Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Austin Group details plan and scope for next revision of joint standard

The Austin Group has announced an effort to produce the next version of its joint standard. "The Austin Group met at the Standards Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, on February 21-24 2006 to consider the goals and plan the precise milestones for the next revision of the joint standard (that is ISO/IEC 9945 (POSIX), IEEE Std 1003.1 and The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6)."

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Join the Fellowship and win a Free HP notebook PC

The Free Software Foundation Europe is offering new incentives to active members. "Like last year's PDA, donated by xtops.de the Free Software Foundation Europe will be raffling off two HP notebooks to all active Fellows on 1 April this year. For two lucky Fellows, April Fool's Day will be anything but foolish. "This is a great start into the second year of our Fellowship," says Georg Greve, president of FSFE. "The Fellowship is essential to our activities. It allows us to pursue activities like the Microsoft antitrust case, or our work at the United Nations. These may seem far away, but if we do not defend our freedoms also in these places, we are bound to lose them everywhere.""

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New python.org and Call for Volunteers

A Call for Volunteers has been sent out for the new python.org site. "We would like to announce that the beta python site will be made live on the 5th March 2006. In order to ensure that the switch is as smooth as possible, we are asking for some volunteers to help in finalising the migration and checking of content and links. Guido van Rossum will be announcing this during his keynote speech at Pycon and there will be sprints from 27th February through to the 2nd March. All the information you'll need is here."

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Commercial announcements

Bizgres MPP 2.1 Available for Public Download

Version 2.1 of Bizgres MPP, the scalable data warehousing clustered version of PostgreSQL, is available for a free trial. "Bizgres MPP 2.1 is based on PostgreSQL 8.1 and will support most PostgreSQL applications out of the box. It allows you to spread your database across multiple servers, and run parallelized queries over databases up to 100 terabytes in size, with data read rates over 10GB/second. Bizgres MPP is built on a fault-tolerant shared-nothing architecture which allows for cluster expansion, using commodity hardware."

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DNUK Selects Chelsio's T210-CX iSCSI Target Solution

Chelsio Communications has announced the selection of its T210-CX4 10GbE TOE/iSCSI acceleration adapters by DNUK for use in Linux systems. "Chelsio's T210-CX4 TOE/iSCSI adapter and iSCSI Target software v1.0 is a proven turnkey solution set that offers significant cost savings for storage target systems by leveraging the volume, scalability, and simplicity of off-the-shelf server platforms, standard Ethernet connectivity, and copper CX-4 cabling."

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Empower Technologies Introduces TI development kit

Empower Technologies has announced a new development kit for the TI OMAP5912 dual-core processor. "A one-stop development solution, Empower's LDK5912 comes complete with both hardware and software offerings that enable developers to create reference consumer electronics products at significantly reduced development time, risk and cost. The kit runs LinuxDA out of the box, so developers can use the LDK5912 to compile, download and test applications within minutes of set-up."

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Gigabytes and Silver Strand Solutions announce Gigastrand International

Gigabytes Computer Store and Silver Strand Solutions have joined together to announce Gigastrand International. Gigastrand International will supply computers and home entertainment systems using the Linspire Operating System. In addition, Gigastrand International will provide specialized materials for people with niche interests such as using Linspire to to be an audiophile, run a small business, and much more.

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Linux Networx Announces Linux Supercomputing Storage Solutions

Linux Networx has announced the availability of new supercomputing storage solutions. "Integrating the appropriate storage configuration within a supercomputing system has been proven to power performance acceleration and utilization increases by a factor of 20 or more. Linux Networx storage solutions combine best-in-class hardware, management software and high performance file systems to best meet the unique requirements of each supercomputing environment. Linux Networx storage solutions are tightly integrated with the company's LS series of Linux Supersystems -- a family designed to deliver new levels of Total Application Throughput."

