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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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Miscellaneous
April is Mozilla International Month (MozillaZine)
April has been designated
Mozilla International Month.
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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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