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SCE 1.5 Release Announcement

Version 1.5 of SCE, an integrated scalable computing environment, has been released. New features include automatic installation for diskless machines, HA support out of the box, automatic dependency checks, a new configuration generation tool, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

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Icarus Verilog 20020616 released

A new snapshot of the Icarus Verilog electronic simulation language compiler has been released. See the release notes for more information.

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Mizi Research announces new Linux PDA developer kit (LinuxDevices)

LinuxDevices introduces us to an embedded Linux developer kit. "Mizi Research (Seoul, Korea) announced today the near-term availability of a hardware/software developer kit for its Linu@ (pronounced 'Linu-ette') Embedded Linux distribution."

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Koha 1.2.0 Released

Version 1.2.0 of KOHA, a free open source library (as in books) system, has been announced. New features include search by Dewey number, improved keyword searches, restricted catalogue searches, a new catalogue maintenance section, MARC imporing capabilities, and bug fixes.

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Sentinel 1.2.4b released

Version 1.2.4b of the Sentinel mail filter for sendmail has been released. Some instabilities under the Linux and Sparc platforms have been fixed.

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Midgard 1.4.3 released

The final Midgard 1.4.3 release has been announced. Not much has changed since the last release candidate; click below for the details. (Midgard is a PHP-based web application publication framework).

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SashXB 1.0 released

The Gnotices site is carrying an announcement for release 1.0 of IBM's SashXB. "SashXB is an open source application environment that exposes native functionality to JavaScript. It's ideal for web developers with HTML and JS skills who want to write full-featured native applications, as well as experienced programmers who'd appreciate the convenience of rapid application development. It uses a host of other open source projects, including Mozilla, GNOME, Glade, and Gdome. The SashXB project was inspired by Sash For Windows." See the SashXB home page for more details.

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Zope Members News

The latest adds to the Zope Members News include a notices for Zope training, External Editor 0.3, CMFForum 0.1, ZOPE 2.6.0 Alpha 1, ZFS 0.1, and a Hotfix 2002-06-14 security Alert.

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Ship in a Bottle - Running Linux Under Linux

David HM Spector illustrates various ways to emulate Linux under Linux for the purpose of software development. "So if you're still in the game, need to test lots of software configurations for your products and services, and aren't allowed to buy or lease any new hardware, what do you do? Clearly, repeatedly building and wiping out a machine or two for software testing is tedious and time-consuming. In this Linux in the Enterprise article, we'll examine some software solutions that will help you "create" enough machines to test against without spending anything more than a little time and some disk space."

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How to build a dual-booting Linux system on a single hard drive (developerWorks)

Koki Zamboni has written in with a link to an old but worthwhile IBM developerWorks tutorial on dual booting Linux with Linux. "Having multiple Linux installations to work with allows you to easily test different libraries with the same program, watch how your program interacts with others, or just tweak a parameter here or there to see what happens. This comes in handy for development and testing -- as well as for customer support."

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Twisted 0.18.0

Version 0.18.0 of the Twisted network framework has been released. "0.18.0 is a major release, cleaning up many of the main APIs in twisted.internet and moving us much closer to a 0.99.x series leading up to Twisted 1.0."

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WaveSurfer 1.4.1 released

Version 1.4.1 of the sound visualization and manipulation tool WaveSurfer has been released. This version features "Numerous minor enhancements and bug-fixes".

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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 1

All you GNOME testers out there, GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 1 code-named "Fever Pitch" is ready for you.

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GNOME Installation Guide for 1.4.1 and 2.0 published

The GNOME Installation Guide for the releases 1.4.1 and 2.0 has been upgraded and published.

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Getting ready for GNOME 2, part 2 (IBM developerWorks)

IBM's developerWorks is running part 2 in a series by Daniel Robbins on GNOME 2. "In the second installment of the newly relaunched GNOMEnclature column, relative GNOME newbie and Common Threads columnist Daniel Robbins takes a a look at the new Glib object system from a new GNOME developer's perspective."

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GNOME Utilities 2.0.0 'Zivot je jinde' released

The GNOME project today announced the release of gnome-utils 2.0.0, targeted for the "GNOME 2.0 Platform and Desktop" release. Much has changed since the initial start of the project in late 1998 and this release marks the start of a more intuitive and appealing user interface, coupled with the port to the new GNOME 2.0 platform.

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Kernel Cousin KDE #38

Issue #38 of Kernel Cousin KDE topics include Mime Types In KDE, Going Back a Revision, KDE to Speak Klingon, and KOffice Mimetypes Submitted to IETF for Public Review.

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Boson 0.6 -- A New Milestone

KDE.News reports on a new version of the real time strategy game Boson. "Since development restarted in late 2001, the game has been completely rewritten and ported to libkdegames. As a result of the recent development, Boson 0.6 has been released."

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The Chopping Block

The June, 2002 edition of The Chopping Block is out with the latest news from the WorldForge game project. Feature articles topics include Concept Art, Lagrangian Mechanics, and the First Castles Paper.

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Gdk-pixbuf 0.18.0 is released (Gnotices)

Version 0.18.0 "No White Clouds in My Blue Sky" of the Gdk-pixbuf library has been released. A number of bugs have been fixed in this release.

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Kernel Cousin Wine #125

Kernel Cousin Wine #125 topics include Wine-20020605, Lindows OS SPX 2, Testing Lotus Notes 3, Directly Executing Windows Binaries 4, License Thoughts, and the Future of Wine Debugging.

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Kernel Cousin Wine #126 For 13 June

Issue #126 of the Kernel Cousin Wine is available. Topics include Updated CodeWeaver's Products Quickstart Guide; TransGaming Releasing Code; LinuxTag 2002 News; Installing Internet Explorer; Supporting Windows Links in the Kernel; and Preliminary BiDi Patch.

