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Resources

Slides from talks given at the December 2nd Open Source Licensing Workshop have been made available, including talks by Eric Raymond, Karsten Self and Michael Krieger (Attorney at Law, UCLA Computer Science Department).

Events

LinuxFest 2000 has been scheduled for June 20-24, 2000 in Kansas City. A few details can be found in the announcement.

December 30, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
adaGDBM 1.0beta1 Ada95 binding against The GNU Database Manager.
Address Book 1.0 A very simple Web-based, MySQL-backed address book.
AleVT 1.5.1 Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
Allen Bradley Ethernet utils 0.1.0 Simple utilities for Allen Bradley Ethernet PLCs
AoNettool - Alex's own Nettool 0.9a A graphical frontend to finger, whois, traceroute, nslookup and ping.
Apprentice 0.2 An HTTP daemon written in Perl.
aps 0.10 Text-based network analysis tool which displays many protocol details.
arianne rpg 0.2.4 A Role Playing Game project.
aumix 2 Color text mode sound mixer with GPM support
Autoclose 0.5.3 This utility automatically closes one app when another is finished
AutoConvert 0.3.4 Chinese GB/HZ/BIG5 encoding auto convert
Bahwi's search.pl 28/12/1999 Launch Netscape searches from the command line.
BASHISH DR2.2 A modular Bourne-shell theme engine.
BBBS 4.00 MP Full-featured BBS software with full FidoNet and InterNet support.
BEanACTION beta 2 Recursive javabeans editor
BetaFTPD 0.0.8pre9 Single-threaded, small FTP daemon
BibleTime 0.21 A bible study program for KDE
BLT 2.4n A 2D plotting extension to TCL/Tk.
Blur Scope MAX 0.9.1 A visualization plug-in for XMMS.
BookScape 0.0.6 BookScape is a PHP script for presentation of Netscape Navigator bookmarks.
boson 0.3 A network real-time strategy game like warcraft, without AI.
BRINK 1.2.1 CGI that changes users passwords via a web page.
BTERM 4.00 MP BTERM is a small VT320 terminal emulator.
Buildkernel 1.00 Automates the task of building a Linux kernel
cadaver 0.8.0 command-line WebDAV tool
CAFire 0.0.7 A burning mouse pointer toy.
CardInfo 1.1 Replacement for the cardinfo application from the pcmcia package.
Cawfee CGI SDK 0.1 A C++ CGI library.
cdrecord 1.8a37 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
citygen 1.5.0 Medieval city/kingdom demographics generator.
ClanMecha 0.1.0 A 2D multi-player mecha-genre platform game using ClanLib.
Contact Book 0.2.1 Alternative Contact Book.
CoreLinux++ 0.4.0 A set of C++ class libraries to support common patterns in software development.
cpp1 1.1012 Experimental chess program, successor to `bullucks'
cpuid 2.0 x86 CPU identification tool.
Crescendo 1.1.5 Gnome front-end to the TinyFugue mud client.
csv2html 0.4.0 Converts CSV files to HTML tables
dagrab 0.3.4 Extracts digital audio from CD and stores it in WAV files (incl CDDB)
dclock 2.1 A digital LED-style desktop clock.
dep.pl 1.19.4 Check dependencies of multiple files.
DeuTex 4.3.0 Doom wad composer/decomposer
Dia 0.83 gtk based diagram drawing program. Much like Visio.
DinX 0.2.2 A windowing system using the Linux framebuffer.
DistroLib 0.2 Library for distributed processes.
Doc++ 3.3.17 Powerful Javadoc like C++ documentation creation tool.
Downloader for X 1.09 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
doxygen 1.0.0 A documentation system for C and C++
DreamBot 0.0.6-pre5 IRC Bot written in Perl
DROL Pre-alpha Clone of the popular BBS door-game Legend Of the Red Dragon.
dupmerge 1.0 A tool for merging duplicate files.
DWUN 0.6c Controls PPP link by client requests for connection
EasyGTK 1.1.6 Wrapper library for GTK
efx 0.1 XMMS Effect plugin loader for Esound.
Electric Ears 0.6.3 A simple wave player.
Endeavour 1.10 Linux/X File and Image Browser
Everybuddy 0.0.7 Universal Instant Messaging Client
FATCAT2K 2000 A file inflater.
fdupes 1.0 Tool to list duplicate files.
for2html 1 A FORTRAN-to-HTML translator and cross-references generator.
