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Linux-Announce Digest #812
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Linux-Announce Digest #812, Volume #4 Sun, 27 Jun 2004 18:13:02 EDT
Contents:
Bogofilter-0.92.0 - New Stable Release (David Relson)
Free software gets a new home in East Africa ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GCL 2.6.2 is released (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GNU Libidn 0.5.0 alpha released (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
First Linux distribution with Global File System released (Raimo Koski)
Open Source Software Research (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
EGYPT: Resala-Linux ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
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Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:48:32 CST
From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
Subject: Bogofilter-0.92.0 - New Stable Release
Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies email as spam or ham
(non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content
(body). The program is able to learn from the user's classifications
and corrections.
The statistical technique is known as the Bayesian technique and its use
for spam was described by Paul Graham in his article "A Plan For Spam".
Gary Robinson, in his weblog Rants, suggests some refinements for
improved discrimination between spam and ham. Bogofilter's primary
algorithm uses the f(w) parameter and the Fisher inverse chi-square
technique that he describes.
Bogofilter is run by an MDA script to classify an incoming message as
spam or ham (using wordlists stored by BerkeleyDB). Bogofilter provides
processing for plain text and html, supports multi-part mime message
with decoding of base64, quoted-printable, and uuencoded text and
ignores attachments, such as images.
Bogofilter is written in C. Supported platforms: Linux, FreeBSD,
Solaris, OS X, HP-UX, AIX, RISC-OS, OS/2, ...
******* ******* ******* ******* *******
Bogofilter-0.92.0 has been released as the new stable release. There
have been a few documentation update and a minor bug fix since the
previous release..
The files are available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/bogofilter
for download.
Here are the md5sums for the release:
96f337fc23d5e8cc4ab36c1742bd04ad bogofilter-0.92.0-1.i586.rpm
626372eec43813f28bce43be04fe5fe8 bogofilter-0.92.0-1.src.rpm
bf596e8f0b6b1280dd6e5ae9b2c025b2 bogofilter-0.92.0.tar.bz2
e90aebf14893f2d850d2a173ea4b815d bogofilter-0.92.0.tar.gz
e807b310700110db4741966d463b18ce bogofilter-static-0.92.0-1.i586.rpm
Here is file NEWS-0.9x, which lists the changes since bogofilter-0.17.5,
the previous stable release ...
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BOGOFILTER NEWS
=================
0.92.0 2004-06-26
* Fixed problem recognizing empty line ending of header in
files with CRLFs and X-Bogosity line as last header line.
* Added ESF options to bogofilter's and man page.
* Revised man pages' description of multi-parameter options.
* t.lock3 regression modified for solaris shell compatibility.
0.91.4 2004-06-20
* Fix abort during db_open (ds_open wasn't first calling
ds_init).
* Added regression test t.lock3 for this fix.
* Revise datastore and database levels so that each level
calls its own init() and cleanup() routines.
0.91.3 2004-06-15
* Added format specification '%I' to allow logging of the IP
address from which an email was received.
* Avoid "Invalid buffer size, exiting." problems by discarding
text from an excessively long html tag.
0.91.2 2004-06-11
* FAQ updated with info on multiple wordlists and ignore
lists.
* FAQ updated with info on building as non-root user.
* Bogofilter's creation of new wordlists now includes
.WORDLIST_VERSION token.
* Fix erroneous double opening of wordlists specified on
command line.
* Corrected tests so that "make check" passes with qdbm and
tdb.
* Fix included GSL compile for compilers that do not support
"extern inline", such as Compaq C V6.3.
0.91.1 2004-06-04
* Use named constants for wordlist 'type' attribute to
distinguish open modes of READ, WRITE, and CREATE so
bogofilter will include .WORDLIST_VERSION in new database.
* Add DS_LOAD flag so bogoutil won't add .WORDLIST_VERSION
* Modify regression tests to use bogoutil to create empty
wordlists (as needed).
* Fixed registration. When multiple wordlists are specified,
registration is to first regular wordlist.
