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From: Luis Villa <liv@duke.edu>
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Subject: Official release of legOS 0.2.4 and legOS HOWTO 0.2.0
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Hi, everyone! On behalf of Paolo Masetti and myself, and the rest of the
legOS crew, I'd like to announce the release of legOS version 0.2.4. This
is the first release in many months, and so it has lots of great goodies.
*Vastly improved stability with large programs. No more mysterious crashes
or freezes- legOS is finally as stable as the Unix systems it aspires to
become :)
*More reliable sensor readings- none of that annoying sensor jitter.
*Battery handling code- find out exactly how close your batteries are to
dying, down to the mV.
*Assembler fixes: legOS will now build correctly with gcc 2.95.
*random number generation! Ever wanted your robot to just pick a
direction, /any/ direction? Now you can.
*Variables can now persist. If you want to store information, turn off the
robot, and come back to that same data, you can.
Anyway, that's most of the news that is fit to print. You can get the new
version of legOS here:
http://legOS.sourceforge.net/files/common/legOS-0.2.4.tar.gz
To coincide with this release, there is also now a new version of the
legOS HOWTO, completely updated for the 0.2.x series of legOS kernels. You
can get the HOWTO from sourceforge:
http://legOS.sourceforge.net/HOWTO/
Finally, there is a new API doc, for those who feel the HOWTO just isn't
technical enough. You can find it here:
http://legOS.sourcforge.net/API/
Enjoy, and keep the feedback coming: we look forward to an even better
(and hopefully much closer) legOS 0.2.5 with your help.
-Luis, Paolo, and the rest of the legOS developer team
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Subject: Linux & Lego, Take 2
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At the same URL as before ( http://www.duke.edu/~liv/Linux/ ) I've put up
version 0.2 of the mini-HOWTO. It fixes a few minor bugs, adds one more
major option (TCL) and also adds a section for stuff like LeoCAD that are
useful even if not directly relevant. Of course, that is the only thing in
there, and a search for "Linux" on lugnet gives me 3,000 Matt Miller
posts, so I have nothing else to add myself :) If anyone has any
suggestions, please let me know. Otherwise, this will become version 1.0
later this week.
Thanks for the feedback, everyone...
Luis
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Subject: new legOS documentation
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Thanks to the efforts of a number of people, there is a raft of new
documents up at the legOS site. Because of the growing amount of
documentation, I've organized a new page to keep track of all the
available docs:
http://legOS.sourceforge.net/docs/
New things up there now:
*LegOS Networking Protocol documentation. The HOWTO now incorporates Mike
Ash's excellent LNP docs. This includes sample code, which should help
make LNP more workable for the many people who have asked about the LNP.
IMHO, this is the most important documentation to be written for legOS
since I wrote the original HOWTO.
*Command Reference: Dave Chen has written up a great new set of "human
generated" API docs, showing all the available kernel functionality that
legOS programs can access. Unlike the auto-generated API docs that we've
been depending on, this is sorted and organized by a human hand- making
them vastly superior.
*New HOWTO. Other than the LNP changes, these are mainly minor.
Unfortunately, the auto-generated table of contents seems to be failing
me- I'm working on it and hope to have it fixed by tomorrow.
In addition, a new Lego+Linux mini-HOWTO should be available tomorrow or
the day after that from linuxdoc.org.
Finally, I hope to release legOS 0.2.5 shortly, which will include a slew
of new functionality- most importantly, great support for C++. While this
is not yet documented, it should fill one of the big holes in legOS's
functionality.
Good luck and happy computing!
Luis
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Subject: new legOS release
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Hey, everyone. I've released a new version of legOS- 0.2.5. For the most
part, this is a maintenance release- a few small fixed here and there. The
one major upgrade (and the best reason for anyone to upgrade) is the new
C++ support that has been added by Pat Welch. There are no API changes- if
your code works on 0.2.4, it should work just fine with 0.2.5. If anyone
finds that to be incorrect, or has any other problems of any type, please
let me know. Good luck with it- hope everyone enjoys their holidays-
Luis
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