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Clemmitt Sigler wrote in to tell us about his mini-HOWTO for installing and configuring the General Instrument SURFboard 1000 phone-return cable modem. He has also made an autoinstallation disk image available.

Eric Harlow is writing a book on Linux applications development, with an emphasis on GTK, PostgreSQL, CORBA, and other good things. The GTK chapters seem to be the most complete. They are available, but in the RTF format; he has a link to an RTF reader if you need one.

Ying Zhang has written a mini-HOWTO on setting up Samba on RedHat Linux.

The December Issue of the Linux Journal is scheduled to be shipped November 6th. The announcement contains a complete table of contents, for those who want a peek at what is coming.

AL DEV has released version 9.0 of the PostgreSQL Database HOWTO.

Events

The Atlanta Linux Showcase is this week. A good time will certainly be had by all. Here is the Showcase home page for those who haven't seen it. ALS also issued a press release on the more than 60 companies that will be exhibiting there.

A new conference on free software has been announced. The Bazaar will be held in New York, March 13-15, 1999. They are expecting over 5,000 attendees.

The Call For Papers for the USENIX 1999 Annual Technical Conference has been posted. The conference will be in June, in Monterey, California, USA. They are looking for instructors for tutorials as well. It would be good to see an increased Linux presence at this well-known conference ...

UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) is giving away Red Hat 5.1 CD's as part of their "Latin American And Caribbean Unesco NetDays" celebration. Here's the info (in English) (Spanish, French, and Portugese available from the Net Days page). "We believe LINUX can play a very important role in Latin American and Caribbean modernisation, constructing networks to permit a great number of universities, colleges, schools and educational centers, to connect to Internet in order to use this fabulous tool to improve their scientific and cultural levels." (Thanks to Roger Dingledine for forwarding this on to us).

Web sites

The Free Software Bazaar is a site where people can list free software projects that they would like to see done, along with the amount of money they would be willing to contribute, to the author or to their favorite charity (seems to be a common thread) for a completed project. It is a good place to look for ideas for fun projects to work on. Although most of the money offered is very nominal, at least one of the projects does offer a full $1000 .. go see the list to find out which one!

There is also the compatriot page at the same site for giving away or lending that Linux CD, hardware or literature that you no longer need.

User Group News

B. 'Avatar' Avianto sent us this report on a recent Installfest held in Bandung, Indonesia, potentially the first in Indonesia. The Installfest included a presentation on Linux and the successful installation of Linux on 9 PCs and 1 laptop.

The first meeting of the El Segundo/LAX/South Bay Linux User's group has been announced for October 24th. Time to get in on the ground floor ...

A mailing list has been started to help people in the process of developing, growing and maintaining Linux User Groups. Check out the announcement for more details.

Help Wanted

Red Hat is hiring, as usual. This time they are after part time quality assurance people.

