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One user's experience getting Linux up-and-running is the topic for the first MailBag column at AboutLinux.com, William Henning's (of CPUReview fame) new site. After the details of the experience, Bill sums up what can be learned for new people who have yet to try Linux.

Events

The Atlanta Linux Showcase has announced its conference and tutorial program at long last. They had a tremendous influx of papers, so it took longer to review them than they expected. Registration is open, and a pre-registration discount exists till Sept 15th.

The First Annual Ottawa Linux Symposium was a tremendous success, according to the followup press-release. It does sound like an extremely enjoyable time. Their focus was on bringing together Linux developers and they succeeded in attracting an impressive lineup. ""The Ottawa Linux Symposium was a great technical conference," said Alan Cox of Building Number Three. "Three tracks of high quality tutorials and technical presentations, an E-mail garden and beer, everything needed to make it a great success.""

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility has announced its conference, to be held October 2-3 in Stanford, CA. Events include a session on the UCITA ("shrink-wrap software") act and the presentation of the Norbert Weiner award for Social Responsibility in Computing Technology to the "open-source software movement." The award will be accepted by Eric Raymond and Larry Wall.

Linux for Suits. Somehow we missed until now the Linux for Suits event at Internet World, October 6 in New York City. It features an impressive set of names: Linus Torvalds, Esther Dyson, Bob Young, Ransom Love, Chris DiBona, Michael Tiemann, and more.

More suits: The Linux Business Expo (which will be part of Comdex in November) has announced its list of keynote speakers: Michael Cowpland (Corel), Bob Young (Red Hat), and Ransom Love (Caldera).

More LinuxWorld photos. SuSE's Lenz Grimmer has put up a page of photos from LinuxWorld.

Cowpland in Miami. Ziff-Davis has put out an announcement about "Comdex/Miami," which is happening in, of all places, Miami at the end of September. It seems that Corel's Michael Cowpland will be there speaking on "Understanding the Benefits of Linux Open Source in the Software Industry"

User Group News

A UK Linux Demo Day will be held September 16th through the 18th, 1999, in Sheffield, England.

The Greeley Linux User's Group is forming up in Greeley, CO, USA. In fact, their first meeting has been scheduled for Sept. 1 1999, 7:00 pm at the Centennial Park Library. If you are interested, contact Chuck Morrison or go to their new homepage.

Help Wanted

If you're a person with Perl, SQL, and Linux experience in the London area, the folks at guideguide Ltd. would like to talk to you.

Hangover sarl in Paris is also looking for Linux folks.


