Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Announcements from the Linux Professional Institute
The Linux Professional Institute will be attending the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, Switzerland. "LPI will present an interactive roundtable entitled "Creating Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Infrastructures", designed to increase understanding and give delegates a roadmap on how to develop an Open Source foundation within their organizations or areas of influence."
LPI has also announced an affiliation with
Open Source communities in Brazil, Bulgaria, the Caribbean and Middle-East
"to increase professionalism, exposure and participation of Linux by
corporate, government and academic environments in each country.
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Commercial announcements
Progeny gives new life to Red Hat Linux products
Progeny has announced that it is extending its software updates and transition services to Red Hat Linux 8.0 and 9 users. Security patches will be available via http retrieval from a software repository or through Novell's Ximian Red Carpet Enterprise version 2.0.Trolltech Introduces Qt Solutions
Trolltech has announced the Qt Solutions group. "This group provides new add-on components and tools to extend and enhance the Qt application framework."
SCO press release on DDOS attack
It is a rare business which sends out press releases when its computers come under attack. The SCO Group, however, has done so, noting that its web site has been off the net for most of the day due to a distributed denial of service attack. The company is, for now, refraining from blaming the Linux community.SmoothWall Releases SmoothWall Express Version 2.0
SmoothWall Limited has released version 2.0 of SmoothWall Express, an open-source firewall product. "This new product builds on the SmoothWall tradition that has seen hundreds of thousands of SmoothWall firewalls installed worldwide. Like all SmoothWall products, Express is designed for ease of use and requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install or configure."
SUSE LINUX and IBM Launch Software Integration Center
SUSE Linux and IBM have announced the launching of a new software integration center. "SUSE LINUX and IBM today announced the foundation of a joint Software Integration Center located at the IBM Toronto Lab - providing enterprise customers optimized interaction of the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server operating system with IBM software offerings. The collaboration will initially focus on IBM DB2 Universal Database offerings and will subsequently be extended to other IBM software products."
ActiveState releases Tcl Dev Kit 3.0
ActiveState has released version 3.0 of the Tcl Dev Kit. "The solution includes new features for the rapid development and delivery of professional quality Tcl applications, and sets a new bar for developer productivity and performance for in-depth code analysis, management, debugging, and deployment."
Network Appliance joins OSDL
The Open Source Development Labs is becoming a popular club; OSDL has announced that Network Appliance has just joined up. Network Appliance is especially interested in OSDL's "Data Center Linux" program.Novell joins OSDL
Novell has taken the next step and joined the Open Source Development Labs. The company will also have a representative on OSDL's board of directors.New SCO 8-K filing
The SCO Group has filed a new 8-K form with the SEC. It seems that BayStar and the Royal Bank of Canada (the investors which have pumped $50 million into the company) got a little nervous and have demanded a new clause in their agreement: the investors now have veto power over any SCO action which could trigger the 20% contingency payment to SCO's lawyers.Also filed is a letter from Boies, Schiller & Flexner describing the arrangement between the companies. It reveals some discomfort with the involvement of Kevin McBride, Darl's brother, and requires an explicit confirmation that SCO's board has agreed to this involvement. A separate letter from SCO describes what Boies et al. will be doing, including "pursuing our potential claims against third parties arising out of the USL/BSDI settlement."
Resources
LDP Weekly News
The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News for December 3, 2003 is available with news of the latest documentation changes.LPI-News November 2003
The November, 2003 edition of the Linux Professional Institute Newsletter has been published."How Python is Developed": an introductory essay
If you are interested in how the Python language is developed, an essay entitled "Guido, Some Guys, and a Mailing List: How Python is Developed", has been published. "The essay covers the development process of Python without going into extreme nitty-gritty details. The purpose of this essay is to provide an easy introduction to how Python is developed culminated in a single document."
Fast start with Samba (NewsForge)
NewsForge has published an article that details Samba configuration. "When we first asked for suggestions for inclusion in the Samba HOWTO documentation, someone wrote asking for example configurations -- and lots of them. This article offers extensive descriptions of Samba configuration possibilities."
Two new releases from the world of SVG (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org covers the latest SVG flag collection from the Sodiproject and a new release of the GNOME themes extras package.
