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Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The folks at OpenOffice.org respond to the Microsoft Office 2007
test drive campaign.
" Microsoft today announced the opening of a "test drive" so that
people can see what Microsoft Office 2007 might look like when it
finally goes on sale.
The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential upgraders to go one
better - download the full OpenOffice.org 2 office suite today for a
test drive, and if you like it, use it free for as long as you like.
It's the ultimate no-strings-attached test drive - if you enjoy the
test drive, keep the car!"
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Commercial announcements
2X Software Ltd has announced the release of the 2X ApplicationServer Linux
client, which allows Windows applications to be run under Linux.
" Until now, Linux users could only run Windows applications using
Windows simulation software (e.g. WINE). This type of software is
typically difficult to configure and only works with a limited number
of applications. In addition, this generally would only support older
versions. With 2X ApplicationServer however, any Windows application
can be tunneled via RDP onto a Linux desktop."
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ActiveGrid, Inc. has
announced the availability of the ActiveGrid Studio 2.0
development environment.
" ActiveGrid Studio 2.0 is now the first
enterprise solution on the market that rolls AJAX, mash-ups, and the
ability to take advantage of exposed back-ends in SOA architectures into a
development tool that's easy to use and optimized for common enterprise
configurations."
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Bell Microproducts Inc. has
announced a partnership with Red Hat, Inc.
" "Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the market-leading open source platform in our core markets," said Gary Gammon, senior vice president of marketing for Bell Microproducts' Enterprise Division. "This partnership allows us to provide a one-stop-shopping opportunity for our customers by providing solutions that are built around Red Hat Enterprise Linux."
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CodeWeavers has announced versions 5.0.3 of their CrossOver Office Server
and CrossOver Office Professional products.
" This version will bring all of the CrossOver 5.0 features, including support
for Office 2003 and the ability to manage virtual Windows environments
(aka Bottles), to the Solaris and Linux thin client environments."
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Web hoster CrystalTech
is offering a Linux-based dedicated hosting plan that costs
$49.95 per month.
" The feature-rich Linux Dedicated plan features a 1.8GHz processor, 512MB of RAM and 250GB of bandwidth each month."
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Empower Technologies Corporation has
announced a collaboration with Texas Instruments
Incorporated.
" Technologies Corporation (Empower) is very pleased to announce that it has
begun a joint international sales effort with Texas Instruments
Incorporated (TI) to promote its LDK591x family of LEOs (LinuxDA Embedded
O/S) for TI's OMAP591x dual-core processor embedded software development
kits to over 2,000 of the top universities and technical colleges
worldwide."
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Novell, Inc. has
announced the selection of Ronald Hovsepian as its new CEO,
he will replace Jack Messman.
" Novell, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has elected President
Ronald W. Hovsepian, 45, to the additional position of chief executive
officer, effective immediately. Hovsepian, who also has been elected to the
Board of Directors, has been president and chief operating officer since
October 2005. The Company also announced that Thomas G. Plaskett, a
director of Novell since November 2002, has been elected non-executive
Chairman of the Novell Board."
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OpenLogic, Inc. has
announced the release of OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0.
" OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0
gives enterprises a central repository of approved, certified open source
products within the corporate firewall; enables companies to automatically
install, configure and integrate this software on remote servers and
desktops (using existing software deployment tools if they choose) and
provides an audit trail of open source software deployment.
As with past versions, OpenLogic Enterprise 4.0 allows enterprises to
control which open source products are included in the approved library,
and can limit usage on various criteria including license type."
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SGI has
announced a new blade server product.
" The new Linux(R) systems will deliver double the performance of today's award-winning Altix(R) servers, while drawing less power and offering more density and flexibility for demanding, data-intensive applications.
The new SGI(R) Altix(R) 450 bolsters SGI's mid-range offerings with up to 2.5 times the system performance of the current Altix(R) 350(R) server
at a lower cost. With dual-core Itanium 2 processors, SGI also is
dramatically increasing the performance of its existing SGI(R) Altix(R)
4700 servers at no extra system cost to customers."
