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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Preliminary results for the 2004 GNOME Foundation elections (GnomeDesktop)According to GnomeDesktop.org, the winners of the 2004 GNOME Foundation director election are Owen Taylor, Luis Villa, Jody Goldberg, Daniel Veillard, Jonathan Blandford, Federico Mena-Quintero, Tim Ney, Miguel de Icaza, Murray Cumming, Christian Schaller, and David Neary
OSDL and Bull Cooperate on Open Source POSIX Test SuiteOpen Source Development Labs, Inc. has announced cooperation with Bull on the Open POSIX Test Suite (OPTS). "OPTS is an open source community project designed to make it easier to port applications from other POSIX platforms to Linux. POSIX is a widely-used standard of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) that promotes portability among operating systems, primarily UNIX operating systems such as AIX, HP-UX and Solaris. In addition to making significant test contributions to the OPTS project, Bull led the effort to integrate the tests into STP to enable POSIX-compliance feedback in a manner that is timely to Linux/OSS developers."
Software patents detrimental to European power supply businessThe FSFE has sent an open letter to Austria's Joerg Haider concerning software patents and power grid blackouts. "The dependence of reliable power supplies on reliable software has steadily increased over the years and ever since the US-East Coast blackout of 2003 it has become a topic of public interest. Huge problems are often caused by small mistakes and thanks to networking effects, they can spread like wildfire, affecting huge areas."
No European software patent vote this yearThe NoSoftwarePatents site is carrying the news that the EU Council will not proceed with software patents in 2004. "According to the Belgian minister of economic affairs, the past qualified majority for software patents no longer exists, and no decision will be taken under the current Dutch presidency. The latest development is that members of the European Parliament are looking at the possibility to restart the entire legislative process." (Thanks to James Heald).
Samba Call for Story SubmissionsThe Samba project has issued a Call for Story Submissions. "news.samba.org is looking for stories, especially those about successful Samba installations. It doesn't matter if yours is a recent install/migration or an existing setup that just works when you need it. We want to hear from our community about how Samba is being put to good use."
Commercial announcements PalmOS to be built on LinuxPalmSource has put out a press release announcing its acquisition of China MobileSoft. One of the reasons for this acquisition is to use China MobileSoft's Linux work as the base for a new version of PalmOS. There is an open letter to the Linux community (PDF) with more information on what the company has in mind. "We think the Linux platform will become a leading operating system for mobile devices, and we believe the endorsement and support of PalmSource for that platform will greatly accelerate that process. We think the combination of Palm OS and Linux can attract more mobile licensees and developers, create more new devices, and bring in more users than either could on its own." (Thanks to Bruce Perens).
Evermore Integrated Office to Liberate Computer UsersEvermore Software LLC has announced the new advanced edition of its cross-platform Evermore Integrated Office package. "Available in four international languages -- English, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and Japanese -- Evermore Integrated Office 2004 Advanced (EIOffice 2004A) enhances performances, operates faster and includes new features requested by enterprise and small business. "EIOffice 2004 Advanced is the next step on the long march to liberate computer users from the Microsoft Office monoculture," said Gus Tsao, president and chief executive officer of Evermore Software LLC".
Fluendo funds Xiph.org for Vorbis and Theora RTP specificationsFluendo has announced that it is funding Xiph.org to enable Vorbis and Theora codecs for use with the standardized RTP protocol. "Phil Kerr of Xiph.org will be in charge of the development of the specifications, including the creation of reference implementations and working with the Internet Engineering Task Force and other stakeholders. The development will be conducted in an open fashion in the long-standing tradition of the Open Source community."
IBM announces the FairUCE mail filtering solutionIBM's AlphaWorks has an announcement for FairUCE, a Java-based commercial mail filtering system. "FairUCE (which stands for "Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email") is a spam filter that stops spam by verifying sender identity instead of filtering content. It can stop the vast majority of spam without the use of a content filter and without requiring a probable spam or bulk folder that needs to be checked periodically. As one of the first spam filters that uses sender identity rather than email content to determine if it is legitimate, all this can be accomplished quickly using simple, inexpensive tests."
A new analyst report on MandrakesoftKBC Securities has released a new analysis of Mandrakesoft (PDF). "Overall, the 2003/04 results are very satisfying and should encourage management on the eve of the group's capital increase, which will open the door to accelerated growth and the transfer to a regulated market."
Web Publishing Tool Nvu Now AvailableLinspire, Inc. has announced the availability of Nvu, an open-source html editor. "Nvu gives non-technical computer users the power to create, edit and publish professional, attractive Web sites, much like Microsoft FrontPage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Based on Mozilla Internet technology and Netscape Composer, the tool allows users to easily author and manage rich Web documents without programming or HTML coding."
Survey Finds 55% of CIOs and IT Managers Would Consider Switching to Linux EmailScalix Corporation has announced the results of a survey on corporate Linux adoption. "Linux continues to gain traction in the enterprise, with 55% of IT executives interviewed in a recent study saying they'd consider switching to Linux messaging over the next two years, if there were no disruption to end users. The independent study, undertaken by Osterman Research in October 2004, also showed that over 80% would consider switching to a web-based email client if it had the same functionality as current desktop clients."
