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<title> News Bytes #9 </title>
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<H4>"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"</H4>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">GNU ID Utilities</H3>
<P>
A new release of the GNU id utilities is available at
<a href="ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/id-utils-3.2.tar.gz">
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/id-utils-3.2.tar.gz</a>
<P>
GNU id-utils is a package of simple, fast, high-capacity,
language-independent identifier database tools. Actually, the term
``identifier'' is too limiting -- ID Utils stores tokens, be they
program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of
human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the
command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags
facility.
<P>
Release 3.2 fixes a nasty bug in eid (a.k.a., "lid -R edit"), which
should only be a problem for users of non-emacs editors (e.g., vi).
This release also fixes as well as some minor portability problems.
If you use emacs and had no trouble compiling 3.1, there's no reason
for you to pick up this release.
<P>
Additional information: <a href="mailto:gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu">
gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu</a>
<P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">InfoMagic Workgroup Server</H3>
<P>
The InfoMagic Workgroup Server provides high-performance file and
printing services to PC and Macintosh clients using the Linux
operating system. It is the first Linux distribution designed
specifically for servers. Based on networking software created by the
Internet community and already in use at hundreds of companies,
universities and organizations worldwide, the InfoMagic Workgroup
Server provides simple graphical tools for system administration and
set-up. A Unix novice can set up a sophisticated server environment
in a couple of hours.
<P>
Additional information:
<a href="mailto:Orders@InfoMagic.com">
Orders@InfoMagic.com</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.infomagic.com">
http://www.infomagic.com/</a><br>
<P>
<hr>
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Linuxconf 1.6</H3>
<P>
I am proud to announce the release of linuxconf 1.6. This release
incorporates many enhancements and features. The last official release was
1.3. Since, a major user interface rework has been done and many smaller
features were added. Release 1.4 and 1.5 were only released on the
linuxconf mailing list.
<P>
It has been uploaded to sunsite in the pub/Linux/Incmoning directory and
should move to /pub/Linux/System/admin/linuxconf-1.6.src.tar.gz. Binaries
for both elf and a.out systems are provided at the same place.
<P>
The major enhancement is the http mode. With this, you can now operate
linuxconf using any web browser supporting forms. This makes
administration of large linux networks a wonderful experience. You can
navigate in linuxconf and even set bookmarks in your browser. Ultimatly
one can build his corporate administration page with link to different
part of linuxconf on different linux servers or workstation.
<P>
Additional information:
<a href="mailto:jack@solucorp.qc.ca">
jack@solucorp.qc.ca</a><br>
<P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Red Hat Rembrandt II</H3>
<P>
Red Hat Linux - 3.0.4 (Rembrandt II) BETA now available on both the
Intel and Sparc!
<P>
The Rembrandt beta releases of Red Hat Linux include the following
nifty features:
<blockquote>
Modular kernel (2.0.10)
One kernel (one boot disk) for all hardware
Increased hardware support over 3.0.3
New, simpler installation
PAM - Pluggable Authentication Modules
More comprehensive X configuration
New network configuration tool
New version of RPM - 2.2.3
Dependencies
Libc 5.3.12
</blockquote>
<P>
The Rembrandt II release fixes many bugs, and adds a few features.
Among the improvements over Rembrandt are:
<blockquote>
config file handling
DOS partitions
IDE drives c-h
flashing asterisk
System.map
interface cleanups
/net /.automount updatedb
dip, inn, fvwm95, ypbind, ftpuser
module parameters
package selection
</blockquote>
<P>
The Red Hat Linux Rembrandt II is available from:
<P>
<a href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rembrandt">
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rembrandt</a>
<P>
Additional information: <a href="mailto:rembrandt-list@redhat.com">
rembrandt-list@redhat.com</a>,<br>
<a href="http://www.redhat.com/redhat/rembrandt">
http://www.redhat.com/redhat/rembrandt</a> <br>
<P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">SDK Software</H3>
<P>
<P>
URL CHANGE from The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
<P>
The <i>free</i> Linux software which I release under the name "SDK Software"
(morepkgtools - supplements Slackware's pkgtool; tidylinks - searches
for and tidies dangling and messy symbolic links; LNET-Config -
configuration script for the LNET TCP/IP (KA9Q-like) program) has
moved from AOL to: <P>
<a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html">
http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html</a>
<P>Revised versions of the software, with the correct URLs in the
manual pages etc., will be released shortly.
<P>
If you have my AOL site bookmarked please change your records.
<P>
FREE SOFTWARE ANNOUNCEMENT:
<P>
<a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#man2html">
http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#man2html</a>
<p><a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/myprogs/unix/man2html">
http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/myprogs/unix/man2html</a>
<p>Version 0.15 of this <i>very</i> modest Bourne-shell script is now
available. The script is a CGI-bin interface to "man", converting
UNIX (Linux) manual pages into fully-legal HTML on the fly.
<P>
Sample output can be viewed at:
<a href="http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#manpages">http://www.kalika.demon.co.uk/sdk-software/index.html#manpages</a>
<P>
Additional information: <a href="mailto:steve@kalika.demon.co.uk">
steve@kalika.demon.co.uk</a><br>
<P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Taper</H3>
<P>
This is to announce the latest release of taper - version 6.7.4
<P>
Taper is a user friendly, full featured tape backup solution for Linux.
Multiple features are supported including most recent restore, incremental
backups, archive verification and archive management. With triple
buffering, and internal compression, backup performance is quite
good.
<P>
Taper supports ftape, zftape, scsi, floppies, regular files and
removable media such as the IOMEGA ZIP drives.
<P>
In addition, taper also supports IDE tape drives in ALPHA stage.
<P>
PLEASE NOTE:<br>
I am going away for 2.5 months from this week and will be unreachable
via e-mail therefore, there will be no support for this version
until I return mid-late October.
<P>
Additional information: <a href="mailto:yusuf@nagree.u-net.com">
yusuf@nagree.u-net.com</a><br>
<P>
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<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">TranSend</H3>
<P>
Advanced Network Products, Inc. announces the alpha release of TranSend.
TranSend, a "middleware" product, is an efficient, reliable and platform-
independent mechanism that provides communications between your applications.
<P>
TranSend is a development toolkit that allows rapid construction of
real-time client/server and distributed applications. TranSend is the
perfect foundation for all of your network development needs, including:
<ul>
<li>Real-time client/server and distributed applications
<li>High performance data distribution systems
<li>Cross-platform connectivity
<li>Fault-tolerant systems
</ul>
Additional information: <a href="mailto:anpi@advanced-net.com">
anpi@advanced-net.com</a>
<a href="http://www.advanced-net.com/examples.html">
http://www.advanced-net.com/examples.html</a><br>
<P>
<HR>
<H3><IMG ALT=" " SRC="../gx/bolt.gif">Web-traversing Robot</H3>
<P>
The VWbot Web-traversing robot is now available as shareware.
It was developed on Linux and hasn't been tested on anything else,
but it ought to run on most Unix. It uses Perl4 and libwww-perl-0.40
<P>
The core program may be customised to perform different functions,
such as keeping track of document modifications, operating as
a restricted-domain search engine, or as a free-running agent
configured for tasks such as lexical analysis.
The robot adheres to the original Robot Exclusion Protocol and
includes code to implement the newer ROBOTS META tag.
<P>
Additional information: <a href="mailto:robots@vancouver-webpages.com">
robots@vancouver-webpages.com</a>,<br>
<a href="http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/">
http://vancouver-webpages.com/VWbot/</a><br>
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