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    Linux Kongress mini-summary. The 8th Linux Kongress was held on
    November 28 to 30 in Enschede, the Netherlands. This event is one of
    the oldest Linux gatherings still around, and it was the site of
    Linus's first talk on his new creation. It remains a small, technical,
    and kernel-oriented meeting, with developers making up much of the
    attendance.
    
    Much of the interesting talk happened before the conference itself
    started. A well-attended clustering workshop nailed down a detailed
    plan for the creation and implementation of the "Open Cluster
    Framework," a set of standards intended to help the development of
    cluster-based applications. The shape of the Framework architecture is
    beginning to emerge; details will be put up on the new web site at
    opencf.org, which, as of this writing, is not yet available.
    
    The Netfilter team also gathered to discuss the future of firewalling
    with Linux. Perhaps the best news is that it appears, for the first
    time in a while, that the Linux firewalling implementation will not be
    replaced wholesale in the 2.5 development series. A lot of work is
    still planned, however; some of it will be covered in a future LWN
    kernel page.
    
    The conference itself was made up of a solid set of technical talks.
    The real value in these events, however, is in getting that many
    developers into the same room and letting them talk about what they
    are doing. It is clear that the community needs these occasional
    opportunities to meet and socialize. As money gets tighter, however,
    these opportunities could prove harder to come by. Let us hope that
    our companies and governments see the advantages in continuing to
    support developer meetings.
    
    Those who are interested can have a look at [37]the slides from LWN
    editor Jonathan Corbet's talk on upcoming kernel developments. See
    also: [38]Martin Schulze's writeup of the event.
    
    Evolution, again, and proprietary offshoots. Our review [39]last week
    of the Evolution 1.0 release candidate drew a fair amount of mail.
    Most pointed out that there is, indeed, a way to generate a contact
    entry from a mail message; one simply clicks on the sender's address
    with the right mouse button. It's good that the feature exists, but
    the difficulty of finding it points out the need for continued
    usability testing for Linux desktop software. Desktop software, after
    all, really should be sufficiently user friendly that even an LWN
    editor can figure it out. Without a serious commitment to usability
    testing, the Linux desktop will continue to be a second-tier offering.
    
    Meanwhile, Ximian has [40]released the final version of Evolution 1.0.
    It's available for free download, or for purchase as a boxed product.
    Expect it to show up in your favorite distribution before too long.
    
    The 1.0 release is significant, but more attention seems to have been
    drawn to [41]the announcement of "Ximian Connector." Connector's
    purpose is to turn Evolution into a full Microsoft Exchange client.
    Unlike Evolution, it is a proprietary product with a per-seat charge.
    Also, in the best proprietary software tradition, it's vaporware;
    Connector is not actually available until sometime "early next year."
    
    A year or two ago, the Connector product would have drawn a great deal
    of criticism. After all, Ximian is supposed to be about free software.
    The relatively muted nature of the complaining shows that, perhaps,
    times really have changed. Nobody assumes that Ximian will be able to
    survive just by virtue of cranking out useful code. The money has to
    come from somewhere.
    
    The choice of Connector as a proprietary add-on was clever.
    Connector's purpose is to ease the integration of Evolution into
    proprietary environments. People who are concerned about running only
    free software will, in general, have no use for Connector, and will
    not be affected by its proprietary nature. The only people who will
    have to pay are those who are already running proprietary systems.
    
    If this plan works out, a number of things will be accomplished. The
    Linux community will have a top-quality, graphical mail (and more)
    client that will continue to see serious development. Linux will
    become a more viable desktop system in corporate environments, and its
    adoption will grow. That, in turn, will lead to more Linux
    applications and more resources for Linux development in general. And
    Ximian will have succeeded in showing that it is possible to make
    major contributions to the free software community and,
    simultaneously, thrive as a business.
    
    Difficult days for DMCA opponents. Shortly after last week's LWN
    weekly edition came out, a couple of rulings were handed down in
    outstanding cases challenging the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
    The news was not good.
    
    In the 2600 DVD case, the appeals court upheld entirely the initial
    ruling that posting (or linking to) the DeCSS code was illegal. Those
    who are interested can go read [42]the full ruling. Essentially, the
    court agreed that code is speech, but that the government still had
    the authority to regulate it. Fair use concerns were brushed aside
    with a note that the Constitution does not actually protect fair use.
    
    The only remaining course of action in this case is an appeal to the
    Supreme Court; it has not yet been decided whether that step will be
    taken or not.
    
    The Felten case, which is actively challenging the DMCA, was thrown
    out of court on motions from the U.S. Department of Justice and the
    Recording Industry Association of America. This ruling does not appear
    to be online; the EFF plans to appeal this decision.
    
    See [43]this issue of EFFector for more information from the EFF on
    both cases, as well as a motion that has been filed to dismiss the
    Bunner DVD case.
    
    Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:
      * [44]Security: Fun with wu-ftpd; OpenSSH updates.
      * [45]Kernel: Thrashing the block I/O layer; integrating kbuild and
        ALSA.
      * [46]Distributions: A mini review of KRUD 7.2; SnapGear offers
        uClinux distribution.
      * [47]Development: The Python IAQ, Pear::DB, Snort 1.8.3, WaveSurfer
        1.2, Mpg321 0.2.3, 4st Attack 1.0, Python Checkbook Manager 0.5,
        Pan 0.11.1 Newsreader, TinyCOBOL 0.55, Jython 2.1b1, GDB 5.1.
      * [48]Commerce: Richard Stallman wins Takeda Award; LinuxWorld NY
        conference program; HP's blade server announcement.
      * [49]History: "Jikes"; Linus Torvalds guest of honor in Finnish
        Presidential Palace; Andover.Net went public.
      * [50]Letters: Evolution; SourceForge.
        
    ...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
    
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