Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Mozilla Foundation Looking for Volunteers (MozillaZine)
The Mozilla Foundation is looking for volunteers to help get Firefox 1.0 on computing magazine CDs.
Commercial announcements
Press releases from LinuxWorld
LinuxWorld is in full swing at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, with the usual flurry of press releases. Here are a few of the announcements we've seen today:- The Eclipse Foundation has announced the creation of a Test and Performance Tools Platform Top Level Project.
- Netline Internet Service has announced it will release its Open-Xchange Server under the GNU General Public License.
- The Gelato Federation has joined the Free Standards Group and ported Eclipse 3.0 to Linux-Itanium.
- Wyse Technology has announced a thin client based on the 2.6 kernel, the company has joined OSDL and the company is collaborating with AMD to provide the AMD Geodeprocessor in its Linux-based thin client devices.
- RealNetworks has announced the final GOLD versions of RealPlayer 10 for Linux and Helix Player.
Culled from the LinuxWorld flood
LinuxWorld has once again proven itself to be second to none for the generation of press releases. Here are a few of today's offerings:- Novell has announced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 which will include the JBoss Application server. Novell has also announced new partner initiatives.
- Pen&Internet has released riteForm, an advanced recognition solution for processing handwritten forms and notes on mobile pen-enabled devices on Linux.
- VERITAS Software a new member of OSDL, showcases its Linux offerings.
- BEA Systems, Inc. touts the wonders of Apache Beehive.
- Open Country is focused on managing the Linux-powered enterprise. The company is working with Progeny to provide customers with legacy Red Hat system updates.
- MySQL AB and MontaVista Software announced an extended partnership.
- CodeWeavers shows off the iTunes support to be included in the next release of CrossOverOffice.
- Penguin Computing joined PathScale's FastPath(TM) Partner program.
A selection from the PR flood
The LinuxWorld press release machine continues to crank out the hype. Here is a subset of what the corporate world would like us to know:
- Aduva
has released "OnStage 2.2," a Linux system deployment and management
utility.
- Computer Associates has announced the
release of the Ingres database under the "CA Trusted Open Source
License," and a
$1 million offer for developers who "
create solutions that enable users of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase Adaptive Enterprise Server, IBM DB2 Universal Database, Informix and/or MySQL to migrate to the Ingres r3 database platform.
" - Covalent
Technologies has contributed its ASP.NET module to the Apache
Software Foundation.
- HP
has announced a Linux-based notebook system, Linux on its "Integrity
Superdome" servers, an impending EAL 3+ certification for its
systems, and a set of "reference architecture solution stacks."
- MySQL
AB has a new set of "enterprise-class" technical support offerings.
- Network
Appliance has announced support for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 9.
- Pogo
Linux is offering an AMD64-based notebook system with Linux
installed.
- Red
Hat and Black Duck Software have some sort of joint offering which
will let companies monitor licensing compliance when developing with
free software.
- Red
Hat has made its "Red Hat Application Server" product available.
- Sun Microsystems has augmented Solaris 10 with "Project Janus," a feature which allows Solaris to run Linux binaries.
Linare Offers Professional Edition
Linare Corporation has announced availability of the Linare Linux Professional Edition distribution. "Features include a user-friendly installer, advanced User Interface with new theme, reliable Linux kernel v. 2.6, KDE 3.2.2 graphical desktop environment, Open Office, Evolution Email and other utilities. Professional edition includes one year of phone and email support."
MySQL AB Launches MySQL Hosting Powered by Rackspace
MySQL has announced that it is working with Rackspace to provide a MySQL database hosting service. "MySQL Hosting is provided in partnership with Rackspace, the fastest-growing managed hosting specialist in the world. Designed for Web sites and other MySQL database applications, MySQL Hosting provides a secure, scalable hosting environment with a 99.9 percent uptime guarantee, along with a commercial MySQL license and technical support."
Red Flag announces an Intel-compiled distribution
Red Flag has announced the availability of a version of its distribution built with Intel's proprietary compiler. The distribution comes with a "60-day evaluation copy" of the compiler as well.Unisys Delivers Industrial Strength Linux
Unisys Corporation has announced the availability of Linux on the company's ES7000 servers. Unisys is working with Novell, Inc. and Red Hat, Inc. to provide the business, government and scientific communities with services and support for Linux-based solutions.Enea Embedded Technology Announces Enea Orchestra
Enea Embedded Technology has announced their Enea Orchestra Distributed Systems Platform and Development Environment.
New Books
"Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials by Allison Randal, Dan Sugalski, and Leopold Totsch."Learning PHP 5" Released by O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar.
