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Linux-Announce Digest #726
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Linux-Announce Digest #726, Volume #3 Mon, 7 Feb 00 18:13:09 EST
Contents:
LOCAL: PLUG Meeting Announce. (Puma)
MandrakeSoft And Alpha Processor, Inc. (API) Sign Strategic Partnership (Gael Duval)
LOCAL: Installfest on 12 February in Houston, TX (Algis Rudys)
RadioActive 0.9 radio tuner for console, X/GTK+ and GNOME Panel (ERDI Gergo)
MandrakeSoft Announces Availability of Linux-Mandrake on Sun (Gael Duval)
CIDLib C++ Frameworks V1.1.0 Released ("Dean Roddey")
LOCAL: WYLUG UK Next Meeting: Mon 14th February (J Jackson)
LinuxScope - Linux package search engine (Mike Richardson)
clobberd 4.16 - user and network interface activity monitor (Jason Nunn)
WWW: GoPenguin.com pre-release
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From: puma@@linuxforum.com (Puma)
Subject: LOCAL: PLUG Meeting Announce.
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:05:51 GMT
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The Next Meeting of The Peninsula Linux User Group will be held Wednesday
February 9th 2000 7p.m. at the ECPI Building in Hampton, VA. The main topic
will be gimp, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. We will go over some of
the differences between gimp and Adobe Photoshop, how to use gimp to make
some nifty web graphics and maybe installation of a graphics tablet (assuming
I have time to test this out beforehand). Other interesting topics will come
up, I'm sure.
The room assignment is dynamic due to ECPI's regular class load, so follow
the penguin signs on the second floor. We may or may not have access to the
video projector so come early and get a set near the front.
http://www.linuxforum.com/plug/ for directions, map and other news. A
reminder of this will be sent out closer to the meeting.
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From: Gael Duval <gduval@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: MandrakeSoft And Alpha Processor, Inc. (API) Sign Strategic Partnership
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:16:37 GMT
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NEW YORK, Feb. 2 -- MandrakeSoft, the publisher of the user- friendly
Linux-Mandrake operating system, today announced that it will unveil
the beta version of its award winning operating system, Linux-Mandrake
7.0, on API 64-bit Alpha platforms at Linux World Expo Paris, February
1-3 (booth C14) and New York February 2-4 (booth 767) and on the
Internet.
This partnership further expands the reach of the widely used Linux-
Mandrake operating system to the development and server market.
Recognized as the highest performance leader, Alpha is the platform of
choice among Internet server users and developers for
compute-intensive applications and advanced engineering projects.
Through the API Partner Program, MandrakeSoft has received complete
technical and hardware support over the past six months, which has
helped facilitate the rapid port of Linux-Mandrake to Alpha platforms.
"MandrakeSoft is committed to delivering an operating system that is
powerful, simple and user-friendly," said Jean-Loup Gailly, Chief
Technical Officer of MandrakeSoft. "Our relationship with API will
ensure widespread adoption of Linux and reaffirms the strength of
Linux-Mandrake as the Linux distribution system that combines a unique
blend of flexibility, performance, and ease of use."
About MandrakeSoft and The Open Development Model force.
Born of the Internet, with offices in both USA and France,
MandrakeSoft attributes the development of its Linux distribution to
the contributions of thousands of developers throughout the world
linked by the Internet. This world-wide effort is constantly adopted
and improved by MandrakeSoft's own technical teams
to provide one of the most complete and simple graphical Linux
operating system available. The company has signed a strategic
partnership agreement with the US publisher MacMillan, and a
distribution agreement with Kasper. For more information on
Linux-Mandrake and additional products, please visit us at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com.
About Alpha Processor, Inc. (API)
About Alpha Processor, Inc., (API), located in Concord, Massachusetts,
is dedicated to the development of Alpha chipsets and high-performance
Linux technologies for the Internet network infrastructure and HPTC
markets. Addressing the demand for increased memory and I/O bandwidths
to power the
rapidly expanding Internet and HPTC applications, API's products are
ideal for today's compute-intensive and high throughput demands. Its
industry- recognized design team is committed to working with leading
companies, IHVs and ISVs to deliver resellers, OEMs, VARs and
customers with the highest performance, scalable systems available.
For additional information on its products, the company or for the
sales contact nearest you, please consult API's Website at
www.alpha-processor.com.
NOTE: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mandrake and
Linux-Mandrake are trademarks of MandrakeSoft. All other trademarks
and copyrights are owned by their respective companies.
