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Linux-Announce Digest #406
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Linux-Announce Digest #406, Volume #4 Thu, 8 May 2003 20:13:02 EDT
Contents:
MultiMail Offline Reader, v0.44 (William McBrine)
Announcing SOLIS, a Free Software Co-operative (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
NEWS: IBM invests to develop open source software ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
"The Book of Webmin" from by No Starch Press (Janet del Mundo)
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From: William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: MultiMail Offline Reader, v0.44
Date: 8 May 2003 02:10:02 GMT
MultiMail is a free, open source (GPL) offline mail packet reader for
Unix, DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS and AtheOS. It currently supports the Blue
Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP formats. It uses a simple curses-based interface.
The MultiMail home page is:
http://multimail.sourceforge.net/
Alternately, you can get it via FTP:
ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/multimail/
Binaries for several platforms are available, along with the source code.
What's New in version 0.44?
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* Speculative fix for corrupt QWK reply problem
* New key for filter function, other filter fixes
* Fixes for END key in input, segfaults in ANSI, display bugs
* Compiles under Sun C++
* Etc.
Begin3
Title: MultiMail (source)
Version: 0.44
Entered-date: 07MAY03
Description: MultiMail is a curses-based Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN and SOUP
offline mail reader for Unix and other systems.
Keywords: mail bluewave omen qwk soup bbs fido offline reader
Author: wmcbrine@users.sf.net (William McBrine) et al.
Maintained-by: wmcbrine@users.sf.net (William McBrine)
Primary-site: download.sourceforge.net /pub/sourceforge/multimail
217088 mmail-0.44.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/bbs/mail
Original-site:
Platforms: C++, curses and InfoZip or PKZIP. Tested on Linux, Solaris,
NetBSD, MS-DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS, AtheOS, FreeBSD, MacOS X, QNX
Copying-policy: GPL 2.0
End
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William McBrine <wmcbrine@users.sourceforge.net>
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Announcing SOLIS, a Free Software Co-operative (fwd)
Date: 8 May 2003 05:10:02 GMT
========== Forwarded message ==========
SOLIS, Free Software Co-operative
Lajeado, RS, Brazil
May, 7th 2003
What is a Co-operative?
"Co-ops are based on helping each other and caring for others.
A co-operative is a a type of business or organization. It is a group of
people who are working together to solve their own problems and meet
their needs. Co-ops are different from other types of organisations
since they abide by three main rules:
* Co-ops treat people fairly and respectfully;
* Co-ops encourage people to work together towards solving their
mutual problems;
* Co-ops provide products and services to meet people's needs rather
than solely for the purpose of making money."
(Extracted from http://www.ica.coop/kids)
What is Free Software?
"Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy,
distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it
refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
* The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your
needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for
this.
* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
(freedom 2).
* The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements
to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3).
Access to the source code is a precondition for this."
(Extracted from http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html)
Reading the definitions above, you will see Co-operative and Free
Software share a common set of principles, based on community building
and freedom. It seems natural to use a co-operative organization to
produce Free Software. This is what SOLIS does.
Started at the UNIVATES IT department (www.univates.br/freesoftware),
SOLIS is formed now by almost 30 people who make their living producing
free software (half of them working directly with free software
development in projects such as SAGU, GNUTECA and others) and selling
training, customization and services to customers who are able to
understand and share the Free Software phylosophy. All software produced
by SOLIS is licensed under the GPL.
UNIVATES, an University Center in the South of Brazil, actually helped
the startup of SOLIS by allowing the University's IT department to
provide services and training on the software produced originally for
the University. Amazingly enough, if you search Google (www.google.com)
with the keywords: Free Software Brazil -- you will see UNIVATES pages
as the first ones being displayed. Instead of capitalizing on top of
free software services itself, UNIVATES decided to outsource its own IT
services to the group already providing these services to the
University, allowing the inauguration of SOLIS. By doing this, UNIVATES
expects SOLIS will grow and provide a workplace for its computer science
and other students, fostering regional development, once money spent on
free software solutions stay in the region and won't go to proprietary
software companies outside Brazil.
SOLIS starts with a full set of products for academic administration,
library automation and others, and it is setting up local partnerships
in order to "free" (GPL) a comprehensive set of solutions for small and
medium enterprises.
"We understand by offering free software for our local industries and
commerce, we will allow them to better automate their business and
become more competitive, at the same time we create job positions for
people who will be supporting this software and further developing it.
Right now, the existing proprietary software solutions don't allow the
automation of several businesses in our region.", says João Alex
Fritsch, President of SOLIS.
Because SOLIS is a cooperative, not a corporation, there is no danger
that SOLIS will accept outside investment from people who have no
ethical attachment to the principles of free software. Such investment
has been the downfall of many free software companies, since the outside
investors often decide to develop non-free software.
For more information, please contact Cesar Brod, Executive
Vice-President, at cesar at brod.com.br, or visit www.solis.coop.br
Cesar Brod
Executive Vice-President
cesar at brod dot com dot br
SOLIS, Cooperativa de Soluções Livres
www.solis.coop.br
55 51 3714-7040
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS: IBM invests to develop open source software
Date: 8 May 2003 05:10:06 GMT
IBM invests to develop open source software
By Imran Qureshi, Indo-Asian News Service
Bangalore, May 7 (IANS) IBM India Wednesday formally agreed to set up its
Linux-based centre of excellence in Hubli, 400 km from here, in a bid to
develop talent and technology devoted to open source software.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between Karnataka and IBM India
provides the framework for the discussions that IBM chairman and CEO
Sam Palmisano had with Chief Minister S.M. Krishna Monday.
