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<li><a HREF="./lg_bytes10.html#general">News in General</a>
<li><a HREF="./lg_bytes10.html#software">Software Announcements</a>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linux Trademark: Let's fix it.</H3>
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From: Paul Bingman <A HREF="mailto:paul@edgewood.portland.or.us">
paul@edgewood.portland.or.us</A><BR>
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As you are no doubt aware, some (insert your favorite deragatory epithet)
has trademarked the name &quot;Linux&quot; is now out trying to collect from
everyone they can.
<P>
An intellectual property attorney friend of mine, G. Gervaise Davis III,
is offering to get this trademark killed pro bono, if we can cover the
expenses. His opinion, not having seen the original papers filed for the
trademark, is that the original has absolutely no legal standing, and will
probably be killed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as soon as we
make the proper legal moves.
<P>
Please forward this email to anyone/everyone. I'm especially interested
in hearing from anyone who has received a collection letter, and also from
Linus or someone else who can direct us to where the trademark should
rightfully go. Also, this effort should be coordinated nationally or
globally.
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Message from WorkGroup Solutions</H3>
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September 19, 1996 <BR>
Mark Bolzern, President WGS <BR>
Member Board of Directors, Linux International <BR>
<P>
With regard to the attack made on WGS, as well as the Greater Linux Community
by William R. Della Croche claiming that he owns the Linux Trademark...
There is no way this is true. We have retained an attorney and will be making
a public announcement soon that benefits the entire Linux community.
Thousands are aware of this situation, and have offered to help. The best
help you could give us, is to see if there is something we offer in our Linux
Shopping mall that you would like to own, and if so buy it. We add new products
almost daily. If you don't see what you want, ask, or refer a friend to us.
Thank you!
<P>
News & Information Account: wgsnews@wgs.com WorkGroup Solutions, Inc. <BR>
mailto:info@wgs.com, http://www.wgs.com/, ftp://ftp.wgs.com/ <BR>
Telephone: 303-699-7470 Fax: 303-699-2793 <BR>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linux HOWTO Project: Consultants HOWTO</H3>
<P>
The first public release of the Linux Consultants HOWTO has been
published.
The Linux Consultants HOWTO is a listing of companies providing
commercial Linux related support.
<P>
The Consultants HOWTO can be obtained from
the following places:
<ul>
<li>http://www.sypher.com/tbm/Consultants-HOWTO <BR>
<li>ftp://ftp.sypher.com/tbm/HOWTO <BR>
</ul>
The following files are available:
<ul>
<li>Consultants-HOWTO.txt
<li>Consultants-HOWTO.sgml
<li>Consultants-HOWTO.html
</ul>
Additional Information:
Martin Michlmayr, <A HREF="mailto:tbm@sypher.com">tbm@sypher.com </A> <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.sypher.com/tbm">http://www.sypher.com/tbm </A> <BR>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linux Articles</H3>
<P>
Here's some articles of Linux interest that can be found on the web:
<ul>
<li>&quot;Linux Matters&quot; <I>Byte</I> (Feb 96): An overview (5 pgs) of what linux is,
how to get it, what to do with it.
<A HREF="http://www.byte.com/art/9602/sec11/art7.htm">
http://www.byte.com/art/9602/sec11/art7.htm</A>
<li>&quot;The Linux Phenomenon&quot; <I>Byte</I> (Nov 95): Short (1/2 pg) overview.
<A HREF="http://www.byte.com/art/9511/sec6/art3.htm">
http://www.byte.com/art/9511/sec6/art3.htm</A>
<li>&quot;Implementing Loadable Kernel Modules for Linux&quot; by Matt Welsh
<I>Dr. Dobbs</I>: (5 pgs). <A HREF="http://www.ddj.com/ddj/1995/1995.05/welsh.htm">
http://www.ddj.com/ddj/1995/1995.05/welsh.htm</A>
</ul>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linux User Support Team (L.U.S.T.)</H3>
<P>
Purpose:
To fill in an existing gap in the Linux world and provide users with
various services/data that are not otherwise available online. To
provide a clearing house for these same services.
<P>
Discussion:
The L.U.S.T. (surprised nobody thought of the name earlier!) is not
intended to be involved with programming, patching, updating, or such.
