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Resources

A draft version of the Community Education Howto has been made available. This HOWTO aims to help out people trying to put together education and advocacy programs through their LUG or other organizations.

Linux Administration Made Easy (LAME), has been updated for Red Hat 6.1, and now weighs in at a full 130 pages.

FUD-counter mailing list. Rik van Riel has announced a new mailing list (called "fud-counter") which is meant to provide a forum for coordinating responses to anti-Linux articles. "This not only gives us some sort of 'marketing department' of our own, it also makes sure that the regular FUD attacks don't take time away from the developers. Of course, we cannot work like a 'normal' marketing department. We do all of our work out in the open and, as such, are exposed to much more scrutiny than any commercial company could ever be. This means that we will have to limit our responses facts that are 100% true and easily verifiable"

Small memory mini-HOWTO. osOpinion ran an article called the "Small memory mini-HOWTO." As one would expect, it is a collection of hints on how to use Linux successfully on systems with very small amounts of RAM.

David Mentré has updated his annotated version of Microsoft's 'Linux Myths' page.

Events

Is the Penguin already mature? The Dutch Unix User Group is meeting on November 4 to look at the topic. There is a long list of speakers, headed up by Jordan Hubbard.

Alternative: Linux is happening in Montréal on November 1-3. Speakers include Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond. A good time should be had by all...

ApacheCon 2000 will be held March 8-10 in Orlando, Florida. There is currently a call for papers out; the deadline is October 22.

The 17th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles will be held in Charleston, SC on December 12-15, 1999. See the announcement for program and registration information.

Eric Raymond will be speaking at the Mizzou Open Source Expo, to be held in Columbia, MO on October 24.

Linux Business Expo announcements. The Linux Business Expo has announced a set of resources and events associated with the gathering, including the "Linux Learning Center" (sponsored by Caldera), the Email Garden (by VA Linux Systems) and a discussion forum sponsored by the Linux Mall.

Web sites

LinuxLots.com is offering "almost free" web and FTP space to Linux contributors. "Almost free" because they do want to place an ad banner on your web pages.

User Group News

The Midland (MI) Area LUG announces its initial meeting, to be held on October 19.

