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Linux-Announce Digest #327
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Fri Feb 21 21:13:20 2003
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Linux-Announce Digest #327, Volume #4 Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:13:06 EST
Contents:
[ANN]: twander 3.0 Released And Available (Tim Daneliuk)
Software RAID5 technology that works with disk write back cache (SR5 Team)
MobiliX.org is now TuxMobil.org (Werner Heuser)
NEWS: Microsoft woos academic world (FN)
IBM releases linux Grid computing tools (ricky)
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:57:01 CST
From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com>
Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com
Subject: [ANN]: twander 3.0 Released And Available
NOTE: I sent to to c.o.l.announce directly a couple of days ago, but
I guess I should have sent it to you instead:
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'twander' Version 3.0 is now released and available for download at:
http://www.tundraware.com/Software/twander
The last public release was 2.34.
Existing users should upgrade immediately as this release contains
substantial bug fixes and many new features.
What Is 'twander'?
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'twander' is a macro-programmable Filesystem Browser which runs on both
Unix-like systems as well as Win32 systems. It embraces the best ideas
of both similar GUI-driven programs (Konqueror, Windows Explorer) as
well as text-based interfaces (Midnight Commander, List, Sweep).
Or, If You Prefer The "Elevator Pitch"
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'twander' is:
- A better file browser for Unix and Win32. (Tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Win32)
- A way to make browsing the same on all the OSs you use.
- A macro-programmable tool that lets *you* define the features.
- A GUI navigation front-end for your shell.
- A way to "can" workflows for your technically-challenged colleagues.
- A way to free yourself from the shackles of the mouse.
- A way to significantly speed up your day-to-day workflow.
- A Python/Tkinter application - about 2500 lines of code + 1000 comment lines.
- A RCT (Really Cool Tool) that will have you addicted in a day or two
See the web page for more information and a screen shot. Better still,
download the tarball and read the documentation.
==============================================================================
Tim Daneliuk
tundra@tundraware.com
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:57:11 CST
From: sr5@sr5tech.com (SR5 Team)
Subject: Software RAID5 technology that works with disk write back cache
- Want to leave disk cache on for performance without worrying about
data corruption at power failure?
- Want the reliability of high end SCSI / Fibre Channel hardware RAID
controllers for your ATA drives?
Now you CAN, with SR5, a software RAID5 technology on Linux.
With SR5, disk write back cache can be safely turned on for maximum
performance without worry of data corruption during power failure. SR5
delivers the level of reliability offered only by expensive SCSI /
Fibre Channel RAID controllers that use NVRAM. SR5 transforms your ATA
/ Serial ATA drives into enterprise quality RAID5 arrays.
To learn more about SR5, please check out http://sr5tech.com.
Thanks.
SR5 Team
http://sr5tech.com
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From: Werner Heuser <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: MobiliX.org is now TuxMobil.org
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 03:38:08 CST
MobiliX with new name TuxMobil.org
In the trademark case between the owners of the trademark Obelix and
Werner Heuser owner of the project "MobiliX - UniX on Mobile Devices" the
last verdict says that Werner Heuser has to withdraw his trademark
MobiliX. Therefore he has decided to rename his Open Source project to
"TuxMobil" (http://tuxmobil.org).
Nevertheless he is already asking the highest German court to permit
an appelation against the decision of the latest instance in court. The
appelation will take approximately four years. In the meantime the
trademark MobiliX can't be used, except he would be able to give
a pawn of 200.000 EURO for this time. The lawyers of Werner Heuser
Jaschinski, Biere und Brexl - JBB (http://www.jbb.de) are confident
to win the last instance. This would also help many other projects. The
number of trademarks ending on "ix", which have trouble with
Les Edition Albert René is increasing. Many projects can't effort
the high financial risk to fight back.
In autumn 2001 Les Edition Albert René, the owner of the trademark Obelix
has charged Werner Heuser. He is the owner of the wellknown open source
project MobiliX (now TuxMobil http://tuxmobil.org) . This project provides a
plenty of information about UniX operating systems like Linux, BSD and
Solaris on mobile computers. Therefore he has choosen a name, which
expresses this by a combination of the words "Mobile" and "iX". According
to the plaintiff he has choosen a word very similar to their trademark
Obelix, because he wants to take advantage of their famous name.
