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From: Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o>
To: gentoo-gwn@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-gwn] Gentoo Weekly Newsletter -- Volume 2, Issue 20
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 02:13:32
Message-Id: 20030519021008.GU21553@mail.lieber.org
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2 Gentoo Weekly Newsletter
3 http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/current.xml
4 This is the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of May 19th, 2003.
5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
6
7 ==============
8 1. Gentoo News
9 ==============
10
11 Summary
12 -------
13
14 * Announcing Gentoo Games, Inc.
15 * Gentoo Linux attends E3
16
17 Announcing Gentoo Games, Inc.
18 -----------------------------
19
20 On May 15th, Daniel Robbins and several other Gentoo Linux developers
21 announced the creation of a new company called Gentoo Games, Inc.
22
23 The mission of Gentoo Games is to advance Linux gaming. The initial
24 efforts of Gentoo Games will be focused around the Gentoo GameCD
25 technology, which allows anyone with a modern PC to put a CD in their
26 computer, turn it on, and have the GameCD boot directly into the game. The
27 game runs from the GameCD, and the GameCD handles the auto-detection and
28 configuration of all hardware.
29
30 By doing this, the Gentoo GameCD transforms any PC with an NVIDIA or ATI
31 graphics card into a console-like system. And because the GameCD can be
32 used by anyone -- even Windows users -- it expands the reach of
33 Linux-based gaming technologies tremendously. The goal of this effort is
34 to cause Linux gaming to rise to a new level of prominence that will
35 result in wonderful things for Linux gamers, Linux game developers and
36 publishers, Linux adoption as a whole, and of course GameCD users who can
37 now have a console-like experience on any modern PC thanks to the
38 flexibility and power of free software.
39
40 Gentoo Games, Inc. is a separate, independent entity from the Gentoo Linux
41 free software project. This was done to ensure that the commercial nature
42 of Gentoo Games will not impact the integrity of the Gentoo Linux social
43 contract. Funds generated by Gentoo Games, Inc. will be used to fund
44 future development of Gentoo Linux as well as GNU/Linux in general. In
45 addition, Gentoo Games hopes to provide exciting opportunities for capable
46 developers who would like to help us transform Linux gaming.
47
48 One of the first benefits to be realized from the creation of Gentoo
49 Games, Inc. (even before Gentoo Games, Inc. officially existed) was last
50 week's announcement that Gentoo Linux will soon support full 64-bit
51 functionality on the AMD Opteron platform.
52
53 Gentoo Linux attends E3
54 -----------------------
55
56 Gentoo Linux was present at the recent Electronic Entertainment Exposition
57 in Los Angeles to announce the creation of Gentoo Games and the America's
58 Army GameCD. The show was a huge success, with many companies expressing
59 interest in Gentoo Games' GameCD technology. In between meetings, the
60 Gentoo Linux folks were able to see at least part of the rest of the show,
61 including some very impressive booths by NVIDIA and the US Army.
62
63 ==================
64 2. Gentoo Security
65 ==================
66
67 Summary
68 -------
69
70 * GLSA: kopete
71 * GLSA: gnupg
72 * GLSA: shadow
73 * New Security Bug Reports
74
75 GLSA: kopete
76 ------------
77
78 The GnuPG plugin in kopete does not properly cleanse the command-line when
79 executing gpg, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary
80 commands.
81
82 * Severity: Critical - Cryptographic compromise, remote execution of
83 arbitrary code.
84 * Packages Affected: net-im/kopete prior to kopete-0.6.2
85 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge kopete, emerge clean.
86 * GLSA Announcement[1]
87
88 1. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53909
89
90 GLSA: gnupg
91 -----------
92
93 There is a bug in GnuPG's validation code that permits keys with more than
94 one user to cause all user IDs on that key to be treated as though they
95 are as valid as the most valid key.
96
97 * Severity: High - Cryptographic compromise.
98 * Packages Affected: app-crypt/gnupg prior to gnupg-1.2.2
99 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge gnupg, emerge clean.
100 * GLSA Announcement[2]
101 * Advisory[3]
102
103 2. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54323
104 3. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105215110111174&w=2
105
106 GLSA: shadow
107 ------------
108
109 An upgrade is available for the shadow utility to mitigate a bug in
110 OpenSSH that permits remote attackers to identify the account names for
111 valid users on the system (see last week's GWN).
112
113 * Severity: High - Information exposure.
114 * Packages Affected: sys-apps/shadow prior to shadow-4.0.3-r5
115 * Rectification: Synchronize and emerge shadow, emerge clean.
