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A new version of the Linux/Alpha FAQ is available. Check it out on the AlphaLinux.org site.

A low-cost Red Hat 5.2 is now available in Australia. Check out this announcement for more details.

Events

The Linux & Open Source Software Conference & Exposition will be held Wednesday, January 20th, 1999, at the Commonwealth Institute in London. For more information, check out their website. Also, this note from Eddie Bleasdale lists some of the highlights planned.

The Call for Papers for the 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference has been extended a final time, to December 15th, 1998. Here's your chance to provide more information to the Unix community about Linux and why they should care.

The folks organizing The Bazaar have put out a press release about the conference. The Bazaar, held in New York on March 13-15, 1999, is all about free software.

User Group News

Gulliver (Groupe des Utilisateurs de Linux et des Logiciels Libres en Ille et Vilaine et dans les environs de Rennes) has been formed, and is having its first meeting on December 12.


December 10, 1998

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AbiWord 0.3.0 Fully featured word processor
abs 0.4 Full featured spreadsheet for X11
AfterStep 1.5beta6 Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel
AleVT 1.2.0 Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
Alexandria for Linux 4.00.80 Complete, automated, client/server backup
Alien 6.25 Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats
AMaViS 0.2.0pre1 A Mail Virus Scanner, looks for viruses in e-mail attachments
Artistic Style 1.0.4 Indentation and reformatting filters for C, C++, Java
asapm 2.3 X11 application with AfterStep look for monitoring APM on laptops
asclock-itime 1.1 R11 A port of asclock to show the recently announced Internet Time format
astime 1.1 Analogue clock for X windows
autostatus 1.1 A fast, hierarchical network monitoring system
BeroFTPD 1.2.3 FTP server program based on WU-FTPD
Bicycle Ride Calorie Calculator 1.01 Calculates the number of calories expended on a bicycle ride
BigBrother Stats 0.13 Counter for websites that produces some statistics based on the info gathered
binutils 2.9.1.0.17 Provides programs to assemble and manipulate binary andobject files.
Blackbox 0.50.1 WindowManager for X11 written in C++
BurnIT 1.4pre6 Java front-end to cdrecord and mkisofs
Cabinet Library 0.10 Portable Cabinet Library and Utilities
Calamaris 2.16 Statistic tool for Squid and relatives
CBQ.init 0.1 Ethernet shaper init script based on CBQ
cdrecord 1.8a14 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
Celebrat 0.9.4 Very simple non-interactive command-line calendar
CGM Viewer Applet 0.4 Scriptable vector graphics viewer written in Java.
Cheops 0.56 Network User Interface
Comanche 981205 Multiplatform configuration manager for the Apache web server
CommuniGate Pro 2.8 Industry-standard internet messaging server
Compaq Smart-2 Driver 0.8 Linux Driver for Compaq Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers
COSA 1.02 Linux driver and tools for the COSA and SRP synchronous serial boards
DailyUpdate 4.6 Grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates itinto your webpage
DB2 5.2 Beta Universal Database for Linux
DDD 3.1.1 Common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX and XDB
Deception Toolkit 0.7 Gives defenders a couple of orders of magnitude advantage over attackers
DECnet for Linux 1.00 DECnet socket layer and applications
Desktop File Manager (DFM) 0.9.11 Filemanager like OS/2 WPS
DocWiz 0.59 A GUI tool for developing Javadoc documentation
DOSEmu 0.99.5 Application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs
doxygen 0.4 A documentation system for C and C++
egcs snapshot 19981206 Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools
ELKS 0.0.74 A subset of the Linux kernel that runs in 8086 real mode and 286 protected mode
Enscriptconfig 0.5 Standalone GUI to edit the GNU enscript configuration files
Erlang 4.7.3 Full-featured programming language developed at the Ericsson CS Laboratory
