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Linux-Announce Digest #608
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Thu Sep 30 19:07:06 1999
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 99 18:13:19 EDT
Linux-Announce Digest #608, Volume #3 Thu, 30 Sep 99 18:13:19 EDT
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 Linux Express ("Bob Runyan")
COMMERCIAL: QuickTime TV Streaming Solution on LINUX - Applecations.com ("Shawn How")
COMMERCIAL/LOCAL: Linux/BSD in Canada from Arles Trading (Arles Trading Company)
des-1.2.0 - file encrypter ("HNM Dijkema")
Eartraining for Linux: Keen Little Rabbit Ears (Matthias Nutt)
Buzzer Electronic Notebook 1.0 - Electronic notebook and to-do list manager. ("Glenn W. Bach")
Sing Along Disc Player - 2.1.2 (Michael Glickman)
SystemG - UNIX file manager ("Glenn W. Bach")
COMMERCIAL: Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) available (Gael Duval)
xfigchart.pl version 0.4 - xfig format bar chart generator (Michael Pronath)
yplot 1.0.2: a Yorick language binding for the PLPlot library, binary (Conrad Steenberg)
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From: "Bob Runyan" <bruny@lahey.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Lahey/Fujitsu Fortran 95 Linux Express
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:18:13 GMT
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Lahey Computer Systems is pleased to announce the release of LF95 Linux
Express. LF95 Linux Express features
- - full Fortran 95 optimizing compiler
- - top-notch performance and diagnostics
- - popular workstation, mainframe, and PC extensions
- - quad precision
- - powerful command-line debugger
- - on-line language reference and user's guide
- - free, unlimited, e-mail technical support (!)
- - link compatible with g77
- - compatible with Interacter and Interacter Express from ISS
- - 30-day money-back guarantee
all for only $199. Whether you want to move your application to Linux,
improve the performance of your existing Linux application, or detect
programming errors missed by other compilers, LF95 Linux Express is an
excellent choice.
LF95 Linux Express is shipping immediately. Please see http://www.lahey.com
for more information or to place your on-line order.
System Requirements
Distribution
We have tested the compiler on the following distributions:
Red Hat Linux 5.2/6.0
Slackware 3.6/4.0
SuSE 6.1
Caldera 2.2
CPU Intel(R) i386 family and compatible CPU
Kernel 2.0.35 and later
Hardware PC/AT compatible
Disk 30MB
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Bob Runyan
Lahey Computer Systems
http://www.lahey.com
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From: "Shawn How" <shawn@applecations.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: QuickTime TV Streaming Solution on LINUX - Applecations.com
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:21:44 GMT
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QuickTime TV Streaming Solution on LINUX - Applecations.com
_________________________________________________________________________
Looking for consultants to deploy your QuickTime TV Streaming Solution on
LINUX in Singapore?
Want to buy SGI 1400L Linux QuickTime Streaming servers, with FailSafe and
server clustering mechanisms?
Visit http://www.applecations.com/
We'd get your job done.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sales Rep : Shawn How
Email : sales@applecations.com
Cellular : +65-97922668
Fax : +65-8945407
Website : http://www.applecations.com/
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: Arles Trading Company <mctaylor@arles.ns.ca>
Subject: COMMERCIAL/LOCAL: Linux/BSD in Canada from Arles Trading
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:27:50 GMT
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Official Red Hat 6.0 boxed set (intel, alpha, sparc)
http://www.arles.ns.ca/redhat/
Caldera Open Linux 2.3
http://www.arles.ns.ca/caldera/
S.u.S.E. 6.2
http://www.arles.ns.ca/suse/
Slackware 4.0
http://www.arles.ns.ca/slackware/
Mandrake Powerpak 6.0
http://www.arles.ns.ca/mandrake/
Linux Office Suite 99
http://www.arles.ns.ca/suse/
OpenBSD 2.5
http://www.arles.ns.ca/openbsd/
Official FreeBSD 4-CD set 3.2, and 3.1
http://www.arles.ns.ca/freebsd/
StarOffice 5.1 Personal Edition Deluxe
http://www.arles.ns.ca/staroffice/
Myth II: Soulblighter
http://www.arles.ns.ca/loki/
Quake II: Colossus for Linux
http://www.arles.ns.ca/macmilliam/
Products are all in-stock for quick delivery, anywhere in Canada.