TimeSys Delivers 2.6-based Linux Development Kits for IBM PowerPC 750FX and 750GX MicroprocessorsTimeSys Corporation has announced the availability of TimeStorm(R) Linux Development Kits (LDKs) for IBM PowerPC 750FX and 750GX microprocessors. "TimeStorm LDKs include a ready-to-run, hardware-optimized 2.6-based Linux distribution with advanced real-time capabilities such as schedulable hard and soft interrupt handlers and a fully preemptible kernel. 750FX and 750GX LDKs also include the Eclipse 3.0-based TimeStorm(R) Linux Development Suite (LDS)..."
VA Linux Announces `VA FlexMessaging Solution'VA Linux has announced the release of their commercial VA FlexMessaging Solution. "VA FlexMessaging Solution is an integrated mail system solution based on carefully tuned Open Source software including MTA, POP, IMAP, SPAM filter and so forth. It is an ideally flexible mail system for both small-to-medium setups and large-scale enterprises."
Voltaire Announces Scalable Database Platform Solution for OracleVoltaire has announced a new scalable database platform solution. "Now available and tuned for Oracle Database 10g, the joint solution, called DBScale, provides a scalable high performance data management infrastructure using high performance, low cost storage and InfiniBand interconnect. This is the industry's only solution to solve file I/O problems for database clusters using industry standard platforms and technologies such as InfiniBand, iSER (iSCSI RDMA), Serial ATA (SATA) and Linux."
New Books Signate Announces E-Book Version of VoIP Telephony with AsteriskSignate has announced the free availability of an online version of the book VoIP Telephony with Asterisk, which covers Asterisk, an open source Linux PBX application. A print version of the book is also for sale.
Resources FSF Europe NewsletterThe December 5, 2004 edition of the FSF Europe Newsletter is online with the latest news from the Free Software Foundation Europe organization.
Linux Gazette Issue #109The December Linux Gazette is out. Articles include: Virtual Filesystem: Building A Linux Filesystem From An Ordinary File, SQLite Tutorial: Common Commands and Triggers, SuSE Linux 9.2 - An Early Evaluation, Discover the hidden 8 bit Sound card in your PC, and more.
The LDP Weekly NewsThe December 8, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the latest new documentation resources.
More Linux Audio magazine articlesLinuxUser & Developer magazine has published an article (in PDF format) on the Ardour multi-track audio application.
"Guide to Open Content Licenses" released, freely availableFlorian Cramer has announced a downloadable version of the Guide to Open Content Licenses by Lawrence Liang, the guide provides information on 19 open content licenses.
Upcoming Events OMG Open Source Modeling and IDEs Workshop CFPThe OMG has announced a Call for Participation for the first annual Open Source Modeling and Integrated Development Environments Workshop. The event will take place in Orlando, Florida on March 21-24, 2005.
GUADEC 2005 (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop reports that the call for papers is out for GUADEC 2005. The conference will be held in Stuttgart, Germany on May 29 - 31, 2005.
PyCon DC 2005 CFPA Call for Proposals has gone out for the PyCon DC 2005 conference. The event will take place in Washington, DC on March 23-25, 2005.
Meet the Experts at OSDL's Enterprise Linux SummitThe Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced that it will host a forum at the Enterprise Linux Summit, January 31 - February 2, 2005 in Burlingame, CA. The "OSDL Meet the Experts" forum will be located on the exhibition floor during the conference and will be staffed by OSDL Linux kernel developers, test engineers and other technical staff.
2005 O'Reilly Emerging Tech Conference Registration OpensRegistration has been opened for the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The event will take place in San Diego, California on March 14-17, 2005.
PHP West Web Services conferencePHP West has announced a conference on Web Services. "PHP West is holding a conference on Web Services on January 14th, 2005 hosted in the beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This is the first of many conferences to come on a four month orbit - each focusing on a unique genre. The conference will be a jam packed one day event with leading speakers in the industry talking about the most important topics PHP developers are faced with."
Events: December 9, 2004 - February 3, 2005
Web sites Netscape DevEdge Returns (MozillaZine)MozillaZine reports on the return of the Netscape DevEdge site. "This follows the sudden disappearance of DevEdge in October. The last we heard, the Mozilla Foundation was trying to get the rights to the DevEdge material, so we suspect the reemergence of the Netscape DevEdge site is a temporary measure until the Mozilla Foundation can begin hosting the content itself."
Open Source Applications in Radiology (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews mentions the OpenRAD site. "For those who are interested in getting under the hood of medical imaging applications, we have put together a virtual community of practice. OpenRAD has a repository tracking about 40 projects in the PACS space with an RSS news aggregator engine that automatically captures project updates. We are also compiling a tutorial series to demystify DICOM, the medical imaging standard."
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