Fork Bomb Defuser 0.3 Detect, disable, and log fork() bombs to prevent crashes.
Fworld IRC Operator Services 2.1.3 IRC Operator Service with features rivalling Undernet's.
g3DSE 0.1 3D Stereo Enhancement tool for Sound Blaster.
Gaby 1.9.15 A small personal databases manager using GTK+
GalaxyNG 4-2 A server for a multi-player play-by-email spacewar game.
gatO 0.6.2 Gtk AT Operation.
GATOS 0.0.5 ATI-TV software for Linux.
gbgrand 1.0 A random background selector for GNOME.
gecco 0.4.0 GNOME-based application using plugins for system/network/app configuration.
Gem Drop X 0.7 A fast-paced puzzle game
Getleft 0.7.6 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
getpg 0.51 PostgreSQL-aware replacements for the getpwnam() and getpwuid() functions.
getpg / UW-IMAP 0.51 A patch for UW-IMAP to authenticate users against a PostgreSQL database.
GIP 0.4.8 Make installation/uninstallation easier
Giram 0.1.4 Giram is a modeller, written in GTK+
gLife 0.1.1 An artificial life simulator that tries to emulate an artificial society.
GlobeCom Jukebox 3.2pre6 Music jukebox with integrated CDDB aware ripping and groupware functionality
GMatH 0.0.10 Computer Algebra Environment
GNOME Transcript Gnome Transcript 0.1.0 SQL Database Client with plugin system to support multiple database servers.
GNU shtool 1.4.7 Shell Script Collection
GNU Standard C++ Library v3 GNU Standard C++ Library 2.90.7 Project to implement the ISO 14882 Standard C++ library.
GOB 0.91.2 Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object
GOOPS 0.1.6 The Guile Object Oriented Programming System.
GPLTrans alpha3 Web-based machine translator.
GPPP-Dialer 0.1.0 Very simple Gnome PPP Dialer.
Graphtool 0.07 Create graphs from Gnumeric files
Groovy Java Database 0.1.1 A Java object-oriented database
GTC 0.5 Game Programming Library
Gtkfxp 0.3 An FXP client for GTK.
GtkGraph 0.5.3 Graphing calculator for X
GTKstep 2.0 Improves the default look and feel of the GTK+ widget set
GTool 0.1 A GUI drawing/analysis tool for Graph Theory.
GuiSlp 0.2 An slp-package manager.
Heretic for Linux 1.0.3 Port of Heretic to Linux
HPTalx 1.0 HP48/HP49 calculator to PC comm program.
HTML2TEXT 1.2.1 An HTML-to-text converter.
IBTK 0.0.14 Basic self-contained no-frills toolkit for Xlib.
icewm 1.0.0 Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
ID2 0.6d User information lookup utility.
ip_masq_q3a 0.0.2/Q3A A patch for Linux 2.2.x to get Q3A working behind NAT.
Jabber 0.8.1 Instant Messaging Platform
Java Napster 0.3 Java GUI clone of the Napster client for downloading MP3s.
jEdit 2.3pre1 Powerful text editor
JEsd 0.0.2 A re-implementation of EsounD in pure Java.
JFwadmin 0.7 Java high level GUI for ipchains.
jpilot 0.97 Palm pilot desktop software for Linux
KBiff 2.3.11 New mail notification utility for KDE
KCommander 0.60-1 Windows Commander Clone for KDE
kconfigure 0.2 A program for compiling programs using a graphical interface.
kdbg 1.0.2 A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. Also used by kdevelop.
KEGS 0.57 An Apple //gs emulator for HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and OS/2
Kgutenbook 0.4.9 KDE port of the perl app gutenbook, to download, and read etexts from Gutenburg
kissme 0.03 Free Java Virtual Machine.
KNode 0.1.11 Online-newsreader for KDE
KPHPDev 0.1.6 An integrated Web development tool.
KSnes9x 1.2pre KDE frontend for Snes9x
LCAP 0.0.3 The Linux kernel capability remover.
Leafnode 1.9.7 NNTP server for small leaf sites
libtiff-lzw-compression-kit 1.0 A kit to re-enable LZW compression in libtiff.
Linux-HA 0.4.6c Heartbeat subsystem for High-Availability Linux project
Linuxconf 1.17r1 Sophisticated administrative tool
lxpServ 0.35 An easy-to-use application server.
Mace 991223 A free Macintosh compatibility layer, implemented similar to Wine.
makeconf.makefile 0.3 A Makefile-making script.
