Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
FreeMED Foundation Seeks Board Members (LinuxMedNews)
The non-profit FreeMED Software Foundation is seeking new members for its board of trustees. "The Foundation is seeking to expand its Board of Trustees and re-invogorate our development and ongoing process of leading edge innovation. We are looking particularly for physicians or Health Informatics personnel with experience and interest in electronic/computerized medical records and practice management. The term is two years. Most meetings are held by phone or net conference"
Linux and KDE Provide Rugged Desktops in Uganda, Africa (KDE.News)
KDE.News covers the installation of solar and pedal-powered Linux/KDE desktop systems in western Uganda, by Inveneo and ActionAid. Inveneo's press release includes pictures of the installation.OpenPKG Foundation e.V. established
The Open Source software project OpenPKG has announced the establishment of the OpenPKG Foundation e.V., a nonprofit organization providing the financial, material and manned support of OpenPKG.
Commercial announcements
ANTs Software announces database with support for 64-Bit Linux
ANTs software, inc. has announced version 3.2 of theANTs Data Server, a relational database management system that runs on 64 bit Opteron systems. "Supporting popular 64-bit Linux operating system implementations running on low-cost AMD Opteron platforms, ADS 3.2 sets a new price-performance benchmark, allowing very large OLTP and real-time analytical processing and reporting in main memory."
CadSoft Releases Eagle 4.15
CadSoft has released version 4.15 of Eagle, a commercial printed circuit CAD application with a freely downloadable "lite version" for hobby use. See the what's new document for the list of changes.HP Ships Over 1 Million Linux Servers
HP has announced its sale of over 1 million Linux servers. "HP today announced that it has set an industry-first milestone by shipping more than 1 million Linux servers to customers since 1998, 45 percent more than any other major hardware vendor. HP has led the worldwide Linux server market for 29 consecutive quarters. In the first quarter of 2005, HP grew 2.5 percentage points faster than the market in units on a year-over-year basis, shipped nearly 10 times as many Linux servers as Sun, led IBM by almost 8 percentage points in quarterly revenue share and outpaced Dell in both units and revenue."
Netline Moves Headquarters to U.S., Changes Name
The open-source collaboration server Netline has announced a move of headquarters and a change of name to Openexchange Inc. "Netline Internet Service, makers of the world's leading open source collaboration server, announced today that it has transferred the intellectual property, trademarks, URL's, branding and marketing rights to Open-Xchange Server from Netline to New York-based Openexchange Inc. Under a multi-year contract, Netline will continue to provide development services for Openexchange and has been designated as an Open-Xchange reseller."
PathScale and ParTec Team to Deliver Linux Clusters
PathScale has announced that it will team with ParTec to deliver Opteron-based Linux clusters. "PathScale's new InfiniPath(TM) InfiniBand cluster interconnect is being integrated with and optimized for operation with ParTec's ParaStation4(TM), a robust and efficient cluster middleware solution that consists of high-performance communication tools and a sophisticated software management layer."
Sleepycat Ships Major Upgrade to Berkeley DB Java Edition
Sleepycat Software has announced a new Java version of its Berkeley Database. "Sleepycat Software, makers of the world's most widely deployed open source developer databases, today announced the general availability of version 2.0 of Berkeley DB Java Edition, a transactional database written in pure Java technology. Additionally, Sleepycat today announced that Berkeley DB Java Edition is now officially certified on Sun Microsystems' Solaris 10 Operating System for x64 platforms."
USBDUX makes Knoppix live CD with USB DAQ support
USBDUX has announced a Knoppix-based live CD with support for its USB data acquisition devices. "Customers who have enjoyed the unique combination of Linux and USB offered by USBDUX can now use the system from a windows machine simply by booting Linux from the CD drive."
VA Linux Publicly Releases 'FlexPOP'
VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. (VA Linux) has announced the release of 'FlexPOP', a fast and secure POP server which supports large-scale systems, and an Open Source Software solution. FlexPOP is a part of the company's VA FMS (FlexMessaging Solution), a total messaging solution for use in small-to-middle scale organizations to large scale network service providers with over one million accounts. FlexPOP source code can be obtained from FlexPOP Project hosted on SourceForge.net.Zend Collaborates with PayPal
Zend and PayPal have announced a collaborative development effort. "Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, and creator of products and services supporting the development, deployment and management of PHP-based applications, today announced it collaborated with PayPal, a leading online payment company, to contribute updates to the open source PHP SOAP project, delivering a new version of PEAR::SOAP. PEAR::SOAP version 0.90 updated many previously known issues and vastly improved the module's WSDL and namespace support. By giving these improvements back to the PHP community, developers worldwide are better able to work with all Web Services from their PHP applications."
New Books
No Starch Releases "Ending Spam"
O'Reilly has published the book Ending Spam by Jonathan A. Zdziarski.SitePoint Releases "Firefox Secrets"
SitePoint has published the book Firefox Secrets by Cheah Chu Yeow."Performance Tuning for Linux Severs" published by IBM Press
IBM Press has published the book Performance Tuning for Linux Severs by Sandra K. Johnson, Gerrit Huizenga and Badari Pulavarty.Web Mapping Illustrated - O'Reilly's Latest Release
O'Reilly has published the book Web Mapping Illustrated by Tyler Mitchell.
Resources
(IN)SECURE Magazine Issue 2 is out
Issue #2 of (IN)SECURE Magazine, a PDF-format, free, digital security magazine, is available.Building the Ultimate Student Workstation
Pete Harlow has written an article on building a Linux-based student workstation. "This describes the building of a state - of - the - art Linux - based student workstation from a small barebones box, from mechanical assembly through to software installation."
