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HylaFAX 4.1.5 Released

Version 4.1.5 of the HylaFAX fax modem software package has been released. New features include:

• Better command line option checking.
• NSF recognition for most FAX codes.
• Support for additional USR, Digi, and Lucent/Agere modems.
• A "force archiving" option for faxqclean.
• Caller-ID support for faxanswer.
• New Class1MsgRecvHack, Class1ResponseWaitCmd, and RingExtended config options.
• Probemodem options that allow the sending of single commands.
• A number of bug fixes.

Users of versions older than 4.1.3 should upgrade due to some previously fixed security issues. Red Hat 7.3 users should also upgrade to this version to get rid of some known bugs.

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ALSA 0.9.0 release candidate #4 available

Release candidate #4 of the ALSA sound driver development release is available for testing.

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Linux in Education Report

Issue #81 of the Linux in Education Report is out. Topics include the Linux Education Generic User Programs (LEG-UP) CD, the ByteBack Curriculum Project, a new question bank server, a school admin package, Linux for a computer arts program, concept mapping software, and many new applications.

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gEDA News

The gEDA News site lists new versions of GTKWave and Icarus Verilog.

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BusyBox 0.60.4 released

Version 0.60.4 of BusyBox, a condensed pack of Unix utilities for embedded systems, has been released. "This is primarily a bugfix release for the stable series to address all the problems that have turned up since the last release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series."

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AFPL Ghostscript 7.31 beta release

AFPL Ghostscript version 7.31 beta has been announced. "The major new feature is DeviceN color spaces, supporting mixes of spot colors and process colors up to 8 colorants total. Many other bugfixes and performance enhancements have been added, especially in pdfwrite."

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LinuxPrinting.org developments

The LinuxPrinting.org site has announcements for a new version of the Foomatic printer support database (version 2.0.2), and version 4.2.3 of GIMP-Print, which now features support for custom paper sizes.

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Open source in the lab (IBM developerWorks)

Cameron Laird introduces several useful open-source graphic and scientific packages on IBM's developerWorks, and promotes the benefits of non-commercial software. "Science and engineering laboratories have long depended on proprietary products for daily data analysis chores. Now, many labs are turning to open source products and development languages for specific technical benefits the conventional products don't give them."

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Midgard Weekly Summary

The October 17, 2002 Midgard Weekly News is out, the table of contents topics include Editors Notes, IRC back online, a Mailinglist Summary, and a Bugtracker Summary.

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Zope 2.6.0 Released

Zope version 2.6.0 has been released. Some of the new features include gzip content compression when serving pages, a ZCTextIndex plug-in index, Signal Handling and Log Rotation, Addition of a new default view setting ability, New profiling abilities, an Improved daemon mode, Enhanced text indexing, Improved object cache control, Automatic browser ID string embedding in URLs, Major improvments to the BTree and Catalog code, i18n translation support for TAL, lots of bug fixes, and more.

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Zope Members News

The most recent headlines on the Zope Members News include: Python Version 2.2.2, the New York Zope Users Group, CMFPortlets 0.5, the Zope 3 mini-newsletter, the release of Zope 2.6.0, Plone1.0 beta2, and CMF Relation Product.

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XML Web Services Tutorial

Roger Costello has published an online tutorial that illustrates the building of XML-based Web Services.

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Twisted 1.0 Developer Platform

Version 1.0 of the Twisted Developer Platform is out. "With the 1.0.0 release, Twisted is finalizing several core interfaces important to server and client developers. While some areas of Twisted are still under active development, the event loop and all associated APIs are now stable and ready for third-party developers to use."

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Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators (O'Reilly)

Æleen Frisch writes about LDAP, the Light weight Directory Access Protocol, on O'Reilly. "LDAP has been a hot new topic in system administration for several years now. LDAP provides a directory service which can be used for storing and querying information about the individuals in an organization (e.g., employees). The range of information that can be made available in this way is quite broad: traditional telephone or other institutional directory data (office location, phone numbers, and the like), Unix user account data, more personal data such as home telephone numbers and photographs, along with any other site-specific data that may be appropriate. In this installment, we'll look at the services that LDAP can provide."

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Sweep 0.5.9 released

Version 0.5.9 of the Sweep audio editor/playback tool has been released. "This release also includes improved handling of the main volume and pitch controls, contributed by Zenaan Harkness." Sweep 0.5.8 was also released earlier this week, with more changes.

