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Linux-Announce Digest #107
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Linux-Announce Digest #107, Volume #4 Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:13:06 EDT
Contents:
tomsrtbt-2.0.0 (Thomas A. Oehser)
New issue of the BogoMips mini-Howto (Wim van Dorst)
Spread 3.16.2 -- Reliable Multicast and Group Communication System (Jonathan Stanton)
SITE: Zaurus Software Index (William Kendrick)
SITE: Zaurus.LovesLinux.com (William Kendrick)
STklos 0.52 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter (Erick Gallesio)
RE: SHAREWARE Tsert (Integrated Testing Environment) ("babelart")
[Announce] lug event data exchange. (Hans Wolters)
Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement (Ed Centanni)
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From: tom@toms.net (Thomas A. Oehser)
Subject: tomsrtbt-2.0.0
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:04:41 CST
I've released a major new version of tomsrtbt, 2.0.0
The kernel has been upgraded from 2.0.39 to 2.2.20
Interesting new feature: bzip2 kernel and ramdisk loading
What will most be missed: emacs, for the moment, only vi will fit
What you get is... AHA152X AHA1542 AIC7XXX BUSLOGIC ST TULIP EATA EL2 EL3 EXT2
EXT3 EEXPRESS/_PRO/_PRO100 FAT FD FDOMAIN IDE-CD/DISK/TAPE INITRD ISO9660 MINIX
JOLIET LOOP MATH_EMUL MSDOS NCR53C8XX NE2000 NFS NTFS PCNET32 QLOGIC SD SEAGATE
SERIAL SERIAL_CONSOLE SR VFAT VGA_CONSOLE VIDEO_SELECT VORTEX VT_CONSOLE WD80x3
3c589_cs agetty ash badblocks basename buildit.s busybox bzip2 cardmgr cat
chain.b chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot clear clone.s cmp common config cp cpio
cs cut date dd ddate df dhcpcd-- dirname dmesg domainname ds du e2fsck echo
egrep elvis ex false fdflush fdformat fdisk filesize find findsuper fmt
fsck.ext2 fstab grep group gunzip gzip halt head hexdump hexedit host.conf
hostname hosts i82365 ifconfig ile init inittab insmod install.s issue kernel
key.lst kill killall killall5 klogd ld ld-linux length less libc libcom_err
libe2p libext2fs libtermcap libuuid lilo lilo.conf ln loadkmap logger login ls
lsattr lsmod lua man md5sum miterm mkdir mkdosfs mke2fs mkfifo mkfs.minix mknod
mkswap more more.help mount mt mtab mv nc necho network networks nmclan_cs
nslookup passwd pax pcmcia pcmcia-scheme pcmcia_core pcnet_cs ping poweroff
printf profile protocols ps pwd rc.0 rc.6 rc.M rc.M_ rc.S rc.S_ rc.custom
rc.custom.gz rc.pcmcia reboot rescuept reset resolv.conf rm rmdir rmmod route
rsh rshd script scsi_info sed serial serial_cs services setserial settings.s sh
shared shutdown slattach sleep sln sort split strings swapoff swapon sync
syslogd tail tar tcic tee telnet telnetd temp termcap test tomshexd tomsrtbt.FAQ
touch true umount undeb-- unpack.s unrpm-- update utmp vi vi.help view wc wget
which xargs xirc2ps_cs yecho yes zcat ...ON ONE FLOPPY!
Updated new current fixed better versions of:
e2fsck mke2fs rescuept fdisk pcmcia busybox
New support added to the default image:
eexpress_pro100 ext3_fs pcnet32 serial_console
Removed from the default image:
idetape mouse slip tr emacs debugfs dumpe2fs fsck.msdos ifport pcmcia-scsi
It comes in three flavours, which make the same booted image:
tomsrtbt-2.0.0.tar.gz # for installation from DOS
tomsrtbt-2.0.0.dos.zip # for installation from Linux
tomsrtbt-2.0.0.ElTorito.288.img.bz2 # for bootable CD installation
The home page is:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
It's a boot/root rescue/emergency floppy image with more stuff than can fit.
Bzip2, 1722Mb formatting, and tight compilation options helped jam a lot on.
It is useful for "learn unix on a floppy" as it runs from ramdisk, includes
the man-pages for everything, and behaves in a generally predictable way.
Note: This is a .0.0 version and has many known rough edges...
============================ tomsrtbt=2.0.0.lsm ==========================:
Begin3
Title: tomsrtbt
Version: 2.0.0
Entered-date: 06APR02
Description: "The most Linux on one floppy." (distribution or panic disk).
1.72MB boot/root rescue/tools diskette for your shirt pockets.
Supports ide, scsi, tape, network adaptors, PCMCIA, much more.
About 100 utility programs and tools for fixing and restoring.
