Ximian is proud to announce the availability of the Beta 2 release of
Ximian Evolution, the integrated personal information management
solution for GNU/Linux and Unix desktops. This is the second of four
milestones on the road to the 1.0 release this fall.

 Now is the time for Evolution to be stress-tested and bug reports to
be submitted.  Remember that prizes will be awarded to those reporting
the nastiest, the thorniest, and the most total bugs.  To report a
bug, visit bugzilla.ximian.com or use the GNOME Bug Report tool,
bug-buddy.

  Every Thursday, between 9am. and 9pm Eastern Standard Time (US),
developers and users of Evolution gather online to find, isolate, and
destroy bugs.  To participate, open your IRC client and visit the
#evobugs channel of irc.gnome.org.

* Availability

  If you use Ximian GNOME, you can install this version by subscribing
to the Ximian Preview channel in Red Carpet (System -> Get Software).

  You can also get the Evolution source code and all the related
tarballs (GtkHTML, GAL, bonobo-conf) here:

    ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/evolution

  The official web page for Evolution is:

    http://www.ximian.com/apps/evolution.php3

* Changes since Beta 1 (0.11)

Shell:

  - Change the name of the local storage node from "local" to "Local
    Folders".  (Jason)

  - Fixed a problem with invalid URIs crashing the shell.  (Jason)

  - Hide internal folder types (like "vtrash") from user.  (Ettore)

  - Fixed some crashes that could happen when creating folders.
    (Ettore)

  - Fixed the URIs for the installed manuals in the help menu.
    (Ettore)

  - Added a status bar to show components' tasks instead of using
    pop-up progress dialogs.  (Ettore)

  - Other miscellaneous bug and leak fixes.  (Jason, Ettore)

  - Initialize GConf properly when GtkHTML is built with GConf
    support.  (Frederic Crozat)

  - Make the shortcut bar not change the current group when renaming
    it.  (Jason)

Mail:

  - Use new shell ActivityClient interface for progress reporting so
    the ongoing activities appear at the bottom of the window instead 
of
    using a pop-up.  (Michael)

  - "Remember this password" check box added.  (Peter, Jeff)

  - UI for timespan editor cleaned up.  (Peter)

  - UTF8 issues with PGP and mail display addressed.  (Jeff)

  - Translate some more strings.  (Jeff, Zbigniew Chyla)

  - Fix camel_session_*_timeout functions.  (Michael)

  - Fix application/pgp handling.  (Jeff)

  - Fix DnD with no messages selected.  (Jeff)

  - Respect the GTK+ theme when generating the header in the mail
    display.  (Jeff)

  - Make the default date column smaller.  (Peter)

  - Don't display "0 hidden" messages.  (Peter)

  - 'q' now toggles the message (pre)view.  (Peter)

  - Rename the "Date" column to "Sent".  (Peter)

  - Fix saving of passwords (some passwords were being saved and
    loaded under different URI's).  (Jeff)

  - Enter now always open the message in a new window.  (Peter)

  - Gray out unsupported authentication mechanisms.  (Jeff)

  - Fix saving/loading of several preferences.  (Peter, Jason)

  - Overwrite attachment files correctly.  (Jeff)

  - Don't lose the selection when deleting the last message.  (Jason)

  - Improve guessing of which address to use when replying.  (Jeff,
    Jason)

  - If SSL isn't supported, indicate so.  (Peter)

  - Improve handling of NoSelect IMAP folders.  (Peter)

  - Add a browse button for local mailboxes.  (Jason)

  - VTrash handling improvements.  (Jeff, Peter)

  - Display "unsent" in outbox summary.  (Peter)

  - Only have main view folder browsers save view settings.  (Peter)

  - Fixes to POP3 cache.  (Jeff)

  - Handle variants of charset names.  (Jeff)

  - Progress reporting and optimizations for IMAP.  (Dan)

  - Progress reporting for SMTP.  (Michel)

  - Handle unencoded eight-bit headers.  (Jeff)

  - Miscellaneous improvements to Camel backend.  (Michael, Jeff)

  - Several crashes fixed.  (everyone)

Addressbook:

  - Fixed some warnings.  (Chris T.)

  - I18n fixes.  (Zbigniew Chyla)

  - Address quoting in composer bug fixed.  (Jon)

  - Made it so that Other Contacts doesn't show up if you don't have
    LDAP compiled in.  (Jason)

  - Made it so that Other Contacts doesn't show up if you don't have
    any LDAP servers configured.  (Jos Dehaes)

  - General bug fixes.  (Chris T., Jon, Frederic Crozat, Jason,
    JP, Ettore, Chris L.)

