Linux-Announce Digest #333, Volume #3 Mon, 18 Jan 99 21:13:22 EST
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LOCAL: ACLUG Linux Meeting January 25 (Wichita, KS USA) (John Goerzen (ACLUG))
COMMERCIAL: WinDriver device driver development toolkit supports Linux
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LOCAL: Kalmar Linux User Group (Sweden) (Urban Anjar)
qps 1.6 - visual process manager ("Mattias EngdegXrd")
COMMERCIAL: New Linux Distributor (UK) ("Darren Mallinson")
LOCAL: Jan. 20 SLLUG - Informix Dynamic Server, Linux Edition Suite (Jim Freeman)
COMMERCIAL: Linux Boot Camp training ("D.Murray")
Zgv 3.0 - SVGALib graphics viewer - released (ages ago) (Steven Flintham)
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From: John Goerzen (ACLUG) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: ACLUG Linux Meeting January 25 (Wichita, KS USA)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:11:44 GMT
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--== Air Capital Linux Users Group of Wichita, KS ==--
http://www.aclug.org/
Monday, January 25, 1998 http://www.aclug.org/events/
Contact: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Location: 7:00/7:30 PM in 260 Jabara Hall at Wichita State (details below)
This event is free and open to the public. Please forward this
message to anyone you feel may be interested in attending.
IN THIS MESSAGE
===============
* Linux '99 (ACLUG meeting)
* Other business and discussions
* Meeting format
* Location information and links to maps
* Contacts, Background information on ACLUG, and miscellaneous
LINUX '99
=========
To bring in the new year of our favorite free operating system, we're going
to try something new: a trivia contest. The idea is that a few volunteers
compete against each other answering Linux trivia questions submitted by the
audience. The people that get the most questions right win prizes, and the
audience members that ask the most questions that nobody can answer will get
nifty Linux prizes too. It ought to be fun and interesting at the same
time! Feel free to come to watch, or to participate!
OTHER DISCUSSIONS
=================
Before the contest, we'll be taking care of some ACLUG business and have a
short discussion on some other topics. As always, informal Q&A at 7 PM, and
things get started at 7:30.
The list includes:
* Year 2000 status of Linux
(Why you'll be really glad you're using Linux next year)
This could be of particular interest to businesses using
NT servers.
* Kernel 2.2 status -- it may be released in time for our meeting!
* Discounted Linux Journal subscriptions. For just showing up at an
ACLUG meeting, you can get a nice discount on a subscription to
Linux Journal. We'll have forms for you to use to take
advantage of that.
And in ACLUG business, the list currently includes:
* Possibility of moving the ACLUG meeting date to Tuesdays.
Response in the mailing lists has been completely positive thus far,
so hopefully we can decide the issue on Monday, the 25th.
Regardless of the decision, the upcoming meeting will still be
held on Monday, January 25.
* Suggestions for topics that people would like to see discussed in
1999. I've got a short list already; more ideas are already welcome.
I'd like to hear what sort of interest people have in various topics.
* Upcoming Free Linux Install -- when?
* ACLUG barbecue, get-together, or pot-luck, some Saturday(s)?
* A few other small items of business
FUTURE ACLUG MEETINGS
=====================
Please send suggestions for future topics to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or mention
them at the Monday meeting. Consider this the ACLUG suggestion box! :-)
I don't like picking topics. I'd rather have people let me know what they'd
like to hear discussed at the meeting.
MEETING FORMAT REMINDER
=======================
One issue that has been somewhat troublesome is making presentations
interesting and useful for people with a wide range of Linux
experiences. We want our meetings to be useful for as many people as
possible, so our plan is this: For those of you that are starting out
with Linux, or just interested in what Linux can do, please feel free
to join us at 7:00 PM on each meeting date (every other Monday).
We'll cover some basics about the evening's topic or Linux in general.
Also, if you have any Linux questions (beginning or advanced), we'd
like to get to them between 7 and 7:30 so that the evening doesn't get
too late for those that have to work or go to class in the morning.
Our regular presentation will begin at 7:30 as it always has. Off
course, if you can make it at 7, you're encouraged to stay for the
whole program. You are welcome to arrive at either 7 or 7:30.
