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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements FSF on Microsoft Vouchers The Free Software Foundation has sent out a notice concerning purchasers of Microsoft software. "Under the terms of a settlement, reached in California's antitrust and unfair competition class action lawsuit against Microsoft, the company is required to provide vouchers totaling up to $1.1 billion to eligible California users of its Windows, MS-DOS, Office, Excel, Word, Works Suite or Home Essentials 97 or 98 products. These vouchers can be redeemed for cash as reimbursement for the purchase of other qualifying computer hardware or software. They can also be donated to non-profit organizations (even those outside of California) for their use in purchasing software or hardware."
Commercial announcements Lindows.com announces a 30,000 system deployment Lindows.com has announced a large desktop Linux deployment in Canada. "Lindows.com, in conjunction with the South West Shore Development Authority (SWSDA), is moving throughout Nova Scotia and other provinces to bring LindowsOS to the greater Canada area. It is expected that more than 30,000 LindowsOS machines will be deployed within one year of the initial deployments."
PostgreSQL Replication Released Command Prompt, Inc. has announced the availability of their Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator. "Mammoth PostgreSQL Replicator is an asynchronous replication system designed to be WAN and faulty connection tolerant. It uses a distributed TransactionLog system to keep track of updates produced by the Master database. The system allows for multiple Slaves to receive updates in either a continuous or batch mode."
New Books "Digital Photography Pocket Guide, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the second edition of their Digital Photography Pocket Guide.
"Apache Cookbook" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the Apache Cookbook.
"SQL Tuning" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book "SQL Tuning", by Dan Tow. "There are two basic issues that most people focus on when tuning SQL: how to find and interpret the execution plan of an SQL statement and how to change SQL to get a specific alternate execution plan. Tow provides the answers to these questions in "SQL Tuning" and addresses a third, even more critical question: How do you decide which execution plan a query should use?"
Resources Intro slides from Brooklyn GNOME Summit (GnomeDesktop) GnomeDesktop.org has announced the availability of the slides from the 2003 Brooklyn GNOME Summit.
CE Linux Forum Publishes Baseline Source Tree The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) has announced the release of its baseline Linux source code, now available for download and review.
Introduction to Mozilla Manual Available in Draft Form (MozillaZine) MozillaZine has an announcement for a new Mozilla introductory document. "This document provides an introduction to the most useful features and capabilities of Mozilla (1.5) for people who have never used it before. The author is currently seeking review and comment with a goal of completing the document by year-end."
Contests and Awards Desktop Integration Bounty Hunt (GnomeDesktop) The GNOME Foundation has announced the first open source desktop integration bounty hunt. "The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience. The contest consists of a number of small, concrete projects, each of which has a cash bounty associated with it. Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect a prize."
KDevelop voted 'Best IDE' (KDE.News) KDE.News mentions that KDevelop won an award. "We're pleased to announce that KDevelop took first place in the fourth annual Linux New Media Awards with 29.4% of the votes in the category of best IDE development system; second and third places went to Eclipse and Anjuta respectively."
Upcoming Events Italian Linux Day 2003 The 2003 Italian Linux Day will happen on November 29. Events aimed at the promotion of Linux and free software will be happening in 81 different cities; click below for the full announcement (in Italian).
Linux Financial Summit to Explore Real World Linux Solutions for Financial Institutions Here's a press release from IDG World Expo saying that the Linux Financial Summit, which debuted at LinuxWorld Expo last January, will return to the 2004 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City.
Open Source Working Group – UK think-tank meeting (LinuxMedNews) LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the Open Steps meeting. "The Open Steps meeting, to be held near Winchester, UK, on 10-11 February 2004 is the first of a series of three meetings planned for 2004 as part of the activities of the IMIA Open Source and Open Source Nursing Informatics Working Groups. The purpose of the meeting is to identify key issues, opportunities, obstacles, areas of work and research that may be needed, and other relevant aspects, around the potential for using open source software, solutions and approaches within health care, and in particular within health informatics, in the UK and Europe."
Events: November 26, 2003 - January 22, 2004
Web sites Open XUL Alliance Launches Wiki Wiki (MozillaZine) The Open XUL Alliance has announced a new Wiki site. "The Open XUL Alliance is a site about XUL and related XML-based declarative user interface languages."
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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