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Linux-Announce Digest #8
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Fri Aug 24 23:13:09 2001
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Linux-Announce Digest #8, Volume #4 Fri, 24 Aug 2001 23:13:04 EDT
Contents:
update Linux/IrDA man pages v0.5 (Werner Heuser)
Xtops.DE Offers AGENDA VR3 - The First Dedicated Linux PDA (Werner Heuser)
REVOLUTION CROSS-PLATFORM IDE LAUNCHED (Runtime Revolution)
[ANNOUNCE] LEAP RDBMS v1.2.6 (Richard Leyton)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
asforza4 2.10 released! ("Riccardo")
Amira 2.3 released (Amira Product Team)
SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated (Howard Holm)
Commercial:Dual PIII866 server for promotion (sales)
Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 - server distribution (Erlend Midttun)
AD : Did you miss the footy on On Digital ??? ("Con-Digital")
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:50:09 CST
From: Werner Heuser <wehe@snafu.de>
Reply-To: wehe@mobilix.org
Subject: update Linux/IrDA man pages v0.5
Hi,
an updated version of the Linux/IrDA man pages is available at
http://mobilix.org/software.html
Werner
changes:
0.5 11/08/2001
* added vlsi_ir driver to irattach page
* some new options for irdadump
* some USB information was added
* some more information about dongles was added
* minor cosmetic changes
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|=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe@mobilix.org> T. +49-30-3495386
|=| http://MobiliX.org Linux-Mobile-Guide
|=| http://Xtops.DE Laptops und PDAs mit Linux
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:51:05 CST
From: Werner Heuser <wehe@snafu.de>
Reply-To: wehe@mobilix.org
Subject: Xtops.DE Offers AGENDA VR3 - The First Dedicated Linux PDA
The AGENDA VR3 is now available from Xtops.DE http://xtops.de
This is the second Linux equipped handheld we
offer besides COMPQAs iPAQ. Other brands will follow soon.
Besides our PDAs we sell lap-tops pre-equipped with
the Linux distribution of your choice. With Xtops.DE laptops and PDAs
users new to Linux will be able to join the open source revolution and
start running the operating system of the future the easy way! Even
experts will save time to spent it for their actual work.
Xtops.DE is sponsor of MobiliX.org - Unix for Mobile Systems and
Debian/GNU-Linux. Xtops.DE is located in Berlin (Germany).
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|=| http://MobiliX.org Linux-Mobile-Guide
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:52:02 CST
From: revolution_developers@yahoo.co.uk (Runtime Revolution)
Subject: REVOLUTION CROSS-PLATFORM IDE LAUNCHED
Revolution 1.0 Release 11 July 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Development System, Revolution 1.0 - Launched by Runtime
Revolution Ltd.
Edinburgh, Scotland, Wednesday 11th July 2001. Runtime today announced
the release of Revolution 1.0, a state-of-the-art rapid application
development system.
Revolution enables developers to easily and quickly create powerful
Internet-enabled applications and solutions which can be delivered on
Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and other popular UNIX systems. Using
Transcript, Revolution's high level integrated language, application
prototyping and development are faster and more efficient than is
possible with lower-level languages like C, C++, Java or BASIC.
Revolution is a breakthrough for anyone who writes and designs
computer software. Professional software developers can easily create
applications that can be deployed cross-platform with no changes to
code, from a single working file. Functionality that might
traditionally require a complex subroutine can be accomplished in a
single line. Even students and hobbyists can easily learn to create
Revolution applications to automate tedious procedures or increase
their productivity in general.
The Revolution Starter Kit, available for download from Runtime
Revolution's web site at http://www.runrev.com/revolution/ is
completely free for unlimited use, but limits the amount and
complexity of code. Purchase of a license removes these limitations
and allows access to the full power of Revolution.
"Revolution is the tool for writing cross-platform software." said
Kevin Miller, Runtime's Managing Director. "Working with Revolution is
simply faster and more productive than alternative development
methods. And you can deliver on every major computer platform with
just a few clicks. We're very excited to bring you this release!"
Offering a feature set of unprecedented depth in every area,
Revolution is an essential part of any developer's toolkit:
- Revolution's multimedia support includes bitmap and vector graphics,
QuickTime and QuickTime VR, and direct import of ten popular graphics
formats including JPEG, GIF, and PNG.
- Internet application developers will find support for HTTP POST and
GET protocols, the ability to display files from the Web directly
inside Revolution objects, and programming support for Internet
sockets. (A basic client-server application takes under ten lines of
code).
- For text jockeys, Revolution supports associative arrays, regular
expressions, and other powerful text-handling features.