LOCATION & MAPS
===============
We will hold the this event in the Computer Science Department in
Jabara Hall on the main east campus of Wichita State University.
ACLUG has assembled some driving instructions on the Web at
http://www.aclug.org/maps/. We will be located on the second floor of
Jabara Hall. We expect to be in room 260, but we'll be sure to post
signs if we need to relocate elsewhere. You'll be able to find a sign
on the wall in front of the 2nd floor elevator when you arrive.
MISCELLANEOUS
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For more information
- --------------------
You can write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Further details will be posted
to the aclug-announce mailing list; you can subscribe for free at
http://www.aclug.org/mailinglists/.
About the Air Capital Linux Users Group
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ACLUG was created in early 1998 as a group to help people discover
better ways to take advantage of modern computing through the use of
Linux. All ACLUG events are free; we have hosted two free Linux
installation events, during which Linux was installed on dozens of
computers for no charge. We would like to show the benefits of Unix
operating systems such as Linux to as many people as possible. ACLUG
members range from people just starting out with computers and Linux
to those that have written parts of the Linux system or are doing
computer research under the Linux platform.
About Linux
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Linux is a modern, fully 32- and 64-bit operating system that runs on
a wide variety of hardware. Its most popular use is on PC-style
hardware, where Linux can completely replace Windows 95, Windows 98,
or NT. Linux sports astounding reliability, power, flexibility,
scalibility, and networking. Linux is the most popular OS for
Internet servers, beating NT. Linux also works on less-expensive
computers than NT.
Linux is developed by a worldwide team of programmers: individuals,
companies, and universities using the Internet. All source code is
available, allowing peer review -- which is important for an operating
system.
ACLUG would like to show you the benefits of Linux for home and
business use. Feel free to attend one of our meetings or ask
questions about Linux at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may also examine the
archives of previous discussions on our discussion lists at
http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/ or join the list;
instructions for doing so are at http://www.aclug.org/mailinglists/.
Announcements for upcoming ACLUG meetings and events will always be sent
first to the aclug-announce mailing lists.
- -- John Goerzen
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John Goerzen Linux, Unix consulting & programming [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade) www.debian.org |
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Visit the Air Capital Linux Users Group on the web at http://www.aclug.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: COMMERCIAL: WinDriver device driver development toolkit supports Linux
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:07:36 GMT
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KRFTech announces the Linux version of its popular WinDriver device driver
development toolkit. The beta version is available for free download at
http://www.krftech.com/windrv
WinDriver for Linux includes a generic kernel driver which allows you to
create your driver in the user mode, making the development and debugging
process much simpler.
Using WinDriver, the same driver you write will run on Linux and on all
Windows platforms as well.
The WinDriver toolkit includes sample source code which can be used as
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From: Urban Anjar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LOCAL: Kalmar Linux User Group (Sweden)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:10:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi!
We are trying to build a LUG in Kalmar, Sweden
<SWEDISH--------------------------------------------------------->
Hej!
Vi forsoker bygga upp en LUG i Kalmar med omnejd. Vad som har hant annu
ar att vi har satt upp en (valdigt rudiment�r) website:
http://www.ng.hik.se/~klug
Vi har ocks� en mailinglista med ett trettiotal deltagare.
Forhoppningsvis ska vi snart komma igang med moten och annat intressant
ocksa
Kom med i arbetet!
Urban Anjar
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From: "Mattias EngdegXrd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: qps 1.6 - visual process manager
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:12:49 GMT
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Version 1.6 of qps is now available. There are a few new features, and some
bug fixes.
Qps is a visual process manager, an X11 version of "top" or "ps" that
displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them.
Qps can change nice value, scheduling policy, realtime priority, and display
most of the interesting data of the running processes, including the TCP/UDP
and unix domain sockets in use, and the memory maps and open files of a
process. There are also graphs of CPU and memory/swap usage, and a graph of
the system load. The latter can be put into the icon of qps.
Major differences from version 1.5 are:
o Added CWD (current working directory) and ROOT (root directory) fields
o Displays process environment
and since 1.4:
o SMP support on kernels >= 2.1
o Unix domain sockets are shown
o User-configurable colours
o Command-line option to start iconified
o Better support for WindowMaker and other WMs that use the window_group hint
o Some limited session management
Qps should compile on any platform (intel, alpha, sparc etc) running Linux
2.0 or higher. A binary for intel/libc5 is included. Source and binary RPMs
are also available. The Qt library version 1.40 or later is required.
