Announcements

AMD joins MeeGo

AMD has announced that it is joining the MeeGo project. "We are glad to provide engineering resources to joint industry efforts like MeeGo and expect that this operating system will help drive our embedded plans and create expanded market opportunities for our forthcoming Accelerated Processing Units."

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MeeGo portal and SDK

Intel has announced the MeeGo portal on the Intel AppUp center and associated storefronts. "On this site you will find resources & information to get started with MeeGo. Stay tuned and look for more resources from the AppUpDeveloper program on how to get apps on AppUp clients for various MeeGo devices."

MeeGo has also announced the beta release of MeeGo 1.1 SDK. "This release includes Qt Quick, the Javascript-inspired framework that enables rapid development of mobile applications. Although the heart of MeeGo SDK is Qt Creator, you can also use basic functionalities directly from the command line. MeeGo SDK is extensible and we are working on different plug-ins that introduce new tools and targets."

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Canonical Welcomes New Partners Following Latest Ubuntu 10.10 Release

Canonical has announced the signing of several partnerships. "Boxed Ice, Opsview, Riptano, Unoware, Vladster, Wavemaker and Zend all joined as Canonical Software Partners, their applications delivering solutions for business and personal use, and supported by commercial companies providing the highest level of service. Canonical Software Partners work closely with the development teams who deliver Ubuntu, and thus ensure that installation and operation are of the highest quality."

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Convirture and Canonical to Team Up to Provide Virtual Machine and Private Cloud Management

Convirture has announced a partnership with Canonical. "ConVirt 2.0 Open is now available in the Ubuntu Partner Repository. It provides a sophisticated set of tools which can also be used to manage virtual machines in a private cloud infrastructure."

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Red Hat's Secret Patent Deal and the Fate of JBoss Developers (Gigaom)

Bruce Perens wonders about the outcome of a patent lawsuit against JBoss. "The suit in question - Software Tree LLC v. Red Hat, Inc. - claimed that JBoss, the well-known Java web software, infringed upon U.S. Patent No. 6163776, which essentially claims invention of the object-relational database paradigm. In that paradigm, an object in an object-oriented software language represents a database record, and the attributes of the object represent fields in the database, making it possible for programmers to access a database without writing any SQL. It's a common element in most web programming environments today."

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Linaro group advances Linux on ARM with 10.11 release (ars technica)

Ars technica takes a look at the latest Linaro release. "Linaro, a nonprofit organization that aims to accelerate embedded Linux development for the ARM architecture, has announced its first software release. Version 10.11 of the group's software stack quietly debuted this week. The group appears to be attracting interest and making steady progress."

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Navigating and Working in Scribus (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal attempts to demystify Scribus. "Designed for desktop publishing, Scribus is a specialty application, and not intended for general use the way that OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice is. Unlike a word processor, it is not intended primarily as a way to input text -- although you can use it for that -- but as a layout program for manipulating groups of objects for the printed page. With this orientation, it is perhaps closer to The GIMP or Inkscape, which can be disorienting to the general user."

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Abrégé Dense Python 3.1 in english

The quick reference for Python 3.1 is available in english. "It is a one recto-verso page filled with language basics and advanced constructions."

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Data Analysis with Open Source Tools--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly Media has released "Data Analysis with Open Source Tools", by Philipp K. Janert.

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Driving Technical Change--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Driving Technical Change", by Terrence Ryan.

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Pragmatic Guide to Git--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Pragmatic Guide to Git" by Travis Swicegood.

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Two New Python Books from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "Head First Python" by Paul Barry, and "Real World Instrumentation with Python" by John M. Hughes.

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Linux Foundation Monthly Newsletter: November 2010

The Linux Foundation newsletter for November covers Linux Foundation and Consumer Electronics Linux Forum Merge, New Embedded Linux Workgroup Announced: The Yocto Project, China Mobile Joins Linux Foundation as Gold Member, Linux Foundation Releases Free Self-Assessment Checklist as Part of Open Compliance Program, and a video of Linus Torvalds diving with sea life.

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Events: November 25, 2010 to January 24, 2011

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
November 23 November 26	DeepSec	Vienna, Austria
November 24 November 26	Open Source Developers' Conference	Melbourne, Australia
November 27	Open Source Conference Shimane 2010	Shimane, Japan
November 27	12. LinuxDay 2010	Dornbirn, Austria
November 29 November 30	European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event	Torino, Italy
December 4	London Perl Workshop 2010	London, United Kingdom
December 6 December 8	PGDay Europe 2010	Stuttgart, Germany
December 11	Open Source Conference Fukuoka 2010	Fukuoka, Japan
December 13 December 18	SciPy.in 2010	Hyderabad, India
December 15 December 17	FOSS.IN/2010	Bangalore, India
January 16 January 22	PyPy Leysin Winter Sprint	Leysin, Switzerland
January 22	OrgCamp 2011	Paris, France

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