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<li><a HREF="#distro">Distro News</A>
<li><a HREF="#general">News in General</a>
<li><a HREF="#software">Software Announcements</a>
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September 2001 <I>Linux Journal</I>
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The September issue of <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/"><I>Linux
Journal</I></A> is on newsstands now.
This issue focuses on Security. Click
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue89/index.html">here</A>
to view the table of contents, or
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/subscribe/index.html">here</A>
to subscribe.
<P>
<FONT COLOR="green">All articles through December 1999 are available for
public reading at
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/mags.html">http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/mags.html</A></FONT>.
Recent articles are available on-line for subscribers only at
<A HREF="http://interactive.linuxjournal.com">
http://interactive.linuxjournal.com/</A>.
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September/October 2001 <I>Interactive Linux Journal</I>
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<P> Click
<A HREF="http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/magazine/issue05/">here</A>
to view the table of contents. US residents can subscribe to <I>ELJ</I> for <STRONG>free</STRONG>; just
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/subscribe/index.html">click here</A>.
Paid subscriptions outside the US are also available; click on the above link
for more information.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Debian
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The <a href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> Project has announced the
new
<a href="http://www.demudi.org/">
Debian Multimedia Distribution</a>
<hr width="20%" noshade>
The German "Lebensmittelzeitung" has reported that Globus, a German
supermarket chain, converted about 480 computers in their cash desk system
to Debian GNU/Linux. The entire system is designed so that two cashiers can
share one computer (a 486/25MHz is used most of the time). The story is
available in
<a href="http://www.lz-net.de/news/webtechnews/pages/show.prl?params=recent=1&type=3&id=23136">
German</a>.
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More news available from
<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/">
Debian Weekly News</a>
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<FONT COLOR="green">SuSE
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<a href="http://www.suse.de/en">SuSE Linux</a> has
<a href="http://www.suse.de/en/news/PressReleases/iseries_developer_edition.html">
announced</a>
that it is the first provider to deliver a Linux operating system
for
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a>
eServer iSeries, IBM's high-performance, integrated
business server for small to mid-sized enterprises.
In "SuSE Linux Developer Edition for IBM eServer iSeries", SuSE
now offers system administrators and application developers the
possibility to make use of SuSE Linux right from the outset - as
an operating system basis and development platform for e-business
applications across the enterprise.
IBM ships the new eServer iSeries with Version 5 Release 1 of its
OS/400 operating system, which now enables the use of several
operating systems at the same time.
<a name="general"></a>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Upcoming conferences and events
</FONT>
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<P> Listings courtesy <EM>Linux Journal</EM>. See <EM>LJ</EM>'s
<A HREF="http://noframes.linuxjournal.com/events/">Events</A> page for the
latest goings-on.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Sklyarov, DMCA, FTAA update
</FONT>
</H3>
<P> As LG went to press, several events unfolded in the Sklyarov/DMCA case:
<UL>
<LI> A US grand jury indicted Dmitry Sklyarov for creating and selling an
"encryption circumvention" device, illegal under the Digital Millenium
Copyright Act of 1998. Fair-use advocates were wondering whether
the Justice Department would drop the charge now that the original complaintant,
Adobe Systems, Inc, has withdrawn its complaint. But the grand jury surprised
advocates further by expanding the charge to also indict Dmitry's employer,
Elcomsoft, with "conspiracy". Even though Elcomsoft is located in
Russia and the product is legal there, the Justice Department claims US
jurisdiction because Elcomsoft used a US web payment organization to accept
orders. Also the extent of the charge is surprising: Dmitry could face a
prison term of 25 years and a US$2,250,000 fine. Elcomsoft could face a
US$2,500,000 fine.<P>
<LI> Dmitry pled not guilty to the charges. The next step is a court trial,
which will likely take several months. In the meantime, Dmitry is free on
US$50,000 bail but may not leave northern California. <P>
<LI> The US Copyright Office issued a report saying:
<OL>
<LI> it's too early to tell
whether the DMCA is a success
<LI> the Office sees insufficient reeason to
amend the law at this time regarding the "first sale doctrine" (which allows
the purchaser of a book/CD/videotape to resell it, lend it or give it away as
a used item). Librarians want to extend this doctrine to digital media;
publishers do not.
<LI> the Office thinks the law <EM>should</EM> be amended to allow users to
make backup copies of software and content they've purchased.
