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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements FSF Europe on Microsoft rulingThe Free Software Foundation Europe has put out a press release celebrating the rejection of Microsoft's appeal in the European Court. "Microsoft now will have to explain how they have arbitrarily modified public standards they use in their servers and work hard to re-establish competition in the small server market. On the other end we are sure that it is an opportunity for the market to compete on quality of code and services, respecting interoperability."
Commercial announcements Arkeia Network Back-up adds PostgreSQL Plug-inA new Arkeia plugin is available for backing up PostgreSQL databases. "The plug-in will support pg_dump and restore of multiple PostgreSQL databases using a point-and-click interface. For users of PostgreSQL 8.0, it will also manage Point-In-Time-Recovery."
Astaro Security Linux V5.1 adds new featuresAstaro Corporation has announced the addition of new features to Astaro Security Linux V5.1. "Astaro Corporation today announced an update to its award-winning flagship perimeter security package that includes major spam protection enhancements - dramatically improving the blocking of unwanted email messages. Astaro Security Linux V5.1 also enables easy integration with network management systems, and adds features that allow customers to monitor bandwidth usage."
BitDefender Pushes Security Updates to Linux Mail ServersA new version of BitDefender for Linux Mail Servers is available. "The 1.6.1 generation of BitDefender for Linux Mail Servers was enriched today with three more dedicated products, BitDefender for Sendmail, Sendmail-Milter and Postfix mail servers, and with a generic SMTP proxy scanner, designed to be compatible with most other mail servers running on *nix systems."
Cyclades Makes Open Source SDK for IPMI Available on OpenIPMI Web SiteOSDL member Cyclades Corporation has announced the availability of its open source IPMI development kit for the creation of proxies, gateways and managers for IPMI-enabled devices.
Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform Project Announces Availability of Release 3.2The Eclipse Test & Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) Project has announced that the TPTP release 3.2 will be available on the Eclipse Foundation website this week. TPTP 3.2 is the second significant platform release since the August 2004 creation of the TPTP Project, an evolution of the previous Eclipse 'Hyades' Project.
Mandrakesoft to lead 3.4-million-euro research projectMandrakesoft is participating in the launch of EDOS, a project dealing with complexity management in the field of Open Source software. "The participants will collaborate in the development of theoretical and technical solutions to the management of large-scale, modular software projects. EDOS will receive EUR 2.2 million in European Union funding, in a total budget of EUR 3.4 million." Nuxeo is another participant.
Mandrakesoft closes equity roundMandrakesoft has announced that it was able to raise €3.05 million in new equity; the company was also able to retire a €1.45 million debt on favorable terms.
MySQL Completes Another Record YearMySQL has announced a new record for 2004. "By the end of the month, the MySQL database server will have been downloaded more than ten million times this year, solidifying its position as the world's most popular open source database."
MySQL announces Packaged Consulting SolutionsMySQL has announced their offering of three new consulting packages. "Presented by MySQL certified senior consultants at customer sites, these short-term engagements will provide in-depth application analysis and recommendations around commonly-requested subjects: application architecture and design, performance tuning and optimization, and assistance with migrating legacy databases to MySQL."
Novell and IBM announce TPC-H benchmark speed recordNovell, Inc. and IBM have announced a new speed record in the TPC-H 100GB benchmark test. "The industry standard TPC-H benchmark tests were designed to test a system's ability to handle complex business intelligence processing for clients. One IBM/Novell configuration achieved the world record for the best non-clustered result in the TPC-H 100GB benchmark test. Another IBM/Novell configuration in the TPC-H 300GB benchmark test demonstrated the ability to handle larger databases with clustering the same basic building blocks."
The SCO Group Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2004 ResultsThe SCO Group, Inc. has announced results for its fiscal fourth quarter and year ended October 31, 2004. "Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004 was $10,075,000 as compared to $24,290,000 from the comparable quarter of the prior year. The decrease in revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2004 from the comparable quarter of the prior year was primarily due to a decrease in SCOsource licensing revenue to $120,000 from $10,316,000 and from continued competitive pressures on the Company's UNIX products and services." Groklaw takes a look at the numbers here.
Sub300.com Announces the World's Lightest Linux Notebook ComputerSub300.com has claimed to have released the lightest weight Linux-based laptop ever (under $1000). "At just 2.9 lbs, Sub300.com's Ultralite Laptop is featherweight, but weighs in with features such as Linux OS, a 1Ghz VIA processor, 256MB RAM, 40 Gig HD, Ethernet and a crisp 12.1" TFT display, plus USB 2.0 and PCMCIA slots to add the functionality of wireless networking and more."
Cheap Linux laptops from WalmartWal-Mart has announced the availability of a $498 laptop running the Linspire distribution. "Wal-Mart and Linspire worked together to offer a laptop that would give customers the best user experience at the lowest price possible. The Balance notebook is the lowest-priced laptop currently on the market to include a complete operating system and office suite."
New Books 'Practical mod_perl' book goes opensource (use Perl)Use Perl mentions the free release of the book Practical mod_perl by Eric Cholet and Stas Bekman. The book is being distributed under the CreativeCommons Attribution Share-Alike License.
"Managing Projects with GNU Make" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the third edition of the book Managing Projects with GNU Make by Robert Mecklenburg.
Contests and Awards KDE 3.4 SVG Wallpaper Challenge (KDE.News)KDE.News has an announcement for the KDE 3.4 SVG Wallpaper Challenge. "There are actual prizes to be won, and the first place winner will be able to chose between a nVIDIA GeForce FX5700LE video card or a 120GB hard drive, graciously provided by Core Function. The second place winner will receive a t-shirt featuring their wallpaper, provided by Revelinux Gear. Be sure to check the KDE-Look.org website for the guidelines and rules. This contest closes on December 31st." Also, the amaroK Icon Contest has been extended until December 31.
Upcoming Events 2005 MySQL Users Conference Registration OpensRegistration for the 2005 MySQL Users Conference is open. "Early registration has just opened for the third annual MySQL Users Conference, to be held in the heart of Silicon Valley in Santa Clara, California, April 18 -21, 2005."
Events: December 23, 2004 - February 17, 2005
Web sites The Pootle online translation and translation management systemThe Translate Toolkit team has announced the Pootle project, an online translation and translation management system. "If you are a translator Pootle makes it easy to translate software without you having to learn the intricacies of the tools traditionally needed to translate Free and Open Source Software. But if you already use those translation tools Pootle is designed to enhance your experience and improve your performance."
Announcing the Rosetta Translation PortalThe Ubuntu Linux project has created the Rosetta Translation Portal. "Rosetta's goal is to make the process of translating free software as easy as possible for both translators and software maintainers. Maintainers can send us PO Templates and PO Files, which will be published through the web for translation. PO Files can then be downloaded at any time."
Miscellaneous Seth Spitzer Launches 'Scott and David, Thanks for Thunderbird' Donation Campaign (MozillaZine)MozillaZine mentions the formation of a donation campaign for the main Mozilla Thunderbird developers. "Seth, who used to work alongside Scott and David at Netscape, wants satisified Thunderbird users to donate 1 US dollar to Scott and David via PayPal. International readers may be interested to hear that the US dollar is at record lows."
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