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Software in U.K. higher education is the subject of this study, published recently. Linux is considered at length and quite favorably; they conclude that there are insufficient applications for now, but that the situation could change quickly.

NetAction has put up a lengthy white paper about government support for Open Source software. It takes the position that open source software has been a primarily government-supported thing since the beginning, and calls for explicit support in the future. "What is needed is a revival of a federal government public policy that supports open source computing and strong standards that can again support the promise of open source innovation." They also say that the government should "demand uniform standards for Linux" in its own purchases.

Events

Here's a press release from COMDEX hyping their spring conference in Chicago. They are presenting Bill Gates' and Linus Torvalds' keynotes as some sort of high-noon showdown between the two systems. Apparently this is "IT's most controversial event of the year."

Web sites

Robert Levin has put up an essay on "Agalmics", defined as "the study and practice of the allocation of non-scarce goods." It is, of course, a study in how the free software economy works.

User Group News

In San Diego, the Adult Education division of the San Diego Community College District will be offering two more sessions of their free, hands-on Linux classes. Caldera OpenLinux on Toshiba laptops is used for the class. Here is a note from Joe McGerald with more information and links.

A Rock River area user group is forming; this area is evidently on the Illinois/Wisconsin state line. See the announcement for details.

A user group for Texas A&M University is in the works, see the announcement for the full scoop. Their first meeting will be April 7.


