Bryan Richard writes:
Py Parlour Press (www.PyZine.com) is proud, well perhaps relieved is a better word, to announce the second issue of Py (Summer Edition 01.02) is now available.

“It seems the periodical elves accepted our offering and have allowed the second issue to pass along the emerald path to the United States Post Office,” Bryan J Richard, Editor was quoted as saying.

The second issue builds on the ambitious, if slight unstable, foundation laid last April in issue 01.01. Behold, the Table of Contents:

• Config Files Made Easy by Sean Reifschneider
• POOPy: Intro to Using Objects by Lindstrom Greg
• Jython & zxJDBC by Brian Zimmer
• Array Broadcasting with Numeric by Eric Jones
• Part 2 of Extending Python with C by Alex Martelli

The price still stands at $3.00 US and $5.00 The Rest of the World. Subscriptions are also available.

“I can think of no better Summer reading save for Balzac.” Richard said.

About Py.
Py is a print technical zine for Python developers. A lack of competition does not keep us from being the best — quite the opposite, in fact. http://www.PyZine.com

About Py Parlour Press.
From the fringes of the publishing industry comes Py Parlour Press. Concerned only with producing the finest publications money can buy, this is outlaw tech at its finest.

P3 is run by the editorial despot, Bryan J Richard, an enormous personality in the publishing industry who is bent on the ownership of Hearst Castle and has perhaps watched Citizen Kane one too many times.

Subscribe Online
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Write for Py
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Contact
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Jeremy Andrews writes: “KernelTrap has spoken with Marc-Christian Petersen, who originated the WOLK project in March of 2002. WOLK is the Working Overloaded Linux Kernel, a large set of nearly 450 useful patches applied against the current stable 2.4 Linux kernel tree. The project has recently expanded to offer a second ‘secure’ patchset, this one against the older stable 2.2 tree.

In this interview, Marc-Christian Petersen tells the history behind WOLK and discusses many of the patches included.”

Annette Oevermann write: MontaVista Software, Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, has received an award from the prestigious French publication “Electronique,” which named MontaVista Linux® Professional Edition 2.1 as the “Best Embedded Tool and Development Solution for 2002.”

“This award has been given to MontaVista Software for its invaluable work in optimizing Linux for embedded and real-time applications — especially for its development of the preemptible kernel and the real-time scheduler,” said Catherine Gross, senior technology editor at Electronique.

Sponsored by Groupe Tests’ “Electronique” magazine, the “Electron d’Or” award honors the best products of the year as chosen by a jury of experts and users from leading European companies and consulting firms. It covers 11 categories, including processors, programmable logic, multimedia ICs, telecom ICs, EDA tools and software tools. The 2002 Awards were presented on June 13, during a ceremony at Groupe Tests’ headquarters in Paris.

MontaVista Software, Inc. is a leading provider of open-source systems software solutions for embedded developers. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista Software’s principal products include MontaVista? Linux® Professional Edition and MontaVista? Linux® Carrier Grade Edition.

MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 is the next generation of the company’s classic cross-development platform and set of tool kits. Providing a standard development platform for designs, it enables developers to create a broad range of embedded applications, from solutions for consumer devices to highly available telecommunications and data communications equipment.

“MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 gives software developers in a variety of industries a powerful development platform and operating system that allows them to focus on their value-add to their customers while enabling them to speed high-performance products to market in a cost-effective manner,” said Stephane Deruelle, Southern Europe director, MontaVista Software.

Earlier this year, MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 was also named “Best Embedded Linux Solution” at the Linux World and Expo in New York.

About Electronique

Electronique, one of the publications of Group Tests, is the only French-language monthly magazine to bring practical and technological information to design engineers. Electronique provides its 70,000 readers with an overview of the latest innovations and applications, along with a buyer’s guide and the latest industry news.

About MontaVista Software Inc.

MontaVista Software Inc. powers the embedded revolution by providing open-source systems software solutions for embedded developers. Founded in 1999 by real-time operating system (RTOS) pioneer James Ready, MontaVista Software?s principal products include MontaVista? Linux® Professional Edition and MontaVista? Linux® Carrier Grade Edition. The Professional Edition is a Linux-based embedded source and binary distribution, cross development platform and a set of tool kits for x86/IA-32, PowerPC, StrongARM, MIPS, SH, ARM, XScale, Xtensa and other microprocessor architectures. The Carrier Grade Edition is a second-generation high availability product that is an ideal Linux platform for telecommunications and carrier-grade applications. MontaVista Software also provides several complementary technology products addressing specific customer needs such as the Java development environment, high availability technology, powerful graphics toolkits and more. MontaVista offers developers a family of products and services for embedded design and development targeted for applications ranging from communications infrastructure to consumer devices.

Headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley, in Sunnyvale, Calif., MontaVista Software is a privately held company funded by leading investors such as Alloy Ventures, US Venture Partners, RRE Ventures, WR Hambrecht + Co., IBM, Intel Capital, Panasonic and Sony Corporation. For more information about MontaVista Software, please visit http://www.mvista.com, email to info@mvista.com or call (408) 328-9200.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. MontaVista is a trademark of MontaVista Software Inc. All other names mentioned are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.

Contacts:

Joe Samagond,
Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications,
MontaVista Software Inc.,
Phone (408) 328-9234,
E-mail: jsamagond@mvista.com

Patricia Colby,
PR Strategy and Business Development,
Pacifico Inc.,
Phone (408) 293-8600 ext. 340,
E-mail: pcolby@pacifico.com

Salon.com has a feature on several ways to fight spam, including SpamAssassin, “an open-source filtering engine that cleverly differentiates between legitimate and junk e-mail. You can’t keep a good technologist down — if spammers are indefatigable, so are anti-spam geeks.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “Lindows.com’s OEM licensing plan will drastically change the economics for computer manufacturers and lower the overall price of computers everywhere,” stated Rich Hindman, Vice President of Microtel Computer systems, who currently ships LindowsOS for major retailer, Walmart.com. “This type of program is not only easy and effective; it is a catalyst for change in the computer industry. Customers get great value and gain access to the Lindows.com Click-N-Run Warehouse which is a tremendous value in terms of software savings.” Read the release at DesktopLinux.com.

Miles Gillham writes: SnapGear Inc, a leading supplier of consumer VPN Router appliances and OEM custom design solutions has released a new update of the uClinux kernel which completes enhancements for the Motorola MCF5249 architecture and consolidates updates and applications for one free and easy download for embedded Linux developers worldwide.

Some of the highlights of the distribution include:

• Ethernet, audio and IDE support for the M5249C3 board
• GDB/armulator target
• SnapGear native board targets
• Dragonix/VZ support
• Initial code integration of OPENcore architecture support
• Many bug fixes

SnapGear engineer, Greg Ungerer, said: “Our main reason for the release was to finish off the MCF5249 offering with a new audio driver, IDE and Ethernet support. We did both the 5249 and ARM Emulator work but many others have also contributed patches. It is a uClinux community effort.”

Availability

www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/dist The release is date versioned 20020613 and the archive contains both 2.0 and 2.4 kernel support.

About uClinux

uClinux, or “Micro-Controller Linux”, is the popular variant of mainstream Linux specifically for MMU-less processors and deeply embedded systems, adopted by companies such as Red Hat. Not a separate fork but rather a “shadowing” of the mainstream Linux kernel, uClinux is the world’s favorite embedded Linux choice for system architectures lacking a MMU (Memory Management Unit) such as DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and SoC (System On Chip) embedded systems.

Many commercial applications of uClinux have become possible due to the small footprint (as little as half a megabyte of RAM for a complete multi-tasking kernel and networking stack.) It is now possible to build Linux appliances as small as an inch by an inch with 4Mb each of Flash and RAM yielding Internet-ready products. For more information on uClinux please visit www.snapgear.com/uclinux.html

About SnapGear

SnapGear Inc. produces SnapGear VPN Firewall Appliances designed to provide Internet security and privacy of communications for small to medium enterprises. SnapGear also does complete custom engineering and provides turnkey development, design, manufacturing, and fulfillment services for major telecommunications companies and silicon manufacturers. For more information on SnapGear please visit www.snapgear.com.

For more information on SnapGear OEM services please visit www.secureedge.net

SnapGear and SecureEdge are trademarks of SnapGear Inc. Linux is a registered trademark owned by Linus Torvalds. All other products, services, companies and publications are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

###

Press only, contact:

SnapGear Inc.
Miles Gillham
E-mail: press@snapgear.com

–
By Tony Smith of The Register –

Wall Street’s love affair with Linux companies may have ended a long time ago, but the Open Source operating system’s march into the enterprise continues unabated, if slowly. Indeed, while Linux may have lost its lustre for investors, some banks, including CS First Boston and Merrill Lynch, have given it the thumbs-up and have begun replacing old trading systems and servers with Linux-based kit.
But does Linux really amount to anything more than a low-end OS for file, print and Web server applications? It’s clearly challenging Windows in such roles — one of the reasons why it became a household name in the mid- to late 1990s — but can it make its mark in more critical enterprise-oriented applications?

