Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

EFF: Analog Hole Bill Introduced

The EFF reports that the "Digital Transition Content Security Act of 2005," which attempts to shut off high-resolution outputs on our media gadgets, has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives. "Digitizers and digital media devices that won't jump through the specified outrageous regulatory hoops - automatically deleting protected analog content after ninety minutes; outputting only 'down-rezzed' images, and satisfying 'robustness criteria' that weld the hood shut against user modification and open source developers - are expected to simply turn off and refuse to convert watermark-protected analog video."

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KDE Web Dev 2005 Fund Raiser (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced a new fund raising effort. "It is hard to believe that our last official fund raiser was in mid October of 2004. As a member of the community you might think that represents a lot of success for our fund raising efforts as we have done fund raisers as often as every few months. Nothing could be further from truth. In actuallity we were already behind when a $100 a month sponsor was forced to pull out."

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LinuxQuestions.org Reaches Two Milestones

LinuxQuestions.org has announced the milestones of two million posts and two hundred thousand members. "As one of the largest non-distribution specific Linux communities on the web, LQ continues the rapid growth that it has sustained for almost six years. The site was recently redesigned and is an integral part of a growing network of Linux-related sites."

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Commercial announcements

AJAX-Based Echo2 Web Framework and EchoStudio2 Released

NextApp, Inc. has announced the open-source AJAX-based Echo2 Web Framework and commercially-licensed EchoStudio2 Visual Development Tool. "Echo2 unifies AJAX technology with a practical server-side framework to create a next-generation web application platform. For web application developers, Echo2 provides a familiar and powerful component-oriented framework that promotes event-oriented design similar to traditional thick-client user interface toolkits like Java Swing or Eclipse SWT."

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CadSoft Releases Eagle 4.16

CadSoft has released version 4.15 of Eagle, a commercial printed circuit CAD application with a freely downloadable "lite version" for hobby use. See the what's new document for the list of changes.

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Levanta to launch Management Appliance in Korea

Levanta has announced the opening of a Korean sales office, which will sell the Levanta Intrepid M Linux management appliance. ""We chose Korea to launch the Intrepid in Asia because of the widespread adoption of Linux in both government organizations and enterprises," said Matt Mosman, CEO of Levanta. "In the U.S., we've seen the strongest demand for the Intrepid M in corporations and Internet businesses with large numbers of existing Linux deployments. With the fantastic growth of Linux in Korea and large number of Linux systems, we see a big opportunity for the Intrepid M.""

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Linux Desktops Double Using Innovative New Software

Userful Corporation has announced a temporary give-away of two-user licenses for its Desktop Multiplier software. "Desktop Multiplier enables a single computer running the Linux operating system to provide multiple independent workstations to multiple users at the same time, with each user workstation comprising a keyboard, monitor and mouse. Free two-user licenses to be distributed in this promotion will enable desktop Linux users with a standard dual-head video card to add another workstation by simply plugging in a spare monitor, USB mouse and keyboard."

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Mandriva to ship Skype

Here is the much-anticipated press release from Mandriva, stating that Mandriva 2006 Linux will come with the (proprietary) Skype VOIP application bundled. "With Mandriva Linux 2006, users will be able to easily make business or personal phones calls all over the world using their computer, while taking advantage of local rates. Customers can connect from PC to PC, PC to landline phone, or PC to mobile phone. Additional features, such as voice mail and call forwarding, are also available."

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Performancing Announces Performancing for Firefox

Performancing LLC has announced a new Firefox extension. "Performancing, a new organization dedicated to building the world's largest community of professional bloggers, today announced the beta version of its new Firefox extension blogging tool, Performancing for Firefox. The tool will be available for testing by Performancing's growing member base, and is slated for general availability by the end of Q1 2006."

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Access2PostgreSQL Sync v.1.0 release

PostgreSQL, Inc has announced the 1.0 release of Access2PostgreSQL Sync. An evaluation copy is available for limited testing. "Access2PostgreSQL Sync is a new converter in our Data Conversion Product Line. This effective application allows you to convert and synchronize mdb (Microsoft Access databases) and PostgreSQL databases."

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SMBs using Oracle 10g Standard Edition One on Linux

Oracle Corporation has issued a press release highlighting several of their smaller business customers that are using Oracle on Linux.

