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Authors Wanted for <I>Linux Journal</I>
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Are you interested in Perl, the Internet or Linux?
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Would you love to see your name in print?
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Well, then today is your day! <I>Linux Journal</I> is seeking authors for our
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upcoming issues. We are particularly interested in authors willing to write
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about Perl, the Web and Linux. We have some general topics we are
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soliciting articles for listed on our web site at
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http://www.ssc.com/lj/wanted.html</A>. Please don't let these ideas limit
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you - if you have a great article idea we'd love to hear about it.
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For additional information: <BR>
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Gary Moore, Editor <I>Linux Journal</I>, <A
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HREF="mailto:ljeditor@ssc.com">ljeditor@ssc.com</A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.ssc.com/lj/">http://www.ssc.com/lj/</A>
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<B>Debian Linux </B> <BR>
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SSC is also looking for an author to write a chapter on the installation
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of Debian Linux for the book <I>Linux Installation and Getting Started</I> by
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Matt Welsh. If you are
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interested, please send e-mail to <A HREF="mailto:ligs@ssc.com">ligs@ssc.com</A>.
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Cease Fire!
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Date: Wed 13 Nov 1996
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Bill Machrone, vice president of technology for Ziff-Davis
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Publishing Co, recently wrote in an article about Linux that
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Netscape 3.0 and Java were not yet available for Linux. He was
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wrong. Such things happen. Big deal. Even magazines of the
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highest quality sometimes print things that are wrong. You
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tell them about it, and they print a correction in the next
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issue. That's the way professionals handle things.
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That's not what some Linux people did, however. Instead, they
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flamed him, in private and in public. That's stupid. They urged
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others to also send flames to Machrone, which is worse.
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Things wouldn't be so bad, but now we have the Internet. The
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Internet allows just a few idiots completely ruin the reputation
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of Linux.
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Please, if you want to advocate Linux, be civil.
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Lars Wirzenius, Moderator, comp.os.linux.announce <BR>
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Bruce Perens, Project Leader, Debian GNU/Linux Distribution <BR>
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Alan Cox, Linux Networking Project, Linux International Technical Board <BR>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linux in the News</H3>
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For the latest article about Linux by Bill Machrone, see the November 11
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issue of <I>PC Week</I>, <A HREF="http://www.pcweek.com//opinion/1111/11mach.html">
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"Up Periscope"</A>. This is a good article in which he requests
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feedback from Linux users.
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"The Linux Software Map": Unix Review, January, 1997, discusses the need
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for Linux documentation and the Linux Software Map (LSM).
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From Martin Michlmayr of Linux International we learn: <BR>
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According to a survey among a partial readership of iX, a German magazine
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devoted to Unix and networking, Linux is used at work by 45% of the
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readers. Solaris 1 and 2 taken together come second with 36%, followed
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by HP-UX with 27%.
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56% of companies with less than 50 employees use Linux whereas it is used
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by 38% of firms with more than 1,000 employees.
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In addition, 60% of the readers use Linux on their computers at home.
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Linux International, <A HREF="mailto:bod@li.org">bod@li.org</A> <BR>
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Date: 30 Oct 1996
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The October 22, 1996 edition of the
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***** LINUX APPLICATION AND UTILITIES LIST *****
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is now available at it's home site and mirrors.
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The "Linux Applications and Utilities List" is an organized collection of
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pointers to the WWW home pages of almost 600 different Linux compatible
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application programs, system administration tools, utilities, device drivers,
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games, servers, programming tools, file, disk and desktop managers,
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Internet applications, and more.
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The "Linux Applications and Utilities List" and mirrors can be found at:
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Home Site U.S.A. (IL): <BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml">
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URL:http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml</A>
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Bill Latura <A HREF="mailto:blatura@xnet.com">blatura@xnet.com</A><BR>
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Runtime Systems
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Man Pages to HTML</H3>
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Marc Perkel, <A HREF="mailto:marc@ctyme.com">marc@ctyme.com</A>, of
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Computer Tyme Software Lab, <A HREF="http://www.ctyme.com/">http://www.ctype.com/</A>,
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has written a program to convert Man pages to HTML.
