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The Swedish magazine Amiga Info has added a strong Linux focus to their publication. You can find the upgraded publication on their web site (but in Swedish, of course). It includes daily Amiga and Linux news.

The most recent version of the Linux FAQ can be found currently at this site. Robert Kiesling commented that he is looking for a site willing to provide Web hosting for the FAQ, "free to a good home".

Ying Zhang has written a mini-HOWTO on setting up Qmail for SMTP, and configuring U. Washington's IMAP and POP services to work properly with Qmail.

Events

Linux Expo 99 will be held in Raleigh, NC, May 18-22, 1999. Here is the first announcement we have seen on the matter; they are currently looking to get exhibitors signed up.

Members of the DC-LUG will be holding a BOFat the Atlanta Linux Showcasecovering how to set up and run an InstallFest.

The first Conference of Australian Linux Users will be held July 9-11, 1999, in Melbourne. They have sent out a call for papers for those who would like to present at the conference.

The guys at Warpstock 98 sent us a note mentioning that users of all computer systems are welcome at their celebration, starting this Saturday, October 17th, in Chicago. They promise some truly cross-platform software (Linux, Mac or BeOS, for example).

Web sites

Builder.com has put together a set of pages with configuration tips for the Apache web server. It seems like a good collection of basic information; check it out here. (Thanks to Benji Selano).

User Group News

Chris Halsall wrote to report on an important step taken by Victoria Linux Users Group (VLUG), of Victoria, B.C., Canada. They have chosen to formally registered as a society, the first LUG in Canada to do so. His note explains why the local group felt this was an important step. Other groups may want to review their analysis and decide for themselves whether a more formal status, with perhaps reduced legal exposure for members, is appropriate to them.

The Linux-CULT LUG (Club des Utilisateurs de Linux Toulousains) will be running a Linux stand at the upcoming FAUST expo'98, October 21st-25th. This will take place in "Parc des Expositions", Toulouse, France and will include speakers from the french free software community.

The next BALUG meeting in San Francisco will feature Chinese food and Linux Clustering ... a good combination of food and topics!

The speaker for the next Worcester, Massachusetts LUG meeting has changed. Pat Beirne, chief engineer and "the source" for answers to technical questions about the Netwinder will be speaking instead.

Jim Cain is looking for a LUG in Charlotte, North Carolina. Not having found one so far, he is offeringtime, web server space, etc., to help get one started if there are other interested parties out there.

A new Linux User's Group is forming in Koblenz, Germany.

Here's the report from the latest Boulder Linux User's Group meeting. The presentation for the meeting on Samba was reported to go extremely well and also generated a lot of interest in VNC in the local groups ...

Help wanted

Red Hat has advertised openings for a Software Quality Developer and a System administrator.

October 15, 1998

   

 

