Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
FSFE to challenge Microsoft in its appeal against European Commission
The Free Software Foundation Europe has sent out a press release concerning its participation in an EC case involving Microsoft. "After having participated as third party in the antitrust case before, the Free Software Foundation Europe has participated to the preliminary hearing on Tuesday 27th of July 2004 to enter court in order to defend the decision of the European Commission and the freedom to use Free Software SAMBA."
Commercial announcements
Devon IT launches Linux-based thin terminal
If you're looking for a cheap way to deploy Linux desktops, this announcement from Devon IT may point the way forward: X terminals are back. The "NTA Virtual Office" terminal runs Linux, has no moving parts, and starts at $149.OSDN becomes OSTG
The Open Source Developers Network, host to Slashdot, NewsForge, SourceForge, etc., has gone through a makeover and is now the Open Source Technology Group. The company's web sites have been fixed up "...to deliver more in-depth articles and resources to help our forward-thinking audience make critical business and purchasing decisions."
ActiveState unleashes Komodo 3.0
ActiveState has announced Komodo 3.0, the latest release of its IDE for dynamic languages. The announcement, made at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference, details Komodo's new capabilities.Big Nerd Ranch Announces PostgreSQL Bootcamp
Big Nerd Ranch will be holding another PostgreSQL Bootcamp in Atlanta, GA on October 4-8, 2004.Clouds in SCO/BayStar deal
The SCO Group has sent out a press release stating that it has registered the stock to be used in paying off BayStar, and that it considers the whole issue to be closed. However... "BayStar has notified SCO that it is BayStar's position that the repurchase transaction has not closed, pending resolution of claims by BayStar that SCO's recent public statements regarding SCOsource licensing opportunities are inconsistent with statements previously made by SCO to representatives of BayStar.... BayStar has also claimed that it will not consider the repurchase transaction closed until SCO provides BayStar with confidential information supporting the accuracy of SCO's recent public disclosures regarding its SCOsource business. SCO has declined to provide the SCOsource information requested by BayStar in order to protect the confidential and proprietary nature of the information and the names of the companies engaged in SCOsource licensing discussions and to avoid fostering speculation regarding its SCOsource business." Looks like SCO may have another lawsuit in the works.
Eclipse Launches Web Tools Platform Project
The Eclipse Foundation has launched a new Web Tools Platform Project. "The Web Tools Platform project is an exciting new expansion of both the Eclipse technology portfolio and our community of developers," said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of Eclipse. "ObjectWeb's support was instrumental in establishing the project and we look forward to continuing to work with them in the future."
Mandrakesoft: quarterly results ending June
Mandrakesoft has announced its quarterly results. "During the quarter, the company registered an operating income of 0.17 M euro (0.04 euro per share) compared to an operating loss of 0.47 M euro during the same period of the previous fiscal year. The net income increased to 0.19 M euro (0.04 euro per share) compared to a net loss of 0.37 M euro during the previous fiscal year."
Seagate and Linspire Bring Linspire Linux OS to Latin America
Seagate Technology and Linspire, Inc. have announced an extension of their agreement to offer the LinspireEspanol desktop pre-loaded on Seagate Barracuda hard drives for emerging markets. This package will enable computer manufacturers to offer affordable Spanish language Linux desktop computers to their customers in Latin America.Versata Announces Versata Logic Suite on JBoss Application Server
Versata has announced Edition 3.2 of its Versata Logic Suite for the JBoss Application Server. "With Versata, developers replace tedious Java programming with a declarative, model-based approach to application development based on business rules and data models. This automated approach dramatically reduces development time and eliminates the need for expensive and error-prone Java programming of service components."
DownloadOpenOffice.org Offers Free Online Staff Support
Enfobridge has announced a new support site for OpenOffice.org users. "Enfobridge this week announced DownloadOpenOffice.org, a new website that offers free downloads and support for OpenOffice.org software. For the first time ever, downloaders have access to a professional online support staff free of charge."
New Books
New AxKit Book From O'Reilly (use Perl)
Use Perl has an announcement for the book XML Publishing with AxKit by Kip Hampton. "Using the power of Perl (and mod_perl) to transform the Apache Web server into a fully-featured XML publishing and application enviroment, Apache AxKit is one of the Perl-XML community's flagship projects. This book covers the spectrum from the basics of XML-based site development to the details of writing your own custom AxKit extensions (in Perl, natch)."
Resources
The Perl Review's first print issue! (use Perl)
Use Perl has an announcement for a new Perl magazine. "brian_d_foy writes "The first print issue of The Perl Review is coming off the presses now. I'll be sending it out to subscribers as soon as I can, and I will have a bunch at OSCON too."
The LDP Weekly News
The latest new documentation releases are available from the Linux Documentation Project, read all about them on the July 28, 2004 edition of the LDP Weekly News.
