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Date: 2004-12-09 10:13:05
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Linux-Announce Digest #975, Volume #4 Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:13:05 EST
Contents:
WPKG - automated software deployment, upgrade and removal script (Tomasz Chmielewski)
[NON-COMMERCIAL]: CarrefourBLinuX (Aldo)
NYLXS Free Software Open House (Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS)
KAMLUG Announcement (Steven Hildreth)
ConceptBase 6.1.2 (metadatabase system) released (Christoph Quix)
White_dune 0.28pl7 (stable) released (Joerg Scheurich aka MUFTI)
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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@interia.pl>
Subject: WPKG - automated software deployment, upgrade and removal script
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:42:30 CST
Hello everyone,
WPKG is an automated software deployment, upgrade and removal script for
Windows.
It can be used to push/pull software packages, such as Service Packs,
hotfixes, or program installations from a central server (for example,
Samba) to a number of workstations.
It can run as a service to install software in the background, without
user interaction.
It can install MSI, InstallShield, PackagefortheWeb etc. packages, and
all other packages using repackaging or AutoIt.
For details, see:
http://wpkg.sourceforge.net/
http://wpkg.sourceforge.net/faq.html
So, what exactly can you do with this tool?
Well, lots of things.
Considering you are running Samba on Linux, *BSD, Unix or any other
Unix-like system, you might have noticed that Windows-administraton
things like Active Directory, Group Policies / GPO / Group Policy
Objects, RIS, SUS, IntelliMirror, SMS etc. are not available on these
platforms.
Software installation / upgrade, or distributing / deploying software to
many Windows clients can become painful without some of these Windows-tools.
WPKG can help with that.
Once it's installed on the clients, and its configuration is kept on a
central fileserver (like Samba), you can easily deploy software /
packages / changes etc. to many Windows clients - without the need of
doing this manually, that is going from one workstation to another. You
just configure the software which should be installed on a given machine
or a group of machines - and next time these Windows workstations are
booted, the software you specified is installed automatically.
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:42:36 CST
From: Aldo <info@brlspeak.net>
Subject: [NON-COMMERCIAL]: CarrefourBLinuX
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:43:42 CST
From: Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Subject: NYLXS Free Software Open House
ANNOUNCEMENT: GNU/Linux Open House
_______________________________________________________________________________
NYLXS's Membership committee is going to be holding the GNU/Linux and
Free Software Open House in the Midwood Section of Brooklyn USA. The
Open House will be held on MONDAY December 6th from 6:30 to 11PM at 1724
East 12th Street, in the Basement of Kings Games is the NYLXS Education
Center. This event is open to the Public. Get a chance to talk to NYLXS
members, experts in GNU/Linux and Free Software. Get a hands on taste
of GNU/Linux and learn what Free Software can do for you. Sign up for
Classes at the Free Software institute and learn how to join any of the
NYLXS events, from publication in the NYLXS journal,
helping with the radio show, learning how GNU/Linux can be
used in education, or talking to our Free Software Chamber of
Commercemce consultants.
At NYLXS, we are do'ers.
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From: Steven Hildreth <shildreth@kamlug.org>
Subject: KAMLUG Announcement
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:43:58 CST
I'm proud to announce the formation of a new Linux User Group
in the Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri area. Our website is
http://www.kamlug.org and is currently under construction.
Information about this LUG can be obtained by visiting the
website, or by emailing me at mailto:shildreth@kamlug.org
At the moment there are 3 core members who will be responsible
for the growth, management and organization of KAMLUG. We have
already found 2 corporate sponsors willing to donate meeting gifts
and operation cost donations.
Please visit the website, create an account and participate
if you would like to be involved!
Thanks,
Steven
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:44:22 CST
From: Christoph Quix <quix@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: ConceptBase 6.1.2 (metadatabase system) released
Dear all,
the deductive object manager ConceptBase 6.1.2 has been released
free-of-charge for non-commercial usage! No time to
read text below? Then directly download the software from
http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/CBdoc/
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ConceptBase is a system for meta modeling based on a deductive object manager.
ConceptBase has been in use since 1988 and is being distributed since about
1990. In the last two years the ConceptBase Team worked to add more
functionality, to support more platforms, and to make it perform faster. As a
result, ConceptBase now
* runs on multiple platforms including Linux (i386), Windows XP/2000, and Solaris
(Sparc and i386); you can take the system on your laptop or install it on a
powerful server;
* includes a Java-based graph editor whose node and link types can be freely
configured; the graph editor can also be used to update the object base;
* evaluates queries between 3 and 20 times faster depending on the type of
query; recursive queries can enjoy an even more dramatic speed-up; besides
the increased performance, the query engine now supports dynamic
stratification;
* provides access protection for object base modules; you can use the system in
a multi-user environment and assign users to their individual workspaces;
this feauture is useful for teaching scenarios but also in cases you manage
multiple application with ConceptBase as a shared data repository; access
protection policies are user-definable as query classes.
