Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Linux in Defense: Free Software is Just Too Expensive
Here's another FUD missile (white paper) from Green Hills Software. This time the focus is on free software's high development costs and lack of support. "No one has ever established a profitable open source business model, because no company can sustain an exploitable proprietary advantage. The nature of open source is that every proprietary advantage must be returned to the public domain. The talents of individual engineers can't be retained because the engineers can just quit and take all of their knowledge with them to apply in their next job. The open source process drives the profit out of Linux businesses leading to their eventual demise."
Software Patents: EU Council Plans to Scrap Parliamentary Vote
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure reports that a counter proposal to the software patents directive is expected to be confirmed without discussion at a meeting of ministers on May 17-18, 2004. The new proposal allows the direct patent-ability of computer programs, data structures and process descriptions.The Edinburgh Fund
The Edinburgh Fund has been announced by the people at the wxWidgets project. "This is a fancy name for the small amount of money left over from the name change settlement with Microsoft, after legal fees, tax, and labour fees have been deducted. Julian Smart is administering this as a separate fund from SPI donations to avoid 'contaminating' other funds with money that a small number of people consider offensive, due to its source. It also makes for quick decisions about allocation and rapid transfer of funds to people who need it." People who are contributing to wxWidgets may apply.
The Midgard Project Celebrates 5th Anniversary
The Midgard project is celebrating its 5 year anniversary. "Midgard is an Open Source Content Management System integrating world's most popular Open Source web development tools MySQL, Apache and PHP providing an environment for deploying powerful Internet based content management solutions. The Midgard environment includes a component framework and several web-based authoring and administration tools."
The Xiph.org Foundation joins Linuxaudio.org
Linuxaudio.org has announced a new member: "The Xiph.org Foundation has joined the Linuxaudio.org consortium, becoming the newest member and bringing the total number of members to nineteen."
Commercial announcements
Announcing CrossOver Office, Version 3.0
Version 3.0 of CrossOver Office is available from CodeWeavers. "We've added new, official, support for Outlook XP, Microsoft Project, and Notes 6.5.1. Unofficially, we're excited by users comments that far more applications are working now. These include programs like Framemaker and Microsoft Money."
BRU Server for Linux enterprise data protection
TOLIS Group has announced enhancements to BRU Server for Linux.CPUBuilders High Performance Linux PCs
CPUBuilders by Stratitec announced the availability of two new higher end Linux PCs with a street price of less than $600.Eclipse Use Grows
Evans Data Corp. has announced that according to its latest survey the Eclipse open source Java IDE is growing in popularity.Novell announces Evolution 2.0, free Connector
Novell has sent out a press release pre-announcing Evolution 2.0 (which will be available in the third quarter). Perhaps more interesting is the announcement that the proprietary Connector product, which interfaces Evolution with Microsoft Exchange servers, will be integrated with Evolution and released under the GPL.Novell announces tech support offerings
Novell has announced a new set of support offerings for Linux, and is now claiming to be "the only software company to provide comprehensive enterprise-level support for a customer's entire Linux environment, from servers to desktops to laptops." See the press release for details.
Single-kernel real-time Linux supports dual-PPC VMEbus board (LinuxDevices.com)
LinuxDevices covers the TimeSys release of a single-kernel real-time Linux board support package as well as a complete development tool set for a dual-PowerPC processor VMEbus single board computer targeting military and aerospace applications.VA Linux in Collaborative Development Project with NTT Data
VA Linux Systems Japan K.K. has announced the undertaking of a collaborative development project with NTT Data Corporation designed to develop a crash analysis tool for the Linux operating system. The project aims to have the tool in circulation by the first quarter of 2005.
New Books
"Eclipse" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Eclipse by Steve Holzner. "Eclipse, the popular Java integrated development environment (IDE), provides an elegant, powerful, and (best of all) free remedy for Java's exacting programming requirements."
"Hackers and Painters" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham.
Resources
The LDP Weekly News
The May 5, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News has been published. Take a look to see the latest new documentation.LDP Weekly News
The May 12, 2004 edition of the LDP Weekly News is out, take a look for the newest Linux documentation releases.PyZine Issue 6
Issue #6 of PyZine, the Python magazine, has been announced.
Upcoming Events
GUADEC 2004 Press Release (GnomeDesktop)
GUADEC 2004 has announced an international slate of speakers at the Fifth Annual GNOME User and Developer Europe Conference (GUADEC 2004). GUADEC will be held at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway, from June 28-30, 2004.Hosts wanted for GUADEC 2005! (GnomeDesktop)
GnomeDesktop.org has posted a request for a GUADEC 2005 host location. "The GNOME Foundation is looking for a host city for GUADEC 2005. Yes, we haven't even had this years GUADEC in Norway and we're already looking to next year!"
The Desktop Developers' Conference
It's official: the Desktop Developers' Conference will be happening in Ottawa on July 19 and 20 - immediately prior to the Ottawa Linux Symposium. Registration is now open.Linux Audio Miniconf Canberra Australia
An early announcement has gone out for the Australian Linux Linux Audio Mini-Conf. "The Linux Audio Mini-Conf @ LCA2005 will be held before linux.conf.au, Australia's national Linux conference, in April 2005 at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia."
Austrian Perl Workshop schedule (use Perl)
Use Perl has an announcement that details the schedule of the Austrian Perl Workshop. The event will take place in Vienna, Austria on May 20-22, 2004.php|works 2004 Call For Papers
A call for papers has gone out for the php|works 2004 conference. The event will take place in Toronto, Canada on September 22-24, 2004. "The deadline for submitting talk proposals is May 21st, 2004. Due to organizational constraints, this is a firm date that cannot be postponed."
SciPy 2004 Conference Announced
The 2004 SciPy Conference has been announced. The event will take place at Caltech on September 2 and 3, 2004.KDE Community World Summit: Call for Papers (KDE.News)
KDE.News announces the call for papers for the KDE Community World Summit. The deadline for proposals is May 30, 2004. The conference is in August.Events: May 13 - July 8, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 2 - 4, 2004 | inbox, the email event | (San Jose Marriott)San Jose, CA |
| 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 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 |
Web sites
pgFoundry Open For Business
A new PostgreSQL database site is online. "PostgreSQL's new collaboration site for associated projects, pgFoundry, also known as projects.postgresql.org, is up and running at http://www.pgfoundry.org/. This is the beginning of our transition from our own GBorg to a framework which is maintained and improved by a broad external community -- GForge. And of course it runs on PostgreSQL."
A new Wiki for PyQt and PyKDE (KDE.News)
KDE.News has an announcement for the new PyQt and PyKDE community Wiki site. "In order to create a community platform, we have set up a wiki entirely devoted to Python GUI development with PyQt and PyKDE. So if you don't know anything about it, the time might be great, because a new version of PyKDE supporting the KDE APIs up to 3.2.2 is currently in Beta stage - and a release is coming soon! In the wiki, you will find links to tutorials on how convenient Qt or KDE programming can be without C++, no matter if you use it for rapid prototyping or for the actual applications."
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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