Announcements [LWN.net]

Non-Commercial announcements

Qualcomm and Mozilla to make an open-source Eudora

Remember the Eudora mail client? Qualcomm has announced that it will be working with Mozilla to make an open-source version of Eudora based on Thunderbird. "Future versions of Eudora will be free and open source, while retaining Eudora's uniquely rich feature set and productivity enhancements. QUALCOMM and Mozilla will each participate in, and continue to foster development communities based around the open source Mozilla project, with a view to enhancing the capabilities and ease of use of both Eudora and Thunderbird."

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Commercial announcements

Agilysys and Red Hat Partner To Deliver Open Source Solutions

Agilysys, Inc. has announced a partnership with Red Hat. "Agilysys, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise computer technology solutions, and Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that the two companies have signed an enterprise reseller agreement to deliver Red Hat solutions and the benefits of open source to Agilysys customers."

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Mandriva Signs Agreement to Acquire Linbox

Mandriva has announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Linbox, pending shareholder approval. "Active in both Open Source and Linux market for 10 years, Linbox develops and markets software infrastructure administration products for medium to large organizations. The software products marketed by the company encompass authentication, back up and asset management, and more. Linbox has two flagship products, Linbox Directory Server ("LDS") and Linbox Rescue Server ("LRS")."

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Terra Soft and Sony to Build World's First Cell Cluster

Terra Soft has announced the construction of the first Cell-based supercomputing cluster. "In the fall of '05, Terra Soft was contacted by Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) to develop and manage a supercomputing cluster built upon the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux OS. This spring, Terra Soft was contracted by Sony and in August completed the construction of a 3000 sq-ft supercomputing facility capable of housing 2400 1U systems. In this remodeled extension to the Loveland, Colorado headquarters, Terra Soft will construct a test cluster and a substantially larger production cluster."

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Wind River and Cavium Networks Announce Device Software Optimization for Multi-core MIPS64 Processors

Cavium Networks, Inc. and Wind River, Inc have announced the availability of the Wind River Platform for Network Equipment and Wind River VxWorks 6.1 for Cavium Networks' OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 based Processor Family. "The OCTEON(TM) Processor family consists of 1 to 16 MIPS64 based cnMIPS(TM) cores providing up to 16GHz of 64-bit compute processing on a single chip. Additionally, OCTEON incorporates the most advanced multi-layer application acceleration for networking control, data and services applications. The OCTEON Processor family integrates up to 8 Gigabit ports, up to dual SPI-4.2, PCI-X, up to 144-bit DDR2 controller, up to dual 18-bit RLDRAM II controllers, on-chip packet processing, QoS, TCP, compression/ decompression, encryption and pattern matching acceleration hardware to deliver a substantial price, performance and power benefit over alternative solutions."

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Wyse Debuts New High-Speed Wireless Thin Clients

Wyse Technology has announced a new line of Wi-Fi enabled thin clients. ""The factory installed wireless capability, with the software and hardware fully integrated, enables a variety of new applications for quick, secure deployment in hotel lobbies, airport kiosks, hospitals and school rooms," said Tarkan Maner, president of worldwide field operations, Wyse Technology. "The simple, secure set-up of a horizontal or vertical wall-mounted Wyse wireless product enables our customers to operate in places that haven't been able to be wired with traditional Ethernet.""

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New Books

Prentice Hall publishes Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach

Prentice Hall has published the book Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach by Christopher Hallinan.

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Prentice Hall Publishes Core Python Programming, 2nd edition

Prentice Hall has published the New Second Edition of Core Python Programming, by Wesley J. Chun.

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Resources

FSFE Newsletter

The October 5, 2006 edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter is online. Topics include: Regional and international Fellowship meetings, FSFE at the Wizards of OS in Berlin, Georg Greve at SERCI workshop in Helsinki, Finland, FSFE at WIPO General Assembly and Other public appearances.

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Multiplied Linux Desktop Migration Strategy for Novell SLED 10 and openSUSE 10.1

Omni Technology Solutions has made available a white paper on the advantages of using SUSE SLED 10 and openSUSE 10.1 with the Linux Desktop Multiplier to multiple desktops. "Modern PCs spend most of the day idle. The Multiplied Linux Desktop strategy allows you to leverage this unused computing power and connect up to 10 full-featured workstations to a SINGLE, shared SLED 10 or openSUSE 10.1 computer. Ideal for Linux computer labs, Linux thin clients, Linux Internet cafes and Linux point-of-sale terminals."

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Configuring PPPoE

Konstantin Emelyanov of the NetUP company has put together a detailed guide (pdf) concerning installation and configuration of an open source PPPoE access server. The configuration of a PPPoE client is also covered.

