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KDE 3.1 has been released

The much-anticipated release of KDE 3.1 has been announced with much fanfare.

A few of the changes in KDE 3.1 include:

• Enhanced security for the KMail email client.
• Calendar compatibility with Exchange 2000.
• Improved LDAP integration for the KDE PIM framework.
• A desktop lockdown framework for restricting configuration settings.
• A desktop sharing framework which can be used for remote technical support.
• Tabbed browsing for the Konqueror web browser.
• The Quanta Plus web development platform with PHP support.
• The KGET download manager.
• A new default style and default icon style.
• A new multimedia player plugin.
• Several new games.

For more detailed documentation on these improvements, see the KDE 3.1 New Feature Guide.

The Changes between KDE 3.0.5 and KDE 3.1.0 document details the changes in the following sections: kdelibs, kdeaddons, kdeadmin, kdebase, kdebindings, kdeedu, kdegames, kdegraphics, kdemultimedia, kdenetwork, kdepim, kdesdk, kdetoys, kdeutils, and Quanta Plus.

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Ogg Traffic

The January 27, 2003 edition of Ogg Traffic is out with the latest Ogg Vorbis audio compression news. Topics include: Using Signal Difference for Quality Evaluation?, Icecast.org's New Face, Vorbis 1.0 GT3, and Is that a Portable Vorbis Player on the Horizon?.

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Linux in Education Report

Issue #88 of the Linux in Education Report is out. Topics include A report from the educationaLinux miniconf in Perth, Australia, lesson plans for math and science, Sun's efforts to get StarOffice into UK schools, a TCO study for Linux in schools, a Lindows.com educational license offer, open source in Africa, an opening for the DebianEdu leader, and much more.

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Icarus Verilog Snapshot 20030126

Snapshot 20030126 of the Icarus Verilog electronic simulation language compiler is out from the gEDA project. "Support for real/realtime variables and expressions has been added." See the release notes for details.

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International Components for Unicode (IBM)

IBM has an open-source project known as International Components for Unicode. "The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support). As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same results across all the various platforms you support, without sacrificing performance." ICU has been released under the X License.

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Midgard Lite 0.8.1 released

Version 0.8.1 of the Midgard Lite web development framework has been released. "The main goal of this release is to provide an easily installable package so everybody has the chance to look into the world of midgard. The core of Midgard Lite is more reliable than ever before, and only few important Midgard functions are missing".

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Quixote 0.6 beta2 released

The second beta of the Quixote 0.6 Python-based web development platform is available. One serious bug in the beta1 release was fixed, among other things.

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Aegir CMS 1.0 RC1 released

The first prerelease of version 1.0 of the Aegir CMS Open Source Content Management System is available. "Aegir CMS is a full-featured Content Management System built on the popular Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (LAMP) platform powered by the Midgard application server."

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Zope Members News

The most recent headlines on the Zope Members News include: Open Letter to the Community, IssueTrackerProduct 0.4.9b, and SGI Supportfolio Powered by Zope.

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Twisted 1.0.2 released

Version 1.0.2 of the Twisted event-driven networking framework has been released, with a ton of new features.

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Tkeca 1.0.1 released

Version 1.0.1 of tkeca, a Tcl/Tk front end for the Ecasound audio utility, is available. This release features a new About TKECA button and a change to the GNU General Public License.

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Tkeca 1.0.2 released

Tkeca 1.0.2 was also released this week, it contains a couple of bug fixes.

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Ardour developments

Ardour, a multi-track audio recording package, has had some recent updates. The latest changes include a new timestretching user interface, implementation of "snap-to" for the selection process, the ability to deal with "chunks" of playlists, a new editor selection model, dither options for export, bug fixes, and more.

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amSynth 1.0 rc2 announced

Version 1.0-rc2 of amSynth, the Analogue Modeling Synthesizer, has been released. This version supports the Jack Audio Connection Kit. Other changes include a revised configure and build system, support for a virtual keyboard, a per-user installation, bug fixes, and support for the latest versions of GCC.

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KDE-CVS-Digest for January 24, 2003

The January 24, 2003 KDE CVS Digest is available. "This week, Kaplan is reborn as Kontact (a personal information management application for KDE that integrates KMail, KAddressBook, KOrganizer, and other applications), KMail is moved and a new VCard parser makes an appearance. Also read about KHTML's continued improvements thanks to the Apple Safari work., and new improvements in the KOffice filters. A number of new applications were also added to the repository."

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GNOME Summary for January 25, 2003

The GNOME Summary for January 19 - 25, 2003 is out. This week covers GNOME Foundation and Bitstream announce free fonts; ExtremeTech interviews from LWE; GNOME 2 100% translated to Mongolian; and much more.

