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Brazil's Ubuntu-powered digital training bus

Here's a Ubuntu forum posting regarding the Brazilian "digital inclusion bus." This bus contains twelve workstations (and one server) running Ubuntu Linux; it is used to provide training sessions on Internet use and OpenOffice. There's some nice pictures included.

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New web database applications builder for Linux

Awaresoft has released Aware IM - software for business professionals and developers who want to create web database applications without programming. Works with MySQL, Derby and other databases.

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Cluster Builder 1.1 released

LinuxHPC.org and Cluster Resources, Inc. have announced the release of Cluster Builder 1.1. "An expanded version of Cluster Builder was released today, extending the site's scope beyond basic cluster components to include grid middleware and industry specific applications. Cluster Builder*a Web site highlighting high performance computing (HPC) software and hardware*helps administrators, evaluators and users discover available clustering options and solutions."

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NERSC Launches Linux Networx Supercomputer

Linux Networx has announced the deployment of a 722 processor cluster system at the DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). "Named "Jacquard," the Linux Networx system will provide computational resources to scientists from DOE national laboratories, universities and other research institutions to support a wide range of scientific disciplines including climate modeling, fusion energy, nanotechnology, combustion, astrophysics and life sciences."

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Maguma Workbench Version 2.6 Available

Version 2.6 of Magma Workbench is available. "Maguma announces the release of Maguma Workbench 2.6.0, the IDE for PHP and Python, which brings with it a greatly simplified licensing system, that will get users up and running very quickly without hassle. This update addresses a few issues that cropped up in version 2.5 and is a free upgrade from version 2.5".

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Novell and CS2C to Deliver Linux Offerings in China

Novell, Inc. has announced an agreement with the China Standard Software Company (CS2C) to deliver Linux server and desktop offerings to the Chinese market. "The announcement builds on the strategic partnership launched in April 2005, and will enable the further adoption of Linux in China."

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DbWrench Database Design 1.2.1 Released

PostgreSQL has announced version 1.2.1 of DbWrench Database Design. "DbWrench is a multi vendor, cross platform database design and round-trip engineering software. It's features include: a syntax highlighting SQL query editor, support for many of today's most popular databases, a graphic entity relation diagram (ERD) designer, ability to forward and reverse engineer databases. DbWrench is written in pure java allowing it function on numerous operating system platforms."

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SugarCRM Expands CRM Portfolio with Sugar Enterprise Edition

SugarCRM Inc. has announced the Sugar Enterprise Edition of its SugarCRM Customer Relationship Management system. "Key features include Oracle(TM) 9i support, an Offline Client, advanced reporting, and the Module Loader for plug-and-play installation of third-party extensions."

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TuxMobil Linux Laptop Survey Exceeded 4,000 Reports

TuxMobil has announced the receipt of over 4000 reports on Linux laptop installations. "Contributors from all over the world are providing tips and tricks to get Linux and other UniX flavors running on almost any laptop model starting from ELKS Linux on laptops with 286 CPU to 64bit distributions on machines equipped with AMD64. Linux is well suited for todays laptops and notebooks. Only a few hardware parts don't work well because the manufacturers don't care to provide necessary details. Parts which often don't work well are Suspend-to-RAM, internal card readers and internal modems."

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Appro XtremeBlade wins LinuxWorld Product Awards

Appro has announced the winning of a LinuxWorld Product Best Clustering Solution Award for its XtremeBlade Cluster Solution.

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Clarkson University wins Linux Tech Competition Awards

Two students from Clarkson University have won first and second place in a Linux technology competition. "The winning project of DeShane and Jablonski targets the need for a collection of tools to manage large structured sets of persistently accessed data, offering users speed and ease of use when accessing the information. To achieve their goal, the team implemented a system that allowed them to search a large amount of data, and then make each subsequent search faster and easier to perform based on the results of previous queries."

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Kontact Logo Competition Gets Serious (KDE.News)

KDE.News covers the addition of a new prize to the Kontact logo design competition. "Kontact started a competition for a new logo earlier this month; where the winning logo will become the official logo at the next release. Now we found a sponsor to back the competition to give a Wacom tablet to the artist that created the winning logo."

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KDE and Qt Projects Take Top Honors In TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 (KDE.News)

Several KDE-related projects have won awards in the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005. "Two of the five awarded projects have ties to KDE: KDE-Pim/Pi (Pi-Sync) and KWlanInfo, while another two use the Qt toolkit for their graphical interfaces. Congratulations to all those involved in the winning projects!"

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Freedel 2005 - New Delhi, India

Freedel 2005 will take place in New Delhi, India on September 17 and 18, 2005.

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Ohio Linux Fest - October 1, 2005

The Ohio Linux Fest takes place on October 1, 2005 in Columbus, Ohio. "The Ohio LinuxFest is a free annual conference and event for the Linux and Open Source Software community. Hosting authoritative speakers, the Ohio LinuxFest welcomes Linux and OSS professionals, enthusiasts, and anyone who wants to take part in the event."

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OSDC 2005 Call For Papers

A call for papers has gone out for the 2005 Open Source Developers' Conference. The event takes place in Melbourne, Australia on December 5-7, 2005. Proposals are due by August 19.