Exult 0.05 Ultima 7 world viewer
F 0.15 Lightweight file browser for GNOME.
FAIM 0.0c An open source client for America Online's Instant Messenger service
fltk beta 19981207 C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL
foxxess 19981202 Database management front-end for the fOX Project
FVWM 2.1.4 The classic highly configurable virtual window manager
gaim 19981207 GTK based AOL Instant Messenger
Gamora 0.63.0 Java based server construction, hosting, and adminstration architecture.
gentoo 0.9.17 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
gFTP 0.1 A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
GGUI 0.1 An easy multi-purpose, multi-program GUI.
GHX 98/12/07 GTK clone of the Hotline software
Gifsicle 1.8 Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations
Glade 0.3.9 GTK+ interface builder
GlideControl 0.3 GTK-based interface for configuring 3Dfx voodoo cards
GLload 0.4.0 OpenGL(r) load meter
gnometool 0.4 Tiny perl program to manage Gnome CVS modules
GNU Argument Analyser 0.9.9 Utility to manage the arguments of your programs
gPhoto 0.0.1-2 GNU Digital Camera download software
gpppkill 0.9.13 Ends idle ppp connections
gppp_button 0.1.19981206 Button to make and break a pppd connection.
GQmpeg 0.4.3 A front end to the mpg123 mpeg audio player
GQview 0.5.1 X11 image viewer for the Linux operating system
grip 0.1 A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
GTK MikMod .06b GTK interface to MikMod for Unix
Gtk See 0.2.1 An image viewer based on the X-Window system and GTK+
GtKali 0.1.2 Gtk+ interface to Kali using Jay Cotton's kalinix.lib
gtkmotd 0.5 Displays message of the day in an X window
GtkSamba 0.1.4 Gtk front end to configuring Samba
GXedit 1.18 Simple GPL'ed graphical editor using GTK
Homebrew Decompiler 0.0.1 Decompiles Java .class files to .java files.
HSX 98/12/03 Hotline Server clone for Unix
HTMLDOC 1.6 Converts HTML to indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF
hunt 1.0 Tool for exploiting well-known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite
ImageMagick 4.1.6 Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
IMP 1998-12-1 IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
instmon 1.2 Monitors installations and detects the files that were added or modified
ivtools 0.7.1 Application frameworks for drawing editors and spatial data servers
JavaLog snapshot-r120298 A Prolog interpreter written in Java(tm)
JDK 1.2 Java Development Kit
jEdit 1.2pre8 Powerful text editor
Jikes 1.0 Java compiler that translates Java source into bytecoded instruction sets
John the Ripper 1.6 Password cracker to detect weak UNIX passwords
kaffe 1.0b3 Complete, PersonalJava 1.1 compliant Java environment
kcmbind 0.4.0 A KDE front-end to configure bind
Kibble 0.7.1 A knowledge base program
kicq 0.3.0 ICQ clone for KDE that looks like Mirabilis' ICQ client
klm 0.1.0 KDE frontend for the LM SENSORS linux kernel
kmpg 0.4.0 An mp3 player for the K Desktop Environment.
KXicq 0.2.24 The KDE ICQ clone
Leafnode 1.7 NNTP server for small leaf sites
lftp 1.2 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
Lilo 0.21 Linux boot loader
LilyPond 1.1.11 The GNU Project music typesetter
Linux joystick driver 1.2.13 Provides Linux support for joysticks
Linuxconf 1.13r8 Sophisticated administrative tool
lirc 0.5.3 Linux Infra-red Remote Control
lm_sensors 1.4.11 LM78 and LM75 drivers
Log Scanner 1.0 Real Time log watcher and notification program
Lout 3.12 Document formatting system
Lynx 2.8.2dev8 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
MajorCool 1.3.2 A Web interface to Majordomo
make_news_site 0.05 A simple web news site creator
MikMod 3.1.2 Multi-platform open-source module player
mkrdns 1.2 Program to automatically generate reverse DNS zone files (PTR records)
MM.MySQL 1.1d JDBC Drivers for MySQL
mod_dav 0.9.4-1.3.3 DAV protocol extensions for Apache
mod_ssl 2.1.3-1.3.3 Apache Interface to SSLeay
Mops 0.42a3 3D modeling environment written in C with Tcl/Tk.
MSWordView 0.5.1 Microsoft Word 8 document viewer
myed 0.1 Featureless, small editor
