Announcements

KDE e.V. Quarterly Report (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the availability of the second quarter 2006 KDE e.V. report. "KDE's legal body KDE e.V. has published its second 2006 quarterly report. Topics covered include progress organising Akademy 2006, activities from the working groups and sysadmins, events organised and attended and seven new members. If you have been helping KDE for a while, do consider joining the e.V. membership."

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OpenDocument Fellowship receives development grants

The OpenDocument Fellowship has received almost $40,000 in donations for its Targeted Donations Program. "One donation will be used to reward volunteers from the OASIS ODF Formula subcommittee for their continuing work on the formula specification. The other donations are targeted at development projects. The Fellowship is producing an "ODF toolkit" for developers, and a light-weight ODF viewer."

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2X goes open source with 2X TerminalServer

2X has announced the release of the source code for its its 2X TerminalServer for Linux product, under the GPL. "2X TerminalServer is a mature terminal server solution based on the popular NX protocol, which enables users to run a Linux desktop and Linux / Windows applications over any type of connection. A free terminal server solution provides significant value to the Linux community and will help justify a potential move to Linux on the desktop."

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Linspire's "Click 'N Run" service now free

Linspire has announced that its "Click 'N Run" service is now available free of charge. "The strong revenue stream from the commercial desktop Linux software applications, as well as the premium 'CNR Gold' service, has opened the door for Linspire to offer the basic CNR service at no charge to all Linspire and Freespire users."

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Linux/Unix version of SPECviewperf 9 now available

A free download of the SPECviewperf v9 graphics performance evaluation software is available for Linux, according to is available. "SPECviewperf has become a worldwide standard for users assessing graphics performance for new purchases and upgrades, graphics card vendors testing products under development, OEMs evaluating graphics components, and consultants and publication editors reviewing new graphics systems. SPECviewperf 9 represents a major upgrade to the popular benchmarking software, featuring two new viewsets, a totally restructured viewset, and code changes that bring the testing environment much closer to the realities experienced by application users."

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Novell reports preliminary financial results for 3Q 2006

Novell, Inc. has announced its preliminary third quarter financial results. "For the third fiscal quarter 2006, Novell reported net revenue of $241 million, compared to net revenue of $252 million for the third fiscal quarter 2005. The loss available to common stockholders from continuing operations in the third fiscal quarter 2006 was $3 million or $0.01 loss per diluted common share. This compares to income available to common stockholders from continuing operations of $0.4 million, or $0.00 per diluted common share, for the third fiscal quarter 2005."

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Prosilica releases Linux software development kit (LaserFocusWorld)

LaserFocusWorld reports that Prosilica has announced a Linux software development kit for its gigabit Ethernet cameras. "These GigE Vision gigabit Ethernet cameras, which have been used in wide range of Windows-based computer vision applications, can now also be easily used on Linux computers. The SDK also includes sample code to help programmers more easily use Prosilica's cameras in their Linux-based applications. Prosilica's Linux SDK for GigE Vision works on both x86 and PowerPC hardware which is of great interest to system integrators and equipment manufacturers who want to use low-cost computer platforms for their automated imaging systems."

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Zenoss releases open-source enterprise monitoring product

Zenoss, Inc. has announced the release of a new version of its Zenoss open-source enterprise monitoring product. "Offering the most complete IT monitoring software suite available as open source, the new version of Zenoss features: Built in Support for Nagios Plug-Ins. Existing users of Nagios can continue to use widely available and/or customized Nagios plug-ins in support of their systems monitoring requirements."

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CSS: The Missing Manual--O'Reilly's latest release

O'Reilly has published the book CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland.

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No Starch Press releases "Hacking the Cable Modem"

No Starch Press has published the book Hacking the Cable Modem by DerEngel.

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Ruby on Rails: Up and Running - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by Bruce Tate and Curt Hibbs.

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Open-Xchange Publishes Web 2.0 Collaboration Position Paper

Open-Xchange, Inc. has a position paper, written by Daniel Kusnetzky, entitled Three Critical Elements of a Web 2.0-based Collaborative Solution.

