Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

FSFE writes Open Letter to International Bank of Settlements

The FSFE has sent an open letter to the International Bank of Settlements regarding software patents in Europe. "Once Basel II becomes widely used, a dramatic increase in software patent infringement lawsuits for this area is likely to occur on a global basis. Any bank or any of its customers for Basel II based software may become target of such legal action -- the risk is incalculable and can bring about multi-billion Euro lawsuits."

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Commercial announcements

Command Prompt Unveils Around the Clock PostgreSQL Support

Command Prompt has announced a 24/7 support program for PostgreSQL database customers. "The program, which is an extension of the successful line of Managed Services offered by Command Prompt, allows any user of PostgreSQL to call Command Prompt, Inc. any time, any day and receive the support they need."

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Guardian Digital Releases Advanced Spam and Phishing Protection

Guardian Digital has announced the release of their Secure Mail Suite version 3.2. "Incorporating advanced technologies for enterprise spam and phishing protection, Secure Mail Suite v. 3.2 is the first solution of its kind to include distributed protection from these types of attacks including the latest blended threats."

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JBoss and Sun Microsystems Expand Collaboration on Standards

JBoss and Sun Microsystems, Inc. have announced that they have expanded their collaboration on standards through a new multi-year agreement for JBoss to support the Java 2, Enterprise Edition platform.

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JetBrains Provides Free IntelliJ IDEA Licenses

JetBrains, Inc. has announced availability of free licenses of its IntelliJ IDEA to the open-source community. "JetBrains, Inc., creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing tools, announced today it is formalizing and expanding its practice of supporting Open Source development projects and invites developers of qualifying Open Source projects to apply for no-cost user licenses for its widely acclaimed IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment for Java."

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Mandrakesoft to participate in IGGI supercomputer projet

Mandrakesoft has announced their participation in the IGGI supercomputer project. "Mandrakesoft and partners are starting a research project in grid computing: IGGI. The consortium will develop a solution that can turn any network of desktop machines into a cluster. This project is supported by governemental funding."

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New specifications from OSDL

The Open Source Development Labs has announced that version 3.0 of the Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition is available "as a technology release for evaluation by developers." The CGL document is "a public reference blueprint for Linux distributions, major end users or Linux kernel developers to build Linux kernel features and associated libraries that are required by telecommunication carriers in their next-generation network infrastructure."

Also available is version 1.1 of the OSDL Data Center Linux Capabilities document. "The new document expands priorities published last year by the Lab around Data Center Linux in four main areas: security, hot-plug, clustering, and storage networking."

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PalmSource Completes Acquisition of China MobileSoft

PalmSource, Inc. has announced the completion of its acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS), a Chinese mobile phone software company. "The combination of Palm OS and CMS's software products is expected to enable PalmSource to provide one of the broadest lines of mobile software in the industry, powering mobile phones at all price points in all regions of the world. Over time, PalmSource expects to leverage the work CMS has done with Linux to provide a new version of Palm OS based on Linux. The Company will continue to support the Palm OS(R) Garnet and Palm OS(R) Cobalt operating system software lines."

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Sealevel Systems Announces First Internal USB to RS-232 Serial Adapters

Sealevel Systems, Inc. has announced a series of internal USB to RS-232 serial adapter with Linux support. "These devices are intended for mounting directly to a PC's chassis, eliminating the need for external converters and providing a clean, professional installation. All models are USB bus powered, capable of data rates to 460K bps, and install inside the computer in a spare bracket location."

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SKY MobileMedia Announces SKY-MAP Support for MontaVista Linux

SKY MobileMedia, Inc. has announced their SKY-MAP mobile applications software platform on the MontaVista Linux platform. "In collaboration with MontaVista Software, the combination of SKY's fully integrated and standards-compliant SKY-MAP platform paired with MontaVista(R) Linux Consumer Electronics Edition provides phone manufacturers with a complete applications software platform for multimedia handsets and smartphones."

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Unisys ES7000 Servers Now Certified On SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9

Unisys has announced that its ES7000 server line is now certified on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9. "Unisys is the only vendor to achieve SLES 9 certification for both 32-bit and 64-bit servers with up to 32 processors."

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Virtual Iron Software Joins Open Source Development Labs

Open Source Development Labs has announced that Virtual Iron has joined OSDL and will participate in the Lab's Data Center Linux (DCL) working group.

Virtual Iron Software, Inc. has announced it has established an advisory board founded with industry leaders for the datacenter virtualization company and named Steve Beckhardt, Dr. John Carter, Dr. Charles E. Leiserson, Billy Marshall, Richard Napolitano and Christopher M. Stone as founding members.

