Monday, June 14, 2004

GrokDoc Goes Live. I am happy to tell you that GrokDoc, the web site for our community usability study of GNU/Linux newbies -- applying free and open source ideals to documentation -- has been set up. It's here, and it's a wiki format, because that is what most of you said you thought would work the best. We've got it set up to begin, and now it's ready for you to do your part, the actual study. Our goal is to find out what newbies need to make the switch to GNU/Linux and then to create a useful manual on basic tasks that new users will find simple and clear and easy to follow, using what we learn from our study. There has never been such a community usability study on this scale for GNU/Linux systems, so far as I have been able to determine, and we are approaching it in a new way. We are not trying to duplicate effort. We are trying something brand new. Instead of experts telling newbies how to do things, we will let newbies show and tell us what they need. [GrokLaw] 5:37:33 PM

advancemess 0.83.0.0 released (AdvanceMAME). Total project downloads to date: 461708 Project description: A MAME and MESS port with an advanced video support for Arcade Monitors, TVs, and for PC Monitors. It also contains a bootable Linux LiveCD, a frontend with animated MNG/MP3 snapshots, a rom manager, and recompression utilities for ZIP/GZ/PNG/MNG files. [Download] [Release Notes] By amadvance@users.sourceforge.net (Andrea Mazzoleni). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 5:35:56 PM