"The Hubli branch of the Indian Institute of Information Technology
(IIIT-Bangalore) is the single largest point of over 100 students working on
open source in India," IIIT-B director S. Sadagopan told IANS.
"IBM would help guide its emergence as a open source hub for not only talent
but also technologies."
The importance that Big Blue attached to the MoU signing ceremony could be
gauged from the presence of Steve Mills, senior vice president and group
executive, software group, IBM Corp.
Frank Luksic, IBM country executive, software group and developer relations,
signed the MoU with Karnataka IT Secretary Vivek Kulkarni in the presence of
Krishna and Abraham Thomas, managing director, IBM India.
"IBM has developed several open source technologies that have been accepted
by the world," Mills told reporters after the ceremony.
"We could, perhaps, look at some of those developed at the centre of
excellence after some time. Our investment spans a whole range of
activities, including developing software skills and financial elements."
However, both Mills and Luksic declined to specify the amount of the
investment.
"Investment in education cannot be quantified. We go by building skills and
talent," said Krishna.
The Hubli unit consists of 100 students drawn from seven engineering
colleges of north Karnataka, all of whom are working on open source software
projects. The branch is linked to IIIT on the outskirts of Bangalore through
a virtual private network and the students listen to live lectures daily.
The Hubli branch had already received a donation of Rs.10 million from Sudha
Murthy, chairperson of the Infosys Foundation.
"The setting up of the centre for excellence is a small effort to convert a
downloading nation to an uploading nation," Sadagopan said.
Said Mills: "IBM is committed to education and skill building. We are
excited about this centre of excellence so that we can upload new ideas."
"Customers now expect their technology infrastructure and solutions to work
with hardware, software and solutions from multiple vendors, bringing to an
end the era of proprietary systems.
"Industry and governments will now cooperate closely to create innovative
and reusable solutions through open source software," Mills added.
--Indo-Asian News Service
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From: Janet del Mundo <janet@nostarch.com>
Subject: "The Book of Webmin" from by No Starch Press
Date: 8 May 2003 20:50:05 GMT
For Immediate Release
May 8, 2003
To schedule an interview, or request a review copy or cover art, contact
Janet del Mundo at janet@nostarch.com or 415.863.9900.
“THE BOOK OF WEBMIN:” CHANGING THE FACE OF UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
No Starch Press to publish new book on Open Source system administration suite
San Francisco, CA—No Starch Press continues its march into the realm of
burgeoning Open Source markets with “The Book of Webmin” (by Joe Cooper,
$34.95, ISBN 1886411921, June 2003). This book—the first dedicated to the
web-based systems administration toolkit—is a thoroughly revised version of
the Webmin online documentation, also written by Joe Cooper. Just as Webmin
is used by novice and experienced UNIX administrators alike, “The Book of
Webmin” is also a useful reference for a broad spectrum of UNIX and Linux
administrators.
Cooper first wrote “The Book of Webmin” in response to the massive amount
of questions being posted on the Webmin project mailing list. He learned
very quickly that using Webmin was no substitute for knowledge of the
underlying system. “I often tell people that Webmin doesn't make being a
good system administrator easy; it just makes the problems more visible and
the solutions more consistent,” he says. “’The Book of Webmin’ serves as
both an introductory text to many complex topics and a reference guide for
experienced system administrators." While experienced system administrators
may prefer the flexibility that comes with using the command line for some
tasks, “The Book of Webmin” affords them the luxury of not having to
memorize every complex syntax in order to maintain their system.
"The Book of Webmin" shows readers a new way of accomplishing real-world
system administration tasks. Readers learn how to:
* Install, configure, and customize Webmin to suit different environments,
including those with many users and varying access levels
* Setup and maintain a virtual hosting webserver, with mail, name service,
and FTP
* Get up and running with Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, BIND, Squid, and WU-FTPD
* Secure the machine from crackers using password policy, application level
network access control, SSL, and firewalls
“The Book of Webmin” brings to fruition a collaboration between No Starch
Press and the Webmin project leaders, which began when Webmin was still in
beta. Because of its flexibility as an independent publisher, No Starch
Press is able to engage in the free exchange of information that is the
hallmark of the Open Source process. “The Book of Webmin,” for example,
will be published under the GNU Free Documentation License (GNU FDL). Bill
Pollock, President of No Starch Press explains: “We give authors the choice
of what license to use for our books. Some prefer the traditional closed
publishing agreement and some prefer publishing their work under a free
license. From a sales standpoint, either way works. Publishing works under
free licenses generates extra readership and publicity by virtue of being
so accessible.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joe Cooper is co-founder and CEO of Swell Technology—developers of a
successful line of web caching server appliances. He has contributed code
to Webmin, written several Webmin modules, and has created a custom Webmin
theme.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Table of contents: http://www.nostarch.com/frameset.php?startat=webmin_toc
Sample chapter: http://www.nostarch.com/webmin_ch11.pdf
THE BOOK OF WEBMIN
Joe Cooper
ISBN 1886411921
368 pp., $34.95, $49.95 (Cdn)
June 2003
To order from No Starch Press—email: orders@nostarch.com or call:
800.420.7240 or + 1 415.863.9900
ABOUT NO STARCH PRESS
Since 1994, No Starch Press has published unique books on computing, with a
focus on Open Source, security, hacking, web development, programming,
gaming, and alternative operating systems. Our titles have personality, our
authors are passionate, and our goal is to make computing accessible to
everyone.
Contact: Janet del Mundo, janet@nostarch.com or +1 415.863.9900.
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