* Added regresstion test for multiple wordlists.
* Modify contrib scripts so they're sh compatible.
* Fix problem when bogofilter's home is a symlink.
* Fix problems with not expanding tildes.
0.91.0 2004-05-22
* Add ignore list capability.
* Revive and revise multiple wordlist code.
* Increase width of 'count' column for -vvv output.
* Cleanup variable names in database open() code.
0.90.0 2004-05-09
* Lower output precision for regression tests, by using %f
rather than %e, to mask differences between GSL versions.
* Updated TODO list and procmailrc.example
* Added code for Robinson's Effective Size Factor (ESF)
to score.c, bogotune.c, bogofilter.cf.example, etc.
* Added '-E' options to bogotune to suppress ESF scan.
* Revised bogotune's parameter ranges.
* Remove unreferenced enum wl_e.
* Add .WORDLIST_VERSION meta symbol.
* Change subnet prefix from url: to ip:
* Add -u switch to bogoutil to do wordlist upgrade.
* Add regression test t.upgrade.subnet.prefix
* Added code for Robinson's Effective Size Factor (ESF)
to score.c, bogotune.c, bogofilter.cf.example, etc.
* Added '-E' options to bogotune to suppress ESF scan.
* Revised parameter ranges for coarse scan.
* Changed list address in FAQ to bogofilter.org
0.17.5 2004-04-01 - previous stable release
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:53:02 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Free software gets a new home in East Africa
Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:40:08 +0000
From: Sunil Abraham <sunil@mahiti.org>
Subject: Free software gets a new home in East Africa
http://www.tectonic.co.za/default.php?action=view&id=307&topic=Open%20Source
June 22 2004 - The free and open source software (Foss) community has
got a new home in East Africa. A recent venture between Linux Solutions,
the International Institute of Communication and Development and Uganda
Martyrs University has led to the formation of the East African Centre
for Open Source Software (EACOSS). Wire Lunghabo James, managing
director of Linux Solutions, says EACOSS intends offering FOSS training
for the "growing army of ICT professionals in the region". The center is
initially focused on developing these skills in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania,
Rwanda and Burundi.
James says the mission of EACOSS is to "promote the use and access to
Free and Open Source Software in the East African community and
contribute to its development through empowering people with ICT
skills." The center was established in April of this year and is based
in Kampala, Uganda.
The center is established on the premise that through the use of open
source software the digital gap between the advanced nations and the
developing nations can be bridged and poverty reduced, says James.
"Lower costs, access to software for all and improved capacity
development provide that starting point".
EACOSS has already introduced training, certification and free access to
software in the EACOSS center. "It enables people from around the region
learn more about effective, affordable and appropriate software
technology to use for development in Africa."
“At EACOSS we believe that FOSS solutions are an opportunity for Africa
to leapfrog into the information age. The current hurdle that needs to
be skipped has more to do with skills and that is the gap that this
center is aiming to fill,” says James.
For more information on EACOSS email eacoss@umu.ac.ug
Thanks,
ಸುನೀಲ್
--
Sunil Abraham, sunil@mahiti.org http://www.mahiti.org
MAHITI Infotech Pvt. Ltd.'Reducing the cost and complexity of ICTs'
314/1, 7th Cross, Domlur Bangalore - 560 071 Karnataka, INDIA
Ph/Fax: +91 80 51150580. Mobile: +91 80 36701931
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples
then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these
ideas,then each of us will have two ideas" George B. Shaw
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:53:10 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GCL 2.6.2 is released (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Greetings! You can find the release notes here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/RELEASE-2.6.2.html
Over the next few days, we will be uploading binaries requested by
various users for convenience to ftp.gnu.org. Shortly thereafter,
goals and priorities for 2.7.0 will be discussed and planned. Closing
the remaining ansi compliance issues will be foremost on the list in
any case. Feedback to gcl-devel@gnu.org of course most appreciated.
