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GNOME 2.0 Desktop and Developer Platform Released

From the Ottawa Linux Symposium, the GNOME Foundation has put out a press release announcing the release of the 2.0 GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform.

"With the inclusion of GNOME 2.0 by leading Linux and Unix vendors later this year, users of GNOME can look forward to an improved user environment for existing GNOME applications, including a faster and more powerful Nautilus file manager, features that are better organized and usability-tested, dozens of useful utilities, applications and even games. Users and administrators will also see a new, simplified configuration system. Developers can look forward to more efficient application development with stronger integration of GNOME APIs and the advantages of GNOME's component-based architecture.

GNOME Foundation board chair Havoc Pennington promoted the GTK+ 2.0 toolkit:

"The industrial-strength GTK+ 2.0 toolkit, combined with add-on tools such as Glade, Python and our CORBA implementation make GNOME the natural choice for developers on a variety of platforms. GNOME's component-based architecture makes it possible for developers to use already existing tools, libraries and features, cutting development time significantly."

GNOME2 will be included with major Linux distributions, HP-UX from Hewlett Packard, and Solaris from Sun.

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Alsa development release 0.9.0rc2 available

For those of you who like to stay on the forefront of development, version 0.9.0rc2 of the developmnet tree for the Alsa sound driver is available. Try it out and report any bugs to the developers.

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Linux in education report #73

Issue #73 of the SEUL/Edu Linux in Education Report is out. Topics include Karel the Robot, refurbishing computers, Linux in India, K12LTSP CDROMs, the Mandrake Mosix Terminal Server Project, and more.

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Icarus Verilog Snapshot 20020623

A new snapshot of the Icarus Verilog electronic simulation language compiler is available. See the changes file for information on this release.

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Xcircuit 2.3.1 (beta) available

A new beta version of the xcircuit schematic drawing program is available. "The netlist code has been extensively tested on a major chip design project and successfully netlisted an entire chip of 40,000 devices (transistors, resistors, and capacitors) for LVS with the extracted VLSI layout. The time to generate the netlist has been substantially reduced, and netlisting errors have been expunged."

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GNU Ghostscript 7.05 released

Version 7.05 of GNU Ghostscript has been announced. "New in this release is a port of the gs-cjk team's asian language improvements from the 6.5x branch, a major improvement over 7.04. PDF handling in general is much better than in the previous GNU release (6.53) and the portability of the autoconf build system is much improved. Of course there are the usual minor bugfixes as well."

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LPRng-3.8.12 is available

Version 3.8.12 of the LPRng printing system has been released. This version adds bug fixes, support for TCP wrappers, a LSB style startup script, and more.

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Mumps version 5

Version 5 of the Mumps compiler, also known as M, has been announced. The Mumps source code location describes the language as follows: "Mumps is a general purpose programming language that supports a native hierarchical data base facility. It is supported by a large user community (mainly biomedical), and a diversified installed application software base."

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Analog version 5.24 released

Version 5.24 of the Analog web log analyzer program is available. The changes include Netscape 7 recognition, a new version of the IIS How-To, multibyte character set support for SEARCHCHARCONVERT, and several new internationalization improvements.

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mnoGoSearch version 3.2.6 released

Version 3.2.6 of the mnoGoSearch web site search engine is available. This release features a number of bug fixes, see the Change Log for more details.

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Zope Members News

This week's Zope Members News looks at External Editor 0.4, DocumentLibrary 1.0rc1, ZSyncer 0.4.5, ZXMail 0.1, and CMFMailIn.

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Skimpy Forum: An Application of Perl and XML (O'Reilly)

Erik T. Ray writes about the development of Skimpy Forum, a simple Perl based web forum system, on O'Reilly's OnLamp site.

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Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 2 (O'Reilly)

Stas Bekman continues his series on mod_perl performance optimization and benchmarking on O'Reilly's perl.com site. "In the next series of articles, we are going to talk about mod_perl performance issues. We will try to look at as many aspects of the mod_perl driven service as possible: hardware, software, Perl coding and finally the mod_perl specific aspects." You may want to start with Part One in the series.

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MidCOM 0.2.0 public Beta Version

Version 0.2.0 of the MidCOM Midgard application development framework RFC has been released. "This document represents a draft about a component architecture for the Midgard Content Management System. Its intent is to provide an easily extensible Application Framework based on Midgard. It should -- in its ultimate extent -- enable end users to 'click their sites together' using common Components for news tickers, discussion boards or similar things."

