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Linux-Announce Digest #620
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Linux-Announce Digest #620, Volume #3 Sun, 10 Oct 99 19:13:33 EDT
Contents:
WWW: www.linuxlots.com provides sites to Linux contributors (Joe Croft)
COMMERCIAL: OpenScheme 1.3.1 available (with free editions) (gdw@erian-concept.com)
LOCAL: Nov. 3rd Philadelphia Linux Users' Group Meeting Announcement (Darxus)
COMMERCIAL: High performance CORBA 2.2 open source ORB now available in formal releases with commercial support (Malcolm Spence)
Ted 2.6, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released (Mark de Does)
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From: Joe Croft <joe@croftj.net>
Subject: WWW: www.linuxlots.com provides sites to Linux contributors
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:48:43 GMT
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Hi,
I've just opened http://www.linuxlots.com for providing sites to Linux
contributors. These sites offer 20MBs of disk space, full CGI capablility and
access to either postgres or mysql databases. In addition, if the contributor
registers a domain name, I will host the name and let them run their own server.
The only cost I ask is that an ad banner be run on each page. This will
hopefully generate enough revenue to cover the costs of keeping the server
online and also pay for future upgrades.
Some of the sites I currently host are:
http://www.linuxlinks.com The Linux Portal Site by Steve Emms
http://www.linuxlots.com/~barreiro LinuxL@ndi@ by Manuel de Vega Barreiro
http://www.linuxlots.com/~fawcet The Yard Rescue disks by Tom Fawcett
http://www.linuxlots.com/~hatsoft Hatman Pacman clone by James Pharaoh
http://www.linuxlots.com/~jam The Linux For Beginners Website by
Jamie F. Desiderio
These sites are being provided by CroftJ Internet Services. I've been
providing free sites for Linux Contributors for 2 years. If you are an
author of a program or documentaion for Linux, a Linux User's Group, or
other contributor and are interested in obtaining a site, contact me by email
at joe@croftj.net stating your name, the name of your contribution, a
reasonable description and a url if it already has site.
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www.LinuxLots.com | Joe Croft <joe@croftj.net>
Offering the Most Affordable | CroftJ Internet Services
Roosts for Penguins Everywhere | http://www.linuxlots.com/
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From: gdw@erian-concept.com
Subject: COMMERCIAL: OpenScheme 1.3.1 available (with free editions)
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:51:52 GMT
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Erian Concept is glad to announce OpenScheme 1.3.1
http://www.open-scheme.com
OpenScheme is a Scheme interpreter/compiler/debugger conform to the
R5RS standard (only scheme-report-environment, null-environment are
not supported)
It is available for Intel PC with Linux, BeOS [(r) Be, Inc], FreeBSD
or Windows [(R) Microsoft]. Since the user sees the same API
interface, cross-development is easy and immediate.
OpenScheme integrates a lot of interesting features, such as a regular
expression parser, object oriented system, CLOS based, console Object
Oriented interface, an standardized Operating System access, a
preemptive timer library that is thread compatible.
A low-level set of primitives and a OO graphical library are now
available. The OO graphical library is entirely written in Scheme. It
provides all the common Widgets.
OpenScheme is open to the net: A NET plugin provides all the necessary
functions to access to the net, such as Sockets, Crypt, Encode, Mail,
CGI, ...
A fully relational database engine is also provided in the
professional edition. It allows to handle any number of files, large
objects, objects with variable size, files larger than 4Go.
OpenScheme includes an interpreter that performs on-flow compilation
and a compiler that produces pure ANSI C. It also includes a command
line symbolic debugger.
OpenScheme allows to put in the same source file high level Object
Oriented code, standard Scheme, C and assembly (that breaks
portability). This feature provides an impressive power to the
development environment.
Therefore, OpenScheme does not have yet an integrated graphical user
interface. This is planned.
OpenScheme is commercially supported by:
Erian Concept
Le Stella, 155 bd de la Madeleine
06000 - Nice - FRANCE
Phone: +33 493 441 806
Fax : +33 493 441 806
WEB : www.erian-concept.com
email: osm.support@erian-concept.com
OpenScheme is distributed in four editions:
- -Free WEB edition: fully function version, with plain HTML
documentation. The distribution is provided with a license number for
one month. This version can be freely distributed (distributor may
request a special license number).
- -Free CD edition: This is the same that the WEB version, plus extra
documentation and Scheme sources of the plugins. The Free edition does
allow to have profits. The license number has no limitation.