October 14, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
624 1.0.0 Elf-executable (produced by tinlink) compressor
AccuRev 1.1 Cross Platform Configuration Management for Distributed Development
acmemail 2.1.6 A multiuser POP3/IMAP to Web gateway with MIME and mod_perl support
adzapper 0.1.30 HTTP proxy that filters ads
AleVT 1.5.0 Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
AnyJ Java IDE 1.3.2 Java IDE and browsing tool
apache-userdirldap 1.0 LDAP UserDir lookups for the Apache web server
APIsingularity 0.0.6 Portable OpenGL C++ API based on GLUT
Basilisk II 0.7-2 An attempt at creating a free, portable 68k Mac emulator.
bdist 0.9.1 Build distribution file containing all relevant files in a programming project
BestCrypt 0.3b Creates and supports encrypted virtual volumes for Linux/Windows/MSDOS.
Bluefish 0.3.3 Gtk based HTML editor
Buddyedit 1.0 Perl script to edit the buddy list of naim's .faimrc file.
C-Forge IDE 1.3-3 Multi-user C/C++ integrated development environment
c2070 0.99 Lexmark 2070 CMYK Color Driver
cadaver 0.3.2 command-line WebDAV tool
calc 2.11.0t6.1 C-style arbitrary precision calculator
cardwords 0.0.7 Form crosswords on the cardtable with cards showing characters.
CDXA 0.3 Play Audio from Playstation CDROM XA files
chrony 1.11 Network time protocol client/server tailored for dial-up client use
Configure-it 1.0 Perl script to configure bash aliases
Connector 0.57 PPP configuration
curl 6.1beta Command line tool for getting data from a URL
cvsweb 1.73
Cyrus SASL 1.5.10 generic client/server library for SASL authentication
DDUP Applet 0.2.0 DynDns.org UPdate Applet for the Gnome panel
DDUpdate 1.0 A cross-platform update client for dyndns.org's DynamicDNS Service
Dead Link Check 0.3.2 Finds information on validity of HTTP references.
DNSTools 1.0.1 A web-based and command-line tool to administer DNS
Downloader for X 1.06 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
DreamBot 0.0.4 IRC Bot written in Perl
Dump/Restore 0.4b7 Utilities to dump and restore an ext2 partition
DWUN 0.3e Controls PPP link by client requests for connection
dyn-html 0.1 Scripts which generate redirection Web pages for dynamic IP users
DynamicJava 1.0beta3 Java source interpreter
E10-KL10 130 PDP-10 (KL10) emulator
Egoistic Wordlist Generator 2.2 A wordlist generator with a variety of options.
eGTK 0.3.3 Bindings to GTK+ widget toolkit for Eiffel.
ElectricEyes 0.3.11 Lightweight GTK+/GNOME-based image viewer
eMixer 0.05.1 MP3 Mixing Software
Endeavour 1.05 Linux/X File and Image Browser
Enlightenment 0.16.0 Fast, flexible and very extensible Window Manager
Epeios 19991010 Collection of general purposes C++ libraries working under UNIX and Windows.
eqlplus 0.7 Modem Aggregator for Linux
ESM 1.0 A system monitoring tool.
Eucalyptus 0.1.1a3 Advanced MIME email program
Everybuddy 0.0.2 Universal Instant Messaging Client
FAQ PLAIN 1.0 FAQ generator/preprocessor
fastjar 0.86 Fast jar file creator written in C
FireMail 1.2 Tool sorting the incoming mail and removing spam
FLTK-brain 1.0.6 A library for writing parallel portable GUI-applications.
FOP 0.11.0 An XSL formatter written in Java that outputs PDF
Fortify 1.4.5 Provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to Netscape browsers
FOX 0.99.75 C++-Based Library for Graphical User Interface Development
freemed 19991012 Free medical management software in a web browser
FreeVet 1.0.7 A Y2K ready Animal Clinic System
ftpd-BSD 0.2.2 Linux port of OpenBSD's ftp server
G-BOOK DeLUXE 1.5 PERL Based guestbook CGI
GClipper 1.1 A multiple buffer clipboard that automatically fetches new selections.
geektalkd 1.17 Simple, yet extendable chat server
Gentry 0.1 GTK application for data entry into a MySQL database
Get Pop 0.2 Pop mail downloader
Getleft 0.7.2 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
gif2png 1.1.0 converts GIF image files to PNG format
GIP 0.4.5 Make installation/uninstallation easier
glFtpD 1.71.1 FTP Daemon for Linux. Great program for an ISP or anyone!
