Wednesday, August 20, 2003

alp alp-0.96.5d released (Autonomous LAN Party). Total project downloads to date: 202 Project description: Administer your LAN Party efficiently with Autonomous LAN Party (ALP)! Support for Single Elimination (and Free for All), Consolation, Double Elimination, as well as Round Robin tournament types. Now can run servers from boot CD's called Satellites! [Download] [Release Notes] By xenophobia@users.sourceforge.net (Zach Leatherman). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 7:22:44 AM

EDS launches desktop service. The computer services company will announce on Wednesday a pay-as-you-go service for managing desktop computers. [CNET News.com] This service is based upon a Microsoft product: "Microsoft says that in the past it has had tools for jobs such as migrating data, but that this is the first time the company has offered a comprehensive product for helping businesses deploy desktop software. Microsoft is making the deployment aid available free online. " The deployment aid looks like a very good resource with links to a lot of useful MSFT tools for deploying and customizing XP and OfficeXP. 7:17:56 AM

ByzantineOS images Aug2003 released (ByzantineOS). Total project downloads to date: 40993 Project description: ByzantineOS is a software Internet Appliance with a home entertainment bias. It is based on a networked Linux distribution/bootable system with Mozilla providing access to a range of services and applications. ByzantineOS fits in 32MB/48MB of media. [Download] [Release Notes] By ggeorg@users.sourceforge.net (Georgios Georgopoulos). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 6:05:59 AM

tiki Tiki 1.7.1 -Eta Carinae- released (Tiki CMS/Groupware). Total project downloads to date: 124084 Project description: Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) [Download] [Release Notes] By teedog@users.sourceforge.net (teedog). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 6:03:35 AM