A detailed documentation of the case, containing information
about other projects under siege and the written statements of the
lawyers JBB, is available online
(http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html).
*- Please update your bookmarks and help by changing all -*
*- the links from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org -*
--
|=| Werner Heuser = Keplerstr. 11A = D-10589 Berlin = Germany
|=| <wehe_AT_tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|=| http://Xtops.DE Laptops+PDAs pre-installed with UniX
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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From: FN <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: Microsoft woos academic world
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 13:46:55 CST
========== Forwarded message ==========
URL: http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/1588091
February 20, 2003
Microsoft Woos Academic World
By [72]Thor Olavsrud
Continuing efforts to woo academia, [73]Microsoft ([74]Quote,
[75]Company Info) Thursday said it will release Visual Studio .NET
2003 Academic Edition to U.S. schools in conjunction with professional
versions of the development environment. Additionally, the source code
for a number of environment's components will be made available under
Microsoft's [76]Shared Source Initiative through an Academic Tools
Source License.
The company also announced the [77]25 recipients of its 2003 Microsoft
Research (MSR) University Relations Innovation Excellence research
grants. Microsoft selected the 25 recipients from 152 submissions, and
will award $3.5 million to the chosen projects.
The open source community has made tremendous strides in the halls of
academia, where a platform like Linux has great appeal for students
because it is free and it can be taken apart and examined. This has
the potential to become a big problem for a company like Microsoft,
which is generally regarded with antipathy by the open source
community for its perceived ruthless business practices and the
jealous guarding of its secrets -- a practice that is at loggerheads
with a culture that has grown up with the mantra "information needs to
be free."
A future in which generations of young programmers are brought into
the Linux fold and not trained to utilize Microsoft platforms could be
a disaster for the company. To combat this problem, Microsoft created
the Shared Source Initiative, a program which gives access to the
Windows source code to certain customers, partners, developers and
academics.
"Today's announcements are about working with academia to foster
innovation and help students and professors be successful," said Eric
Rudder, senior vice president for the Developer and Platform
Evangelism Division at Microsoft. "Academic developers are defining
the future at educational institutions around the world. Our mission
is to make our software and programs so easily accessible that
students and educators are limited only by their own imaginations."
With the new Academic Edition, and the [78]Shared Source Common
Language Infrastructure (CLI), also known as 'Rotor' -- which offers
up the core source code of the .NET Framework -- Microsoft aims to
give students and educators a look under the hood of its environment
and allows them to use multiple programming languages, including
Eiffel, Scheme, C# and Java to learn their craft.
"The Shared Source Initiative, and particularly 'Rotor,' is vital in
helping us achieve the learning objectives of our .NET MSc Distributed
Systems Development graduate program," said David Grey, professor of
computer science at University of Hull in England. "We strongly
believe that providing our students with the inner workings of the
.NET Framework and the Shared Source CLI as part of this degree
program will give them a significant edge in research and in expertise
needed to excel in the areas of Web services and mobile and
distributed computing."
Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition will be available through
subscription to the MSDN Academic Alliance program, which computer
science departments can join for $799.
The Visual Studio .NET Academic Tools Source Licensing Program will
become available through the Shared Source Initiative in summer 2003,
providing access to the source code for Assignment Manager Server,
Assignment Manager Faculty Client and Assignment Manager Student
Client. The program will allow professors, students, academic
researchers and independent developers to use, modify and redistribute
the licensed source code of the Assignment Manager for both commercial
and non-commercial purposes, including the creation and distribution
of derivatives for non-Windows-based applications. (#)
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From: richard@audioscout.com (ricky)
Subject: IBM releases linux Grid computing tools
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:07:55 CST
Hey,
Just found a cool story on IBM's push into grid computing, along with
their release of the IBM Grid Toolbox, at www.availinux.com. You can
check it out here...
http://www.availinux.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=42
There's also a interview with Grid guru Argonne's Steve Tuecke, who is
making the vision of Grid computing a reality!
Enjoy!
-Ricky
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