Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
FreeBSD Unveils FreeBSD 5.4
The FreeBSD Project has announced the release of version 5.4 of the FreeBSD operating system. "This new release offers new features, new tools, and numerous improvements in security, hardware and networking support for the UNIX-like operating system."
KDE Turkey Extends Vision (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers the latest news from KDE Turkey. "Free software developers in Turkey aim more success in the forthcoming months by enlarging its member base. KDE Turkey (in Turkish) was founded 6 months ago with the aim to raise KDE usage, consciousness and also to be a central point for KDE endeavour in Turkey. Today KDE Turkey is responsible for Turkish localization of KDE. Besides localization efforts, KDE group members also create awareness with talks, IRC meetings, mailing lists, merchandise (in Turkish) and with the attendance to various local organizations."
Commercial announcements
IBM and Red Hat Launch New Solaris-to-Linux Customer Migration Initiatives
IBM in conjunction with Red Hat has announced the introduction of a Solaris-to-Linux server migration program that includes a "Solaris to Linux Migration Factory," and additional solutions and support offerings designed to help customers migrate from Solaris to multi-platform Linux servers.IHL Consulting Group releases report on POS Terminals
The IHL Consulting Group has announced the results of a study about Point of Sale terminals in the restaurant and hotel business. "Shipments of Linux-based POS units increased 73 percent year to year but still represent only 4 percent of the overall market. This is expected to rise dramatically in future years."
Kaspersky Lab Launches SMTP-Gateway 5.5
Kaspersky Lab has launched their SMTP-Gateway 5.5 product. "The program package offers antivirus functionality, blocks unsanctioned attempts to access the system, and also provides content filtration. It also serves as a fully-functional mail router for Linux / FreeBSD and OpenBSD systems."
Koders Unveils Search Engine for Open Source Code
Koders, Inc. has announced the availability of Koders.com, a new search tool for identifying and accessing open source code on the Internet. "The first free search engine of its kind, Koders.com provides developers with an easy-to-use interface to find existing solutions to complex software development problems and discover new OSS (Open Source Software) projects. Developers can learn by example reviewing code written by the world's best developers, working on the most successful projects."
Korean Software Leader Haansoft Joins OSDL
Open Source Development Labs has announced its latest member, Haansoft. "Haansoft, a Korean IT leader guiding the rapid rise of Linux in Asia, dominates the market for Korean-language office software, enjoying a 70 percent share for its word processor. Along with Red Flag Software in China and Miracle Linux in Japan, Haansoft jointly develops the Asianux Linux server operating system that aims to become the common enterprise Linux platform in Asia."
Mandriva reports first half year results
Mandriva reports its half year results for October 2004 to March 2005. "For the first half year of fiscal year 2004-2005, Mandriva reported consolidated revenue of 2.76 MEUR, and operating revenue of 3.43 MEUR, a respective increase of 9.5% and 22.5% compared with the same period of the previous fiscal year. The increase of operating revenue is due primarily to R&D grants realized, amounting to 0.61 MEUR. For the half-year period, the company reported an operating income of 0.21 MEUR compared to 0.16 MEUR one year prior."
NetBeans Integrated Development Environment Offers Java Platform Support
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the availability of the NetBeans 4.1 Integrated Development Environment, an open source Java IDE that supports Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE(TM)) 5.0, full Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE(TM) 1.4 and Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME(TM)) 2.0 application development support.Permeo Selects a Custom Linux Platform From Progeny
Progeny has announced that it has provided a hardened high-performance Linux platform optimized for Permeo's new Base5 SSL VPN solution. Base5 is an integrated software platform delivering "zero touch" SSL VPN, endpoint security services, and advanced information controls.Scalix Named Red Herring 100 Company
Scalix Corporation has announced its naming as one of the Red Herring 100 Private Companies of North America. "Red Herring's lists of private companies are an important part of the magazine's tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs. Companies like Google and eBay were spotted in their early days by Red Herring editors as those that would change the way we live and work."
Xandros SurfSide Now Shipping
Xandros has announced the availability of Xandros SurfSide Linux. "The new desktop product comes with free Skype-to-Skype calling worldwide, and a Plantronics USB headset combo, "ready to plug in and call". Xandros SurfSide Linux is available for purchase in retail stores and from the Xandros web site for a list price of USD $99.95."
New Books
MySQL in a Nutshell - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book MySQL in a Nutshell by Russell J.T. Dyer.New No Nonsense Guide to Linspire Every Book
Linspire, Inc. has published the book No Nonsense Guide to Linspire by Eric Grebler. A free trial version of Linspire OS is included.
Resources
The LDP Weekly News
The May 18, 2005 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the latest new documentation releases.
Contests and Awards
KStars Donates Prize Money to KDE (KDE.News)
The KStars developers have donated the award from a recent contest to the KDE project. "Earlier this year KStars won the QtForum.org programming contest. Well the KStars developers decided the best thing to do with their money was to donate it to KDE. The US$1500 prize money is one of the largest donations to KDE e.V. to date."