More information is on the web page:
http://www.nada.kth.se/~f91-men/qps/
KDE users may use qps directly, or Mario Weilguni's adaption "kpm" that looks
more like a KDE app. Find kpm somewhere at http://www.kde.org/ .
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From: "Darren Mallinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: New Linux Distributor (UK)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:21:16 GMT
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Visit THE LINUX SOURCE at http://www.mallind.demon.co.uk/ for Linux
distributions on CD, Linux books and more!
We carry most of the major GPL distributions such as Red Hat, SuSE, Caldera,
Debian and Slackware, with commercial / official versions to follow.
We are also an associate of Amazon.co.uk, the online bookseller.
We are aiming for our site to be a resource for Linux and Linux related
information. If you have any suggestions, book reviews, Linux related
links, advertising enquiries or any other information that you would like to
submit, please contact us through our site.
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http://www.mallind.demon.co.uk/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Freeman)
Subject: LOCAL: Jan. 20 SLLUG - Informix Dynamic Server, Linux Edition Suite
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:08:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Come one, come all, to the January 1999 *joint* meeting of
The Salt Lake Linux Users Group ( SLLUG )
The Utah Informix Users Group ( UIUG )
http://www.sllug.org/club/announcement.html
http://www.iiug.org/~uiug/
Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999
Time: 7:10 PM ( to allow free parking in the Visitor lot)
Place: INSCC Auditorium [ http://www.chpc.utah.edu/general/ ]
155 S 1452 E ( See Directions/Parking below )
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0190
Agenda:
^^^^^^^
* Introduction
- Welcome UIUG, Informix, and other guests
* What's new in Linux
- Discuss news of interest to the Linux community
- http://lwn.net/
- http://slashdot.org/
- http://freshmeat.net/
- news:comp.os.linux.announce
- news:utah.linux
* UIUG business (Carlton Doe)
* Technical Discussion/Demonstration
- Informix Dynamic Server, Linux Edition Suite
Among the many database vendors now vowing to support
Linux versions of their products, Informix is the first
vendor to actually put their money where their mouth is.
Historically strong in Unix databases, and the preferred
vendor among more technically demanding users, Informix
now supports their high-end flagship product suite (Dynamic
Server - IDS) on Linux.
Kurt Wall (Informix on Linux FAQ maintainer) will present
a "galloping intro to IDS/Linux". (In the Databases meeting
last October, Kurt gave a short overview of the much older
Informix-SE product)
Janet Smith (Informix's Director of Product Marketing and
Management for Intel Products) will discuss and answer
questions on Informix's strategy on Linux and other Intel-
based O/S platforms.
Related links:
- http://www.informix.com/linux/
- http://www.inxutil.com/inx_linux/inx_linux.html
* Give-Aways (include but may not be limited to):
- Informix door prizes
- Caldera OpenLinux
http://www.calderasystems.com/products/openlinux/prodinfo.html
* Forum
- Give your input
- Ask questions
- General discussion...
Directions/Parking:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* http://www.aclis.utah.edu/Campus_Map/Campus_Map.cgi?20
* Heading east on 100 South, turn right (south) at:
1) 1455 East (traffic light) - A/Permit parking enforced
until 6 PM, then parking is open/free. Meet at SE of lot.
( DON'T use any of the clearly marked 24 hr stalls! )
2) 1460 East - Visitor Parking - booth is unmanned and
parking is free after 7 PM. Meet WNW of lot booth.
