Announcements

A couple of Linux trademark notes

Some parts of the net have recently discovered that changes have been made to how the "Linux" trademark is managed. We can't resist pointing out that LWN subscribers read about the whole thing last June. The current discussion, however, has drawn a response from Linus Torvalds as well: "Finally, just to make it clear: not only do I not get a cent of the trademark money, but even LMI (who actually administers the mark) has so far historically always lost money on it. That's not a way to sustain a trademark, so they're trying to at least become self-sufficient, but so far I can tell that lawyers fees to _give_ that protection that commercial companies want have been higher than the license fees."

Software patent opponent Florian Mueller has issued a statement supporting the Linux trademark. Mr. Mueller is concerned that opposition to trademarks could hurt the legitimacy of the anti-patent campaign; he also criticizes those who are defending the bnetd developers.

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Formulating a national government strategy on Free Software

Mark Shuttleworth has sent out a call for help to the Ubuntu community. "This is a mail to the global Ubuntu community, to ask for your help in formulating a national government strategy on Free Software for South Africa. We hope this work will also be used as a model for many countries world wide. We are participating in a task force that is considering how South Africa should lead the adoption of Free Software in government, in the private sector and in civil society. It is a unique gathering of people who would like to create the most effective possible strategy for the country, building on the great ideas that have already been implemented elsewhere."

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Astaro Protects Customers From Worms

Astaro Corporation has sent out a press release regarding worm protection from its gateway appliances. "Astaro Security Gateway appliances and other systems running its Astaro Security Linux V6 software are now protecting customers from worms that exploit a flaw in Windows 2000 systems. The worms can steal information, cause severe performance degradation on infected systems, delete files, and launch denial of service attacks against web servers."

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Eclipse Foundation Announces CDT 3.0

The Eclipse Foundation has announced the next generation of the Eclipse CDT platform, a platform for building C/C++ development tools. "Developed under the leadership of QNX Software, CDT 3.0 delivers improved scalability, performance, and extensibility to developers targeting embedded systems and Linux environments. CDT has been adopted as the C/C++ tools platform for major embedded and Linux vendors, including IBM, Intel, MontaVista, Novell SUSE, PalmSource, QNX, Tensilica, Texas Instruments, and TimeSys."

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H-ITT releases version 1.8 of classroom response system

H-ITT has announced version 1.8 of their cross-platform classroom response system. "Hyper-Interactive Teaching Technology (H-ITT), a leader in hand-held remote technology for the classroom, today announced the release of version 1.8 of their Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux software for use with their classroom response system. Numerous new features and enhancements have been added to both the Acquisition program which collects responses from the students in class and the Analyzer which grades the responses after class."

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IBM Launches New Initiative to Help Developers Build Skills and Open Standards Solutions

IBM has announced a new initiative to help start-up companies in emerging markets -- China, India, Russia, Brazil -- more quickly and easily develop solutions based on open standards technology.

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Novell Announces Novell ZENworks 7 Suite

Novell, Inc. has announced the ZENworks 7 Suite. "Novell today announced the worldwide availability of Novell(R) ZENworks(R) 7 Suite, the first systems management solution that automates the complete lifecycle of Linux* systems and allows organizations to manage their Windows* workstations from a Linux platform. Novell ZENworks automates and enforces business and IT management processes across the lifecycle of desktops, laptops, servers and handheld devices. As a result, organizations can control costs, ensure security and compliance and get the most from their IT asset investments."

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SOA Vendors Lead Synapse Project for Apache Software Foundation

WSO2 has announced (click below) the creation of Synapse, a new project tasked with creating a Web service mediation framework. The project proposal has been submitted to the Apache Software Foundation "incubator" under the Web Services project. Additional detail are included in the proposal.

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Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Linux in a Nutshell, Fifth Edition by Ellen Siever, Aaron Weber, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins.

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Prentice Hall PTR publishes "Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux"

Prentice Hall PTR has published the book Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux by Peter van der Linden.

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Prentice Hall PTR Publishes Samba-3 Books

Prentice Hall PTR has published the second editions of the books The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide and Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment.

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GNOME 2.12 Splash Screen Contest (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for a new GNOME Splash Screen Contest. "With the imminent release of the GNOME 2.12, the time has come to find the ideal splash screen to go with it. Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a major release of GNOME!" Submissions are due by September 4.

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Linux Installfest workshops in Davis, CA

The Linux Users' Group of Davis has announced the next "Linux Installfest" workshop, the event will be held in Davis, California on Saturday, August 27, 2005.

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CMP Media Announces Embedded Systems Conference

CMP Media has announced the next Embedded Systems Conference. The event will take place in Boston, Mass. on September 12-15, 2005.

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FSF Seminar on The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development (Groklaw)

Groklaw has announced a seminar on: "The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development". "I've written often of my experience at the GPL seminar I attended a couple of years ago, and I've always been very glad I went. For those of you in the New York area, there will be a one-day course at Columbia Law School on September 28, "The GPL and Legal Aspects of Free Software Development": The course will comprise an exploration of the most widely used free software copyright license, the GNU GPL, and will give lawyers, software developers, managers and business people the knowledge necessary to use the GPL (and GPL'ed software) successfully, with safety and predictability, both in businesses new to free software and in existing enterprises."

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The Ubuntu Below Zero Conference

There is another big Ubuntu developers' gathering in the works. This one is happening in Montreal from October 30 to November 10. See the announcement (click below) for the details.

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Events: August 25 - October 20, 2005

Date	Event	Location
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 12 - 15, 2005	Embedded Systems Conference	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass
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
September 30 - October 2, 2005	Linucon	Austin, Texas
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 8, 2005	LinuxForum BOF-dag	Denmark
October 12 - 13, 2005	IT Underground(ITU)	Warsaw, Poland
October 13 - 14, 2005	Open Source Desktop Workshops	San Diego, CA
October 14 - 15, 2005	HackLu 2005	(Chambre des Metiers)Kirchberg, Luxembourg
October 14 - 16, 2005	Blender Conference 2005	(De Waag)Amsterdam, the Netherland
October 16 - 23, 2005	piksel05	Bergen, Norway
October 17 - 20, 2005	O'Reilly European Open Source Convention 2005(EuroOSCON)	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 18 - 21, 2005	Zend/PHP Conference and Expo 2005	(Hyatt Regency SF Airport Hotel)Burlingame, CA
October 18, 2005	Dynamic Languages Symposium 2005(DLS05)	San Diego, CA
October 19 - 21, 2005	Australian Unix Users Group Conference 2005(AUUG)	Sydney, Australia

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KDE Previews 3.5 Release at LinuxWorldExpo (KDE.News)

KDE.News covers the action at the KDE booth during the recent LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. "The K Desktop Environment was pleased to see its users recently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Users were excited to learn about KDE 4.0, some of the hot new stuff in KDE 3.5, and thousands of Linux users got out of the house for a change! Guests to our booth had questions like "So, when is KDE 4.0 going to be released?" Some also wondered what kind of new features it would have."

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LQ ISO Linux Download Site Reaches One Million Downloads

LinuxQuestions.org has announced the one Million ISO image download milestone. ""We're glad to be able to help users easily find a fast local mirror to download their favorite Linux distro from. Being able to hit 1,000,000 downloads in only a year was a great milestone", said LinuxQuestions.org founder Jeremy Garcia."

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