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Linux-Announce Digest #304
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Linux-Announce Digest #304, Volume #4 Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:13:05 EST
Contents:
NEWS: WSIS fails to agree on FLOSS 'support'... US objects (FN)
TightVNC 1.2.8 - free multi-platform remote desktop software (Constantin Kaplinsky)
LILO version 22.4.1 issued (johninsd at san dot rr dot com)
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From: FN <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: WSIS fails to agree on FLOSS 'support'... US objects
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 23:26:48 CST
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WSIS delegates fail to agree on open-source 'support'
Draft was changed after objections by U.S.
TOKYO -- A three-day meeting that brought together Asian governments,
organizations, companies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
ended Wednesday morning with the approval of a declaration that, among
other things, calls for encouraging the development of open-source
software. A draft of the declaration had called for open source to be
"supported" but was changed after objections from the U.S. government
delegation late Tuesday night.
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The U.S. opposition was largely perceived to be support for its
domestic software companies and in particular Microsoft, said
officials from other governments on the sidelines of the conference on
Wednesday. After a short debate with a number of countries, including
Pakistan, that wanted the original language to remain, all sides
finally reached agreement and the declaration was changed to read:
"Development and deployment of open-source software should be
encouraged, as appropriate, as should open standards for ICT
(information and communications technology) networking."
The change was one of a number made during a late-night session at the
end of the second day of the Asian Regional Conference. The event is
one of a number of conferences being held around the world to solicit
regional input for the World Summit on the Information Society, a
government-leader level U.N. summit that will take place in December
this year in Geneva, Switzerland, and in Tunis in 2005.
At the meeting, representatives of 48 countries, 21 international
organizations, 53 private sector entities and 116 NGOs discussed a
number of issues related to the information society and debated over
the content of the final output of the meeting, a document called the
Tokyo Declaration. The declaration will go forward to a meeting in
Geneva next month and bring together participants from around the
world as part of the large planning process that must precede the
December summit.
The declaration touched on a wide range of issues related to the
information society and included a call for greater information
security, a balance between content owners and users in the area of
intellectual property rights, and more work on the digital divide.
The lack of awareness of the need for information security was
recognized as a weakness for the Asia-Pacific region. The declaration
touched upon the need for greater awareness of cybercrime and
cyberterrorism while recognizing that equal and fair access to
information technology is also important.
"Special attention should be paid to the fact that ICTs can
potentially be used for purposes that are inconsistent with the
objectives of maintaining international stability and security, and
may adversely affect the integrity of the infrastructure within
states, to the detriment of their security in both civil and military
fields," it said.
In the area of copyright, the declaration recognized the "vital role"
that intellectual property rights play in innovation in software,
e-commerce and related areas, but also noted the need to strike a fair
balance between such rights and the interests of users.
The same two areas were identified by a Japanese government official
as possible areas of which participants to WSIS in December will agree
require the creation of a legal and policy framework that spans
international borders. Agreement on the need to create a global legal
and policy framework for the information society is one of several
goals already identified for the summit.
"I think the big issues that need to be tackled are intellectual
property rights and information security," said Yoshio Tsukio, vice
minister for policy coordination and Japan's Ministry of Public
Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications (MPHPT).
The conference heard more pledges to bridge the digital divide and
several points in the declaration focused on extending the benefits of
the information society to the poor and otherwise disadvantaged.
"The digital divide unfortunately is widening," said Kim Hak Su, the
executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for the Asia-Pacific and the U.N.'s highest ranking
official in Asia.
"It is not only between the countries but within the countries and
between generations and the able-bodied and disabled. The
international community is trying to help to assist those countries
who do not have a national strategy and a national political
commitment is also essential. Also, the Government of Japan is
offering a substantial ODA (overseas development aid) package to
developing member countries," he told IDG News Service.
"This digital divide will be with us for some years to come and we
have to work very hard. There is no magic formula but we should work
hard," he said. Kim admitted that promises to help have been made
before and the problem often comes down to paying for things. "We need
the private sector to do many things. Governments cannot do everything
anymore."
"We need more money and more discussion but Tokyo has set the
direction," he said. "The direction is right and WSIS could be
important because political commitment is also important."
Speaking after the event, a number of NGOs that had taken part in the
summit said they were broadly satisfied with the outcome but had hoped
for greater commitment in a number of areas such as a social justice.
They were satisfied with the inclusion of a reference to human rights
in the declaration, despite some attempts to change it, they said.
