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SW: ISOFS 1.0.3
SW: XWP 1.0.7 released on Netlabs
SW: SW: OpenTTD Port updated to 0.5.0 RC3
SW: KDiff3 v0.9.91 ported to OS/2
SW: ncftp updated to v3.2.0
SW: QDVDAuthor port Added
SW: SERexxObex 0.1
SW: DFSee version 8.10 released
SW: Scribus v1.3.3.7 released and available for OS/2 & eComStation
SW: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.4 Released]
Net: Father of OS/2, Citrix is flying high
Net: Dual Boot OS/2 Warp on Windows Vista Boot Manager
Neet: netlabs.org newsletter #26 [Netlabs.org, developer Workshop
SW: InnoTek VirtualBox goes open source!
| SW: ISOFS 1.0.3 |
2007-01-08
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From: Paul Ratcliffe
ISOFS V1.0.3 has been released. This fixes the three reported bugs with
V1.0.2 and adds a script which makes it easier to use the WPS to attach and
detach ISOs.
http://home.clara.net/orac/os2.htm#isofs
ISOFS is an installable filesystem for OS/2 for seamless read only access
to the contents of ISO image files, as suitable for burning on CD, or as
extracted from CD.
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| SW: XWP 1.0.7 released on Netlabs |
2007-01-08
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From: Paul Ratcliffe
XWorkplace 1.0.7 has been released. This fixes the reported bugs with 1.0.6
and adds a small feature to allow easier configuration of the XCenter.
You can find it in the usual places on Netlabs and Hobbes:
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-7.exe
and
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/xwp-1-0-7.zip
moving to
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/wps/xworkplace/xwp-1-0-7.zip
Please report *reproducible* bugs on the bugtracker at:
http://xtracker.xworkplace.org
Paul
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| SW: SW: OpenTTD Port updated to 0.5.0 RC3 |
2007-01-09
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From:Paul Smedley
Hi All,
Updated at http://smedley.info/os2ports
About Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe:
OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a
popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the
original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
OpenTTD is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. For
more information, see the file 'COPYING' included with every release and
source download of the game.
Details on the OS/2 build:
It was built using Innotek GCC v3.3.5 CSD1 version and requires the runtime
dll from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
Owen Rudge has previous built OpenTTD using Watcom C++ - I mainly just
wanted to see if it could be built with GCC - and also hadn't seen a new
build for OS/2 for a while.
The game requires the original data files from the game Transport Tycoon.
If you don't have this, it is possible to download the required files from
http://download.transporttycoon.net/
If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please
consider donating via PayPal via the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports/
or via the Mensys online store at http://mensys.net/os2ports
General feedback should be sent to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, bugs in
the OS/2 build can be reported via http://mantis.smedley.info
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
9th January, 2007
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| SW: KDiff3 v0.9.91 ported to OS/2 |
2007-01-09
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From: Paul Smedley
Updated at http://smedley.info/os2ports
About KDiff3:
KDiff3 is a program that
* compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
* shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
* provides an automatic merge-facility and
* an integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
* supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via
byte-order-mark "BOM"
* supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
* Printing of differences,
* Manual alignment of lines,
* Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
* and has an intuitive graphical user interface.
About the OS/2 build:
It was built using Innotek GCC v3.3.5 CSD1 version and requires the runtime
dll from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
This port would not be possible without the Qt library from Netlabs!
Known issues:
- some dialogs exhibit focus issues
- printing doesn't work (due to lack of QPrinter support in OS/2 Qt)
General feedback can be provided to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, bug
reports should go to http://mantis.smedley.info
If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please
consider donating via PayPal via the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports,
or via the Mensys online store at http://www.mensys.net/os2ports
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
9th January, 2007
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| SW: ncftp updated to v3.2.0 |
2007-01-09
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From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
Updated at http://smedley.info/os2ports
Full change log in v3.2.0 over 3.1.9 can be found at
http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/doc/changelog.html
Details on the OS/2 build:
Built using Innotek GCC 3.3.5CSD1 - requires the runtime dll available from
ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
Updated in this release:
- Updated to 3.2.0 source
Known issues:
- local commands (ie lls) don't work
- mput * doesn't work
Full details on ncftp are available from http://www.ncftp.com/ncftp/
General feedback can be provided to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, bug
reports should go to http://mantis.smedley.info
If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please
consider donating via PayPal via the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports,
or via the Mensys online store at http://www.mensys.net/os2ports
Check http://smedley.info/os2ports/ for latest updates and other OS/2 ports.
Cheers,
Paul.
Adelaide, Australia
9th January, 2007.
