[announce] Blogfish 1.0RC1 "Reality Bites"

[David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones gmail com>]

Blogfish 1.0RC1 "Reality Bites" is out!

New features
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* MUCH improved and tested networking code: blogfish should now be
able to stay connected for days, with less network traffic
* Improved settings dialog, including configurable fish speed, death, spawning,
fighting and reproduction
* More lifelike fish movement ++
* Redesigned fish details dialog - text now wraps correctly, RSS
parsing improved
* New included backgrounds and several new fish images
* New uninstall script
* Improved install script
* Better handling of peer disconnects
* Peers pass on neighbour information if requested
* There is a running peer to connect to!
* Now promoted from alpha to release candidate. No shark attacks have
been reported on Blogfish users. If you are attacked by a shark while
using Blogfish, swim carefully away from the computer

[++] now in 2 dimensions!

Getting Blogfish
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You can download Blogfish 1.0RC1 from Sourceforge at:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/blogfish/blogfish-1.0RC1.tar.gz?download

What is Blogfish?
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Blogfish is the memepool.

Blogfish is social networking meets evolutionary software meets
peer-to-pier networking. Blogfish is best eaten wrapped in newspaper,
with salt and vinegar. Blogfish is the fin end of the wedge.

More prosaically, blogfish is a  panel applet for your Gnome desktop.
It allows you to spread your blog, website URL or random thoughts
in the form of small, internet-enabled, RSS-parsing sea creatures. Good memes
survive; bad ones are voted down and go belly up.

More information
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Project homepage:
http://blogfish.sourceforge.net

Sourceforge page:
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/blogfish

Mailing list:
blogfish-general lists sourceforge net
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blogfish-general

Simple peer
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If you want to run a blogfish peer but without Gnome GUI dependencies
- e.g. to run on a server - try downloading "branch-simple-peer" from
CVS, like so:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/blogfish login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/blogfish co
-r branch-simple-peer blogfish