Development
Mozilla.org launches Mozilla 1.0
Here it is at last: the press release announcing the launch of Mozilla 1.0. "Built on the Gecko layout engine, Mozilla 1.0 is cross-platform and integrates a core set of applications that allow users to access the capabilities of the Web, including a web browser, an email reader and a chat client." Congratulations are due to the Mozilla team, which has worked a long time to create this release.
For more coverage, see the articles on mozilla.org and Mozillazine.
System Applications
Education
Linux in education report #71
The Linux in education report #71 is available. This week Sun donates StarOffice 6.0 to schools, the Connexions Project, and more.
Electronics
gEDA news
The gEDA site lists new versions of the Icarus Verilog compiler and gEDA/gaf, a collection of electronic CAD tools.
Networking Tools
OpenSSH 3.2.3 released
Following on the heels of the last release, OpenSSH version 3.2.3 has been announced. This version fixes a few bugs that showed up in version 3.2.2.gFTP: 2.0.12 has been released
Version 2.0.12 of the gFTP FTP client has been released. This release fixes a number of bug fixes and features support for the Bulgarian and Norwegian languages.
Printing
Omni printer driver version 0.7.0 released
Version 0.7.0 of the Omni printer driver has been released. This version features a new build environment and a number of bug fixes.
Science
GT.M V4.3-001A Released (Linux Med News)
Linux Med News reports on the release of a new version of GT.M. "For those of you just tuning in, this is an open source Mumps compiler which is making the Veterans Administration VistA software available to civilian types."
Web Site Development
mnoGoSearch 3.2.5 released
Version 3.2.5 of the mnoGoSearch web site search engine has been released. A number of bug fixes and security changes are included, see the Change Log for more details.New mod_perl's released (use Perl)
Use Perl is carrying an announcement for two new releases of mod_perl.
Zope Members News
The latest items on the Zope Members News site include stable release version 1.5 of the Ordered List Product, version 0.6.1 of the emil email client, and the founding of a German Zope user's group.
Standards
Public review of the LSB's gLSB & archLSB-IA32 v1.2 written specs
The draft gLSB and archLSB-IA32 v1.2 written specifications for Linux will be published on the web Monday June 3rd for a two week public review. The Linux community is invited to comment by Monday June 17th.
Miscellaneous
Wine Weekly News Issue 124
Issue #124 of the Wine Weekly News is out. Topics include a Win4Lin review, tips on helping Wine development, code practices, printing multi-byte characters, WineX and Debian, and more.
Desktop Applications
Audio Applications
WaveSurfer 1.4.1 released
Version 1.4.1 of the WaveSurfer sound visualization and manipulation tool has been released. Minor enhancements and bug fixes have been added and some speech utilities have been fixed.Jack 0.34.0 released
Version 0.34.0 of Jack, the Jack Audio Connection Kit has been released. In this version, the API has been stabilized, see the release notes for all of the details.
Desktop Environments
KDE 3.0.1 released
A new release of the KDE desktop environment has been announced. "KDE 3.0.1 is primarily a translation release for KDE 3.0, which shipped in early April. In addition, KDE 3.0.1 offers a number of performance and usability enhancements." (Thanks to Scott Dowdle.)
GARNOME Preview Seven
GARNOME 0.10.1 ("the bad-ass, bleeding edge GNOME distribution for testers and tweakers everywhere") has been released.. There's a number of new goodies in this release, including a "magicdev" preview and an interesting surprise.GNOME Summary for May 25 to June 1
The Gnome Summary for May 25 through June 1, 2002 is out. Topics include the GNOME 2 hard freeze, hacking GTK+ apps in LOGO, GnomeMeeting for Gnome2, gthumb, the accessibility framework explained, and more.GNOME Summary for May 19 to May 25
The GNOME Summary for May 19 to May 25th looks at Sun and MetaCity, an interview with Murray Cumming, how AbiWord points the way to tables, GNOME vrs KDE, Glade 1.1.0 beta release, and much more.KC KDE #37 and #38 are Out
Issue #37 of Kernel Cousin KDE covers KMathCenter, Kopete, Kicker improvements, Keramik window decoration, and more. Issue 38 covers the Klingon invasion, CVS Kung-Fu, and Mime news.
