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EFF: Dangerous Patent Law Ruling Threatens Free and Open Source Software

The EFF has sent out a release stating that it is going to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn a bad lower-court ruling. "In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed its own 'suggestion test' as the main method for determining when a patent should be found obvious over knowledge in the public domain. Under this test, even the most obvious incremental advances and add-ons can be patented unless the Patent Office or a defendant in court produces a document that shows someone else suggested it prior to the patent being filed."

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EnterpriseDB launches EnterpriseDB Network

The EnterpriseDB Network has been launched. "EnterpriseDB, the world’s leading enterprise-class, open source database company, announced today the immediate availability of EnterpriseDB Network, a new service that includes real-time notification and delivery of product updates and patches, access to EnterpriseDB online forums, and enhanced product documentation. In addition, subscribers to EnterpriseDB Network receive access to a variety of advanced product features."

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LVL7 and Wind River Strike Linux Partnership

LVL7 Systems, Inc. has announced its commitment to support the Wind River(r) Platform for Network Equipment, Linux Edition. The complementary solution of LVL7's FASTPATH(r) software combined with Wind River's Linux-based device software platforms provides a shared customer base of networking OEMs with support for high-end network devices.

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Montilio, Penguin Computing announce Storage Access File Server

Penguin Computing has announced that it will use the Montilio RapidFile(TM) storage-to-LAN gateway on a PCI card in its file server offerings. "One RapidFile-enabled Penguin Computing server will be able to provide the I/O throughput of four traditional multi-processor systems without the prohibitive configuration cost of a 4-CPU or 8-CPU system. These Penguin Computing servers with RapidFile cards are ideal solutions for customers in the high performance computing (HPC) or enterprise markets with significant storage capacity and performance needs."

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Sun releases Netbeans mobility pack

Sun has announced the release of the NetBeans Mobility Pack (and the Connected Device Configuration version as well) under the CDDL. "Java ME development tools represent the cutting edge in mobile Java development and boasts unique visual authoring features that can simplify and speed the creation of applications for the vast majority of mobile devices."

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Win4Lin announces support for Ubuntu 6.06

Win4Lin has announced full support for the Ubuntu 6.06 distribution by its Win4Lin Pro Desktop and Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server products. "Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual Desktop Server is the enterprise/SMB product for delivering Windows applications on thin clients via a Linux server. Both products have been fully tested on Ubuntu 6.06."

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition by David Flanagan.

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IDC report on open source

IDC has announced the availability of a new study on open source and the software industry. "Although open source will significantly reduce the industry opportunity over the next ten years, the real impact of open source is to sustain innovations in mature software markets, thus extending the useful life of software assets and saving customers money."

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The Free Software Directory D5000 Contest

The Free Software Foundation has announced its plans to celebrate the upcoming milestone of 5000 software packages on the Free Software Directory. "To mark the milestone of reaching 5000 entries, the FSF is holding a "D5000 contest" the winner of which will be rewarded for submitting the five thousandth entry. From now, 2006-08-21, until 2006-09-21, each new, valid and completed directory entry that is submitted will count as one chit in the raffle for the prize. The winner will receive a thank you on the front page of gnu.org and directory.fsf.org."

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Linux Journal and IDG World Expo Announce Winners of Product Excellence Awards

Linux Journal and IDG World Expo have announced the winners of the Product Excellence Awards. "The Linux Journal Product Excellence Awards distinguish product and service innovations by LinuxWorld exhibitors and are divided into 13 categories, including an overall “Best of Show” award. "All of the judges were very impressed by the nominations we received, it was a very difficult decision. We’ve seen many new innovations, and improvements on old favorites," commented Linux Journal Products Editor and Product Excellence Awards judge James Gray."

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LinuxWorld.com, Network World Announce Open Source Challenge

LinuxWorld.com, in conjunction with Network World, Inc., has announced the LinuxWorld Open Source Challenge, which will honor the most innovative use of open source in today's enterprise. "The contest invites organizations of all sizes to enter their most ingenious, business-critical open-source solutions for judging. Each project entered must use Linux with an open-source business application, and one or more other open-source software components such as Apache, MySQL, Ruby, PHP or Perl. Entries must be received by September 30, 2006."

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Summer of Code Goodies Arriving (Blue Sky on Mars)

Kevin Dangoor looks at early arrivals in the Google Summer of Code student coding effort. "Though we still have more than a month of good weather to look forward to here in Michigan, the thought of summer ending and heading into another long winter isn’t pleasant. On the plus side, the end of summer brings the results of Google’s Summer of Code. The one that I’ve been most looking forward to is Migrate, assistance for SQLAlchemy database schema migration."

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Python Bootcamp to be held Nov. 13-17

The next Python Bootcamp will take place at the Big Nerd Ranch near Atlanta, Georgia on November 13-17, 2006. "The class, which provides instruction in one of the fundamental languages in the programming arena, marks the return of instructor Mark Lutz, who’s the author of a number of textbooks in Python including Learning Python and the O’Reilly books Programming Python and Python Pocket Reference."

