Development

Omni Printer Driver Version 0.7.1.

Version 0.7.1 of the Omni printer driver has been released by the IBM Linux Technology Center.

"The Omni printer driver provides support for over 400 printers using the Ghostscript framework. In addition, it provides a model for dynamically loading printer drivers, creating new devices by editing device description files, and simplifies new printer driver development by allowing for the subclassing of previous device features."

This version has a long list of new features including:

• A new GhostScript patch.
• Better Foomatic entry generation to support the Linuxprinting.org printer database.
• Improved support for gcc.
• Updated CUPSToOmni support.
• New job properties: Copy, Collation, Destination, Stapling, Jogging, Duplex, Booklet, NUp, and Scaling.
• Epson PDC Blitter support for a number of printers.
• Initial XMLDevice support for using XML files directly.
• A large number of bug fixes.

Printing has long been a weak point in Unix-based systems, and it is critical to both server and desktop systems. The Omni project and LinuxPrinting.org appear to be making real progress in this area.

See the Omni ChangeLog file for the complete project history.

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System Applications

Audio Projects

The Tremor Integer-only Ogg Vorbis playback lib

An integer-based Ogg Vorbis playback library, known as Tremor has been released under a BSD-style license. "Xiph.Org has re-released the 'Tremor' integer only Vorbis playback library under a BSD-like, totally royalty-free license. This is an ANSI C compliant library intended for embedded and FPU-less applications, such as portable players and player packages for PDAs." See the Ogg Vorbis site for more information.

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Database Software

MySQL 4.0.3-beta is released

Version 4.0.3-beta of the MySQL database has been released, with a long list of changes. Click below for more details.

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Education

GNU/Linux in education report #77

The August 26, 2002 edition of the GNU/Linux in education report is out. Topics include GEO, DemoLinux, learning objects, Free Software for music classes, free and open-source software in the Mississippi public school system, rescuing nonprofits from the grip of licensed software, and more.

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Mail Software

Mail Filtering (Perl.com)

Michael Stevens illustrates the use of PerlMx and Mail::Audit on O'Reilly's Perl.com. "There are many ways to filter your e-mail with Perl. Two of the more popular and interesting ways are to use PerlMx or Mail::Audit. I took a long look at both, and this is what I thought of them."

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Web Site Development

Two Open Source content management packages reviewed (NewsForge)

NewsForge reviews two Perl-based Content Management Frameworks, E2 and LJ. "The two content management engines that I have been most interested in lately are the engines used for Everything2 and LiveJournal. The E2 and LJ engines are both Open Source and both have a good record of being security conscious. I also respect the developers who own the projects, and for me that makes a difference when I choose Open Source projects to use. The two engines have been designed around similar ideas. They both allow multiple users to create their own content and manage it from the Web. The major difference between them is that LJ focuses content creation and ownership on the individual creator of the information, while E2 concentrates information into a collective resource."

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Bricolage 1.4.0 Escapes (use Perl)

Use Perl has an announcement for version 1.4.0 of Bricolage, a content management and publishing system.

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mnoGoSearch PHP frontend version 1.64 released

Version 1.64 of the PHP frontend for the mnoGoSearch web site search engine has been released.

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Zope Members News

This week, the Zope Members News looks at preview version 1.0 beta 1 of the WhoZnext, Zwiki 0.10.0, a DTML addition to emacs, a new Plone i18n mailing list, NeoBoard 1.0b, the release of OrderedObjectManager, and more.

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Securing dynamic Web content (IBM developerWorks)

Tom Syroid covers dynamic web site security issues on IBM's developerWorks. "This article details how to secure dynamic content on an Apache Web server. Topics covered include general security issues pertaining to dynamic content, securing Server Side Includes, configuring Apache's Common Gateway Interface, and wrappering dynamic content. The article is targeted primarily at Webmasters and system administrators responsible for maintaining and securing a Web server; however, anyone with a need or desire to server dynamic content will benefit from the topics covered."

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Miscellaneous

GNU Bayonne 1.0 Released

Version 1.0 of GNU Bayonne, the GNU Telephony Server has been announced. "In this 1.0 release, we have established a Free Software platform for the delivery of quality telephony services everywhere", said David Sugar, GNU Bayonne project leader. "We are committed to establishing Free Software as the primary means to advance telecommunications services as part of enterprise software infrastructure that respects software freedom, and supports both current and next generation telephone networks"."

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Mobile file sharing: The scoop on RockyRoad (IBM developerWorks)

IBM's developerWorks has an article on the RockyRoad P2P framework. "Get a taste of RockyRoad, an open-source, peer-to-peer framework designed to exploit the strengths of P2P: excellent scalability, ease of deployment, and robustness. RockyRoad allows both mobile and stationary peers to communicate with one another directly through a common language, and lets applications subsist on little RAM and few CPU cycles."

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Desktop Applications

Audio Applications

WaveSurfer 1.4.4 released

Version 1.44 of the WaveSurfer audio visualization and manipulation tool has been released. Changes include new support for video, and bug fixes.

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Desktop Environments

GARNOME 0.14.0 released.

Version 0.14.0 of the GARNOME bleeding-edge GNOME distribution is now available. The FootNotes site says: "A new release of GARNOME is available containing what will most likely be the GNOME 2.0.2 RC2 tarballs. New additions include goats (a sticky notes applet), gcalctool (a scientific calculator), quick-lounge-applet (a launcher applet), and some cool stuff from Red Hat's latest beta (without the copyrighted and trademarked stuff). Please note that there are still a few issues with menu editing in this release which will be fixed for GNOME 2.0.2."

