Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Chinese government science and technology group joins OSDL
China's Beijing Software Testing Center (BSTC) has joined the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL).
Commercial announcements
Absoft Announces New Fortran Compiler for AMD 64-bit Opteron/Athlon Processors
Absoft Corporation has announced the release of a new High Performance Fortran Compiler for AMD 64-bit Opteron/Athlon Processors running Linux.BitKeeper claims doubling of kernel development pace
BitMover has sent out a press release claiming that the adoption of BitKeeper has doubled the pace of kernel development over the past two years. Quoting Linus: "BitKeeper is different. It's made me more than twice as productive, and its fundamentally distributed nature allows me to work the way I prefer to work -- with many different groups working independently, yet allowing for easy merging between them."
GFI Announces Its Linux Development Plans
GFI has announced that it is releasing a Linux version of its anti-spam software. "GFI, leading developer of content security, anti-spam, messaging and network security and monitoring software, has announced at CeBIT 2004 that it will soon release a Linux version of GFI MailSecurity. GFI is also developing increased Linux support in all its products."
IBM Announces University Grid Computing Projects
IBM has announced that it will be working with two universities to build grid computing systems for working on geophysical data and medical problems.Installed Base of Linux POS Terminals Grows 35% in 2003
The use of Linux for Point Of Sale (POS) terminals grew 35% in 2003, according to this press release from the IHL Consulting Group. ""We expect to see strong growth of Linux for several years to come but this is not necessarily good news for POS vendors," said Greg Buzek, president of IHL Consulting Group, an analyst firm and consultancy that serves retailers and retail technology vendors. "The retailers most likely to use Linux for the future are those retailers that currently run DOS on their POS systems and want to continue to keep their same hardware going forward.""
New version of Opera Embeds ViaVoice from IBM
The Opera browser now has speech recognition capabilities. "Today at AVIOS, SpeechTEK 2004, Opera Software announced the upcoming release of a multimodal desktop browser that incorporates IBM's Embedded ViaVoice speech technology. By leveraging IBM's voice libraries in this version of Opera, users can navigate, request information and even fill in Web forms using speech and other forms of input in the same interaction."
Red Hat reports another good quarter
Red Hat has announced its fourth quarter/year end results. Revenue was $37 million in the quarter, resulting in net income of $5 million. Over the last year, the company's bank balance has gone from $292 million to $941 million; $500 million of that will be from bond sales (though the PR does not mention that); the rest is from cash flow.
New Books
"Hardcore Java" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Hardcore Java by Robert Simmons, Jr.No Starch Press Releases "Linux for Non-Geeks"
The book Linux for Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant is available from No Starch Press.
Resources
The LDP Weekly News
The March 24, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is out with the latest new documentation. A new version of the Linux IPv6 HOWTO is available, among other things.
Surveys
ONJava Reader Survey (O'ReillyNet)
O'Reilly's OnJava site is conducting a survey. "This year's ONJava survey asks you which technologies you use, and where and how you use them. Help us shape the site and enter for your chance to receive three O'Reilly books of your choosing."
Upcoming Events
Ohio LinuxFest 2004 CFP
A Call for Presentations has gone out for the Ohio LinuxFest 2004. The event will take place on October 2, 2004 at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.YAPC::Australia::2004 (use Perl)
The YAPC::Australia::2004 will be held in Melbourne, Australia on December 1-3, 2004.EuroPython Call for Participation
A call for participation has gone out for EuroPython 2004. The event will take place in Göteborg, Sweden on June 7-9, 2004.Japanese mozilla.party.jp 5.0 Conference Announced (MozillaZine)
The annual Japanese Mozilla users' group conference has been announced. The event will take place on April 18, 2004.Exhibitors Queue Up For This Year's LinuxUser & Developer Expo
The LinuxUser & Developer Expo has sent out a press release. "LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2004, the UKs premier Linux event, has today announced that it has filled 90 per cent of its exhibitor space a month before the show is planned to take place. Exhibitors attending the event in Olympia London from 20th 21st April 2004 include IBM, LDRA, Rackspace Managed Hosting, Red Hat, SuSE Linux and Sybase."
Events: March 25 - May 20, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 25 - 26, 2004 | PyCon DC 2004 | Washington, D.C. |
| March 25 - 26, 2004 | Novell BrainShare 2004 | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| March 25 - 26, 2004 | Open Source Forum 2004 | (The Sydney Marriott Hotel)Sydney, Australia |
| March 27 - 28, 2004 | Nordic Perl Workshop 2004 | (Symbion Science Park)Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 27 - 28, 2004 | YAPC::Taipei::2004 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| March 29 - April 1, 2004 | Embedded Systems Conference | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| March 31 - April 2, 2004 | USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies(FAST '04) | (Grand Hyatt Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| April 5 - 7, 2004 | Samba eXPerience 2004 | (Hotel Freizeit In)Göttingen, Germany |
| April 5 - 8, 2004 | ClusterWorld Conference & Expo | (San Jose Convention Center)San Jose, California |
| April 13 - 15, 2004 | Real World Linux 2004 Conference & Expo | (Metro Toronto Convention Centre)Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| April 14 - 16, 2004 | MySQL Users Conference and Expo 2004 | (Peabody Hotel Orlando)Orlando, FL |
| April 14 - 17, 2004 | ACCU Spring Conference 2004 | (Randolph Hotel)Oxford, England |
| April 16 - 18, 2004 | Penguicon 2.0 | (Detroit Sheraton Novi Hotel)Novi, MI |
| April 20 - 21, 2004 | LinuxUser & Developer Expo | (Olympia)London, England |
| April 22 - 23, 2004 | 2004 Desktop Linux Summit | (Del Mar Fairgrounds)San Diego, California |
| April 26 - 27, 2004 | Digital Media Project Traditional Rights and Usages Workshop | Los Angeles, CA |
| April 29 - May 2, 2004 | 2nd Linux Audio Developers Conference | (Institute for Music and Acoustics)Karlsruhe, Germany |
| May 3 - 5, 2004 | International PHP Conference 2004 Spring Edition | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| May 6 - 8, 2004 | TheServerSide Java Symposium | (The Venetian)Las Vegas, NV |
| May 16 - 18, 2004 | European Firebird Conference 2004 | Fulda, Germany |
| May 17 - 20, 2004 | Fifth LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters | (University of Texas)Austin, TX |
| May 17 - 19, 2004 | Enterprise Software Summit | (The Palace Hotel)San Francisco, CA |
| May 17 - 20, 2004 | Black Hat Briefings Europe 2004 | (Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky)Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| May 17 - 21, 2004 | Apache Boot Camp | Atlanta, GA |
| May 20 - 22, 2004 | Austrian Perl Workshop | Vienna, Austria |
Event Reports
Novell BrainShare announcements
Novell's BrainShare 2004 conference started today, spawning a host of press releases. Here is a sample:- Novell Launches Open Source Systems Management Project
- Open Enterprise Server bridges Netware and SUSE Linux
- Novell Makes iFolder Open Source
Python Sprints coverage
Jeremy Hylton and Ted Leung cover the Python Sprints event. See what went on during day 1, more from day 1, day 2, more from day 2, day 2's dinner, and day 3. (Found on the Daily Python-URL.)
Web sites
IMIA/OS-NI Has a New Website (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has an announcement for the new IMIA-NI (Nursing Informatics) web site. "The Open Source Nursing Informatics (OSNI) Working Group of IMIA-NI was established in June 2003. It aims to bring together an international collaboration of nurses and nurse informaticians interested in exploring the potential for open source and free software in nursing, and more widely in health."
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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