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What is a bzip2 file? Where do I get "bunzip2" ?
Hit freshmeat.net and do a search for bzip. It'll come up.
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wipe
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Dumb newbie question - what is Tk.pm?
I was just thinking about posting this to a newsgroup but this seems like a reasonably on-target forum; yesterday I tried out the Tk/Perl tax package recently posted on Freshmeat. It failed, saying Tk.pm wasn't installed. I do have both Tk and Perl packages installed but no file by that name. I searched the perl archives and didn't find a Tk.pm file, and there was nothing by that name in the Tk module directory. I'm sure the problem is my lack of familiarity with the Perl module system but I'd appreciate any advice. (This is going to run on MkLinux so pointers to source would be helpful.) Thanks....
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Regex EnginesActually, the PCRE library supports Perl 5.004's regexes quite nicely in a compact little library. Some Perl 5.005 features such as (?>...) are also implemented, but others, such as embedding Perl code, obviously aren't possible.
The PCRE code could use some more optimization, but on the other hand, at least its code is relatively easy to read. There's also the regex engine inside Mozilla's JavaScript implementation, which I know little about.
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Linux on a billion desktopsDo not underestimate the power of free as in free beer. An overwhelming majority of users in developing countries such as India will find running Linux sensible if not for technical reasons, then for economic reasons. Computers are more expensive in India than in the US in numeric terms and certainly way more expensive in real terms. The importance of being able to keep the old 386's running cannot be underrated. Check out this editorial on freshmeat for a perspective on this.
Some posters questioned the lack of any free software contribution from India. This is more due to lack of affordable Internet connectivity than anything else.
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Learn your Lessons from History.
Those that do not study history are doomed to repeat it.
"I can't help observing, of course, the "free source" Unix-derived world seems to be suffering from exactly the same kind of fragmentation and strife that occurred and is still occurring in the commercial world."
Reminds me a hole lot of what Jim Gettys, the guy who brought us X, had to say not to long ago.
Linux is it's own worst enemy. Microsoft can't destroy Linux. But Linux can destroy itself. Take sometime and think about that before your next flame war over libraries, hiarchies, OSS, OSI, all this other junk...
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X by Jim Gettys
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http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/02/16/919182300.htm
I know this isn't on the front page any longer, but it may help someone.. (then again, don't all
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Video Server 0.5.4Check out Video Server 0.5.4 on Freshmeat.Net:
Stony Brook Video Server is the distributed video server application that provides indexing, searching and video streaming in a convenient way to clients over the network. The client may browse the complete list of movies, search closed captions and play selected video from the beginning or from the point matching search query.
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Partial Indeo and QuickTime and full MPEG
Well, I've noticed that the Xanim that comes with RedHat is broken when it comes to Indeo and QuickTime support. For me to get them to work, I had to download the latest source to xanim, along with the iv and mov object files (Licensing terms keeps the author from distributing them as source files) then I had to edit the make file and compile my own. I've upgraded it by hand ever since.
As for MPEG, there is a proprietary, Binary-only player called mtvp (MPEG TV player for Linux). It's not as nice as xanim, but it does play MPEG files smoothly on my P233 with nothing special.
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Linux version exists!
Been around for quite some time now.... Relatively speaking: http://tx.us.mi rrors.freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/01/19/916773388
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Hey -- Don't bust on newbies!!!I was a newbie once long long ago in a galaxy far far away... But I persisted -- I sought and read everything I could buy or browse. Now I help enlighten (some of) the masses. Don't bust on them! They might not know they need or want it until they try. Help them.
To help those newbies:
www.linux.org
www.xnet.com/~blatura/linapps.shtml
OK So I'm somewhat biased...
"Linux sucks. But Linux sucks less." - JWZ
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Not Another Duplication of Effort...Posted by Christopher B. Browne:
It is quite unfortunate that the Tucows folks have chosen to set up Yet Another Duplicative Manual Registry.We have lots of them already. We don't really need to have yet another place where developers (or other interested people) have to maintain release information.
I don't disagree that there is a need for more "metadata" about software, and that it is valuable to have reviews that can assist people in selecting from (say) the large number of word processors, spreadsheets, or databases.
The LinuxBerg effort is nonetheless duplicative of information being maintained elsewhere.
Anyone who has worked on database systems should remember the notion of normalization. If a database is suitably normalized, data will be distributed out to various tables, and will be addressable using a multiplicity of views.
Thus, Freshmeat has a nice listing of software releases, and some critical URLs thereof. That information is nicely exported on an hourly basis in a single database file. SAL doesn't seem to have a single export of the data that they have collected, but certainly have similar data in some form of database. rpm2html provides utilities to take sets of RPM files and generate XML RDF that provides a crosslinked database of packages, dependencies, and their sources.
The world doesn't very badly need Yet Another Manual Archive of what amounts to the same data. We need something like an XML DTD for the interchange of this data so that the various sites can import/export data from other sites, thus diminishing the need for human effort in creating each of these databases.
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Searchable appindex site
Thanks. It's pointless now, however, since the Real Thing is back up (woo hoo! and thank (insert religious entity here) and scoop).
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It's back :)
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There goes my traffic
About 1/3 of the traffic to Windows Sucks Dot Com was from Freshmeat. This is going to suck!!!! ---Fatboy
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OH MY GOD!
I personally JUST went to the FM page to see what all the fuss is about-- I saw the new page and the first thought I had was, "This kinda reminds me of a Macintosh, but what hey, it looks pretty cool with the little icons on the bottom of the section for posting."
I can admit that I at first didn't like the new order of the site, but further reading on and noticing that scoop added in a better search engine the only thought I has was "cool."
I wish to personally apologise to scoop, but I have no e-mail address at the moment, so Scoop- if you just happen to read this,
You do good work, and personally I wish you the best. I read freshmeat every day, because freshmeat is such a help to those of us who use Linux at home (and in the work force when our superiors don't make us infect Poor Erwin with NT. and please, please, please bring freshmeat back.
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OH MY GOD!
I personally JUST went to the FM page to see what all the fuss is about-- I saw the new page and the first thought I had was, "This kinda reminds me of a Macintosh, but what hey, it looks pretty cool with the little icons on the bottom of the section for posting."
I can admit that I at first didn't like the new order of the site, but further reading on and noticing that scoop added in a better search engine the only thought I has was "cool."
I wish to personally apologise to scoop, but I have no e-mail address at the moment, so Scoop- if you just happen to read this,
You do good work, and personally I wish you the best. I read freshmeat every day, because freshmeat is such a help to those of us who use Linux at home (and in the work force when our superiors don't make us infect Poor Erwin with NT. and please, please, please bring freshmeat back.