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Novell Continues Linux Market Leadership in China

Novell, Inc. has announced its continuing leadership in the Chinese Linux market. "Novell holds a 25.1 percent share of the Linux market in China, surpassing other local and international Linux distributors. Novell's success in China reflects a strong commitment to Chinese open source development and to Novell's growing customer base in this rapidly expanding market."

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New Books

Building Extreme PCs--O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Building Extreme PCs by Ben Hardwidge.

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Writing Security Tools and Exploits--latest from Syngress

Syngress has published the book Writing Security Tools and Exploits by James C. Foster and Vincent Liu.

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Resources

The "First Ever Think Tank Report on the Future of Commercial Open Source"

SDForum and the Olliance Group have announced the availability of a report from an "open source think tank" event held in January. This group got together and came up with a number of not entirely earth-shaking conclusions. "There are not enough developers to participate in all the open source communities. With too many projects and not enough focus on key projects -- there is simply not enough talent to mature open source fast enough." The Olliance site requires registration to obtain the report, but said report is under the Creative Commons Attribution license. So you can also get a copy from LWN [PDF].

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Contests and Awards

VMware Announces Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge

VMware, Inc. has announced the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge. "VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, today announced the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge contest with prizes totaling $200,000 to foster continued innovation in developing virtual appliances. Virtual appliances are pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software applications, all packaged within virtual machines. They can be run using VMware virtualization products, including VMware Player and VMware Server which are both available for free download at http://www.vmware.com/download/."

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Education and Certification

IBM Linux tutorials for LPI exams

IBM developerWorks has a series of tutorials to help you prepare for system administrator certification and the topics in LPI exams 201 and 202. Tutorials generally require a free registration.

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Event Reports

Coverage of LPI at LinuxWorld Mexico

The Linux Professional Institute has provided coverage of their presence at the recent LinuxWorld Mexico conference. "LPI attended the first annual Linux World Mexico and hosted exam labs, a trade show booth, and a special press conference on LPI's 30,000 certificant."

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Upcoming Events

DEF CON 14 Call for Papers

A call for papers has gone out for the DEF CON 14 security conference. DEF CON 14 will be held on August 4-6, 2006 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Papers are due by June 15.

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Geoffrey Moore will present Keynote at 2006 Desktop Linux Summit

Desktop Linux Summit has announced its keynote speaker, author Geoffrey A. Moore. "Moore will speak from his newest book, "Dealing with Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution," and hold a book signing for attendees. The event, sponsored by industry leaders such as Novell and Red Hat, will be held April 24-25, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego."

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Novell Brainshare Conference

Novell's global BrainShare Conference will take place on March 19-24, 2006, in Salt Lake City, UT.

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Novell and Red Hat Take Top Sponsorships at Desktop Linux Summit

Novell and Red Hat will be the top sponsors at the fourth annual Desktop Linux Summit. "The Desktop Linux Summit today announced that Linux industry giants Novell and Red Hat have signed on as platinum sponsors for the show, which is the only event to focus exclusively on Linux and open source software for the desktop. In its fourth year, the Summit will be held April 24-25, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in downtown San Diego, California."

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OOoCon 2006 location chosen

The location for OOoCon 2006 has been chosen. The event will take place in Lyon, France.

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2nd PyWeek Python Game Programming Challenge

The second PyWeek Python Game Programming Challenge has been announced. "The date for the second PyWeek challenge has been set: Sunday 26th March to Sunday 2nd April (00:00UTC to 00:00UTC). The PyWeek challenge invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an individual or in a team. Entries must be developed in Python, during the challenge, and must incorporate some theme chosen at the start of the challenge."

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64 Studio and Lionstracs at Sounds Expo 2006

The Linuxaudio.org members, 64 Studio audio distribution and Lionstracs will have exhibits at the London Sounds Expo trade show on March 9-11, 2006.

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CFP: 13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference

A Call For Papers has gone out for the 13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference. The event will take place on October 9-13, 2006 in Naperville, Illinois, submissions should be in by May 31.