116 * GLSA Announcement[4]
117 * Advisory[5]
118
119 4. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53826
120 5. http://lab.mediaservice.net/advisory/2003-01-openssh.txt
121
122 New Security Bug Reports
123 ------------------------
124
125 The following new security bugs were posted this week:
126
127 * [6]dev-db/firebird
128 * [7]sys-apps/xinetd
129 * [8]app=games/unreal-tournament
130 * [9]app-cdr/cdrtools
131 * [10]app-text/lv
132
133 6. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20837
134 7. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20992
135 8. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20993
136 9. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20997
137 10. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20998
138
139
140 ===============
141 3. User stories
142 ===============
143
144 Kenneth and how he switched his school to Gentoo Linux
145
146 Currently a high-school senior, Kenneth does some work on the school's
147 computers during his free time. One day a member of the computer staff
148 asked him to install Linux on six of the lab's 44 computers after being
149 not too happy with what using Office XP would cost the school. So Kenneth
150 decided to make an image containing KDE, GNOME, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla,
151 Samba, CUPS, distcc, gaim (what a nice school! ;), MPlayer, Flash, Java
152 and GNUPlot. And of course he was using Gentoo Linux for his efforts!
153
154 Some problems
155
156 As the school uses a Windows network, Kenneth had to assure to make logons
157 work without knowing the administrator password. Furthermore students have
158 to be able to access their server space located on machines running
159 windows. And of course you have to convice people that Linux is not evil...
160
161 Clever solutions
162
163 In oder to get logins to work, Kenneth patched the GDM source to run a
164 script which creates a UID if it doesn't already exist. smb_auth is used
165 for PAM and creates home directories according to a template Kenneth made.
166 There were problems with a few programs that recorded the home directory
167 in their configs (e.g. OpenOffice.org), so he made a symlink for it which
168 the template account uses as home directory. To mount Samba shares on
169 login and unmount them on logout he uses smb_authtoken and wrote a C
170 program that manages the mounts by calling smbmount and smbumount.
171
172 For easier updates Kenneth gets some stuff from /usr/portage from NFS
173 shares, uses distcc on the boxes and set up a local rsync mirror. When
174 administrating his machines, he uses a special konsole profile which runs
175 ssh to each of them and uses "send input to all".
176
177 KDE is used as the standard desktop environment, CUPS handles the network
178 printers and KDE has shortcuts to the various file servers.
179
180 Conclusion
181
182 On the first day, Kenneth registered over 57 new users. Some people,
183 including a teacher, really liked it. Kenneth put explanations on each
184 icon, so people didn't have a hard time figuring out what they did, but
185 some people just kept looking for Internet Explorer and didn't quite get
186 why it's not there. Other problems included mounting floppies or just
187 plain refusal to use anything else than Windows. However, Kenneth noticed
188 that some students only use "his" computers, even though they have no clue
189 at all what a kernel is. But his greatest day came when the NT print
190 servers went down and everybody who wanted to print had to use the Gentoo
191 boxes for this task. Even the chemistry teacher (who was previously mad
192 about different software) had to admit that he "played the linux game and
193 it printed fine.".
194
195 =================================
196 4. Featured Developer of the Week
197 =================================
198
199 Chad Huneycutt
200
201 Chad Huneycutt[11] works on laptop stuff. Busy in real life, he claims to
202 be relatively inactive as a Gentoo developer, but currently he's working
203 on getting profiles(so that configuration for several different network
204 environments can be stored and chosen from) and automatic network
205 configuration going. While pcmcia-cs[12] already supports 'schemes', Chad
206 is looking for an alternative that will integrate with Gentoo's current
207 configuration system, and thinks that the ultimate solution will require
208 enhancement of Gentoo's init scripts and a little hacking of pcmcia-cs to
209 make it all work together. And as for automatic network hacking, Chad is
210 working with Peter Johanson[13] on adding wireless AP detection to the
211 existing mix of good utilities that are already out there.
212
213 11. chadh@g.o
214 12. http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/
215 13. latexer@g.o
216
217 Chad began using Gentoo about two years ago when he read drobbins' IBM
218 Developerworks articles, and like most developers joined the team by
219 submitting ebuilds, hanging out on IRC (Chad's first time on IRC), and
220 making a nuisance of himself. While he has a Sourceforge project
221 (hodgepodge[14]), he says that it's a library of some Java code he wrote a
222 long time ago and that he hasn't done much OSS work outside of Gentoo.
223 Chad says that if he finishes the network profile stuff described above,
224 it'll be his greatest achievement yet.
225
226 14. http://sourceforge.net/projects/hodgepodge/
227
228 A Ph.D student in Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of technology,
229 Chad studies computer architecture, working in particular on a project
230 called SoftCache, an amalgamation of compiler, cache, and embedded systems
231 concepts. Chad uses Evolution, Mozilla, Xchat, and Gabber everyday, while
232 his tools of the trade are vim, gcc, and gdb (in that order), all running
233 under GNOME currently, although he also uses KDE regularly. Chad, 28,
234 lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife of almost seven years and his two
235 year-old son. While he'd love to play tennis and bridge if he had time,
236 what he usually does is spend time with his son and play (mostly German)
237 board games.