August 26, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AccuRev 1.0.7d Cross Platform Configuration Management for Distributed Development
AIDE 0.4 Free replacement for Tripwire(tm)
alarm applet 0.8.5 Simple alarm for the GNOME panel
Anaglyph Schlecht's 1.1 anaglyph stereoscopic red/blue glasses 3d cyan blue
Apache 1.3.9 High performance, UNIX based HTTP server
Apache-OWS 0.4 Runs Oracle PL/SQL Web Toolkit applications.
APE 0.9.3 APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc.
Appindex browser 0.5 Simple ncurses-based Freshmeat appindex.txt browser
ArmedLINUX 1.0b A Linux Distro Aimed at windows Users
asDrinks 1.9.1 News headlines from nerd/UNIX type sites in your AfterStep startmenu
audio-entropyd 0.0.0 Feed /dev/random entropy from stereo soundcard
AutoRPM 1.9.8.1 RPM Auto-Installer and/or FTP Mirrorer
Beat Monkey 0.1 Simple calculator for pitch shifting audio samples
bidwatcher 0.9.9-2 tool for eBay users - track and snipe auctions
BitGen 1.1 convert strings of 1's and 0's to SPICE voltage sources
Bizarre 1999 Invitation Intro 1.0 An invitation intro to the bizarre 1999 demo party
bookmarker 1.6 WWW based bookmark manager
Calendars for the Web 1.0.2 Server based calendar and scheduling application
cdcd 0.5.0 A versatile command-line CD player
CDDA Paranoia III alpha 9.6 CD ripping application
CDfs 0.1 A filesystem that exports all tracks on a CD as normal files.
cgvg 1.5.1 Tools for command-line source browsing.
chpasswd 1.3 change user password by WWW
ClanBomber 0.98 Bomberman clone for ClanLib (X11 for now).
colormake 0.1 Wrapper to colorize output from make
Common UNIX Printing System 1.0b7 Internet Printing System for UNIX
CompactNET 1.1 Multiple CompactPCI CPU boards operate in a single backplane
CompuPic 4.6 build 1017 CompuPic Graphical Digital Content and File Manager for Linux
cpuburn 0.1 CPU maximum load (heat) stability test
CUPS-filters 0.1 Printer filters to use with CUPS
cwc 1.0 Crossword Compiler
cwmtx 0.1.0 C++ Library for matrix, vector and quaternion math
Cyrus IMAP server 1.6.10 Full featured IMAP server
Cyrus SASL 1.5.5 generic client/server library for SASL authentication
Datalink library 07.11.1999 Send data to the Timex DataLink watches
Datasphere 0.14.2 Non-IRC text-based conferencing package
DBMAIL 0.14a A mailsystem that uses a SQL database to store it's messages (POP3)
DDD 3.1.6 Common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX and XDB
Disc Backup pre-1.0 Backups files onto multipule CDs.
DNRD 1.3 Proxy DNS server for home networks with multiple ISPs
Downloader for X 1.0-BETA2 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
Downtime 2.2.5 Network monitor, watches your connection, and logs downtime.
Dtheatre News Grabber 1.0a 19990824 CGI/Perl script to fetch the newest DTheater.com Headlines
EPIwm 0.5 window manager
Etherboot 4.2.6 Source code for making TCP/IP boot ROMs to boot Linux and other OSes
ext2resize 1.0.5 Resizes ext2 filesystems
Fetchmail 5.0.7 Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
flwm 0.25 The Fast Light Window Manager
Free Threads 1.0 Web based discussion forums based on the Commercial package WWWThreads.
freemed 19990824 Free medical management software in a web browser
FreeMWare 19990817c Provides virtual computing for Linux.
Freeside 1.2.2 Billing and administration for ISPs
FreeTDS 0.46 Open Source implementation of the TDS database protocol
fryit 0.3.6 Graphical frontend for cdrecord.
G-BOOK DeLUXE 1.3 PERL Based guestbook CGI
GAG 2.0 A graphical boot manager, with a lot of interesting features.
Galway 0.20 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
Gamora 0.73.0 Java based server construction, hosting, and adminstration architecture.
gcombust 0.1.20 gtk+ frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord
GdkMagick 0.2 Image conversion and communication library for the ImageMagick and GDK toolkits
Getleft 0.6.1 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
getpost 0.2 Retrieve a single news posting by Message-ID
getright.pl 0.2 GetRight list processor
gFTP 2.0.4pre1 A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
Gifsicle 1.15 Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations
GIMPressionist 0.99.5 Impressionistic plug-in for the GIMP
GIP 0.2 Make installation/uninstallation easier
glFtpD 1.17.0 FTP Daemon for Linux. Great program for an ISP or anyone!
glTron 0.43 tron-like game with a 3D view
