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Linux-Announce Digest #143
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Linux-Announce Digest #143, Volume #5 Sat, 28 May 2005 18:13:05 EDT
Contents:
DACS 1.4.3 released (Barry Brachman)
[HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 4th June 2005 (Mark Suter)
STklos 0.70 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter (Erick Gallesio)
Italian, Venezulean voices favour freeing knowledge (Frederick Noronha)
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Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 19:02:08 CST
From: Barry Brachman <brachman@dss.bc.ca>
Subject: DACS 1.4.3 released
Reply-to: brachman@dss.ca
May 27, 2005
DSS is pleased to announce DACS version 1.4.3.
This release contains:
* sslclient client is now installed as a DACS utility and used in
place of stunnel. Stunnel is no longer required.
* ACL filename syntax change
- Upgrade to Apache 2.0.54
- an ACL's "service" element can supply an expression
- X.509 certificate-based authentication via the new local_cert_authenticate
module; see dacs_authenticate(1)
- minor bug fixes
DACS is:
o a flexible and powerful role-based access control system
o a set of feature-rich authentication methods
o an Apache 2.0.X module and suite of CGI programs
o a federated identity management system (single sign-on)
o oriented towards (but not limited to) controlling access to web service
requests made using standard web browsers
o a C/C++ toolkit for building new authentication and access control
functionality into programs, whether web-based or not
o for Unix-type platforms (currently), such as Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris
DACS can help you to manage access to web resources in many situations,
whether you have just one web server, several web servers at one site, or
many web servers spread across the Internet. You may find it to be
useful simply as a universal authentication mechanism for a single Apache
server or as a full-fledged, single sign-on multi-server identity management
and access control system.
DACS 1.4.3 is released under dual licensing terms (a GPL-compatible open
source license and a commercial license).
DACS is hosted on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/dacs
For more information, please visit the DACS home page at dacs.dss.ca
--
** Barry Brachman, Ph.D.
** Distributed Systems Software, Inc.
** brachman@dss.ca
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From: Mark Suter <suter@zwitterion.humbug.org.au>
Subject: [HUMBUG] Next Meeting - 4th June 2005
Date: 28 May 2005 02:10:08 GMT
The Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group exists to get fellow
Unix users in contact with each other, to introduce people to
Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and to help users in
operating those systems. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Meetings tend to be informal. We socialize, discuss Unix and
computing, solve Unix problems for new and experienced users
alike and, these days, have regular talks.
Date: Saturday, 4th June 2005 (every second Saturday)
Time: From 3pm with the network up 30 minutes after we are
granted entry. The network will be brought down after
midnight to allow time to clean up for a 1am exit.
Venue: Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building (no. 50)
The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus
Car parking is currently unregulated on Saturdays. The
University is serviced by public transport with frequent
buses during University terms. For more information:
http://www.uq.edu.au/about/index.html?page=1070
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&id=25
Cost: Membership until our AGM in September is $20, but no one
has to join unless they are going to use club services
such as our network access during meetings.
Talks: Information on upcoming talks is announced separately.
For information on talks see the announcements by our
Talks Maintainer on the announce mailing list.
Food: The eating places (ranging from take away to a la Carte)
at 'The Ville' are usually open until about 10pm Saturday
night. There is also the Pizza Cafe on campus near the
Schonell Theater:
http://www.uqunion.uq.edu.au/schonell/pizzacaffe/
http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&z=2&id=11
Drinks: Various soft drinks and snacks are available from the
three vending machines located immediately outside the
room. Remember to bring change!
For more information on club meetings and HUMBUG itself see our
web page at http://www.humbug.org.au/ or email me directly.
Humbug President
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From: Erick Gallesio <eg_@_unice.fr>
Subject: STklos 0.70 - a Scheme compiler/interpreter
Date: 28 May 2005 07:40:01 GMT
Reply-To: eg@news53rd.b1.woo, --@news53rd.b1.woo, at@news53rd.b1.woo,
This is an announce for the 0.70 release of STklos.
STklos is a free Scheme System (nearly) conform to R5RS. The aim of this
implementation is to be fast as well as light. The implementation is
based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine. STklos can also be compiled as a
library, so that one can easily embeds it in an application.
