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<title> News Bytes #9 </title>
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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">GNU ID Utilities</H3>
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A new release of the GNU id utilities is available at
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<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/id-utils-3.2.tar.gz">
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ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/id-utils-3.2.tar.gz</a>
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GNU id-utils is a package of simple, fast, high-capacity,
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language-independent identifier database tools. Actually, the term
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``identifier'' is too limiting -- ID Utils stores tokens, be they
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program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of
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human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the
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command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags
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facility.
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Release 3.2 fixes a nasty bug in eid (a.k.a., "lid -R edit"), which
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should only be a problem for users of non-emacs editors (e.g., vi).
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This release also fixes as well as some minor portability problems.
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If you use emacs and had no trouble compiling 3.1, there's no reason
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for you to pick up this release.
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Additional information: <a href="mailto:gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu">
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gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu</a>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">InfoMagic Workgroup Server</H3>
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The InfoMagic Workgroup Server provides high-performance file and
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printing services to PC and Macintosh clients using the Linux
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operating system. It is the first Linux distribution designed
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specifically for servers. Based on networking software created by the
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Internet community and already in use at hundreds of companies,
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universities and organizations worldwide, the InfoMagic Workgroup
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Server provides simple graphical tools for system administration and
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set-up. A Unix novice can set up a sophisticated server environment
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in a couple of hours.
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Additional information:
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<a href="mailto:Orders@InfoMagic.com">
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Orders@InfoMagic.com</a>,<br>
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<a href="http://www.infomagic.com">
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http://www.infomagic.com/</a><br>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linuxconf 1.6</H3>
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I am proud to announce the release of linuxconf 1.6. This release
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incorporates many enhancements and features. The last official release was
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1.3. Since, a major user interface rework has been done and many smaller
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features were added. Release 1.4 and 1.5 were only released on the
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linuxconf mailing list.
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It has been uploaded to sunsite in the pub/Linux/Incmoning directory and
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should move to /pub/Linux/System/admin/linuxconf-1.6.src.tar.gz. Binaries
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for both elf and a.out systems are provided at the same place.
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The major enhancement is the http mode. With this, you can now operate
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linuxconf using any web browser supporting forms. This makes
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administration of large linux networks a wonderful experience. You can
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navigate in linuxconf and even set bookmarks in your browser. Ultimatly
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one can build his corporate administration page with link to different
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part of linuxconf on different linux servers or workstation.
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Additional information:
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<a href="mailto:jack@solucorp.qc.ca">
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jack@solucorp.qc.ca</a><br>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Red Hat Rembrandt II</H3>
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Red Hat Linux - 3.0.4 (Rembrandt II) BETA now available on both the
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Intel and Sparc!
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The Rembrandt beta releases of Red Hat Linux include the following
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nifty features:
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<blockquote>
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Modular kernel (2.0.10)
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One kernel (one boot disk) for all hardware
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Increased hardware support over 3.0.3
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New, simpler installation
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PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules
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More comprehensive X configuration
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New network configuration tool
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New version of RPM - 2.2.3
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Dependencies
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Libc 5.3.12
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</blockquote>
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The Rembrandt II release fixes many bugs, and adds a few features.
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Among the improvements over Rembrandt are:
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<blockquote>
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config file handling
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DOS partitions
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IDE drives c-h
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flashing asterisk
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System.map
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interface cleanups
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/net /.automount updatedb
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dip, inn, fvwm95, ypbind, ftpuser
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module parameters
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package selection
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</blockquote>
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The Red Hat Linux Rembrandt II is available from:
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<a href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rembrandt">
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ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rembrandt</a>
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Additional information: <a href="mailto:rembrandt-list@redhat.com">
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rembrandt-list@redhat.com</a>,<br>
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<a href="http://www.redhat.com/redhat/rembrandt">
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http://www.redhat.com/redhat/rembrandt</a> <br>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">SDK Software</H3>
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URL CHANGE from The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
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The <i>free</i> Linux software which I release under the name "SDK Software"
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(morepkgtools - supplements Slackware's pkgtool; tidylinks - searches
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for and tidies dangling and messy symbolic links; LNET-Config -
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configuration script for the LNET TCP/IP (KA9Q-like) program) has
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moved from AOL to: <P>
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<a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html">
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http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html</a>
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<P>Revised versions of the software, with the correct URLs in the
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manual pages etc., will be released shortly.
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If you have my AOL site bookmarked please change your records.
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FREE SOFTWARE ANNOUNCEMENT:
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<a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#man2html">
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http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#man2html</a>
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<p><a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/myprogs/unix/man2html">
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http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/myprogs/unix/man2html</a>
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<p>Version 0.15 of this <i>very</i> modest Bourne-shell script is now
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available. The script is a CGI-bin interface to "man", converting
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UNIX (Linux) manual pages into fully-legal HTML on the fly.
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Sample output can be viewed at:
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<a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#manpages">http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#manpages</a>
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Additional information: <a href="mailto:steve@kalika.demon.co.uk">
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steve@kalika.demon.co.uk</a><br>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Taper</H3>
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This is to announce the latest release of taper - version 6.7.4
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Taper is a user friendly, full featured tape backup solution for Linux.
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Multiple features are supported including most recent restore, incremental
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backups, archive verification and archive management. With triple
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buffering, and internal compression, backup performance is quite
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good.
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Taper supports ftape, zftape, scsi, floppies, regular files and
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removable media such as the IOMEGA ZIP drives.
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In addition, taper also supports IDE tape drives in ALPHA stage.
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PLEASE NOTE:<br>
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I am going away for 2.5 months from this week and will be unreachable
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via e-mail therefore, there will be no support for this version
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until I return mid-late October.
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<P>
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Additional information: <a href="mailto:yusuf@nagree.u-net.com">
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yusuf@nagree.u-net.com</a><br>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">TranSend</H3>
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Advanced Network Products, Inc. announces the alpha release of TranSend.
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TranSend, a "middleware" product, is an efficient, reliable and platform-
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independent mechanism that provides communications between your applications.
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<P>
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TranSend is a development toolkit that allows rapid construction of
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real-time client/server and distributed applications. TranSend is the
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perfect foundation for all of your network development needs, including:
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<ul>
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<li>Real-time client/server and distributed applications
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<li>High performance data distribution systems
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<li>Cross-platform connectivity
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<li>Fault-tolerant systems
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</ul>
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Additional information: <a href="mailto:anpi@advanced-net.com">
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anpi@advanced-net.com</a>
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<a href="http://www.advanced-net.com/examples.html">
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http://www.advanced-net.com/examples.html</a><br>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Web-traversing Robot</H3>
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The VWbot Web-traversing robot is now available as shareware.
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It was developed on Linux and hasn't been tested on anything else,
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but it ought to run on most Unix. It uses Perl4 and libwww-perl-0.40
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The core program may be customised to perform different functions,
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such as keeping track of document modifications, operating as
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a restricted-domain search engine, or as a free-running agent
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configured for tasks such as lexical analysis.
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The robot adheres to the original Robot Exclusion Protocol and
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includes code to implement the newer ROBOTS META tag.
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Additional information: <a href="mailto:robots@vancouver-webpages.com">
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robots@vancouver-webpages.com</a>,<br>
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<a href="http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/">
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http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/</a><br>
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