See tomsrtbt.FAQ for a list of stuff that is included. Not a
script, just the diskette image packed up chock full of stuff.
Easy to customize startup and scripts for complete rebuilding.
Also good as learn-unix-on-a-floppy as it has mostly what you
expect- vi, , lua, sed, sh, manpages- loaded on ramdisks.
There is one installer that runs under Linux, another for DOS.
Keywords: rescue recovery emergency floppy panic bootdisk tomsrtbt help
Author: tom@toms.net (Tom Oehser)
Maintained-by: tom@toms.net (Tom Oehser)
Primary-site: www.toms.net /rb
1 kB home.html
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/recovery
1722 kB tomsrtbt-2.0.0.tar.gz
1722 kB tomsrtbt-2.0.0.dos.zip
1722 kB tomsrtbt-2.0.0.ElTorito.img.bz2
Copying-policy: GPL
End
-Tom Oehser, tom@toms.net
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From: Wim van Dorst <baron@clifton.hobby.nl>
Subject: New issue of the BogoMips mini-Howto
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:04:41 CST
Reply-To: WvD@clifton.nl
Hello All,
please let it be announced that again a new issue is out of the
BogoMips mini-Howto. In its ninth year, the current lowest and
highest have been updated again.
A little excerpt:
|The lowest Linux boot sequence BogoMips value
| Tim Van der Linden, timvdl@innet.be
| Intel 8088, at 4.77 MHz, ELKS
| 0.02 BogoMips
|
|The highest single-CPU Linux boot sequence BogoMips value
| Jeffrey Esquivel, jeroot@angloamericano.ed.cr
| Intel Pentium 4, at 1700 MHz
| 3407.87 BogoMips
|
|The highest multiple-CPU Linux boot sequence BogoMips value
| Dan Kirkpatrick, dkirk@physics.syr.edu
| 102 CPU Beowulf of Pentium IIIs, at 1000MHz
| 203862.30 BogoMips
|
|The highest non-Linux BogoMips value
| omega@sequent.com
| Sequent Numa-Q, 32 Pentium CPUs at 180MHz
| Dynix operating system
| 3776.00 BogoMips
Read the full BogoMips mini-Howto, now with over 1400 references from
more than 1000 referants in 50 countries on the mini-Howto's homepage
at http://www.clifton.nl. I'm open for new entries.
Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim van Dorst
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Wim van Dorst, Clifton Scientific Text Services, tel/fax +31 355 242 319
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From: Jonathan Stanton <jonathan@cnds.jhu.edu>
Subject: Spread 3.16.2 -- Reliable Multicast and Group Communication System
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:04:48 CST
Spread 3.16.2 Released
http://www.spread.org
Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service
that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks. Spread
functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and
provides highly tuned application-level multicast and group communication
support. Spread services range from reliable message passing to fully
ordered messages with delivery guarantees, even in case of computer
failures and network partitions.
Spread is designed to encapsulate the challenging aspects of asynchronous
networks and enable the construction of scalable distributed applications,
allowing application builders to focus on the differentiating components
of their application. Spread supports many Unix-like platforms, Windows, Mac
OS X, and Java. It is tested regularly on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X
and Windows 2000.
A new stable version, 3.16.2, of the Spread toolkit was released today.
The main focus of this release was bugfixes and stability. This version
significantly improves stability on Windows platforms specifically.
* Fix memory leak, file descriptor leaks, crash bugs and error reporting for
Windows machines.
* Enhanced makefiles for several platforms.
* Better connection handling for busy servers
* Improved man pages.
With the Spread Open Source License, the toolkit may be freely
used under some conditions. For example, the license includes the
requirement that all advertising materials (including web pages)
mentioning software that uses Spread display a specific acknowledgement.
Please review the license agreement for more details.
http://www.spread.org/license/
Other commercial licenses or other licensing arrangements are available.
Please contact michal@spreadconcepts.com. We are looking for partners
interested in using group communication and/or replication to solve
demanding, real-world problems.
Jonathan
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Jonathan R. Stanton jonathan@cs.jhu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: SITE: Zaurus Software Index
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:01 CST
The Zaurus Software Index is a new website which is meant to be an
index of all software available for the new Sharp Zaurus SL-5500
Linux-/Java-based PDA.
http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/
-bill!
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From: bill@newbreedsoftware.com (William Kendrick)
Subject: SITE: Zaurus.LovesLinux.com
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:16 CST
Zaurus @ LovesLinux.com is a community-run portal site for the
Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 Linux-/Java-based PDA.
It contains news, a growing software index, FAQs, and web-based forums:
http://zaurus.loveslinux.com/
-bill!