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Enhancing Web Services Infrastructures with JMS (O'Reilly)

Gunnison Carbone writes about JMS (Java Message Service) on O'Reilly's OnJava site. "Web services are revolutionizing the Internet by enabling applications to speak a common language: XML. Under the Web services paradigm, a single application can tap into the services of millions of applications scattered throughout the Internet. The potential of this is enormous. Web services allow cooperation, communication, and integration on a global scale."

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New hcfpcimodem-0.96mbsibeta02062500 release

A new, experimental version of the Conexant HCF software modem driver has been released.

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GNU Bayonne 1.0 (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal reports on the preliminary release and call for help for the GNU Bayonne open-source telephony server project. "After two years of development, a 1.0 preliminary release candidate for GNU Bayonne has emerged from the GNU Project, under sponsorship of the Free Software Foundation and OST. GNU Bayonne is a freely licensed telephony server allowing small businesses, large enterprises and commercial telephone carriers to create, deploy and manage embedded, standalone and web-integrated telephony voice-response solutions."

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AlsaPlayer 0.99.71 released

Version 0.99.71 of the AlsaPlayer sound playing utility is available. This version adds bug fixes, support for ftp and http streams, keyboard shortcuts, API additions, and more. See the Change Log for the full story.

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WaveSurfer 1.4.2 released

Version 1.4.2 of the WaveSurfer sound visualization and manipulation tool has been released. "The new version of WaveSurfer uses Snack v2.2, which incorporates code from the ESPS speech analysis library. ESPS was recently licensed to the Centre for Speech Technology by Microsoft and AT&T, with the aim to make it available to speech researchers again." See the Change History File for more information.

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GNOME Summary for 2002-06-02 - 2002-06-22

The GNOME summary for June 2nd through June 22nd is available at the link below. Table of Contents:

1. GNOME 2 Release Candidate 2 out
2. GNOME 2 Screenshots from the master
3. Gnomedesktop.org list of ported applications
4. Official Sun Solaris beta of GNOME 2
5. Agnubis to the people
6. IBM GNOMEnclature series continues
7. GNOME South American Tour
8. SashXB 1.0 is out!
9. Translated GNOME Summaries
10. Hacker Activity
11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
12. New and Updated Software

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GNOME Clarified (pclinuxonline)

"Yama" has written an article on pclinuxonline.com that aims to "clear up many misconceptions that many people seem to hold about GNOME. Hopefully it will lead to a greater understanding of The GNOME Project and what it's about."

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GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 2: 'Glad Midsommar'

The GNOME 2.0 Desktop Release Candidate 2, "Glad Midsommar", is now available. "A number of release critical issues were resolved after Release Candidate 1, so to ensure adequate testing and review before GNOME 2.0 Desktop Final, we've made a second release candidate for wider testing. RC2 should reflect the contents of the final release."

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KDE Dot News: Community FAQ

KDE.News has posted an announcement for a new KDE Community FAQ for the site. "By popular demand, we are answering some of the most frequently asked questions at the dot. Read the following FAQ if you are interested in understanding how the dot operates, how best to contribute articles, and how to help improve the dot in general. Nothing is really set in stone here. The FAQ will be updated as required and as per your comments, and may eventually be moved to a different final location. With your help, KDE Dot News can hopefully improve and serve your needs better in the future."

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Kernel Cousin KDE #39

Issue #39 of Kernel Cousin KDE is out. Topics include Kicker Xinerama Support, KDE/GNOME Interoperability, KDE 3.1 Release Schedule 4. 1, and KDE on HP/UX.

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Samba 2.2.5 has been released

This is the latest stable release of Samba. The full details are found within this story.

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Kernel Cousin Wine #127

Issue #127 of Kernel Cousin Wine is out. Topics include wIndependence Day, Lindows at Wal-Mart, Kohan from TransGaming, Documentation Links, Creating Stubs, MS Write Support, Adding FriBiDi Support, and Multiple Wine Configurations.

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AbiWord Weekly News #97 (2002, week 25) released

AbiWord Weekly News for June 24th is available. Topics include tables spanning multiple pages, the BugZilla update, and the usual sections: CVS states, bug updates, latest releases, and "on the mailing list".

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KOrganizer: Embedded Release 1.0 + Groupware Workshop

KDE.News mentions several new KOrganizer resources including a new workshop series and a stable release of KOrganizer/Embedded for Qtopia.

