Slashdotters talk about an interview at KDE Dot News with Richard Dale, the author of the code that adds bindings to KDE and Qt for Java. He’s asked, what do QtJava and KDEJava actually do? “They wrap most of the classes in Qt and KDE so that they can be used to write Java
programs, which look and behave identically to a C++ version. The Qt date, time, string and
list classes are replaced with their Java equivalents.”

DaemonNews.org has a story on one man’s efforts to use FreeBSD in his office setting. “A few months after I put FreeBSD/Apache to work, news came from upper management that there was an interest in employing the
use of intranets at all the remote field offices. Other web servers and content soon sprang forth and now we have a fully
functioning intranet in place and more and more of our employees are showing interest and becoming involved. We have more than
a few employees now who are acting as content publishers and are creating and maintaining sections of our intranet themselves.
There are also more than a few employees and co-workers who are now interested in the BSDs and wish to learn more.”

LinuxPlanet reviews SuSE 7.1 Personal/Professional and has a strong endorsement. “SuSE Linux 7.1, which was released a bit late in the United States, has finally hit the shelves and if there was
ever a distribution Linux users could point to and say ‘this is the one that can replace Windows,’ then this is the
one … SuSE’s latest offering is a platform you could install out of the
box, plunk a Windows user in front of it, and they could work with it. Not tweak it, not play with it, work with
it. This is the distribution Corel Linux wanted to be: easy to use for newbies, with all of the power of Linux.”

Mark Hatch writes, “Open Motif now supports latest Linux 2.4 kernel distributions.”
Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS), the leading supplier of Motif products and support services, has released an updated version of Open Motif Everywhere. This new release includes numerous bug fixes and updates to the Motif libraries, clients and the demo source code, plus provides support for both Red Hat Linux 7 and SuSE Linux 7.1. The support of Open Motif Everywhere on SuSE 7.1, marks the first time this software has been supported on a distribution running the Linux 2.4 kernel.

The ICS distribution of Open Motif Everywhere is built from the official Open Group sources. It is the most widely available distribution of Open Motif supporting all major Linux distributions including Caldera (Intel), Debian (Intel), FreeBSD (Intel), Linux PPC (PPC), Mandrake (i586), Red Hat (i386, Itanium, Sparc, Alpha), Storm 2000 (Intel), SuSE (Intel), and TurboLinux (Intel).

“This latest release of Open Motif demonstrates our continued commitment to bringing Enterprise class tools to the Linux environment,” said Mark Hatch, Chief Operating Officer of Integrated Computer Solutions. “The availability of Open Motif Everywhere accelerates the migration of Enterprise class applications and developers to Linux because it reduces porting costs and lowers the learning curve associated with moving to Linux.

Pricing and Availability

The latest ICS Open Motif binary and source packages are available for free download at ICS’s Motif Community site, the MotifZone
(http://www.motifzone.net). They are also available for $29.95 on ICS’s Open Motif Everywhere distribution CD. The CD includes all the Open Motif source code (both standard and ICS enhanced), Motif developer and runtime binaries for Linux (Intel, Itanium, Sparc, Alpha, PPC) and FreeBSD (Intel), Open Group Motif documentation, and an evaluation copy of Builder Xcessory PRO (from ICS). The CD is available for purchase at http://store.ics.com or by calling 617.621.0060.

More on Motif

Motif is the industry standard graphical user interface, (as defined by the IEEE 1295 specification), used on more than 200 hardware and software platforms. It provides application developers, end users, and system vendors with the industry’s most widely used environment for standardizing application presentation on a wide range of platforms. Motif is the leading user interface for the UNIX based operating system.

The Motif graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit facilitates the development of applications for heterogeneous, networked computing environments. By providing application portability across a variety of platforms, the Motif environment helps protect valuable investments in software and user training.