</OL>
Many fair-use advocates feel the Office failed to address significant issues
regarding free speech, and some blamed themselves for arguing their cause on
Slashdot but failing to write comments to the Copyright Office during the
public comment period, giving the Office the impression that there was little
public concern.
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.loc.gov/copyright/reports/studies/dmca/dmca_study.html">
The Copyright Office report</A> (3 files in PDF format
covering the report itself, public comments and a public hearing).
<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16744-2001Aug29.html">A Washington Post article.</A> <P>
<LI> Protests continue in Moscow (Russia), London (England), Boston, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Reno, and Black Rock City, Nevada. In Seattle,
activists have started an education campaign at public libraries, which
consists of passing out flyers, inviting people to sign a petition, and talking
to the librarians and staff.
</UL>
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<P>
The
<a href="http://www.eff.org/">
Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> (EFF) is
<a href="http://www.eff.org/alerts/20010816_eff_ftaa_alert.en.html">
speaking out</a> against industry
attempts to get controversial provisions from the US Digital Millenium
Copyright Act (DMCA) put into the Free Trade of the Americas
(FTAA) agreement. (The FTAA is a still-unfinished treaty that would
create a free-trade zone covering North and South America.) "The FTAA
organization is considering treaty language that mandates nations pass
anti-circumvention provisions similar to the DMCA, except the FTAA
treaty grants even greater control to publishers than the DMCA." If you
feel strongly about this, the EFF invites you to try to change the
situation and provides suggestions for the sort of letters you could write.
<hr width="20%" noshade>
<P> Because LG is a monthly publication, we cannot adequately address all
the developments in the DMCA controversy. We refer you instead to the
<A HREF="http://lwn.net/"></A>Linux
Weekly News</A> editorials, the <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/">EFF home
page</A>, and the various activist sites such as <A
HREF="http://nodmca.org/">nodmca.org</A> and
<A HREF="http://www.freesklyarov.org/">freesklyarov.org</A>.
<P> <A HREF="http://lwn.net/2001/0830/">LWN's August 30 editorial</A> raises
the irony of Dmitry possibly getting a longer prison sentance than "mere armed
robbers, rapists and child molesters". It states, "One way or another, we are
now seeing the degree of repression that the US is willing to apply to ensure
that certain kinds of software are not written.... It takes very little
imagination to picture a future where the general-purpose computer has been
replaced by a
<A HREF="http://www.trustedpc.org/">'trusted computing platform'</A>, and
systems which do not 'seal data within domains' are treated as 'circumvention
devices'. At what point, exactly, does Linux become an illegal device under the
DMCA? In a world where programmers face 25-year sentences for code that was
legal where they wrote it, this vision should not be seen as overly paranoid."
<P> An <A HREF="http://lwn.net/2001/0802/">older LWN editorial</A> discusses
attempts in <STRONG>Canada</STRONG> to insert DMCA-like provisions into its
copyright law.
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<P> Meanwhile, Slashdot reports on an
<A HREF="http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/aug/010830.webcasting.html">NPR article</A>
saying that many US radio stations are pulling the plug on their webcasting
"due to concerns about advertising, royalties and the DMCA". Slashdot then
reports on a
<A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/08/30/digital.music/index.html">CNN article</A>
about a study saying "people don't and won't purchase heavily restricted music
online at higher prices for a less useful item." Slashdot then adds,
"This is apparently a revelation to the music industry."
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<FONT COLOR="green">Total Impact and Terra Soft Solutions Partner to Offer
PowerPC Linux Products
</FONT>
</H3>
<a href="http://www.totalimpact.com">
Total Impact</a>, manufacturer of
G3/G4 computers, and
<a href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com">
Terra Soft Solutions</a>, a developer of
PowerPC Linux technologies, have announced a partnership for the tight
integration and sales of Total Impact's
<a href="http://www.totalimpact.com/briQ.html">
briQ</a> with Terra Soft's
<a href="http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/">Yellow Dog</a>
and
<a href="http://www.blacklablinux.com/lab_contact.shtml">
Black Lab</a> Linux operating systems.
Total Impact is now bundling the full Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 package with each
unit sale of the briQ, enhanced with the installation of Black Lab Linux
upon request. Terra Soft offers the briQ as a stand-alone Yellow Dog Linux
computational node or integrated into a 4 and 8 node cluster with Black Lab
Linux installed and configured.
<p>
Total Impact has also just
announced availability of its new
<a href="http://www.totalimpact.com/Centricity.html">
Centricity</a> line of Render Engines <20> beta
tests are "creating anticipation that Centricity systems will revolutionize
high performance computing with their small size, high processing speeds,
low power requirements and ease of use".
