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  XSWEEKLY Shell Related News 23.12.00 - 29.12.00
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	Happy New Year!  Yet another year passes in the shell world
and what an interesting year it was.  I am just happy to still be here
bringing you news and other dirt on the various communities.  Lets
try and make this new millennium (yes this is the REAL new millennium)
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- YogiNews

  Yogib3ar will soon be opening a site dedicated to shell related
  programs.  As an ex-admin of dTop (chunkymunky) he has plenty of
  experience in this field.  Stop on over to see a work in progress.
  
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- History Of Disto's ~ _why (9:57 27.12 ls)

	_why of LSD4P has posted up a History of Distro's. In it he
	not only goes over what distro's have appeared in the past,
	but how they have affected us now. Also, there is some very
	good and serious talk about the problems with theme
	standardization. This is worth your time to read if for no
	other reason then to learn a little LiteStep history.

	url - http://lsd4p.dx0.org/
	e-mail - whytheluckystiff@mailcity.com
	(source: http://lsd4p.dx0.org/)

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- grdAmp 1.09 ~ grd (14:29 26.12 ls)

	grdAmp is an input/output module that utilized the winamp
	input/output modules for playing mp3's.

	New in this version:

	- Finally constructed a workaround for the problems when the
	  volume jumped as soon as a new track started.  This is
	  experimental and therefore only works with output-plugins
	  that output information to the standard wave-out and also
	  it has not yet been applied to the panning.

	- Altered the classname of the grdamp main window from
	  "grdamp wndcls" to "grdampclass", this means that if you
	  had LSXCommand (or anything else) reading from grdamp
	  before, you'll have to change your settings... =/  This was
	  done to go in the lines with the modified version of jamp
	  that is included in this release.

	- Includes a modified version of jamp (that ONLY works with
	  grdamp)

	url - http://floach.pimpin.net/grd
	e-mail - grd@swipnet.se
	(source: grd via irc)

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- geekamp 1.9c ~ azathoth (29.12 16:54 ls)

	This is a frontend for winamp.  You can control just about
	all aspects of winamp via bang commands and use shortcuts
	to make your own winamp control center.
	
	New in this version:
	
	- Fixed bug in !amp_fileinfo.
	- Fixed numerous bugs and problems (all dialogs should appear
	  on top now).
	- Add Bang Command !Amp_LoadEQPreset.
	- Problems: People have been reporting about geekamp not
	  working from shortcuts. This is very strange. I have no
	  answer as yet, if geekamp doesn't work for you, please try
	  older builds until you find a build that works, then please
	  write to me about it so i can fix it. Thanks.

	url - http://azathoth.ls2k.org/
	e-mail - azathoth@ls2k.org
	(source: http://www.ls2k.org)

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- un2 At LS2K

	Just noticed that un2 is now being hosted over at ls2k.org.
	Although there is nothing there yet, it's nice to see
	ls2k growing like it is.

	url - http://www.ls2k.org/un2
	(source: http://www.ls2k.org)

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- LiteStep Commands Moves, Kinda ~ ksr (11:08 27.12 ls)

	ksr has moved LiteStep Commands from help.litestep.com to
	lscommands.litestep.com.  Same great taste, just a slightly
	different address.
	
	url - http://lscommands.litestep.com
	e-mail - krabourn@bigfoot.com
	(source: http://lscommands.litestep.com)

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- Online Module Configurator ~ Flea (10:37 27.12 ls)

	"This page is to help you configure modules for Litestep, the
	Explorer shell replacement. It is intended for use by newbies
	and veterans looking for a quick and easy way to configure
	modules. There are 2 modes.

	"1. The default: allows the printout of the comments of the
	    module. The comments have additional configuration info
	    and default value info.

	"2. The advanced: allows easier viewing of all configurable
	    values in a short list."

	url - http://www.worldismine.org/litestep/mod-config.php3
	e-mail - web@worldismine.org
	(source: http://www.ls2k.org)

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- LiteStep
     o 24.6 build 112800
     o http://builds.litestep.net/builds/ls-0246-dev-20001128.zip

- geOShell
     o 4.6.5a
     o http://news.geoshell.com/Plugins/Download/geoshellr465a.zip

- PureLS
     o 052900
     o http://209.46.69.134/purels/binaries/00-05-29r.zip

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- SEAL To Be Sold? ~ Bad Sector (11:19 27.12 sel)

	Seems as if the original creator of SEAL has a startup
	company and has been working on an OS with offshoots from
	SEAL.  The problem with this is that SEAL is GPL but he
	will be using some of the SEAL source in this new, pay for,
	OS.  Check out this thread for more info:
	http://pub8.ezboard.com/fsealsystemgeneral.showMessage?topicID=192.topic
	
	url - http://pub8.ezboard.com/bsealsystem
	(source: http://pub8.ezboard.com/bsealsystem)

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- Desktop Pack 1 ~ Julien (14:21 26.12 sel)

	This is a large pack of very useful addons for SEAL.  Included
	here is WinEditor, TrackBar, ProgressBar, Search, GRFX,
	WinManager, Desktop 3.2 and the Dev Pack.
	
	url - http://pmos-en.pmad.net/
	e-mail - julien@pmad.net
	(source: http://pmos-en.pmad.net/)

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- SEAL
     o 1D (042900)
     o http://www.home.sk/public/seal/sealexe.zip

- V2_OS
     o 0.70
     o ftp://vp.dyn.dhs.org/0.70/v2_os.img

- AtheOS
     o 0.3.0
     o http://www.atheos.cx/download/list.php3?0.3.0

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