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Linux-Announce Digest #628
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Sun Oct 17 09:41:29 1999
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Linux-Announce Digest #628, Volume #3 Sun, 17 Oct 99 09:13:13 EDT
Contents:
XShipWars 1.19 Released (Taura)
OnStream joins the Linux revolution - driver for DI30 IDE tape drive (Derek Asato)
tia 0.6 - console IDE for GNAT 3.11p ("dan braun")
instmon 2.0 - an installation monitoring program (Vasilis Vasaitis)
WWW: Newbie's Linux Manual ("Laurence Hunter")
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From: Taura <foxSWAPEM2REPLYlear@furry.ao.net>
Subject: XShipWars 1.19 Released
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:24:21 GMT
Reply-To: foxSWAPEM2REPLYlear@furry.ao.net
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XShipWars 1.19 Released
http://fox.mit.edu/xsw
Changes:
Upgrades to sound protocoll with Sound server.
Joystick driver IO precision improved.
Non-cloak vessels cloak sound bug fixed.
XSHM syncing now on by default.
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From: Derek Asato <derek@bohle.com>
Subject: OnStream joins the Linux revolution - driver for DI30 IDE tape drive
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:20:38 GMT
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ONSTREAM™ JOINS THE LINUX REVOLUTION
Driver for Ultra-High Capacity Storage Device Now Available to
Open-Source Community
LONGMONT, Colo. – October 14, 1999 – An open-source beta driver for the
OnStream™ Echo 30 gigabyte* IDE digital storage drive is now available
to the Linux community from the company’s web site at
www.onstream.com/support/linux. Developers now have free access to
modify, use, enhance and share the software.
“OnStream’s Advanced Digital Recording™ (ADR™) technology delivers a
breakthrough in value for high capacity tape storage that is ideally
suited for Linux servers,” Gadi Oxman, developer of the original Linux
IDE tape driver, said. “Linux users will love the high capacity that
the DI30 offers. OnStream technology is a natural fit for the Linux
environment. The variable speed feature will work in cooperation with
the driver to maximize backup performance."
The new OnStream IDE beta driver, based on the standard Linux tape
driver written by Oxman, ide-tape-c, supports Linux versions 2.2.x and
2.3.x. The author has placed the driver under the terms of the GNU
general public license.
“By releasing the driver for the DI30 as Linux open-source, OnStream is
providing solutions to the Linux community that will enable
cost-effective backup using the DI30 drive,” said Tim Jones, vice
president of development, Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. “Also,
providing the driver as open-source allows Linux developers to create
additional drivers and applications utilizing OnStream devices.”
Oxman created the beta driver independently of OnStream. OnStream has
posted the driver to its web page as a service to its customers.
Support for the driver will be available from the community of Linux
users, and OnStream will be an active participant in the public dialog
that ensues. OnStream will not provide support through its normal
technical support line. Questions regarding this beta driver can be
sent to linux.beta@onstream.com.
“OnStream applauds the efforts of Gadi Oxman and other developers in the
Linux community,” said Jim Jonez, director, product marketing,
OnStream. “Linux servers are quickly gaining momentum in the business
world for a wide variety of applications. OnStream is committed to the
open-source movement and encourages developers to write drivers for any
OnStream storage device.”
Linux drivers for OnStream’s line of SCSI storage drives are currently
under development.
About OnStream
Incorporated in 1998, OnStream, Inc. delivers affordable, high capacity
removable storage solutions for entry to mid-range servers, workstations
and power desktops. The privately held, Colorado-based company is a
spin-off from Philips Electronics of The Netherlands. All OnStream
drives are powered by the company’s patented Advanced Digital Recording
(ADR) technology -- at prices that make sense for today’s power desktop
and workgroup server computer customers. For more information, visit
OnStream at www.onstream.com.
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OnStream, ADR, OnStream Echo, the OnStream logo and ADR logo are
trademarks of OnStream, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of
their respective companies.
