Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Aonix Joins Eclipse
The open-source Eclipse IDE community has announced Aonix as a new member.OSIA Suggests Discussion Topics for Gates' Meeting with Australian Prime Minister
OSIA has suggested some discussion topics for the Australian prime minister and Bill Gates. "OSIA, Australia's Open Source industry body, notes with interest the recent announcement that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will be having discussions with the Prime Minister. While we are happy that the Prime Minister is sending the message to the community that the ICT industry is increasingly important to the government, we have the following topics, which we hope can be raised in the discussions between the Prime Minister and Mr. Gates during their forthcoming meeting."
Commercial announcements
Adobe Expands Reach of Adobe Reader and PDF on Consumer Electronics Devices
Adobe Systems Incorporated has announced the release of a consumer version of its Adobe PDF Reader for Linux-based PDA platforms. "Now, consumers will have new ways to access information in Adobe PDF without being connected to a PC."
Announcing CrossOver Office, Version 3.0.1
Version 3.0.1 of CrossOver Office has been announced. "This release is entirely a bug fix release, and is primarily intended to fix a bug in our handling of Fedora Core 2. However, there are a number of other fixes as well."
Linux-based adware from Concurrent
Concurrent Computer is a member of the Linux TV alliance, and sells its own embedded Linux distribution. The company's latest announcement makes it clear, however, that "Linux inside" is not enough. Concurrent's latest ("patent pending") software enables digital video recorder systems to force viewers to view all advertisements at normal speed, even when fast-forwarding or skipping. "Concurrent's ad files technology replicates the advertisements appearing in the original content and inserts those advertisements in the on-demand trick files, making it impossible to skip the advertisements by fast-forwarding, since whether in normal or trick play, the advertisements play at the predetermined speed.... For example, rather than playing a complete ad in fast-rewind mode, the inserted content could be a shorter ad, or a still, or the ad in forward rather than reverse. The possibilities are spectacular."
IBM in Brazil
Here is IBM's press release about its new Linux services in Brazil. "Casas Bahia, one of the largest non-food retailers in Brazil, has had tremendous success by taking advantage of IBM's retail Linux solution for storefront systems. It faced the challenges of bringing costs down, while increasing the functionality and scalability of its point-of-sale solution in the stores. Working with IBM to deploy Linux for its POS system, the company was able increase the flexibility, stability and security in its existing environment."
Rent a Mandrakelinux server
A company called Nexedi has announced a new service called "rentalinux." For €95/month, companies in the EU can rent a server running Mandrakelinux for their network. "Nexedi rentalinux Desktop Linux Server solution combines server hardware rental, software setup, custom configuration, support and maintenance service in a single package which makes it the easiest, least intrusive and most effective way to provide Linux Desktop applications for small to medium-sized networks."
Mandrakesoft Partners with Codehost
Mandrakesoft and Codehost have announced a new partnership. "Codehost's advanced Linux and Unix printing solution, BrightQ, will be distributed with Mandrakelinux 10, Mandrakesoft's newest desktop Linux release."
Novell Expands Commitment to Open Source Standards With IPsec Initiatives
Novell, Inc. has announced its sponsorship of the Openswan project. "Novell today announced that it is sponsoring the Openswan project, a Linux* implementation of the IPsec (IP Security) standard that provides a common approach to securing Internet-based communications."
Red Hat "previews" first quarter results
Red Hat is due to report its quarterly results on June 17, but has sent out a press release "previewing" some of the numbers. It seems the company sold 98,000 RHEL subscriptions over the quarter, and is reporting a net income of over $10 million.PXA255 embedded SBC breaks sub-$100 barrier
Strategic Test Corporation has announced a new Single Board Computer (SBC), here are the technical specs: "400 MHz CPU, 16 MB SDRAM, 8 MB Flash in DIMM 144 format. TRITON-ECO is priced at $99 for 1000 quantity, runs Linux".
