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Linux-Announce Digest #447
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Linux-Announce Digest #447, Volume #4 Tue, 17 Jun 2003 05:13:10 EDT
Contents:
News from the GLUG-T ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
TuxMobil: Linux-Mobile-Guide 3.13 ("Werner Heuser")
TuxMobil: InfraRed-HOWTO 3.6 ("Werner Heuser")
LILO version 22.5.5 released (johninsd at san dot rr dot com)
NEWS-INDIA: Public interest ligitation seeks Window out of Microsoft ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Last Chance to Register for ClusterWorld Conference & Expo (Monica Ortiz)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: News from the GLUG-T
Date: 16 Jun 2003 12:10:00 GMT
An interesting report from South India... FN
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From: "Vijay Kumar B." <ec10052@rect.ernet.in>
Subject: [glug-t] Meeting Minutes
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:02:43 GMT
Every GLUG-T meeting is a different experience. But this one was a
_really_ different experience. By 10:00am the strength was around 7(4
boys and 3 girls). But the people at Accel who were to provide the
meeting place had not arrived yet. One of our speaker's Mr. Balaji had
also not arrived. We decided to start.
We sat down a flight of stairs in the Accel building.(There are no
barriers for the exchange of knowledge!) Luckily I had my laptop with
me which served the purpose of a digital black board. Manik borrowed
the watch man's chair to put the laptop on top of it.
The meeting started with an introduction of the two new girls 8-)
Then we moved on to the first topic 'Game Programming in SDL' by me.
I started off with crediting the author Sam Lantinga, and then showed
a few programs written using SDL, to get an idea of what we are going
to talk about.
Heres a list of stuff I then started talking about:
1) Initializing the library, and quitting the library.
2) Video modes, resolution, bit depth, and the flags available with
SDL_SetVideoMode.
3) Different bit depth formats and their details and functions
available to generate those pixel formats from RGB values.
4) Drawing graphics on the screen either by directly accessing the
pixels or by blitting. Locking and Unlocking the surface.
5) Loading windows BMP files, using SDL_LoadBMP.
6) Keyboard event handling using SDL's polling function and reading
the keyboard status using SDL_GetKeyState. Did I say that you will use
SDL_PumpEvents before using SDL_GetKeyState?
7) Providing proper delay using SDL_Delay and SDL_GetTicks.
This was what I had prepared to talk about but Manik insisted that I
explain the logic used in my pacman clone(one of the demos I had shown
at the start). So I went on to explain state machines and the A*
algorithm.
We then moved on to the next topic of the meeting "Regular
Expressions" by Rams.
By then another staff of STEP TREC had joined us. He also informed us
that Mr. Balaji will not be coming for the meeting because he was
stuck up with some web server problem.
Rams explained the history of the regular expression. It seems regexp
were used long back in Set theory and were latter adopted in the
computer world. Rams started off with repetition operators used with
regular expressions '*' and '+'. He used the grep program and the
dictionary file to demonstrate their purpose. He also explained that
their meanings were different from the ones used in shell
expansion. Here is a list of what he spoke about:
1) '.' and '?' repetition operators.
2) Anchoring using '^' and '$' to match the beginning and end of line.
3) Subexpressions and the infix operator "|".
4) Back referencing. (I particularly liked the palindrome searching
example.)
5) Bracket expression using '[' ']'. Negating the
expression. Specifying ranges.
6) Character classes to be used within Bracket expression.
7) Repetition operators '{N, M}'
8) Operators(?) related to the edge of a word '\b', '\B'.
9) Operators(?) related to the beginning and end of a word '\<' '\>'.
On my request he gave us a list of tools that use regexp. extensively -
awk, sed, perl, emacs, etc. He also showed us how to use regexp search
in emacs.
I then told the new members about our mailing lists. We then discussed
about the topics for the next meeting. Muthu wanted to give us an
introduction on Python, I wanted to show everybody a demo on the One
True Program ;-), and Mr. Balaji would talk on clusters. We can
only hope that the next meeting's venue will not be a staircase but a
more glamorous hall at SASTRA.
