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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Patrick McHardy elected head of Netfilter CoreteamThe Netfilter Coreteam has elected Patrick McHardy as its head, following the resignation of Harald Welte. (Thanks to Gerd).
Samba: A triumph for freedom of choice and competitionThe Free Software Foundation Europe notes Microsoft's loss of a European Union antitrust case. "'Microsoft can consider itself above the law no longer,' says Georg Greve, president of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). 'Through tactics that successfully derailed antitrust processes in other parts of the world, including the United States, Microsoft has managed to postpone this day for almost a decade. But thanks to the perseverance and excellent work of the European Commission, these tactics have now failed in Europe,' Greve continues."
Commercial announcements ActiveState announces Komodo 4.2 updatesActiveState has announced version 4.2 of the Komodo IDE advanced web development toolkit. "Komodo IDE helps free developers to focus on advanced web development. This release incorporates more useful features like auto-update, necessary features like bug fixes, and nice-to-have features like soft characters, plus improved functionality for dynamic languages. Key additions to this release are auto updates and soft characters. Auto updates means users don't need to check for the latest features or reinstall Komodo to get the latest version. Soft characters is a new feature for automatic insertion of closing brackets, braces and parentheses."
Atmel and TimeSys announce free Linux board support package for AT91SAM9Atmel and TimeSys have announced a collaborative microprocessor board support package. "Atmel(R) Corporation and TimeSys(R) announced today a free Linux(R) Board Support Package (BSP) for Atmel's ARM9-based AT91SAM9 Microcontrollers. Supporting the entire range of SAM9 products, this BSP includes Atmel's Linux kernel and drivers, BusyBox utilities for basic commands and features, and a Linux host/cross toolchain capable of re-building the Linux kernel and the basic packages included in the BSP. Together with a full documentation set and support services, this offering provides a ready-to-use package to validate Linux with Atmel microcontrollers."
IBM's Lotus SymphonyHere is IBM's press release announcing the availability of Lotus Symphony. This version of Symphony appears to be reworked version of StarOffice distributed in a binary-only format; it is available for Windows, SLED 10, RHEL 5, and "RedHat5." Registration is required to download the software.
Commercial paid support options available for FreespireLinspire, Inc. has announced the availability of commercial paid support offerings for Freespire users. "Following the launch of Freespire 2.0 last month, these competitively priced paid support options are now available at http://support.freespire.org and offer commercial support services for Freespire users around the globe."
Angolan Government chooses Mandriva to develop information societyMandriva has signed a broad technical cooperation agreement by the Angolan government. "Mandriva and CNTI have signed an agreement by which Mandriva will bring its knowledge and experience to Angola, providing technology solutions, training and consulting services. Mandriva will be training the first core team of open source specialists, it will help CNTI do the first open source deployments and it will provide technology and products and ensure their maintenance."
Mozilla launching "MailCo"According to Mitchell Baker's weblog, the Mozilla Corporation is launching "MailCo" (a real name will be chosen later) as a separate effort to develop Thunderbird. David Ascher will be leading the new organization. "Mozilla will provide an initial $3 million dollars in seed funding to launch MailCo. This is expected to be spent mostly on building a small team of people who are passionate about email and Internet communications. As MailCo develops it and the Mozilla Foundation will evaluate what's the best model for long-term sustainability. Mozilla may well invest additional funds; we also hope that there are other paths for sustainability."
Novell boosts Linux virtualization with VMware supportNovell, Inc. has announced improvements to the performance of SUSE Linux under VMware. "Novell today announced significant enhancements in the performance of SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise Server when the Linux operating system is running as a virtual machine guest in a VMware environment. To deliver this improved performance, Novell modified the SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel to support the VMware Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), a communication mechanism between the guest operating system and hypervisor that simplifies the task of virtualization and makes Linux a more efficient guest operating system when running in VMware environments."
Novell Identity Manager selected by New York City TransitNovell, Inc. has announced the use of Novell identity and security management solutions by New York City Transit. "North America's largest transportation agency, New York City Transit, has turned to Novell for improved security and management of its identity infrastructure and network access. With the world's largest fleet of subway cars and public buses, NYC Transit transports more than 7 million people each day. NYC Transit is using Novell(R) identity and security management solutions to centralize and automate its identity infrastructure for 49,000 staff members across 500 locations, ensuring timely and secure employee access to network resources."
Seiko Instruments offering printer drivers for Smart Label PrintersSeiko Instruments has announced Linux compatible drivers for their Smart Label Printers. "Seiko Instruments USA, the pioneer of the one-label-at-a-time "smart" printer, is now offering a printer driver compatible with the Linux Operating System for its Smart Label Printers (SLPs). The new driver works with any Linux OS that uses the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) - allowing the Linux community to have an easy-to-use, convenient printer on their desktop, for jobs where they need single labels."
Legal Announcements Positions open at OLPCThe One Laptop Per Child project has several open positions, including support engineer, security software engineer, documentation lead, school server architect, localization expert, and a few other software engineering positions. See the OLPC jobs page for details.
New Books Linux System Programming--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly has published the book Linux System Programming by Robert Love.
PostgreSQL Reference Manual - Volumes 1, 2, 3Printed copies of the PostgreSQL Reference Manual are available for purchase, $1 from each sale will be donated to the PostgreSQL project. "The manual has been printed in 3 volumes, running to 1300 pages in total. The volumes cover the SQL language, the PostgreSQL client/server programming interfaces, and server administration. Each volume is in a compact paperback format (6"x9")."
Resources FSFE NewsletterThe September 13, 2007 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: FSFE engages with irregularities in the ISO voting process, FTF informal legal network now covers sixteen European countries, Two days of Free Software in Chile, The Fellowship site now supports multiple languages, First distributed Fellowship meeting, FSFE German Team at FrOSCon, Fellows of the Rhein/Ruhr area holding monthly talks, Building the Fellowship in Kaiserslautern, Heidelberg, Darmstadt and Karlsruhe, FSFE supports demonstration "liberty instead of fear", September 22nd, Speeches about SELF, Open Standards and Free Software in Argentina and Free Software and Free Documentation licence consultations.
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Surveys Zero Install survey 2007A 30 question survey is being conducted on Zero Install. "Zero Install (as I'm sure you know) is a fully open source, decentralised installation system, currently included in the Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora distribution repositories (under the package name "zeroinstall-injector")."
Calls for Presentations Call for Papers: FLOSS+Art deadline extended 2007The call for papers deadline for FLOSS+Art has been extended to November 1. "Thanks to all the persons and groups who have replied to the call so far! Due to a growing demand for extra time, we have decided to extend the deadline. Please note that this new deadline will *not* be extended."
NDSS 2008 call for papersA call for papers has gone out for the Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) conference. The event takes place on February 10-13, 2008 in San Diego, CA, submissions are due by September 21.
Upcoming Events IRC meeting to discuss AGPLv3 and GPLv3 on September 27The Free Software Foundation has announced an online meeting on software licenses. "On September 27, at 20:00 US Eastern Time (September 28 00:00 GMT), the FSF Compliance Lab will hold a public meeting to discuss development of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License[1] (GNU AGPLv3) and answer general questions about GNU licenses. Please join FSF licensing compliance engineer Brett Smith to learn more about new GNU licenses."
Linux Plumbers Conference 2008 announcedA developers-only conference for Linux "plumbing" has been announced for next September in Portland, Oregon. The conference is meant to cover low-level Linux issues, especially those that span different parts of the greater Linux OS; this is not just a kernel conference. It will be held September 17-19, 2008 at Portland State University.
Events: September 27, 2007 to November 26, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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