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Debian Linux Adopts OpenVZ Virtualization Software

The OpenVZ project has announced its operating system-level server virtualization software technology is incorporated into Debian GNU/Linux giving users full access to OpenVZ software, which helps increase server utilization rates.

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GWeather Locations DB major update

The GWeather developers are clearing out dead weather monitoring locations from their database. "People have noticed that at one point we accidentally added a lot of dead locations to the GWeather database. Frank Solensky has been monitoring the locations to count the number of reports from every location. I have then knocked together a quick Python script to remove all the locations that had zero reports over the last half a year. What we need you to do is QA our data through random sampling."

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Xandros Joins OSDL to Accelerate Adoption of Desktop Linux

OSDL has announced its newest member, Xandros. "Xandros will participate in OSDL's Desktop Linux (DTL) working group with a specific focus on advancing standards-based usability and consistency."

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Mozilla Corporation Signs Distribution Deal with RealNetworks (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine covers a new distribution deal between the Mozilla Corporation and RealNetworks. "The Mozilla Corporation and RealNetworks have entered into a multi-year agreement under which RealNetworks will distribute Mozilla Firefox with its products. During the installation of RealPlayer, users will be given the option to also install Firefox. In the near future, Firefox will also be an installation option with Real's Rhapsody music download service and RealArcade gaming platform."

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LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition by Steven Pritchard, Bruno Gomes Pessanha, Nicolai Langfeldt, James Stanger, and Jeff Dean.

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Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition by Jeffrey E. F. Friedl.

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FSF opinion papers published

The Free Software Foundation has published a set of opinion papers as a supplement to the rationale document for the GPLv3 second draft. They cover topics like patent retaliation, DRM, BitTorrent, and others. "Draft 1 did not address peer-to-peer transmission; it was an issue that had escaped our notice. The experts on the discussion committees we formed in January did not call this issue to our attention either. Rather, the issue was pointed out to us by two unaffiliated members of the free software user community."

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Amarok Live Calling for Artwork (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced a new Amarok artwork contest. "The Amarok project has announced an artwork contest for their upcoming live CD, Amarok Live, for fancy new version 1.4. The contest includes among other things bootsplash screens, wallpapers and Amarok splash screens. Also the Amarok Live team would like to have a complete set with similar style for all the items listed in the Amarok wiki. This artwork contest will be opened for submission until midnight UTC ending September 1st."

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Call for nominations for the 2006 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project have announced the request for nominations for the 2006 Award for the Advancement of Free Software. "This annual award is presented to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom (as defined in the Free Software Definition)."

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PyWeek #3 in September!

The third PyWeek game programming challenge has been announced. The object of the challenge is to develop a Python-based game in one week. "PyWeek 3 is coming up. I've scheduled it for the first week of September. The exact dates are 00:00UTC Sunday 3rd September to 00:00UTC Sunday 10th September."

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Valgrind receives Google-O'Reilly Award (KDE.News)

KDE.news reports that Valgrind has won an award. "Julian Seward, father of the the famous Valgrind, an opensource tool for debugging and profiling your applications, won this years Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for "Best Toolmaker". This years ceremony was the second of the annual event. Congratulations, Julian! In other news, Valgrind 3.2 has been released."

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Volunteers Wanted for Mozilla Firefox User Panel (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine mentions an effort to collect user opinions on the User Panel. "Rachel Werner writes: "Mozilla is now recruiting for the Firefox User Panel, which is an initiative to learn more about how end-users interact with the Web. Firefox User Panel members will complete a series of short online surveys on a variety of Web-related topics, with the aggregate results made available to the Mozilla community."

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LPI and FSG join forces in Latin America

The Linux Professional Institute and the Free Standards Group will provide professional certification in Latin America. "The two organizations will initiate this relationship through their key participation in a five city IT tour in Brazil beginning in August 2006 which includes such leading companies as IBM and Novell, local LPI training partners and other IT organizations."

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ARES 2007: Call for workshop proposals

A call for workshop proposals has gone out for ARES 2007, The Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. The event takes place from April 10–13th, 2007 in Vienna, Austria, proposals are due by September 10.

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Boston Summit 2006 announced

The GNOME Boston Summit will be held on October 7-9 in Boston, MA. "The annual GNOME Boston Summit is a three-day hackfest for GNOME developers and contributors. It is not primarily aimed at users or new contributors, but if you want to jump right into the deep end, it's a fantastic way to meet everyone and get involved. Unlike traditional conferences, the Boston Summit is all about getting developers together and getting things done. While there are some non-hacking sessions, they are geared heavily towards many-to-many, interactive discussion and planning, rather than one-to-many presentations."

