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KDE Commit-Digest for 24th September 2006

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: The KDE World Conference, Akademy 2006, kicks off in Dublin. A rewritten version of KTurtle, an educational programming tool, is imported into KDE SVN. ThreadWeaver is moved into kdelibs. Hebrew sounds are added to KLettres to add learning support for the language. Improvements in the OpenDocument format and XML Paper Specification format support in okular...

AMD Augments Servers With Open Source Architecture

AMD has taken a leaf out of the open source community’s book and has released the hardware specifications for its Opteron server processor, prompting big changes from players such as IBM.

Using Spring and Hibernate with WebSphere

  • IBM/developerworks (Posted by solrac on Sep 24, 2006 12:00 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
Both open source projects are gaing more and more popularity with developers. This article explains how to configure these frameworks for various scenarios with WebSphere Application Server.

Open source and .Net aren’t mutually exclusive

Python developers had reason to celebrate this week, with the release of IronPython 1.0, a full implementation of the Python language for Microsoft’s CLR (Common Language Runtime). With IronPython, Python programs can run as first-class managed code on the .Net platform.

aKademy 2006 kicked off

KDE's annual world summit aKademy has been kicked off at the Trinity College Dublin to work on the next-generation desktop, KDE 4, and desktop standards. The aKademy conference will run through Saturday, September 23, through Saturday, September 30.

Mandriva Launches Linux Corporate Server 4.0

With version 4.0 of Corporate Server, Mandriva enables its current and future customers in all types of enterprise to benefit from the best of Linux (reliability, security, low administration costs) along with the best of Mandriva (ease of use, exclusive Mandriva utilities, and professional services) for the administration and integration of servers. In designing this all new version, Mandriva's team have retained all the features that made version 3.0 a success while adding more strong points.

Web 2.0 Industry and Ajax Community Boosted by OpenAjax Alliance

OpenAjax Alliance, an open industry collaboration dedicated to developing and expanding Ajax, today announced new partners and initiatives around the Ajax Community, signaling continued momentum for Ajax-based Web technologies.

Sun & others join open source carrier platform alliance

  • iTWire; By Stuart Corner (Posted by dcparris on Sep 24, 2006 6:17 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Sun
set up to promote carrier-grade base platforms based on commercial off-the-shelf building blocks, has added Sun Microsystems, Wind River, GoAhead Software and Interphase to its membership.

GPL passes acid test in German court

In a landmark victory for the GPL license, a civil court in Germany has ruled against D-Link Germany GmbH for violating the terms of the most popular free software license. The lawsuit was filed by Harald Welte, a respected Linux hacker who tracks and eliminates illegal use of software protected by the GPL through his gpl-violations.org project. In a brief email exchange, Welte explains the nature of the violation and how he went about collecting evidence.

Google Sulks in Wake of Belgian Court Decision

  • ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove (Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Sep 24, 2006 4:15 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
In what seems to be a petty display of childishness, Google at first refused to post at its own Websites in Belgium the news of a recent defeat it suffered in a Belgian courtroom - at the cost of paying a $640,000 per day fine. A day later, it caved, saying it would appeal instead.

War driving picks up speed in Janesville

  • Janesville Gazette; By Frank Schultz (Posted by bob on Sep 24, 2006 3:16 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
He walks briskly down the street. He balances a laptop computer in one hand. The other hand holds a little plastic box that's plugged into the laptop. It's an antenna...

How To Set Up A DHCP Server For Your LAN

  • HowtoForge; By Falko Timme (Posted by falko on Sep 24, 2006 1:47 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
This tutorial describes how to set up a DHCP server (ISC-DHCP) for your local network. DHCP is short for "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol", it's a protocol that handles the assignment of IP addresses, subnet masks, default routers, and other IP parameters to client PCs that don't have a static IP address. Such computers try to find a DHCP server in their local network which in turn assigns them an IP address, gateway, etc. so that they can connect to the internet or other computers from the local network.

Red Hat Creates JBoss Stack

  • SYS-CON Media; By Enterprise Open Source News Desk (Posted by bob on Sep 23, 2006 10:55 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: JBoss, Linux, Red Hat
Red Hat has integrated JBoss, which it acquired 90 days ago, into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and put the resulting Red Hat Application Stack (RHAS) up for sale as a new subscription possibility...

aKademy 2006 Kicked Off

  • KDE Dot News; By Sebastian Kügler (Posted by dcparris on Sep 23, 2006 9:50 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
aKademy 2006 has been kicked off at the Trinity College in Dublin. The first two days consist of the contributors conference with a fully packed programme of presentations on aspects such as the community, KDE 4, cross-desktop collaboration and KDE & the Free Desktop in Asian countries.

Sugarcrm Adds AJAX to Customer Relations

SugarCRM Inc., provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, announced the beta release of Sugar 4.5, an AJAX-suported, fast-growing CRM solution. Sugar 4.5 introduces new functionality such as personalized views, internationalization and support for Microsoft Windows Server products.

GPLv3 Could Kill Open Source, Top Linux Developers Warn

Many of the top Linux developers announce their objections to the proposed GPL version 3 in a position paper. (Linux-Watch)

Munich Begins Migration Towards Linux

German governments and schools are beginning to consider open source technology

[And in other news, Indiana has apparently become a nation in its own right. - dcparris]

Novell Dogged by Delisting, Default Issues

Novell revealed this week that it has received notification of possible delisting from the Nasdaq stock exchange for delaying reporting of its financial results for the latest fiscal quarter. The firm also said it had received a default notice on a bond with its lender Wells Fargo. The company is appealing the Nasdaq notification and has denied the merit of Wells Fargo's default action.

Part 2 eyed for open source project

With the achievements of the Philippine Open Source Initiative Project (POSITIVE), its three proponents are seeking to come up with a follow-up program to ensure long-term sustainability of POSITIVE, this time targeting Philippine companies to play a role.

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