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Sun Announces New Enhancements to Java Enterprise System

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced new versions of the Java(TM) Enterprise System and Java(TM) System Suites. "Enhancing the overall capabilities of the Java Enterprise System, the Sun Java System Portal Server 7 is the first to allow the easy creation of interactive communities of users and services, building community portals populated with collaborative content including RSS feeds, blogs and wikis."

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Syncsort's DMExpress Supports 64-Bit Linux for Intel(R) EM64T

Syncsort Incorporated has announced 64 bit versions of DMExpress, its high-performance ETL product. "DMExpress' dynamic memory optimizations will take advantage of the 64-bit architecture to dramatically speed up long running, data-intensive applications, allowing companies to process even larger data sizes within the same batch processing window."

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Play FLAC and Ogg files in your Volvo

Volvo automobiles have a new Digital Jukebox audio accessory that supports the Ogg Vorbis and FLAC audio formats. "The USB 2.0 connection between the PC and docking station contributes to fast downloading. The system is supplied with PhatNoise Music Manager™, a program that simplifies the task of creating, organising and playing digital music files, as well as PhatNoise CD Manager™ for fast, simple downloading of music files from a CD to the DMS memory. In addition to the conventional CD format, the system supports MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG and FLAC digital sound formats." Found on the FLAC news page.

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New Books

C in a Nutshell - O'Reilly's Newest Release

O'Reilly has published the book C in a Nutshell by Peter Prinz and Tony Crawford.

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Cryptographic Libraries for Developers published by Charles River Media

Charles River Media has published the book Cryptographic Libraries for Developers by Ed Moyle.

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Insider Threat--latest from Syngress

Syngress has published the book Insider Threat: Protecting the Enterprise from Sabotage, Spying, and Theft by Dr. Eric Cole and Sandra Ring.

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IBM Press Publishes "Irresistible! Markets, Models, and Meta-Value in Consumer Electronics"

IBM Press has announced the publication of the book Irresistible! Markets, Models, and Meta-Value in Consumer Electronics. The book has been edited by George Bailey and Dr. Hagen Wenzek.

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Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Third Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, Third Edition by Jim Farley and William Crawford, with Prakash Malani, John G. Norman, and Justin Gehtland.

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PHP Hacks - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book PHP Hacks by Jack Herrington.

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Skype Hacks: Save and Have Fun with Phone Service--O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Skype Hacks: Save & Have Fun with Phone Service by Andrew Sheppard.

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XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition by Sal Mangano.

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Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide by Stuart Cheshire and Daniel Steinberg.

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Resources

Linux Intranet Configuration document

Segetech has published a new Linux Intranet Configuration document. "This document explains a general purpose intranet infrastructure design, configurations for firewall, DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS, SSH, NTP, and lists needed services to enable the configured features in the network. Such a network is suitable for software development, office application use, and many other tasks." (Thanks to Daniel Qarras.)

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OSV Sponsors Copyright and Patents Briefing Paper

Open Source Victoria has announced its sponsorship of a new Copyright and Patents FAQ document. "Open Source Victoria, Australia's government-funded open source industry cluster, has recently sponsored the preparation of a briefing paper which delves into the issues surrounding copyright, software patents and other issues affecting the software industry. Written by well-known lawyer and principal of Open Source Law, Brendan Scott, the paper is free and available under an Creative Commons licence for everyone to download and read."

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Contests and Awards

Astaro wins PC Magazine's Best of the Year award

Astaro's Security Gateway 220, a unified threat management appliance, has won a PC Magazine award. "The magazine selected eight solutions in the categories of Security and Networking for this yearly distinction. Astaro Security Gateway 220 was chosen as the Business Security Appliance for both."

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Surveys

2006 XML.com Reader Survey (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly is running a reader survey about XML. "I want to ask for your help. XML.com has a reputation for being a no-nonsense source of cutting-edge technical information about all things XML and the Web. I need your help maintaining that reputation. As you may know, we've been trying to retool our editorial focus during 2005 to concentrate on what the world looks like in the post-core-XML specification era; that is, what happens when we stop working so much on XML as with it?"

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Upcoming Events

EHR Standardization conference (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the 2006 ICMCC Conference on EHR Standardization and Interoperability. The event takes place in The Hague, The Netherlands on February 6-7, 2006.

