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Events

PLUTO meeting 2000. The PLUTO Meeting 2000 will be held on December 9 through 11 in Terni, Italy. There is a call for papers out now; see the web site for details.

More LinuxWorld pictures from LinuxNewbie. LinuxNewbie.org has put up another set of pictures from LinuxWorld.

SkyEvents' Linux Expo. There is a call for papers for Linux Expo Toronto (October 30 - November 1, 2000) and Linux Expo Paris (January 31 - February 2, 2001).

August/September events.
Date Event Location
August 30 - September 1, 2000. LinuxWorld China 2000 Beijing Kerry Center Hotel, Beijing, China.
September 20 - September 22, 2000. 7th International Linux Kongress Erlangen, Germany.
September 24 - September 28, 2000. Embedded Systems Conference 2000 San Jose, CA.
September 25 - September 28, 2000. LINUX Business Expo Atlanta, Georgia.

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net.

Web sites

internet.com adds two new Linux related web sites. internet.com announced that it has added new internally developed Web sites, including AllLinuxDevices.com and EnterpriseLinuxToday.com.

User Group News

August/September events.
Date Event Location
August 26, 2000. Central Ohio Linux User Group Meeting TEAM America, Worthington, OH
August 26, 2000. Sydney Linux Users Group Installfest Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
September 4, 2000. Baton Rouge Linux User Group Meeting Bluebonnet Library, Baton Rouge, LA
September 5, 2000. Linux Users' Group of Davis Meeting Z-World, Davis, CA
September 6, 2000. Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Meeting Cisco Building 9, San Jose, CA

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net. Plain text please.