238
239 =========================
240 5. Heard In The Community
241 =========================
242
243 Web Forums
244 ----------
245
246 Gamers in Seventh Heaven
247
248 The only other news so far this year responsible for an equally generous
249 amount of excitement and controversial debate in the Gentoo Forums was the
250 April fool's joke... The strong gamers and players community in Gentoo
251 (complete with a forum of their own) has greeted the creation of Gentoo
252 Games Inc. with the utmost gratitude and exploded in speculation as to
253 what exactly the new company will be doing, aside from the America's Army
254 CD that served as a kickoff to the new legal entity. While some people
255 prefer to discuss whether it's politically wise to move into this
256 direction to begin with, others tried to alleviate the burden on
257 Supercomputing's server bandwidth by hosting the iso image -- only to see
258 their FTP servers crash almost instantly...
259
260 * Good luck to Gentoo Games Inc. !![15]
261 * America's Army: politically sensitive?[16]
262 * Gentoo Games !!?!!?[17]
263 * YEAH America's Army GameCD is out !![18]
264
265 15. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54265
266 16. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54311
267 17. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54133
268 18. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54264
269
270 Ahead of Their Times
271
272 Strangely enough, Gentoo's much less controversial announcement of teaming
273 up with Super Computer Inc. for porting Linux to the Opteron platform went
274 without mention in this thread, but it seems as if people are already busy
275 optimizing compiler settings for systems with AMD's new 64-bit CPU:
276
277 * Gentoo on the Opteron (x86-64)[19]
278
279 19. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=54312
280
281 Patch Peeve
282
283 John Whitney aka jjw[20] has developed an application that promises to
284 reduce download times when upgrading software, by fetching only
285 differentials between old and new versions of the respective source code,
286 and applying them as patches to the version already locally available.
287 Here's the discussion thread that greets his ebuild submission:
288
289 * Deltup will update packages and reduce download time[21]
290
291 20. http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=16794
292 21. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53406
293
294 Gentoo Users
295 ------------
296
297 Learning the Gentoo Ways
298
299 Where is xinetd? An innocent question by a Redhat user who went to look
300 for the missing daemon in Gentoo triggered an interesting debate on open
301 ports, enhancing security and the virtues of a minimal default
302 installation:
303
304 * ports and services[22]
305
306 22. http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user
307 &root=%3CNDBBLGIKBJENLAMOLFHGEEPCCBAB.mknecht%40controlnet.com%3E
308
309 Mostly Harmless
310
311 One of those pesky error messages recorded during bootup, the "spurious
312 8259A interrupt", is sufficiently widespread[23] to cause uncertainty
313 among Gentoo users. The long and the short of it: If it hurts when you do
314 that, don't do that. Mark Knecht explains[24] how this error message may
315 sometimes only appear when a system is powered up, but not if it's simply
316 being rebooted. And unless there appears to be something seriously wrong
317 with a system as a result of it, there's no need to worry, says hardware
318 buff[25] Joe Stone:
319
320 * spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.[26]
321
322 23. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/32861
323 24. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/32763
324 25. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/32769
325 26. http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user
326 &root=%3C200305121659.43606.Harlekin_666%40gmx.net%3E
327
328 gentoo-dev
329 ----------
330
331 System health and portage diagnostics
332
333 Dhruba Bandopadhyay thinks[27] that a lot of the problems user's have when
334 intalling new ebuilds can be solved by issuing ldconfig, env-update,
335 source /etc/profile or revdep-rebuild (from the gentoolkit package). So he
336 proposes "that all tools that are scattered around the various packages
337 intended for diagnosing and maintaining system health be integrated into
338 one and included in portage". He has received no feedback so far!
339
340 27. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8622
341
342 ChangeLog change
343
344 Weeve timidly asked[28] about the changes to the format of ChangeLogs.
345 Gentoo developer Dan Armak explained[29] the reasons behind this
346 "change".. and how it was that there was no change at all!
347
348 28. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8603
349 29. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8607
350
351 Improved JDBC support
352
353 Gentoo developer Dylan Carlson posted[30] to gentoo-dev to announce the
354 availability of six new packages added to the "dev-java" category that
355 will bring JDBC connectivity support to Gentoo.
