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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements CE Linux Forum Established as a California Non-Profit CorporationCE Linux Forum has announced that it was officially established as a California non-profit corporation on January 1 of this year. CELF's headquarters will be located in San Jose, Calif., and Scott Smyers, who had been the chair of the organization's steering committee, will serve as the chair of the CELF Board of Directors.
Andrew Tridgell joins OSDLThe Open Source Development Labs has announced that Samba hacker Andrew Tridgell ("tridge") has joined as the lab's second "Fellow."
PhoenixPM RFP's Due January 28th, 2005 (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews mentions the posting of an RFP for the PhoenixPM project. "The purpose of the PhoenixPM project is to develop an Open Source Practice management Software solution for a network of small safety net clinics in Northern California." Volunteer help is needed.
Commercial announcements Fervent Software Announce Studio to Go! for SchoolsFervent Software has announced the availability of their Linux-based commercial Studio to Go! live CD. "Studio to Go! is an integrated Live CD of score, MIDI and audio software and one of the most sophisticated combinations of music software anywhere in a single value-for-money package."
Finearch Announces Ogg Vorbis-Compatible Sound Decoder LSIFineArch Inc. has announced the development of a Sound Decoder chip with support for the Ogg Vorbis sound compression format. "The existing playing process of Ogg Vorbis with multipurpose CPU software required running of the CPU with a high-clock frequency; external RAM such as SRAM was necessary as a working space for the software. FS-500, however, will allow the running of Ogg Vorbis Stereo Sound Processing with an internal LSI SRAM with an 8 MHz system running frequency."
LynuxWorks Introduces User-Mode Linux Software for PowerPCLynuxWorks has announced a PowerPC version of User-Mode Linux (UML) based on the latest Linux 2.6 kernel and available for the Apple PowerPC G5. LynuxWorks has also announced a new embedded Linux point-of-sale (POS) solution using BlueCat Linux.
XenSource gets $6 MillionXenSource, a company formed around the Xen virtual machine, has announced the receipt of $6 million in venture capital. Evidently there really is money in Linux virtualization technology.
X-Plane 8.03 for LinuxLaminar Research has announced version 8.03 of their commercial X-Plane flight simulator application. A Linux compatible partially functional test version can be downloaded for free. Thanks to M. Jones.
Xybernaut to Co-Chair LINUX Competency GroupXybernaut has announced that it will co-chair an international consortium focused on next-generation applications for Linux. "The overarching mission of the consortium, called the Open Systems Competency Center (OSCC), is to address scientific research on the practical applications in industry for LINUX and Xybernaut will being providing extensive perspective and experience in mobile, wireless and wearable computing to the group and its efforts. Dr. Edwin Vogt, European Director for Xybernaut will co-chair the consortium on behalf of Xybernaut."
New Books "The Book of Postfix" Released by No Starch PressNo Starch Press has published The Book of Postfix by Ralf Hildebrandt and Patrick Koetter.
Resources Apache 2.0 Documentation Now in ThoutReader FormatOSoft has announced the availability of the Apache 2.0 web server documentation in the ThoutReader Format. "The ThoutReader is an open source documentation platform that allows software developers to browse, search, bookmark, and append all their open source documentation as well as favorite reference books in one standard format, at the same time -- even off-line."
The LDP Weekly NewsThe January 19, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the latest new documentation releases.
Contests and Awards Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel ContestCanonical is sponsoring the Ubuntu Website Look'n'Feel Contest to give the Plone 2 based Ubuntu website a new look. There is a US$1000 first prize for the winning design. Click below for details.
Surveys Evans Data on open source databases - Firebird most popular?Evans Data has done another survey; this one is about database management systems. "FireBird is the most used open source database for Enterprise applications, more database developers use FireBird for single purpose applications and FireBird is tied for the most used database for workgroup applications. Further, MySQL and FireBird are locked in a virtual tie in the open source database space with each being used by just over half of database developers who use open source databases."
Upcoming Events Free and Open Source Software Workshop 2005The Syrian GNU/Linux Users Group has announced the Free and Open Source Software Workshop, to be held in Damascus, Syria on March 2-4, 2005.
Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium Keynote AnnouncedThe SELinux Symposium has announced their keynote speaker: Daniel G. Wolf, director of the Information Assurance Directorate at the National Security Agency (NSA). The event will be held from March 2-4, 2005 in Silver Spring, MD.
Southern California Linux ExpoThe Southern California Linux Expo will be held on February 12 and 13, 2005 at the Los Angeles conference center.
Events: January 20 - March 17, 2005
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