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Software Announcements


Package Version Description
0verkill 0.9 A bloody action 2D deathmatch game in ASCII art.
abcde 1.9.1 A better CD encoder.
Advanced TFTP 0.1 Client/server implementation of the TFTP Protocol.
Agnostos 0.9.5 Web-based todo list manager.
Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine 1.3 12-aug-2000 Web site and intranet search engine and spider, ala Altavista or Excite.
AllCommerce 1.0.1 E-commerce Internet application based on Perl.
allifdump 0.0.1 A tcpdump wrapper for displaying all interfaces on the box.
ALSA driver 0.5.9b An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support
Anemone 1.1 An MRTG package that integrates the SNMP features of Squid.
Apache 2.0a6 High performance, UNIX based HTTP server
arla 0.34.2 A free AFS client and server for Linux, *BSD and others.
ASFrecorder 1.0 Save .ASF streams to your hard drive.
asp2php 0.75.5 Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts
Aspell .32.5 Intelligent Spell Checker
Authenticated User Community 0.7.1 CGI-based intranet system intended for K-12 settings
AutoInstaller 0.06e A program installer/uninstaller using a plug-in system.
autologin 1.0.0 Automatically log in to local X sessions.
autologin-gnome 1.0.0 A GNOME frontend for configuring autologin.
autologin-kde 1.0.0 A KDE 2.x/Qt 2.x frontend for configuring autologin.
Averist 0.7.0 Authentication layer to any web based application
BasiliX 0.9.6 PHP and IMAP based web mail application.
bbs100 1.1.3 A BBS for chat and messaging accessable via telnet.
Big Brother 1.5 Highly efficient network monitor
Bind 9.0.0rc4 Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BitComp 0.1 A new compression method using bits repacking.
blconvert 0.1 An AIM/GAIM buddy list conversion utility.
Blogin2 2.1.0 A login prompt which can automatically create accounts.
Bluefish 0.5 Gtk based HTML editor
bm2html 2.0 Another Netscape bookmark conversion utility.
Book of the Dead 1.0 A Nethack public server front end.
Build Your Linux Disk 1.0beta3 Package that helps you to build a floppy Linux distribution.
Chuchunco City 2000 0.1.0 A cross-platform 2D fighting game.
CompaqArray Daemon 1.1 SmartArray controller monitoring daemon.
Computer History Graphing Project 0.4 A computer family tree.
CompWork 1.1e3 TCL compiler.
Cooledit 3.17.0 Full featured text editor for the X Window System
crapStation 0.0.19 A collection of demobuilding tools
crUD 08.16.2000 A MUD built from the ground up, with emphasis on stability.
csv2png and csv2jpeg 1.0.1 CSV time-series plotter.
CuentaSaltos 0.2 A PPP connection timer for console users.
curl 7.1.1 Command line tool for getting data from a URL
datedif 0.9.1-2 Calculates the difference in days between two dates.
DB Prism 1.0.1 Servlet Engine which works just like Oracle App Server 3.x and DB Producer for C
DeadFTP 0.0.7 A Graphical FTP Client
Deliver 2.1.14
Dieresis Colloquius 1.0.0 b Perl-based bulletin board system.
dillo 0.2.4 An HTML browser.
djukebox 0.0.1 A distributed (streaming) MP3 jukebox.
dmcat 2.0 Digital Music CATalog
Doc++ 3.4.5 Powerful Javadoc like C++ documentation creation tool.
DooM Legacy 1.30.1 An enhanced port of id Software's Doom.
dotXyGTK 1.0.0 alpha 22aug00 Automatic downloader for images.
Drall 1.1.5.7 Allows users to access their directories and files remotely via a web browser
DRSH 0.5 A configurable restricted shell.
dTemplate 0.6 A very flexible templating system written in Perl.
Dump/Restore 0.4b19 Utilities to dump and restore an ext2 partition
dupl.pl 0.45 snort rules beautifier.
EasyChains 0.9.3 release 1 A GUI for the console firewall script.
EasyCluster 1.0b build 93 Script that provide IP sharing and Daemons checking
ECLiPt Mirroring Tool 2.1-pre16 Full-featured mirroring script
EiC 4.3.0 A bytecode C interpreter/compiler
ENBD 2.4.5 An enhanced network block device for Linux 2.2.
enprt.csh 0.3 Entitled Printing from Netscape Navigator under UNIX-like OSes