GMasqdialer 0.99.6 Gnome Client for the Masqdialer System
gMessaging System 0.3.0 Multiple data stream manager
gnokii 0.3.0 Preliminary release of tool set for Nokia mobile phones.
gnomba 0.4.0 Gnome Samba Browser
Gnome1394 0.11 Generic access to the IEEE1394 bus (FireWire(r), iLink(r)) from Gnome
gnome2wmaker 1.2 gnome2wmaker is a GNOME to Window Maker menu converter.
GnomePM 0.5.0 GNOME equivilent of the Yahoo! (C) Java Portfolio Manager
GNU cfengine 1.5.1 A tool for administering Networks of Diverse Machines
GNU Pth 1.1.2 GNU Portable Threads
gnujake 0.2 Facilitates management of and linking between eresources for librarians.
Gnumeric 0.32 Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
GNUware 1.2 A low cost CD containing over 1000 free Linux and UNIX programs.
GOB 0.0.4 Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object
goban 1.0 Replays historic games of go (wei-chi, baduk). Works with xscreensaver.
gpppkill 1.0.1 Ends idle ppp connections
GProc 0.2.6 Managing process from the Gnome panel
Grace 5.0.3 (gamma) a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool
gSwissKnife 0.0.3 floppy disks management tool
GTKeyboard 0.97.2 Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled
GtkGraph 0.4.0 Graphing calculator for X
GTKstep 1.8 Improves the default look and feel of the GTK+ widget set
GTKtalog 0.06 Fast Disk Catalog using a friendly interface with powerfull file research module
guile 1.3.2 GNU extension language, an embeddable library implementation of scheme
gVidChanger 0.1 Applet to change resolution in X.
gView 0.1.10 GTK/ImLib Image Viewer
gwsearch 0.1.4 Gnome web search engine front-end
Gwydion Dylan 2.3.2a Compiler for Dylan, an dynamic, efficient, object-oriented language
Heretic for Linux 1.0 final Port of Heretic to Linux
hinv 1.4 Display Hardware INVentory of a running Linux system, a la the IRIX hinv command
HTML-Tree 1.7 Generates HTML Tree Diagram of Web Site HTML Web Pages
HTML::Embperl 1.2b6 Embed Perl into HTML Pages with a lot of features especialy for dynamic webpage
HTML::Mason 0.6.2 A component-based perl web development environment
httptunnel 2.10 Creates a two-way data tunnel through an HTTP proxy
Humanoid 0.3.5.44 A pure Java arcade video game clone of the classic
hybridcon 1.0 Console utility for Hybrid cable modems
icewm 0.9.48 Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
ICRadius 0.8 Powerful cross platform radius server
ident2 1.0-Beta Multi-faceted identity/authentication server w/ ip masquerade support
IglooFTP PRO 0.9.1 Powerfull and User Friendly FTP client
Ilib 1.1.5 Image manipulation library for reading and writing images
IMP 2.2.0-pre3 IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
Install-Sendmail 5.1 install-sendmail will configure sendmail and fetchmail for you.
iplog 2.0 (alpha 08221999) tcp, udp, and icmp logging utilities for Linux.
IPSC 0.3.1 IP subnet calculator (GNOME/CLI)
ircII 4.4L
IRM 0.9b.3 HelpDesk, IT asset tracking system w/jobs.
irssi 0.7.14 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
ISCA BBS Client 2.1.3 Client program for ISCA BBS and DOC-style BBS systems
jEdit 2.0pre8 Powerful text editor
Jetty 2.2.5 HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java
jmk-x11-fonts 3.0 Jim's character-cell fonts for the X Window System
jProc 0.0.1 CGI and a Java applet that present some of /proc data in an HTML interface.
Juggernaut Application Server 1.0b2 Java-based Web Application Server
K4DE 0.3.13 3d-Editor for KDE with poor animation and sound posibilities.
kdbg 1.0beta2 A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. Also used by kdevelop.
KDevelop 1.0 Beta2 KDevelop is a new C++ development environment for Unix/X11.
KFibs 1.0.4 KFibs is a KDE client for FIBS.
KHexEdit 0.8.3 Versatile binary file editor for KDE
KisoCD 0.4.3 KDE frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord
kmc_utils 0.3.1 Control and grab images from a Kodak Motion Corder high speed camera.
KMySQL 1.1.7 A MySql client for KDE.
Krabber 0.4.2 KDE audio cd grabber and mp3 encoder front-end
KRunning 0.2.1 A database manager for your private running events
ktop 1.1.0 KTop: The KDE Task Manager
libax25 0.0.7 Library for AX.25 using hamradio programs
libglade 0.4 XML-based runtime user interface loader for GNOME
libSTCP 0.1a C Library for STCP (Secure Transport Control Protocol) support
libtiff 3.5.1 Library for manipulation of TIFF (Tag Image File Format) images.