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<FONT COLOR="green">New I/O Module
</FONT>
</H3>
<P>
<a href="http://www.men.de">
MEN Micro's</a>
new PC-MIP mezzanine card
featuring a 48-bit TTL I/O interface, may allow embedded system designers
to quickly
implement basic digital I/O without an involved development process. For
simple digital I/O, such as a control switch or an actuator, the new PC<50>
MIP card can be easily added to a single-board-computer (SBC) or a PC<50> MIP
carrier card, assuring a rapid completion of the system's development.
Through the MEN Driver Interface System (MDIS), the P13 is supported by
drivers for a wide range of operating systems, including VxWorks, OS-9,
WindowsNT and Linux.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">New Keyspan USB Products at Linux World
</FONT>
</H3>
<p>
<a href="http://www.keyspan.com/">
Keyspan</a> has announced new versions of its USB PDA
Adapter and its High Speed USB Serial Adapter.
In addition to "off-the shelf" support for Linux 2.4, Keyspan's
Serial-to-USB Adapters also support Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows
2000, as well as Mac OS 8.6 or higher. Beta drivers for Mac OS X are
also
<a href="http://www.keyspan.com/support/macosx/">
available</a>.
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<FONT COLOR="green">Alabanza Gets Smarts!
</FONT>
</H3>
<a href="http://www.alabanza.com/">Alabanza Corporation</a>,
the leading provider of automated Web hosting software,
announced that it is using
<a href="http://www.smarts.com/">SMARTS
</a>InCharge Service Assurance Solutions to sustain service levels and
improve the user experience for Alabanza's 500 worldwide customers and
their quarter-million Web sites. Alabanza, has been an early adopter of,
and is 100 percent dedicated to the Linux operating system. Alabanza said
it agreed to partner with SMARTS in order to immediately identify and fix
problems before they affect service delivery. Alabanza's entirely
Linux-based Automated Web Hosting Software Suite is used by hundreds of Web
designers and developers, systems integrators, ISPs and telecommunications
carriers.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Sair Linux and GNU Newsletter #9
</FONT>
</H3>
<P>
<a href="http://www.linuxcertification.com/">
SAIR Linux and GNU Certification's</a> quarterly newsletter, SAIR Linux and
GNews issue 9, is available for you to view
<a href="http://www.linuxcertification.com/news/newsletter_9.php">
online</a>.
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<FONT COLOR="green">IBM
</FONT>
</H3>
<P><a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a> has
announced the new IBM "Start Now" Solutions for e-business, a family of
offerings to help small and medium businesses (SMB) rapidly implement
powerful, cost-effective, e-business solutions.
The eight Start Now Solutions, including three Linux-based solutions,
"fulfill the requirements of e-business--from initial Internet access,
through e-mail, research and information, Web site management, simple and
complex e-commerce, business intelligence, integrated activities and new
business opportunities".
For more information on IBM Start Now solutions, visit
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/software/smb">
http://www.ibm.com/software/smb</a>.
<hr width="20%" noshade>
IBM has also announced the availability of a free Software
Evaluation Kit for Linux. This kit will help developers create new
applications for the explosive Linux market. With the number of
Linux-based applications growing over 40 percent this year, this evaluation
kit will help drive new applications for a variety of industries, including
finance, retail, and education.
More information from
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/linux/software">www.ibm.com/linux/software</a>
and
<a href="http://www.ibm.com/linux/">www.ibm.com/linux/</a>.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Book "Advanced Linux 3D Graphics Programming" available
</FONT>
</H3>
<P> The book "Advanced Linux 3D Graphics Programming" is now available for
purchase. It is the follow-up volume to the first book "Linux 3D Graphics
Programming". This second volume provides programmers who are experienced in
both Linux and fundamental 3D graphics concepts with a well-rounded perspective
on 3D theory and practice within the context of programming larger interactive
3D applications such as games. It covers such topics as texture and light
mapping, creating compatible morph targets in Blender, creating and importing IK
animations into a 3D engine, BSP trees (node and leaf based), portals,
level editing, particle systems, collision detection, digital sound, content
creation systems, and more. A table of contents is viewable
<a href="http://www.linux3dgraphicsprogramming.org/book.shtml">
online</a> and if you like what you see,
<a href="http://www.wordware.com/Merchant2/agent.mv?AG=Norman&SC<53>SK&S=wwpub&A<>PR&Q=1&P56228538">
purchase online</a>.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">unixboulevard.com
</FONT>
</H3>
<P>
<a href="http://www.unixboulevard.com">
UnixBoulevard.com</a> is a free and upcoming site designed to be a choice web
location for those individuals and organizations that use, manage Unix based
servers or Networks. The site provides product and technical support
information as well as a forum for UNIX community members to interact.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">CDW is offering free VXA media for Linux
</FONT>
</H3>
<a href="http://www.cdw.com/">CDW</a> a direct solutions
provider of complete, customized technology solutions, is offering 5 free
33/66GB VXA V17 tapes for data storage and backup with the purchase of a
<a href="http://www.vxa.com">
VXA</a>
RakPak or VXA AutoPak. The promotion offers up to 660GB of free media at a
value of more than $350 and runs through the end of September.
