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Here are the software announcements for the week of December 31st, 1998, courtesy of Freshmeat. Since LWN is not publishing this week, we're putting these out independently.

Package Version Description
AfterStep 1.6.6 Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel
AleVT 1.3.8 Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
Alien 6.27 Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats
ALSA driver 0.3.0-pre1 An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support
appindex 0.04 Perl frontend to freshmeat's application index
arla 0.20 Free AFS client for Linux/*BSD
asbeats 0.1 A beats clock dockable in the windowmaker dock
asp2php 0.05 Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts
Big Brother 1.08b Highly efficient network monitor
Celebrat 0.9.7 Very simple non-interactive command-line calendar
Cfunctions 0.24 Program to extract function prototype and global variable information from C
Citadel/UX BBS Software 5.50 Advanced client/server BBS program
Clicq 0.01 Console based ICQ Clone
DailyUpdate 5.1 Grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates itinto your webpage
DB_Browser 1.1 Web-based utility to browse and modify a postgres database
DeleGate 5.8.4 Multi-purpose application level gateway
Desktop File Manager 0.9.14 Filemanager like OS/2 WPS
DNRD 1.0 Proxy DNS server for home networks with multiple ISPs
DXSpider DX Cluster 1.19 A Ham Radio DX Cluster written in perl for Linux
e2fsprogs 1.13 Ext2 Filesystem Utilities
Empire 4.2.2 Complex internet multi-player real-time wargame.
ezbounce 0.80-pre2 A very configurable IRC Proxy
FakeBO 0.1.9 Fakes Back Orifice server responses and logs incoming requests
Falcon Module Player 0.2 Various module formats ncurses color player for Linux
Fetchmail 4.7.2 Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
freecell 1.0 Another implementation of famous solitaire game
Freeciv 1.7.2 Implementation of Civilization II for UNIX/X released under the GPL
Freetype 1.2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine
FVWM 2.1.6 The classic highly configurable virtual window manager
Gaby 0.2.6 An address book written in GTK
gAddress 0.1.2 GTK based Address Book
gaim 19981230 GTK based AOL Instant Messenger
GannonChat 0.13 Web-Based Chat using PERL and MySQL
gEdit 0.4.8 GTK+ based text editor
gentoo 0.9.19 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
gFTP 0.2 A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
GNetConfig 0.1.3 Gtk-based Linux utility for configuring network settings.
gnome-ppp 0.25 PPP Dialup Networking Utility
Gnumeric 0.5 Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
Great Nations 1.3.1 Civilization(tm)-style game with superior network-play and customizability
grep 2.2e GNU grep, egrep and fgrep.
gRun 0.8pre1 GTK based Run dialog
GTK File Browser 0.14 Small, fast, lightweight, GTK File Browser
Gtk-- 0.10.3 C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.
GtKali 0.1.5 Gtk+ interface to Kali using Jay Cotton's kalinix.lib
GtkSamba 0.3.0 Gtk front end to configuring Samba
GTKYahoo 0.2 GTK based Yahoo! Pager client
GtkZip 0.2 A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip drive disks underLinux
guiTAR 0.0.5 A tar frontend for Gtk+
gxsnmp 0.0.9 snmp managment frontend
GYVE 0.2.1 A vector-based drawing program in the spirit of Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw
Gzilla 0.1.7 Free web browser written in the GTK+ framework
ht://Dig 3.1.0b4 Complete world wide web indexing and searching system
Hybris 0.4.0 Structured document editor in pre-alpha phase
icewm 0.9.22 Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
ircspeak 0.2 Text to speech module for the sirc and ksirc IRC clients
ivtools 0.7.2 Application frameworks for drawing editors and spatial data servers
jEdit 1.3pre2 Powerful text editor
kbquery 0.03 Command-line search util for the linux knowledge base
klm 0.2.1 KDE frontend for the LM SENSORS linux kernel
kmemmon 0.2 A KDE panel memory monitor
KPackage 1.1 GUI interface to the RPM and the Debianpackage manager
KPilot 3.1 beta 6 Hot sync software for Unix
KSirc Alpha 981227 Full features X11 IRC Client based on sirc
