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Announcements


Contests

The Official SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Logo Contest was announced on the linart list this week. Information on the requirements is included in the announcement, but no mention of prizes! Ah well, apparently being a winner is the best prize ...

Projects

Olivier Mueller sent us an announcement for a new sub-project for the LDP (Linux Documentation Project), called the "Linux Internet Server Administration guide" (LISA). Here is the homepage for the project, which has a form for adding new ideas to the outline.

Events

Lenz Grimmer sent in a report on the "Offene Systeme" (Open Systems) Congress being held in Wiesbaden, Germany which mentions some of the offerings so far. The Congress was organized by the German Unix Users Group. He has even posted pictures of IBM's Netfinity running S.u.S.E. Linux.

Registration for the LiMe conference (Rome, October 7-9) has started; see the announcement for registration information and the conference program.

Web sites

The LinuxLinks site announced that it has been updated. In addition, they would like to expand their local content by reviewing all major Linux applications and are looking for people interested in writing capsule reviews.

DLD is a new Spanish Linux site with an index of many Linux-related pages. This is a volunteer site and additional helpers would be welcomed.

User Group News

A new user's group has formed in Alava, Spain. The name of the group is Grupo de Usuarios de Linux de Alava (GULA) and here is their official web page. [Editor's note: there may be a DNS problem accessing this site.]

Evelyn Mitchell posted a report on a recent Linux Installfest held in Fort Collins, CO to the Boulder Local User's Group mailing list.

On the same mailing list, we found a report by Wayde Allen on the last BLUG meeting.

The first meeting of the Linux User Group at the University of Delaware will be on September 24th and will include a presentation on Beowulf systems and projects by Dr. Robert Dalrymple and Chris Morrone.

The Boston Linux and Unix Installfest will be held Saturday, September 19th, and is specifically oriented for those who have been unsuccessful getting Linux installed on their machines.

Google was at the recent Bay Area LUG meeting. Well, we presume the authors of Google were there, though that's not what the announcement says ... sounds like a fun time, with a $10 Chinese dinner thrown in!