I hope all the members carried back home great experiences of this
wonderful(?!) meeting.
Non-free* software sucks. - RMS
* 'free' as in freedom.
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From: "Werner Heuser" <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: TuxMobil: Linux-Mobile-Guide 3.13
Date: 16 Jun 2003 16:05:01 GMT
Hi,
The Linux-Mobile-Guide is a manual covering laptop and PDA related Linux
features, such as installation methods (via PCMCIA, without CD drive,
etc.), hardware features (PCMCIA, IrDA, APM, etc.) and configurations for
different (network) environments.
HTML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html
Please note these URLs have moved from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org because
of severe trademark trouble with Asterix and Obelix. A documentation of the
trademark case is at http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html
Werner
Changes:
- v3.13 15 June 2003
- a new chapter about internal and external numeric keyboards was added
- minor changes
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|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 11:00:41 CST
From: "Werner Heuser" <Werner.Heuser@web.de>
Subject: TuxMobil: InfraRed-HOWTO 3.6
Hi,
there is a new issue of the InfraRed-HOWTO available in different
formats:
HTML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html
SGML http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html
Please note these URLs have moved from mobilix.org to tuxmobil.org because
of severe trademark trouble with Asterix and Obelix. A documentation of the
trademark case is at
http://tuxmobil.org/mobilix_asterix.html
The Infrared-HOWTO provides an introduction to Linux and infrared
devices and how to use the software provided by the Linux/IrDA
project. This package uses IrDA(TM) compliant standards. IrDA(TM) is
an industrial standard for infrared wireless communication, and most
laptops made after January 1996 are equipped with an IrDA(TM)
compliant infrared transceiver. Infrared ports let you communicate
with printers, modems, fax machines, LANs, and other laptops.
Remote Control (RC) via infrared is the aim of the Linux Infrared Remote
Control - LIRC project, and also described in this HOWTO.
Werner
Changes:
- v3.6, 15 June 2003,
- added PDAs to abstract,
- URLs updated
- minor changes
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|=| <wehe at tuxmobil.org> T. 0049 - (0)30 - 349 53 86
|=| http://TuxMobil.org UniX on Mobile Systems: HOWTOs,Software
|*| This is no time for phony rhetoric -- Lou Reed
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From: johninsd at san dot rr dot com <bitbucket@hotmail.com>
Subject: LILO version 22.5.5 released
Date: 16 Jun 2003 20:10:20 GMT
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LILO release 22.5.5 is based upon Werner Almesberger's LILO version 21.
Version 22.5.5 is a minor update to version 22.5.4
o Improve 'mkrescue' --iso option with 'el-torito-bootable-cd' flag
o '-M' switch gives option of 'mbr' or 'ext' loaders; latter will boot
from extended partitions
o '-A' switch recognizes 'ext' loader, and allows activating extended part.
o Chain loader begins with memory map from second stage; also can merge
mapped drives into the drive map; never more than one EBDA drive mapper
Version 22.5.4 is a minor update to version 22.5.3
o Bugs in caching algorithm fixed. With no BIOS data check, IDE drives
are correctly assigned before SCSI drives. Volume ID check corrected.
o Compilation option SUSPEND, for optional booting from a suspend
partition using 'vmdefault='. This is disabled in the standard release.
o Updated 'mkrescue' will produce a bootable diskette without a prior
LILO boot. Plus '--iso' option will produce a bootable CD image.
Version 22.5.3 is a minor update to version 22.5.2
o Handle kernels with DEVFS_FS compiled in, but 'devfs' not mounted and
not supported by the existing /dev directory hierarchy.
Version 22.5.2 is a minor update to version 22.5.1
o Handles reiser4 filesystem
o Bugfixes: raid-extra-boot=/dev/XXX where XXX is outside the raid set,
bootloader get number of hard drives
o -M switch creates backup files of sectors (-s and -S switches)
Version 22.5.1 is a minor update to version 22.5
o Writearounds are included for two BIOS bugs which could kill 22.5:
- Video BIOS destroy's DX register
- BIOS does not pass boot device code in DL
o Boot sector backups are handled in a more consistent fashion.
o Optional configuration file keywords are added: master-boot, boot-as=,
raid-extra-boot=mbr, bios-passes-dl= (or -Z switch).
