Release Digest: General, September 17, 2002 | Linux Today

Release Digest: General, September 17, 2002

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 18, 2002

FUDforum 2.3.1

[ Thanks to Ilia
Alshanetsky
for this link. ]

FUDforum is a web based bulletin board software designed in PHP,
utilizing a MySQL or PostgreSQL backend for data storage.

The 2.3.1 release is the second stable release in the 2.3
branch, which introduces a number of new features as well as speed
improvements. Below are some of the highlights of this release:

  • Mailing List & NNTP support, allowing FUDforum to be used
    as a mailing list and newsgroup archive. This functionality also
    allows the admin to permit users to post message from the forum to
    the Mailing Lists and Newsgroups.
  • Additional translations were added, bringing up the number of
    i18n locales to 9, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian,
    Turkish, Polish, Chinese (traditional), Swedish
  • HTML cleanup, making the output HTML be fully HTML 4.01
    compliant
  • The upgrade script can now upgrade PostgreSQL based forums as
    well as MySQL based forums. And the upgrade & install scripts
    use zlib compression for the archive storage.
  • Other features, bug fixes and optimizations were added, these
    can be found in the changelog as they are to numerous to list
    here.

Detailed ChangeLog:
http://fud.prohost.org/CHANGELOG

Download Page:
http://fud.prohost.org/download.php

Ilia Alshanetsky
FUDforum Core Developer
ilia@prohost.org

Matrox Parhelia 512 Drivers for Linux

[ Thanks to Nick
Lidakis
for this link. ]

Matrox released their beta driver for the Parhelia video card.
This driver supports only 2D currently and runs under Xfree 4.1 and
4.2. The README is also available on the web site.

ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2002/

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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