Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Carrier Grade Debian
OSDL has sent out a press release stating that the Debian Project has registered its compliance with the Carrier Grade Linux specification. "The Debian CGL implementation is the first step in plans to build a telco-Debian custom distribution that will tout full CGL compliance with all primary requirements and the majority of roadmap items."
EFF: Appeals Court Corrects Dangerous Web Privacy Ruling
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a media release concerning a web privacy ruling. "San Francisco - The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has corrected a dangerous lower court ruling that threatened Internet privacy. In doing so, it preserved the privacy of password-protected websites as well as the right to read public sites. The decision followed the arguments made in an amicus brief filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)."
LPI Announces Haansoft Corporation as Korean Affiliate
The Linux Professional Institute has announced its new Korean Affiliate, Haansoft Corporation. "This initiative in Korea represents a key component of LPI's Regional Enablement Initiative in North East Asia. We are delighted to welcome Haansoft to our worldwide team of Master Affiliates. They are the final cornerstone in our efforts to promote Linux professionalism within CJK (China, Japan, and Korea).""
Commercial announcements
Autodesk announces Web Map Publishing Software
Autodesk, Inc. announced its Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2007 product. "Following its groundbreaking contribution to the open source community, Autodesk, Inc. today announced the commercial version of its open source web mapping platform, Autodesk MapGuide Enterprise 2007. This certified version features all of the benefits of the open source version, plus additional quality assurance, technical support, connectivity to additional data sources including Oracle and SQL Server, as well as integration of numerous third-party components."
Digium Announces Major Upgrade to Asterisk Business Edition
Digium has announced Asterisk Business Edition B.1, the first major upgrade of its Asterisk Business Edition, the professional-grade version of Asterisk. "The upgraded release includes enhanced security and scalability provided by Ranch Network's Asterisk security code, speech recognition capabilities through the LumenVox Speech Engine, text-to-speech applications through the Cepstral Text-to-Speech System and a customized Linux distribution to simplify installation. Asterisk Business Edition B.1 will also feature built-in support for Intel Dialogic Products and Aculab Prosody X cards."
Jive Software Announces Open-Source of Spark IM Client
Jive Software, Inc. has announced the release of its Spark IM Client application under the LGPL license. "Spark, based on the open IETF standard XMPP (Jabber) protocol, is a cross-platform, Java-based Client optimized for use with Jive Software's Open-Source XMPP Wildfire Server. With this announcement, all of the applications an organization needs for a complete EIM ("Enterprise Instant Messaging") system are available under Open-Source licensing terms from Jive Software."
NetEqualizer Announces Business Relationship With CompUSA
APConnections, Inc. has announced a partnership with CompUSA, who will be selling their NetEqualizer appliance. "The NetEqualizer is a plug-and-play bandwidth control appliance that is flexible and scalable. NetEqualizer's unique technology differs significantly from other appliances. It uses "behavior shaping" which dynamically and automatically controls network flow for the best WAN Optimization. It is built on Linux and works with all operating systems."
Novell's second quarter results
Novell has announced its second quarter financial results - a small profit. "During the second fiscal quarter 2006, Novell reported total Open Platform Solutions revenue of $57 million, which was up from $20 million in the year ago period. Total Open Platform Solutions included $46 million from sales of Open Enterprise Server (OES), up $38 million year-over-year, and $10 million of revenue from Linux Platform Products, up 20 percent year-over-year."
Red Hat launches "Mugshot"
Red Hat has launched a site called Mugshot; it is the company's attempt to get into the "social networking" sphere. It's invitation-only for now. Mugshot is said to be an entirely open source project, but the "download" link is currently missing. There is a FAQ and a developer site with a bit more information.Sun Announces JBoss as Newest Member to NetBeans Partner Program
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the latest member of its NetBeans Partner Program, JBoss. ""We are endorsing the NetBeans IDE because of JBoss and Sun's mutual dedication to simplifying development of standards-based Java EE applications. We will work closely with the NetBeans team to develop a plug-in for the NetBeans IDE that provides developers with the tools for doing development with JBoss Application Server. NetBeans has great momentum in the market because it consistently delivers innovative solutions to enhance developer productivity," said Marc Fleury, founder and President of JBoss, Inc."