- -Standard edition: This version allows to have profits and to sold all
derivated products, royalties free. A technical support is provided by
Erian Concept.
- -Professional edition: This edition includes the paper manuals, the
OSD database engine. OSD is a native relational database kernel with
an unlimited number of simultaneously opened tables, wide files
(>4Go), variable length fields, b+tree indexes, memory tables, etc.
In addition, free updates for the next three minor and major releases
of OpenScheme.
Our sponsors are NetUltra (www.netultra.com), Les Logiciels du Soleil
(www.linux-kheops.com), Khéops France (www.kheopsfrance.com) and
SupMedia (www.supmedia.com).
The OpenScheme team.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Darxus <darxus@op.net>
Subject: LOCAL: Nov. 3rd Philadelphia Linux Users' Group Meeting Announcement
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:56:57 GMT
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Topic: Adam Turoff will be giving a talk on the history of Linux.
Where: The IQ Group's Technology Lab
The Constitution Building, 6th floor
325 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(map / pictures & directions on web page)
It's the room with a big "Q" on the door. The building is on the
North side of Chestnut. Nice conference room. Counted 57 chairs.
Whiteboard. PC type projector. Nice.
When: Wednesday, November 3rd, 1999, 7pm-9pm
Food: Food is being ordered for 40 people. Sandwiches & soda & stuff.
Last time all the sandwiches had meat on them.
Cost: None
PLUG, the Philadelphia Linux User's Group, meets on the first Wednesday
of every month. Thanks to the IQ Group for providing our current
meeting place.
Email Darxus@op.net with updates for this page.
The Philadelphia Linux Users Group page is http://plug.nothinbut.net the
announcement page, containing this info can be found by clicking the "Plug
Announcement" link on that page.
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From: spence_m@ociweb.com (Malcolm Spence)
Subject: COMMERCIAL: High performance CORBA 2.2 open source ORB now available in formal releases with commercial support
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:53:31 GMT
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12140 Woodcrest Executive Drive
Suite 250
St. Louis MO 63141
USA
Press Release
Object Computing Inc. (OCI) announces the availability of commercial
products for The ACE ORB (TAO), an open source, real time, high performance,
implementation of CORBA 2.2.
The popular open source Linux operating system is among the platforms
supported.
St. Louis Mo. September 30, 1999:OCI announced today that it is accepting
orders for immediate shipment of CD-ROMs and documentation kits for TAO.
This highly rated object request broker (ORB) has been developed over the
last few years to meet the challenging needs of high-performance and
real-time distributed applications. It already has a large user base, and
this is expected to expand rapidly as OCI's commercial support model is
implemented. The hallmark of TAO is its conformance to standards, superior
efficiency, predictability scalability, wide platform support and absence of
license fees. Many of TAO's hundreds of users have been reluctant to
progress beyond the evaluation stage until they could be sure of quality
commercial support. This announcement meets that need. OCI's E-Commerce site
at www.theaceorb.com offers easy and fast ordering for customers from around
the world.
Dr. Moshiri the CEO of OCI commented that since OCI decided to support TAO
as an open source product several months ago there has been an explosion of
interest. "This is an exceptional time to enter the market with product," he
said. "Standards based, open source middleware can do a lot towards
encouraging open systems, especially in the case of TAO, which has undergone
extensive use and testing by industry. OCI has been developing
infrastructure software for large distributed OO applications since 1993.
This is a natural extension to our core competencies."
About TAO and ACE
TAO, an open source implementation of the Object Management Group's (OMG)
Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) specification, was
developed by the Distributed Object Computing (DOC) Group at Washington
University in St. Louis under the direction of Dr. Douglas Schmidt. Dr.
Schmidt is an internationally recognized expert in patterns and framework
components for real-time middleware. Version 1.0 of TAO is designed to be
compliant with CORBA 2.2 and includes some aspects of CORBA 2.3. Although
initially targeted for real-time environments, TAO is also well suited for
general purpose environments where TAO provides better, more consistent
performance than the traditional "best effort" service of other ORBs. Thus,
all applications can benefit from the same characteristics that make TAO
attractive for real-time developers.
TAO's second generation ORB design, with its up front consideration of
real-time requirements, is particularly well suited for use in demanding
environments. Such considerations must include: avoiding end-to-end priority
inversion; maintaining upper bounds on latency and jitter; and providing
bandwidth guarantees. These combine to ensure predictable behavior. TAO
enables applications to obtain specified levels of what is called Quality of
Service (QoS). In addition, because TAO is flexible and open source, it is
also suitable for embedded application environments that typically demand
small footprint and low cost, as well as good performance.
