LPH writes: “TuxReports has the press release for the AMD Athlon XP processor 2600+. Go to TuxReports.com“

Michael Robertson: “I just returned from the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, the annual event that
showcases all things Linux, with a few thoughts about the state of Linux.”There were a handful of big companies (Intel, Red Hat, Sun, HP, IBM, AMD) that have
come to the undeniable realization that Linux will impact their businesses in a
meaningful and positive way. The inherent cost advantage clearly illustrates that Linux
adoption is just a question of “When?” not “If?” the impact will be felt.

Disappointingly, virtually all the companies exhibiting were focused on the server or the
behind-the-scenes computers, not the computer sitting in front of the end-user.
Bringing Linux to its largest audience, the desktop, is the last chasm to be crossed – it
is also the biggest segment that will have the largest impact due to the sheer volume of
desktop users.

But, when it comes to desktop users, Linux is like gold on the moon. There’s
tremendous value if you can figure out how to get there and bring the gold back to
earth. LinuxWorld has always been about teaching people how to build their own rocket
ship in their backyard with spare kitchen items. While there’s a certain excitement for
some in this endeavor, most people don’t have the time or the skills for such an
undertaking.

To bring Linux to the desktop, organizations need to make the power of Linux
accessible to earthbound humans in a point-and-click manner, bringing the gold to
them. This is our goal at Lindows.com and there are other groups striving for this same
end. In the last year, we have seen dramatic strides toward this goal. It’s now easier to
install Linux than any Microsoft operating system (see www.tryoutlinux.com).
LindowsOS, for example, takes less than 5 minutes to install. (Click here to download
LindowsOS right now or order a CD and see for yourself.)

Using Click-N-Run, Linux users have leapt bounds over existing technology in
ease-of-use when it comes to installing software. These are key components to
bringing Linux down-to-earth and accessible to a wider audience. There are other
companies making this a reality and we think it’s time to showcase desktop Linux and
educate people that Linux is now practical for the desktop.

In February of next year, on the 20th and 21st in San Diego, California, Lindows.com will
be hosting the Linux Desktop Summit (www.lindows.com/summit). Companies and
organizations dedicated to making Linux viable on the desktop will be coming together
to showcase their efforts. If your organization is interested in reaching this audience,
please sign-up for our mailing list and we’ll notify you as more information becomes
available. Anyone interested in deploying Linux for their everyday computer in
business, school and home should take advantage of this opportunity to hear from
actual companies and educational institutions about how Linux is, in a cost-effective
way, fulfilling computing needs.

While Lindows.com is the lead sponsor, there will be a wide range of companies
participating, including some of the largest hardware and software companies in the
industry. One of the most prominent resources for desktop Linux users,
DesktopLinux.com will be in attendance as they, and other supporters, share the same
belief that the time is ripe for consumers to use Linux as their desktop interface.

Parties interested in attending Linux Desktop Summit can sign-up at
www.lindows.com/summit. Exhibitors interested in presenting product at the conference
can sign-up at www.lindows.com/summit as well. This is an exciting time filled with
positive change; we hope that you can be part of the excitement at the Linux Desktop
Summit.

Michael Robertson

This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-08-12 – 2002-08-16.

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Table of Contents
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1. GNOME 2.0.1 is out
2. GNOME 5 years old!
3. GStreamer adds support for Flash animation
4. Developing GNOME apps with Glade and Anjuta
5. GNOME 2.0.2 bug lists
6. GnomeMeeting features ILS directory
7. Whats cooking in gnome-print
8. New draft of 'Recent-File' specification
9. Michael Meeks LWE slides
10. FireStarter for GNOME2
11. New version of XML viewer for Nautilus
12. GobeProductive officesuite goes GPL
13. Red Hat making their own icon theme
14. RPM support in gnome-vfs and Nautilus
15. Translated GNOME Summaries
16. Hacker Activity
17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
18. New and Updated Software

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1. GNOME 2.0.1 is out
--------------------------------------------------------------

The first bugfix release of GNOME 2 has been released. This version has
fixed many of the most critical issues that where discovered in the
2.0.0 release. So if you haven't got this release already check out the
link below for all the little details and join the GNOME2 revolution. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2002-August/msg00044.html
        http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/

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2. GNOME 5 years old!
--------------------------------------------------------------