TI Announces DaVinci(TM) Technology Development Kit
Texas Instruments Incorporated has announced its new video software development kit. "Continuing to streamline the creation of innovative digital video systems, Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN) (TI) today announced a new digital video software development kit based on DaVinci technology. The new software development kit incorporates exceptional software integration and system visualization technology with a full Linux operating system to integrate and tune complex systems quickly and efficiently."
Wind River adds support for AMD Opteron-Based Sun Blade Server
Wind River Systems, Inc. has announced its plans to support the Sun Microsystems Netra CP3020 Opteron processor ATCA blade server. "For customers who require a commercial-grade CGL solution on the industry's fastest, densest and most reliable blade server, Wind River is working on an optimized port of its Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition environment for Sun's Netra ATCA blade server and AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Netra blade systems."
New Books
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition by Bill Burke and Richard Monson-Haefel.No Starch Press releases "The Art of RAW Conversion"
No Starch Press has published the book The Art of RAW Conversion by Uwe Steinmueller and Jürgen Gulbins.
Resources
Bridging the Digital Divide in Health: The Role of FOSS (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews mentions the availability of a presentation on open-source health software. "According to Molly Cheah on the openhealth list Dr. Joan Dzenowagis has a presentation entitled Bridging the Digital Divide in Health The Role of Free and Open Source Software: "Dr. Joan Dzenowagis, is based at the World Health Organization, where she is Project Manager of the United Nations Health InterNetwork, led by WHO. This initiative is one of the four initiatives of the UN Millennium Action Plan launched by Secretary General Kofi Annan in September 2000."
Linux Brochure Project (LBP) version 1.3.0 released
Version 1.3.0 of the Linux Brochure Project is available. "LBP is a GPL'd Linux advocacy and publicity project which documents key Linux information in a standard-size brochure (two sides of a single letter- or A4-sized sheet of paper which is Z-folded into the six mini-pages of the brochure)." See the change log for details.
Florian Mueller's software patent battle book downloadable
Florian Mueller has released his book No Lobbyists As Such - The War over Software Patents in the European Union under the Creative Commons noncommercial, no-derivatives license; it is available as a large PDF file. "On 377 pages, Mueller tells the story of the legislative process that ended in July last year with a landslide vote of the European Parliament against a proposal for a software patent directive."
Linux Gazette #127
Linux Gazette has released the June 2006 edition of the newsletter, with articles on FVWM, Knoppix, amaroK, and much more.
Calls for Presentations
Akademy 2006 Call for Participation (KDE.News)
KDE.News has published a call for participation for the 2006 KDE World Summit (aKademy). "The aKademy 2006 conference team is calling for contributors to present their work and vision to the KDE community. This years' conference takes place at Trinity College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, from September 23rd to September 30th. All presentations will be held during the "KDE Contributors Conference" event on September 23rd and 24th." Abstracts are due before Friday, June 30.
The Firebird Conference 2006 CFP
A call for papers has gone out for the Firebird Conference 2006, submissions are due by July 31. "The fourth Firebird Worldwide Conference will take place at the Andels Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic from the 12th November 2006 until 14th November 2006. The Andels Hotel is a new 4-star hotel, which is located very close to downtown, just across the river."
