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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Mozilla aims to set Guinness World Record on Firefox 3 Download Day Mozilla has announced an attempt to reach a new world record for downloads on the upcoming Download Day. The date has not yet been stated. "Mozilla today announced its intent to set a brand new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. The record-setting attempt is planned for the launch day for Firefox 3, also known as Download Day. Mozilla is inviting its global community to spread the word and join the effort by pledging to download Firefox 3 and hosting regional download "fests.""
Commercial announcements Novell Reports Financial Results for Second Fiscal Quarter 2008 Novell, Inc. has announced financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended April 30, 2008. "For the second fiscal quarter 2008, Novell reported $30 million of product revenue from Open Platform Solutions of which $29 million was from Linux* Platform Products, up 31% year-over-year. Product revenue from Identity and Security Management was $31 million of which Identity and Access Management was $27 million, up 13% year-over-year. Product revenue from Systems and Resource Management was $41 million, up 15% year-over-year. Workgroup product revenue of $92 million was down 1% year-over-year."
SourceLabs brings self-support to Eclipse development community SourceLabs has announced its Self-Support Suite. "SourceLabs, the company innovating open source software support, today announced that its Self-Support Suite now supports the open source Eclipse development environment. SourceLabs' Self-Support technology dramatically reduces the complexity of enterprise Linux and Java application development and maintenance, giving developers, corporate IT professionals, and solution providers an on-demand way to support web applications using the Eclipse Foundation's open source development framework."
Xandros and Intel cooking up Battery Saving Software Xandros, Inc. has announced that it will deliver Moblin-based products designed to increase the battery life and energy efficiency of a new breed of simple, affordable Internet devices called 'netbooks' using Intel Atom Processors. "Xandros software will include technologies from Moblin.org, the open source community for developing media and Internet solutions for Internet-centric portable and embedded devices based on Intel Atom processors."
Zmanda Teams With NetApp to deliver backup solution for MySQL Zmanda has announced the integration of NetApp Snapshot with the Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL. "With NetApp Snapshot, database administrators can create point-in-time copies of file systems, which can be used to protect data-from a single file to a complete disaster recovery solution. Users can protect data with no performance impact and minimal consumption of storage space."
New Books Harnessing Hibernate - New from O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book Harnessing Hibernate by James Elliott, Tim O'Brien, and Ryan Fowler.
Education and Certification Python Summer Courses 2008 in Germany Two Python courses will be held in Leipzig Germany in July, 2008. Course titles include "Python for Programmers" and "Python for Scientists and Engineers".
Python Class in Springfield, VA Holden Web has announced its second "Introduction to Python" class, it will be held on July 8-10 in Springfield, VA.
Calls for Presentations RTLWS10 Guadalajara cfp A call for papers has gone out for the 10th Real-Time Linux Workshop. The event takes place at the University of Guadalajara Centro Universitario in Jalisco, Mexico from October 29 - November 1, 2008. Abstracts are due by August 15.
Upcoming Events Akademy 2008 Registration Open (KDE.News) The registration for Akademy 2008 has been announced. "Akademy is KDE's World Summit, a week long event for all KDE contributors, industry partners and users. The week starts with a two day conference, and is set to include a tutorial day and a embedded and mobile day. As always, attendance to Akademy is free of charge, but you must register. Registration should be in by the 15th of June if you want the Akademy Team to book your accommodation for you. See you in Belgium!"
DEFCON 16 Updates The DEFCON 16 conference program has been announced. "As DEFCON 16 gets closer its awesome powers, much like a kraken summoned by Dethklok, continues to grow. How do you become friends with a kraken? You get to know it. Have a beer. Below are various way you can get involved with DEFCON 16 contests and events. The Call for Papers is closed, and selections are being announced all this week, so it is a bit too late to speak, but not too late to get involved."
EuroSciPy - Program Announcement EuroSciPy 2008 will take place in Leipzig, Germany on July 26-27, 2008. "EuroSciPy is designed to complement the popular SciPy Conferences which have been held for the last 7 years at Caltech (the 2008 SciPy Conference in the U.S. will be held the week of August 19-24). Similarly, the EuroSciPy Conference provides a unique opportunity to learn and affect what is happening in the realm of scientific computing with Python."
Events: June 12, 2008 to August 11, 2008 The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs LF Summit videos posted (Linux-Watch) Linux-Watch reports that videos from the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit are now available online. The article points to several videos from keynotes and roundtable panels. It looks like all the videos are available here.
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