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Education and Certification

Free Linux Course for Beginners

LinuxBasics.org has announced their second free Linux class, entitled An Introduction to Linux Basics. The course will be held online on October 19. "This course is designed to give a foundation of understanding of Linux to a beginner who wants to know a little more about the system. More advanced Linux users will find an opportunity to dig deeper into some areas they always wanted to know more about or discover gaps in their knowledge that they didn't know existed."

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Event Reports

The 15th Annual Embedded Systems Conference Boston

CMP Technology has sent out a press release about the recent Embedded Systems Conference. "To enhance the attendee experience, CMP Technology introduced brand new programs for 2006, including the Disruption Zone which featured groundbreaking innovations from leading start-ups, those taking the next big leap forward in revolutionizing the industry. Attendees also attended "Live Teardowns" of popular electronics, like a Sony DVDirect(TM) MC1 Multi Function DVD Recorder and a Roomba vacuum, while the "Get to the Point Panel" brought the Linux technology debate right to the exhibits floor."

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Boston GNOME Summit Sessions

A number of session reports have been posted from the Boston GNOME summit. Topics include:

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Upcoming Events

Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA

The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold their next free Linux Installfest on October 21, 2006 in Davis, CA.

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The Open Group Announces Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference Agenda

The Open GroupRelated has announced the agenda for the Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference. The event takes place in Lisbon, Portugal on October 23-26, 2006. "The Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conferences, now in their third year, are globally recognized events created by and for enterprise architecture practitioners to examine a wide variety of topics which are impacting the profession. These include service-oriented architecture (SOA), agent technologies, aligning enterprise architecture with business innovation, and evolving the architecture discipline in line with business demand."

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Events: October 19, 2006 to December 18, 2006

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 18 October 19	International Conference on IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics	Stuttgart, Germany,
October 18 October 22	Pike Conference 2006	Riga, Latvia
October 19 October 21	HackLu 2006	Kirchberg, Luxembourg,
October 19 October 20	DC PHP Conference	Washington, D.C.,
October 20 October 22	aLANtejo 06	Évora, Portugal
October 20 October 22	RubyConf 2006	Denver, Colorado
October 22 October 27	Colorado Software Summit	Keystone, CO, USA
October 23 October 24	Mono User and Developers Meeting	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 23 October 26	Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conf	Lisbon, Portugal
October 25 October 26	LinuxWorld UK 2006	London, UK,
October 25 October 27	Plone Conference 2006	Seattle, WA,
October 26 October 27	IT Underground	Warsaw, Poland
October 26 October 27	Free Software and Open Source Symposium	Toronto, Canada
October 28	LinuxDay 2006	Many of them, Italy
October 31 November 2	Zend/PHP Conference and Expo	San Jose, CA,
November 1	Ingres Users Association Conference	London, England
November 4 November 8	I Jornadas técnicas KDE de	Zaragoza, Spain
November 4 November 11	Open Source in Performance and Exhibition	London, England
November 5 November 8	International PHP Conference	Frankfurt, Germany
November 5 November 10	Ubuntu Developer Summit - Mountain View	Mountain View, CA, USA
November 6 November 10	Colorado Python seminar	Estes Park, CO, USA
November 7 November 9	2006 Web 2.0 Conference	San Francisco, CA,
November 9 November 10	Forum PHP 2006	Paris, France,
November 10 November 12	Chicago Perl Hackathon 2006	Chicago, IL, USA
November 11 November 17	Supercomputing 2006	Tampa, FL, USA
November 11	FSFE Fellows Meeting	Bolzano, Italy
November 12 November 14	Firebird Conference 2006	Prague, Czech Republic,
November 14 November 16	LinuxWorld Cologne	Cologne, Germany
November 16 November 17	III Latin American Free Software Conference	Iguassu Falls, Brazil
November 16 November 17	Conference on Software Patents	Boston, MA, USA
November 18	Richard Stallman speaks in Seoul	Seoul, South Korea
November 21 November 24	15th International Conference on Computing	Mexico City, Mexico,
November 24 November 26	FOSS.IN 2006	Bangalore, India
November 25	FAVE 2006 - free software multimedia event in London	London, UK
November 27 November 30	PacSec Applied Security Conference 2006	Tokyo, Japan
December 1 December 2	PHP Conference Brasil	Sao Paolo, Brazil
December 2 December 3	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, the Netherlands
December 3 December 8	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Washington, D.C.,
December 5 December 8	Open Source Developers' Conference 2006	Melbourne, Australia,
December 7 December 8	Desktop Architects Meeting	Portland, OR, USA
December 9	London Perl Workshop	London, England
December 12 December 19	Virtual Congress UnInet Meeting UMeet'2006	irc.uninet.edu, #linux

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Web sites

Announcing the wxBlog

wxBlog is a new blog site for discussion about the wxWidgets cross-platform GUI platform.

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Miscellaneous

Hans Reiser arrested

Filesystem developer Hans Reiser has been arrested on suspicion of murder in the disappearance of his ex-wife. Some information can be found in this SFGate article.

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