CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support other xBase dialects. CLIP project features support for international languages and character sets.
It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing), SQL and ODBC drivers, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), a multitasking client and application server based on TCP/IP sockets, object data base utilities, and a functions library.
Features On ClLIP
·Preprocessor
·Fully compatible CA-Clipper with with some new possibilities.
·Compiler
·slight incompability with CA-Clipper, which may be resolved easily, using the "search and replace" method. In addition it can compile to C program, byte-code, dynamic library and mixed C+byte-code.
·Very fast and efficient OO-model
·Difference from CA-Clipper reveals itself in part of descriptions and making an object, but in part of using the ready objects syntax and logic of functioning is completely the same.
·It is possible to write programs on CLIP, without using other syntax excepting OOP.
· Initial support syntax from FS,CAVO,FoxPro.
· C-API
· has much more possibilities than CA-Clipper.
· Full international support
· Including adjustment on any code page of any language on any keyboard (with stelnet emulator only or on consoles), substitution of string constants during execution and changing a logic of functioning with strings, given for functions alpha, digit, lower, upper, subscripted weight factors etc.
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ftp://ftp.itk.ru/pub/clip/clip-prg-1.2.0-0.tgz
Yellow Dog Linux includes well-known GNU/Linux components such as the Linux kernel proper, GCC, and the GNU C Library, as well as other free/open-source technologies such as Apache, PostgreSQL, Python, Webmin, and XFree86. The distribution also includes user applications, such as the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, OpenOffice.org, Evolution, Rhythmbox, MPlayer, Pidgin, and GIMP.
Yellow Dog Linux is a derivative of Fedora Core and relies on the RPM package manager. Through successive versions of Yellow Dog Linux, Terra Soft Solutions has invested heavily in implementing support specifically for Apple and IBM hardware. As a result, Yellow Dog Linux supports accelerated graphics and audio hardware out of the box, although some other hardware components such as AirPort Extreme (Apple’s 802.11g wireless cards) on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks will not function properly without modifications to the kernel.
Since v5.0, Yellow Dog Linux defaults to an Enlightenment window manager desktop, although other desktop environments such as KDE, GNOME and Xfce are also provided and supported.
Releases
Distributed on eight CDs (four install CDs and four source CDs), YDL 4.1 comprises over 1000 packages.
Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 was one of the first Linux distribution to run on Sony’s PlayStation 3 platform. it is designed specifically for HDTV so users with SDTV will have to use the commands ‘installtext’ and ‘ydl480i’ to be able to install and run.
Distribution
Yellow Dog Linux is available in several editions ranging in price from $30 to $90 — boxed with printed manual, support, and T-shirt; boxed with printed manual but without support; and a “geek edition” with CDs only (no documentation). The proceeds from these boxed distributions partly fund the development of the operating system. Their packaging is designed to match the white polycarbonate coating of the last PowerPC iMacs and iBooks, computers on which the desktop version is likely to be run.
As with most Linux distributions, Terra Soft Solutions also makes Yellow Dog Linux available as a free download from public FTP mirrors.
A new study from the OSDL Desktop Linux Working Group attempts to shed some light on why Linux isn’t making major inroads into the desktop market. Not surprisingly, the biggest stumbling block cited by potential Linux users is the lack of applications, as well as complex setup processes for peripherals, and limited training available for end-users. Yes, it’s stuff we’ve all heard before. However, there are some interesting findings just under the surface. For example, the apps that most users said they wished they could use under Linux are e-mail programs, office productivity apps and web browsers. Given the widespread availability of programs like Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice, this means there’s a huge opportunity to educate potential customers. Of course, configuring peripherals is still a little harder than it should be. But the survey may actually be good news for companies attempting to bring Linux to the masses, since most of the pieces are already in place; they just need to put them together and make sure consumers know how to use them (yes, that’s not an easy task — but it’s certainly not insurmountable).
