Release Digest: General, April 25, 2002

ALSA RC 1

[ Thanks to Auberge for this link. ]

Yesterday the first release candidate of the Advanced Linux
Sound Architecture (ALSA) was released.

The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) provides audio and
MIDI functionality to the Linux operating system. ALSA has the
following significant features:

1. Efficient support for all types of audio interfaces, from
   consumer soundcards to professional multichannel audio
   interfaces.
2. Fully modularized sound drivers.
3. SMP and thread-safe design.
4. User space library (alsa-lib) to simplify application
   programming and provide higher level functionality.
5. Support for the older OSS API, providing binary compatibility
   for most OSS programs.

   ALSA is released under the GPL (GNU General Public license) and
   the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).

   We need programmers to work on low level drivers, writers to
   extend and improve our documentation, and application developers
   who choose to use ALSA as the basis for their programs. If you are
   interested, please subscribe to alsa-devel mailing list. We welcome
   all ideas!

http://www.alsa-project.org/

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AmayaGL

[ Thanks to Tk for
this link. ]

AmayaGL is the first native OpenGL browser & authoring tool
with a WYSIWYG interface that allows you to publish documents on
the Web. With such an interface, users can easily generate HTML and
XHTML pages, as well as CSS style sheets, MathML expressions, and
SVG drawings (full support of SVG is not yet available, OpenGL
version will give access to smooth animation). It is open source,
versatile and extensible and is available on both Unix (GTK) and
Win32.

http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/AmayaGL.html

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Krysalis 1.0.3

[ Thanks to Cristinel
ANASTASOAIE for this link. ]

Krysalis is an open-source PHP development platform, based on
the XML/XSLT core. It is inspired from Cocoon2, which proved to be
smart enough to inspire us, but technologically different. We have
reused a part of our PHAkt code to create the Krysalis taglib
library.

Krysalis offers SOAP support to enable developers create web
services easily.

Krysalis is a powerful web services platform, and we think that
developers all over the world can use it for dynamic XML generation
for various goals:

• create web services
• create dynamic XML data to feed Flash applications
• publish dynamic content in a “fusebox” approach

We will continue to improve Krysalis to make it a real
enterprise level application development framework. We will add
more publishing features, allow application logic integration and
reuse, and implement support for the latest information publishing
technologies as UDDI and ebXML. All out efforts will be focused to
provide a powerful Open Source alternative for an application
server.

http://www.interakt.ro