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Check out this web site with fully indexed man pages:
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<A HREF="http://www.ctyme.com/linuxdoc.htm">
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http://www.ctyme.com/linuxdoc.htm</A><BR>
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This is a popular idea. There is an
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article coming out in the February issue of Linux Journal
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by Michael Hamilton, another guy who did this very same type of
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conversion. Michael's program is called
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vh-man2html and can be seen at <A HREF="http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/man2html">
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http://www.caldera.com/cgi-bin/man2html</A>.
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And he tells us of yet another page,
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<A HREF="http://wsinwp01.win.tue.nl:1234/maninfo.html">
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http://wsinwp01.win.tue.nl:1234/maninfo.html</A>, where converters can be found.
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Mission Critical Linux Project</H3>
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The "Mission Critical Linux Project" was created to document
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successful existing Linux systems which have a large load and 24 hour a day
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use. The survey will last until February 1, 1997.
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If you could access our web site, please visit one of following:
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<li><A HREF="http://www.linux.or.jp/~mkubo/mc-doc/">Japan</A>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.netusa.net/~dwarren/linux/mc-doc/">United States</A>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.rmnet.it/linux">Italy</A>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/mcquest">The Netherlands</A>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.agapesystems.com/mirror/linux/mc-doc/">United States</A>
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<li><A HREF="http://tcx.kappa.ro/mc-doc/">Romania</A>
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<li><A HREF="http://www.iijnet.or.jp/src/mc-doc/">Japan</A>
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You can also see brief summary of <A
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HREF="http://www.linux.or.jp/~pjotr/mc-doc/">answers</A>.
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For additional information: <BR>
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Motoharu Kubo, <A HREF="mailto:mkubo@st.rim.or.jp">mkubo@st.rim.or.jp</A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~mkubo/">http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~mkubo/</A>
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(English page under construction)
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New Linux Resource Sites
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A couple of new Linux Resources sites:
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Russ Spooner, <A HREF="mailto:russl@rmplc.co.uk">russl@rmplc.co.uk</A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.pssltd.co.uk/kontagx/linux/index.html">
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http://www.pssltd.co.uk/kontagx/linux/index.html</A><BR>
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Joe Hohertz, <A HREF="mailto:jhohertz@golden.net">jhohertz@golden.net</A><BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.golden.net/~jhohertz">
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http://www.golden.net/~jhohertz</A><BR>
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Slovenian HOWTO 1.0
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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 <BR>
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The first ever version of Slovenian HOWTO is released. The document
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addresses Linux localization issues specific to Slovenian users and is
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written in Slovene.
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It can be accessed either on its "locus classicus": <BR>
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<A HREF="http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/linux/cee/Slovenian-HOWTO.html">
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http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/linux/cee/Slovenian-HOWTO.html</A>
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or the official Linux Documentation Project Site: <BR>
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<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Slovenian-HOWTO.html">
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http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Slovenian-HOWTO.html </A>
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or any of the numerous mirrors of the latter.
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Primoz Peterlin, <A HREF="mailto:peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si">
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peterlin@biofiz.mf.uni-lj.si</A><BR>
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Institut za biofiziko MF, Lipiceva 2, SLO-1105 Ljubljana, Slovenija,
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<A HREF="http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/~peterlin/">
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http://sizif.mf.uni-lj.si/~peterlin/</A>
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<center><H3><a name="software"> Software Announcements </A></H3></center>
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Amiga Development Environment
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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 <BR>
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Tempe, Arizona - Cronus has announced the release of the long
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awaited Geek Gadgets CD-ROM. Geek Gadgets contains the Amiga Developers
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Environment (ADE) which is a project conceived and managed by Cronus to
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produce and support Amiga ports of dozens of the most popular development
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tools and utilities from the Free Software Foundation, BSD and other sources.
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This CD contains all the tools necessary to get started programming on
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the Amiga including advanced C, C++, Fortran and ADA compilers, assembler,
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linker, EMACS editor, "make", source code control systems (rcs&cvs), text
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and file utilities, GNU debugger, text formatters (groff & TEX) and more.