Software Announcements


Software

Package Version Description
Abacus 0.9.10 Spreadsheet for Linux/XWindows written in Tcl/Tk and C/C++
AoMasq 0.0.3 Enables Windows 95 workstations to control a centralized dialup connection
Apache 1.3.3 High performance, UNIX based HTTP server
Apache-SSL1.3.2+1.27 Secure Webserver (using SSLeay)
ARCH V4 Object-oriented library of tools for MP machine and network programming
Arrow 0.6.5 An elegant, powerful, graphical interface to electronic mail
asapm 2.2 X11 application with AfterStep look for monitoring APM on laptops
ascp 0.9.2 A Control Panel for the AfterStep window manager
BeroFTPD 1.1.14 FTP server program based on WU-FTPD
BGM 0.1.6 Background music player / music on-hold source daemon for PBX
binutils 2.9.1.0.15 Provides programs to assemble and manipulate binary andobject files.
bkgd 0.2 Sets a random (or specific) background image from the command line
Blackbox 0.40.9 WindowManager for X11 written in C++
Blackmail 0.29 Highly configurable SMTP mail filter
bmud 0.2 GNOME mud client
C Masqdialer Server 0.0.7 Protocol compatible replacement for Masqdialer server written in C
Calamaris 2.8 statistic tool for Squid and relatives
CAMP 1.2.1373 Console Interface for command-line MP3 players
cdr 0.2 CD ripper and encoder frontend
CDRDAO 1.0 Disk-At-Once Recording of Audio CD-Rs
coda 4.6.6 Full featured network filesystem
Code Crusader 1.1.0.1 complete code development environment, inspired by MetroWerks CodeWarrior
Commerce.cgi 1.01 Shopping cart script with Store Manager
DBS Server 0.2.0 Telephony Server for integrating a Panasonic DBS telephone system
DOSEmu 0.98.2 Application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs
egcs snapshot 19981012 Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools
Electric 5.4g3 CAD/EDA tool for multiple levels of design
elvis 2.1j A clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor.
Ethereal 0.4.0 GUI network protocol analyzer
Exult 0.02 Ultima 7 world viewer
FAIM 0.09post1 An open source client for America Online's Instant Messenger service
Fiasco 0.5 L4-compatible real-time microkernel capable of running Linux in usermode
fltk 19981006 C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL
Fortify 1.2.8 Provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to Netscape browsers
FreeAmp 0.5 Open Source MP3 player
FSDEXT2 0.16 Mounts your Linux ext2fs partitions on Windows 95
g2s 0.3.6 An alternative to inetd/tcpwrapper/chrootuid/relay/tcp-env/antispam/etc.
Gaby 0.0.5 An address book written in GTK
gadfly 1.0 A Python RDBMS
Gamora 0.62.1 Java based server construction, hosting, and adminstration architecture.
GASM 0.51 Freeware Assembler
GChip8 0.8.0 An interpreter/emulator for the CHIP8 virtual machine.
gEDA snapshot 19981013 gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,
gentoo 0.9.12 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
getstatd 1.1 Statistics Daemon for Linux Systems
GHX 98/10/13 GTK clone of the Hotline software
gIDE 0.0.8 gtk-based Integrated Development Environment for C
GLeyes 0.2 A GLUT version of Xeyes
GLmame 0.3 An OpenGL driver for xmame
gmysql 0.3.0 A GTK+ front-end to MySQL databases
GNU Oleo 1.6 Free spreadsheet application
GNU Privacy Guard 0.4.1 GPLed PGP replacement tool
gnu.regexp 1.0.4 GNU regular expression package for Java
GnuCash 1.1.20 A program to keep track of your finances
GnuJSP 0.9.5 A free Java Server Pages implementation
Goose 0.0.4 Statistical library.
GQview 0.4.3 X11 image viewer for the Linux operating system
grepmail 3.2 Searches a normal or gzipped mailbox for a given regularexpression
GTK+ Metal Theme 0.9 Java Metal look-and-feel theme engine for GTK+ 1.1.2.
Gtk-- 0.9.17 C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.
gtkfind 0.8 GTK+ version of find(1)
Guppi 0.0.2 GNOME application for plotting and analyzing data
IceConf 0.1.4 A graphical configuration program for IceWM
Imoria 4.85.8 dungeon game like rogue, nethack, moria, etc.
isapnptools 1.16 ISA plug and play configuration utility
Javachat 0.99f Small chatserver written in Java 1.1.x
jEdit 1.0final Powerful text editor
Jikes 0.39 Java compiler that translates Java source into bytecoded instruction sets
jmk-x11-fonts 1.2 Jim's character-cell fonts for the X Window System
JSBeautifier 1.1.1 Free, small and fast automatic indention for Java source files
jt 0.1 Template to compose LaTeX jewel case CD inserts
JX 1.1.18.1 C++ application framework and GUI widget library for X
kfstab 1.0 Easy editing of /etc/fstab via KDE
KIllustrator 0.4.1 Vector drawing program for KDE