Linux Memory Technology Device project 19990820 Support for Flash and RAM devices under Linux
Linuxconf 1.16r2.2 Sophisticated administrative tool
Lithium 0.3.2 Suite of Network/System Admin Tools with a GTK+ GUI
lmftp 0.1 lmftp client with queues, recursive download and retry
LOMAC 0.2 Low Water-Mark Mandatory Access Control for Linux
LoST 0.97 The LOst Space Tracker
lsfcc 0.1 Linux Socket Filter Command Compiler
Lua-Linux 1.1 Lua Language Interpreter 3.1, Linux-optimized, Distribution Version 0.9
lwpp 1.0 Lightweight `ifdef'-style text file preprocessor
MagiCapture 0.3.1 Screen capture and preview utility for the X Window System
maildrop 0.70 maildrop mail filter/mail delivery agent
MAMELANG 0.9.0 A portable, dynamic translation system
masqidentd 1.1.0 Ident daemon for Linux systems that use IP Masquerade
Midgard 1.2 A PHP Application Server Suite - Web building with Web-based tools
MindTerm 0.99 SSH-client in pure Java, includes stand-alone ssh- and terminal(vt100)-packages
mkdnstab 0.5 DNS Table generator in Perl
mklinuxfw 0.942 Project to develop a configuration tool which can configure filewalls
MM.MySQL 2.0-pre JDBC Drivers for MySQL
MOC 1.8 Perl Script for updating myIP.org Dynamic DNS entries
MOCTk 1.6 Perl/Tk version of myip.org-client
Modeline 0.6.1 A small utility to make XFree86/svgalib/framebuffer modelines.
mod_frontpage 1.3.9-3.0.43-4.0 FrontPage server extensions patch
mod_ssl 2.4.0-1.3.9 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
mon 0.38.14 Highly configurable service monitoring daemon
MOSIX 0.93.2 Single-system-image Clustering Software for Linux
MP3 Server Box 0.1 MP3 Player that can be controlled over network
MP3c 0.20 Audio-CD to MP3-Converter, with use of CDDB. Included GUI and cmdline-support
Mp3Maker.app 1.0-pre1 Window Maker enhanced cdda grabber and mp3 encoder frontend
mpg_applet 0.2 This great applet plays mp3's, but not without mpg123.
mtr 0.41 Network diagnostic tool
MudNames 1.5 Mud character name generator
Multiverse 0.1.2 A system for building an online world/RPG
Mutt 1.0pre1 Small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operatingsystems
myip-upate.pl 1.1 MYIP.org automatic update script
NAMG 0.1.4 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
navmutt 0.19 Use your favorite e-mail client under Netscape
Network Superscanner 0.8 IP- and portscaner with a GTK-interface
NSBD 1.3 Not-So-Bad Distribution (automated free software distribution)
NSIReg 1.2 NSIRegistry Whois Tool
nss 1.4 Netscape Startup Script. Script to handle Netscape launches.
oidentd 1.6.3 ident (rfc1413) daemon for linux that allows users to specify usernames
omega 0.6.0 Implementation and extension of the M-Technology (MUMPS) standards
OpenCart 1.4.3 Perl-based online shopping cart system
OpenLDAP 1.2.6 LDAP suite of applications and development tools
Oracle SQLWork 2.0 An SQL Worksheet-like querying tool for Oracle
Palm-Mail 0.3.5 Interface between PalmOS Mail application and Unix mailbox files
Paloma 0.83a Relational music/mp3 database system
passwdd 0.06 Password synchronization server/client
Penguin Saviour 1.1 2D rpg engine (Playable)
Perl Shell 0.00202 Simple interactive Perl shell
Perlfect Search 3.01 Web site indexer and search engine.
phpAds 1.1.0 Banner management and tracking system written in PHP
phpPolls 1.0.3 PHP Voting Booth
Ping 0.95 The official tennis simulator of the US army.
Pingus 0.2.1 Lemmings clone with penguins.
Pontifex 1.0 Pontifex online
PoPToP 0.9.13 PPTP Server for Linux
PowerPak 990818 An attempt at a high-level game SDK
ppstats-rc5 7.1 Distributed.Net Bovine RC5-64 Personal Proxy Statistics
Public Bookmark Generator 0.4.2 Generate a public bookmark (selected items) out of your bookmarks
pup 1.0 Printer Cartridge Utility
PVCj 1.2 Client side installation of JARs within Sun's Java Plugin
pvmsync 0.43 Extends POSIX-like synchronization mechanisms to a Linux Beowulf cluster
Pybliographer 0.7 tool for bibliographic databases manipulation
QtEZ 0.81.8 Qt based rapid application development environment
qtime-collection 1.6.1 Display time as English sentence
randtype 1.2 Displays text at random intervals.
Rasca 1.2.3 Extended MP3 Player.
rbison 0.0.1 parser generator for ruby
Record Management 0.5 Program to manage large sound carrier archives (LPs, CDs, MP3s, singles, ...).
recover 0.7 A utility which automates some steps to undelete a file.
Relay-JFC 0.7-Beta Open Source IRC chat program with a graphical user interface similar to mIRC