EPIC SSL-IRC 0.0.6 SSL support for the EPIC IRC client.
EPIC4 0.9.7 An ANSI-capable textmode IRC client.
Eteria IRC Client 20000822 An RFC-1459-compliant IRC chat client written in Java.
Eye of Gnome 0.4 The GNOME image viewing and cataloging program
Fastdial 0.1 A program to simplify the configuration of modems and the internet.
FBShot 0.1d Takes screenshot from framebuffer devices.
fCluster 1.0.3 A multi-threaded client/server redundancy application.
Fd Linux 1.1 A small, networkable mini Linux distribution.
Finicky Financial Trading System 0.1 A front-office trading and risk management system for equity derivatives.
Firestarter 0.4.1 Firewall creation/monitoring tool
FreeAmp 2.1.0-beta6 Open Source MP3 player
freenet-sms 0.3 SMS-sending tool for etools.freenet.de.
fwipe 0.10 Securely overwrites and deletes files.
gchbkgrd 1.0.1 An automated periodic background changer.
Generic PHP Framework 20000821 Library of reusable objects for PHP4.
GeneWeb 3.07 A genealogy program with a Web interface.
Getleft 0.9.0 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
Ghetto Edit 0.35 A ghetto map editor for use with the TileLib game library.
ghettospeak 0.0.1beta2 Chat BBS implementing the telnet protocol.
GIMP Dynamic Text 1.5.2 GIMP plug-in for text rendering and manipulation.
gladepyc 0.4 Generates low-level pygtk/Python code from Glade XML files.
Glitter Newsreader 0.9.1 An interactive GUI program for extracting binaries from newsgroups.
Gluelog 0.1 A syslog replacement
gmail 0.5.4 Gmail is an experiment in an sql vfolder-based email system.
GNAT 3.13p Ada95 Compiler
GNOME Animation Studio 0.1.1 Video creator and editor for GNOME.
Gnome Toaster 0.4 2000-08-21 create CDRs the easy way with Gnome/Gtk
gnome-o-phone 0.5.2 Internet telephone with a gtk interface
gnomerar 0.4.5 A GUI frontend to rar.
GnomeRes 0.6.0 A GNOME applet for changing display modes.
GNU Parted 1.2.8 A partition editor, for creating, destroying, resizing and copying partitions.
GPLTrans 0.9.7 Web-based machine translator.
Green Box 0.04 Next-generation drum machine
grepmail 4.42 Searches a normal or gzipped mailbox for a given regularexpression
GRN 0.0.27 An NNTP client written in GTK.
GTK+XFce 3.5.0 Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11
Gtk-Perl 0.7003 Perl binding for GTK+, GNOME, and related libraries.
gtktetcolor 0.4.3 A small Tetris clone for X.
gvnd 0.0.4-4 Graphical Unix information/network environment
gxsnmp 0.0.15.1 SNMP managment frontend.
Hackers 0.3.1 NetHack character manager
Ham Radio Control Libraries 1.0.3 Shared libraries for HAM radio equipment control.
Hierarchical NoteBook 0.1beta A hierarchical notebook and personal organizing program.
hodie 1.2 Classic latin replacement of date(1).
ht://Check 1.1.0b3-utero A link checker that gets information through HTTP/1.1 and stores in a MySQL db.
html2latex 0.8 Convert HTML to LaTeX.
HTML::Embperl 1.3b5 Embed Perl into HTML Pages with a lot of features especialy for dynamic webpage
HtmlHeadLine.sh 15.3 Script that automatically fetches news headlines.
icenews 0.2 icewm news fetching script.
ICI 3.0.0a A dynamic, interpretive language with C-like syntax
Ide.php 1.3 A web-based editor for PHP.
Igloo Weblog 0.0.9 A PHP-based weblog.
iMake 1.5.0 08/13/2000 A platform independent make processor.
IMP 2.2.0 IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
inertianews 0.02b A PHP news management class.
inn 2.3.0 Complete and full-featured Usenet System
Insert Date / Time Macromedia Generator Objects 1 Generator objects which insert date and time into a Generator template.
InsertBase64Jpg Macromedia Generator Object .85 Custom object for Macromedia Generator that inserts Base64 Encoded JPGs.
International Components for Unicode (C/C++) 1.6 IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) enable you to write fully cross-platform programs
Internet Document and Report Server 1.4 An Internet-based report server.
