From noreply@sourceforge.net Wed Aug 14 17:36:08 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: aaaa@localhost.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAC943C32 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:36:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for aaaa@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:36:07 +0100 (IST) Received: from usw-sf-list2.sourceforge.net (usw-sf-fw2.sourceforge.net [216.136.171.252]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7EGW3424685 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 17:32:04 +0100 Received: from usw-sf-db2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.4] helo=sourceforge.net ident=tperdue) by usw-sf-list2.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17f141-00043a-00 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:32:05 -0700 From: Mailer To: "" Subject: SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE: August 14, 2002 Message-Id: Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:32:05 -0700 (You are receiving this email because you subscribed to it (honest). For information on how to unsubscribe please read the bottom of this email). 0. INTRO. [IBM DB2] 1. INCREASED DOWNLOAD CAPACITY. 2. AUDIO OF KERNEL SUMMIT AVAILABLE. 3. BE A SF.NET FOUNDRY GUIDE. 4. WORK FOR SOURCEFORGE.NET 5. SITE STATISTICS 0. INTRO Hello SourceForge.net Users, This week we've made a big announcement. As you likely know, any large dynamic website is powered by a database that funnels data to the web servers serving data which ultimately gets sent to you. These databases manage everything from user authentication, session management, site searching, etc. SourceForge.net is a database- dependent website. Today we have announced that we are moving SourceForge.net to DB2, a powerful relational database by IBM. We are doing this because the site continues to grow at a rapid rate, with 700 new users and 70 new projects a day, and we need a database that can handle this growth. We feel that DB2 can do this for us, and IBM is giving us the resources to make this transition successful. You can read the press release here: http://www.vasoftware.com/news/press.php/2002/1070.html How will this effect you? In the first phase, you won't see much difference other then the site will continue to grow and the SourceForge.net team will be able to handle the growth. In later phases you will see new features on the site that take advantage of the databases advanced capabilities. Today our mail archives have been converted over. The rest of the site will make the migration to DB2 in the coming months. If you have questions about this or any other aspect of the site, please feel free to email me, pat@sourceforge.net. I always appreciate the feedback. Thank you for your continued support of SourceForge.net and the Open Source Community. Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net 1. INCREASED DOWNLOAD CAPACITY SourceForge.net continues to grow, and it's appetite for bandwidth is never-ending. Every day SF.NET serves over 300,000 files to ensure that developers and end-users within the Open Source community can always obtain the software released by hosted projects, SourceForge.net maintains a network of high-capacity download servers. These servers are located throughout the world, as to provide better download times regardless of which network provider you are using, and regardless of your geographic location. Three new download servers have recently been added to our network, further strengthening our file serving capabilities. These latest additions include servers hosted by: Time Warner Telecom (Wisconsin,USA); http://www.twtelecom.com/ University of Minnesota (Minnesota, USA) http://www.umn.edu/ CESNET (Czech Republic) http://www.cesnet.cz/ We thank these sponsors for their commitment to SourceForge.net and the needs of the Open Source community. On a related note, we are looking for a mirror in Japan. If you are an ISP or University in Japan and are willing to spare 20Mbps for a SourceForge.net mirror (we'll supply the hardware), please let us know at bandwidth@sourceforge.net 2. AUDIO OF KERNEL SUMMIT AVAILABLE SourceForge.net now has the audio from the entire 2002 OSDN/USENIX Kernel Summit, held in June. Listen to the Linux kernel master discuss such hot topics as kernel modules, virtual memory, block I/O, database scaling, security modules, and async I/O. You may find this audio repository at: http://linuxkernel.foundries.sourceforge.net/article.pl?sid=02/06/26/0116225 3. CONTRIBUTE TO SOURCEFORGE.NET! BE A FOUNDRY GUIDE! Want to contribute to SourceForge.net, but you don't know how to code? Be a foundry guide! Foundry guides get to hype the cool projects that they think are worth downloading and testing. A guide finds all the stuff on the web about their subject of choice, and gives it prominent placement. How do you become a foundry guide? Go to http://foundries.sourceforge.net/; find a topic that interests you; and send email to foundries@sourceforge.net stating your desired topic and why you are qualified to be a foundry guide. 4. WORK FOR SOURCEFORGE.NET We have a new position for a senior web developer available at SourceForge.net. We are looking for someone to help us maintain, upgrade, and add new features to SourceForge.net. Ideal person has 5+ years of development experience on high end, high volume websites (3+ million page views a day). Has a vast level of knowledge of Internet technologies: PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2, Linux, PERL, Apache, LDAP, Mailman. A flare for design / UI is a bonus. SourceForge is a unique site with unique challenges. We are looking for someone at the top of their game. Location of Job is in Fremont, California. Please send resume and URL's of sites you have worked on to jobs@sourceforge.net. Text resumes only. (No MS WORD files!) 5. SITE STATISTICS Stats: (Monday 12th, 2000) Hosted Projects: 45,194 Registered Users: 465,530 Page Views: 3,344,708 in a single day (Monday) Files transfered in a single day: 340,838 (Monday) Emails sent in a single day from Mailing lists: 851,143 (Monday) Top Ten Projects 1 phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 2 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for small-medium enterprises (SME) in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 3 SquirrelMail http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrelmail/ SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc 4 TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a web-based groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/calendars, addresses, teams, projects,tasks,bugs,mailboxes,documents and your time spent with these things 5 JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 6 Firewall Builder http://sourceforge.net/projects/fwbuilder/ Object-oriented GUI and set of compilers for various firewall platforms. Currently implemented compilers for iptables, ipfilter and OpenBSD pf 7 openMosix http://sourceforge.net/projects/openmosix/ openMosix is a Linux kernel extension for single-system image clustering. Taking n PC boxes, openMosix gives users and applications the illusion of one single computer with n CPUs. openMosix is perfectly scalable and adaptive. 8 CDex http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/ CDex a CD-Ripper, thus extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders. 9 phpChrystal - An Open Intranet System http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpchrystal/ phpChrystal ist ein OpenSource-Intranetsystem welches vorrangig auf Lan-Partys eingesetzt werden kann. Vorteile von phpChrystal sind seine Portierbarkeit, Flexibilität und Performance, da es vollends auf PHP, MySQL und XML basiert 10 Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32 and Linux. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. More Top Projects: http://sourceforge.net/top/mostactive.php?type=week EMAIL LIST REMOVAL: When the SF.NET team sends out a site-wide email, we sometimes see replies that look like this: "Hey!! I didn't subscribe to this list!!! You spammer. I hate you! I hate your dog! (insert other colorful phrases here)". The truth is, when you registered on SourceForge.net there was a check box that said "Receive Site-wide updates, low volume". You left it checked when you submitted the registration form, hence you are receiving this email. We send these updates every 4 to 6 weeks, so it truly is low volume. However if you want off, this is not a problem. 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