ReBorn, a clone of the legendary ReBirth, has just been released. It provides software emulation for three of Roland Corporation\'s most famous electronic musical instruments. Also thrown in are four audio effects, individual mixers, a programmable sequencer and is fully compatible with the ReBirth .rbs song file format. To celebrate this release, OSNews runs an article presenting the most advanced professional, or semi-professional audio applications available today for the Linux platform.
Nick Lindridge has released PHP Accelerator 1.3.2 Revision 2:
What's new in revision 2:
Most notably, shm_user and shm_group no longer need to be set. In fact you should probably not set them as they'll now be picked up automatically from apache. shm_user and shm_group as ini settings still exist, and take priority over the apache settings.
What's new in revision 2:
Most notably, shm_user and shm_group no longer need to be set. In fact you should probably not set them as they'll now be picked up automatically from apache. shm_user and shm_group as ini settings still exist, and take priority over the apache settings.
A new version of Wine has been released:
This is release 20020804 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work correctly.
WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20020804:
- Beginnings of an IDL compiler.
- Several new winedbg features.
- More OLE and shell improvements.
- NAS and AudioIO sound drivers.
- Still more Sparc portability fixes.
- Lots of bug fixes.
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This is release 20020804 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix. This is still a developers only release. There are many bugs and unimplemented features. Most applications still do not work correctly.
WHAT'S NEW with Wine-20020804:
- Beginnings of an IDL compiler.
- Several new winedbg features.
- More OLE and shell improvements.
- NAS and AudioIO sound drivers.
- Still more Sparc portability fixes.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Read more
Download
TransGaming has released WineX 2.1
"In addition to the ability to play Warcraft III, Linux gamers will welcome other WineX 2.1 enhancements including support for blockbuster games such as Grand Theft Auto 3, Civilization III, and Black and White among others; faster copy protection; better full screen mode support; sound improvements and DirectX compatibility refinements. Linux gaming enthusiasts can play their favorite PC games by subscribing to TransGaming at www.transgaming.com and downloading WineX 2.1 which currently runs more than 150 PC games on Linux."
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"In addition to the ability to play Warcraft III, Linux gamers will welcome other WineX 2.1 enhancements including support for blockbuster games such as Grand Theft Auto 3, Civilization III, and Black and White among others; faster copy protection; better full screen mode support; sound improvements and DirectX compatibility refinements. Linux gaming enthusiasts can play their favorite PC games by subscribing to TransGaming at www.transgaming.com and downloading WineX 2.1 which currently runs more than 150 PC games on Linux."
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Nick Lindridge has released PHP Accelerator 1.3.2:
"Every time a PHP script is accessed, the PHP engine must open the script file and read, parse, and compile the file contents into a compiled form. Only then can the compiled code be executed. With scripts often including other scripts, this work can become a significant part of the overall time to deliver a page. It can also impact I/O performance, and require much dynamic memory allocation that in itself can be time consuming.
The reality, however, is that most PHP scripts never change from one access to the next; indeed they may never change for weeks, months, or even years. The Accelerator works to eliminate the penalty of processing scripts that never change, and by caching the compiled scripts in shared memory, delivers significant performance gains as a result. Note that this is very different to caching script output. PHPA doesn't do this, scripts remain fully dynamic, and if they do change then PHPA caches a new version - they just run faster! "
"Every time a PHP script is accessed, the PHP engine must open the script file and read, parse, and compile the file contents into a compiled form. Only then can the compiled code be executed. With scripts often including other scripts, this work can become a significant part of the overall time to deliver a page. It can also impact I/O performance, and require much dynamic memory allocation that in itself can be time consuming.
The reality, however, is that most PHP scripts never change from one access to the next; indeed they may never change for weeks, months, or even years. The Accelerator works to eliminate the penalty of processing scripts that never change, and by caching the compiled scripts in shared memory, delivers significant performance gains as a result. Note that this is very different to caching script output. PHPA doesn't do this, scripts remain fully dynamic, and if they do change then PHPA caches a new version - they just run faster! "
Frank Hendriksen has released WineX Game Installer 1.01, a free graphical interface to installing Windows games in Transgaming WineX:
In order to run you need Transgaming WineX (the paid binary version).
WineX Game Installer doesn't work with the CVS version, but I'm working on a special 'CVS version'. The reason that it doesn't work is because the CVS has no Installshield 6 support and is installed differently.
I tested WineX Game Installer with WineX 2.0.
No additional libraries are needed, it should run on every Linux distribution and version.
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In order to run you need Transgaming WineX (the paid binary version).
WineX Game Installer doesn't work with the CVS version, but I'm working on a special 'CVS version'. The reason that it doesn't work is because the CVS has no Installshield 6 support and is installed differently.
I tested WineX Game Installer with WineX 2.0.
No additional libraries are needed, it should run on every Linux distribution and version.
Read more
