Linux-Announce Digest #319, Volume #3 Fri, 1 Jan 99 23:13:15 EST
Contents:
COMMERCIAL: Linux Training ("Deborah Murray")
scsi-idle-2.0.36 - Start/stop SCSI disk dives (Trent Piepho)
WWW: linux hamradio applications and utilities homepage (Joop Stakenborg)
FTP/WWW: The Linux Kernel Archives Mirror System (H. Peter Anvin)
Linbot 1.0b1, the professional site management tool for webmasters
AfterStep 1.6.6 - NextStep-like window manager (Doug Alcorn)
Xterminal 0.6.3 released (Dragos Acostachioaie)
OPP - LGPL C++ Class Library (ala Tools.h++, Threads.h++, etc) alpha (Joel Peterson)
Procinfo 16 - system information utility (Sander van Malssen)
LOCAL: Linux in Boise Club (Bill Anderson)
Enterprise Resource Planning RFC ("Dr. Naresh Sharma")
Nannie v1.0 - File change monitor (Cole Tuininga)
LOCAL: Oxford, OH US - Eric Raymond Speaks! (Aaron T Porter)
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From: "Deborah Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux Training
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:09:22 GMT
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UniForum Technology Training Institute
announces the following technical training
Linux Boot Camp Training
January 12-15, 1999 , San Jose, CA
January 26-29, 1999, Carlsbad, CA
For more information and the USA Tour Dates, visit:
http://www.uniforum.org/web/education/bootcamp.html
To register or for more information, call 1-831-662-9164
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From: Trent Piepho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi-idle-2.0.36 - Start/stop SCSI disk dives
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:13:12 GMT
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scsi-idle-2.0.36 is an update of the the scsi-idle package. It
includes two small programs for starting and stopping the motor of a SCSI disk
drive. There is a also a kernel patch which will spin up idle drives when
they are accessed and enable a daemon to stop them after an idle timeout.
Updates since the 2.0.30 release are the two programs 'scsi-start' and
'scsi-stop', and proper patching of the 2.0.36 kernel.
Get it at:
ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/xyzzy/scsi-idle-2.0.36.tar.gz
metalab.unc.edu:/incoming/Linux/scsi-idle-2.0.36.tar.gz
metalab.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/scsi/scsi-idle-2.0.36.tar.gz
RPMs at:
ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/xyzzy/scsi-idle-2.0.36-1.i386.rpm
ftp.u.washington.edu:/public/xyzzy/scsi-idle-2.0.36-1.src.rpm
Web page:
http://staff.washington.edu/xyzzy/scsi.html
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From: Joop Stakenborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WWW: linux hamradio applications and utilities homepage
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:15:52 GMT
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After a month of testing and feedback I am ready to release the
linux hamradio applications and utilities homepage. They are at
http://www.casema.net/~aba.
It is intended for hamradio operators who use linux and are looking
for a software package. The site has 2 possible ways of navigations:
through simple text screens and by a java-script enhanced page, which
uses an icon driven menu system.
At the time of writing 116 hamradio software packages are included
ranging from a simple utility to calculate bearing and heading
between two radio stations to an electronic design package.
I hope radio hams will use my page as a starting point for using linux
hamradio software. Hopefully it will inspire hamradio operators
to write more linux software too.
If anyone has some spare web space to mirror my pages, please
let me know!
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Linux Hamradio Applications and Utilities Homepage
http://www.casema.net/~aba
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: FTP/WWW: The Linux Kernel Archives Mirror System
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:30:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)
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The Linux Kernel Archives Mirror System is now available for use! A
number of sites across the world have graciously offered to help
distribute the Linux Kernel using a common file structure and
site-naming scheme. These sites have agreed to mirror the /pub/linux
and /pub/software trees (i.e. the original software distributed from
our site) from ftp.kernel.org in its entirety.
To get connected to a mirror site near you, connect to:
ftp://ftp.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/
ftp://ftp.xx.kernel.org/pub/software/
http://www.xx.kernel.org/pub/linux/
http://www.xx.kernel.org/pub/software/
.... where "xx" is your two-letter country code.
Note that not all sites archive both .gz and .bz2 format files, and
that currently not all countries have both FTP and HTTP support.
For more information, including the list of countries currently
supported by the Linux Kernel Archives Mirror System and how to
register a mirror, please see:
http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
In addition, a list of the individual mirror sites should be available
online sometime next week.
To all the sites that have offered their time, disk space and
bandwidth, I want to give a huge "Thank you!", and to everyone else, I hope
you will find this service useful.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Linbot 1.0b1, the professional site management tool for webmasters
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:32:18 GMT
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Linbot 1.0 is now available for the first beta release of the first complete
version of Linbot.
Changes are significant from previous versions. The readme follows. This
release appears to be pretty stable but I have only tried it out myself. I
would like for others to give it a whirl before releasing 1.0 final.
