Non-Commercial announcements
The president of the Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out an
open letter to the president of the EC concerning software patents
and insurance.
"
In this sense, the planned compulsory insurance is like firefighting
with petrol: We already have 30,000 software patents in Europe. Many
compulsory insured patentees will consider the insurance as an
investment they need a return on. Returns from software patents are
reaped in lawsuits filed. The result: Rapidly exploding insurance
premiums, insurance companies limiting their risk to what they can
calculate, and in the end patentees and defendants will find
themselves in a situation similar to one without compulsory insurance,
but with one important difference: They will have spent an insane
amount of money on a useless insurance and bureaucracy for its
administration will have skyrocketed."
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Gnomedesktop.org has
announced
a new GNOME Foundation voting process.
"
The results for the anonymous voting referendum are now official: all
future GNOME Foundation elections and referenda will use an anonymous voting
process."
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GNOME Foundation 2004 elections for the Board of Directors
are coming up. Nominations
are currently open to members of the GNOME Foundation. Find the details in
this
announcement.
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Bruce Perens' Techrocrat.net site
will pay $50 per article for articles on hardware,
software, and systems administration.
"
This is your chance to be a paid professional author, to see your work viewed widely and taken up by others, and to get paid for making Open Source. We'll do our best to get other sites to link to the article."
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Commercial announcements
Research and Markets has
announced a new report entitled
Saving Cash: A Comparison of
Open Source and Proprietary Software.
"
This report on open source in Germany shows you significant saving
potentials through the deployment of open source software for different
company sizes.
The study shows that the risk for Open Source users on account of
copyright or patent violations in the software used is minimal."
You do have to pay for the report, however.
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Kaspersky Lab has
announced
version 5.0 of it's Anti-Virus software.
"
Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Sendmail with Milter API protects Linux/ Unix server mail traffic. The program works in conjunction with Sendmail and supports Sendmail's Content Management (Milter) API. This interface provides external applications with access to mail messages processed by Sendmail. It also offers additional processing and editing of the contents and meta-data of mail messages." Of course, most of the
scanned viruses don't affect
Linux systems.
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Mandrakesoft has announced that it will be sharing a €1 million
grant for "advanced mobility research"; click below for the details.
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Novell has put up a series of pages entitled
Unbending
the Truth: Things Microsoft Hopes You Won't Notice; it is a response to
Steve Ballmer's anti-Linux letter. "
If the world were as Microsoft
states, Linux would not be the world's fastest growing operating system,
ISVs would not be writing to it in ever increasing numbers, partners would
not be looking to sell it, and Microsoft would not have put a revenue
caution related to Linux in their latest SEC filing. These, however, are
the real facts."
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Sensory Networks, a developer of hardware acceleration technology for
network security applications, and Astaro have announced a partnership to
integrate Astaro Security Linux with Sensory Networks NodalCore
acceleration technology to deliver a hardware-accelerated security
solution.
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SGI has
announced a new entry in its SGI Altix 3700 series, featuring
twice the bandwidth and processor density of previous versions.
"
The new system, which will also accommodate the forthcoming
tanium 2 processors with 9MB cache, enables customers to pack 64
processors into a standard Altix rack."
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SGI has announced the sale of a 2048-processor Linux cluster to Japan's
Atomic Energy Research Institute. The system is based on Itanium
processors, and includes over 13TB of installed memory.
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Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. has delivered 17 dual-head Apple Power Mac G5s
to Ellsworth and Dyess Airforce bases to serve as flight simulators for the
Boeing B1 bombers. "
Boeing extracted the actual Ada95 code used
on-board the B1 and the FORTRAN and C code from its development simulators,
ported it to Yellow Dog Linux, and then ported and applied a C Motif
graphical user interface which simulates the physical switch panel and
displays on-board the B1 bomber."
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TippingPoint Technologies, Inc. has
announced
the availability and open source release of Tomahawk(TM), a test tool
designed to evaluate the unique capabilities of network-based intrusion
prevention systems (IPS).
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Wind River Systems, Inc. has
announced
the Wind River Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition. The Platform
includes a complete Linux reference file system with a rich set of
networking middleware and applications. Based on the Linux 2.6 kernel with
Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) 2.01 features, Platform for Network Equipment,
Linux Edition also includes Wind River Workbench 2.2.
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New Books
KDE.News
announces
the availability of a freely downloadable book.
"
The "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" book written by Trolltech software
engineer Jasmin Blanchette and Trolltech's documentation manager Mark
Summerfield, already featured by the dot, can now be downloaded in PDF format
from the publisher's homepage in the "Downloads" section."
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O'Reilly has published the book
Spam Kings by Brian McWilliams.