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Geek Gadgets is the perfect companion to the AT Developers CD which contains
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documentation and utilities but no development tools. Released quarterly,
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Geek Gadgets provides a quick and cost effective way to obtain the latest
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ADE for those with slow and/or expensive Internet connections. As a bonus,
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all the tools can be run directly from the CD-ROM without the need to install
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any files on your hard drive.
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<P>
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Available from your local Amiga dealer or directly from Cronus. SRP $ 24.95
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Michelle Fish, <A HREF="mailto:mic@ninemoons.com">mic@ninemoons.com</A>
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Objective-C 4.3.4 For Linux
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Date: 30 Oct 1996 <BR>
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Release "4.3.4" of the Stepstone Objective C compiler is now available
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from System Essentials Limited for Linux versions 1.2.13 and higher.
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<P>
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See: <A HREF="http://www.nai.net/~lerman">http://www.nai.net/~lerman</A>
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Both Linux and OSF/1 Objective C 4.3.4 releases include:
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<ul>
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<li>compiler-chain driver script (objcc)
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<li>executable of the Objective C compiler (objcc.exe)
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<li>source of the original Objective C runtime library
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<li>sources of the ICpak101 Objective C foundation classes
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<li>man pages for both objcc and objcc.exe
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<li>tutorial program
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</ul>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Kenneth Lerman, <A HREF="mailto:Kenneth.Lerman@lerman.nai.net">
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Kenneth.Lerman@lerman.nai.net</A><BR>
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Systems Essentials Limited
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">C++ Matrix Math Library</H3>
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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 <BR>
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MathTools Ltd. is pleased to announce MAT<LIB>, a Matlab Compatible
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C++ Matrix Class Library, designed for development of advanced
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scientific high-level C++ code. Evaluation version of the MAT<LIB>
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can be downloaded from our home page, http://www.mathtools.com.
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<P>
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The library includes over 300 mathematical functions covering
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Complex math, Binary and unary operators, Powerful indexing
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capabilities, Signal processing, File I/O, Linear algebra,
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String operations and Graphics.
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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MathTools Ltd., <A HREF="http://www.mathtools.com">http://www.mathtools.com</A><BR>
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<A HREF="mailto:info@mathtools.com">info@mathtools.com</A><BR>
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FIDOGATE 4.1.1 - Fido-Internet Gateway
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:30:07 GMT
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FIDOGATE 4.1.1, an update to version 4 of the FIDOGATE package is
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available.
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FIDOGATE Version 4
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* Fido-Internet Gateway
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* Fido FTN-FTN Gateway
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* Fido Mail Processor
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* Fido File Processor
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* Fido Areafix/Filefix
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Internet:
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- ---------
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http://www.fido.de/fidogate/
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ftp://ftp.fido.de/pub/fidogate/
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Fido/
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fidogate-4.1.1.tar.gz 657 Kbyte
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</PRE>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Martin Junius, <A HREF="mailto:mj@fido.de">mj@fido.de</A>
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fxvolume 0.1, a simple xforms volume control.
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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 <BR>
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Fxvolume is a simple, no frills volume control designed to sit at the side of
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your screen and not get in the way. You simply run it, and then ignore it
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until you need to use it.
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<P>
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|
It controls the level of the master sound device under Linux, using a slider
|
||
|
created from the Xforms library.
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<P>
|
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|
<A HREF="http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/pbd/linux/fxvolume/">
|
||
|
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/pbd/linux/fxvolume/</A>
|
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<P>
|
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|
Use at your own risk - it has not been widely tested, but seems to work
|
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|
well enough... ;)
|
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|
<P>
|
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|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Paul Dwerryhouse, <A HREF="mailto:paul@mura.its.unimelb.edu.au">
|
||
|
paul@mura.its.unimelb.edu.au</A><BR>
|
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|
University of Melbourne, Australia
|
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<P> <hr> <P>
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<!-- =================================================================== -->
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">The JAZZ midi sequencer version 2.6</H3>
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<P>
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|
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 <BR>
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|
Announce: The free JAZZ midi sequencer version 2.6 <BR>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
JAZZ is a full size midi sequencer allowing record/play and many
|
||
|
edit functions as quantize, copy, transpose ..., multiple undo;
|
||
|
two main windows operating on whole tracks and single events;
|
||
|
graphic pitch editing, GS sound editing functions and much more ...
|
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|
<P>
|
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|
JAZZ is copyright (C) by Andreas Voss and Per Sigmond, and is
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|
distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
|
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|
(Gnu GPL).