It's to support the everyday, run-of-the-mill user with various support
not offered elsewhere in the Linux world with data or services such as
the Workman Database Project described below.
<P>
To join/get involved in/comment on L.U.S.T., send email to:
<A HREF="mailto:joat1@concentric.net">joat1@concentric.net</A>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">WWW: Enterprise Computing Linux</H3>
<P>
I have started collecting information on Linux as
an Enterprise Computing Platform. By "Enterprise
Computing" I mean what the big companies mean: large
systems, high availability, high performance and
"industrial strength" in general. Currently, topics
include:
<ul>
<li>Databases
<li>Clusters/SMP
<li>Configuration Mangemet
<li>WAN Internetworking, incl Frame Relay and X.25
<li>Network Mangement and Administration
<li>Disk Mirroring and RAID
<li>Fault Tolerance
</ul>
The pages can be viewed from
<P>
<A HREF="http://204.157.166.19/linux/index.html">http://204.157.166.19/linux/index.html
</A>
<P>
Additional information: Linas Vepstas, Lamebrain Enterprises
<A HREF="mailto:linas@fc.net">linas@fc.net</A>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linus News</H3>
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Pablo Kiryluk of GM Communications, InterSoft's RRPP, writes:
<P>
Linus Torvalds, the Finish guru creator of the operating system "Linux"
landed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to the expectation of many. Invited
by InterSoft, the multinational software producer, Mr. Torvalds lectured
to a wide range of public about the "Software Free" concept, its
relation with Internet and Linux' characteristics.
<P>
The range of ideas spread by Linus Torvalds in Argentina where laid out
in terms of "knowledge sharing" and "composing from different creators".
"Company's tendencies will integrate parts of free software forming a
system to curb the commercial industry of software" --substantiated Mr.
Torvalds. Also, the concept of "the idea that technology were humanity'
patrimony, based on the free distribution of software and its source
codes" was expressed in several occasions.
<P>
Also, Torvalds decided also to introduce "Scriptum", the first adaptable
editor to different Linux' environments, created by InterSoft. Scriptum
was created in Argentina and developed as a powerful tool capable to run
of different platforms and offer several features. With Scriptum, almost
the entire working environment can be configured, totally integrated to
RCS/SCCS tools and UNIX (grepp, diff, etc.) and powerful navigation
commands to find sources, data and documents.
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">More Linus News</H3>
<P>
The San Jose Mercury News published an interview with Linus Torvalds on
September 8, 1996 in which Linus is quoted as saying
<blockquote> <I>
Microsoft operating systems are bad, and their morals are even worse. But
they make some good applications.
</I> </blockquote>
Check it out in Section E of that newspaper, or web site:
<A HREF="http://www.sjmercury.com/business/finland/torvalds.htm">
http://www.sjmercury.com/business/finland/torvalds.htm</A>
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<center><H3><a name="software"> Software Announcements </A></H3></center>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Soft Braille for Linux: BRLTTY 1.0.1</H3>
<P>
The official release of BRLTTY, a software system
to allow access to the console of a Unix system for users of soft Braille
displays, has been announced.
<P>
BRLTTY currently runs under Linux (kernel version 1.1.92 or later) on a PC
or DEC Alpha.
<P>
The package has been uploaded to sunsite.unc.edu in the directory
/pub/Linux/Incoming. It is expected to move to /pub/Linux/system/Access at
some later date (please note the move from /pub/Linux/utils/console).
<P>
FEATURES
<ul>
<li>Full implementation of the standard screen review facilities.
<li>A wide range of additional optional features, including blinking
cursor and capital letters, screen freezing for leisurely review,
attribute display to locate highlighted text, hypertext links, etc.
<li>`Intelligent' cursor routing. This allows easy movement of the cursor
in text editors etc. without moving the hands from the Braille
display.
<li>A cut & paste function. This is particularly useful for copying long
filenames, complicated commands etc.
<li>An on-line help facility.
<li>Support for multiple Braille codes.
<li>Modular design allows relatively easy addition of drivers for other
Braille displays, or even (hopefully) porting to other Unix-like
platforms.
</ul>
<P>
Additional information:
Nikhil Nair: founder of the BRLTTY project and author of the Tieman B.V.
CombiBraille driver.
<A HREF="mailto:nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk">mailto:nn201@cus.cam.ac.uk</A>
<P>
Nicolas Pitre: Author of the driver for the Alva series.