Version 22.5 is a major update to version 22.4.1
o Booting is based upon industry-standard volume labels (s/n), which are
translated to BIOS device codes. Changes in the disk configuration
which cause the BIOS to assign device codes in a different order should
be transparent to the user.
o 256-color bitmap boot screens are now supported using VESA video BIOS
extensions. Both RGB and RLE encoded *.bmp files are supported.
Version 22.4.1 is a minor update to version 22.4.
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
22.5.5 and prior releases.
--John Coffman <johninsd at san dot rr dot com>
LILO version 22++ links at:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lilo
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: NEWS-INDIA: Public interest ligitation seeks Window out of Microsoft
Date: 17 Jun 2003 05:15:06 GMT
PIL SEEKS WINDOW OUT OF MICROSOFT
The Financial Express, June 12, 2003 www.financialexpress.com
Sudarshan Kumar | New Delhi | June 11
EVEN AS Microsoft wages war against rival open source operating system
Linux around the world, a public interest ligitgation (PIL) filed in the
Jharkhand High Court could add fuel to the open source versus proprietary
software debate, particularly in the e-governance space.
The Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is ubiquitous through its popular
Windows operating system which runs most of the world's desktop computers.
The petition filed by a high court lawyer in Ranchi pleads for a directive
to the Indian government and the state of Jharkhand to implement cheaper
open source (read, Linux) software instead of expensive proprietary
products.
There has been a renewed thrust within governments, both in the states and
at the Centre, to evaluate alternatives on Linux.
Linux is an open source code operating system developed by software
programmer Linus Torvalds to offer an alternative to the Unix system,
variants of which are offered by leading vendors in their proprietary
versions.
The Linux source code is free to everyone under a general public licence.
The term 'Linux' was developed from 'Unix' and 'Linus'. The
petitioner-lawyer, Manish Kumar, did not wish to go on the record to share
details of the petition. However, sources familiar with the process said
point of admission hearing has been fixed for June 12.
The petition says the proprietary software is available at a high price
and its source code cannot be modified except with the approval of its
owner. The code for open source software is, however, freely available and
can be modified according to the user's requirements.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company could not comment on the PIL "as
it is sub-judice". However, sources close to the company said Linux was
often used by government officials as an "arm-twisting" tool during
negotiations.
On the open source debate, Microsoft India head of marketing Sanjiv Mathur
said: "Both commercial and open source software play important roles in
the broader IT ecosystem -- and in supporting IT-related development. The
commercial software model has effectively demonstrated development-related
advantages, including cost-effectiveness, opportunities for growth,
long-term sustainability and affordable access. These advantages will
largely be lost if developing nations, like India, adopt biases against
commercial software or enact policies that inhibit the growth of a
domestic commercial software industry."
Microsoft has recently invited Jharkhand chief minister Ajun Munda to a
'government leadership summit' in Redmond. Mr Munda, however, did not
attend the mid-May meet.
The company has been persistent in its evangelising effort to woo
governments and corporates alike across the world to implement its
proprietary products and solutions.
Critics say these licensing deals lock customers into heavy initial
investments and regular payments for 'upgrades' to improved versions that
are launched periodically.
The software maker last month lost a key battle against Linux in Munich,
Germany, where the city council decided to switch its 14,000-computer
network to the open source operating system.
Linux itself came under attack recently, albeit indirectly, with Unix code
owner SCO Group (formerly Santa Cruz Operations) suing IBM (International
Business Machines) for an alleged breach of contract. SCO says IBM handed
over pieces of its proprietary Unix code to Linux developers. While IBM
has denied any wrongdoing, Microsoft expressed tacit support for SCO by
licensing its Unix technology. (ENDS)
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