Announcements

Aava Mobile's "fully open" handset

Aava Mobile has announced the upcoming availability of what it claims to be "the world's first fully open mobile device." "Functioning Aava Mobile devices measure 64mm by 125mm and only 11.7 millimeters thin-making them the world's thinnest x86 based smartphone devices. The reference design provides support for Linux-based Moblin 2.1 and Android OSs today, with plans to support MeeGo in the future." Some pictures of this new toy have been posted as well.

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Ettus Research acquired by National Instruments

Ettus Research has announced its acquisition by National Instruments. "What does this mean for GNU Radio? Ettus Research will continue to support and contribute to GNU Radio, and the combination of GNU Radio software and USRP hardware will remain our core focus. The additional resources that a large company like NI can provide will allow us to focus even more energy on improving the overall capabilities of the system. Two of the core GNU Radio developers, Matt Ettus and Josh Blum, are employed by Ettus Research. In the future we will also likely be providing GNU Radio drivers for additional hardware from National Instruments. What does this mean for LabVIEW? The Universal Hardware Driver will allow us to produce high-quality, officially supported LabVIEW drivers for all of our hardware."

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The Linux Box to market Ubuntu to US enterprise users

The Linux Box and Canonical Ltd. have announced a partnership. "As an official Canonical Silver Solution Provider Partner, The Linux Box will sell, install and support customized Ubuntu-based solutions to organizations running Linux systems. It will also provide businesses with large-scale migration deployment support and training services for cloud computing infrastructures and enterprise desktop alternatives."

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Moblin and Maemo to merge

Intel and Nokia have announced that the Moblin and Maemo projects will be merging into a single mobile platform called MeeGo, which, like Moblin, will be hosted at the Linux Foundation. "MeeGo blends the best of Maemo with the best of Moblin to create an open platform for multiple processor architectures. MeeGo builds on the capabilities of the Moblin core OS and its support for a wide range of device types and reference user experiences, combined with the momentum of Maemo in the mobile industry and the broadly adopted Qt application and UI framework for software developers."

See also: Quim Gil's post on the merger.

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Who Is Developing KVM Linux Virtualization? (ServerWatch)

Sean Michael Kerner covers KVM development. "Five years ago, the open source Xen hypervisor was the primary technology that big vendors like IBM and Red Hat were adopting and pushing. In 2010, that's no longer the case as the rival KVM effort is now getting the attention of both IBM and Red Hat, as well as many others in the Linux ecosystem."

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SGI spins up Cyclone HPC cloud (The Register)

The Register reports on SGI's new linux-based Cyclone HPC cloud offering. "Try it, then rent it or buy it. That's the new mantra from supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics this morning as it launches its own supercomputing on demand offering, dubbed Cyclone. If cloud computing means virtualized server instances, then technically speaking - as if SGI could speak any other way - the Cyclone service is not a cloud. But if cloud means buying server and storage capacity on demand to run preloaded applications or homegrown ones and only paying for what you use - what some of us still call utility computing - then Cyclone is a cloud."

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Staples Launches Business IT Services (InformationWeek)

InformationWeek reports that the office supply giant Staples is getting into the Linux support business. "With its Staples Technology Solutions offering, Staples envisions providing "one stop for IT solutions" in delivering products and services that act as an extension of in-house IT departments or even manage entire IT operations. Managed services range from on-site and remote service and desktop support for Apple, Microsoft, and Linux platforms, to supplying engineers with certifications from leaders like Cisco, Citrix, and Linux. Data center offerings include sub-floor cleaning and 24/7 data center emergency supply service."

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A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World (CACM)

The developers of the Coverity checker have published a lengthy article in the Communications of the ACM detailing the lessons they have learned. "No bug is too foolish to check for. Given enough code, developers will write almost anything you can think of. Further, completely foolish errors can be some of the most serious; it's difficult to be extravagantly nonsensical in a harmless way."

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Open source: dangerous to computing education? (opensource.com)

Over at opensource.com, Greg DeKoenigsberg looks at a blog posting from Mark Guzdial, chairman of the ACM education board. Guzdial argues that commercial software development is somehow better for students, with some rather poor arguments that DeKoenigsberg deconstructs: "First, let's talk about breadth of opportunity. Mark seems to assume that every student developer has the opportunity to engage in commercial development. This is demonstrably untrue. It may be true that an elite school like Georgia Tech provides these kinds of opportunities to most of their [computing] students — but what about everywhere else? For that matter, what about the kids at Georgia Tech who, for whatever reason, don't make the cut?"