SOURCE MandrakeSoft
/CONTACT: Caroline Carmagnol of Alize Public Relations, 650-320-8900,
or
caroline@alizepr.com, for MandrakeSoft/
/Web site: http://www.alpha-processor.com/
/Web site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
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From: Algis Rudys <arudys@rice.edu>
Subject: LOCAL: Installfest on 12 February in Houston, TX
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:08:51 GMT
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Greetings --
The Rice Linux Users Group is holding an Installfest on February 12,
2000 from 10:00 to 16:00. The location will be Duncan Hall room 3092, on
the Rice University campus (directions are available off the web site).
For more information, contact us or visit our Installfest Web page at:
http://linux.rice.edu/installfest/index.html
Thank,
Algis Rudys
Vice-President, Rice Linux Users Group
http://linux.rice.edu/
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arudys@rice.edu Will Rice College, Class of 2000
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From: ERDI Gergo <cactus@cactus.rulez.org>
Subject: RadioActive 0.9 radio tuner for console, X/GTK+ and GNOME Panel
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:10:37 GMT
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Hi,
RadioActive is a radio tuner program for X (using the GTK widget set), the
GNOME panel and the command line, built upon the standardized Video4Linux
API found in the 2.2 series of the Linux kernels.
New in this version: some backend changes, optimizing the v4l driver part,
and fixing some consistency bugs between the main window and the panel
applet.
Get it at <http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/radioactive/>. You will also
need a recent version of GTK-- <http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net>, and for the
panel applet version, Panel-- <http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/panelmm/>.
Bye,
Cactus
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From: Gael Duval <gduval@mandrakesoft.com>
Subject: MandrakeSoft Announces Availability of Linux-Mandrake on Sun
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:16:05 GMT
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PARIS, Feb. 2 -- MandrakeSoft, the publisher of the user-friendly
Linux-Mandrake operating system, today announced that its award
winning operating system, Linux-Mandrake 7.0, is now available on the
UltraSPARC platform. This port will significantly expand the reach of
Linux-Mandrake within the enterprise.
MandrakeSoft will be showcasing the beta version of its Linux-Mandrake
7.0 operating system for UltraSPARC at the LinuxWorld Expo, Paris.
"With Linux-Mandrake on the Sun UltraSPARC(TM) platform, both our
customer-base will benefit from our stable and user-friendly operating
system running on the reliable and powerful 64 bit UltraSPARC
processor," said Jacques Le Marois, President of MandrakeSoft. "We are
excited to bring Linux-Mandrake to enterprise servers and ultimately
to the corporate world with the support of Sun Microsystems."
"Sun is pleased that MandrakeSoft has chosen to port its
Linux-Mandrake operating system to our SPARC based systems," said Tai
Patwardhan, Market Sector Manager for Internet and Service Provider
Solutions, Sun Microsystems' Microelectronics. "Linux users can now
enjoy Mandrake's advanced features on Sun's proven scalable and
reliable UltraSPARC processor architecture."
About MandrakeSoft and The Open Development Model force.
Born of the Internet, with offices in both USA and France,
MandrakeSoft attributes the development of its Linux distribution to
the contributions of thousands of developers throughout the world
linked by the Internet. This world-wide effort is constantly adopted
and improved by MandrakeSoft's own technical teams to provide one of
the most complete and simple graphical Linux operating system
available. The company has signed a strategic partnership agreement
with the US publisher MacMillan, and a distribution agreement with
Kasper. For more information on Linux-Mandrake and additional
products, please visit the Company at http://www.linux-mandrake.com.
NOTE: Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Mandrake and
Linux-Mandrake are trademarks of MandrakeSoft. All other trademarks
and copyrights are owned by their respective companies.
SOURCE MandrakeSoft
/CONTACT: Caroline Carmagnol of Alize Public Relation, 650-320-8900,
or
caroline@alizepr.com, for MandrakeSoft/
/Web site: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
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From: "Dean Roddey" <droddey@charmedquark.com>
Subject: CIDLib C++ Frameworks V1.1.0 Released
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:14:47 GMT
Reply-To: "Dean Roddey" <droddey@charmedquark.com>
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Charmed Quark Software is pleased to announce version 1.1.0
of the CIDLib C++ Frameworks. With this version, CIDLib has
now gone open source. This latest version has been posted
to the Charmed Quark Software website at:
www.charmedquark.com
CIDLib is a general purpose, portable C++ development
framework, which currently contains approximately 350
classes, oriented primarily towards the development of
backend systems at this time.
The reference release of CIDLib is for NT 4.0 and Visual
C++ V6.0. However, a preview of the Linux driver is now
available for download, in source form, if you would like
to evaluate it and provide some feedback.
A full class reference is available on line, as is the
tutorial. The tutorial is also available in its original
Word97 format if you want to get a more readable/printable
version.
Here is a general list of the functionality provided by
CIDLib in the 1.1.0 release.