*Where 1 gigabyte = 1 billion bytes. All capacities assume 2:1
compression. The Echo product line uses software compression. The
ADR70 features hardware compression. Capacity and performance will vary
with file types and system configuration.
CONTACT: Derek Asato/Annette Svedas Jackie Finch
The Bohle
Company OnStream, Inc.
310/785-0515, ext. 201/245
303/774-6705
derek@bohle.com/annette@bohle.com
jackie.finch@onstream.com
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From: "dan braun" <dbraun@interlynx.net>
Subject: tia 0.6 - console IDE for GNAT 3.11p
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:23:51 GMT
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PegaSoft announces a GPL console IDE for GNAT 3.11p.
GNAT, the GPL professional-quality Ada 95 compiler, is one of
the most advanced development environments for Linux.
GNAT features more than 140 standard libraries and produces
exceptional executable code.
TIA, Tiny IDE for Ada, is a console/xterm IDE for GNAT. It runs
on most Linux distributions. Screen shots and downloads
are available from the PegaSoft web site at
http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft/tia.html.
Version 0.6 features:
* background updating - TIA quietly rebuilds sections of your
project via multitasking, reducing rebuilding times
* automatic saving
* automatic spelling correction
* easy project and processor optimizations
* tight integration with the GNAT development suite
* one key access to your favorite GUI builder
* keyword hilighting
* support for keyboard macros
* ncurses mouse support
Gnat and related bindings are available from the ALT, Ada Linux
Team, web site at http://www.gnuada.org.
Gnat is a product of Ada Core Technologies, http://www.gnat.com.
PegaSoft Canada is a Linux company based in Ontario, Canada.
http://www.vaxxine.com/pegasoft
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From: Vasilis Vasaitis <vvas@hal.csd.auth.gr>
Subject: instmon 2.0 - an installation monitoring program
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:21:29 GMT
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I am proud to announce version 2.0 of instmon. instmon (INSTall MONitor)
is a program that monitors the installation of programs (or anything else),
and detects the files that were added to the filesystem hierarchy or
modified. Therefore, it allows administrators to keep track of everything
they install inside their system's directory structure, even when they
perform an installation without using the native package manager. For
example, it can be extremely helpful when a program is compiled and
installed directly from its source.
Previous versions of instmon accomplished their task by recording the
timestamp, performing the installation, and then searching the filesystem
with find(1) for all the files whose status changed after the recorded
timestamp. While version 2.0 still supports this method, it incorporates two
additional, more advanced methods. In particular, instmon can now monitor an
installation with either strace(1) (the well known and widely available
program that traces system calls using ptrace(2)) or installwatch (a library
that preloads logging versions of the filesystem-specific OS calls).
After it has monitored an installation, instmon generates a log file which
can subsequently be acted upon. Among other things, instmon can list logs,
remove files mentioned in a particular log, or create a .tar/.rpm/.deb file.
In addition, its logs have the simplest form possible (one filename per line
and nothing else), so the possibilities are endless.
instmon is a shell script of the Bourne shell family, so it should be able
to run on any system with /bin/sh and the standard UNIX (or GNU) tools.
Nevertheless, it has only been tested on Linux, so it's possible that it
won't run on other UNIX or UNIX-like operating systems.
instmon can be found at ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/ and
its mirrors. Its homepage is at http://hal.csd.auth.gr/~vvas/instmon/, and
it can also be downloaded at ftp://hal.csd.auth.gr/pub/Linux/instmon/.
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Nuke them till they glow, then shoot them in the dark.
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From: "Laurence Hunter" <laurence@thebits.co.uk>
Subject: WWW: Newbie's Linux Manual
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:22:55 GMT
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<shameless plug>
Anyone wanting to retrieve my Newbie's Linux Manual can retrieve it at:
http://www.linuxdot.org/
It can be read online and downloaded for offline viewing.
</shameless plug>
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