rlinetd 0.5 inetd replacement on acid
Root Park 0.5.1 Build a network that will stand the test of time
rotfl 0.6.2 simple text formatting language
RPGBoard 2.05 A WWWBoard-style message board script.
rrlms 0.4.2 RoadRunner login client
Rush ircd 2.7 An amazing ircd. with a ton of new features
Sapphire 0.12.5 A new window manager for the X Windows System.
sawmill 0.3 Extensible window manager
SClient 0.7.1 Mud Client for X windows
Send Packet 1.3 Network administration tool
SENSE 1.0.4 Distributed Shared Memory system
setMyip 0.1.2 perl client for the myip.org service
SffToBmp 1.0 Graphics converter
sgrab 1.0.0 Allows web-users to get a real-time snapshot of your screen.
shasum 1.1 Generates SHA1 hashes
sherpa 0.1.2 A system security configuration and maintenance tool
SmartWorker 0.80 Web Application Development / Deployment Framework
sn 0.3.0 Hassle-free usenet news system for small sites
Snoopy 0.1 Snoopy is a PHP class that implements web client functionality.
SPiN Chat System 2.4 Java based client/server Chat and Conferencing application
Sporum 1.1b2 A better web-based dicussion board software
squidGuard 1.1.0 Fast and flexible redirector, filter and access controller plugin for squid
squint 0.1 Extracts files directly from a squid cache.
SSH Buddy Beta1.02 Expectk Wrapper for secure shell, saves connections and passwords
sudo 1.5.9p4 Provides limited super user priviledges to specific users
Sula Primerix II 0.09.4b Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
sysinfo.app 0.4.2 A process manager designed for use with Window Maker.
TCFS 2.2.2 Transparent Cryptographic File System
tclreadline 0.9 GNU readline for the tcl scripting language
tDOM 0.3 Fast XML/DOM/XPath implementation for Tcl in C
Tempest for Eliza 1.0.0 Plays music in your radio using the computer screen as sender
Tempest-AM 0.9 AM Radio Signal Transmitter
Terraform 0.3.8 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler 4.04 A compiler for Haskell 98
The I Computer 990823 A Computer simulator for learning computer architecture.
The Linux Console Tools 0.3.1 Allows you to set-up and manipulate theLinux console
The Newsroom 1.0.6 The Newsroom for the Falken BBS Software.
Themble 0.3.0 A theme creator for the Enlightenment window manager
tinc 0.3 Virtual private network daemon
tinyproxy 1.2.10 A small, lightweight, easy-to-configure HTTP proxy.
TkMAME 0.35-pre11 Tcl/Tk Front End for XMAME
TkNotepad 0.6.0 A simple notepad editor written in Tcl/tk
TmCde broker 0.1.1 Time-code calculator
TmCde JAVA frontend 0.2.0 Time-code calculator
Truth VSA 3.0 Open Source Lie Detection
Unlimited Simulator Alpha 9 General purpose simulator
up 0.3 Replacement program for uptime.
upd 1.3 Makes hiscores of your best five uptimes, ready for when showing off!
urmcore 0.2.1 Quickly finds, verifies, and removes old core files with minimum system load.
User Scan 0.0.5 User monitoring tool
utftpd 0.2.2 tftpd daemon with finer grained access control
util-linux 2.9w Miscellaneous system utilities
Vacation 1.0.1 A mail auto-responder
vcstime 0.2.2 Titlebar clock for the Linux console
vftp 0.11 Ncurses based FTP client for the linux console.
Virtual Network Computing 3.3.3 Cross-platform Virtual Network Computing
Whodat 0.1 modified whois
wmakerconf 2.2 GTK based configuration tool for WindowMaker window manager
wmessage 0.5 WINGs based message viewer
wmfire 0.0.3.8 fire in a window maker dock applet
wmfsm 0.31 Monitors your filesystem usage.
wmG 0.14.0 A small, lightweight, GNOME-compliant window manager for X.
wmseti 0.1.1 Windowmaker dockapp for your SETI@home statistics
World Foundry 0.1 3D level game engine and asset production pathway
WPM 0.5 Web-based Proxy Manager
X-Tract Build 309 XML Script processor
XAL 1 X10 Abstraction Library
xcin 2.5.1 An X Input Method Server for Chinese
xlHtml 0.1.0 XLS to HTML converter
xmixer 0.9.3 Soundcard mixer program for Linux
XMLtp 1.0 Tiny XML parser
XMMS-Solaris 0.2.1a Output plugin for XMMS to play on Solaris audio
XSane 0.33 A GTK-based X11 frontend for SANE, also a GIMP plugin
xtermset 0.4 Changes xterm title, font, colors and size from the command line
Xtradius 0.9 Cistron based Radius Daemon that allows user auth and acct via external scripts
y2l 1.0 Yacc to LaTeX grammar pretty printer
ZAngband 2.2.6 Rogue-like roleplaying game
zh-sgmltools 1.0 A wrapper for SGMLtools to process Chinese
 

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