GLib 1.2.6 The GLib library of C routines
gman 0.0.7 A user-friendly graphical front end for the man page system
GMMF .90 Godot's Modular Firewall
gnomba 0.5.0 Gnome Samba Browser
Gnome Display Manager 2.0beta4 Gnome version of the X Display Manager (xdm)
gnome-core 1.0.53 GNU Network Object Model Environment
gnome-python 1.0.50 Python interfaces to gnome-libs
GnomeTREK 0.5.0 Search tool for the 1998 Star Trek Encyclopedia.
GNU parted 0.0.6 A partition editor, for creating, destroying, resizing and copying partitions.
GNU Plotutils 2.3 Utilities for plotting scientific data
GNU pop3d with NIS 0.9.8N GNU pop3d with NIS alias authentication.
gnuclear clock 0.6 Internet time server client for GNOME
gPhoto 0.4.0 GNU Digital Camera download software
gPS 0.3.6 GTK-based process status reporting like ps, top and task manager
GReceipt 1.0 Receipt management program
Gseq 0.3.0 Gnome based, plugin extensible music sequencer
gServices 0.05 Gtk::Perl-based system administration tool to easily manage daemons in init.d
GTK xset 0.3 GTK xset is a graphical frontend to xset(1), based on GTK+
GTK+ 1.2.6 Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces
Gtk-- 1.1.0 C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.
Hoard 1.1 A fast, scalable, and memory-efficient SMP memory allocator
Homer Applet 0.0.4 Animated Homer for the GNOME panel
HTML::Embperl 1.2b10 Embed Perl into HTML Pages with a lot of features especialy for dynamic webpage
HTML::Mason 0.71 A component-based perl web development environment
HTML::Template 0.95 A simple and fast HTML Template module for Perl
Hypermail 2 beta 25 Mail(box) to HTML converter with threads and MIME support.
Iaijutsu 0.1 Perl-based content management and object-oriented web application framework
imlib 1.9.7 Advanced replacement library for libraries like libXpm
interpcom 2.0.4 Command interpreter Library
irmctl 0.2.0 Control daemon for non IRDA ir receivers
ISCA BBS Client 2.2.0 Client program for ISCA BBS and DOC-style BBS systems
isdnpack 1.0 An ISDN under Linux all-in-one package.
Java Assistant 1.5 Java Class/Package Viewer + front end to mocha
JCCSP 0.1.2 JavaServer Pages 1.0 Engine w/ some JSP 1.1 support.
jed B0.99-9 Powerful editor, terminal and X11 interface
jEdit 2.1pre4 Powerful text editor
JERED 1.6.8 Very easy-to-use but greatly configurable console text editor.
Jetty 3.0.A1 HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java
jiffy 0.4 Fast Java RMI-compiler written in C++
Jooky 0.91 MP3 controller with a foreground curses client, or background client/server.
K4DE 0.3.19 3d-Editor for KDE with poor animation and sound posibilities.
Kazlib 1.11 Robust ANSI C data structure library.
KBind 0.7 KDE front-end to configure the Bind nameserver.
kchess 0.2 KDE frontend for chess programs
Kim 1.2.1-1 The Kim is interactive process manager for OS Linux.
KLandscape 0.1 3D rendered landscape generator
Knetdump 1.0 Network sniffing/analyzing tool
KNode 0.1.5 Online-newsreader for KDE
Komba 0.2.0 Samba share browser
KOra 0.3.2 Powerfull frontend to Oracle databases
kruiser 0.4pre1 Win95-like file manager for KDE with many features
KSendMail 0.6 KDE front-end to configure Sendmail.
LANdb 0.70 Provides network managers with a means of cataloging network connections.
Lazy Solitaire 0.2 Solitaire card game for lazy people
le editor 1.5.4 Text editor with powerful block operations, similar to NE.
LeoCAD 0.71 CAD application that uses plastic bricks
lftp 2.1.2 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
libcdaudio 0.99.2 A versatile multiplatform CD player library supporing CDDB and CD Index
Libsigc++ 0.8.3 Callback framework for C++
libsmbpw 1.0 getpwent/putpwent interface to the Samba smbpasswd file
libunicode 0.2 Library of unicode string functions and charset converters
Liner 1.01 Simple strategy game, as a java applet
LinNeighborhood 0.4.0 Linux Port of Windows Network Neighborhood
Linux-HA 0.4.5 Heartbeat subsystem for High-Availability Linux project
mail2sms 0.34 Convert a mail to a short message
