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Linux-Announce Digest #846

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Linux-Announce Digest #846, Volume #3             Sun, 3 Sep 00 16:13:05 EDT

Contents:
  WWW: Linux MusicStation new stuff (John Littler)
  WWW: Linux Gazette #57 (September 2000) is available (Linux Gazette)
  COMMERCIAL: Dual PIII700 Linux Box for $1299
  Annoncing Heroes 0.6 - a Tron-like game (Alexandre Duret-Lutz)
  Bas 0.5 - BASIC interpreter (michael@moria.de)
  LOCAL: Fairfax VA Sep 16 User Group Meeting (Geof Goodrum)
  LOCAL: West Yorks LUG (UK) - Next Meeting Monday September 11th (J Jackson)
  LOCAL: Westchester PCUG Linux Sig first meeting (Ed Weinberg)
  LOCAL: LXNY Meeting Tuesday 5 September 2000: Boas Betzler, of IBM GNU/Linux Technology Center, on GNU/Linux and S/390 (secretary@lxny.org)

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From: John Littler <linuxmusic@crosswinds.net>
Subject: WWW: Linux MusicStation new stuff
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 18:54:06 GMT

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 Linux MusicStation  aka  m-station ...

 new stuff this month ...

 Dave Phillips runs the Linux Sound and
 Music Apps page and has a book coming out
 in October about making music with Linux.
 We chat with him about the general scene,
 his own music, and da book.

 In our new section, XperimentS <ta-da>
 we'll be having an assortment of pure
 music and technical articles.
 The first is an analysis of a modern
 Irish piece for recorder and tape.
                  
 And this week in Tourz we have Tall Paul
 talking about hard house.
 
 Plus the front page gets another facelift
 and slight re-organization.

 Coming up is a review of Dave Phillips'
 book and other cool stuff.

 Cheers
 John


- -- 

http://linuxmusic.cjb.net
pgp public key @ http://www.crosswinds.net/~linuxmusic/pubring.html



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From: Linux Gazette <lg@ssc.com>
Subject: WWW: Linux Gazette #57 (September 2000) is available
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 18:52:44 GMT
Reply-To: gazette@ssc.com

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"Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"

Linux Gazette is a freely available, WWW e-zine that includes short articles
giving tips and tricks, ideas and suggestions for customizing and running
Linux. It is a member of the Linux Documentation Project.

Linux Gazette issue #57, September 2000, is out and can be found at: 
  http://www.linuxgazette.com/

For download purposes, individual issues of LG are available at:
  ftp://ftp.ssc.com/pub/lg/

A list of mirror sites can be found at:
  http://www.linuxgazette.com/mirrors.html

While we do not mail issues of LG to our readers--it's just too big--we do
have an announcement service. Write lg-announce-request@ssc.com with the
word subscribe in the body, and each month you will receive an e-mail notice
when we post Linux Gazette. 

Topics in this issue include:

     * From the Editor
     * The MailBag
          + Help Wanted & Article Ideas
          + General Mail
     * News Bytes
          + Distro News
          + News in General
          + Software Announcements
     * The Answer Gang , by The Linux Gazette Answer Gang
     * More 2-Cent Tips
     * Choosing your Window Manager: a Matter of Taste , by Matthias
       Arndt
     * HelpDex , by Shane Collinge
     * Next Linux 2.4 Kernel: some tips by Alan Cox , by Fernando Ribeiro
       Corręa
     * Apache, the star of the Open Source World , by Fernando Ribeiro
       Corręa
     * Arturo Esponosa and Red Escolar , by Fernando Ribeiro Corręa
     * Mathias Ettrich: founder of KDE , by Fernando Ribeiro Corręa
     * Variable Mangling in Bash with String Operators , by Pat Eyler
     * Using ngrep , by Pat Eyler
     * Easy Addition of an IDE CD-Writer to a Linux/Redhat PC , by Daniel
       Feenberg
     * Creating A Linux Certification Program: Part 10 , by Ray Ferrari
     * Tuxedo Tails , by Eric Kasten
     * CVS: Concurrent Versions System , by Mark Nielsen
     * Mark's Web/Database Installation , by Mark Nielsen
     * Introduction to Shell Scripting , by Ben Okopnik
     * Security Scanners , by Kapil Sharma
     * Making a Simple Linux Network Including Windows 9x , by Juraj
       Sipos
     * More Web Tools , by Martin Skjoldebrand
     * CD-Writing with an ATAPI CDR Mini-HOWTO , by Chris Stoddard
     * Hash Tables in Java , by Ben Tindale
     * The Back Page
          + About This Month's Authors
          + Not Linux



Read all about it in Linux Gazette.