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From: Erick Gallesio <eg@essi.fr>
Subject: STklos 0.52 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:22 CST
STklos is a free Scheme System (nearly) conform to R5RS. The aim of this
implementation is to be fast as well as light. The implementation is
based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine. STklos can also be compiled as a
library, so that one can easily embed it in an application.
The salient points of STklos are:
* efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing
- Multiple Inheritance,
- Generic Functions,
- Multi-methods
- an efficient MOP (Meta Object Protocol)
* a simple to use module system
* implements the full tower of numbers defined in R5RS
* easy connection to the GTK+ toolkit
* Perl compatible regular expressions thanks to the PCRE package.
* tail recursive calls are properly implemented
New in this release:
* Compiler has been rewritten and deliver code which is more
efficient
* New command 'compile-file' to compile a stklos file to byte-codes
* Complete rewriting of GTklos (support of GTK+ in STklos)
- the rewriting is still incomplete and needs some work
- support of the Canvas widget (nearly completely finished)
- more general event management
* All the demos have been rewritten
* Better error reporting
* Errors can now be browsed with Emacs next-error previous-error
* Added support for SRFI-2
* Added support for SRFI-4
* Added support for SRFI-8
* Added support for SRFI-9
* Added support for SRFI-22
* new option: "--no-init-file"
* Added bitwise operations on bignums
* Virtual slots can now have an initial value
* New primitives: KEY-DELETE!, KEY-DELETE, PROGRAM-NAME,
PORT-FILE-NAME, FULL-CURRENT-TIME, SECONDS->DATE
* Added the Bigloo MATCH-CASE and MATCH-LAMBDA
* New form PARSE-ARGUMENTS to simplify argument parsing
* Better support of dynamic loading.
* Minimal support of LDAP.
* Support of active-slots (as in old STk)
* PCRE package used is now 3.7
* GC package used is now 6.0
* More documentation
* There are now man pages for stklos and utilities
* Many small improvements
* Bug corrections
* ...
Download: See http://kaolin.unice.fr/STklos/
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Erick Gallesio | tel: +33 (0)492965153
Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis | fax: +33 (0)492965155
ESSI - I3S -- 930, Route des colles | mailto:eg--at--unice.fr
BP 145 - 06903 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX - FRANCE
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From: "babelart" <babelart@videotron.ca>
Subject: RE: SHAREWARE Tsert (Integrated Testing Environment)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:30 CST
SHAREWARE
The Tsert (ITE) Integrated Test Environment is a black box oriented testing
enviroment.
It helps administer the creation and execution of testsuites.
Tsert loosely follows ISO methodology.
The user interface was developed with the Qt GUI toolkit.
Most files are stored and retrieved in XML.
It only works on Linux for now.
Tsert provides the following features:
- Qt interface.
- QA project creation module.
- Test plan creation capability.
- Automated test data generation.
- C++, Java, and Ada class testing capability.
- Testsuite browser which manages the creation and version control of test
scripts.
- Hierarchical testsuite structure with scoping rule for declarations.
- Default and requirement tracking with Mysql database engine.
- Execution of selected test scripts, in batch or interactive mode.
- Conditional execution of testcases, based on prior testcase verdict.
- Proprietary scripting language with threading capabilities.
- Protocol Data Unit (PDU) reception and transmission capability.
- GUI testing capability, examples provided.
- Database testing capability, examples provided.
- Support for other scripts languages e.g. perl, expect, tcl, etc.
Tsert acts as a test management tool, when used with scripts written
with language other than the Tsert script language.
http://www.geocities.com/babelart
babelart@yahoo.com or
babelart@videotron.ca
Babelart Communications Inc.
Pierre Innocent
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From: Hans Wolters <h-wolters@nl.linux.org>
Subject: [Announce] lug event data exchange.
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:42 CST
Hi lugs,
We would like to inform you about a new mailing list regarding the
exchange of lug event data.
The purpose of this list is to discuss the data we might want to exchange
using xml. This data should enable lug and linux/opensource related sites
to exchange public data like lugevents, their date(s), the topics, etc...
Please subscribe and contribute:
<http://mail.nl.linux.org/lugcal/>
Regards,
Hans
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phpReview : http://phpReview.nl.linux.org/
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From: Ed Centanni <ecentan1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Suncoast LUG Meeting Announcement
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:05:00 CST
WHEN AND WHERE:
10 April 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.
18 April 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
217 Brandon Town Center Drive
Brandon, FL
Across the street from Barnes & Noble, next to Target and Honey
Baked Hams. See the SLUG website suncoastlug.org/meetings.html)
for directions.
27 April 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin
4 May 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
2 May 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.
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:
8 May 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
16 May 19:00-21:00 Brandon II
(third Thursday of each month)
25 May 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(fourth Saturday of each month)
1 June 13:00-15:00 New Port Richey
(first Saturday of each month)
6 June 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
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