-----------------------------------
Abstraction Kernel
- -------------------
CIDLib implements its own 'micro kernel' layer which
abstracts its from the host platform and greatly enhances
portability. Outside the kernel, no host or RTL headers are
used. This allows all CIDLib and client code to use a high
level of error reporting during compilations, without the
need for non-ANSI C++ compliant compiler extensions
required for much direct operating system or RTL access.
Build Utility
- --------------
To support build infrastructure portability for CIDLib
itself, the CIDBuild utility provides convenient build
services for the source code release. It is written in
plain C++ and is easily portable to other platforms and
development environments. It supports project dependency,
header dependency analysis, platform independent project
settings, and message file compilation.
Advanced RTTI
- --------------
Polymorphic streaming, dynamic object creation, fully
integrated runtime type information system, type
repository, and simple meta class support.
Collections
- ------------
Bags, sorted bags, deques, queues, stacks, doubly linked
lists, singly linked lists, hash maps, hash sets, and object
arrays. They are fully templatized, typesafe, and optionally
thread safe on a per-instance basis. Simpler arrays, stacks,
queues, and deques are also provided for fundamental data
types.
Core Data Types
- ----------------
Strings, memory buffers (heap, system, and shared system),
areas, points, sizes, colors, ranges, money, numerics, time
stamps, etc...
Encryption Frameworks
- ----------------------
CIDLib has an encryption framework that you can extend to
implement any encryption algorithms you require. It
currently supports Blowfish and MD5, with others planned for
future releases. You can easily plug in your own algorithms
or other 3rd party algorithms, to take immediate advantage
of the framework and have your algorithm's integrate
seamlessly into the system.
Exceptions, Logging Support
- ----------------------------
Extensive support for error and message logging and
exception management. Fully C++ enabled, multiple language
message file support with custom message compiler which
generates namespace based const message ids instead of
#define'd values. Runtime error and system exception stack
trace dump support.
File System Support
- --------------------
Directory iteration, general file system maintenance, find
buffers, smart path strings, binary files, text files,
etc...
Streams
- --------
Text and binary streams, stream lexer, etc... Streams are
abstracted from the actual data source via implementation
objects, so they can be extended to use many different data
sources. CIDLib comes with file, string, memory buffer, and
console based implementations. Stream format janitors
support safe scope based format changes. Endian transparency
is provided for binary data, to support heterogenous
networks and data sharing in secondary storage. Pluggable
text encoders support external encoding formats (see the
next section.)
Text Transcoding Support
- ------------------------
The new CIDEncode facility provides an extensible text
transcoding framework, to get text data into CIDLib's
internal Unicode format and back out again. Currently it
supports ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-4, Latin1 through Latin6,
and EBCDIC-US. More encodings will be added over time, and
you can plug in your own to have them seemlessly itegrate
into the system.
Internationalization Support
- -----------------------------
CIDLib supports a very C++ oriented message compiler that is
fully Unicode oriented and allows you to load all text from
external (and therefore translatable) data, in an easy and
convenient way. CIDLib is purely Unicode oriented, only
transcoding text to the local code page when to pass it to
system APIs (where required.)
Locale Support
- ---------------
Locale support allows you to localize your applications and
CIDLib itself uses this support to format numeric values,
monetary values, times, dates, etc... CIDLib gives you full
access to locale information in a way that is safe and
convenient and consistent with the CIDLib style (and
therefore portable to any platforms that CIDLib is ported
to.)
Mathematical
- -------------
4x4 homogenous matrices, 2D and 3D vectors, value maps,
ranges, complex numbers, core mathmematical library
interfaces.
Process Control
- ----------------
Threads, mutexes, semaphores, events, critical sections,
threadsafe counters. Janitors for mutexes, semaphores,
critical sections, and thread priorities.
TCP/IP
- -------
TCP/IP sockets support is provided, stream and datagram
client and server side datagram and stream sockets, a socket
listener class, and IP addresses and endpoints.
Fractals
- ---------
An object oriented, extensible fractal generation engine,
with full multiprocessor support. Pluggable fractal framework
allows you to easily create your own fractal types and have
them rendered.
Graphics File Formats
- ----------------------
The CIDImage facility is a generalized framework for getting
graphics file formats into memory as bitmaps, and getting
them back out after manipulation, and getting information
about them.
Ray Tracing
- ------------
An object oriented, extensible ray tracer with scene
description language, and full multiprocessor support.
Framework based architecture allows you to create your own
object and texture types and fully integrate them into the
ray tracer.
Regular Expressions
- --------------------
A regular expression engine is provided for doing the usual
regular expression searches on strings. It supports most of the
generally supported short cuts and conveniences of grep type
utilities.
