Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Potential for major public savings in open source software
The Danish board of technology has released a report on switching from proprietary software to open source software in Danish public administration. "The report shows that there are potential for major savings for the public administration in the use of open source software. The report has now been translated for download." The full report, in English, can be found here (PDF format).
Show us your flag! (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org mentions a an effort that is underway to build a collection of free flag images. "After the recent release of GSwitchit featured on this site there has been some talk about the need to have a complete free set of international flags available in SVG format for many different uses, both inside and outside GNOME. We want this set of flags to be as free as possible, available in the public domain."
Korean Version of MozillaZine Available (MozillaZine)
A Korean translation of MozillaZine has been announced. "With this latest international version, MozillaZine can now be read in six languages. The Mozilla Korean Project makes Korean language packs for Mozilla and recently began maintaining a Korean translation of Mozilla Firebird Help."
Commercial announcements
Alias-i Goes Open Source with LingPipe Natural Language Processing Tools
Alias-i, Inc. has announced the release of LingPipe 1.0, its suite of linguistic tools, for research and commercial use. "LingPipe is offered under an open source release or a commercial license. The open source release is for researchers, experimenters and companies comfortable with the requirements of open source licensing. For others, LingPipe is available under commercial licenses that entirely support proprietary use."
Announcing CrossOver Office, Version 2.1
Version 2.1 of CrossOver Office, a commercial application that allows Windows applications to be run under Linux, is available.DriverLoader 1.2
Version 1.2 of DriverLoader is available. Linuxant inc. "is announcing the immediate availability of DriverLoader 1.2, a revolutionary compatibility-wrapper allowing standard Windows NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) drivers shipped by hardware vendors to be used as-is on Linux x86 systems. The main highlight of this new release is significant compatibility improvements with simultaneous support for multiple Windows drivers."
NEC Global Navigator 5.0
NEC America has announced the availability of Global Navigator 5.0, a call center management system. This is a proprietary system that might not normally be of interest, but it does highlight the reason for a lot of the legal activity which is going on: "The new solution has been ported from SCO UNIX to the Linux operating system, offering more flexibility, lower-cost and a simpler installation. Similarly, Global Navigator replaced all proprietary databases with MySQL."
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 released
Here is Red Hat's press release on the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. This release includes the Native POSIX Threading Library, greater scalability, and a wider range of supported architectures. Dell, perhaps, is the first vendor to send out a press release announcing the availability of systems with the new release installed.Oracle and Red Hat Collaborate
Here's a press release from Oracle and Red Hat, announcing new features and improvements in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 designed by and for Oracle.Veritas and SUSE LINUX Team Up
Veritas and SUSE LINUX have announced a partnership that will put VERITAS storage management and high availability software on the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server platform.SUSE LINUX Joins ObjectWeb
SUSE LINUX has joined the ObjectWeb consortium, bringing open-source middleware to SUSE Enterprise Linux.Open Source Storage Management Software
Xinit Systems Limited has announced a storage management platform called Openfiler for building NAS (Network Attached Storage) appliances. They plan to release the guts of Openfiler under the GPL later this week.Andreas Typaldos Named Xandros CEO
The board of directors of Xandros, Inc. has announced the appointment of Andreas Typaldos as CEO. Mr. Typaldos is a 30-year technology veteran and entrepreneur with science and computer science degrees.
New Books
"Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has published the book Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erickson.
Resources
Benchmarks of scalable network programming research
Felix von Leitner has made available the results of some benchmarks he did while preparing for a talk about scalable network programming given at Linux Kongress 2003. Linux kernels 2.4 to 2.6-test7 were compared to OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Slides can be found here (PDF format). This was posted on Slashdot where you can find lots of comments. (Thanks to Maximilian Attems)LDP Weekly News
The October 22, 2003 edition of the The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available with the week's documentation changes.LDP weekly news
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News for October 29, 2003 is out with a look at what's happening in Linux documentation.New Introduction to Mozilla Firebird Articles (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine mentions the availability of two more articles on the Firebird browser by Kay Frode. "Kay Frode has create two new articles on Firebird, covering installation of extensions and use of the browsing history."
Contests and Awards
UKUUG Open Source Award 2004
The UK UNIX User Group will be presenting an Open Source Award of £500 in 2004. "The judging panel, made up from representatives from UKUUG, UK computer science departments and the wider community, will consider submissions which might be articles or papers, software products, or other contributions."
Upcoming Events
Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference
The Asian Enterprise Open Source Conference will be held on October 30 and 31, 2003 in Singapore.COMDEX Las Vegas 2003, ApacheCon 2003 Offering Reciprocal Invitations to Open-Source Attendees
It seems that ApacheCon and COMDEX are running concurrently this year, both in Las Vegas. MediaLive International, Inc. and the Apache Software Foundation have announced a partnership to extend complimentary admissions to attendees of both events. "Through the partnership, those registered for ApacheCon 2003 will receive a free pass to the COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 exhibit floor, the open source and Linux Power Panel, keynote addresses and the Innovation Centers. Similarly, all COMDEX Las Vegas 2003 registered attendees can access the ApacheCon 2003 exhibits, Vendor Showcase and birds-of-a-feather sessions at no additional fee."
Registration Opens for O'Reilly ETech Conference
O'Reilly has sent out an announcement for the 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The event will be held in San Diego, CA on February 9-12, 2004.chi.pm: Field Guide to Perl Command Line Switches (use Perl)
The Chicago, IL Perl Mongers group has announced their first Tech Meeting, to be held on November 4, 2003. "Andy Lester will be presenting 'A Field Guide To Perl Command Line Switches' on the nice 25-foot screen at WDI. Learn tricks of Perl data wizardry that you can do without even opening your text editor."
IDG World Expo Unveils Keynote Line-up for LinuxWorld
IDG World Expo has announced the keynote line-up for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in New York City, taking place January 20-23, 2004 at the Javits Center.Mednet programme is out (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the upcoming Mednet conference, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland on December 4-7, 2003. "There are 3 workshops with Open Source Software: Workshop and Tutorial on the Use of Open-Source Software in HealthCare Applications Elsner C., Heart Center Leipzig, Leipzig Germany Open Source E-learning Software for Medical Education Dorup J., Section for Health Informatics, University of Aarhus, Aarhus Denmark Care2x an OPEN SOURCE hospital information system Godert W., CARE2X.DE, Mainz Germany".
Last CFP: LCA2004 audio miniconf
The final call for papers has gone out for the Linux Audio mini-conference at Linux.Conf.Au, to be held on Jan 12, 2004 in Adelaide, South Australia.Events: October 30 - December 25, 2003
| October 30 - 31, 2003 | Large Installation Systems Administration Conference(LISA) | (Town & Country Resort Hotel)San Diego, CA |
| October 30 - 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 6 - 7, 2003 | PacSec.jp 2003 | (Hotel East 21 Tokyo)Tokyo, Japan |
| 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 16 - 20, 2003 | COMDEX 2003 | (Las Vegas Convention Center)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 |
| November 26 - 27, 2003 | Forum PHP Paris 2003 | (Club Confair)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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