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Muuglines $2.50 the Manitoba UNIX User Group Newsletter Vol. 13 No. 4 December 2000 MUUGlines $2.50 The Manitoba UNIX User Group Newsletter December 12, 2000: “Furthermore, JBuilder 4 Foundation’s sample applications, tutorials, multimedia training, and Xmas Fun support for the latest Java standards help develop- This month, Kevin McGregor will be demonstrat- ers on any platform learn Java easily.” ing some of the fun things (i.e. games and other toys) available for Linux. Kevin will discuss the “This is not just a trial or demonstration version gaming market for Linux and where it might be but a production-quality tool that Java developers going, and why it is important to the future of can use now to benefit from the power, perform- Linux. ance and productivity of JBuilder across multiple platforms, including Linux, Solaris™ and Win- Please note our meeting location: IBM Cana- dows® operating systems,” said Tony de la Lama, da’s offices in the TD Centre, at the corner of vice president of Borland’s Java business unit. “We Portage and Main. We gather in the lobby on the are confident that JBuilder Foundation customers main floor – please try to be there by about 7:15 will find the environment highly productive, and in PM. Steve Moffat will then take us up to the meeting the future, will choose to upgrade to our Profes- room just before the meeting starts at 7:30. Don’t be sional and Enterprise editions.” late, or you may not get in. JBuilder 4 Foundation is a complete develop- Parking is available either in the parkade be- ment solution that allows users to build, compile, hind the TD building, off Albert Street, or in the debug and deploy Java applications. With the ground level lot just north of the TD building. increased performance as a result of the Java 2 Entrance to the lot is from Albert Street, behind the JDK™ 1.3 Hotspot Client Virtual Machine; signifi- parkade. Either way, parking is a $1.25 flat rate for cant productivity enhancements like the Two-way the evening. You purchase your ticket from a visual designers, AppBrowser™, CodeInsight™, dispenser, so make sure you’ve got exact change – context sensitive help system and configurable a loonie and a quarter, or 5 quarters. keyboard layouts; and new source code manage- ment, JBuilder 4 Foundation eases and speeds the Get JBuilder 4 development process. Other new features include Inprise Corporation (a.k.a. Borland), announced the XML-based project manager and Visual Stu- the immediate availability of Borland® JBuilder™ dio® and Brief® editor keymaps. “The response to 4 Foundation at the Linux Business Expo. JBuilder JBuilder Foundation has exceeded our expecta- 4 Foundation is a pure Java® development envi- tions in every way,” continued de la Lama. “With ronment supporting the latest Java 2 platform stand- JBuilder’s unmatched capabilities and open and ards and cross-platform development. The product extensible architecture, we are clearly emerging as is available for free download at Borland’s Web the leader in the Java development space.” site, http://www.borland.com/jbuilder/ foundation/. In addition to the key features, JBuilder Open Tools™ allow users to customize their develop- “JBuilder 4 Foundation’s pure Java develop- ment workspace, change the look-and-feel and add ment environment, including an integrated editor, new features to meet their needs by seamlessly debugger, compiler, visual designers, and wizards, adding third-party components to the environ- provides developers on Linux® with an ideal basis ment. Users can gain access to these components for developing Java applications,” said Bill through the JBuilder Open Tools community. For Claybrook, research director, Aberdeen Group. more information about the Open Tools commu- 1 December 2000 Vol. 13 No. 4 nity, please visit http://www.borland.com/jbuilder. At Comdex in Las Vegas, Turbolinux demon- JBuilder’s success continues to grow dramatically, strated the power of EnFuzion by “cracking” five- as it recently won major awards from Java Pro, character NT passwords in less than a minute using JavaWorld and Software Development Magazine, an application freely available on the Internet. The three leading industry publications. demonstration was run on a small network of computers in the Turbolinux booth. EnFuzion can More on JBuilder™ 4 Foundation easily scale to solve much larger computational JBuilder 4 Foundation is ideally suited for Java challenges and is already deployed at customer technology developers who want a high productiv- sites running on networks of more than 1,000 ity integrated development environment (IDE) to computers. more easily create cross-platform Java applica- tions. JBuilder 4 Foundation allows users to rapidly Turbolinux does not endorse breaking pass- develop, compile, run and debug applications us- words on Microsoft software or any other products. ing JBuilder visual tools, as well as through tradi- [We don’t endorse breaking passwords, either, but tional coding methods. we note strictly for comparison that a 700 MHz Athlon can go through all 5-character passwords Key product features