- Revolution's suite of standard controls take on the native
appearance and behavior on all platforms, a boon for user-interface
designers and those doing fast prototyping. Point-and-click wizards
help automatically move and resize controls when the user resizes a
window.
- Enhancements planned later this summer include built-in database
access, native OS X support, extensive K-12 teaching material and
extended support for Internet protocols.
There are a number of different license types. Standard and
Professional licenses start at $349. K-12 educational pricing starts
at $25 (minimum purchase of ten copies). The Starter Kit Edition is
completely free for unlimited use, but limits the amount and
complexity of code. Every edition (except educational licenses) -
Starter Kit, Standard, and Professional - allows developers to
distribute the software they create with Revolution on every supported
platform, royalty-free.
Runtime Revolution Ltd. is committed to the development of
cutting-edge professional programming software and engaging
educational applications. For more information about the company and
its products, visit their website at http://www.runrev.com/ or email
support@runrev.com.
Revolution and Runtime Revolution are trademarks of Runtime Revolution
Ltd. Other company and product names are trademarks of their
respective owners.
CONTACT
Kevin Miller
Runtime Revolution Ltd.
kevin@runrev.com
http://www.runrev.com/
Phone: +44 131 718 4333
Fax: +44 1639 830 707
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:53:58 CST
From: Richard Leyton <rleyton@acm.org>
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LEAP RDBMS v1.2.6
This post is to announce the release of v1.2.6 of the LEAP RDBMS.
LEAP is a free relational database management system (RDBMS) that is
sed by an increasing number of universities around the world as a part
of their database courses. LEAP fully supports the relational algebra,
and the behavioral components of the relational model. It is intended
as a teaching tool and foundation for further work. It is free and
distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
This release of LEAP fixes a number of bugs, and has a completely revised
set of examples, to tie in with the recently published book "Theory and
Practice of Relational Databases", which features a chapter on LEAP - For
more details on this book visit: http://www.theorypractice.org
Full information, download details, a demonstration, and online user
guides, are all available from the LEAP web pages:
http://leap.sourceforge.net
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/leap
http://www.theorypractice.org
LEAP is under constant development, and supports a wide range of
Operating systems including Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows 95/NT, AIX
and others. LEAP is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License. The standard distribution contains full 'C' source code,
full documentation, and examples from the popular database book
"Theory and Practice of Relational Databases", now substantially revised
for a second Edition by Stefan Stanczyk, Bob Champion and Richard Leyton.
To download LEAP, visit:
http://www.sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=44
There is also a mailing list for news, announcements and developments
regarding LEAP, available at:
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leap-announce
Any questions can be e-mailed to myself, or posted to this newsgroup.
Regards,
Richard Leyton
(LEAP Author)
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Richard Leyton
rleyton@acm.org
http://www.leyton.org
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:54:55 CST
From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
WHEN AND WHERE:
28 August 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
J.M Stewart Corp
2201 Cantu Court
Suite 218
Sarasota, FL.
25 August 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
1 September 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
New Port Richey Public Library
(second level meeting rooms)
5939 Main St.
New Port Richey
6 September 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center Brandon, FL
Take I-4 East to I-75 South. Go south on 75 to the second exit
(Hwy 60, Exit 53). Head left (east) under the overpass, and
make sure you're in the right lane. When you go to the
entrance for Brandon Town Center, you'll see Barnes & Noble
on your immediate right.
12 September 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Room 684
3109 W. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Blvd
Lakepointe I Building
Tampa, FL 33607
See the SLUG website (www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for
directions.
20 September 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
Computer Advantage Store
217 Brandon Town Center Drive
Brandon, FL
Across the street from Barnes & Noble, next to Target and Honey
Baked Hams. See the SLUG website
(www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html) for directions.
ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentations: to be announced
2) Question & Answer Session.
3) Raffle and free stuff!
Bring your boxes, questions, problems, and plenty of good cheer!
(And don't forget to start your installs early!)
FOLLOWING MEETINGS:
22 September 09:30-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
25 September 19:00-21:00 Sarasota
(fourth Tuesday of each month)
4 October 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
6 October 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
10 October 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
6 October 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:57:43 CST
From: "Riccardo" <ribern@tiscalinet.it.nospamplease>
Subject: asforza4 2.10 released!
http://asforza4.sourceforge.net
asforza4 is a dockapp for the afterstep and windowmaker desktop manager.
asforza4 is a 4-in-a-row (or 4-in-line) game. You can play against a friend,
against an AI program, or against a friend via a TCP/IP interface. It
features plugin (cpu/swap/mem monitor, analog clock, mailchk, pppmon, cd
player, mixer etc.) and theme support.
Ricca & Cesare
PS
To e-mail us remove nospamplease.