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Announcing The APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize IN 2007 (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews mentions a $4000 prize that is available for free software developers. "The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Chris Nicol FOSS Prize recognises initiatives that are making it easy for people to start using free and open source software (FOSS). The prize will be awarded to a person or group doing extraordinary work to make FOSS accessible to ordinary computer users."

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The Free Software Directory D5000 Contest

The Free Software Foundation has announced a contest to celebrate the 5000th entry in 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."

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KPhotoAlbum Splash Screen Contest (KDE.News)

KDE.News has announced the KPhotoAlbum Splash Screen Contest. "The contest comes with a prize of $100US straight from author Jesper's PayPal account. Some early designs are on the contest page already. The contest runs until September 15th, and after that the KPhotoAlbum community will vote on which one will be used for the next release."

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MySQL wins database contest

MySQL AB has announced the winning of an award. "MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, announced today that its internal benchmark team has won an international contest sponsored by the renowned IT industry magazine c´t for the fastest e-commerce database application. The magazine's editors held the contest to evaluate database performance in real-world business use by creating a standard online inventory system."

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linux.conf.au 2007 call for participation extended!

The lca2007 Call For Participation has been extended until September 15, 2006. Submit your presentations, miniconfs, tutorials and papers before its too late. "Proposals for presentations and tutorials should be around 400 words and should detail the subject you want to talk about and include links to any other relevant details, such as a project home page. Remember this proposal needs to convince our programme committee that you should be talking at linux.conf.au 2007." lca2007 begins January 15, 2007.

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Update on Hack.lu 2006

Hack.lu 2006 will be held in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg on October 19-21, 2006. "Hack.lu is an open convention /conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. The aim of the convention is to make a bridge of the various actors in the computer security world."

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T-DOSE event in Eindhoven, the Netherlands

The 2006 T-DOSE event has been announced. "During the weekend of December 2nd and 3rd 2006 the T-DOSE event will be held in the auditorium of the Technical University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The name T-DOSE stands for Technical Dutch Open Source Event and offers a central speakers track, an open source marketplace for the abundant sharing of information and several developer/community rooms."

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Events: September 7, 2006 to November 6, 2006

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
October 31 November 2	Zend/PHP Conference and Expo	San Jose, CA
November 1	Ingres Users Association Conference	London, England
November 4 November 8	I Jornadas técnicas KDE de	Zaragoza, Spain
November 4 November 11	Open Source in Performance and Exhibition	London, England
November 5 November 8	International PHP Conference	Frankfurt, Germany
November 5 November 10	Ubuntu Developer Summit - Mountain View	Mountain View, CA, USA

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Python Sprint Report

Guido van Rossum reports on the Python Sprint in a blog posting. "This week, a number of Python developers (core and otherwise) and some Googlers got together in Mountain View and New York for a four-day Python and Python-3000 (Py3k) development sprint. Here's what we've done." Topics include: Warming Up, Int/Long Unification, Reinventing Comparison, Miscellaneous Projects and Python 2.5/2.6 Sprint Results.

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SpreadGNOME.org Launches

The new SpreadGNOME.org site has been launched. "In an effort to promote the adoption of GNU/Linux desktops, SpreadGNOME.org has launched with the goal of being a resource to help spread the word of GNOME to GNU/Linux desktop users and potential converts. It is meant as a place to share ideas to help promote GNOME in the community, and helping those who wish to get involved with GNOME. Feel free to submit other GNOME-related content as well to this site. SpreadGNOME.org is an independent web-site and is not affiliated with, authorized by, sponsored by, or otherwise approved by GNOME Foundation. "

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A wiki about computer hardware, including Linux support

Thue Janus Kristensen has announced a new wiki. "After having noted that there doesn't seem to be a wiki in existence about computer hardware and operating system support, I decided to create one. To me hardware and operating system support it seems like an obvious idea for a user-supported information collection, in the spirit of Wikipedia."

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Lawrence Lessig's LinuxWorld talk online

LinuxWorld has put up a video of Lawrence Lessig's LinuxWorld keynote. It is in Flash format, however, and thus not accessible to all Linux users.

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