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The folks over at Hardwire are looking for ways to better integrate Linux into their hardware testing procedures. They are actively looking for suggestions from Linux folks; head on over if you have any ideas and let them know. (Thanks to Chris Walton).

The new Linux-centric 32bitsonline is now, well, online.

Events

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo has announced its keynote speakers: Micheal Cowpland (Corel), Mark Jarvis (Oracle), and, of course, Linus Torvalds. They also state that they expect 8000 attendees. See the announcement for more.

Linuxbierwanderung, or the "Linux beer hike" will be happening next August in Bavaria, under the sponsorship of Electric Lichen, LLC. Participants will divide their time between Linux lessons, Bavarian hikes, and, of course, beer. This one just sounds like too much fun. Here's the Linuxbierwanderung web page for those who are interested.

On December 5th and and 6th, between between 11:30pm and 6:15am in Paderborn, Germany, an attempt will be made to build the world's greatest Linux cluster (codename CLOWN = CLuster Of Working Nodes). The project is sponsored by Linux User Groups in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and the Netherlands, in association with Linux-Magazin. Check out the project website for more details (also available in German).

The Linux/Unix Users' Group of Virginia Tech is holding an InstallFest on Saturday, December 5, 1998, on the campus of Virginia Tech. Here are more details.

Peter Toft wrote a short articleon a recipe for making your LUG the biggest in the world, based on his experience with SSLUG, (Skane Sjelland Linux User Group).

Linux Expo has put out a press release hyping next May's conference.

Web sites

The Brazilian site "Matrix" has set up a Linux area, those who read Portuguese may want to check it out. It includes news, introductory pages, documentation, and other good stuff. (Thanks to Augusto Cesar Campos).

Sunsite.unc.edu has been renamed. This venerable site, still the home of the Linux Documentation Project and much other good stuff, is now known as MetaLab.unc.edu.

User Group News

A LUG is forming on Long Island, NY. The LUG is sponsored by F.L.A.T. the State Univ. of NY FArmingdale Linux and Associated Technologies club.

Help Wanted

Progressive Systems, the "premier Linux Network Security product" company, has several job openings available in Columbus, Ohio.

December 3, 1998

   

 

Software Announcements


Here are last week's software announcements for those who didn't see them in the daily updates page.