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:58:40 CST
From: Amira Product Team <info@amiravis.com>
Subject: Amira 2.3 released
Reply-To: info@amiravis.com
We are pleased to announce the release of Amira 2.3. Amira is an
advanced visualization and 3D reconstruction software for microscopy,
biology, medicine, engineering and many more application areas.
An evaluation version of Amira 2.3 can be downloaded from
http://www.amiravis.com
Check out the examples and the gallery section on our web server.
Amira 2.3 is available for these platforms:
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000
- Linux (RedHat 7.1)
- SGI Irix 6.5.x
- HP-UX 11.0
- SunOS 5.7
Amira is distributed by Template Graphics Software Inc (TGS).
Amira is developed by Indeed - Visual Concepts GmbH and ZIB.
Find details at http://www.amiravis.com/contact.html
The Amira Product Team
http://www.amiravis.com/disclaimer.html
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 21:59:36 CST
From: Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Subject: SECURITY: NSA Security-enhanced Linux updated
NSA SELinux (available at <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/> has been updated
and includes a completely new variant of the SELinux prototype based on
the Linux Security Modules (LSM) work. The patches for the LSM-based
prototype are based on the Linux 2.4.9 kernel, and the patches for the
utilities are known to work with Red Hat Linux 7.1.
Additional web site updates include additional papers and presentations,
and the long awaited updating of the SELinux hyper-mail mail list archives.
Remember, current archives are always available via e-mail (see
<http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/list.html>) even when the hyper-mail archives are
out of date.
--
Howard Holm <hdholm@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Information Assurance Research Group
National Security Agency
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From: sales <sales@storeanywhere.com>
Subject: Commercial:Dual PIII866 server for promotion
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:00:32 CST
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the configurations below.
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to : sales@storeanywhere.com.
Remember to check our website regularly for promotional prices
of the open source servers.
http://www.storeanywhere.com
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:01:29 CST
From: Erlend Midttun <tsl@trustix.com>
Subject: Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 - server distribution
This is to announce the release of Trustix Secure Linux version 1.5,
nicknamed "MiddleWhere".
Trustix Secure Linux is Trustix' own open source Linux server distribution
with strong emphasis on security, performance and stability.
We release this version mainly to provide a number of features requested
by our users.
New features in TSL 1.5:
* SWUP. Automatic updates, easy install of new software.
* PPP support. Point to Point Netowrk Protocol. Commonly used in dialup
networks.
* RP-PPPoe. PPP over Ethernet. Commonly used in xDSL enviromnents.
* Postfix-TLS. Postfix with encryption.
* PHP4. Dynamic web pages. Now in version 4.
* MySQL. Database engine.
* RPM 3.0.6. The RPM Package Manager. Now with support for v4 packages.
* Netatalk. Appletalk support. Support your Macintosh users.
* Kernel 2.2.19. Better than ever.
* pump. DHCP client. Especially useful for servers that obtain
their IP address dynamically, typically those that use
cable modem or xDSL.
* netcat. TCP/IP swiss army knife tool.
* wget. Utility to retrieve files from the WWW via HTTP and FTP.
* jwhois. Whois client.
* libcap. Allows easy access for applications to a better security
model (capabilities) available in the Linux kernel.
* bonnie. Disk benchmarking. Time those floppies. Or something.
* rdate. Simple way of setting the clock from a network host.
* Python-bindings for OpenSSL.
* mkisofs. Program to create ISO images.
Package highlights:
Samba can now be a PDC even to Windows 2000 SP2.
Sysklogd now runs as a normal user.
Xntpd now uses capabilites and runs as a normal user.
Modutils now supports kernel 2.4.
You can find the full list of features on
<URL:http://www.trustix.net/products/trustix-1.5/>
Notes on upgrading:
There have been some quite major changes to the distribution from 1.2 to
1.5, and some of these will require manual attention when upgrading.
Please go to <URL:http://www.trustix.net/products/trustix-1.5/upgrade.html>
for more information on this.
So where on earth is this?
The full mirror list is available at
<URL:http://www.trustix.net/mirrors/>
Erlend··
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Erlend Midttun erlendbm@trustix.com
Product Development Manager, Trustix Secure Linux
http://www.tihlde.org/~erlendbm/ A Unix Admin
Where do you want to fly today? Linux.
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 22:02:25 CST
From: "Con-Digital" <darwin@con-digital.co.uk>
Subject: AD : Did you miss the footy on On Digital ???
Reply-To: darwin@con-digital.co.uk
All Channel Auto Update Cards ( No Inputting of monthly codes) £25
Modified Originl Cards (The Full Monty) £40
Both are ECM Proof :-) and Include the New ITV Sport Channels
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