The groups also repeated protests over the deregistration of NGOs from
Taiwan on Tuesday as the result of repeated protests by the Chinese
government delegation.
"There is discrimination against the principles of WSIS for a
comprehensive inclusion of all stakeholders in the information society
including civil society, which includes Taiwanese NGOs as well," said
Chuang Chiting, the international affairs director of the Taiwan
Association for Human Rights.
"As Taiwan is a very powerful ICT country and it provides major input
to the information society, we do hope our voices can be heard and be
constructive towards a better future in the international community,"
she said. The representatives were allowed to stay at the meeting
under the affiliation of a Japanese NGO.
[23]Martyn Williams is a Tokyo correspondent for the IDG News Service,
an InfoWorld affiliate.
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From: Constantin Kaplinsky <const@ce.cctpu.edu.ru>
Subject: TightVNC 1.2.8 - free multi-platform remote desktop software
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:18:44 CST
Hello everyone,
I'm pleased to announce new TightVNC 1.2.8 release.
TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, free cross-platform remote
desktop package. It offers many new features, improvements and
bugfixes. Unlike the original VNC, it can work well over slow Internet
connections, and provides more configuration options. TightVNC can be
used to perform remote administration tasks in Unix/Linux, Windows,
and mixed network environments. It can be useful in distance learning
and remote customer support. TightVNC is freely available under the
terms of the GNU General Public License, and is fully compatible with
the standard VNC. For more details, please visit the TightVNC Web
site:
http://www.tightvnc.com/
Both Win32 and Unix/Linux versions exist. RPM packages for Red Hat
Linux 7.x are available (built and tested under Red Hat Linux 7.2).
To download new release, follow the links at the download page:
http://www.tightvnc.com/download.html
As compared to the previous version, TightVNC 1.2.8 adds a number of
new features, improvements and bugfixes. The most notable change is
support for a separate read-only password.
Here is a summary of changes introduced in the Unix/Linux version of
TightVNC 1.2.8 (more detailed change logs are available on the
TightVNC Web site):
- Support for a separate view-only password has been implemented.
Now the servers support two passwords -- one to allow full
control, another to restrict remote keyboard and mouse input.
- New "-x11cursor" option has been implemented in vncviewer; a patch
from Peter Astrand. This option allows using a real X11 cursor
with X11-style cursor shape updates, disables the dot cursor, and
disables cursor position updates in non-fullscreen mode.
- New "RunCommand" command to customize the X11 vncviewer popup menu
has been implemented; a patch from Peter Astrand.
- Several patches from Debian Linux have been applied. This should
fix a number of bugs and improve building on some platforms
supported by Debian Linux.
- A problem with Xvnc eating all CPU time after xfs restarts has
been fixed; a patch from Martin Koegler.
- Other minor improvements and bugfixes.
--
With Best Wishes,
Constantin
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From: johninsd at san dot rr dot com <bitbucket@hotmail.com>
Subject: LILO version 22.4.1 issued
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:21:12 CST
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LILO release 22.4.1 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21.
Version 22.4.1 is a minor update to version 22.4. It fixes typographical
errors which are masked by the gcc (2.96) pre-processor. Version 22.4 is
still usable.
Version 22.4 is a minor update to version 22.3.
o Virtual booting is supported with new keywords 'vmdefault', 'vmdisable',
and 'vmwarn'.
Version 22.3 is a major update to version 22.2.
o The distribution consists of /sbin/lilo ONLY; all *.b files are
incorporated within this file (builtin).
o A bitmap file header editor is incorporated (-E flag).
o The map file unifies the second stage, chain, message file, and bitmap
files.
o -E, -F, and -B flags are added (see man pages).
o Chain loader will now pass a command line to a second LILO installation.
o Boot protocol 0203h is now supported. "large-memory" option added to
force initial ramdisk loading to highest memory.
o "vga=" on command line allows any radix input.
Versions 22.2, 22.1, 22.0 are major updates to version 21.
*** THE VERSION 22 RAID1 IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH VERSION 21.
Those using version 21 should read 'README.raid1' before installing these
new codes. There is a compatibility mode (lilo -x mbr-only) for existing
RAID1 installations which are not going to be converted to the Version 22
implementation.
Source code is available for download from:
http://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo (developer's site)
Or from the main distribution site:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo (please use)
See the distribution file 'CHANGES' for details of the differences between
22.4.1 and prior releases.
--John Coffman
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