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Resources

The Dilbert/Linux cartoons from March 29th and March 30th are now available on-line, for any of you who missed them, or want to print them out for posteriy.

The April issue of Ext2 is available. It includes an interview with Eric Raymond and a bunch of other good stuff.

Events

Open Networks 99 is a three-day conference being held in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 30th, May 1st and May 2nd. It is sponsored by the Danish UNIX User Group and SSLUG.dk. KDE and GNOME will both get good coverage, since the keynotes include speakers Kalle Dallheimer of the KDE project and Miguel de Icaza of the GNOME project. Other high-quality speakers are promised as well. For more information, check out http://www.on99.dk.

For folks in the Benelux region: the Linux and Open Source Congress and Trade Fair has been announced for June 29 and 30 in Brussels, Belgium. They also, finally, have their web site up and running.

Ready for prime time? The AIIM '99 conference will host a panel entitled Is Linux ready for prime time?. Panelists will be Linus Torvalds, Jon Hall, Jim Ewel of Microsoft, and Tony Iams of D. H. Brown and Associates. This event will happen from 9:00 to 10:00 AM on April 14, in Atlanta, Georgia.

Web sites

A web site for people new to Linux has been created by Michael Burns and can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelburns. "It'ss an easy-to-follow site which discusses installation, configuring Xwindows, common commands, connecting to the internet and firewalls with ip masquerading."

Discussion and Information Forums have been added to LinuxStart.com according to this announcement.

Job Openings

Linux, Linux internals and device driver development experience, plus GNU tools and more, are part of the requirements for this job posting for a company in San Jose, CA, which is apparently working on Giga ethernet switching.