Contests and Awards
The SCOX Loss Pool
Now that the company has delayed its earnings release, we are all left wondering just how much the SCO Group will have managed to lose in its fourth quarter. As a way of filling in the gap, Don Marti has created the SCOX Loss Pool, where you can put in your guess as to how bad the red ink will be. The tie breaker question is to name which company SCO will sue to draw attention away from its results. The prize has not been decided yet, but it will certainly be worth winning.
Upcoming Events
SDForum Open Source Summit and Expo
The SDForum Open Source Summit and Expo will be held on December 11, 2003 at the SFO Marriot Hotel in Burlingame, CA. The event starts at 2:00 PM.Penguincon 2.0
Penguicon 2.0, a combined Linux expo and SciFi convention, will be held in Novi, Michigan on April 16-18, 2004.LinuxWorld Conference & Expo's Taste of Linux Series
IDG World Expo has announced that this year's LinuxWorld New York Taste of Linux Series will begin with a panel of executives from leading Linux companies who will share their secrets for making money from open source.LCI's Call for Papers, Tutorials, and Presentations
A call for papers, tutorials, and presentations has gone out for the 5th International Conference on Linux Clusters, to be held in Austin, TX on May 17-20, 2004.Call for Papers: USENIX Beowulf/NUMA/GRID/Extreme Linux Track
A call for papers has been made for the USENIX Beowulf/NUMA/GRID/Extreme Linux Track at the Extreme Linux conference. The event will take place in Boston, MA on June 27 through July 2, 2004.Call for Papers: Cluster2004
The Cluster2004 conference Call for Papers has been posted. The event will take place in San Diego, California on September 20-23, 2004.Events: December 11, 2003 - February 5, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 11 - 13, 2003 | International Conference on Logic Programming(ICLP'03) | Mumbai (Bombay), India |
| January 12 - 13, 2004 | Linux.Conf.au Miniconfs | Adelaide, Australia |
| January 12 - 13, 2004 | EducationaLinux 2004 | Adelaide, Australia |
| January 14 - 17, 2004 | Linux.conf.au | Adelaide, Australia |
| January 20 - 23, 2004 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 | (Jacob K. Javits Convention Center)New York, New York |
| January 31 - February 1, 2004 | WineConf 2004 | (Court International Building)St. Paul, Minnesota |
| February 2 - 6, 2004 | EclipseCon 2004 | (Disneyland Hotel)Anaheim, CA |
| February 2 - 4, 2004 | Open Standards and Certification Conference | (San Diego Marriott Mission Valley)San Diego, CA |
| February 3 - 5, 2004 | Linux Solutions 2004 | Paris, France |
Mailing Lists
The DDLinux Speech Recognition Mailing List
The DDLinux Speech Recognition Mailing List is available for the discussion of Linux-based continuous speech recognition software development. The registration page also contains a list of links to various speech-related projects.Patchmanagement.org mailing list
A new mailing list is available for the discussion of patch management issues. "The PatchManagement mailing list discusses the how-to's and why's of security patch management across a broad spectrum of Operating Systems, Applications, and Network Devices. This list is meant as an aid to network and systems administrators and security professionals who are responsible for maintaining the security posture of their hosts and applications."
Web sites
A new look and a new foundation for IBM developerWorks
The IBM developerWorks site has gone through a major change. This article explains the changes. "Today developerWorks unveils its new look -- a series of enhancements to the design and navigation of the site based largely on input from readers like you. But it's not just our look that's changed. Under the surface, our infrastructure has changed to integrate and take advantage of WebSphere Portal. With one DNS change, developerWorks has moved from using WebSphere Application Server 4.0.6 in a single Web site model to using WebSphere Portal 4.1.4 in an aggregated Web site model."
Announcement for opensourcexperts.com
OpenSourceExperts.com is a site for the micro and macro payment of support and for the collaborative funding of Open Source software. A tour is available here.KDE::Enterprise wants your KDE Success Story
The KDE::Enterprise site needs some new content. "After gathering a bit of dust due to some server changes KDE::Enterprise has recently received a face lift and is now fully operational again. To freshen up the contents we would like to invite you to share your KDE Success Stories with us. Has your company made a succesful switch to KDE? Tell us about it!"
Software announcements
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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