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Linux-Announce Digest #454, Volume #4 Mon, 23 Jun 2003 21:13:03 EDT
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ANN: Puppy Linux v0.2 released, boots off a CDROM ("Barry Kauler")
First beta for gawk 3.1.3 now available (Aharon Robbins)
[SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings (Paul M Foster)
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From: "Barry Kauler" <bkauler@goosee.com>
Subject: ANN: Puppy Linux v0.2 released, boots off a CDROM
Date: 23 Jun 2003 08:50:02 GMT
Just a few days after the first release of Puppy Linux, v0.1,
I now have v0.2 available, with some structural improvements
and Puppy now boots off a CDROM -- the ISO is only 20M.
My tiny Linux distro, called "Puppy" is available for
download, v0.2:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy
This version is experimental, not for newbies.
Puppy has a reasonable suite of X apps and runs entirely
in a 48M ramdisk, which means that everything happens in
the blink of an eye.
Experimenters wanted, to get Puppy to boot off different
media. First take on it is I have Puppy booting off a
USB flash card. Now a CDROM. Next...
With v0.2 I have made some structural changes that make
it easier to get Puppy to boot off just about anything, so if
you have already downloaded v0.1, please grab v0.2
-- and please check the checksum. The image.gz is 18.5M
but I have a slow dialup Internet connection and the upload
takes about 2.5 hours, and I keep my fingers crossed that
the whole thing will arrive intact.
Regards,
Barry Kauler
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From: Aharon Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>
Subject: First beta for gawk 3.1.3 now available
Date: 23 Jun 2003 11:50:01 GMT
Greetings all. The first beta for gawk 3.1.3 is now available.
You have your choice of download protocol and compression format.
http://www.skeeve.com/gawk-3.1.2g.tar.gz
http://www.skeeve.com/gawk-3.1.2g.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/upload/gawk-3.1.2g.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.freefriends.org/arnold/upload/gawk-3.1.2g.tar.bz2
If no one reports major problems, I'd like to release 3.1.3 next week.
PLEASE TEST THIS ONE OUT. I want 3.1.3 to be stable for a long time.
The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended.
Arnold
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Changes from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3
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1. Gawk now follows POSIX in handling of local numeric formats for
input, output and number/string conversions.
2. Multibyte detection improved. See README_d/README.multibyte for more
info about multibyte locales.
3. Handling of close() made more POSIX-compliant for POSIXLY_CORRECT,
see the documentation.
4. The record reading code was redone, again. This time it's much
better. Really!
5. For RS = "\n" and RS = "", gawk now only sets RT when it has changed.
This provides considerable performance improvement.
6. match() now sets all the subscripts in the third argument array
correctly, even if not all subexpressions matched.
7. Updated to Automake 1.7.5. configure.in renamed configure.ac.
8. C-style switch statements are available, but must be enabled at
compile time via `configure --enable-switch'. For 3.2 they'll be
enabled by default. Thanks to Michael Benzinger for the initial
code.
9. %c now always prints no more than one character, whatever
precision is provided.
10. strtonum(<number>) now works again.
11. Gawk is now much better about scalar/array typing of global
uninitiailzed variables passed as parameters. Once the parameter
is then used one way or the other, the global var's type is
adjusted accordingly. Thanks to Stepan Kasal for the original
(considerable) changes.
12. Dynamic function loading under WIN32 should now be possible. See
README_d/README.pcdynamic. Thanks to Patrick T.J. McPhee for the changes.
13. Updated to gettext 0.12.1.
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Aharon (Arnold) Robbins --- Pioneer Consulting Ltd. arnold@skeeve.com
P.O. Box 354 Home Phone: +972 8 979-0381 Fax: +1 928 569 9018
Nof Ayalon Cell Phone: +972 51 297-545
D.N. Shimshon 99785 ISRAEL
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From: Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
Subject: [SLUG] Suncoast LUG Meetings
Date: 23 Jun 2003 23:45:01 GMT
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* Suncoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) *
* Meeting Schedule *
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DUNEDIN **************************************************
28 June 10:00-12:00 Dunedin
(usually fourth Saturday of each month)
Dunedin Public Library,
223 Douglas Ave.,
Community Room A.
Dunedin, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#dunedin for directions.
ST PETERSBURG ********************************************
30 June 19:00-21:00 St Petersburg
(usually last Monday of each month)
St Petersburg Public Library, Main Branch
Auditorium
3745 Ninth Ave North
St Petersburg, FL 33713
727-893-7724
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#stpete for directions.
BRANDON **************************************************
3 July 20:00-22:00 Brandon
(first Thursday of each month)
Brandon Barnes & Noble
Brandon Town Center
Brandon, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#Brandon for directions.
NEW PORT RICHEY ******************************************
5 July 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, FL
See http://www.suncoastlug.org/meetings.html#npr for directions.
TAMPA ****************************************************
9 July 19:00-21:00 Tampa
(second Wednesday of each month)
Technology Bldg, Room 301
Hillsborough Community College
Dale Mabry Campus
4001 Tampa Bay Blvd
Tampa, FL
See http://www.hccfl.edu/dalemabry/dmmap.htm and
http://www.hccfl.edu/dalemabry/map.htm for directions.
***** NEW LOCATION *****
SARASOTA/BRADENTON ***************************************
16 July 18:00-21:00 Sarasota
(third Wednesday of each month)
Honeywell
8323 Lindbergh Court
Sarasota, FL
See http://www.bish.net/directions/
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ACTIVITIES:
Meetings include:
1) Presentation: As indicated.
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!)
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