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Second discussion draft of LGPLv3 released

A new discussion draft for version 3 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPLv3) is out. "Since the license is currently written as a set of additional permissions on top of GPLv3, a number of terms have been updated to reflect changes in the GPLv3 draft released last week. Additionally, we have made a few small adjustments to clarify particular requirements."

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Mandriva participates in Intel's Classmate PC project

Mandriva has sent out a press release announcing that it is working with Intel on its competitor to the OLPC. "Mandriva and Intel spent eight months customizing the Mandriva Linux operating system for Classmate PC, including integrating drivers and adapting applications specially developed for this project. Classmate PC will be produced in Brazil and launched in the second quarter of 2007. Following the launch, Classmate PCs running Mandriva Linux 2007 will be available to Mexico, India and developing countries."

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Ampro PCI-104 CPU Breaks the 1 GHz Barrier

Ampro Computers, Inc. has announced announced a new PC/104 platform performance record. "Ampro Computers, Inc., a leading supplier of standards-based computer systems, single board computers (SBCs), and computer-on-modules (COMs), shatters the previously-impenetrable 1 GHz barrier for rugged PC/104-size modules while remaining true to form factor standards. In order for military, avionics, transportation, and industrial system manufacturers to leverage existing enclosures while upgrading performance, Ampro's new 1 GHz CoreModule(TM) 800 achieved a number of technological breakthroughs in fitting a complete CPU subsystem with I/O, PCI-104 bus expansion, and network interfaces without violating the required 3.550" x 3.750" (90 x 96 mm) board outline."

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Chelsio and AMCC demonstrate iSCSI storage solution

Chelsio Communications, Inc. and AMCC have announced a demonstration Gigabit Ethernet raid system. "The complete, low-cost GbE storage solution from client to storage server is running hardware accelerated RAID 5 on Linux. The storage server includes AMCC's 440SPe "Katmai" evaluation board featuring the PowerPC 440SPe storage processor with high performance hardware RAID computational capabilities. Mounted on the board is a 2x1 GbE T3 acceleration card from Chelsio acting as the iSCSI target and an LSI Logic SAS IOC card. The Katmai platform is connected to an 8-disk storage array."

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OpenVZ Virtualization for Latest Linux Kernel

The OpenVZ project has announced a version of its virtualization software for Linux kernel version 2.6.20. ""Linux 2.6.20 is also the basis for the next Ubuntu distribution, which potentially would enable us a smooth transition to add OpenVZ virtualization," said Kir Kolyshkin, manager of the OpenVZ project. "With this latest release of OpenVZ software, we've made a number of improvements to benefit our users in the open source community.""

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Open-Xchange Names New CEO and CTO

Open-Xchange Inc. has announced new CEO and CTO hires. "Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source collaboration software, today named Gerald Labie as the company's new CEO. The company also announced the appointment of Jurgen Geck to the position of CTO. The moves provide Open-Xchange with a seasoned management team to lead the company through a period of rapid growth."

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Paragon Software Launches New Version of NTFS for Linux

Paragon Software has announced the launch of Paragon NTFS for Linux 6.0. "The product’s purpose is to provide reliable, rapid and transparent read/write access to NTFS volumes under Linux. Among the new improvements and features in this release are complete support for 64 bit CPU architecture, Windows Vista NTFS file system, the latest Linux kernel and also includes performance enhancements."

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Penguin Computing Closes $9 Million in Series 2 Financing

Penguin Computing, Inc. has announced its latest venture capital financing. "Penguin Computing, the leader in Linux Cluster Virtualization, today announced that it has closed $9 million in Series 2 financing, led by vSpring Capital, with participation from existing investors, San Francisco Equity Partners, Weber Capital and Convergence Partners. The injection of funds will help Penguin Computing take advantage of the increasing demand for Linux High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, both among its strong customer base in the commercial, government and academic fields, and beyond to rapidly expanding enterprise markets such as web infrastructure."

