Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Linux More Secure Than Windows XP
The latest Evans Data North American Development Survey finds Linux more secure than Windows XP, according to this press release. "Linux has increased its lead in developers' minds as the "most innately secure operating system" from 19% six months ago to 23% today. At the same time, the percentage of developers who said that Windows XP is the most secure dropped by more than 40%, from 14% six months ago to 8% today."
OpenOffice.org turns three
OpenOffice.org has announced that it has reached the three year old mark. "What has been accomplished this last year? The last year has seen the extraordinary growth of the community and user base; the release of OpenOffice.org 1.1 , and the maturation of the project: Our Community Council is established and working."
ibiblio Celebrates its 11th Birthday in October
ibiblio, the public's library and digital archive, celebrates its 11th birthday in the month of October. "ibiblio is a free and vibrant exchange of ideas among a large community of contributors who share their knowledge across disciplines, and is one of the major distribution hubs for Linux software, and has been a significant supporter of Linux development efforts since its inception."
Init Test Assertion Review
The Open Group has announced that some additional eyes are needed to review the Linux Standard Base (LSB) Init test assertions.OpenZIS Group Formed
OpenZIS is a organization that will be used to develop an open source Zone Integration Server based on the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) version 1.1. The OpenZIS Group will be a non-profit development group that will be incorporating all the SIF requirements into a Zone Integration Server licensed under the GNU General Public License. Click below for the full announcement.
Commercial announcements
Genestia Group released R4.2.0 of Neoxen Qwinux
Genestia Group, Inc. has released R4.2.0 of Neoxen Qwinux - a distribution of Open Source development tools compiled and certified for Microsoft Windows operating systems.pSeries, Linux & Grid Computing (IBM)
IBM is presenting a course on its pSeries servers in Lisbon, Portugal on November 3-7, 2003. "Topics featured at the 2003 Technical University will include; pSeries product futures, High Availability, eServer 1600 Clustering, AIX5.2L system administration, pSeries Storage, AIX Performance Management, Linux, Grid Computing, logical partitioning and professional certification. In 2003, the focus will be on in-depth technical content allowing you to stay up-to-date with the latest developments in these areas."
Linuxant releases DriverLoader
Linuxant has sent out an announcement (click below) for a new product called DriverLoader. It is a sort of glue module which allows binary Windows NDIS network drivers to be loaded directly into a Linux kernel. It can, thus, enable a Linux system to use hardware (such as Broadcom 802.11g adaptors) which is otherwise not supported. DriverLoader is proprietary software; the license allows redistribution in binary form but nothing else (i.e. no reverse engineering).Linux Distributions Support OSDL Carrier Grade Linux Requirements
The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has announced support from many Linux distributions for the new OSDL Carrier Grade Linux Requirements Definition version 2.0 (CGL 2.0). Miracle Linux, MontaVista Software, SUSE LINUX and Turbolinux are among those who have signed on so far.MySQL AB Acquires Alzato
MySQL AB has acquired clustering company Alzato. "MySQL AB, developer of the world's most popular open source database, today announced that it has acquired Alzato, a venture company started by Ericsson in 2000. Alzato develops and markets NDB Cluster, a high availability data management system designed for the telecom/IP environment."
Nemein to offer Linux maintenance services
Nemein has announced an expansion of its service offerings for Linux systems.Zope Corporation to Offer CMS for Universities
Zope Corporation has announced plans to work with Duke University to develop Zope4Edu, a CMS product platform designed to address the common content-management needs of higher education.
New Books
"Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book "Mastering Perl for Bioinformatics" by James Tisdall.Prentice Hall Announces "Open Source Network Administration"
Prentice Hall PTR has released Open Source Network Administration by James M. Kretchmar. "Kretchmar, a systems programmer and network engineer for MIT Network Operations, is the developer of Neo, an Open Source network administration tool which serves as a front-end for controlling SNMP-managed network devices and is a critical tool in large network deployments such as universities, where Neo is used to locate and disable vulnerable or infected hosts."
Resources
API@OOo Newsletter
A new OpenOffice.org API newsletter has been started. "This is the first issue of the API@OOo NEWSLETTER. From now on, at the beginning of each month, I would like to summarize what was going on in the previous month within the OOo API project and the OOo SDK."
LDP Weekly News
The October 15, 2003 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the weeks' Linux documentation updates.
Upcoming Events
GNOME Summit 2003 (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org has an announcement for the 2003 GNOME Summit. The event will take place at Brooklyn College in New York on November 22-24, 2003.The ObjectWeb Annual Conference
The ObjectWeb conference will be held in Rocquencourt, France on November 20 and 21, 2003. "This conference, now in its third year, focuses on middleware through the activities of the consortium and associate organizations. It features speakers from corporate members, computer research laboratories and the Open Source software community."
Speaker Registration now open for Linux Bangalore/2003
Speaker registration is now open for the Linux Bangalore/2003 conference, to be held in Bangalore, India on December 2-4, 2003.FOSS Events at Fall AMIA 2003 (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has posted a list of events related to Free Open Source Software (FOSS) at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2003 conference. The event will take place in Washington D.C. on November 8-12, 2003.Fifth International Conference on Linux Clusters CFP
A call for papers has gone out for the Fifth International Conference on Linux Clusters, to be held on May 17-20, 2004 in Austin, TX.Events: October 16 - December 11, 2003
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 16 - 17, 2003 | The First Plone Conference | (Tulane University)New Orleans, Louisiana |
| October 16, 2003 | 10th Linux-Kongress | Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 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 15 - 21, 2003 | Supercomputing Conference(SC2003) | (Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center)Phoenix, AZ |
| November 16 - 19, 2003 | ApacheCon 2003 | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| November 20 - 21, 2003 | ObjectWeb Conferenc3 | (INRIA Rocquencourt)Rocquencourt, France |
| November 22, 2003 | Southern California Linux Expo(SCALE) | (Los Angeles Convention Center)Los Angeles, CA |
| November 22 - 24, 2003 | New York GNOME Summit | (Brooklyn College)New York, NY |
| 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 |
| December 9 - 13, 2003 | International Conference on Logic Programming(ICLP'03) | Mumbai (Bombay), India |
Software announcements
This week's software announcements
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