[News] WebCopier Ported to GNU/Linux, "Official Support" Myths Debunked
Roy Schestowitz
Offline at Any Time.
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| MaximumSoft Corp. today announced that its popular award-winning WebCopier
| offline browser is now available on Linux.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/1/prweb645411.htm
Top 10 Linux FUD Patterns, Part 3
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| When you hear the phrase “official support,” what comes to mind? Informative
| user manuals? A well-staffed call center? But what makes it “official”? This
| is the second item on my Top 10 List of Linux FUD patterns: the lack
| of “official” Linux support. The goal of FUD based on this notion is a
| mixture of fear and uncertainty, to make you believe that using Linux means
| having no place to turn when a problem occurs.
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http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/top-10-linux-fud-patterns-part-3/
Related:
LightZone Becomes First Professional Photo Editor for Linux Users
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| Light Crafts, today announced immediate availability of a Linux version of
| its award-winning LightZone photo-editing software. With this open beta
| release, Linux users now have all the powerful LightZone tools for editing,
| enhancing and improving digital photos that Windows and Mac users have
| including the innovative ZoneMapper and Re-Light tools.
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http://www.imaging-resource.com/NEWS/1198012268.html
GroundWork Open Source unveils IT monitoring app for Ubuntu Linux
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| GroundWork Open Source Inc.'s free IT infrastructure monitoring software is
| available now for the first time for Ubuntu Linux and other Debian-based
| Linux operating systems.
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WeBot Adds Linux and MacOS Support to Media Access Service
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| "WeBot's a great media application. It's even better with support for other
| platforms," said Tom Pepper, founder of Shoutcast and co-founder of
| Nullsoft. "Too often, we see companies that release a service and neglect the
| Linux and Mac communities; I'm really happy that WeBot is keeping everyone in
| mind with this service."
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,211754.shtml
NCH Swift Sound Software Release BroadWave Streaming Audio Server for Linux
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| We are very please to announce this release of BroadWave for Linux, because
| we see it as a start of something big for our company in the long term," said
| Stephanie Lee, marketing manager for the Australian company.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/10/prweb563844.htm
Linux Rage Looks Likely
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| So there you have it, straight from the horse's mouth, that Linux Rage is
| coming to a computer near you soon enough after all. Probably...
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1693.html
New commercial Linux game slated by year end
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| "Our decision to support Linux was based on it being the right thing to do,
| not some in-depth analysis of the business case. We want to play a part in
| getting more games on the platform because we think long-term that benefits
| both Linux gamers and the indie development community that Hothead is a part
| of."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119108
Eve Online for Mac and Linux operating systems
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| Today CCP Games and TransGaming Partner announce to Bring EVE Online to new
| platforms, being Linux and Mac. By the end of this year it should be possible
| to play Eve on a Mac, finally!
| On linux it was already possible through Cedega or a good configured WINE,
| but now nothing extra will be needed.
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Network Monitoring Solution ServerAssist Now Monitors Linux/Unix Servers
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| ServerAssist, which has been described as the most comprehensive server
| monitoring solution, has added the capability of monitoring Linux/Unix
| servers.
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/51120
FileZilla 3 brings Windows FTP goodness to Linux
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| FileZilla is one great open source FTP client that -- up until now -- was
| available only for Windows. Version 3 is a ground-up rewrite that makes the
| application available for the first time on Linux, too.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118843
SPECviewperf 10 to come for Linux, Mac OS X
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| The future of this benchmark is going multi-platform, since development group
| is pushing to release binaries for Linux and Mac OS X.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41854
New Release of GT Software’s Ivory Adds Support for Linux and Unix
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| "...With this addition of Unix and Linux support, Ivory delivers an even more
| flexible and robust foundation to companies, enabling the most options for
| building and deploying mainframe SOA and Web Services.”
