Announcements

Fluendo's investments in GStreamer lead to increased adoption

Fluendo has announced increased adoption of the GStreamer streaming media framework by major Linux vendors. "GNU/Linux and UNIX multimedia specialist Fluendo announced today that its investments in improving the GStreamer multimedia framework have paid off in the form of widespread market adoption. The GNOME development team officially included the Totem media player for their recent 2.10 release based on the GStreamer multimedia framework. This in turn has led to major Linux distribution vendors such as Red Hat, Novell, Sun and Ubuntu including GStreamer and Totem in their current or upcoming release."

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SourceForge.net update (SourceForge)

The April 11, 2005 edition of the SourceForge.net update has been published, topics include SF.net Site Improvements, April Project of the Month (POTM): Net-SNMP, and SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt.

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ActiveGrid Releases Open Source Grid Application Server

ActiveGrid, Inc. has announced an early-access release of its enterprise application platform. The ActiveGrid Application Builder and Grid Application Server are now available for download under the Apache Software License 2.0.

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Clam AntiVirus backs Open Source Anti-Virus Market

Clam AntiVirus has announced a partnership with Sensory Networks. "Clam AntiVirus, the leading Open Source anti-virus toolkit, and Sensory Networks, the leading provider of hardware acceleration for network security applications, announced a partnership to provide hardware acceleration support for the Clam AntiVirus suite. Support for Sensory Networks' NodalCore acceleration in ClamAV will be available in version 0.90 of the software suite in Q3 2005."

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FreeMED National, Inc. opened in NYC (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the new FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc. "It is my pleasure to announce an initative by the FreeMED Software Foundation, Inc. to continue to expand the supply of support and service for the FreeMED community software end-users. The new offices of FreeMED National, Inc. will be opened for business on April 17th. This office is strategically placed to provide nation wide 800 Help Desk service. Beginning June 1st this office will deploy the first national ASP service using FreeMED Foundation Software."

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Linux Itanium Community Joins GCC Developers to Target Itanium Performance

A group of international compiler experts on Intel Itanium processors, including representatives from HP, Intel Corporation, the Gelato Federation and the GCC community, recently came together to consider Itanium processor-specific improvements to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) a multi-platform set of compilers for C, C++, Fortran, Objective-C, and the Java programming language as well as others.

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Mandrakesoft announces name change

The Linux distribution company Mandrakesoft has officially announced its new name, Mandriva. This follows the company's recent acquisition of Conectiva. "Why Mandriva? This new name, simple and efficient, is the synthesis of Mandrakesoft and Conectiva. This will further a smooth transition and will build on our existing brand recognition in the IT world."

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Netline Introduces Collaboration Server

Netline Internet Service has announced Open-Xchange Server 5, an open-source collaboration platform. "Open-Xchange enables easy migration and integration to an open source environment -- allowing IT administrators to create and implement killer-apps without changing existing infrastructure components, i.e. databases, directory services, message transfer agents, e-mail servers or web-servers. End users can keep their favorite mail and groupware client -- most often Outlook, but also open source clients such as Kontact."

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Novell Expands Linux Solution for Retailers, Inks Wincor Nixdorf Agreement

Novell has introduced a new offering for the retail industry, Novell Linux Point of Service 9.

On a related note, Novell has also announced a global agreement with Wincor Nixdorf to deploy Novell Linux Point of Service in Wincor Nixdorf's products and solutions, including electronic point-of-sale (ePOS) systems.

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Italian Bank Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat has announced a conversion from Sun/Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems by Italy's BPU Banca. "Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source to the enterprise, today announced that BPU Banca, the operational parent bank of the group Banche Popolari Unite, Italy's seventh largest banking group and first co-operative credit banking group, has chosen to implement Red Hat Enterprise Linux across its desktops and servers. The bank is migrating all of its 8,000 UNIX workstation clients to Red Hat Desktop. In this project BPU Banca will replace Sun hardware with Intel-based PCs to achieve combined hardware and software cost savings of about 50%."

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SGI & and the Frontiers of Space

SGI has issued a couple of press releases about the use of SGI technology in the exploration of space. (Click below for both)

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VIA Releases Linux Driver Source Packages

VIA Technologies has released the source code for some specific VIA hardware drivers. "Of particular interest to the growing number of Linux enthusiasts and customers utilizing VIA EPIA mainboards, is the source for the S3 Graphics UniChrome family display driver for version 2.6.x kernels. The UniChrome family display driver supports the VIA CLE266 and the new VIA CN400 Digital Media chipsets featured on the popular VIA EPIA M series and VIA EPIA SP series mainboards respectively, and will provide developers with the flexibility to autonomously incorporate support for latest applications based on VIA hardware."

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"Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Learning the bash Shell, Third Edition by Cameron Newham and Bill Rosenblatt.

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"Linux Desktop Hacks" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Linux Desktop Hacks by Nicholas Petreley and Jono Bacon.

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"The Linux Enterprise Cluster" from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book The Linux Enterprise Cluster by Karl Kopper.

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Sample Chapters of New Mozilla Books (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine mentions the online availability of chapters from several books. "Three new books about Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird are hitting the shelves about now: Firefox Hacks by Nigel McFarlane (O'Reilly, out now), Don't Click on the Blue E! by Scott Granneman (O'Reilly, released this month if we're lucky) and Firefox and Thunderbird Garage by Chris Hofmann, Marcia Knous and John Hedtke (Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, released on April 15th)."

