Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

FSF Announces Associate Membership Meeting (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal has this announcement for the first annual Associate Membership Meeting of the Free Software Foundation. The meeting will be held on Saturday, March 15th, in Boston, Massachusetts, from 10:00am to 4:30pm. In order to attend the meeting, one has to be a registered Associate Member of FSF.

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New Buffalo Perl Mongers Users Group (use Perl)

According to Use Perl, a Perl users group has been formed in Buffalo, NY.

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Commercial announcements

Adobe Photoshop Album built with Qt

Trolltech has announced that Adobe's Photoshop Album product was built on the Qt toolkit. One wonders if Adobe didn't make that choice with an eye toward eventually releasing some products for Linux..

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Arrow Electronics the First Distributor to Receive IBM's ''Leader for Linux'' Designation

The Support Net Division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. has announced that it is the first distributor to earn IBM's designation as a "Leader for Linux" Business Partner because of its extensive commitment to the Linux platform on IBM hardware.

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Cerberian and Lindows.com provide Web Filtering

Lindows.com and Cerberian provide Internet filtering capability to LindowsOS. Cerberian's Web Filter will be bundled with the Lindows desktop computers sold through Wal-Mart's retail Web site, walmart.com, and other retailers.

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Green Hills Software's MULTI Development Environment

Green Hills Software Inc. has announced the availability of its MULTI(R) Integrated Development Environment for embedded Linux(R) systems. The MULTI IDE will help debug Linux applications, the Linux kernel and Linux device drivers.

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Hannaford Bros. Rolls Out Linux Point-of-Sale Solution

Hannaford Bros. Co. thinks Linux is ready for their enterprise. Wincor Nixdorf Inc. has announced that Hannaford Bros. is installing Wincor's BEETLE(R) /S point-of-sale (POS) systems running Linux at its supermarkets and food and drug combination stores in the northeastern United States.

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Intrinsic Alchemy for Linux Released

Intrinsic Graphics, Inc. has announced the availability of Intrinsic Alchemy for Linux. "Based on research and development over the past year, the Linux version of Alchemy moves game development to the next generation and continues to broaden the platforms available to game developers. With Alchemy for Linux, developers have even more opportunity to prototype games for emerging platforms."

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MailStripper Pro 0.94 released

Version 0.94 of MailStripper, a mail filtering system for spam removal, is available from Eridani Star System. Another version, 0.94A supersedes version 0.94 and fixes a deadlock problem with the stylesheet handler.

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MICO Commercial Support

Commercial support for the MICO CORBA implementation is available from a company known as ObjectSecurity.

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MySQL AB Brings its Training Program to India

MySQL AB will be offering its "Usage and Managing MySQL" course in Hyderabad, India on March 3-7, 2003.

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New books available from Network Theory Ltd.

Two new printed manuals are available from Network Theory Ltd; "Version Management with CVS" by Per Cederqvist et al. (ISBN 0-9541617-1-8), and the GNU diffutils manual "Comparing and Merging Files with GNU diff and patch" by David MacKenzie, Paul Eggert, and Richard Stallman (ISBN 0-9541617-5-0).

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SCO Group first quarter results

The SCO Group has announced its first quarter results: a loss of $724,000 on revenue of $13.5 million. Interestingly, SCO predicts that revenue will almost double ($22 to $25 million) in the next quarter. "These projections are based on anticipated revenue from our current operating platforms of $13 million to $15 million, and $10 million from the SCOsource licensing initiative." Either the company expects to sell 67,000 licenses to its System V library (at $149 each), or we are going to be hearing about other plans sometime soon.

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Resources

A table of free replacements for Windows software

Here's a useful resource for people trying to figure out how to move over to free software: this table lists Linux replacements for hundreds of Windows packages. It is a good source of answers to the "where can I get a program like X?" questions.

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Upcoming Events

YAPC::NA::2003 Registration Begins (use Perl)

Use Perl has announced that the registration for the YAPC::NA Perl conference, to be held on June 16-18, 2003 in Boca Raton, Florida, is open.

