From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jason Molenda <jsm@cygnus.com>
To: sourceware-announce@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Sourceware update!
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 00:24:00 -0000
Message-id: <19990317001553.A22927@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00000.html

We're in the middle of exciting times for free software, and a lot has
been happening on sourceware.cygnus.com site since my last update to
this mailing list.  First off,

LIST ADMIN DETAILS

  The list has moved.  It used to be sourceware-announce@cygnus.com.
  It is now sourceware-announce@sourceware.cygnus.com.  I'm the only one
  who posts to it, so this is not a big deal.  However, to unsubscribe,
  you'll need to send a note to  
     sourceware-announce-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com
  To get off the list.  The message body and Subject line are ignored.
  Send me mail directly if you need help, jsm@cygnus.com.

WEB PAGE CHANGES

  No original ideas here, I've been quietly editing the
  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ web page to make it more useful.
  Contact me if you have comments or tasty recipes.

NEW PROJECTS

  Since my last update, there have been two swanky cool new projects
  added to sourceware.cygnus.com:

     MAUVE - a collaborative effort to create a free testsuite for Java-TM
     class libraries.  Most of the free software Java projects are pitching
     in, and HP has just donated a bunch of code.  Mauve went public just
     this week.
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/mauve/

     LIBSTDC++ - an implementation of the ISO Standard C++ Library for
     the EGCS compiler,
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/libstdc++/

     PTHREADS-WIN32 - a pthreads implementation for Win32 systems 
     (Win95/98/NT) for all you blokes who have yet to install Linux over
     your Win32 partitions,
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/

     GSL - GNU Scientific Library, a library of routines for numerical
     processing,
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gsl/

NEW RELEASES

     CYGWIN released B20.1 in December 1998, this is a hugely fastly
     cooly superlatively great upgrade from B19 and I have been told
     that the UK's Queen uses it herself.
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/

     AUTOCONF released version 2.13 in January 1999.  This is the first
     new release of Autoconf in about two years, and includes a whole
     barrel full of fun portability tests.  Don't download this one right
     before bedtime or you may not get to sleep due to the sheer joy of
     making your programs portable.
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/autoconf/

     AUTOMAKE, not to be outdone by its autoconf sibling, released
     version 1.4 in January 1999.  It's nearly as captivating to play
     with automake as it is to play with autoconf.  People who suffer
     from addictions should avoid prolonged exposure to both of these
     programs.
		http://sourceware.cygnus.com/automake/


INFRASTRUCTURE and OTHER THINGS TO DISCUSS AT PARTIES

     MAILING LISTS - we're handling all kinds of mailing lists on
     sourceware.cygnus.com with the qmail+ezmlm packages.  You'll see this
     used more and more for all of our mailing lists.  I've also set up
     mhonarc-generated web archives for all of the mailing lists, so most
     of the projects will have browsable web archives available.  I'll be
     adding a search engine in the near future for extra bonus fun.

     PARTY TALK - CYGNUS NAMING CONTEST.  Cygnus is soliciting ideas for 
     a new company name.  The winner gets an Pentium II workstation running
     Linux.  Enter early, enter often.
		http://www.cygnus.com/contest/

Over and out,

Jason