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"Python Cookbook, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Python Cookbook, Second Edition by Alex Martelli, Anna Martelli Ravenscroft, and David Ascher.

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Syngress Releases "Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding"

Syngress has published the book Sockets, Shellcode, Porting, and Coding by James C. Foster and Stuart McClure.

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New Audio Musings from Dave Phillips

Dave Phillips has updated his Linux audio Musings column for March/April 2005. "I'm back, late as usual. Well, at least I can claim that I'm late because I've actually been using Linux audio software to make music. I've been writing a series of pieces for accomplished mid-level classical guitarists, I'll post them soon to my Music Made With Ardour site. I'm also testing the latest releases of Csound5 and Common Music, as well as learning a boatload of new material for my band, teaching a full schedule of music students, and writing monthly articles for the Linux Journal (see my latest installment Introducing KeyKit). What would this column be without mentioning Ardour ?"

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FSF Europe Newsletter

The April 7, 2005 edition of the FSF Europe Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news.

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The LDP Weekly News

The April 13, 2005 edition of the LDP Weekly News is online with the latest new documentation releases. Among other things, there is a new project which aims to package the LDP documentation as a Fedora extras package.

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Toronto Perl Mongers Audio Archives (use Perl)

use Perl has announced the availability of audio archives from the Toronto Perl Mongers group meetings. "We are providing them: to share our wealth with the rest of the world, for the benefit of all mankind. in the hope that more people will come out to our meetings, encourage other groups to record and share their wealth too."

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FLOSS participant survey

The University of Cambridge is running a second survey of Free/Libre/Open Source Software participants. "In this two-part survey, once again supported by the European Union, we would like to find out, first, how learning is organised and perceived within the FLOSS community - by which we mean the universe of all those who participate in FLOSS-related activities, regardless of their beliefs or degree of activity. We also want to understand better the role/situation of women within this broad community."

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aKademy 2005: Website and Logo (KDE.News)

KDE.News has an announcement for the new KDE Developers and Users Conference 2005 web site. The aKademy conference will be held from August 26 - September 4, 2005 in Málaga Spain.

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Linux Installfest workshops in Davis

The Linux Users' Group of Davis has announced another Linux Installfest. The event will be held on April 17 in Davis, CA.

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Second Italian Perl Workshop (use Perl)

The second Italian Perl Workshop has been announced, it will be held at the University of Pisa on June 23-24, 2005.

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Events: April 14 - June 9, 2005

Date	Event	Location
April 14 - 15, 2005	Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2005	(Westin Hotel)Seattle, WA
April 14 - 15, 2005	2005 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Anaheim, California, USA
April 15 - 17, 2005	Debian Edu/Skolelinux workshop	(Nafplion)Athens, Greece
April 18 - 23, 2005	linux.conf.au 2005	(Australian National University)Canberra, Australia
April 18 - 21, 2005	MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2005	(Santa Clara Convention Center)Santa Clara, CA
April 18 - 20, 2005	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2005	(Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, ON
April 18 - 19, 2005	Debian Miniconf 4	Canberra, Australia
April 19 - 20, 2005	San Francisco techCongress	(Rickey's Hyatt)Palo Alto, CA
April 20 - 23, 2005	ACCU Conference 2005	(Randolph Hotel)Oxford, England
April 21 - 24, 2005	3rd International Linux Audio Conference(LAC2005)	(Center for Art and Media (ZKM))Karlsruhe, Germany
April 21 - 23, 2005	WebTech 2005	Sofia, Bulgaria
April 23 - 24, 2005	LayerOne Technology Conference	(Pasadena Hilton)Pasadena, CA
April 25 - 30, 2005	UbuntuDownUnder	Sydney, Australia
April 30, 2005	Hurricane Electric Linux Security Seminar	Fremont, CA
May 2 - 7, 2005	DallasCon 2005	(Richardson Hotel)Dallas, TX
May 2 - 4, 2005	Samba eXPerience 2005	(Hotel Freizeit)Göttingen - Germany
May 2 - 5, 2005	International PHP Conference	(RAI Conference Center)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
May 4 - 6, 2005	CanSecWest/core05	Vancouver, B.C.
May 11 - 15, 2005	php|tropics 2005	(Moon Palace Resort)Cancun, Mexico
May 13 - 14, 2005	BSDCan 2005	(University of Ottawa)Ottawa, Canada
May 19 - 21, 2005	GUADEC-es 2005	A Coruña, Spain
May 22 - 25, 2005	Gelato Federation Meeting	(HP's Palo Alto and Cupertino campuses)San Jose, CA
May 23 - 26, 2005	PalmSource Worldwide Mobile Summit and DevCon	(Fairmont Hotel)San Jose, California
May 24 - 27, 2005	XTech 2005 Conference	(Amsterdam RAI Center)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
May 25 - 26, 2005	Linux World New York Summit 2005	(New York City Marriott Marquis)New York, NY
May 29 - 31, 2005	GNOME Users and Developers European Conference(GUADEC 2005)	Stuttgart, Germany
June 1 - 3, 2005	The Red Hat Summit 2005	(Hilton New Orleans)New Orleans, LA
June 1 - 4, 2005	Fórum Internacional Software Livre(FISL)	Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

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Open Source Training Course Database

Opensourcexperts.com has announced a new online training database. "Open Source Training Course Database has over 110 course dates listed in our database."

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