"
Brian McWilliams, author of "Spam Kings: The Real Story Behind the
High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and @*#?% Enlargements"
explores the shadowy world of the people
responsible for today's junk email epidemic."
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O'Reilly has published the book
Real World Web Services
by Will Iverson.
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Resources
The initial release of a manual on Linux streaming has
been announced.
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r a d i o q u a l i a have just finished the first version of a
streaming manual for those wishing to learn how to stream under Linux.
Its intended as a manual to accompany a hands-on self-learning or
workshop based approach. No previous knowledge of Linux is assumed.
Another manual on 'advanced topics' will be forthcoming."
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Release 13 of Quicktoots is available. The topic this time is
audio mastering.
"
Mastering is the art of making a good mix sound incredible. It takes years of
experience do do it well and is possibly the most important part of a
professionals recording cycle.
This toot provides invaluable insight into sound control during the mastering
phase. Ron puts together years of hard learned knowledge gained from running
his Minneapolis studio."
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Dave Philips has updated his
list of new Linux audio software for October/November, 2004.
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The November 3, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News
is available with a new round of Linux documentation.
"
Matt Barnes would like to start a Linux Documentation - Audio Video
project. The project aims to convert The LDP documents to wave and mp3
format. The goal of this exercise is to show that it can be done, and
that it should be done. The intent is to allow someone to download a
media file into a media player and listen to the information rather than
always having to read it and possibly stream them over the internet."
Hmm, talking man pages?
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Contests and Awards
KDE.News
takes a look at KDE
and various applications that have been honored in the Linux Journal 2004
Readers' Choice Awards. "
Most importantly, in the category of
"Favorite Desktop Environment", KDE came in first followed by GNOME. The
trend over recent years has shown KDE gaining more and more popularity over
GNOME and this year KDE received two votes for every one that GNOME
received."
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KDE.News
covers KDE's award
for Kontact/KMail as "Best Mail Client" at Linux World Expo &
Conference Europe (Frankfurt).
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Upcoming Events
Registration for the Australian Open Source Developers' Conference is now
open. This conference will be run on the 1st - 3rd of December 2004 at
Monash University, Caulfield in Melbourne, Australia.
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Hurricane Electric has
announced the hosting of a seminar on Perl by Randal L. Schwartz.
"
Intermediate Perl," will be held on Saturday, November 20, 2004, in
Fremont, CA, between 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided by
Hurricane Electric. The cost of the seminar is $199."
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A call for participation has gone out for the International Computer Music Conference 2005 (ICMC). The event will be held on September 5-9, 2005
in Barcelona, Spain.
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LinuxMedNews
reports on the latest speaker additions to SCALE, the Southern
California Linux Expo. The event will take place on
February 12 and 13, 2005, in Los Angeles, CA.
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| Date | Event | Location |
| November 4 - 5, 2004 | HiverCon 2004 | (The Davenport Hotel)Dublin, Ireland |
| November 4 - 6, 2004 | International Computer Music Conference(ICMC) | Miami, FL |
| November 5 - 6, 2004 | Nottingham LUG - Linux at Green's Mill Science Centre | Nottingham, UK |
| November 6 - 12, 2004 | High Performance Computing, Networking, and Storage Conf(SCnn) | Pittsburgh, PA |
| November 7 - 10, 2004 | International PHP Conference 2004 | Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 8 - 10, 2004 | MySQL ComCon Europe | (NH Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany |
| November 13 - 17, 2004 | ApacheCon US 2004 | (Alexis Park Resort)Las Vegas, NV |
| November 14 - 18, 2004 | COMDEX Conference and Exposition | (Las Vegas Convention Center)Las Vegas, Nevada |
| November 14 - 19, 2004 | Large Installation System Administration Conference(LISA '04) | (Atlanta Marriott Marquis)Atlanta, GA |
| November 18 - 19, 2004 | Forum PHP, Paris | Paris, France |
| November 25 - 26, 2004 | Le forum PHP 2004 | (FIAP Jean Monnet)Paris, France |
| November 29 - 30, 2004 | LinuxPro 2004 | (Hotel Gromada Airport Conference Center)Warsaw, Poland |
| December 1 - 3, 2004 | Australian Open Source Developers' Conference | (Monash University)Melbourne, Australia |
| December 1 - 3, 2004 | Linux Bangalore 2004 | (Indian Institute of Science)Bangalore, India |
| December 4, 2004 | Lightweight Languages 2004(LL4) | (MIT Stata Center)Boston, MA |
| December 5 - 18, 2004 | Ubuntu Conference | Mataró, Spain |
| December 27 - 29, 2004 | Chaos Communication Congress(21C3) | (Berliner Congress Center)Berlin, Germany |
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Software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of
Freshmeat.net. They are available in
two formats:
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