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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements KDE e.V. Quarterly Report (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the availability of the second quarter 2006 KDE e.V. report. "KDE's legal body KDE e.V. has published its second 2006 quarterly report. Topics covered include progress organising Akademy 2006, activities from the working groups and sysadmins, events organised and attended and seven new members. If you have been helping KDE for a while, do consider joining the e.V. membership."
OpenDocument Fellowship receives development grantsThe OpenDocument Fellowship has received almost $40,000 in donations for its Targeted Donations Program. "One donation will be used to reward volunteers from the OASIS ODF Formula subcommittee for their continuing work on the formula specification. The other donations are targeted at development projects. The Fellowship is producing an "ODF toolkit" for developers, and a light-weight ODF viewer."
Commercial announcements 2X goes open source with 2X TerminalServer2X has announced the release of the source code for its its 2X TerminalServer for Linux product, under the GPL. "2X TerminalServer is a mature terminal server solution based on the popular NX protocol, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection. A free terminal server solution provides significant value to the Linux community and will help justify a potential move to Linux on the desktop."
Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now freeLinspire has announced that its "Click 'N Run" service is now available free of charge. "The strong revenue stream from the commercial desktop Linux software applications, as well as the premium 'CNR Gold' service, has opened the door for Linspire to offer the basic CNR service at no charge to all Linspire and Freespire users."
Linux/Unix version of SPECviewperf 9 now availableA free download of the SPECviewperf v9 graphics performance evaluation software is available for Linux, according to is available. "SPECviewperf has become a worldwide standard for users assessing graphics performance for new purchases and upgrades, graphics card vendors testing products under development, OEMs evaluating graphics components, and consultants and publication editors reviewing new graphics systems. SPECviewperf 9 represents a major upgrade to the popular benchmarking software, featuring two new viewsets, a totally restructured viewset, and code changes that bring the testing environment much closer to the realities experienced by application users."
Novell reports preliminary financial results for 3Q 2006Novell, Inc. has announced its preliminary third quarter financial results. "For the third fiscal quarter 2006, Novell reported net revenue of $241 million, compared to net revenue of $252 million for the third fiscal quarter 2005. The loss available to common stockholders from continuing operations in the third fiscal quarter 2006 was $3 million or $0.01 loss per diluted common share. This compares to income available to common stockholders from continuing operations of $0.4 million, or $0.00 per diluted common share, for the third fiscal quarter 2005."
Prosilica releases Linux software development kit (LaserFocusWorld)LaserFocusWorld reports that Prosilica has announced a Linux software development kit for its gigabit Ethernet cameras. "These GigE Vision gigabit Ethernet cameras, which have been used in wide range of Windows-based computer vision applications, can now also be easily used on Linux computers. The SDK also includes sample code to help programmers more easily use Prosilica's cameras in their Linux-based applications. Prosilica's Linux SDK for GigE Vision works on both x86 and PowerPC hardware which is of great interest to system integrators and equipment manufacturers who want to use low-cost computer platforms for their automated imaging systems."
Zenoss releases open-source enterprise monitoring productZenoss, Inc. has announced the release of a new version of its Zenoss open-source enterprise monitoring product. "Offering the most complete IT monitoring software suite available as open source, the new version of Zenoss features: Built in Support for Nagios Plug-Ins. Existing users of Nagios can continue to use widely available and/or customized Nagios plug-ins in support of their systems monitoring requirements."
New Books CSS: The Missing Manual--O'Reilly's latest releaseO'Reilly has published the book CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland.
No Starch Press releases "Hacking the Cable Modem"No Starch Press has published the book Hacking the Cable Modem by DerEngel.
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running - O'Reilly's Latest ReleaseO'Reilly has published the book Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by Bruce Tate and Curt Hibbs.
Resources Open-Xchange Publishes Web 2.0 Collaboration Position PaperOpen-Xchange, Inc. has a position paper, written by Daniel Kusnetzky, entitled Three Critical Elements of a Web 2.0-based Collaborative Solution.
