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The Linux Application Development book that we've mentioned in previous editions is officially out, with a focus primarily on GTK+ and GDK. We hear that it is selling well [thanks for the note, Eric!] and is also on the cover of the mcp.com site.

March 4, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AbiWord 0.5.0 Fully featured word processor
ACPLT/KS 1.0.5pre7 Open and free communication system for Process Control (Engineering)
AGX-UserProfile 1.2.0 A 'controlpanel' to configure and administer a Linux box.
AMaViS 0.2.0-pre2 A Mail Virus Scanner, looks for viruses in e-mail attachments
Apache::Session 0.99.6 Session manager for web applications
Applix SHELF 1.0 An embedable fully featured programming language for Linux
asp2php 0.65 Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts
Aspell .27.2 Intelligent Spell Checker
asScotch 0.2.1 The days UserFriendly comic strip in your AfterStep rootmenu
AtDot 2.0.1 Web based e-mail system
aterm 0.3.4 xterm replacement with fast transparency, tinting and NeXT scrollbar
August 0.25 A free html editor for Linux/Unix.
backupsd 1.0 APC Back-UPS shutdown software for NetBSD
BeroFTPD 1.3.4 FTP server program based on WU-FTPD
BetaFTPD 0.0.3 Single-threaded, small FTP daemon
BigBrother WebStats 0.20 Counter for websites that produces some statistics based on the info gathered
bip 1.2.1 Send messages to pagers using the Internet
BMRT Version 2.4b RenderMan compliant renderer
bookmarker 0.9 WWW based bookmark manager
build-package 1.0 Packaging Helper Applet
BurnIT 1.5pre4 Java front-end to cdrecord and mkisofs
COAS 0.14 Linux administration system
Colortail 0.1 Colorized tail.
Config tools for HTML PLAIN 0.9.17 GUI editor for templates for HTML PLAIN
crapStation 0.0.17 A collection of demobuilding tools
Crystal Space 0.12 A free and portable 3D engine based on portals
CxIV 0.55b Fully threaded discussion system with many features written in C
Dante 0.92.0-pre1 Free socks v4/5 implementation
Data::Locations 4.3 A virtual file manager which allows to read/write data to and from virtual files
Datbkr 1999030301 Tar based tape backup program with remote SSH support
Dave Gnukem 0.43 GGI-based 2D scrolling platform game, similar to Duke Nukem 1
DejaSearch 1.1 DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive
Delay 1.2a Delay is like sleep, but with a count of time left.
dhcp-dns 1.0.0 Update DNS with data from DHCPD
Dime 0.9.1 DXF Import, Manipulation, and Export library
DOSEmu 0.99.9 Application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs
dvorak7min 1.2 ncurses-based typing tutor for the Dvorak layout
dyn-ip-page.sh A This script makes files containing your IP and uploads them. (alt. to DynDNS)
ECLiPt Roaster 1.01 GTK Interface to MkIsoFs and CDRecord for writing CDs on the fly
ECLiPt Secure Tunnel 0.3.1 TCP Secure Tunneling System
ECLiPt-Mirror 2.1-pre6 Full-featured mirroring script
edna 0.2 tiny HTTP server for selecting and streaming MP3 files
efingerd 0.7 Another finger daemon for linux
EFMC 0.1 EFMC (Element's Formula Mass Calculator) calculates Formula Mass
egcs 1.1.2-pre2 Experimental set of enhancements for the GNU tools
eNITL 1.0b1 Embeddable, extensible, template scripting language engine for C++ apps
faq-system 0.3.1 cgi package to manage one or more faq databases.
Flashback 0.2 Flashback is an mp3 visualization program.
FMan 0.3.0 FLTK Man page browser
FSViewer 0.1.1 File Viewer lookalike for Window Maker.
Gaby 1.0.4 An address book written in GTK
GCD 1.3 A cd-player with a gtk+ interface
gEDA 19990226 gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,
gEdit 0.5.1 GTK+ based text editor
gentoo 0.9.24 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
GHX 2.50 (99/03/03) GTK clone of the Hotline software
gIDE 0.1.0 Gtk-based Integrated Development Environment for C
giflib 4.1.0 A library for reading and writing gif images
GIMP Imagemap plug-in 0.4 GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.
Giram 0.0.8 Giram is a modeller, written in GTK+
glFtpD 1.15.6 FTP Daemon for Linux. Great program for an ISP or anyone!
GLib 1.2.0 The GLib library of C routines
gmixer 0.98c X11/gtk+ OSS mixer control for linux
gnome-python 0.100 Python interfaces to gnome-libs
GnomeICU 0.62 Formerly GtkICQ, now Gnome Internet Communication Utility
GnoRPM 0.6 A graphical front end to the Redhat package managementsystem
GnuDIP 2.0.5 Dynamic DNS package. Includes everything to run your own ml.org equivalent.
gpppwrap 0.2 A Gtk based graphical user interface to run ppp-scripts
Graphic Counter Language 2.00 Programming language for the development of web counters
Grip 1.3 A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
Groundhog 1.1 Logic game written with GTK
GTimer 1.1.1 Scheduler for your personal activities
GTK+ 1.2.0 Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces
Gtk-- 0.99.0 C++ interface for the popular GUI library gtk.