Michael Orr
Editor, Linux Gazette




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From: <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Dual PIII700 Linux Box for $1299
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 18:54:59 GMT

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This week we have special price for
Dual Pentium III 700Mhz System.
The system is pre-installed with Redhat 6.2
or FreeBSD4.x Linux software
and the configurations are as follows:

Two PIII 700Mhz processors
Compatible server series motherboard
(Gigabyte or TYAN )
20GB HDD/ 256mb Ram
8mb ATI SVGA Card
10/100 PCI ethernet card
1.44Floppy Drive/48x CD-Rom
ATX Tower Case
Keyboard/Mouse
The total price is $1299.00

(4U Rackmount chassis with 250w or 300w power supply
is optional. If required, add $200 to the total price)

Please check our website for different configurations and
other promotions.
http://www.storeanywhere.com
Contact:
Tel:(718) 934-7313
E-mail: sales@storeanywhere.com
         



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From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <duret_g@lrde.epita.fr>
Subject: Annoncing Heroes 0.6 - a Tron-like game
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 19:30:29 GMT

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I am pleased to announce the release of Heroes v0.6.

Heroes is similar to the "Tron" and "Nibbles" games of yore, but
includes many graphical improvements and new game features.
It features 12 original soundtracks, 94 levels (in 10 different
tilesets).  There are five game modes like Quest (the classical
Nibbles), or Kill'em all (run over lemmings).  This is a port to Unix
of the DOS version.

You are invited to follow these links:

download     : http://sourceforge.net/projects/heroes/
screen shots : http://www.realtech.scene.org/heroes/index_screenshot.html
public cvs   : http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=7982
changes      : https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=7982&release_id=11015

This version has been split in four packages, with different
version numbering and release schedules, because only the
source code is modified often.

   heroes-0.6.tar.gz                    required - source code
   heroes-data-1.0.tar.gz               required - levels and pictures
   heroes-sound-tracks-1.0.tar.gz       optional - musics
   heroes-sound-effects-1.0.tar.gz      optional - sound effects

NEWS in this version include:
  * SDL_mixer support (as an alternative for LibMikMod)
  * -2 and -3 options to stretch the display size
  * improved portability
  * ... and a lot more, follow the `changes' link for other changes.

The `Heroes' project started as a port of the DOS game to Linux/i386,
but has now been ported to Solaris by Mattias Engdegĺrd, to FreeBSD by
Maxim Sobolev, and to Mingw32 by me.  Build reports for other
architectures are welcome.

Binary packages may not yet be available when your read this
annoucement (this is only a source-code release), however here
are the locations where your are likely to find them.

 Linux/i386 - Debian: http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/games/
 Linux/i386 - RPM:    ftp://heroes.sourceforge.net/pub/heroes/packages/rpms/
 FreeBSD:             http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/games.html
 Windows - MinGW32:   ftp://heroes.sourceforge.net/pub/heroes/packages/mingw/

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From: michael@moria.de
Subject: Bas 0.5 - BASIC interpreter
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 19:37:50 GMT

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Bas is an interpreter for the programming language BASIC, written in
ANSI C for UNIX systems.  It is meant to be compatible to typical BASIC
interpreters of the 1980s, thus providing a "standard" BASIC.  For that
reason, the syntax of the language has not been changed, unlike many other
UNIX BASIC interpreters.  Although staying compatible, it incorporates
some features of BBC BASIC such as procedures, local variables and
improved exception handling.  The interpreter tokenises the source and
resolves references to variables and jump targets before running the
program.  This compilation pass increases efficiency and catches syntax
and type errors.  Interpreting tokenised source makes it easy to provide
good error messages that describe exactly kind and place of any errors.

Bas is not yet finished, but already mature enough to run various
programs.

The source is available as a GNU zipped tape archive from:

   http://www.moria.de/~michael/bas/

Michael



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From: Geof Goodrum <ggoodrum@bigfoot.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Fairfax VA Sep 16 User Group Meeting
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 19:28:23 GMT

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September 16:  Internet Privacy - Cookies, Spyware, and Email Encryption

Members of the Washington Area Computer User Group (WAC) will discuss a
variety of Internet privacy issues, including how web browser cookies
and common software add-ons can be used to track your online activity
without your knowledge, and demonstrate tools and techniques to protect
your personal information.  The meeting will also feature a
demonstration of encrypting email so that only the intended recipient
can read it.

There will also be an opportunity to receive help on general computer
hardware and software questions.

WAC is a general interest computer user group that supports a variety of
operating systems, including Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.  WAC
meetings are free and open to the public.  The meeting is scheduled for
12:30 to 4:00 PM on September 16 in Conference Room 8 of the Fairfax
County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway in Fairfax,
Virginia.

For more information, visit the WAC web site at URL
http://member.apcug.org/wac/ or call the WAC AnswerLine at (703)
370-7649.




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From: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk (J Jackson)
Subject: LOCAL: West Yorks LUG (UK) - Next Meeting Monday September 11th
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 19:36:05 GMT
Reply-To: jj@scs.leeds.ac.uk

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==========================================================================


                West Yorkshire Linux Users Group  (WYLUG)

             Meetings are free and open to anyone to attend.