Contests and Awards Announcing The APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize IN 2007 (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews mentions a $4000 prize that is available for free software developers. "The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Chris Nicol FOSS Prize recognises initiatives that are making it easy for people to start using free and open source software (FOSS). The prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make FOSS accessible to ordinary computer users."
The Free Software Directory D5000 ContestThe Free Software Foundation has announced a contest to celebrate the 5000th entry in the Free Software Directory. "To mark the milestone of reaching 5000 entries, the FSF is holding a "D5000 contest" the winner of which will be rewarded for submitting the five thousandth entry. From now, 2006-08-21, until 2006-09-21, each new, valid and completed directory entry that is submitted will count as one chit in the raffle for the prize."
KPhotoAlbum Splash Screen Contest (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the KPhotoAlbum Splash Screen Contest. "The contest comes with a prize of $100US straight from author Jesper's PayPal account. Some early designs are on the contest page already. The contest runs until September 15th, and after that the KPhotoAlbum community will vote on which one will be used for the next release."
MySQL wins database contestMySQL AB has announced the winning of an award. "MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced today that its internal benchmark team has won an international contest sponsored by the renowned IT industry magazine c´t for the fastest e-commerce database application. The magazine's editors held the contest to evaluate database performance in real-world business use by creating a standard online inventory system."
Event Reports Python Sprint ReportGuido van Rossum reports on the Python Sprint in a blog posting. "This week, a number of Python developers (core and otherwise) and some Googlers got together in Mountain View and New York for a four-day Python and Python-3000 (Py3k) development sprint. Here's what we've done." Topics include: Warming Up, Int/Long Unification, Reinventing Comparison, Miscellaneous Projects and Python 2.5/2.6 Sprint Results.
Calls for Presentations linux.conf.au 2007 call for participation extended!The lca2007 Call For Participation has been extended until September 15, 2006. Submit your presentations, miniconfs, tutorials and papers before its too late. "Proposals for presentations and tutorials should be around 400 words and should detail the subject you want to talk about and include links to any other relevant details, such as a project home page. Remember this proposal needs to convince our programme committee that you should be talking at linux.conf.au 2007." lca2007 begins January 15, 2007.
Upcoming Events Update on Hack.lu 2006Hack.lu 2006 will be held in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg on October 19-21, 2006. "Hack.lu is an open convention /conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. The aim of the convention is to make a bridge of the various actors in the computer security world."
T-DOSE event in Eindhoven, the NetherlandsThe 2006 T-DOSE event has been announced. "During the weekend of December 2nd and 3rd 2006 the T-DOSE event will be held in the auditorium of the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The name T-DOSE stands for Technical Dutch Open Source Event and offers a central speakers track, an open source marketplace for the abundant sharing of information and several developer/community rooms."
Events: September 7, 2006 to November 6, 2006The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites SpreadGNOME.org LaunchesThe new SpreadGNOME.org site has been launched. "In an effort to promote the adoption of GNU/Linux desktops, SpreadGNOME.org has launched with the goal of being a resource to help spread the word of GNOME to GNU/Linux desktop users and potential converts. It is meant as a place to share ideas to help promote GNOME in the community, and helping those who wish to get involved with GNOME. Feel free to submit other GNOME-related content as well to this site. SpreadGNOME.org is an independent web-site and is not affiliated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or otherwise approved by GNOME Foundation. "
A wiki about computer hardware, including Linux supportThue Janus Kristensen has announced a new wiki. "After having noted that there doesn't seem to be a wiki in existence about computer hardware and operating system support, I decided to create one. To me hardware and operating system support it seems like an obvious idea for a user-supported information collection, in the spirit of Wikipedia."
Audio and Video programs Lawrence Lessig's LinuxWorld talk onlineLinuxWorld has put up a video of Lawrence Lessig's LinuxWorld keynote. It is in Flash format, however, and thus not accessible to all Linux users.
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