GtkAda 0.6-beta Ada95 binding of Gtk+
GtKali 0.1.11 Gtk+ interface to Kali.
gtkgo 0.0.6 Go game for Linux and Windows
guiTAR 0.1.3 A tar frontend for Gtk+
GXedit 1.22 Simple GPL'ed graphical editor using GTK
gxTar 0.0.8 Gnome/GTK+ front-end to tar/gzip/zip
Hatman 0.4.10 a high-res pacman clone
HickUP 1.1 Alpha 1 System User Profiler
Hips 1.0.1 HIPPI Switch Programming Software
Hopkins FBI for Linux Rolling Demo Adventure game
HSX 99/03/03 Hotline Server clone for Unix
httptunnel 1.4 Creates a two-way data tunnel through an HTTP proxy
icecast 1.1.1 MP3 Audio Broadcasting System
ICMPush 2.2 ICMPush is a tool that builds ICMP packets fully customized from command line.
installwatch 0.5.2 Installwatch logs created and modified files during the installation of a progra
interstar 0.5 browser based / javascript game
ipchains-firewall 1.5 Shell script to set up firewalling and IP masq rules for ipchains
iplog 1.4 tcp, udp, and icmp logging utilities for Linux.
ippl 1.2.1 IP Protocols Logger
ircII 4.4G
irssi 0.6.0 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
ivtools 0.7.4 Application frameworks for drawing editors and spatial data servers
javaShark 0.01 A tcl/tk interface for editing and compiling java source code.
jEdit 1.4pre7 Powerful text editor
KCdCd 0.0.1 KDE frontend for the cdcd cd player.
KFTE V6 KDE port of the FTE text editor
KLab 0.1.0 User-friendly plotter/GUI for Rlab
KMonop 19990225-snapshot The Monopoly(tm) boardgame for KDE.
KNewMail 3.0b4 KDE application designed to check multiple pop3 servers for email.
Kova Adom 1.0 Collection of Hebrew support RPM packages
KPackViewer 0.51 Package viewer to ease package administration
KRunning V0.0.24a A database manager for your private running events
libmikmod 3.1.5 Full-featured sound library
libwww 5.2.6 General-purpose client side Web API written in C for Unix and Windows (Win32)
Linux Letters and Numbers Alpha 0.1.0 Educational Childrens Game for Linux
Linuxconf 1.13r14 Sophisticated administrative tool
lirc 0.5.4 Linux Infra-red Remote Control
lm_sensors 2.2.2 LM78 and LM75 drivers
lpe 1.0.1 Featureless, small editor
LyX 1.0.1 Advanced LaTeX-based typesetting and text-editing program for X11
Mailcrypt 3.5.2 Provides a simple interface topublic key cryptography with PGP
maildrop 0.62 maildrop mail filter/mail delivery agent
MailMan 1.0b9 Mailing list manager with built in web access
MasterSwitch Secure Outlet Manager 1.0 CGI interface to the MasterSwitch with unique logins to each outlet.
Melange Chat Server 1.02 Chat server written in C including a Java-client
mHockey 0.50 OpenGL based hockey game
Micq 0.4.0 Publically available ICQ clone for the console
Midnight Commander 4.5.23 Unix file manager and shell
MikMod 3.1.5 Multi-platform open-source module player
Minimalist 1.2 Minimalist Mailing List Manager
mod_dtcl 0.4.5 Apache server-parsed Tcl module, inspired by PHP
mod_fastcgi 2.2.1 FastCGI support for the Apache web server.
moodss 6.4 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
mpegCam 0.01 Captures MPEG video with a B&W Quickcam
mrtg 2.6.6 Multi Router Traffic Grapher
MySQL 3.22.19a SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
Naken Chat 1.00 Chat Server ported from Javachat
NEStra 0.51 Dynamic-Recompiling NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator
Net::RawIP 0.06b Perl module for easy manipulation of raw IP packets directly from Perl
netatalk 1.4b2+asun2.1.3 A kernel-level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite
NetBeans Developer 2.1 Java based IDE - based on Swing, generates pure Swing/AWT code.
Netscape Communicator 4.51 All-in-one browser and communications suite
nettest 0.9 Notifies you if your network connection goes down audibly or through email
oidentd 1.6.1 ident (rfc1413) daemon for linux that allows users to specify usernames
OpenCCVS 19990228 Open Credit Card Verification System
ORBacus 3.1.2 CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB for C++ and Java
ORBit 0.4.0 Thin/fast CORBA ORB
Pack install monitor 1.1.4 Pack install monitor
pavuk 0.9pl6 Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI
pcmcia-cs 3.0.9 Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA or ``PC Card'' support package.
pFtp 0.05 Perl/TK ftp client, first public released version
pgp4pine 1.51 Interactive program for using PGP with email programs, specifically Pine
pgpgpg 0.11 wrapper around GnuPG which takes PGP 2.6 command line options
PHP 3.0.7 HTML-embedded scripting language
pilot-ldif 0.30 Program that uses pilot-addresses to sync the Netscape and Pilot address books
pload 0.9.3 Display ppp statistics in an X window
PPWIZARD 99.056 Powerful free HTML (or other text file) Preprocessor
ProcEdit 0.3 X11 Oracle Procedure Editor
PyGTK 0.5.11 A set of bindings for the GTK widget set
PyroTechnics 1.5 OpenGL firework simulator
Python 1.5.2 beta 2 High-level scripting language.