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Glide Sync Now Available for Linux
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| With an assist from Glide, you can now access your Linux Thunderbird
| Contacts, Sunbird Calendars and all of your desktop files on the following
| mobile devices: Apple iPhone (Supports Streaming Media), T-Mobile Wing
| (Supports Streaming Media), BlackBerry Curve 8300, Nokia N95 (Supports
| Streaming Media), BlackBerry Pearl (8100), BlackBerry 8700, Cingular 8125
| (Supports Streaming Media), HP iPAQ, HP hw6510, Motorola Razr V3, Motorola
| SLVR, Motorola ROKR, Motorola Q (Supports Streaming Media), Nokia 9300, Nokia
| E62 (Supports Streaming Media), Nokia 6102i (Supports Streaming Media), Nokia
| 6682 (Supports Streaming Media), Palm Treo 650, Palm Treo 680 (Supports
| Streaming Media), Palm Treo 700P, Palm Treo 700W (Supports Streaming Media),
| Palm Treo 750 (Supports Streaming Media), Palm LifeDrive, Samsung Blackjack
| (Supports Streaming Media), Samsung A707 (Supports Streaming Media), Samsung
| D807 (Supports Streaming Media), Samsung A920, LG VX8100, LG VX8300, Sony
| Ericsson w600i, Sony Ericsson w810i, T-Mobile SDA (Supports Streaming Media),
| and T-Mobile SideKick.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/mobile/11174/glide-sync-now-available-linux
Passport Software, Inc., Targets Small to Midsized Manufacturers with LINUX
Release of PBS Manufacturing Series
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| "The LINUX marketplace was lacking a mature business management system for
| manufacturers with up to about fifty million dollars in annual sales. We are
| very pleased with the feedback about how well our PBS Manufacturing Series
| V11.5 fills this void..."
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http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/526045/rss/
Find it faster: PersonalBrain app links obscure data
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| The company Monday unveiled Version 4.0 of the application, which for the
| first time runs on Mac OS X and the Linux operating system.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=55188109&rid=-50
App restores Linux desktops to pristine state
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| Deep Freeze system consistency software, popular in Windows and Mac settings,
| is now available for Linux desktops. "Deep Freeze Linux" is said to reset a
| Linux workstation's boot process to a pristine state, enabling successive
| users to avoid misconfiguration by previous users of the computer.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7064252512.html
Opalis Announces Availability of Award Winning Run Book Automation Solution on
Linux
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| They have asked for Linux platform availability to meet specific run
| book automation scenarios and we have responded to their needs”...
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Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Enters Linux Fold
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| The move acknowledges that Linux has found a home in some business
| accounts, at least in the back office. Until now QuickBooks
| Enterprise shops had to run their accounting database on a
| Windows server even if they ran other applications on Linux.
| That now changes.
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http://www.crn.com/small-business/199903645
SoftMaker Office 2006 goes into beta
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| SoftMaker Office 2006 runs on all "modern" Linux versions for PCs,
| and on FreeBSD 5.2 or higher, according to the company.
|
| The company describes TextMaker 2006 as a powerful word processor
| that is compatible with most word processing formats, including all
| versions of Microsoft Word.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6815635633.html
LGP's Ballistics Goes Gold
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| Linux Game Publishing has announced today that their latest Linux
| game port, Ballistics, has gone gold. Ballistics is a game that
| takes place in a high-tech society and involves a futuristic
| type of Formula One racing. This game went gold today and
| should be on sale starting May 31, 2007. The Ballistics'
| Linux product page is available at Linux Game Publishing.
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http://www.phoronix.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-2854.html
energyXT2: Low-Cost Plug-in, Sequencer, DAW, for Windows and Now Linux
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| The $75 app energyXT2 starts out sounding similar to other music apps --
| but after a long list of twists, seems anything but. It's a DAW. It's
| a sequencer. It's an audio multitracker. (Okay, not so interesting so far
| ...) It's a synth. It's a sampler. It's a drum machine. It's a looper.
| It runs as a host. It runs in a plug-in. Now it runs on Linux -- making
| it perhaps the first significant music creation app to do a
| commercial, out-of-box release for the penguin. It's got a modular
| engine underneath.
