. It allows mobile workers, home offices, and individual PCs to communicate securely and reliably over the Internet with central offices."
FSMLabs releases new version of Real-Time OSFSMLabs has announced the availability of RTLinuxPro 2.1 and RTCoreBSD 2.1 hard real-time operating systems. RTLinux and RTCoreBSD work in tandem with Linux and BSD-based operating systems to offer hard real-time responsiveness in a standards-based computing environment. The new releases incorporate a variety of capabilities and features designed to address requirements of advanced communications, control, instrumentation, aerospace and defense applications.
Infrae extends Python, Zope, Silva, and Railroad with OAI-PMH facilitiesInfrae has announced some new OAI-PMH facilities. "Infrae is pleased to release extensions for Python, Zope and the Silva CMS for harvesting web-based repositories exposed using the OAI-PMH standard (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting). In addition we are announcing an extension for the Railroad content repository software for exposing existing Railroad systems as OAI-PMH harvestable repositories."
For First Time, Technology Tracks Growth of Desktop LinuxLinspire, Inc. has announced a plan to count Linux desktop users, at least those running Linspire. When a computer running Linspire connects to the Internet the IP address is converted into map coordinates and a "lightup" appears in the corresponding location on a satellite photograph of the Earth. The map can be seen at lraiser.com.
Mandrakelinux PCs meet success in Planet Saturn storesMandrakesoft reports good sales of Mandrakelinux PCs through Planet Saturn stores. "Mandrakelinux PCs have been available since July in Planete Saturn stores. The operation's success highlights Linux's growing importance in the personal computer market. The time when Linux was considered an Operating System confined to technical types and server rooms is over. The efforts of free software actors, among them Mandrakesoft, has payed off: Linux is now both powerful and accessible. The commercial success of Mandrakelinux PC's sold in Planète Saturn stores stands as proof of that. Planete Saturn is a branch of Media Saturn Holding, the European retail leader in home electronics and appliances."
Metrowerks 3 News Releases - Automotive Grade Linux, Telematics and Linux StrategyMetrowerks has sent us three press releases in one large file. Click below to find out more about
Red Hat Hires Sun Executive to Head up Desktop Infrastructure TechnologiesRed Hat, Inc. has announced the appointment of Karen Tegan-Padir as Vice President of Desktop Infrastructure Technologies. Tegan-Padir comes to Red Hat from SUN Microsystems where she most recently held the position of Vice President of Engineering for J2EE platforms and Application Server products.
SGI to open-source SpeedShopSGI has announced that it will be releasing a version of its SpeedShop performance analysis tool under an open source license. "With the development of an open-source version of SGI's SpeedShop tool, researchers can begin relying on the same class of open-source parallel performance tools that they have used for years in HPC environments. This will ensure that researchers working on Linux systems -- not just at the NNSA but throughout the nation and the world -- can accelerate their research efforts by continuously optimizing application and system performance." One aspect of this whole thing won't be speedy, though: the actual release is scheduled for sometime in 2006.
New Books "Perl Core Language Little Black Book, 2nd Edition" Released by ParaglyphParaglyph Press has published the book Perl Core Language Little Black Book, 2nd Edition by Steven Holzner.
Contests and Awards KDE Docs Competition: Announcing the Winners (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the winners of the KDE Docs Competition. "The winners were as follows: Adriaan de Groot with an entry on configuring toolbars. Nicolas Goutte who wrote about Hand Editing Configuration Files. Robert Stoffers whose entry was on Launching Programs."
Upcoming Events OS04 in Graz, AustriaOS04 will be held this Friday, October 22, in Graz, Austria. "OS04 is an open platform for everyone who can identify with the idea of open development. In addition to conventional exhibits and talks on technology and the professional and private use of open source software you will find various supporting acts."
Open software workshops at BEKSeveral workshops on Linux streaming media and related topics will be held at BEK in Bergen, Norway in late October and mid November, 2004.
Debian project at conferences and expos in EuropeThe Debian Project has announced its presence at a number of conferences across Europe in October.
Date set for PyCon 2005PyCon 2005 will be held on March 23-25, 2005 in Washington DC.
Events: October 21 - December 16, 2004
Mailing Lists Eurolisp mailing listA new Eurolisp mailing list has been created for discussion of all Lisp topics in Europe.
Web sites NoSoftwarePatents.com launchesA new site called NoSoftwarePatents.com has launched as a way of spreading the word about the threat of software patents in Europe. "In this campaign, we don't mince words. The issue of software patents is critical for our future. We have to speak out clearly on what is wrong with software patents, and which structural deficiencies the patent system needs to work on before it can even think of expanding into any new areas." This effort is sponsored by Red Hat and MySQL, among others.
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
Miscellaneous Celebrating Eight Years of KDE (KDE.News)KDE.News celebrates the eighth birthday of the KDE project. Happy birthday KDE.
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