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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.
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