October 22, 1998

Software Announcements

Software

Package	Version	Description
LEAP RDBMS	1.2.3	A free Relational Database Management System
Abacus	0.9.12	Spreadsheet for Linux/XWindows written in Tcl/Tk and C/C++
acmemail	1.8	acmemail is a single-user POP3 to Web gateway with full MIME support
AfterStep	1.5beta5	Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel
agm	1.4	single- and multi-word anagram generator
Amaya	1.3b	Ttest-bed browser/authoring tool of the W3C
Amcl	0.5.1	A simple Mud CLient for X written in GTK libs.
ard	0.2	auto renice daemon
Balsa	0.4.6.2	The official GNOME mail client, supports local mailboxes, POP3 and IMAP
bchunk	1.0.0	CD image format conversion from BIN/CUE to ISO/CDR tracks
BeroFTPD	1.1.15	FTP server program based on WU-FTPD
BGM	0.2	Background music player / music on-hold source daemon for PBX
Blackbox	0.40.11	WindowManager for X11 written in C++
BNC	2.4.6	IRC proxy server
BurnIT	1.0.5	Java front-end to cdrecord and mkisofs
Burt	2.4.1	Burt - Backup and Recovery Tool
C Masqdialer Server	0.0.9	Protocol compatible replacement for Masqdialer server written in C
cdr	0.3	CD ripper and encoder frontend
cdrecord	1.6.1	Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
CLISP	1998-09-09	ANSI Commin List interpreter, compiler and debugger
Code Crusader	1.1.0.3	complete code development environment, inspired by MetroWerks CodeWarrior
curl	4.9	Tiny command line client for getting data from a URL
dhcpcd	1.3.11	DHCP client daemon for Linux Kernels 2.1.x
Dictionary	0.1	English-Russian and Russian-English dictionary
Drall	0.7.0	Allows users to access their directories and files remotely via a web browser
ECLiPt-Mirror	2.0b5	Full-featured mirroring script
egcs	snapshot 19981019	Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools
Ethereal	0.4.1	GUI network protocol analyzer
Exult	0.03	Ultima 7 world viewer
eznet	1.8.1	Very simple PPP setup
FAIM	0.0a	An open source client for America Online's Instant Messenger service
Fetchmail	4.6.3	Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
ffcall	1.4	Foreign function call interface library
FSDEXT2	0.16	Mounts your Linux ext2fs partitions on Windows 95
FTP4ALL	2.23	FTP server program for UNIX systems
Gaby	0.1.0	An address book written in GTK
Gamora	0.62.1	Java based server construction, hosting, and adminstration architecture.
GChip8	0.9.0	An interpreter/emulator for the CHIP8 virtual machine.
getstatd	1.1	Statistics Daemon for Linux Systems
gIDE	0.0.9	gtk-based Integrated Development Environment for C
GIMP IFF plugin	0.8.8	An autoconf'd plug-in which adds support for IFF/ILBM pictures to the Gimp
glib	1.1.3	The GLib library of C routines
GNU Privacy Guard	0.4.2	GPLed PGP replacement tool
gpppkill	0.9.9	Ends idle ppp connections
Gpulse	0.5	CPU monitor like Pulse from BeOS
grepmail	3.3	Searches a normal or gzipped mailbox for a given regularexpression
GTK+	1.1.2	Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces
GtkICQ	0.56	GtkICQ is a clone of Mirabilis' ICQ program based on Gtk/GNOME
gtkmod	981018	Gtk mod/s3m/xm player
guile	1.3	GNU extension language, an embeddable library implementation of scheme
HSX	98/10/18	Hotline Server clone for Unix
HTMaiL	1.01	Perl5 mail to HTML utility, for mailing list archives, etc.
i8255	0.2	i8255 (digital I/O) kernel module
IceConf	0.1.6	A graphical configuration program for IceWM
identdtestd	1.1	Nice, small, fast, identd testing facility
ImageMagick	4.1.3	Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
InfoPrism	0.0.4	A General Document Processing System
ipchains	1.3.6	Linux packet filter control utility (replaces ipfwadm for kernels 2.1.102+).
Javachat	0.99h	Small chatserver written in Java 1.1.x
JPython	1.0.2	Java reimplementation of the Python programming language
Jultaf	0.0.6	Jumble Library for Tcl and Friends
JX	1.1.18.3	C++ application framework and GUI widget library for X
Kalendar	0.4j	simple, easy to use calendar and to-do list manager
Keg Tracker	0.4.2	GTK+-based MOD editor for linux.
KMySql	1.1.0	A MySql client for KDE.
KNewMail	2.3a	KDE application designed to check multiple pop3 servers for email.
KPilot	3.1 beta 3	Hot sync software for Unix
KSiag	3.0.6Beta1	KDE version of the Siag Spreadsheet
LibVRML97/Lookat	0.7.8	Open VRML97 Toolkit and Browser
Linuxconf	1.13r2	Sophisticated administrative tool
LinuxInfo	1.0.3	Gives system information about your Linux system
Lynx	2.8	fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
LyX	1.0.0	Advanced LaTeX-based typesetting and text-editing program for X11
MAM/VRS	2.1	MAM/VRS is an extensible graphics and visualization library
Melange Chat Server	0.90	Chat server written in C including a Java-client
midentd	1.0	identd with masquerading support