IPN Contact Manager 0.1.2 Web-based, text browser friendly contact manager.
IRM 1.0.2 HelpDesk, IT asset tracking system w/jobs.
ISDN Router 0.108 A masquerading ISDN router on one disk.
iServer 1.9.0 08/13/2000 A platform independent Application/Web Server and Servlet engine.
ixlib 0.91.0 C++ tools library
j 0.5.1 A programmer's editor written in Java.
j6502 1.0 A Motorola 6502 emulator core in Java.
jaim 0.81 A Perl console AIM client.
Java LDAP Server 0.20 An LDAP directory server developed in Java.
jboss 2.0 pr4-beta Enterprise Java Beans application server for Linux
JChemPaint 0.7 A 2D molecular structure editor written in Java
JDAY 1.2 A conversion tool betweenastronomical Julian date and calendar date.
jEdit 2.6pre3 Powerful text editor
Jetty 3.0.b01 HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java
JIGS 0.4.0 GNUstep Java Interface.
JOrbis 0.0.3 A pure Java Ogg Vorbis decoder.
JRio500 1.5 Java 2 frontend to Rio500 tools for Linux.
JScour 0.1.0 A console Scour.net search and download client.
jsnmp 0.2.3 Java2 libraries for SNMP v1 & v2
jtodo 1.1 Simple Perl program to help organize a todo list.
Jwap 0.6 Java WAP gateway.
Kaim .44 An AOL Instant Messenger using the Qt library.
kcd 5.1.0 Directory change utility.
KFontinst 0.8.1 KDE-based TrueType and Type1 font installer & previewer.
kftp 0.7.1 A KDE FTP client.
Kiddie Script 0 A novelty binary to ASCII encoder/decoder.
Kill All Humans 0 Novelty binary to ASCII encoder/decoder.
KImap 0.1.4 An IMAP email client for KDE.
kimwitu++ 1.3.3 A term processor, a generic tree tool.
kmuser 1.0 User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop
knetfilter 1.1.2 A KDE frontend to iptables.
knowledgebase 0.12 Knowledgebase tool based on PHP
konspire beta 4 Searchable, distributed file-sharing system.
KPilot 3.2.1 Hot sync software for Unix
Krusader 0.65 Twin-panel file manger for KDE 2.
LaNewsFactory 0.2.0 A Web news site in PHP.
larswm 5.6.3 A tiling window manager built on 9wm.
LATTE 0.9.11 Multi language programming IDE.
lbdb 0.20 Address database for the mutt mail reader.
libsqlora8 2.0.3 A simple C library to access Oracle databases.
LinkChecker 1.2.4 LinkChecker is a URL link checker
Lopster 0.9.3 A Napster client.
MacWriteII2text 0.0.1 A Perl script that tries to convert MacWrite II files to plain text.
MAES 20000823 MP3 streaming application suite.
Magick 2.0b4 IRC services.
mail2php 0.2 Read and send mail with PHP.
mailblink 0.4 Blinks LEDs when new mail arrives.
Mainstreet Credit Verification Engine .90b1 Credit Card processing engine.
mcfeely 3.43 fault-tolerant, asynchronous, ordered remote job execution
Medusa DS9 0.7.12 A security improvement package.
MemoPanel 6.9 A tiny memo applet on the GNOME panel.
mkcd 1.0 A no-brainer command line CD burning kit.
modutils 2.3.15 Linux module utilities
mod_db 0.2 Memory resident database module for Apache.
mod_filter 1.1 Provides filtering between handlers in Apache.
mon 0.38.19 Highly configurable service monitoring daemon
moof 0.6a mp3 player on one floppy
motion 1.6 A motion detector for video4linux devices.
Mp3Chew 0.45.3 Mp3Chew attempts to correct garbled MP3 filenames.
MP3info 0.8.1 A simple utility to read and write MP3-TAG info.
mp3rename 2.0 A Perl script to rename and organize MP3 files and get rid of nasty characters.
mrtg 2.9.0pre21 Multi Router Traffic Grapher
MWChat 1.9.5 A MySQL Web-based Javascript-free chat room.
MyNews 2.1-1 A weblog for sectioned news items.
nail 9.21 A MIME-capable version of the Berkeley Mail user agent.
Naken Chat 1.26 Chat Server ported from Javachat
NcFTPd MySQL Authentication 1.1 MySQL user authentication for NcFTPd.
NetBoy 0.1.2 GNOME based graphical netstat
Netscape Communicator 4.75 All-in-one browser and communications suite
News Clipper 1.24 Integrate dynamic information into your web page, in your own style.
nget 0.12 auto-resuming command line nntp file grabber
Nicq 0.1.2 A new clone of the popular ICQ messaging system for Linux.