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Discover, Connect, and Succeed at the 2006 MySQL Users Conference

Early registration for the 2006 MySQL Users Conference is open. The event will be held in Santa Clara, California on April 24-27, 2006. "This annual event is an unmatched opportunity for database developers, DBAs, users, and vendors to gather together and share the latest information on MySQL and open source technology. The theme for the 2006 conference is "Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL.""

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CMP Media announces Embedded Systems Conference

CMP Media LLC has announced the 2006 Embedded Systems Conference (ESC). The event will be held in San Jose, CA on April 3-7, 2006. "The five-day Embedded Systems Conference will showcase the latest developments in enabling technologies, systems and software products, and tools created by the electronics industry's most innovative minds -- the Creators of Technology. ESC Silicon Valley will welcome over 300 leading exhibitors and feature more than 194 classes and design seminars to give engineers and engineering managers thorough training and understanding of the industry's most critical themes -- like analog and power, Linux and DSP, Consumer Video, and Wireless Networking."

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Notacon Call for Proposals open

A Call for Proposals has gone out for Notacon 3. The event will take place in Cleveland, Ohio on April 7-9, 2006.

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2006 Ottawa Linux Symposium call for papers

It's that time of year: the call for papers for the 2006 Ottawa Linux Symposium (July 19 to 22) is out. If you would like to present at OLS this year, you have until the beginning of February to put in a proposal.

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2nd Annual SE Linux Symposium

The 2nd Annual SE Linux Symposium will be held in Baltimore, MD on February 27-March 3, 2006.

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First X@FOSDEM2006 announced

The first X@FOSDEM2006 has been announced, it will be held on February 24, 2006. "X@FOSDEM2006 consists of an X Developers HotHouse before FOSDEM and an X.org DevRoom on FOSDEM 2006."

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X.org Foundation Developer's Conference CFP

A call for papers has gone out for the 2006 X Developer's Conference. The event will be held in Santa Clara, CA on February 8-10, 2006. Abstracts are due by December 31.

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Events: December 22, 2005 - February 16, 2006

Date	Event	Location
December 27 - 30, 2005	22nd Chaos Communication Congress	Berlin, Germany
January 13 - 15, 2006	ShmooCon 2006	(Wardman Park Marriott Hotel)Washington, D.C.
January 23 - 28, 2006	linux.conf.au 2006	Dunedin, New Zealand
January 23 - 25, 2006	Black Hat Federal Briefings and Training 2006	(Sheraton Crystal City)Washington, D.C.
January 24 - 26, 2006	O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference	(San Francisco Airport Marriott)San Francisco, CA
February 6 - 7, 2006	ICMCC Conference on EHR Standards and Interoperability	(World Forum Convention Center, The Hague)The Netherlands
February 8 - 10, 2006	X Developer's Conference(XDevConf)	(Sun Campus)Santa Clara, CA
February 10 - 12, 2006	CodeCon 2006	San Francisco, CA
February 11 - 12, 2006	Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE 4x)	(Los Angeles Airport Westin)Los Angeles, California

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Web sites

KDE Dot News: Sponsored by OSU Open Source Lab (KDE.News)

KDE Dot News is now being hosted by the OSU Open Source Lab. "OSUOSL have graciously provided us with both server and network hosting, although of course, OSUOSL has long been hosting us on their network while we had been sharing the Ark Linux webserver. As we outgrew the Ark Linux server and ran into resource limitations however, OSUOSL also graciously offered us new server hosting. The dot is now significantly more responsive and we should definitely be seeing an improvement in uptime as well."

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O'Reilly Network Launches Emerging Telephony Web Site

O'Reilly has announced it new Emerging Telephony web site. "IP telephony technologies are heating up the telecommunications industry. Search companies are adding voice options for their customers, web developer voice platforms are creating entirely new services opportunities, open source IP PBX platforms are striking fear into the hearts of traditional telcos. With so many new options, shuffling international players, and related apps coming fast and furious from the deep recesses of hackerdom, O'Reilly Network has launched a new site, Emerging Telephony, to help developers and other interested parties stay ahead of the curve in this industry in transition."

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Audio and Video programs

LugRadio: A KDE Update from Aaron Seigo (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the latest podcast release from LugRadio. "LugRadio, the online radio show of the Wolverhampton Linux User Group has an interview in their latest episode with KDE hacker Aaron Seigo. The appearance consists of a five-minute update on where the KDE desktop is heading, cool stuff they are working on and KDE's relationship with freedesktop.org. Start listening 30 minutes in for the update."

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