Linbot is the amazing Site Management Tool for webmasters. Downloads and more
information at:
http://starship.skyport.net/crew/marduk/linbot/
Linbot allows webmasters to:
* View The Structure Of A Site
* Track Down Broken Links
* Find Potentially Outdated Web Pages
* List Links Pointing To External Sites
* View Portfolio Of Inline Images
* Do All This Periodically And Without User Intervention
Changes to v. 1.0 include:
* Faster checking of sites (only downloads files when it needs).
* Supported schemes (http, ftp, file) handled more efficiently.
* More modular design allows other schemes to be added easily.
* Plug-in support: third-party reports can be added to linbot easily!
* Themes (TM) support via Cascading StyleSheets.
* Lots of bug fixes, including the infamous proxy bug.
* and more!
Linbot is a FREE clone of Linkbot
(http://www.tetranetsoftware.com/products/linkbot.htm)
incorporates many of Linkbot's features as well as enhancements of its own.
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From: Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AfterStep 1.6.6 - NextStep-like window manager
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:45:38 GMT
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The AfterStep Development team would like to announce the release of
stable version 1.6.6. Many new features have been added over release
1.4.x. These include:
o additional support for jpg and png images;
o support for pseudo-transparent Eterms (without Esetroot);
o support of transparent images for Wharf Pixmaps;
o support for transparent (shaped) titlebar buttons.
o new border methods for startmenu;
o system wide startmenu definitions with selective user
overrides;
o nested folders in Wharf;
o Wharf buttons can have arbitrary sizes;
o added mini-pixmaps to startmenus;
o added balloons;
o added i18n internationalization support;
o Perl scripts to automate the building and installing
complete themes.
as well as easy compile for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, OpenBSD, and
OSF/1 (via configure).
Source code and binaries can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.afterstep.org
Think you missed stable release 1.5.0? Well, think again! Starting
with this release, AfterStep is adopting the even-odd-stable-devel
version numbering scheme. Therefore, we are declaring work on AS
1.5.whatever to be development and 1.6 is the stable release of that
work. No new features will be added to 1.6. All new features will
be added to 1.7.x. As we can, bug fixes will be applied to the 1.6
tree in the form of patches and periodic snapshots.
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From: Dragos Acostachioaie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xterminal 0.6.3 released
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:47:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Xterminal 0.6.3 has been released!
Xterminal is an Object Oriented User Interface with a client-server
architecture. The main purpose is a friendly interface for the UNIX operating
systems. It is designed to be used to build text-based applications in C++.
It consists in a complete object oriented library including multiple,
resizeable, overlapping windows, pull-down menus, dialog boxes, buttons,
scroll bars, input lines, check boxes, radio buttons, etc. Mouse support,
advanced object management, events handling, communications between objects
are provided, too, bundled with a complete programmer's manual.
NEWS since 0.6.2:
- Makefiles fixes
- small mouse movement handling fixes
- couple of cleanups
Xterminal is written by Dragos Acostachioaie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
with contributions from other people, and is protected by the GNU
Library General Public License.
The maintainer of this library is Dragos Acostachioaie. Please send bug
reports, suggestions, feedback, code, or anything else that you think, to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xterminal is available for download from:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/ui/Xterminal-0.6.3.tar.gz
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/Xterminal/download.html
There is a Xterminal's Web page. Just check it out:
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/Xterminal
Also, there is a Xterminal mailing list. To subscribe, send an empty mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send messages to this list to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Phone: +40-94-564548
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From: Joel Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPP - LGPL C++ Class Library (ala Tools.h++, Threads.h++, etc) alpha
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:44:55 GMT
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For those Brave Souls with too much time on their hands and not afraid
to face insanity, Odin Properties is pleased to present OPP, the Odin
Plus Plus Class Library (name suggestions welcome!). The OPP home page
is at http://www.odin-consulting.com/OPP/
OPP is a C++ class library freely available under the terms of the GNU
LGPL (Library GNU Public License). OPP is in a very early stage of
development and is being released in the hope that people will find it a
useful and a worthy project to which to contribute. With or without
community interest, Odin Properties will continue to use and develop OPP
and make new versions available.
OPP aims to provide:
(1) An object oriented framework for cross platform application
development.
(2) The functionality found in the Rogue Wave class libraries;
especially Tools.h++, Threads.h++ and the network classes now part of
Net.h++
(3) An interface familiar to Java programmers and suitable for easy
porting of Java code to C++.
(4) A multithreaded embedded Object Database and corresponding database
server.
(5) An object oriented container framework. This functionality overlaps
with the capabilities of the standard C++ library, but follows a
decidedly different philosophy.
At its current stage of development, OPP fails to meet any of these
goals in any meaningful way. It does work, and Odin Properties is using
it to develop the next generation of Web Portal software, as used by the
Index of Alternative Operating Systems (http://www.indexos.com/).
WARNING: OPP currently only works on Linux and requires GNU make
(standard for Linux). It is believed to only be compatible with recent
versions of egcs.
Odin Properties is a division of Odin Consulting, Inc.
