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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Executives from Government, Industry and Consortia Call for StandardsThe Open Group has sent out a press release on The Open Group Conference. "At The Open Group's recent conference, key executives from the federal government, industry and technology consortia discussed their vision of the IT of the future, and emphasized the importance of standards and certified conformance for achieving global interoperability."
The Open Group Launches Linux COE Platform CertificationThe Open Group has launched its COE Linux Platform certification program. "Based on the DISA Cross Platform Compliance criteria for Linux systems, the program provides assurance that conforming systems provide services to COE applications software through conforming APIs. The program also assures that the systems present a specific appearance and behavior at the Human-Computer Interface level, have demonstrated interoperability and data interchange requirement, and meet a set of security requirements."
Phrack #62 Call for PapersA Call for Papers has gone out for the online magazine Phrack #62. "As in previous issues, we will showcase selected tools from the hacking community. Send us your toolz, links and logs for warez that are worthy of being mentioned in our holy magazine."
Optical Data Linking with RonjaThe OpenCollector site lists a new release of the Ronja Twister interface design from the Ronja Project. "Ronja connects two PC's point-to-point, using a common red-orange visible light from a car brake light LED. The design is simple, building is easy and complete from-scratch building guide is online. Suitable for anybody who wants to communicate entirely freely in a direct line of sight. Building is cheap and requires only common tools available in home workshop. Communicates 10Mbit/sec. full duplex over 1.4km."
VUGames e-peitionA group of gaming enthusiasts are making an attempt to get a game company to port one of their products to Linux. "An e-petition is being started invoking all Linux users to request VUGames and Blizzard Entertainment so they port World of Warcraft to Linux. Blizzard has been known in the past for their support to PC and Mac users with hybrid games. The aim of the petition is to have a PC/Mac OS X/Linux hybrid."
Commercial announcements Automatic Testing tool released for KDE usage (KDE.News)KDE.News covers the release of KD Executor 2.0. "KD Executor is a record and playback tool for Qt and KDE applications. In addition, it contains a test environment which uses this record and playback tool for testing Qt and KDE applications. We are proud to release a free version (free as in beer, not as in speech) of this tool to the KDE community."
Lindows becomes LinspireLindows has announced that its distribution (formerly known as "LindowsOS") is now called "Linspire." Perhaps this means we are done with tiresome "Lindows v. Microsoft" press releases now.
LynuxWorks strikes back - sort ofLynuxWorks has sent out a press release responding to the Green Hills attack on the use of Linux in the military. "The rapid proliferation of open standards software continues to illicit responses from software vendors attempting to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) as they find their business models threatened by the global open standards movement. Vendors have attempted to thwart Linux through lawsuits and legal actions and, most recently, are fueling the FUD surrounding Linux and the security threat it poses to our nation's defense systems." Do note the careful wording: this PR is all about "open standards" and says nothing about free (or open source) software; these people could just as well be pushing UnixWare.
Over 750 Applications Now Certified on Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat has issued a press release about the many applications that work with RHEL, and a new online, searchable catalog to showcase compatible applications.
Secluda Technologies seeks beta testers for new spam blockerSecluda Technologies has announced the final beta of BlockMaster, its new spam blocking product. They are also looking for Mandrake, SUSE, or Red Hat test sites to help test the Linux version of the product.
New Books "Network Security Assessment" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Network Security Assessment by Chris McNab.
No Starch Press to release "The Spam Letters"No Starch Press has published the book The Spam Letters by Jonathan Land. "Besides poking fun at spammers, Jonathan Land is also an accomplished stick figure artist and a participant in the experimental musical group Negativland."
Complete Text 'Rapid Application Development with Mozilla' Available (MozillaZine)A free, downloadable PDF version of the book Rapid Application Development with Mozilla has been announced. "Wily Yuen writes: "Nigel McFarlane's Rapid Application Development with Mozilla is now available as a PDF download from Bruce Perens' Open Source series at InformIT. Please support the author and buy the book if you find it to be useful." Displaying a keen sense of irony, InformIT have ensured that their download page does not work in Mozilla."
