In this Quick Takes you will find: Corel Puts Internal WINE on
CVS, DVD Protest Results, Bluetooth For Linux, User-mode Linux,
MicroFocus Cobol on Linux Mailing List and more.
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- Godehard
Bruntrup sent in this link:“Corel Puts Internal WINE on CVS
The purpose of this site is to bring the development community
together and to provide visitors with more detailed information
about Corel’s Open Source projects. It will also serve as a
discussion forum through the use of our development mailing lists.
You’ll be kept up-to-date on issues such as the organization of our
desktop UI work, CVS access to our source code, and an exciting new
application-level printing technology we’re currently working
on.
http://opensource.corel.com/“
- David E. Weekly
writes:“Unblocking Napster
I was rather upset that various Universities had blocked access to
Napster, so I’ve written
a short
tutorial for Linux users on how they can set up a SOCKS5 server to allow other people
access to the Napster network.”
- David Bubar for this
link. ]Publishing RPGs Online: Does Free Mean Worthless?
Here is a story about Open Sourcing RPG’s and how that would
restore value to the free RPG’s on the net. You have complete
editorial license for this. I will try and post some relevant
text:“This is where we borrow from the world of computer science the
concepts of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Open Source
Computing Movement (OS) to try to restore our self-worth. Like the
GNU/Linux software, just because you don’t have to pay for my game
doesn’t mean it isn’t as good as the commercial games. Right?”
- Mike Hicks writes:
“DVD Protest Results
The Tribune of San Luis Obispo has an article
on John Kew, one of the defendants in the Santa Clara DeCSS case.
He handed out flyers in one of the theaters in his area. 2600 also
has some results from protests
around North America. It sounds like the public was fairly
receptive. They also have suggestions if people plan to continue
doing this in the future, namely the fact that you can ask for a
permit or other permission, and stand much closer to the entrances
of theaters.”
- Dennis Payne
sent us this link about:“Open Game Source: Troll Bridge
The latest Open Game Source article is now available at:http://www.identicalsoftware.com/ogs/troll.html
Since I haven’t had much time to work on Troll Bridge, I decided
to feature it on Open Game Source. The article focuses on the
content creation tools.”
- Thanks to Peter Karlsson
for this link. ]“Bluetooth For Linux
“Axis has developed a Bluetooth driver for Linux that can be used
both in our eLinux environment as well as on an ordinary Linux PC.
The code is developed for a Linux 2.0.33 kernel, but should not
prove difficult to fit in the latest kernels. It is still under
development though so don’t expect fully functional software –
especially the integration of the stack within the kernel is
fluctuating. Still we know that it works with at the LAN profile of
Bluetooth (PPP overRFCOMM) and provides a simple form of Service
Discovery. The source code to Axis’ Bluetooth driver is available
in the Download section, both in the stand-alone Bluetooth file and
the elinux kernel release. All code is released under the GPL (Gnu
Public License).”This is taken from http://developer.axis.com/software/bluetooth/.”
- Jacek Artymiak one of
the authors, set us this link:“StarOffice for Linux Bible
The
StarOffice for Linux Bible from IDG is out. Sample chapter is
available
on-line. I’d love to hear your comments.”
- Thanks to Jeff Dike for
this link:“User-mode linux 0.8-2.3.48 available
The news with this version is that it has devfs enabled. The
binaries have both kernel and user-level support for devfs.This makes it possible to play with devfs without having to
experiment on a real machine.The downloads are available from http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=429″
The project home page is here.”
- Thanks to Jacek
Furmankiewicz for this link:“The future of Unix (according to IBM-sponsored consultants)
Interesting opinion from the folks at IBM about the future of UNIX,
with special focus on Monterey (NT killer) and a bit of Linux as
well (not ready for high-end enterprise computing yet).http://www.ibm.com/servers/monterey/news/may99ed.pdf
Note: requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.”
- Thanks to Cristian R.
Arroyo sent us this:“Planeta Linux Argentina: xMAME, the Game Machine In this new
feature
article (in spanish), we discuss the Linux implementation of
the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) and it’s multiple
possibilities for bringing back to life those arcade games of the
80’s we used to love so much. DOS-Emu and Wine are also mentioned,
links and screenshots included.”
- Keith Garner sent us this
announcement:“MicroFocus Cobol on Linux Mailing List Started
More and more people are trying to get MicroFocus
Cobol to work under Linux, be it the SCO version running with
the help of IBCS or the new native
version recently released by Merant. As there are sure to be
many trials and tribulations along the way, we’ve set up a mailing
list to help those users communicate.mfcobol-linux@lists.rimslink.com
is the mailing list. To subscribe send a piece of mail to mfcobol-linux-request@lists.rimslink.com
with the word “subscribe” in the body.Any questions/comments/concerns can be directed to Keith Garner .”