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Linux Gazette Italian Edition
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 14:42:52 +0100 <BR>
The first issue of the Italian Edition of the Linux Gazette,
is now available on our site, <A HREF="http://www.media.it/LUGBari/lgtp/index.html">
http://www.media.it/LUGBari/lgtp/index.html</A>.
It is in the spirit of helping italian Linux users and, naturally,
this italian edition is under the copying license of your original Linux
Gazette.
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Bye (and many many thanks!) <BR>
Francesco De Carlo, <A HREF="mailto:fdecarlo@sole.media.it">
fdecarlo@sole.media.it </A> <BR>
CICCIO-X, LUGBari Coordinator
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<A HREF="./advocate.html">Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO</A> <BR>
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 11:53:19 +0100 (MET) <BR>
This is the Linux Advocacy HOWTO and is intended to provide guidelines
and ideas to assist with your Linux advocacy efforts.
-- authored by Paul L. Rogers, <A HREF="mailto:Paul.L.Rogers@li.org">
Paul.L.Rogers@li.org </A>
<P>
Related Links: <BR>
Lars Wirzenius also has some thoughts
<http://www.iki.fi/liw/texts/advocating-linux.html> about Linux
advocacy.
<P>
The Linux Advocacy Project's <http://www.10mb.com/linux/> goal is to
encourage commercial application developers to provide native Linux
versions of their software.
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Linux in the News
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Linux was chosen by PC Week as part of its list
for the top ten products of 1996. See the December 16, 1996 issue.
The same issue has a related article about Linux and the Internet.
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Linux Sites to Check Out
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<A HREF="http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz">
http://www.m-tech.ab.ca/linux-biz</A> <BR>
This site contains anecdotal references about the
commercial applications of Linux. Example uses of Linux in various
industries, fulfulling various tasks are listed. Includes
form / CGI script that visitors can use to enter data about their own
commercial Linux sites.<BR>
-- Idan Shoham, <A HREF="mailto:idan@m-tech.ab.ca">idan@m-tech.ab.ca</A>
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml">
http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml </A> <BR>
The Linux Applications and Utilities List is an organized collection of
pointers to the WWW home pages of over 600 different Linux compatible
application programs, system admin tools, utilities, device drivers,
games, servers, programming tools, file, disk and desktop managers,
internet apps, and more.
The January 8 edition has added links to over 80 new programs, as well as
corrections to numerous existing listings.
-- Bill Latura, <A HREF="mailto:blatura@xnet.com">blatura@xnet.com</A>
<P>
<A HREF="http://www.linuxware.com/">http://www.linuxware.com</A><BR>
This site is a Linux Support, Information, and general
purpose Linuxer Hangout Site -- a
meeting place for people interested in learning more about Linux,
providing help to other Linuxers, and promoting Linux!!!
-- Peter Lazecky, <A HREF="mailto:peter@linuxware.com">
peter@linuxware.com </A>
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PNG Article (see issue13) Update
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Apparently Netscape has finally committed to supporting PNG in
Navigator and actually made public statements to that effect at
its Internet Developers' Conference last October, although there's
no indication of it anywhere on their web site. The only question
is when: Navigator 4.0 has a fixed release date, and PNG support
may not be ready by then. <BR>
-- Greg Roelofs, <A HREF="mailto:newt@pobox.com">newt@pobox.com </A>
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Rochester, Revised OS Seminar Series Schedule
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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:36:18 GMT <BR>
Computer Science House at Rochester Institute of Technology Presents: an
Operating System Seminar Series Wednesday evenings at 8:00PM.
Attendance is free of charge and is open to the public.
<ul>
<li>February 5: The Inferno Operating System for Everything From
Embedded Systems To Network Operating Systems.
- David Bort (Student, RIT)
<li>February 12: Sun Microsystems new JAVA Based Network Computers
- Jeff Rice (Sun Microsystems)
<li>February 19: ShagOS -- An experimental Object Oriented Micro kernel.
