See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

For those of you wondering what to do with those CD's you have lying around with old versions of Linux, this is a reminder that you can register to give them away via the Free Unix Give-away List. Donations of CDs, literature and even hardware are welcome.

The first edition of the ARLAN 2Mbit/sec Wireless HOWTO has been published, the authors are looking for comments. Have a look and let them know what you think.

Richard Stallman has put out a call for folks with good writing skills to help out with the documentation of GNU packages. See his note if you think you may be able to help out.

The FSF has put out a new noticeabout the Wassenaar agreement and its effect on free crypto software. Even though the agreement seems not to apply to free software, they think that continuing to make preparations is a prudent move. (Thanks to J.H.M. Dassen).

A new Linux publication ("Linux User") is starting up in the UK, with the first issue coming out on March 1. They are looking for participants in this project, writers, editors, etc. See the announcement for details and a mailing list you can subscribe to.

Rob Slade has provided a review of "The Indispensable PC Hardware Book", by Hans-Peter Messmer. The author insists that even beginners could read this book--and he has every right to do so. If you are interested in the hardware at this level, the explanations are clear and well sequenced.

He also reviewed "TCP/IP Network Administration", by Craig Hunt. This one can only be described as glowing. In spite of the nature of the topic, Hunt has done a superlative job in ensuring that the content is not only clear, but readable as well.

Events

Linux Expo is looking for speakers for their business track, see their announcement for more. If you can talk for an hour on some sort of interesting Linux business topic, drop them an abstract by February 26.

Linux Expo has also extended its call for papers - interested authors now have until January 14 to get an abstract in, and March 1 for those giving a talk without a published paper. See the revised call for papersfor details.

Web sites

The Corporate Desktop Linuxproject is "a new open initiative to make Linux the premier choice for the enterprise desktop." They are, not surprisingly, looking for help. Check them out and consider giving them a hand. After all, what do you want to be working with in your cubicle?

Linux Archives is a new site with a simple goal: "...to have all software ever released for general download." It's heavy with advertisements, but may develop into something useful.

User Group News

Rik van Riel sent us a note about the European University Linux User Groups project, which is designed to bring together user groups from Universities all over Europe into a wider community. There is a web page and a set of mailing lists; see Rik's note for the details.

The UCLA Linux Users Group, in Los Angeles, California has recently been formed. The general public is welcome; it is not restricted to students. Their web page provides more details, which mentions that they will be providing classes on a variety of subjects, including "UNIX basics, the vi text editor, Emacs, HTML, PHP, CGI, Perl, and Tcl/Tk, perhaps even Qt and/or GTK+."

