Announcements

World Wide Web Consortium approves patent policy

The W3C has announced the final approval of its patent policy, which states that patented technology included in W3C standards must be licensed on a royalty-free basis - at least for the purpose of implementing the standard. This long process has finally reached its conclusion.

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LSB Architecture Specs for PPC64, S390, & S390X approved by the FSG

The Free Standards Group board has approved the LSB version 1.3 archetecture specs for the S390, S390X, and PPC64 platforms.

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Public Review for LSB's AMD64 architecture

The Linux Standards Base is looking for comments from the community on its first draft of the architecture specification for the AMD64 (x86-64) processor.

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D.H. Brown Associates Releases 2003 Linux Function Review

D.H. Brown Associates has published the 2003 release of its Linux Function Review, a comprehensive functional evaluation of Linux as a commercial server operating environment. "Although UNIX systems still clearly offer important functional advantages for the most demanding, high-end commercial applications, Linux has now become a mainstream operating environment for a broad range of general-purpose departmental and workgroup applications in addition to its traditional base of infrastructure solutions, "edge of network" applications, development platforms, and technical computing applications."

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Digital Mars releases Linux version of D Lanuage

Digital Mars has released a free executable of their D language compiler for Linux. (Thanks to Ben Woodhead.)

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IBM's "ThinkCentre" desktops

IBM has announced the availability of its new "ThinkCentre" line of desktop computers. For the most part, it looks like yet another announcement for yet another PC (albeit a nice-looking one), but the "M50" model is available with the Red Hat or SuSE distributions preinstalled. IBM has, until now, been unenthusiastic about the Linux desktop market, so these systems represent a bit of a shift in the company's strategy.

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Opera 7 now available on Linux

Opera Software has released Opera 7 for Linux. The new version includes major new features changes from Opera 6 for Linux as well as a built-in e-mail client, not previously available in Opera for Linux.

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Investment bank and law firm co-sponsor Open Source Software Symposium

C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, an investment bank, and the law firm Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP announced they will co-sponsor an Open Source Software Symposium, to be held on Tuesday, May 20th in Boston, Massachusetts. "Jeff Becker, Director and Head of Software Investment Banking at C.E. Unterberg, Towbin and the event's organizer commented, "Open Source software providers continue to demonstrate their entrepreneurial spirit, drive and success despite the challenges of a prolonged drought in IT spending and upheavals in the equity markets. To thrive in this unforgiving environment requires both a sound business model and exceptional execution, aspects that are often hotly debated in the Open Source arena.""

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An open letter from Matthew Szulik

Here is an open letter from Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik. "Consistent with Red Hat's core values--Freedom, Commitment, Courage and Accountability--Red Hat's software development community takes valid intellectual property rights seriously. We respect and take effort to maintain the legal and technical integrity of valid intellectual property, including patents, copyright and trademark. When the integrity of the Red Hat brand is publicly called into question, we will defend the use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux by our customers."

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Sun and Red Hat Enter Into Global Partnership Agreement

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that it has entered into a global alliance agreement with Red Hat to distribute Red Hat's Enterprise Linux. As part of the agreement, Red Hat will distribute Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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VTT Goes Open Source

VTT Information Technology has announced its entry into the world of open-source software. "As its first open source software, VTT published a user-friendly network-testing tool Nipper (Neat Internet Protocol Packet Editor). Nipper is Java based tool that can be used in many ways for testing networks, protocols and networking applications. Nipper was originally developed in a programmable network research project. As Nipper was found practical tool more generally and not limited to programmable network testing, it was selected to be the pilot software in the VTT open source project."

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Ximian Releases Red Carpet 2.0

Version 2.0 of Ximian's Red Carpet has been announced. "Ximian, Inc., the leading provider of desktop and server solutions enabling enterprise Linux adoption, today announced the availability of Red Carpet™ 2.0, a new version of its desktop client software that allows users to manage Linux software installed on workstations and servers. Users will benefit from a streamlined user interface, powerful new functionality for finding installed packages and recording installation history, and the ability to manage software on systems other than their own."

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GNOME Talks! Part 2 (GnomeDesktop)

The American Council of the Blind presents part two from a four part mp3 series on GNOME accessibility. "In the second of a four-part series from the American Council of the Blind, Sun accessibility engineer Marc Mulcachy demonstrated the GNOME Panel and Control Center. He also mentions what system he is running, and that it is hard to install Red Hat 9 compared to Red Hat 8, due to the removal of Speak-Up."

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Configuring NFS for control by IPTABLES and other firewalls

Chris Lowth has published a HOWTO called: "Configuring NFS under Linux for Firewall control".

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SAMBA Printing Howto

The CUPS project mentions the availability of a new SAMBA printing howto document, which now emphasises the CUPS print system.

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LDP Weekly News

The May 20, 2003 edition of The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest new documentation news.

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Linux@work in Dublin

The Linux@work business conference and exhibition will be held in Dublin, Ireland on June 18 in parallel with the GU4DEC conference.

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European Zope Training Tour (ZopeMembers)

The European Zope Training Tour will consist of four events, in Denmark, Berlin, Cern, and an unspecified UK location starting on May 26, 2003. See the tour schedule for more information.

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Python Conference Reports

Guido Van Rossum has published two reports on recent Python conferences, News from Python UK and Notes from PyCon DC.

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Events: May 22 - July 27, 2003

Date	Event	Location
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 23 - 26, 2003	Fourth Workshop On UML for Enterprise Applications	(Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport Hotel)Burlingame, CA
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
July 12 - 17, 2003	Debcamp	Oslo, Norway
July 18 - 20, 2003	Debconf 3	(The University of Oslo)Oslo, Norway
July 23 - 26, 2003	Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa Canada
July 23 - 25, 2003	YAPC::Europe 2003	(CNAM Conservatory)Paris, France

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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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