Commercial announcements
Mark's Work Wearhouse has
replaced
and centralized its point-of-sale (POS) system and reduced operating
and maintenance costs with a new Java-based Retek Point-of-Service (RPOS)
solution running Linux on IBM SurePOS 500 systems.
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IDC has
announced the newest rankings of supercomputer performance based on its
comprehensive test, called the IDC Balanced Rating. Linux NetworX is the
newest vendor entering the top ten list. See also this
press release from Linux NetworX.
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Linux NetworX has achieved the rank of Fifth Fastest computer
for its 2,304-processor cluster, coming in at 5.694 teraFLOPs.
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MontaVista Software has
announced
that NEC's new AX10 "home server" product will be based on MontaVista
Linux. The AX10 looks like another TiVo-style home recorder system, with
the added ability to network with (and distribute content to) other
systems.
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Starbase Corporation has introduced
StarTeam Datamart, their new decision
support system for software developers.
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SuSE and Arrow Electronics have
announced
an agreement whereby Arrow will distribute SuSE's products in the United
States. SuSE, in other words, is making another attempt to get into the
U.S. market, but they are outsourcing the sales work, rather than setting
up an entire U.S. operation.
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Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. announced the installation of a 30-node Xserve
cluster running Yellow Dog Linux and Black Lab at the University of Colorado.
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SnapGear Inc. announced that their core contributions to the uClinux
project are making their way into mainstream Linux.
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has
announced
a revised, Last Call Working Draft of its Royalty-Free Patent Policy whose
goal is to enable W3C Recommendations to be implemented on a royalty-free
basis. To achieve the goal of producing royalty-free (RF) specifications,
all who participate in the development of a W3C Recommendation must agree
to license essential claims (that is, patents that block interoperability)
on a royalty-free basis. Last Call Working Drafts are published when a W3C
Working Group feels it has solved internal issues and is seeking outside
review. The Last Call comment period is open for public and Member comments
through 31 December 2002.
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Resources
Quick Toots has
a new tutorial on doing realtime musical synthesis
while using the JACK Audio Connection Kit.
"
Realtime synthesis is one of the cornerstones of digital audio recording and performance. This toot gives you a helping hand into the world of Pure Data - One of the most popular and powerful synthesis applications/environments. With JACK it is now possible to stream more audio than ever before through applications like Pd and Ardour is there to help record the results."
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Oliver Schulze
has put together a mini-faq on using the Perl
Sendmail::Milter mail filtering module under RedHat 7.3.
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PHP.net has announcements
for two new PHP magazines, the online php|a, and the
print publication PHP Magazin.
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ISO/IEC Joint technical committee has approved the joint revision to POSIX
and the Single UNIX Specification as an International Standard. Designated
as ISO/IEC 9945:2002, the joint revision forms the core of The Open Group's
Single UNIX Specification Version 3 (IEEE 1003.1-2001, POSIX.1).
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Upcoming Events
A free software event called Porto Cidade Tecnológica 2002 will be held
in Porto, Portugal on November 28 and 30, 2002.
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Linux Bangalore/2002, to be held in
Bangalore, India on December 3-5, 2002, has
announced that Hewlett Packard will be the event's first sponsor.
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IDG World Expo
announced
the launch of its first-ever Linux Financial Summit at LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo/New York 2003. LinuxWorld will be taking place
January 21-24, 2003 at New York City's Javits Center.
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The list of speakers has been announced for the
Linux.Conf.Au 2003, to be held in Perth, Australia
on January 22-25.
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A call for participation has been sent out for the
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, to be held on
April 22-25, 2003 in Santa Clara, CA.
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Software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of
Freshmeat.net. They are available in
two formats:
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