Traditionally, the barrier to viable real-time CORBA has been that many
real-time challenges are associated with end-to-end system design aspects.
Challenges that transcend the layering boundaries traditionally associated
with CORBA. TAO's design provides for the integration of network
interfaces, OS I/O subsystems, ORB, and middleware services, in order to
provide an end-to-end solution, should the developer require it.
TAO, by virtue of the underlying ACE (ADAPTIVE Communications Environment)
C++ framework, supports a wide range of platforms and operating systems. ACE
is a pioneering open source middleware framework that provides a rich set of
reusable C++ wrapper façades and components that encapsulate common
communication software tasks across many OS platforms.
ACE provides TAO with exceptional extensibility and the ability to span many
platforms. ACE mitigates the maintenance issues that normally arise when
trying to support multiple diverse operating system environments. ACE is a
critical layer in TAO's ladder of abstraction between the implementation of
the specifics of operating and communication systems and the high level of
abstraction afforded by CORBA. By leveraging ACE's abstraction layer at the
systems level, TAO's design is platform neutral and devoid of the
architectural biases that follow when the ORB design is targeted to specific
operating systems.
Supported Platforms
TAO runs on most major platforms, such as UNIX vendor variants and Win 32.
(It even runs on MVS Open Edition.). TAO also runs on Linux, FreeBSD and
NetBSD UNIX, all of which are free and provide developers with unusually
cost-effective options. Distributed applications written using CORBA are
usually easier to move from platform to platform. For real time environments
TAO supports the major RTOSs such as Lynx, VxWorks, and Chorus ClassiX (from
Sun). It is presently being tested on WindowsCE, the operating system
targeted at portable consumer embedded products.
OCI's initial double disk distribution on CD-ROM covers HP-UX, Solaris on
both SPARC and Intel, Linux and NT on Intel. It includes all source code,
test cases, examples, benchmark code, and an IDL compiler, as well as
binaries for various build configurations for the platforms noted. The
distribution features an easy to use installation program that enables
routine installations in10 to 20 minutes.
Documentation Set
TAO is a feature rich ORB providing seven standard CORBA services and two
additional services specifically designed to meet those real time needs that
are not currently addressed in the CORBA specification. Developers will find
they can now take full advantage of these features with this extensive
documentation package. Users who are familiar with CORBA will find getting
started with the TAO quite easy. As they begin to understand TAO's depth and
configurability, they will appreciate its conformance to the CORBA standard
and its ability to address complex performance and scalability issues.
About Object Computing Inc.,
Object Computing Inc. (OCI) is a privately held software engineering
company. OCI was founded in 1993 with a commitment to object oriented
technology. Today OCI provides software systems consulting, product
development, and educational services to progressive corporations across the
United States in the Aerospace, Finance, Healthcare and telecommunication
market segments. The St. Louis based OCI Education Center has one of the
most extensive object technology and Java training curricula in the Mid
West. OCI has a significant presence in Phoenix as well as St. Louis, where
its corporate headquarters are located. For more information see our web
site http://www.ociweb.com.
Contact: OCI - Malcolm Spence Director of Business Development
Phone (314) 579-0066 Email - spence_m@ociweb.com
Information on TAO: may also be obtained from Washington University's web
site www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt.
Some benchmarking information comparing commercial ORBs with TAO is
available from a user site, www.beust.com/virginie/Benchmarks/.
An active newsgroup about TAO is available via www.deja.com under the forum
comp.soft-sys.ace.
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From: Mark de Does <mark@de-does.demon.nl>
Subject: Ted 2.6, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:55:11 GMT
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Ted 2.6, an easy rich text processor for Unix/X-Windows released.
Utrecht, September 30, 1999
Available from
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ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted
http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted
Description of Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Ted was developed as a standard easy word processor, having the role
of Wordpad on MS-Windows, but more powerful. In my opinion, the
possibility to type a letter or a note on a Unix/Linux machine is
clearly missing. Only too often, you have to turn to a Windows machine
to write a letter or an e-mail message. Teds function is to be able to
edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a wysiwyg way.
To my own modest opinion, Ted is really easy to use and of good
quality. I hope that you will find Ted useful.
Changes since version 2.5
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(Ted 2.6: September 30, 1999)
* Picture files and spelling dictionaries are now read in a
machine independent way: This avoids problems on 64 bit
machines.
