Announcements

LUGOD Installfest, Davis, CA

The Linux User's Group of Davis (LUGOD), will be holding a Linux install-fest on Sunday, September 28 in Davis, CA.

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OSDL gets its own analyst

Open Source Development Labs has announced that analyst Stacey Quandt will be leaving the Forrester Group and taking a job at the lab. "In this new role, Quandt is responsible for monitoring key market trends important to IT vendors and corporate end users of Linux. She will also be a principal speaker for the Lab at industry conferences and tradeshows and play a leadership role in developing Lab market research, technical publications and industry opinion pieces."

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Dell recognizes CGG's Linux cluster work

Dell has announced that Compagnie Generale de Geophysique has been awarded the first "Dell Center for Research Excellence Award." The award could just as well have been named the "Doing Something Cool While Buying Large Amounts of Dell Products Award," - especially since CGG has just announced it is spending the better part of $3 million for another 1125 Dell servers - but the application is notable. CGG has built a 3000-node Linux cluster for the analysis of seismic data; the company has some 30 teraflops of computing capacity online now.

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Advertise with Mandrake Linux 9.2

MandrakeSoft has put up a page describing a new set of advertising options to be made available in the Mandrake Linux 9.2 release. You, too, can see your logo on a Mandrake screen saver, install screen, or default web page. It is an interesting approach, and, if it helps MandrakeSoft gain and keep its financial footing, it could even be a good thing. For additional clarification see this page.

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An introduction to Thunderbird, part 7 (Nidelven IT)

Kay Frode continues the series on the Mozilla Thunderbird email client with part 7, the topic this week is message filters. "Having a big flow of e-mail's dropping in your inbox can be time consuming to read, to deal with this and save yourself some time, and be able to read the right e-mails first, you might want to add a filter so Thunderbird can place the different mails in different folders. In this article I will try to show you how to make such a filter."

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GNOME 2.4 Desktop User Guide Released (GnomeDesktop)

The GNOME 2.4 Desktop User Guide has been announced.

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GNOME 2.4 Desktop System Administration Guide Released (GnomeDesktop)

The GNOME 2.4 Desktop System Administration Guide has been announced on GnomeDesktop.org.

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New Ximian Desktop ''unstable'' channel (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org reports on a new red carpet channel for the Ximian Desktop. "There is a new, almost painfully unstable, Ximian Desktop in red carpet's 'xd-unstable' channel. Why 'unstable', you ask? When it is based on the uber-wonderful, uber-stable, uber-Khan-like GNOME 2.4?"

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Registration Opens for ApacheCon 2003

Registration is open for the ApacheCon 2003 conference, to be held in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 16-20, 2003.

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Open Source in Government Conference, Paris

The Paris EGOVOS 3, Open Source in Government Conference will be held in Paris, France on November 24-26, 2003.

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Events: September 18 - November 13, 2003

Date	Event	Location
September 18, 2003 October 7 - 8, 2003	LogOn Web Days	Across Europe
September 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 14 - 16, 2003	10th Linux-Kongress	Saarbrücken, Germany
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
November 2 - 3, 2003	International PHP Conference 2003	(Astron Hotel Frankfurt-Mörfelden)Frankfurt, Germany
November 6 - 7, 2003	HiverCon 2003	(Davenport Hotel)Dublin, Ireland
November 10, 2003	Desktop Linux Conference	(Boston University Corporate Education Center)Tyngsboro, Massachusetts

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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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