September 17, 1998

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
3dom snapshot 980910 A general purpose 3d object modeler.
AfterStep 1.5beta4 Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel
Alien 6.17 Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats
Amcl 0.4.1 A simple Mud CLient for X written in GTK libs.
APRIL 3.9 Agent Process Interaction Language
ascp 0.9.1 A Control Panel for the AfterStep window manager
AtDot 2.0.0 beta 1 Web based e-mail system
Backup Copy 1.09b Copy program designed to quickly and efficiently store data.
CDRDAO 1.0 Disk-At-Once Recording of Audio CD-Rs
Cool Notes 0.3.3 Gtk/Gdk based 'notes-program' like xmemos
Cryptonite 0.09 Pure Java Strong Encryption Package
curl 4.8.3 Tiny command line client for getting data from a URL
dennis 0.09alpha Automated DNS builder
DLDialog 0.7-8 Displays dialog boxes in terminal and X11 mode to interact with scripts
DNi 0.4 DNi is a IP Filtering Firewall script generator for dial-up users.
egcs snapshot 19980914 Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools
Eterm 0.8.6 An X11 VT102 emulator with Enlightenment features
ezbounce 0.70 A very configurable IRC Proxy
FFTW 2.0 The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
fltk beta-19980910 C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL
FxEngine 0.31 Fxengine is a 3d graphics library that uses the Glide API.
gIDE 0.0.7 gtk-based Integrated Development Environment for C
Gifsicle 1.4 Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations
GMem 0.1 A tool to monitor the memory usage of your system
GNU Privacy Guard 0.3.5 GPLed PGP replacement tool
GNU Robots 0.8 Robot construction game
GnuCash 1.1.17 A program to keep track of your finances
GnuJSP 0.9.2 A free Java Server Pages implementation
Goose 0.0.2 Statistical library.
Gpasman 0.9 Keeps track of all your passwords in a secure way
gsula 0.02.99c2 Programmable multiple-server IRC Client for X with Guile extension
Gtk-- 0.9.15 C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.
HCP 0.1 A protocol for every form of human communication over networks
hexedit 1.0.0 View and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII
ht://Dig 3.1.0b1 Complete world wide web indexing and searching system
HTTPGate 1.0 beta 3 A Filtering HTTP Gateway
InfoPrism 0.0.3 A General Document Processing System
JSBeautifier 1.0.6 Free, small and fast automatic indention for Java source files
JSFormatter 0.3.0 Free style-formatter for Java source files
Jultaf 0.0.5 Jumble Library for Tcl and Friends
KBiff 1.0.2 New mail notification utility for KDE
KLyX 0.9.8 A modern approach of writing documents with a computer
Kmp3te 0.7 MP3 tag editor
KNewMail 2.0 KDE application designed to check multiple pop3 servers for email.
KOffice 19980915 An integrated Office suite for KDE
KSirc snapshot 980914 Full features X11 IRC Client based on sirc
KuickShow 0.5 A fast, comfortable and easy-to-use image viewer/browser
LEAP RDBMS 1.2.2 A free Relational Database Management System
LinPopup 0.9.2 Linux port of Winpopup, running over Samba.
Linux joystick driver 1.2.10 Provides Linux support for joysticks
Linux Logo 2.10 Displays an ANSI or ASCII Linux penguin, along with some sytem information
Linux-Kontor Build 10 A free Commodities, Bookkeeping, Accountancy and Inventory Management software
Listar 0.110a Mailing list managementsoftware
lm_config 0.0.4 GUI to configure Alexander Larsson's lm78 kernel module
lm_sensors 1.4.2 LM78 and LM75 drivers
Loki 0.0.1 A webserver written in Java specializing in multiplayer games
McClone 0.1 MacOS source-compatible library
mgetty 1.1.18 Intelligent getty and fax support
minicom 1.82 Serial communication program
modutils 2.1.121 Linux module utilities
mod_ssl 2.0.9-1.3.1 Apache Interface to SSLeay
moodss 4.4 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
MpegTV Player 1.0.7.0 A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
MpegTV SDK 1.0.7.0 Powerful Software Development Kit for real-time MPEG-1 Video
MSToNS 1.0 Convert Outlook Express/Internet E-Mail folders to Netscape folders
MSWordView 0.4.3 Microsoft Word 8 document viewer
mUH 2.0 Full-featured IRC bouncing tool
myODE 0.2b Online Database Editor for mySQL databases using PHP 3
Nevermind Who 0.0.1 GUI for rwho with face/image display for each login
News Peruser 3.30 An offline newsreader for Linux and X11
One Step Beyond 0.1 Simple Print Filter
PalmPython 0.5.4 PalmPilot interface library for Python
pavuk 0.9pl2 Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI
PC/ET 0.1 PC Emulator
perlmoo 0.014 lambdamoo style moo written in perl
PRCS 1.2.9 Provides a way to deal with sets of files and directories as an entity
ProFTPD 1.1.7pre1 Advanced, incrediblyconfigurable and secure FTP daemon
Prometheus Truecolour (PTC) 2.0.8 A portable, lowlevel framebuffer access library with very fast on the fly conver
ptk-phone 1.0 Phonebook application in Perl/Tk
PySol 1.01 A Python-based Solitaire card game
Quake2 3.19a commercial 3D action game from the makers of Doom
Quick Image Viewer 0.7 A very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlibimage viewer
Replay 0.48 GTK-based MP3 player for X11
ripperX 0.9b A graphical interface to cdparanoia and 8hz-mp3
ROADS 2.00 A free Yahoo-like system written in Perl
rpm2html/rpmfind 0.99 Utilities to create HTML pages and solve dependancy problems of RPM packages
rsync 2.1.1 File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
Services 4.0.0 Provides nick/channel/memo services for IRC networks
Siag Office 3.0.4 Free office package for Unix
sidentd 0.3 Secure identd written in perl, allows per-user fake replys
ssystem 1.4 OpenGL Solar System Simulator
StarOffice 5.0 PreFinal Office Package from Star Division
The Board 0.1.1 BBS Software for Linux
tinyproxy 1.1 A small, lightweight, easy-to-configure HTTP proxy.
WindowMaker 0.19.3 X11 window manager with NEXTSTEP look and feel
Wine 980913 Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
wmapm 2.0 Small dock-app that shows continually-updated APMstatistics
wmlm78 0.14.0 WindowMaker utility to display system monitor information from a lm78 chip
wmsound 0.7.5 Sound server package for WindowMaker
wnmysqlauth 0.9.0 mySQL authentication module for the WN web server
WWWThreads 2.8 WWW based discussion forums
wxWindows/GTK 1.94 GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library
X-Chat 0.1.2 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
XawTV 2.25 TV application and a few utilities
Xlogmaster 1.4.4 Tool to monitor logfiles and hardware status
Xmahjongg 3.0b4 Colorful X solitaire Mah Jongg game
XQF 0.8.6 QuakeWorld/Quake2 server browser and launcher for Linux/X11
Xsql 2.1.7 A Java based interactive SQL editor which uses Swing/JFC pluggable GUI
yarec 0.33 Console based sample recorder/player
 

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