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AnnouncementsCommercial announcements Novell Reports Financial Results for Third Fiscal Quarter 2005 Novell, Inc. has announced it's third quarter financial results. ""Customers continue to embrace Novell's Linux and identity solutions," said Jack Messman, Chairman and CEO of Novell. "We were particularly pleased with our initial penetration of the Chinese market where Linux is an attractive technology for government and commercial users. Our increasingly customer-focused, go-to-market approach is leading to a stronger Novell as evidenced by our positive operating cash flow and growth in deferred revenue in the quarter. While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will lead to cost reductions.""
Novell To Acquire Joint Venture Partner in India Novell has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the 50% stake held by its partner in Onward Novell, its sales and distribution arm in India. Novell will integrate the Onward Novell organization with the company's existing India operations, increasing Novell's investment in the region.
SGI to Install HPC Environment at Dresden Technical University SGI has announced a contract to install a 1500 processor Altix System at Dresden University of Technology. "In two project phases to be completed within twelve months, a state-of-the-art, innovative and flexibly usable infrastructure with computational power of more than a dozen teraflops will be implemented. This will enable investigators in scientific areas such as physics, material sciences, engineering, bioinformatics and nanotechnology to find answers to new types of challenging problems."
TimeSys Introduces First Online Development Network for ``Roll-Your-Own'' Embedded Linux Developers TimeSys Corporation has announced the availability of LinuxLink(TM) subscriptions for embedded developers creating their own custom Linux platform. LinuxLink subscriptions target many processor architectures from Freescale, Intel, MIPS and ARM, and deliver continuously updated streams of components, information and technology aggregated from leading semiconductor manufacturers, the open source community and TimeSys.
New Books Pragmatic Bookshelf publishes Agile Web Development with Rails Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz.
Geek Your Ride - O'Reilly's Latest Release O'Reilly has published the book Car PC Hacks by Damien Stolarz.
Addison-Wesley publishes Moving to Linux Addison-Wesley Professional has published the second edition of Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye by Marcel Gagne.
Resources New Hugin tutorials (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop.org mentions the availability of tutorials on Hugin, a Panorama Tools GUI front-end. Tutorials include Creating linear panoramas with Hugin and Perspective correction.
An Illustrated Guide to IPSec For everybody who has wondered how the IPSec protocols work: Steve Friedl has put together a guide to IPSec, complete with a great many illustrations. It is a good starting place to learn about what is happening at the IP level when IPSec is used.
Linux-Mobile-Guide Issue 3.17 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is available. "This guide covers laptop, notebook, PDA and mobile (cell) phone related Linux features, such as installation methods (via network interface, without CD/DVD drive, etc.), hardware features (PCMCIA, IrDA, BlueTooth, APM, ACPI, etc.) and configurations for different environments."
Netgear WGPS606 Printer Configuration Mini HowTo The CUPS project has produced a mini HOWTO on connecting a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server to a Linux system.
Xen tutorial released Julien Danjou has written a tutorial on running Xen under Debian.
Contests and Awards First KDE Appreciation Awards Announced (KDE.News) KDE.News reports on the winners of the KDE Appreciation Awards. "The awards are for best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award. The jury consisted of the well-known KDE hackers Aaron Seigo, Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias Ettrich. If you want to know who the winners are, read on!"
TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 granted The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has announced the winners of the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005. "The TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 has been granted to OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus, PI-Sync, KWlanInfo and BlueZ."
Event Reports aKademy Developers Conference Prepares for KDE 4 (KDE.News) KDE.News presents a report from the 2005 KDE aKademy conference. "The 2005 KDE aKademy continued today with the opening of the developer conference: two days of talks describing upcoming KDE technologies, giving programming tips and, of course, plenty of informal hacking and discussion sessions between the developers. Today's talks included they keynote from Trolltech, a new multithreading scheduler library, meta-programming revisited and how to boot to KDE in 10 seconds."
Upcoming Events GNOME Summit 2005 announced The GNOME Summit will be held on October 8-10, 2005 at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Mass.
Linux Audio Conference 2006 The 2006 Linux Audio Conference (LAC2006) will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany on April 27-30, 2006.
Linux demo on Software Freedom Day, September 10th The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold a Linux and open-source software demonstration in Davis, CA on September 10, 2005.
OpenOffice.org Conference 2005 registration opens Registration is now open for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005. The event will take place on September 29 and 30, 2005 in Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia.
Call for Participation: UKUUG Spring Conference 2006 A Call for Participation has gone out for the UKUUG Spring Conference 2006. The event takes place in Durham, UK on March 22 and 23, 2006, abstracts are due by December 23, 2005.
Events: September 1 - October 27, 2005
Audio and Video programs LQ Radio Interview with Doc Searls LinuxQuestions.org has announced a new radio interview with Linux Journal's Doc Searls. "We discuss a variety of topics including recent OSCON and LinuxWorld trips, Cluetrain, Google, splogs, RSS, Linux Trademarks and more."
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