Mailcrypt 3.5.5 Provides a simple interface topublic key cryptography with PGP
maildrop 0.73 maildrop mail filter/mail delivery agent
maketool 0.4 GTK front end for GNU make
Mangle 2.3 C/C++ Source de-formatter/de-commentor
MasqMail 0.0.3 Offline Mail Transfer Agent
mchat 0.1.0 Chat client that uses IP multicasting
mcrypt 2.2.4 A replacement for the old unix crypt(1). Uses several block algorithms.
memwatch 2.63 Memory leak/corruption detection, ANSI-C source code with test program.
mhash 0.6.0 Provides an easy to use C interface for several hashalgorithms
mifluz 0.6 Full text indexing C++ library
mkdnstab 0.6b DNS Table generator in Perl
modutils 2.3.4 Linux module utilities
Momoko 0.1.7 Multi-user development environment
Mozilla M10 Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator
Mp3Maker.app 1.0-pre4 Window Maker enhanced cdda grabber and mp3 encoder frontend
Muddleftpd 1.1.1 beta0 A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.
MySQL 3.22.27 SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
NAMG 0.1.8 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
NcFTP 3.0 beta 21 UNIX application program implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
ncps 0.43 ncurses based process killer
Newsrunner v1.3d Fetches pictures from newsgroups, with a neat X-interface.
nstreams 0.99.2 Network streams analyzer
number 2.3 Print the English name of a number of any size
NumExp 0.1 Numeric methods implementation for Linux
nurbies 1.0 OpenGL visualization plugin for xmms, based on nurb hills
OfflineMailer 0.4 Offline mail handler
ojslib 0.1 Object-JavaScript library for developing Web-based applications
ojstools 0.6 Tools to simplify JavaScript programming
OpenH323 0.9alpha1 H.323 protocol stack
OpenMail 6.0-2 Business Messaging for Linux, including MS Outlook support
OpenNaken 0.50 Tcl/Tk client for Naken Chat
OpenScheme 1.3.1 OpenScheme programming environment
OpenVerse Visual Chat 0.6-1 Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK
Oracletool 0.94 A web based tool for Oracle DBA's written in Perl.
Orgasm 0.11 Machine code assembler for 6502 microprocessors
PAP-wizard 1.2 Internet configurator and dialer
PCRE 2.08 A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions.
perdition 0.1.0 POP3 Proxy
PerfGraph 2.1d Web based Unix Performance Grapher
phpMyAdmin 2.0.4 Handles the basic adminstration of MySQL over the WWW
Pine 4.20 Tool for reading,sending, and managing electronic messages
pk 0.9.1 An Open-Source POSIX Threads embedded real-time kernel
PPPOEd 0.1 PPP over Ethernet
proftpd-ldap 1.0 LDAP auth patch for ProFTPD
PsiLin 0.7 Graphical interface to connect and convert files between a Psion and Linux
pstack 1.0 Dump call stacks of active processes
ptf 0.3 A TCP forwarder written in Python
pyDict 0.2.0 English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary
PyORBit 0.0.2 Python/ORBit (CORBA) Bindings
PySol 2.99 A Python-based Solitaire card game
PySol-Cardsets 2.99 A collection of free cardsets for use with PySol
QCad 1.0.0 CAD Program
QextMDI 0.2 (alpha) cross-platform GUI library extending Qt with MDI functionality
QIPchains 0.1-pre alpha A shell script which helps you to quickly add/remove Linux FW rules.
qps 1.9 Displays processes in an X11 window
R 0.65.1 A language and environment for statistical computing.
rainbow 1.0 OpenGL visualization plugin for xmms, based on pulsating rainbows
rand 1.6 random pipe
RCode 1.2.3 Tool for encoding/decoding files
RearSite 0.99 Tool for updating personal www pages
Reverse Pimpage Revision 2 2.1 Gives access to boxes behind firewalls from outside the firewall
rh-isdn 0.54-1 A few scripts and documentation to set up ISDN on RedHat
Rodian 0.5.1 Layer for handling, representing and storing information objects in a tree
Root-Portal 0.1.1 Background Desktop System Logger
rpl 1.1 Multi-file recursive string replacement
sawmill 0.12 Extensible window manager
SCEZ 19991011 Smart card library
SDL 0.11.2 SDL is a library that allows you portable low level access for graphics/sound