356
357 30. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8602
358
359 [WIP] GCC 3.3
360
361 Gentoo developer Spider announced[31] an initial ebuild for GCC 3.3.
362 "Comments and testers are welcome :)"
363
364 31. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8624
365
366 =======================
367 6. Gentoo International
368 =======================
369
370 Cologne Meeting Aftermath
371
372 About a dozen Gentoo users made it to last week's regional meeting in
373 Germany. Hellers Brauhaus in Cologne was packed with laptops, an unusually
374 high density of electronics for this rather down-to-earth brewery outlet,
375 and everybody of course had a splendid time. In a remarkably swift
376 response to the GWN's mistake in announcing the wrong location two weeks
377 ago, the next meeting is indeed scheduled to take place in Bonn - we know
378 a self-fulfilling prophecy when we see one... And this is what German
379 Gentooists look like after dark:
380
381 Journee de Gentooiens in France - Yes, But Where?
382
383 In spite of at least one semi-serious offer for a shuttle service from the
384 airport to the venue, the issue of a French Gentoo user meeting raised
385 last week is unlikely to resolve with Martinique as its location. Thanks
386 to her colonial past, France has left a prominent linguistic heritage all
387 over the planet, and lots of French-speaking Gentooists live in very nice
388 spots at that. But it's hard to find an equidistant area for a meeting if
389 you have Guadeloupe, New Caledonia and Belgium sitting on the extremes of
390 the map, so people are gradually shifting towards regional meetings here
391 and there. Feel free to post your own suggestions at this thread[32] in
392 the French forum.
393
394 32. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=53860
395
396 ================
397 7. Portage Watch
398 ================
399
400 The following stable packages were updated or added to portage this week
401 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
402
403 We are aware that the USE variables section has dissapeared from Portage
404 Watch. It will be back shortly!
405
406 * app-admin/aide: AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment) is a
407 replacement for Tripwire[33]
408 * app-cdr/cdrtools: A set of tools for CDR drives, including
409 cdrecord.[34]
410 * app-crypt/gnupg: The GNU Privacy Guard, a GPL pgp replacement[35]
411 * app-emulation/basiliskII: BasiliskII-0.9.0 Macintosh Emulator (Stable
412 Release)[36]
413 * app-i18n/canna: A client-server based Kana-Kanji conversion system[37]
414 * app-office/gnucash: A personal finance manager[38]
415 * app-office/gnumeric: Gnumeric, the GNOME Spreadsheet[39]
416 * app-office/lyx: WYSIWYM frontend for LaTeX[40]
417 * app-sci/gri: language for scientific graphics programming[41]
418 * app-sci/mupad: MuPAD is an open computer algebra system[42]
419 * app-sci/otter: An Automated Deduction System.[43]
420 * app-sci/pari: A software package for computer-aided number theory[44]
421 * app-sci/tbass: Balsa is both a framework for synthesising asynchronous
422 hardware systems and the language for describing such systems[45]
423 * dev-db/freetds: Tabular Datastream Library[46]
424 * dev-db/mysql++: C++ API interface to the MySQL database[47]
425 * dev-db/mysqltool: Web interface for managing one or more mysql server
426 installations[48]
427 * dev-java/bcel: The Byte Code Engineering Library: analyze, create,
428 manipulate Java class files.[49]
429 * dev-java/bsh: BeanShell is a small, free, embeddable, Java source
430 interpreter with object scripting language features.[50]
431 * dev-java/cryptix-jce: Cryptix JCE is a complete clean-room
432 implementation of the official JCE 1.2 API as published by Sun.[51]
433 * dev-java/infobus: InfoBus enables dynamic exchange of data between
434 JavaBeans component architecture.[52]
435 * dev-java/jaf: Sun's JavaBeans Activation Framework (JAF)[53]
436 * dev-libs/atk: Gnome Accessibility Toolkit[54]
437 * dev-lisp/gcl: GNU Common Lisp[55]
438 * dev-ruby/amrita: A HTML/XHTML template library for Ruby[56]
439 * dev-ruby/amstd: Ruby utility collection by Minero Aoki[57]
440 * dev-ruby/devel-logger: Lightweight logging utility[58]
441 * dev-ruby/eruby: eRuby interprets a Ruby code embedded text file.[59]
442 * dev-ruby/fxruby: FXRuby is the Ruby language binding to the FOX GUI
443 toolkit.[60]
444 * dev-ruby/mysql-ruby: A Ruby extention library to use MySQL[61]
445 * dev-ruby/rmagick: An interface between Ruby and the ImageMagick(TM)
446 image processing library[62]
447 * dev-ruby/ruby-postgres: An extension library to access a PostgreSQL
448 database from Ruby[63]
449 * dev-ruby/ruby-tcpwrap: A TCP wrappers library for Ruby[64]
450 * gnome-base/bonobo: A set of language and system independant CORBA
451 interfaces[65]
452 * gnome-base/gail: Part of Gnome Accessibility[66]
453 * gnome-base/gdm: GNOME2 Display Manager[67]
454 * gnome-extra/acme: GNOME tool to make use of the multimedia buttons
455 present on most laptops and internet keyboards.[68]
456 * gnome-extra/bug-buddy: Bug Report helper for Gnome[69]
457 * gnome-extra/gal: The Gnome Application Libraries[70]
458 * gnome-extra/gcalctool: A scientific calculator for Gnome2[71]
459 * gnome-extra/gnome-pilot: Gnome Pilot apps[72]
460 * gnome-extra/gnome-utils: Utilities for the Gnome2 desktop[73]
461 * gnome-extra/gtkhtml: Lightweight HTML rendering/printing/editing
462 engine.[74]
463 * media-gfx/aoi: A free, open-source 3D modelling and rendering
464 studio.[75]
465 * media-plugins/alsa-xmms: Allows XMMS to output on any ALSA 0.9* device.
