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Gentoo, GNOME 2.6, Wordperfect NEWS Software ■Perfect Word by Corel Corel returns to the Linux arena with its announcement of plans to publish a Software News Linux-native version of its productivity software suite, WordPerfect. Version 12 ■KD Executor of the office tool is said to offer similar Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB has script demonstrating the bug where pos- features as those found in Microsoft’s released a first beta version of KD Execu- sible. Office. tor 2.0, an automatic testing tool for Qt KD Executor requires Qt 3.0.6 or Back in 1998, and KDE applications. higher. It will not work with either the Corel was selling With KD Executor it’s possible to test older Qt 2.x versions or the Professional a Linux native graphical user interfaces automatically. Edition of Qt. Since KD Executor is plat- version of its The tool can record scripts for running form-independent, it is possible to record WordPerfect 8, the application. The Klarälvdalens a script on Linux and reuse it for other which was soon Datakonsult team says that those scripts platforms which support Qt (and vice followed by a are more stable than scripts recorded versa). Linux-translated with toolkit-independent tools, because The tool is available under a commer- version of Word- they “know” about the internals of the cial licensing scheme, based on the Perfect 9 in 2000. application – “even if the layout changes number of platforms and developers. Since then, the company has allowed the script will still work.” Qt properties Holders of such a commercial license its Linux focus to slip a little, to the can be selected during recording and will have access to both the source code extent of even selling its rights in Corel printed while doing the playback to package and, upon request, prebuilt Linux to Xandros. The company is now ensure that the GUI works correctly. binaries. One year’s support is included planning to conquer the Office market by KD Executor can be used for internal in this offer, but the support contract can offering alternatives to Sun Microsys- testing as well as for recording auto- be extended. A special KDE community tem’s StarOffice and its popular Open mated demos of applications to present edition, which only works with KDE Source variant OpenOffice. It is expected them to customers. Another possibility is applications, is also available and can that the new WordPerfect version 12 will to ship KD Executor-enabled versions of be downloaded from Klarälvdalens be available soon from Corel’s own programs and ask customers that are Datakonsult’s website. ■ online store. ■ reporting a bug to send an Excecutor http://www.klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se/ http://www.corel.com/ ■Open Doors After collecting vulnerabilities in both freely available. OSVDB is an open pro- work, and reduce expenses inherent software and hardware for the past two ject that aims to provide an unbiased, with the development and maintenance years, the results are now publicly acces- vendor neutral vulnerability database of in-house vulnerability databases.” sible via the Open Source vulnerability freely to everyone. “The overall goals of New entries for the database are col- database (OSVDB). It is planned to the project are to promote greater, more lected from numerous security mailing update the database with at least one open collaboration between companies lists. After determining a vulnerability to new item every day and collect data on and individuals, eliminate redundant be valid, it is then added in a pending all kinds of software and operating mode to be reviewed and edited by systems. a project member. There are also “Getting reliable and complete plans to include a web form for information on security vulnerabili- submitting new entries or updat- ties is typically a hunt among ing existing vulnerabilities. dozens of websites and mailing The OSVDB team plans to lists, not to mention dealing with release several other services in proprietary and copyrighted infor- the upcoming months; such as mation,” said OSVDB founder Tyler making database access easier for Owen in a statement. end users as well as offering better According to CERT, who collected support for specialized tasks per- statistical data on this subject, the formed by software developers number of new computer security and security analysts. The team is vulnerabilities found each year has still looking for security experts to risen over two thousand percent help the with project. For contact since 1995. While other vulnerabil- details, visit