Survey says: Not enough desktop Linux apps - Download Squad
1. Install ubuntu. You'll need to be running in ubuntu while you create the distro.
2. Make a list of all essential programs you need. I chose The GIMP, Gaim, VLC media player etc to make the distro complete.
3. We now need a program to do our work. We chose Reconstructor
4. Fire up Reconstructor with "sudo python reconstructor.py" in your Linux terminal, and you'll be told which dependencies you need to install before you run Reconstructor.
5. Go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package manager > settings > Respositories to make sure the Universe and Multiverse repositories are selected. Open a terminal and run "sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools gcc rsync libbogl-dev libus-plash-dev gpg dpkg-dev fakeroot apt-utlis" in the terminal window. You need to be online for this to work.
6. After downloading the dependencies, start Reconstructor again and you'll be greeted by a welcome screen.
7. In the new screen, select the "Create Remaster", "Create Root", and "Create Initial Ramdisk" options.
8. The last option in the window asks for the location of the main Ubuntu ISO file, which will be used to replicate the directory structure. Click the "..." button next to Live CD ISO Filename option, and navigate to where the Ubuntu ISO file is located; then click next.
9. The screen is divided into different tabs, the first being "Boot screens". This is where you change the first screen that is shown and also the image shown after you select boot options. To select the image, click on "Generate" button. Select the image and choose where to save it. Reconstructor will copy it to the correct directories, automatically giving you the custom screens.
10. The "Gnome" tab allows you to change the default login screen, theme, and fonts of the Ubuntu software after it's installed. You can either select one of the default themes, or click "..." button next to the theme selection option and import a custom theme.
11. The "Apt" tab allows you to select the repositories you want available during the live CD customisation phase. What impressed me most was that based on the version of Ubuntu you're using as a base, Reconstructor automatically chooses the corresponding repositories.
12. The next tab- "Live CD"- you can set the default username, password and hostname of the computer.
13. Once done, move over to the next tabcalled "Modules"- the soul of the program. Towards the bottom half of the screen, you'll find options to install or remove custom programs from the list above. Here you can add any program especially the essentials i mentioned in the second step.
Once you have all the modules and customisation in place, click on Apply button to go ahead and compile your very own linux distro.
NeroLINUX provides LINUX users with the essential tools to effectively perform optical recording tasks. The application supports burning data and disc images to CDs/DVDs (ISO9660, UDF and UDF/ISO9660 Bridge), Bootable CDs/DVDs, Audio CDs with CD text, Mixed Mode CDs, CD-EXTRA, Multisession CD/DVDs and Double Layer DVDs. It is provided as a standard Linux package in RPM or DEB.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (a.k.a. etch) was released April 8th, 2007. The release included many major changes.The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. At the core of an operating system is the kernel. The kernel is the most fundamental program on the computer and does all the basic housekeeping and lets you start other programs. Debian systems currently use the Linux kernel. Linux is a piece of software started by Linus Torvalds and supported by thousands of programmers worldwide.
The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed "etch", after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB.
Using a now fully integrated installation process, Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 comes with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions. This release introduces a newly developed graphical frontend to the installation system supporting scripts using composed characters and complex languages; the installation system for Debian GNU/Linux has now been translated to 58 languages.
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set.
Vim is useful whether you're already using vi or using a different editor. Users of Vim 5 should consider upgrading to Vim 6, which is greatly enhanced since Vim 5.
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Vim is often called a "programmer's editor," and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
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"One thing is for sure, kids in some of the poorest areas of the world will start getting exposed not only to computing but to Linux computing from the end of this year. We wonder what Intel chairman Chris Barret will make of the “$100 gadget” once it hits the intended under-resourced educational market? Or what Bill Gates, he of the high education for all aspirations, will have to say about the design once it proves workable, and without Windows, after all?"
