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A new cummulative distribution of the guglhupf commons libraries has been released: version 0.3. It includes the libraries gc-xml-0.2, gc-config-0.3 and gc-resource-0.2. You can download the source and documentation packages from the guglhupf commons
page: http://guglhupf.net/?q=node/view/27 . You can submit bug reports or change requests in our bug tracking system: http://guglhupf.net/mantis .

The first release candidate of the Guglhupf XML Transformation Engine has been released, which includes some bug fixes. The most important problem was that compiling the source distribution with apache ant didn't work out of the box.
See our mantis bug tracker at http://guglhupf.net/mantis for more details about the fixed bugs.

You can get it from the Download Page of XTE. You can subscribe to new
releases of this project at http://freshmeat.net/projects/guglhupfxte/ (You will be informed about new releases).

There is also a first source release of gc-xml (verision 0.2). You can get it at the Download Page of gc-xml. You can subscribe to new releases of several guglhupf commons libraries at http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcommons/ .

Because of a new release of the gc resource repository I had to update the beta 4 release of GXTE. You can get the new version (0.9-beta4a) from the download page if you don't have it yet.

There is a new public beta version of the Guglhupf XML Transformation Engine which includes several bug fixes. The most important fixes were a bug in the implementation of the "return" - statement and a bug in the symbol table lookup in multiple XTL source files.
See our mantis bug tracker at http://guglhupf.net/mantis for more details about the fixed bugs.

You can get it from the Download Page of XTE. You can subscribe to new
releases of this project at http://freshmeat.net/projects/guglhupfxte/ (You will be informed about new releases).

There is a new beta version of Guglhupf XTE, where some minor bugs
where fixed. The main benefit should be better error and warning messages when something is wrong with the template file.

You can get it from the Download Page of XTE. You can subscribe to new
releases of this project at http://freshmeat.net/projects/guglhupfxte/ (You will be informed about new releases).

Some months ago, the current development code of Enlightenment DR17 went into CVS. I had to test it immediately. For all who don't know yet: Enlightenment is a window manager for X which was the de-facto standard some years ago. Then, the Gnome - Project turned
away from them and started to use sawfish as their standard window manager.

The development of DR17 has already taken a long time. Most of the time so far was spent by the development team do create the so
called "Enlightenment Foundation Libraries", or EFL, which are a quite powerful base library for doing artwork, managing program
configurations, and some more tasks.

With Mac OS X comes a lot of useful software but there is also a lot missing. Here a list of software that I had installed and use on my Powerbook.

OpenOffice

Everybody needs a wordprocessor and a spreedsheet application and OpenOffice is a good piece of software that also runs also under Mac OS X. Before you can install OpenOffice you need to install X11 because OpenOffice is not a native Mac OS X software and sadly never will.
NeoOffice is a free port of OpenOffice to make a native MacOS X, but it is still beta.

Abiword is also an nice wordprocessor that has the native Mac OS X look and feel, but I do not have much experience with abiword.

Graphic

If you need an alternative to Photoshop Gimp is a powerful alternative. Gimp also requirs X11 (see Openoffice)

Movie Players

Quicktime can play a lot of video formats, but with the normal version that comes with Mac OS X you can't play in fullscreen. Most times I use VLC (Video Lan Client) that playes almost any video format. MPlayer is also a great movie player. The Windows Media Player is also available for Mac OS X, but I use this player only if I want to play a WMV9 movie.

Instant Messagner

iChat is a nice instant messagner but in can only handy the AIM and Rendezvous protocol. There are two good alternatives that can handle almost any instant messenger protocol. The first one is
Fire and the second
is Adium X. Both programs work find, but Adium X look better than Fire.

Mail Client

The Mail application that comes with Mac OS X is quite nice but I prefer Thunderbird

Desktop Manager

If you want to have virtual desktops then you need the Desktop Manager

Fink

If you also know and use Linux or any other Unix you might find fink useful because with fink you can install lot of free software that is ported from unix to Mac OS X.

Links:
http://www.openoffice.org
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/download/
http://www.neooffice.org
http://www.abisource.com
http://www.gimp.org
http://www.videolan.org
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/software/Macintosh/osx/default.aspx
http://fire.sourceforge.net/
http://www.adiumx.com
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/
http://fink.sourceforge.net

Heuer gibt es nicht ganz so viele Fotos wie die Jahre davor, aber trotzdem wollen wir die paar die wir haben euch nicht vorenthalten.
Hier gehts zu den Fotos.

Die Teichparty ist wieder vorbei, und wir freuen uns, dass Ihr alle da wart. Ich hoffe es hat Euch genauso viel
Spass gemacht wie uns. Fotos gibt es heuer gar nicht so viele, aber die die's gibt werden wir hier veröffentlichen
sobald wir sie haben. Sollte noch jemand von Euch Fotos haben: Bitte uns irgendwie zukommen lassen!

Wir sehen uns hoffentlich alle nächstes Jahr, bis dann, Euer Organisationsteam.

...und es wird wieder eine Teichparty gefeiert. Die wichtigsten Dinge, die ihr jetzt so im voraus wissen müsst
habe ich unter Teichparty 2004 -> FAQ zusammengefasst. Ich freu' mich auf euer kommen am 13. August 2004.

Bis dann, David.