Software Announcements

Package	Version	Description
AbiWord	0.3.1	Fully featured word processor
abs	0.5	Full featured spreadsheet for X11
ALE Clone	1.14pre6	Clone of WarCraft II
AleVT	1.4.0	Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
ALSA driver	0.3.0-pre2	An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support
Apache JServ	1.0b1	Java servlet engine
Artistic Style	1.6.0	Indentation and reformatting filters for C, C++, Java
asapm	2.4	X11 application with AfterStep look for monitoring APM on laptops
asbeats	0.2	A beats clock dockable in the windowmaker dock
ascpu	1.2	A CPU load monitor.
asp2php	0.49	Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts
Aspell	.26	Intelligent Spell Checker
astime	1.5	Analogue clock for X windows
aterm	0.2.0	xterm replacement with fast transparency, tinting and NeXT scrollbar
autoconf	2.13	Package of m4 macros to produce scripts that automatically configures sourcecode
Bartels Auto Engineer	4.2	Schematic and layout editor for printed circuit or integrated circuit design
bogtk	1.0.1	The back orifice client with a gtk interface
bscxlpr	0.0.1	X11 interface to lpr/lpc, using Motif 2.1 on glibc system
BurnIT	1.5pre1	Java front-end to cdrecord and mkisofs
Cabinet Library	0.20	Portable Cabinet Library and Utilities
camwatch	0.0.7	Small app to view a remote webcam by updating a window with pictures from a url
cdr	1.0	CD ripper and encoder frontend
CGIWrap	3.6.3	Wrapper for securely allowing all users to use CGI scripts
Cheops	0.59a	Network User Interface
ClanLib	0.1.12	The platform independent game SDK.
cole	0.1.0	A free C OLE library
Cryptonite	1.0.0	Pure Java Strong Encryption Package
Dancer	4.13	IRC defense bot, protects your channel and your users
Dave Gnukem	0.3	GGI-based 2D scrolling platform game, similar to Duke Nukem 1
dBot	0.1.2	Java clone of FrontPage WebBots.
DCC6502	1.1	Portable disassembler for the 6502 microprocessor, with cycle-counting
DDD	3.1.3	Common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX and XDB
DejaSearch	1.0	DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive
Dlint	1.3.2	A Domain Name Server Verification Utility
Drall	0.10.2	Allows users to access their directories and files remotely via a web browser
Eggdrop	1.3.23	IRC bot, written in C
eMusic	0.7.9	CD, mp3, mod and wav player for Linux
Eraserhead RPG	0.0.2	RPG/II, RPG/III Compiler
Ethereal	0.5.1	GUI network protocol analyzer
exscan	0.3	An enhanced network/Internet port scan utility
Fake	1.1.0	Utility to switch in backup servers on a LAN
Fetchmail	4.7.4	Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
fookb	0.4	Xkb state indicator
Free Pascal Compiler	0.99.10	Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi II compatible 32bit Pascal Compiler
freecell	1.0.2	Another implementation of famous solitaire game
freshmeatGrinder	1.0	freshmeat digests, digested
gaim	19981231	GTK based AOL Instant Messenger
Gconfig	0.4	A router configuration tool
GeniusTrader	0.01	A stock market trading software
gentoo	0.9.21	Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
gfont	0.0.5	Font Viewer
GLib	1.1.12	The GLib library of C routines
GNOME	0.99.2	GNU Network Object Model Environment
Gnumeric	0.6	Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
Gnusniff	0.0.5	A packet sniffer for Linux using GNOME.
GoldED	3.0.0	Mail/newsreader for Fidonet and Internet
gpak	0.2.5	GPak is a utility to extract files contained in Quake II PAK-files.
GQ	0.1.6	LDAP client
Grip	0.7	A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
gRun	0.8.0	GTK based Run dialog
GTK+	1.1.12	Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces
GtkAda	0.4-beta	Ada95 binding of Gtk+ version 1.0.4 and 1.0.5.
GtKali	0.1.6	Gtk+ interface to Kali using Jay Cotton's kalinix.lib
GtkEditor	0.0.5	Source code editor widget for GTK.
gtkMeat	0.5.4	A Freshmeat new submissions ticker
GTKmp3make	0.42	GTK front end for cdripper and mp3 encoder
GtkSamba	0.3.1	Gtk front end to configuring Samba
gtkSlash	0.5.4	Gtk+ based Slashdot headlines news ticker
GTKWave	1.0.0	Wave viewer for Verilog simulation
GTKYahoo	0.3	GTK based Yahoo! Pager client
GtkZip	0.3	A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip drive disks underLinux
guiTAR	0.0.6	A tar frontend for Gtk+
GXedit	1.19	Simple GPL'ed graphical editor using GTK
icewm	0.9.27	Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
ident2	0.998b	An auth/ident server.
ImageMagick	4.1.7	Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
IMP	1999-01-02	IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
ImPress	1.0 Beta	WYWIWYG publishing and presentation tool
ircd-hybrid	5.3p6	Internet Relay Chat daemon
Jabber	0.5	Instant Messaging Platform
Jazilla	1998-12-26	A port of Mozilla into Java
jEdit	1.3pre3	Powerful text editor
Jigsaw	2.0.0	W3C's leading-edge Web server platform
Kalendar	0.5a	simple, easy to use calendar and to-do list manager
kbquery	0.05	Command-line search util for the linux knowledge base
klm	0.3.0	KDE frontend for the LM SENSORS linux kernel
Kover	0.10	An easy to use WYSIWYG cd cover printer for KDE
Krabber	0.3.0	KDE audio cd grabber and mp3 encoder front-end
laddr	1.0.1	Lesstif Address Book
LEAP RDBMS	1.2.5	A free Relational Database Management System
libprint	0.0.3	Printing and Font Management Library for Application Development
