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Linux-Announce Digest #526
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Thu Jun 24 20:22:25 1999
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Linux-Announce Digest #526, Volume #3 Thu, 24 Jun 99 18:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Flight Gear Version 0.6.1 released ("Curtis L. Olson")
LOCAL: Central Australian Linux showcase (Adrian Casey)
SkateNews - free news reader (rengel1@nycap.rr.com)
Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.4.0 (Alan W Black)
Free Linux Training Materials (Dave Fisher)
XRacer - a clone of Psygnosis Wipeout in development (Richard Jones)
COMMERCIAL: Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0.2 Eval for Linux (cavanagh)
MAILING-LIST: jed users mailing list (Viorel Anghel)
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From: "Curtis L. Olson" <curt@me.umn.edu>
Subject: Flight Gear Version 0.6.1 released
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:41:38 GMT
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Flight Gear version 0.6.1 is now available.
USA Scenery version 0.3 is now available.
The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source,
multi-platform flight sim development project. Source code for the
entire project is available and licensed under the GPL.
For more information, please visit the Flight Gear web page at:
http://www.flightgear.org
Version 0.6.1 is mainly a bug fix release aimed at stabalizing the
0.6.x code branch. A 0.7.x code branch has been created for all new
development.
New in USA Scenery version 0.3
* Added urban areas.
* Many problems introduced by slivers have been resolved by
identifying and eliminating polygon slivers.
New in Source version 0.6.1
* More MacOS portability fixes.
* More Borland C++ fixes.
* More IRIX fixes.
* Fixed a bug in handling windows drive letter, colon "C:" notation.
* Minor tweaks to the Astro sub section contributed by Durk Talsma.
* GUI updates contributed by Norman Vine.
* Fixed a problem with ambiguous constructors in the fgText class.
* Updates to JSBsim contributed by Jon Berndt.
* Created a tile load queue so that we only load one tile per frame.
This isn't entirely satisfactory, but it replaces the one big
pause when crossing a tile boundary with several shorter pauses.
* Fixed bug with passing PUI keystrokes on to glut.
* Fixed a bug in tilecache size which caused occasional tiles to drop
out when more than one row is scheduled "simultaneously".
* Changes to scenery building tools to handle sliver detection and
resolution.
* Fixed several other minor bugs in the scenery creation tools.
* Added urban area support to scenery creation tools.
* Made the parallel scenery building tools a bit more robust if a
requested client machine happens to be offline by pinging it first
to see if it is alive.
* Added support for libgpc's new hole tracking interface.
* Tony Peden contributed a c172 flight model replacement for the
Navion. Still needs to be debugged a bit before it is usable.
Curt.
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Curtis Olson University of MN, ME Dept.
curt@me.umn.edu
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt Try Linux!
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From: Adrian Casey <axiiom@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: LOCAL: Central Australian Linux showcase
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:32:26 GMT
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The Alice Springs Linux User Group will be showing Linux off at the
1999 Annual Alice Springs Show on July 2nd and 3rd.
OK, so we're not as big as Atlanta, but we're going to have our own
Linux Showcase Oz style ;-)
The ASLUG booth will boast a network of Linux PCs running tasks such as
web serving, file serving (SAMBA), workgroup collaboration (StarOffice),
amazing graphics, games (Quake, Civilization CTP), KDE, GNOME etc etc.
The only things you won't be able to see are random system lock-ups,
crashes and the "Blue Screen of Death"!
If you're passing through central Australia at this time, drop in and
say G'day!
For information on Alice Springs, see www.alicesprings.nt.gov.au
For information on ASLUG, see www.aslug.org.au
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Adrian Casey
axiiom@ozemail.com.au
ALICE SPRINGS
http://www.aslug.org.au
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From: rengel1@nycap.rr.com
Subject: SkateNews - free news reader
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:45:22 GMT
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SkateNews is a free news reader writen in java.
It features a pleasant easy to use interface and a small
footprint.
It is beta only because it doesn't have all the features that it
will eventually have but in it's present state it is completely
stable.
It does all the important stuff
Fetches and Displays news articles
Posts to news groups
Emails responses to author.
And it's just a different app from the same old ones.
