Commercial announcements
AMD has
announced
that it is joining the MeeGo project. "
We are glad to provide
engineering resources to joint industry efforts like MeeGo and expect that
this operating system will help drive our embedded plans and create
expanded market opportunities for our forthcoming Accelerated Processing
Units."
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Intel has announced the
MeeGo portal on the
Intel AppUp center and associated storefronts. "
On this site you will find resources & information to get started with MeeGo. Stay tuned and look for more resources from the AppUpDeveloper program on how to get apps on AppUp clients for various MeeGo devices."
MeeGo has also announced
the beta release of MeeGo 1.1 SDK. "This release includes Qt Quick, the Javascript-inspired framework that enables rapid development of mobile applications. Although the heart of MeeGo SDK is Qt Creator, you can also use basic functionalities directly from the command line. MeeGo SDK is extensible and we are working on different plug-ins that introduce new tools and targets."
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Canonical has announced the signing of several partnerships. "
Boxed
Ice, Opsview, Riptano, Unoware, Vladster, Wavemaker and Zend all joined as
Canonical Software Partners, their applications delivering solutions for
business and personal use, and supported by commercial companies providing
the highest level of service. Canonical Software Partners work closely
with the development teams who deliver Ubuntu, and thus ensure that
installation and operation are of the highest quality."
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Convirture has announced a partnership with Canonical. "
ConVirt 2.0 Open is now available in the Ubuntu Partner Repository. It provides a sophisticated set of tools which can also be used to manage virtual machines in a private cloud infrastructure."
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Articles of interest
Bruce Perens
wonders
about the outcome of a patent lawsuit against JBoss. "
The suit in question - Software Tree LLC v. Red Hat, Inc. - claimed that JBoss, the well-known Java web software, infringed upon U.S. Patent No. 6163776, which essentially claims invention of the object-relational database paradigm. In that paradigm, an object in an object-oriented software language represents a database record, and the attributes of the object represent fields in the database, making it possible for programmers to access a database without writing any SQL. It's a common element in most web programming environments today."
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Ars technica
takes
a look at the latest Linaro release. "
Linaro, a nonprofit organization that aims to accelerate embedded Linux development for the ARM architecture, has announced its first software release. Version 10.11 of the group's software stack quietly debuted this week. The group appears to be attracting interest and making steady progress."
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Linux Journal attempts to
demystify
Scribus. "
Designed for desktop publishing, Scribus is a specialty application, and not intended for general use the way that OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice is. Unlike a word processor, it is not intended primarily as a way to input text -- although you can use it for that -- but as a layout program for manipulating groups of objects for the printed page. With this orientation, it is perhaps closer to The GIMP or Inkscape, which can be disorienting to the general user."
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New Books
The quick reference for Python 3.1 is available in english. "
It is a one recto-verso page filled with language basics and advanced constructions."
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O'Reilly Media has released "Data Analysis with Open Source Tools", by
Philipp K. Janert.
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Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Driving Technical Change", by Terrence Ryan.
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Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Pragmatic Guide to Git" by Travis Swicegood.
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O'Reilly Media has released "Head First Python" by Paul Barry, and "Real
World Instrumentation with Python" by John M. Hughes.
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Resources
The Linux Foundation newsletter for November covers Linux Foundation and
Consumer Electronics Linux Forum Merge, New Embedded Linux Workgroup
Announced: The Yocto Project, China Mobile Joins Linux Foundation as Gold
Member, Linux Foundation Releases Free Self-Assessment Checklist as Part of
Open Compliance Program, and a video of Linus Torvalds diving with sea
life.
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Upcoming Events
Events: November 25, 2010 to January 24, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the
LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
November 23 November 26 |
DeepSec |
Vienna, Austria |
November 24 November 26 |
Open Source Developers' Conference |
Melbourne, Australia |
| November 27 |
Open Source Conference Shimane 2010 |
Shimane, Japan |
| November 27 |
12. LinuxDay 2010 |
Dornbirn, Austria |
November 29 November 30 |
European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event |
Torino, Italy |
| December 4 |
London Perl Workshop 2010 |
London, United Kingdom |
December 6 December 8 |
PGDay Europe 2010 |
Stuttgart, Germany |
| December 11 |
Open Source Conference Fukuoka 2010 |
Fukuoka, Japan |
December 13 December 18 |
SciPy.in 2010 |
Hyderabad, India |
December 15 December 17 |
FOSS.IN/2010 |
Bangalore, India |
January 16 January 22 |
PyPy Leysin Winter Sprint |
Leysin, Switzerland |
| January 22 |
OrgCamp 2011 |
Paris, France |
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