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AbiWord Weekly News #96

The latest weekly news update for developers and users of AbiWord is available. "BugZilla upgraded, table and GTK2 work continues. There's also been lots of work done on other fronts: win32 installer update, bug fixes, and msxml support to name a few."

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distcc 0.4 available

Version 0.4 of distcc, a distributed C compiler, is available. "distcc is a program to distribute compilation of C code across several machines on a network. distcc should always generate the same results as a local compile, is simple to install and use, and is often significantly faster than a local compile. Unlike other distributed build systems, distcc does not require all machines to share a filesystem, have synchronized clocks, or to have the same libraries or header files installed. Machines can be running different operating systems, as long as they have compatible binary formats or cross-compilers. (Currently it is being tested on gcc-linux-x86 and gcc-freebsd-x86.)". (Thanks to Martin Poole.)

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Caml Weekly News for June 4-11, 2002

The June 4-11, 2002 edition of the Caml Weekly News looks at signal analysis, Cash 0.10, Ocaml licensing issues, F#, findlib-0.7, and more.

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The Caml Hump

This week, The Caml Hump covers the PoesiaMonIcap Internet Content Adaptation Protocol filter monitor, the Cameleon ide, DBForge, omlib, and rpc.

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Sun JDK 1.4.0_01 Released

Sun has released version 1.4.0_01 of Sun JDK. A number of bugs have been fixed in this version.

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Enhance Collection Performance with this Treasure Trove (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly's OnJava site reviews Trove. "Eric D. Friedman wrote a high performance set of collections called Trove. Trove allows you to plug in their versions of certain containers (HashMap, HashSet, LinkedList), and use them just like you did with the standard versions. There are also ways to utilize primitive collections to gain even more performance. Don't you love open source?"

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OpenMCL 0.12 released

Version 0.12 of OpenMCL has been released. "This version features several changes to the FFI interface, a more extensive Cocoa demo for Mac OS X, and a lot of bug fixes." See the release notes for more information.

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Where Wizards Fear To Tread (Perl.com)

Artur Bergman examines thread programming under Perl 5.8 on O'Reilly's perl.com site. "One of the big new features in perl 5.8 is that we now have real working threads available to us through the threads pragma. However, for us module authors who already have to support our modules on different versions of perl and different platforms, we now have to deal with another case: threads! This article will show you how threads relate to modules, how we can take old modules and make them thread-safe, and round off with a new module that alters perl's behavior of the 'current working directory'."

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PHP Weekly Summary for June 17, 2002

The June 17, 2002 edition of the PHP Weekly Summary is available. Topics include PHP 4.3.0 + ZE2, DOMXML validation, MySQL extension, a call for papers for the International PHP conference in Frankfurt, Germany, Wez and Streams support, PHP and sed, and PEAR and PECL.

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Gettext (O'Reilly)

Joao Prado Maia writes about gettext and PHP on O'Reilly's OnLamp site. "Did you ever get into a situation in Web development where you need to create a Web site or a Web application that is dynamically available, in several languages? A lot of existing open source applications try to create their own solution for these needs, but the standard way to do this is to use Gettext, a set of GNU tools to help packages manage multi-lingual messages in their applications."

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This week's Python-URL

Here is Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for June 17. It looks at Guido's first Father's Day, final methods, the leo editor, MayaVI, and more.

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The Daily Python-URL

This weeks entries on the Daily Python-URL covers PyReverse, Leo, Generating SOAP, PyBEM, ChinesePython, tree2image, Python iterators, and more.

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The Ruby Garden

This week's Ruby Garden topics include module importing issues, and the use of nil.to_f.

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Scheme Weekly News

The June 10, 2002 edition of the Scheme Weekly News covers PLT Scheme v200alpha19, the 27th Scheme Request For Implementation, a new ILISP release, expansion of the ReadScheme.org bibliography, and SWIG 1.13.12.

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Secrets of the XML developer elite: Janet Sullivan (IBM developerWorks)

IBM's developerWorks looks at some XML development tricks from Janet Sullivan. "Janet Sullivan knows that the successful use of XML depends on how clean developers can keep their XML data trees. Make sure bad data does not corrupt your XML data tree, insists Sullivan. In this piece, Sullivan gives tips and tricks for XML developers to keep the introduction of dynamic data safe."

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The IETF, Best Practices and XML Schemas (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly's XML-Deviant column covers the XML best practice guide. "In this week's XML-Deviant column, I examine an XML best practice guide under development by the IETF, as well as the XML Schema language debate which it has reignited."

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Editing XML Data Using XUpdate and HTML Forms (O'Reilly)

Chimezie Ogbuji introduces XUpdate on O'Reilly's XML.com. "In this article I will discuss how XUpdate can be used in conjunction with XSLT to write tools for authors of web-based applications that will automatically generate HTML forms for editing various kinds of data."

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GNUstep Weekly Editorial

The June 6, 2002 edition of the GNUstep Weekly Editorial is out. Topics include gnustep-make 1.3.3, gnustep-gui-0.7.8, gnustep-back-0.7.8, and StepTalk 0.6.0.

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12 Months, 25 Men, One Woman and a Dictionary (O'Reilly)

Aidan Mark Humphreys discusses developers' spoken languages on O'Reilly's OnLamp site. "English is, to be sure, the closest thing we have to a lingua franca for software engineering. One of my involvements, the PHP-based PostNuke CMS Project, has over 200 developers from -- well, just about everywhere, with English as a common language. But there are many talented developers who, whilst quite happy to read the latest W3C spec or RFC, do not feel confident enough of their Franglais, Singlish, or Ginglish to hold their corner when flame wars break out."

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