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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more lovable!</I>"
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<li><a HREF="./lg_bytes14.html#general">News in General</a>
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<center><H3> News in General </H3></center>
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Linux Gazette Italian Edition
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:42:52 +0100 <BR>
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The first issue of the Italian Edition of the Linux Gazette,
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is now available on our site, <A HREF="http://www.media.it/LUGBari/lgtp/index.html">
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http://www.media.it/LUGBari/lgtp/index.html</A>.
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It is in the spirit of helping italian Linux users and, naturally,
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this italian edition is under the copying license of your original Linux
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Gazette.
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Bye (and many many thanks!) <BR>
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Francesco De Carlo, <A HREF="mailto:fdecarlo@sole.media.it">
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fdecarlo@sole.media.it </A> <BR>
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CICCIO-X, LUGBari Coordinator
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<A HREF="./advocate.html">Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO</A> <BR>
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:53:19 +0100 (MET) <BR>
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This is the Linux Advocacy HOWTO and is intended to provide guidelines
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and ideas to assist with your Linux advocacy efforts.
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-- authored by Paul L. Rogers, <A HREF="mailto:Paul.L.Rogers@li.org">
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Paul.L.Rogers@li.org </A>
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Related Links: <BR>
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Lars Wirzenius also has some thoughts
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<http://www.iki.fi/liw/texts/advocating-linux.html> about Linux
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advocacy.
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<P>
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The Linux Advocacy Project's <http://www.10mb.com/linux/> goal is to
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encourage commercial application developers to provide native Linux
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versions of their software.
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Linux in the News
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Linux was chosen by PC Week as part of its list
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for the top ten products of 1996. See the December 16, 1996 issue.
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The same issue has a related article about Linux and the Internet.
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<P> <hr> <P>
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Linux Sites to Check Out
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<P>
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<A HREF="http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz">
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http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz</A> <BR>
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This site contains anecdotal references about the
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commercial applications of Linux. Example uses of Linux in various
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industries, fulfulling various tasks are listed. Includes
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form / CGI script that visitors can use to enter data about their own
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commercial Linux sites.<BR>
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-- Idan Shoham, <A HREF="mailto:idan@m-tech.ab.ca">idan@m-tech.ab.ca</A>
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<P>
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<A HREF="http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml">
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http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml </A> <BR>
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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 over 600 different Linux compatible
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application programs, system admin tools, utilities, device drivers,
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games, servers, programming tools, file, disk and desktop managers,
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internet apps, and more.
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The January 8 edition has added links to over 80 new programs, as well as
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corrections to numerous existing listings.
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-- Bill Latura, <A HREF="mailto:blatura@xnet.com">blatura@xnet.com</A>
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<P>
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxware.com/">http://www.linuxware.com</A><BR>
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This site is a Linux Support, Information, and general
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purpose Linuxer Hangout Site -- a
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meeting place for people interested in learning more about Linux,
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providing help to other Linuxers, and promoting Linux!!!
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-- Peter Lazecky, <A HREF="mailto:peter@linuxware.com">
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peter@linuxware.com </A>
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PNG Article (see issue13) Update
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</H3>
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<P>
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Apparently Netscape has finally committed to supporting PNG in
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Navigator and actually made public statements to that effect at
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its Internet Developers' Conference last October, although there's
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no indication of it anywhere on their web site. The only question
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is when: Navigator 4.0 has a fixed release date, and PNG support
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may not be ready by then. <BR>
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-- Greg Roelofs, <A HREF="mailto:newt@pobox.com">newt@pobox.com </A>
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Rochester, Revised OS Seminar Series Schedule
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</H3>
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<P>
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:36:18 GMT <BR>
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Computer Science House at Rochester Institute of Technology Presents: an
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Operating System Seminar Series Wednesday evenings at 8:00PM.
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Attendance is free of charge and is open to the public.
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<ul>
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<li>February 5: The Inferno Operating System for Everything From
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Embedded Systems To Network Operating Systems.
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- David Bort (Student, RIT)
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<li>February 12: Sun Microsystems new JAVA Based Network Computers
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- Jeff Rice (Sun Microsystems)
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<li>February 19: ShagOS -- An experimental Object Oriented Micro kernel.