  - Some LDAP cleanup.  (Chris T.)

  - Crash fixes.  (Jon, Dan)

  - Work on contact lists.  (Chris T., Jon)

  - Made Contact Editor Save & Close button not active if nothing is
    changed.  (Chris T.)

  - Added accelerators to a few dialogs.  (Taylor Hayward)

  - Made evolution-vcard-importer.c load the file into the correct
    directory.  (Iain)

Calendar & Tasks:

  - Show icons for categories.  (Rodrigo)

  - Multiple selections for cut/copy/paste in task list.  (Rodrigo)

  - Added missing underlined shortcuts for dialogs.  (Taylor)

  - Many timezone-related fixes.  (Damon, Federico)

  - Alarm notification dialogs.  (Federico)

  - iTIP and iMIP ongoing work.  (JP)

  - Consistency & cosmetic fixes for dialogs and menus.  (Damon,
    Federico)

  - You can now create new calendar/tasks folders in the shell.
    (Ettore)

  - Printing fixes.  (Damon)

  - Added a search bar for tasks folders.  (Federico)

  - The task pad in the day view is now filtered as well.  (Federico)

  - Timezone support for conduits.  (JP)

  - General bug fixes.  (Federico, JP, Damon, Rodrigo)

My Evolution:

  - Removed the wipe trackers option.  (Iain)

  - Fix broken links in the Calendar.  (Iain)

  - Added some more German cities.   (Iain)

  - Fixed the New Feed button.  (Iain)

  - Fixed the KDE and Newsforge urls.  (Iain and Jason)

San Francisco, Calif, August 2, 2001-Turbolinux®, Inc., the leader in high-performance Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, today
announced the general availability of the first fully supported Linux distribution for IBM eServer iSeries. Turbolinux is also providing support for
IBM’s eServer pSeries. Turbolinux 6.5 (TL 6.5) features complete Linux server distributions that provide functionality previously unavailable to
iSeries customers, including Linux’s firewall and Web server, and Windows-compatible file, print and email services. As a result, this release
makes e-commerce integration and server consolidation both easier to implement and less expensive. For pSeries, Linux offers a reduced cost
of computing for a number of application areas. “By combining the openness and flexibility of the Turbolinux platform with the performance and reliability of IBM’s eServer products, mid-sized
customers gain an industrial-strength Linux environment typically found in larger businesses,” said Ly-Huong Pham, CEO of Turbolinux. “Our
partnership with leading Linux and IBM services experts means that our customers can confidently deploy Linux applications without having to
hire a Linux guru.”

With TL 6.5, enterprise customers gain faster access to data and a growing portfolio of Linux applications that utilize IBM middleware, as well as
unmatched hardware/software service levels for Linux applications. In addition, the unified code base of TL 6.5 simplifies global deployment
through its support of li18nux (Internationalization) and LSB (Linux Standard Base) standards. It supports multiple languages, including English,
Japanese, Korean, and both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

Turbolinux also announced it has entered into agreements to provide round-the-clock daily call center support, training, application enabling,
and onsite professional services for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries customers.

IBM eServer – the bedrock of e-business
Thousands of companies use the IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries systems to run their businesses. Both are popular choices with small to
mid-sized businesses because they feature efficiencies that make management simpler and also dramatically reduce IT costs. With IBM eServer
iSeries running Linux, mid-sized enterprises can take advantage of advanced IBM logical partitioning technology, a powerful server
consolidation solution previously available only to IBM enterprise customers on its eServer Z900 mainframe. A single iSeries server can support
up to 31 separate Linux servers, providing customers an easy-to-manage alternative to the high cost and complexity of server farms. Each
Linux server runs in its own partition and is able to share processors, disk, tape, CD-ROM, DVD and LAN resources with the other applications
running on the iSeries server.

“This relationship brings Linux fully into the mid-range server market and provides an integrated solution, combining the strengths of Linux and
OS/400,” said Kim Stevenson, vice president of IBM eServer marketing operations. “Linux enables a new stream of e-business applications for
IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries, and backed by Turbolinux’s 24×7 support, provides a great solution for any mid-sized enterprise looking to get
the cost and functionality benefits of Linux.”