Symbio Technologies Offers Free Symbiont Workstation Manager Software
Symbio Technologies has announced that it is offering The Symbiont Workstation Manager, a Linux-based thin client management tool, as a free download and as an open source project on SourceForge.Turbolinux to manage Chinese package delivery
Turbolinux has announced an agreement with the China Ministry of Railways to build a Linux-based system to handle package delivery operations. "The package delivery system in China utilizes the postal service and rail transportation. To modernize the package delivery process, the Ministry of Railways selected Turbolinux to develop a consolidated digital infrastructure. The widely deployed Linux-based system will link package delivery facilities and the Ministry of Railway Systems computer network, and will process 95% of the total freight volume -- nearly 200 million parcels annually."
New Books
Syngress Releases "Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent"
Syngress Publishing has published the book Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent by Ryan Russell, Kevin Mitnick, and others.
Resources
List of Active FOSS EMR/EHR's (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has posted a summary of open source Electronic Health Record (EHR) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) projects. "Here's about as good a summary as you can get of currently active Free and Open Source Software EHR/EMR projects courtesy of Dan Johnson, MD. Dr. Johnson is the author of the earliest known writings on Free and Open Source Software in medicine. He continues his activity in this area."
The LDP Weekly News
The June 16, 2004 edition of the Linux Documentation Project Weekly News is online with the latest new Linux documentation releases.
Contests and Awards
Nominations Open for 2004 Linux Medical News Achievement Award (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced that nominations are open for the fourth annual Linux Medical News Software Achievement Award. The entry deadline is July 15, the award will be presented at the Medinfo conference on September 7-12.
Upcoming Events
CCRMA summer workshops in Banff, Canada
The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) will be holding a set of summer workshops in Banff, Canada during July and August, 2004.LAMP area at LinuxTag 2004
There will be a LAMP Area at the LinuxTag 2004 conference in Karlsruhe, Germany on June 23-26, 2004. "In over 40 presentations prominent experts and well known Apache-, MySQL and PHP-developers including Rasmus Lerdorf, Ken Coar, Brian Aker and Derick Rethans will be talking on the use of LAMP projects in medium and large businesses as well as the newest technological developments in the field, rounding off this years, rounding off this years LAMP area program."
OSDC Australia 2004 CFP
A call for papers has gone out for the Open Source Developers Conference Australia 2004. The event will take place on December 1-3, 2004 in Melbourne.European Summary on Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over Internet
The first european seminar on Free software for multimedia streaming over the internet will be held at IRCAM in Paris, France on June 23 and 24, 2004.Events: June 17 - August 12, 2004
| Date | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 17 - 18, 2004 | Yet Another Perl Conference(YAPC::NA::2004) | (University at Buffalo)Buffalo, NY |
| June 17 - 18, 2004 | 18th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming(ECOOP-2004) | (The University of Oslo)Oslo, Norway |
| June 23 - 24, 2004 | Free Software for Multimedia Streaming over the Internet | (Ircam)Paris France |
| June 27 - July 2, 2004 | USENIX 2004 | (Boston Marriott Coppley Place)Boston, MA |
| June 28 - 30, 2004 | GNOME User and Developer European Conference(GUADEC) | Kristiansand, Norway |
| June 28 - July 1, 2004 | JavaOne | (Moscone Center)San Francisco, CA |
| June 29 - July 1, 2004 | Perl Workshop 6.0 | (Barbara-Künkelin-Halle)Schorndorf, Germany |
| 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 |
Mailing Lists
OpenJay Development Krew [OJDK]
The OpenJay Development Krew [OJDK] mailing list has been created to discuss open-source DJ (Disk Jockey) software.
Web sites
GrokDoc launches
GrokDoc, another offshoot from Groklaw, has hit the net. "Our goal is to create a useful manual on basic tasks that new users will find simple and clear and easy to follow, using what we learn from our study."
Technocrat.net returns
Bruce Perens has put his old news site Technocrat.net back online. Some years ago, Technocrat was a reliable source for interesting news around free software and online liberty; we welcome its return.
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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