Announcements

Test Environment Toolkit, TET3.6 now available

The Open Group has announced that the latest update to the Test Environment Toolkit, TET3.6, is now available. TET is used to drive the LSB Certification tests for Linux distributions.

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LinuxFocus.org September/October 2003 issue

The September/October issue of LinuxFocus is available. This month you can learn how to model a 3D train in Blender, explore the MySQL C API, see why older people love Linux, enhance photos with Gimp, and much more.

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LPI-Newsletter August 2003

The Linux Professional Institute's newsletter for the month of August is available. Look for LPI at TechXNY New York, Linux Expo UK, and Wow-Gao Canada; LPI-Brazil becomes an official affiliate; Update on Linux World San Francisco; LPI in Vietnam and Australia; and much more.

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Linux Gazette issue #94, September 2003

The September 2003 edition of Linux Gazette is out. Articles include From C To Assembly Language by Hiran Ramankutty; Linux based Radio Timeshifting by Yan-Fa Li; Python Weather Station by Phil Hughes; SCO Interview by Anonymous; and more.

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ibiblio designates September as "Linux Month"

ibiblio.org has announced the designation of September as "Linux Month", in celebration of the twelfth anniversary of the birth of the Linux software created by developer Linus Torvalds.

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Linux in the Library of Congress

IBM has sent out a press release announcing that the Library of Congress Moving Images Collection - a project of three university libraries - will be hosted on IBM servers and, of course, Linux.

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Wing IDE for Python 1.1.10 Released

Version 1.1.10 of Wing, a commercial IDE for Python has been announced. This is a maintenance release.

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Opera delivers triplets for *nix

Opera Software has released Opera 7.20 Beta versions for the Unix variances Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD. These three beta releases all add support for bidirectional languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

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The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf

O'Reilly has released The Linux Web Server CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0, a bookshelf of LAMP technology on a single CD.

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"Perl Cookbook, Second Edition" Released by O'Reilly

O'Reilly has released the second edition of the Perl Cookbook.

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Perl Programming Contest (use Perl)

Use Perl reports on a perl programming contest for the WebGUI content management system. The contest lasts for 3 months and ends on December 1.

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Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Registration Opens

Registration is now open for linux.conf.au. IBM has signed on as the event's Penguin Sponsor. The conference will be held at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, January 14 - 17, 2004. Click below for more information.

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Linux Users Group of Davis: 'Uber TiVo' - hacking & upgrades

The September 15 LUGOD meeting will feature a talk on TiVo hacking.

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Events: September 4 - October 30, 2003

Date	Event	Location
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 October 7 - 8, 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
October 12 - 15, 2003	International Lisp Conference 2003(ILC 2003)	New York, NY
October 15 - 17, 2003	The First Plone Conference	(Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana
October 26, 2003 October 27 - 31, 2003	Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA)	(Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA

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GNOME-ms at fosscon 2003 (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop has a report from the GNOME-ms booth at the Free and Open Source Conference 2003 (Fosscon 2003) that was held last week in Subang Malaysia.

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Server Central Sponsors PHP.net Open Source Site

Server Central, a provider of managed hosting, announced it will sponsor PHP by hosting a server for PHP.net.

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New Mozilla Links Newsletter Launching Tuesday (MozillaZine)

The new Mozilla Links Newsletter has been launched. It is a bi-weekly publication, spawned from the nascent Mozilla marketing effort, featuring headlines, tips and information about third-party projects.

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MozillaZine is Five: 1998-2003

MozillaZine celebrates five years online, with a special fifth anniversary section.

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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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'Perl' Added to Oxford English Dictionary (use Perl)

Use Perl reports that Perl has been added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. "Perl. noun [mass noun]. Computing. a high-level programming language used especially for applications running on the World Wide Web.

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