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Developer Linux News for Jun 22, 2001
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LinuxPR: Kohan for Linux Reaches Beta Stage of Development
(2001-06-22 21:27:42)
"TimeGate Studios, Inc. and Loki Software, Inc. are pleased to
announce that the popular fantasy strategy game, Kohan: Immortal
Sovereigns, has entered the beta stage of development for the Linux
platform. A noted achievement for the gaming industry, Kohan will
be the first of the real-time strategy gaming genre to be
commercially available for Linux."
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Linux Online: Linux: Alive and well on my desktop! (2001-06-22 20:33:04)
Anyone who wants to read a revival sermon on the Linux destkop
will enjoy this piece. Pinning the "Linux is dead on the desktop"
argument squarely on turncoats and old people, Mr. Jordan rallys
the troops, arguing that Linux is spreading into many, many markets
and, he says, it has to, lest Microsoft not only keep the desktop
but dominate the server, too.
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4 BIOS Usage Reference (2001-06-22 18:56:17)
Alan Cox has prepared a draft document explaining the
interaction between Linux and its host machine's BIOS.
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DukeOfURL: Who Says Linux is Dead? (a pair of editorials on the
Linux desktop)
(2001-06-22 18:11:15)
The DukeOfURL introduces opinion pieces to its editorial mix
with this pair of columns about Linux, the desktop, and mainstream
acceptance. The first The first says that members of the Linux
community who argued that the Linux desktop is dead played into
Microsoft's hands and threaten to repeat the mistakes of OS/2. The
second maintains that Linux has all the apps it needs, and that
user education is the key.
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Martin Baulig: Let's look into the future (aka "The ``Martin is back'' mail") (2001-06-22 16:43:56)
Martin Baulig has decided to return to his role as a GNOME 2.0
Release Coordinator: "However, let's forget this whole flamewar and
assume that the last two weeks simply did not happen. And to avoid
yet another flamewar, if there's anyone out there who still doubts
that I'm the libgnome(ui) maintainer, speak up now or keep your
mouth shut until we have that damn thing released."
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MrProject 0.3.0 released (2001-06-22 16:30:01)
Although its developers warn that this is an early beta release
still in heavy development, this project still bears watching:
MrProject is a GNOME-based project manager licensed under the
GPL.
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Community: KDE @ LinuxTag 2001 (2001-06-22 16:10:54)
"Besides staffing a KDE booth where users can see the latest
KDE, ask questions and mingle with KDE developers, KDE developers
will make numerous presentations targeted at users and developers.
The "Congress Program" will feature talks by the notable KDE
developers Matthias Ettrich and Kalle Dalheimer. The "Forum
Program" will offer a talk about "Developing a GUI Using Qt", and
programs in German about "Multimedia in KDE 2" and "KDE 2.2 - Your
Personal Desktop". In addition, developers will host several
workshops on KDE development."
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Linux Programming: python-dev summary 2001-06-07 - 2001-06-21 (2001-06-22 15:09:22)
This is a summary of traffic on the python-dev mailing list
between June 7 and June 21 (inclusive) 2001. It is intended to
inform the wider Python community of ongoing developments.
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Ximian Setup Tools 0.6 - Now red-carpet powered ! (2001-06-22 13:26:26)
"The Ximian Setup Tools are a set of cross-platform
configuration utilities for Linux and other Unix systems.
Internally they are divided in front and back end subsystems. The
front end knows nothing about the underlying operating system and
provides the same user interface across the different
platforms."
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Apache Today: PHP-Nuke 5.0 released (2001-06-22 12:00:18)
The best version ever, according to the author. And he would
know.
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