Secure-Linux Patch 2.2.12 version 6 Linux kernel patch to block most stack overflow exploits
setup 1.0 Graphical installer for Unix applications based on GTK and XML
shash 0.1 Produces message digests for files.
shThemes GTK theme selector
Sights 0.1 A browsable database of photographs, sights and persons.
Sims Computing Test Bed 0.14 Tool for writing unit tests for your Java code
sitescooper 1.8 Downloads stories from various news sites and converts to text or Pilot format.
SkySOUND 0.56.000 Free demo or game oriented MP3 Library
slackjaw 3.0sql Bot for FirstClass server chat rooms
slang 1.3.9 A powerful interpreted language
SML/NJ 110.23 Compiler, development environment, and libraries for Standard ML
SMM++ 3.5 MUD client with mapping functionality and lots of other features
Snort 1.3.1 Libpcap packet sniffer/logger/lightweight IDS
SoundTracker 0.3.5 A music tracker for X / GTK+
Splitter 0.01 File splitter
Spruce 0.5.5 Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
StackGuard 1.2 Helps to prevent buffer overflows in subsequently compiled binaries
StatWeb 0.80 CGI program to run most UNIX commands, but meant for X10 and lirc.
Sula Primerix II 0.09.5d Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X with embedded Scheme interpreter
SybSQL 1.0 X11-based SQL Query tool for Sybase and MS SQL.
tar 1.13.13 utility used to store, backup, and transport files.
Tcl/Tk 8.2.1 A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh
TclBot 0.4.0 A 100% Tcl IRC Bot
Tcp Listen 1.5 TCP/UDP/ICMP/IP packet reporter
TDSweeper 1.0.0 Minesweeper clone for the console.
Ted 2.6 Ted, an easy rich text processor for Linux.
tgif 4.1.22 Vector-based draw tool
The Gimp 1.1.10 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Log Applet 0.31 GNOME panel applet to monitor a (log) file as it is updated
The Veganizer 0.01 A spam counter-attack
tkbabel/tclbabel 0.5 Babelfish frontend - command-line and GUI
TkBox 0.41alpha MPEG remote access control client/server architecture
TkSETI 1.44 A GUI for automated control of the SETI@Home client for UNIX.
TmCde WEB frontend 0.2.0 Timecode calculator (WEB frontend part)
Trf 1.8p1 Filtering channels for Tcl, MAC, Encryption, Error correction, various encodings
TroubleTickets 0.1 HelpDesk Trouble Ticket Web Application
TWIG 2.0.0 beta2 A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
ucppkit 0.1.7 A tiny C++ toolkit for Linux
userv 0.65.2 Security boundary tool
UxFeR 1.2b External X/Y/Z BBS File Transfer Protocols [front-end]
VeteScan 10-10-1999 Bulk Vulnerability Scanner
vetestcl 10-10-1999 Vulnerability scanners for eggdrop
VMWare 1.1 Allows you to run multiple OSs at the same time
vux 0.0.3 Highly configurable logging system. (CGI)
w3m 991008 pager/text-based WWW browser
waspchat 0.0.2 Human to computer chat prog
wchat 1.0 Fully extensible TCP/IP-based Chat Server.
webfs 0.4 Lightweight HTTP server for static content
Webmin 0.74 Web-based interface for system administration for Unix
wmbp6 1.8 DockApp monitoring sensors for temperatures and fans speed.
wmmp3 0.06 mpg123 front end for Window Maker
WMProxyPer 0.9 Dockapp that displays RC5 Personal Proxy logfiles
wmSMPmon 1.4 CPU monitoring applet SMP systems running Window Maker
WSoundServer 0.2.1 Sound Server for Window Maker
WWWOFFLE 2.5a Simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up internet links
wxPython 2.1.5 Python extension module for wxWindows
X ARCHON 0.42 A clone of the classic ARCHON game
x10ephem 0.10 Computes sunrise/sunset times and modifies crontab entries
xlHtml 0.2.0 XLS to HTML converter
xpuyopuyo 0.2.4 Tetris-like puzzle game with AI
XQF 0.9.2 QuakeWorld/Quake2 server browser and launcher for Linux/X11
XSane 0.39 A GTK-based X11 frontend for SANE, also a GIMP plugin
xtell 1.4 Simple messaging client and server, kind of networked write
xwpe-alpha 1.5.20a A programming environment for UNIX systems
Yacas 1.0.9 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
YAMP 1.0 Mp3 player written with GTK+
ZAngband 2.2.7 Rogue-like roleplaying game
 

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