About Integrated Computer Solutions

Founded in 1987, ICS (http://www.ics.com) was chartered to provide software development tools and training for developers working with the then emerging X Window System. Prior to the widespread adoption of Motif by the UNIX workstation vendors, ICS was the leading independent supplier of the Motif toolkit. In 1998, The Open Group chose ICS to provide technical support for its Motif source code licenses.

Today, ICS’ Builder Xcessory PRO (BX PRO) is the market leader in Motif graphical user interface development tools. In its fifth major release and representing over 100 person years of effort, BX PRO defines a level of sophistication, functionality and ease of use that is unmatched in the industry. In November of 1999, BX PRO was awarded the Editor’s Choice award for the Best New Application for Software Development by The Linux Journal.

ICS sponsors the MotifZone (http://www.motifzone.net), a community site for Motif developers to gather additional knowledge and request input on technical problems from other engineers. The MotifZone hosts the Public CVS source code repository for Open Motif as well as the defect database.

Contact:

Mark Hatch

Integrated Computer Solutions

mhatch@ics.com

617-621-0060 x108

###Builder Xcessory and BX PRO are trademarks of Integrated Computer Solutions.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
All other registered trademarks belong to their respective holders.

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ZDNET.co.uk: “DVD playback won’t initially be
available from the next-generation OS. And, although
Mac OS X-native versions of iTunes and iMovie are in the works,
they probably won’t ship in the first commercial CD, slated to arrive
24 March.”

Reported by MSNBC: “Screams erupted at a nearby hotel, where Microsoft founder Bill
Gates was addressing an education and technology conference.

He was whisked away as his audience bolted for the exits. Some
audience members were knocked down by others trying to get out.”

It’s Thursday, and there’s a new edition of Linux Weekly News at LWN.net.

Wired.com: “Corporations are under increasing pressure to monitor employees, and employment experts say employees should expect a lot less privacy at work.”

David Sweet writes, “The new Andamooka Collections system lets users create custom,
annotated, open content books. Four more books have been added to the
Andamooka library of open source documentation and learning materials
bringing the total to 21 (or over 2000 pages).”
Andamooka Collections

The Andamooka Collections system allows users to create collections
of pages from the open content available on Andamooka. These collections
can be read online and shared with others. For example, a system
administrator might want to create documentation for the users s/he
supports. S/he could assemble relevant chapters from several open content
books and annotate the pages to “localize” the documentation, creating a
single, high quality, reference for local users.

New Books

Andamooka is proud to host the following books:

• GIMP: The Official Handbook, a book filled with gorgeous
  GIMP-created images, by Kylander & Kylander.
• Linux System Administrators’ Guide, a “classic” (circa
  1993) reference by Lars Wirzenius and Joanna Oja
• Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim, an advanced Python
  programming guide, and
• Introduction to Programming Using Java a textbook by
  David J. Eck that is also suitable for self-teaching.

Each is available for online reading, annotation, and discuss.

About Andamooka

Andamooka
is a collection of
support communities for open content books.

Andamooka’s public forum helps bring together people with common
interests — after all, they’re all reading the same book! — to
assist each other in studying, analyzing, or putting into practice the
content of the book.

The Open Content License, and GNU Free Documentation Licenses, and
similar license have the potential to dramatically change the way a
book is developed and is received by its readers, and Andamooka is
continually being improving to further explore and utilize the
freedoms granted by these licenses.

At Andamooka we want to get active readers together to discuss and
modify the work openly — in a public forum — so that issues of fact,
clarity, and content can be addressed and correct, useful additions
can be made to the main work. Because the licenses are relatively
unrestrictive, the modified work can then be redistributed so that
each reader can benefit from the work of the entire commmunity. In
this model, “open” books become dynamic and can be constantly current.”

CNET.com: “Tom Leufkens has outfitted his PC with a rejiggered aquarium pump and a gadget once
used to carry automotive power-steering fluid. He has even experimented with a
special PC case equipped with a small refrigerator compressor.”