Upcoming Events
LinuxWorld UK 2006 announced
LinuxWorld 2006 UK will showcase the latest technology, debate the use of Open Source in business, touch on virtualisation and give advice on Linux-based mobile phones. LinuxWorld Conference & Expo will take place at Olympia 2, 25-26th October 2006.Events: June 8 - August 3, 2006
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 13 - 14, 2006 | Where 2.0 Conference | (Fairmont Hotel San Jose)San Jose, CA |
| June 13 - 14, 2006 | Gartner Open Source Summit 2006 | (Palau de Congressos de Catalunya)Barcelona, Spain |
| June 14 - 16, 2006 | New York PHP Conference and Expo 2006 | (New Yorker Hotel)New York, NY |
| June 16 - 18, 2006 | Recon 2006 | (Plaza Hotel Centre-Ville)Montreal, Canada |
| June 18 - 23, 2006 | Ubuntu Developer Summit | Charles de Gaulle, Paris, France |
| June 19 - 22, 2006 | Collaborative Technologies Conference | (Seaport Hotel)Boston, MA |
| June 22 - 23, 2006 | 3rd International GPLv3 Conference | Barcelona, Spain |
| June 24 - 25, 2006 | Free and Open Source Conference(FrOSCon) | (St. Augustin)Bonn, Germany |
| June 24 - 30, 2006 | 2006 GNOME Users and Developers European Conference(GUADEC) | Catalonia, Spain |
| June 24 - 25, 2006 | PHP Vikinger | Skien, Norway |
| June 27 - 29, 2006 | Corporate Channel and Computing Expo(C3) | (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, NY |
| June 28 - 30, 2006 | GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada |
| June 29 - July 2, 2006 | UKUUG Linux Technical Conference | (University of Sussex)Brighton, UK |
| June 30 - July 1, 2006 | WebTech 2006 | (Kempinski Hotel Zografski)Sofia, Bulgaria |
| July 3 - 4, 2006 | 3rd European Lisp Workshop | Nantes, France |
| July 3 - 5, 2006 | EuroPython 2006 | (CERN)Geneva, Switzerland |
| July 4 - 8, 2006 | 7th Libre Software Meeting(LSM) | (Nancy 1 University)Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France |
| July 5 - 8, 2006 | V Jornades de Programari Lliure | Barcelona, Spain |
| July 8 - 9, 2006 | PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit | Toronto, Canada |
| July 10 - 11, 2006 | Global db4o User Conference(dUC) | (Imperial College, South Kensington)London, UK |
| July 13 - 14, 2006 | Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment(DIMVA) | Berlin, Germany |
| July 15 - 16, 2006 | Crystal Space Conference | (University of Aachen)Aachen, Germany |
| July 16 - 19, 2006 | 2nd International Symposium on Free/Open Source Software, Technologies and Content(FOSSTEC 2006) | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| July 19 - 22, 2006 | Ottawa Linux Symposium 2006(OLS 2006) | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 22 - 23, 2006 | LugRadio Live | (Wolverhampton University)Wolverhampton, UK |
| July 24 - 28, 2006 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention(OSCON 2006) | Portland, Oregon |
| July 29 - August 3, 2006 | Black Hat USA 2006 Briefings and Training | (Caesars Palace)Las Vegas, NV |
Event Reports
A summary of the LSB meeting
KDE hacker Aaron Seigo was at the recent Linux Standard Base meeting in Boston; he has written up and posted a summary of what happened there. "There was discussion of a common packaging API for "installanywhere"/"installshield" type apps to use. At first there was pushback from distros but by the end after open and frank discussion and Ian's graceful handling of things there seemed to be consensus that this was a possibility indeed. Still a long ways to go on it, but something ISVs are pushing for and something that, with enough flexibility, the OSVs agree they can probably provide. This is not to be a replacement for .deb or .rpm or apt-get/yum/etc but a way for OSVs to provide simple hooks to register files with the package management system in an OS-neutral way."
Samba eXPerience 2006 archive
The materials from the Samba eXPerience 2006 conference are available. "In our archive you will find impressions and information gathered at the samba eXPerience 2006: all talks as OGG audio files, slides from the conference as PDF, pictures in JPG format".
Miscellaneous
Sun updates the DLJ FAQ
In response to questions which have come up, Sun has written a new version of the FAQ for the Distributor's License for Java. "Of course, if Sun clearly says in an FAQ that it's okay to do something (and we haven't made a blatant typographical error), we're not going to sue you -- even if one could make a clever legal argument that the license doesn't permit it. We believe in simplicity and transparency, and pledge to work diligently with the community to achieve those objectives." The language on shipping alternative Java implementations has been clarified as well.
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