Commercial announcements
Comdex and open source
The Comdex organizers have put out
a press release on how open source will be one of the big themes in the newly reworked Comdex event (happening November 16-20). There are a number of related activities, mostly aimed at a relatively elementary level.
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Lycoris Tablet OS on Toshiba Tablet PCs
Lycoris has announced the launch of De-Tablet, an integrated Toshiba
Portege Tablet Platform running Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet Edition.
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Metrowerks Executive Elected to Leadership Position with ELC
Metrowerks Corporation has
announced that its CTO and Vice President, Berardino Baratta
has been elected to the Embedded Linux Consortium's board of
directors.
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Metrowerks Adds Linux Kernel-Level Debugging Capabilities
Metrowerks has announced kernel-level debugging capabilities to its
line of development tools for Linux environments with CodeWarrior
Development Studio, ARMR ISA Edition for Linux Platform Development,
Version 2.0.
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TimeSys Joins CE Linux(R) Forum
TimeSys Corporation has
announced its membership in the CE Linux Forum (CELF).
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TimeSys(R) Corporation, a leader in
embedded Linux(R) and development tools for embedded systems, announced today
that it has joined the CE Linux Forum (CELF), an industry group that is
focused on the advancement of Linux as an open source platform for consumer
electronics devices."
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Synergy Silver CAD/CAM for Linux
Weber Systems, Inc
has announced
a version of their Synergy CAD/CAM system that is available for Linux.
Thanks to James Feeney.
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Resources
International PHP Magazine
A publication known as
International PHP Magazine
is now online. Take a look for ongoing discussions of PHP and
related technology.
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Upcoming Events
AUUG 2003 Conference
The Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group will hold the
AUUG 2003
conference in Sydney, Australia from August 31 - September 2, 2003.
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The conference will be in Sydney, at the Duxton Hotel, Milsons Point. on 3-5 September. Tutorials will be conducted prior to the conference on 31 August to 2 September."
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Third International Ruby Conference
Proposals are being accepted for the
Third International Ruby Conference. The event will be held
in Austin, Texas from November 14-16, 2003.
Presentations are due on August 20.
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Events: August 14 - October 9, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
| August 18 - 21, 2003 | New Security Paradigms Workshop 2003(NSPW 2003) | (Centro Stefano Francini)Ascona, Switzerland |
| August 22 - 30, 2003 | KDE Developers' Conference | (Zamek Castle)Nove Hrady, Czech Republic |
| August 27 - 29, 2003 | International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming(PPDP 2003) | (Uppsala University)Uppsala, Sweden |
| August 31 - September 2, 2003 | AUUG 2003 Conference | (Duxton Hotel)Sydney, Australia |
| September 3 - 4, 2003 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (Cancelled) | (The NEC)Birmingham, UK |
| September 8, 2003 | Boundaryless Information Flow: Open Source in the Enterprise | (Hilton London Paddington)London, UK |
| September 11 - 12, 2003 | Python for Scientific Computing Workshop(SciPy'03) | (CalTech)Pasadena, CA |
September 15 - 18, 2003 October 7 - 8, 2003 | LogOn Web Days | Across Europe |
| September 15 - 18, 2003 | Embedded Systems Conference(ESC) | (Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass |
| September 26 - 27, 2003 | Third DZUG-Conference | Paderborn, Germany |
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Web sites
New ALU web site announced
The Association of Lisp Users has launched their new web site.
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The new site contains more information about the ALU, its conferences
and activities, and how to become a member. It also provides a Lisp
resources section."
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BMC to unveil Linux Web site (News.com)
News.com
reports on
a new web site from BMC Software that focuses on Linux.
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Management software company BMC Software will unveil a Linux-focused Web site called LinuxValue.com on Monday as part of an attempt to accelerate adoption of the operating system, the company said. The site will include news stories, interviews, tips, case studies, analyst views, book reviews and other information."
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Computers for India (OpenSector)
OpenSector
takes a look at the Computers for India site.
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Computers for India
is a forum for knowledge sharing and collaboration between community
organizations in the United States and India, with a focus on schools and
community Internet centers in India. The site includes best practices
information, including guidelines for choosing between open source and
proprietary software."
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Software announcements
This week's software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of
Freshmeat.net. They are available in
two formats:
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