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TimeSys Announces Edward Nash as Vice President of Engineering

TimeSys has announced the appointment of Edward Nash as vice president of engineering. "Ed will be responsible for the development and deployment of TimeSys technologies, supporting the company's goal of delivering on-demand access to continuously updated processor-optimized Linux packages, components and tools for embedded Linux developers who build and assemble their own commercial-grade custom Linux platforms."

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XenSource releases XenEnterprise 3.2

XenSource has announced the release of XenEnterprise 3.2, its commercial server virtualization solution. "The new release, XenEnterprise 3.2, enables deployment of additional Windows and Linux versions, and enhances the power and flexibility of Windows guests via SMP support. XenEnterprise 3.2 also delivers greater security and performance, enhanced resource management capabilities, iSCSI SAN support, and improvements in manageability and serviceability."

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Release It! - New from the Pragmatic Programmers

Pragmatic Programmers has published the book Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software by Michael T. Nygard.

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Sahana wins the 2006 social benefit award

Free Software Foundation has announced the Sahana project as the winner of its Award for Projects of Social Benefit. "Sahana, an entirely volunteer effort to create technology for managing large-scale relief efforts, is the recipient of the 2006 Free Software Foundation Award for Projects of Social Benefit. Sahana was created, in the wake of the tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004, to compensate for the devastating consequences of a government attempt to manually manage the process of locating victims, distributing aid and coordinating volunteers." (Thanks to Krishna Pagadala).

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OpenSUSE network settings survey

OpenSUSE is holding a survey on network settings, the survey is open until April 20, 2007.

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O'Reilly School of Technology Opens its Virtual Doors

O'Reilly has launched the O'Reilly School of Technology. "The O'Reilly School of Technology bases its courses on the premise that for people to learn any skill they must immerse themselves in the skill and practice. The school employs an online learning technique called "useractive learning" in which the student or "user" is actively engaged in building and creating projects while the instructional material is presented. There are no presentation-heavy videos and simulations to sit through. Instead, the courses feature tutorial-style content and Learning Sandboxes(r) that contain easy-to-use, real, open programming environments in which the students try examples and work on projects."

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Gelato ICE technical program announced

The technical program for the Gelato ICE conference & expo has been announced. The event takes place in San Jose, CA on April 15-18, 2007. "Program tracks include: multi-core programming, IA-64 Linux kernel work, virtualization, tools and tuning, topics for enterprise, GCC improvements, and cutting-edge research. Linux keynote speakers will be Andrew Morton, Maintainer of the Linux 2.6 Kernel, and Wim Coekaerts, Senior Director for Linux Engineering at Oracle. You will also not want to miss the presentation from Intel's James Fister outlining the latest, yet to be disclosed, Itanium processor roadmap."

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Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007

The Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007 will take place in Stockholm, Sweden on May 19 and 20, 2007. "We thought we'd get together for a two-day Rockbox hacking session, and that it would be cool if there were some other Rockbox devs who would drop by and share the fun."

