Reported at Network World Fusion: “Oracle reported Thursday first-quarter income
of $510.6 million on revenue of $2.24 billion.
The company provided little elaboration about
its sales and operations during the quarter
ended Aug. 31, citing its focus on relief efforts
after Tuesday’s terrorist attack.”

Reuters (via ZDNet): “U.S. stock markets will remain idle for the fourth and
possibly final day on Friday with Wall Street’s work force battling heavy
rain, numbing sadness and uncertainty over the future after an attack
crushed the world’s financial heart and killed perhaps thousands.”

Reuters (via ZDNet): “The video game industry, known for scenes
of cinematic mayhem, will take pains not to offend a public shocked and
grieving after terror attacks on New York and the Pentagon, but will
keep long-awaited action games flowing, executives said on Thursday.”

Network World Fusion posts a dog-bites-man story, reminding us that Windows will likely remain the most popular desktop operating system, and that Linux continues to stand in the way of Microsoft taking over the server side of things.

ZDNet offers commentary on the post-Napster music download services coming soon from Vivendi and AOL: “Paying consumers
will demand the same breadth of selection and portability that Napster once offered–and others
still do.

But that’s not what they’ll get.”

Matthew Jenkins writes “USF robotics expert Dr. Robin R. Murphy and three graduate students use robots to find victims of the WTC tragedy. These robots can locate a body, determine whether the person is alive and send pictures to rescue crews. Full story at The Tampa Tribune.“

Steve Mallett writes “Two announcements from Open-Source Directory:

Open-Source Directory (OSD) is very pleased to have MandrakeSoft as a sponsor. MandrakeSoft is the maker of the user-friendly Mandrake-Linux, linux-distribution. “We’re very pleased to have such a fine linux company back us this way,” states Steve Mallett co-founder of OSD. “They do incredible and highly prized work in bringing linux to people who otherwise may not take the plunge. We strive to do the same for open-source.” Mandrake is providing OSD with a server at the MandrakeSoft facilities.

OSD is also pleased to announce a partnership is Ibiblio. OSD and Ibiblio have partnered to offer FTP and archiving service to the stable, open-source software collected at OSD. Steve Mallett says: “This is more significant than most may initially think. We’ve strived to make our database of product information seperate from the OSD site by exporting it into XML for anyone to use. In light of the recent appwatch announcement it is more pertinant than ever that this info, and now code, remain in the public’s access. This partnership with Ibiblio makes this all the more possible.” Upload to ibibio should commence by mid October/2001.

All trademarks at the property of their respective owners.

—
Open-Source Directory is a community driven repository of just stable (working), open-source applications.
It was launched in April of 2001.
Register your stable, open-source apps at: http://OpenSourceDirectory.org

“LPI released the Level 2 beta exam last week through VUE testing centers
around the world.

We made the pricing during beta *less than half the regular price* in
order to encourage as many qualified Linux sysadmins as possible to take
the exam. WE NEED YOU to tell professional Linux systems administrators
with 3-4 years of experience to take the exam.”

Beta 200 Needs your help
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:37:16 -0500
From: Julie Thornton 
To: lpi-discuss@lpi.org,  lpi-examdev@lpi.org,  lpi-alumni@lpi.org
Reply to: lpi-discuss@lpi.org


Friends -

LPI released the Level 2 beta exam last week through VUE testing centers
around the world.  

We made the pricing during beta *less than half the regular price* in
order to encourage as many qualified Linux sysadmins as possible to take
the exam.  WE NEED YOU to tell professional Linux systems administrators
with 3-4 years of experience to take the exam. 

If the $84 through VUE is still too expensive, we can do an on-site
proctored exam at a cost of only $15/person.  There are some additional
costs, so please let me know if you are aware of any groups interested
in the proctored option.

Right now, the exam is only one test, so it will save not only money but
also time and trouble to just take the one exam as opposed to the final
which will be two exams at a cost of $100/each.  The convenience
combined with the reduced cost is intended to provide incentive to you,
our supportive community.  Your support at this time is CRUCIAL to the
success of our launch of the final two exams in November.  

As an LPI supporter, please forward this message to folks who are
qualified to take the exam.  Your help is greatly appreciated so that we
can ensure that the final test is of high quality and validity.

To find a local VUE Testing center, follow the link to www.vue.com/lpi
and click on the link to "See where VUE has testing centers."

-- 
All the best -

Julie Thornton, Marketing Director
Linux Professional Institute
785-423-3311 direct

“Test suites included covers
Nautilus/Evolution/Interoperability/Installation/Gnome Core
Components…totalling around 2000 test cases. These are the test suites
used by Sun in their work to make sure GNOME works well on Solaris and
should be usefull for everyone bundling GNOME with the Unix or Linux
version and wanting to do a QA test on GNOME before the release.”