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<P>
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|
Web site: <A HREF="http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html">
|
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|
http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html</A>
|
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<P>
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Linux binary distribution: <A HREF="ftp://rokke.grm.hia.no/pub/midi/jazz/linux-bin/">
|
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|
ftp://rokke.grm.hia.no/pub/midi/jazz/linux-bin/</A><BR>
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Files: jazz-bin-v26b-xview.tar.gz, jazz-help-v26b-xview.tar.gz
|
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|
<P>
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|
Source code distribution: <A HREF="ftp://rokke.grm.hia.no/pub/midi/jazz/">
|
||
|
ftp://rokke.grm.hia.no/pub/midi/jazz/</A><BR>
|
||
|
|
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|
File: jazz-src-v26b.tar.gz
|
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|
<P>
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|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Andreas Voss. <A HREF="mailto:andreas@avix.rhein-neckar.de">
|
||
|
andreas@avix.rhein-neckar.de</A><BR>
|
||
|
Per Sigmond, <A HREF="mailto:Per.Sigmond@hia.no">Per.Sigmond@hia.no</A><BR>
|
||
|
Ericsson AS, ETO, <A HREF="mailto:etopesi@eto.ericsson.se">
|
||
|
etopesi@eto.ericsson.se</A>
|
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|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
util-linux 2.6
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996
|
||
|
util-linux-2.6.tar.gz (source only distribution)
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system.
|
||
|
It's primary audience is system integrators (like the people at
|
||
|
Red Hat) and DIY Linux hackers. The rest of you will get a digested
|
||
|
version of util-linux installed with no risk to your sanity.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Util-linux is attempting to be portable, but the only platform it
|
||
|
has been tested much on is Linux/Intel. There have however been
|
||
|
integrated several patches for Arm, m68k, and Alpha linux versions.
|
||
|
The present version is known to compile on at least Linux 1.2/libc
|
||
|
4.7.5 and Linux 2.0.22/Libc 5.3.12 (the Linux versions I run :-).
|
||
|
People are encouraged to make _nice_ patches to util-linux and
|
||
|
submit them to util-linux@math.uio.no.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Util-Linux 2.6 is immediately available from <BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.math.uio.no:/pub/linux/util-linux-2.6">
|
||
|
ftp.math.uio.no:/pub/linux/util-linux-2.6</A><BR>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
NOTE: Before installing util-linux. READ the README or risk nuking
|
||
|
your system. Thank you.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Nicolai Langfeldt, <A HREF="mailto:janl@ifi.uio.no">janl@ifi.uio.no</A><BR>
|
||
|
The popular front against MWM
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
LyX-0.10.7 - LyX is a WYSIWYG
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: 30 Oct 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
LyX-0.10.7 has been uploaded to sunsite. It is also available from
|
||
|
ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx and from my home page:
|
||
|
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
LyX is a WYSIWYG front-end to LaTeX. It is used much like a
|
||
|
word-processor, but LaTeX produces the final document. Figures, tables,
|
||
|
mathematical formulas, fonts, headers, etc., are all drawn on-screen
|
||
|
essentially as they appear on the final document. Figures (postscript)
|
||
|
are placed in the document using a simple menu, as are tables. General
|
||
|
text formatting is accomplished by high-level menu choices that
|
||
|
automatically set fonts, indentation, spacing, etc., according to
|
||
|
general LaTeX rules, and display (essentially) these settings on the
|
||
|
screen.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
None of the power of LaTeX is lost, since you can embed any LaTeX
|
||
|
command within a LyX document.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/editors <BR>
|
||
|
501577 lyx-0.10.7-ELF-bin.tar.gz (binary release) <BR>
|
||
|
612839 lyx-0.10.7.tar.gz (original source)<BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
Copying-policy: GPL <BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
David L. Johnson, <A HREF="mailto:dlj0@lehigh.edu">dlj0@lehigh.edu</A><BR>
|
||
|
Lehigh University, <A HREF="http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html">
|
||
|
http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html</A>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
MpegTV Player
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
Announcing a new release of MpegTV, the real-time software MPEG Player
|
||
|
for Linux (x86 ELF) and FreeBSD.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
A free version of the MpegTV player can be downloaded from the MpegTV
|
||
|
web site at: <BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="http://www.mpegtv.com/">http://www.mpegtv.com/</A>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Main features:
|
||
|
<ul>
|
||
|
<li>Nice GUI with slide-bars and buttons (implemented with Xforms).
