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The March issue of |
Game Developers Conference | March 4-8, 2003 San Jose, CA http://www.gdconf.com/ |
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SXSW | March 7-11, 2003 Austin, TX http://www.sxsw.com/interactive |
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CeBIT | March 12-19, 2003 Hannover, Germany http://www.cebit.de/ |
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City Open Source Community Workshop | March 22, 2003 Thessaloniki, Greece http://www.city.academic.gr/cosc |
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Software Development Conference & Expo | March 24-28, 2003 Santa Clara, CA http://www.sdexpo.com/ |
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Linux Clusters Institute (LCI) Workshop | March 24-28, 2003 Urbana-Champaign, IL http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/ |
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4th USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems | March 26-28, 2003 Seattle, WA http://www.usenix.org/events/ |
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PyCon DC 2003 | March 26-28, 2003 Washington, DC http://www.python.org/pycon/ |
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Linux on Wall Street Show & Conference | April 7, 2003 New York, NY http://www.linuxonwallstreet.com |
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AIIM | April 7-9, 2003 New York, NY http://www.advanstar.com/ |
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FOSE | April 8-10, 2003 Washington, DC http://www.fose.com/ |
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MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2003 | April 8-10, 2003 San Jose, CA http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2003/ |
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LinuxFest Northwest 2003 | April 26, 2003 Bellingham, WA http://www.linuxnorthwest.org/ |
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Real World Linux Conference and Expo | April 28-30, 2003 Toronto, Ontario http://www.realworldlinux.com |
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USENIX First International Conference on Mobile Systems,
Applications, and Services (MobiSys) | May 5-8, 2003 San Francisco, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/ |
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USENIX Annual Technical Conference | June 9-14, 2003 San Antonio, TX http://www.usenix.org/events/ |
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CeBIT America | June 18-20, 2003 New York, NY http://www.cebit-america.com/ |
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ClusterWorld Conference and Expo | June 24-26, 2003 San Jose, CA http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution |
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O'Reilly Open Source Convention | July 7-11, 2003 Portland, OR http://conferences.oreilly.com/ |
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12th USENIX Security Symposium | August 4-8, 2003 Washington, DC http://www.usenix.org/events/ |
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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo | August 5-7, 2003 San Francisco, CA http://www.linuxworldexpo.com |
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Linux Lunacy Brought to you by Linux Journal and Geek Cruises! | September 13-20, 2003 Alaska's Inside Passage http://www.geekcruises.com/home/ll3_home.html |
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Software Development Conference & Expo | September 15-19, 2003 Boston, MA http://www.sdexpo.com |
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PC Expo | September 16-18, 2003 New York, NY http://www.techxny.com/pcexpo_techxny.cfm |
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COMDEX Canada | September 16-18, 2003 Toronto, Ontario http://www.comdex.com/canada/ |
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LISA (17th USENIX Systems Administration Conference) | October 26-30, 2003 San Diego, CA http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/ |
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HiverCon 2003 | November 6-7, 2003 Dublin, Ireland http://www.hivercon.com/ |
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COMDEX Fall | November 17-21, 2003 Las Vegas, NV http://www.comdex.com/fall2003/ |
News in General
IBM and Smallpox
IBM, United Devices and Accelrys have announced a project supporting a global research effort that is focused on the development of new drugs that could potentially combat the smallpox virus post infection. The Smallpox Research Grid Project is powered by an IBM infrastructure, which includes IBM eServer[tm] p690 systems and IBM's Shark Enterprise Storage Server running DB2[r] database software using AIX and Linux.
Opera and the Swedish Chef Go After Microsoft
Opera Software has released a very special Bork edition of its Opera 7 for Windows browser. The Bork edition behaves differently on one Web site: MSN. Users accessing the MSN site http://www.msn.com/ will see the page transformed into the language of the famous Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show: Bork, Bork, Bork! This is retaliation to apparent targeting by MSN of Opera users. Opera browser users were supplied with a different stylesheet to MSIE users, which made the site display in a less appealing way.
Distro News
Debian
Debian Weekly News reported the announcement of the new archive key for 2003. This is used to sign the Release file for the main, non-US and security archives, and can be used with apt-check-sigs to improve security when using mirrors.
Also from DWN, and of use to many Debian users, is Adrian Bunk's announcement of the backport of OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 to woody. Packages are available online.
Debian powers PRISMIQ MediaPlayer home entertainment gateway device.
Knoppix
IBM developerWorks has published a recent article on Knoppix.
Mandrake
Part 4 of DistroWatch's review of Mandrake 9.1 is online
SuSE
Open For Business has published a review of SuSE Linux 8.1
NewsForge has reviewed SuSE Linux Office Desktop.
Vector
LinuxHardware.org have
reviewed
Vector Linux 2.5 SOHO edition.
While
Mad Penguin reports
the release of version 3.2.
Software and Product News
C.O.L.A software news
A small selection of
announcements from February:
- The GUI library wxWindoes version 2.4.0 has been released.
- The release of Version 22.4.1 of LILO has been announced.
- teTeX version 2.0 is now available as is Lyx version 1.3.0.
Candy Cruncher
LGP is pleased to announce that Candy Cruncher has arrived from the replicators and is available immediately.
CourseForum 1.3
CourseForum Technologies today introduced CourseForum 1.3, its web-based software for e-learning content creation, sharing and discussion. CourseForum can be hosted on MacOS X, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux or other Unixes, while users need only a standard web browser.
ProjectForum 1.3
CourseForum Technologies today introduced ProjectForum 1.3, a web-based software for flexible workgroup collaboration and coordination of projects and teams. ProjectForum can be hosted on MacOS X, Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP, Linux or other Unixes, while users need only a standard web browser. Licenses start at US$199, and a free version is also available.
AquaFold
AquaFold, Inc have announced the latest version of Aqua Data Studio, a universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise relational databases. Aqua Data Studio includes support for all major database platforms such as Oracle 8i/9i, IBM DB2, Sybase Adaptive Server, Microsoft SQL Server and the open source databases MySQL and PostgreSQL. Developed with the Java programming language, Aqua Data Studio supports all major operating systems, including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OSX, and Solaris. Screenshots and downloads available online.
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Published in Issue 88 of Linux Gazette, March 2003