466 Supports surround 4.0 output with conversion[76]
467 * media-video/ati-drivers: Ati precompiled drivers for r300, r250 and
468 r200 chipsets[77]
469 * media-video/cinelerra: Cinelerra - Professional Video Editor[78]
470 * net-analyzer/cacti: Cacti is a complete frondend to rrdtool[79]
471 * net-firewall/firestorm: Network IDS[80]
472 * net-fs/autofs: Kernel based automounter[81]
473 * net-im/bitlbee: Bitlbee is an irc to IM gateway that support mutliple
474 IM protocols[82]
475 * net-irc/lostirc: A simple but functional graphical IRC client[83]
476 * net-irc/ninja: Ninja IRC Client[84]
477 * net-libs/gnet: GNet network library.[85]
478 * net-libs/libident: A small library to interface to the Ident protocol
479 server[86]
480 * net-libs/libwww: A general-purpose client side WEB API[87]
481 * net-libs/soup: Soup is a SOAP implementation[88]
482 * net-mail/amavis: A perl module which integrates virus scanning software
483 with your MTA[89]
484 * net-mail/balsa: Email client for GNOME[90]
485 * net-mail/bogofilter: Bayesian spam filter designed with fast
486 algorithms, and tuned for speed.[91]
487 * net-mail/checkpassword: A uniform password checking interface for root
488 applications[92]
489 * net-mail/courier: An MTA designed specifically for maildirs[93]
490 * net-misc/aria: Aria is a download manager with a GTK+ GUI, it downloads
491 files from the Internet via HTTP/HTTPS or FTP.[94]
492 * net-nds/openldap: LDAP suite of application and development tools[95]
493 * net-nds/yp-tools: NIS Tools[96]
494 * net-nds/ypbind: Multithreaded NIS bind service[97]
495 * net-p2p/bittorrent: BitTorrent is a tool for distributing files via a
496 distributed network of nodes[98]
497 * net-wireless/hostap: HostAP wireless drivers[99]
498 * sys-apps/acpid: Daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power
499 Interface.[100]
500 * sys-apps/baselayout: Base layout for Gentoo Linux filesystem (incl.
501 initscripts and sysvinit)[101]
502 * sys-devel/gcc: The GNU Compiler Collection. Includes C/C++ and java
503 compilers[102]
504 * sys-kernel/compaq-sources: Kernel from the Compaq Distribution of Red
505 Hat Linux (ALPHA).[103]
506 * sys-libs/cracklib: Password Checking Library[104]
507 * sys-libs/glibc: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library[105]
508 * sys-libs/libcap: POSIX 1003.1e capabilities[106]
509 * sys-libs/libchipcard: Libchipcard is a library for easy access to chip
510 cards via chip card readers (terminals).[107]
511 * x11-libs/fltk: C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL.[108]
512 * x11-libs/gtkglext: GL extentions for Gtk+ 2.0[109]
513 * x11-plugins/asmon: WindowMaker/AfterStep system monitor dockapp[110]
514 * x11-terms/mlterm: A multi-lingual terminal emulator[111]
515
516 33. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html
517 34. http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/
518 private/cdrecord.html
519 35. http://www.gnupg.org/
520 36. http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bauec002/B2Main.html
521 37. http://canna.sourceforge.jp/
522 38. http://www.gnucash.org/
523 39. http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/gnumeric.shtml
524 40. http://www.lyx.org/
525 41. http://gri.sourceforge.net/
526 42. http://www.mupad.de/index_uni.shtml
527 43. http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/AR/otter/
528 44. http://www.parigp-home.de/
529 45. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/amulet/projects/balsa/
530 46. http://www.freetds.org/
531 47. http://www.mysql.org/downloads/api-mysql++.html
532 48. http://www.dajoba.com/projects/mysqltool/
533 49. http://jakarta.apache.org/bcel/
534 50. http://www.beanshell.org/
535 51. http://cryptix.org/products/jce/
536 52. http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/infobus/index.html
537 53. http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html
538 54. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/
539 55. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/gcl.html
540 56. http://www.brain-tokyo.jp/research/amrita/index.html
541 57. http://www.loveruby.net/en/amstd.html
542 58. http://rrr.jin.gr.jp/doc/devel-logger/
543 59. http://www.modruby.net
544 60. http://www.fxruby.org/
545 61. http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/
546 62. http://home.nc.rr.com/rmagick/
547 63. http://www.postgresql.jp/interfaces/ruby/
