Linux-Announce Digest #531, Volume #3 Fri, 2 Jul 99 18:13:30 EDT
Contents:
CONFERENCE: NordU2000 Call for Papers (Martin WahlXn)
Welcome2L 3.04 -Linux ANSI login logo (Jean-Marc Jacquet)
Tsert1.1 Integrated Test Environment ("Babelart Inc.")
Computone serial cards: drivers and mailing list ("Michael H. Warfield")
Mahogany 0.23a - cross-platform mail and news client (Karsten Ballueder)
COMMERCIAL: Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge public beta (Martin Evans)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin WahlXn)
Subject: CONFERENCE: NordU2000 Call for Papers
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:20:15 GMT
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Call for Papers
The second Nordic EurOpen/USENIX Conference at Hotel Scandic Triangeln,
Malm�, Sweden February 8-11, 2000.
Authors are invited to submit a 1/1 page abstract in English on any of the
topics below to the Congress Secretariat. Submission should be original work
and will be reviewed by the Technical Programme Committee.
All accepted papers will be available on the Internet after the Conference.
Authors must register for the conference and present their papers in person.
Instructions for preparing final papers will be sent with the letter of
acceptance.
Complete programme and registration information will be available by mid
September 1999. To receive information about The second Nordic EurOpen/USENIX
Conference, please visit the website at http://www.nordu.org/NordU2000/
or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TOPICS
Security
Operating Systems
Free UNIX
Interoperability
WWW
Technical Program Committe:
Jan S�ll, irial, Sweden
Anita Nilsson R�jning, Uniforum Marknadskonsult, Sweden
Ulla Sandberg, Network Management, Sweden
B�rje Josefsson, University of Lule�, Sweden
H�kan Carlsson, easylogic.se, Sweden
Bo Falkman, DKUUG, Denmark
Kristen Nielsen, Tele Danmark Research, Denmark
Martin Wahl�n, Sound Foundation Inc, Sweden
Additional reviewers:
Keld Simonsen, DKUUG & SSLUG
Paul-Henning Kamp, FreeBSD Core team
Please send your abstracts to:
Congrex Sweden AB
Attn. EurOpen'2000
P.O. Box 5619
SE-114 86 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Phone: +46 8 459 66 00
Fax: +46 8 661 91 25
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jean-Marc Jacquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Welcome2L 3.04 -Linux ANSI login logo
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:23:04 GMT
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Welcome2L v3.04 release
Welcome2L is a little program that may run at login time
to produce a BBS like ANSI login logo. It's very similar
to Linux_Logo. But where Linux_Logo intends to be portable
Welcome2L intends to produce the best looking ANSI screens
by making full usage of PC graphic characters. Therefor an
i386 architecture is required to use it and it will only
produce 80 columns ANSI screens.
changes:
Now displays correct substitution characters with getty_ps.
here is a screenshot [13K]:
http://www.littleigloo.org/images/welcome2l_screen1.gif
More info, binaires and sources packages, as RPM
can be obtained at:
http://www.littleigloo.org
Jean-Marc,
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From: "Babelart Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tsert1.1 Integrated Test Environment
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:32:38 GMT
Reply-To: "Babelart Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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TsertV1.1 Demo Release.
TsertV1.1 is an Integrated Testing Environment (ITE).
Tsert has the following modules:
Tsert-Planner for writing basic system test plans.
Tsert-Browser for developing testcases.
Tsert-Generator for generating test data for C++ classes
and other miscellaneous purposes, e.g. database testing.
Tsert-Tracker for basic default tracking.
This application is offered for download.
The only thing missing is the test script executor.
http://www.bartsoft.com
This beta release is given as a freeware demo and
is guaranteed to work with Linux kernel 2.0.33
The binary is in ELF format.
The required platform must have:
kernel 2.0.33. (i486)
Libc 5.4.*
binutils(28)
X-Window Release X11R6.
Documentation is in html format.
Please send bug reports and successes to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and enquiries to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards.
