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Linux-Announce Digest #612
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Linux-Announce Digest #612, Volume #3 Sun, 3 Oct 99 01:13:25 EDT
Contents:
LOCAL: Rice Linux User Group Meeting 1999/10/4 (Anderson MacKay)
COMMERCIAL: New release of Definite Linux (Jason Clifford)
LOCAL: South Jersey LUG Formed & Registered w/GLUE! Details here. (Bob Patterson)
dump-0.4b6 available (Stelian Pop)
LOCAL: West Yorks LUG (UK) Mon 11th October (J Jackson)
LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday (Daniel Tasch)
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From: Anderson MacKay <glenstorm@mindspring.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Rice Linux User Group Meeting 1999/10/4
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:09:22 GMT
Reply-To: Anderson MacKay <mackay@rice.edu>
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The Rice University Linux User Group will be meeting Monday night,
October 4, our third meeting of the year. On the agenda is InstallFest
planning, among many other things. Visit the website at
http://linux.rice.edu for more information.
Date/Time: October 4, 1999 8pm
Location: Room 1049, Duncan Hall, Rice University Campus (Houston, TX)
(email rlug@rice.edu if you need directions)
This LUG serves the entire Houston community -- while located on Rice
campus and affiliated with the university, we are open to any Linux user
(or potential user) who wants to make the trek to our meetings. Hope to
see you there!
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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: New release of Definite Linux
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:03:45 GMT
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Manchester, UK
1st October 1999
Press Release
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Definite Software announces the first UK supported Linux Distribution.
Definite Software PLC today announced the UK release of Definite Linux
version 7.0, a definitive stage in the development of Linux.
Definite Linux, which is 100% Red Hat* Linux compatible is based on
the latest version of the Linux kernel (2.2.12) and is completely up
to date. It is fully supported in the UK and includes free installation
support in the price. It comes with 2user manuals / installation guides
and all required documentation on CD-Rom.
Definite Linux includes Star Office for personal or business use. Star
Office is a complete office package for Linux, published by Sun
Microsystems Inc. which includes a complete suite of office
applications and has a high level of file compatibility with Microsoft
Office products.
Definite Software have also announced the launch of a white-box
program for PC Builders to pre-install the complete Definite Linux
system on their machines, together with a PC certification program
including the production of PC specific installation scripts for the
system builder.
A sister company will produce a range of badged Definite Linux PC's
which will be fully tested to be 100% Linux compatible and will come
with 1 years on site hardware maintenance.
Software Support Contracts are available from Definite Software,
ranging from the free installation support included with the Official
Retail boxed package, office hours telephone support contracts for
businesses to 24 hour support 365 days a year for mission critical
applications.
Definite Software PLC is the first Linux Distribution company to offer
a share option scheme for distributors of their products. Each copy of
Definite linux sold will count towards an option scheme whereby
dealers may be able to profit from the eventual success of the
company.
Products being released include:- Definite Linux Official Boxed Set
£39.99, Definite Linux Advanced Internet Server £149.99, Definite
Linux Bookshelf £29.99, Definite Linux White Box and a range of
accessories including Mouse Mats, T-Shirts etc.
Definite Software PLC have appointed CD-Rom Distribution PLC of
Stockport, Cheshire UK as their exclusive distributor for the UK.
CD-Rom Distribution have a proven track record with Linux products.
For further information or review samples contact :
Definite Software PLC
Contact: Lance Davis
email: lance@definitesoftware.com
Telephone: +44 (0)161 477 8848
CD-Rom Distribution PLC
Contact: Ian Birchenough
email: ianb@cdromd.com
Telephone: +44 (0)161 477 4235
Technical Enquiries
Definite Software PLC
Contact: Jason Clifford
email: jason@definitesoftware.com
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds
Redhat is a trademark of Red Hat software, inc.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Star Office and the Star Office
logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
in the United States and other countries, and are used under license.
Microsoft and Microsoft Office are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.
All other trademarks acknowledged.
Definite Linux 7.0 Technical Details
Definite Linux 7.0 continues and improves upon the excellence of
Definite Linux.
Built around version 2.2.12 of the Linux kernel with patches to
improve speed and support for additional hardware including the DPT
SmartRAID V controllers (which means that almost all hardware RAID
controllers are now supported), Definite Linux 7.0 is completely up to
date and offers everything you need to implement a powerful server or
workstation.
As a server platform Definite Linux excels, offering file and print
services, directory services, web (including secure web), email, news,
and even enterprise class fax and SQL database services.
Just as you would expect of any true server platform, Definite Linux
offers support for all the major server technologies and offers true
ease of management with well designed utilities to manage the system
both at the console and remotely, even including a web browser
interface to all system management features. With improved SMP and
RAID support your servers will be faster and more reliable than ever
before.
For those wanting to use Definite Linux as a workstation even more has
been done to ensure that you have everything you need. The inclusion
of XFree86 3.3.5 means that Definite Linux 7.0 supports most of the
popular video cards including those from ATI, Matrox, Diamond, S3, Intel,
SiS, and Video Logic to mention just a few of the vendors whose
cards are supported. Support for 3D graphics cards is also including
so your Voodoo, TNT, and 3D Labs cards can be fully utilised. Definite
Linux features many choices for how to present your GUI desktop
including old favourites such as FVWM and the increasingly popular
Gnome and KDE complete desktop environments.
Gnome 1.0 (with all the latest updates) offers a powerful and visually
stimulating desktop with features such as drag and drop being
standard. A host of powerful applications come as standard with Gnome
including a word processor, a well featured spreadsheet, personal
management utilities and a host of tools to allow to you manage your
system from within this well integrated and presented GUI.
