Announcements

UnitedLinux Signs IBM and AMD as First Technology Partners

UnitedLinux has announced that IBM and AMD have joined UnitedLinux as Technology Partners. The role of Technology Partner includes, among other benefits, participation in the UnitedLinux Technical Advisory Board and its committees, pre-release access to UnitedLinux deliverables, the right to propose enhancements for consideration by the UnitedLinux Technical Steering Committee, and joint marketing activities.

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MySQL Database Available on IBM eServer zSeries

The MySQL open-source database is now available on the IBM zSeries computers. "MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that the MySQL(tm) database is available on IBM eServer zSeries running Linux. With MySQL for Linux on zSeries, developers can create MySQL-based applications for the IBM mainframe, a family of powerful enterprise servers designed for secure, heavy-load e-business and enterprise applications."

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MontaVista's press releases

For those who want to look further, we've received copies of MontaVista's press releases from the Consumer Electronics Show. This one describes the company's new distribution aimed at consumer electronics applications (version 3.0, despite being "the first embedded Linux platform designed for consumer electronics"). There is also a partner program for consumer electronics, and a Panasonic "broadband terminal" using the MontaVista platform. The most fun of all might be the partnership with Macrovision to bring digital rights management support to Linux.

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Nokia's J2ME Developer's Suite for Linux

Here is the press release from Nokia on the release of its J2ME Developer's Suite (useful for writing applications for cellular phones) for Linux. "The Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME, Version 1.1 for Linux will now bring one of the most-popular available wireless developer technologies to one of the most dynamic segments of the global developer community."

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SCO and Wincor Nixdorf To Offer Joint Retail Solutions

The SCO Group has announced plans to work with Wincor Nixdorf to provide Linux-based retail point-of-sale (POS) solutions to retailers in North America. SCO and Wincor Nixdorf have already begun collaborating on retail solutions, providing more than 2000 Linux based devices for Budgens, a supermarket chain based in the United Kingdom.

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New Developer Mailing List for Optimizing KDE (KDE.News)

KDE.News has an announcement for a new kde-optimize mailing list. "The list is for developers who are willing to actively work on optimizing KDE or KDE applications, those who have profiled KDE or those who have the knowledge to help others optimize KDE." Two related documents have already been developed for this list.

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Free Online Version of Mason Book (use Perl)

Use Perl has an announcement for an online version of the book Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason. The book is available here.

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Open Source Digest Issue 1

Issue #1 of the Open Source Digest is now available online.

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LinuxWorld is coming to New York

LinuxWorld is still over a week away, but the press releases are already trickling in. These first ones are from IDG World Expo, producer of LinuxWorld. This one has a list of exhibitors, keynotes and other things to see at LinuxWorld. The major sponsors of LinuxWorld are listed in this press release.

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O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Registration has opened for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, which will be held in Santa Clara, CA from April 22-25, 2003. ""Hackers and other lead users are a great early warning system if you want to think about the future of technology," contends Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates. "They do things today that everyone else will be doing in a couple of years.""

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UKUUG - Winter Conference and Tutorial

The UKUUG will be holding its Winter Conference & Tutorial event in London, England on February 18 and 19, 2003.

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Samba XP 2003 CFP

A call for papers has been issued for the Samba eXPerience 2003. Submissions are due in by February 14th 2003.

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ESC San Francisco

The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) San Francisco will take place April 22 to 26, 2003. Online pre-registration opens this week.

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FOSDEM 2003 Support Operation

FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting) is seeking financial support. See how you can help. The FOSDEM has also published 3 new interviews this week, with speakers coming for the "databases" track.

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YAPC::NA::2003 CFP Announced

A Call for Papers is out for the YAPC::NA Perl conference, to be held in Boca Raton, Florida in June of 2003. Abstracts are due in by March 25, 2003.

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Business at XML 2002 (O'Reilly)

Alan Kotok covers the business aspects of the XML 2002 conference. "The XML 2002 conference and expo (8-13 December 2002), this year's IDEAlliance showcase, reflected the impact of the technology recession on XML business applications. With many business customers cutting back on new technology investments, XML vendors now take a greater interest in government clients and offer their tools to help organizations integrate current applications as well as build new ones. This focus on government and integration came through repeatedly during the conference."

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Events: January 16 - March 13, 2003

Date	Event	Location
January 21 - 24, 2003	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	(Jacob K. Javits Center)New York, NY
January 22 - 25, 2003	Linux.conf.au 2003	Perth, Australia
January 27 - 31, 2003	SAINT-2003	Orlando, Florida, USA
February 3 - 6, 2003	O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference	(Westin Horton Plaza.)San Diego, CA
February 4 - 6, 2003	Linux Solutions 2003	(CNIT)Paris, France
February 8 - 9, 2003	Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting(FOSDEM)	Brussels, Belgium
February 10 - 14, 2003	The fifth NordU/USENIX Conference(NordU2003)	(Aros Congress Center)Västerås, Sweden
February 22 - 24, 2003	CodeCon 2.0	(Club NV)San Francisco CA, USA

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XAP Web Site Updated

The XAP web site has been updated. "XAP is an audio plugin API for instruments and effects. It is currently in the process of being designed by members of the LAD (Linux Audio Developers) mailing list. XAP is based on many man-years of experience with audio programming, and also draws inspiration and knowledge from popular industry standards, such as Steinberg's VST. The XAP developers are focused on creating a powerful standardized interface, that will allow audio applications to host instruments and effects."

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This week's software announcements

Here are the software announcements, courtesy of Freshmeat.net. They are available in two formats:

• Sorted alphabetically,
• Sorted by license.

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