-----------------------------------
Please check out the new release and provide any feedback you
might have, about the code, packaging, architecture,
documentation, etc... Your feedback is much appreciated and
will be taken seriously.
You can provide feedback and download the product at:
www.charmedquark.com
Thanks in advance.
- --------------------------
Dean Roddey
The CIDLib Class Libraries
Charmed Quark Software
droddey@charmedquark.com
http://www.charmedquark.com
"Give me immortality, or give me death"
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From: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk (J Jackson)
Subject: LOCAL: WYLUG UK Next Meeting: Mon 14th February
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:09:39 GMT
Reply-To: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
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The next meeting of West Yorkshire Linux User Group is on Mon 14th February
===========================================================================
West Yorkshire Linux Users Group (WYLUG)
Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.
7 pm Monday 14th February 2000
(6:30pm for coffee/tea)
Presentations:
Linux Solutions in the School of Chemistry
Stuart Green
University of Leeds
Backup Solutions for Linux
Quadratec UK 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
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
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WYLUG - West Yorkshire Linux User Group Secretary: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk
http://www.wylug.lug.org.uk email lists: http://list.wylug.lug.org.uk
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From: Mike Richardson <mike@quaking.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LinuxScope - Linux package search engine
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:33:17 GMT
Reply-To: mike@quaking.demon.co.uk
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I'd like to announce the first proper release of LinuxScope (was
LinuxSeeker, but I discovered that linuxseeker.com had already
been purchased), a (yawn!) new Linux package search engine.
LinuxScope attempts to draw together package information from a
wide range of distributions and other sources, and to provide a
wide range of search options.
LinuxScope can handle queries like:
* list details for packages with a name matching "After*"
* ditto but restricted to Debian
* ditto but show only i386 and source packages
* list all updated packages for the latest RedHat release
* where can I get packages with names matching "After*"
* ditto, but I want an FTP server in Germany (UK, US, ...)
* list all packages which contain the file "pnpdump"
* show all packages in the RedHat category "X11/Games"
* show RPM details for RedHat package "netcat"
* show DEB details for Debian package "net-acct"
* show all files in Slackware package "netpipes"
* show all LSMs with names matching "*net*"
* show all LSMs with the keyword KDE
Currently, LinuxScope scans packages in the following distributions,
based on FTP mirrors in the United Kingdom.
* Caldera OpenLinux 2.3
* Debian slink and potato
* Definite 7.0
* RedHat 6.1 and 6.0
* Mandrake 7.0
* Slackware 4.0 and 7.0
* SUSE 6.2
* SunSite archive
* KDE 1.1.2
* Gnome
I intend to add other distributions, plus other package sources,
from time to time, At present, LinuxScope contains information on
around 46000 packages (many of which appear in more that one
distribution, of course!), some 5800 LSMs, and lists nearly 5
million files.
The new version of LinuxScope uses Glimpse to search amongst the files,
so file-based queries should be answered in reasonable time!
LinuxScope should know about FTP mirrors in various countries around
the world, based on the FTP mirrors lists for the distributions. These
are checked from time to time to check that they are valid.
LinuxSeeker is currently at:
http://www.linuxscope.tux.org.uk
I'd like to thank Agricultural Internet Services (http://www.a-i-s.co.uk)
for their generosity in allowing LinuxScope to run on their web server,
and to the UK LUG group for the domain name.
Regards
Mike Richardson
Series 1 Software
mike@quaking.demon.co.uk
http://www.quaking.demon.co.uk
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From: jsno@berkeley.cluster (Jason Nunn)
Subject: clobberd 4.16 - user and network interface activity monitor
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:32:42 GMT
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clobberd-4.16.tgz has been released onto the following sites:
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/unixfreeware/networking
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/admin/idle
ftp://ftp.tcc-comp.com.au/pub/unix/linux/clobberd
clobberd 4.16 replaces the last stable release 4.10 which was released
in august last year.
Clobberd is a daemon that runs on a single host, and monitors user
activity and network interface activity.
- For user monitoring, clobberd monitors the utmp file (typically
/var/run/utmp), monitors their time online, what network interfaces
they are using (ie PPP), and how much network traffic they are
creating. It monitors all this information, and regulates them
according to a set of restrictions.
- For network interface monitoring, it will simply monitor the amount of
traffic, and the time it is active. no regulation is done.
Users are able to view their stats via a web page, and a remote
maintenance facility allows you to maintain user data from anywhere on
your network.
for more information, goto the web page: www.accessnt.com.au/~jsno/clobberd
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From: <webmaster@gopenguin.com>
Subject: WWW: GoPenguin.com pre-release
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 22:21:26 GMT
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