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Java

The JDK 1.2 Status page now indicates that the JDK 1.2 for i386 platforms is passing all the major tests. The PowerPC platform looks good as well, but information from some tests is currently missing. There is still no information available for Sparc and other platforms.

Perl

Twenty seven modules have been released or updated since last week. For the listings and more information, check out the Perl News page.

Mark-Jason Dominus will be teaching Perl tutorials at the upcoming Perl Conference in August, as well as the O'Reilly Perl Tutorial Program in April and May. He has provided outlines for two of this tutorials, Regular Expressions and Perl Tricks and Programming Technique (or Tricks of the Wizards).

Python

PILGraph 0.1a7 from Richard Jones has been released.

Python usage in the Koffice spreadsheet is talked about a bit in this article on the KOffice suite of programs.

Smalltalk

Reports from Smalltalk '99 indicate that the conference was not very large, with about a dozen exhibitors. That was much much to the preference of this poster. Garrett Johnson provided a commentary on the show and Peter Spung provided daily reports. Donald Malcolm MacQueen has some terse comments as well.

Tcl/tk

Notes from the Tcl Extension Architecture (TEA) Summit held at Scriptics on March 15/16 were provided by Jeffery Hobbs. This contains a lot of information and appears to be a very thorough report.

On a lighter note, Robert W. Lindeman took a break from his dissertation and wrote a Tcl/Tk Game.

This week's Tcl-URL! is out. It mentions that the second beta version of Tcl/Tk 8.1 has been released, with the final version expected in the near future. However, the possibility of show-stopper bugs does exist, given the number of bug reports for 8.1b2 seen on the mailing list this week.

Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh


March 25, 1999

   

 

Development projects


Open Source for computer telephony is a new project that started last week. This posting from Foo Chun Choong indicates that they already have working source code for NT, Solaris and SCO Unixware, while the Linux portion of the project is newer. If you're interested, check out http://www.opentelecom.org, the website for the project.

A pre-release of Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 for Linux is available. Check this website for details.

Gnome

Miguel de Icaza is the focus of a San Jose Mercury News article on Gnome and Linux, which also features some quotes from Red Hat's Donnie Barnes.

The GNU Project

Brave GNU World has just been announced. It is a bi-lingual (German and English) monthly column by Georg Greve, published by Linux Magazin, which "provides information about internal developments of the GNU Project and things of importance to the GNU community, while trying to give insights into the underlying philosophy."

The first issue is already online (German version).

ExtremeLinux

ExtremeLinux will have its own track at the upcoming Linux Expo in May. The announcement for the track describes their plans and mentions that they are looking for sponsors.

Here is the Call-For-Papers for the ExtremeLinux track. The deadline for abstracts is April 5th, so you'll need to move quickly to participate. You can also introduce your Beowulf/cluster project to the community through their poster program, described in the same posting.

If you miss ExtremeLinux at the LinuxExpo, look for the second ExtremeLinux workshop, to be held at Usenix 1999. Here is the announcement for more details.

KDE

KDE won one of the top honors at CeBIT this year in the area of innovations in software. See their announcement for details. Congratulations!

An article on KOffice has been translated to English and is available on both North American and European sites.

Pre-compiled binaries of KDE 1.1 for OpenBSD have been been announced.

An emulator for the Siemens microcontroller C515 (8051 compatible) has been specially written for KDE. The authors are considering dropping the project unless there is an interest in the community in continuing it. Check it out and contact them if you want to see the project continue.

Lehmanns Fachbuchhandlung has donated DM 4.500 to the KDE project from the sale of their KDE 1.0 to KDE team members. Check this note for more details.

Postfix

A note from Wietse Venema, which found its way onto the security-audit list, indicates Wietse's belief that the termination clause in the postfix license was not intended to cause problems or allow IBM to pull the rug out from underneath the software. However, just the perception that is growing that such termination clauses are bad could cause acceptance problems for the new mailer. As a result, it seems likely that the license will be changed, though he couldn't comment more specifically at this time.

Zope

The Weekly Zope News, by Amos Latteier, is now available, with lots of tidbits about Zope, including some new documentation, tools and patches.

Section Editor: Liz Coolbaugh

 
 

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