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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Leading Linux-Based Collaboration Server Now Available Under GPLNetline Internet Service has announced that the free, GPL version of its Open-Xchange Server is now available for download at http://www.Open-Xchange.org and http://www.openexchange.com. Open-Xchange Server is the engine behind Novell's SUSE LINUX Openexchange contacts, tasks and real-time document storage.
OpenOffice.org released in 3 South African languagesOpenOffice.org is now available in three South African languages, Zulu, Northern Sotho and Afrikaans.
OSDL Names Diane Peters as General CounselOpen Source Development Labs has announced the appointment of Diane Peters as general counsel. "Peters joins the Lab from the law firm of Ater Wynne LLP in Portland, Oregon, where she practiced for more than three years and served on the firm's management committee. She has acted as outside legal counsel for OSDL since 2002."
Commercial announcements Lindows Has Become Linspire, Inc.Lindows, Inc. is now officially known as Linspire Inc. the company announced. " Linspire has ceased to use the term Lindows in any of its current marketing collateral, web site or retail packaging. The name change is a direct result of the recent worldwide settlement between Linspire, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation in the trademark infringement cases between the two companies."
Mandrakesoft and LaCie introduce GlobeTrotter: a 40GB mobile desktopGlobeTrotter, a new product by Mandrakesoft based on the LaCie Mobile Hard Drive designed by FA Porsche, is a USB mobile hard drive loaded with a specially tuned version of Mandrakesoft's Mandrakelinux operating system.
MontaVista Software Opens Office in United KingdomMontaVista Software has announced the establishment of a MontaVista office in the United Kingdom. MontaVista Software Limited will be headquartered in Bracknell, and will market and support the full range of MontaVista products, including all editions of MontaVista Linux.
Navicat 5.0 - MySQL administration tool - releasedNavicat has announced the release of Navicat 5.0 (MySQL administration tool) this month. Navicat was voted the most popular MySQL GUI at www.download.com.
Orion Multisystems creates 'cluster workstations'Linux clusters tend to bring to mind noisy rooms full of boxes and wires. A company called Orion Multisystems is trying to change that with this announcement of a pair of "cluster workstation" systems. These include a 12-node desktop box, and a 96-node, 150 GFLOP deskside system. Orion was started by a couple of Transmeta co-founders, and uses Transmeta processors.
SCO Group 3rd quarter resultsHere's SCO's press release on its third-quarter results. $11.2 million in revenue, for a $7.4 million loss. SCOsource revenue was $678,000, from two sources; one will be EV1Servers.Net; the other is a mystery licensee. SCO has also worked a new deal with its lawyers capping its cash outflow at $31 million, but giving them a bigger chunk of any settlement.
VIA enhances player for Linux digital entertainment systemsVIA Technologies, Inc has released enhancements to the open source Xine project in the form of VeXP 3.0 (VIA enhanced Xine Player, version 3.0) supporting hardware-based MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 video acceleration for entertainment devices based on VIA C-series digital media chipsets.
Xybernaut Introduces Atigo T with LINUX Operating SystemXybernaut has announced that the Atigo product family of wearable computers designed for dual use as a wireless flat panel display or a stand-alone wireless-enabled mobile/wearable computer is now available with a Linux operating system.
New Books "AI for Game Developers" Released by O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book AI for Game Developers by David M. Bourg and Glenn Seemann.
"OpenOffice.org Writer" Released by O"ReillyO'Reilly has published the book OpenOffice.org Writer by Jean Hollis Weber.
Preview of New Qt Book 'Practical Qt' at KDE Conference 2004 (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced a preview of the book Practical Qt by Jesper K. Pedersen.
Python Cookbook Second Edition call for submissionsA call for submissions has gone out for the second edition of the Python Cookbook. "We (Alex Martelli, David Ascher and Anna Martelli Ravenscroft) are in the process of selecting recipes for the Second Edition of the Python Cookbook. Please contribute your recipes (code and discussion), along with comments on and ratings of existing recipes, to the cookbook site, http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python , and do it *now*!"
Resources nsupdate: Quick and Painless Dynamic DNSJeff Garzik has written an introductory article on the nsupdate utility. "Introduced in BIND version 8 and refined in BIND version 9, the nsupdate utility provides the system administrator or casual user with a quick and painless method of updating a DNS zone, adding or deleting any type of DNS record the name server supports. This article describes how to setup dynamic DNS, and provides some examples of use. For Fedora Core (and Red Hat) users, you will need to install both the bind (for dnssec-keygen) and bind-utils (for nsupdate) packages."
Event Reports aKademy Hosts First Unix Accessibility Forum (KDE.News)KDE.News reports on the Unix Accessibility forum at aKademy. "The most notable thing was that amongst all participants there was a good spirit of cooperation and consensus that standards for assistive technologies would ensure success in the accessibility of graphical user interfaces like KDE."
Audio from OLSThe Ottawa Linux Symposium organizers have put up a set of audio files from some of this year's presentations. It apparently took a while to get the recording setup working; the Wednesday and early Thursday sessions are not available. The files are all in Speex format.
LCA2004 Conference CD on-lineA Conference CD from the 2004 Linux.Conf.Au event is available online. "This includes speex audio, presentations, speaker bios and conference photos."
Upcoming Events "Custom Debian Distributions" workshop at Firenze World VisionA workshop on Debian will be held in Florence, Italy. "On Sep 24, 2004, Media Innovation Unit - Firenze Tecnologia will host a one-day workshop on Custom Debian Distributions (CDDs) during Firenze World Vision 2004, which will be held in Florence (Italy)."
Audio/Video streaming with Free Software workshopA workshop on Audio/Video streaming with Free Software will be held in Florence, Italy on September 23, 2004 at the Firenze World Vision 2004 conference.
"Migrating to Free Software" workshop at Firenze World VisionFirenze Tecnologia will be hosting a workshop on Migrating to Free Software on September 25, 2004 as part of the Firenze World Vision conference in Florence, Italy.
Netfilter Developer Workshop In SeptemberA Netfilter Developer Workshop will be held near Nuremberg, Germany, on September 6-7, 2004. "Topics to be discussed in the workshop include high availability and benchmarking aspects of netfilter and iptables in the latest Linux kernel releases, implementation of IPv6 filters, and technical details of replacing iptables with pkttables. Participants flying in from all over the world will also talk about new plans to found a non-profit organization advancing security technologies on the Internet."
Linux training classes for upcoming VistA Community Meeting (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has an announcement for a set of Linux training classes. The classes will be held in Baltimore, MD in October, 2004.
OpenOffice.org Announces Its Second International ConferenceThe second OpenOffice.org International Conference will be held on September 22-24, 2004 in Berlin, Germany.
FOSDEM 2005 Call for Presence Developer Rooms and BoothThe FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting) is a free and non-commercial event for the community and organized by the community. The 5th FOSDEM edition is scheduled for February 26 - 27, 2005 in Brussels, Belgium. This is a call for participation in the FOSDEM DevRooms, where teams can meet and discuss their projects. Reserve your DevRoom now.
YAPC::Taipei 2005 Call for Papers (use Perl)Use Perl has announced a call for papers for the YAPC::Taipei conference. The event will be held on March 26 and 27, 2005. "The topic is 'Perl in the Enterprise.'"
2005 O'Reilly ETech Call for ParticipationA Call for Participation has gone out for the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Proposals are due by September 27, 2004.
Events: September 2 - October 28, 2004
Software announcements This week's software announcementsHere are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:
Miscellaneous Ibiblio designates September as Linux Monthibiblio.org has announced the designation of September as "Linux Month", in celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the birth of the Linux software created by developer Linus Torvalds.
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