We accept Mastercard and VISA, with secure online transactions
which mean your order is confirmed in real-time, and normally is
in the mail no later than the next business day.
We also handle special orders for almost any Linux and BSD software
not listed in our catalogue.
So if you want to order Linux or BSD without any nasty surprises
like exchange rate or customs brokerage fees, order from Arles
Trading Company.
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Michael Taylor mctaylor@arles.ns.ca
Arles Trading Company http://www.arles.ns.ca/
PGP key: http://www.arles.ns.ca/pgp.html
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From: "HNM Dijkema" <hnmdijkema@softhome.net>
Subject: des-1.2.0 - file encrypter
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:19:11 GMT
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Begin3
Title: des
Version: 1.2.0
Entered-date: 1999-09-27
Description: * des can be used to encrypt files with a password using
tripple des.
* undes can be used to decrypt them. It does a password
check.
Use this software e.g. to encrypt your gzipped tar archives.
!! This version 1.2.0 obsoletes all versions 1.1.x and 1.0.X !
Keywords: encryption, archiving, utilities
Author: hnmdijkema@softhome.net (Hans Dijkema)
Maintained-by: hnmdijkema@softhome.net (Hans Dijkema)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/
446.4k des-1.2.0.tar.gz
675 des-1.2.0.lsm
Alternate-site:
Platforms: Linux HP-UX (and others)
Copying-policy: GPL
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From: Matthias Nutt <messias@freepage.de_antispam_>
Subject: Eartraining for Linux: Keen Little Rabbit Ears
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:24:20 GMT
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Keen Little Rabbit Ears is an easy to use ear training program for Linux.
It was first distributed as "perfect pitch", but this name is registrated
in the US. So I decided to rename the program.
Version 0.6 is now available at
http://www.forwiss.uni-erlangen.de/~msnutt/sound/keenlittlerabbitears/
and will be soon available at sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/sound/misc
Keen Little Rabbit Ears requires the installation of Perl (Version 5),
Perl/Tk, Perl::MIDI and an extermal MIDI player, like timidity (Verion 0.2i).
Keen little rabbit ears is written in perl, uses Perl/Tk for the user interface,
Perl::MIDI to write MIDI files and timidity to play MIDI files.
Cheers Matthias
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From: "Glenn W. Bach" <glenn@dodgson.wonderland.caltech.edu>
Subject: Buzzer Electronic Notebook 1.0 - Electronic notebook and to-do list manager.
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:34:45 GMT
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The Buzzer Electronic Notebook version 1.0 is now available. Added the
ablity to export or print all of the selected notes. There were just a few
other minor adjustments in behavior and appearance in this release.
The Buzzer Electronic Notebook is a program for storing information and tasks.
I often found that I had important information spread out all over my home
directory in various files. I wanted a place where I could keep everything,
and have it easily accessible. That's what this program is for. One of the
things I found was often in these files, was lists of things that needed to
be done for a particular project. For this reason, I added the to-do list
items.
The binary and source distributions can be downloaded from:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/notebook/
License:
The Buzzer Electronic Notebook is free.
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From: Michael Glickman <michg@alphalink.com.au>
Subject: Sing Along Disc Player - 2.1.2
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:39:45 GMT
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It you never heard of sadp:
This is a CD player with extended features, as spectrum analyzer,
oscillator, on-board mixer, access to Internet data bases and more.
Size about 205K, Requires XForms 0.81+ Console version (ncurses)
is rather old and does not support Internet data bases.
Don't waste time on reading the rest, just go to SADP home page
to find more about it:
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~michg/ace/sadp
If you use sadp version 2.1.1, the information below
will help you to decide whether you need to upgrade it.
The changes are really negligible.
Here are the most important ones:
1. CC and CFLAGS parameters.
The configuration script now processes CC (compiler name) and
CFLAGS (compiler flags) shell variables. By default it uses gcc
with '-m486 -O2', but you may prefer, for example, egcs with
'-mpentium -O6'. It's all up to you now.