MEC4 Streaming Server 1.4.2 A video-on-demand system.
Merchant-Store 3.0 Shopping cart script with product manager and realtime credit card processing.
Metapixel 0.1 A photomosaic generator.
miffmixr .01 A Web-based MP3 jukebox.
MIT Scheme 7.5pre1 A programming environment for Scheme.
modutils 2.3.9 Linux module utilities
mod_cgisock 0.3.0 A CGI interface over a Unix Domain socket
mod_pcgi2 0.1.0 An Apache module for Zope/PCGI.
Moe Music 0.1.2 Web Juke Box for mpg123 and mySQL
Moneydance 2.0.4 Personal finance application written in java
Mork 0.2.1 Mork is like Lex/Yacc for Java.
Motif Launcher V0.1 Application Launcher for Motif-MWM or Lesstif-MWM.
MP3 Player Upload and Download utilities MP3 Player Upload and Download Utilities 0.0.1 Upload tools for MpMan portable MP3 players
mpatrol 1.0.8 A library for controlling and tracing dynamic memory allocations.
muLinux 7.6 A tiny implementation of Linux, which can reside on a single floppy
Multimeter 0.0.2 read measurements from digital multimeters
MultUnil 0.3 A script for Multilingual documentation support.
Nessus 0.99.2 A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool
NetBiff 0.9.2 A more featureful version of the traditional biff.
netfilter 0.1.14 New NAT/packet-filtering infrastructure for Linux 2.3.5
NetSaint 0.0.5b1 A relatively simple active network monitor
nettimer 0.03 Calculate time and money spent using the Internet.
newq 0.1 Snarfs realtime quotes from datek to display on the console.
NiL Isn't Liero 0.1 A violent game, a lot like worms, a bit like quake, but in 2D.
nmpg 1.1.2 Command driven frontend for mpg123
ntop 1.2a10 Network usage monitor
nwsh 0.1.1 Low-RAM shell with modules support
oa 1.0.0 A tool to play sound wave forms, experiment with them, make music.
Omnipede 0.2.0 A simple worm(6)-like game.
OpenVerse Visual Chat 0.7-6 Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK
oracledump 0.09 A command-line tool that dumps Oracle data and table setup info as SQL.
OWSKiller 3.0.3 Replacement for Oracle Web Server based on Java Servlets
Perl Shell 0.005 Simple interactive Perl shell
Perl webmail 2.1 A Perl-based Web-mail script.
Perlmclient 0.2 Masqdialler client written in Perl.
PHP*Star 1.0.2 Auto-generates HTML forms and PHP scripts.
PHP4-Beta3 + Japanese libgd patch 0.1 A Japanese patch for PHP4+libgd to enable use of Japanese characters in images.
PHPGem 1.3 A generator of PHP-scripts for working with tables on SQL-servers.
Pingus 0.3.0 Lemmings clone with penguins.
PlottGUI V1.0 Plot DIN-A4 worksheets on a HP/GL plotter.
plucker 0.5 An offline HTML viewer for PalmOS with a Linux conduit.
pngcrush 1.3.1 An optimizer for PNG files that can also insert or delete specified chunks.
Postfix snapshot 19991227 The Postfix MTA
pppd 2.3.11
PSPG 1.0.1 Pretty simple password generator
ptkRun 0.25 A command executor for X.
PuzzleSquare 0.1 A simple puzzle game
Q9 Chinese Information Platform 2.7pre Chinese input software.
QuakeForge 991221 A project created around Id software's Quake source releases.
RadioActive 0.8 Radio tuner for X11 and Video4Linux
rccvs 1.0 A CCVS network wrapper with daemon and Perl API.
rdial 0.03 ISDN connection server and clients.
RealTimeBattle 1.0.0pre1 RealTimeBattle, a robot programming game for Unix
redir 2.2.1 Redirects TCP ports to another IP address and port.
Rekop 1999-12-22/0.45 Client-server seven card stud multi-player game.
Relayer 1.8 Control SMTP relaying.
RFCutil 2.2 fast util to search the rfc-index for a topic and display it with lynx
rh-isdn 0.59 A few scripts and documentation to set up ISDN on RedHat
rlwrap 0.01 A readline wrapper.
RPGD 1.0.6 A multi-user, medieval-fantasy role-playing game
Secure FTP 0.5 FTP replacement over ssh/rsh
serproxy 0.1.2 A serial port <-> TCP socket proxy.