Who would believe it, but GNOME was 5 years old on the 17th of august.
It feels just like yesterday that Miguel sent out the mail announcing
the project. You find the history of the desktop on Miguel de Icaza's
website linked below and Gnomedesktop.org features some nostaligic
screenshots of GNOME 0.13; those where the days :) 

        http://primates.helixcode.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html
       
http://www.gnomedesktop.com/article.php?sid=605&mode=&order=0&thold=0

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3. GStreamer adds support for Flash animation
--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks to the great work of David Schleef, GStreamer now have support
for the flash format so popular on the web. David is also working on
updating the mozstreamer application to give you support for doing
webbrowser embeded playback of all GStreamer supported media formats.
Another interesting addition to GStreamer is C++/Qt bindings created by
Tim Jansen, to make it easier to develop KDE applications using
GStreamer, hopefully KDE too will adopt GStreamer as their multimedia
backend. Links below to a tarball of the flash code and to Tim's
announcement of his bindings. 
       
https://cvs.comedi.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/swf/swf.tar.gz?tarball=1
        http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/1504/0/9341282/

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4. Developing GNOME apps with Glade and Anjuta
--------------------------------------------------------------

Eddy Ahmed has made the second installement in his series of articles on
developing GNOME using Glade and Anjuta. Both installements linked
below. 

        http://writelinux.com/glade/index.php
        http://eddy.writelinux.com/part2/

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5. GNOME 2.0.2 bug lists
--------------------------------------------------------------

Luis Villa posted the list of bugs we need to fix for the upcomming
GNOME 2.0.2 release. All GNOME developers or wannabe GNOME developers
are kindly requested to try and help fix as many as these as possible.
So start attaching patches to those bug reports so our poor maintainers
can get the fixes merged in as soon as possible. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-August/msg00277.html

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6. GnomeMeeting features ILS directory
--------------------------------------------------------------

One of our premier showcase applications, GnomeMeeting, added a new
feature in a recent release, namely its own directory service. With this
service it is easy to find out who of your friends and contacts that are
currently online and available for a talk. If you haven't upgraded to
the latest version yet, please do so and remember to register in the
directory. 

        http://www.gnomemeeting.org

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7. Whats cooking in gnome-print
--------------------------------------------------------------

Chema Celorio is hard at work improving on gnome-print. He recently sent
out a mail listing his current priorities. Important work includes
updating pdf output driver and adding support for CUPS. Other important
news in the gnome-print deparment is that Dom Lachowicz of Abiword fame
is working on adding a SVG output option to gnome-print. Check out the
links for the details. 

        
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-print/2002-July/001056.html
       
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/Aug/0375.html

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8. New draft of 'Recent-File' specification
--------------------------------------------------------------

James Willcox has recently updated his suggested standard specification
for the recent documents feature. hopefully his specification gets
widely implemented,as it is already implemented for gnome in his
gnome-recent library, so that we not only get functional recent
documents functionality accross gnome apps, but also accross most Unix
apps. 

        http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jwillcox/recent-file-spec.html

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9. Michael Meeks LWE slides
--------------------------------------------------------------

Michael Meeks is regarded as one of the best public speakers and
presentators in the GNOME world. He recently put his slides for his
GNOME2 presentation online. If you are planing on doing a talk on GNOME2
for your local LUG or other group then these slides could be a great
starting point, they are also a nice read if you just want a quick
overview over some of the most important things in GNOME atm. 

        http://www.gnome.org/~michael/lwe-august-2002
        http://www.gnome.org/~michael/lwe-august-2002.tar.gz

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10. FireStarter for GNOME2
--------------------------------------------------------------

The GNOME2 porting train continues to steam forward. One of the latest
and greatest additions are the FireStarter tool which is a great
firewall tool for Linux. You find screenshots and more information on
the FireStarter homepage. 

        http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/

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11. New version of XML viewer for Nautilus
--------------------------------------------------------------

More and more viewers for Nautilus are starting to pop up. One of them
which had a recent release it the XML viewer by Gonzalo Odiard. If you
ever need to read through XML files you should really try this one out. 

        http://personales.ciudad.com.ar/godiard/

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12. GobeProductive officesuite goes GPL
--------------------------------------------------------------

The premier office suite for BeOS has had a port underway to Unix and
GNOME for some time now. OsNews recently reported that this very nice
office suite will be released under the GPL soon. Thanks goes to the
developers for this move and the nice addition this will be to GNOME
Office. 

        http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1520

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13. Red Hat making their own icon theme
--------------------------------------------------------------

Red Hat is hard at work aiming at making Red Hat 8.0 the definitive
desktop distribution. One of the changes they are doing is making a new
set of icons for GNOME2, that they will also use for their KDE dekstop
configuration, to give apps a more integrated feature accross desktops.
The move has caused some noise, so check out the screenshot below and
decide for yourselves. (Btw, the standard GNOME icons are still
available by changing a GConf key). 

        http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeroen/screenshots/null_desktop.png

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14. RPM support in gnome-vfs and Nautilus
--------------------------------------------------------------

One of our favourite hackers from that great GNOME land down under,
James Henstridge, is hard at work adding support for viewing and 
installing/deinstalling rpms using Nautilus. Things are looking sweet
judging by the screenshots. 