* The HTML produced is now simpler. Some bugs and peculiarities
in the nesting of tags have been removed.
* Support for multiple line spacing.
* Support for right and center tabs.
* In version 2.5 too much of the screen was redrawn while
typing.
* Hyperlinks are no longer automatically underlined. They are
printed in blue.
* Better support for character sets different from latin 1. In
paritcular for Latin2 documents.
* Subsequent steps in moving from the X11 layout on screen to
the exact PostScript layout.
* Various bugs and annoyances removed. A very disturbing one
with the file selection dialog in particular. Used Electric
Fence to debug memory management.
Details on Ted
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Ted is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems.
Compatibility with popular MS-Windows applications played an important
role in the design of Ted. Every document produced by Ted should be
accepted as a legal .rtf file by Word without any loss of formatting
or information. Compatibility in the other direction is more difficult
to achieve. Ted supports most text formatting, as supported by the
Microsoft applications. Advanced formatting instructions and meta
information are ignored.*) By ignoring unsupported formatting Ted
tries to get the complete text of a document on screen. Ted can be
used to read formatted e-mail sent from a Windows machine to Unix, or
as an RTF viewer in Netscape.
*) Most of the ignored information is not saved either when you
modify and then save an RTF document with Ted.
Features
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* Wysiwyg rich text editing. You can use all fonts for which
you have a .afm file and that are available as an X11 font.
Ted is delivered with .afm files for the Adobe fonts that are
available on Motif systems and in all postscript printers:
Times, Helvetica, Courier and Symbol. Other fonts can be added
with the normal X11 procedure. Font properties like bold and
italic are supported; so is underlining.
* Ted uses Microsoft RTF as its native file format. Microsoft
Word and Wordpad can read files produced by Ted. Usually Ted
can read .rtf files from Microsoft Word and Wordpad. As Ted
does not support all features of Word, some formatting
information might be lost.
* In line pictures.
* Postscript printing.
* Spelling checking in several Latin languages. (English,
Dutch, German, Portuguese, French and Spanish.)
* Directly mailing documents from Ted.
* Cut/Copy/Paste, also with other applications.
* Find/Replace.
* Ruler: Paragraph indentation, Indentation of first line,
Tabs. Copy/Paste Ruler.
* Page breaks.
* Tables: Insert Table, Row, Column. Changing the column width
of tables with their ruler.
* Symbols and accented characters are fully supported.
* Hyperlinks.
* Saving a document in HTML format.
For a detailed description and a manual, refer to the readme.* files
on the web site in plain text, HTML or RTF format.
Changes since version 2.4
- -------------------------
(Ted 2.5: July 31, 1999)
* Bugs fixed in picture drawing
* The layout of the text on the screen is no longer independent
of the PostScript layout. Whenever possible, the PostScript
layout is used on screen. Right aligned and centered text are
supported.
* The PostScript Ted saves to file contains so-called pdfmarks
to keep the links and bookmarks when they are converted to the
Acrobat PDF format.
* Use the new German orthography in the spell checker, thanks
to Joerg Jacke.
* Added a Polish spell checker.
* Various bugs and annoyances removed.
Changes since version 2.3
- -------------------------
(Ted 2.4: May 21, 1999)
* Finding an X11 font with the PostScript font has been revised.
* Little bugs that prevented Ted from working with other than
Latin1 fonts removed.
* Spelling checkers for more languages are added.
* The Ted document has been improved. It is added as an online
document.
* Many fixes in printing and faxing documents.
* Copy/Paste of images improved. This is now possible on more
X11 configurations and with xv.
* Elementary support for interaction with session managers.
* A next round in the ongoing struggle with all those different
window managers.
* Some compilation procedure fixes. Distribution also in RPM
format.
Changes since version 2.2
- -------------------------
Compared to version 2.2, 2.3 is yet another usability update. (Ted
2.3: March 11, 1999)
* Printing of tables.
* Support for space before/after paragraphs.
* X11 servers with a 'depth' that is not a multiple of 8
supported. Better cooperation with widow managers that do not
force a window to fit on the screen.
* Better picture support.
* Better conformance to commonly accepted user interface
conventions.
Changes since version 2.0
- -------------------------
Compared to version 2.0, 2.2 does not offer much more functionality.
Many little features have been added, and a myriad of bugs has been
fixed. The user interface has been polished a lot to improve Teds
usability. (Ted 2.2:February 6, 1999)
* The compilation procedure has been improved a lot, and Ted
has been tested with LessTif.
October 8, 1999
Mark de Does.
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