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- Frank Barrus (Xerox)
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<li>February 26: Solaris - Geordie Klueber (Sun Microsystems)
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</ul>
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<P>
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For additional information, directions,
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comments or if you would like to be a guest speaker, e-mail
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<A HREF="mailto:tad@csh.rit.edu">tad@csh.rit.edu</A>. <BR>
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Computer Science House, <A HREF="mailto:cshouse@csh.rit.edu">
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cshouse@csh.rit.edu</A>,<BR>
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<A HREF="http://www.csh.rit.edu/os-seminars">
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http://www.csh.rit.edu/os-seminars</A>
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<P> <hr> <P>
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Linux CD Giveaway List
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</H3>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:16:52 GMT <BR>
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If you have a spare Linux CD to give away, you can list your email
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address at
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http://emile.math.ucsb.edu:8000/giveaway.html
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<P>
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Interested parties will contact you, then send in a self-adressed
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stamped envelope and you send them the CD.
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<P>
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If you would rather (or in addition) lend a Linux CD locally, you can
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now specify that as well.
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Axel Boldt, <A HREF="mailto:boldt@math.ucsb.edu">boldt@math.ucsb.edu</A>,
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<A HREF="http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/">http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/
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</A> <BR>
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Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics
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Linux Browser Project - A New WWW Browser for Linux
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</H3>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:34:56 GMT <BR>
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Announcing the Linux Browser Project -- a group of developers developing a world
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wide web browser for Linux and other platforms.
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The goal of this project is to
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develop a web browser which consists of a modular program architecture
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based around a small, fast kernel which would load necessary modules on
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demand.
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<P>
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The project is in its early stages, and we are announcing the project at
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the moment to make ourselves known to the rest of the Linux community.
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If
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anyone would be interested in helping us out in any way, please feel
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free
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to join the mailing lists or visit the web site and let us know that you
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are willing to help.
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For additional information: <BR>
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See the Linux Browser Project home page at
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<A HREF="http://www.tjhsst.edu/LBP/">http://www.tjhsst.edu/LBP/</A>.<BR>
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Jason A. Miller, Project Coordinator, <A HREF="mailto:jasonm@trib.com">
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jasonm@trib.com,</A> <BR>
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The Linux Browser Project Team
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<a name="software"><p></a>
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<center><H3> Software Announcements </H3></center>
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<P> <hr> <P>
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Xfmail 1.0 - mail program for X
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</H3>
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<P>
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:59:12 GMT <BR>
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Xfmail 1.0 is finally out!
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XFMail is an X-Windows application for sending and receiving electronic
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mail. It uses the XForms GUI library toolkit by T.C. Zhao and Mark
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Overmars.
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<P>
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It has a user-friendly interface and online help to make it easy to use.
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It implements most of the mail functionality in one program and it does not
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require any additional tools.
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<P>
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You can ftp XFMail at:
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<P>
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ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xfmail-1.0.tar.gz
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ftp://Burka.NetVision.net.il/pub/xfmail/xfmail-1.0.tar.gz
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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<A HREF="http://Burka.NetVision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html">
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http://Burka.NetVision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html </A> <BR>
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Jacek Bochenek, <A HREF="mailto:jacek@coig.katowice.pl">
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jacek@coig.katowice.pl </A> <BR>
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Organization: COIG S.A.
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ImageMagick 3.7.9 ELF binaries - general image manipulation tool
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</H3>
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<P>
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:59:19 GMT <BR>
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ImageMagick (TM), version 3.7.9, is a package for display and
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interactive manipulation of images for the X Window System.
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<P>
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ImageMagick supports also the Drag-and-Drop protocol form the
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OffiX package and many of the more popular image formats including
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JPEG, MPEG, PNG, TIFF, Photo CD, etc.
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<P>
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You will also need the package libIMPlugIn-1.0-elf to get it working.