548 64. http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=ruby-tcpwrap
549 65. http://www.gnome.org/
550 66. http://www.gnome.org/
551 67. http://www.gnome.org/
552 68. http://www.hadess.net/misc-code.php3
553 69. http://www.gnome.org/
554 70. http://www.gnome.org/
555 71. http://calctool.sourceforge.net/
556 72. http://www.gnome.org/gnome-pilot/
557 73. http://www.gnome.org/
558 74. http://www.gnome.org/
559 75. http://aoi.sourceforge.net/index
560 76. http://savannah.gnu.org/download/alsa-xmms/
561 77. http://www.ati.com
562 78. http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3
563 79. http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/
564 80. http://www.scaramanga.co.uk/firestorm/
565 81. http://www.linux-consulting.com/Amd_AutoFS/autofs.html
566 82. http://www.lintux.cx/bitlbee.html
567 83. http://lostirc.sourceforge.net/
568 84. http://ninja.qoop.org/
569 85. http://www.gnetlibrary.org/
570 86. ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/ident/libs
571 87. http://www.w3.org/Library/
572 88. http://www.gnome.org/
573 89. http://www.amavis.org
574 90. http://balsa.gnome.org
575 91. http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/
576 92. http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html
577 93. http://www.courier-mta.org/
578 94. http://aria.rednoah.com
579 95. http://www.OpenLDAP.org/
580 96. http://www.linux-nis.org/nis
581 97. http://www.linux-nis.org/nis/ypbind-mt/index.html
582 98. http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent
583 99. http://hostap.epitest.fi/
584 100. http://acpid.sourceforge.net/
585 101. http://www.gentoo.org/
586 102. http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
587 103. http://www.support.compaq.com/alpha-tools/redhat/
588 104. http://www.crypticide.org/users/alecm/
589 105. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
590 106. http://linux.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/
591 107. http://www.libchipcard.de/
592 108. http://www.fltk.org
593 109. http://gtkglext.sourceforge.net/
594 110. http://rio.vg/asmon/
595 111. http://mlterm.sourceforge.net/
596
597 Total categories: 82
598 Total packages: 4396
599
600 ===========
601 8. Bugzilla
602 ===========
603
604 Summary
605 -------
606
607 * Statistics
608 * Closed Bug Ranking
609 * New Bug Rankings
610
611 Statistics
612 ----------
613
614 The Gentoo community uses Bugzilla (bugs.gentoo.org[112]) to record and
615 track bugs, notifications, suggestions and other interactions with the
616 development team. In the last 7 days, activity on the site has resulted
617 in:
618
619 112. http://bugs.gentoo.org
620
621 * 277 new bugs this week
622 * 462 bugs closed or resolved this week
623 * 3 previously closed bugs were reopened this week.
624 * 2531 total bugs currently marked 'new'
625 * 336 total bugs currently assigned to developers
626
627 There are currently 2910 bugs open in Bugzilla. Of these: 42 are labeled
628 'blocker', 109 are labeled 'critical', and 233 are labeled 'major'.
629
630 Closed Bug Rankings
631 -------------------
632
633 The developers and teams who have closed the most bugs this week are:
634
635 * Sven Vermeulen[113], with 20 closed bugs[114]
636 * Alastair Tse[115], with 20 closed bugs[116]
637 * Martin Holzer[117], with 16 closed bugs[118]
638 * Nicholas Jones[119], with 13 closed bugs[120]
639 * The KDE Team[121], with 10 closed bugs[122]
640
641 113. swift@g.o
642 114.
643 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
644 &chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09&chfieldto=2003-05-15
645 &resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=swift%40gentoo.org
646 115. liquidx@g.o
647 116.
648 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
649 &chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09&chfieldto=2003-05-15
650 &resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=liquidx%40gentoo.org
651 117. mholzer@g.o
652 118.
653 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
654 &chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09&chfieldto=2003-05-15
655 &resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=mholzer%40gentoo.org
656 119. carpaski@g.o
657 120.
658 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
659 &chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09&chfieldto=2003-05-15
660 &resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=carpaski%40gentoo.org
661 121. kde@g.o
662 122.