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http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/06/02/energyxt2-preview-low-price-plug-in-sequencer-all-in-one-instrument-for-windows-and-now-linux/
http://tinyurl.com/2q7qt8
Professionals and academics join OSS keynote, forum
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| "We have ported many of our programs to OSS and are encouraging
| ISVs to do the same," said Jeff Chu, manager of Linux Business,
| IBM China/Hong Kong. "We want local ISVs to join leading
| engineers in our partnership programs and to create OSS
| solutions to give more choice to customers. Two years ago, there
| was not much OSS experience in Hong Kong but now lots of people,
| including my colleagues, are joining the bandwagon and 40% of our
| software solutions are available on Linux."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;495030207;fp;2;fpid;1
IDS: SDK for uEye cameras supports Linux
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| IDS now offers Linux users a comprehensive software package for
| its uEye camera series. Besides a software development kit the
| package provides an interface for the Linux version of the HALCON
| standard image processing library.The software development kit
| allows controlling all camera-related parameters.
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http://www.embedded-control-europe.com/prodnews?cat=1&pid=10229
Synapse EMR (Linux port)
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| Synapse EMR is being ported to Linux. Alpha builds are now available to
| play with (Libc6).
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1165874846
LaCie Offers Complete Burning Solution With
LightScribe Labeller For Linux
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| LaCie announced it is the first to offer a complete
| burning and LightScribe Direct Disc Labeling solution
| for all operating systems. This includes the first-ever
| LightScribe Labeler software for Linux...
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http://in.sys-con.com/read/288267_p.htm
Defcon 1.4 Beta 2 (Linux)
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| Linux 2.6.17-10-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 6.10
|
| and it works like a charm! 20 Minutes of gaming and no crashes
| or bugs discovered.
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http://forums.introversion.co.uk/defcon/viewtopic.php?t=4016
L-Soft puts email manager on Linux
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| L-Soft is to make its email management software system LISTSERV
| available to Linux users after demand to support the format.
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https://www.netimperative.com/2002/03/08/LSoft_puts_email/view
5.5g iPods can now run Linux
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| The Linux on iPod developer blog says the 5.5g iPods can now run Linux
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http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/55g_ipods_can_now_run_lin.html
Linux Networx Announces Channel Partnership With Westwind Computer Products
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| The partnership expands Linux Networx's ability to market its
| performance tuned and production-ready Linux Supersystems to
| federal government customers.
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http://www.sys-con.com/read/371974_p.htm
Penguins rejoice: Linux gets TV
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| The wait is over, Linux users out there. We just released the first
| Zattoo client for the operating system of your choice (and that of
| Michael Dell). The main supported distro is Ubuntu 6.10, but the
| package can also be made to work with Fedora Core 6 and OpenSuse
| 10.2 with a little extra effort.
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http://zattooblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/penguins-rejoice-linux-gets-tv/
Joost for Linux -- Amazing PR response...
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| Thanks for your interest in Joost. Yes, a Linux version is planned,
| but the timeline for that is TBD right now.
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http://www.theantiblogger.com/technology/joost-for-linux-amazing-pr-response/
XBMC recruiting developers for Linux port
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| The goal is for this to become a full port of XBMC containing all the
| features and functions available in the Xbox version of XBMC. This is a
| huge task which is why we are making this public request, seeking C/C++
| programmers to volunteer in assisting us with this Linux porting
| development project.
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http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/
KLA-Tencor's New LithoWare Tool Gives Designers Advanced RET/OPC
Capabilities...
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| Operating in a Linux environment allows LithoWare to distribute
| huge volumes of simulations across a large number of computers,
| giving engineers the ability to perform advanced computational
| lithography and explore an extended set of process parameters
| that would not be possible on individual PCs or with other tools
| without a major re-calibration effort for each change.
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http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070530005220&newsLang=en
http://tinyurl.com/yop4mm
Linux gains real-time networking stack
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| An Austrian vendor of real-time networking stacks for automotive,
| off-highway, and aeronautics use has pledged to port its flagship
| technology to Wind River Linux.
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[H]omer
> WebCopier for Linux - Get a Copy of Your Favorite Websites and Browse
> Them Offline at Any Time.
Why not just use lftp or wget?
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K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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Fedora release 8 (Werewolf) on sky, running kernel 2.6.23.8-63.fc8
20:23:10 up 35 days, 17:59, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.26, 0.18
Moshe Goldfarb
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> WebCopier for Linux - Get a Copy of Your Favorite Websites and Browse
>> Them Offline at Any Time.
>
> Why not just use lftp or wget?
Tell me again how user friendly Linux is.