Resources
Paul Graham on great hackers
Paul Graham has posted an essay on "great hackers," derived from his OSCON keynote. "When you decide what infrastructure to use for a project, you're not just making a technical decision. You're also making a social decision, and this may be the more important of the two. For example, if your company wants to write some software, it might seem a prudent choice to write it in Java. But when you choose a language, you're also choosing a community. The programmers you'll be able to hire to work on a Java project won't be as smart as the ones you could get to work on a project written in Python. And the quality of your hackers probably matters more than the language you choose. Though, frankly, the fact that good hackers prefer Python to Java should tell you something about the relative merits of those languages."
OSRM does a kernel patent review
Open Source Risk Management, the company selling litigation insurance policies for Linux users, has announced the results of a review of patents potentially affecting the Linux kernel. This review was done by Dan Ravicher of the Public Patent Foundation. "In conclusion, he found that no court-validated software patent is infringed by the Linux kernel. However, Ravicher also found 283 issued but not yet court-validated software patents that, if upheld as valid by the courts, could potentially be used to support patent claims against Linux. In response, OSRM will be expanding its risk mitigation and insurance offerings to cover this quantifiable risk."
PHP Tunisie
The php.net site mentions a new French language PHP magazine from Tunisia, PHP Tunisie. "PHP Tunisie has just released the second issue of its monthly french PHP Magazine. In this issue you'll find a large plan on PostgreSQL, Databases abstractions with PHP, your mini template engine, an article on images generation with PHP, the migration towards PHP5 with EasyPHP1.7... And many other articles and latests PHP news."
Giving Lightning Talks (O'Reilly)
Mark Fowler gives some tips on presenting lightning talks. "Lightning talks are a great way to start speaking, but they do come with their own potential problems. Even the seasoned presenter makes mistakes when presenting and has had lightning talks go horribly, horribly wrong. Luckily, Perl audiences are very forgiving when this happens after all, it's happened to half the audience at sometime too, so it's nothing to get too worked up about. However, there are a few things you can consider when writing your talk that will prevent you from sabotaging your own talk before it even begins."
Contests and Awards
2004 Editors' Choice Awards (Linux Journal)
The winners of Linux Journal's 2004 Editors' Choice Awards have been published. LWN.net even makes a cameo appearance this time around.2004 White Camel Award Winners (use Perl)
Use Perl has posted an announcement for the winners of the 2004 White Camel Award. Jon Orwant, Brian d Foy, and Dave Cross have received the honors.
Upcoming Events
Talk on Developing Hypermedia Applications with Mozilla (MozillaZine)
Andy Edmonds has announced his tutorial on Developing Hypermedia Applications with Mozilla. It will take place on August 9, 2004 in Santa Cruz, CA at the ACM Hypertext conference. "In addition to a wide survey of Mozilla technologies I'll be digging deep into powerful constructs like compound documents, combining SVG and XBL, and monitoring browser events. Myk Melez and Chris Aillon will be joining me to dig deeper into Mail and XPCOM."
O'Reilly and MySQL AB to Co-Present 2005 MySQL Users Conference
O'Reilly has announced that it will co-present the 2005 MySQL Users Conference along with MySQL AB. The event will take place in Santa Clara, CA on April 18-21, 2005.Events: August 5 - September 30, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| August 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 |
| September 27 - October 1, 2004 | 4th International SANE Conference(SANE) | (Amsterdam RAI Centre)Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| September 27 - 29, 2004 | ConSec '04 | (J.J.Pickle Research Center)Austin, Texas |
| September 29 - October 1, 2004 | OSCOM 4 | (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)Zurich, Switzerland |
Event Reports
Notes from OSCON
Danny O'Brien (of NTK fame) has posted an extensive series of notes from OSCON. Worth a read. "Parrot licensing will cast you all into hell, he tells the audience, and lo they are sore afraid. Go ye through the Parrot source, and stick there proper copyright notices. Don't put 'all rights reserved', on fear of your mortal soul, because that the Lord RMS doth not think that it doth mean what thou thinkest it means. Put it instead under the GPL or the Artistic License. But don't put it under the Artistic License, put it under the Clarified Artistic License, for the Artistic License as it stands is sorely artistic, and lo it is ambiguous in many areas. And Brad Kuhn did come down from on high and suggest that the CAL be the license for Perl6, and he spake truth, for ye will be sent to Hell if you do not heed him! For he is the prophet of RMS, and the one who is to come that is greater, who is known as Hurd, and whose todo list is legion. (I am paraphrasing a fair bit here)."
FSMSI 2004 Proceedings available
Slides and audio recordings from the European seminar on Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over the Internet are available online. The event took place in Paris, France on June 23 and 24, 2004.Proceedings of lightning talks from LSM 2004 Lisp track
The Lisp track lightning talk proceedings from the Libre Software Meeting 2004 are online.
Web sites
Four New Mozilla Sites Launch (MozillaZine)
MozillaZine has announced the launching of four new web sites: the Mozilla AOM Reference, The Rumbling Edge weblog, the Mozilla Network, and Firedfox, a parody site.
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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