Cool School Multimedia Slide Show and Four Free Linux Applications Released
Leading Linux writer Tom Russell makes several applications and tutorials written in Runtime Revolution and using the Bash Shell available to everyone.
(PRWEB) March 29, 2005 -- Computer industry expert Tom Russell (aka Stomfi)
announces that he is making Cool School Multimedia S|ide Show and four other
Linux applications written with Runtime Revolution (www.runrev.com) freely available.
Cool School Slide Show is an application for displaying multimedia presentations
over a network and supports text, images and sounds. Cool School Slide Show is
based on Open Source technology and Runtime Revolution components.
"The
combination of Runtime Revolution and Linux now makes it easy for me to create
graphical interfaces ," said Tom Russell (aka Stomfi) "Combined with the
features available on Linux and Open Source technology the possibilities are
limitless."
Cool School Slide Show accompanies four other applications
which are written with Runtime Revolution and use the Bash shell. Others include
Home Cooks Recipes, Factory QA Data System, Poems and Zippy. All applications
come with the Revolution executables, shell scripts and sample data and are
available from: http://www.stomfi.bigpondhosting.com
Stomfi is giving
the newbie as well as the seasoned professional, the chance to take advantage of
all this power by writing tutorials for Novell Cool Solutions. These tutorials
are explicit instructions on how to create the Runtime Revolution GUI
interfaces, the GUI event scripts, and the Linux shells that are used for
information manipulation. The tutorials are available from: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/author/1211.html
About
Tom Russell
Tom Russell is the principal Linux Teacher/Trainer and Technical
advisor at Computerbank Queensland www.cbq.org.au a not for profit organization which donates
refurbished Linux computers to members of the digital divide.
Tom cut his
teeth on Unix in the early 80s training clerks and scientists to use shell tools
and graphical applications in a Sun networked information system, which did
everything from scientific plotting and analysis to library and clerical data
tasks.
A not so typical geek, Tom creates multimedia stories, kinetic
sculpture, reads science fiction, dances, and travels and lives in as many
countries as he and his girlfriend can afford to visit.
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