Contests and Awards
Design a logo, win fame and prizes (NewsForge)
News Forge has an announcement for a logo contest, the prize is a 60GB iPod Photo MP3. "The Open Source Academy, a United Kingdom government project designed to encourage the use of open source software in the public sector, needs a logo. In the spirit of open source community, the Academy launched a logo design competition today, and you don't have to be a professional graphics designer to enter."
Nominations Open for 2005 Linux Medical News Freedom Award (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced that nominations are being accepted for the 5th annual Medical News Freedom Award of $500. Nominations should be submitted by July 30. "Free and open source software isn't 'magic pixie dust' and there are real people making significant personal sacrifices as well as doing difficult work to make medicine's free software future a reality. This award is intended to honor the individul or project who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open source medical software."
Upcoming Events
Black Hat Briefings Announcements
Registration is open for the summer Black Hat Briefings conference. The event will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on July 27-28, 2005, training sessions will be held on July 23-24 and July 25-26.Debian Project at OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf
The Debian Project will have member representation at the OSS Symposium, LinuxTag and DebConf events in June and July, 2005.Events: June 23 - August 18, 2005
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 23 - 25, 2005 | LinuxTag 2005 | (Kongresszentrum)Karlsruhe, Germany |
| June 23 - 24, 2005 | Italian Perl Workshop 2005 | (University of Pisa)Pisa, Italy |
| June 23 - 24, 2005 | GCC Developer's Summit | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada |
| June 24 - 25, 2005 | Fedora Users and Developers meeting(FUDCon2) | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 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 27 - 29, 2005 | EuroPython 2005 | Göteborg, Sweden |
| June 27 - 29, 2005 | Open Culture | (Via Festa del Perdono 7)Milan, Italy |
| June 29 - 30, 2005 | Where 2.0 Conference | (Westin St. Francis Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| June 30 - July 3, 2005 | Linux Vacation/Eastern Europe(LVEE) | Hronda, Belarusia |
| 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 6 - 9, 2005 | IV Jornades de Programari Lliure | Campus de Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain |
| 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 |
| July 11 - 14, 2005 | GOTO10 workshop | (OKNO)Brussels, Belgium |
| July 11 - 15, 2005 | IEEE International Conference on Web Services(ICWS 2005) | Orlando, Florida |
| July 17 - 19, 2005 | Desktop Developer's Conference | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| July 18 - 22, 2005 | ApacheCon Europe 2005 | Stuttgart, Germany |
| July 18 - 22, 2005 | PostgreSQL Bootcamp | (Big Nerd Ranch)Atlanta, GA |
| July 20 - 23, 2005 | Ottawa Linux Symposium(OLS 2005) | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 20 - 22, 2005 | North American Plone Symposium | (The Astro Crowne Plaza)New Orleans, Louisiana |
| July 26, 2005 | 2nd European LISP and Scheme Workshop | Glasgow, Scotland |
| July 27 - 28, 2005 | Black Hat Briefings USA 2005 | Las Vegas, NV |
| July 29 - 31, 2005 | DefCon 13 | (Alexis Park)Las Vegas, Nevada |
| July 31 - August 4, 2005 | 2005 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival | Los Angeles, CA |
| August 1 - 5, 2005 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention | (Oregon Convention Center)Portland, Oregon |
| August 1 - 5, 2005 | CIFS 2005 Conference and Plugfest | (Doubletree Hotel)San Jose, CA |
| August 4, 2005 | Penguicon 2005 | Israel |
| August 4 - 7, 2005 | Linux 2005 | (University of Wales)Swansea, UK |
| August 8 - 11, 2005 | LinuxWorld Conference and Expo | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
Web sites
KDE Dot News: Now Sponsored by Ark Linux and OSUOSL (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced its sponsorship by Ark Linux and OSUOSL. "I am pleased to announce that KDE Dot News has gained new hosting sponsors. We are now hosted on the Ark Linux server through the OSU Open Source Lab network, having successfully completed the transfer little more than a week ago. As some of you may know, we have a long history of having been hosted and co-hosted with Ark Linux, so it is great to be back with our old friends."
Mozilla Quality Assurance Weblog Launched (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has an announcement for the new Mozilla Quality weblog site. "Some members of the Mozilla quality assurance team have launched a new weblog for the QA and testing community. The Mozilla Quality weblog, hosted here at MozillaZine, is run by Mozilla Foundation employees Asa Dotzler (QA lead), Jay Patel (manages the Quality Feedback Agent infrastructure), Marcia Knous (project manager who does some QA stuff) and Tracy Walker (QA engineer)."
Miscellaneous
Jeff Merkey rides again
For some amusement: have a look at Jeff Merkey's new site: merkeylaw.com. "This site tracks the Federal Lawsuits filed in US District Court, District of Utah against Pamela Jones, Groklaw, Finchhaven, Pagan Savage, Merket.net, Slashdot, Bruce Perens, IP-Wars.net and John Does 1 - 200. This lawsuit is scheduled to be filed June 22, 2005." Incidentally, Jeff is acting as his own lawyer...
The next chapter in the Merkey saga
Jeff Merkey claims to have filed his suit against Bruce Perens, Pamela Jones, Slashdot, and 200 "John Does". It makes for wild reading. "Perens posted Internet messages on LWN.net stating to Linux and OSS members that 'Merkey works for SCO,' and that 'Merkey should be placed in a file of people to be killed'. Merkey has not or ever worked for SCO or the Canopy Group." Your editor, strangely enough, is unable to find any comments on the system calling for anybody to be killed.
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