[Lintouch-announce] Lintouch 1.8.1 released

[Martin Man]

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Lintouch 1.8.1 Release Announcement

Lintouch Team

<lintouch-dev at lintouch.org>

January 23rd, 2006

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. What's New In Lintouch 1.8.1

    2.1. Global Changes
    2.2. Lintouch Editor

3. Obtaining and Installing Lintouch

    3.1. Ready Made Binaries
    3.2. Sources

4. What is Lintouch

1. Introduction

After two months of development we (the Lintouch Team) are proud to
announce the availability of the new stable release of the Lintouch
Server, Lintouch Runtime, and Lintouch Editor.

This is the maintenance version including bug fixes and several new
features. You are welcome to download, install, test, and use this
version.

Please see Section 4, ?What is Lintouch? for more information about
Lintouch.

2. What's New In Lintouch 1.8.1

2.1. Global Changes

Lintouch is fully licensed under GPL/LGPL

    In response to discussions held at SPS Drives 2005 fair in Nürnberg,
    Germany, we have decided to release Lintouch completely under the
    GNU General Public License 2.

    We have additionally relicensed components needed to build new
    Server Plugins and Template Libraries under the GNU Lesser General
    Public License, mainly in order to allow third parties to build
    commercial Server Plugins and Template Libraries without
    the need to publish their source code.

    More details about Lintouch Licensing Scheme are available at the
    website.

New binary builds available

    Lintouch 1.8.1 is available in binary format ready to install for
    the most popular Linux Platforms today, namely: Suse Linux 10,
    Fedora Core 4, Ubuntu Linux 5.04, and Debian/GNU Linux 3.1.

New command line option --debug available

    Lintouch Runtime, and Lintouch Editor now accept
    --debug <filename> command line option that causes them
    to log all activity to a given file.

2.2. Lintouch Editor

Preview Dialog bug fixes

    Code in Preview Dialog of Lintouch Editor has been cleaned up and
    optimized, resulting in speed improvements when using Editor
    on a slower computers.

3. Obtaining and Installing Lintouch

3.1. Ready Made Binaries

Lintouch can be downloaded and installed directly on the Windows and
Linux based platforms. The detailed instructions are available
at our website.

The list of supported platforms includes Microsoft Windows 2000/XP,
SuSE Linux 10, Fedora Core 4, Debian/GNU Linux 3.1 (sarge),
and Ubuntu Linux 5.04 (breezy). Source RPM archives are provided
in order to support other RPM based Linux distributions.

3.2. Sources

The source code of Lintouch Runtime, Lintouch Server, and Lintouch
Editor is distributed under the GNU General Public License 2. It can be
downloaded and compiled by hand. The detailed instructions
are available at our website.

4. What is Lintouch

Lintouch is an opensource HMI software. It lets you design user
interfaces for process automation. Lintouch runs on most popular
hardware and software platforms, is lightweight and easily extensible.

Lintouch supports variety of hardware/software platforms (Win32+Intel,
Linux+Intel, Linux+PPC).

Lintouch has been designed with extensibility in mind. New Server
Plugins can be developed to bring in new connectivity (ModBus/TCP,
and Hilscher already available). New Templates (GUI Objects)
can be implemented to define new control and visualization
primitives (Buttons, Lamps, and other Technical Objects already
available).

To get more information about Lintouch please visit our website
http://lintouch.org.


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