2. Font style and resolution.
By default XForms uses a rather generic font names, that
makes the choice of actual font dependent on a number of
factors, such as order of font paths in XF86Config. I was
surprised to find that XF86Config supplied with some
TurboLinux releases uses a rather odd sequence of paths
that cause really weird appearance of text. This has been
fixed now. xsadp will always load the correct font, if it is
available. In addition new resource settings: -font and
-fontres, that allow to set font appearance (lucida, courier)
and font resolution.
3. Email submission.
No you can identify yourself as you wish! xsadp will
first try SMTP login with specified name. If it fails,
anonymous login will be attempted. In all cases the
recipient will obtain specified identification. Since
someone may argue that this idea can be compromised,
I want to observe that as a Linux application, xsadp is
design for intelligent people.
4. Support for XForms 0.81 and 0.86
No matter what manual said, xsadp stopped supporting
old versions of XForms from 2.0.0. Now the manuals
are adequate again. The problem is that all former
users of XForms 0.81 now switched to 0.88 ...
5. V-scale parameter for oscillator. Will appear in v 2.1.2c.
Not available now, but will be at the time this message will
be published (it takes more than a week, till c.o.l.a.
announcement gets to the auditory).
Fond more in CHANGES file.
Does anyone use sadp on a non-Intel platform ?
I am interested to get a feedback especially from
big-endian machines like Mac or Amiga.
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From: "Glenn W. Bach" <glenn@dodgson.wonderland.caltech.edu>
Subject: SystemG - UNIX file manager
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:35:22 GMT
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Overview:
Dealing with the UNIX command line , especially the filesystem, is one of
the biggest hurdles to widespread use of UNIX and LINUX. SystemG was
written to provide intuitive, easy to use access to the filesystem in the
form of a graphical hierarchy of files and folders.
The binary and source distributions can be downloaded from:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/systemg/
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Description:
SystemG is a free file manager that provides access to the UNIX filesystem
with an intuitive front end. It currently allows in place name editing, in
place editing of file permissions, and sorting by name, user, group, size
and data. Files are moved and copied by dragging the files. The
drag-and-drop functionality in SystemG is fully X Drag-and-Drop (XDND) and
X Direct Save (XDS) compliant.
More information about SystemG is available at:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~glenn/systemg/
License:
SystemG is free.
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From: Gael Duval <gduval@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) available
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:52:54 GMT
Reply-To: gduval@mandrakesoft.com
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Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) is released.
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
Sep, 17 1999
Hello,
We are very pleased to announce the new version of the Linux
distribution that won the "Product of the year" award at LinuxWorld
Expo'99. Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) the first Linux distribution to
include the new XFree 3.3.5 and KDE1.1.2, is available. This is the
latest release of our user-friendly and flexible desktop Linux-based
operating system. It is currently available for download via FTP, in
both traditional and iso-image formats.
o Introduction
------------
Thanks to our dedicated staff and the Linux community, this new
release of Mandrake takes an important step on our way to make Linux
distributions better, faster and easier-to-use.
o Mandrake 6.1 features
---------------------
Core system
- -----------
- Linux-Kernel: 2.2.13 (pre4)
- XFree86: 3.3.5
- Glibc: 2.1.1
- RPM: 3.0.3
- Bash: 2.03
- KDE: 1.1.2 [with Mandrake customization]
- Gnome: built from 1.0.4->1.0.14 versions [with Mandrake
customization]
- Enlightenment 0.16-dev5, Windowmaker 0.60, AfterStep 1.7.111, XFCE
3.0.2, IceWM 0.9.48
- Apache 1.3.9 with useful modules (PHP3, Perl, Midgard, MySQL,
PGSQL...), pluggable with cryptographic extensions available from
several unrestricted FTP servers.
All packages have been compiled with CPU optimizations for
pentium-class (intel, amd, cyrix, winchip...) and higher processors
resulting in speed improvements up to 30%.
Improvements and add-ons
- ------------------------
- Most packages are updated to their latest stable versions.
- Many supplementary KDE apps and Gnome apps like kdevelop, klilo,
xmms...