include the AppBrowser, using a combination of 26 letters and 10 digits in 46 to simplify code management; CodeInsight to re- seconds. This includes lowercase and uppercase, duce syntax errors and speed coding; the Java 2 as NT servers tend to also store LANMAN-style platform graphical debugger; and Two-Way- uppercase-only passwords. –Ed.] Tools™ for Pure Java. Additionally, users can customize and extend the environment to suit their Test Eazel development needs using the Open Tools API, Eazel Inc., the developer of software and services which aims to enable easier integration of tools and to make computers easier to use, announced in components from third party vendors. A detailed early November that it is unveiling its Network list of features included in JBuilder 4 Foundation is User Environment, which includes a “sneak pre- located at http://www.borland.com/jbuilder. view” of its Internet-based Eazel Services inte- grated with the company’s new preview of the EnFuzion Demo Nautilus software environment. This unveiling Turbolinux, Inc., the leader in high-performance brings computer users significantly closer to a new Linux for Internet infrastructure solutions, demon- era of computing that naturally extends the user strated the power of its EnFuzion software by environment by embracing and leveraging the breaking Microsoft NT passwords at product dem- possibilities of the Internet. The sneak preview is onstrations during Linux Business Expo at Comdex available for the GNOME environment on Linux in Las Vegas in November. and is available for free download at http:// www.eazel.com. EnFuzion, deployed at major sites worldwide, including global financial institutions, national labo- With this announcement, Eazel has reached a ratories, telecommunication companies, semicon- key milestone in delivering on its mission to make ductor firms, consumer goods and biotechnology computers easier to use. The integration of the companies, is a new technology based on harness- Nautilus software environment with Eazel services ing idle CPU cycles on workstations and servers in is a major first step towards improving the way a network to deliver supercomputing performance. people maintain their systems, manage informa- Customer typically use EnFuzion to speed up ap- tion, and interact with others. plications 100 times and more to solve massive computational problems in fields such as risk man- “A decade ago most people used computers to agement, biotechnology, semiconductor research write papers and build spreadsheets,” said Mike and financial modeling without the need to buy Boich, chief executive officer of Eazel Inc. “Today more computers. EnFuzion runs on Linux, Win- we’re using them to send e-mail and instant mes- dows NT and all major Unix operating systems. sages, shop on-line and hold virtual business meet- 2 Vol. 13 No. 4 December 2000 ings. This shift in mainstream computing towards member of the GNOME Foundation. the network has provided Eazel with an opportu- nity to deliver an entirely new and much richer As opposed to other static user interfaces that experience to the user. With the delivery of Eazel only give glimpses of information content through Services and the Nautilus environment, we have icons associated with their file type, Nautilus taken the first step towards achieving that goal.” “thumbnails” most file types by displaying the content of a file in the file icon. For example, if the The release of Eazel Services signals a new file contains an image, the icon is a miniature wave of innovation in computing by providing version of the image, if the file contains a docu- users with an enriched computing environment. ment, the icon displays the first few lines of text; or Eazel is providing users with a sneak preview of the if the file contains music, the music is played when first two of these services today, the Eazel Software the user passes the cursor over the icon. Catalog and Eazel Online Storage. Both services are free and available to Linux users. Nautilus also helps users manage and organize their files more easily by letting them “zoom in” to The Software Catalog provides users with easy, see more file detail, such as name or type. In one-click installation of applications from a com- addition, the Nautilus environment makes locating prehensive Linux software library. The Catalog items an easy and intuitive process by employing a includes free software that has been certified by browser-based navigation and search system for Eazel Labs, Eazel’s software installation certifica- both local and remote files. The comprehensive tion group. customization features of Nautilus allow end users to personalize their system to their individual pref- Unlike traditional download sites, when an erences. Eazel user clicks the download button for software listed in the Catalog, the installer reviews the user’s Nautilus allows users to simplify their user distribution, version and current system and auto- environment by adjusting the amount of system matically installs the chosen program as well as any and file detail that Nautilus displays.
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