- Frank Barrus (Xerox)
<li>February 26: Solaris - Geordie Klueber (Sun Microsystems)
</ul>
<P>
For additional information, directions,
comments or if you would like to be a guest speaker, e-mail
<A HREF="mailto:tad@csh.rit.edu">tad@csh.rit.edu</A>. <BR>
Computer Science House, <A HREF="mailto:cshouse@csh.rit.edu">
cshouse@csh.rit.edu</A>,<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.csh.rit.edu/os-seminars">
http://www.csh.rit.edu/os-seminars</A>
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Linux CD Giveaway List
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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:16:52 GMT <BR>
If you have a spare Linux CD to give away, you can list your email
address at
<P>
http://emile.math.ucsb.edu:8000/giveaway.html
<P>
Interested parties will contact you, then send in a self-adressed
stamped envelope and you send them the CD.
<P>
If you would rather (or in addition) lend a Linux CD locally, you can
now specify that as well.
<P>
For additional information: <BR>
Axel Boldt, <A HREF="mailto:boldt@math.ucsb.edu">boldt@math.ucsb.edu</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/">http://www.math.ucsb.edu/%7Eboldt/
</A> <BR>
Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics
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Linux Browser Project - A New WWW Browser for Linux
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:34:56 GMT <BR>
Announcing the Linux Browser Project -- a group of developers developing a world
wide web browser for Linux and other platforms.
The goal of this project is to
develop a web browser which consists of a modular program architecture
based around a small, fast kernel which would load necessary modules on
demand.
<P>
The project is in its early stages, and we are announcing the project at
the moment to make ourselves known to the rest of the Linux community.
If
anyone would be interested in helping us out in any way, please feel
free
to join the mailing lists or visit the web site and let us know that you
are willing to help.
For additional information: <BR>
See the Linux Browser Project home page at
<A HREF="http://www.tjhsst.edu/LBP/">http://www.tjhsst.edu/LBP/</A>.<BR>
Jason A. Miller, Project Coordinator, <A HREF="mailto:jasonm@trib.com">
jasonm@trib.com,</A> <BR>
The Linux Browser Project Team
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Xfmail 1.0 - mail program for X
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:59:12 GMT <BR>
Xfmail 1.0 is finally out!
XFMail is an X-Windows application for sending and receiving electronic
mail. It uses the XForms GUI library toolkit by T.C. Zhao and Mark
Overmars.
<P>
It has a user-friendly interface and online help to make it easy to use.
It implements most of the mail functionality in one program and it does not
require any additional tools.
<P>
You can ftp XFMail at:
<P>
ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/xfmail-1.0.tar.gz
ftp://Burka.NetVision.net.il/pub/xfmail/xfmail-1.0.tar.gz
<P>
For additional information: <BR>
<A HREF="http://Burka.NetVision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html">
http://Burka.NetVision.net.il/xfmail/xfmail.html </A> <BR>
Jacek Bochenek, <A HREF="mailto:jacek@coig.katowice.pl">
jacek@coig.katowice.pl </A> <BR>
Organization: COIG S.A.
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ImageMagick 3.7.9 ELF binaries - general image manipulation tool
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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:59:19 GMT <BR>
ImageMagick (TM), version 3.7.9, is a package for display and
interactive manipulation of images for the X Window System.
<P>
ImageMagick supports also the Drag-and-Drop protocol form the
OffiX package and many of the more popular image formats including
JPEG, MPEG, PNG, TIFF, Photo CD, etc.
<P>
You will also need the package libIMPlugIn-1.0-elf to get it working.