Licq	0.50 alpha 3	ICQ clone for linux with most of the functionality of the official Java version
Listar	0.115a	Mailing list managementsoftware
lm_sensors	2.1.0	LM78 and LM75 drivers
MAGE Adventure Game Engine	0.1.0	Framework for playing and (in the future) authoring text-based adventure games.
MailMan	1.0b7	Mailing list manager with built in web access
midentd	1.3	identd with masquerading support
Midnight Commander	4.5.6	Unix file manager and shell
miniBar	0.05	Small, Fast, Single click program launcher.
MM.MySQL	1.1f	JDBC Drivers for MySQL
mod_roaming	0.9.0	With mod_roaming you can use Apache as a Netscape Roaming Access server
mod_ssl	2.1.6-1.3.3	Apache Interface to SSLeay
mount.app	2.1	Window Maker dock app for managing storage devices
MP3 Requester	0.3	Mp3 Request web interface
mtv	1.0.8.0	A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
MultiMail	0.22	Offline Mail Reader (QWK)
Muppet	0.04a	A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
Mutt	0.95.1	Small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operatingsystems
MySQL	3.22.14a	SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
Nannie	1.0	System file watcher and notification program
Ncurses Hexedit	0.8.8	Ncurses file hex editor - edit/insert/delete/search
Net::RawIP	0.03f	Perl module for easy manipulation of raw IP packets directly from Perl
OpenLDAP	1.1.2	LDAP suite of applications and development tools
PAiN Linux Loader	19990102	Linux Loader for the PAiN diskmag
Petey	0.98f	Fortune like application for story generation
phpSearch	0.2	Extendable generic search re-director including major search engines
PiGTK	1.1.1	Provides GTK+ bindings for Pike
pload	0.9	Display ppp statistics in an X window
pload	0.9.1	a program to monitor ppp activity for X
PostgreSQL	6.4.2	Robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS(ORDBMS)
qotdd	0.5	Quote of the Day daemon
qps	1.4.5	Displays processes in an X11 window
RealTimeBattle	0.9.4	RealTimeBattle, a robot programming game for Unix
Ripenc	0.2	Bourne shell script frontend to Cdparanoia, and Bladeenc.
rxvt	2.4.11	A VT102 emulator for the X window system
Samba	2.0.0beta5	Allows clients toaccess to a server's filespace and printers via SMB
Scour Media Agent	1.0.0	Allows easy downloading of SMB files off Scour.Net
Sendmail	8.9.2	Powerful and flexible Mail Transport Agent
sidentd	0.5	Secure identd written in perl, allows per-user fake replys
sirc	2.211	An IRC client for Unix programmed and programmable in perl
SkyeCheck	1.00	Checks for new mail on a POP3 account
SkyeMail	0.41	Java based email client
Softdog	1.21	watchdog daemon that interfaces with the watchdog kernel drivers
statusd	1.01	Daemon that allows you to check on your servers from remote hosts
suck	3.10.3	Grabs news from a remote NNTP news server
SyncBuilder	19990105	Build synchronization applications with a Palm device in Java
t1utils	1.8	Tools for manipulating PostScript Type 1 fonts
TCFS	2.2.0a	Transparent Cryptographic File System
Teaser	0.3.0	Server for the Teaser and Firecat System
The Guild	0.84b	A fully 3d-rendered/raytraced first-person interactive adventure
TiK	0.51	Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
tkWeather	1.0-pre4	Get up-to-date weather information for any city, world wide
TuxEyes	1.0	Javascript and pictures needed to add an XEyes-like Tux to a web page
UESQLC	0.2.1	Universal Embedded SQL Compiler for C++
Uptimed	0.02	Uptime record daemon keeping track of the highest uptimes the system ever had
Web News	1.3	CGI Script that takes random announcements from a list
Web Pages	1.1	CGI script to merge several distributed webpages into one
Web Secretary	1.21	Web page monitoring software
Welcome2L	2.02	Linux ANSI boot logo
Wine	990103	Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
wmbattery	1.0	APM status dock app
WMGlobe	0.1	All the Earth on a WMaker Icon
wmmixer-alsa	0.3	A hack of wmmixer to make it use ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
wmpinboard	0.5.5	Window Maker pinboard dock-app
wmsensors	0.99.0	wmsensors draws graphs of data from your sensor chips
WMSysMon	0.2	System monitor dock app for WindowMaker/AfterStep
X-Chat	0.5.0	GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
X-Mame	0.34.1	The Unix version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
XawTV	2.33	TV application and a few utilities
Xcd-Fnord	0.4	GUI frontend to various mp3-rippers and mp3-compressors
Xclasses	0.40.2pre1	C++ layout library for the X Window System
XDaliClock	2.14	Digital clock for the X Window System
XDelta	1.0.1	Library and application for computing and applying file deltas
XEmacs	21.2.8	Internationalized text editor
Xfiles	1.0.1	Xfiles file tree synchronization and cross-validation
xmp	2.0.0dev36	A multi-format module player for UNIX
XScreenSaver	3.07	Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
xtermset	0.2	Changes xterm title, font, colors and size from the command line
Yadex	1.0.1	Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X
YAX Window System	0.2.2 (Lieutenant)	A small window system for Unix.
ypbind-mt	1.4	ypbind-mt is a complete new implementation of a NIS binding daemon
ypserv	1.3.6	Simple network lookupservice consisting of databases and processes
Zircon	1.18.205	An IRC client written in tcl/tk

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