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CFP for Scandinavian Perl Workshop (use Perl)

Use Perl has a call for papers for the Scandinavian Perl Workshop, which will be held on April 25 and 26, 2003.

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Open64 User Forum in San Francisco

A user forum will be held for the Open64 64 bit compiler project. "An Open64 User Forum will be held in San Francisco during the CGO conference on March 24th. Please read the CFP in the Open64 User Forum section for more info." Here is a link to the CFP.

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Seminar on Free and Open Source Software, Dublin

A conference called "Open Source Software - What's happening in Public Administration" will be held in Dublin, Ireland on March 11, 2003.

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First European Ruby Conference

The first European Ruby Conference will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany on June 21 and 22, 2003. Presentations are needed.

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Events: February 27 - April 24, 2003

Date	Event	Location
February 27 - 28, 2003	Linux Summit 2003	(Dipoli Conference Center)Espoo, Finland
March 12 - 19, 2003	CeBIT 2003	(Hannover exhibition center)Hannover, Germany
March 17 - 19, 2003	Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and EU	(The Marvin Center Grand Ballroom, George Washington University)Washington, DC
March 20 - 21, 2003	First OpenOffice.org Conference(OOoCon2003)	(University of Hamburg)Hamburg, Germany
March 20 - 21, 2003	Conference PHP 2003	(École Polytechnique de Montréal)Montreal, Quebec, Canada
March 26 - 28, 2003	PyCon DC 2003	(George Washington University)Washington DC
March 31 - April 2, 2003	2nd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST '03)	(Cathedral Hill Hotel)San Francisco, CA
April 2 - 3, 2003	The UK Python Conference	(Holiday Inn Oxford)Oxford, England
April 10 - 12, 2003	MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003	(Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, California
April 13 - 17, 2003	RSA Conference 2003	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA
April 14 - 15, 2003	Samba eXPerience 2003	(Hotel Freizeit)Göttingen, Germany
April 15 - 16, 2003	LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2003	Birmingham, UK
April 22 - 26, 2003	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA
April 22 - 25, 2003	The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	(Westin, Santa Clara)Santa Clara, CA
April 23 - 25, 2003	PHPCon East 2003	(Park Central Hotel)New York, NY

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Web sites

MobiliX.org is now TuxMobil.org

Werner Heuser, who has been fighting a long legal battle over the use of the "MobiliX" name, has thrown in the towel (for now, anyway) and has moved his site to TuxMobil.org. The site remains a resource for those interested in Unix (and Unix-like) systems on mobile platforms.

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linuxmagau.org launched

A new online publication known as linmagau.org has been launched. "A new online (Linux/OSS) magazine. The idea for a "local content - local people" magazine for au/nz was raised back in Dec 2002, by a few folks from the local PLUG (Perth Linux Users Group) and over the last few months has steadily gained interested members and contributors via the web site."

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Software announcements

This week's software announcements

Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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Miscellaneous

2003 And Beyond (AAx Services)

The folks at AAx Services have posted a lengthy article on the state of the information technology market in 2003. It's an interesting look at how things are going, and how they might end up - though there is probably something there for just about anybody to disagree with. "Clearly, Microsoft can't continue bribing all the world to use Windows, the threat will keep coming back with each upgrade cycle. That $43 billion in the bank just won't stretch that far. Even worse, American corporations are starting to learn the extortion game too. Rumors abound that if a company demonstrates a strong Linux pilot program, Microsoft sales is authorized to drop license fees by up to 50%."

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KOffice Icon Contest

According to KDE.Net, a contest will be held for making KOffice icons. "The KOffice developers have been making outstanding progress towards their goal of creating a useful, powerful and reliable KDE office suite. But whereas the technology in KOffice has been steadily improving, its visual appearance has not been keeping pace. To address this issue, the KOffice development team is pleased to announce the KOffice Icon Contest." The award for the winner will include free publicity and lots of geek-status. Gentlemen (and gentlewomen), start your Gimps.

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