April 8, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AB.pl 0.02 Portable PIM
aKtion! 0.3.3 KDE video player based on xanim
analog 3.11 WWW logfile analysis program
asDrinks 1.6 News headlines from nerd/UNIX type sites in your AfterStep startmenu
asp2php 0.67 Converts Active Server Pages (ASP) to PHP3 scripts
aspbm 0.8 AfterStep Phone bill monitor
August 0.27 A free html editor for Linux/Unix.
autostatus 1.1.3 A fast, hierarchical network monitoring system
Backburner 0.51 CD-Rewritable stream fixation and restoration (backup) software.
Batalla Naval 0.74.0 Networked BattleShip game
bidwatcher 0.9.3 tool for eBay users - track and snipe auctions
binutils 2.9.1.0.23 Provides programs to assemble and manipulate binary andobject files.
BNC 2.6.2 IRC proxy server
Bochs 990312b Portable x86 PC emulation software package
BootLogo 0.2 A bootmessage generator for Lilo-colors
Builder Xcessory PRO for Linux 5.0.5 The industry's most advanced graphical user interface builder for Motif
Calamaris 2.23 Statistic tool for Squid, NetCache and relatives
CarAudio Player 03.31.1999 Easily play audio CDs, mp3s and mp3cds in a car-based computer
ccsh 0.0.3 C language based scripting language
cdrecord 1.8a20 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
ClanBomber 990405 Bomberman clone for ClanLib (X11 for now).
Comanche 990406 Multiplatform configuration manager for the Apache web server
curl 5.6.2beta Tiny command line client for getting data from a URL
DeleGate 5.91 Multi-purpose application level gateway (proxy)
dexios.template 1.2.2 HTML templating system for Java servlets
dnsjava 0.7 Implementation of DNS in Java
drawtool v0.1b Util to read coordinates from stdin and draw them in a gtk window
EasyStat 1.0 EasyStat is a statistical application for web pages.
EiC 3.9 A bytecode C interpreter/compiler
Email Security through Procmail 1.80 Email filter to remove remote security exploits of email clients
Empath snapshot 1 A new mail transfer agent for KDE. Uses maildir and will contain news reading.
Encap Package Manager 0.5.1 Installed Source Package Manager
Energymech 2.5.31b5 Bot for irc with eggdrop like features to manage a channel
Enlightenment Fast, flexible and very extensible Window Manager
eSquire 0.9.9.5 Web based Majordomo replacement and autoresponder manager
Etherboot 4.1pre9 Source code for making TCP/IP boot ROMs to boot Linux and other OSes
Ethiopian Fortunes 0.1 Ethiopian Fortunes in UTF8 Encoding
Express 0.0.6 Open source web browser being part of the GNOME desktop project
Fetchmail 5.0.0 Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
fileutils 4.0e The GNU file management utilities
freshmeat Ports Collection release 6 A quick way to download and compile FM-listed sources
GCD 1.7 A cd-player with a gtk+ interface
GenPage 1.0b2 Provides framework for separating content management from layout design
gentoo 0.11.4 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
GeoStats 1.0.4 IRC Statistical Services
gEyes 0.03 Gnome clone of xeyes
GGUI 0.4.0 An easy multi-purpose, multi-program GUI.
gHostLookup 0.2 Finds the IP address of the hostname the user specifies
Giram 0.0.12 Giram is a modeller, written in GTK+
GMame 0.1 X-Mame frontend
Gnome Websearch Applet 0.3 An applet for the GNOME panel that can search the web.
GnomeICU 0.62b Formerly GtkICQ, now Gnome Internet Communication Utility
GNU Maverik 4.3 Free Virtual Reality system for GNU/Linux PCs and Silicon Graphics workstations
GNU Oleo 1.99.1 Free spreadsheet application
GNUJSP 0.9.9 A free Java Server Pages implementation
GNUMail.app 0.02 Clone of the excellent NeXTSTEP Mail.app
Gnumeric 0.23 Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
GPM 1.17.6 A mouse server for the console and xterm.
Grail 0.6
Grip 1.8 A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
GSpot 1.21 A control panel for cDc's Back Orifice
GTetrinet 0.2 A clone of the game Tetrinet.
gtkgo 0.0.8 Go game for Linux and Windows
GTransferManager 0.3.0 GNOME frontend and more for wget
gView 0.1.1 GTK/ImLib Image Viewer
Hand 1.03b Utility for manual starting applications
Hevea 1.03 HEVEA is a quite complete and fast LATEX to HTML translator.
hotmole 0.73 Bash script to download and forward a user's Hotmail email as a batch job
howto pager 1.01 This program is a clone of man,showing HOWTO pages
HSX 99/04/03 Hotline Server clone for Unix
htnews 0.5.0 Email robot for adding news items to a webpage.
icecast 1.1.4 MP3 Audio Broadcasting System
