Announcements
Commercial announcements
ActiveState Active Awards: Vote for your favorite programmer
ActiveState has announced the third annual Programmers' Choice and Activators' Choice Awards. The awards honor those individuals who *actively* contribute to open languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. Awards will be presented in each of ActiveState's key technologies: Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, and XSLT.Announcing the second Ghostscript bug bounty
Artifex will be holding the second GhostScript Bug Bounty contest. "In preparation for the AFPL Ghostscript 8.20 release, Artifex Software, Inc., and artofcode LLC are pleased to announce the second instantiation of our "bug bounty" program. Basically, for each bug you fix, you get $500. We hope that this program will improve the quality of the 8.20 release, increase community participation, and give a little something back to the corps of volunteers who help with the Ghostscript testing and bug fixing process. We currently have over 100 bugs in the tracker, and would like to get that as close to zero as possible."
Astaro Raises $6.2 Million in First Round Venture Funding
Astaro Corp. has announced that it has raised a Series A round of $6.2 million from co-investors Insight Venture Partners of New York and Wellington Partners of Munich, Germany. Funding will be used to broaden its Linux-based product portfolio, expand its channel partner program and deepen its strategic alliances with hardware OEMs.Fujitsu Siemens packages SuSE Linux with PRIMERGY Servers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers and SuSE Linux announced a joint offering combining PRIMERGY servers with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8.Jupitermedia Announces Sponsors for Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo
Jupitermedia Corporation has announced that its upcoming Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo Spring 2003 will take place June 4 - 6, 2003 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. IBM is joined by Oracle and Red Hat as sponsors of the event. Keynote speakers are also announced in this press release.Linux Networx adds VPs
Linux Networx, continuing its push to take over the Linux cluster supercomputer market, has announced the hiring of a new set of vice presidents. The six new suits come from companies like HP, Penguin Computing, VA Linux Systems, Novell, and Cray."The Book of Webmin" from by No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released The Book of Webmin, by Joe Cooper, a detailed look at the web-based systems administration toolkit. The book is a revised version of the Webmin online documentation, also written by Joe Cooper.OpenAccess 2.1 Released to Coalition Members
OpenAccess has announced the release of the OpenAccess 2.1 API to Coalition members. The API will be released to the public in July, 2003. "The OpenAccess Coalition, a group of 16 top electronics and electronic design automation (EDA) companies focused on creating a standard for true interoperability, today announced the immediate availability of the OpenAccess 2.1 API and reference database to its members with release to the entire industry targeted for July 2003. The new release provides significant enhancements, including database support to maintain a full relationship between logical and physical hierarchies, thread-safe multi-processing support, and improved performance to further address the needs of customers seeking a common, open database for integrated circuit (IC) design."
PSSC Labs Builds Supercomputer for NASA Ames Research Center
PSSC Labs announced the sale of its new Hyperwall super computer/giant display to the NASA's Ames Research Center. The system runs Red Hat Linux version 7.3. "Fifty high-end servers, integrated by PSSC Labs, power the Hyperwall, Each server contains two AMD Athlon MP processors 2000+ mounted on Tyan Tiger S2466N motherboards. The display element of the Hyperwall is composed of a 7'x7' matrix of 18.1" liquid crystal displays. Aggregate pixel count for the entire Hyperwall exceeds 64 million. Graphic displays are controlled by 128MB Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600 AGP video cards."
Sendmail Inc. Introduces Workforce Mail with HP and Intel: Email for Deskless Workers
Sendmail Inc. has announced it is working with HP and Intel to launch Workforce Mail, a complete Linux-based mail solution. "Workforce Mail allows mobile employees such as hospital nurses, field service staff, warehouse/store managers or delivery personnel to use email via kiosks or other wireless access devices. The solution enables them to communicate with company headquarters, human resources and other departments, providing a means to share job-critical information with customers, colleagues and supervisors effortlessly via email."
Trustix Small Office Server
Trustix has announced the availability of Trustix Small Office Server, a version of the Trustix Secure Linux distribution which comes preinstalled on an IBM server (a software-only version is available as well).
