Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Customize.org Invites the KDE Community (KDE.News)
KDE.News has announced an invitation for KDE to join Customize.org. "Recently Customize.org, one of the original desktop customization sites on the Web, has added some sections for KDE skins, themes and art such as cursors for general X11. We'd like to invite the KDE art community to submit their work to our site. By attempting to bring GNOME, KDE, and Windows artists together under one roof, we hope that we can increase porting and cooperation among all the communities."
Free search engine software gains popularity
A press release promotes the Xapian search engine: "Xapian, licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), is free software originally developed at Brightstation PLC as a replacement for Muscat, the first commercial probabilistic search engine. When Brightstation ceased trading in 2001 some of the team that created Xapian decided to continue developing the software and it is available for free download at www.xapian.org. After three years of subsequent development Xapian is now available for Solaris, Unix, Linux and Windows platforms and is mature and stable with a highly active developer community."
OpenEMR - An IBM Global Partner (LinuxMedNews)
OpenEMR, an open source electronic medical record and practice management application, has been accepted into IBM's Global Solutions Directory. "IBM's Global Solutions Directory is an online directory containing thousands of applications, tools and services from IBM and IBM Business Partners."
Commercial announcements
Concurrent Announces iHawk Real-Time Linux Systems Powered By AMD Opteron Processor-Based Servers From Celestica
Concurrent Computer Corporation has announced the availability of 64 bit versions of its iHawk Series 870 systems running Linux.Green Hills Software strikes again
Green Hills Software continues its FUD campaign with a "white paper" entitled "Linux Security: Unfit for Retrofit." It's a piece of work. "Publishing the source code for the operating systems used in our most critical defense systems is analogous to publishing the wiring diagrams for our military base security systems. Our enemies will be able to study the vulnerabilites [sic] of the software controlling our defense systems at their leisure.... Many people argue that open source programs are inherently more secure than 'proprietary' programs because publishing the source code for the program enables many people to look at the source code and find any vulnerabilities in it. This is based on the misconception that looking at the source code is an effective means of finding vulnerabilities, which it is not."
National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit
The National Retail Federation, "the world's largest retail trade association," has put out a press release stating its belief that SCO's lawsuits are unfounded. "NRF expects that retailers who use Linux will survive the current litigation."
New Books
Python Success Stories, volume II
O'Reilly & Associates has agreed to print a second volume of Python Success Stories and the search is on for new stories."Linux Unwired" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Linux Unwired by Roger Weeks, Edd Dumbill, and Brian Jepson."Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, Fourth Edition" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the fourth edition of Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora by Bill McCarty.
Resources
2004 Posix 1003.1 Standard Published
The 2004 Posix 1003.1 Standard has been published. "This latest edition incorporates the recently published Technical Corrigendum 2. The specifications are freely available in html."
Contests and Awards
LinuxUser & Developers Expo Awards Recognize Arkeia as Top Data Storage Solution
Arkeia Network Backup was selected Best Data Storage Solution at the prestigious LinuxUser & Developer Awards announced in London last week.
Upcoming Events
KDE Community World Summit Registration Now Opened! (KDE.News)
Registration has been announced for the KDE Community World Summit. The event will take place from August 21-19, 2004 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.LinuxWorld Conference & Expo Keynotes to Spotlight Customer Success Stories
IDG World Expo has announced the keynote line-up for LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, which will take place August 2-5, 2004 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Executives from Red Hat, HP, Oracle, IBM and BEA Systems will be joined by customers who will provide examples and describe the real-world benefits of Linux and open source.Opensource Software in Health Care Symposium (LinuxMedNews)
Linux Med News has an announcement for the Opensource Software in Health Care Symposium. "On Tuesday morning May 11/2004 opensource developers and enthusiasts in health care will convene at the University of Toronto for a 1/2 day workshop on Opensource Systems in Health Care. The workshop is part of a 3-day conference entitled Opensource and Free Software: Concepts, Controversies and Solutions presented by the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University."
OLS early registration deadline
A reminder has been sent out from the folks at the Ottawa Linux Symposium, early registration discounts are ending soon.Software Patents in Europe - action week
The Free Software Foundation Europe and the Foundation for a Free Informational Infrastructure are endorsing an action week from May 10th to 14th to inform citizens, economy and politics about the harmful consequences of software patents.Events: May 6 - July 1, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 6 - 8, 2004 | TheServerSide Java Symposium | (The Venetian)Las Vegas, NV |
| May 6 - 8, 2004 | Web.It 2004 | Padova, Italy |
| May 9 - 11, 2004 | Open Source Conference | (University of Toronto)Toronto, Canada |
| May 11 - 12, 2004 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | (Hotel Istana)Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 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 |
| May 24 - 26, 2004 | GridToday 2004 | (Philadelphia Convention Center)Philadelphia, PA |
| May 25 - 26, 2004 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | (Suntec)Singapore |
| May 26 - June 6, 2004 | DebConf4 | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| May 26 - 29, 2004 | 2nd International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval | Esbjerg, Denmark |
| June 2 - 4, 2004 | 2004 GCC and GNU Toolchain Developer's Summit | (Ottawa Congress Centre)Ottawa, Canada |
| June 3 - 4, 2004 | Web.It 2004 | Milano, Italy |
| June 6 - 7, 2004 | French Perl Workshop | Paris, France |
| June 7 - 9, 2004 | EuroPython | (Chalmers University of Technology)Göteborg, Sweden |
| June 13, 2004 | 1st European Lisp and Scheme Workshop | Oslo, Norway |
| June 14 - 18, 2004 | 18th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming(ECOOP-2004) | (The University of Oslo)Oslo, Norway |
| June 16 - 18, 2004 | Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC::NA::2004) | (University at Buffalo)Buffalo, NY |
| June 16 - 18, 2004 | YAPC::NA 2004 | (University at Buffalo)Buffalo, NY |
| June 28 - 30, 2004 | GNOME User and Developer European Conference(GUADEC) | Kristiansand, Norway |
| June 29 - July 1, 2004 | Perl Workshop 6.0 | (Barbara-Künkelin-Halle)Schorndorf, Germany |
Event Reports
open source and health informatics thinktank report (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced the publication of a report from the Open Steps thinktank meeting that was held on February 2004 in Winchester, UK. "The main purpose of the Marwell Open Steps meeting was - to identify key issues, opportunities, obstacles, areas of work and research that may be needed, and other relevant aspects, around the potential for using open source software, solutions and approaches within health care, and in particular within health informatics, in the UK and Europe."
X Developer's Meeting (GnomeDesktop)
Federico Mena-Quintero's web log has ongoing coverage of the X Developer's Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ( Found on GnomeDesktop.org.)
Web sites
MozillaZine Update (MozillaZine)
The folks at MozillaZine have posted a site update. "First, we're proud to announce that the forums, which are roughly a year and a half old, have now reached 40,000 members, and over 500,000 posts. They have become the main venue for users and developers alike, and have also become one of the more valuable support resources in the community."
OldLinux.org
Here's a website for history buffs. OldLinux.org seeks to collect all the materials related to the ancient Linux for historic testimony and rebuild the oldest Linux systems. You'll also find an ebook (in Chinese), A Heavily Commented Linux kernel Source Code - (Kernel 0.11). [Thanks to Jingmin (Jimmy) Zhou]
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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