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GNOME Summary

The GNOME Summary for August 12-16, 2002 is out. Topics include the return of Medusa, Gstreamer status, gftp, a ZDNet review of Evolution, AbiWord table support, the GNOME 2 todo list, Gtk 0.4, GNOME in Arabic, and more.

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Games

Civil 0.8 released.

The Pygame site mentions a new release of Civil, a turn based network civil war strategy game.

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Interoperability

Wine Weekly News

Issue #133 of the Wine Weekly News is out with the latest Wine news.

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Samba 2.2.6pre2 Non-Production Release

A Samba 2.2.6pre2 Non-Production Release has been made available for testing.

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Multimedia

Roll Your Own Digital Video Recorder (O'Reilly)

Howard Wen writes about video recording with Linux and VDR on O'Reilly. "VDR serves as a user interface for those who want to build their own digital satellite-TV receiver and recorder box running under Linux. It is based mainly on the DVB-S digital satellite TV receiver card from Fujitsu Siemens, and upon drivers developed by the LinuxTV project."

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Office Applications

Kernel Cousin GNUe

Issue #44 of Kernel Cousin GNUe is out with the latest GNU Enterprise development news. Topics include documentation on using GNUe Designer, a possible GNUe consultancy, a new GNU Enterprise website, working on GNU Enterprise, ebXML and e-business in Australia, using GNUe Application Server with phpGW, GNUe on linuxfund, wxGTK2 driver for Forms, wxPython debugging whilst developing GNUe Designer, and transparent blocks in forms.

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Web Browsers

Netscape 7.0 released

Mozilla.org mentions that Netscape 7.0 has been released. "Netscape Communications has launched Netscape 7.0 the latest version of Netscape's browser software, which is based on Mozilla 1.0.1."

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MozilaZine headlines

The latest news on MozillaZine includes a new guid on making web pages compatible with Mozilla, a Mozilla 1.2 Alpha trunk freeze, a Mozilla installation and setup checklist, and more.

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Languages and Tools

Caml

Caml Weekly News

This week's Caml Weekly News looks at OCaml 3.06, LablGTK 1.2.5, CIL, Ocaml-Weblib, OCamOLE pre.3 and pre.3b, Music in Caml, SpamOracle, Cameleon 1.0, Cash 0.20, ocamlgsl, the data structure library, and PXP 1.1.92.

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The Caml Hump

The Caml Hump shows off their new web site, with the latest Caml language development news.

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Java

Kaffee Weekly News

Longtime Linux contributor Jim Pick has started publishing the Kaffe Weekly News, a summary of developments with the Kaffe Java virtual machine.

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Perl

The Perl Review

The September 1, 2002 edition of The Perl Review has been published. Topics include Extreme Mowing, Perl Assembly Language, What Perl Programmers Should Know About Java, Filehandle Ties, and The Iterator Design Pattern.

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PHP

PHP Weekly Summary

The September 2, 2002 edition of the PHP Weekly Summary is out. Topics include: "Apache Hooks, expat upgrade, Ext/pdf, bundled gd, PEAR installer in 4.3.0, DOM-XML leaking, socket_recvfrom, XML-RPC configuration, sort() with 4.2.3 RC 1, COM leak in 4.2.3 RC 1, XSLT problems".

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Pear Weekly News

This week's Pear Weekly News is out. "This week has seen a flood of new package proposals, PEAR continues to grow into a high quality library of PHP code and extensions. This week sees 1 new Release, along with 6 proposed packages and news on peardoc2, working through issues with environment variables in system and a steady flow of CVS commits."

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Python

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL

The Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for September 4 is out. Among other things, it looks at a new Psyco release and PiP - a Python interpreter embedded in PHP.

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The Daily Python-URL

This week, the Daily Python-URL looks at the SiPy discrete event simulation package, secure protocols, shell utilities, Python for digital photography, literate programming with Leo, MySQL connectivity with Python, operators and string formatting in Python, XMLdiff, and more.

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Ruby

The Ruby Garden

This week, The Ruby Garden covers local variables and blocks, Ruby Conference 2002, and more.

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Scheme

Scheme Weekly News

The September 2, 2002 edition of the Scheme Weekly News looks at new entries in the ReadScheme library including PLT Scheme v202, SchemeQL version 0.04, and eGuile 1.2.

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Tcl/Tk

This week's Tcl-URL

Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL for September 2 is out; it contains the usual set of news items from the Tcl/Tk community and pointers to some hints about the new company being started by Tcl creator John Ousterhout.

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XML

Transporting Binary Data in SOAP (O'Reilly)

Rich Salz shows how to use SOAP for transporting binary data on O'Reilly. "XML doesn't handle embedded binary data very well. Naive developers first try to embed the data directly into their document, reasoning that since Unicode uses all possible byte values, they'll be able to do this. They realize their mistake as soon as their embedded content has a byte with a special value like 0x3C (less than) or perhaps 0x26 (ampersand). The clever naïf might try to fix this by wrapping their content in a CDATA construct, but that only makes the problem less likely, rather than removing it. Suppose the content is a SAX library -- it's quite possible that the CDATA terminator string, "]]>", will show up."

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Miscellaneous

KCachegrind: Valgrind Unleashed

KDE.News introduces KCachegrind, a KDE front end for the Valgrind memory profiling tool.

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