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GNOME Summary

The October 13-19, 2002 GNOME Summary is out. Topics include: Sodipodi to the people, GNOME Print joins the fontconfig family, GNOME Media start getting GStreamer love, GnuCash releases first alpha towards 1.8.0 release, Network Neighbourhood anyone?, Interview with Havoc Pennington and Owen Taylor, Batch of GStreamer news, New Gnomemeeting on the way, Translated GNOME summaries, Hacker Activity, Gnome Bug Hunting Activity, and New and Updated Software.

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FootNotes

Topics on the GNOME desktop FootNotes site include: the Debian Desktop Project, Dropline GNOME 1.2 and Mozilla with Xft, together at last!, The Captains of Nautilus, Don't do this at home: Xft2 + GTK+ 1.x, the 2002 Helen Keller Achievement Award, Gaim v0.59.5 released, Mozilla 1.2beta with GTK theme support and more.

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Kernel Cousin KDE

Issue #44 of Kernel Cousin KDE is out, with the latest KDE development news. Topics include a KMail Roadmap, a New GPG frontend, KDE 3.0.4, Kopete rework, Qt GStreamer bindings, and a Developer Newsflash.

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The Captains of Nautilus (Linux Orbit)

Christian Schaller interviews Nautilus maintainers Alexander Larsson and Dave Camp on Linux Orbit. "The official GNOME filemanager Nautilus was originally developed by Eazel as part of their plan to bring usability and beauty to the Unix desktop. Today Nautilus is maintained by veteran GNOME hackers Alexander Larsson and Dave Camp. Being such a core application in the GNOME desktop it is the topic of many discussions in and around GNOME. In a recent survey on gnomedesktop.org an interview about Nautilus was at the top of the wishlist. So to let everyone get the inside scope on what is happening with Nautilus currently I got hold of Alexander and Dave for a small interview."

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FLTK 1.1.1 released

Version 1.1.1 of FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit is available. Change documentation is in the source code.

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Samba 2.2.6 and beyond!

Samba 2.2.6 has been released with lots of bug fixes, particularly in printing and winbind.

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Kernel Cousin Wine

Issue #140 of Kernel Cousin Wine is out. Topics include Xandros & CodeWeavers, a Listview Update, a Windows Code Migration Guide, Adding -DSTRICT Capability, Using wineconsole, Threading In Winelib Apps, and Large Screen Buffers for the Debugger.

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AbiWord Weekly News

Issue #114 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out with the latest AbiWord word processor development news, and even includes a yo mama joke, gratis.

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Bluefish GTK+-2 port is nearing completion!

The GTK+-2 port of the Bluefish graphical HTML editor tool is nearing completion. Testers are needed.

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Mozilla 1.2b released

Version 1.2b of Mozilla has been released. Improvements include type ahead find, GTK theme pickups, link prefetching, filter after the fact capabilities for Mozilla Mail, the ability to show toolbars as text, icons, and both, launching with multiple tabs defined, XFT support, and more.

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mozillaZine

The latest mozillaZine topics include an article on XML-Based GUIs, the upcoming Phoenix 0.4 Release, finding Phoenix bugs, Xft Antialiased Font Support for Linux, Bugzilla Search Defaults Changing, Mozilla 1.2 Beta News Articles, the growing Phoenix Community, and more.

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Mozilla Status Update

The October 17, 2002 edition of the Mozilla Status Update is out. Topics include Phoenix 0.3, Minotaur, prefetching issues, the release of Mozilla 1.2b, Xft/fontconfig, Palm sync, a tree lockdown for the 1.2 release, Independent project status updates, and more.

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Caml Weekly News

Topics on this week's Caml Weekly News include IFAD-1.0.2, MLdonkey 2.00, Operator overloading, a OCaml-SOAP library bug fix, and the ICFP 2002 Programming Contest Write-up.

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The Caml Hump

This week, the new software on The Caml Hump includes GlSurf, a program that draws surfaces from their implicit equations.

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XML to PDF? Oh, FOP It.

Vikram Goyal illustrates FOP on O'Reilly. "Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) is an open source Java API that can convert your XML data into reports in PDF format, as well as such other relevant formats as TXT, SVG, AWT, MIF, and PS. The software is developed under the Apache XML project and is free to use. This article shows your how to get started with FOP. The primary advantage of FOP is its ability to convert XML data into reports in the PDF format, using a formatting tree. Most of the examples we'll cover will concentrate on this particular conversion, but we will also cover converting XML data to the Java AWT format."

