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Non-Commercial announcements
LSB Test tools expired 27 November 2003
The Linux Standards Base has expired a number of authorized indicators of compliance for the LSB Runtime Environment 1.3. "Results from these are no longer accepted for LSB Certification".
Mark Shuttleworth Offering Bounties to Mozilla Developers (MozillaZine)
Mark Shuttleworth will pay bounties to Mozilla developers for work on various projects. "I'm offering some bounties to Mozilla developers that are looking for small projects to work on. All work to be given to the Mozilla Foundation."
OSDL Launches Linux Kernel Awareness Initiative
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has issued a press release announcing a new initiative to raise awareness about how the Linux kernel is developed. Hopefully this campaign will help counteract FUD with facts.
Progeny project sites launched
Progeny has launched a new open source project site.
Project UTF-8, evangelizing Unicode support in free software (GnomeDesktop)
Project UTF-8 has been announced with the goal of evangelizing and documenting proper Unicode support in free software. See the initial announcement on GnomeDesktop.org.
Commercial announcements
Lineox Inc. releases Lineox Linux LIFF
The Lineox LIFF documentation project has been announced. "Lineox Inc, a company dedicated to Linux products, consulting and education, has today released Lineox LIFF, which is a completely new kind of documentation product. Lineox LIFF combines innovatively many techniques to make it the best Linux documentation product in the market today. The product can be downloaded as a CD-ROM image from www.lineox.com and bought as a CD-R disk."
Progeny offers Red Hat Linux 7.x support
Progeny has announced the availability of support services for Red Hat Linux 7.2 and 7.3 (but, apparently, not for versions 8 or 9). For $5/month per machine, customers will get ongoing security updates after Red Hat ceases to produce them. Over the longer term, the program will help Red Hat Linux users transition to another (unspecified) distribution.
Cheap Red Hat Enterprise Linux for schools
Red Hat has announced a program which makes its Enterprise Linux services available to staff and students of educational institutions at a reduced price. Enterprise Linux WS subscriptions are available for $25/year, while Advanced Server subscriptions can be had for $50/year.
Wind River Joins OSDL, Eclipse
The Open Source Development Labs has sent out a press release proclaiming its latest member: Wind River, which sells proprietary embedded systems tools and which has not always seen Linux as a beneficial force. Wind River has also announced that it is joining the Eclipse Consortium.
New Books
Hello Linux! published
A new introductory book called Hello Linux! has been published. ""Although the Linux operating system has existed for several years, it is now virtually exploding in popularity. We feel that if Linux is going to give Microsoft a run for its money, it has to be much more accessible at the introductory level," says Clyde Boom of Lancom Technologies, a veteran publisher of computer books."
Third Edition of "UNIX Network Programming" available
The third edition of UNIX Network Programming by Rich Stevens has been published.
New Mozilla Book Release
Addison-Wesley & Prentice Hall PTR have released the book Rapid Application Development With Mozilla by Nigel McFarlane.
Resources
LDP Weekly News
The November 25, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest new documentation. This edition includes a discussion of free documentation license issues.
Contests and Awards
Composer Voted Third Best Web Development Tool (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has announced that Mozilla Composer 1.5 won third place in the CNET Builder.com Readers' Choice Awards. "Their commentary says: 'Mozilla's relatively high showing is a bit of a surprise because, frankly, I never considered it to be a development tool. Perhaps those members using Mozilla would like to share with us what they like about it as a Web development tool.' Obviously they've never heard of Venkman."
Event Reports
KDE at Chile's Entel Event (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers KDE advocacy in Chile. "You might know me as the original author of Kopete, the instant messanger for KDE. This week I have some news from Chile where after having reclaimed the kde.cl domain and having organized the site with the help of Matias Fernandez, hard work to promote KDE has begun. I was invited to talk about open source at a very important business conference organized by Entel -- perhaps the most important telecommunications company of Chile."
Upcoming Events
PyCon DC 2004 - Registration open!
Registration has begun for the Pycon 2004 conference. The event will be held at George Washington University in Washington, DC from March 24-26, 2003.
Linux.Conf.Au 2004 FIXITs - You can run one!
The Linux.Conf.Au 2004 will host several FIXIT sessions, there is still room for more sessions. "What's a FIXIT you ask? It's basically the same as a BoF, but with an intended outcome; that is, hands-on group sessions where you can contribute back to open source through discussions and problem solving."
LogOn Briefings on: Integration, Linux and Security
LogOn Technology Transfer GmbH has announced three series of Briefings which will be held in Amsterdam, Zurich, and Frankfurt during January, 2004. The briefings include OMG (Integrating the Enterprise), Open Source & Linux@work, and Security (Protect your Business).
More opportunities for Linux.Conf.Au attendees!
An update has been published for the Linux.Conf.Au 2004 conference, take a look to see what's in store for attendees.
USELINUX call for papers
USELINUX will be one (or possibly two) day special interest track hosted as part of the 2004 USENIX Annual Technical Conference in Boston (June 27 through July 2, 2004). The focus of USELINUX, as the name implies, will be on showcasing ways in which creative members of the Linux community are making use of Linux. Click below for more information.
Events: December 4, 2003 - January 29, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 4, 2003 | Linux Bangalore/2003 | Bangalore, India |
| December 4, 2003 | IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing(Cluster2003) | (Sheraton Hong Kong Hotel & Towers)Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| December 9 - 13, 2003 | International Conference on Logic Programming(ICLP'03) | Mumbai (Bombay), India |
| January 12 - 13, 2004 | Linux.Conf.au Miniconfs | Adelaide, Australia |
| January 12 - 13, 2004 | EducationaLinux 2004 | Adelaide, Australia |
| January 14 - 17, 2004 | Linux.conf.au | Adelaide, Australia |
| January 20 - 23, 2004 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 | (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, New York |
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
- Sorted alphabetically,
- Sorted by license.
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