laddr 1.0 Lesstif Address Book
lftp 1.2.3 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
LibGGI 2.0 Beta 1 Generic graphics library running on top of many graphics subsystems
LilyPond 1.1.17 The GNU Project music typesetter
Linbot 1.0b4 Professional Site Management Tool for webmasters
linleech 2.2.1 Program that automates the processof downloading USENET articles
LinuxTaRT 2.25 Feature-rich email signature generator
lpe 0.3.3 Featureless, small editor
lrzsz 0.12.20 X/Y/Zmodem suite
Lynx 2.8.2dev12 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
LyX 1.0.0pre6 Advanced LaTeX-based typesetting and text-editing program for X11
Majik 0.05 A truly intriguing roleplaying environment
Mew 1.94b2 A MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs
mgeupsd 0.3 MGE Pulsar UPS monitor
Midnight Commander 4.5.4 Unix file manager and shell
MindTerm 0.96 SSH-client in pure Java, includes stand-alone ssh- and terminal(vt100)-packages
minordomo 0.2 A minimalistic mailing list manager
mod 0.1.6 3D modeller for X11 using Gtk, Glib, Imlib, Gtk glarea, and Mesa/OpenGL
moodss 5.8 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
mpg123 0.59p Real time MPEG Audio Player for Layer 1,2 and Layer3
MSWordView 0.5.2 Microsoft Word 8 document viewer
mtv 1.0.8.0 A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
Muppet 0.04 A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
MVPoly 0.8b A multi-variable polynomial algebra library and command interpreter
Naken Chat 0.87 Chat Server ported from Javachat
Net::RawIP 0.03b Perl module for easy manipulation of raw IP packets directly from Perl
nlog 1.1 nmap 2.x log management and analyzer toolkit
nmap 2.02 Full featured, robust port scanner
OpenDiS 0.0.1 Linux support for digital cameras running the Digita operating system.
OpenLDAP 1.1.1 LDAP suite of applications and development tools
OWSKiller 1.0 Replacement for Oracle Web Server based on Java Servlets
PHP 3.0.6 HTML-embedded scripting language
phpMyAdmin 1.3.1 Handles the basic adminstration of MySQL over the WWW
pilot2pine 0.0.1 Converts Palm Pilot addressbooks to pine's addressbook and vica versa
Prometheus Truecolour (PTC) 2.0.11 A portable, lowlevel framebuffer access library with very fast on the fly conver
Queue 1.099 Innovative load-balancing/batch-processing system and rsh replacement
RealTimeBattle 0.9.3 RealTimeBattle, a robot programming game for Unix
rungetty 1.1.0 Minimal virtual console getty capable of running arbitrary programs
Satlas 1.2 Spectral atlas of the Sun
Siag Office 3.1.3 Free office package for Unix
sii_printpbm 1.1 allows you to print PBM files to the SII SLP1100label printer from a UNIX box.
SiteMap 1.6 Creates an HTML SiteMap of your *.*htm* files
SpkrPhone 0.1 US Robotics Sportster Voice Modem Program
statnet 3.5 Summary of protocols currently being used on LAN.
The Gimp 1.1.0 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Guild 0.83b A fully 3d-rendered/raytraced first-person interactive adventure
lathi-themes 0.3.2 Perl script to implement themes for the AfterStep window manager
tin 1.4pre981225 Curses based threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader
tkAbout 1.3 Summarizes CPU, memory, and disk data in a nice GUI window
tkauth 1.0 Graphical authorization manager (Tk interface to xauth)
TkSmb 0.8.0 TclTk X11 shell for smbclient
tkWeather 1.0-pre2 Get up-to-date weather information for any city, world wide
Universe 0.8 Space Strategy game
util-linux 2.9g Miscellaneous system utilities
vppp 2.0 Virtual PPP channel over a TCP connection with traffic shaping
Web Secretary 1.2 Web page monitoring software
WebMaker 0.7.0 HTML editor for Unix
wmpinboard 0.5.1 Window Maker pinboard dock-app
xmp 2.0.0dev33 An OpenSource module for UNIX
Xterminal 0.6.3 Object Oriented User Interface with a client-serverarchitecture
Xwhois 0.2.7 Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.
xwpe-alpha 1.5.13a A programming environment for UNIX systems
Yadex 1.0.0 Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X
Zope 1.9 Web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites.

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