18 June 2002

Congratulations to for making it to work on rollerblades in one piece. This is a good thing both for people who know him and for the whole open source movement because the world would never be the same if some bus driver had smited this fine hacker into the ground.

05 March, 2001

Work done by has been added to the FreeBSD port collection. The mq3 ogg/mp3 player was successfully ported to FreeBSD.

04 March, 2001

has released version 0.7.6 of the Spruce mail client.

14 January, 2001

has released version 0.4.0 of GMime, a library for parsing and creating MIME messages.

10 January, 2001

has released an updated version of his guide, providing step-by-step instructions for installing Conectiva Linux 6 as a guest operating system under VMware. This guide is available from the MHFSG documentation page.

25 November, 2000

, in conjunction with the OLS Transcription Project, has released the transcripts for "XFS for Linux", "The Rsync Algorithm" and "EXT3, Journaling Filesystem" (based on the original talks, recorded during the 2000 Ottawa Linux Symposium).

02 November, 2000

has released version 1.1.2 of STPhp.

26 October, 2000

The OLS Transcription Project has been started by . This project seeks to provide high-quality transcripts of recorded sessions from the Ottawa Linux Symposium.

9 October, 2000

has released a new version (0.0.10a) of the Kodak Digital Camera HOWTO. (This HOWTO is included in the LDP.)

5 October, 2000

has joined the Marble Horse Free Software Group.

4 October, 2000

After a short time period offline, the Marble Horse Free Software Group website has now returned and is fully operational. Our appreciation goes to Quentin Cregan (aphzen of the SourceForge team) for resolving the outstanding configuration issue on our new webserver at SourceForge.

19 September, 2000

The Marble Horse Free Software Group (MHFSG) website is now hosted by SourceForge. Additional MHFSG will soon be available from the "marblehorse" project pages at SourceForge.

14 September, 2000

has posted the first public release of Conflux, a data collection and management suite.

02 January, 2001

has released version 0.3.0 of GMime, a library for parsing and creating MIME messages.

10 December, 2000

has released version 0.2.0 of GMime, a library for parsing and creating MIME messages.

30 November, 2000

has released the initial version of a guide providing step-by-step instructions for installing Conectiva Linux 6 as a guest operating system under VMware. This guide is available from the MHFSG documentation page. This guide was been removed as result of incompatibilities with the Conectiva Linux 6.0 release. See news of 10 January, 2001 for an update.

18 November, 2000

has released version 0.1.0 of GMime, a library for parsing and creating MIME messages.

30 October, 2000

has released version 1.1.0 of STPhp.

26 October, 2000

has released version 1.0.1 of STPhp.

9 October, 2000

has released the initial public version (1.0) of the STPhp internationalization tool for PHP.

2 September, 2000
has released Spruce version 0.7.5.

24 August, 2000

has released Spruce version 0.7.4. This release includes features developed and tested by several of the Marble Horse Free Software Group members. Spruce is now offered as SRPM and i386 RPMs due to the efforts of and .

15 August, 2000

attended the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, representing his employer, Helix Code. Jeffrey is currently an active developer on Helix Code's Evolution project.

21 July, 2000

and attended the Ottawa Linux Symposium and were present at the keysigning event.

16 July, 2000

The Marble Horse Free Software Group's cryptography policies, procedures and advocacy page has been posted.

14 June, 2000

The In-Roads to Free Software Development, an editorial by , has been posted for your reading pleasure.

4 June, 2000

The initial public release of MH checksums has been posted (version 0.4).

13 May, 2000

Spruce version 0.7.1 has been released to the general public.

2 May, 2000

nail version 9.10 has been released and includes autoconf-enabled configuration submitted by .

22 April, 2000

The Importance of Non-Developer Supporters in Free Software, an editorial by has been carried by the freshmeat.net news service.

22 April, 2000

Spruce version 0.6.3 has been released to the general public.

21 April, 2000

w3m version 0.1.9 has been released and includes several enhancements from .

15 April, 2000

The initial public draft of the SLPv5a package format specification has been released for public comment. The public comment period has commenced and will be in effect until April 30, 2000. On-topic comments are welcome from those interested in this specification.

6 April, 2000

Members of the Marble Horse Free Software Group have been active in the development of the SLPv5a package format specification and reference implementation. This is the first public announcement of these efforts.

5 April, 2000

w3m version 0.1.8 has been released and includes several enhancements from .

24 March, 2000

Spruce version 0.6.1 has been released to the general public.

17 March, 2000

Spruce version 0.6.0 has been released to the general public.

13 March, 2000

The Kodak Digital Camera HOWTO, written by , has been added to the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) archives. The HTML version of this HOWTO is accessible here.

20 February, 2000

, author of the Spruce mail client, has joined the Marble Horse Free Software Group team.

8 February, 2000

The Marble Horse Free Software Group registers the MARBLEHORSE.ORG domain, future site of Marble Horse-sponsored project downloads.

1 February, 2000 (through 4 February, 2000)

Members of the Marble Horse Free Software Group attended LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in New York City, New York. The show was busy (20,000 attendees) and proved itself as a great opportunity to speak with other developers and end-users.

21 January, 2000 (through 23 January, 2000)

Developers from the Marble Horse Free Software Group actively participated in semi-formal testing of Rik van Riel's stable-tree Linux kernel VM patches. Testing results were supplied to Rik and to Alan Cox (stable-tree kernel maintainer). Rik's patches were tested on a variety of x86 hardware in a structured manner. These patches yield notably better stability and performance on systems with less than 128MB of RAM as opposed to previous kernel VM code. Due to successful widescale functional testing, Rik van Riel's VM patches have been integrated into the stable tree kernel with the 2.2.15pre3 prerelease.