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Carrier Grade Linux news

MontaVista Software has announced the registration of MontaVista Linux Carrier Grade Edition (CGE) with both the Service Availability(TM) Forum (SA Forum) specifications and Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) Carrier Grade Linux requirements.

FSMLabs, Inc. has announced availability of Carrier Grade RTLinuxPro 2.2, a complete OSDL-registered Carrier Grade Linux implementation and development environment plus the hard real-time of FSMLabs RTCore real-time server.

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Globus Toolkit, Version 4.0 (GT4) Released to Open Source Grid Development Community

The Globus Consortium has announced the release of Globus Toolkit, version 4.0 (GT4). "GT4 is the most stable, "enterprise ready" version of the Globus Toolkit ever -- incorporating the latest web services standards, new security and authorization features, and the collaborative efforts of a global community of open source Grid developers." Download GT4.

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JBoss opens new office in India

JBoss, Inc. has announced the opening of a new office in Bangalore, India. "The expansion comes as the company scales to meet growing enterprise customer demand for the JBoss(R) Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS(TM)) in the Asia market. With this key office, JBoss can more effectively deliver services, including 24x7 production support and training, to customers."

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Linbox Rescue Server under GPL.

LinboxFAS has announced that the company will release the source code of its computer asset management software, the Linbox Rescue Server, under the terms of the GNU GPL. "The operation relies on the capitalization of software license sales. The goal of LinboxFAS is to open the source code of the software, as soon as the investments made around the product will have been amortized thanks to the selling of licenses."

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Palamida offers license verification tool

Palamida, Inc. has announced general availability of IP AMPlifier 3.0 in the new market for automated software intellectual property (IP) management and compliance. ""The sheer volume of software code in use at the average enterprise company today creates a profound need for a solution that automates the process of software intellectual property detection and identification," said Mark Driver, vice president and research director, Gartner Inc. "The right solution will help companies establish a competitive advantage by accelerating the use of third-party components and open source software free from the inefficiencies of manual methods of software license and IP verification.""

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TimeSys Introduces New Linux Development Kits

TimeSys has announced new Linux Development Kits for several Freescale (formerly Motorola) processor chips. "TimeSys(R) Corporation, a leader in embedded Linux(R) technologies and development tools, today introduced 2.6-based TimeStorm(R) Linux Development Kits (LDKs) for a wide range of Freescale PowerQUICC(TM) III, PowerQUICC II and PowerQUICC I integrated communications processors and MPC7XXX and MPC7XX high-performance PowerPC processors."

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Win4Lin Pro updated

Win4Lin has announced the immediate shipping of Win4Lin Pro 1.1, a major upgrade to the company's flagship product. New in the product is full support for Windows XP, file system integration and major performance upgrades.

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O'Reilly's Releases The Art of Project Management

O'Reilly has published the book The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun.

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"Digital Audio Essentials" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Digital Audio Essentials by Bruce Fries and Marty Fries.

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(IN)SECURE Magazine 1.1

(IN)SECURE Magazine has released issue 1.1 in PDF format. Articles include Linux security - is it ready for the average user? and An introduction to securing Linux with Apache, ProFTPd & Samba, among other topics.

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2005 Readers' Choice Awards nominations being accepted (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal has announced that it is accepting nominations for the 2005 Readers' Choice Awards. "The nomination period closes on May 25, 2005. On May 27, we'll publish the ballot for the elimination round of voting. The categories receiving the most nominations and the top nominees in those categories will be on the ballot. Vote for your favorite in each of the categories and mail the ballot back to us. You will be able to do write-in votes at this stage."

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Dynamic Languages Symposium 2005

The Dynamic Languages Symposium 2005 will be held on October 18, 2005 in San Diego, California.

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AGNULA Libre Music at (L)eft Meeting

Some folks from the AGNULA audio distribution project will attend the (L)eft meeting. "The AGNULA project will attend the (L)eft Meeting, a two-days event that will take place in Bologna, Italy on May 7 and 8, 2005. During the meeting Andrea Glorioso will talk about the AGNULA Libre Music web portal, its history, goals and the next steps."

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Seattle OpenVistA R and D Meeting (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the Seattle OpenVistA R & D Meeting, the event will take place from May 12-15, 2005.

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YAPC North America schedule is released (use Perl)

use Perl has announced the schedule for YAPC North America conference. The event will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from June 27-29, 2005.

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Events: May 5 - June 30, 2005

Date	Event	Location
May 5 - 7, 2005	DallasCon 2005	(Richardson Hotel)Dallas, TX
May 5 - 6, 2005	CanSecWest/core05	Vancouver, B.C.
May 5, 2005	International PHP Conference	(RAI Conference Center)Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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 28 - 29, 2005	Linux Unix Group of Bulgaria Seminar	Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
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
June 9 - 10, 2005	Austrian Perl Workshop	(Kapsch CarrierCom)Vienna, Austria
June 9 - 10, 2005	The French Perl Workshop	(Faculté des Sciences de Luminy)Marseille, France
June 11, 2005	PHP West	Vancouver, BC, Canada
June 15 - 17, 2005	AstriCon Europe 2005	(Auditorium Madrid Hotel)Madrid, Spain
June 17 - 19, 2005	RECON 2005	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 19 - 22, 2005	International Lisp Conference 2005(ILC 2005)	(Stanford University)Palo Alto, CA
June 22 - 25, 2005	LinuxTag 2005	(Kongresszentrum)Karlsruhe, Germany
June 23 - 24, 2005	Italian Perl Workshop 2005	(University of Pisa)Pisa, Italy
June 25, 2005	LugRadio Live 2005	(Molyneux Stadium)Wolverhampton, UK
June 25, 2005	XML Prague 2005	Malá Strana, Prague, Czech Republic
June 27 - 29, 2005	Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC::NA 2005)	(University of Toronto)Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 29 - 30, 2005	Where 2.0 Conference	(Westin St. Francis Hotel)San Francisco, CA

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New open source free software healthcare mailing list (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews mentions the creation of a new Open Health email discussion list. "The purpose of this group is to discuss issues pertaining to the use of open source free software in health care settings."

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