The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example BookThe Samba site mentions the release of a new book by John H. Terpstra, Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment.Also: "Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide and the new publication Samba-3 by Example have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree. All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL."
Resources New AGNULA TutorialsLinux Audio luminary Dave Phillips has put together three tutorials for the AGNULA (A GNU Linux Audio distribution) documentation project. The new documents include: an Open Music tutorial, a SuperCollider 3 tutorial, and a "making music without X" tutorial.
KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective (KDE.News)William Kendrick has announced the online availability of his LUG presentation KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective. "The talk was well received, and left some people (even KDE users) overwhelmed with new information. It just goes to show that I wasn't the only one who knew KDE was a great environment, but hadn't even scratched the surface yet!"
The LDP Weekly NewsThe April 7, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News documents the latest new documentation releases.
The LDP Weekly NewsThe LDP Weekly News for April 14, 2004 is available with more new documentation.
Minutes of the Austin Group TeleconferenceThe minutes are available from the Austin Group's April 8, 2004 teleconference.
Event Reports Cluster World announcements for FridayThe following announcements came out of the ClusterWorld Expo 2004 on Friday:The winners of the Excellence in Cluster Technology Awards were announced. PathScale, Inc. announced what it claims to be the World's Fastest Linux Compiler Suite for AMD64 Systems.
Upcoming Events ACCU conference panel on software patentsThe ACCU conference panel on software patents will convene on Thursday April 15, 2004 in Oxford, England.
A Linux standards conference in ChinaThe "International Linux Standards and Application Symposium and the first National Linux Standards Feedback Session" is being held in Beijing on April 14 and 15. This event, which will be attended by representatives of various Chinese companies and agencies, along with some folks from the Linux Professional Institute and the Free Standards Group, will look at ways of standardizing and promoting Linux for the Chinese and international markets. Click below for the details.
EuroPython Registration is openRegistration is open for the EuroPython conference. Submissions for talks are due by April 15.
EuroPython News UpdateA news update is available for the EuroPython 2004 conference. The event will be held in Göteborg, Sweden from June 7-9, 2004
OMG Days in AprilThe Object Management Group will be holding a series of OMG Information Days across Europe in the latter part of April, 2004.
Ottawa Linux Symposium registration openRegistration has begun for the 2004 Ottawa Linux Symposium (July 21 to 24, Ottawa, Canada). This event often sells out, so, if you're thinking you want to be there, registering sooner rather than later might be a good idea. The price also goes up after May.
GCC Summit Registration is OpenRegistration for the 2004 GCC Summit is open. The event will be held in Ottawa, Canada on June 2-4, 2004.
Workshop Pure Data, AmsterdamWorkshop Pure Data will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on May 26-29, 2004. "This workshop is meant for beginners and will focus on Open Source software for the real-time manipulation of audio and video. The dual package of Pure Data and GEM, offer a complete set of tools for sound, multimedia and VJ purposes. Topics will include: real-time audio and video processing with PD and GEM, RRADical PD, PDP and an overview of other free and open source audio and video tools for Linux."
AGNULA at Week of FreedomMembers of the AGNULA project will be present at the Week of Freedom in Siena and Turin, Italy. The event will take place on April 17-22, 2004. "The Week of Freedom is an event promoted and organized by Hipatia and Free Software Foundation Europe with a plethora of local associations and organizations - a 6-days long tour around Siena, Florence, Milan, Turin and Rome with conferences, workshops, speeches on free (as in free speech) knowledge."
AGNULA at Webb.It 2004Representatives of the AGNULA Linux Audio distribution will be present in Padua, Italy on May 6-8, 2004 at the Webb.It 2004 conference.
AGNULA at 2nd Linux Audio ConferenceThe AGNULA team will be present at the 2nd Linux Audio Conference in Karlruhe, Germany on April 29 - May 2, 2004.
Open source at medinfo2004 (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has announced the open-source presence at the medinfo2004 conference. The event will take place in San Francisco, CA in September, 2004.
Events: April 15 - June 10, 2004
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
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