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Here are the locations you can get the packages from:
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<pre><h5>
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Site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/graphics
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942k ImageMagick-3.7.9-elf.tgz
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1k ImageMagick-3.7.9-elf.lsm
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886k libIMPlugIn-1.0-elf.tgz
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1k libIMPlugIn-1.0-elf.lsm
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</h5></pre>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Alexander Zimmermann, <A HREF="mailto:Alexander.Zimmermann@FMI.Uni-Passau.de">
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Alexander.Zimmermann@FMI.Uni-Passau.de</A>,
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<A HREF="http://www.uni-passau.de/~zimmerma">
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http://www.uni-passau.de/~zimmerma </A> <BR>
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Organization: Universit<69>t Passau
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Visual Tcl 1.07 Beta
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</H3>
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<P>
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:42:27 GMT <BR>
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Visual Tcl 1.07b is a
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quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh
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platforms. Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and covered by the GNU
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General Public License.
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<P>
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Please choose the location nearest you since my connection can become
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saturated at peak times.
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<pre><h5>
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Home Site: http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
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Australia: http://holmes.ccs.deakin.edu.au/vtcl/
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United Kingdom: http://www.jessikat.demon.co.uk/vtcl/
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Germany: http://www.ifconnection.de/~rjs/vtcl/
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US East: http://www.ultra.net/~eugene/mirror/vtcl/
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US Mid: http://chaos.uark.edu/vtcl/
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</h5></pre>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Stewart Allen, <A HREF="mailto:stewart@neuron.com">
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stewart@neuron.com </A>
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NExS 1.3-BETA X-Windows spreadsheet now available
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</H3>
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<P>
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:16:23 GMT <BR>
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X Engineering Software Systems (XESS Corp.) announces the immediate
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availability of the BETA version of the NExS 1.3 spreadsheet for
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Linux and UNIX workstations.
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<P>
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NExS, the Network Extensible Spreadsheet, is a full-featured, graphical
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spreadsheet developed specifically for UNIX and the X Window System.
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NExS has more than 237 built-in business and scientific functions, allows
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user-customized functions, displays data using 2 and 3 dimensional graphs,
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and imports and exports data in a wide variety of formats (including HTML
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tables).
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<P>
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Demonstration copies and additional conNExions plug-ins may be downloaded
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from http://www.xess.com. NExS is priced at $149 for the Personal Edition,
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and $249 if a floating license is desired.
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For addtional information: <BR>
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<A HREF="mailto:xess@vnet.net">xess@vnet.net </A> <BR>
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Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC.
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PHT Releases Red Hat 4.0
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</H3>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:35:52 GMT <BR>
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Pacific HiTech is proud to announce the release of our newest Linux
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product for the i386 architecture:
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<P>
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Turbo Linux: Red Hat 4.0
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<P>
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It features a modular 2.0.18 kernel, better networking, more packages,
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and, of course, the floppy-less install. The second CD contains the
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entire contrib/ directory from ftp.redhat.com (the Live Filesystem was
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scrapped in order to put the contrib/ directory on, which we felt would
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be more useful for more people).
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<P>
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The 2 CD set
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is only $19.95 plus s/h. If you want more details on the product, visit
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http://www.pht.com/linux.
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Scott M. Stone, <A HREF="mailto:sstone@pht.com">sstone@pht.com</A><BR>
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Chief Linux Developer/UNIX SysAdmin for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
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<A HREF="http://www.pht.com/">http://www.pht.com/ </A>
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PHT Releases MkLinux DR2
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</H3>
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<P>
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:35:56 GMT <BR>
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Pacific HiTech is proud to announce our newest Linux offering for the
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PPC architecture:
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<P>
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MkLinux DR2 is the latest pre-release version of MkLinux, and it is MUCH MUCH
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better than DR1 - more stable, more hardware support, and a much
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smoother installation. It was uncompressed from the FTP distribution
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and burned as a Macintosh HFS format CD - you don't need to decompress
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the files onto your hard drive, you can just put in the CD and GO.
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<P>
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It's only $19.95 plus s/h. See http://www.pht.com for ordering
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information, or email sales@pht.com.
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<P>
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For additional information: <BR>
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Scott M. Stone, <A HREF="mailto:sstone@pht.com">sstone@pht.com</A><BR>
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Chief Linux Developer/UNIX SysAdmin for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
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<A HREF="http://www.pht.com/">http://www.pht.com/ </A>
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