April 1, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
abs 0.6a Full featured spreadsheet for X11
Acrobat Reader 4.0 Pre-Release Acrobat reader for linux and other unices
Aegis 3.12 Transaction-based software configuration management system
AleVT 1.4.4 Videotext/Teletext decoder and viewer
AMaViS 0.2.0-pre4 A Mail Virus Scanner, looks for viruses in e-mail attachments
Apache JServ 1.0b3 Java servlet engine
APE 0.1.0 APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc...
arla 0.23 Free AFS client for Linux/*BSD
ArsDigita Community System 19990325 DBMS backed Web collaboration tool
aRts 0.3.0 Analog realtime synthesizer
asDrinks 1.5 News headlines from nerd/UNIX type sites in your AfterStep startmenu
ATPPCF 0.0.2 Automatic Theorem Prover in calculus of Positively Constructed Formulae
Bandmin 0.48 Bandmin is a package that monitors and logs ip accounting data
bip 1.3.1 Send messages to pagers using the Internet
BlueJ 0.9.0 Java Development Environment aimed at teaching
Bnetd 0.4 Emulates a StarCraft Battle.net server
Boa 0.93.16.1 Lightweight and High Performance WebServer
Bomb 1.23 automatic interactive visual stimulation
Bond Distributed Object System 2.0 beta 1 Distributed object system, agent framework
bookmarker 1.0 WWW based bookmark manager
BRLTTY 2.1 Access software for Unix for a blind person using a soft Braille terminal
bzexe 1.0 bzexe permits you to compress you binaries with bzip2 keeping them executable
carnegie 0.3 a class scheduler
CDDA Paranoia III Alpha 9.5 CD ripping application
cdlabelgen 1.1.3 Generates frontcards and traycards for CDs
Cinderella 1.0 Interactive Geometry Software (like Geometers' Sketchpad or Cabri)
Cistron Radius Server 1.5.4.3-beta16 Free Radius Server with many features
ClanLib 0.1.13 The platform independent game SDK.
class.POP3.php3 1.0 An RFC 1939 compliant PHP3 class to the POP3 protocol.
class.Validator.php3 1.2 A PHP class with common data validation routines.
clock 1.5.3 Sets system time from CMOS clock and vice versa.
Codewizard/Java 1.2 final beta An Open Source Conformance test suite for POSIX.1
CSSC 0.10beta.pl0 SCCS clone
DAC960 drivers for Linux 2.2.0 Mylex DAC960 drivers updated!
DailyUpdate 7.01 Grabs dynamic information from the internet and integrates itinto your webpage
DECnet for Linux 1.05 DECnet socket layer and applications
dexios.template 1.1 HTML templating system for Java servlets
dfm 0.99.1 Filemanager like OS/2 WPS
DHCP with Dynamic DNS 0.14 Dynamically update DNS from dhcpd.leases file
dhttpd 1.03 Minimal secure webserver. Fast and efficient, no cgi-bin support.
Dia 0.40 gtk based diagram drawing program. Much like Visio.
Diald 0.98.3 Autodial Daemon
diald applet 0.0.1 A GNOME panel applet to control diald
DND 0.3.0 GUI of Molecular Dynamics
dnsjava 0.5 Implementation of DNS in Java
Downloader for X 0.9-ALFA Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
DPS-FTP 0.4.1 Bulletproof-like ftp client
Dr Geo 0.7.3 Interactive Geometry
drawtool 0.01a Util to read coordinates from stdin and draw them in a gtk window
Eagle 3.55 Eagle EDA Software for Linux
egrep-finger 1.22 Extended finger program using extended regular expressions
EHeadlines 1.1 Root Menu news system.
Email Security through Procmail 1.76 Email filter to remove remote security exploits of email clients
epssplit 1.0 A program to split encapsulated postscript files
Extreme Wave 0.1.0 A libre 3d modeler being developed for Linux.
fbgetty 0.1.0 An extended mingetty for Linux
FFTW 2.1.1 The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
Filelooker 0.5 A small X11 program for viewing Oracle datafile information
Flog 0.15 ftpd log analyzer
FLS 0.1.1 Library catalog/circulation system
FLTK 1.0.1 C++ user interface toolkit for X and OpenGL
flwm 0.20 The Fast Light Window Manager
GCD 1.6 A cd-player with a gtk+ interface
gcombust 0.1.11 gtk+ frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord
gdict 0.7 GTK Online Dictionary Program
gEDA 19990327 gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,
gentoo 0.11.3 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
GeoStats 1.0.3 IRC Statistical Services
gEyes 0.02a Gnome clone of xeyes
GF1 0.99.4 beta Play GIPF against your computer
gFTP 1.13 A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
gHostLookup 0.1 Finds the IP address of the hostname the user specifies
GHX 2.75 GTK clone of the Hotline software
Gifsicle 1.12 Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations
Glade 0.4.1 GTK+ interface builder
GLib 1.2.1 The GLib library of C routines
gMOO 0.3.0 GTK+ based MOO (and MUD) client
gnokii 0.2.4 Preliminary release of tool set for Nokia mobile phones.
GNOME 1.0.4 GNU Network Object Model Environment
GNU Privacy Guard 0.9.5 GPLed PGP replacement tool
Gnumeric 0.21 Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
Goal 0.02a General purpose libraries for C++ programmes
GPL Argument Analyser 1.5.2 Utility to manage the arguments of your programs
GQmpeg 0.5.1 A front end to the mpg123 mpeg audio player
Grace 5.0.2 (beta) a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool
