Announcements

Novell Reports Financial Results for Third Fiscal Quarter 2005

Novell, Inc. has announced it's third quarter financial results. ""Customers continue to embrace Novell's Linux and identity solutions," said Jack Messman, Chairman and CEO of Novell. "We were particularly pleased with our initial penetration of the Chinese market where Linux is an attractive technology for government and commercial users. Our increasingly customer-focused, go-to-market approach is leading to a stronger Novell as evidenced by our positive operating cash flow and growth in deferred revenue in the quarter. While we were profitable this quarter, we still have improvements to make in our business which will lead to cost reductions.""

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Novell To Acquire Joint Venture Partner in India

Novell has announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the 50% stake held by its partner in Onward Novell, its sales and distribution arm in India. Novell will integrate the Onward Novell organization with the company's existing India operations, increasing Novell's investment in the region.

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SGI to Install HPC Environment at Dresden Technical University

SGI has announced a contract to install a 1500 processor Altix System at Dresden University of Technology. "In two project phases to be completed within twelve months, a state-of-the-art, innovative and flexibly usable infrastructure with computational power of more than a dozen teraflops will be implemented. This will enable investigators in scientific areas such as physics, material sciences, engineering, bioinformatics and nanotechnology to find answers to new types of challenging problems."

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TimeSys Introduces First Online Development Network for ``Roll-Your-Own'' Embedded Linux Developers

TimeSys Corporation has announced the availability of LinuxLink(TM) subscriptions for embedded developers creating their own custom Linux platform. LinuxLink subscriptions target many processor architectures from Freescale, Intel, MIPS and ARM, and deliver continuously updated streams of components, information and technology aggregated from leading semiconductor manufacturers, the open source community and TimeSys.

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Pragmatic Bookshelf publishes Agile Web Development with Rails

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson with Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, Thomas Fuchs, and Andreas Schwarz.

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Geek Your Ride - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Car PC Hacks by Damien Stolarz.

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Addison-Wesley publishes Moving to Linux

Addison-Wesley Professional has published the second edition of Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye by Marcel Gagne.

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New Hugin tutorials (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org mentions the availability of tutorials on Hugin, a Panorama Tools GUI front-end. Tutorials include Creating linear panoramas with Hugin and Perspective correction.

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An Illustrated Guide to IPSec

For everybody who has wondered how the IPSec protocols work: Steve Friedl has put together a guide to IPSec, complete with a great many illustrations. It is a good starting place to learn about what is happening at the IP level when IPSec is used.

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Linux-Mobile-Guide

Issue 3.17 of the Linux-Mobile-Guide is available. "This guide covers laptop, notebook, PDA and mobile (cell) phone related Linux features, such as installation methods (via network interface, without CD/DVD drive, etc.), hardware features (PCMCIA, IrDA, BlueTooth, APM, ACPI, etc.) and configurations for different environments."

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Netgear WGPS606 Printer Configuration Mini HowTo

The CUPS project has produced a mini HOWTO on connecting a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server to a Linux system.

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Xen tutorial released

Julien Danjou has written a tutorial on running Xen under Debian.

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First KDE Appreciation Awards Announced (KDE.News)

KDE.News reports on the winners of the KDE Appreciation Awards. "The awards are for best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award. The jury consisted of the well-known KDE hackers Aaron Seigo, Brad Hards, David Faure and Matthias Ettrich. If you want to know who the winners are, read on!"

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TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 granted

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has announced the winners of the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005. "The TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005 has been granted to OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus, PI-Sync, KWlanInfo and BlueZ."

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GNOME Summit 2005 announced

The GNOME Summit will be held on October 8-10, 2005 at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge, Mass.

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Linux Audio Conference 2006

The 2006 Linux Audio Conference (LAC2006) will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany on April 27-30, 2006.

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Linux demo on Software Freedom Day, September 10th

The Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold a Linux and open-source software demonstration in Davis, CA on September 10, 2005.

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OpenOffice.org Conference 2005 registration opens

Registration is now open for the OpenOffice.org Conference 2005. The event will take place on September 29 and 30, 2005 in Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia.

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Call for Participation: UKUUG Spring Conference 2006

A Call for Participation has gone out for the UKUUG Spring Conference 2006. The event takes place in Durham, UK on March 22 and 23, 2006, abstracts are due by December 23, 2005.

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Events: September 1 - October 27, 2005

Date	Event	Location
September 1 - 4, 2005	aKademy 2005	(University of Málaga)Málaga Spain
September 1 - 2, 2005	Symposium on Security for Asia Network(SyScAN'05)	(The Dusit Thani Hotel)Bangkok, Thailand
September 1 - 2, 2005	YAPC::EU::2005	(University of Minho)Braga, Portugal
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 26 - 30, 2005	IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing(Cluster 2005)	Boston, Massachusetts
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
October 24 - 28, 2005	12th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	(Red Lion Hotel)Portland, Oregon

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aKademy Developers Conference Prepares for KDE 4 (KDE.News)

KDE.News presents a report from the 2005 KDE aKademy conference. "The 2005 KDE aKademy continued today with the opening of the developer conference: two days of talks describing upcoming KDE technologies, giving programming tips and, of course, plenty of informal hacking and discussion sessions between the developers. Today's talks included they keynote from Trolltech, a new multithreading scheduler library, meta-programming revisited and how to boot to KDE in 10 seconds."

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LQ Radio Interview with Doc Searls

LinuxQuestions.org has announced a new radio interview with Linux Journal's Doc Searls. "We discuss a variety of topics including recent OSCON and LinuxWorld trips, Cluetrain, Google, splogs, RSS, Linux Trademarks and more."

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