Upcoming Events
AGNULA seminar at Bocconi University
Andrea Glorioso will discuss the AGNULA/DeMuDi and the AGNULA Libre Music projects in a seminar on May 19, 2005 in Milan, Italy.Big Nerd Ranch Announces PostgreSQL Bootcamp
Big Nerd Ranch will be holding another PostgreSQL Bootcamp on July 18-22, 2005 in the vicinity of Atlanta, GA.O'Reilly EuroOSCON Call for Participation Opens
A Call for Participation has gone out for the O'Reilly EuroOSCON. "The call for participation is now open and speaker proposals are being accepted until May 23. EuroOSCON will be held at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on October 17-20, 2005."
ISPCON Spring 2005 Baltimore
ISPCON Spring 2005 has been announced. The event will take place on May 24-26, 2005 at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, MD. "A number of new speakers and intensive educational sessions were announced today which delve deeply into leveraging Open Source solutions for voice over IP (VoIP), IP-PBX systems such as Asterisk, SOHO and SME systems and services, security and routing tools, anti-Spam and email concerns, web hosting virtualization infrastructure and more."
ITU 2005 Call For Papers
A Call For Papers has gone out for the ITU 2005 conference. The event will take place in Warsaw, Poland on October 12 and 13, 2005. "IT UNDERGROUND 2005 is a third edition of conference dedicated to IT security issues, where remarkable authorities will share their knowledge and experience with IT specialists."
Linux Cluster Summit 2005
The 2005 Linux Cluster Summit has been announced for June 20 and 21 in Walldorf, Germany. "The goal of the two-day Linux Cluster Summit workshop is to bring together the key individuals who can realize a general purpose clustering API for Linux, including, kernel components, userspace libraries and internal and external interfaces."
Linux Installfest workshops in Davis, CA
The Linux Users' Group of Davis has announced the next Linux Installfest. The event will be held in Davis, CA on May 21, 2005.Keynotes for New York LinuxWorld Summit Announced
LinuxWorld Conference & Expo has announced the keynote speakers for the LinuxWorld Summit. The event will take place in New York, NY on May 25-26, 2005. "The first-day keynote is a CIO Magazine panel with panelists from CitiGroup, E*TRADE FINANCIAL and Cendant TDS. The second-day keynote has panelists from Nokia and Columbia University Law School and will explore the evolving world of Linux and Open Source."
LinuxWorld San Francisco Keynotes Announced
IDG World Expo has announced the keynotes for the August 8-11, 2005 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, CA. "During their keynote addresses, senior executives from FedEx, IBM, Oracle, HP and E*TRADE will discuss new opportunities for innovation, cost savings and productivity gains using Linux and Open Source technology."
Mozilla Foundation to Co-Host XTech 2005 (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has announced the co-hosting of the XTech 2005 conference by the Mozilla Foundation. "Known in previous years as the XML Europe conference, XTech 2005 is the "premier European conference for developers and managers working with XML and Web technologies, bringing together the worlds of web development, open source, semantic web and open standards". Presented by IDEAlliance, XTech 2005 will take place at the Amsterdam RAI Centre in the Netherlands next week."
YAPC::EU::2005 Registration opened (use Perl)
Registration for the YAPC::EU::2005 Perl conference has been announced. "Registration for YAPC::EU::2005 has now opened. Hotels for the conference will be announced in the next following hours and the final CFP shall be out during this week (deadline is 22nd May)."
Call for Lightning Talks (use Perl)
A call for lightning talks has been posted for three Perl events. "Going to YAPC::America in Toronto, OSCON in Portland, or YAPC::Europe in Braga this conference season? Do you want one third of your "15 minutes of fame"? Then give a Lightning Talk on some topic that speaks to you."
Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2006 Conference (use Perl)
A Call for Venue has gone out for the YAPC::Europe::2006 Conference. "While the Braga Perl Mongers are organizing the YAPC::Europe::2005 conference in Portugal, with exceptional enthusiasm and much feedback, the YAPC::Europe Foundation is already looking for the candidates for the following year. If possible, the committee would like to announce the host city and country for 2006 at the end of the current (2005-Braga) conference."
Events: May 19 - July 14, 2005
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 24 - 26, 2005 | ISPCON Spring 2005 | (Baltimore Convention Center)Baltimore, MD |
| May 25 - 26, 2005 | Linux World New York Summit 2005 | (New York City Marriott Marquis)New York, NY |
| May 28 - 29, 2005 | Linux User 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 |
| July 1 - 6, 2005 | Linux Desktop Development and KDevelop Developers Conference 2005 | Kiev, Ukraine |
| July 5 - 9, 2005 | LSM 2005 Libre Software Meeting for Medicine | Dijon, France |
| July 10 - 18, 2005 | Debconf 5 | Helsinki, Finland |
| July 11, 2005 | Evolution of Open-Source Code Bases(EVOSC05) | Genova, Italy |
| July 11 - 15, 2005 | First International Conference on Open Source Systems(OSS2005) | Genova, Italy |
Web sites
KDE-Files.org Launched (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the launch of the KDE-Files.org site. "KDE's latest community website KDE-Files.org has gone online. The site is a central exchange platform for all sorts of documents and document templates. Users can collaborate, discuss, vote and share documents. Some examples of files you could share are your jogging result spreadsheets, OpenOffice.org presentation templates or Kexi DVD Databases."
QtForum.org Opens Wiki Again (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced the re-opening of the QtForum.org wiki. "After a long period of downtime because of spam, the QtForum.org team decided to switch to more robust wiki software. The result is that the wiki is now based on a modified version of Mediawiki."
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