Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Changes to the GNOME System Administration Team

The GNOME Foundation has announced the creation of a formal system administration team with a paid part-time sysadmin. "In order to continue our current community plans and hire a system administrator, we'd like to raise $50,000 through Friends of GNOME. Thanks to our generous community members we have already received over $5,000 this year. In addition, Google has put in $5,000 and Canonical has offered to match the next $10,000. So we are 40% of the way there already!"

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What the Oracle Acquisition of Sun Means for Linux (LinuxFoundation)

The Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin discusses Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems. "It’s no surprise that the executive director of the Linux Foundation would see good news for Linux in the unexpected announcement this morning of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, but I do feel it necessary to shed some light on how it may or may not affect Linux. - Oracle is strategically aligned with Linux: Oracle is a Linux distributor, and all its products are developed and run on Linux. As Edward Screven, chief architect of Oracle, said in a keynote at our Collaboration Summit two weeks ago, “entering the Linux market was the right choice for Oracle.” They are also a major user: Oracle’s entire enterprise runs on Linux, and they are major contributors to the Linux kernel among other Linux projects."

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SFLC: A Wake-Up Call for GPLv3 Migration

The Software Freedom Law Center's Bradley Kuhn uses the TomTom case to advocate for greater adoption of GPLv3. "Were Linux under GPLv3 (but not GPLv2), these terms, particularly those in the second paragraph, would clearly and unequivocally prohibit TomTom from entering into any arrangement with Microsoft that doesn't grant a license to any Microsoft patent that reads on Linux. Indeed, even what has been publicly said about this agreement seems to indicate strongly that this deal would violate GPLv3. While the Novell/Microsoft deal was grandfathered in (via the date above), this new agreement is not. Yet, the most frustrating aspect of the press coverage of this deal is that few have taken the opportunity to advocate for GPLv3 adoption by more projects. I hope now that we're a few weeks out from the coverage, project leaders will begin again to consider adding this additional patent protection for their users and redistributors."

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Commercial announcements

Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V

Microsoft has announced Linux Integration Components for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. "When installed in a supported Linux virtual machine running on Hyper-V, the Linux Integration Components provide. Driver support for synthetic devices: The Linux integration components include support for both the synthetic network controller and synthetic storage controller that have been developed specifically for Hyper-V. These components take advantage of the new high-speed bus, VMBus, which was developed for Hyper-V."

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Danger with NVIDIA drivers 180.29

LWN does not normally carry announcements for proprietary driver releases, but... the NVIDIA driver 180.51 release is worthy of note. It fixes a problem with the 180.29 release (packaged by RPMFusion, at least) which can brick certain Fujitsu notebook systems. Anybody running the older drivers should probably upgrade, just to be sure.

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Oracle buying Sun

Here's the press release: Oracle will be buying Sun Microsystems. "The Sun Solaris operating system is the leading platform for the Oracle database, Oracle's largest business, and has been for a long time. With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle can optimize the Oracle database for some of the unique, high-end features of Solaris. Oracle is as committed as ever to Linux and other open platforms and will continue to support and enhance our strong industry partnerships." (Thanks to Emmanuel Seyman).

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New Books

Gray Hat Python--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book Gray Hat Python by Justin Seitz.

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Intel(r) G45 Programmer's Reference Manual

The Intel(r) G45 Programmer's Reference Manual is available for download. "We are pleased to announce that the Intel(r) G45 Express Chipset [Graphics and Memory Controller Hub-GMCH] Programmer's Reference Manual (PRM) is now publicly available!"

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Resources

Red Hat's open source activity map

Red Hat has posted a JavaScript-heavy map claiming to show the relative level of open source activity in 75 countries. It seems that France is ranked #1 overall. There are links to various PDF files describing how the rankings were derived; suffice to say, it's not a simple algorithm.

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Calls for Presentations

IMF 2009 - 2nd Call for Papers

The second call for papers has gone out for IMF 2009. "5th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics September 15th - 17th, 2009 Stuttgart, Germany" Submissions are due by June 1.

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Linux Plumbers Conference 2009 Call For Proposals

The call for proposals for the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference (September 23 to 25, Portland) has gone out. "The perfect Plumbers topic would feature a real problem whose solution requires the relevant community members to get together face to face, preferably producing a solution during the conference itself." Submissions are due by June 15.

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openSUSE Summit 2009 Call for Participation

A call for participation has gone out for the openSUSE Summit 2009. "The openSUSE Project is opening the call for participation in the openSUSE Summit 2009, to be held September 17 through 20 in Nuremberg, Germany. We're looking for contributors to openSUSE, upstream projects, and members of the openSUSE community to participate. The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project."

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Upcoming Events

LinuxCon keynote speaker announcement

The keynote speakers have been announced for LinuxCon. "The conference takes place September 21 - 23, 2009 in Portland, Oregon at the Marriott Downtown Waterfront, and is co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. The LinuxCon keynotes represent both community and industry in keeping with the audience." Confirmed keynote speakers include Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, Bdale Garbee, Mark Shuttleworth and Bob Sutor.