The offer is available by visiting CDW at
<a href="http://www.cdw.com">http://www.cdw.com</a> and entering
"VXA with free media" in the SmartSearch box on the upper right hand corner
of the page.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">GX Technology Uses Linux NetworX Cluster System
in Oil and Gas Exploration
</FONT>
</H3>
<P>
<a href="http://www.linuxnetworx.com">
Linux NetworX</a>, a provider of powerful and
easy-to-manage cluster computing solutions, announced today that seismic imaging
solutions company
<a href="http://www.gxt.com">
GX Technology</a> has purchased an 84-processor Evolocity computer
cluster to be used in its oil and gas exploration
efforts. This is the third cluster computer system provided to GX Technology
by Linux NetworX.
<P> Linux NetworX optimized the Evolocity cluster to work with GX Technology's seismic
imaging applications to perform processes such as wave equation and Kirchhoff
pre-stack depth migration and prestack time migration. The 42-node Evolocity
system includes 84 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon MP processors, with each node containing
1.5 GB of memory, and two 10/100 Ethernet networks for redundancy. GX Technology
also utilizes the Linux NetworX ClusterWorX management software tools, and signed
an on-going service agreement to ensure system stability.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Linux Links
</FONT>
</H3>
<a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org">
The Duke of URL</a>:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/linuxguide12">
Linux Buyer's Guide #12</a>
<li><a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/slackware80">Review of
Slackware Linux 8.0</a>
</ul>
<P>
Linux project in Mexican schools (Red Escolar)
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,45737,00.html">
fails</a>, largely due to "winmodem" issues it seems. More positively,
Linux seems to be
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,45862,00.html">
finding a role
</a> in a Colorado school district.
News courtesy <a href="http://www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/">
CanadaComputes.com</a> have a
<a href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/v3/story/1,1017,7178,00.html?tag<61>&sby">
round up</a> of the Linux web browsers currently available.
<P> <I>Linux Journal</I> web articles:
<UL>
<LI> <A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/linux_review/0055.html">
Vi IMproved--Vim and Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2</A>, a book and keyboard
review by Don Marti.
<LI> You Can Get There from Here, Marcel's latest series.
<A HREF="http://www.linuxjournal.com/articles/sysadmin/0064.html">part 1</A>
</UL>
<p><a href="http://suite101.com/">
Suite101.com</a> have added a new
<a href="http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/linux">
Linux</a> site aimed at explaining to Windows users what it might be like
if they changed to Linux.
<p>
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/">The Register</a> have
<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/20714.html">
reported</a> that
several Red Hat 6.2 systems with default installation were cracked in 72
hours during a security research
<a href="http://project.honeynet.org/">
project</a> that intentionally left them online for intruders to find.
<p>
<a href="http://www.systemlogic.net/agurusworld/19/">Evaluation
</a>
of Windows XP beta compared to Linux Mandrake 8.0 from the point of view of
usability and aesthetics. The review says Windows is getting better than
it used to be; Microsoft is learning some of Linux's tricks.
<P> RPM
<a href="http://www.userfriendly.net/linux/RPM/search.php">Search page
</a>on the User Friendly site.
<P>
<a href="http://www.slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a>
had a recent Slashdot talkback
<a href="http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/08/13/0151247.shtml">
thread</a> on which is the best Linux distribution for a newbie.
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1527&p=1">
The State of Corporate IT: A case for Linux</A>.
"By many accounts, the largest cost of ownership increases that
corporations have faced have been licensing related. As NT has become a
mainstay, licensing terms have become more specific and more expensive."<BR>
This story traces a 7,000-employee company that switched from Unix/Novell
to NT for "ease of administration and a lower cost of ownership, but years
into the transition, administering and licensing costs soared....
