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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Advice on relicensing from the SFLCThe Software Freedom Law Center has set out a file of advice for those who would incorporate non-GPL software into GPL-licensed projects. "Many free software projects grant broad copyright permissions to recipients of their programs. In many cases, these permissions are broad enough to allow the code to be incorporated into larger works that are licensed under the GNU GPL. When incorporating such code into GPL'd projects, however, care must be taken to preserve all appropriate copyright, permission, and disclaimer of warranty notices. Failure to do so can result in infringement of the copyright on the incorporated code."
Commercial announcements AMD to open up graphics specsA quick report from the kernel summit: AMD's representative at the summit has announced that the company has made a decision to enable the development of open source drivers for all of its (ATI) graphics processors from the R500 going forward. There will be specifications available and a skeleton driver as well; a free 2D driver is anticipated by the end of the year. The rest will have to be written; freeing of the existing binary-only driver is not in the cards, and "that is better for everybody." Things are looking good on this front. More in the kernel summit report to come.Update: Christopher Blizzard has posted some more information about what AMD is doing.
Network Appliance suing Sun over ZFSNetwork Appliance is suing Sun over patents alleged to cover parts of the ZFS filesystem. The announcement comes from NetApp's founder and Executive VP Dave Hitz's blog. "This case is especially sensitive, because Sun has released ZFS as open source. It is admirable to contribute to open source. I have done it personally, although it was a long time ago that I was writing code, and NetApp has also contributed as a company. But it doesnt help the open source movement to give away code that is encumbered with someone elses patent rights. The sooner we determine the true status of ZFS, the better it will be for everyone. NetApp certainly doesnt believe that we can somehow erase every copy of ZFS that has been downloaded. (Impossible!) This lawsuit isnt about downloads for personal or non-commercial use; it is about what Sun is doing."
Novell reports financial results for third fiscal quarter 2007Novell, Inc. has announced its third quarter fiscal results for 2007. Its Linux platform product revenues have grown 77% in the last year. "For the quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $243 million, compared to net revenue of $236 million for the third fiscal quarter 2006. The loss from operations for the third fiscal quarter 2007 was $10 million, compared to a loss from operations of $40 million for the third fiscal quarter 2006. The loss available to common stockholders from continuing operations in the third fiscal quarter 2007 was $3 million, or $0.01 loss per common share."
SGI Fiscal Year 2007 reportSGI has sent out an end of Fiscal Year 2007 report. "In August, NASA turned to SGI to acquire the world's largest shared-memory supercomputer as part of NAS Technology Refresh (NTR), a four-phase evaluation and procurement process that eventually will replace the Columbia supercomputer system, powered by SGI(R) Altix(R). Installed in August at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., the new system is the first supercomputer to operate 2,048 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor cores and 4TB of memory under a single copy of Linux(R) OS; as such, it is the largest Linux single system image (SSI) in the world."
SGI sets world record for Oracle E-Business Suite performanceSGI has announced that its Altix systems have achieved the fastest performance running Oracle Database 10g. "Running the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i (11.5.10) Benchmark, also known as the Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB), an SGI(R) Altix(R) 450 system delivered twice the performance of the previous record holder in tests that measure average response times for 2,000 online users. The SGI system also delivered record hourly throughput in Oracle's measurement of order management and payroll batch business processes."
SugarCRM's Community Edition 5.0 beta released under GPLv3SugarCRM Inc. has announced the beta release of Sugar Community Edition 5.0. "SugarCRM Inc., the world's leading provider of commercial free/libre and open source (FLOSS) customer relationship management (CRM) software, today announced the beta availability of Sugar Community Edition 5.0 for download and testing by the Sugar community. Sugar Community Edition 5.0 is being released under the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3), a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation."
New Books SOA in Practice--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly has published the book SOA in Practice by Nicolai Josuttis.
Resources O'Reilly launches Women of Tech technical seriesO'Reilly has launched the Women of Tech article series. "There's no doubt that women coders, developers, designers, and programmers are a powerful force in the modern tech industry, despite their smaller numbers compared to men. At the same time many of the major impacts and innovations of women at every level of the development and evolution of technology--from the first female coders to today's Web 2.0 pioneers--aren't all that well known. But starting now, O'Reilly Media aims to celebrate and give voice to the real-world experiences and concerns of these female trailblazers by publishing a new online series, "Women in Tech.""
Education and Certification Upcoming rPath WebinarrPath has announced that it will hold a webinar on September 5, 2007 at 1:00 pm Eastern time. "Engineering teams are becoming increasingly distributed and the art of building software products is rapidly changing. Even the most nimble teams must rely on informal and on-demand collaboration with team members as well as the customer. With a continuous testing process and end users playing a greater role in the testing process, geographic dispersion of your engineers might be a greater challenge than normal. Join rPath for this web seminar to learn how GlobalLogic, an rPath Strategic Services Partner, uses Velocity, a lightweight process and tools framework, to address these challenges."
FSFE: Advanced international educational platform goes liveThe Free Software Foundation Europe has announced a beta version of the SELF Platform. "The official launch is taking place during a conference on Free Software in Education in the Netherlands, accompanied by satellite launch events in Sweden, Bulgaria, Argentina, Mexico and India with workshops and conferences."
Upcoming Events The Gelato Itanium Conference and ExpoThe next Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo (ICE) will take place on October 1-2, 2007 in Singapore. "This is the first ICE conference specifically targeting enterprise attendees. There will be more enterprise content and focused outreach to ISVs and SIs from the region. Rest assured that we will continue to provide content of interest to research and HPC."
Still time to sign-up for Hack-a-thon IIHack-a-thon II will be held in Austin, Texas on September 22-25, 2007 in conjunction with the Power Architecture Developer Conference. "In this 4 day event, sponsored by IBM and Power.org, Terra Soft will host a 6 node PS3 cluster and hands-on workshop for the installation of Yellow Dog Linux, compute image deployment via Y-HPC, and use of Torque and Moab for job management. Hack-a-thon attendees are invited to work hands-on to test their own parallel and distributed code."
Fifth LinuxChix Brazil ConferenceThe Fifth LinuxChix Brazil conference will be held 7-8 September at IESB University in Brazilia. Talks, tutorials and debates are planned, mostly in Portuguese, but two English language presentations are scheduled as well. More details can be found by clicking below.
PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007The Fall 2007 PostgreSQL Conference has been announced. "PostgreSQL.Org is having a one day technical conference in Portland, Oregon on October 20th 2007. The conference will be held at Portland State University, and like PDXPGDay during OSCON there will be a dinner and party afterward."
Events: September 13, 2007 to November 12, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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