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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Mozilla Foundation Looking for Volunteers (MozillaZine)The Mozilla Foundation is looking for volunteers to help get Firefox 1.0 on computing magazine CDs.
Commercial announcements Press releases from LinuxWorldLinuxWorld is in full swing at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with the usual flurry of press releases. Here are a few of the announcements we've seen today:
Culled from the LinuxWorld floodLinuxWorld has once again proven itself to be second to none for the generation of press releases. Here are a few of today's offerings:
A selection from the PR floodThe LinuxWorld press release machine continues to crank out the hype. Here is a subset of what the corporate world would like us to know:
Linare Offers Professional EditionLinare Corporation has announced availability of the Linare Linux Professional Edition distribution. "Features include a user-friendly installer, advanced User Interface with new theme, reliable Linux kernel v. 2.6, KDE 3.2.2 graphical desktop environment, Open Office, Evolution Email and other utilities. Professional edition includes one year of phone and email support."
MySQL AB Launches MySQL Hosting Powered by RackspaceMySQL has announced that it is working with Rackspace to provide a MySQL database hosting service. "MySQL Hosting is provided in partnership with Rackspace, the fastest-growing managed hosting specialist in the world. Designed for Web sites and other MySQL database applications, MySQL Hosting provides a secure, scalable hosting environment with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, along with a commercial MySQL license and technical support."
Red Flag announces an Intel-compiled distributionRed Flag has announced the availability of a version of its distribution built with Intel's proprietary compiler. The distribution comes with a "60-day evaluation copy" of the compiler as well.
Unisys Delivers Industrial Strength LinuxUnisys Corporation has announced the availability of Linux on the company's ES7000 servers. Unisys is working with Novell, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. to provide the business, government and scientific communities with services and support for Linux-based solutions.
Enea Embedded Technology Announces Enea OrchestraEnea Embedded Technology has announced their Enea Orchestra Distributed Systems Platform and Development Environment.
New Books "Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials by Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, and Leopold Totsch.
"Learning PHP 5" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar.
Resources Paul Graham on great hackersPaul Graham has posted an essay on "great hackers," derived from his OSCON keynote. "When you decide what infrastructure to use for a project, you're not just making a technical decision. You're also making a social decision, and this may be the more important of the two. For example, if your company wants to write some software, it might seem a prudent choice to write it in Java. But when you choose a language, you're also choosing a community. The programmers you'll be able to hire to work on a Java project won't be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages."
OSRM does a kernel patent reviewOpen Source Risk Management, the company selling litigation insurance policies for Linux users, has announced the results of a review of patents potentially affecting the Linux kernel. This review was done by Dan Ravicher of the Public Patent Foundation. "In conclusion, he found that no court-validated software patent is infringed by the Linux kernel. However, Ravicher also found 283 issued but not yet court-validated software patents that, if upheld as valid by the courts, could potentially be used to support patent claims against Linux. In response, OSRM will be expanding its risk mitigation and insurance offerings to cover this quantifiable risk."
PHP TunisieThe php.net site mentions a new French language PHP magazine from Tunisia, PHP Tunisie. "PHP Tunisie has just released the second issue of its monthly french PHP Magazine. In this issue you'll find a large plan on PostgreSQL, Databases abstractions with PHP, your mini template engine, an article on images generation with PHP, the migration towards PHP5 with EasyPHP1.7... And many other articles and latests PHP news."
Giving Lightning Talks (O'Reilly)Mark Fowler gives some tips on presenting lightning talks. "Lightning talks are a great way to start speaking, but they do come with their own potential problems. Even the seasoned presenter makes mistakes when presenting and has had lightning talks go horribly, horribly wrong. Luckily, Perl audiences are very forgiving when this happens after all, it's happened to half the audience at sometime too, so it's nothing to get too worked up about. However, there are a few things you can consider when writing your talk that will prevent you from sabotaging your own talk before it even begins."
Contests and Awards 2004 Editors' Choice Awards (Linux Journal)The winners of Linux Journal's 2004 Editors' Choice Awards have been published. LWN.net even makes a cameo appearance this time around.
2004 White Camel Award Winners (use Perl)Use Perl has posted an announcement for the winners of the 2004 White Camel Award. Jon Orwant, Brian d Foy, and Dave Cross have received the honors.
Event Reports Notes from OSCONDanny O'Brien (of NTK fame) has posted an extensive series of notes from OSCON. Worth a read. "Parrot licensing will cast you all into hell, he tells the audience, and lo they are sore afraid. Go ye through the Parrot source, and stick there proper copyright notices. Don't put 'all rights reserved', on fear of your mortal soul, because that the Lord RMS doth not think that it doth mean what thou thinkest it means. Put it instead under the GPL or the Artistic License. But don't put it under the Artistic License, put it under the Clarified Artistic License, for the Artistic License as it stands is sorely artistic, and lo it is ambiguous in many areas. And Brad Kuhn did come down from on high and suggest that the CAL be the license for Perl6, and he spake truth, for ye will be sent to Hell if you do not heed him! For he is the prophet of RMS, and the one who is to come that is greater, who is known as Hurd, and whose todo list is legion. (I am paraphrasing a fair bit here)."
FSMSI 2004 Proceedings availableSlides and audio recordings from the European seminar on Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over the Internet are available online. The event took place in Paris, France on June 23 and 24, 2004.
Proceedings of lightning talks from LSM 2004 Lisp trackThe Lisp track lightning talk proceedings from the Libre Software Meeting 2004 are online.
Upcoming Events Talk on Developing Hypermedia Applications with Mozilla (MozillaZine)Andy Edmonds has announced his tutorial on Developing Hypermedia Applications with Mozilla. It will take place on August 9, 2004 in Santa Cruz, CA at the ACM Hypertext conference. "In addition to a wide survey of Mozilla technologies I'll be digging deep into powerful constructs like compound documents, combining SVG and XBL, and monitoring browser events. Myk Melez and Chris Aillon will be joining me to dig deeper into Mail and XPCOM."
O'Reilly and MySQL AB to Co-Present 2005 MySQL Users ConferenceO'Reilly has announced that it will co-present the 2005 MySQL Users Conference along with MySQL AB. The event will take place in Santa Clara, CA on April 18-21, 2005.
Events: August 5 - September 30, 2004
Web sites Four New Mozilla Sites Launch (MozillaZine)MozillaZine has announced the launching of four new web sites: the Mozilla AOM Reference, The Rumbling Edge weblog, the Mozilla Network, and Firedfox, a parody site.
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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