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-Nothing has happened yet. We have not had time to work on this yet, but have merely developed the concepts
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+2010-05-18  Ethan Zonca <ez@ethanzonca.com>
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+	* Basic rendering is now possible using http://dev.distren.org/ (see DistRenWeb repo) and distrensimpleslave,
+		which uses a PHP interface to work around the nonfunctional server codebase.
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