With many games and multimedia utilities included you can play CDs,
MP3s, .wav files while perfecting your solitaire skills.
KDE version 1.1.1 offers many similar features and is also very
visually pleasing.
For the artistically inclined Definite Linux includes GIMP. GIMP
allows you to be creative and manipulate images in numerous formats.
Many GIMP users believe that it is far superior to commercial packages
available on other platforms.
One of the cornerstones of the Linux world is the Internet. Linux is
developed and grew up on the Internet so it is fitting that Linux
benefits from a wealth of Internet tools including Netscape
Communicator 4.61, packages for managing your email and news, ftp
client, irc clients and much more.
Because Definite Linux is not produced in the USA we are free to
implement strong cryptographic support. This means that Netscape
Communicator supports full 128 bit encryption and a whole host of
other utilities and tools such as PGP, GnuPG, OpenSSL, SSH and others.
Definite Linux also includes the international cryptographic extensions
to the kernel (not compiled in by default.)
You can switch between the various GUI desktop choices easily and you
can even share applications running on one system to others via the X
Window system. You can choose whether to have your system start
straight into the GUI environment or to boot into a powerful text
based shell with the option to start the GUI still available to you.
In addition to all of this Definite Linux comes with many extra
packages that you can choose to install as options after the main
installation. These include dozens of system and network management
and security tools as well as games, development systems, graphics and
rendering software, accounting software and much more.
Jason Clifford http://www.dlsl.demon.co.uk/
** Specialist Linux Consultancy and Support Services **
**** Linux Workstation and Server Systems ****
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From: grobertp@hotmail.com (Bob Patterson)
Subject: LOCAL: South Jersey LUG Formed & Registered w/GLUE! Details here.
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:26:06 GMT
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First, organizational meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 3,
1999, and will be held at the Camden County Library branch in Haddon
Township, NJ. For more details, e-mail
Bob Patterson
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From: Stelian Pop <pop@cybercable.fr>
Subject: dump-0.4b6 available
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:19:43 GMT
Reply-To: Stelian Pop <pop@cybercable.fr>
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A new version of the dump/restore backup suite is now available.
It is available on http://perso.cybercable.fr/pop
Happy dumping!
Changes between versions 0.4b5 and 0.4b6:
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1. Integrated multiple patches from RedHat, Debian and SuSE:
- tweak dump/itime.c to not try to read dumpdates if the 'u'
option isn't specified.
- several fixes in the man pages.
- update the default tape device to /dev/st0.
- many updates for Linux Alpha (byte ordering, size_t etc).
- buffer overruns.
- use environment variable for TMPDIR (instead of /tmp).
- use sigjmp_buf instead of jmp_buf (RedHat bug #3260).
- workaround egcs bug (RedHat bugs #4281 and #2989).
- wire $(OPT) throughout Makefile's.
2. Upgrade the dump revision to 1, making possible to dump filesystems
made with e2fsprogs-1.15 or newer. Nothing seems to break...
3. Fix some compile warnings, prototype all functions.
4. Use glibc err/glob instead of internal compatibility
routines (only if available).
5. Fix a compile error on Linux 2.2.7 / libc5 (5.4.44) (patch provided
by Bernhard Sadlowski <sadlowsk@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de>).
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Stelian Pop <pop@cybercable.fr>
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From: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk (J Jackson)
Subject: LOCAL: West Yorks LUG (UK) Mon 11th October
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 20:31:28 GMT
Reply-To: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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The next meeting of West Yorkshire Linux User Group is on Mon 11th October
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West Yorkshire Linux Users Group (WYLUG)
Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.
7 pm Monday 11th October 1999
(6:30pm for coffee/tea)
Presentations:
Freely available Mathematical and Scientific Software for Linux.
Mark Spink
Electronic & Electrical Eng Uni. of Leeds
Open Source - Why is it important
Nigel Metheringham
VData Ltd
WYLUG Venue: Active Learning Lab., (Level 7, near staircase 2)
E.C. Stoner Building (aka Physics/Admin)
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds UK
for location of Leeds University & Campus Map see
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/location-maps.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/physa-1.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/campus/campusmap.html
Freely available Mathematical and Scientific Software for Linux.
Mark Spink writes
"Linux is widely used within Universities and other research
establishments for scientific and engineering research and
development. The spin-off of all this work are a fantastic
number of technical applications that are freely available
to the general public.
In this talk I will give you a little taster of some of the
software packages that are available and might be of
interest to a wider audience. I will concentrate on those
packages for which I have had some direct experience and try
to show examples of MATLAB equivalent packages, Electrical
analysis and PCB design packages, Data Visualization
Software, Computer Aided Design and Analysis tools.
Don't worry you won't need a Degree in Mathematics or
Engineering to understand this talk."
General Discussion:
LINUX - User Information, Question and Answers
WYLUG - what, who, when (and why :-)
Especially what happens at future meetings!
followed by beer at the Londoner Pub
Further info: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/wylug
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WYLUG - West Yorkshire Linux User Group Secretary: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/wylug email list: wylug@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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From: Daniel Tasch <taschda@dmapub.dma.org>
Subject: LOCAL: Dayton OH UNIX/Linux meeting, 1st thursday
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:57:10 GMT
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The UNIX/Linux Special Interest Group of the Dayton Microcomputer
Association meets on the first thursday of evey month. The meeting is held
at the DMA office at 119 Valley St in Dayton at 7:00 pm.
Visitors and new users are always welcome.
For additional information contact:
Tony Snyder
snydert@dmapub.dma.org
937-275-7913
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