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LinuxCertified Announces Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp

LinuxCertified has announced a new Linux System and Network Administration BootCamp. "LinuxCertified,Inc. a leading provider of Linux training, will offer weekend Linux system administration bootcamp on February 27th - 28th, 2010 in South Bay (CA). This workshop is designed for busy information technology professionals and is designed to cover the most important Linux administration areas."

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LPI at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany

The Linux Professional Institute will hold training at CeBIT 2010. "LPI Central Europe will host a full program of activities at CeBIT 2010 in Hanover, Germany. Open Source will be a top theme at this years edition of one of the world's leading trade fairs for the ICT industry".

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Save the date: SciPy 2010 June 28 - July 3

SciPy 2010 will be held in Austin, TX on June 28 - July 3. "The annual US Scientific Computing with Python Conference, SciPy, has been held at Caltech since it began in 2001. While we always love an excuse to go to California, it's also important to make sure that we allow everyone an opportunity to attend the conference. So, as Jarrod Millman announced last fall, we'll begin rotating the conference location and hold the 2010 conference in Austin, Texas."

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Spanish DebConf 9-11 April, Coruña and Debian Work Session

There will be a Spanish DebConf April 9 - 11, 2010 in Coruña, Spain. "The event is primarily in Spanish and oriented to the Spanish community, but it is not limited to."

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Events: February 25, 2010 to April 26, 2010

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
February 17 February 25	PyCon 2010	Atlanta, GA, USA
February 27 February 28	The Debian/GNOME bug weekend	Online, Internet
March 1 March 5	Global Ignite week	Online, Online
March 2 March 4	djangoski	Whistler, Canada
March 2 March 5	FOSSGIS 2010	Osnabrück, Germany
March 2 March 6	CeBIT Open Source	Hannover, Germany
March 5 March 6	Open Source Days 2010	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 7 March 10	Bossa Conference 2010	Recife, Brazil
March 13 March 19	DebCamp in Thailand	Khon Kaen, Thailand
March 15 March 18	Cloud Connect 2010	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 16 March 18	Salon Linux 2010	Paris, France
March 17 March 18	Commons, Users, Service Providers	Hannover, Germany
March 19 March 21	Panama MiniDebConf 2010	Panama City, Panama
March 19 March 21	Libre Planet 2010	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 19 March 20	Flourish 2010 Open Source Conference	Chicago, IL, USA
March 22 March 26	CanSecWest Vancouver 2010	Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 22	OpenClinica Global Conference 2010	Bethesda, MD, USA
March 23 March 25	UKUUG Spring 2010 Conference	Manchester, UK
March 25 March 28	PostgreSQL Conference East 2010	Philadelphia, PA, USA
March 26 March 28	Ubuntu Global Jam	Online, World
March 30 April 1	Where 2.0 Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
April 9 April 11	Spanish DebConf	Coruña, Spain
April 10	Texas Linux Fest	Austin, TX, USA
April 12 April 15	MySQL Conference & Expo 2010	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 12 April 14	Embedded Linux Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 14 April 16	Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit	San Francisco, USA
April 14 April 16	Lustre User Group 2010	Aptos, California, USA
April 16 April 17	R/Finance 2010 Conference - 2nd Annual	Chicago, IL, US
April 16	Drizzle Developer Day	Santa Clara, CA, United States
April 23 April 25	FOSS Nigeria 2010	Kano, Nigeria
April 23 April 25	QuahogCon 2010	Providence, RI, USA
April 24 April 25	OSDC.TW 2010	Taipei, Taiwan
April 24 April 25	BarCamb 3	Cambridge, UK
April 24	Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre	Many, Many
April 24 April 25	Fosscomm 2010	Thessaloniki, Greece
April 24 April 25	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham WA, USA
April 24	Open Knowledge Conference 2010	London, UK
April 24 April 26	First International Workshop on Free/Open Source Software Technologies	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
April 25 April 29	Interop Las Vegas	Las Vegas, NV, USA

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