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Linux-Announce Digest #758
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Linux-Announce Digest #758, Volume #4 Sun, 2 May 2004 19:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Live CD for bio/chemical modeling ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Enhanced Linux System Accounting project (Guillaume Thouvenin)
State of the GnuCash project, a call for help (aw)
New Linux User Group (Roy Hoobler)
Automake 1.8.4. released... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Live CD for bio/chemical modeling
Date: 2 May 2004 10:00:01 GMT
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 11:36:06 +0530
From: "Amish Munshi" <amish_munshi@fastmail.fm>
Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Announcing live CD for bio/chemical modeling
To: "GNU_Linux Users Group" <linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in>
Message-ID: <1083477966.22404.185482710@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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Pratul K. Agarwal from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA) has
released VigyaanCD. Vigyaan (http://www.vigyaancd.org/) is an
electronic workbench for bioinformatics, computational biology and
computational chemistry. It has been designed to meet the needs of
both beginners and experts. VigyaanCD is a complete computer operating
system on a CD, containing all the required software to boot the
computer with ready to use modeling software. No additional software
or operating system is required for VigyaanCD to work.
At present the following ready to use software comes on VigyaanCD:
Artemis, Bioperl, BLAST (NCBI-tools), ClustalX, Cn3D, EMBOSS tools,
Garlic, GROMACS, Ghemical, GNU R, Gnuplot, GIMP, ImageMagick, JMol,
MPQC, NJPlot, Open Babel, Octave, PSI3, PyMOL, Rasmol, Raster3D,
SMILE, TINKER, XDrawChem, Xmgr and Xfig. GNU C/C++/Fortran compilers
and additional Linux tools (such as ps2pdf) are also available.
Received through Mumbai (India)
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From: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Subject: Enhanced Linux System Accounting project
Date: 2 May 2004 12:45:05 GMT
Hello,
We are pleased to announce a new project about accounting on Linux. This
project is called ELSA (Enhanced Linux System Accounting) and a
description follows. Any comments, ideas or participation are welcome.
==================================================
ELSA (Enhanced Linux System Accounting) announce
http://elsa.sourceforge.net
==================================================
The goal of accounting is to collect and report the use of various system
resources by applications. Informations, like process time, CPU usage,
connect time or disk space usage, provides data that helps the system to
adjust the use of resources between processes.
The current BSD-like process accounting that already exists in Linux
collects informations on individual users or groups of users. The ELSA
project aims to improve and extend the monitoring of resources with
different criteria like groups of processes. Another target for this
project is to give Linux an homogeneous set of commands for all kinds of
accounting (memory, CPU and I/O).
Here is the state of the art about ELSA (Enhanced Linux System Accounting).
Concerning the documentation:
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o All drafts can be access at
http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=105806
Concerning the code:
====================
o The structure "bank" allowing to manage groups of process is
based on Linux kernel 2.6.5
o A test program is provided making it possible to validate our
implementation.
o Currently, these structures can be handled by a user via the
system call elsa(). A functional patch is provided on the web
site
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=105806
Concerning the CVS:
===================
o The module structure is a little tricky because we have
created some useless repositories. Anyway, there are 4 modules
which are:
- modifs_kernel: contains modified files for a Linux
kernel 2.6.5. We don't support versions 2.4.x for the
moment but if it's needed, it's easy to port.
- tests: a program that allows to test the "bank" and a
basic Makefile to build the test.
- drafts: contains the documents relating to ELSA.
- scripts: Scripts can manage an environment of work. It
just copies files between environments. It's more for a
personal use.
There are also two unused modules which are:
- elsa
- Documentation
Here is the state of the art.
Feel free to give your opinion. Any comments, ideas or participation
are welcome.
Regards,
The ELSA team
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From: aw <aw@net.org>
Subject: State of the GnuCash project, a call for help
Date: 2 May 2004 12:45:09 GMT
Reply-To: aw@net.org
http://www.gnucash.org/en/state_of_the_gnucash_project.phtml
The GnuCash project is having a hard time. I think most everyone agrees
that GnuCash is a critical piece of software for the GNU/Linux desktop.
It's also one the largest free software projects. How big is it? GnuCash
currently has 287,853 physical source lines of code (SLOC). For example,
had the current GnuCash CVS been included in RedHat 7.1, it would come in
21st position in code size (see http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/). At that
time, the current GnuCash CVS source would have been pretty similar in size
to qt, postgresql or perl, about 60% of Gimp and between 12% and 16% of
Xfree, Mozilla or the Linux kernel. Although GnuCash comes up in every
discussion of needed software to get GNU/Linux on the desktop, the GnuCash
project currently has only about seven active developers (active being used
very loosely here, considering I included myself) and enjoys far less
exposure than many projects of a similar size.
We may be headed for a dead end if we don't reorganize and refocus our
efforts. GnuCash badly needs more manpower (not just developers), and needs
to get it quickly.
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 07:49:30 CST
From: Roy Hoobler <rhoobler@comcast.net>
Subject: New Linux User Group
I'd like to get a LUG started around Newark (or central) New jersey.
If you're interested please email me at rhoobler@comcast.net.
Thanks,
Roy
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Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 15:29:13 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Automake 1.8.4. released...
>From adl@gnu.org Sun May 2 23:41:19 2004
We're pleased to announce that Automake 1.8.4 was released on
April the 25th.
Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in's
suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile
standards, and portable to various make implementations.
This is a bug fix release. The list of bug fixes is appended below.
You can find the new release here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz.sig
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2.sig
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.gz.sig
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2
ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2.sig
Soon it will also appear on the sources and GNU mirrors listed here:
http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
http://sources.redhat.com/mirrors.html
Here are the MD5 sums:
57f405a10fc5990ed6120fbbef3ab502 automake-1.8.4.tar.bz2
0875b1d44c584decfd0afa60a2381b9d automake-1.8.4.tar.gz
Please report bugs to <bug-automake@gnu.org>.
Known issue not fixed in 1.8.4:
Historically Automake has always tried to generate V7 format
tarballs during `make dist'. This format is quite antiquated, but
is portable. It supports filenames with up to 99 characters. When
given longer filenames some tar implementations will diagnose the
problem while other will generate broken or non-V7 tarballs. For
instance GNU tar 1.13.25 will produce an archive with GNU
extensions, while the latest GNU tar beta (1.13.93) will silently
truncate filenames.
Automake 1.9 will have options to select newer tar formats, and
diagnose long filenames. In the meantime we recommand that people
who cannot avoid long filenames in their packages stick to GNU tar
1.13.25.
Bugs fixed in 1.8.4:
* Long standing bugs:
- Fix AM_PATH_PYTHON to correctly display $PYTHON when it has been
overridden by the user.
- Honor PATH_SEPARATOR in various places of the Automake package, for
the sake of OS/2.
- Adjust dependency tracking mode detection to ICC 8.0's new output.
(PR/416)
- Fix install-sh so it can install the `mv' binary... using `mv'.
- Fix tru64 dependency tracking for libtool objects.
- Work around Exuberant Ctags when creating a TAGS files in a directory
without files to scan but with subdirectories to include.
* Bugs introduced by 1.8:
- Fix an "internal error" when @LIBOBJS@ is used in a variable that is
not defined in the same conditions as the _LDADD that uses it.
- Do not warn when JAVAROOT is overridden, this is legitimate.
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