IcePref 0.5 A graphical configuration tool for Ice WM written with PyGTK
icewm 0.9.37 Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
icqmail 1.1 ICQ->Email gateway
ICQnix Beta 1 ICQ clone for X
id-utils 3.2d Very fast, very high capacity indexer for C/C++ source code.
ImageMagick 4.2.2 Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
IMP 2.0.0 IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
industrialMUD 00.00.01 MUD Telnet Server for Linux,
iNES 1.0 Portable emulator of the Nintendo Entertainment System
interpcom 1.2.1 Command interpreter Library
ippl 1.4.1 IP Protocols Logger
IPServer 1.2 Dynamic IP Server
irssi 0.7.7 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
ISDNCALL 1.0 Pops up an X message if someone is calling via ISDN
JayGo 1.32 Game engine for any tile/stone based game, specifically written for Go.
jEdit 1.5.1 Powerful text editor
Jigsaw 2.0.2 W3C's leading-edge Web server platform
KanjiPad 1.2.1 Look up Japanese characters through handwriting
KBiff 2.3 New mail notification utility for KDE
kdbg 0.3.0 A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. Also used by kdevelop.
Kimon 1.1 An ISDN-monitor for the K Desktop Environment
kmuser 0.9.1 User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop
Ktail 0.4.3 KDE app to monitor log files
Lab3Timer 0.4 A Laboratory Triple Timer Application
Langton's Ant 1.0 Langton's Ant-Cellular Automata
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LibGGI 2.0 Beta 2 Generic graphics library running on top of many graphics subsystems
librt 0.3.1 General Programming Library
libutf-8 1.0 Library of i18n routines for UTF-8 encoding/decoding
Light Speed! 1.0 An interactive relativistic simulator
Linux Logo 3.0 Displays an ANSI or ASCII Linux penguin, along with some sytem information
LinuxInfo 1.0.9 Gives system information about your Linux system
logi.crypto 1.0.4 Pure Java Strong Encryption Package
loop 0.5 Console utility
lpe 1.1.3 Small, fast console mode programming editor
maildircmd 0.1.0 Run a command on messages in a maildir
MailMan 1.0b11 Mailing list manager with built in web access
MARS 1.2 Java-based network services status monitor
MathMap 0.8 A very generic GIMP plug-in
mdate 0.5.5 A freely-available mayan date program
mepl 0.40 Software to control the self-employed mode of 3COM/USRobotics Messagemodems.
mgstep 0.7.8 An attempt at creating a small lite derivative of GNUstep
MM.MySQL 1.1i JDBC Drivers for MySQL
Mmucl 1.1.4 Mud client written in Tcl
mod_dav 0.9.8-1.3.6 DAV protocol extensions for Apache
mp3blaster 2.0b7 Provides interactive playing of mp3 files on a text console
mp3pvm 0.3 Convert CD-ROMS to MP3 format in < real-time using clusters
mpg_applet 0.1 This great applet plays mp3's, but not without mpg123.
mscal2html 0.8 Generates an html calendar from a calendar saved as text from an ms/windows app.
mtr 0.34 Network diagnostic tool
MultiMedia Panel 0.3pre1 MultiMedia Player and Audio Mixer for linux consoles.
MySQL 3.22.21 SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
NcFTPd 2.4.1 High-performance File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for UNIXsystems
ncurses 5.0beta1
Nessus alpha 2 A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool
netcomics 0.6 A perl script that downloads today's comics from the Web
newplayer 2.2 ncurses based mp3 player.
News Peruser 4.0 Beta 1 An offline newsreader for Linux and X11
NFTP 1.51 Powerful, full-featured FTP client
nlog 1.5.3 nmap 2.x log management and analyzer toolkit
nmap 2.12 Full featured, robust port scanner
nullidentd 0.9.1 Minimal lying identd daemon
Online Promotions Publisher 0.16b A web-based publishing service for OSS promotional efforts.
onShore Timesheet 2.1 beta 2 A comprehensive, web-based, multi-user, time-billing and project management tool
opensched 0.0.5 A project scheduling system for Unix systems, with LaTeX and EPS output.
OpenXML 1.0.5 Pure Java, commercial-grade, fully featured framework for XML-based applications
OverCR 1.49.01 A simple system monitoring tool that utilizes a simple language for queries
Oxyd 990405 Logic game like Marble Madness or Rock'n'Roll
pagesucker 1.01 Web Page Downloader
Pairings Provider 1.1 Magic The Gathering(tm) Pairings Provider
pavuk 0.9pl7 Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI
Perl 5.005_03 High-level, general-purpose programming language
Petite Chez Scheme 6.0a An implementation of extended ANSI Scheme
Pharmacy 0.1.6 GNOME frontend to CVS
