Author: JT Smith
In an Ask Slashdot posted today, a user asks what ‘we,’ the community, want from IBM. This is in response to claims by Robert LeBlanc that IBM would open any part of AIX for the benefit of Linux.
Category:
- Linux
Linux accessibility conference Mar 22 and 23
Author: JT Smith
It’s going to be in Los Angeles, held in conjuction with the 16th annual CSUN International Conferemce. Click below for full text of the announcement.
Summary:
The Linux Accessibility
Conference
March 22-23, 2001
Los Angeles Airport
Hilton Hotel, Plaza D
Summary:
The Linux Accessibility
Conference
March 22-23, 2001
Los Angeles Airport
Hilton Hotel, Plaza D
- Taking place at CSUN’s Sixteenth
Annual International Conference, which averages 4000 attendees. - Free admission to the Linux
Accessibility Conference (not including the price of attending to CSUN,
consult link for admission costs).
Join us for two days of:
- Speeches by prominent figures
in the free software and accessibility community. Individuals who have
tentatively agreed to speak include Judy Brewer (Director of WAI), Alan
Black (Creator of Festival Speech Synthesizer), Peter Korn (Sun Microsystems’
GNOME Accessibility Lab), and Aaron Leventhal (Mozilla accessibility).
Other noteworthy people who have said they plan to attend include T.V.
Raman (Creator of Emacspeak). - Demonstrations of free software
such as Emacspeak, Festival, BRLTTY, and Speechd. - Workgroups on GNOME (run by
Sun Microsystems’ GNOME Accessibility Lab), KDE, X Windows, Console, Braille,
Speech, Internationalization and Localization (i18n and l10n), Internet
Applications (Mozilla), and a Universal Accessibility Standard. - Planning and organizing for
the future of Linux accessibility.
If you are interested
in attending, join the ocularis-announce mailing list by visiting link
The Linux Accessibility Conference
stems from Project Ocularis, a volunteer-run effort to make Linux and the
free software world accessible to all. Visit Project Ocularis at link
Mission:
The mission of the conference
is twofold:
1) To demonstrate the potential
of Linux and free software in the accessibility arena.
2) To formulate a course
of action for advancing Linux accessibility and to begin to organize interested
supporters and developers into working groups focusing on specific topics.
These topics include: GNOME, KDE, X Windows, Console, Braille, Speech,
Internationalization and Localization (i18n and l10n), Internet Applications
(Mozilla), and Universal Accessibility Standard.
Who Should Attend:
- Companies or developers who
want to make their applications more accessible under Linux. - Companies or developers in the
AT industry who are interested in better serving impaired users through
creating and using free software. - Anyone who is interested in
making Linux and the free software world more accessible to all.
Tentative Schedule:
Thursday, March 23rd:
- Speakers
- Presentations
- Demos
- Transition (technical overview
and introduction to the distinct role of each working group) - Break up into working groups
Friday, March, 24th:
- Reconvene the next morning for
another speaker - Hear reports from each of the
working groups - Long-term planning
Travel and Accommodations:
See link
for information about accommodations and travel.
Remote Attendance:
Join the ocularis-announce
mailing list by visiting link
for details about remote attendance.
Interested in Being a
Speaker or Involving your Business or Free Software Project?
Contact JP Schnapper-CasterasConference
Organizer
jpsc@users.sourceforge.net
Additional contact information
available upon request
Please forward this announcement
to a friend or colleague.
Linux is a registered trademark
of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks and copyrights are owned by their
respective owners.–JP Schnapper-Casteras
Sendmail’s acquisition of Nascent Technology
Author: JT Smith
Upside today has a story which discusses the merits of Sendmail, Inc, the company built around the Sendmail MTA, and their recent acquisition of Nascent Technology. It also discusses GNU/Linux distributions from a business perspective.
Category:
- Open Source
RSVP Free Telephony Summit
Author: JT Smith
The 2001 Free Telephony Summit will be held January 22nd from 5PM to 7PM at the offices of Via.net, in Palo Alto, California. This summit is open to the public and all are welcome. (However, we ask that you please R.S.V.P. If the number of attendees’s exceeds via.net capacity (likely) we will head next door to a larger space.)
This gathering will include those involved in the Bayonne project, as well as people from other free telephony projects, including pre-Viking. At the summit we will cover numerous issues related to development and inter-operability among free telephony software projects, as well as covering current and future plans for some of these projects:
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Current state of free telephony
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Applications and architecture
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VOIP integration and interoperability
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Introduction of free telephony billing services
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Driver design and abstraction layers
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Future directions for Bayonne and other projects
This will be a good opportunity to meet various people working on free telephony projects, to provide your input to the Bayonne developers, and learn about the present and future for free telephony software in general.
Please R.S.V.P. to Rich Bodo rsb@ostel.com 650-964-4678
Further information and directions can be found at Bayonne News
This announcement submitted by David Sugar
Ask Slashdot: Best supported video card for Linux/XFree86?
Author: JT Smith
“I’m about to build a dual CPU box on which to run Linux. Currently, what is the best supported video card under the latest Xfree86 releases? Which card(s) can I buy that would be obvious ‘can’t go wrong’ choices?” The complete discussion is on Slashdot.
Category:
- Unix
Linux laptop SuperGuide
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet has published its laptop superguide covering their compatibility and device support under Linux. “Laptop computers are increasingly popular with everyone, including Linux users. Care must be taken when choosing a laptop, though, because any unsupported components cannot be swapped out as on a desktop system.“
Category:
- Linux
Slackware officially on Sparc
Author: JT Smith
Slackware Linux, the distribution behind such sites as Kuro5hin.org, has started to be officially ported to the SPARC platform.
Slashdot has details, a discussion, and where you can download the bootable mini-ISO.
Slashdot has details, a discussion, and where you can download the bootable mini-ISO.
Category:
- Linux
Lineo Ports uClinux 2.4 Kernel to DragonBall Processor
Author: JT Smith
“Lineo has announced success in porting uCLinux(TM) 2.4 to the Motorola DragonBall(TM) family of processors. […] The uClinux 2.4 kernel will be showcased next month at the LinuxWorld trade show in New York City. Development on the uClinux platform was conducted at Lineo engineering centers located in Toronto, Virginia and Utah.” PRNewswire has all of the details.
Will IBM’s Linux budget partially eclipse Sun?
Author: JT Smith
“Joe Barr talks with IBM’s Daniel Frye, director of its Linux Technology Center, about the company’s plan to allocate $1 billion to Linux. Where do Sun, Microsoft, and the BSDs fit in?” The full story is
on Linuxworld.com.
on Linuxworld.com.
Category:
- Linux
Streaming MP3 Server Guide!
Author: JT Smith
“Streaming MP3 Server Guide!
Does Howard Stern boil your bacon? Do you wish there was a station that only played songs by the Bouncing Souls? After reading this guide, you can show the world that Howie ain’t got game, and that songs about soccer(football) are where it’s at. The purpose of this document is to describe the process of using Linux based tools to setup a server used for streaming MP3 data.
Read the full guide at link.” -Anonymous Reader