In a recent BusinessWeek story, both Dell and HP claimed around 12 per cent of their server customers (ProLiants in HP’s case) wanted Linux pre-installed. Sun, meanwhile, claims it’s experiencing 25 per cent year-on-year growth in sales of its Linux-based Cobalt server appliances. Positive stats they may be, but these numbers centre on low-cost, 32-bit Intel-based hardware: typical set-ups for office-level file and print servers, not enterprise iron, in other words.

That picture may be misleading, however. Certainly, Dell believes many of its Linux servers are being corralled into clusters to create large-scale number crunching systems for scientific research. IBM too has had some success selling rigs like these to the petrochemical industry for geophysical modelling.

For business computing, Oracle has touted Linux database software for some time, but now it has been joined by IBM and Sybase, and in other application areas, the likes of SAP, BEA and Veritas.

Linux still has some way to go at the high end, but at least it’s now able to do make that journey, thanks to the availability of applications like these and to the work its developers to improve the OS’ stability and, more importantly, its scalability. Linux could never seriously challenge Unix until these elements were in place.

However, just as Linux becomes more suitable for the enterprise, so too does Windows. Market researcher IDC reckons Linux will show a compound annual growth rate of around 30 per cent over the next few years. Windows’ rate may be lower, but it’s starting off from a much stronger position. IDC says Windows’ share of the server OS market should come close to 50 per cent this year, up from just over 40 per cent in 2001.

This is the real battle, and one Linux seems unlikely to win, given Microsoft’s momentum, and its coming push into 64-bit on the back of Itanium and Opteron. The real casualty will be Unix, increasingly relegated to the high end.

But don’t forget that Linux is Unix, or at least a member of the family. When Linux gains functional and performance parity with the likes of Solaris and HP-UX, then the non-Microsoft world really will have a Windows alternative that scales from the 32-bit low end right to the 64-bit high end, not one or the other. That will allow Unix vendors to offer the same kind of roots-to-branches server OS as Microsoft can.

Vested interests, such as Sun, with its investment in Solaris, may prefer to portray Linux as a down-market OS, its job to distract Microsoft’s attention from the high end. But Microsoft has its eye on the high-end and there are CPU platforms to take it there. It’s in everyone but Redmond’s interest to makes sure Linux comes along too.

All Content copyright 2002 The Register

Bruce Knox writes: “Tel Aviv, Israel (June 25, 2002) – The openMosix Project has announced that a patch to port openMosix to the UML architecture has been released.

The patch allows processes to migrate between two or more instances of Linux running on one computer. &nbsp openMosix/UML will allow better debugging and development with openMosix clustering. &nbsp um-openMosix-patch and How-To links:
http://www.openmosix.org/“

Anonymous Reader writes: “One of the European Commission’s magazines has published an article called “The case of Free Open Source as Official Development Aid tool†advocating for the introduction of Open Sorce (starting with OpenOffice) in third world countries. The article is pretty good, but the size of the newsletter .pdf sucks !

You will find it in the Asia IT&C June Newsletter

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/asia- itc/html/main.htm“

This is the GNOME Summary for 2002-06-02 – 2002-06-22.

==============================================================
Table of Contents
--------------------------------------------------------------

1. GNOME 2 Release Candidate 2 out
2. GNOME 2 Screenshots from the master
3. Gnomedesktop.org list of ported applications
4. Official Sun Solaris beta of GNOME 2
5. Agnubis to the people
6. IBM GNOMEnclature series continues
7. GNOME South American Tour
8. SashXB 1.0 is out!
9. Translated GNOME Summaries
10. Hacker Activity
11. Gnome Bug Hunting Activity
12. New and Updated Software

==============================================================
1. GNOME 2 Release Candidate 2 out
--------------------------------------------------------------

The second and hopefully last release candidate before the 2.0 release
is out. If no major bugs are reported against this release then the big
2.0 release will soon be upon us. So please take it for a test drive,
and for developers who have not already started doing so; the time to
start porting your apps is really here! 
        