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New Books

GNU/Linux Application Programming published

Charles River Media has published the book GNU/Linux Application Programming by M. Tim Jones.

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"Home Networking Annoyances" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Home Networking Annoyances by Kathy Ivens.

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"Internet Annoyances" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Internet Annoyances by Preston Gralla.

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Zope 3 Developer's Handbook published

Sams has published the book Zope 3 Developer's Handbook by Stephan Richter. An online version of the book is also available.

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Resources

FSF Europe Newsletter

The February 7, 2005 edition of the FSF Europe Newsletter is online with the latest from the Free Software Foundation Europe.

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Linux Gazette #111

The February 2005 issue of Linux Gazette is out. Articles include Are Your Servers Secure???, by Blessen Cherian, Free as in Freedom: Part Two: Linux for the "Rest of Us", by Adam Engel, Compiling the Linux Kernel, by R. Krishnakumar, Introduction to Shell Scripting - The Basics, by Ben Okopnik, Songs in the Key of Tux: Recording with Audacity, by Jimmy O'Regan, and more.

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Contests and Awards

2004 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

LinuxQuestions.org has announced the Members Choice Award winners for 2004. Firefox was named Browser of the Year, Slackware is the Distribution of the Year and Knoppix is the LiveCD Distribution of the Year. A full list of nominees along with detailed results can be found here.

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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Names Finalists for Product Excellence Awards

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo has announced the finalists for the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards, to be presented at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo next week. Finalists include KDE 3.3, Mambo 4.5.1a and Novell Linux Desktop 9.

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Upcoming Events

ApacheCon Europe 2005 CFP

A Call for Participation has gone out for ApacheCon Europe 2005. The event will be held from July 18-22, 2005 in Stuttgart, Germany. Submissions are due by March 4.

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CodeCon Reminder

A reminder has been sent out fo the CodeCon event. "CodeCon will be held February 11-13, noon-6pm, at Club NV (525 Howard Street) in San Francisco."

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New Products, Services and Software to Be Featured at Desktop Linux Summit

Linspire has sent out a preview of the upcoming San Diego Desktop Summit. "The Desktop Summit today announced a preview of new products, services and software to be featured at the event, February 9-11 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in San Diego. Several new products and services will debut at the Summit, which will also feature exhibitors from some of the most innovative open source and desktop Linux companies."

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Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon)

The first FUDCon has been announced. "The Fedora Project, a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project, today announced a packed program for their first international conference, the Fedora Users and Developers Conference. Known as "FUDcon" for short, this conference is the first to bring together Fedora users and developers. It will be held at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, USA on Friday, February 18th, 2005."

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FOSDEM 2005 Press-release

A press release has gone out for FOSDEM 2005. "FOSDEM announced the preliminary program for its upcoming conference, to be held February 26-27, 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. Now in its fifth year, FOSDEM provides a forum for programmers across a wide spectrum of free and open source technologies to share ideas, and to foster collaboration between different projects. A wide range of developers gather at the annual conference to advance the adoption of open source and free software throughout Europe and the world."

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Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005

Sun has announced its Regional Delegate Program for the linux.conf.au 2005 conference. "As with previous LCAs, Sun Microsystems has kindly offered to sponsor the Regional Delegates Program (RDP) for LCA 2005. For the LCA 2005 RDP, there will be ten winners: one from each of the Australian states and territories; a national winner; and a winner representing New Zealand." The conference will be held in Canberra on April 18-23 2005.

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Google, HP, Novell, and Red Hat Execs to Keynote 2005 MySQL Users Conf

The keynote speakers for the 2005 MySQL Users Conference have been announced. The event will be held in Santa Clara, California on April 18-21, 2005.

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PGP keysigning at LinuxWorld in Boston

A PGP keysigning session will be held on February 15 at the Boston LinuxWorld conference.

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NSPW 2005 Call For Papers

A Call For Papers has gone out for the 2005 New Security Paradigms Workshop. The event will be held in Lake Arrowhead, California on September 20-23, 2005.

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PalmSource Worldwide Mobile Summit and DevCon

PalmSource, Inc. has announced its Worldwide Mobile Summit and DevCon. The event will take place in San Jose, California on May 23 -26, 2005. "PalmSource will also highlight its product roadmap for feature phones and Linux, leveraging its recent acquisition of China MobileSoft (CMS), a leading Chinese mobile phone software company."