JEDIDIAH
Tell me why you feel the need to overcomplicate something.
This is something that is already pretty trivial to describe.
The only thing left to do is to perhaps integrate the browser
so you don't have to deal with the inhumanity of cutting and
then pasting an URL into another tool.
A sort of "arcshell" for wget might make a handy firefox extension.
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Roy Schestowitz
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> WebCopier for Linux - Get a Copy of Your Favorite Websites and Browse
>> Them Offline at Any Time.
>
> Why not just use lftp or wget?
Or KGet with a front end? Well, that's because many people don't know about
them. They might be foolish enough to spend money on this. Did you know that
some people spend money on WinZip? *chuckle* Talk about snake oil...
The nature of software is such that it can be replicated for free. Real
businesses can capitalise on this attribute (big quantities make a userbase
large enough for support). Everything else is legacy and it will erode over
time. Watch how Sun tries to reinvent itself. Novell still struggles because
it pays royalties to Microsoft and it clings on to its past roots.
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The Ghost In The Machine
<sp...@uce.gov>
wrote
on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:23:32 +0000
<63tp65-...@sky.matrix>:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> WebCopier for Linux - Get a Copy of Your Favorite Websites and Browse
>> Them Offline at Any Time.
>
> Why not just use lftp or wget?
>
No GUI, I suspect.
There is an offering named gFTP which might fill the bill for some:
On Gentoo one can also 'emerge net-ftp/gftp'. YMMV on other
distros.
Personally, I wonder about webDAV, and of course Webcopier
(assuming it works as advertised) seems to be filling a
different niche, though wget can mirror a website; I download
specs using it on occasion.
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Kelsey Bjarnason
*Extremely* so. It is, however, _different_.
Okay, I'll pose you a challenge. I'll use nothing but Linux CLI tools,
such as wget and bash and Apache. You can use whatever you like, as long
as it is *not* open source, runs in Windows, is GUI based and doesn't
require any scripting, just pointy-clicky type interfaces. Oh, and each
step is performed by a different app, tool, or script.
Step 1:
From each of userfriendly.org, dilbert.com and one other cartoon site,
retrieve today's cartoon. Save it in a directory with the others -
whether they all go in the same directory, or one directory for each of
the three sites, is up to you.
Step 2:
Take the list of fetched cartoons and sort them by name then by date:
dilbert-03-01-08
dilbert-02-01-08
dilbert-01-01-08
userfriendly-03-01-08
userfriendly-02-01-08
userfriendly-01-01-08
Actual naming convention doesn't matter, as long as it's presented sorted
by name then by date - with date sorted descending.
Use the sorted list to produce a simple web page, with links to each of
the images. Save the page into a directory accessible by your web
server, such that anyone on your LAN can now browse those images from
your machine.
That's it, just a simple "get the strip and make it available to the LAN"
process. Nothing to it.
Remember, though, *I* don't get to use *any* GUI tools and the like, and
you don't get to use *any* CLI, OSS or scripting. Just GUI.
Three final conditions and we're ready to go:
1) Neither of us can use prefab "cartoon fetch" code or apps; this must
be strictly a case of solving each part of the job on its own, with its
own tools.
2) The end result must be executable without human intervention, via a
timed launch (eg 'cron') so it will fetch each day's cartoon
3) It must be easy for a user to add another cartoon site to be fetched.
That said, limits on format are acceptable: it is acceptable to restrict
the code to only fetch an image of the name "dilbert*" from the first
page loaded, for example.
Once we each have a working solution, we'll hand the details over to
third parties, to see exactly how much effort is involved in duplicating
the setup on their machines - everything from downloading, installing and
configuring the code to setting up the automated execution.
Why this challenge? Well, it's small and easily achieved, at least in
Linux with tools such as wget, but you decry that as not being user
friendly so this will let you show *exactly* how user friendly Windows is
doing the *exact same job* as Linux.
So, you up for it?
Yet you want to call your way "user friendly". A few minutes with some
basic skills, I can brighten several peoples' day - today, tomorrow, for
a year. How long does it take *you* to do the same job with your *easy*
tools, hmm?
Prediction: you won't go for it, because you *know* your "user friendly"
stuff is anything but.