<A HREF="mailto:nico@cam.org">nico@cam.org</A>
<P>
Stephane Doyon: Author of the driver for the TSI displays (Navigator
and PowerBraille 40),
<A HREF="mailto:doyons@jsp.umontreal.ca">doyons@jsp.umontreal.ca</A>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">FidoTools</H3>
<P>
Nickolay Grygoryev of SPb State University announced another
FIDONET-related package called
FidoTools. In general, it's file-echo tosser. Now it may be used on
any node as file-echo manager (but version 0.9 does not have a mail interface
for subscribing and unsubscribing - this will be done in version 1.0).
All documentation is included into archive.
<PRE>
Primary-site: ns.aanet.ru /vol1/nick/Linux/system/Fido
FidoTools-0.9.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Fido
FidoTools-0.9.tar.gz
Platforms: C compiler, FidoNet mailer (Bink-style)
Copying-policy: GPL
</PRE>
Additional information:<BR>
Nickolay G. Grygoryev <A
HREF="mailto:shadow@nickhome.stud.pu.ru">shadow@nickhome.stud.pu.ru</A><BR>
St.Petersburg, Russia
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">GNU Hurd release 1.0</H3>
<P>
Version 0.1 of the GNU Hurd, is now available via
anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.159.0.42] in the file
<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/hurd-0.1.tar.gz">/pub/gnu/hurd-0.1.tar.gz</A> (about 1.2 MB compressed). There is also a
patch file of diffs from the 0.0 release in
<A HREF="ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/hurd-0.0-0.1-diff.gz">/pub/gnu/hurd-0.0-0.1-diff.gz</A> (about 75 KB compressed).
<P>
The GNU Hurd, plus Mach, is a kernel, not an operating system. The
GNU operating system, like the Unix operating system, consists of many
components, including kernel, libraries, compilers, assembler, shell,
parser generators, utilities, window system, editors, text formatters,
and so on.
<P>
Most GNU software is packed using the GNU `gzip' compression program.
Source code is available on most sites distributing GNU software.
<P>
For information on how to order GNU software on tape or cd-rom, and
printed GNU manuals, check the file etc/ORDERS in the GNU Emacs
distribution, ftp the file /pub/gnu/GNUinfo/ORDERS on prep, or
e-mail a request to: <A HREF="mailto:gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu">gnu@prep.ai.mit.edux </A>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">ImageMagick Release 3.7.6</H3>
<P>
ImageMagick (TM), version 3.7.6, is a package for display and interactive
manipulation of images for the X Window System. Although the software is
copyrighted, it is available for free and can be redistributed without fee.
<P>
In addition to the image display program, ImageMagick also has command line
programs that perform these functions:
<ul>
<li>Describe the format and characteristics of an image
<li>Convert an image from one format to another
<li>Transform an image or sequence of images
<li>Read an image from an X server and output it as an image file
<li>Animate a sequence of images
<li>Combine one or more images to create new images
<li>Create a composite image by combining several separate images
<li>Segment an image based on the color histogram
<li>Retrieve, list, or print files from a remote network site
</ul>
ImageMagick supports many of the more popular image formats including
JPEG, PNG, TIFF, Photo CD, etc.
<PRE>
Primary-site: ftp.wizards.dupont.com /pub/ImageMagick/binaries
841k ImageMagick-i486-linux-ELF.tar.gz
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/graphics
841k ImageMagick-3.7.6-elf.tgz
1k ImageMagick-3.7.6-elf.lsm
Platforms: Linux 1.2/2.0, XFree 3.1.2
</PRE>
Additional Information: <BR>
Alexander.Zimmermann <A
HREF="mailto:zimmermanna@fmi.uni-passau.de">zimmermann@fmi.uni-passau.de</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.uni-passau.de/~zimmerma">http://www.uni-passau.de/~zimmerma </A>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">masqd/masq for Linux Firewall</H3>
<P>
A new release of masqd/masq software is available free at:
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.els.url.es/~si03786/masq.html">http://www.els.url.es/~si03786/masq.html
</A>
<P>
This is a software to manage remotely a Linux firewall with masquerade support.
There are three main programs: A daemon (masqd), a network client to connect
to the daemon (masq) and a local configuration utility (lmasq) which integer
this masq kit.