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The Linux kernel and most GNU software are licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2. The GPL requires that all distributed source code modifications and derived works also be licensed under the GPL, and is sometimes referred to as a "share and share-alike", "copyleft", or, pejoratively, a viral license. In 1997, Linus Torvalds stated, "Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."[20] Other software may use other licenses; many libraries use the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a more permissive variant of the GPL, and the X Window System uses the MIT License.
After more than ten years, the Free Software Foundation announced that they would be upgrading the GPL to version 3, citing increasing concerns with software patents and digital rights management (DRM).[21] In particular, DRM is appearing in systems running copyleft software, a phenomenon dubbed "tivoization" after digital video recorder maker Tivo's use of DRM in their Linux-based appliances.[22] Linus Torvalds has publicly stated on the Linux Kernel Mailing List that, based on the drafts of the license, he would not move the Linux kernel to GPL v.3, specifically citing the DRM provisions.[23][24]
In March 2003, the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, claiming that IBM had contributed parts of SCO's copyrighted code to the Linux kernel, violating IBM's license to use Unix. Also, SCO sent letters to several companies warning that their use of Linux without a license from SCO may be actionable, and claimed in the press that they would be suing individual Linux users. Per the Utah District Court ruling on July 3, 2006; 182 out of 294 items of evidence provided by SCO against IBM in discovery were dismissed.[25]
See also: SCO-Linux controversies
In 2004, Ken Brown, president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, published Samizdat, a highly controversial book which, among other criticism of open source software, denied Torvalds' authorship of the Linux kernel (attributing it to Tanenbaum, instead). This was rebutted by Tanenbaum himself.[26][27]
In the United States, the name Linux is a trademark registered to Linus Torvalds.[28] Initially, nobody registered it, but on August 15, 1994, William R. Della Croce, Jr. filed for the trademark Linux, and then demanded royalties from Linux distributors. In 1996, Torvalds and some affected organizations sued to have the trademark assigned to Torvalds, and in 1997 the case was settled.[29] The licensing of the trademark has since been handled by the Linux Mark Institute. Torvalds has stated that he only trademarked the name to prevent someone else from using it, but was bound in 2005 by United States trademark law to take active measures to enforce the trademark. As a result, the LMI sent out a number of letters to distribution vendors requesting that a fee be paid for the use of the name, and a number of companies have complied
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The Unix operating system was conceived and implemented in the 1960s and first released in 1970. Its wide availability and portability meant that it was widely adopted, copied and modified by academic institutions and businesses, with its design being influential on authors of other systems.
The GNU Project, with the goal of creating a Unix-like, POSIX-compatible operating system composed entirely of free software,[9] began development in 1984, and a year later Richard Stallman had created the Free Software Foundation and wrote the first draft of the GNU General Public License (GPLv1). By the early 1990s, the project had produced or collected many necessary operating system components, including libraries, compilers, text editors, and a Unix shell, and the upper level could be supplied by the X Window System, but development of the lower level, which consisted of a kernel, device drivers and daemons had stalled and was incomplete.[10]
MINIX, a Unix-like system intended for academic use, was released by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in 1987. While source code for the system was available, modification and redistribution were restricted. In addition, MINIX's 16-bit design was not well adapted to the increasingly cheap and popular Intel 386 architecture for personal computers.
In 1991, Linus Torvalds began to work on a non-commercial replacement for MINIX while he was attending the University of Helsinki.[11] This eventually became the Linux kernel. Torvalds intended Linux to be specifically tailored to the capabilities of the 32-bit Intel 386 platform.[12]
Linux was dependent on the Minix userspace at first. With code from the GNU system freely available, it was advantageous if this could be used with the fledgeling OS. Code licensed under the GNU GPL can be used in other projects, so long as they too are released under the GPL. In order to make the Linux kernel compatible with the components from the GNU project, Torvalds changed his original license (which prohibited commercial redistribution) to the GPLv2.[13] Linux and GNU developers worked to integrate GNU components with Linux. Thus Linux became a complete, fully functional free operating system
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