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SecuGen Corporation has
announced release 9 of its fingerprint recognition
Software Developer Kit.
" SecuGen's minutiae-based fingerprint recognition technology allows a
person's fingerprints to work like unique digital codes that are more
secure and convenient than passwords and that are not easily lost, stolen
or forgotten. This newest release of the SecuGen SDK Collection provides
software developers with the widest choice of operating system platforms
for their biometric applications."
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Version 2.1 of Wing IDE, the Advanced Software Development Environment
for Python, is out.
" Wing IDE provides powerful debugging, editing, code intelligence, and
search capabilities that reduce development and debugging time, cut down
on coding errors, and make it easier to understand and navigate Python
code."
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New Books
Apress has published the book
The Definitive Guide to SQLite by Mike Owens.
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SitePoint has published the book Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications
by Matthew Eernisse.
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Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book From Java To Ruby
by Bruce Tate.
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Education and Certification
The Linux Professional Institute has announced new MySQL exams.
"
Linux Professional Institute (LPI) the world's
premier Linux certification organization, and MySQL AB, developer of the
world's most popular Open Source database,
today announced a joint
initiative to offer MySQL 5.0 certification exams through LPI's global
proctor network, beginning with the C3 Expo, June 27th 29th, 2006 at
the Javits Center in New York City. Prosoft Learning Corporation, LPI's
affiliate in North America will be offering these exams at C3 Expo along
with LPI Certification exams."
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The Linux Professional Institute and Canonical Ltd. have
" ... jointly announced the world's first Ubuntu Certified
Professionals: Fred Strauss and Khayeni Ndlovu of Johannesburg, South
Africa. Mr. Strauss and Mr. Ndlovu were amongst a group of people who
wrote paper versions of the Ubuntu certification exam at LinuxWorld
Johannesburg on May 18, 2006. The Ubuntu Certified Professional exam is
now available worldwide at over 7,000 Thomson Prometric and Pearson VUE
testing centres."
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Calls for Presentations
KDE.News has sent out a
reminder
for aKademy 2006 presentations.
" The deadline for aKademy 2006 submissions is fast approaching. We are still
looking for technical contributions, community success stories, tales of
interoperability, industrial innovation and integration and cross-desktop
creativity. The
Call For Papers
says that a 300 word abstract and a short bio
is needed to secure your place for consideration by the programme committee."
Submissions are due by June 30, 2006.
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Upcoming Events
The 2006 Gelato ICE Itanium Conference and Expo has been announced.
" Gelato ICE: Itanium Conference & Expo is the world's only event dedicated
to Linux on the Intel Itanium architecture. This conference will address
current high-performance computing issues and collaborative solutions
specific to Linux on the Itanium processor, and will feature technical
presentations, formal papers, poster sessions, and the exchange of
information in formal and informal settings."
The event will take place at the Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore on
October 1-4, 2006.
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KDE.News mentions the
upcoming KDE Four Core meeting.
" In another event in the series of meetings leading to the KDE 4.0 release,
the developers of the core libraries will meet in the Norwegian woods (this
bird has flown) from July 1st to July 7th. This meeting, co-sponsored by
Trolltech and SUSE, is labelled KDE Four Core, as it is intended to be the
direct successor of the KDE Three Beta and KDE Three meetings, that led to
the refining of KDE releases 2.0 and 3.0 respectively. But, unlike those,
this meeting is only one in a series of "KDE Four" meetings, that started
with KDE Four Multimedia."
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The Ohio LinuxFest 2006 event will take place in Columbus,
Ohio on September 30, 2006.
" The LinuxFest will be held at the Greater Columbus Convention Center,
and is a single-day event with sessions for experienced and
inexperienced Linux users, as well as an expo floor for commercial
exhibitors and non-profit Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
projects. More than 700 people attended the LinuxFest last year, and
organizers expect an even larger turnout this year."
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The Plone Conference 2006 event
has been announced.
" Plone Conference 2006 will be held October 25-27, 2006 at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms in Seattle, Washington USA!"
