Non-Commercial announcements
The Open Group has announced that the latest update to the Test Environment
Toolkit, TET3.6, is now available. TET is used to drive the LSB
Certification tests for Linux distributions.
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The
September/October issue
of LinuxFocus is available. This month you can learn how to model a 3D
train in Blender, explore the MySQL C API, see why older people love Linux,
enhance photos with Gimp, and much more.
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The Linux Professional Institute's newsletter for the month of August is
available. Look for LPI at TechXNY New York, Linux Expo UK, and Wow-Gao
Canada; LPI-Brazil becomes an official affiliate; Update on Linux World San
Francisco; LPI in Vietnam and Australia; and much more.
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The September 2003
edition of Linux
Gazette is out. Articles include
From C To Assembly Language by
Hiran Ramankutty;
Linux based Radio Timeshifting by Yan-Fa Li;
Python Weather Station by Phil Hughes;
SCO Interview by
Anonymous; and more.
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ibiblio.org has announced the designation of September as "Linux Month", in
celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the birth of the Linux software
created by developer Linus Torvalds.
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Commercial announcements
IBM has sent out a press release announcing that the Library of Congress
Moving Images Collection - a project of three university libraries - will
be hosted on IBM servers and, of course, Linux.
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Version 1.1.10 of Wing, a commercial IDE for Python
has been announced. This is a maintenance release.
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Opera Software has released Opera 7.20 Beta versions for the Unix variances
Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. These three beta releases all add support for
bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
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New Books
O'Reilly has released
The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf, Version
2.0, a bookshelf of LAMP technology on a single CD.
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O'Reilly has released the second edition of the
Perl Cookbook.
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Contests and Awards
Use Perl
reports on a perl
programming contest for the WebGUI content management system. The contest
lasts for 3 months and ends on December 1.
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Event Reports
GnomeDesktop has a
report from the
GNOME-ms booth at the Free and Open Source Conference 2003 (Fosscon
2003) that was held last week in Subang Malaysia.
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Upcoming Events
Registration is now open for
linux.conf.au. IBM has signed on
as the event's Penguin Sponsor. The conference will be held at the
University of Adelaide in South Australia, January 14 - 17, 2004. Click
below for more information.
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The September 15 LUGOD meeting will feature a talk on TiVo hacking.
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| Date | Event | Location |
| 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 |
| October 12 - 15, 2003 | International Lisp Conference 2003(ILC 2003) | New York, NY |
| October 15 - 17, 2003 | The First Plone Conference | (Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana |
October 26, 2003 October 27 - 31, 2003 | Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA) | (Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA |
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Web sites
Server Central, a provider of managed hosting,
announced it will sponsor PHP by hosting a server for PHP.net.
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The new Mozilla Links Newsletter
has been
launched. It is a bi-weekly publication, spawned from the nascent
Mozilla marketing effort, featuring headlines, tips and information about
third-party projects.
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MozillaZine
celebrates
five years online, with a special fifth anniversary section.
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Software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of
Freshmeat.net. They are available in
two formats:
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Miscellaneous
Use Perl
reports
that Perl has been added to the Oxford Dictionary of English.
"
Perl. noun [mass noun]. Computing. a high-level programming language used especially for
applications running on the World Wide Web.
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