Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Advice on relicensing from the SFLC

The 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."

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Commercial announcements

AMD to open up graphics specs

A 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.

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Network Appliance suing Sun over ZFS

Network 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 doesn’t help the open source movement to give away code that is encumbered with someone else’s patent rights. The sooner we determine the true status of ZFS, the better it will be for everyone. NetApp certainly doesn’t believe that we can somehow erase every copy of ZFS that has been downloaded. (Impossible!) This lawsuit isn’t about downloads for personal or non-commercial use; it is about what Sun is doing."

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Novell reports financial results for third fiscal quarter 2007

Novell, 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."

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SGI Fiscal Year 2007 report

SGI 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."

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SGI sets world record for Oracle E-Business Suite performance

SGI 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."

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SugarCRM's Community Edition 5.0 beta released under GPLv3

SugarCRM 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."

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New Books

SOA in Practice--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has published the book SOA in Practice by Nicolai Josuttis.

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Resources

O'Reilly launches Women of Tech technical series

O'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.""

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Education and Certification

Upcoming rPath Webinar

rPath 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."

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FSFE: Advanced international educational platform goes live

The 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."

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Upcoming Events

The Gelato Itanium Conference and Expo

The 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."

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Still time to sign-up for Hack-a-thon II

Hack-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."

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Fifth LinuxChix Brazil Conference

The 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.

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PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007

The 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."

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Events: September 13, 2007 to November 12, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
September 10 September 14	Django Bootcamp with Juan Pablo Claude	Atlanta, GA, USA
September 11 September 14	5th Netfilter Workshop	Karlsruhe, Germany
September 11 September 13	VMworld 2007	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 14 September 15	EuroBSDCon 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
September 14	Django Sprint	online,
September 15 September 16	Texas Python Unconference	Houston, TX, USA
September 15	Software Freedom Day	The Internet, Worldwide
September 17 September 19	RailsConf Europe 2007	Berlin, Germany
September 17	Bruce Perens to speak in Berkeley, September 17	Berkeley, CA, USA
September 18 September 21	Embedded Systems Conference	Boston, MA, USA
September 18 September 20	High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop	Lexington, MA, USA
September 19 September 21	OpenOffice.org Conference 2007	Barcelona, Spain
September 19 September 21	Gartner Open Source Summit	Las Vegas, NV, USA
September 22 September 25	Cell Hack-a-thon II	Austin, TX, USA
September 24 September 27	14th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	New Orleans, USA
September 24 September 25	Power Architecture Developer Conference	Austin, TX, USA
September 24 September 27	Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial 2007	Victoria, BC, Canada
September 27 September 28	Audio Mostly 2007	Ilmenau, Germany
September 28 September 30	Ohio LinuxFest 2007	Columbus, USA
September 28 September 29	Freed.in	Delhi, India
September 28	IRC discussion on AGPLv3 and GPLv3	online, world
September 30 October 3	Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo	Biopolis, Singapore, Singapore
October 2 October 3	Openmind 2007	Tampere, Finland
October 3 October 5	Apache Cocoon Get Together	Rome, Italy
October 6 October 7	Wineconf 2007	Zurich, Switzerland
October 6 October 8	GNOME Boston Summit	Boston, MA, USA
October 7 October 9	Graphing Social Patterns	San Jose, CA, USA
October 8 October 10	VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Developer Conference	Santa Clara, USA
October 8	Embedded Linux Bootcamp for Beginners	Santa Clara, CA, USA
October 9 October 10	Profoss	Brussels, Belgium
October 10 October 12	Plone Conference 2007	Naples, Italy
October 12	Legal Summit for Software Freedom	New York, NY, USA
October 13 October 14	T-DOSE 2007 (Technical Dutch Open Source Event)	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
October 13	The Ontario Linux Fest Conference	Toronto, Canada
October 13	Aka Linux Kernel Developer Conference	Beijing, China
October 16	Databases and the Web	London, England
October 17 October 19	2007 WebGUI Users Conference	Madison, WI, USA
October 17 October 19	Web 2.0 Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 18 October 20	HackLu 2007	Kirchberg, Luxembourg
October 19 October 21	ToorCon 9	San Diego, CA, USA
October 20 October 21	Ubucon.de	Krefeld (Köln), Germany
October 20	PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007	Portland, OR, USA
October 20	./freedom & opensource day - PERU	Lima, PERU
October 21 October 25	OOPSLA 2007	Montreal, Canada
October 21 October 26	Colorado Software Summit	Keystone, CO, USA
October 22 October 26	OpenGL Bootcamp with Rocco Bowling	Atlanta, GA, USA
October 22 October 23	She's Geeky - A Women's Tech (un)Conference	Mountain View, CA, USA
October 23 October 25	Open aLANtejo 07 - CNSL07	Évora, Portugal
October 23 October 26	Black Hat Japan	Tokyo, Japan
October 25 October 26	FSOSS 2007 - Free Software and Open Source Symposium	Toronto, Canada
October 27 October 28	FOSSCamp 2007	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 27	Linux Day Italy	many cities around country, Italy
October 28 November 2	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
October 29	3rd International Workshop on Storage Security and Survivability	Alexandria, VA, USA
October 29 November 1	Fall VON Conference and Expo	Boston, MA, USA
October 30 October 31	BCS'07	Jakarta, Indonesia
October 31 November 1	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	Utrecht, Netherlands
November 1 November 2	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
November 2	5th ACM Workshop on Recurring Malcode	Alexandria, VA, USA
November 2 November 3	Embedded Linux Conference, Europe	Linz, Austria
November 2 November 4	Real-Time Linux Workshop	Linz, Austria
November 3	Linux-Info-Tag Dresden	Dresden, Germany
November 5 November 9	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, USA
November 7	NLUUG 25th anniversary conference	Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 7	Alfresco North American Community Conference 2007	New York, NY, USA
November 8 November 9	Blog World Expo	Las Vegas, NV, USA
November 10 November 11	Linuxtage	Essen, NRW, Germany
November 11 November 17	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Dallas, TX, USA

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