Get it at.
http://members.xoom.com/apostle1
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From: Alan W Black <awb@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Festival Speech Synthesis System 1.4.0
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:27:21 GMT
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The Festival Speech Synthesis System version 1.4.0
and Edinburgh Speech Tools Library version 1.2.0
20th June 1999
Festival offers a general framework for building speech synthesis
systems as well as including examples of various modules. As a whole
it offers full text to speech through a number APIs: from shell level,
though a Scheme command interpreter, as a C++ library, from Java, and
an Emacs interface. Festival is multi-lingual (currently English
(British and American), and Spanish) though English is the most
advanced. Other groups release new languages for the system.
The system is written in C++ and uses the Edinburgh Speech Tools
Library for low level architecture and has a Scheme (SIOD) based
command interpreter for control. Documentation is given in the FSF
texinfo format which can generate, a printed manual, info files and
HTML.
- From this version, the system is now free software and is distributed
under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and
non-commercial use alike.
This distribution includes:
* Full English (British and American English) text to speech
* Full C++ source for modules, SIOD interpreter, and Scheme library
* Lexicon based on CMULEX and OALD (OALD is restricted to non-commercial
use only)
* Edinburgh Speech Tools, low level C++ library
* British English Male (for residual LPC resynthesis 8k and 16k versions)
* 2 American English Male (for residual LPC resynthesis 8k and 16k versions)
* 4 other voices using MBROLA based diphone synthesis (1 British Male,
2 American Males and 1 American Female).
* Castilian Spanish Male (for residual LPC resynthesis 11k version)
* British English Male (for spike excited LPC resynthesis 10k version)
* Full documentation (html, postscript and GNU info format)
Festival version 1.4.0 sources, voices, and Linux binaries are
available from
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/download.html
and also from the US mirror at CMU
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/festival/download.html
The Festival home page, offering descriptions of the system, examples
and online demos, can be found at
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html
Requirements
To run Festival you need:
* A Unix machine, Festival has compiled and run on Suns (SunOS and
Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, SGIs and DEC Alphas but should be portable
to any standard Unix machine.
* A C++ compiler: we have used GCC version 2.7.2, 2.8.1
SunCC 4.1 nd 4.2, and egcs. Other C++ compilers are
probably possible with perhaps some minor chanages
* GNU Make any recent version
* Audio hardware, /dev/audio (8 bit and 16 bit on Suns, Linux
and FreeBSD) and NCD's NAS network transparent audio system
are supported directly but Festival supports the execution of
any Unix command that can play audio files.
There is also support for building the system under Windows NT and
95/98. We have successfully ran the system complied with Cygnus' GNU
win32 package and Microsoft's Visual C++, instructions are included
We intend to distribute binary distributions for major
architectures particularly Linux and Solaris. We will *not*
distribute binary versions for Windows NT/95 as we do not have enough
expertise to support them.
New in 1.4.0 version
* The copyright has changed. The system is now free.
* Substantial low level tidy-ups in the Utterance structure
* Stronger notion of Relation types (lists, trees, mls, and others)
* XML i/o for relations (good for trees and more complex data exchange)
* Three new US English voices (simply front ends to MBROLA voices)
* Features values can now be anything including Features and
other objects can be cleanly added.
* SIOD is now "in one directory" rather than one defun
It can also be used standalone, and adding user objects is easier and
consistent
* New documentation system for Speech Tools, integrating code,
descriptions and examples (DOC++, Jade, docbook based)
* Generalization of models (WFSTs, Ngrams, CART, viterbi)
allowing arbitrary use from Scheme.
* Initial JSAPI (and JSML) support, stadardising the existing Java
interface.
* "Building Voices in Festival" document describing process of building
new voices in the system
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/docs/festvox
* Many other fixes
Alan, Paul, Richard and Rob
20th June 1999
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Alan W Black email: awb@cstr.ed.ac.uk
Centre for Speech Technology Research http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/~awb
University of Edinburgh tel: (44) 131 650 2787
80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK fax: (44) 131 650 6351
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From: Dave Fisher <davef@gbdirect.co.uk>
Subject: Free Linux Training Materials
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:29:25 GMT
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Dear All,
For some reason, which I cannot explain, the Linux newgroups were left
off the circulation list for this press release I sent out last week.
