Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
CELF specification and reference implementation available
The CE Linux Forum has announced the availability of the first CELF specification, being a document describing how Linux should best work on consumer electronics devices. The specification is concerned with issues like reducing boot time, power management, real-time response, and so on. The specification is downloadable in PDF format; there is also a reference implementation available.Firefox Team Looking for Artists (MozillaZine)
The Firefox team needs help from artists. "Blake Ross writes: "The Firefox team is looking for talented artists to help expand our grassroots button campaign. We are looking to translate the buttons into other languages and create a handful of new buttons to widen our selection."
OSAF announces open source Chandler subproject - PyLucene
The OSAF has announced the PyLucene project. "PyLucene is a Python wrapper around the Lucene indexing and search engine. It was developed by Andi Vajda at OSAF for use in Chandler. PyLucene is a way of letting Python use Lucene to do full text indexing."
Open source solid state holter (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews points to a development project that is working on an open-source ambulatory ECG monitor.Volunteer psqlODBC Developer Required
The psqlODBC project needs volunteer help. "The psqlODBC project is currently in need of a new developer to lead the development of the driver. Unfortunately the previously developers now have other commitments, leaving the project with only one developer (me!) with little time for anything other than applying patches and producing release packages."
WHATWG Looking for Comments on First Draft of Web Forms 2 (MozillaZine)
Comments are being accepted on the Web Forms 2.0 draft specification. "The WHATWG is looking for comments on the first stable draft of the Web Forms 2.0 specification. The Web Forms 2.0 specification addresses requests made for new features to be added to the Forms features in HTML4."
Commercial announcements
Arkeia Unveils First Professional Hot Backup and Restore Solution for LDAP Servers
Arkeia Corporation has announced a new LDAP server backup solution. "Arkeia Corporation today announced the release of a plug-in for hot backup of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers, the first provider to offer a professional online backup and restore solution for LDAP servers. It enables Arkeia backup solutions customers to protect server data without interrupting LDAP services."
Breakthrough HP Technology Yields up to 100 Times More Bandwidth for Linux Clusters
HP has announced a new technology that improves cluster bandwidth by up to 100 times. "The new product, HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share (HP SFS), is a self-contained file server that enables bandwidth to be shared by distributing files in parallel across clusters of industry-standard server and storage components."
Mississippi deploys Linux-based 'homeland security' system
IBM has sent out a press release describing the new "security system" being deployed by the state of Mississippi; it runs on SUSE Linux. "When complete, this project will provide mobile units with real-time access to all available public safety information including mug shots, arrest warrants, criminal intelligence, hazardous materials data and medical emergency protocols enhancing their ability to prevent and respond to incidents that pose a danger to the public." Surely such a system would never be used for any other purpose, right?
JBossCache integrated with Berkeley DB Java Edition
At the JavaOne conference, JBoss and Sleepycat announced a developer version of JBossCache integrated with the new Berkeley DB Java Edition.MySQL AB Launches UK and Ireland Sales Office
MySQL AB has announced the opening of a new sales office in Dublin, Ireland.NEC announces database benchmark results
NEC Solutions has announced a new set of TPC database benchmark results: the company was able to achieve 683,575 transactions per minute on one of its Itanium-based servers. The system was running Oracle and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server; it is a 32-processor box with 512GB of memory. All that scalability work would appear to have accomplished something.Quadrics Continues to Drive Linux Cluster Performance
Quadrics has posted a press release claiming the high ground in Linux cluster performance. "Two years after Quadrics helped build the fastest Linux cluster of the day, called MCR (www.llnl.gov/linux/mcr/), Quadrics and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have done it again. This time the system, called Thunder, is not only the fastest Linux cluster in the world, but also the fastest computer system in the US and the #2 system in the world (see www.top500.org), surpassing the previous #2 system (ASCI-Q), also based on Quadrics QsNet."
Sun Contributes to Open Source Community
Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced Project Looking Glass and Java 3D technology will be made available to the open source community. Sun also announced additional open source desktop efforts in collaboration with the Java developer community: the JDesktop Network Components (JDNC) and JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC).
New Books
No Starch Press releases "The Official Blender 2.3 Guide"
No Starch Press has published the book The Official Blender 2.3 Guide by Ton Roosendaal and Stefano Selleri."Better, Faster, Lighter Java" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Better, Faster, Lighter Java by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland."XML Publishing with AxKit" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book XML Publishing with AxKit by Kip Hampton.Rapid Application Development With Mozilla to be Translated into Russian (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine reports on an effort to translate the book Rapid Application Development With Mozilla into Russian.Syngress Releases "Richard Thieme's Islands in the Clickstream"
Syngress Publishing has published the book Richard Thieme's Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual World by Richard Thieme.