Quick-Tk 1999-02-28 Quick/Visual interface to Tk 4.1 script development
Qvwm 1.0beta13 Windows 95 like window manager for the X Window System
RabbIT 1.7 Mutating, caching webproxy to speed up surfing over slow links
Rasca 1.0.1 Extended MP3 Player.
Request Tracker 0.99.4 Web, command-line and email based trouble ticketing and bugtracking package
Ripenc 0.6 Bourne shell script frontend to Cdparanoia, and Bladeenc.
ripit 1.2 Front-end for Ripping/Encoding/Tagging MP3s
RXP 1.0 Validating XML parser in C
s-news 0.1.0 Small news server using suck for news transport.
Samba 2.0.3 Allows clients toaccess to a server's filespace and printers via SMB
Sambaconfig 0.72 Edit your smb.conf file with you web browser. CGI scripts & C++ source code.
ScanDoc 0.10 Themable documentation generator similar to Javadoc or KDoc
sched 0.0.1 A project scheduling system for Unix systems, with LaTeX and EPS output.
SClient 0.4b Mud Client for X windows
Scour Media Agent 2.0.0 Allows easy downloading of SMB files off Scour.Net
scrEamer 0.4 esd->SHOUTcast streamer
site-dater.pl 1.0 Generates a table of web links within a local hierarchy sorted by date.
SLinux 0.3.7 Security enhancement suite for RedHat
SMSLink 0.34b Client/server gateway to the SMS protocol
Solfege 0.2.4 GPL'ed eartraining for Gnome
Span 0.2.3 Span data across multiple removable disks
ssystem 1.6 OpenGL Solar System Simulator
star trek ency reader 0.5 Reads the star trek encyclopedia under linux
Sula Primerix 0.07 Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
Sympa 1.5.1 An efficient multilingual Mailing List Manager.
syslog-ng 1.0.3 A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.
tclreadline 0.7 GNU readline for the tcl scripting language
TeamWave Workplace 4.2 Beta 3 Shared Internet places for any-time collaboration
Terraform 0.2.7 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
tgif 4.0.18 Vector-based draw tool
The Linux Console Tools 1999.02.28 Allows you to set-up and manipulate the Linux console
The N.U.E. Order 0.0.2 Highly integrated Order Processing system for Online commerce.
TiMidity++ 1.3.3 Experimental MIDI to WAVE converter
tkchooser 0.59
tk_Brief 2.4 GUI for writing letters with LaTeX
TOAD 0.42.15 C++ GUI library
todo list 0.08 a set of CGI scripts that create a web-based to-do list
TProcedit 1.0 TProcedit is a terminal / telnet procedure editor for Oracle
tsbiff 1.0 Tsbiff will oversee your mailbox and notify you when new messages appears
UPSomatic 0.11 UPS parcel pricing for US sources, all destinations
Video Server 0.6.0 indexing, searching and video streaming mpeg data across the network
VK Tools 0.2e MPEG Stream Analyzer
VM 6.68 Emacs-based mail reader
WebAccountant 1.0 New open source project to develop a quality web-based accounting system.
WebDNS 0.5 CGI interface for configuring DNS servers
WebKNotes 0.3055 Web based knowledge notes database written in Perl.
WebSubmit 2.0 A web-based utility providing secure access to remote applications
Wine 990226 Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
WiredX 19981124@beta pure Java X Window System server
Wisio 0.13 An experimental project for a graphical windowing system
wmtv 0.5.2b WindowMaker TV dock.app
WSoundPrefs 0.9.2 WMSound Server Configuration Utility
WWWThreads 3.0 WWW based discussion forums
X-Chat 0.9.0 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
x11amp-alsa 0.1 ALSA output plugin for x11amp
X2 4.6.2 AfterNet's powerfull IRC channel services
xcallerid 2.1.8 callerID program that pops up incomingphone numbers in an X-window
XCmail 0.99.7devel MIME and POP3 capable mailtool for X11
XDelta 1.0.3 Library and application for computing and applying file deltas
XEphem 3.2 XEphem is a free interactive astronomy program for UNIX systems with X & Motif
xfreecell 1.0.3a Another implementation of famous solitaire game
Xosview 1.7.1
Xpromacs 1.0 Project editor for managing makefiles, dependencies, linking. Runs with Xemacs.
xps 3.06 X/Motif dynamic display the Unix processes tree/forest
Xtraceroute 0.8.14 OpenGL traceroute
YAX Graphics System API 1.0 The Application Program Interface for the YAX Graphics System.
zarch 0.92 linux remake of the classic game also known as virus
zimg 1.0 zimg - Display 2-D data of arbitrary format
 

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