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FootNotes

Headlines on the GNOME desktop FootNotes site include: GNOME 2.2 Desktop Release Candidate 2 (2.1.91): ''OUTATIME'', Sodipodi 0.29 released, GnomeMeeting 0.96 aka ''Seems, madam? I know not seems!'' released!, Desktop Enhancements!, libgda/libgnomedb/mergeant 0.10.0 released, GNOME 2.2 Desktop User Guide, GNOME 2.2 Desktop System Administration Guide, New Mongolian GNOME translation bursts onto scene, Camorama 0.16 released, Official Slackware Gnome2.2 out, Remote Gkrellm Over SSH, Linux World: The State of the Linux Desktop, and more.

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Adopt-a-Geek: Put Old Hardware to Good Use!

The Adopt-a-Geek program strives to put more computer resourses into the hands of KDE developers.

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KDE PIM Hackfest Summary

KDE.News summarizes the results of the KDE PIM Hackfest. "The main purpose was to define a roadmap on the future of personal information management in KDE. Berndhard Reiter from Intevation wrote down a nice summary for your convenience."

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Crystal Space 0.96r001 released

Version 0.96r001 of the Crystal Space 3D Engine has been released. "This is a VERY significant release compared to 0.94. Almost everything has changed :-) Lucky for you we have tried to make the transition as easy as possible."

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FLTK Developments

The latest new software for FLTK, the Fast, Light ToolKit include: FL-Inventor 0.9.5-rev1, fl_connect 0.9, Cartesian, and Fl_Device.

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Wine Weekly News

Issue #154 of the Wine Weekly News is out. Topics include: News: kerneltraffic.org, CrossOver Plugin 1.2, SuSE Offering, Kernel Module / Shared Memory Revisited, InstallShield 6 Insight, Where is fnt2bdf?, MSVC 4 & Explorer.exe Implementation, Executing Batch Files, Extracting Icons, Installing IE5.5, Wine Robustness?, CVS Vulnerability?, and Whither wine-releases ?.

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KOffice 1.3 Release Schedule (KDE.News)

KDE.News covers the release schedule for KOffice 1.3. "According to it the release cycle begins with Beta 1 in April and ends with the final release in early September 2003. Among the many targetted features are hyphenation support for KWord and Presenter, over 100 new formulas for KSpread and much improved filters (development status)."

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AbiWord Weekly News #127

Issue #127 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out, with the latest AbiWord word processor development news. "Martin has improved footnote functionality to the point that they're more intelligent than Microsoft's attempts. As I type this, either 1.1.3 is now released, and 1.0.4 is almost out, leaving Mark with a US$20 bill to foot. Jeremy's ready to show off his screen shot of his spunky new wallpaper, I mean, NSIS2 development. Finally, a friend of Andrew's may soon be appearing in the credits of other people's commits."

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AbiWord Weekly News #128

Issue #128 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out. Topics include the AbiWord 2.0 release plan, abiword2.nsi, INS, Initial Barbarism support documentation, "can't open font" at startup, More Contributors to the TWiki, End Notes, Footnotes exported to/imported from RTF, Tree closed for 1.1.3, and a lot more.

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Danish Native Language Project for OpenOffice

OpenOffice.org has announced the creation of the DA Project, which aims to bring Danish language support to OpenOffice.

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mozillaZine

The latest mozillaZine topics include: mozdev.org Soliciting for Donations, Integrating Switch Accessibility into Mozilla, Ten Things Phoenix is Better at Than Mozilla, New Netscape 7.01 Base Installer for Windows, UK's 'PC Plus' Magazine Awards Mozilla Editor's Choice, evolt.org Interviews Eric Meyer, K-Meleon Update in Development, and Independent Status Reports.

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GCC warnings

Some changes are being implemented in the GCC warning software. "The ongoing effort to remove warnings from the GCC code base itself, spear-headed by Kaveh Ghazi, has paid off: For our development versions and snapshots, we now enable -Werror during a full bootstrap."

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Caml Weekly News

The January 21-28, 2003 edition of the Caml Weekly News is out. Topics include: load modules by name, uname for Ocaml, Books on FP, and New bug fix version of Camlimages library.

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G95 FORTRAN work continues

Work continues on the G95 FORTRAN compiler project, subroutines are being added and bugs are being fixed.

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Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 2 (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly continues the series on Swing menus and toolbars. "In part 2 of this book excerpt on Swing menus and toolbars from Java Swing, 2nd Edition, learn about menu bar selection models, beginning with the JMenuBar class."

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Fine-tuning Java garbage collection performance (IBM developerWorks)

Sumit Chawla illustrates Java garbage collection on IBM's developerWorks, with a focus on the IBM Java Virtual Machine. "In this article, the author shows how to find out whether garbage collection, the task carried out by Java Virtual Machine in the background to reclaim unusable space, is finely tuned. He then provides several recommendations to address your garbage collection issues."