TL 6.5 supports selected eServer iSeries Models 270, 820, 830 and 840. TL 6.5 will be available on IBM eServer pSeries p640, an up to 4-way,
64-bit, high-density, rack-mount, SMP enterprise server designed for reliability, availability and serviceability with excellent performance and
expandability.

Price and Availability
Turbolinux 6.5 for IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries is available from Turbolinux sales offices around the world. Pricing depends on the
customer’s system configuration specifications, and support and service requirements. Turbolinux currently supports IBM’s G4, G5, G6,
MP2000 and MP3000 systems and IBM eServer zSeries 900, as well as the new IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries. For more information, please
contact sales@turbolinux.com.

About Turbolinux, Inc.
Founded in 1992, Turbolinux develops Linux-based software solutions for Internet and enterprise computing infrastructure, including reliable,
available and scalable operating systems for workstations and servers and software clustering solutions for computing traffic management and
peer-to-peer distributed computing. Backed by more than $95 million in investments from some of the world’s leading technology companies,
including Compaq, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, IBM, Intel, NEC, Novell, Oracle, SGI and Toshiba, Turbolinux is headquartered near San Francisco with
offices around the world. For more information, visit the Turbolinux Web site at http://www.turbolinux.com.

Reuters reports that the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary subcommittee voted Thursday to bar states from taxing Internet access. Furthermore, the panel voted to extend a ban on other Internet-related taxes for another five years. While certainly a major decision by an influential panel, plans that reach the House floor could face potentially fatal opposition. Story posted at CNET News.com.

Over a five-day period, more than 1800 developers
gathered from 48
countries to attend highly technical tutorials and
conference sessions,
and self-organized BOFs (Birds of a Feather
sessions). The conference
focused on Perl, Linux, Apache, Python, open source
business
strategies, Mozilla, PHP as well as other emergent
technologies such as
peer-to-peer technology and bioinformatics.This year’s convention theme was “Fueling the Open
Source Alternative.”
Keynote speaker Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow and former
chairman of the
IETF, placed open source software at the top of the
food chain, but
appealed to developers to work with commercial
vendors. While open
source development is a good way to get the right
features quickly, he
explained, it is weak on the features that would
make it usable by a
wide consumer and business base.

Keynote speaker W. Phillip Moore, the executive
director of enterprise
infrastructure applications at Morgan Stanley Dean
Witter, predicted
that Linux systems will be increasingly important to
enterprise
operations in the next few years. One great
advantage, Moore said, was
that he can modify the software to suit Morgan
Stanley’s needs, without
having to coerce a corporate vendor to make the
changes, at their pace,
and often in conjunction with exorbitant fees.

Several announcements were made at the O’Reilly Open
Source Convention,
including:

-Sun Microsystems’ announcement of its Sun Grid
Engine Project,
an initiative to offer the source code for Sun Grid
engine
software to users and the developer community;

-Hewlett-Packard’s launch of Coolbase, an open
source software
development platform for creating mobile
e-services;

-The release of the technical details of The Mono
Project, a
Linux version of the .NET platform by Miguel de
Icaza, Ximian’s
CTO and president of the Gnome Foundation at a
session shared
by Dave Stutz, software architect at Microsoft, who
discussed
Microsoft’s work on a shared source implementation
of the
common language elements of .NET.

New to this year’s convention, the O’Reilly Summit
on Open Source
Strategies looked at open source as a strategic
advantage for
businesses. Industry leaders discussed how to
standardize collaborative
software development within the enterprise, and with
key customers.

The annual White Camel Awards for leadership in the
Perl Community were
presented by brian d foy of Perl Mongers. David H.
Adler, a founding
member of the first Perl User Group–the New York
Perl
Mongers–received the Perl User Groups White Camel
award. Ask Bjorn
Hansen received the award for Perl Community in
recognition for his
work in hosting Perl-related web sites and mailing
lists devoted to
Perl. The final White Camel for Perl Advocacy was
awarded to the
YAPC:Europe team for bringing high quality but
affordable Perl
conferences to Europe.

Convention Chair Nat Torkington presented the annual
Perl Conference
Awards. Winners were Mark-Jason Dominus who received
the Larry Wall
Award for Practical Ingenuity; Dan Brian, recipient
of the Damian
Conway Award for Technical Excellence; and Brian
Ingerson and Neil
Watkiss who shared the award for Best Module.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention served as host
to the annual Open
Source Documentation Summit, uniting twenty-one
leaders of
documentation projects for various free or open
software projects
together for an all-day meeting on Sunday, July 22.
Some of the bigger
issues discussed were how to recruit and motivate
writers of free and
open documentation as well as how to make it easier
for documentation
writers who are unfamiliar with DocBook to write
documentation.