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Call For Papers - August Penguin 2005

A Call For Papers has gone out for the Penguicon 2005 conference. The event will be held in Israel on August 4, 2005, papers are due by March 4, 2005.

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FlightGear to Demo Linux Based 747 Cockpit Simulator at SCALE 3x

FlightGear will demonstrate their open-source 757 flight simulator at the SCALE conference in Los Angeles. "The FlightGear team will use their open-source flight simulator to drive a full scale 747-400 simulator cockpit. The FlightGear demonstration will take place at SCALE 3x on Feb 12-13, 2005."

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OpenEMR at Southern California Linux Exposition (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has announced a presentation of the OpenEMR project on February 13 at the Third Annual Southern California Linux Exposition. "Walt Pennington will discuss OpenEMR, an open source medical practice management and electronic medical record application."

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YAPC::Taipei 2005 Registration Opens (use Perl)

Use Perl has announced registration for the YAPC::Taipei 2005 Perl conference. The event will be held on March 26 and 27, 2005 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Events: February 10 - April 7, 2005

Date	Event	Location
February 10 - 11, 2005	German Perl-Workshop 2005	Dresden, Germany
February 10 - 11, 2005	Third-Annual Desktop Linux Summit	(Del Mar Fairgrounds)San Diego, CA
February 10 - 11, 2005	GlobusWORLD	(Sheraton Boston Hotel)Boston, MA
February 11 - 13, 2005	CodeCon 2005	San Francisco, CA
February 12 - 13, 2005	Southern California Linux Expo 2005(SCALE)	(Los Angeles Convention Center)Los Angeles, CA
February 14 - 17, 2005	Linux World Conference and Expo	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA
February 18, 2005	Fedora Users and Developers Conference(FUDcon1)	(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Boston, Massachusetts
February 24 - 25, 2005	UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference	Birmingham, UK
February 25, 2005	Dutch Perl Workshop	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
February 26 - 27, 2005	Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting(FOSDEM 2005)	Brussels, Belgium
February 28 - March 3, 2005	EclipseCon 2005	(Hyatt Regency)Burlingame, CA
February 28 - March 1, 2005	Asia Debian Mini-Conf 2005	Beijing, China
March 1 - 2, 2005	JBoss World 2005 User Conference	(Omni/CNN Center)Atlanta, GA
March 2 - 4, 2005	Security-Enhanced Linux Symposium	Silver Spring, Maryland
March 2 - 3, 2005	Asia CodeFest 2005	Beijing, China
March 2 - 4, 2005	The 5th Asia Open Source Software Symposium	Beijing, China
March 2 - 4, 2005	The Free and Open Source Software Workshop	(Al Assad National Library)Damascus, Syria
March 10 - 16, 2005	CeBIT 2005	Hannover, Germany
March 12, 2005	Gentoo UK 2005	(University of Salford)Manchester, UK
March 12, 2005	Third Hungarian PHP Conference	Budapest, Hungary
March 14 - 17, 2005	Emerging Technology Conference(ETech)	(Westin Horton Plaza)San Diego, CA
March 20 - 25, 2005	Novell BrainShare 2005	Salt Lake City, Utah
March 21 - 24, 2005	Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2005	(Hotel Borobudur)Jakarta, Indonesia
March 21 - 24, 2005	Open Source Modeling and IDEs Workshop	(Caribe Royale All Suites Resort & Convention Center)Orlando, FL
March 23 - 25, 2005	PyCon DC 2005	(GWU Cafritz Conference Center)Washington, DC
March 26 - 27, 2005	YAPC::Taipei 2005	Taipei
March 30 - April 1, 2005	PHP Quebec	(Crowne Plaza Hotel)Montreal, Canada
March 31 - April 1, 2005	Black Hat Briefings Europe 2005	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
April 5 - 6, 2005	Open Source Business Conference(OSBC)	(Westin St. Francis)San Francisco, CA
April 7 - 8, 2005	Black Hat Briefings Asia 2005	Singapore

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Mailing Lists

VOIPSEC mailing list formed

A new mailing list has been formed by the Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA). "The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) is a unique collaboration of VoIP and Information Security vendors, providers, and researchers. VOIPSA aims to help organizations understand and mitigate VoIP security risks through discussion lists, white papers, sponsorship of VoIP security research projects, and the development of tools and methodologies for public use."

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Web sites

CPAN::Forum (use Perl)

use Perl has an announcement for the newly created CPAN::Forum site. "Graham integrated links to the individual subforums in the search.cpan results and Randy in the Kobes' search. I hope people who are searching for modules will find it a good place to discuss them."

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