Package Version Description
Acidblood 1.2.8 Full-featured IRC Bot
ADL 2.0 Assertion Definition Language
AleVT 1.1.0 Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
Alien 6.23 Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats
Artistic Style 1.0.2 Indentation and reformatting filters for C, C++, Java
Aspell .25 Intelligent Spell Checker
binutils 2.9.1.0.16 Provides programs to assemble and manipulate binary andobject files.
boust 0.1 A Tcl/Tk text reader for Linux that formats text in boustrophedon.
BurnIT 1.4pre5 Java front-end to cdrecord and mkisofs
C Masqdialer Server 0.1.0 Protocol compatible replacement for Masqdialer server written in C
cdrecord 1.8a13 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
Celebrat 0.9.3 Very simple non-interactive command-line calendar
Cheops 0.5 Network User Interface
Connect 1.1.7 Client-server to easily share (open/close) one ppp link among a small network
CSSC 0.09alpha.pl1 SCCS clone
curl 5.0 Tiny command line client for getting data from a URL
CVS 1.10 Concurrent Versions System
CX 0.01 A platform independant, interface independant, programming language independant,
DailyUpdate 4.5 Grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates itinto your webpage
Dents 0.0.1 Well-designed nameserver which aims to be completely standards comformant
E*Reminders 0.1 Web-based reminder software
ECLiPt Roaster 1.0 beta 4 GTK Interface to MkIsoFs and CDRecord for writing CDs on the fly
egcs snapshot 19981130 Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools
Electric 5.4g4 CAD/EDA tool for multiple levels of design
Fake 1.0.2 Utility to switch in backup servers on a LAN
fb 1.4 Binary file viewer, editor, and manipulator.
Fetchmail 4.6.9 Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
fplan 1.4.1 A flight planning tool for pilots
Gaby 0.2.3 An address book written in GTK
GannonChat 0.12 Web-Based Chat using PERL and MySQL
Genius 0.2.0 An arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floatingpoint calculator
gentoo 0.9.15 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
GF1 0.99.3 Play GIPF against your computer
GJP 0.62 Visual Java Classfile Parser
Glade 0.3.8 GTK+ interface builder
glade-- 0.2.2 An extension to glade to create C++ sources
GlideControl 0.1 GTK-based interface for configuring 3Dfx voodoo cards
GLload 0.3.1 OpenGL(r) load meter
GNU Argument Analyser 0.9.8 Utility to manage the arguments of your programs
GNU m4 1.4 Standard Unix macro processor with extensions
Gomoku Apprentice 0.2 A gomoku player learning from its own mistakes
gPGPshell 0.02 A PGP shell for X Windows
GQmpeg 0.4.2 A front end to the mpg123 mpeg audio player
Groundhog 0.9 Logic game written with GTK
gRun 0.7.2 GTK based Run dialog
gsmbstatus 0.0.2 GTK based smb status display
gsyn 0.1.2 TB-303 software synthesizer
GTK MikMod .05b GTK interface to MikMod for Unix
Gtk-- 0.10.1 C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.
gtkcookie 0.03 edit your Netscape cookie file
gtkgo 0.0.1 Go game for GTK
Gwydion Dylan 2.1.2 Compiler for Dylan, an dynamic, efficient, object-oriented language
GXF86vidmode 19981126 Change your video mode when using a XFree86 X server
Hamilton 2.0.7 Open-Source Java-based Application Server
Hitchhiker 1.1 Beta 2 An astronomy program which shows the planets and their orbits
Hypermail 2.0 beta 9 Mail(box) to HTML converter with threads and MIME support.
IMP 1998-11-24 IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
JCam 0.5 Java application for downloading images from many popular digital cameras
jEdit 1.2pre6 Powerful text editor
JThreads/C++ 1.0.4 Java like threads for C++
Kalendar 0.4k simple, easy to use calendar and to-do list manager
Kibble 0.7.0 A knowledge base program
KIshido 0.1 A KDE board game based on Ishido from an Atari LYNX
Kticker 0.2.4 News ticker widget that downloads news headlines and displays them periodically
KXicq 0.2.22 The KDE ICQ clone
LabVIEW 5.0.1 Full Development System which offers full-featured graphical programming
linleech 2.2.0 Program that automates the processof downloading USENET articles
LinPopup 0.9.5 Linux port of Winpopup, running over Samba.
Linux-Kontor Build 11 A free Commodities, Bookkeeping, Accountancy and Inventory Management software
Linuxconf 1.13r7 Sophisticated administrative tool
Mailcrypt 3.5.1 Provides a simple interface topublic key cryptography with PGP
make_news_site 0.03 A simple web news site creator
man-pages 1.22 The Linux manpages collection
MasterPlan 0.1.0 Time managementsoftware for Linux
mHockey 0.48 OpenGL based hockey game
MHonArc 2.3.3 Perl mail-to-HTML converter.
MikMod 3.1.0 Multi-platform open-source module player
mod_ssl 2.1.1-1.3.3 Apache Interface to SSLeay
Moneydance 2.0b4 Personal finance application written in java
moodss 5.3 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
MpegTV Player 1.0.7.7 A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
Mpm4Linux 0.0.2 Upload tools for MpMan portable MP3 players
MultiMedia Panel 0.2 MultiMedia Player and Audio Mixer for linux consoles.
MySQL 3.22.11 SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
naim 1998-11-23-1724 Console-mode AOL Instant Messenger client for Linux and compatible unices
Naken Chat 0.82 Chat Server ported from Javachat
NCSfck 1.2.0 Program to detected file changes.
Net Lightning Release VII x-10 device control server for Linux and OS/2
net-tools 1.48 Programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution
Netscape Flash Plugin 0.4.1 A Netscape plugin to view Macromedia-Shockwave-Flash files.
News Peruser 4.0 alpha 5 An offline newsreader for Linux and X11
NoName 0.0.4 Fantasy RPG using A-Life techniques.
OmniORB2 2.6.1 A robust, high-performance CORBA 2 ORB
ORBacus 3.1.1 CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB for C++ and Java
Petey 0.9 Fortune like application for story generation
pgp4pine 1.42 Interactive program for using PGP with email programs, specifically Pine
PIKT 1.0 An innovative new systems administration paradigm
pircd Alpha Six An IRC daemon, written in Perl.
playdough 2.00 BitchX/EPIC IRC script
PMan 0.1.4 FLTK-based Project Manager
PyGTK 0.5.6 A set of bindings for the GTK widget set
PySol 2.00 A Python-based Solitaire card game
quftp 0.88 Command line FTP client with queueing
RAPID 5.05 Commodity and stock graphing software for technical analysis.
rlpr 2.00 beta 7 Print from remote sites to your local printer w/o configuring remote site
rsync 2.2.1 File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
Secure-Linux Patch 0.6 Linux kernel patch to block most stack overflow exploits
Siag Office 3.1.0 Free office package for Unix
sitecopy 0.2.9 Maintain remote copies of locally stored web sites
slashes.pl 1.2 A Perl/GTK Slashdot news ticker
SMSLink 0.22b Client/server gateway to the SMS protocol
snarf 2.0.5 Command-line URL retrieval tool with some unique features.
ssystem 1.5 OpenGL Solar System Simulator
gsula 0.05.2 Programmable multiple-server IRC Client for X with Guile extension
Teaser and Firecat alpha-2 Copyleft replacement for the proprietary ICQ system
The looser corps 0.9.8 Great multiplayer game, with pretty good graphics
THUD 0.13 Cycle-based Scheme-HDL register-transfer level simulator
tkArchive 0.22 modular GUI to unix archive utilities
tkRunIt 0.80 A simple, but featureful run dialog box for executing commands without an xterm
tomsrtbt 1.7.42 Single floppy diskette linux distribution
traffic-vis 0.21 Network analysis tool
treeps 1.01 X/Motif graphical process tree visualizer
UDF 0.7 UDF filesystem kernel module
uusbd 19981117 USB Support for Linux
WebTheme 1.1.1 Web Theme Library
Wizard 0.9.4 Component to add a Windows 95-like Wizard to an application.
wmakerconf 1.4 GTK based configuration tool for WindowMaker window manager
X-CD-Roast 0.96e A program-package dedicated to easy CD creation underLinux
XAmixer 0.2.0 An ALSA based mixer program written with GTK+
XawTV 2.32 TV application and a few utilities
Xcd-Fnord 0.3 GUI frontend to various mp3-rippers andmp3-compressors
XEmacs 21.2-beta4 Internationalized text editor
Xpdf 0.80 Viewer for Adobe PDF files
Xrun 0.2.0 A Gtk+ based program to run commands with a history.
Xwhois 0.2.5 Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.
Yolk 30/11/1998 A A perl script and set of modules to implement an eggdrop botnet bot

 

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