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Étoilé 0.1 Released
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February 16, 2006 (From Internet). The Étoilé project today released the first 
preview release of Étoilé User Environment, the next generation Desktop 
Environment (based on GNUstep) for Linux and other Unix operating systems. 
Étoilé 0.1 introduces Étoilé environment to public as a developer platform. This 
release is mostly targeted at GNUstep/Cocoa developers and introduces several 
frameworks that settle foundations for the future developments of the project.


Key Features of Étoilé 0.1 for developers
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	* LuceneKit 0.1
	
	Lucene is a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library in Java. 
	LuceneKit is a class-to-class port of Lucene in GNUstep. It is a technology 
	suitable for nearly any application that requires full-text search.
	
	* OgreKit 1.0 (GNUstep version)
	
	OgreKit is an OniGuruma regular expression framework for Cocoa. OniGuruma 
	supports different styles of regular expression (POSIX, Perl, Ruby, etc.). 
	OgreKit (GNUstep) only port the non-GUI part of original OgreKit, which can do 
	searching and replacing with regular expression.
	
	* PreferencesKit 0.1
	
	PreferencesKit is a framework which provides various features to build flexible 
	Preferences-like window in any GNUstep or Cocoa applications.

	* SQLiteClient 0.1 (Cocoa only)
    
    SQLiteClient is a SQLClient/SQLite port from SQLClient library in GNUstep/devl-libs. 
    It uses sqlite3 library and is supposed to work only on Mac OS X.
    
	* UnitKit 1.1 (GNUstep version)
	
	UnitKit is a unit test framework for Objective-C. It is a port of latest Cocoa 
	version with few new features.

	* Developer Examples
	
More detailed Release Notes may be found here : 
<http://www.dromasoftware.com/etoile/mediawiki/index.php?title=Latest_Release_Notes>

	
Availability
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Étoilé 0.1 is currently available in code source form only and may be downloaded 
at <http://download.gna.org/etoile/> 
Instructions to compile and install it are located at 
<http://www.dromasoftware.com/etoile/mediawiki/index.php?title=Install>
For developer related documentation, visit 
<http://www.dromasoftware.com/etoile/mediawiki/index.php?title=Frameworks_Suite>


About Étoilé
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Étoilé is an independent project of various people like developers, artists and 
other wanderers to create an open source and innovative GNUstep based Desktop 
Environment. 
More precisely, it intends to be a user environment built from the ground up 
on highly modular and light components with project and document orientation in 
mind, in order to allow users to create their own workflow by reshaping or 
recombining provided Services (aka Applications), Components etc. Flexibility 
and modularity on both User Interface and code level should allow it to scale 
from PDA to computer environment.


More Information
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Visit our website: <http://www.etoile-project.org/>
Mail contact: qmathe@gna.org


References
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    GNUstep: <http://www.gnustep.org/>
    Cocoa: <http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/>
    Lucene: <http://lucene.apache.org/java/>
    OgreKit: <http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~sonoisa/OgreKit/>
    UnitKit: <http://www.unitkit.org/>