GNOME Summary for 2001-09-02 - 2001-09-08
Date: 14 Sep 2001 00:22:16 +0200
From: Christian Schaller 
To: gnome-list@gnome.org,  gnome-announce-list@gnome.org
Cc: GNOME@gnome.org,  Summary@gnome.org,  -@gnome.org,  2001-09-02@gnome.org,  -@gnome.org,  2001-09-08@gnome.org
Reply to: gnome-hackers@gnome.org


This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-09-02 - 2001-09-08
    
==============================================================
Table of Contents
--------------------------------------------------------------

1. Gnome 2.0 Test Case Exe/Record/Metric Bed
2. Gdkxft 1.1 released
3. Evolution Beta 3 released
4. Bonobo tutorial
5. Nautilus, eel, medusa and others on the move
6. Mono compiler starts compiling
7. libthumb 0.0.1 released
8. GNOME Foundation board minutes
9. Reaching for desktop Elysium
10. Hacker Activity
11. New and Updated Software

==============================================================
1. Gnome 2.0 Test Case Exe/Record/Metric Bed
--------------------------------------------------------------

The gnome_test_specs module has been added to GNOME CVS. This is a test
bed which enables the user to run tests, record the results, and
generate metrics from the results. Test suites includeded covers 
Nautilus/Evolution/Interoperability/Installation/Gnome Core 
Components...totalling around 2000 test cases. These are the test suites
used by Sun in their work to make sure GNOME works well on Solaris and
should be usefull for everyone bundling GNOME with the Unix or Linux
version and wanting to do a QA test on GNOME before the release. 


==============================================================
2. Gdkxft 1.1 released
--------------------------------------------------------------

Gdkxft, the tool for getting anti-aliased fonts under GTK+ 1.2 has been
updated to version 1.1. Improvements include more helpful documentation
and a slightly smarter installer. Many people have reported success in
getting this to work, but remember that it suffers the same problems
with non-western languages that has prevented anti-aliasing being added
to GTK+ 1.2 itself. For those wondering the reason why Gtk+ 2.0 don't
suffer this problem is because it uses the great Pango library for font
handling instead of the problematic X one. 

        http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~josh/gdkxft/

==============================================================
3. Evolution Beta 3 released
--------------------------------------------------------------

Ximian announced the Evolution beta 3 this week. Lots of bugfixes in,
including lots of IMAP support fixes and PGP improvements in the mail
client and improved documentation handling in regards to its use with
Scrollkeeper and Nautilus. Follow the link for the full announcement. 


http://www.ximian.com/devzone/release_notes/evolution/1.0_beta_3.html

==============================================================
4. Bonobo tutorial
--------------------------------------------------------------

Bonobo, the component object model of the GNOME project, is the topic of
a three part tutorial on IBM Developerworks. The tutorials are writen by
lead Bonobo developer Michael Meeks. Check out the link for the first
part of this tutorial series. Also of importance is that Michael asked
his girlfriend to marry him this week, and got a yes, so our warmest
congratulations go to 
Michael and Julia. 


http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/components/library/co-bnbo1.html

==============================================================
5. Nautilus, eel, medusa and others on the move
--------------------------------------------------------------

Darin Adler announced that Nautilus and related libraries like eel,
medusa and gnome-vfs moved from the Eazel bugzilla server to bugzilla at
gnome.org. This means that bugs for these packages should be submitted
at bugzilla.gnome.org from here on. Also of importance on the Nautilus;
Alex Larsson of Red Hat is working hard with Darin to get all the Red
Hat improvements on Nautilus integrated into the main Nautilus CVS tree.
Link provided to the bugzilla moving mail from Darin. 

        
http://lists.eazel.com/pipermail/nautilus-list/2001-September/005335.html

==============================================================
6. Mono compiler starts compiling
--------------------------------------------------------------

Great news from our sister project, Mono. Miguel de Icaza announced that
the Mono compiler now is able to compile its first Hello World
application. The compiler still needs lots of work but things are moving
ahead at top speed. Over 400 of the needed library classes are already
implemented and more are added almost daily. Links below to Miguel's
mail to the mono-list and the mono website. 

        
http://mail.ximian.com/archives/public/mono-list/2001-September/001365.html
        http://www.go-mono.org

==============================================================
7. libthumb 0.0.1 released
--------------------------------------------------------------

Jens Finke announced the first release of his libthumb library. This
library implements the thumbnail standard he has been working on. This
library and specification could mean quite a lot of saved diskspace when
it is ready for wide deployment. Links to the announcement email and the
thumbnail specification homepage. 