While the previous Unix and Novell platforms had handled file, print and mail
servers on a single server, NT now needed one machine for each service plus a
dedicated backup for each.....
Red Hat brought a single Pentium class system for a site visit and thanks to
the early legwork their engineers had done, were able to integrate the box into
the network and take over all file and print server requests for one busy
segment within four hours. The system ran for the next 10 business days without
any downtime, something NT machines had not been able to do very often....
Red Hat had proven to be a helpful ally. Instead of trying to push a
whole-scale replacement of the infrastructure, they had worked to supplement
it.... Some months later, with the market still soft and the bottom line
increasingly important to shareholders, the team feels they made the right
decision."
Courtesy Slashdot.
<P>
The
<a href="http://latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</a> have a
<a href="http://latimes.com/technology/la-000064605aug09.story">
science fiction story</a>
about a future world in which Windows is everywhere,
causing worldwide catastrophe. Courtesy
<a href="www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</a>.
<a name="software"></a>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Loki
</FONT>
</H3>
<p>
<a href="http://www.timegatestudios.com">
TimeGate Studios, Inc.</a> and
<a href="http://www.lokigames.com/">
Loki Software</a>
are
excited to announce that the demo for Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns on the
Linux platform is now available for free download at
<a href="http://www.lokigames.com/products/demos.php3">
http://www.lokigames.com/products/demos.php3</a>
For more information, please visit the official
<a href="http://www.kohan.net">game site</a>.
Pre-orders can be placed from the Loki
<a href="http://www.lokigames.com/orders/">
webstore</a>.
<hr width="20%" noshade>
<P>
<a href="http://www.nostarch.com/">
No Starch Press</a> and
<a href="http://www.lokigames.com/">
Loki Software</a> have announced
the launch of the complete and authoritative guide to developing
games for Linux. PROGRAMMING LINUX GAMES: LEARN TO WRITE THE GAMES
LINUX PEOPLE PLAY (August 2001, 1-886411-49-2, $39.95, paperback, 432
pp., <a href="http://www.nostarch.com/?plg">
http://www.nostarch.com/?plg</a>) guides readers through
important Linux development tools and gaming APIs, with a special
focus on Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). Written by the gaming
masters at Loki Software, this book is the ultimate resource for
Linux game developers.
Available in bookstores, from Loki Software
(<a href="http://www.lokigames.com/orders">http://www.lokigames.com/orders</a>),
or from No Starch Press
(1-800-420-7240, <a href="http://www.nostarch.com">http://www.nostarch.com</a>).
<P> <hr> <P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
<FONT COLOR="green">eVe Visual Search Toolkit for Linux
</FONT>
</H3>
<P>
<a href="http://www.evisionglobal.com">
eVision</a> is excited to announce the release of version 2.1 public beta
of the eVe visual search Java-based SDK for Linux. The toolkit lets Linux
developers create search applications that use images and visual similarity
rather than keywords and text.
The user selects a sample query image or partial image, then the search
engine finds and ranks other images that are visually similar with respect
to the objects in the image and attributes such as color, texture, shape
and 3D shading. This technology can be applied to image content, video
content, audio content and any other digital pattern.
You can sign up to download a free 500 image limited version of the
SDK at
<a href="http://www.evisionglobal.com/developers/sdk/">
http://www.evisionglobal.com/developers/sdk/</a>
<P> <hr> <P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">
<FONT COLOR="green">Great Bridge WebSuite for Developers
</FONT>
</H3>
<P><a href="http://www.greatbridge.com">
Great Bridge</a>, a provider of commercial service and
support for the open source database
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">
PostgreSQL</a>, has announced this morning
an open source application development platform that uses the world's most
advanced open source tools.
Great Bridge WebSuite is an integrated open source platform that combines
the PostgreSQL database, PHP scripting language and Apache Web server for
building high-performance Web-based applications.
<P> <hr> <P>
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<FONT COLOR="green">Free APStripFiles Utility
</FONT>
</H3>
<P>
<a href="http://www.appligent.com">
Appligent, Inc.</a> is offering a new utility free of charge.
APStripFiles is a command line application that removes attached or embedded
files from PDF documents. It enables you to protect your systems from malicious
unwanted PDF file attachments.
<P> APStripFiles for AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux can be
downloaded free from,,
<a href="http://www.appligent.com/newpages/freeSoftware_Unix.html">
http://www.appligent.com/newpages/freeSoftware_Unix.html</a>
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