Besides these improvements, we have corrected dozens of errors, enhanced the
compiler for meta-class-level logical formulas, and increased the flexibility of
queries as parameters of other queries. We are convinced that ConceptBase is
useful for
* meta modeling, in particular the design of new modeling languages
* advanced application design, in particular when the relational data model is
too inflexible
* serving as model repository for managing multiple interrelated models
* analyzing large models by means of queries
For more details on the capabilities, see our introductory site at
http://conceptbase.cc
The unique advantage of ConceptBase over similar systems is the extreme
simplicity of its underlying O-Telos data model. O-Telos uses a single data
structure called P-objects for all factual information (objects, attributes,
classes, meta classes, specializations, instantiations) and provides virtually
unlimited flexibility by its Datalog-based rule language. Rules, constraints and
queries can range over any type of object, be it an instance, a class, a meta
class, a meta meta class and so forth. The combination of the uniform data model
with the logical language allows to capture the semantics of link types such as
transitivity, reflexivity etc. by user-defined formulas. Even the semantics of
modeling language constructs, e.g. the concept of cardinality in entity-
relationship diagrams or the key property of the relational data model, can be
captured in ConceptBase.
ConceptBase has been developed at the Technical University of Aachen (Informatik V,
Prof. Dr. M. Jarke) in Germany, in co-operation with the University of
Tilburg (CRISM/Infolab, Dr. M. Jeusfeld) in The Netherlands. The system is free-
of- charge for non-commercial usage. Release 6.1.2 can now be downloaded via
http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/CBdoc/
See instructions there on how to register a ConceptBase installation. Registered
users can obtain access to the CB-Forum featuring additional software (e.g.
preview releases of forthcoming ConceptBase versions), an extensive how-to
section and a discussion section.
We hope that this new release is useful for the scientific community!
Kind greetings!
Aachen and Tilburg, December 2004
-- The ConceptBase Team
represented by
Matthias Jarke, Manfred Jeusfeld, Christoph Quix
PS: Thanks go to all who have contributed to the realization of ConceptBase. We
particularily thank the designers of Telos (John Mylopoulos, Alex Borgida,
Manolis Koubarakis, Sol Greenspan, and others) and the numerous colleagues who
worked on extensions of the system. We can't name them all here. Special thanks
go to Martin Staudt who has been heading the ConceptBase team for several years
and who initiated many of the now-realized functions. Rainer Gallersdörfer and
Thomas List did a tremendous job in implementing the dedicated object store.
Rene Soiron realized the meta formula compiler and the cost-based query
optimizer. Finally, Hans Nissen introduced the module sub-system which proves to
be an increasingly useful tool for managing large object bases.
--
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Christoph Quix Email: quix@i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Informatik V http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~quix/
RWTH Aachen Tel: +49 +241 / 80-21511
Ahornstr. 55 Fax: +49 +241 / 80-22321
52056 Aachen Germany
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:02:31 CST
Subject: White_dune 0.28pl7 (stable) released
From: Joerg Scheurich aka MUFTI <rusmufti@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
A new stable 0.28pl7 version of White_dune has been released.
White_dune is a opensource graphical editor, animation tool and simple
NURBS/Superformula based 3D Modeller for VRML97 (ISO/IEC 14772:97) and
the NURBS shapes of VRML97 amendment 1 (ISO/IEC 14772:2002).
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modelling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browserplugins: "HTML for 3D" or
"OpenGL for dummies" 8-)
VRML has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image,
movie, sound). VRML97 can be used for scientific visualisations, interactive
Web3D games and much more.
According to the current ISO draft, the migration from VRML97
(ISO/IEC 14772:97) to X3D (ISO/IEC FDIS 19775:200x) can be done
by exchanging the header line with two header lines and changing the
filename from .wrl to .x3dv.
The new 0.28 version adds some bugfixes, additional actions, M$Windows
quadbuffer OpenGL stereoview, pure ISO/IEC 14772:97 browser preview/export,
NURBS morphing, support for modularisation via the Inline node,
new tutorials and rendering of more VRML nodes.
Still not rendered from the ISO/IEC 14772:97 nodes are
PixelTexture, MovieTexture, Fontstyle and self defined PROTO nodes.
White_dune is available as installable i386 package for the following Linux
distributions:
- Fedora 3
- Redhat 9.1
- Debian "woody"
- Slackware 2.1
- Gentoo (via a ebuild script)
White_dune is also available for some more exotic operations systems -
something like Micro$oft Windows 8-)
see http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/vrml/dune for more information
so long
MUFTI
--
Gabeln nicht möglich: zu viele Prozesse
(deutsche Fehlermeldung von SCO OpenServer 5.0.4, Stichwort: fork)
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