Announcements

LPI Plans Linux Desktop Certification Initiative

The Linux Professional Institute has announced its plans for a Linux desktop certification program. "The Linux Professional Institute, the premier international professional certification program for the Linux community, is planning a Linux desktop certification initiative to seek support and prospective partnerships to build a community/commitment to meet the market demand for the Linux desktop."

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OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux

The Open Source Development Lab has announced the availability of a "position paper" on the whole SCO mess; the paper was written by FSF counsel Eben Moglen. There is a summary of the paper's points in the announcement, or the whole thing is available in PDF format. As one might imagine, the paper does not take a particularly friendly position towards SCO's claims.

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Gartner's Australian Linux seminars

Remember the Gartner Group, which recently proclaimed that Linux would remain a niche technology in Australia? It turns out that the company is offering a set of seminars in Australia entitled "Open Source Revealed." "Open Source software has emerged as a stunning agent of change for enterprise technology today. It will be considered as a viable contender for at least one-third of all large-scale projects by the end of next year." As niches go, that's a nicely sized one. For those who are interested, the one-day events are happening in Canberra, Melbourne, and Sydney starting in late August. (Thanks to Con Zymaris).

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Linux For You publishes Indian language magazine

Linux For You, an Asian Linux magazine, is now available in all of the major Indian languages.

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RealNetworks launches Helix Player project

RealNetworks has announced the launch of the "Helix Player" project - an effort to create "a comprehensive open source media player" for Linux and Unix systems. It appears that, to be truly "comprehensive," this player will still require binary plugins for the RealAudio and RealVideo formats, however.

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Sun and SuSE make a deal

Here's the press release describing the deal between Sun and SuSE. Essentially, SuSE includes Sun's Java virtual machine in its distribution, and Sun sells x86 systems with SuSE preinstalled.

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Sun Joins OSDL

Sun may yet become a Linux company; it has just announced that it has joined the Open Source Development Laboratory. Sun plans "...to help drive the development of open-standard software including Linux and to lend its expertise in the data center and carrier-grade markets."

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LinuxWorld press releases

Here is a carefully-chosen subset from the large pile of press releases that were issued during the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.

• Addison Wesley has sent out a press release on the upcoming publication of Eric Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming.

• AMD is showing off a Linux PDA at LinuxWorld. AMD has also announced a newer, faster Opteron processor. Also, SourceForge.net is now running on an Opteron system.

• Dell has announced the sale of a 1450-node cluster to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

• The Free Standards Group has announced that the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency is now requiring Linux Standard Base compliance for Linux-based products.

• HP has announced a new set of cluster management utilities.

• IBM has announced a whole new set of Linux customers, including Netflix, NYFIX, Marinalife, Softbank Uway, and others. The company is also expanding its Linux service offerings.

• MontaVista has announced the availability of its "Carrier Grade Edition" distribution for IBM PowerPC processors.

• MySQL AB announces that the SAP database will henceforth be known as "MaxDB."

• Network Appliance and Red Hat have announced an alliance involving NetApp deployments in Linux environments and joint marketing efforts.

• Pogo Linux and MySQL AB have announced the "DataWare 2600 server," said to be the first MySQL database appliance.

• Progeny has announced "Atlas," a search tool for finding open source packages.

• Red Hat has announced a new strategy with a focus on web applications. To that end, the company has joined the ObjectWeb consortium, will continue working with Tomcat and Jakarta, and will integrate Eclipse into its enterprise distributions.

• Rogue Wave has released SourcePro C++ Edition 6 with support for Linux, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

• SGI is testing out Altix 3000 systems with 128 processors.

• Sistina has a deal with CommVault to integrate Sistina's software into CommVault's products.

• Sistina has announced the integration of its Global File System into HP's cluster offerings.

• Snapgear has launched a pair of new, Linux-based security appliances.

• SurfControl is offering its email filter product on Linux.

• SYS-CON Media has announced the launch of LinuxWorld magazine.

• TimeSys has announced a deal with IBM to deliver TimeSys Linux RTOS on some of IBM's system-on-a-chip processors.

• Trolltech has released Qtopia 1.7.

• TSANet has announced a new "technical support community" involving BEA, Dell, EMC, HP, Network Appliance, Novell, SuSE, Unisys, VERITAS, and VMware. It's not entirely clear what this community will do.

• The UK Free Software Network has announced that it is being sponsored by Digital Networks.

• Ulticom, a telecom signalling software company, has joined OSDL.

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"PC Hardware in a Nutshell, Third Edition" Released by O'Reilly

A new edition of "PC Hardware in a Nutshell" has been published. "A longtime favorite among PC users, the third edition of the book now contains information for people running either Windows or Linux operating systems."

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Evans Data survey on the SCO suit

Evans Data has announced the results of a new survey. "Of more than 400 developers focused on Linux development more than 70% said that the SCO lawsuit will 'probably not' or 'absolutely not' impact their companies decision to use Linux, 12% said that the lawsuit will affect adoption plans and 17% had no opinion." The survey also has concluded that there are more KDE than GNOME users.

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Linux Gazette Issue 93

Issue #93 of the Linux Gazette has been published by the folks at Linux Journal.

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YAPC::NA 2004 Call for Venue Reminder (use Perl)

A Call for Venue has been issued for the 2004 YAPC::NA Perl conference. "The YAPC::NA Conference Committee is planning to choose the 2004 venue, in roughly two weeks (August 15th). This date will be flexible enough to insure that all interested parties have enough time to finalize submissions."

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Events: August 7 - October 2, 2003

Date	Event	Location
August 7 - 10, 2003	Chaos Communication Camp 2003	Paulshof, Altlandsberg, Germany
August 7, 2003	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003	(Moscone Convention Center)San Francisco, CA
August 7, 2003	5th Annual CERT Conference(NEbraskaCERT)	(Scott Conference Center)Omaha, NE USA
August 18 - 21, 2003	New Security Paradigms Workshop 2003(NSPW 2003)	(Centro Stefano Francini)Ascona, Switzerland
August 22 - 30, 2003	KDE Developers' Conference	(Zamek Castle)Nove Hrady, Czech Republic
August 27 - 29, 2003	International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming(PPDP 2003)	(Uppsala University)Uppsala, Sweden
September 3 - 4, 2003	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (Cancelled)	(The NEC)Birmingham, UK
September 8, 2003	Boundaryless Information Flow: Open Source in the Enterprise	(Hilton London Paddington)London, UK
September 11 - 12, 2003	Python for Scientific Computing Workshop(SciPy'03)	(CalTech)Pasadena, CA
September 15 - 18, 2003	LogOn Web Days	Across Europe
September 15 - 18, 2003	Embedded Systems Conference(ESC)	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, Mass
September 26 - 27, 2003	Third DZUG-Conference	Paderborn, Germany

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KDE at UKUUG Linux 2003

Jonathan Riddell has published a report on KDE at the UKUUG Linux2003 Conference. "The KDE stall was helped along by Eilidh the booth babe and Kenny the booth boy (photo with me in middle). This was a technical conference so everyone knew what KDE was but people were interested in some of the new applications such as JuK and Kexi. KPlayer, while not part of KDE itself, impressed everyone by being a media player with a useable interface. We also demonstrated the Kolab server to a couple of people interested in using it for their clients."

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GNOME Hacks (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for the new GNOME Hacks web site. "I've just thrown together a site called GNOME Hacks which I hope will become a repository for those little cool and useful tricks we all pick up. If you've learnt something neat that you think other people will find useful, why not submit it so that we can all benefit from your experience."

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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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