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Index of Alternative Operating Systems http://www.indexos.com
Joel Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
President
Odin Consulting, Inc. http://www.odin-consulting.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sander van Malssen)
Subject: Procinfo 16 - system information utility
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:49:28 GMT
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Keywords: procinfo, system info
Version 16 of procinfo has just been released.
Procinfo is a small program that gathers some system information from
diverse files under /proc and prints it to the screen. It duplicates
some of the functionality of free(1) and uptime(1). It should work with
any kernel release close to 1.0 or later up to the latest development
kernel. (Well, I haven't actually tried 1.0 for years, but you get the
idea.)
This is just a bug fix release.
Get it from:
ftp.cistron.nl /pub/people/svm
sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/status/ps
tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/sources/usr.bin
Cheers,
Sander
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Linux in Boise Club
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:40:24 GMT
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Greetings everyone! Hope your Christmas went well.
Well, the first meeting of 1999 for LiBC will be
Tuesday January 5 at the usual location and time:
10100 King Arthur drive in Boise, near corner of
Five Mile and Overland, in the Camelot Subdivision
7:00 PM
Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for directions, or go to maps.yahoo.com
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=10100+king+Arthur+Drive&csz=Boise%2C+Idaho%2C+83704&Get+Map=Get+Map
Note, we now meet on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
Subjects are to include:
o The New kernel (see below)
o Getting the word about LiBC out
o Applications for Linux
o The Northwest linux Conference and Expo
- We are being listed as being a Co-Sponsor
of this event, and it would be wise for us
to have a booth or at least some presence.
o RSA's DESIII Challenge
o Hardware gathering: let me know if you plan to
bring your hardware, so I can plan on a few things.
If you need a network card to use during the meeting
I need to know ahead of time, as I only have a few ...
first come first serve when you get here ;-)
o Beowulf -- Anybody interested in trying this out locally?
New website to come online in a week or so: www.libc.org
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From: "Dr. Naresh Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Enterprise Resource Planning RFC
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:36:50 GMT
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ANNOUNCEMENT RFC
================
G E R P
The GNU Enterprise Resource Planning System
===========================================
a.k.a. SAP-BAAN
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NOTE: This is a request for comments and to gauge the interest in
the OSS community for this project. Comments should be sent to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Friends
In my opinion most important reason that freeware has not become
mainstream in corporate MIS is because there is simply no product that
addresses corporate MIS needs in totality. The need to build one such
product is crucial for the acceptance of high quality free copyleft
software in the corporate MIS.
We are keen on developing a GNU/GPL'd program that would provide MIS
services for Enterprise Resource Planning (GERP!). This would be suited
for small to medium scale companies and would be a package like SAP or
BAAN for such installations. In the freeware community there is nothing
like this available. However a mix-match of existing systems can come
close to this but cannot provide the total functionality. We believe that
a complete solution like this can be built in a short time frame
(5-6 months) by a core team of 6-7 members, which we expect will be
increased by almost four to five times in a short period of time.
We plan to create a piece of software that should eventually become
more superior to and more widely adopted than any existing ERP package.
One of our current client's is an engineering company and I have
managed to convince them that such a product will be able to provide
them the solution of automating their company (Administration,
finance, materials, billing, planning, sales, support, purchase,
logistics, business-intelligence, ITIL etc.). They are willing to fund
our efforts in the beginning. However, the effort and manpower
required to bring this to fruitition is much much more than what we
can afford.
Furthermore we would like to bring out this product with multilingual
hooks with support for atleast English, Dutch, German, and French in
the begining. We have a good architecture for this product, and have
done a lot of background work.
We will be using ALL the payment made to us by our client in funding
this project, however, the funding provided by our current client is
not sufficient to bring the product to completion. Most of our
employees will be supporting this project.
We have not signed the contract with the client, and want to wait till
we have the reaction of the community. We are looking for companies
and people with similar ideas, possible additional funding.
Please send in your comments to:
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Thanks,
Naresh Sharma, PhD.
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From: Cole Tuininga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nannie v1.0 - File change monitor
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:51:32 GMT
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Name: Nannie
Current Revision: 1.0
Category: Security
The premise behind this program is that there are certain files on a
machine that should not ever change (such as stuff in /bin and /usr/sbin
on my own machine). Nannie stats all the files listed in it's
configuration file, then scans them every so often to watch for
changes. All changes are sent to syslog.
The latest version is a complete rewrite. It adds in a bunch of error
checking, no longer uses sendmail for notification, and now allows you
to list a directory name if you want to watch all the files in that
directory.
URL: None Available
FTP: ftp://tools.tradeservices.com/pub/nannie
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-Rob Holak
Cole Tuininga
Network Admin
Trade Services, Inc
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(603) 427-1100
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From: Aaron T Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Oxford, OH US - Eric Raymond Speaks!
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 03:52:19 GMT
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Unix Collective on the campus of Miami University in Oxford OH.
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including time and location, please visit our web page at:
http://muc.muohio.edu/esr/
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