        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpmdb-vfs-2.png
        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpm-view-2.png
        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpm-view-3.png
        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpmdb-vfs-1.png
        http://www.daa.com.au/~james/images/nautilus-rpm/rpmdb-vfs-2.png

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15. Translated GNOME Summaries
--------------------------------------------------------------

Want to read the Summary in your native languagae? We now feature
French, Spanish, Hungarian, Korean and Portuguese translations. 

        http://www.gynov.org/news/index.php4
        http://es.gnome.org/actualidad/
        http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/gnome/summary/
        http://developer.gnome.or.kr/news/
        http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br/resumo-gnome/

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17. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
--------------------------------------------------------------

This information is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org, which hosts bug and
feature reports for most of the Gnome modules. If you would like to join
the bug hunt, subscribe to the gnome-bugsquad mailing list.

Currently open: 7315 (In the last week: New: 672, Resolved: 931,
Difference: 
-259)

Modules with the most open bugs (excluding enhancement requests): 

  nautilus: 774 (In the last week: New: 48, Resolved: 35, Difference:
+13)
  gtk+: 579 (In the last week: New: 22, Resolved: 21, Difference: +1)
  gnome-vfs: 280 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 9, Difference: -2)
  galeon: 279 (In the last week: New: 90, Resolved: 72, Difference: +18)
  GIMP: 277 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 1, Difference: +17)
  gnome-core: 213 (In the last week: New: 35, Resolved: 112, Difference:
-77)
  sawfish: 184 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 6, Difference: -6)
  gnome-applets: 161 (In the last week: New: 24, Resolved: 25,
Difference: -1)
  gnome-panel: 148 (In the last week: New: 31, Resolved: 42, Difference:
-11)
  control-center: 142 (In the last week: New: 24, Resolved: 30,
Difference: -6)
  balsa: 103 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 202, Difference: -193)
  medusa: 96 (In the last week: New: 0, Resolved: 0, Difference: 0)
  gnome-pilot: 95 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 18, Difference:
-14)
  gnome-terminal: 88 (In the last week: New: 25, Resolved: 18,
Difference: +7)
  glib: 81 (In the last week: New: 4, Resolved: 2, Difference: +2)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  pawsa@theochem.kth.se: 194 bugs closed.
  kmaraas@gnome.org: 169 bugs closed.
  yaneti@declera.com: 66 bugs closed.
  hp@redhat.com: 55 bugs closed.
  vincent@vuntz.net: 43 bugs closed.
  bfrantzdale@hmc.edu: 41 bugs closed.
  mark@skynet.ie: 37 bugs closed.
  louie@ximian.com: 28 bugs closed.
  jody@gnome.org: 27 bugs closed.
  david@lupercalia.net: 23 bugs closed.
  avirupa.chakrabarty@wipro.com: 21 bugs closed.
  jacob@ximian.com: 17 bugs closed.
  andrew@sobala.net: 15 bugs closed.
  sandmann@daimi.au.dk: 14 bugs closed.
  jorn@nl.linux.org: 14 bugs closed.
  
==============================================================
16. Hacker Activity
--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 85 gnumeric
 63 web-devel-2
 50 gok
 46 gnucash
 39 mc
 38 evolution
 37 rhythmbox
 36 libgda
 32 pan
 30 nautilus
 29 gnome-panel
 26 gnome-utils
 25 xmlsec
 24 galeon
 24 gedit
 23 gnomeicu
 23 sun-patches
 22 metacity
 21 gnome-i18n
 21 libgsf
[116 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 47 dtb
 42 bansz
 38 peterisk
 37 jhellan
 36 jody
 36 mmclouglin
 34 cneumair
 32 seth
 30 holger
 29 jbaayen
 27 hallski
 27 proskin
 25 aleksey
 24 menthos
 24 trow
 23 charles
 22 gman
 20 shivram_u
 20 michael
 19 dnloreto
[129 active hackers omitted]


==============================================================
18. New and Updated Software
--------------------------------------------------------------

gnome-db  - Database access for Gnome applications
Firestarter  - Firewall program
Quick Lounge  - Quick Launch for GNOME 2
GnuCash  - A personal finance manager
CVSGnome Build Script  - CVSGnome Build Script
Gnono  - GNOME card game
XmlView  - Bonobo Xml View
gtkmm2  - GTK+ C++ binding
gnomemm  - C++ bindings for GNOME
GNet  - network library
MrProject  - Project management application
The GNOME Panel  - GNOME Panel
Yelp  - Help browser for GNOME 2.0
gnome-games  - Many games - same-gnome, gnothello, solitaire,
tetravex,tetris, 
others...
GTransferManager  - Download manager using wget
DiaSCE  - C, C++ code editor
gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: 
http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/latest.php

Summer is over and as the hackers are returning from their summer
vacations, bringing with them the fruits of their labour, the the
excitement is starting to grow in the GNOME community over the upcomming
GNOME 2.2 release. Personally think we will look back at the 2.2 release
and see it as one of the great landmarks in the evolution of free
software. So prepare for many exciting news features of upcoming GNOME
2.2 features in the summaries this fall. 