The salient points of STklos are:
* efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing
- Multiple Inheritance,
- Generic Functions,
- Multi-methods
- an efficient MOP (Meta Object Protocol)
* a simple to use module system
* implements the full tower of numbers defined in R5RS
* easy connection to the GTK+ toolkit
* Perl compatible regular expressions thanks to the PCRE package.
* tail recursive calls are properly implemented
Changes in this release:
The main changes in this release are: a new back-trace system, a
conform call/cc/dynamic-wind implementation and some performance
enhancements.
* Added a way to have a back-trace when an error occurs
* call/cc has been completely implemented. Its interaction with
dynamic-wind is now conform to R5RS.
* Performance improvements
* Added some infrastructure for auto-testing a newly built system.
* New primitives
+ port-rewind
+ port-seek
+ current-loading-file
+ decode-float
+ read/ss
+ write/ss
+ repl
* Multiple EOF can be seen now on an input file to allow staged
REPLs
* Added the configure options --with-provided-gc and
--with-provided-regexp to force the usage of our GC and PCRE
versions, even if there are some version already installed on
the system
* The boot file is now integrated in the VM instead of being read
from a file. This enhances the loading time of the interpreter
a bit.
* Describe shows more information for structures types and
conditions.
* The object system takes now into account conditions and
conditions types
* Documentation updated
* Bug fixes
Homepage/Download: See http://www.stklos.net/
--
Erick Gallesio | tel: +33 (0)492965153
Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis | fax: +33 (0)492965155
ESSI - I3S -- 930, Route des colles | mailto:eg--at--unice.fr
BP 145 - 06903 Sophia Antipolis CEDEX - FRANCE
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From: Frederick Noronha <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Italian, Venezulean voices favour freeing knowledge
Date: 28 May 2005 10:40:01 GMT
Reply-To: fredericknoronha@vsnl.net
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, May 28: Publicly-funded content must be openly available, and sharing knowledge only enhances its richness, Italian senator Fiorello Cortiana told a four-nation international conference held in the Kerala capital this morning.
Eminent economist and former Venezuela minister for planning and development Dr Filipe Perez-Marti agreed, and stressed that “participation, solidarity and wisdom” would be the key three words that characterise a new global situation.
Amidst praise for Kerala for organising this “first ever” south-to-south contact in the world of free software and free knowledge, speakers from Latin America (Venezuela, and Brazil), Italy and India explored ways of understanding their respective situations and possibilities for collaboration across the oceans.
The Latin Americans were keen to hear about Kerala's attempts to look at take Free Software solutions to schools, through their IT@School project which aims to train about 200 master trainers, who will then train at least one teacher from each school in the state in the use of free software.
Free Software Foundation of India director Prof G Nagarjuna stressed how India was able to fight-back attempts to make software a patentable item. He said help for this endeavour had come from enlightened politicians, the peoples' science movement, media and others.
Latin American delegates spoke of how their firms – including the Venezualan oil giant – had opted for free software, both for more control over their work and avoid possibilities of sabotage in a crucial sector of the economy.
Government of Brazil special advisor in the ministry of communications Antonio Bezerra de Albquerque Neto said Brazil was keen to build links with countries like India and China, and stressed that Free Software is a key means of in building a fairer society.
SPACE executive secretary Satish Babu called this a “fairly unique event” and said Kerala had a good chance of building itself as a global destination of Free Software. SPACE chairperson Prof K R Srivathsan termed Free Software a “natural way for the scientific community to play around with”.
Former musician turned Free Software activist Juan Carlos Gentile said he hoped this first-ever meet of its kind “would lead to many things to come”. Kerala IT secretary PH Kurian said ideas of sharing knowledge were “not alien” to India, and cited the case of Gautam Buddha who used the people's language to spread his message.
Kerala began this four-nation meet on Saturday morning, and it aims to take the ideas of free software to different realms of society, which can gain from the power of sharing knowledge and culture.
SPACE, the Thiruvananthapuram-based Society for the Promotion of Alternative Computing and Environment, is co-organiser of this event with the global NGO Hipatia (www.hipatia.net) and the Free Software Foundation-India (www.fsf.org.in).
Organisers say that the international free software movement has shown a “new way of knowledge creation and social ownership”. They're keen to explore how the “free software model” can be applied to fields as diverse as governance, digital inclusion, development and culture. (ENDS)
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