Here are the locations you can get the packages from:
<pre><h5>
Site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/X11/xapps/graphics
942k ImageMagick-3.7.9-elf.tgz
1k ImageMagick-3.7.9-elf.lsm
886k libIMPlugIn-1.0-elf.tgz
1k libIMPlugIn-1.0-elf.lsm
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For additional information: <BR>
Alexander Zimmermann, <A HREF="mailto:Alexander.Zimmermann@FMI.Uni-Passau.de">
Alexander.Zimmermann@FMI.Uni-Passau.de</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.uni-passau.de/~zimmerma">
http://www.uni-passau.de/~zimmerma </A> <BR>
Organization: Universitt Passau
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Visual Tcl 1.07 Beta
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 02:42:27 GMT <BR>
Visual Tcl 1.07b is a
quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows and Macintosh
platforms. Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and covered by the GNU
General Public License.
<P>
Please choose the location nearest you since my connection can become
saturated at peak times.
<pre><h5>
Home Site: http://www.neuron.com/stewart/vtcl/
Australia: http://holmes.ccs.deakin.edu.au/vtcl/
United Kingdom: http://www.jessikat.demon.co.uk/vtcl/
Germany: http://www.ifconnection.de/~rjs/vtcl/
US East: http://www.ultra.net/~eugene/mirror/vtcl/
US Mid: http://chaos.uark.edu/vtcl/
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For additional information: <BR>
Stewart Allen, <A HREF="mailto:stewart@neuron.com">
stewart@neuron.com </A>
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NExS 1.3-BETA X-Windows spreadsheet now available
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<P>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:16:23 GMT <BR>
X Engineering Software Systems (XESS Corp.) announces the immediate
availability of the BETA version of the NExS 1.3 spreadsheet for
Linux and UNIX workstations.
<P>
NExS, the Network Extensible Spreadsheet, is a full-featured, graphical
spreadsheet developed specifically for UNIX and the X Window System.
NExS has more than 237 built-in business and scientific functions, allows
user-customized functions, displays data using 2 and 3 dimensional graphs,
and imports and exports data in a wide variety of formats (including HTML
tables).
<P>
Demonstration copies and additional conNExions plug-ins may be downloaded
from http://www.xess.com. NExS is priced at $149 for the Personal Edition,
and $249 if a floating license is desired.
For addtional information: <BR>
<A HREF="mailto:xess@vnet.net">xess@vnet.net </A> <BR>
Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC.
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PHT Releases Red Hat 4.0
</H3>
<P>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:35:52 GMT <BR>
Pacific HiTech is proud to announce the release of our newest Linux
product for the i386 architecture:
<P>
Turbo Linux: Red Hat 4.0
<P>
It features a modular 2.0.18 kernel, better networking, more packages,
and, of course, the floppy-less install. The second CD contains the
entire contrib/ directory from ftp.redhat.com (the Live Filesystem was
scrapped in order to put the contrib/ directory on, which we felt would
be more useful for more people).
<P>
The 2 CD set
is only $19.95 plus s/h. If you want more details on the product, visit
http://www.pht.com/linux.
<P>
For additional information: <BR>
Scott M. Stone, <A HREF="mailto:sstone@pht.com">sstone@pht.com</A><BR>
Chief Linux Developer/UNIX SysAdmin for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
<A HREF="http://www.pht.com/">http://www.pht.com/ </A>
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PHT Releases MkLinux DR2
</H3>
<P>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 06:35:56 GMT <BR>
Pacific HiTech is proud to announce our newest Linux offering for the
PPC architecture:
<P>
MkLinux DR2 is the latest pre-release version of MkLinux, and it is MUCH MUCH
better than DR1 - more stable, more hardware support, and a much
smoother installation. It was uncompressed from the FTP distribution
and burned as a Macintosh HFS format CD - you don't need to decompress
the files onto your hard drive, you can just put in the CD and GO.
<P>
It's only $19.95 plus s/h. See http://www.pht.com for ordering
information, or email sales@pht.com.
<P>
For additional information: <BR>
Scott M. Stone, <A HREF="mailto:sstone@pht.com">sstone@pht.com</A><BR>
Chief Linux Developer/UNIX SysAdmin for Pacific HiTech, Inc.
<A HREF="http://www.pht.com/">http://www.pht.com/ </A>
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