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Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2009: registration started

Registration is open for the Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2009. "The 5th International conference of developers and users of free / open source software "Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe" (LVEE 2009) will take place on July 02-05 near Grodno (Belarus). The event combines both communication and rest of the enthusiasts of free software, including GNU/Linux platform, but not limited to it. LVEE 2009 is organized by Minsk Linux Users Group with support of the open source community active members from Grodno and Brest."

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NLUUG spring conference time schedule online

The schedule for the NLUUG spring conference is online. "The keynote at the conference will be given by Ted Ts'o, famous ext4 hacker and CTO at Linux Foundation. Other subjects at the conference will be ZFS, LogFS, DRBD, LVM, desktop search and many more. The complete program and registration form can be found at: http://www.nluug.nl/events/vj09/index.html"

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OpenSource World schedule announced

The OpenSource World Conference schedule has been announced, registration is open. The event takes place in San Francisco, CA on August 12-13, 2009.

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X Developers' Conference 2009

The X Developers' Conference 2009 has been announced. "The 2009 X Developers' Conference will be held at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon, from Monday September 28 through Wednesday September 30. PSU is within walking distance of Portland's downtown area and a wide variety of dining, lodging, and public transportation options. The conference is scheduled to follow directly after Linux Plumbers Conference 2009 so that people attending both LPC and XDC can do that with a single trip."

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Events: April 30, 2009 to June 29, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
April 25 May 1	Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
May 4 May 6	EuroDjangoCon 2009	Prague, Czech Republic
May 4 May 6	SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference	Haifa, Israel
May 4 May 7	RailsConf 2009	Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 4 May 8	JavaScript/Ajax Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
May 5	Linuxwochen Austria - Salzburg	Salzburg, Austria
May 6 May 8	Embedded Linux training	Maynard, USA
May 6 May 9	Libre Graphics Meeting 2009	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 7	NLUUG spring conference	Ede, The Netherlands
May 8 May 9	Linuxwochen Austria - Eisenstadt	Eisenstadt, Austria
May 8 May 9	Erlanger Firebird Conference 2009	Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
May 8 May 10	PyCon Italy 2009	Florence, Italy
May 11	The Free! Summit	San Mateo, CA, USA
May 13 May 15	FOSSLC Summercamp 2009	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
May 15	Firebird Developers Day - Brazil	Piracicaba, Brazil
May 15 May 16	CONFidence 2009	Krakow, Poland
May 16 May 17	YAPC::Russia 2009	Moscow, Russia
May 18 May 19	Cloud Summit 2009	Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 19	Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems	Vancouver, Canada
May 19 May 21	Where 2.0 Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
May 19 May 22	PGCon PostgreSQL Conference	Ottawa, Canada
May 19 May 22	php|tek 2009	Chicago, IL, USA
May 19 May 22	SEaCURE.it	Villasimius, Italy
May 21	7th WhyFLOSS Conference Madrid 09	Madrid, Spain
May 22 May 23	eLiberatica - The Benefits of Open Source and Free Technologies	Bucharest, Romania
May 23 May 24	LayerOne Security Conference	Anaheim, CA, USA
May 25 May 29	Ubuntu Developers Summit - Karmic Koala	Barcelona, Spain
May 27 May 28	EUSecWest 2009	London, UK
May 28	Canberra LUG Monthly meeting - May 2009	Canberra, Australia
May 29 May 31	Mozilla Maemo Mer Danish Weekend	Copenhagen, Denmark
May 31 June 3	Techno Security 2009	Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
June 1 June 5	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, GA, USA
June 2 June 4	SOA in Healthcare Conference	Chicago, IL, USA
June 3 June 4	Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009	Stockholm, Sweden
June 3 June 5	LinuxDays 2009	Geneva, Switzerland
June 6	PgDay Junín 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 8 June 12	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, GA, USA
June 10 June 11	FreedomHEC Taipei	Taipei, Taiwan
June 11 June 12	ShakaCon Security Conference	Honolulu, HI, USA
June 12 June 13	III Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero	Bologna, Italy
June 12 June 14	Writing Open Source: The Conference	Owen Sound, Canada
June 13	SouthEast LinuxFest	Clemson, SC, USA
June 14 June 19	2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	San Diego, USA
June 17 June 19	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 17 June 19	Conference on Cyber Warfare	Tallinn, Estonia
June 20 June 26	Beginning iPhone for Commuters	New York, USA
June 22 June 24	Velocity 2009	San Jose, CA, USA
June 22 June 24	YAPC|10	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
June 24 June 27	LinuxTag 2009	Berlin, Germany
June 24 June 27	10th International Free Software Forum	Porto Alegre, Brazil
June 26 June 28	Fedora Users and Developers Conference - Berlin	Berlin, Germany
June 26 June 30	Hacker Space Festival 2009	Seine, France
June 28 July 4	EuroPython 2009	Birmingham, UK

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