SffToBmp 1.1 Graphics converter
SFS 0.4 A secure, global file system with decentralized control.
SigLab 1.0beta1 A signal calculator.
signature 0.04 a dynamic signature generator for e-mail and news
Sing Along Disc Player 2.2.0 CD player with spectrum analyser, oscillator, mixer and remote DB support
Sketch 0.7.4 Vector drawing program, implemented in python
Slashdot Headline Grabber 2.11 A Perl-based Slashdot headline-grabber
slashem 0.0.5E7F1 variant of the Rogue-like console game Nethack
SMTP::Server 1.1 A complete, extensible, RFC compliant SMTP server written in Perl
SpaceWatcher 1.0.0 Keeps an eye on free disk space and alerts you if there is a problem.
SpecialFunctions (Cephes) 1.2 Special functions for Numerical Python users.
Sportslog 1.1 Gtk+ application for tracking athletic events such as running and cycling
Spruce 0.5.10 Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
stripmime 0.7.5 A Perl script to filter MIME sections out of email messages.
svgalib 1.4.1 Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console
TclTicker 1.2 A simple stock ticker written in TCL/Tk.
Text::Template 1.23 Embed Perl code into text and HTML files.
The Bookexchange 0.1 A book exchange for the Web.
The GNU Privacy Guard 1.0.1 GPLed PGP replacement tool
The Graph Template Library 0.3.2 A graph library for C++, inspired by STL.
themeleme.sh 0.3.8 Easy theme-packing for Window Maker themes.
TickMail Preview M1 Fast, efficient, attractive and friendly X11 e-mail program.
tinyproxy 1.3.1 A small, lightweight, easy-to-configure HTTP proxy.
TIP 0.6.9 Pico editor clone with enhancements
TkHeadlines 0.80 Headline grabber for about 20 sites
ToutDoux 1.1.4 A project manager.
TRONtium v0.5 A clone of the classic TRON light-cycles game.
TWIG 2.1.0 A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
Ultimate Mail Tool 1.0b4 Email reader for UNIX/X11.
UltimateIRCd 2.7.9-DarkSide Advanced IRC daemon based off the DAL DreamForge daemon with many new features.
unixODBC 1.8.3 Provides ODBC 3 connectivity for Unix
V2_OS 0.54b A fast 32-bit operating system for the 386 and up.
VeteScan 12-26-99 Bulk Vulnerability Scanner
vetestcl 12-26-99 Vulnerability scanners for eggdrop
VK Tools 0.4a MPEG Stream Analyzer
VLAN 0.0.8 802.1Q VLAN implementation for Linux
vsa 0.9.6 Visual Sound Analyzer
VTun 2.0b8 Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks.
Wacom Driver for XFree86 alpha 16 Wacom driver for XFree86
waterfall spectrum analyzer 0.8 XMMS visualization plugin
WebAwk 0.1 Web scripting language.
webfs 0.8 Lightweight HTTP server for static content
WinMGM 2.0b Molecular graphism, construction/optimisation and analysis program/library.
WMFmixer 0.1 A mixer dock-app for WindowMaker/AfterStep/etc. managers.
WMFstatus 0.2 General purpose LCD monitor dockapp for WindowMaker.
wmseti 0.3.0 Windowmaker dockapp for your SETI@home statistics
wmtimer 2.1 Alarm/Countdown timer applet for Windowmaker
wsmake 0.5.9 Website make tool written in C++
WTEST 2.0 Web application testing tool
X Interface Monitor 1.3 Monitor any network interface, and view traffic, load, and statistics.
X-RAR 0.2beta Front-end to 'RAR for Linux'.
XawTV 3.03 TV application and a few utilities
XCircuit 2.0b1 program for drawing electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figure
XCounter 1.0.2 A simple IP traffic monitoring program.
XIPM 0.4.1 A package management and system maintenance utility.
xlHtml 0.2.6 XLS to HTML converter
xnetload 1.6.1 Displays packet traffic and uptime in an X window
XShipWars 1.28 Space oriented highly graphical network game system.
XTL R1.2 A C++ template library for object externalization.
xwpe-alpha 1.5.22a A programming environment for UNIX systems
Yacas 1.0.25 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
YIFF Sound Server 2.04 Sound server with multi-client and network-transparent io library.
Yoke Linux Kernel Driver 0.3.5 A kernel device driver for transparant mirroring.
 

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