The GNUSTEP live CD, version 1.9, is now available.

1 What is it?
===============
A live CD including some GNUstep software ready to boot from.

2 Can I use it?
===============
If you have an Apple Mac PowerPC, i486 or later, or AMD64 computer,
you can download the right CD, burn it, and then run it.

3 Where can you get it?
=======================
http://livecd.gnustep.org/

4 What's new?
=======================
Comes with the latest GNUstep tarball software release.
Linux kernel 2.6.25. X.org 7.3 with xrandr support.

B A T T E R Y M O N I T O R 0.3
-----------------------------------

WHAT IS IT:

Battery monitor is a small utility that displays the status of your
laptop battery (charge/discharge and status). Currently, it works only
on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and
relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches by
Chris Vetter.

It is a 0.3 release and thus has some limitations but it is already
working and I found no problems running it on my computer and thus I
wanted to share it with you all.

What is new in 0.3 ?
- bug fixes, especially a nasty memory leak
- percentage display
- better handling of strange ACPI cases (like charge greater than 100%%)
- an Icon
- cleaner system to support different platforms

WHERE:

RELEASE ANNOUNCE: TimeMon 4.1

* What is TimeMon? *

TimeMon is a GNUstep-based CPU monitor which sits in the dock. It
shows
several levels of information, CPU, nice, user and system, in
configurable
colors.

This application is a port of TimeMon for OPENSTEP.

* Where to get it *

The official Page is in GAP (http://gap.nongnu.org/):
http://gap.nongnu.org/timemon/index.html

A direct download link for the sources is:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/gap/TimeMon-4.1.tar.gz

This is a new stable version with the latest code base

This is version 0.14.0 of the GNUstep GUI library (`gnustep-gui').

1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library?
====================================

It is a library of graphical user interface classes written completely
in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon the OpenStep
specification as release by NeXT Software, Inc. The library has been
enhanced in a number of ways to take advantage of the GNU system.
These classes include graphical objects such as buttons, text fields,
popup lists, browser lists, and windows; there are also many associated
classes for handling events, colors, fonts, pasteboards and images.

The GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts. The first part is
the front-end component which is independent of platform and display
system. This front-end is combined with a back-end component which
handles all of the display system dependent such as specific calls to
X/Windows. This design allows the GNUstep applications to have the
"look and feel" of the underlying display system without any changes to
the application, and the library can be easily ported to other display
systems.

This is a new stable branch with all the latest code base

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.16.0, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects. For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
`http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.16.0'
==========================================

* Many updates to include new OS X methods up to 10.5

* Made KeyValueCoding/Observing fully functional and MacOS-X
compatible

See the release notes for more information.

The GNUstep Makefile Package version 2.0.6 is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep makefile package?
=========================================

The makefile package is a simple, powerful and extensible way to write
makefiles for a GNUstep-based project. It allows the user to write a
project without having to deal with the complex issues associated with
configuration, building, installation, and packaging. It also allows
the user to easily create cross-compiled binaries.

1.2 Changes in version `2.0.6'
==============================

* Fixed some spurious rebuilds of plists, and framework headers.

* Added the -enable-absolute-install-paths option for Darwin
systems.

* Install GNUstep.conf in /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf on all systems.

1.3 Obtaining gnustep-make
==========================

You can get the gstep-make-2.0.6.tar.gz distribution file at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'

This is version 0.12.2 of the GNUstep GUI library (`gnustep-gui').

1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library?
====================================

It is a library of graphical user interface classes written completely
in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon the OpenStep
specification as release by NeXT Software, Inc. The library has been
enhanced in a number of ways to take advantage of the GNU system.
These classes include graphical objects such as buttons, text fields,
popup lists, browser lists, and windows; there are also many associated
classes for handling events, colors, fonts, pasteboards and images.

The GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts. The first part is
the front-end component which is independent of platform and display
system. This front-end is combined with a back-end component which
handles all of the display system dependent such as specific calls to
X/Windows. This design allows the GNUstep applications to have the
"look and feel" of the underlying display system without any changes to
the application, and the library can be easily ported to other display
systems.

The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.14.4, is now available.

1.1 What is the GNUstep Base Library?
=====================================

The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical
Objective C objects. For example, it includes classes for strings,
object collections, byte streams, typed coders, invocations,
notifications, notification dispatchers, moments in time, network ports,
remote object messaging support (distributed objects), and event loops.

It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical
portion of the OpenStep standard (the Foundation library).

There is more information available at the GNUstep homepage at
`http://www.gnustep.org'.

1.2 Noteworthy changes in version `1.14.4'
==========================================

Minor updates

1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it?
==================================================

The gnustep-base-1.14.4.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at
`ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/core'.

GNUstep doesn't seem to be the right place for device drivers: GNUstep has to
work on *nix, Windows, and even OS X. All of those have different driver
APIs.

Or are you asking about writing drivers for NeXTSTEP? I don't think GNUstep
would be much help there either. You'd be better off [using a virtual
machine][1] to run NeXTSTEP-Intel or OPENSTEP.

[1]: http://www.moldus.org/~laurent/GNUstep/OS42_Install.html

By the way, this message belongs in GNUstep: General, not the "Announce"
mailing list.

I was just wondering if GNUSTEP or any of the users have created USB device drivers?
I am working with some NextStep systems and am wondering about this.

Best regards,
James Dixon

I was just wondering if GNUSTEP or any of the users
have created USB device drivers?
I am working with some NextStep systems and am
wondering about this.
 
Best regards,
James Dixon