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ETech 2007 Call for Participation Is Open

A Call for Participation has gone out for the 2007 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. "The call for participation for ETech 2007 has just opened, and O'Reilly Media invites technologists and strategists, CTOs and chief scientists, researchers, programmers, hackers, and standards workers, business developers, and entrepreneurs to lead conference sessions and tutorials. The next ETech takes place on March 26-29, 2007 in San Diego, California. Proposals are due no later than October 9, 2006."

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aKademy 2006 Sponsors (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the KDE World Summit sponsors. "This is one of the our most impressive list of sponsors to date. Our Gold sponsors are the home of Linus Torvalds OSDL and the KDE based distribution Kubuntu. Housing the conference as our host institution is The School of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. Read on for the full list."

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OOoCon 2006 announced

The next OpenOffice.org conference will take place in Lyon, France on September 11-13, 2006. "This, our fourth conference, celebrates a year of triumphs. Governments, led by France, have adopted OpenOffice.org, replacing the proprietary Microsoft Office. Corporations such as Novell have switched entirely; and we have tracked over 67.5 million downloads to date. All want a suite that uses an open standard for the file format, that is flexible, that is easy to learn, and that is free."

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Security OPUS Infosec Conference registration opens

The Security OPUS Infosec Conference will be held in San Francisco, CA on October 2-5 2006. Registration is now open.

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World Summit on Intrusion Prevention

The World Summit on Intrusion Prevention will take place in Baltimore, Maryland on May 8 and 9, 2007. "The Summit is co-located with the 2nd Annual Web Services Security Conference."

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Events: August 31, 2006 to October 30, 2006

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
October 18 October 19	International Conference on IT-Incident Management and IT-Forensics	Stuttgart, Germany
October 18 October 22	Pike Conference 2006	Riga, Latvia
October 19 October 21	HackLu 2006	Kirchberg, Luxembourg
October 19 October 20	DC PHP Conference	Washington, D.C.
October 20 October 22	aLANtejo 06	Évora, Portugal
October 20 October 22	RubyConf 2006	Denver, Colorado
October 22 October 27	Colorado Software Summit	Keystone, CO, USA
October 23 October 24	Mono User and Developers Meeting	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 23 October 26	Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conf	Lisbon, Portugal
October 25 October 26	LinuxWorld UK 2006	London, UK
October 25 October 27	Plone Conference 2006	Seattle, WA
October 26 October 27	IT Underground	Warsaw, Poland
October 26 October 27	Free Software and Open Source Symposium	Toronto, Canada
October 28	LinuxDay 2006	Many of them, Italy

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Gelato GCC Improvement on Itanium Workshop Summary

An event report has been posted from the Gelato GCC Improvement on Itanium Workshop that was held in Moscow on August 7-8, 2006. "Compiler experts from the GCC open-source community, Red Hat, SuSE, Intel, HP, and the Gelato Member community discussed specific GCC improvements for the Itanium platform. Several key areas were identified to improve Itanium GCC performance."

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LinuxWorld Healthcare Day Presentations (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews mentions the medical events at the recent LinuxWorld Expo. "There is a wiki page of all the presentations at the recent Linux World Healthcare Day presentations: 'On August 15th, 2006 OSDL hosted the first ever Healthcare Day at LinuxWorld Expo. Below is a recap of the event as well as links to the presentations from Medsphere CEO Dr. Kennth Kizer, Joe Alexander - Bull's Director of Strategy and Planning as well as panel discussions moderated by Bernard Golden and Fred Trotter...'"

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A new cross-distribution collaboration

Ubuntu's Daniel Holbach has announced a cross-distribution discussion list. "In one of the GUADEC sessions we discussed the need of more collaboration across distributors. Especially long term support of GNOME releases was identified as one specific need. It's important to have a forum to discuss bugs, patches and implementation details on the distro side. The discussion continued on IRC and everybody liked the idea. Thanks Jeff for bringing the list to life."

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FossExchange to create open-source banner exchange program

FossExchange.com has been launched. "The site's primary purpose is creating a free advertising network among open source oriented websites. "FossExchange.com was created to fill the void, since no other open source banner exchange system exists", says FossExchange.com and Fossystems.com creator Ronnie Whisler. "We wanted to build an advertising exchange that was targeted specifically at the open source market.""

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LinuxSecurity.com launches new web site

Guardian Digital has announced the launch of the LinuxSecurity.com web site. "LinuxSecurity.com, the Web's leading information source for Linux security, is pleased to announce the launch of its completely redesigned Web site. The new site is carefully tailored to meet the needs of our elite community of security-minded engineers, programmers, Web designers, system administrators and open source enthusiasts. The new LinuxSecurity.com offers the very latest security news as well as years of archived news items, features, HOWTOs, white papers and security advisories."

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