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Help KDE at LinuxWorld London (KDE.News)

KDE.News has posted a call for help for the next London LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. "Today we received confirmation that we have been successful in obtaining a booth at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. The two-day event is taking place on the 25th and 26th of October in London's Olympia 2 conference hall. Following last year's success we are hoping to have a bigger presence this year to demonstrate our efforts at Akademy 2006 as well as the progress that will have been made with KDE 4."

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Events: August 17, 2006 to October 16, 2006

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
August 14 August 17	ApacheCon Asia	Colombo, Sri Lanka
August 14 August 17	LinuxWorld San Francisco 2006	San Francisco, CA
August 17 August 18	Python for Scientific Computing	Pasadena, CA
August 18 August 19	The Ubucon Conference	Mountain View, CA
August 19 August 20	Colombian Mini-DebConf	Popayan, Cauca, Colombia
August 19	Linux Picnic 15	Sunnyvale, CA, USA
August 21 August 27	Ireland PyPy sprint	Limerick, Ireland
August 23 August 24	Fourth International Conference on GPLv3	Bangalore, India
August 26	RubyConf*MI	Grand Rapids, MI
August 28 August 31	Bellua Cyber Security Asia 2006	Jakarta, Indonesia
August 30 September 1	YAPC::EU 2006 - Yet Another Perl Conference - Birmingham	Birmingham, UK
September 5 September 8	Linux Kongress 2006, 13th International Linux System Technology Conference	Nürnburg, Germany
September 8	Leipzig Python Workshop	Leipzig, Germany
September 9 September 10	Linuxtage in Essen	Essen, Germany
September 11 September 13	OpenOffice.org Conference	Lyon, France
September 12 September 15	php|works/db|works 2006	Toronto, Canada
September 13 September 15	2006 WebGUI Users Conference	Las Vegas, NV
September 14	NLUUG najaarsconferentie 2006	Gelderland, The Netherlands
September 14 September 16	Wizards of OS 4 - Information Freedom Rules	Berlin, Germany
September 14 September 15	RailsConf Europe 2006	London, UK
September 14	Open Source: New DoD Paradigm, or Business as Usual?	Arlington, VA, USA
September 14 September 15	Software Tagging Workshop	Portland, OR, USA
September 16 September 17	WineConf	Reading, UK
September 16 September 17	Linux-Delhi (India Linux users group Delhi chapter) Freedel 2006	Delhi, India
September 17	KLDP 10 year Anniversary Free/Open Source Software Conference	Seoul, Korea
September 18 September 21	2006 European Open Source Convention	Brussels, Belgium
September 18 September 21	New Security Paradigms Workshop	Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
September 19 September 21	High Performance Embedded Computing Workshop	Lexington, MA, USA
September 23 September 30	KDE World Summit 2006	Dublin, Ireland
September 25 September 28	Embedded Systems Conference	Boston, MA
September 29 September 30	No cON Name 2006 Congress	Palma de Mallorca, Spain
September 29 October 1	ToorCon 2006	San Diego, CA
September 29 October 1	Encuentro de Desarrolladores de GNOME Zaragoza	Zaragoza, Spain
September 30 October 1	RuxCon 2006	Sydney, Australia
September 30	Ohio LinuxFest 2006	Columbus, Ohio
September 30	Defective by Design, 2pm-5pm, Apple Store, Regent Street, London, UK	London, UK
October 1 October 4	Gelato ICE Itanium Conference and Expo	Biopolis, Singapore
October 1 October 3	LinuxBIOS Symposium 2006	Hamburg, Germany
October 2 October 5	Security OPUS Infosec Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 7 October 9	GNOME Boston Summit	Boston, MA, USA
October 9 October 13	ApacheCon US	Austin, TX
October 9 October 13	13th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Naperville, IL
October 11 October 12	Eclipse Summit Europe	Esslingen, Germany
October 11 October 12	Linux World Conference and Expo	Utrecht, The Netherlands
October 12 October 15	Eighth Real-Time Linux Workshop	Lanzhou, Gansu, China

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Linux Link Tech Show Interviews Amarok Developers (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the availability of an audio interview with Amarok developers. "The Linux Link Tech Show has interviewed Amarok developers Max Howell and Ian Monroe in their latest show. Max talks about Amarok's many features and what they plan for KDE 4, while Ian explains what the main goals of the Amarok project are. Start 12 minutes in to skip the technical problems and listen to the interview."

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