- Mandrake customized Apache 1.3.9
- MySQL 3.20 (GPL) + 3.22 (not to be resold).
- Enlightenment 0.16 development version 5. many new features such
as, Window grouping, Full pager support, Preliminary KDE compliance.
- XFCE 3.0.2 is now part of the distribution.
- Mandrake customized XFree 3.3.5 with support for new encodings
(Armenian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Lao, Georgian...)
- Mandrake optimized X-TT/FreeType server.
- More complete and generally improved internationalization (Japanese
TT fonts, more man-pages, more ispell dictionaries...).
- Easier access to Dos/Windows(tm) partitions.
- Enhanced documentation.
- All current bug/security fixes.
Mandrake still features:
- -----------------------
- Creation of an user account during installation
- Graphics tests while installation, permitting to boot directly in
graphical mode.
- Improved hardware support (ISDN, CD-Writers, Windows(tm) keys).
- CD-ROM and Floppy-disks can be mounted by non privileged users,
just by typing "mount /mnt/cdrom" or clicking on the CD-ROM icon.
- Multiple graphical desktops choice: KDE, Gnome, AfterStep,
WindowMaker, XFCE and IceWM (with session choice in KDM/GDM).
- Scalable fonts support in all X applications and for printing (with
ready-to-use True Type(tm) fonts provided).
- Mandrake KDE and Gnome customization, with preconfigured desktop.
- Many KDE themes available.
- Better accents (and special characters management under X and
console).
- Better locale man-pages management and displaying, following the
$LANG environment variable.
- Easy automatic distribution update system from the graphical
desktop.
- Applications such as Wine, Postfix...
o Compatibility
-------------
Linux-Mandrake is compatible with Red Hat(tm) Linux. This means that
you can install any RPM package made for Red Hat in Linux-Mandrake.
- -------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
- -------------------------------------------------------------
Linux-Mandrake 6.0 has won two LinuxWorld Editors' Choice Awards and a
runner up at LinuxWorld Expo, San Jose, CA in August 1999:
* Best Linux Product of the Year.
* Best Distribution/Server.
* finalist for Best Distribution/Client.
What is Linux-Mandrake?
- -----------------------
Linux-Mandrake is inspired by Red Hat(tm) Linux, with many
improvements and pre-configured applications which make it easier to
use for the beginners, and faster for everyone.
Main goals of this new distribution:
- -----------------------------------
- We want to provide a working and easy-to-install Linux distribution
for people who do not want to spend too much time on installation and
configuration of their Linux system, while still being configurable
for experts. Just install Mandrake and USE IT!
- We want to provide a very attractive, easy-to-use, Linux System for
both, novices and experts alike.
- We want to provide a rock-stable and fast Linux server system with
many features for Internet servers.
- We want to provide a very attractive distribution in a well-known
linux environment (Red Hat Linux).
Previous versions:
- -----------------
- - Mandrake 5.1 (Venice)
- - Mandrake 5.2 (Leeloo)
- - Mandrake 5.3 (Festen)
- - Mandrake 6.0 (Venus)
Current version:
- ---------------
- - Mandrake 6.1 (Helios)
- --------------------------------------------------
PRESS COMMENTS
- --------------
`PC-Expert' (french ZD-Net publication): Mandrake: "currently the best
distribution"!!
`PC-Magazin' (Germany - issue April99): "Mandrake earns a big point
for their intelligent configuration of KDE."
"The best Distribution of Linux available" -- Reviews' R' Us.
"I really like Mandrake" -- Nicholas Petreley
"For ease of getting started, I recommend Mandrake" -- Christian
Computing Magazine
"You can't go wrong buying Mandrake; it is an excellent Linux
distribution, and I suspect I will keep using it as a desktop OS" --
CPU Review
- --------------------------------------------------
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
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< Mandrake 6.1 (Helios) on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/ >
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From: Michael Pronath <Michael.Pronath@Regent.E-Technik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Subject: xfigchart.pl version 0.4 - xfig format bar chart generator
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:43:18 GMT
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xfigchart.pl is a quick and easy way to create bar charts that can be used in
LaTeX via XFig. xfigchart.pl uses a commandline interface. It takes data
values as a table and writes an XFig file to stdout. Postprocessing of the
bar charts has to be done manually in the free vector drawing tool XFig, so it
is possible to easily create very complex diagrams mixed with other graphics
components in a short time and having all the advantages of XFig including
a lot of export filters.