nodeclass 1.0.0 A simple to configure PHP class for creating explorer-style menus.
Normalize 0.3.4 A WAV file volume adjuster.
nSite 1.0 A tool for generating WWW site maps from a root URL
OCI C++ Library 0.1.0 A very simple library to communicate with Oracle 8.x through OCI.
oDns 0.3.3a Php/Perl/MySQL-based frontend to the BIND 8.2 name server.
OggEnc 0.4 The official Ogg Vorbis encoder.
oMail-admin 0.94 A PHP/Perl-based qmail+vmailmgrd maildomain administration Web interface.
omniORB 3.0.1 A robust, high-performance CORBA 2 ORB
omniORBpy 1.1 CORBA ORB for Python
OpenCA PKCS#7 Tool 0.6.81 Tool to verify/generate/modify pkcs#7 signatures.
OpenLDAP 2.0-gamma LDAP suite of applications and development tools
OpenScheme 1.3.4 OpenScheme programming environment
Owl Intranet Engine 20000818 A PHP knowledgebase.
ozone 0.5.5 A Java-based object database system.
pdump 0.778 Perl packet sniffer that dumps, monitors, and modifies traffic on a network.
PeeWeeLinux 0.50 A small linux distribution for embedded applications.
Perl Chat 0.0.8 Perl Chat Client and Server
Perl-RPM 0.28 Perl bindings for the rpm 3.0.X API.
Persistence Layer 20082000 Maps objects to a relational database.
php-cyradm 2.0.0 Web Administration Tool for the Cyrus IMAP Daemon.
PHP-Nuke 3.0 PHP Interactive Web Portal System
phpGroupWare 08212000 A Web-based software suite.
phpLinks 1.02 Simple search engine script written in PHP for use with MySQL.
phpNews 0.2 PHP and MySQL based web news script.
phpNewsCenter 0.6.7 A news admin tool.
phpSecurePages 0.17b PHP4 multi-language login and password client authentication.
PHPStocks 1.02.1 PHP Class/Program to get basic and detailed stock information from Yahoo Finance
PHPTimeSheet 1.2.1 A Web-based timsheet with an SQL backend.
pick-set 0.2 A random MP3 selector for the rio500.
pmc 0.11 A Perl/GTK mail client.
PocketLinux for PDAs 0.1 Linux, Java, and XML for PDAs.
POSIX 1003.1b clock/timer patch 2.4.0-test6 Kernel patch to provide POSIX 1003.1b clocks and timers
PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP 1.1 A PostgreSQL session save handler for PHP4.
preccx 2.51e Infinite lookahead compiler-compiler for synthetic/attributed grammars.
PresTiMeL 20000819 A tool to create HTML presentations.
PRP 0.0.1 Server engine for embeding different scripting languages into HTML
Pspell .11.2 Portable Spell Checker Interface Library.
PTlink ircd 5.4.0 New featured ircd with a great services integration
PTlink Services 2.11.1 IRC Registration Services
pvWikiSystem 0.91 A Perl implementation of the Wiki system.
Python X Library 0.3 An X library for Python, written entirely in Python.
Q-LAMP 0.55 PHP-Scripts for live Quakeworld-Statistics.
Qpopper 3.1b7 A POP3 server.
QTCUPS 1.0 CUPS front-end and development library for Qt.
rawrec 0.9.93 A utility to record and play back raw audio data.
rCalc 0.2.2 Fast and light symbolic calculator for GNOME.
rdf2html 0.0.2 This class file produces a news ticker from a given Netscape channel file.
Redland 0.9.1 An RDF (Resource Description Framework) library.
reiserfs 3.6.13 A filesystem which stores the files themselves in a B*-tree, gaining speed.
Remote nmap 0.2-beta Client and server software to remotely do nmap port scans.
Repairlix distribution hammer System recovery/repair/backup CD in 12MB of media.
Request Tracker 1.0.4 Web, command-line and email based trouble ticketing and bugtracking package
Retro 2.0 Educational electronic hardware design tool.
rhup 0.9.16 Make updates of Red Hat systems easier.
Roadrunner 0.8.11 A single-user, POSIX threads, protected-memory operating system.
rpmlint 0.19 RPM error checker.
rsync 2.4.5 File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
SCREEM 0.3.0 Site CReating & Editing EnvironMent
scsiadd 1.0 Lets you insert and remove SCSI devices on the fly.
SecPanel 0.23 A visual Secure Shell (SSH) interface for UNIX environments
sendEmail 1.32 A tool for sending SMTP email from a command prompt.
sh-httpd 0.3 Very small shell script Web server with CGI 1.1 interface.