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-rc2/README

==============================================================
2. GNOME 2 Screenshots from the master
--------------------------------------------------------------

Some of us has a knack for configuring our desktops to look extremly
nice. Roman also known as Star on IRC is one of them. He has made this
nice collection of GNOME 2 screenshots for your viewing pleasure. So let
yourself get inspired to make the most of ouf your brand new GNOME 2
desktop. 
       
http://www.gnome.org/~roman/GNOME2-Shots/GNOME_2.0+Gimp_1.3.7.jpg
       
http://www.gnome.org/~roman/GNOME2-Shots/GNOME_2.0+Metatheme+Yelp.jpg
       
http://www.gnome.org/~roman/GNOME2-Shots/GNOME_2.0+Nautilus_2.jpg
        
http://www.gnome.org/~roman/GNOME2-Shots/GNOME_2.0+X-Chat_1.9.1+ConfigDialogs.jp
g
        http://www.gnome.org/~roman/GNOME2-Shots/GNOME_2.0-Desktop.jpg
        http://www.gnome.org/~roman/GNOME2-Shots/GNOME_2.0-Setup.jpg

==============================================================
3. Gnomedesktop.org list of ported applications
--------------------------------------------------------------

Our friends at Gnomedesktop.org has put togheter a nice list of some of
the applications ported to GTK+ 2.0 and GNOME 2.0. Indirectly it also
shows of one of the major advantages that GTK+ 2 brings which is the
fact that there is no longer a GUI look and feel difference between
GNOME and GTK+ applications, and in many cases no real code difference
either. This brings two advantages, for instance a project like Abiword
no longer need to maintain a separate GTK+ and GNOME frontend anymmore
as they are now the same. And more importantly it bascially means that
all GTK+ 2 applications will integrate much more closely 
with GNOME and in fact be GNOME 2 applications. But enough idle talk,
check out the link below to get the story. 
       
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=499&mode=thread&order=0

==============================================================
4. Official Sun Solaris beta of GNOME 2
--------------------------------------------------------------

Sun Microsystems has announced the first official beta of GNOME 2 for
Solaris. So if you have some Solaris boxes and what to take the next
generation GNOME for a spin, this is your chance. Thanks to the people
at Sun for their great work and many contributions. 

        http://wwws.sun.com/software/star/gnome/beta/get/index.html

==============================================================
5. Agnubis to the people
--------------------------------------------------------------

Want a presentation program that is closely integrated with GNOME and
GNOME Office? Well good news then. The resourcefull hackers of GNOME
Hispano started an effort to create such an application and they named
it Agnubis. Agnubis is already coming along fast and the team has now
expaned to include hackers from other parts of both the geographic world
and GNOME community. We have put up a website with some information on
how you can download and build the current code, including the mandatory
screenshots. 

        http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/

==============================================================
6. IBM GNOMEnclature series continues
--------------------------------------------------------------

The second part of the 'GNOMEnclature: Getting ready for GNOME 2' series
of articles was posted on IBM Developerworks. It was written by Daniel
Robbins of Gentoo Linux fame and talks about the GObject system. If you
are interested in GNOME programming this is absolutly something to read.
        http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-gnome2.html

==============================================================
7. GNOME South American Tour
--------------------------------------------------------------

Miguel de Icaza is doing a tour of South America next week talking to
local politicians, government officials, users and develoepers. If you
live in the area be sure to check out his schedule so you can attend his
talks where possible. 
       
http://www.gnome.org/resources/calendar/roadshow/GNOMEenelSur.html

==============================================================
8. SashXB 1.0 is out!
--------------------------------------------------------------

IBM announced the availability of the 1.0 release of SashXB. SashXB has
been in development in GNOME CVS for quite some time and it is great to
see a production release out. SashXB is a programming framework which
enabled you to wrap GNOME and Mozilla widgets to quickly create full
featured desktop applications using only html and javascript. 

        http://www.sashxb.org

==============================================================
9. 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/

==============================================================
10. Hacker Activity
--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.


  Most active modules:
 89 gnucash
 57 evolution
 47 gnomemeeting
 39 gnumeric
 38 gimp
 37 galeon
 35 gtk+
 32 gtkmm-root
 31 ggv
 30 libgda
 27 pan
 26 gnome-2.0-test-specs
 24 eog
 24 gnome-utils
 24 gnomemm
 24 SashXB
 23 rhythmbox
 23 gtkhtml
 23 gnome-vfs
 23 gnomeweb-wml
[125 active modules omitted]


  Most active hackers:
 55 warlord (gnucash)
 50 menthos
 46 murrayc
 33 yacob
 31 dnloreto
 31 peterisk
 31 minmax
 30 ireneryan
 28 owen
 28 jbaayen
 27 mpeseng
 27 michael
 27 jody
 26 hegde
 23 hampton (gnucash)
 21 rodo
 19 jberkman
 19 andrew
 19 dtb
 19 migrax
[129 active hackers omitted]


