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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF Marks 10th Anniversary of DMCA with Report on Law's Unintended ConsequencesThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the availability of Unintended Consequences: Ten Years under the DMCA. From the announcement (click below): "Ten years ago Tuesday, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was signed into law. In a report released to mark the anniversary, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) documents the ways in which this controversial law has harmed fair use, free speech, scientific research, and legitimate competition."
Commercial announcements CadSoft releases Eagle 5.3CadSoft has released version 5.3 of their Eagle printed circuit CAD application. This release adds some new capabilities and bug fixes. See the What's new document for details.
CodeWeavers announces CrossOver Linux 7.1 and CrossOver Mac 7.1CodeWeavers has announced the availability of version 7.1 of CrossOver Linux and CrossOver Mac. "This version is largely a bug fix version; it particularly has a range of fixes for Microsoft Office, notably Outlook 2007."
Gumstix announces the miniature Overo Earth Linux platformGumstix, Inc. has announced the availability of its $149 miniature Overo Earth motherboard. "At only 17mm x 58mm x 4.2mm in size, the Overo(TM) Earth motherboard gives open source innovators access to the industry's highest performance, generally available ARM(R)-based platform in the tiniest, lowest cost Linux computer available. Gumstix, Inc. today announced the general availability of its Overo Earth motherboard that is based on the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP3503 applications processor."
IBM launches System z10 Business Class mainframeIBM has announced the Linux-based IBM System z10 Business Class server. "This is the technology for any business that wants to ramp up innovation, boost efficiencies and lower costspretty much any enterprise, any size, any location. This is a new mainframe technology for a new kind of data centerresilient, responsive, energy efficientthe new enterprise data center."
Open-Xchange introduces new collaboration server applianceOpen-Xchange has announced a new collaboration server appliance, the Open-Xchange Appliance Edition. "Open-Xchange, the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a new offering for small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs) seeking easy-to-use, easy-to-deploy e-mail and collaboration software that is a cost-effective alternative to Microsoft Exchange -- with an initial cost of less than $70 per user annually."
rPath helps close the application deployment gaprPath has announced a new initiative: "rPath today launched its initiative to close the application deployment gap, proposing a lifecycle management approach for enterprise application virtualization that combines deployment speed and control. The rPath initiative is detailed in the just-released white paper, "Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops: Leveraging Application Virtualization and Cloud Computing to Accelerate Business Value," available for download at http://www.rpath.com/corp/closing-the-gap."
Silicon Graphics launches EventVUESilicon Graphics, Inc. has announced the launch of EventVUE. "Silicon Graphics, Inc. today announced the availability of EventVUE(TM), its new real-time visual solution for Complex Event Processing (CEP). EventVUE software blends the company's uniquely scalable Intel(R)- and Linux(R)-based servers, storage, and visualization solutions with its real-time software extensions to Linux and years of professional services expertise in creating immersive Reality Center(R) visual environments."
WIN announces desktop networking platformsWIN has announced some new desktop networking platforms. Win... "announces the PL-10540 and PL-10550 desktop platforms that feature the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor with Intel QuickAssist Technology. The EP80579 is the Intel system-on-chip (SoC) purpose-built for the embedded and communications market with highly-integrated security features. The new WIN Enterprises platforms are designed for SOHO/SMB network management and network security applications, such as firewall, VPN, anti-spam, anti-virus, and intrusion detection & prevention."
New Books Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 1--New from Rocky NookRocky Nook has published the book Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 1 by Rex Black.
Algorithms in a Nutshell - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Algorithms in a Nutshell by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, and Stanley Selkow.
The Best of Instructables--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book The Best of Instructables by the Editors of MAKE magazine.
MediaWiki - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book MediaWiki by Daniel J. Barrett.
Resources FSFE NewsletterThe October 27, 2008 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: "The GNU's 25th Birthday in Berlin, Germany, The smallest unit of freedom: A Fellow - Sean Daly, Reach the people - Software Freedom Day in Berlin, Vienna and Utrecht, Fellowship events throughout Europe, Free Software for World Bank financed projects, Freedom Task Force activites - GPLv3 in The Netherlands, panels in Italy and speeches in Berlin and Winterthur, and European Legal Network special interest group meetings in London and Brussels."
ODBMS.ORG publishes more user reports and the Blaha paper.ODBMS.ORG has announced the publication of more user reports and the Blaha paper. "ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the exclusive publication of a third series of new user reports on using technologies for storing and handling persistent objects and a new paper by ODBMS.ORG panel member Michael Blaha."
Meeting Minutes Perl 6 Design Minutes (use Perl)The minutes from the October 22, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 22 October 2008. Larry, Patrick, Allison, Will, Jerry, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended."
Calls for Presentations Camp KDE 2009: Call for Presentations and Sponsorship (KDE.News)Camp KDE 2009, to be held January 17-23 in Negril, Jamaica, has released it's calls for sponsorship and presentations as described by KDE.news. "We are excited to continue the momentum of KDE interest shown at the 2008 KDE 4.0 Release Event in California." A description of Camp KDE from it's website: "This event is not designed to compete with Akademy , which usually takes place in Europe, but is designed to complement it by being 6-months opposite on the calendar, and on the other side of the globe. There will be some overlap between those that attend this event and Akademy, but hopefully this event will allow people from the Americas to attend that don't normally get the chance to go to Akademy."
PyCon 2009 - Call for tutorials nearing the endThe PyCon 2009 Call for tutorials closes soon. "The period for submitting tutorial proposals for Pycon 2009 (US) is open and will continue through Friday, October 31th. This year features two "pre-conference" days devoted to tutorials on Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26 in Chicago."
Upcoming Events LAC 2009 announcedThe Linux Audio Conference 2009 will take place on April 16-19 2009 in Parma, Italy. "The LAC will go outside Germany for the first time, but we will keep close to the familiar four-day format with paper presentations, workshops, electro-acoustic music concerts, and the Linux Sound Night. The website is being created, and 'calls for everything' will be issued before the end of this week."
OSDC 2008 Earlybird registration closing this FridayEarly Bird registration for OSDC 2008 closes on October 31. "Book by THIS FRIDAY to take advantage of earlybird pricing and be part of the "best" open source developers conference of the year." OSDC 2008 takes place in Sydney, Australia on December 2-5.
Events: November 6, 2008 to January 5, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Mailing Lists fedora-wiki list for wiki users and contributorsThe Fedora project has announced the fedora-wiki mailing list. "A new moderate-traffic mailing list for users and contributors of the Fedora Project Wiki has been set up. Among the discussions will be policy, announcements, and editing tips. The list has been created to bring together the wider wiki community split apart between different sub-projects of Fedora."
Audio and Video programs EnterpriseDB announces "Database Radio" podcast seriesEnterpriseDB has announced its "Database Radio" podcast series. "Today, EnterpriseDB, the leading enterprise open source database company, announced Database Radio, its new podcast series featuring interviews with industry experts covering a variety of contemporary database topics, including open source database strategies, information scalability and reliability, online transaction processing, and database replication."
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