        
http://lists.ximian.com/archives/public/gnome-vfs/2001-September/000690.html
        http://triq.net/~pearl/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec/index.html

==============================================================
8. GNOME Foundation board minutes
--------------------------------------------------------------

Another set of minutes from the GNOME Foundation board is out. Their
work on getting some good free fonts for the GNOME desktop continues and
so does their work on getting the new account policies for gnome.org in
place. That and more in the latest GNOME Foundation minutes. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2001-September/msg00014.html

==============================================================
9. Reaching for desktop Elysium
--------------------------------------------------------------

Rodney Dawes is hard at work creating a compilation of tools called
Elysium. As part of this effort he is working on some great new tools
including the Elysium downloader, a very nice web downloader based on
gnome-vfs, EtherTerm his new multi-tabbed terminal application. Also
part of this is his continuing work on the Encompass webbrowser. People
interested in helping out on these projects should approach Rodney aka
Dobey on IRC. Dobey is usually found in #gnome and more on
irc.gnome.org. 

 http://dobey.free.fr/

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

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 137 gnome-utils
 136 evolution
 85 galeon
 52 SashMo
 48 mc
 43 gtk+
 42 gtranslator
 41 libgnomeui
 36 guile-gobject
 34 libgnome
 33 gnomemeeting
 30 gnome-core
 28 libgda
 28 pan
 26 gnumeric
 24 web-devel-2
 23 gnome-applets
 19 guikachu
 19 gnome-vfs
 19 gdm2
[112 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 120 linas
 81 jirka
 48 proskin
 48 martin
 40 kabalak
 38 rodrigo
 36 baddog
 33 menthos
 30 jbaayen
 28 lark
 27 ettore
 27 ajshankar
 25 andersca
 25 jcorwin
 24 pablo
 24 kmaraas
 23 stano
 23 mstachow
 22 fejj
 21 cgabriel
[116 active hackers omitted]


==============================================================
11. New and Updated Software
--------------------------------------------------------------

gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
FileMenuApplet  - Applet which allows you to browse directories
gnocl  - Tcl extension which implements gtk and gnome widgets.
ghemical  - Molecular modelling software package
Pan  - Newsreader, loosely based on Agent and Gravity
gdkxft  - Anti-aliased fonts to the gnome desktop
gASQL  - Frontend to administer a database
GConf--  - C++ wrappers for GConf, particularly GConfClient
Metacity  - Window manager based on GTK+ 2.0
gmmusic  - Gnomified music collection database, based on PostgreSQL.
gnome-crystal  - A light model visualizer and Bonobo server for crystal 
structures.
Tenes Empanadas Graciela  - A pseudo-clone of Risk
Gnobb-cal  - A simple scheduling application
gdm  - This is the things that handles people logging in.
Terraform  - An open source interactive height field generation and 
manipulation program
GPicScan  - An Image Collector and CRC Scanner.

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: 
http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3

On behalf of the GNOME community I would like to offer our sincerest 
condolences to the family and friends of the people lost in the
terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. 

Christian

A statement from the Free Software Foundation: “Software patents are a harmful government policy of creating
monopolies that restrict computer users. (See
www.programming-freedom.org and www.noepatents.org). We oppose this
policy, and we think it is a shame that Victor Yodaiken has chosen to
obtain a patent for an idea that we believe should not be, and is not,
patentable. The patent covers real-time interrupt handling using a
software emulation layer for interrupt masking, so that interrupts can
be prioritized. There is significant prior art for this.” Editor’s note: Victor Yodaiken told NewsForge he will respond next week.

But, even worse, Yodaiken has attempted to use the patent to impose
restrictive terms on a GPL-covered program (Linux, the kernel used in
the GNU/Linux operating system).  These terms conflict with the GNU
GPL, and imposing them is a violation of the GPL.  We have told
Yodaiken this, and we have told him what license terms would comply
with GPL.  He, like everyone, has the reponsibility to comply with the
GPL or cease his infringing distribution.  Anyone else redistributing
a modified version of Linux under the restrictive patent license that
Yodaiken offers will also be violating the GPL.

It is up to the copyright holders of Linux to enforce the GNU GPL for
their code.  The FSF is not one of them; we have never been involved
in developing Linux, the kernel.  The FSF holds the copyright for a
number of other major components of the GNU/Linux operating system,
but those programs are not involved in this issue.  So the FSF is
not a party to this issue in a legal sense.

However, we have told Yodaiken that if he remains in violation of the
GPL, we may well choose to support efforts by others to invalidate
Yodaiken's patent in the courts, and we may also support actions taken
by others to uphold the GPL.