|
||
|
<li>Plays MPEG-1 SIF bitstreams (352x240 pels) at 30 frames/sec on a
|
||
|
P-200.
|
||
|
<li>When the CPU resources are not sufficient, player skips some
|
||
|
frames to achieve graceful degradation.
|
||
|
<li>Can be installed as a Web Browser helper application to play MPEG.
|
||
|
</ul>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Tristan Savatier, <A HREF="mailto:tristan@mpeg.org">tristan@mpeg.org</A><BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="http://www.mpeg.org">http://www.mpeg.org </A><BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
SpellCaster ISDN4Linux ISDN Driver Beta
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
This message is to announce the public Beta release of the ISDN4Linux
|
||
|
driver for SpellCaster ISA ISDN adapters. This beta program is open to
|
||
|
anyone who prefers the bleeding edge and just can't wait for MP support.
|
||
|
The beta driver currently supports the SpellCaster DataCommute/BRI and
|
||
|
TeleCommute/BRI adapters and will also include support for the
|
||
|
DataCommute/PRI adapter before the end of the Beta program.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
You can download the beta driver from: <BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.spellcast.com/pub/drivers/isdn4linux">
|
||
|
ftp://ftp.spellcast.com/pub/drivers/isdn4linux</A>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
You require kernel revision.
|
||
|
2.0. You will also need the isdn4k-utils package also available the above
|
||
|
mentioned FTP site or ftp.franken.de
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Erik Petersen, <A HREF="mailto:erik@spellcast.com">erik@spellcast.com</A>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
Public availability of the second beta of StarOffice 3.1 for Linux
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: 30 Oct 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
Star Division announces the public availability of the second beta
|
||
|
version of its office productivity suite, StarOffice 3.1, for
|
||
|
Linux/x86.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
StarOffice 3.1 consists of:
|
||
|
<ul>
|
||
|
<li>StarWriter 3.1 -- word processor
|
||
|
<li>StarCalc 3.1 -- spreadsheet
|
||
|
<li>StarDraw 3.1 -- drawing and presentation tool
|
||
|
<li>StarImage 3.1 -- image manipulation
|
||
|
<li>StarChart 3.1 -- bar-, pie- and other charts
|
||
|
<li>StarMath 3.1 -- graphical formula editor
|
||
|
</ul>
|
||
|
You will need an ELF system, X11R6 and Motif 2.0 libraries.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
This beta version expires at January, 1st, 1997. We will make newer beta
|
||
|
versions available by then. The final version will be free of charge
|
||
|
for private use. The price for commercial use is not yet decided.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
StarOffice 3.1 can be downloaded from the directory: <BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/staroffice">
|
||
|
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/staroffice</A>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Star Division GmbH, <A HREF="http://www.stardivision.de/">
|
||
|
http://www.stardivision.de/</A><BR>
|
||
|
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, <A HREF="mailto:mda@stardivision.da">
|
||
|
mda@stardivision.de</A><BR>
|
||
|
Marc Sewtz, <A HREF="mailto:mse@stardivision.de">mse@stardivision.de</A>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
Wget, a Web Mirroring Tool
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
|
||
|
Geturl. Wget should now be easier to debug, maintain and
|
||
|
most importantly, use.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Wget is a freely available network utility to download files from the
|
||
|
World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP. It works non-interactively, thus
|
||
|
enabling work in the background, after having logged off.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many
|
||
|
other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
|
||
|
additional software (like Perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is
|
||
|
easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is
|
||
|
described in the INSTALL file.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
You can get the latest version of wget at: <BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/wget.tar.gz">
|
||
|
ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/wget.tar.gz</A>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Hrvoje Niksic, <A HREF="mailto:hniksic@srce.hrw">hniksic@srce.hr</A><BR>
|
||
|
SRCE Zagreb, Croatia
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
Woven Goods for LINUX Version 1.0
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
Woven Goods for LINUX Version 1.0
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Version 1.0 of Woven Goods for LINUX is a collection of
|
||
|
World-Wide Web (WWW) Applications and Hypertext-based Information about
|
||
|
LINUX. It is ready configured for the Slackware Distribution and
|
||
|
currently
|
||
|
tested with Version 3.1 (ELF). The Power Linux LST Distribution contains
|
||
|
this collection as an integral part with some changes.