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Guidelines for using the Java 2 reference classes (IBM developerWorks)

IBM developerWorks has an article on Java 2 reference classes. "The Java 2 platform introduced the java.lang.ref package, which contains classes that allow you to refer to objects without pinning them in memory. The classes also provide a limited degree of interaction with the garbage collector. In this article, Peter Haggar examines the functionality and behavior of the SoftReference, WeakReference, and PhantomReference classes and recommends programming idioms for their use."

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

The October 14-20, 2002 edition of This Week on perl5-porters includes a charnames patch follow-up, a discussion on how to leak scalars with threads, and lots of bug fix reports.

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This week on Perl 6 (O'Reilly)

The O'Reilly This week on Perl 6 for October 7-14 is out. Topics include The Pumpking Is Dead, Long Live the Pumpking!, Variables Have Three Parts, Line Number Metadata, a New Array Base, Parrot_sprintf, Nuke dem opcodes, a Getting Started Guide, Larry Explains All, the Perl6 OO Cookbook, and more.

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PHP Weekly Summary

Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include 4.3.0 pre2, a new PHP for Netware, a Ming and Streams incompatibility bug, removing apidoc.txt, a ZIP extension fix, PHP XML flexibility, a fix for parse_url() problems, removing short tags, $_GET, $_POST, $_COOKIE, $_FILES == $_REQUEST?, and an Oracle extension talk.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - October 21, 2002

Here's the latest Python-URL with all your weekly Python news and links.

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The Daily Python-URL

This week's Daily Python-URL looks at articles on the Relationship Manager pattern class, how ActiveState manages to work in both the proprietary and Open Source worlds, Beginning Python for bioinformatics, Streamlining DOM XML processing with Python, XIST 2.0, A Tour of 4Suite, TextIndexNG Extensions 1.05, and more.

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The Ruby Weekly News

Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include an experimental FAQ facility, Ruby and the Linux kernel, and a collaborative Ruby book. New Ruby software includes FXRuby-1.0.14, MIME::Types 1.003 for Ruby, RDE0.9.8.0, Text::Format 1.003 for Ruby, and Rimport 0.0.1.13.

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Scheme Weekly News

The Scheme Weekly News for October, 21, 2002 is out. The topic list includes: Paper added to ReadScheme library, Quack 0.14, SISC 1.6.1 beta, dotLisp, Implementation of MD5, Gauche 0.6.4, and Serveez 0.1.4.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The October 21, 2002 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is out with lots of Tcl development news.

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A Tour of 4Suite (O'Reilly)

Uche Ogbuji writes about the 4Suite project on O'Reilly. "Mike Olson and I began the 4Suite project in 1998 with the release of 4DOM, and it quickly picked up an XPath and XSLT implementation. It has grown to include Python implementations of many other XML technologies, and it now provides a large library of Python APIs for XML as well as an XML server and repository system. In this article and the next, I'll introduce just the basic Python library portion of 4Suite, which includes facilities for XML parsing (complementing PyXML), RELAX NG, XPath, XPatterns, XSLT, RDF, XUpdate and more."

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XML and Web Services (Dr. Dobb's)

Dr. Dobb's Journal has an online list of XML and Web Services resources with pointers to lots of interesting articles.

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Beep BEEP! (O'Reilly)

Rich Salz writes about BEEP on O'Reilly. "This article is the last in a series examining how one might go about sending binary data as part of a SOAP message. This month we look at BEEP, the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol."

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Use recursion effectively in XSL (IBM developerWorks)

Jared Jackson talks about XSL recursion on IBM developerWorks. "Using XSL transformations effectively and efficiently requires understanding how to use XSL as a functional language, and this means understanding recursion. This article introduces the key concepts of recursion and its particular use in XSL. Techniques for optimizing XML translations and avoiding errors while using recursion are also explained. Each concept and technique is accompanied with example code for the reader's reference."

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What is XQuery? (O'Reilly)

Per Bothner writes about XQuery on O'Reilly. "The W3C is finalizing the XQuery specification, aiming for a final release in late 2002. XQuery is a powerful and convenient language designed for processing XML data. That means not only files in XML format, but also other data including databases whose structure -- nested, named trees with attributes -- is similar to XML. XQuery is an interesting language with some unusual ideas. This article provides a high level view of XQuery, introducing the main ideas you should understand before you go deeper or actually try to use it."

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