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From: "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Computone serial cards: drivers and mailing list
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:36:37 GMT
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This is announcing the availability of device drivers for the
Computone Intelliport II family of multiport serial cards on the 2.2 and
2.3 series Linux kernels.
There is also now a mailing list for the Computone drivers and
boards under linux. Mailing list instructions are at the bottom of this
announcement.
What is supported:
The Computone Intelliport II family of multiport serial cards on
ISA, PCI, and EISA busses.
Up to four cards are supported in one system. These cards can share
a single interrupt or use individual interrupts on a card by card basis.
Cards can each support up to 4 expansion interface boxes.
Expansion interface boxs can support up to 16 ports.
That gives a capacity of up to 256 serial ports when all four boards
are installed and fully populated.
Some of the boards and expansion interface modules support port
speeds of up to 921,600 Baud.
For more hardware information, see the Computone web site:
http://www.computone.com
What is NOT supported:
MCA bus at this time (Is there any demand? See the mailing list.)
Computone products prior to the Intelliport II line. The earlier
ATvantage and Intelliport cards are not support. These cards are very very
old and have firmware that can not be upgraded. Sorry...
Versions:
Computone has been suppling "BETA" drivers (1.0 series) for the 2.0
kernels from their ftp site for some time. These drivers have now been
enhanced and have been updated to work with the latest kernels (1.2 series
drivers). The current driver version as of this annoucement is 1.2.1.
The 1.2.1 drivers are available in two forms. From the Computone
ftp site, the drivers are available in their conventional *.dd format,
which is really a tar file which they intended to be "dd'ed" over to a
floppy. Download the driver bundle from the Computone ftp site and
install per the instructions in the README.computone file. It does
not extract into its own subdirectory and is intended to be extracted into
the [...]/linux/drivers/char directory.
The Computone drivers for Linux are available on their ftp site at:
ftp://ftp.computone.com/PUB/Products/IntelliPortII/Linux/BETA
The 1.2.1 drivers are also available in a patch file against the
2.2.10 kernel source tree. This patch has been tested against and will
patch 2.2.10ac4 and 2.3.8. It will, most likely, patch any of the 2.2 and
2.3 kernels prior to those. This patch file will NOT patch the 2.0 kernels.
The 1.2.1 Computone drivers in kernel patch form is availble from:
http://www.wittsend.com/computone/linux-2.2.10-ctone.patch.gz
Earlier drivers are NOT available in this form.
The 1.2.1 drivers will install into the 2.0 kernels, but you must
use the patch bundle from the Computone ftp site and follow the instructions
in the README.computone file. You can use either method for 2.2 and 2.3
kernels, depending on your preferences.
The 1.2.1 drivers have been submitted to Alan Cox and we are wrorking
to have them appear in the kernel source tree eventually.
Mailing List Instructions: linux-computone
Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The linux-computone list is managed by majordomo. To subscribe,
please sent an e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with the following
in the body:
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in the body of the message. Simply replying to the confirmation request
will not work.
This open, unmoderated, mailing list is for discussion of the
Computone products and device drivers on the Linux Operating system.
This includes boards and drivers for the Intelliport II family of multiport
serial cards but may also include things like the Computone Intelliserver
or other standalone products which may be accessed or supported by the
Linux operating system.
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From: Karsten Ballueder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mahogany 0.23a - cross-platform mail and news client
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:34:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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A new release of Mahogany has been made.
Binaries for Debian Linux i386, Debian Linux AXP, Sun Solaris and
source are available immediately, binaries for RedHat Linux 5.2 and
6.0 will follow within the next two days.
Announcing Mahogany Version 0.23a
=====================================================================
Mahogany is an OpenSource(TM) cross-platform mail and news client. It
is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide
range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME
support. Thanks to its built-in Python interpreter it can be extended
far beyond its original functionality.
Mahogany's wealth of features and ease of use make it one of the most
powerful clients available, providing a consistent and intuitive
interface across all supported platforms.
