Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Vote NO to Software Patents

The Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Society voiced their opinion on European software patents. "The Software Entrepreneurs Society, an association of the owners of Finnish software houses, rejected the idea of software patents in a discussion forum in Helsinki last Monday. Over 60% of the software entrepreneurs attending the forum voted "no" to software patents in Europe."

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Perl Monger Leadership Changes (use Perl)

Use Perl reports on several Perl Monger group leader changes.

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Serhiy Brytskyy Taking Over From Henrik Lynggaard as MozillaTranslator Project Lead (MozillaZine)

The head of the MozillaTranslator is passing the torch to another developer. "Henrik Lynggaard writes: "MozillaTranslator (the Java program to help translate Mozilla) is now changing hands. After having been semi-dormant for the last year since I have not had the time to actively maintain it, I have now decided to step down as project lead. The project is now in the hands of Serhiy Brytskyy, who is actively maintaining it.""

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Commercial announcements

CadSoft Eagle version 4.11r2

CadSoft has released version 4.11r2 of Eagle, a CAD system for designing printed circuit boards. A free version of the software is available for non-commercial use.

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gumstix Introduces Tiny Linux Boards and Computers

Tiny commercially available Linux boards and computers were officially introduced by gumstix, inc., a start-up that produces and sells high performance Single Board Computers (SBCs) and peripherals. Based on Intel's PXA255 processor with Xscale technology, gumstix tiny boards measure 20mm x 80mm x 8mm.

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KDE Executor 2.0 beta released

Beta version 2.0 of the KDE Executor, record and playback tool for Qt and KDE applications, has been released. "Today, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB released the first beta version of KD Executor 2.0; our tool for testing and automation. We are proud to make available a free version of this to the KDE community. (Free as in beer, not as in speech)."

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LynuxWorks Introduces Industry's First Embedded Linux 2.6 Offering

LynuxWorks has claimed that they are the first company to bring the Linux 2.6 kernel to an embedded platform.

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Sharp's New Zaurus Handheld

Here's a press release for the Sharp Zaurus SL-6000, a Linux-based handheld with a VGA screen. "For fast wireless access to corporate data, the Zaurus SL-6000 has built-in 802.11b network capability. It includes extensive protected flash memory, a built-in, sliding QWERTY keyboard and is readily expandable with both Compact Flash(TM) and SD expansion slots."

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The Yankee Group on Linux deployment costs

Laura DiDio strikes again in this Yankee Group press release on a recent survey on deployment costs. "In large enterprises, a significant Linux deployment or total switch from Windows to Linux, would be three to four times more expensive and take three times as long to deploy as an upgrade from one version of Windows to newer Windows releases." The PR actually isn't saying anything all that earthshaking: a complete switch to a new system is, at the outset, more expensive than staying with what you have. Strangely, that's not how the rest of the press is reporting it, though.

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Press releases from ClusterWorld Expo 2004

Here are a few of the press releases that are coming from ClusterWorld:

• PathScale announced suite of high-performance Linux compilers for AMD Opteron and Athlon64 processor-based systems.
• Penguin Computing announced availability of turnkey Linux cluster systems based on the AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon architectures.
• Scyld Software announced availability of the 29-series release of Scyld Beowulf for the Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron platforms.

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Linux Networx sells a cluster in Japan

Linux Networx (a Canopy company, incidentally) has sent out a press release proclaiming its sale of a 556-processor cluster to the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. It will join the "supercluster" already there and help out by processing some of the "smaller jobs."

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Resources

April 2004 Web Server Survey

The Netcraft Web Server Survey, with information up to April 1, 2004 is online.

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GNOME 2.6 Desktop documentation

A new set of GNOME desktop documents are available. "The GNOME 2.6 Desktop User Guide, System Administration Guide, and Accessibility Guide are available now in various formats from http://www.gnome.org/learn."

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Announcing publication of Austin Group TC2

A new Technical Corrigendum has been published. "IEEE and The Open Group publish Second Technical Corrigendum to POSIX 1003.1-2001 and the Single UNIX Specification Version 3. We are pleased to announce the publication of Technical Corrigendum No. 2."

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Contests and Awards

The Second PHP Programming Marathon

The Second PHP Programming Marathon, an online competition, will take place on April 24, 2004.

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Event Reports

CeBIT: KDE Impresses At World's Largest Computer Expo (KDE.News)

KDE.News covers the activity at the KDE booth during CeBIT in Hannover, Germany this March. "Some developers used the opportunity to fix bugs as they were reported or at least assisted and motivated people to file bugs reports or to search for already existing ones and comment and vote for them."

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Upcoming Events

Next Week's MySQL Users Conference & Expo to be Hub of MySQL and Open Source News

MySQL AB has provided a preview of the news announcements and top attractions expected at next week's MySQL Users Conference & Expo.

