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Developer Linux News for May 01, 2001
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GNOME: Bonobo-Media 0.2: Funky Monkey (2001-05-01 23:00:19)
"Bonobo-Media is a set of Bonobo interfaces and a
GTK+/libbonobo-based implementation for the the control of generic
multimedia playback. It currently supports audio and video streams.
Support for tuners is also planned."
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.4-ac3 (2001-05-01 22:05:06)
"Fix hang on boot with SMP, and fixes a few more uglies too. Add
another species of SB AWE 32. Tidy up APM options setting, add
module SE401 USB camera driver. ACPI updates."
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Microsoft says Corel deal leaves Linux unscathed (2001-05-01 20:51:58)
File it under "from the horse's mouth": Microsoft's Steve
Ballmer is quoted by Reuters as saying "Corel is free to do
whatever it wants with Linux."
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Kernel Cousin KDE #8 by Aaron J. Seigo (2001-05-01 20:10:04)
KDE is a powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment for
Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary
functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the
technological superiority of the Unix operating system.
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LinuxProgramming: PHP 4.0.5 Released (2001-05-01 19:36:31)
vmlinuz reports that PHP 4.0.5 has been released. The new
release includes many bug fixes from PHP 4.0.4, as well as output
compression, new experimental FastCGI support, and significantly
improved thread-safe versions.
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LinuxProgramming: Intel Releases Beta Fortran Compiler for Linux (2001-05-01 18:13:38)
Intel has released beta copies of its Fortran Compiler for
Linux. The software is available under two licenses: one a
node-locked license allowing installation on a single machine,
another allowing users to float between workstations, providing the
ability to check an instance out over a network connection.
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ZDNet: Heat is on Windows: Samba 2.2 now supports range of Microsoft OSes (2001-05-01 17:33:02)
Jeremy Allison of the Samba Team wrote in to let us know about
ZDNet's review of the recently released Samba 2.2. The reviewer
seems to like it, going so far as to award it an Analyst's Choice
Award and contribute to AlkaSeltzer sales in Redmond by offering
that it "offers enough functionality to be a Windows NT Server
replacement for many organizations, especially in smaller
stand-alone offices. "
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Kernel Cousin Wine #93 by Brian Vincent (2001-05-01 16:15:46)
Wine is a free implementation of Windows on Unix.
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.4-ac2 (2001-05-01 12:24:33)
"This release is mostly meant for further eyes to check for
merge errors. It boots but thats about all I'd guarantee. I plan to
do just the fixups for 2.4.4 bugs and then back out some of the
existing changes that don't help much - notably some of the VM
tuning isnt gaining us anything but multiple bad
implementations."
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LinuxPlanet: Ximian GNOME 1.4: The Monkey Has Landed (2001-05-01 03:45:45)
After nearly a month of waiting, Ximian has packaged up and
rolled out its version of the GNOME desktop. In order to take GNOME
to the next level, Ximian addresses not only the polish of the
overall desktop environment, but the usability issues presented in
getting the software onto an end user's machine in the first place.
In the first of a two-part look, Michael Hall examines getting and
installing Ximian GNOME 1.4 on Red Hat, Debian, and Progeny
systems, with a special eye to straightening out a few bugs and
snags he found along the way.
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.4-ac1 (2001-05-01 02:28:59)
"This release is mostly meant for further eyes to check for
merge errors. It boots but thats about all I'd guarantee. I plan to
do just the fixups for 2.4.4 bugs and then back out some of the
existing changes that don't help much - notably some of the VM
tuning isnt gaining us anything but multiple bad
implementations."
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LinuxProgramming:
First beta of JPE, the Java-Python Extension, released (2001-05-01 01:48:45)
JPE is at once a Python module (named 'java') providing access
to all Java services from Python, and a Java package (named
'python') providing access to all Python services from Java.
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