It aims at supporting GNOME (and KDE for that matter) and includes an
extendable address book system supporting hierarchical organisation of
entries, group aliases, searching the database and easy editing, with
support for other program`s address database formats. Currently
Mahogany`s native format and (X)Emacs` BBDB address books are
supported.
Mahogany is being developed using the free wxWindows application
framework, building on the GTK+ toolkit on Unix.
Mahogany is constantly being tested on Linux-x86, Linux-alpha,
Solaris-sparc and MS Windows. It should compile and work on any major
Unix platform.
CHANGES AGAINST RELEASE 0.22a / UPDATE :
=====================================================================
For the Unix versions, there are few differences, minor bug fixes and
improvements, especially in the message editor, which behaves almost
perfectly now. The major new addition is the Windows version, built
from the same source as the Unix one. We hope to keep both platforms
in sync for the future, making common releases. Also, work on a MacOS
port has left the early stages and is making progress.
- - First useable, public Windows release for Windows NT/95/98.
- - All known (crash-inducing) bugs fixed.
- - Significant message editor/viewer improvements.
- - Several minor usability fixes and some significant speed-ups.
DOWNLOAD
=====================================================================
http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/
http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/Mahogany/
ftp://ronnie.phy.hw.ac.uk/pub/Mahogany/ (UK, Europe)
ftp://ftp.gdev.net/pub/Mahogany/ (US)
NEXT
=====================================================================
For the next release we are currently working on the following:
completion of filtering rules/scoring code
asynchoronous folder access and multi-threading
subscription management for NNTP/IMAP/newsspool
Templates/style-sheets for message composition and flexible reply handling
DND with KDE/Gnome filemanagers (now supported by wxGTK)
Messages sorting, threading, scoring and searching
possibly also:
GPG/PGP support
built-in HTML viewer
Finish the new message editor code: rich-text editing
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Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland
Tel. +44-(0)-131-4513068 Fax. +44-(0)-131-4513136
"In a world without fences, who needs Gates?"
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From: Martin Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COMMERCIAL: Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge public beta
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 21:34:53 GMT
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Easysoft Ltd would like to announce the third public beta of the
ODBC-ODBC Bridge for Linux. The ODBC-ODBC Bridge is a package of
libraries which provide applications on Linux with access to ODBC data
sources on remote machines. Examples of using the ODBC-ODBC Bridge
are:
[1] Apache/PHP + the ODBC-ODBC Bridge (running on Linux) to read/write
data held in Microsoft SQLServer on NT.
[2] Perl + DBI + DBD:ODBC + the ODBC-ODBC Bridge (running on Linux) to
read/write data held in a Microsoft Access database on NT.
[3] As above but with Python's mxODBC, or any C application.
[4] Access from StarOffice or Applixware on Linux to remote ODBC
databases.
The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge provides the full ODBC 3.5 API
specification and also includes parts of the ODBC 2.0 API now
deprecated in ODBC 3.0/3.5. This allows the application developer to
link directly with the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge client without the
requirement to install a driver manager on the Linux client (although
you can do if you want).
Changes since the second public beta include:
[1] Added support for Microsoft SQLServer 7.0, Windows 2000 beta3,
Windows 95, Solaris/Sparc, StarOffice, Python ODBC Interface mxODBC
and the unixODBC driver manager.
[2] New multithreaded ODBC-ODBC Bridge Server,
[3] network traffic compression
[4] alpha Block-Fetch-mode
[5] various bug fixes
[6] new beta expiry date of 1st October 1999.
See http://beta.easysoft.com/html/odbcbridge/odbcnew.html for a full
list of changes.
The third public beta of the Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge may be downloaded
from:
http://beta.easysoft.com or
ftp://ftp.easysoft.com/pub/beta/odbc-odbc-bridge/
For information on other released Easysoft products please see our
main web site at http://www.easysoft.com.
Martin
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Easysoft Ltd.
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