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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements OSDL announces new office in Beijing The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has announced plans for an office in Beijing, China.
Software patents no bigger threat to Free Software than to proprietary software The Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out a press release which reminds people that software patents affect proprietary software as well as open-source software. "In reaction to the decision by the City of Munich to re-evaluate its migration plans to Free Software, the Free Software Foundation Europe points out that software patents are equally a significant problem for both Free Software and proprietary software alike. "Without doubt, software patents are a roadblock to innovation. They will extort a high price that has to be paid by all European citizens through loss of competitiveness, and also jobs", says Georg Greve, President of the FSFE."
Commercial announcements American Arium Delivers Linux Support for ARM and Intel XScale Processors Residing on 'Headless' Targets American Arium has announced support for ARM and Intel XScale(R) systems running Linux. Arium provides a hardware-assisted solution that lets users debug full kernel and processes/applications simultaneously on systems that have neither serial nor network ports.
Circuit City goes Linux Circuit City has announced that it will be deploying Linux-based point of sale systems in over 600 stores. "By employing the IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux at the point of sale, Circuit City will have the flexibility and reliability of open standards, enabling Circuit City to adapt quickly to changes in the retail marketplace and to cost-effectively institute future upgrades to the platform."
Linuxant releases DriverLoader 2.0 Linuxant has released version 2.0 of its DriverLoader software. "DriverLoader is a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems. RNDIS (Remote NDIS) is now also supported for USB."
OpenGL 2.0 Unleashes the Power of Programmable Shaders SGI has announced the latest version of the OpenGL(R) specification, incorporating support for the OpenGL Shading Language application programming interfaces.
OptimaNumerics Libraries for Intel Xeon EM64T Linux OptimaNumerics has announced the availability of its OptimaNumerics Libraries for the Intel Xeon EM64T Linux platform. "OptimaNumerics Libraries, with linear algebra, parallel linear algebra and parallel random number generators modules, provide high performance versions of LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, SPRNG and PLFG libraries."
OSoft Releases ThoutReader - A Virtual Library for Developers OSoft has announced the initial release of the ThoutReader, an open source documentation platform that works like a virtual library so developers can quickly organize and search all of their reference documentation at once.
The Weather Channel switches to HP Linux servers Intel and HP have issued a press release about the Weather Channel's switch to Linux servers. "The Weather Channel replaced 138 RISC-based processors with 42 Itanium 2 processors. The Weather Channel deployed 17 two-way HP Integrity rx2600 servers and two, four-way HP Integrity rx5670 servers running RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3.0 and Oracle(1) 9i Real Application Clusters. The servers run applications which power corporate databases, transportation logistics, budgeting software, supply chain management, Web systems, asset management, and a file and print system. According to The Weather Channel, the Linux operating system provides increased flexibility and a better price performance ratio when compared to the RISC platform."
New Books Dive Into Python published The book Dive Into Python, an online work by Mark Pilgrim, is now available in paper form.
"Upgrading to PHP 5" Released by O'Reilly O'Reilly has published the book Upgrading to PHP 5 by Adam Trachtenberg.
New Open Source Technical Books from Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR Addison-Wesley/Prentice Hall PTR have published three new books: A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux, Second Edition, The Design & Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, and Open Source Security Tools: A Practical Guide to Security Applications.
Resources FSF Europe Newsletter The August 6, 2004 edition of the FSF Europe Newsletter is online. Take a look to see what the European branch of the Free Software Foundation is up to.
New List of Linux Audio Applications Dave Phillips has updated his list of new MIDI and audio applications for Linux. Take a look for the latest new tools and resources plus some recent conference reports.
Contests and Awards Desktop Integration Bounty : Check-in 2 Check it out !!!! Another GNOME Desktop Integration Bounty contest has been announced. "GNOME Foundation is proud to announce the relaunch of the open source desktop integration bounty. The aim of the contest is to recruit new developers and to more tightly integrate the various projects that make up the desktop into a more coherent, and complete user experience. The contest consist of new set of small projects and also the unsolved old projects from the previous rounds. Complete the hack, enter the contest, and collect the prize."
Ghostscript 8.50 bug bounty program Artifex Software, Inc. has announced a bug bounty program for the Ghostscript 8.50 PostScript rendering program. "As before, each accepted patch that closes a bug marked with the bountiable keyword is worth US $500 for bugs at priority P3 and lower. New in this round are a couple of higher-priority bugs that pay double. A fix for a bug marked P2 or higher is worth $1000."
Event Reports 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Wrap-up O'Reilly has sent out a wrap-up press release from this year's Open Source Convention.
A portrait of an "analyst" For the morbidly curious, SCO has posted the text of Rob Enderle's keynote from SCOforum. Suffice to say it gives a good picture of the sort of person we are dealing with.
Upcoming Events 5. Encuentro Linux The 5. Encuentro Linux conference will be held in Valparaiso, Chile on October 21 and 22, 2004.
KDE World Summit to Feature PGP Keysigning Session (KDE.News) A PGP key signing session will be held at the KDE World Summit in Ludwigsburg, Germany on August 23. Key IDs should be submitted by August 15.
linux.conf.au call for papers Mark your calendars: the 2005 version of linux.conf.au will be held in Canberra, Australia, from April 18 to 23. The call for papers has gone out (click below) with a submission deadline of October 5. If you are interested in holding a miniconf, now is the time to get moving on that as well.
Less than 7 weeks until OOoCon 2004! A registration reminder has gone out for the upcoming OpenOffice.org convention. The event will take place on September 22-24, 2004 in Berlin, Germany.
Ohio LinuxFest 2004 The Ohio LinuxFest 2004 will take place on October 2, 2004 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. "This year's list of speakers includes representation from the Apache Software Foundation, Red Hat, the Samba Team, Novell (SUSE), and more." This is a free event.
Linux Installfest workshop in Davis The Linux Users' Group of Davis, California will be holding another Linux installfest on Sunday, August 15 at the John D. Kemper Hall of Engineering on the UC Davis campus.
Events: August 12 - October 7, 2004
Web sites KDE.de Relaunched (KDE.News) KDE.News reports that the KDE.de site has been relaunched. "The web team of KDE Germany is proud to present the German KDE website with a new layout."
GnomeFiles.org Officially Launched A new Gnome/GTK+ software repository, gnomefiles.org, has been launched. "Gnomefiles lists apps created for the GNOME DE and the GTK+ multi-platform toolkit. All bindings, wrappers & their apps are welcome too, so developers are invited to post their applications to the site."
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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