PIKT 1.3pre An innovative new systems administration paradigm
pinfo 0.4.5 Hypertext info file viewer
PoPToP 0.7.37 PPTP Server for Linux
Portable Easy Quote (PEQ) 7.1 A fortune like random quote displayer
ppp 2.3.7
procmail 3.13 Versatile e-mail processor.
procps 2.0.2 A package of utilities which report on the state of the system
purl 0.16 A tool to check if web-pages have been modified
PVM 3.4.0 A portable message-passingprogramming system
PyGCS 1.2 A very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python.
pyrpg 0.0.1 The Python Role Playing Game Engine
Q2Java 0.9.2 Allows Quake2 games to be written in Java
qps 1.6.4 Displays processes in an X11 window
Qt Architect 1.4-4 GUI dialog designer for the Qt widget set.
QuakeLaunch 0.05 Console application to grab Quake servers from master servers
quftp 0.91 Command line FTP client with queueing
QuIRC 0.9.70 X IRC client written in C++ with full Tcl/Tk scripting.
RabbIT 1.8 Mutating, caching webproxy to speed up surfing over slow links
Rasca 1.0.4 Extended MP3 Player.
rxvt 2.6.PRE3 A VT102 emulator for the X window system
SANE 1.01 pre4 Provides standardized access to anyraster image scanner hardware
show-host 1.1 Lets a website always point to a DHCP'd or dialup computer.
Siag Office 3.1.9 Free office package for Unix
SkySOUND 0.43.000 Free demo or game oriented MP3 Library
Slashdot Grabber 0.2.1 Grabs the ultramode.txt file from slashdot and stores articles via MySQL
Slashdot Offline Agent 0.10 Useful script for subscribers of the Slashdot email newsletter
Slashdot Reader 1.15 Slashdot article and comments reader.
SmartPlay 0.0.1 Perl/GTK mpg123 front end w/ artificial intelegence
snes9express 1.0 Gtk GUI front-end for snes9x
Soupermail 1.0.4 Generic form to email handler
SpeedyCGI 1.6 Speeds up Perl CGI scripts by running them persistently
STAMOS 0.1 Gathers several information about the computer and generates an HTML file
Sula Primerix 0.07.10 Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
TCL Developer Studio 0.24 (1.0pre2) small
Terraform 0.2.10 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
The Gimp 1.0.4 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Graph Template Library 0.2.6 Graph library for c++, inspired by STL
The Linux Memory Game 0.2 A children's (and adults') game based on the card game
TiK 0.66 Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
TinyMARE 1.0.6812 TinyMARE (Multi-user Adventure Roleplaying Epic) MUD Server
tkDict 0.1 Search for dictionary lookups and viewing
TkSmb 0.8.4 TclTk X11 shell for smbclient
Toenail 0.6 App to parse menu and output to Blackbox style submenu file.
twz1jdbcForMysql 1.0.4-GA A type 4 JDBC driver for MySQL
UOOS V.33b Ultima Online Game Server Emulator
Uptime 3.02 Keep track of your uptime and compare it with other hosts.
Uptime Record Suite 0.1.3 Records the record uptime
utftpd 0.1.4 tftpd daemon with finer grained access control
utrans 1.0 Converts any plain text to UTF-8
vcron 1.4 Graphical interface to cron and at
VFU File Manager 1.50 Extensivelyl featured console (text-mode) file manager.
vgproxy 0.9.0 Virtual-hosting generic network proxy
vtun 1.0 Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks.
WebCal 1.03 A simple browser based calendar program.
WebEvent 3.1b4 WebEvent is web calendar software for your web site.
WebMailFolder 1.0.5 Convert emails to html and creates index and statistics
Welcome2L 3.00 Linux ANSI boot logo
whowatch 1.0.5 Console program which displays in real time list of logged users.
wmx 5sec4 Rather less minimal derivative of wm2
Worm Zone 1.3 Worm Zone is a multi-player worm game with Linux, win32 and DOS ports available.
X11 tuXeyes 0.0.1 pre3 Draws a tux on your screen that will follow your mouse with its eyes
XDelta 1.1 Library and application for computing and applying file deltas
XGGI 1.6.0 X server which uses LibGGI to do hardware independent graphics and input
Xlogmaster 1.6.0 Tool to monitor logfiles and hardware status
xskijump 3.0 Xskijumping game for X
Xsoundtrack 0.0.6 http://www.ecoledoc.lip6.fr/~roux/xsound/index.html
XTC 0.1.2 An XTree Clone for Linux and other UNIXes
Xtradius 0.8 Cistron based Radius Daemon that allows user auth and acct via external scripts
Xwhois 0.3.4 Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.
ya-wipe 0.58.3 Secure file wiper
zICQ 2.9 A console ICQ clone based on mICQ.
ZNibbles 0.0.2 Networked multiplayer nibbles/snake game for X11/Motif
 

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