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Montreal Perl Mongers Meeting (use Perl)

The Montreal Perl Mongers will be meeting on April 8, 2004.

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XML Europe 2004

The XML Europe 2004 conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on April 18-21, 2004.

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Desktop Presentation at Linux User & Developer Expo 2004 (KDE.News)

Jono Bacon will speak at the Linux User & Developer Expo. "Just a quick note to let you know that I will be doing a presentation about the potential for Linux as a desktop platform at this year's Linux User & Developer Expo in London on April 20th from 15:25 - 15:55. The talk is entitled "Linux as a viable desktop platform" and I will be covering a number of subjects to do with desktop Linux, of which KDE plays a big part. I will also be discussing GNOME, FreeDesktop.org, Project Utopia and other technologies in the presentation."

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Linux Installfest workshop in Davis - Sunday, April 18th

The Linux Users' Group of Davis will be holding another Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA on April 18, 2004.

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14-15 April 2004: Brussels is the Hub to go (KDE.News)

KDE.News reports on an upcoming Linux install-fest in Brussels. "Most European legal frame related to new technologies is cooked up at Brussels. Its future members will decide on the patentability of software, on data privacy issues, TPRM, and so on. On 14th and 15th April a conference and Linux User Group event chaired by Daniel Cohn-Bendit (member of European parlament) takes place. Join an install party within European Parliament (and bring your favorite MEP with you). Attend a panel with eg. Alan Cox, Georg Greve, Jon Lech Johansen (of decss fame)."

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International XUL Meetup Days Announced (MozillaZine)

A series of International XUL Meetup Day events have been announced. "Now you can join and link up with fellow XUL coders and designers at local cafes (and other places) in 612 cities across 51 countries. Every 1st Tuesday of every month is now officially International XUL Meetup Day! Meetup with other local XML User Interface Language (XUL) coders and designers to discuss the future of the rich internet for everyone."

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KDE Community World Summit 2004 'aKademy' (KDE.News)

The KDE Community World Summit 2004 (aKademy) conference has been announced. "The first edition of this new international event will be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany, near Stuttgart. Taking place from August 21st to 29th 2004, the Summit will include an exciting program of talks, presentations, tutorials and joint development, bug-fixing, design and polishing work on the leading Linux and Unix desktop environment."

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Events: April 8 - June 3, 2004

Date	Event	Location
April 8, 2004	ClusterWorld Conference & Expo	(San Jose Convention Center)San Jose, California
April 13 - 15, 2004	Real World Linux 2004 Conference & Expo	(Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Ontario, Canada
April 14 - 16, 2004	MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2004	(Peabody Hotel Orlando)Orlando, FL
April 14 - 17, 2004	ACCU Spring Conference 2004	(Randolph Hotel)Oxford, England
April 16 - 18, 2004	Penguicon 2.0	(Detroit Sheraton Novi Hotel)Novi, MI
April 16 - 17, 2004	Python UK Conference	(Randolph Hotel)Oxford, England
April 18 - 21, 2004	XML Europe 2004	(RAI Centre)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
April 20 - 21, 2004	LinuxUser & Developer Expo	(Olympia)London, England
April 22 - 23, 2004	2004 Desktop Linux Summit	(Del Mar Fairgrounds)San Diego, California
April 26 - 27, 2004	Digital Media Project Traditional Rights and Usages Workshop	Los Angeles, CA
April 29 - May 2, 2004	2nd Linux Audio Developers Conference	(Institute for Music and Acoustics)Karlsruhe, Germany
May 3 - 5, 2004	International PHP Conference 2004 Spring Edition	Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 6 - 8, 2004	TheServerSide Java Symposium	(The Venetian)Las Vegas, NV
May 11 - 12, 2004	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	(Hotel Istana)Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 16 - 18, 2004	European Firebird Conference 2004	Fulda, Germany
May 17 - 20, 2004	Fifth LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters	(University of Texas)Austin, TX
May 17 - 19, 2004	Enterprise Software Summit	(The Palace Hotel)San Francisco, CA
May 17 - 20, 2004	Black Hat Briefings Europe 2004	(Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
May 17 - 21, 2004	Apache Boot Camp	Atlanta, GA
May 20 - 22, 2004	Austrian Perl Workshop	Vienna, Austria
May 25 - 26, 2004	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	(Suntec)Singapore
May 26 - June 6, 2004	DebConf4	Porto Alegre, Brazil
May 26 - 29, 2004	2nd International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval	Esbjerg, Denmark
June 2 - 4, 2004	2004 GCC and GNU Toolchain Developer's Summit	(Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada

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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:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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Miscellaneous

April is Mozilla International Month (MozillaZine)

April has been designated Mozilla International Month. "The primary aims are to promote and educate about the localisation (l10n) and internationalisation (i18n) capabilities of Mozilla software, and to show how truly global the software can be and the community is."

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