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Events: April 12, 2007 to June 11, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
April 12 April 14	International Free Software Forum (Forum Internacional Software Livre)	Porto Alegre, Brazil
April 14 April 15	Ruby and Python Conference 2007	Poznan, Poland
April 15 April 18	Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo	San Jose, California, USA
April 17 April 19	Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, USA
April 18 April 20	CanSecWest Applied Security Conference 2007	Vancouver, Canada
April 19	Linux 2007	Lisbon, Portugal
April 19	Power Architecture Software Summit	Austin, TX, USA
April 20 April 22	International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security	Vienna, Austria
April 20 April 22	Penguicon 5.0 Open Source Software & Science Fiction Convention	Troy, Michigan, USA
April 21	Romanian Open Source Development Meeting	Bucharest, Romania
April 23 April 25	Samba eXPerience 2007	Göttingen, Germany
April 23 April 27	PostgreSQL Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
April 23 April 26	MySQL Conference and Expo	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 28 April 29	Linuxfest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA
May 3 May 4	Ubuntu Education Summit	Sevilla, Spain
May 3 May 5	SugarCRM Global Developer Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
May 4 May 6	Libre Graphics Meeting 2007	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 5 May 6	LayerOne Security Conference	Pasadena, CA, USA
May 5	Ubucon - Sevilla	Sevilla, Spain
May 6 May 11	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Sevilla, Spain
May 7	CommunityOne	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 8 May 9	World Summit on Intrusion Prevention	Baltimore, MD, USA
May 8 May 11	Annual Java Technology Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 8 May 11	OSHCA 2007	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 9 May 11	Red Hat Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
May 10 May 11	IEEE International Workshop on Open Source Test Technology Tools	Berkeley, CA, USA
May 10	NLUUG Spring Conference 2007	Ede, The Netherlands
May 11 May 13	Conferenze Italiana sul Software Libero	Cosenza, Italy
May 12 May 13	KOffice ODF Weekend	Berlin, Germany
May 14 May 25	The Pure Data Spring School 2007	Glasgow, Scotland
May 16 May 18	php|tek	Chicago, IL, USA
May 17 May 20	RailsConf 2007	Portland, Oregon
May 18 May 19	eLiberatica Open Source and Free Software Conference	Brasov, Romania
May 18 May 19	FreedomHEC	Los Angeles, CA
May 18 May 19	BSDCan 2007	Ottawa, Canada
May 19 May 20	The 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems	Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
May 19 May 20	Rockbox International Developers Conference 2007	Stockholm, Sweden
May 19	Grazer LinuxDays 2007	Graz, Austria
May 19 May 20	Make Magazine Maker Faire 2007	San Mateo, CA, USA
May 19	Linuxwochen Austria - Graz	Graz, Austria
May 21 May 23	International PHP 2007 Conference	Stuttgart, Germany
May 21 May 25	Python Bootcamp with David Beazley	Atlanta, USA
May 22 May 23	Open Source Business Conference	San Francisco, USA
May 22 May 24	Linux Days 2007, Geneva	Geneva, Switzerland
May 23 May 24	PGCon 2007	Ottawa, ON, Canada
May 25	Linuxwochen Austria - Krems	Krems, Austria
May 26	PAKCON III	Karachi, Pakistan
May 29 May 30	Where 2.0 Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
May 29 May 31	European ADempiere Developers Conference	Berlin, Germany
May 29 May 30	I FLOSS CONFERENCE RESISTENCIA	Resistencia, Argentina
May 30 June 2	Linuxtag	Berlin, Germany
May 30 June 1	3rd UNIX Days Conference - Gdansk 2007	Gdansk, Poland
May 30 June 1	Linuxwochen Austria - Wien	Wien, Austria
June 2 June 3	Journées Python Francophones	Paris, France
June 9 June 10	PyCon Uno - First Python Italian conference	Florence, Italy
June 10 June 15	DebCamp	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 10	Pluto Meeting 2007	Padova, Italy

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Launchpad 1.0 Beta Released

Canonical has announced the release of Launchpad 1.0 Beta, a web-based collaboration service. "Collaboration is crucial to free software projects, but has traditionally been difficult across communities that use different tools which don't easily exchange information. Launchpad's new approach links data from a variety of project-specific sources in different communities and presents it in a unified interface, bringing those communities closer together to solve common problems such as bugs in shared code. This public beta includes a redesigned interface that allows projects to brand their presence in the system and highlights the current activity of project members, making it easier to keep track of the latest changes."

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Transcript of RMS on GPLv3 draft 3

The Free Software Foundation Europe has released a transcript and audio from a talk by Richard Stallman on the third draft of the GPLv3 license. "This was his first GPLv3 talk since the release of draft 3 and he explains how the Novell-MS deal was tackled and how the tivoisation clause was narrowed to make it more acceptable."

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Web 2.0 Podcast: What the desirable demographic wants (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly presents a new podcast from the Where 2.0 conference. "One of the most enjoyable sessions at last year's was Safa Rashtchy's panel with a variety of teens. This year Rashtchy, a managing director for Piper Jaffray, is back with more teens and this time he includes their parents as well. You can download the audio as an mp3 or download the video as an mp4, or you can subscribe to the audio podcast or to the video podcast."

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