NcFTP 3.0 beta 16 UNIX application program implementing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
NED 0.3 Dyndns server and client package
netatalk1.4b2+asun2.1.1 A kernel-level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite
News Peruser 4.0 alpha 17 An offline newsreader for Linux and X11
NinjaRMI 1.2 Free implementation of Java Remote Method Invocation
NoName 0.0.5 Fantasy RPG using A-Life techniques.
olex alfa Flexible lexical analyzer parser generator for C++
OpenCD Alfa 5 Fast fuzzy-search directory changer.
OpenLDAP 1.0.3 LDAP suite of applications and development tools
OSS 3.9.1j Provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux
PentiumGCC 1.1.1 Pentium/PPro/P-II/K6/Cyrix/MMX optimising egcs clone
perlmoo 0.050 lambdamoo style moo written in perl
Petey 0.95 Fortune like application for story generation
phpMyAdmin 1.2.0 Handles the basic adminstration of MySQL over the WWW
pkgview 0.01 X based RPM package viewer
plucker 0.02alpha Web browser for Palm Pilot with Linux conduit
psntools 1.4 Administrative tools for large numbers of accounts
Python/XML 0.5 Python modules for XML processing.
Qt 1.42 GUI software toolkit
Queue 0.23p5 Innovative load-balancing/batch-processing system and rsh replacement
RAPID 5.06 Commodity and stock graphing software for technical analysis.
regutils 0.8 Windows 9x ini and registry tools for unix
RockHead 0.0.1 Plays rock paper scissors, and guesses your next move.
Samba 2.0.0 beta 3 Allows clients toaccess to a server's filespace and printers via SMB
SampLin 1.3 beta Scientific Data Acquisition, Visualization and Process Controlsoftware
SARA 1.0b1 A Multi-Agent Gaming Platform
Secure Remote Password Protocol 1.4.3 Zero-knowledge password-based authentication and key exchange protocol
SGMLtools 2.0.2 Package made fortechnical/software documentation
Socker 0.1 Turns any stdin/stdout based program into a TCP server process
SoundTracker 0.0.11 A music tracker for X / GTK+
Speak Freely for Unix 6.1e Allows you to talk (voice, speech, telephone) over a network
sula 0.05.3 Programmable multiple-server IRC Client for X with Guile extension
svgalib 1.3.1.19981206 Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console
t1utils 1.7 Tools for manipulating PostScript Type 1 fonts
Tcl/Tk 8.0.4 A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh
Teaser and Firecat alpha-iii Copyleft replacement for the proprietary ICQ system
The Kiwi Toolkit 1.1RC1 Java foundation class library that complements the JFC
Theatre Commander 0.3 Networked, multiplayer, military strategy game for GTK.
ThoughtTreasure 0.00021 Platform for natural language processing and commonsense reasoning
TiK 0.50 Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
TinyGL 0.1 A small and fast subset of OpenGL
tircproxy 0.4.2 Transparent IRC Proxy with DCC CHAT and DCC SEND support
tkMOO-light 0.3.17-dev-05 Powerful cross-platform chat client.
TkNotepad 0.4.3 A simple notepad editor written in Tcl/tk
tkRunIt 0.85 A simple, but featureful run dialog box for executing commands without an xterm
TNT 1.7 Emacs Clients for the AOL Instant Messenger service
traffic-vis 0.22 Network analysis tool
TZO Internet Naming System 1.06 Dynamic DNS Software client
UgaUga 0.10 Complete graphics API for Java
Ultima Offline Experiment 0.68.26.03d Ultima Online Server Emulator.
Ultima Online Client for Linux 1.0 Ultima Online Client for Linux
VelociGen for Perl (VEP) 1.1 High performance server programminglanguage
VelociGen for Tcl 1.1 High performance web server programming using Tcl
Videobase 0.10 Video / Movie database
WebTheme 1.2.0 Web Theme Library
Welcome2LXMAS Special Edition (b) Linux ANSI boot logo
Window Maker 0.20.3 X11 window manager with NEXTSTEP look and feel
X-Chat 0.4.0 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
XEmacs 21.2.5 Internationalized text editor
xflame 1.1 Graphic hack to draw a cool flickering flame
XfreeCD 0.7.8 GTK+ based cd player.
Xwrits 2.7 Reminds you to take wrist breaks
YAX Window System 0.1.0 A small window system for Unix.
 

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