Announcements

SourceForge.net update (SourceForge)

The folks at SourceForge.net have published their September 30, 2003 news update. "SourceForge.net is approaching its 4-year birthday. Forty-six months ago the site started off with only a handful of second-hand computers, two megabits of bandwidth, a few hundred projects, and a goal. The goal was, and continues to be, to create a place for Open Source projects and the Open Source community to thrive and be successful. When we launched the site, we never dreamed that it would be so successful, or that its growth rate would be so high. Today, we host nearly 70,000 projects on 85 computers. The amount of bandwidth we consume at any one time, including the mirrors, is approximately 225 megabits. We continue to add about 700 new users and 70 new projects per day. In fact, we just crossed our 700,000 registered user milestone."

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IBM brings Linux to British and Russian governments

IBM has sent out two press releases describing its latest governmental Linux deals. The first release describes nine "proof of concept pilots" being run by the British Office of Government Commerce and Office of the eEnvoy. The pilot programs are meant to support the Offices' policy of increasing use of free software as an alternative to proprietary offerings. "These initial trials are being run by IBM and will measure the effectiveness and cost-benefits of IT systems based on OSS products, when compared against proprietary software solutions". In Russia, instead, IBM is setting up a Linux "competency center" in Moscow. "The new center will be set up to help customers of every size from industry, academia and government to take full advantage of the reliability, flexibility and total cost of ownership that Linux provides."

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Jupitermedia Announces Sponsors for Its Enterprise Linux Forum

Jupitermedia Corporation has announced the sponsors for its Enterprise Forum Conference & Expo this Fall. Oracle, IBM, Red Hat and NetIQ will sponsor the event.

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Linux Networx Provides Cluster for John Deere

Linux Networx has announced that it has sold a Linux-based cluster to John Deere, a tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer. "John Deere is using the Linux Networx cluster for advanced engineering analysis including computational fluid dynamics and structural finite element analysis. The cluster has demonstrated improved computing performance for the company, performing several classes of analysis jobs at more than double their previous speed."

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SuSE launches Standard Server 8

SuSE has announced the expansion of the SUSE LINUX Server family with the release of SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 - aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. "Available for Intel and AMD 32-bit processors (x86) and supporting up to two CPUs, SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8 includes features such as Internet access, e-mail, file and print services, plus graphical configuration wizards - enabling Linux novices in small and medium-sized organizations to easily set up the server as a Windows domain controller, file and print server in Windows environments, Internet gateway, E-Mail server, application server, DNS server and DHCP server."

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"The Art of UNIX Programming" by Eric S. Raymond Released

Addison-Wesley has announced the release of "The Art of UNIX Programming", by Eric S. Raymond.

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EFFector 16.26

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out issue 16.26 of its EFFector newsletter. This one features the EFF's report on trusted computing, library book tagging, a new report on the DMCA ("still damaging after all these years"), and several other topics.

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LDP Weekly News

The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News for October 7, 2003 is available with a look at new and updated documentation, HOW-TOs and more.

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Linux Gazette #95

Linux Gazette issue 95 for October 2003 is now available. Some of the articles in this edition: Quick and Dirty Data Extraction in AWK, by Phil Hughes; Integrating Tomcat and Apache on RedHat 9, by Mike Millson; Linux Through an Oscilloscope, by Pramode C.E; Software Engineering, by Gustavo Rondina; Mexico is conquered by FLOSS, by Felipe Barousse Boue; and more, plus the usual monthly features.

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2003 Linux Medical News Achievement Award Nominees (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has posted its list of 2003 Achievement Award nominees. They are the care2x project, and doctors Thomas Beale, David Kibbe, and Stanley Saiki Jr. The list is a good view of what kind of work is being done in the area of free medical software.

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CONASOL Call-for-Papers (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop.org mentions the upcoming CONASOL conference. "The Congreso Nacional de Software Libre call-for-papers is up now. The conference will be held in Talca, Chile, on November 10-12 2003. Rodrigo Moya and Federico Mena, from the GNOME project, will be speaking."

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Lightweight Languages 2003

Presentation proposals for the Lightweight Languages 2003 conference are due in by October 17, 2003. The conference will take place on November 8 at MIT in Cambridge MA.

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Linux.Conf.Au 2004 program posted

The schedule for Linux.Conf.Au 2004 has been posted. The conference has gone to a four-track program this year with a number of interesting talks. There are also several single-topic "miniconfs" happening before the main event; see the announcement for details.

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GNU/LINUX Free software and copyright seminar, Finland

A GNU/LINUX Free software and copyright seminar has been announced in Finnish and in English. The event will take place in Vaasa, Finland on October 22 and 23, 2003. Thanks to Niklas Vainio.

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Events: October 9 - December 4, 2003

Date	Event	Location
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 21 - 24, 2003	PHP-Con West	Santa Clara, CA
October 22 - 23, 2003	Enterprise Linux Forum	(Washington Convention Center)Washington, D.C.
October 26, 2003 October 27 - 31, 2003	Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA)	(Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA
October 27 - 29, 2003	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2003	(Fairgrounds Frankfurt)Frankfurt, Germany
October 29 - 31, 2003	Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference(AEOSC)	(Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre)Singapore
October 30 - 31, 2003	4to Encuentro Linux	Valparaiso, Chile
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 6, 2003	Netherlands Unix Users group fall conference	(Conference Center De Reehorst)Ede, the Netherands
November 8, 2003	Lightweight Languages 2003(LL3)	(MIT)Cambridge MA
November 10, 2003	Desktop Linux Conference	(Boston University Corporate Education Center)Tyngsboro, Massachusetts
November 10 - 11, 2003	Congreso Nacional de Software Libre(CONASOL)	(Universidad de Talca)Talca, Chile
November 14 - 16, 2003	Third International Ruby Conference	(Red Lion Hotel)Austin, Texas
November 16 - 19, 2003	ApacheCon 2003	Las Vegas, Nevada
November 22, 2003	Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE)	(Los Angeles Convention Center)Los Angeles, CA
November 24 - 26, 2003	Open Standards and Libre Software in Government Conference(EGOVOS 3)	Paris, France
December 2 - 4, 2003	Linux Bangalore/2003	Bangalore, India

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Report from the SCO road show

"Compactible Dave" reports from SCO's road show in Toronto. "During the 'we be so profitable' section of the spiel, one reseller in the crowd asked 'where does the money come from?' The response was largely a pointer to the SCO source initiative. The response? 'What you are profitable in will not make me profitable.'"

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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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