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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements OSDL: 22 Companies Now Contributing, Implementing or Supporting Carrier Grade Linux The Open Source Development Labs has announced a list of 22 companies that are supporting the development of its Carrier Grade Linux specifications. "The companies include Alcatel, Cisco, Comverse, Ericsson, Force Computers, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, MontaVista Software, NEC, Nokia, Novell, NTT Data Intellilink, NTT Group, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SuSE Linux AG, Timesys, TurboLinux and Wind River."
Commercial announcements IBM's supercomputer successes Click below for an IBM press release proclaiming its success in the cluster business. The company claims over 200 installed supercomputing systems, and 150 Linux clusters on the list of the top 500 computers worldwide.
Lindows gets into retail Lindows has announced the opening of Sub500.com, a physical retail store in Toronto which will sell computers with Linspire preinstalled.
Red Hat's first quarter results Here's the press release from Red Hat on its first quarter results. Revenue was $42 million, yielding income of almost $11 million. Red Hat has just under $1 billion in the bank now.
New courses from Red Hat to support RHCA Red Hat is setting itself up to launch a new level of certification, called the "Red Hat Certified Architect." To that end, the company has announced a new set of training courses for people with architect-level aspirations. They cover topics like network security, large organization systems administration, directory services, storage management, and more.
Skype for Linux Beta Skype Technologies has announced the availability of a beta version of its Internet telephony application for Linux. The application is propretary, but binaries can be freely downloaded.
TransGaming releases and renames WineX 4.0 TransGaming has announced the availability of WineX 4.0, which is now able to run a wider range of Windows games under Linux. As of this release, WineX also has a new name: Cedega.
Resources Embedded Software Development with eCos Available Online An online version of the book Embedded Software Development with eCos is available.
The LDP Weekly News The LDP Weekly News for June 23, 2004 is out with the latest new documentation releases.
Contests and Awards Proposals for Incorporating Machine Learning in Mozilla Firefox (MozillaZine) Blake Ross is looking for ideas relating to machine learning and the Firefox browser. "I will be doing research this summer at Stanford with Professor Andrew Ng about how we can incorporate machine learning into Firefox. We're looking for ideas that will make Firefox 2.0 blow every other browser out of the water. People who come up with the best 3-5 ideas win Gmail accounts, and if we implement your idea you'll be acknowledged in both our paper and in Firefox credits."
Event Reports 1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop material available Conference papers and other materials are available from the 1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop, the event took place in Oslo, Norway on June 13.
Upcoming Events Linucon - Linux and Sci-Fi The Linucon event will take place in Austin, TX on October 8-10, 2004. "Our guests of honor are Eric Raymond, Wil Wheaton, Steve Jackson, Eric Flint, and Howard Tayler. We'll have panels, tutorials, masquerade, filk, 802.11b wireless internet, pocky, liquid nitrogen ice cream, 24 hour hour video room, caffienated jello, Evil Stevie's Pirate Game, chaos, Munchkin: the LARP, Anime Music Video contest..."
OpenOffice.org Conference 2004 The OpenOffice.org Conference 2004 will be held in Berlin, Germany on September 22-24, 2004. The event's Call For Papers has gone out, submissions are due before the end of July.
International PHP Conference 2004 The International PHP Conference 2004 will be held in Frankfurt, Germany on November 9-10, 2004. A series of tutorials will be held before the conference on November 7 and 8.A call for papers has gone out, submissions are due by July 16, 2004.
RPF for OSCOM.4 with ApacheTracks A Request for Proposals has been sent out for the OSCOM.4 event. The event will take place in Zurich, Switzerland from September 29 to October 1, 2004.
Plone Conference 2004 The Plone Conference 2004 will be held on September 20-22, 2004 in Vienna, Austria.
Slony-I Workshop following OSCON A Slony-I Configuration Workshop will be held on July 31, 2004 in Portland, Oregon. "Afilias' Software Engineer Jan Wieck will conduct a FREE seminar for PostgreSQL consultants and DBAs on Slony-I, a new enterprise-level replication system for PostgreSQL that he is currently developing."
Events: June 24 - August 19, 2004
Web sites LinuxQuestions.org Linux Forum Surpasses One Million Posts LinuxQuestions.org has announced its millionth post. "In just under four years, LinuxQuestions.org has grown to become one of the largest Linux communities online. With over 100,000 users and more than 1,000,000 posts the site continues to not only grow in size, but in content as well."
The Planet Python Blog Site The Planet Python site is available for those of you who wish to follow the activities of various Python Bloggers.
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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