Evening programs included Larry Wall’s annual State
of the Onion
presentation on the state of the Perl world and Jon
Orwant’s Internet
Quiz Show (teams of four pitted against each other
in a contest of
Internet technology and culture). The “Defending
Champs” reclaimed
their title in a victory over the “President’s Dog,”
in a near replay
of last year’s match.

For complete O’Reilly Open Source Convention and
Perl 5 coverage, go to
http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2001/ Read Tim
O’Reilly’s take on
Freedom Zero, Sun’s analysis of the Microsoft/Open
Source debate,
weblogs featuring cool stuff emanating from the
O’Reilly Open Source
Convention and Perl Conference 5, and check out our
convention photo
archive.

About O’Reilly & Associates
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source for
leading-edge computer technologies. We communicate
the knowledge of
experts through our books, conferences, and web
sites. Our books, known
for their animals on the covers, occupy a treasured
place on the
shelves of the developers building the next
generation of software. Our
conferences and summits bring innovators together to
shape the
revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. From
the Internet to the
Web, Linux, Open Source, Peer-to-Peer networking,
and now
Bioinformatics, we put technologies on the map. For
more information:
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O’Reilly is a registered trademark of O’Reilly &
Associates, Inc. All
other trademarks are property of their respective
owners.

PC World: “Sharp is adding even more colors to liquid crystal displays. The company has developed software that allows LCDs
to display more than 1 billion colors, Sharp announced Thursday.

Developers researched how human eyes perceive brightness and color, then applied their findings to one of the
characteristics of an LCD–the fact that it can control the brightness and color of each pixel.”

Vim is an almost 100% compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new
features have been added: Multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line
history, filename completion, block operations, etc. Those who don’t know Vi
can probably skip this message, unless you are prepared to learn something new
and useful. Vim is especially recommended for editing programs.

Announcement
------------

This is a BETA test version of Vim.  It is a huge step from Vim 5.x.  Many,
many new features and improvements have been included.  For an overview, with
a few screendumps, look here:

        http://vim.sf.net/whyvim.php


Vim 6.0 has been in alpha testing for quite a while.  Although it appears to
work well, it needs to be tested before we can say it is really stable.
Expect to run into a few problems.


What is Vim?
------------

Vim is an almost 100% compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi.  Many new
features have been added: Multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line
history, filename completion, block operations, etc.  Those who don't know Vi
can probably skip this message, unless you are prepared to learn something new
and useful.  Vim is especially recommended for editing programs.

Vim runs on almost any Unix flavor, MS-DOS, MS-Windows 3.1, MS-Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, OS/2, Atari MiNT, BeOS, VMS, RISC OS, Macintosh and
Amiga.

For more information, see http://vim.sf.net.


New since version 5.8
---------------------

The number of changes is huge.  These are just the main new items:

                     Folding - momentarily hide part of the text
    Vertically split windows - mixed with horizontal splits
                   Diff mode - show and remove differences between files
    Easy Vim: click-and-type - for those who really don't like two modes
                 User manual - learn to use Vim, reads like a book
          Flexible indenting - automatic indenting for any language
    Extended search patterns - more regexp power than you will need
               UTF-8 support - Unicode allows editing nearly all languages
      Multi-language support - translated messages and menus
              Plugin support - drop a script in a directory and you can use it
            Filetype plugins - an easy way to setup for editing a type of file
                File browser - browse directories, also on a terminal
Editing files over a network - read and write a remote files directly
 command-line editing window - use any Vim command to edit an Ex command
              Debugging mode - debug your Vim functions and scripts
  Cursor in virtual position - edit tables and draw ASCII pictures
          Debugger interface - use Vim with Sun Visual Workshop
  Communication between Vims - let one Vim tell another Vim what to do
                    Printing - print with syntax colors (MS-Windows only)
           Quickfix extended - see error messages in a window and jump there
      Writing files improved - rename or copy to make a backup file
               Argument list - select groups of files to work on
              Restore a View - save the looks of a window and restore it later
               Color schemes - quickly switch between different color setups

See this page for the details:

        http://vim.sf.net/htmldoc/version6.html



Where to get it
---------------

Information about which files to download for what system:

        http://vim.sf.net/download.php


If you already know what to get, download it from here:

        ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unreleased

Or use one of the mirrors, see:

        ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/MIRRORS


Mailing lists
-------------

For user questions you can turn to the Vim mailing list.  There are a lot of
tips, scripts and solutions.  You can ask your Vim questions, but only if you
subscribe.  See http://www.vim.org/mail.html.  An archive is kept at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim.

