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Linux-Announce Digest #783
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Linux-Announce Digest #783, Volume #4 Thu, 27 May 2004 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
GNU CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22) bug fix release (Sam Steingold)
Lineox Announces Support Prices, Migration Instructions from Red (Raimo Koski)
GNU/Linux updates from http://news.google.com ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:35:51 CST
Subject: GNU CLISP 2.33.1 (2004-05-22) bug fix release
Reply-To: sds@gnu.org
From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
GNU CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.
It runs on most Unix workstations (Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Solaris, Tru64, HP-UX, BeOS, NeXTstep, IRIX, AIX and others) and on
other systems (Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME) and needs only
2 MB of RAM.
It is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU GPL,
while it is possible to distribute commercial proprietary applications
compiled with GNU CLISP.
The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch
and Russian.
GNU CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, CLOS,
a foreign language interface, sockets, i18n, fast bignums and more.
An X11 interface is available through CLX, Garnet, CLUE/CLIO.
GNU CLISP runs Maxima, ACL2 and many other Common Lisp packages.
More information at
<http://clisp.cons.org/>,
<http://www.clisp.org/>,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/> and
<http://clisp.sourceforge.net/>.
Sources and selected binaries are available by anonymous ftp from
<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/>
and their mirrors.
2.33.1 (2004-05-22)
===================
User visible changes
====================
* Bug fixes:
+ The return value of ASINH was always rounded to a SINGLE-FLOAT.
+ The return value of NSTRING-UPCASE, NSTRING-DOWNCASE, NSTRING-CAPITALIZE,
WRITE-STRING, WRITE-LINE, when called with a displaced string as argument,
was wrong.
+ Some cases of ,@ inside doubly-nested backquote led to an unjustified
error.
Portability
===========
* Improved portability for Solaris/SPARC64 in 64-bit mode.
* Buildable with GCC-3.4.
* Fixed a bug in (ASH x MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM) on some platforms.
* Fixed a bug in (SIGNUM negative-single-float) on 64-bit platforms.
* Fixed a bug in (LOGAND fixnum bignum), (LOGNAND fixnum bignum),
(LOGANDC2 fixnum bignum), (LOGANDC1 bignum fixnum) on some rare platforms.
--
Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k
<http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/>
<http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.honestreporting.com>
Why use Windows, when there are Doors?
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From: Raimo Koski <rk@raimokoski.com>
Subject: Lineox Announces Support Prices, Migration Instructions from Red
Date: 27 May 2004 08:55:02 GMT
Lineox Announces Support Prices, Migration Instructions from Red Hat
Linux 9
27. May. 2004
Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is an enterprise level Linux distribution
with almost 5 years of planned support life. In the past Lineox has
provided updated program packages with feature enhancements, bug and
security fixes for free. The update service will be fee based
starting fall 2004. As an introductory offer, Lineox sells one
year update service licenses including free coverage until the end of
2004. The update service entitles you to all released errata updates.
Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is very similar Red Hat Linux 9, because
it is based off of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. About 25% of RedHat 9
and RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 are the same. Lineox Enterprise Linux
3.0 was built mostly from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 sources,
therefore upgrading from Red Hat Linux 9 is very easy and fast. In
some cases, it might even be possible to use Lineox Enterprise Linux
3.0 updates on Red Hat Linux 9 without the need to upgrade the rest of
the system. As security updates are released the Red Hat 9 packages
will be updated to Lineox 3.0.
Lineox targets mainly Red Hat Linux 9 users who were left without
support from Red Hat, Inc. on April 30. Many long time Linux users need
only a reliable, long lasting, and affordable source of updated packages
and that is what Lineox provides. Annual subscription fees start from
15 Euros per year for a single system, 5 Euros if the customer has
over 50 systems. For larger customers Lineox offers Enterprise
subscriptions starting from 3 Euros per system from 50 to 99 system
sites and 2000 Euros for unlimited site wide license.
To help Red Hat Linux 9 users upgrade, Lineox has made instructions
available on how to upgrade their systems to Lineox Enterprise Linux
using only command line tools, thus making the procedure easy to
deploy even remotely over a network and multiple systems at a time.
One former Red Hat Linux 9 administrator, Lucas Albers from Montana
State University of Bozeman Montana says "We upgraded our RedHat 9
boxes to Lineox 3.0 because it was a seamless upgrade. Fedora would
have been a poor choice, as we would have had to upgrade much too
quickly. Most of the major package versions for RedHat 9 and Lineox
3.0 were the same, so the upgrade was seamless. We have also used
Lineox to upgrade RedHat 9 on our computational servers, which we
couldn't take offline for a CD based upgrade. We used the apt based
upgrade to do a completely remote upgrade, with no interruption of
service. Lineox has been very helpful and quick to respond with any
questions we have had concerning upgrades on our existing systems.
Lineox supports a local apt repository so keeping systems up to date
is quick and easy, we can also use third party apt repositories that
are compatible with RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0, such as the dag
repository.
Our central library also upgraded their servers from RedHat 9 to Lineox
3.0 and have been very happy with the process. Their pricing is very
economical, service is great, and system upgrades have been seamless.
Most of the tools work the same as RedHat 9, so it has been very fast
learning curve. I recommend Lineox to any companies/institutions
looking for a cheap, reliable, and low maintenance replacement for
RedHat 9."
About Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0
Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is a Linux distribution built from modified
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 sources. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 offers
customers enterprise level Linux operating system at an attractive price
level without bundled support options. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 is
available immediately directly from www.lineox.com and also from
resellers. The suggested retail price is 17.90 Euro for DVD-ROM and
approximately 20 USD/Euro for separately sold printed Lineox Enterprise
Linux 3.0 Installation Guide.
Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 contains all freely distributable programs
found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS/ES/WS, Red Hat Cluster Suite,
and Red Hat Developer Suite. On the same DVD-ROM there are also 6
different language versions of OpenOffice.org 1.1.0, dictionaries,
spell checkers, and other support files. As preferred package
management system, Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 utilizes apt-get, which
resolves package dependencies automatically. Lineox Enterprise Linux
3.0 users can use apt-get to get security and feature updates from
www.lineox.com and other Internet sites. Graphical front-end to
apt-get, synaptic, is also included. Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0
DVD-ROM contains a large collection of additional third party program
packages that can be easily installed and managed with synaptic.
As on-line documentation Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 offers
LIFF - the complete Linux documentation collection. LIFF can be used
as a documentation server and the 900MB of documentation it contains
can be searched in seconds depending on the speed of the server
hardware. LIFF is also available separately from www.lineox.com.
Further information
www.lineox.com, linux@lineox.com
Migration instructions for Red Hat Linux 9 users:
www.lineox.com/rh9migration.php
Support price list: www.lineox.com/buysupport.php
About Lineox
Although a young company, Lineox founders have made Finnish localized
Linux distributions ranging from the first one to predecessor of Lineox
Enterprise Linux, which reached about 70 to 90% share of Finnish Linux
retail market.
Trademarks
"Lineox" is a registered trademark of Lineox, Inc. "Red Hat" is a
registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. "Linux" is a registered
trademark of Linus Torvalds. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
--
Raimo Koski http://www.lineox.com/ http://www.raimokoski.com/
Århusinkatu 3 A 36, 20320 Turku, Finland, Tel. +358 (0)2 2361 141
Mobile +358 (0)2 2361 141 (6. alert tone is switched to mobile)
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU/Linux updates from http://news.google.com
Date: 27 May 2004 11:10:07 GMT
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