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KDevelop 3.0

Along with the release of KDE 3.2 comes

a new version of KDevelop, completely

rewritten and supporting more than 15

programming languages, numerous ver-

sion control systems, debuggers, docu-

mentation formats, and build tools.

KDevelop is an integrated develop-

ment environment (IDE) and suitable for

tasks from system programming to RAD

development. It is available for Linux,

Mac OS X and Windows/Cygwin.

Cooperative Linux

“If Linux runs on every architecture, why

should another operating system be in its

way?” asks the coLinux team and pro-

vides a port of the Linux kernel which

allows Linux to run on an unmodified

Windows 2000/XP system.

It’s the first working, free & open

source software method for running

Linux on Microsoft Windows natively

without hardware emulation. It only

requires very minimal changes in the

architecture dependent code and causes

almost no changes in functionality.

coLinux implements a Linux-specific

lightweight VM with I/O virtualization.

coLinux relies upon special driver soft-

ware on the host operating system to

execute the coLinux kernel in a privi-

leged mode. coLinux is given full control

of the physical machine’s MMU (mem-

ory management unit), with the machine

being constantly switched between the

host OS state and the coLinux kernel

state. Since coLinux is able to act just

like a native kernel, it achieves almost

the same performance and functionality

as a stand-alone Linux system on

the same machine.

The coLinux team says that with

minimal porting efforts it would be

possible to run it under Solaris,

Linux itself, or any operating sys-

tem that supports loading kernel

drivers. To demonstrate that it

works, screenshots of the Japanese

Knoppix Edition running on Win-

dows have been published on the

project’s website.

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The release offers a wizard for creating

projects with a wide range of user inter-

faces, in both C & C++, and offers

features such as a syntax-highlighting

editor, an internal debugger, and CVS

support. A HTML-based help system

offers access to manuals, with class-ref-

erencing and search mechanisms to

browse sources and documentation.

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http://www.colinux.org/

http://www.kdevelop.org

One Click MySQL

MySQL AB has announced MySQL

Administrator, a new open source tool

with a graphical user interface designed

to provide easy management and moni-

toring of MySQL database servers.

The new graphical front-end integrates

database management and maintenance

into a single environment and provides a

clear and intuitive graphical user inter-

face. MySQL Administrator enables de-

Point and Klik

Klik (KDE-based Live Installer for Knop-

pix) offers to install software on Knoppix

(even when running from CD).

Klik uses a client server approach and

installs the software in your home direc-

tory.

The klik website offers the ability to

install programs such as Apache Web-

server, Macromedia Flash Plugin,

Webmin, RealPayer8 and more.

velopers and DBAs to easily perform all

the command line operations visually,

including configuring servers, adminis-

tering users and dynamically monitoring

database health. The graphical console

of MySQL Administrator will also help

with other administrative tasks such as

monitoring replication status, backup

and restore, and viewing logs.

It will be available for download some-

time in April/May. The software will be

published under a dual-license business

model, which means that it will be pro-

vided at no cost under the free soft-

ware/open source GNU General Public

License (GPL) and also under a commer-

cial license aimed at software vendors

and other commercial MySQL cus-

tomers.

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http://klik.berlios.de/

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http://www.mysql.com/admin

http://www.mysql.com/

April 2004

www.linux-magazine.com

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Home Cinema

Last month saw the publication of a new

version of DVD Slideshow: a set of

scripts which help you with producing a

DVD slideshow video, with menus.

The dvd-slideshow script reads a text

file, which includes a list of pictures for

the slideshow. It then produces a DVD-

compatible MPEG movie. A soundtrack

can be added by specifying that you want

one or more audio files to be played, rela-

tive to the slides. dvd-mainmenu lets you

create a top level DVD menu for the

slideshow. It produces a simple DVD

menu with buttons that link to MPEG2

files, either generated with dvd-slideshow

or created by other means.

If you are already using Gallery to cre-

ate and maintain albums of photos, you

can use gallery2slideshow to make the

input file for dvd-slideshow from your

Gallery album. gallery2slideshow not

only lists all the images of an album, but

also puts each picture’s description into

the “comments” field of the dvd-

slideshow input file.

DVD Slidehow requires dvdauthor, the

mjpegtools, ImageMagick and NetPBM.

Ve rsion 0.5.2 is available from the pro-

ject’s homepage, which has links to the

required software and HOWTOs.

Fox rising from the Flames

The Mozilla Foundation has announced

the release of a new preview of its web

browser, Mozilla Firefox. The browser,

previously known as Mozilla Firebird, is

now called Firefox to avoid overlapping

with the Firebird Relational Database.

Ve rsion 0.8 includes a new download

manager, several improvements for

bookmark handling and a new default

theme for Mac OS X. With only a few

mouse clicks it’s possible to add search

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engines, include add-ons that remove

banners, or add spell-checkers. Firefox

provides tabbed browsing and shields

you from unwanted popup advertising,

while allowing sites to open popup win-

dows, if required to operate. It can be

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http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

http://dvd-slideshow.sourceforge.net/

http://gallery.sourceforge.net/

Resistance is Futile

In January, Guillem Jover announced the

first public beta release of his script deb-

takeover – a tool to convert other distros

to Debian GNU/Linux on the fly. The

script will install a clean base system,

but backup the old system configuration

and leave user data untouched.

debtakeover backs up /etc and doesn’t

touch /home at all. It does not convert

the whole system to Debian GNU/Linux

since it “will not map all previous

installed programs to the Debian coun-

terparts”. The script was originally de-

signed to migrate remote servers running

Red Hat Linux and is as unintrusive “as

it can be”, said Guillem Jover on the

Debian-devel mailinglist. debtakeover

doesn’t touch the bootloader or the ker-

nel and has been tested on Suse Linux

and Red Hat Linux systems. Guillem

Jover says he’s interested “in creating

rpms, ebuild and any other distribution

native packages, to be able to do

something like: rpm -i debian-woody.

rpm ”. He is also interested in extending

support for all GNU/Linux distributions,

and later exploring the possibility of

cross-installs from for example a

FreeBSD to a Debian GNU/KFreeBSD or

a GNU/Linux system. There was also

some discussion on the mailing list of

doing cross-installs from commercial

Unix systems, although this would be a

much greater challenge.

Ve rsion 0.6.3 of debtakeover is avail-

able as a compressed tar archive from

the author’s website. Keep in mind that

is is still only a beta release, so use it at

your own peril (although it’s clearly

worked nicely for some people).

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http://www.hadrons.org/~guillem/

debian/debtakeover/

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