I am posting it now, for those who do not reguarly browse web sites like
Linux Weekly News
Dave
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TITLE: GBdirect Release Free Linux Training Materials
RELEASE DATE: 14th June, 1999
EMBARGOED UNTIL: 0.01 am, 15th June, 1999
FROM: GBdirect
27 Park Drive
Bradford, BD9 4DS
tel: 01274 772277
linux@gbdirect.co.uk
http://www.linuxtraining.co.uk
GBdirect, Europe's leading provider of Linux training, today announced
the release of free Linux training materials. Lecture notes for the
first four modules of their ``Linux Systems'' training course are now
available on the web (initially at www.gbdirect.co.uk/linuxtraining,
later at www.linuxtraining.co.uk). They cover:
1. An Overview of a Linux System
2. The Linux Filesystem
3. The Linux Command Line Interface
4. Basic Linux Tools
Each module consists of 20-25 pages of bullet-pointed lecture notes
followed by graduated exercises. Experienced commercial instructors
should be able to deliver the lecture notes in about 1 hour, leaving
between 1 and 2 hours for practical work based on the exercises. In
addition to good teaching skills, the users of these materials are
expected to have sound knowledge of the Linux and UNIX operating
systems.
In the interests of good citizenship, the modules are distributed in
low-bandwidth, open-source, formats.
GBdirect's primary motivation for releasing thse notes as open source
software is to ensure their widest possible dissemination. A
secondary motivation is the company's desire to `give something back'
to the community which provides them with virtually all of their
office software.
The company hope that others will contribute to the Linux Training
Materials Project, by authoring their own lecture notes or by
modifying those which GBdirect have contributed. To encourage such
participation, GBdirect are releasing their materials under an open
source licence derived from the Linux Documentation Project. This
allows end-users to copy and distribute the lecture notes as the
please, but protects the copyrights of their original authors.
For further details contact GBdirect at the above addresses, or ring
Dave Fisher on 01274 772277
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David Fisher
Business Development
GBdirect - Linux Consultancy and Training
tel: +44 (0)1274 772277
davef@gbdirect.co.uk
==========================================
www.gbdirect.co.uk
www.linuxtraining.co.uk
www.trainingpages.co.uk
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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Subject: XRacer - a clone of Psygnosis Wipeout in development
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:33:48 GMT
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XRACER is a clone of Psygnosis Wipeout for Linux.
Current version:
0.10 (10th development release)
Latest news:
Tracks are now texture mapped.
Added track design module (see track-general.c).
Improved game physics.
Instrument panel.
Requirements:
Linux, Mesa 3.0, libjpeg, supported 3D accelerator card,
analogue joystick (highly recommended).
Website:
http://www.annexia.org/freeware/xracer.html
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From: cavanagh <cavanagh@sybase.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.0.2 Eval for Linux
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:37:32 GMT
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We are pleased to announce the release of Adaptive Server Anywhere for
Linux.
To download an evaluation copy please go to:
http://www.sybase.com/products/anywhere/
Direct download:
http://www.sybase.com/products/anywhere/linuxfrm.html/
What is it?
With the same robust features and full technical support of Sybase’s
other core database (Adaptive Server Enterprise), SQL Anywhere for Linux
is designed to leverage Linux’s enterprise-class reliability, ease of
administration and performance on low-cost hardware, for applications
such as monitoring systems, edge servers or point-of-sale devices. SQL
Anywhere for Linux provides Linux developers with Sybase’s
industry-leading small footprint database including database rich
functionality such as:
* Stored Procedures and Triggers
* Java support for logic and datatypes
* Row-Level locking
The following SQL Anywhere features coupled with the Linux platform,
provide the solution for developers whose database projects require
sophisticated functionality on a limited budget.
* Ease of Adminstration
* Automatic Recovery
* Automatic File growth
* Self-Tuning Cost-Based Optimizer
The replication feature set outlined below allows mission-critical
information to flow among the datastores throughout an organization in a
cost-effective manner.
* Message-Based Replication capabilities
* Optimized for occassionally-connected users
* Update Anywhere
* Robust Conflict Resolution
Sincerely,
Liam Cavanagh
Product Manager
Sybase Mobile and Embedded Computing Division
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From: Viorel Anghel <vang@altavista.net>
Subject: MAILING-LIST: jed users mailing list
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:49:31 GMT
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A mailing list for the fans of JED text editor. To subscribe, use
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/jed-users
You can expect on this list subjects like:
- compiling and installing jed
- using jed (how to...?)
- configuring jed (share your ~/.jedrc with us!)
More information available at http://www.pub.ro/~vang/jed/
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[`-']
-"-"- It's great to be smart 'cause then you know stuff.
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