663 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED
664 &chfield=bug_status&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09&chfieldto=2003-05-15
665 &resolution=FIXED&assigned_to=kde%40gentoo.org
666
667 Sven Vermeulen[122] was overlooked in last week's rankings. With 22
668 closed bugs, he should have been ranked first.
669 New Bug Rankings
670 ----------------
671
672 The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs this
673 week are:
674
675 * Robert Coie[123], with 16 new bugs[124]
676 * Martin Schlemmer[125], with 12 new bugs[126]
677 * The XFree Team[127], with 12 new bugs[128]
678 * Jay Pfeifer[129], with 9 new bugs[130]
679 * The x86-Kernel Team[131], with 8 new bugs[132]
680
681 123. rac@g.o
682 124.
683 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
684 &bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09
685 &chfieldto=2003-05-15&=&assigned_to=rac%40gentoo.org
686 125. azarah@g.o
687 126.
688 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
689 &bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09
690 &chfieldto=2003-05-15&=&assigned_to=azarah%40gentoo.org
691 127. xfree@g.o
692 128.
693 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
694 &bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09
695 &chfieldto=2003-05-15&=&assigned_to=xfree%40gentoo.org
696 129. pfeifer@g.o
697 130.
698 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
699 &bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09
700 &chfieldto=2003-05-15&=&assigned_to=pfeifer%40gentoo.org
701 131. x86-kernel@g.o
702 132.
703 http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED
704 &bug_status=REOPENED&chfield=assigned_to&chfieldfrom=2003-05-09
705 &chfieldto=2003-05-15&=&assigned_to=x86-kernel%40gentoo.org
706
707 ==================
708 9. Tips and Tricks
709 ==================
710
711 Setting the Hardware Clock
712
713 This weeks tip shows you how to set the hardware clock on your Gentoo
714 Linux box with the command hwclock.
715
716 Setting the hardware clock is especially useful in case you have clock
717 problems. If you experience a clock that is losing or gaining a lot of
718 time each after a reboot, set hardware clock right, then remove
719 /etc/adjtime.
720
721 hwclock is located in /sbin/hwclock and you'll need to be root to use it.
722 Without any options, you'll see your current hardware clock setting. By
723 using the --systohc option, you can set your hardware clock to your system
724 clock.
725
726 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
727 | Code Listing 9.1: |
728 | Using hwclock |
729 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
730 | |
731 |Viewing hardware clock |
732 |# hwclock |
733 |Setting the hardware clock to system time |
734 |# hwclock --systohc |
735 | |
736 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
737
738 There are many other options available for hwclock, see man hwclock for
739 more information.
740
741 ===============================
742 10. Quote/Signature of the week
743 ===============================
744
745 This week's featured quote actually originated before we started this new
746 section, but still deserves to be mentioned: "I've got this feeling,
747 shared by others I think, that XML is a hammer and everyone's looking for
748 nail-like objects." (Joseph Carter in a discussion[133] about an init
749 replacement.)
750
751 133. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/8422/
752
753 Nothing against XML though, we happily use it for bringing the GWN to you!
754 It's just that the hype gets a little annoying from time to time...
755
756 ===========================
757 11. Moves, Adds and Changes
758 ===========================
759
760 Moves
761 -----
762
763 The following developers recently left the Gentoo team:
764
765 * none this week
766
767 Adds
768 ----
769
770 The following developers recently joined the Gentoo Linux team:
771
772 * none this week
773
774 Changes
775 -------
776
777 The following developers recently changed roles within the Gentoo Linux
778 project.
779
780 * none this week
781
782 =====================
783 12. Contribute to GWN
784 =====================
785
786 Interested in contributing to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter? Send us an
787 email[134].
788
789 134. gwn-feedback@g.o
790
791 ================
792 13. GWN Feedback
793 ================
794
795 Please send us your feedback[135] and help make GWN better.
796
797 135. gwn-feedback@g.o
798
799 ================================
800 14. GWN Subscription Information
801 ================================
802
803 To subscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to
804 gentoo-gwn-subscribe@g.o.
805
806 To unsubscribe to the Gentoo Weekly Newsletter, send a blank email to
807 gentoo-gwn-unsubscribe@g.o from the email address you are
808 subscribed under.