Take care,
--
Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:53:19 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU Libidn 0.5.0 alpha released (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hello. This release add some code to detect the "problem sequences"
discussed in UTC's public review issue #29. To perhaps explain this
in less obfuscated terms, here follow some paragraphs from the manual:
A deficiency in the specification of Unicode Normalization Forms
has been found. The consequence is that some strings can be
normalized into different strings by different implementations. In
other words, two different implementations may return different
output for the same input (because the interpretation of the
specification is ambiguous). Further, an implementation invoked
again on the one of the output strings may return a different
string (because one of the interpretation of the ambiguous
specification make normalization non-idempotent). Fortunately,
only a select few character sequence exhibit this problem, and none
of them are expected to occur in natural languages (due to
different linguistic uses of the involved characters).
A full discussion of the problem may be found at
`http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-29.html'.
The PR29 functions below allow you to detect the problem
sequence. So when would you want to use these functions? For most
applications, such as those using Nameprep for IDN, this is likely
only to be an interoperability problem. Thus, you may not want to
care about it, as the character sequences will rarely occur
naturally. However, if you are using a profile, such as SASLPrep,
to process authentication tokens; authorization tokens; or
passwords, there is a real danger that attackers may try to use the
peculiarities in these strings to attack parts of your system. As
only a small number of strings, and no naturally occurring strings,
exhibit this problem, the conservative approach of rejecting the
strings is recommended. If this approach is not used, you should
instead verify that all parts of your system, that process the
tokens and passwords, use a NFKC implementation that produce the
same output for the same input.
Regards,
Simon
GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA
specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names
(IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. The
library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode
3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibitation of characters, and
bidirectional character handling. Profiles for Nameprep, iSCSI, SASL
and XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE)
via IDNA are supported. A mechanism to define Top-Level Domain (TLD)
specific validation tables, and to compare strings against those
tables, is included. Default tables for some TLDs are also included.
Here are the compressed sources:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz (1.8MB)
http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz (1.8MB)
Here are GPG detached signatures:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz.sig
http://josefsson.org/libidn/releases/libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz.sig
Here are the build reports for various platforms:
http://josefsson.org/autobuild/libidn.html
Here are the MD5 and SHA1 signatures:
d13633479facc9163eb16db6f9662a3b libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz
ec010fed2ae4843e5651239f15fddbba libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz.sig
6a4189656fbbc8efb65d5454e8e1ba7005ef639f libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz
9fb995669d2c1cc8996beaaccf911193fb5545fe libidn-0.5.0.tar.gz.sig
Noteworthy changes since version 0.4.9 (the last version announced here):
* Version 0.5.0 (unreleased)
** Functions to detect "normalization problem sequences" as per PR-29 added.
See the new chapter "PR29 Functions" in the manual
(doc/libidn.{ps,pdf,html}) for more information and the background
story. An external link that discuss the problem is
<http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-29.html>.
** More translations.
Added Esperanto (by Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS).
** API and ABI is backwards compatible with the previous version.
pr29.h: ADD. Prototypes for PR29 types and functions.
pr29_4, pr29_4z, pr29_8z: ADD. New API entry points for PR29 functions.
Pr29_rc: ADD. New error code enum type for PR29 functions.
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 08:24:02 CST
From: Raimo Koski <rk@raimokoski.com>
Subject: First Linux distribution with Global File System released
Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux Gets Global File System (GFS) Support
27. June 2004
Lineox, Inc. released today Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux
version 3.023, the 23th version of Always Current Lineox Enterprise
Linux since 23. Feb. 2004. A new version of Always Current Lineox
Enterprise Linux is always released when Red Hat, Inc. releases bug or
security fix packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, but occasionally
also when new features are added to Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux.
This latest release of Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux is a
feature enhancement release, which adds the packages built from Red Hat
Global File System (2200 USD) sources. Always Current Lineox Enterprise
Linux has always had packages built from Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advanced Server 3.0 (1499 USD), Red Hat Cluster Suite (499 USD), and Red
Hat Developer Suite (free as an introductory offer) sources, so the
total cost of comparable software is now up to 4198 USD. Always Current
Lineox Enterprise Linux is however available for download for only 10
Euros for one type of disk image(s) or 15 Euros for both CD and DVD images.
Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file
system and volume manager that that can be used on Lineox Enterprise
Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all
major server and storage platforms. The leading (and first) cluster file
system for Linux, GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry
adoption, broadest application support, and best price/performance of
any Linux cluster file system today. GFS allows Lineox Enterprise Linux
servers to simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system
on the SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and
overhead of managing redundant data copies. GFS has no single point of
failure, is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Lineox
Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications.
GFS will be supported like the Cluster and the Developer Suite with
updates, which are all included in the update support service for Lineox
Enterprise Linux 3.0 starting at 15 Euros per year for single systems.
Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.023 needs 4 CD images, it
started as 3 disk set, the DVD image size is now 2.161 GB and it started
as 1,729 GB. It contains now 376 updated or new packages totaling 1,150
GB, so approximately half of the contents is already changed from the
original release of Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.0 in just 5 months.
Further information
www.lineox.com, linux@lineox.com
Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux: www.lineox.com/aclel3.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/
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:46:26 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Open Source Software Research (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hello everyone from the worldwide Linux community,
My name is Yordan Dimitrov Minev and I am an undergraduate student
majoring in Mathematics and Computer Science at St. Lawrence University,
Canton, NY. Along with my adviser Professor Robert Torres, this summer I
am working on an academic research-project investigating the trends in
the open source/free software, entitled "Will the penuin break the
windows?"
Some of the issues I am interested in researching are the reasons that
people use and develop for Linux, the ideological differences between
the free software foundation and the open source foundation, and the
reasons some computer users are dissatisfied with proprietary,
closed-source software.
Aiming to understand how the Linux users feel about the open source
software, I developed a web-based survey, and I kindly ask all of you to
participate. You can start the survey by going to
http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~ydmine03/survey.html It shoud not take you more
than 15-30 minutes. I would like to ask all of you who are
administrators of Linux user groups to forward this e-mail to the
members of your user group. Also, feel free to forward this e-mail to
other Linux user groups you colaborate with. My aim is to get as many
respondents as possible. Furthermore, I would be delighted to have
respondents with different levels of computer experience.
In the coming weeks, after analysing the results from the survey, I will
write a paper and I will make a short presentation on the topic at St.
Lawrence University. I would like to stress that the purpose of this
survey is solely educational. I fully assure you that the results I
obtain and all materials from this project will never be sold; rather,
they will remain freely available at
http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~ydmine03/survey.html. Your privacy will also be
protected, and at no time will I publish, give away, or sell your
personal information or e-mail address.
Lastly, I would like to appologize for not sending you a survey in your
native language. Speaking primarily a language other than English
myself, I very much appreciate the diversity of cultures and languages
in the contemporary world.
Thank you very much for participating in my survey. If you have any
questions, concerns, or comments, please do not hessitate to contact me
(ydmine03@stlawu.edu) or my adviser for this project, Professor Robert
Torres (rtorres@stlawu.edu). Either one of us would be happy to answer
your questions or address your concerns.
Regards,
Yordan Minev
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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 16:47:35 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: EGYPT: Resala-Linux
========== Forwarded message ==========
Linux-Egypt.org, the official website for Linux Users in Egypt, has announced
the release of "Resala-Linux" Project
Resala-Linux, is the first release candidate. Based on Fedora Core 2 and
optimised for i686 architecture and above.
Resala Linux Project is a single CD distribution based on Fedora Core Project
The main objective is to: (a) make an Arabic ready distribution, to make it easy
for normal users to use Linux in the Arabic speaking countries, and (b) to open
the door for all developers to contribute in a regional Distribution.
Resala-Project is totally support by Linux-Egypt, where it will be kept as
separate Stand-alone project to allow contributions from everywhere, and by
every one who can contribute.
For more Information, please visit
http://resala.linux-egypt.org
http://www.linux-Egypt.org
Thank you
Hesham Bahram
Founder and Moderator
linux.info@linux-egypt.org
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