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DevelopmentMozilla 1.1 alpha released Following last week's release of Mozilla 1.0, Mozilla 1.1 alpha is now available. This represents a new development branch for Mozilla, the 1.0 branch is now the stable branch.New features for version 1.1 alpha include:
System Applications Database Software Mini SQL 3.0 Pre 5 Version 3.0 pre 5 of the Mini SQL database has been announced. See the release notes for all of the details.
Education SEUL/Edu report #72 Issue #72 of the SEUL/Edu Linux in Education Report is available. Topics include troubles submitting software to the BECTa Educational Software Database, a K12LTSP party, Bob Young's Lulu Tech Circus project, and more.
Mail Software Mail::Box mailinglist (use Perl) Ideas and extensions are being requested for inclusion in the Perl Mail::Box e-mail handling module.
Printing CUPS v1.1.15 is Released! Version 1.1.15 (and Version 1.1.15-1) of the CUPS printing system has been released. Changes include MacOS license agreement mods, better defaults, and lots of bug fixes.
LPRng 3.8.12 available Version 3.18.12 of the LPRng print system has been released.
Web Site Development Midgard Weekly Summary After a long absence, the Midgard Weekly Summary is back. This issue looks at changes in the Midgard team, the new Midgard Knowledgebase, the Midgard Component Framework, and more. (Midgard is an extensive, PHP-based content management framework).
ANNOUNCE: Quixote 0.5 released Version 0.5 of the Quixote web application framework has been released. This is a relatively major release, with quite a few changes and improvements; click below for the details. (Quixote is the framework behind the new LWN site).
Zope News for June 6, 2002 After a long hiatus, the Zope News is back, with a June 6, 2002 edition. Topics include EuroPython 2002, Balktalk support for Zope books, Casey Duncan's External Editor, Zope 3, planning for Zope 2.6, and more.
Zope Members News This week's Zope Members News looks at MailBoxer 1.3, the first release of the MAP WebMail client, Artemis Article Management System 1.0, ext2Image 0.1, and more.
Miscellaneous The Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20020607 released The Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20020607.tgz has been released. Among the highlights of this release is a white paper titled "Analysis of Linux Test Projects Kernel Code Coverage" and the LTP's Kernel code coverage web site.
Desktop Applications Audio Applications WaveSurfer 1.4.1 released Version 1.4.1 of the WaveSurfer sound visualization and manipulation tool has been released. Minor enhancements and bug fixes have been added and some speech utilities have been fixed.
GLAME 0.6.3 released Version 0.6.3 of the GLAME audio editing tool has been released. This is a bug fix release that features much faster wave drawing capabilities.
Audacity versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 released Versions 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 of the Audacity multi-platform audio editor has been released. Version 1.0.0 is the final stable version of the original Audacity. "Version 1.1.0 is the first beta release of the next version of Audacity, which includes support for higher-quality audio, more audio file formats, more effects, more editing functions, an improved user interface, and support for foreign languages."
Desktop Environments Quickies: Community Study, KSteak, Kde France KDE.News has three quickie articles on the Kde France Site, the KSteak English-German translation tool, and a sociological study of KDE.
KC KDE #38 is Out Issue #38 of Kernel Cousin KDE covers the Klingon invasion, CVS Kung-Fu, and Mime news.
GNOME 2.0 Desktop Snapshot 20020607 The 20020607 snapshot of the GNOME 2.0 Desktop has been announced on Gnotices. The Official GNOME 2.0.0 Desktop should be released on June 21.
GNOME Summary for 2002-05-25 - 2002-06-01 The May 25 - June 1, 2002 edition of the Gnome Summary covers the GNOME 2 hard freeze, hacking GTK+ apps in LOGO, GnomeMeeting for Gnome 2, gthumb, the Acessibility Framework explained, and more.
Rumours abounding about a new Gnome Media release Gnotices looks at some of the changes that will be included in the next Gnome Media release.
GUI Packages FLTK 1.1.0rc3 released Version 1.1.0rc3 of FLTK, the Fast, Light Toolkit is available. This version features a new file chooser, better documentation, and tons of bug fixes.
Interoperability Wine Weekly News for June 6, 2002 The June 6, 2002 Wine Weekly News looks at Wine-20020605, Lindows OS SPX, testing Lotus Notes, directly executing Windows binaries, licensing issues, and the future of Wine debugging.
Office Applications Abiword Weekly News Issue #95 of the AbiWord Weekly News has been published. Topics include the continued squashing of bugs, and bi-directional language support for AbiWord.
Bluefish snapshot supports gtk2 The May 29, 2002 snapshot of the Bluefish HTML editor features support for gtk2.
Web Browsers Galeon 1.2.5 available Version 1.2.5 of the small, efficient Galeon web browser is available This version adds Mozilla 1.0 compatibilty, proxy auto configuration and printing fixes, and a new Vietnamese translation.
Languages and Tools Caml The Caml Hump This week's additions to The Caml Hump include the findlib library, PXP: the polymorphic XML parser, an OCaml implementation of the API of the Scheme Shell, the Recursive OCaml module, and more.
COBOL TinyCOBOL 0.58 released Version 0.58 of TinyCOBOL has been released. A number of bugs have been fixed in this version.
Java Java optimization techniques (IBM developerWorks) A new guide on Java optimization is available on IBM's developerWorks. "Many useful techniques exist for optimizing a Java program. Instead of focusing on one particular technique, this article considers the optimization process as a whole. Authors Erwin Vervaet and Maarten De Cock walk readers through the performance tuning of a puzzle-solving program, applying an assortment of techniques ranging from simple technical tips to more advanced algorithm optimizations. The end result is a spectacular performance increase (more than a million fold) between the first working implementation and the fully optimized solution."
Perl Parrot 0.0.6 Leaves The Village (use Perl) Use Perl has an announcement for version 0.0.6 of the Perl 6 interpreter, Parrot.
Bricolage 1.3.2 Released (use Perl) Version 1.3.2 of the Bricolage content management system has been announced on Use Perl.
Axkit 1.6 Released (use Perl) A new version of the Axkit XML application server for Perl has been announced.
PHP PHP Weekly Summary for June 10, 2002 The June 10, 2002 edition of the PHP Weekly Summary covers the discovery of a Zope Engine bug, discussion of Apache speed, a new RDF extension for PHP, overloaded operators, and a discussion on the future of PHP.
Python Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jun 10) The latest Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! looks into Programming Libraries; Python Development News; follows a discussion on the features of Python; and much more.
Daily Python-URL This week, the Daily Python-URL covers Python at OSCON 2002, Python properties, the ActiveState Active Awards, Pygame and Tkinter, keyword import, weightless threads, Andrew Kuchling on What's New in Python 2.3, and more.
Ruby Ruby Weekly News The June 9, 2002 edition of the Ruby Weekly News covers Interactive Learning Environment (ILE)/Ocelot, PageTemplate 0.3.2, Test::Mock 1.0, and REXML 2.3.5 and 2.2.3.
XML Comparing and Replacing Strings (XML.com) Bob DuCharme writes about string manipulation in XML. "This month we'll learn more ways to gain control over strings in your source document, as we see how to compare strings for equality and what kind of search-and-replace operations are possible in XSLT."
Miscellaneous CVSGnome provides an alternative to other build systems. This Article on Gnotices examines the CVSGnome build system. " CVSGnome is a new way for bleeding edge Hackers, Tweakers and Gurus to create a GNOME 2 system either from CVS or stable TARBALLS. "
Jext 3.1pre4 available Version 3.1pre4 of the Jext programmer's editor is available. This version includes bug fixes, and lots of new features, see the list of changes for the details.
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