==============================================================
11. 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: 7431 (In the last week: New: 885, Resolved: 499,
Difference: 
+386)

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

  nautilus: 816 (In the last week: New: 91, Resolved: 92, Difference:
-1)
  gtk+: 581 (In the last week: New: 94, Resolved: 49, Difference: +45)
  galeon: 293 (In the last week: New: 99, Resolved: 82, Difference: +17)
  gnome-core: 280 (In the last week: New: 61, Resolved: 32, Difference:
+29)
  gnome-vfs: 269 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 10, Difference:
-1)
  GIMP: 247 (In the last week: New: 18, Resolved: 6, Difference: +12)
  control-center: 220 (In the last week: New: 57, Resolved: 16,
Difference: +41)
  gnome-panel: 203 (In the last week: New: 60, Resolved: 16, Difference:
+44)
  sawfish: 197 (In the last week: New: 11, Resolved: 1, Difference: +10)
  gnome-applets: 180 (In the last week: New: 14, Resolved: 2,
Difference: +12)
  gnome-pilot: 177 (In the last week: New: 9, Resolved: 0, Difference:
+9)
  balsa: 115 (In the last week: New: 13, Resolved: 2, Difference: +11)
  medusa: 96 (In the last week: New: 5, Resolved: 32, Difference: -27)
  gnome-utils: 80 (In the last week: New: 7, Resolved: 8, Difference:
-1)
  glib: 79 (In the last week: New: 8, Resolved: 2, Difference: +6)
  
Gnome Bugzilla users who resolved or closed the most bugs: 
  
  yaneti@declera.com: 68 bugs closed.
  otaylor@redhat.com: 48 bugs closed.
  bordoley@msu.edu: 46 bugs closed.
  kmaraas@gnome.org: 38 bugs closed.
  rebecka@eazel.com: 32 bugs closed.
  louie@ximian.com: 27 bugs closed.
  jfleck@inkstain.net: 25 bugs closed.
  bill.haneman@sun.com: 24 bugs closed.
  jody@gnome.org: 18 bugs closed.
  andrew@sobala.net: 17 bugs closed.
  mpeseng@tin.it: 14 bugs closed.
  federico@ximian.com: 9 bugs closed.
  murrayc@usa.net: 8 bugs closed.
  damon@ximian.com: 8 bugs closed.
  clambin@easynet.be: 8 bugs closed.
  
==============================================================
12. New and Updated Software
--------------------------------------------------------------

CVSGnome Build Script  - CVSGnome Build Script

  COnfigurator for Gnome  - Edit advanced Gnome settings

  GMime  - A Utility library for creating, editing, and parsing MIME
messages.

  screem  - Web Site Editor

  ggv  - PostScript previewer

  GnomeVFS  - Transparently access various types of filesystems through 
uniform interface.

  Nautilus  - GNOME File Manager

  Glade--  - Gtkmm[2] code creator

  gnome-media  - Contains the Gnome-CD CD player, CDDBSlave2, gmix,
grecord 
and vumeter.

  Bond  - Database RAD tool.

  GTablature  - Tablature editor in Python

  gnome-chord  - guitar chord/scale database/renderer

  Metacity  - Integrated window manager

  Balsa  - Gnome Mail Client

  Yelp  - Help browser for GNOME 2.0

  gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.

  libglade  - constructs user interfaces at runtime

  lpt-news  - rdf rss gnome reader lpt

  Shermans aquarium  - Swimming fish applet

  Elysium Download  - Download Manager for GNOME

  BananaPos  - Point Of Sale

  gnome-mlview  - xml editor for gnome

  Paleta  - Personal log program

  Metacity-Setup  - Metacity Configuration Tool

  Bond  - Database RAD tool.

  Iruka  - jabber client

  festival-gaim  - gaim plugin festival festival-gaim

  Glade--  - Gtkmm[2] code creator

  Pan  - Usenet newsreader

  Yelp  - Help browser for GNOME 2.0

  gedit  - Lightweight UTF-8 text editor

  CVSGnome Build Script  - CVSGnome Build Script

  Enlightened Sound Daemon  - sound server

  gnome-utils  - collection of small applications.

  COnfigurator for Gnome  - Edit advanced Gnome settings

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

Another loong week, but here is another summary for you. The summary is
on a summertime release schedule and will probably not be coming out on
a weekly basis before late august again. In the meantime enjoy GNOME2
and enjoy the summer (if you live a place where it is summer now :) 
Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 
gnome-summary@gnome.org