If you want to help developing Vim or get the latest patches, subscribe to the
vim-dev mailing list.  An archive is kept at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev.

Subject specific lists:
Multi-byte issues: vim-multibyte  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim-multibyte
Macintosh issues:  vim-mac        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vim-mac


Reporting bugs
--------------

Send them to bugs@vim.org.  Please describe the problem precisely.  All the
time spent on answering mail is subtracted from the time that is spent on
improving Vim!  Always give a reproducable example and try to find out which
settings or other things influence the appearance of the bug.  Try starting
without your own vimrc file: "vim -u NONE -U NONE".  Try different machines if
possible.  See ":help bugs" in Vim.  Send me patches if you can!

If something needs discussing with other developers, send a message to the
vim-dev mailing list.  You need to subscribe first.


Happy Vimming!

Linux kernel 2.4.8pre3aa1 has been released. Changelog below.

diff between 2.4.7aa1 and 2.4.8pre3aa1 (besides moving on top of
2.4.8pre3aa1). Possibly the vm is screwedup in 2.4.8pre3 so 2.4.8pre3aa1
could behave very badly too (possibly the blkdev in pagecache could hide
problems with the buffercache so please make sure to stress the
buffercache with fs fs metadata too).

Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 00_backout-local_bh_enable-debug-1

        Drop some leftover. However I recommend all people with the aic driver
        to apply my debugging patch that I posted to l-k in reply to Alexey and
        to fix the bug instead of hiding and forgetting it (smp_call_function
        *must* be recalled with irq enabled!!!).

Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_free_shortage-bool-1

        Dropped, it was a minor optimization and it rejected with some vm
        update.

Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 00_gcc-30-aironet-1
Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_gcc-30-extern-static-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 00_gcc-30-extern-static-2
Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_gcc-30-reiserfs-1

        Some s/extern/static/ merged in mainline so dropped or updated the
        rest.

Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_ircomm-t39m-1
Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_max_readahead-1
Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_net_rx_softirq-optimize-1
Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_softirq-fixes-5

        Merged in mainline.

Only in 2.4.7aa1: 00_o_direct-10
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 00_o_direct-11

        Bugfix from Ken to update the inode size correctly.

Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 00_softirq-fixes-6_wait-network-fixes-1

        Workaround the fact not all netif_rx callers know they have to run
        do_softirq() if they run in normal kernel context (will be dropped as
        soon as the lowlevel drivers learnt that in mainline, this is just a
        *very* temporary thing).

Only in 2.4.7aa1: 40_blkdev-pagecache-7
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 40_blkdev-pagecache-8

        Move to 1k granularity to be backwards compatible. Some other backwards
        compatible change like ignoring O_APPEND to workaround buggy programs.

Only in 2.4.7aa1: 30_tux
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_atomic-alloc-3
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_atomic-lookup-4
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_net-exports-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_pagecache-atomic-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-3
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-data-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-dprintk-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-exports-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-kstat-2
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-process-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-syscall-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-sysctl-2
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 60_tux-vfs-2
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 61_tux-logger-1
Only in 2.4.8pre3aa1: 62_tux-uml-1

        Tux moved out of the separate directory and applied as last thing.

And they’re off! Network World Fusion reports that Sprint and Verizon Wireless are racing to deploy new high-speed wireless services in the U.S. 1XRTT, more commonly known as 3G, is capable of 144K bit/sec data transmissions, transforming mobile phones into full-fledged wireless multimedia devices. Verizon’s 3G network is in the testing phase right now, and expects to roll out service in areas of New York and New Jersey at the end of this year. Sprint plans a similar limited rollout this year, and a full deployment by mid-2002.

From a Cisco white paper: “Without a security policy, the availability of your network can be compromised. The policy begins with assessing the risk to the
network and building a team to respond. Continuation of the policy requires implementing a security change management practice
and monitoring the network for security violations. Lastly, the review process modifies the existing policy and adapts to lessons
learned.”

Ukranian Web site for-ua.com says that Sircam-infected computers in President Leonid Kuchma’s administration are “bombarding our editorial department with their documents.” One of the more sensitive documents the Web site received details Kuchma’s activities for Ukraine’s independence celebration, scheduled to take place later this month. From a Reuters story at ZDNet.