******************************************************************************
Special thanks go to (in alphabetical order):
- CHPC/INSCC http://www.chpc.utah.edu/
- Caldera, Inc http://www.calderasystems.com/
- Informix Corp. http://www.informix.com/
- Utah Informix UG http://www.iiug.org/~uiug/
- Universal Systems Inc. http://www.usicomputer.com/
- Various Volunteers
******************************************************************************
SLLUG - a non-profit corporation composed of professionals, students,
and general computer users dedicated to the use and development of
Linux - a powerful, open, freely-redistributable computer operating
system (OS) for Intel PC's, PowerPCs, DEC AlphaAXPs, SPARC, ARM, etc.
http://www.sllug.org/
******************************************************************************
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Jim Freeman
http://www.sovereign.org/
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From: "D.Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Linux Boot Camp training
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:13:59 GMT
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From: Steven Flintham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zgv 3.0 - SVGALib graphics viewer - released (ages ago)
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 01:27:30 GMT
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[I (Russell Marks) don't have net access any more, but Steven has been
kind enough to upload/post on my behalf.]
Zgv v3.0's been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu.
There's nothing hugely meaningful about the version number jumping to
3.0 from 2.8 - but given that 2.0 (for example) didn't even have
thumbnails, I thought it was about time to move up to v3.x. :-)
New features added:
- - Added `mrf' support. Mrf is a 1-bit-mono-only file format I thought
up while thinking about how you could compress such images more
effectively. For some kinds of input (esp. line-art), it compresses
better than GIF or PNG. (I've also written PD convertors to/from PBM -
look for `pbmtomrf'.)
- - Added bitmap fonts (from X, though you don't need X installed). You
can still get the old line-based font if you want, though.
- - It now remembers where you were in a directory if you return to it.
So if you go into a subdir then return to the parent dir, the cursor
will be on that subdir.
- - Added thumbnails for subdirs. These are made up of the first four
files in the dir squeezed together into a single thumbnail. Details in
the man page.
- - Added support for 1152x864 and 1600x1200 modes. You get at them by
prefixing the function key (F1-F8) with tab. (I can't actually test
these modes, but they should work.)
- - Zoom mode (for images smaller than the screen) works more sensibly
now, and is roughly twice as fast. (It also happens to fix an
occasional segfault in 320x200 modes - albeit only by completely
replacing the code. An unusual debugging technique, to be sure. :-))
- - There's now support for the 640x480 16-colour mode in the viewer.
It works by emulating an 8-bit mode, and either displays in greyscale
(default) or in dithered colour.
- - New `smallfiletext' option which reduces the size of the filename
text in the file selector. You may find this useful if you think the
text is too big or if you'd like to see more of the filename.
- - Alternatively, you can do `:' in the file selector to display the
full filename of the currently-selected file (or at least, as much as
will fit on a single line).
Bugfixes:
- - Previously, if errors occurred when zgv was loading a new file while
the old file was still being displayed, the error message appeared
over the top of the old image (which looked terrible). It now changes
modes to display the message if necessary.
- - The 7-missing-or-junk-pixels problem in 320x200 and 320x240 modes
has been fixed (finally).
- - Fixed starting-on-unreadable-dir problem.
- - Previously, if you started with `visual off', the mid-grey colour
was set to the tagged-file colour (i.e. red). Fixed that.
- - Bugs in usage output (i.e. output from zgv -h) fixed.
- - Fixed a couple of minor problems with the help pages.
- - Fixed a few spelling errors in the man page.
Other changes:
- - Updated png support (better late than never :-)). Apparently it was
terribly out of date before and did bad things for some files; thanks
to Greg Roelofs for pointing this out. Hopefully it's reasonably
up-to-date now, and should work with any future versions of libpng.
- - Sped directory reading up a little for directories where no files
have any associated thumbnails (i.e. dirs with no `.xvpics' subdir
etc.).
- - The help screens now use 256-colour mode (which is faster) in the
same circumstances as the file selector does (i.e. if the mode's
available and not specifically disabled with the force16fs option).
Here's the LSM entry:
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Begin3
Title: Zgv
Version: 3.0
Entered-date: 16MAR98
Description: Zgv is a graphic file viewer for VGA and SVGA displays
which supports most popular formats. (It uses svgalib.)
It provides a graphic-mode file selector to select
file(s) to view, and allows panning and fit-to-screen
methods of viewing, slideshows, scaling, etc.
Keywords: graphics GIF JPEG PNG PBM PPM BMP TGA PCX mrf svgalib viewer
Author: rjm@no_email_address (Russell Marks)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/svga
132269 zgv-3.0-src.tar.gz
159536 zgv-3.0-bin.tar.gz
Copying-policy: GPL
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