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 
gnome-summary@gnome.org 

grex writes: “The FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) study from the University of Maastricht has published its final report. One of its five parts is the developer survey based basically on developers from the European Union. Results show that Debian is the preferred distribution, GNOME the desktop the majority choose and vi more popular than Emacs. But this survey also handles economic, law-related and motivation aspects among developers that make it very interesting to read.”

– by Tina Gasperson –
MandrakeSoft is giving investors a little more time to participate in its
initiative to increase capital, mostly because those who have committed to buy
outstanding warrants haven’t paid up yet.
MandrakeSoft CEO Jacques Le Marois says it is hard to raise money these days.
“The biggest challenge we face is the current depressed state of the financial
markets.” In fact, since MandrakeSoft introduced the increase of capital
initiative in May, the Nasdaq has dropped from around 1700 to 1395, a decrease
of about 18%. “Even with MandrakeSoft’s recent positive financial results and an
attractive valuation, most people are difficult to convince. Just two years ago,
we could have raised all the necessary funds in only four days with a similar
operation.”

The company is attempting to raise capital by calling in outstanding warrants.
Warrants are like stock options in that they give the holder the right to
purchase a certain number of shares of stock in a particular company, for a
pre-determined price. When the shares are purchased and paid for, this is
called a “subscribed warrant.” Warrant holders are also authorized to transfer
their rights in the warrant to another party.

On May 28, MandrakeSoft gave each
of its shareholders one warrant for every two shares of stock they held, with
the stipulation that the warrant had to be exercised before July 10. The board of directors extended the original deadline to August 15.
The company says it has received commitments for most of the available warrants,
but the funds haven’t made their way in yet. Without payment, the warrants are
not officially subscribed, and would still become invalid after the expiration
date. So once again, the board voted to extend the deadline, this time to October 31. Le Marois says he hopes this is the last time such an action will be necessary.

Even with the difficulty in raising funds, Le Marois is optimistic about
MandrakeSoft’s future. “We are blessed with a strong community of users who
fully understand our company, our spirit, and our products. Many of these
community members are also committed to investing in the company — some of our
larger investors are active community participants.”

But Le Marois says that all the attention being given to raising capital is
taking the focus off of where it should be. “We would much prefer to focus on
our business instead of fundraising.” The most recent Mandrake Newsletter hints at this, too, saying “the earlier we can close the increase of
capital, the sooner we can focus our energy in the development of Mandrake
Linux.”

Le Marois says that MandrakeSoft’s main source of revenue no longer comes from
retail box sales, but from services, e-commerce, OEM deals and online support
and community. “Our strategy has always been to first acquire a large base of
users, then fulfill the needs of this user base to generate revenue,” says Le
Marois. But interest is so strong, “we don’t currently have the resources to
answer all business inquiries.”

There is nothing noteworthy in this article, and many fine Linux distributions — and many of Linux’s best qualities — aren’t mentioned at all. But hey! Kind words about Linux in Time Magazine are nice to see.

An Australian IT article begins: “MICROSOFT’S hold on corporate Australia appears to be weakening, with a rise in the number of big companies opting to use Linux software for critical applications.”

Friedmud writes “It seems that ATI has now jumped on the bandwagon and decided to come out with Linux drivers for the radeon 8500! This is great news for linux gamers everywhere. More competetion is always good! At the moment they are only in RPM format – so break out your alien (or wait for the ebuild as the case may be). This comes on the heels of the 9700 release that wollops the Geforce4. The scoop is at Linuxgames.”

Anonymous Reader writes “Somewhere on the KDE CVS tree there is something called “KEG,” for “KDE Extra Gear.” It’s a way that KDE helps third-party developers with applications that aren’t likely to become part of the main KDE distribution. It’s new, and Aaron J. Seigo explains it on Linux and Main.”

“Telstra will explore using the open source Linux OS as part of a new standard operating platform being scoped by the telecommunications giant as it looks to reduce its $1.5 billion annual IT budget.” Story at itNews Australia.