GREED .52 A utility that can get and resume files from a web site.
Grip 1.7 A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
Grumble 0.03b An authenticating chat server somewhat different from IRC
grunch 1.2 Merge partial scans into a larger image
gstar 0.01 GUI for Alan Paeth's starchart
GTK+ 1.2.1 Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces
GtkBalls 1.04 GtkBalls is a simple logic game.
GTKYahoo 0.11 GTK based Yahoo! Pager client
GtkZip 0.5a3 A program for maintaining your Iomega Zip drive disks underLinux
Gwget 0.3.2 gwget is a Gtk+ front-end for the wget program.
GXanim 0.10 GTK+ front end for Xanim movie player
Heretic for Linux 1.0beta1 Port of Heretic to Linux
hexedit 1.1.0 View and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII
hindent 1.0.1 HTML indentation (pretty printing) utility
Hopkins FBI for Linux 1.02 Adventure game
HostSentry 0.02 Host based login anomaly detection and response tool
HSX 99/03/30 Hotline Server clone for Unix
HTML PLAIN 1.0beta2 A revolutionary HTML precompiler
HTML::Mason 0.4 A component-based perl web development environment
ICBM3D/2 Alpha 1 A 3D
IcePref 0.3 A graphical configuration tool for Ice WM written with PyGTK
icewm 0.9.36 Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
id3ed 1.4 ID3 tag editor for mp3 files. Interactive and command line modes.
IDS POP 0.9.1 A small, fast, and efficient POP3 server.
installwatch 0.5.4 Installwatch logs created and modified files during the installation of a progra
iplog 1.7 tcp, udp, and icmp logging utilities for Linux.
ippl 1.4.0 IP Protocols Logger
IPServer 1.0 Dynamic IP Server
irssi 0.7.6 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
iSelect 1.2.0 Interactive Selection Tool
ivtools 0.7.5 Application frameworks for drawing editors and spatial data servers
Jacl 1.2.2 Tcl shell implemented in Java, a perfect way to add scripting to a Java app.
Java Search System 2.0 Javascript based interface for 9 search engines
JCheckLinks 0.2 HTML hyperlink validator, java, multithreaded
jEdit 1.5pre3 Powerful text editor
Jetty 2.1.4 HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java
jpub 0.5 Integrated platform for intranets with OS like features
KBlinsel 0.1.2 Simple stereogram generator for KDE.
kchess 0.1 KDE frontend for chess programs
kdbg 0.2.5 A KDE front end to GDB.
kexpress 0.1.7 kexpress is a newsreader for KDE. Easy to use, with offline reading.
killer 0.90 Background/idle Job Killer
KisoCD 0.3pre2 KDE frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord
kmikmod 2.03 Multithreaded module player for KDE
KNewMail 3.0 KDE application designed to check multiple pop3 servers for email.
kooBase 0.92 Extendable music application
kPGPShell 0.41 A KDE shell for GPG/PGP2/PGP5
ksamba 0.3.3 Setup SAMBA networking and connect to Windows
Ktail 0.4.2 KDE app to monitor log files
Ktk 0.4 KDE look-and-feel for Tixwish apps
kvideogen 1.2 Modeline generator for XFree86
kwintv 0.6.16 Watch TV in a window on your PC screen
Launcher 0.72 One-stop filetype/application mapping solution
LCD Developer's Toolkit (LcDTK) 0.0.1 LCD Programmer's Toolkit for Matrix Orbital LCD Displays
LEM 0.3 A small Linux/X11 distribution for embedding apps.
LEM 0.2 LEM, a small linux distrib < 10Mo for embedding X apps
Lexmark 5700/7000 Printer Driver 990321 Lexmark 5700/7000 Colorjet Printer Driver for Linux
Lilo-Colors 1.21.1
Linux Logo 3.0b2 Displays an ANSI or ASCII Linux penguin, along with some sytem information
Linux Snipes 0.8.7 Text-based maze game based on an old DOS game.
Linux Wireless LAN Project 0.2.5 A driver and utility set for 802.11 standard wireless networking.
Linuxconf 1.14r2 Sophisticated administrative tool
LinuxInfo 1.0.8 Gives system information about your Linux system
loop 0.4 Console utility
Lynx 2.8.2dev21 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
MAGE Adventure Game Engine 0.1.3 Framework for playing and (in the future) authoring text-based adventure games.
MailMan 1.0b10 Mailing list manager with built in web access
mailtunnel 0.2 Perl script to pierce firewalls using convential mailsystems
man-pages 1.23 The Linux manpages collection
MARS 1.2pre3 Java-based network services status monitor
Masqdialer Server 0.5.0 Protocol compatible replacement for Masqdialer server written in C
masterplant 0.0.1 convertor generator
Midnight Commander 4.5.29 Unix file manager and shell
MiniVend 3.12 Powerful freely redistributable shopping cart package
mklinuxfw 0.930 Project to develop a configuration tool which can configure filewalls
MM 1.0.0 Shared Memory Library
mod_auth_ldap 0.3 LDAP authentication module for Apache web server (http://www.apache.org/).
mod_frontpage 1.3.6-3.0.4.3 FrontPage server extensions patch
mod_hosts_access 1.0.0 causes Apache to respect the rules in hosts.allow and hosts.deny
mod_roaming 1.0.1 With mod_roaming you can use Apache as a Netscape Roaming Access server
mod_ssl 2.2.7-1.3.6 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
mp3blaster 2.0b6 Provides interactive playing of mp3 files on a text console
mrtg 2.7.2 Multi Router Traffic Grapher
mSQL 2.0.8 Mini SQL implementation