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O'Reilly Where 2.0: The Future of Mapping and Local Search

O'Reilly has announced the 2006 Where 2.0 conference. "There's a new world of technology taking shape, moving the computing ecosystem to higher ground: geospatial. Pioneered by grassroots developers, startup projects, and innovative mash-ups, these new mapping and location-related tools and services are promising both disruptions and opportunities. To explore this technology frontier, O'Reilly Media is planning the second Where 2.0 Conference, happening June 13-14 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California."

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Events: March 2 - April 27, 2006

Date	Event	Location
March 2 - 3, 2006	Black Hat Europe Briefings and Training 2006	(Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
March 2 - 3, 2006	SELinux Symposium and Developer Summit	(Wyndham Hotel)Baltimore, MD
March 3 - 4, 2006	LinuxForum 2006	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 3 - 5, 2006	Akademy-es 2006	Barcelona, Spain
March 6 - 9, 2006	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference(ETech)	(Manchester Grand Hyatt)San Diego, CA
March 8 - 10, 2006	New Orleans Plone Symposium	(Astor Crowne Plaza)New Orleans, LA
March 16, 2006	FOSS means Business	(Spires Conference Centre)Belfast, Northern Ireland
March 17 - 19, 2006	Libre Graphics Meeting 2006	(Ecole d'Ingénieurs CPE)Lyon, France
March 18 - 19, 2006	Rockbox International Developers Conference 2006	Stockholm, Sweden
March 19 - 24, 2006	Novell BrainShare 2006	(Salt Palace Convention Center)Salt Lake City, UT
March 21 - 23, 2006	UKUUG Spring Conference 2006	Durham, UK
March 25, 2006	Penguin Day	Seattle, WA
March 25, 2006	Bleepfest 06	(Christchurch Spitalfields Crypt)London, England
March 29 - 31, 2006	PHP Quebec 2006	(Plaza Montreal Hotel)Montreal, Canada
April 3 - 6, 2006	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(McEnery Convention Center)San Jose, CA
April 3 - 7, 2006	CanSecWest/core06	(Marriott Renaissance Harbourside hotel)Vancouver, Canada
April 3 - 4, 2006	Freedom To Connect 2006(FTC)	(AFI Silver Theater)Washington, DC
April 3 - 6, 2006	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	(Boston Convention and Exposition Center)Boston, MA
April 7 - 9, 2006	Notocaon 3	(Holiday Inn Select Cleveland)Cleveland, OH
April 11 - 12, 2006	CELF Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, California
April 15 - 16, 2006	LayerOne 2006	(Pasadena Hilton)Pasadena, California
April 19 - 22, 2006	Forum Internacional Software Livre 7.0(FISL)	Porto Alegre, Brazil
April 20 - 22, 2006	International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security(AReS 2006)	Vienna, Austria
April 21 - 23, 2006	Penguicon 4.0	Livonia, Michigan
April 23 - 26, 2006	ItaniumR Conference and Expo 2006(Gelato ICE)	San Jose, CA
April 24 - 26, 2006	LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld Canada 2006 Conference & Expo	(Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Bldg.)Toronto, Canada
April 24 - 27, 2006	MySQL Users Conference	Santa Clara, CA
April 24 - 25, 2006	2006 Desktop Linux Summit	(Manchester Grand Hyatt)San Diego, CA
April 24 - 26, 2006	SambaXP 2006	(Clarion Parkhotel)Göttingen, Germany
April 26 - 28, 2006	php|tek 2006	(Orlando Airport Marriott Hotel)Orlando, FL
April 27 - 30, 2006	Linux Audio Conference(LAC2006)	(ZKM)Karlsruhe, Germany

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Web sites

New GNOME developers forum

The new GnomeDev.com site is online with a wired variety of GNOME developer topics.

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Audio and Video programs

FOSDEM videos available

For those of you who couldn't make it to FOSDEM: Michael Opdenacker has posted videos of a number of the talks. The list includes sessions by David Weinehall, Richard Stallman, Jeff Waugh, and others.

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