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
The five Parts of Woven Goods for LINUX are:
|
||
|
<ul>
|
||
|
<li>Part 1 -- World-wide Web Browser from Netscape for X11 and Lynx for ASCII
|
||
|
terminals.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Part 2 -- LINUX Documents
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Part 3 -- Apache World-wide Web Server and documentation,
|
||
|
Glimpse Search Engine and more.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Part 4 -- Hypertext Markup Language Editor asWedit
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Part 5 -- External Viewers
|
||
|
</ul>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Woven Goods for LINUX is available via anonymous FTP from: <BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/woven">
|
||
|
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/woven</A><BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
The HTML Pages of Woven Goods for LINUX are snap shots of the LINUX
|
||
|
Pages at FOKUS - Research Institute of Open Communication Systems
|
||
|
and are available from:
|
||
|
|
||
|
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux
|
||
|
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Lutz Henckel, <A HREF="mailto:lutz.henckel@fokus.gmd.de">lutz.henckel@fokus.gmd.de</A><BR>
|
||
|
GMD FOKUS, <A HREF="http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/hel/">
|
||
|
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/hel/</A>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <hr> <P>
|
||
|
<!-- =================================================================== -->
|
||
|
|
||
|
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
|
||
|
xldlas v0.30 now available
|
||
|
</H3>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Date: 30 Oct 1996 <BR>
|
||
|
Announcing xldlas v0.40 in sunsite's incoming directory: <BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/incoming/xldlas-0.40-srcbin.tgz">
|
||
|
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/incoming/xldlas-0.40-srcbin.tgz </A>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
Soon to be moved to: <BR>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<A HREF="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/math/xldlas-0.40-srcbin.tgz">
|
||
|
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/math/xldlas-0.40-srcbin.tgz </A>
|
||
|
<P>
|
||
|
xldlas is for doing statistics.
|
||
|
<ul>
|
||
|
<li>Based on the xforms library (i.e. looks pretty slick)
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Point and click interface to statistical summaries, OLS
|
||
|
regression, plotting, correlation analysis, etc.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Experimental curve fitting routine that uses genetic algorithms
|
||
|
with some nice visual feedback.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Very handy automatic generating of .tex format log files,
|
||
|
including tables and plots.
|
||
|
|
||
|
<li>Online help
|
||
|
</ul>
|
||
|
|
||
|
For additional information: <BR>
|
||
|
Thor Sigvaldason, <A HREF="mailto:thor@netcom.ca">thor@netcom.ca</A><BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="http://www.a42.com/~thor/xldlas/">http://www.a42.com/~thor/xldlas/</A><BR>
|
||
|
<A HREF="http://sunsite.math.klte.hu/mirrors/xldlas/">
|
||
|
http://sunsite.math.klte.hu/mirrors/xldlas/ </A>
|
||
|
|
||
|
<P> <HR> <P>
|
||
|
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