See also: last week's Announcements page.

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Resources

Roger Irwin has made available his Management guide to SS tactics, where "SS" stands for "shifting standards." He sees the next big battles in the software world being fought around standards, and gives some suggestions on how to make things come out well. Check it out.

See also Glyph Lefkowitz's capitalist analysis of Linux. "The revolution is come - but it is a capitalist revolution, not a communist one." This document can be read here.

Khalid M. Baheyeldin wrote in to tell us that the first Arabic book on Linux has been published. With help from Jabra Ghneim, we were able to track down specific information on the book, including the title, "Teach yourself Linux in 24 Hours". It is based on Red Hat Linux.

A new electronic journal, titled Trends in Software Engineering Process Management, has been announced. Their November issue is currently available.

Another daily news site has been announced. Simon Damberge is the author of Mouse Over News, which he mentioned is a bit different in style.

Events

• Red Hat package management, Eric Troan, Thursday 16:00.
• The history of PGP, Phil Zimmermann, Thursday, 16:45. PGP was another early open source triumph; a piece of software like this one would have had a hard time succeeding without source available.
• "Putting the IS infrastructure into the public domain; how the Linux OS solves Unix's fatal flaw", Bob Young (keynote), Friday, 9:30.
• Why is software freedom useful, and what does it mean?, Ian Jackson, Friday, 11:00.
• FreeBSD in professional environments, Guido van Rooij, Friday, 11:45
• COAS, Ralf Flaxa, Friday, 14:00.
• Architecture overview of the Linuxconf system administration tool, Jacques G�élinas, Friday, 14:45.
• Building an Affordable World-Wide Intranet with the Help of Linux, Sjoerd Jongens, Friday, 16:00
• Use of Linux Clusters in the Making of the `Titanic', Daryll Strauss, Friday, 16:45.

Eric Barocca and AFUL will be doing day-long presentations on "Linux and free software" at the "festival des passions technologiques" in Bourges, France, November 19-21. See the web announcement(in French) for more information, including the presentation agenda. It looks like a lot of stuff, to say the least.

It's the Linux boot camp USA tour, coming, maybe, to a town near you. This tour consists of three separate training programs, described in Uniforum's press release, all having to do with Linux system administration. They also sent us the tour schedule.

The Florida Informix User Group will be hosting a talk on Informix on Linux with speaker Janet Smith, Informix Corp's Manager of Informix Products. Here's a pointer to more details. This looks to be a good opportunity for anyone interested in running Informix on Linux. The talk will be this evening, November 12th, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

The London, Ontario Linux User's Group now has a web page and a mailing list. Check out their announcement for more details.

The Cleveland Linux Users' Group proudly announced the opening of their Mipsel Linux FTP archives. It contains significant portions of the RedHat 5.2 SRPMS for the Cobalt Qube. Here is the actual archive.

Web sites

Bob Zimbinski announced the new, improved Linux Game Tome, an open database of Linux games and game-related stuff. It is fully searchable and allows the viewer to submit information, review and rate games. Here are the locations for new Linux Game Tome and Tessa Lau's original Linux Game Tome site.

The Linux Midi + Sound Pages have been relaunched, after a downtime of a few months last spring and an ISP switch that required a new URL.

User Group News

The formation of a Linux User's Group in the Tacoma, Washington area has been officially announced. The first "formal" meetings will be held in December or January.

A new LUG is being formed in Goshen, Indiana. Here is the announcement that they sent us. Meetings happen the second Tuesday of every month.

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