From TheDot: “The KDE Project has just announced the release of KDE 3.0Alpha1, the inaugural release of the KDE 3 series. This release is targeted at developers, though experimental users might want to check it out (be sure to read the instructions for installing KDE 3 alongside your KDE 2 desktop). The principal changes from the recently-released KDE 2.2.1 stem from the switch to Qt 3. However, that switch does bring with it an impressive array of feature enhancements…”

“USB and quota update.

And the fix for VM breakage in pre4.” –Linus

Linux-2.4.11-pre5
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 11:49:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds 
To: Kernel Mailing List 


pre5:
 - Keith Owens: module exporting error checking
 - Greg KH: USB update
 - Paul Mackerras: clean up wait_init_idle(), ppc prefetch macros
 - Jan Kara: quota fixes
 - Abraham vd Merwe: agpgart support for Intel 830M
 - Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader cleanups
 - Al Viro: more cleanups
 - David Miller: sparc64 fix, netfilter fixes
 - me: tweak resurrected oom handling

pre4:
 - Al Viro: separate out superblocks and FS namespaces: fs/super.c fathers
   fs/namespace.c
 - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update
 - Marcelo Tosatti: resurrect oom handling
 - Hugh Dickins: add_to_swap_cache racefix cleanup
 - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update
 - Martin Bligh: support clustered logical APIC for >8 CPU x86 boxes
 - Richard Henderson: alpha update

InnerPeace Volunteers writes: “This may be another windows only problem, and the virus probably does no more than give annoying redirects when you click on a dead link. Nonetheless, being that we need to do testing in Windows, we caught it, too, and don’t know how to get rid of it. Figured this would be a better place to post the article to find somebody with a solution. Anybody?”

David Sugar writes: “GNU ccRTP is a high performance threadsafe C++ RTP (Real-TimeTranspor
Protocol) stack and newly designated GNU package. GNU ccRTP is
built from and requires GNU Common C++. GNU ccRTP is a fully general
purpose RTP stack that can be used in building both client and server
applications for audio and visual conferencing over the Internet, for
streaming of realtime data, and for next generation IP based telephony
systems.

In addition to basic transport services, GNU ccRTP has support for
RTCP (RTP Control Protocol). It fully supports multicast operations and class of service routing. We would like to add support for RSVP
soon. GNU ccRTP also provides protocol abstraction thru templates
that allow other low level transport protocols to be easily
integrated, in addition to the default IPV4 UDP sockets.

GNU ccRTP is multi-source connection capable and can be used to build
all forms of standards compliant Internet real-time conferencing
systems. GNU ccRTP supports temporal packet queuing and live packet
filtering within the stack. This allows one to implement mixed mode
payload transport and to implement things like embedded telephony
signaling in bearer data (RFC 2833).

GNU ccRTP is high performance and uses packet queue lists to track
both send and receive data temporally. Unsent packets that fall
behind their time mark are removed with notification, as are
unprocessed packets in the receive queue as they become obsolete. GNU
ccRTP also supports partial packet assembly and disassembly as is
often needed for constructing video streams that often do not fit in a
single packet frame.

GNU ccRTP offers a simple mechanism for jitter buffering by
delaying between reception and consumption of arriving data as well as
providing accurate timing for streaming of outbound packets. Any
number of instances of GNU ccRTP may be created in a single process to
allow servers to be constructed. Each have a separate service thread
to optimize and isolate active sessions.

The latest information on GNU ccRTP may always be found at
http://www.gnu.org/software/ccrtp. The initial GNU release of ccRTP
is 0.6.1, and current releases of this package may be downloaded from
ftp://www.gnu.org/gnu/ccrtp or any gnu mirror worldwide.

Those interested in further developing GNU ccRTP may join the
developers mailing list by sending a subscribe request to
ccrtp-devel-request@gnu.org or by sending email to me directly,
dyfet@gnu.org. GNU ccrtp development and cvs access is hosted
thru Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org). Those wishing to contribute
should also make use of Savannah.”

MozillaQuest Magazine: “The Mozilla Organization´s newest toy for Mozilla hacking is Patch Maker. A Perl script, it lets almost anyone familiar with XUL, JS, or CSS create patches to the Mozilla user interface and test — without having to deal with CVS, source code, C++, or compiling. Patch Maker makes it easier to write and to submit Mozilla user interface patches.”

From ZDNet: “iPlanet has been losing its independence, a process likely to come to a complete end on March 17, when the agreement between Sun and AOL Time Warner expires. Sun has been gradually moving iPlanet functions within the rest of Sun, and AOL Time Warner’s influence has been waning. In August, AOL announced plans to lay off 500 iPlanet personnel. But what wasn’t revealed at the time was that Sun immediately rehired 85 percent of those employees.”

From ZDNet: “The company that pushed encryption and networking technology to the limits to enhance people’s privacy said Thursday that it has decided to close its flagship anonymity network and focus on security software for home users.
Security software maker Zero-Knowledge Systems announced that it would shut down the premium service component of its Freedom Network, which let people surf the Internet and send e-mail with almost complete privacy by using pseudonyms.”

From ZDNet: “Show manager Bill Sells of Key3Media said he’s been fielding calls from numerous exhibitors and attendees worried about a washout at the IT industry’s biggest annual conference in Las Vegas next month. But he said the signs so far are good, with not one exhibitor or major speaker dropping out since suicide hijackers smashed commercial jets into the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11.”

From Slashdot: “On the heels of Larry’s most recent revelation, the mad scientist of Perl (Damian Conway) has followed up with Exegesis 3. His article gives working Perl 6 code examples of Larry’s design decisions.”

From BSDToday: “Back in March, 2000, BSDI merged with Walnut Creek CDROM, the main distributor for FreeBSD. And BSDI had goals to “form a united front for the BSD operating systems. The company will deliver, support and enhance both BSD/OS and FreeBSD.”
Then in April, 2001, Wind River bought the BSD properties from BSDi (and BSDi became the hardware company, iXsystems). “