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| SW: QDVDAuthor port Added |
2007-01-09
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From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
Updated at http://smedley.info/os2ports
About QDVDAuthor:
(from http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net)
'Q' DVD-Author, is a GUI frontend for dvdauthor and other related tools.
What is possible so far with qdvdauthor ?
* You can use a simple Template dialog to create your menus.
* You can convert the whole project from PAL to NTSC and of course
from NTSC to PAL.
* You can generate the main menu.
* You can generate Sub Menus.
* You can create Subtitles for your videos.
* You can transcode your input videos.
* You can apply multiple audio streams to the input videos.
* You can generate Buttons.
* You can scale, color, stretch, twist and shout each object.
* You can give each menu multiple sound tracks.
* You can generate a dvd-slideshow.
* You can create a full blown DVD without knowing the command line tools.
* You can modify every generated command before executing and
generating the DVD.
* You can create animated menus (moving stuff around).
* You can generate MovieMenus.
* You can generate MovieButtons
Note: Animated menus, MovieMenus and MovieButtons REQUIRE
mplayer/mencoder !
* You can contribute to qdvdauthor.
* That's it for now !!!
About the OS/2 build:
It was built using Innotek GCC v3.3.5 CSD1 version and requires the runtime
dll from ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0.6.1-csd1.zip
This port would not be possible without the Qt library from Netlabs!
Known issues:
- version of mplayer.exe included does not play video
- can take a long time to generate the thumbnails of videos
- very little testing done!
General feedback can be provided to paulDESPAM@DESPAMsmedley.info, bug
reports should go to http://mantis.smedley.info
If you like this software and want to support continued ports, please
consider donating via PayPal via the link at http://smedley.info/os2ports,
or via the Mensys online store at http://www.mensys.net/os2ports
Cheers,
Paul Smedley
Adelaide, Australia
9th January, 2007
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| SW: SERexxObex 0.1 |
2007-01-09
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From: Franz Bakan
I've just released my initial version of SERexxObex, a REXX script for
listing, copying and deleting files from mobile phones.
Works at least with a Sony Ericsson K310i connected via irda to a IBM T23
running OS/2 aka eComStation with Object REXX.
Might work for other mobile phones with or without modifications.
Warning: Use at your own risk!
I only tested this script with my SE K310i.
feedback wellcome http://www.fbakan.de
Link to the script:
http://www.fbakan.de/serexxobex/serexxobex-0.1.zip
Needs the DLLs from:
- rxasyn20.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/rexx/rxasyn20.zip
- rexxuni20.zip http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/rexx/rexxuni20.zip
Regards
Franz Bakan
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| SW: DFSee version 8.10 released |
2007-01-10
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From: Jan van Wijk
DFSee version 8.10 has just been released.
The pressing reason for the release is a nasty bug in the FIXEXT command in
version 8.09, which would wipe out the MBR sector.
However, the main new functionality in 8.10 is the ability to cope with
sectors larger than the standard 512 bytes in a reliable way ...
DFSee is a very powerful disk-utility with disk partitioning, filesystem
and disk analysis, file recovery, UNDELETE for HPFS, JFS, and NTFS,
resizing, imaging, cloning and sector editing.
More details at:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/
Direct download links from the DFSee website:
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx.msi
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_warpin.exe
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_iso.zip
http://www.dfsee.com/dfsee/dfsee8xx_dsk.zip
Note: Most of these can also be downloaded using '810'
instead of the generic '8xx' version number
Or from the HOBBES website:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/incoming/dfsee810.zip
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=dfsee
Most important functional changes since 8.09:
- FILEFIND Fix crash mode=FDISK, on several (in FDISK mode) unsupported
commands
- FIXEXT Fix MBR corruption, resulting in empty partition tables!
(8.09 only)
- JFS Updated fixboot/dfsjfldr template code to match eCS 2.0 beta3
level
- MENU Display a notification popup when a disabled menu-item is selected
- PART Fixed buffersize bug in CorrelateDriveLetters (causing a crash)
- PART Show both letters, and a WARNING on duplicate driveletters (clone)
- RESTORE Fix incorrectly reported image size on start other than sector
zero
- SECTORS Allow sectors larger than the standard 512 bytes, tested upto
4Kb now
Regards, JvW
=========================================================================
DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee.com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee -
infoDESPAM@DESPAMdfsee.com
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| SW: Scribus v1.3.3.7 released and available for OS/2 & eComStation |
2007-01-10
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From: Paul Smedley
Hi All,
Now available on sourceforge at
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=125235&package_id=136924&release_id=476975
& linked from the main page on http://www.scribus.net
From the official announcement:
The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of Scribus 1.3.3.7.
This release is purely a further bug fix release to the recently released
1.3.3.6.