the OSVDB website. ■ ity databases exist, they are not http://osvdb.org/ 6 June 2004 www.linux-magazine.com Software NEWS ■Gentoo Linux 2004.0 released ■Free X! The Gentoo team has announced the tomized binary packages for the Gentoo Back in January, members of X.Org and release of Gentoo Linux 2004.0 for the Reference Platform (GRP).” various companies announced the for- x86, AMD64, PowerPC, Sun SPARC, and To download installation stages, mation of the X.Org Foundation, a SGI MIPS architectures. The new LiveCDs, and GRP sets, go to the community to “maintain and enhance version includes several bug- Gentoo website and select the existing X Window System code fixes and security updates one of the FTP mirrors. base”. The foundation has now and provides Linux ker- Gentoo Linux LiveCDs announced its first official X Window nel 2.6.3, GCC 3.3.2, with installation hand- System release. GLIBC 2.3.2, KDE 3.2, book (included on the X11R6.7 (X Window System Version 11 GNOME 2.4.2, and CD-ROM) and opti- Release 6.7) is based on the last XFree86 xfce4. mized pre-compiled version that was released before XFree86 Included in Gentoo binary packages are changed the license under which its code Linux 2004.0 is Catalyst, also available at the new is published. Distributors such as Gen- Gentoo’s new release Gentoo Store. It’s also too, MandrakeSoft, OpenBSD, and meta-tool. Catalyst allows possible to purchase a sub- Debian GNU/Linux have rejected the developers and users to create scription that offers shipments of new XFree86 license, largely on the basis and customize every aspect of the Gen- the quarterly 2004.x releases. ■ that it is GPL incompatible, meaning that too Linux system – “from installation http://www.gentoo.org/ the new X.Org code tree will likely stages, to bootable LiveCDs, to cus- http://store.gentoo.org/ become the new default X11. In addition, Red Hat announced that it will to work with the new X.Org foundation to ■GNOME 2.6 ready include X11R6.7 in the upcoming release The new GNOME 2.6 dekstop has been Other new features include FileRoller’s of Fedora Core 2 along with future Red published and offers several interesting new handling of RPMs (Red Hat Package Hat Enterprise Linux products based on new features as well as numerous bug Manager). GNOME’s equivalent of Fedora. fixes. Also included are improvements in Winzip is now able to deal with archives There are plans to periodically release the user interface, general stability and in RPM format. GPDF, GNOME’s default X Window System updates and provide speed. PDF viewer, provides new features, such them to the general public free of charge. GNOME’s file manager Nautilus pro- as support for Yelp, GNOME’s help “The X.Org Foundation will govern the vides a new feature called “spatial viewer. Release notes and a changelog evolution of the X11R6 specifications, browsing”. It works in a similar way to are available on the project’s homepage. working with appropriate groups to the finder or query function provided by To test the new GNOME dekstop, you revise and post updates to the standard MAC OS X. For each file directory, Nau- can download the source code from the as required.” tilus opens a new window and remem- project’s website and build it from More information about the founda- bers its location and size. When Nautilus scratch, or simply wait for the next tion and its plans along with the X11R6.7 needs to reopen such a folder, the win- release of your favorite Linux distribu- release can be found at the X.Org dow will appear as it did before or, if it’s tion, which will most likely include website. ■ already open, it will be quickly brought GNOME 2.6. ■ http://www.x.org/ back to the front. http://www.gnome.org/ http://freedesktop.org/Software/xorg ■And the winners are… Thanks to all of you who participated Liam Egan, Kingston, Canada in our recent reader survey. Your input Raymond Holilgrave, Liverpool, is valuable, and we appreciate the time United Kingdom taken to give us your opinion. Laurent Julliard, Biviers, United Our special thanks to Sophia for draw- Kingdom ing the winners and to O’Reilly for Mika Lundell, Vaasa, Finland providing book prizes. Paul Mobbs, Banbury, United The winners of a 1-year Linux Maga- Kingdom zine DVD subscription are: A. G. Nichols, Ripley, WV, USA Geert Anthonis, Kaomsiung, Taiwan Michael Zouridakis, Brussels, Belgium Michael Crees, Walsall, United Enjoy your free subscription! Kingdom All other winners will be receiving Sinisa Dumanic, Split, Croatia their prizes in the mail soon. www.linux-magazine.com June 2004 7.
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