KLilo 0.2 LILO Configuration tool for KDE
kmp3 0.2 A KDE MP3 Player
KMySql 1.1.0 A MySql client for KDE.
KPackage 1.0 GUI interface to the RPM and the Debianpackage manager
Krabber 0.2.5 KDE audio cd grabber and mp3 encoder front-end
Kscd 1.2.3 KDE CD Player
KSniff snapshot 981009 KDE packet sniffer/analyzer
KSokoban 0.9 Block pushing mind game for KDE
KVideolist 0.92 A videotape management utility
Leafnode 1.6.1 NNTP server for small leaf sites
Licq 0.43 ICQ clone for linux with most of the functionality of the official Java version
Linux Java Developerment Kit (JDK) 1.1.6v5 Provides a full port of Sun's JDK (Solaris version) to Linux
Linux joystick driver 1.2.11 Provides Linux support for joysticks
Linuxconf 1.12r7 Sophisticated administrative tool
Lynx 2.8 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
Micq 0.3.0 Publically available ICQ clone for the console
Midnight Commander 4.1.36 Unix file manager and shell
MiniVend 3.11 Powerful freely redistributable shopping cart package
MLWorks 2.0 Development environment for the SML programming language
mod_ssl 2.0.13-1.3.3 Apache Interface to SSLeay
Mount.App 0.9 Window Maker dock app for managing mount points
Mozilla 1998-10-08 Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator
Mpm4Linux 0.0.1 Upload tools for MpMan portable MP3 players
mrtg 2.5.4 Multi Router Traffic Grapher
MSWordView 0.4.7 Microsoft Word 8 document viewer
ntop 1.0 Network usage monitor
Panorama 0.10.0 Framework for creating, rendering, and processingthree-dimensional images
perlmoo 0.037 lambdamoo style moo written in perl
Petey 0.6 Fortune like application for story generation
PRCS 1.2.10 Provides a way to deal with setsof files and directories as an entity
ProFTPD 1.1.7pl3 Advanced, incrediblyconfigurable and secure FTP daemon
PySol 1.11 A Python-based Solitaire card game
Python/Tk Empire Interface (ptkei) 0.26alpha Cross Platform Empire GUI Client
qftp 0.85 Command line FTP client with queueing
Qial 0.19 DTMF tone generation program
QuakeLaunch 0.03 Console application to grab Quake servers from master servers
Quick Image Viewer 0.9.1 A very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlibimage viewer
Qvwm 1.0beta11a Windows 95 like window manager for the X Window System
Replay 0.54 GTK-based MP3 player for X11
Samba 2.0.0 alpha 12 Allows clients toaccess to a server's filespace and printers via SMB
Sandmail 0.0008 GTK+ based mime-compliant user mail agent
Scotty 2.1.10 Site specific network management software using high-level, string-based APIs
Secure Locate 1.2 Secure version of the GNU locate program
SGMLtools 1.0.8 Formerly Linuxdoc-SGML, a SGML processing package tailored at HowTo writers and
Simple DirectMedia Layer 0.8.8 Allows portable low level access to nativehigh-performance media interfaces
Smail 3.2 Electronic mail transport system
SoundTracker 0.0.7 A music tracker for X / GTK+
Squid 2.0.PATCH2 High performance Web proxy cache
Squij 0.60 Squid logfile analyzer
start 0.3 General purpose home page for an intranet
Stella 1.0 An Atari 2600 VCS Emulator
sysinfo 1.0.2 Gives system information about your Linux system
TableGen 1.2 Creates java classes to represent and access an SQL database
termpkg 3.0 Poor Man's Terminal Server
think 0.0.5 Outliner and project organizer
TkWho 0.3 Visual frontend to the Unix who command
TPROC 0.1 Very simple text processing language for assembling Text files.
twz1jdbcForMysql 1.0.3-GA A type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL
Undelete Utilities 1.0 Undelete Capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem
WallP 0.58 Random desktop wallpaper changer
Web Secretary 1.11 Web page monitoring software
wmakerconf 1.2 GTK based configuration tool for WindowMaker window manager
WMiNET 2.0 A dockable applet for monitoring all your inet daemon activity
wmnet 1.05 Provides network statistics for the Window Maker desktop
wmsound 0.7.6b Sound server package for WindowMaker
WN 2.1.2 A simple, robust Webserver whose design emphasizes security
XawTV 2.28 TV application and a few utilities
XEmacs 21.0-pre14 Internationalized text editor
XPortShot RT 0.01 A GTK based oscilloscope simulator
XQF 0.8.7.1 QuakeWorld/Quake2 server browser and launcher for Linux/X11
xrun 0.1.4 A Gtk+ based program to run commands with a history.
Xscreensaver 2.34 Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
Xwhois 0.2.0 Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.
ZeusMail 0.9.1 A web front-end to pop3 and imap email accounts.
zigzag 0.54 A unique hyperstructure kit for Linux
 

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