Mini-Commander	0.0.7	Configurable Application and URL launcher for Gnome
moodss	5.0	Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
Mount.App	1.0	Window Maker dock app for managing mount points
MpegTV Player	1.0.7.5	A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
MySQL	3.22.9	SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
namd	2	Parallel molecular dynamics simulation program
NcFTPd	2.3.2	High-performance File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for UNIXsystems
Nessus	981016	A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool
Net Lightning	Release VI	x-10 interface controller
Netscape Communicator	4.5	All-in-one browser and communicationssuite
oidentd	1.4	ident (rfc1413) daemon for linux that allows users to specify usernames
PCI Utilities	1.08	Utilities for diagnostics and cofiguration of PCI devices
perlmoo	0.042	lambdamoo style moo written in perl
Petey	0.7	Fortune like application for story generation
PFlow	2.5.1	Fluid Dynamics Demonstration Program
pgp4pine	1.31	Interactive program for using PGP with email programs, specifically Pine
plucker	0.01alpha	Web browser for Palm Pilot with Linux conduit
ProFTPD	1.2.0pre1	Advanced, incrediblyconfigurable and secure FTP daemon
Prometheus Truecolour (PTC)	2.0.10	A portable, lowlevel framebuffer access library with very fast on the fly conver
PURP	0.4.1	An ncurses-based RPM-manager
PyroTechnics	1.4	OpenGL firework simulator
Python/Tk Empire Interface (ptkei)	0.28alpha	Cross Platform Empire GUI Client
Qt Masqdialer	0.0.12	Qt based client for Jeff Meininger's Masqdialer server
QtDragon	0.7.1	A tool to configure the telephone-related stuff of a DataBoxSpeed Dragon
RabbIT	1.3	Mutating, caching webproxy to speed up surfing over slow links
rmhatm	0.2	Advanced script to strip CR/LF from textfiles
rplay	3.3.1	a network audio system
Sailor Mars	0.5	Anime desktopmate
Samba	2.0.0 alpha 13	Allows clients toaccess to a server's filespace and printers via SMB
Secure Locate	1.3	Secure version of the GNU locate program
SGMLtools	2.0.0	Package made for technical/software documentation
SIDPLAY	1.36.29	C64 music player and SID sound chip emulator
sifi	0.1	Stateful TCP/IP packet filter for Linux.
snarf	2.0.3	Command-line URL retrieval tool with some unique features.
SNES9x	1.11d	Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System(SNES) emulator
SoundTracker	0.0.8	A music tracker for X / GTK+
Squid	2.1.PRE1	High performance Web proxy cache
ssh	2.0.10	Remote Login Program
STk	3.99.3	Scheme with TK bindings
suck	3.10.1	Grabs news from a remote NNTP news server
gsula	0.03c	Programmable multiple-server IRC Client for X with Guile extension
Summary (Pro)	1.1.3b1	Web server log analyzer tool
Superficie	0.4b	A program for basic 3D surfaces viewing and manipulation.
svgalib	1.3.1.19981020	Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console
TFidentd	0.1	A very small ident server with a few neat features.
The Gimp	1.0.2	The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Java Telnet Applet	23jul98	Fully featured telnet program for WWW-Browsers
TiK	0.07	Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
tircproxy	0.4.0	Transparent IRC Proxy with DCC CHAT and DCC SEND support
TkApache	1.0a	GUI Front-End+ for the Apache Web Server
tkArchive	0.1	modular GUI to unix archive utilities
TkMasqdialer	1.03	TCL/TK/Expect client for Jeff Meininger's Masqdialer daemon.
tkMOO-light	0.3.15	Powerful cross-platform chat client.
UDF	0.6	UDF filesystem kernel module
Undelete Utilities	1.0	Undelete Capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem
Unix Command Line Masqdialer Client	1.2	Access the Masqdialer Server via the command line
urlredir	1.2	URL redirector for use with the squid proxy server
UW Imap Server	4.5 Beta	Univerity of Washington Imap server
VeloMeter	1.1	Java based http load tester and performance measurement tool.
WallP	0.59	Random desktop wallpaper changer
WebMail	0.1.4	Web frontend for Unix system mailboxes
Windows 95/NT Masqdialer Client	1.0.4	Win95/NT Client for Jeff Meininger's MasqDialer Server
Wine	981018	Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
Worldengine	3.0	Java Search Engine Front End
X-Chat	0.2.2	GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
X-Mame	0.34b5.1	The Un*x version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
xmp	1.1.6	An OpenSource module for UNIX
xrun	0.1.4	A Gtk+ based program to run commands with a history.
Xscreensaver	3.00	Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
Xwhois	0.2.2	Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.
ZeusMail	0.9.2	A web front-end to pop3 and imap email accounts.

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