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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements SourceForge.net update (SourceForge) The folks at SourceForge.net have published their September 30, 2003 news update. "SourceForge.net is approaching its 4-year birthday. Forty-six months ago the site started off with only a handful of second-hand computers, two megabits of bandwidth, a few hundred projects, and a goal. The goal was, and continues to be, to create a place for Open Source projects and the Open Source community to thrive and be successful. When we launched the site, we never dreamed that it would be so successful, or that its growth rate would be so high. Today, we host nearly 70,000 projects on 85 computers. The amount of bandwidth we consume at any one time, including the mirrors, is approximately 225 megabits. We continue to add about 700 new users and 70 new projects per day. In fact, we just crossed our 700,000 registered user milestone."
Commercial announcements IBM brings Linux to British and Russian governments IBM has sent out two press releases describing its latest governmental Linux deals. The first release describes nine "proof of concept pilots" being run by the British Office of Government Commerce and Office of the eEnvoy. The pilot programs are meant to support the Offices' policy of increasing use of free software as an alternative to proprietary offerings. "These initial trials are being run by IBM and will measure the effectiveness and cost-benefits of IT systems based on OSS products, when compared against proprietary software solutions". In Russia, instead, IBM is setting up a Linux "competency center" in Moscow. "The new center will be set up to help customers of every size from industry, academia and government to take full advantage of the reliability, flexibility and total cost of ownership that Linux provides."
Jupitermedia Announces Sponsors for Its Enterprise Linux Forum Jupitermedia Corporation has announced the sponsors for its Enterprise Forum Conference & Expo this Fall. Oracle, IBM, Red Hat and NetIQ will sponsor the event.
Linux Networx Provides Cluster for John Deere Linux Networx has announced that it has sold a Linux-based cluster to John Deere, a tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer. "John Deere is using the Linux Networx cluster for advanced engineering analysis including computational fluid dynamics and structural finite element analysis. The cluster has demonstrated improved computing performance for the company, performing several classes of analysis jobs at more than double their previous speed."
SuSE launches Standard Server 8 SuSE has announced the expansion of the SUSE LINUX Server family with the release of SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 - aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. "Available for Intel and AMD 32-bit processors (x86) and supporting up to two CPUs, SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 includes features such as Internet access, e-mail, file and print services, plus graphical configuration wizards - enabling Linux novices in small and medium-sized organizations to easily set up the server as a Windows domain controller, file and print server in Windows environments, Internet gateway, E-Mail server, application server, DNS server and DHCP server."
New Books "The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released Addison-Wesley has announced the release of "The Art of UNIX Programming", by Eric S. Raymond.
Resources EFFector 16.26 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out issue 16.26 of its EFFector newsletter. This one features the EFF's report on trusted computing, library book tagging, a new report on the DMCA ("still damaging after all these years"), and several other topics.
LDP Weekly News The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News for October 7, 2003 is available with a look at new and updated documentation, HOW-TOs and more.
Linux Gazette #95 Linux Gazette issue 95 for October 2003 is now available. Some of the articles in this edition: Quick and Dirty Data Extraction in AWK, by Phil Hughes; Integrating Tomcat and Apache on RedHat 9, by Mike Millson; Linux Through an Oscilloscope, by Pramode C.E; Software Engineering, by Gustavo Rondina; Mexico is conquered by FLOSS, by Felipe Barousse Boue; and more, plus the usual monthly features.
Contests and Awards 2003 Linux Medical News Achievement Award Nominees (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews has posted its list of 2003 Achievement Award nominees. They are the care2x project, and doctors Thomas Beale, David Kibbe, and Stanley Saiki Jr. The list is a good view of what kind of work is being done in the area of free medical software.
Event Reports Report from the SCO road show "Compactible Dave" reports from SCO's road show in Toronto. "During the 'we be so profitable' section of the spiel, one reseller in the crowd asked 'where does the money come from?' The response was largely a pointer to the SCO source initiative. The response? 'What you are profitable in will not make me profitable.'"
Upcoming Events CONASOL Call-for-Papers (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop.org mentions the upcoming CONASOL conference. "The Congreso Nacional de Software Libre call-for-papers is up now. The conference will be held in Talca, Chile, on November 10-12 2003. Rodrigo Moya and Federico Mena, from the GNOME project, will be speaking."
Lightweight Languages 2003 Presentation proposals for the Lightweight Languages 2003 conference are due in by October 17, 2003. The conference will take place on November 8 at MIT in Cambridge MA.
Linux.Conf.Au 2004 program posted The schedule for Linux.Conf.Au 2004 has been posted. The conference has gone to a four-track program this year with a number of interesting talks. There are also several single-topic "miniconfs" happening before the main event; see the announcement for details.
GNU/LINUX Free software and copyright seminar, Finland A GNU/LINUX Free software and copyright seminar has been announced in Finnish and in English. The event will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 22 and 23, 2003. Thanks to Niklas Vainio.
Events: October 9 - December 4, 2003
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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