809
810 ===================
811 15. Other Languages
812 ===================
813
814 The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter is also available in the following languages:
815
816 * Dutch[136]
817 * English[137]
818 * German[138]
819 * French[139]
820 * Japanese[140]
821 * Italian[141]
822 * Portuguese (Brazil)[142]
823 * Portuguese (Portugal)[143]
824 * Russian[144]
825 * Spanish[145]
826 * Turkish[146]
827
828 136. http://www.gentoo.org/news/be/gwn/gwn.xml
829 137. http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
830 138. http://www.gentoo.org/news/de/gwn/gwn.xml
831 139. http://www.gentoo.org/news/fr/gwn/gwn.xml
832 140. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ja/gwn/gwn.xml
833 141. http://www.gentoo.org/news/it/gwn/gwn.xml
834 142. http://www.gentoo.org/news/br/gwn/gwn.xml
835 143. http://www.gentoo.org/news/pt/gwn/gwn.xml
836 144. http://www.gentoo.org/news/ru/gwn/gwn.xml
837 145. http://www.gentoo.org/news/es/gwn/gwn.xml
838 146. http://www.gentoo.org/news/tr/gwn/gwn.xml
839
840 Kurt Lieber <klieber@g.o> - Editor
841 AJ Armstrong <aja@×××××××××××××.com> - Contributor
842 Brice Burgess <nesta@×××××××.net> - Contributor
843 Michael Kohl <citizen428@g.o> - Contributor
844 Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Contributor
845 Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Contributor
846 David Narayan <david@×××××××.net> - Contributor
847 Ulrich Plate <plate@g.o> - Contributor
848 Peter Sharp <mail@××××××××××××××.net> - Contributor
849 Kim Tingkaer <kim@×××××××.dk> - Contributor
850 Mathy Vanvoorden <matje@×××××××.be> - Dutch Translation
851 Hendrik Eeckhaut <Hendrik.Eeckhaut@×××××.be> - Dutch Translation
852 Jorn Eilander <sephiroth@××××××××.nl> - Dutch Translation
853 Bernard Bernieke <bernieke@××××××××.com> - Dutch Translation
854 Peter Ter Borg <peter@××××××.nl> - Dutch Translation
855 Jochen Maes <linux@××××.be> - Dutch Translation
856 Roderick Goessen <rgoessen@××××.nl> - Dutch Translation
857 Gerard van den Berg <gerard@××××××.net> - Dutch Translation
858 Matthieu Montaudouin <mat@××××××××.com> - French Translation
859 Martin Prieto <riverdale@×××××××××.org> - French Translation
860 Steffen Lassahn <madeagle@g.o> - German Translation
861 Matthias F. Brandstetter <haim@g.o> - German Translation
862 Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@g.o> - German Translation
863 Klaus-J. Wolf <yanestra@g.o> - German Translation
864 Marco Mascherpa <mush@××××××.net> - Italian Translation
865 Claudio Merloni <paper@×××××××.it> - Italian Translation
866 Christian Apolloni <bsolar@×××××××.ch> - Italian Translation
867 Daniel Ketel <kage-chan@g.o> - Japanese Translation
868 Yoshiaki Hagihara <hagi@×××.com> - Japanese Translation
869 Andy Hunne <andy@×××××××××.com> - Japanese Translation
870 Yuji Carlos Kosugi <carlos@g.o> - Japanese Translation
871 Yasunori Fukudome <yasunori@××××××××××××××××.uk> - Japanese Translation
872 Takashi Ota <088@××××××××××.jp> - Japanese Translation
873 Ventura Barbeiro <venturasbarbeiro@××××××.br> - Portuguese (Brazil)
874 Translation
875 Bruno Ferreira <blueroom@××××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
876 Translation
877 Gustavo Felisberto <gustavo@××××××××××.net> - Portuguese (Portugal)
878 Translation
879 Ricardo Jorge Louro <rjlouro@×××××××.org> - Portuguese (Portugal)
880 Translation
881 Ricardo Nogueira <R.Nogueira@××××××××××××××××.au> - Portuguese (Brazil)
882 Translation
883 Sergey Kuleshov <infapx@××××××.ru> - Russian Translation
884 Dmitry Suzdalev <dimsuz@××××.ru> - Russian Translation
885 Lanark <lanark@××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation
886 Rafael Cordones Marcos <rcm@×××××××.net> - Spanish Translation
887 Julio Castillo <julio@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation
888 Sergio Gómez <s3r@××××××××××××.ar> - Spanish Translation
889 Pablo Pita Leira <pablo.leira@×××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation
890 Carlos Castillo <carlos@×××××××××××××.com> - Spanish Translation
891 Tirant <tirant@×××××.net> - Spanish Translation
892 Jaime Freire <jfreire@××.com> - Spanish Translation
893 Lucas Sallovitz <krusty_ar@×××××.com> - Spanish Translation
894 Aycan Irican <aycan@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
895 Bugra Cakir <bugra@×××××××××.com> - Turkish Translation
896 Cagil Seker <cagils@××××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
897 Emre Kazdagli <emre@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
898 Evrim Ulu <evrim@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation
899 Gursel Kaynak <gurcell@××××××××.tr> - Turkish Translation