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Kernel Cousin GNUe #33

Issue #33 of the Kernel Cousin GNUe is out with coverage of the latest developments in the GNU enterprise project.

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PDF Presentations Using AxPoint (O'Reilly)

Kip Hampton examines the use of AxPoint for making PDF-based presentations. " All kidding aside, if you've ever attended The Perl Conference or one of the YAPC gatherings, you've probably experienced the vague sense of disappointment that comes from watching someone who's otherwise staunchly committed to Open Source software boot up proprietary OS to use a presentation application to deliver the slides for their talk. It doesn't have to be that way; there are alternatives."

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gphoto2 2.1.0 released!

Version 2.1.0 of the gphoto2 digital camera utility has been released. This version includes a new manual, support for additional cameras, and bug fixes.

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Kernel Cousin GNUe #34

Issue #34 of Kernel Cousin GNUe is out. Topics include: Normalisation for Contact Management in GNUe/DCL, Quoting table names in SQL queries, Foreign Key support in Forms, Scrollboxes and other queries, Container widgets in Forms, and more.

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Scheduling threads (IBM developerWorks)

Dr. Edward G. Bradford compares thread performance between Red Hat 7.2 and various Windows varients on IBM's developerWorks. "This month's column will go into more depth with threads. I've written a program that performs measurable work in each thread and then demonstrate the overhead of performing the same computation in multiple threads."

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Caml Weekly News

The June 25, 2002 edition of the Caml Weekly News features the following topics: French interactive fiction, Ocaml tracing (with Camlp4), Cameleon 0.4, and DBForge 0.4.

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An Introduction to the Java Logging API (O'Reilly)

Brian R. Gilstrap writes about the Java logging API on O'Reilly's OnJava site. "Unless you've been living under a rock, you already know that the official release of JDK 1.4 came out in the first quarter of this year, and included with it is a new logging API. This API was first described in JSR 47. Essentially the same description is also available in the documentation of logging for JDK 1.4."

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SBCL 0.7.5 released

Steel Bank Common Lisp (SBCL), version 0.7.5 has been announced. "This version has been ported to a new platform (Tru64--a.k.a. OSF/1--on Alpha), can be cross compiled with OpenMCL, changes a command line option and the behavior of the LOAD form, and fixes a few bugs."

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Perl 5.8.0 RC 2 Released (use Perl)

Perl 5.8.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available. This is a release candidate, and is not recommended for use in a production environment, but downloading and testing is strongly encouraged.

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Ghostscript.pm - A perl module for the Ghostscript API

Forrest Cahoon has announced Ghostscript.pm, a perl module that connects to the Ghostscript API.

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PHP Weekly Summary #91

The June 24, 2002 edition of the PHP Weekly Summary topics include: GD not detecting built-in features, Overload extension on Win2K, PHP 4.2.2, Manual in Turkish, PHP on Windows CE, exit(), and Java and PHP.

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Multiple File PHP Scripts (O'Reilly)

John Coggeshall discusses breaking PHP code into multiple files on O'Reilly's OnLamp site. " Although it's not ever truly necessary, many times it becomes very important to have the ability to separate PHP code into multiple files to ease organization and promote the idea of reusing common functions within your PHP scripts."

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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL!

The June 24, 2002 edition of the Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! is now available.

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Daily Python-URL

This week's entries on the Daily Python-URL include translating Perl to Python, an interview with Alex Martelli, Python on the space shuttle, game scripting in Python, and more.

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The Ruby Weekly News

The June 24, 2002 edition of the Ruby Weekly News has announcements for Ruby Password 0.1.0, FXRuby-1.0.11, a new Ruby.vim maintainer, and Rpkg-0.3.4pre4. Discussion threads include an Rpkg repository, REXML in C, and inside Ruby I/O.

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The Ruby Garden

This week, The Ruby Garden topcis include kernel conversion methods for using to_flt, to_int, to_ary, to_str, local variables and blocks, and more.

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Scheme Weekly News for June 17, 2002

The June 17, 2002 edition of the Scheme Weekly News topics include: the Web-It! XML framework, mod_scheme for Apache 2, GNU Kawa 1.6.99, Systas 1.0pre3, SISC b1.5.2, and more.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 20)

The June 20, 2002 edition of the Dr. Dobb's TCL-URL! is available with all of the latest Tcl news.

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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! - weekly Tcl news and links (Jun 24)

The June 24, 2002 edition of Dr. Dobb's TCL-URL! covers Korean text, tips and tricks for widgets, helpful information for building applications, and more.

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