SCO TechSTREET Newsletter, January 2008 , various Updates for SCO UNIX platforms
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Patchck - SCO Patch Management Tool
This tool is available for download in the support area. It is a very useful tool for SCO systems to find out the patch level and eventually download and install missing patches. See the usage notes on the patchck webpage.
 
Qt3 Graphical User Interface Library Supplement for OpenServer 6 + Maintenance Pack 3 (MP3)
qt3-3.3.8Da is an updated version of the Qt3 Graphical User Interface Library Supplement for OpenServer 6.0.0 systems with 
MP3 installed. The supplement is available to download here.

UnixWare 7.1.4 Maintenance Pack 3 USB Supplement Update A
The UnixWare 7.1.4 Maintenance Pack 3 USB Supplement Update A  provides support for USB Modem and USB Serial adapters. 
This supplement will be available shortly to download from here. 
         
SAS Tape from HP certified
The HP StorageWork Ultrium 1840 LTO-4 SAS Tape drive has been certified under SCO OpenServer 5.0.7, 6.0.0 & UnixWare 7.1.4
See the SCO Hardware compatibility database for more details on recent hardware certifications.

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New Skunkware for OpenServer 6 includes OpenOffice, KDevelop, Extras for KDE, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails.

SCO Skunkware is a collection of free open source tools and applications precompiled and packaged for SCO OpenServer and UnixWare. SCO Skunkware packages are not officially supported. Questions, comments, requests, and problem reports with SCO Skunkware should be addressed via email to skunkware@sco.com.
Ruby is an object oriented scripting language similar to Perl and Python. Rails is a Web application framework for Ruby.
In addition to Ruby and Ruby on Rails, over 30 new Ruby related Skunkware packages for OpenServer 6 can be downloaded at: ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr6/vols/Ruby/

KDevelop is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for KDE. It supports an extensive set of programming languages including C, C++, Fortran, Java, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and SQL.
The kdeextras package consists of the KDE 3.5.6 sub-packages that were not included in the KDE 3.5.6 package for OpenServer 6.
These "Extras for KDE" include:
kdebindings - programming language bindings for KDE/Qt/DCOP providing the ability to write KDE applications in a variety of languages
(See http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/)
kdeedu - educational KDE applications
kdegames - KDE games
kdesdk - provides several applications useful for developers. These include a version control system front-end for CVS, a program to view the differences between files, a UML Modeller, and a profile data visualization tool.
kdetoys - KDE applications for a world clock, an applet showing the phases of the moon, and the ability to track weather stations.
kdewebdev - Applications to assist in web development including Quanta Plus, Kommander, KXSL Debug, KImageMapEditor, KFileReplace and Kallery. See http://kdewebdev.org/
The kdeextras package was created to include KDE components whose port was still in progress, which are not necessary to the basic functionality of the desktop, had not been thoroughly tested, and/or were not considered product worthy. Over time we plan to migrate some of these into the base KDE3 package

New and updated Skunkware packages for OpenServer 6 include: 
Emacs - extensible display editor
FXRuby - Ruby bindings for the FOX GUI toolkit
ImageMagick - automated and interactive image manipulation
RMagick - Ruby bindings for ImageMagick
XEmacs - extensible display editor
abstract - abstract method library for Ruby
apcupsd - APC UPS Management
axis2c - Web Service SOAP engine
capistrano - remote parallel Ruby execution via SSH
dmalloc - Debug Malloc Library
enlightenment - window manager
erubis - fast, secure, extensible eRuby implementation
eruby - embed Ruby in HTML
fastthread - Optimized replacement for Ruby thread primitive
flexmock - ruby unit test library
fox - gui library
fxscintilla - GUI source code editor
gnutls - GNU Transport Layer Security
htmldoc - convert HTML to Postscript or PDF
HylaFAX - a fax and paging system
imlib2 - graphic library
instiki - simple collaborative website (Wiki) in Ruby
kdeextras - KDE Extras
kdevelop - integrated development environment
lighttpd - high-performance lightweight web server
mgetty - fax support
modruby - provides Apache API to Ruby
mongrel - simple fast Ruby web server
nitro - web application development engine
OpenOffice - Open Source Office Suite
opencdk - Open Crypto Development Kit
openmotif - X11 GUI Toolkit
pgadmin3 - PostgreSQL Management System
pygnutls - Python wrapper for GNU TLS
rails - web application framework
rake - ruby make
rapt - rails plugin tool
rekall - database frontend
ruby - object oriented interpreted scripting language
rubydbi - Ruby DBI DBD interface
rubygems - package management tool for ruby
rubygettext - localization library for Ruby
rubygtk2 - Ruby bindings for GTK2
rubymysql - MySQL API module for Ruby
rubypgsql - Ruby PostgreSQL interface
rubysqlite3 - ruby sqlite3 interface
rubytermios - enables use of the termios interface via Ruby
scons - software construction tool
sqlite3 - embeddable SQL database engine
sudo - execute command as another user
swig - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator
twisted - Python based web application framework
typo - lean blogging engine
unixODBC - ODBC subsystem for UNIX
wxGTK - a C++ cross-platform GUI library
wxruby - Ruby interface to wxWidgets GUI toolkit
zopeinterface - zope interface
A brief description of all the SCO Skunkware packages for OpenServer 6 is available at: ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr6/descriptions

All of the Skunkware modules are available at the SCO Website /skunkware.

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