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Linux-Announce Digest #672
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Linux-Announce Digest #672, Volume #4 Fri, 6 Feb 2004 08:13:03 EST
Contents:
Real Poker - Poker Simulation (Marshall Lake)
ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.0 pre3 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[Fsf-press] RMS meets President of India (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 11:18:20 CST
From: Marshall Lake <mlake@NS.mlake.net>
Subject: Real Poker - Poker Simulation
This is to announce the initial release (v0.2.6) of Real Poker. Real
Poker is a poker simulation. Poker games in various environments will
be able to be played (when completed). New poker games may be created
by the user now. Hand simulations may be run now. Network play will
be supported when code is completed.
Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/realpoker
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:48:58 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.0 pre3 (fwd)
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Hi all,
The latest pre-release of the upcoming 2.0 GIMP is hot off the
presses and available for download now at
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v2.0/testing/
or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html
Screenshots of some of the features available in the shiny new GIMP
are at http://developer.gimp.org/screenshots.html
We fixed a bunch of bugs, and we have another bunch to fix, and
we're sure we haven't found them all yet. If you find any for us,
please report them to http://bugzilla.gnome.org, against the GIMP
product. We really do appreciate it.
A special mention goes out to the GIMP Animation Package from Wolfgang
Hofer, available here
ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/plug-ins/v2.0/gap/testing/
The plug-in has recently had a 2.0 pre-release of its own. This plug-in
is the best thing sinced sliced cheese. Screenshots are available (in
French) at http://gimp-fr.org/html/mongimpfr/gap/gap2.html
Happy GIMPing,
Dave.
Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.0pre3
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- 127451: Anchor floating selection when creating a text layer (Mitch)
- 50649: Allow to call script-fu scripts from plug-ins (Mitch)
- 132617: Improved gimp-remote behaviour (Sven)
- 132036: Fixed issues with libart scan conversion (Simon)
- 132041: Made info window not grab the focus (Mitch)
- 132077: Redraw layer boundary when using transform tools (Mitch)
- 132089: Flip tool misbehaviours (Mitch)
- 132032: User interface issues with Plugin Details (David Odin)
- 132145: Use default values when stroking from the PDB (Mitch)
- 132162: Anchoring a floating selection on a channel (Mitch)
- 132271: Mosaic filter on selections (Simon)
- 132322: gimp-levels on grayscale images (Mitch)
- 132329: Info window doesn't show inital values (Shlomi Fish)
- 118084: Info window not updated in automatic mode (Shlomi Fish)
- 132495: Positioning of glyphs that extend the logical rectangle (Sven)
- 108659: Use g_spawn in postscript plug-in (Peter Kirchgessner)
- 132508: Problems with path tool in Edit mode (Simon)
- 132504: Fixed unsharp mask script (Mitch)
- 132595: Don't draw the selection if it's hidden (Sven)
- 132027: Crash in gimpressionist (Sven)
- 132596: Use default values for color DND (Mitch)
- 132493: Tuned Comic Logo script (Pedro Gimeno)
- 132649: Allow to fill the whole selection using bucket-fill (Mitch)
- 131902: Improved handling of missing tags in TIFF loader (Andrey Kiselev)
- 93806: Validate script-fu input (Yosh)
- 132214: Differentiate writable and readonly data directories (Mitch)
- 131964: Zoom ratio problem (Simon)
- 132969: Set help-id for tool on tool options dock (Mitch)
- 132999: Make assembler code PIC safe (Yosh)
- 119878: Use the same keyboard shortcuts in all GIMP windows
(except the toolbox window) (Mitch)
- 131975 &
- 132297: Disable some warnings while loading TIFFs (Raphael)
- 129529: Add a "randomize" toggle to random number widget (Dave Neary)
- 133099: Duplicate PDB entries problem (Mitch)
- 133122: Disallow renaming of layer masks and some floating selections (Mitch)
- 130118: Allow non-UTF8 characters in the GIMP home directory (Mitch)
- 122026: Workaround a bug in gdk_draw_segments() (David Odin)
- 133280: Remove deleted scripts from the menu (Mitch)
- 133270: Replace deprecated enum values in scripts (Kevin Cozens)
- 133180: Sort menu entries for save and load procedures (Mitch)
- 131563: Use percentages for zoom ratios (Simon, Sven)
Other contributions:
Manish Singh, Tor Lillqvist, Jakub Steiner, Michael Natterer,
Sven Neumann, Kevin Cozens
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 04:25:40 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: [Fsf-press] RMS meets President of India (fwd)
Apologies for the delay in circulating. FN
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Press Release from Free Software Foundation of India
FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION OF INDIA
PRESS RELEASE
January 29, 2004
Richard Stallman meets the President of India
Dr. Richard M Stallman, world-renowned software guru and founder of the
Free Software Foundation (FSF), had a meeting with His Excellency the
President of India, Bharat Ratna Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at 2:15 pm
today.
The meeting took place at the Rashrapati Bhavan, official residence of
the President of India. At the meeting, Dr. Stallman explained to Dr.
Kalam the ethical issues related to the use of proprietary software. The
President was impressed by the issues raised by Dr. Stallman. It is
understood that the President has instructed for the use of free
softwaree for his IT facilities. Dr. Stallman also discussed the issues
of using proprietary software in schools, which prevents children from
sharing and learning to share. Implications of IT@School project in
Kerala also got mention.
Stallman's meeting with the president took place in the backdrop of
support for free and open source software extended by the president at a
public speech recently.
Dr Stallman has been in India from January 16th. His programmes included
the World Social Forum in Mumbai from January 16 to 22, lectures at
Thrissur, Ernakulam and Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, and meetings with
various government officials in the state regarding the use of free
software in government initiatives.
Further information on the Free Software Foundation and its Indian
chapter can be obtained from the web sites: http://www.gnu.org and
http://gnu.org.in.
Free Software Foundation, India.
Press Contact
Email : gnu@gnu.org.in
Phone : 094470 34795
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About Free Software Foundation of India:
The Free Software Foundation of India, an official Indian affiliate
of FSF, was formally inaugurated by Richard Stallman at the Freedom
First! conference held at Trivandrum in Kerala on 21st July 2001. FSF
India works for creating awareness of the ideals of free software
movement in India. FSF India strives to ensure that free software is
strong in all respects, and it forms a genuine, credible, and viable
alternative to proprietary software for almost every kind of
application. It also undertakes development of free software for local
needs and promotes the development of the same in the country.
About Free Software Foundation:
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to
promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and
redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and
use of Free (as in freedom) Software -- particularly the GNU operating
system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and Free Documentation for Free
Software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and
political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their web site,
located at http://www.fsf.org, is an important source of information
about GNU/Linux. They are headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
About Richard Stallman:
Richard Stallman is the founder of the Gnu Project, launched in 1984 to
develop the free operating system GNU (an acronym for ``GNU's Not
Unix''), and thereby give computer users the freedom that most of them
have lost. GNU is free software: everyone is free to copy it and
redistribute it, as well as to make
changes either large or small. Today, Linux-based variants of the GNU
system, based on the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are in
widespread use. There are estimated to be
some 20 million users of GNU/Linux systems today.
Richard Stallman is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection,
a portable optimizing compiler which was designed to support diverse
architectures and multiple languages. The compiler now supports over
30different architectures and 7 programming languages.
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