Resources
The Linux Migration Quick Reference
The Linux Migration Quick Reference is a site that gives you a nuts and bolts view of how to get things going in Linux in the shortest amount of time.LDP Weekly News
The May 13, 2003 edition of the LDP Weekly News is out with the latest Linux Documentation Project news. Take a look for the latest new documentation.GNOME Talks! (GnomeDesktop)
Gnomedesktop.org mentions the availability of a talk on GNOME accessibility issues. "In the first of a four-part series from the American Council of the Blind, Sun accessibility engineer Marc Mulcachy discusses the current usability of GNOME for blind users [MP3 Audio/30min.]"
Alternative Csound Reference Manual
Version 4.23-1 of the Alternative Csound Reference Manual has been published. "The Alternative Csound Reference Manual is a reference manual for the Csound program. It has been updated for the latest canonical version of Csound, 4.23, and includes many working examples. The Csound program is a digital audio synthesis program distributed by John ffitch at the University of Bath".
Upcoming Events
HP, IBM, Oracle on Board to Exhibit at LinuxWorld in San Francisco
IDG World Expo is gearing up for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, August 4 - 7, 2003 in San Francisco. Computer Associates, HP, IBM, Intel Corporation, Oracle, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems as well as growing companies like Pogo Linux Inc. and APPRO are just a few of the companies that have signed up to exhibit during the expo.International Lisp Conference 2003 CFP
The second call for participation has gone out for the International Lisp Conference 2003, which will be held in New York City on October 12-15, 2003.EuroPython 2003
The Second Annual European Python and Zope Conference will be held in Belgium on June 25-27, 2003.Perl Mongers Italia (use Perl)
Use Perl reports on the state of the Italian Perl Mongers groups. "larsen writes "The currently active Italian Perl Mongers Groups (Nordest.pm, Roma.pm, Bologna.pm and Pisa.pm) recently began to structure their activities at a higher level. We started with wishful talk on IRC and end up organizing the first Italian national meeting of Perl Mongers Italia for Perl Users and Perl Mongers Groups."
Events: May 15 - July 10, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 15 - 16, 2003 | YAPC::Canada | (Carleton University)Ottawa, Canada |
| May 17, 2003 | Association For Free Software Annual Conference(AFFSAC) | (Aston University)Birmingham, England |
| May 25 - 27, 2003 | GCC Developer's Summit | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 28 - 30, 2003 | Open Source Content Management, 2003(OSCOM) | (Harvard Law School)Cambridge, Mass |
| May 30 - 31, 2003 | 4th European Tcl/Tk Users Meeting(Tcl'Europe 2003) | Nürnberg, Germany |
| June 4 - 6, 2003 | Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo | (Santa Clara Convention Center)Santa Clara, California |
| June 9 - 14, 2003 | USENIX 2003 | (Marriott Hotel)San Antonio, TX |
| June 10, 2003 | Linux For Business | (The Commonwealth Institute)London, England |
| June 16 - 18, 2003 | Yet Another Perl Conference::North America(YAPC::2003) | (Florida Atlantic University)Boca Raton, FL |
| June 16 - 18, 2003 | GNOME User and Developer European Conference(GUADEC) | (Trinity College)Dublin, Ireland |
| June 18 - 23, 2003 | Open Source Clinical Application Resource Workshop(OSCAR) | (McMaster University)Ontario, Canada |
| June 21 - 22, 2003 | EuropeanRubyConference | (University of Karlsruhe)Karlsruhe, Germany |
| June 23 - 26, 2003 | ClusterWorld Conference & Expo | (San Jose Convention Center)San Jose, California |
| June 24 - 26, 2003 | LinuxUser & Developer Expo | (Birmingham National Exhibition Centre)Birmingham, UK |
| June 25 - 27, 2003 | European Python and Zope Conference 2003 | (CEME)Charleroi, Belgium |
| July 7 - 11, 2003 | O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2003(OSCON) | (Portland Marriot)Portland, Oregon |
| July 10 - 13, 2003 | LinuxTag | Karlsruhe, Germany |
Software announcements
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.
Miscellaneous
Major release of the Jargon File
Eric Raymond has announced the release of version 4.4.0 of The Jargon File, an assortment of amusing UNIX anecdotes. "The Jargon File is a central part of the heritage of the Linux and open-source movements. As we approach the File's 30th anniversary, it is my pleasure and honor to bring the hacker community a major new release, 4.4.0."
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