muLinux 5r0 A tiny implementation of Linux, which can reside on a single floppy
Netnews 1.0 News group article downloader
Netscape Communicator 4.51 All-in-one browser and communications suite
netwatch 0.8e Ethernet Monitor
News Peruser Peruser-4.0 Alpha 50 An offline newsreader for Linux and X11
nullidentd 0.9 Minimal lying identd daemon
onShore Timesheet 2.1 beta 1 A comprehensive, web-based, multi-user, time-billing and project management tool
OSS 3.9.2g Provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux
Pairings Provider 1.0 Magic The Gathering(tm) Pairings Provider
pidentd+fm patch 1.0 Patch for pidentd to add fake userid query, IP masquerade and relay
pinfo 0.3.9 Hypertext info file viewer
Poor Man's Cam 1.2 PMCam allows you to set up a web cam on a remote site.
Portslave 1.2.0pre3
POV-Ray 3.1e High-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics
Public Bookmark Generator 0.2.2 Generate a public bookmark (selected items) out of your bookmarks
Q2Java 0.9.1 Allows Quake2 games to be written in Java
Qpopper 3.0b14 POP3 server
qpopper-mysql 0.5b A patch to add a decent set of MySQL capabilities to qpopper 2.53
quftp 0.90 Command line FTP client with queueing
quicklaunch_applet 0.8 Small launcher icons for the GNOME Panel
Rasca 1.0.3 Extended MP3 Player.
Raven SSL Module 1.4.0 RSA licensed 128-bit strong cryptography SSL module for the Apache web server.
rhlupdate 0.70 Connects to a FTP server with RHL on it, checks for updates, and installs them.
rmd160 1.2.1 RIPEMD-160 digest hashing library for C
rpm.cgi 0.27 A Perl CGI script frontend to the Red Hat Package Management (RPM) System.
rpm2html/rpmfind 1.1 Utilities to create HTML pages and solve dependancy problems of RPM packages
Sarah Tracker 0.2 Program to create music with samples
SClient 0.5.1 Mud Client for X windows
scrmgr 2.7 curses based screen design and data entry
Siag Office 3.1.8 Free office package for Unix
Simple File Manager 1.7 Fast small shortcut-driven Gtk-based file manager
sitecopy 0.5.1 Maintain remote copies of locally stored web sites
SkySOUND 0.40.000 Free demo or game oriented MP3 Library
SpeedyCGI 1.5 Speeds up Perl CGI scripts by running them persistently
Stones of Asterind 0.9 Single-player game
Sula Primerix 0.07.9 Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
taptunnel 0.2 Ethernet-tunnel over TCP/IP using the new Linux-2.2-ethertap-device
tavrasm 1.04 Assembler for the Atmel AVR series of micro-controllers
TB MultiSound Drivers 0.8.3.1a Driver for the Turtle Beach Pinnacleor Fiji,
Tcl Blend 1.2.2 Tcl Blend is a Tcl extension that provides access to Java inside Tcl.
Teaser 19990326 Server for the Teaser and Firecat System
Temperature Converter 0.1 Perl/Tk app to convert between different temperature scales
Template.html 0.1 Easy html,cgi page creation using templates.
terra 2.2.0 A feature packed ircd, based off of dreamforge
Terraform 0.2.9 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
Test Environment Toolkit 3.2f A toolkit for test development and management
The Gimp 1.1.4 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Linux Image Montage Project pre-486 LIMP Preview Release Tagged as Version 325
TiK 0.65 Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
TiMidity++ 1.3.7 Experimental MIDI to WAVE converter
TOAD 0.42.18 C++ GUI library
UPSomatic 0.14 UPS parcel pricing for US sources, all destinations
Uptime 3.01 Keep track of your uptime and compare it with other hosts.
UPX 0.70 powerful executable packer
utftpd 0.1.3 tftpd daemon with finer grained access control
Videobase 0.21 Video / Movie database
VMWare Build 106 Allows you to run multiple OSs at the same time
vpnd 1.0.2 Virtual Private Network Daemon - encrypted TCP/IP.
vTcLava 0.3 Visual Java development module for Visual Tcl
WallP 0.64 Random desktop wallpaper changer
WebCal 1.02 A simple browser based calendar program.
WebEvent 3.1b2 WebEvent is web calendar software for your web site.
whowatch 1.0 Console program which displays in real time list of logged users.
Wine 990328 Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
wmchoose 1.0 Flexible utility for choosing a window manager as X starts
WWWOFFLE 2.4b Simple proxy server with special features for use with dial-up internet links
wxPython 2.0b8 Python extension module for wxWindows
X-Chat 0.9.4 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
X-Mame 0.35b8.1 The Unix version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
XawTV 2.40 TV application and a few utilities
Xfiles 1.2 Xfiles file tree synchronization and cross-validation
xfreecell 1.0.5 Another implementation of famous solitaire game
XHourGas 1.0 An alarm clock that exhibits what can happen with an improper diet
xinetd 2.1.8.5p3 Powerful inetd replacement
Xpromacs 1.02 Project editor for managing makefiles, dependencies, linking. Runs with Xemacs.
XTC 0.1.0 An XTree Clone for Linux and other UNIXes
xterm Patch #94 A terminal emulator for the X Window System
ywho 1.9 Yet Another Who Utility
Z Tool Kit 0.1.5 Class library to make most difficult things easy.
 

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