Games
New games on Pygame
New items on the Pygame site include Pyx 0.9, Solarwolf 1.1, Cog engine 1.1.2, 4stattack 2.0, and Pyui 0.91.
Graphics
KPovModeler: A Graphical Modeler for KDE
KDE.News covers the 0.2 release of KPovModeler. "KPovModeler is a full-featured graphical modeler and composer for creating POV-Ray(TM) scenes under KDE 3. It now supports almost the full gamut of POV-Ray 3.1 functionality -- see these nice screenshots. KPovModeler is a new member of the KDE Graphics package, but we are still looking for a documentation writer to join the project."
Office Applications
AbiWord 1.0.2 released
Gnotices is carrying the news of the AbiWord 1.0.2 release. The biggest change seems to be the ability to embed AbiWord in other GNOME applications (such as Evolution or Gnumeric).AbiWord Weekly News
Issue #94 of the AbiWord Weekly News is out. It looks at continuing bug fixing activities and the 1.0.2 release.LyX 1.2.0 released
Version 1.2.0 of the LyX document processor - the first stable release in some time - has been announced. There is a long list of new features; see the announcement for the full scoop.Two new Gnumeric releases
The Gnumeric project has announced two new releases of the Gnumeric spreadsheet. Version 1.0.7 is a bug fix release on the stable branch; it also includes better multilingual support. 1.1.5, instead, is a development release with quite a few new features including much improved printing support.
Languages and Tools
Lisp
Perl
Apocalypse 5 - Regular Expressions
Perl.com is running Apocalypse 5, the next installment in Larry Wall's definition of the Perl 6 language. This one deals with regular expressions. "In fact, regular expression culture is a mess, and I share some of the blame for making it that way. Since my mother always told me to clean up my own messes, I suppose I'll have to do just that."
perl 5.8.0 RC 1 Released (use Perl)
Use.perl.org is carrying the announcement of the first Perl 5.8.0 release candidate. "This is a release candidate, and is not recommended for use in a production environment, but downloading and testing is strongly encouraged."
SVG 2.1 Released (use Perl)
Use Perl Covers the release of SVG 2.1. "RO IT Systems has released SVG 2.1, a module for the server-side generation of images under the W3C SVG 1.0 recommendation. It is available through the CPAN and as a PPM on the company SVG site. Version 2.1 provides improved scripting and SMIL animation support. Also see the SVG::Parser companion module for parsing SVG images into the SVG module DOM."
PHP
PHP Weekly Summary
The June 3, 2002 PHP Weekly Summary is available. Topics include bug hunting, bundled XML, the PHP C-based extension library, DOMXML code changes, and more.
Python
Catching up with Python-URL
A few issues of Dr. Dobb's Python-URL have come out since the last LWN development page:- The May 22 issue has quick looks at Python and KDE, the Python Spread module, and more.
- The May 28 edition has extensive entries on programming libraries, features discussions, and more.
- The June 3 issue looks at Pycaml, Twisted, Pygame, email parsing, PySQLite, and much more.
The Daily Python-URL
This week's Daily Python-URL features an interview with Steve Alexander and Stephan Richter, and covers the Snake Farm project, the Toy Parser Generator, XML processing in Python, Python milters for Sendmail, using Zope with Apache, and more.
Ruby
The Ruby Garden
This week's Ruby Garden looks at font initialization, changing the do...end syntax, Array#rotate!, and more.Ruby Weekly News
The June 6, 2002 edition of The Ruby Garden covers ruby-gsl 0.1.6, REXML 2.3.4 and 2.2.2, FAM-Ruby 0.1.0, RubyStudio 0.2, and Gnokii.
Tcl/Tk
Dr. Dobb's TCL-URL!
The May 23, 2002 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! covers the latest Tcl developments.Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL!
The May 29, 2002 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! looks at time server interaction, manipulation of TCL lists in C, creating new data types in C, migrating from Java to TCL, and more.
Miscellaneous
GNUstep Weekly Editorial
The June 3, 2002 edition of the GNUstep Weekly Editorial is out with coverage of the latest developments in the GNUstep Object Oriented development environment.Jext 3.1pre4 available
Version 3.1pre4 of the Jext programmer's editor is available. This version includes bug fixes, and lots of new features, see the list of changes for the details.
Page editor: Forrest Cook
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