Example:
xfigchart.pl -3d -boxwidth 900 > screenshot1.fig
1.1 2.1 3
4.9 3 3.3
2 3 4
<CTRL-D>
Version 0.4 is a bugfix release. xfigchart.pl is available at
http://www.eda.ei.tum.de/~mcp/xfigchart.html
Examples, screenshots, and documentation are available there as well.
Michael Pronath
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From: Conrad Steenberg <conrad@srl.caltech.edu>
Subject: yplot 1.0.2: a Yorick language binding for the PLPlot library, binary
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 22:39:04 GMT
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Y P L O T
---------
A Yorick interface to PLPlot
This is to announce the availability of an updated Yorick language binding
for the PLPlot plotting library.
Yorick is a fast interpreted matrix language in the spirit of Matlab and
others, but with a C-like syntax. And of course it is free, with source code
available under a BSD-like license.
See ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/Yorick/yorick-ad.html for more details.
PLPlot is a vector plotting library with support for several devices,
including X11, Postscript and more. It can plot several types of 2D and 3D
plots and contains extensive support for different vector fonts.
See http://emma.la.asu.edu/plplot/ for more details.
Yplot
- -----
Yplot provides several new yorick commands to make use of the PLPlot
library. It also comes with an extensive tutorial with several examples to
get you started.
Availability
- ------------
A minimalist yplot home page is at
http://www.srl.caltech.edu/personnel/conrad/yplot.html which provides
links to download versions of the source and RPM binaries for Linux on x86
and alpha. The x86 version was built on Mandrake 6.0, and should be
Redhat-compatible. The Alpha versions were built on Redhat 6.0.
To use yplot, you need the following:
plplot-990122-2.ARCH.rpm -- binary PLPlot library, with ARCH the architecture
yorick-1.4-14.ARCH.rpm -- binary yorick distribution
yplot-1.0.2-1.ARCH.rpm -- binary yplot distribution.
yorick-1.4-14cpq.alpha.rpm -- binary yorick distribution built with the
Compaq C-compiler
The sources for these packages are also available at the same location.
These packages should also be available on ftp://contrib.redhat.com when
the maintainer gets back from vacation. Don't hold your breath ;-)
RPM Packaging
- -------------
Note that the PLPlot library mentioned above is based on a new developer
snapshot from the PLPlot home page. Furthermore, the rpm versions has been
modified by Alan Irwin (irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca) relative to the
developer's snapshot to fix several labelling bugs in the plotting code,
include the new PLPlot documentation effort, and facilitate the rpm build
mechanism.
Licenses
- --------
Yplot itself falls under the GPL. PLPlot is now also GPL'd, while Yorick
falls under a BSD-type license.
Changes from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
- ---------------------------
Added the PLPlot functions plsxax, plsyax, and plszax to yplot to help
control whether or not scientific notation is used for labels. Use help,
plsxax, etc., at the Yplot command prompt to see the API for these new
functions.
It turns out that it is critical to have a blank start the documentation
in yplot_body.i for all commands. A few of the commands where this standard
was not met have now been fixed so that their documentation is now
accessible from yplot help.
Automatically create doc/yplot.doc corresponding to the current yplot
commands as part of the build process.
Changes from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
- ---------------------------
Make the yplot version of pljoin conform to the plplot version:
Now:
func pljoin(x1,y1,x2,y2)
/* DOCUMENT func pljoin(x1,y1,x2,y2)
Joins the points (of type double) (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) using the current
line attributes.
*/
Was:
func pljoin(x1,x2,y1,y2)
/* DOCUMENT func pljoin(x1,x2,y1,y2)
Joins the points (of type double) (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) using the current
line attributes.
*/
Conrad Steenberg <conrad@srl.caltech.edu>
Alan Irwin <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
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