This release adds more translation updates, some bugs were found and fixed,
many improvements to the SVG importer. A new splash screen and other
artwork were contributed by Kevin Young.
One of two major additions to this release is the porting of Scribus to
OS/2 by Paul Smedley. This port is lightly tested and there are some known
issues noted in the readme for OS/2, along with notes on installation. No
major code changes were required and in testing it has been fairly stable.
The other is the availability of a new OpenSuse rpm download repository for
all Suse versions 9.3+, including SLED 10. To download add:
http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/mrdocs/ to your yast/apt/smart
source list for the corresponding Suse version. We hope have this for
Mandriva and Fedora 5+ shortly.
As we announced previously, there will be no more development or bug fixes
to 1.2.x series. We now recommend all distributions package only Scribus
1.3.3.x.
The Scribus Team would also like to thank - Anduin.net/Øverby Consulting
and Cardia AS for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites.
The Scribus Team would also like to thank the many end users, translators,
testers and contributors who helped us with thisrelease.
About Scribus
Scribus is a cross-platform open source page layout application with a
focus on high quality commercial grade PDF and postscript export.
Originally developed on Linux, Scribus now runs natively on MacOSX, OS/2,
many forms of Unix and Windows 2000/XP. Underneath the modern and user
friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such
as CMYK color, spot colors, separations, ICC color management and versatile
PDF creation. Scribus was the first page layout application on the planet
to directly support PDF/X-3 output, a rigorous ISO standard. Scribus did so
by almost a year.
The Scribus Team is made up of a diverse group of developers with
significant experience in pre-press and newspaper publishing. Commercial
support for Scribus is available for companies and institutions for
implementation, training and migration.
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| SW: Apache HTTP Server 2.2.4 Released] |
2007-01-11
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From: Paul Smedley
Further to the below announce from apache.org, an OS/2 & eComStation binary
of the Apache HTTP Server 2.2.4 is now available from
http://smedley.info/os2ports
Enjoy!
Paul.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Announce] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.4 Released
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:56:06 -0600
From: William A. Rowe, Jr.
To: announcedDESPAM@DESPAMhttpd.apache.org
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Hash: SHA1
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.4 Released
The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are
pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.4 of the Apache HTTP Server
("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bugfix release.
We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and
encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade.
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.4 is available for download from:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance
boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced
since 2.0 please see:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html
Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for
a full list of changes. A summary of security vulnerabilities which
were addressed in the previous 2.2.3 and earlier releases is available:
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
Apache HTTP Server 1.3.37 and 2.0.59 legacy releases are also currently
available. See the appropriate CHANGES from the url above. See the
corresponding CHANGES files linked from the download page. The Apache
HTTP Project developers strongly encourage all users to migrate to
Apache 2.2, as only limited maintenance is performed on these legacy
versions.
This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.2.8
bundled with the tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr
and libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv) must all be updated to ensure
binary compatibility and address many known platform bugs.
This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API. Modules written
for Apache 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2,
and require minimal or no source code changes.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING
When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind
that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other
than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using
(and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe.
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| Net: Father of OS/2, Citrix is flying high |
2007-01-11
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From: Martin Iturbide Posted on http://www.os2world.com
Here it is an article from the Inquirer about how Ed Iacobucci (who headed
the OS/2 design team for IBM some time ago) is going on this days. Now he
is a CEO of a jet business.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36846
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| Net: Dual Boot OS/2 Warp on Windows Vista Boot Manager |
2007-01-13
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From: Martin Iturbide (MartinDESPAM@DESPAMos2world.com)
I was wondering it it can be possible to add OS/2 Warp 4.5 inside the new
Windows Vista Boot Manager, and I found out it is very easy with the help
of a little tool. I just write the steps on the EDM2 wiki.
Url:
http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Dual_Boot#Adding_OS.2F2_Warp_4.52_on_Windows_Vista_Boot_Manager
Submitted with the form on http://www.os2world.com/submit_news.php
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| Neet: netlabs.org newsletter #26 [Netlabs.org, developer Workshop |
2007-01-15
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From: Netlabs News
This is the latest edition of the bi-weekly netlabs.org newsletter. The
newsletter can be read on the web at the following URL:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Netlabs_bi_weekly_newsletter
News from netlabs.org:
8. January - 14 January
* netlabs.org server news
o Server configuration is going well
o Initial TRAC & Subversion tests performed successfully (among other
things)
o Anonymous FTP is working as well
o All data is copied
o Setup of new CMS is done, right now we are configuring it
o We hope to be ready with an initial release mid-week so we can switch
the servers!