                    7 pm  Monday 11th September 2000
                        (6:30pm for coffee/tea)

        Presentations:         

                     Booting, and Booting with Grub 
                             Owen LeBlanc
                       Manchester Computing Centre

                        An Audio "VCR" with Linux
                              Jim Jackson

        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  -  News, Views, Question and, hopefully, Answers

                WYLUG  -  what, who, when (and why :-)
                 Especially what happens at future meetings!

          followed by beer at the Felon and Firkin, George Street

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WYLUG - West Yorkshire Linux User Group     Secretary: jj@comp.leeds.ac.uk
http://www.wylug.org.uk         email lists: http://list.wylug.lug.org.uk




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From: Ed Weinberg <lsig@NOSPAM.q5comm.com>
Subject: LOCAL: Westchester PCUG Linux Sig first meeting
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 19:35:24 GMT

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The first meeting of the Westchester PC Users Group Linux SIG will be
September 14 at 7PM at the White Plains Middle School in White Plains,
NY.  This meeting is to meet members and discuss Linux, why we might
want to use it and what is necessary to install it.

Our plans are to schedule an installfest on 9/28.  For an installfest
we will need lots of experienced Linux users to help the newbees!

Some people had volunteered to car pool from NYC.  For those who want
to come by train, we can pick you up at the train station.

For directions check out the club's website, http://www.wpcug.org .

  --  Ed Weinberg
      lsig@NOSPAM.q5comm.com



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From: secretary@lxny.org
Subject: LOCAL: LXNY Meeting Tuesday 5 September 2000: Boas Betzler, of IBM GNU/Linux Technology Center, on GNU/Linux and S/390
Date: Sun,  3 Sep 2000 19:37:21 GMT

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This meeting is free and open to the public.

The meeting runs from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm.  After the meeting full and
precise instructions on how to get to our traditional place of refreshment
will be given in clear.

Thanks to support of the IBM Corporation, the meeting is at their building
at 590 Madison Avenue at East 57th Street on the Island of Manhattan.
Enter the building at the corner of Madison and 57th and ask at the desk
for the floor and room number.


Boas Betzler, technical head of the IBM GNU/Linux Technology Center, will
speak on GNU/Linux and the IBM S/390 mainframe.


In 1964 IBM announced a new product line.

   IBM announced System/360, a family of six mutually compatible
   computers and 40 peripherals that could work together. The initial
   investment of $5 billion was quickly returned as orders for the system
   climbed to 1,000 per month within two years. At the time IBM released
   the System/360, the company was making a transition from discrete
   transistors to integrated circuits, and its major source of revenue
   moved from punched-card equipment to electronic computer systems.

Mankind laid hold of computers, as we know them today, in the Sixties.  In
1962 at least one person at MIT played Spacewar.  That year, or perhaps the
next, ARPA began its subtle decades long campaign of providing precisely
those funds, small, but critical, that would otherwise not have been
forthcoming, for something already called "the net".  1964 saw the birth of
the Semi-Automated Business Research Environment, American Airline's
distributed network for flight reservations, and also the deployment of
BASIC at Dartmouth.  In the middle Sixties many banks and some brokerages
began the migration to electronic digital accounting systems.  MULTICS, a
system aimed at providing universal accessible communication and
computation services, began in 1965.

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Bistro/8502/360a.html
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html
http://www.darpa.mil
http://www.sabre.com
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~jshim/CASE1.html
http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/history/TBasic
http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/kurtz.html
http://www.truebasic.com
http://www.wedi.org
http://www.xmledi-group.org/xmledigroup/guide.htm
http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip161-2.htm
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ediint-charter.html
http://www.multicians.org/multics.html

In 1969 Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie began building Unix.  In 1983
Richard Stallman began Project GNU.  In 1991 Linus Torvalds put his first
cut at a Unix like kernel on the net.  By 1998 the most popular free
operating systems in the world were the free BSDs and the
GNU/Linux/XFree/Perl/Ghostcript/Apache/etc. system, in all its many
variants.  By late 1999, the mass media had become aware of free software,
and tulips were bought and sold on NASDAQ at fantastic prices.

http://www.bell-labs.com/history/unix/chaos.html
http://www.fsf.org/gnu/initial-announcement.html
http://lwn.net/stocks

And in September 2000, most mainframes in existence are System/360s or the
direct offspring of the System/360 project.  Mainframes are not like home
computers.  And the makers and keepers of big iron have their own ways and
lays, different from the familiar homely routines and rituals of the free
software tribes.  But over the past two years, certain diplomatic efforts,
some open and some secret, were undertaken.  Here is a recent official
communique from IBM:

   Boas Betzler, technical lead at the IBM Linux Technology Center, is
   enthusiastic about Linux and about working with the Open Source
   community. "We really liked the [Linux kernel] architecture," he says,
   referring to the way in which hardware-dependent parts of the kernel
   are segregated from the common code base. Betzler added that IBM's
   System/390 hardware happens to have features that map very well to the
   design model of Linux. The S/390's management of symmetric
   multiprocessing (SMP) in particular maps very well to the way Linux  
   works, and Betzler says the IBM hardware actually implements a
   superset of the functions Linux needs.

The free software tribes have no formal diplomatic service, and so we
cannot offer any single authoritative statement.  But read these articles,
and judge for yourself the solidity of the alliance with IBM Big Iron:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1532/1
http://linas.org/linux/i370.html
http://linas.org/linux/i370-why.html
http://www.marist.edu/linuxvm
http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux390
ftp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG245944
http://www.share.org

Jay Sulzberger <secretary@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org



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