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Deploying multiple applications in J2EE 1.2 (IBM developerWorks)

Kyle Brown and Keys Botzum cover component reuse issues on IBM's developerWorks. "If you are developing with EJB technology, you are creating potentially reusable components. Unfortunately, plans to deal with reuse are often not put into place until it's too late. In this article, IBM enterprise developers Kyle Brown and Keys Botzum examine a common reuse scenario and explore some considerations that arise from it."

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SBCL 0.7.12 released

SBCL version 0.7.12 is available. "This is a minor maintenance release which changes the default compilation optimization policy of code processed by EVAL, provides an experimental implementation of the debugger's RETURN command, and fixes a few bugs."

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This Week on perl5-porters (use Perl)

This Week on perl5-porters for January 20-26, 2003 is available on Use Perl. "This week, the P5P summary will attempt to entertain you with several low-level hacks. (A weird kind of entertainment if any.) Read about printf(), optimisations, internals, perldoc, and other code stories below."

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This week on Perl 6

The January 19, 2003 edition of This week on Perl 6 is out. Topics include: Objects (again), Optimizing and per file flags, The draft todo/worklist, Parrot Examples, Thoughts on infant mortality (continued), Operators neg and abs in core.ops, The eval patch, Pretty Pictures, Solaris tinderbox failures, Parrot compilers, ook.pasm eval, Array questions, L2R/R2L syntax. Again, Larry's state of health and employment, and more.

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Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize (O'Reilly)

Chris Ball shows how to scrape screens with Perl. "Screen-scraping is the process of emulating an interaction with a Web site - not just downloading pages, but filling out forms, navigating around the site, and dealing with the HTML received as a result. As well as for traditional lookups of information - like the example we'll be exploring in this article - we can use screen-scraping to enhance a Web service into doing something the designers hadn't given us the power to do in the first place."

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PHP Weekly Summary

Topics on this week's PHP Weekly Summary include: PHP and XML, Binaries for MacOS X, PHP 5, CVS checkouts from HEAD, ADT extension, Dump_node() changes, and Msession 1.2.

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for January 27, 2003 is available, with lots of news and links for the Python community.

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The Daily Python-URL

This week's Daily Python-URL article topics include: SQLObject, PyObjC, rlcompleter2, the EuroPython 2003 Conference, Eric3, a Python IDE, A conversation with Guido van Rossum, part III: Programming at Python speed, PythonMagick, SandBox, Perl 6 and Python 3000, kobra, a native .NET wrapper for Python, tn5250j features Jython scripting, path 1.0, and more.

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The Ruby Weekly News

Topics on this week's Ruby Weekly News include: mod_ruby - what is persistent and what is shared?, Ruby does not have enough libraries?, Hash#+?, ModuleBuilder, and Our own CPAN. New Ruby software includes: archive-tarsimple-0.1.0.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!

The January 28, 2003 edition of Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! is out with the latest Tcl/Tk development news.

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X+V 1.1 ---XHTML+Voice

IBM's developerWorks has published the specifications for X+V, which is geared toward voice-based interaction. "X+V brings spoken interaction to standard WWW content by integrating a set of mature WWW technologies such as XHTML and XML Events with XML vocabularies developed as part of the W3C Speech Interface Framework. X+V brings together voice modules that support speech synthesis, speech dialogs, command and control, speech grammars, and the ability to attach Voice handlers for responding to specific DOM events, thereby re-using the event model familiar to web developers. Voice interaction features are integrated directly with XHTML and CSS, and can consequently be used directly within XHTML content."

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Parsing RSS At All Costs (O'Reilly)

Mark Pilgrim talks about dealing with malformed RSS data on O'Reilly. "As I said in last month's article, RSS is an XML-based format for syndicating news and news-like sites. XML was chosen, among other reasons, to make it easier to parse with off-the-shelf XML tools. Unfortunately in the past few years, as RSS has gained popularity, the quality of RSS feeds has dropped. There are now dozens of versions of hundreds of tools producing RSS feeds. Many have bugs. Few build RSS feeds using XML libraries; most treat it as text, by piecing the feed together with string concatenation, maybe (or maybe not) applying a few manually coded escaping rules, and hoping for the best."

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The Return of XML Hypertext (O'Reilly)

Kendall Grant Clark writes about XML hypertext efforts on O'Reilly. "The first thing one might say about xml-hypertext is that its credentials suggest that it is a trustworthy source. A brief glance through its archive is like a glance through the Who's Who of the XML community. Not only is the roster of participants a good indication of the quality of conversation, but it also suggests that the list's motivating idea is not the product of a single person, but reflects broader community interests."

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Introduction to XFML (O'Reilly)

Peter Van Dijck introduces XFML on O'Reilly. "XFML is a simple XML format for exchanging metadata in the form of faceted hierarchies, sometimes called taxonomies. Its basic building blocks are topics, also called categories. XFML won't solve all your metadata needs."

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