Resources
A Linux Quick Reference to Useful Commands (O'ReillyNet)
O'Reilly has announced the availability of a downloadable PDF version of Linux Quick Reference to Useful Commands by Daniel J. Barrett.The LDP Weekly News
The June 30, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is available with the latest new documentation releases.LPI-News May and June 2004
News from the Linux Professional Institute includes a look at new courseware for LPI Level 2 certification exams, re-writes of the exams and other topics.Updated VST/VSTi Tutorial Available
Dave Phillips has released and updated version of his tutorial on using VST/VSTi audio plugins under Linux.
Contests and Awards
ERP5 Open Source ERP Project beats SAP and Navision in Professional Magazine Award
Coramy, a European company in the apparel industry and first user of the open source ERP5 Enterprise Resource Planning Solution, was awarded best ERP implementation project in the special edition of Décision Informatique.
Upcoming Events
Libre Software Meeting 2004
The 2004 Libre Software Meeting will be held in Bordeaux, France on July 6-10, 2004. Presentations on Lisp will included in the high-level languages track. "The Lisp hackers who will attend the upcoming LSM 2004 are organizing short informal presentations and other activities besides formal presentations."
Embedded Systems Conference, Boston
The next Embedded Systems Conference will be held in Boston, Mass on September 13-16, 2004 at the Hynes Convention Center.YAPC::EU Call for Venue 2005 (use Perl)
Use Perl has a Call for Venue for the YAPC Europe 2005 conference. "European YAPC's and National Workshops now have a foundation. The main goal of the newly formed YAPC Europe Foundation is to provide assistance on request to any European crew setting up a conference (be it a YAPC::Europe or a national workshop)."
Events: July 1 - August 26, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 1, 2004 | Perl Workshop 6.0 | (Barbara-Künkelin-Halle)Schorndorf, Germany |
| July 1 - 2, 2004 | USENIX 2004 | (Boston Marriott Coppley Place)Boston, MA |
| July 1, 2004 | JavaOne | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| July 6 - 10, 2004 | Libre Software Meeting 2004(RSM/RMLL) | (Bordeaux I University)Bordeaux, France |
| July 12 - 15, 2004 | Real-time and Embedded Systems Workshop | Washington, DC |
| July 19 - 20, 2004 | Italian Perl Workshop | (Polo Fibonacci)Pisa, Italy |
| July 21 - 24, 2004 | Linux Symposium | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 26 - 30, 2004 | O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2004(OSCON) | Portland, OR |
| July 26 - 30, 2004 | IBM pSeries Technical Conference | Cairns, Australia |
| July 31 - August 2, 2004 | Vancouver Python Workshop | Vancouver, Canada |
| August 2 - 5, 2004 | LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, California |
| August 21 - 29, 2004 | KDE Community World Summit 2004(aKademy) | (Filmakademie Ludwigsburg)Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart Region), Germany |
Event Reports
Announcements from JavaOne
JavaOne, Sun's annual Java conference, is in full swing in San Francisco. "Open Source" seems to be the buzz word of the day in these press releases:- JBoss and Novell have announced a strategic alliance to enable Novell(R) exteNd(TM) customers to deploy SOA-based applications to the open source JBoss Application Server.
- Gluecode Software has announced the general availability of Gluecode Portal Server 3.5, the latest version of Gluecode's open source enterprise portal.
- Gluecode Software contributes to the Apache Portals Project.
- Agilent Technologies and Sun Microsystems have announced the formation of the Java Distributed Data Acquisition and Control (JDDAC) java.net community, an open-source forum for the development of Java applications and libraries for wide-area distributed sensors and controls.
- ObjectWeb has announced that its corporate members are now targeting the delivery of ESB solutions built on open-source components.
- JBoss has announced JBossLabs(TM), a research and development center focused on delivering innovative middleware technologies to the market.
- JBoss has announced JBoss Inside, a new offering for companies integrating JBoss technology into their products.
- JBoss and Sleepycat Software have announced a developer version of JBossCache(TM) integrated with Berkeley DB Java Edition.
- Sun Microsystems has announced the release of version 4.0 of the NetBeans project.
- Sun Microsystems has announced that Allied Irish Bank will migrate 7,500 desktop users and transition branch dependent applications across its entire branch network to the Sun Java(TM) Desktop System.
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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