* Developer Workshop 2007
o Is going to be held in the Netherlands on June 23 & 24.
o Location: Cultural Center Griffioen in Amsterdam
o See:
http://www.vu.nl/Organisatie/index.cfm/home_subsection.cfm/subsectionid/9DB86C70-F9C7-4704-8C9D9ED46EEDB063
o Watch the wiki page for upcoming news:
http://wiki.netlabs.org/index.php/Developers_Workshop_2007
* EDM2 Updates
o Lots of small updates by Martin Iturbide on the EDM2 wiki
o See: http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Special:Recentchanges
* New QT3 Applications
o KDIFF3 0.9.91
+ KDiff3 is a program that:
+ Compares or merges two or three text input files or directories,
+ Shows the differences line by line and character by character (!),
+ Provides an automatic merge-facility,
+ An integrated editor for comfortable solving of merge-conflicts,
+ Supports Unicode, UTF-8 and other codecs, autodetection via
byte-order-mark "BOM"
+ Supports KIO on KDE (allows accessing ftp, sftp, fish, smb etc.),
+ Printing of differences,
+ Manual alignment of lines,
+ Automatic merging of version control history ($Log$),
+ And has an intuitive graphical user interface.
+ See: http://smedley.info/os2ports
o QDVDAuthor 0.1.4
+ Get details from: http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/
+ Get download from: http://smedley.info/os2ports
* XWorkPlace Version 1.0.7
o Fixed: Window List size/position (Bug 903)
o Fixed: Bug 902 and 910
o Added: ADDWIDGETS and DELETEWIDGETS setup strings to the XCenter (Bug 906)
o Bug Tracker: http://xtracker.netlabs.org/
o Download: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/h-search?key=XWP-1-0-7
* PathRewrite
o Is an addition to LibC to give the opportunity to redirect UNIX paths
to paths you define yourself.
o Temp Download: ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/incoming/ecsprw.wpi
* Canabis
o EXPAT/77 added to build instructions
o XML support added
o Several improvements
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/canabis/timeline
* FM/2
o Ticket 60 and 61 fixed
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/fm2/timeline
* kBuild
o Some fixes
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLIBC
o Some fixes (I/O bugs, signals)
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* NewView
o Various updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
* UniAud
o updates from ALSA tree
* WarpVision
o Recording fixed. Press R while a TV program is opened with TVIN
+ TODO:
# 1. Add setup for output format to WVGUI config
# 2. Add timer based recording start (start-stop time-date, source
selection etc)
# 3. Record from other sources than TV
# 4. Fix sound glitches
o DVD Menu investigations: start to porting private2 streams (menu
subpictures) from other projects than MPlayer (Mplayer helpless with that)
1. January - 7 January
* UniAudio
o latest ALSA tree updates
* WarpVision
o Fixed OGG/MKV/MOV embedded subtitles
o DVD Menu experiments & investigations
* kBuild
o Various small updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/kbuild/timeline
* kLIBC
o Fixed build breaks
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/libc/timeline
* Lucide Updates
o Unicode clipboard fixes
o Work on loading password protected PDFs
o http://svn.netlabs.org/lucide/timeline
* NewView Updates
o Various small updates
o See: http://svn.netlabs.org/newview/timeline
* Voyager
o Quite a few code checkins in the NOM and desktop trees. New screenshot.
o Updates to the Object Design document (PDF)
Netlabs.org relies on your support as well, we hire developers to have
better progress on projects. For sure this costs money so any sponsoring is
very welcome! You can support netlabs.org via netlabs.org sponsoring units:
http://www.mensys.net/NETLABS/
Thanks for your support!
We can be reached at: newsDESPAM@DESPAMnetlabs.org
Greetings,
netlabs.org team
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| SW: InnoTek VirtualBox goes open source! |
2007-01-15
++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice.org ++
From: Mark Dodel
http://www.virtualbox.org/
"InnoTek today has released its leading virtualization product as open
source and launched virtualbox.org as the online community to further
develop the product."
"InnoTek VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for
enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature
rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the
only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software
under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL)."
Though no mention of OS/2 as anything other then a guest, on the list of
screenshots: http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots there is
an image of XP running under OS/2:
http://www.virtualbox.org/attachment/wiki/Screenshots/vbox_os2_alpha.png
Currently only windows and Linux versions are shown on the download page:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Under the guest status page:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Status%3A%20Guest%20OSes
For OS/2 Warp, it states that it works, stability is "good", and
performance is "very good". It also states "Requires VT-x hardware
virtualization support. No Guest Additions available yet."
They are looking for help with coding, documentation and design.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor%20information
You can subscribe to an announcement, User and Developers mailing lists at
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community
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