Contests and Awards
LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards finalists announced
LinuxWorld has sent out a PR naming the finalists for its "product excellence awards." As one might expect, it is a celebration of proprietary offerings, but it does include a strange category called "best open source solution." The contenders are Firefox, Ingres, SUSE Linux enterprise server 9, and Gentoo Linux 2004.2.
Upcoming Events
aKademy Team Announces International Lineup
A press release has been posted for the 2004 KDE Community World Summit. "The aKademy Team announces the schedules for the KDE Community World Summit 2004, code-named "aKademy", taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany from August 21st to 29th. Featuring speakers from IBM, Novell, SuSE, Connectiva, Trolltech, HP and many community hackers and activists, it promises to be a highlight of the Free Software calendar."
ApacheCon 2004 US CFP
A call for participation has gone out for the ApacheCon 2004 US conference. The event will take place on November 14-17, 2004 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The submission deadline is August 2, 2004.Volunteers needed for OSCON TPF booth (use Perl)
Volunteer help has been requested for the OSCON Perl booth. "The Perl Foundation will have a booth at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention again this year, and we need volunteers to staff the booth. No special experience or abilities are needed, other than a willingness to talk with interested people about Perl and TPF."
LinuxWorld Returns to San Francisco
IDG World Expo has sent out a press release about LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, coming next week to San Francisco's Moscone Center.Two FSF Seminars on the GPL in California (Groklaw)
Two FSF Seminars on the GPL will be held at Stanford University Law School on August 24 and 25, 2004, according to a notice on Groklaw. "I would recommend it to anyone wanting to know how the GPL works, including coders and journalists and executives, and I'm living proof that you don't need to be a lawyer to get something out of it. There are no pop quizzes. And you don't have to do anything but listen and learn. If your boss is in the fearful "The Company Shalt Not Use GPL" category, he or she needs to go to find out how a company can get set up to appropriately benefit from GPL software."
SANE Conference announcement
The 2004 SANE (System Administration and Network Engineering) conference will take place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on September 27 - October 1.SANE conference and free software bazaar
The SANE Conference will feature a Free Software Bazaar with a lecture by Richard Stallman. "Wednesday evening is reserved for the Free Software Bazaar. You will have a chance to discuss the latest developments in Free and Open Source Software with members of the many groups that will present their work. A highlight of the Bazaar will be a lecture given by Richard M. Stallman. Admission to the Bazaar is free."
No Starch Press authors to appear at DEFCON 12
Jon Erickson and Andrew bunnie Huang will appear at the DEFCON 12 underground hacking event on July 30 - August 1, 2004 in Las Vegas, NV.Events: July 29 - September 23, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 29 - 30, 2004 | O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention 2004(OSCON) | Portland, OR |
| July 29 - 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 5 - 8, 2004 | UKUUG 2004 Linux Technical Conference | Leeds, England |
| August 21 - 29, 2004 | KDE Community World Summit 2004(aKademy) | (Filmakademie Ludwigsburg)Ludwigsburg (Stuttgart Region), Germany |
| September 2 - 3, 2004 | Python for Scientific Computing(SciPy) | (CalTech)Pasadena, CA |
| September 2 - 4, 2004 | 2nd Swiss Unix Conference | (Technopark)Zurich, Switzerland |
| September 9 - 10, 2004 | Linux Expo Shanghai | (Shanghai Exhibition Center)Shanghai, China |
| September 13 - 16, 2004 | Embedded Systems Conference | (Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA |
| September 15 - 17, 2004 | YAPC::Europe 2004 | Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| September 20 - 23, 2004 | New Security Paradigms Workshop(NSPW) | (White Point Beach Resort)Nova Scotia |
| September 20 - 22, 2004 | Plone Conference 2004 | Vienna, Austria. |
| September 22 - 24, 2004 | OpenOffice.org Conference(OOoCon 2004) | (Humboldt University)Berlin, Germany |
| September 22 - 24, 2004 | php|works 2004 | (Holiday Inn Yorkdale Hotel & Conference Centre)Toronto, Canada |
Event Reports
Group Photos from the Kernel Summit
Harald Welte has posted his best photos from the 2004 Linux Kernel Summit.Summary of the LSM Free Software Printing Summit
Roger Leigh has posted a summary of the LSM Free Software Printing Summit in Bordeaux. "What we worked on will have an impact on the Debian printing infrastructure in the medium to long term, and this will affect a potentially large number of printing packages, and so I have also CC'd the maintainers of the relevant packages."
Web sites
Nvu Development Forums Launched (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has announced a new nvu forum. "NvuDev.org, the development site for Nvu, has launched a set of forums for those wanting to discuss the standalone version of Mozilla Composer. There are seven forums, including one that allows anonyomous posting."
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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