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2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference CFP

A Call for Participation has been posted for the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. "The 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference will happen March 6-9 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Proposals are due no later than September 19, 2005."

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linux.conf.au 2006 - Call For Miniconfs

A call For miniconfs has gone out for the linux.conf.au 2006 event. "The 2006 conference is being held in Dunedin, New Zealand, at The University of Otago". Proposals are due by August 24.

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LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Canada 2006

The LinuxWorld and NetworkWorld Canada 2006 Conference & Expo will take place on April 24-26, 2006 in Toronto, Canada.

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Events: August 18 - October 13, 2005

Date	Event	Location
August 20, 2005	Free Audio and Video Event(FAVE)	(Trinity Community and Arts Centre)Bristol, UK
August 20, 2005	Debian Conference	(The Indian Institute of Information Technology)Bangalore, India
August 27 - September 4, 2005	aKademy 2005	(University of Málaga)Málaga Spain
August 31 - September 2, 2005	YAPC::EU::2005	(University of Minho)Braga, Portugal
September 1 - 2, 2005	Symposium on Security for Asia Network(SyScAN'05)	(The Dusit Thani Hotel)Bangkok, Thailand
September 1 - 4, 2005	GOTO10 ASP digital sound workshop	Rotterdam, the Netherlands
September 5 - 9, 2005	International Computer Music Conference(ICMC 2005)	Barcelona, Spain
September 14 - 16, 2005	php|works	(Holiday Inn Yorkdale)Toronto, Canada
September 16 - 18, 2005	ToorCon 7	(San Diego Convention Center)San Diego, CA
September 17 - 18, 2005	Freedel	New Delhi, India
September 19 - 21, 2005	Plone Conference 2005	(Semper Depot, Lehargasse)Vienna, Austria
September 20 - 23, 2005	New Security Paradigms Workshop(NSPW)	(UCLA Conference Center)Lake Arrowhead, California
September 23 - 24, 2005	Sixth Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming(TFP 2005)	Tallinn, Estonia
September 26 - 29, 2005	Hack in the Box Security Conference(HITBSecConf2005)	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September 28 - 30, 2005	OpenOffice.org Conference 2005(OO.oCon)	Koper (Capodistria), Slovenia
October 1, 2005	Ohio LinuxFest 2005	Columbus, OH
October 2 - 5, 2005	Gelato October 2005 Meeting for Linux on Itanium	Porto Alegre, Brazil
October 5 - 6, 2005	LinuxWorld London	Olympia, London, UK
October 6, 2005	Fedora Users and Developers Conference(FUDCon London)	(LinuxWorld Conference and Expo UK)London, UK
October 7 - 9, 2005	Indie Games Con 2005(IGC)	Eugene, Oregon
October 8 - 10, 2005	GNOME Boston Summit	(Gates Building)Cambridge, MA
October 12 - 13, 2005	IT Underground(ITU)	Warsaw, Poland
October 13 - 14, 2005	Open Source Desktop Workshops	San Diego, CA

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GNUmed conference report (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has announced the posting of a report on the 2nd GNUmed conference. "Yesterday the 2nd GNUmed conference in Germany took place. The current state of affairs was discussed. The immediate next steps were defined."

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2005 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Wrap Up

O'Reilly presents a wrap-up of the 2005 O'Reilly Open Source Convention. "Parties, receptions, birds of a feather sessions, and tours punctuated this year's OSCON. During the Tuesday Evening Extravaganza, OSCON traditions continued with the "State of the Onion" address given by Perl legend Larry Wall. The Yahoo!-O'Reilly Buzz Market Report was given by David Pennock and Rael Dornfest. Paul Graham, author of "Hackers & Painters," spoke on "What Business Can Learn From Open Source." Perennial OSCON crowd-pleaser Damian Conway brought down the house with his "Fun With Dead Languages" presentation."

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Appeal Website Launched (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the launch of the Appeal project web site. "Appeal is a living experiment in progressive development and organizational concepts as applied to the KDE project (http://www.kde.org). Within the Appeal environment the practices of art, usability and software development are brought together during the earliest phases of development and supported through ongoing communication and periodic in-person meetings. Appeal serves as an incubator for emerging technologies that reflect this philosophy of work."

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GPLmedicine.org (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the new GPLMedicine.org site. "I am happy to announce GPLMedicine.org I will be using this site to publish articles, letters and other information advocating the use of the GPL license in medicine. The first thing I am publishing there is the site credo, which argues that only the Gnu Public License should be used in medical software."

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WorldVistA.org: New Look, Backend (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on changes to the WorldVistA web site. "The WorldVistA website is sporting a new look and software backend based on plone. Looks like they are gearing up for the long-haul and upcoming VistA vendor training."

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New lugradio episode out (GnomeDesktop)

A new episode of LUGRadio has been announced. "Of special interest for GNOME people is an interview with Joe Shaw about Beagle, the desktop search tool. The show is available from the lugradio website and also features discussion about the glory of podcasting, interview on openSuse and a musical extravagance from drummer Jono Bacon and Adam Sweet on the bass guitar."

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