<P>
Some characteristics of the kit are:
<ul>
<li>Possibility of controling the three firewalls in a Linux System (input, forward and output).
<li>Supports of masquerade policy, to masquerade paquets if Linux kernel supports it.
<li>User authentification in each connection.
<li>CRC checking of network packets.
<li>Allows to control remotely masquerade entries.
</ul>
Additional Information: <BR>
Jaume Miralles, <A HREF="mailto:si03786@els.url.es">si03786@els.url.es </A>
<BR>
Barcelona, SPAIN <A
HREF="http://www.els.url.es/~si03786">http://www.els.url.es/~si03786 </A>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">SpriteField - a sprite library for
Qt/X11</H3>
<P>
The SpriteField Class Set is a collection of classes supporting
multiple simultaneous flicker-free displays of efficiently
redrawn continuous and non-continuous animated areas with the
Qt GUI Toolkit. Animated areas are two-dimensional rectangular
areas upon which two-dimensional masked raster images are in
motion. Applications vary from computer games to simulations.
Qt 0.99 is required.
Full sources and an precompiled example program are included and
can be found at: <BR>
<A HREF="http://student.uq.edu.au/~s002434/qt/SpriteField/doc/html/">
http://student.uq.edu.au/~s002434/qt/SpriteField/doc/html/ </A> <BR>
<P>
Additional Information: <BR>
Warwick Allison <A HREF="mailto:warwick@cs.uq.oz.au">warwick@cs.uq.oz.au</A><BR>
Computer Science Department <BR>
University of Queensland <BR>
Brisbane, Australia <BR>
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TeamRooms - Internet groupware environment for Linux</H3>
<P>
Mark Roseman, University of Calgary CPSC,
announced the first public beta release of TeamRooms,
an Internet groupware environment that lets you work together with
colleagues in real-time or asynchronously, using Unix, Mac and Windows.
<P>
TeamRooms provides "shared spaces" on the Internet allowing groups
to share information. These electronic team rooms provide places
to meet in real-time, or a common locale to leave information for
other collaborators. TeamRooms combines real-time groupware
technologies such as shared whiteboards, chat rooms, and customizable
groupware applets with a persistent work environment.
<P>
Information on downloading is available on our Web site: <BR>
<A HREF="http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/teamrooms/">
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/teamrooms/ </A>
<P>
Additional Information: <BR>
Mark Roseman, Research Associate, <A HREF="mailto: roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca">
roseman@cpsc.ucalgary.ca </A> <BR>
University of Calgary, <A HREF="http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~roseman">
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~roseman</A><BR>
Calgary, Alta CANADA T2N 1N4 <BR>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Turbo Linux 96</H3>
<P>
Pacific HiTech is proud to announce Turbo Linux 96 : Slackware Edition.
<P>
This product is based on the latest Slackware 3.1 Linux release. It
incorporates the 2.0 kernel, the floppy-less install, the live
filesystem, and everything else that you would expect. Best of all, we
have it for sale for only $12.95 (plus $5 shipping inside the USA, $10
international).
<P>
Additional Information: <BR>
Scott M. Stone, <A HREF="mailto:sstone@pht.com">sstone@pht.com</A> <BR>
Pacific HiTech, Inc., <A HREF="http://www.pht.com/">http://www.pht.com/
</A> <BR>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">V Multi-Platform GUI</H3>
<P>
Version 1.13 of V for X was released on September 9, 1996.
It is available on the World Wide Web at
<A HREF="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler </A>
or via anonymous FTP at
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/pub/wampler">ftp://ftp.cs.unm.edu/pub/wampler</A>.
<P>
V is an easy to program, cross-platform C++ GUI Framework. V was
designed to make it the easiest way to write C++ graphical user
interface applications available -- commercial, shareware, or
freeware.
<P>
Most standard GUI objects are supported by V, including windows
with menus, status bars, tool bars, and a drawing canvas; modal
and modeless dialogs with the most common controls (buttons,
lists, labels, text entry, check and radio buttons, etc.); and
portable printing support.
<P>
Additional Information: <BR>
Bruce E. Wampler, Ph.D., <A HREF="mailto:wampler@cs.unm.edu">wampler@cs.unm.edu</A><BR>
<A HREF="http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler">http://www.cs.unm.edu/~wampler</A>
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