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The tutorial sessions for the 2006 SciPy conference
have been announced.
" As part of this year's SciPy 2006 Conference, we've planned Coding
Sprints on Monday and Tuesday (August 14-15) and a Tutorial Day
Wednesday (August 16)--the normal conference presentations follow on
Thursday and Friday (August 17-18)."
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| Date | Event | Location |
| June 29, 2006 | Corporate Channel and Computing
Expo(C3) | (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, NY |
| June 29 - 30, 2006 | GCC and GNU Toolchain
Developers' Summit | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada |
| June 29 - 30, 2006 | 2006 GNOME Users and Developers
European Conference(GUADEC) | Catalonia, Spain |
| June 29 - July 2, 2006 | UKUUG Linux
Technical Conference | (University of Sussex)Brighton, UK |
| June 30 - July 1, 2006 | WebTech
2006 | (Kempinski Hotel Zografski)Sofia, Bulgaria |
| July 3 - 4, 2006 | 3rd European Lisp
Workshop | Nantes, France |
| July 3 - 5, 2006 | EuroPython
2006 | (CERN)Geneva, Switzerland |
| July 4 - 8, 2006 | 7th Libre Software
Meeting(LSM) | (Nancy 1 University)Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France |
| July 5 - 8, 2006 | V Jornades de Programari
Lliure | Barcelona, Spain |
| July 8 - 9, 2006 | PostgreSQL Anniversary
Summit | Toronto, Canada |
| July 10 - 11, 2006 | Global
db4o User Conference(dUC) | (Imperial College, South Kensington)London, UK |
| July 13 - 14, 2006 | Detection of
Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment(DIMVA) | Berlin, Germany |
| July 15 - 16, 2006 | Crystal Space
Conference | (University of Aachen)Aachen, Germany |
| July 16 - 19, 2006 | 2nd International Symposium
on Free/Open Source Software, Technologies and Content(FOSSTEC 2006) | Orlando, Florida,
USA |
| July 19 - 22, 2006 | Ottawa Linux Symposium
2006(OLS 2006) | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 22 - 23, 2006 | LugRadio Live | (Wolverhampton
University)Wolverhampton, UK |
| July 24 - 28, 2006 | O'Reilly
Open Source Convention(OSCON 2006) | Portland, Oregon |
| July 29 - August 3, 2006 | Black Hat USA 2006 Briefings and
Training | (Caesars Palace)Las Vegas, NV |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | DEF CON 14 | (Riviera
Hotel)Las Vegas, NV |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | Wikimania | (Harvard Law
School)Cambridge, MA |
| August 4 - 6, 2006 | Vancouver Python
Workshop | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| August 8 - 10, 2006 | Flash Memory
Summit | (Wyndham Hotel)San Jose, CA |
| August 14 - 17, 2006 | LinuxWorld San Francisco
2006 | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| August 17 - 18, 2006 | Python for
Scientific Computing(SciPy2006) | (Caltech)Pasadena, CA |
| August 18 - 19, 2006 | The Ubucon
Conference | (Google headquarters)Mountain View, CA |
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Web sites
Here's a website that free software hackers might want to avoid. Microsoft
Corp. has announced
CodePlex, an online collaborative software development portal that is also
a vehicle for sharing source code.
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Audio and Video programs
Episode #2 of the podcast
The Linux Action Show is available.
" In episode two (The Gaming Edition!) of The Linux Action Show! We cover a new non-profit organization being formed to establish a standard Linux-based mobile platform, and we discuss the interesting reasons the Christian Science Monitor has for switching to Open Source Software. Also, we do a in-depth comparison of a few Open Source First Person Shooters (We get our game on under Linux!), the Ethereal developer changes the project name with out discussing it with contributors, and we bounce around Google Earth for Linux."
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KDE.News mentions
a new podcast with Jonathan Riddell.
" UbuntuOS have launched their new extended Podcast with an interview of Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell discussing the plans for the next release, Kubuntu Edgy."
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