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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements World Wide Web Consortium approves patent policyThe W3C has announced the final approval of its patent policy, which states that patented technology included in W3C standards must be licensed on a royalty-free basis - at least for the purpose of implementing the standard. This long process has finally reached its conclusion.
LSB Architecture Specs for PPC64, S390, & S390X approved by the FSGThe Free Standards Group board has approved the LSB version 1.3 archetecture specs for the S390, S390X, and PPC64 platforms.
Public Review for LSB's AMD64 architectureThe Linux Standards Base is looking for comments from the community on its first draft of the architecture specification for the AMD64 (x86-64) processor.
Commercial announcements D.H. Brown Associates Releases 2003 Linux Function ReviewD.H. Brown Associates has published the 2003 release of its Linux Function Review, a comprehensive functional evaluation of Linux as a commercial server operating environment. "Although UNIX systems still clearly offer important functional advantages for the most demanding, high-end commercial applications, Linux has now become a mainstream operating environment for a broad range of general-purpose departmental and workgroup applications in addition to its traditional base of infrastructure solutions, "edge of network" applications, development platforms, and technical computing applications."
Digital Mars releases Linux version of D LanuageDigital Mars has released a free executable of their D language compiler for Linux. (Thanks to Ben Woodhead.)
IBM's "ThinkCentre" desktopsIBM has announced the availability of its new "ThinkCentre" line of desktop computers. For the most part, it looks like yet another announcement for yet another PC (albeit a nice-looking one), but the "M50" model is available with the Red Hat or SuSE distributions preinstalled. IBM has, until now, been unenthusiastic about the Linux desktop market, so these systems represent a bit of a shift in the company's strategy.
Opera 7 now available on LinuxOpera Software has released Opera 7 for Linux. The new version includes major new features changes from Opera 6 for Linux as well as a built-in e-mail client, not previously available in Opera for Linux.
Investment bank and law firm co-sponsor Open Source Software SymposiumC.E. Unterberg, Towbin, an investment bank, and the law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP announced they will co-sponsor an Open Source Software Symposium, to be held on Tuesday, May 20th in Boston, Massachusetts. "Jeff Becker, Director and Head of Software Investment Banking at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin and the event's organizer commented, "Open Source software providers continue to demonstrate their entrepreneurial spirit, drive and success despite the challenges of a prolonged drought in IT spending and upheavals in the equity markets. To thrive in this unforgiving environment requires both a sound business model and exceptional execution, aspects that are often hotly debated in the Open Source arena.""
An open letter from Matthew SzulikHere is an open letter from Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik. "Consistent with Red Hat's core values--Freedom, Commitment, Courage and Accountability--Red Hat's software development community takes valid intellectual property rights seriously. We respect and take effort to maintain the legal and technical integrity of valid intellectual property, including patents, copyright and trademark. When the integrity of the Red Hat brand is publicly called into question, we will defend the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux by our customers."
Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership AgreementSun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a global alliance agreement with Red Hat to distribute Red Hat's Enterprise Linux. As part of the agreement, Red Hat will distribute Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
VTT Goes Open SourceVTT Information Technology has announced its entry into the world of open-source software. "As its first open source software, VTT published a user-friendly network-testing tool Nipper (Neat Internet Protocol Packet Editor). Nipper is Java based tool that can be used in many ways for testing networks, protocols and networking applications. Nipper was originally developed in a programmable network research project. As Nipper was found practical tool more generally and not limited to programmable network testing, it was selected to be the pilot software in the VTT open source project."
Ximian Releases Red Carpet 2.0Version 2.0 of Ximian's Red Carpet has been announced. "Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced the availability of Red Carpet 2.0, a new version of its desktop client software that allows users to manage Linux software installed on workstations and servers. Users will benefit from a streamlined user interface, powerful new functionality for finding installed packages and recording installation history, and the ability to manage software on systems other than their own."
Resources GNOME Talks! Part 2 (GnomeDesktop)The American Council of the Blind presents part two from a four part mp3 series on GNOME accessibility. "In the second of a four-part series from the American Council of the Blind, Sun accessibility engineer Marc Mulcachy demonstrated the GNOME Panel and Control Center. He also mentions what system he is running, and that it is hard to install Red Hat 9 compared to Red Hat 8, due to the removal of Speak-Up."
Configuring NFS for control by IPTABLES and other firewallsChris Lowth has published a HOWTO called: "Configuring NFS under Linux for Firewall control".
SAMBA Printing HowtoThe CUPS project mentions the availability of a new SAMBA printing howto document, which now emphasises the CUPS print system.
LDP Weekly NewsThe May 20, 2003 edition of The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest new documentation news.
Upcoming Events Linux@work in DublinThe Linux@work business conference and exhibition will be held in Dublin, Ireland on June 18 in parallel with the GU4DEC conference.
European Zope Training Tour (ZopeMembers)The European Zope Training Tour will consist of four events, in Denmark, Berlin, Cern, and an unspecified UK location starting on May 26, 2003. See the tour schedule for more information.
Python Conference ReportsGuido Van Rossum has published two reports on recent Python conferences, News from Python UK and Notes from PyCon DC.
Events: May 22 - July 27, 2003
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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