slides.sh 0.15 A shell script based text to HTML presentation translator
SLiRP 1.0.11 SLIP/PPP emulator over shell/telnet/ssh/etc.
smixer 1.0.1 Console program to control the mixer levels on soundcards.
Sony RM-X2S XMMS Plugin 1.0 Lets you control XMMS with a Sony RM-X2S joystick.
SpiralSynth 0.1.4 A software synthesizer.
SQLite 1.0 An SQL frontend to GDBM
Summary (Pro) 1.5 Web server log analyzer tool
swc 1.2 Simple Webpage Counter
SysOrb milestone v A network and server monitoring system.
System RADIUS Client Daemon 1.0 System RADIUS accounting daemon.
TEG 0.4.11 Yet another RISK clone.
text64totext 1.0.0 Convert Text 64 files to plain text.
the Anomy mail sanitizer 1.25 An efficient filter for sanitizing email messages.
The Gernel 0.8.4 A GNOME frontend for the Linux kernel configuration.
The Gimp 1.1.25 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Guild 0.1.90 A fully 3d-rendered/raytraced first-person interactive adventure
The PING Utility Library 1.2.3 A C library for UNIX systems software development.
Thorn 0.1.a10 UML Modeling Application
timbot 2.0 A simple C++ factoid-storing IRCbot.
Toaster 0.9.0 C program testing tool for working with gdb.
Tomahawk 1.1 An integrated Squid/Apache Web server.
total order class 1.1.0 An efficient arbitrary total order class.
trackfm 0.02 Interactively view the freshmeat newsletter.
Tux key 1.1.0 A game similar to Solomon's Key.
Twinlib 0.3 A graphic library for Qt.
tzoperl 1.6-2 A tool for using TZO's Dynamic-DNS service.
UConio 0.0.5 Video handling C library.
UdmSearch 3.0.21 Fast WWW search engine for your site
UniCount 1.3.6 Text or Image SSI counter
Universal Toolkit 0.1.3a A layer between a program and different toolkits such as Gtk or Qt.
unixODBC 1.8.12 Provides ODBC 3 connectivity for Unix
UnixTree 2.21 XTree-like console filemanager.
UW Imap Server 2000 release-candidate 5 Univerity of Washington Imap server
VCDImager 0.4alpha1 VCD (VideoCD) BIN/CUE CD image generator.
Venus 0.1 Web-based Virtual Maps Editor for Postfix
verInfo 0.1.0 Version resources for Linux ELF programs.
VGB-GUI 0.1.2 VGB launcher.
VideoLAN::Client 0.1.99h A software MPEG2 and DVD player.
Virtfs 0.42.0 A utility to help create and configure virtual services and domains.
Virtual X68000 1.1.2 X68000 emulator
VisualOS 1.0.0 An educational visual simulator of an operating system
wagon 1.0 Simple pull-model job distribution framework.
wApua.pl 0.03alpha A WAP WML browser written in Perl/Tk.
web2ldap snapshot 20000823 A Python LDAP-client running as a CGI-BIN.
WebCalendar 0.9.22 A multi-user PHP/MySQL-based calendar.
WebMake 0.2 A simple, offline Web site management system.
WebNap 1.0.2 A Web-based Napster client written entirely in PHP.
website news manager 0.16 Manage the news on your site.
web_traceroute 0.5 A Web frontend for traceroute.
whatsnewfm 0.2.0 A filter for the Freshmeat newsletter.
Winie 1.0.6 HTTP/1.1 Put Tool
wxWindows/GTK 2.2.1 GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library
X Printing Panel 0.6 A graphical printing frontend for CUPS.
XawTV 3.18 A TV viewing application and a few TV utilities.
XMacro 0.2 A keyboard and mouse event recorder/replayer for X.
XML::Twig 2.01 A Perl module used to tree-process XML documents of all sizes.
xmms-shn 1.1 XMMS input plugin to play shorten (.shn) files.
XPaint 2.5.9 A fairly powerful editor for bitmapped images.
xpovchem 1.41 A molecule viewer, based on the PovRay raytracer.
Xsox 0.77 Gnome X interface for sox.
xzgv 0.5 A GTK+/Imlib-based picture viewer for X.
Yacas 10.0.40 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Yahp 0.11 HTML pre-processor.
Yet Another PHP Bulletin Board 1.0a pre-release alfa test PHP-powered Bulletin Board system
ZAngband 2.4.0 Rogue-like roleplaying game
Zebra 0.88 Route Server and Route Reflector daemon
ZThread 1.0.3 Advanced object-oriented, platform-independant threading library.
 

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