Sunday, July 20, 2003

Kernel 2.0.31 released (The FreeDOS Project). Total project downloads to date: 91281 Project description: This is the CVS home for the FreeDOS Project. FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. FreeDOS is free because it is released under the GNU General Public License. This means you have access to the source code! [Download] [Release Notes] By bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net (Bart Oldeman). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 1:57:43 PM

Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM Cheap PPC Linux Machines From IBM Posted by timothy on Sunday July 20, @01:42AM from the alert-the-darl dept. ksheff writes "According to this story, IBM is planning on introducing low-end SMP servers and deskside machines based on the PPC970. The machines would be able to run Linux and AIX. A 4-way machine is expected to cost less than $3500! IBM expects a 20x increase in the number of PPC Linux servers by 2006."  [Slashdot] 1:46:27 PM

mlagen mlagen-0.4.8 released (MLA Auto-Generator). Total project downloads to date: 107 Project description: Generates correctly formatted(MLA, APA, Chicago, CPE, Turabian) entries for works cited or bibliography pages. [Download] [Release Notes] By acdbx@users.sourceforge.net (Patrick Do). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] WOnder if something like this can be done as open source for law. 1:44:57 PM

At last night's dinner, which was a lot of fun, Marc Canter said that a lot of people don't know that RSS 2.0 is extensible. They think it can't evolve without changing the spec. Marc is right about that. He said I should do something to correct the misunderstanding. I agree. So here's a list of modules that extend RSS 2.0. In a way it's like the list of implementations for XML-RPC or SOAP. The larger and more diverse the list of extensions, the richer the environment. The authors of these modules claim that their namespaces work with RSS 2.0. As with the XML-RPC implementations, as new modules come online I'll keep you posted so you can watch it grow. [Scripting News] 1:39:52 PM