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An updated printer compatiblity listing for the Printing HOWTO has been posted by Grant Taylor. If your printer is not on the list, you are encouraged to add it. Alternately, you can check the functionality ranking and send criticism to Grant.

Linux in the Military? Here's a lengthy paper written by a Major in the U.S. Air Force on why the military should adopt open source software. "There are significant gains to be realized through the formal adoption, support and use of open licensed systems by the Department of Defense. Secondary gains may be made in the morale and retention of Airmen involved in information technology."

Events

Another conference to go to: Linux Expo Paris will be held on June 17 and 18, and includes speakers like Bob Young, Larry Augustin, Miguel de Icaza, and Jeremy Alison. Too bad, though, that they chose linux-expo.com as their web site; it's now one more thing to keep straight between linuxexpo.com (which is really LinuxWorld), and linuxexpo.org/, which is the event we have known for years as Linux Expo...

LinuxExpo has announced the addition of John Paul, senior VP of the new AOL Products unit, as a keynote speaker for next month's conference.


April 15, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AbiWord 0.5.4 Fully featured word processor
ACS 0.0.1 GPL licensed multi-line voice response telephony platform
AfterStep 1.7.90 Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel
aKtion! 0.3.4 KDE video player based on xanim
AMMP (another molecular mechanics program) 2.0 Molecular mechanics, dynamics, and modeling package
AptFind 0.6.0 AptFind is an ncurses interface for finding and installing packages using APT.
ascp 1.0.2 A Control Panel for the AfterStep window manager
ascpu 1.4 A CPU load monitor.
Backburner 0.60 CD-Rewritable stream fixation and restoration (backup) software.
Basilisk II 0.4 An attempt at creating a free, portable 68k Mac emulator.
bidwatcher 0.9.4 tool for eBay users - track and snipe auctions
bookmarker 1.2 WWW based bookmark manager
boust 0.135 A Tcl/Tk text reader for Linux that formats text in boustrophedon.
Bricklayer World Tour 0.1 A Gnome game inspired by Breakout
BusyBox 0.26 A suite of tiny Unix utilities, for building rescue disks and embedded systems.
CAMP 1.3.2410 Console Interface for command-line MP3 players
CapsiChat 0.17 Multi-user Internet chatbox/haven
carnegie 0.6 a class scheduler
CD-Keeper 2.2.1 Organizes your CD collection
cdcd 0.4.4 A no-nonsense CLI CD player
CGIGEN 0.1 CGI program generator that produces C programs
Cmp3 2.0pre3 Console frontend to mpg123. Easy interface, playlists, background mode.
ColorLogs 1.0 Color codes your system logs on the fly
ctm 1.1 SNMP interface statistics gatherer
curl 5.6.3beta Tiny command line client for getting data from a URL
dcd 0.60 Simple command-line CD player
Dead Link Check 0.1 Finds information on validity of HTTP references.
debauch 0.2 Memory debugging library that doesn't require recompiling executables
Demi-FTPd 1.0 FTP server with Web conf/admin/monitor and plugins
dexios.template 1.3 HTML templating system for Java servlets
DHCP with Dynamic DNS 0.15 Dynamically update DNS from dhcpd.leases file
Dia 0.41 gtk based diagram drawing program. Much like Visio.
Disc-Cover 0.1 Generate covers for audio cds non-interactively using cddb
DLDialog 1.0.6 Displays dialog boxes in terminal and X11 mode to interact with scripts
doozer 0.04 Scripts to distribute parallel make jobs
Dr Geo 0.7.6 Interactive Geometry
dynipserv 0.1 Dynamic IP Server
ECLiPt-Mirror 2.1 pre 8 Full-featured mirroring script
egrep-finger 1.25 Extended finger program using extended regular expressions
EHeadlines 1.3 Root Menu news system.
Electric Fence 2.2.0 malloc() buffer-overrun debugger that uses the VM hardware.
EPIC 4pre2.004-19990408 ANSI capable textmode IRC Client
Event Monitor Project 0.6 Monitoring tool for heterogeneous networks and systems based on message passing
exdump 0.2 exdump watches/dumps/logs TCP/IP network packets.
ez-ip-update.pl v1.4 Update script for ez-ip.net accounts
failoverd 1.2 Provide rudimentary failover capability for Linux
Filelooker 1.0 A small X11 program for viewing Oracle datafile information
fileutils 4.0f The GNU file management utilities
flwm 0.22 The Fast Light Window Manager
FOX 0.99.14 C++-Based Library for Graphical User Interface Development
FreeInstaller 0.2.0.4 Open Source installer program written in Java
Freeside 1.2.1 Billing and administration for ISPs
freezetag 0.9.2 Program for Editing of id3 Tags of mp3 files
Gaby 1.0.6 An address book written in GTK
GATOS 0.0.1-isg2oaa1bc1 ATI-TV software for Linux.
GCD 1.8 A cd-player with a gtk+ interface
GDB 4.18 GDB, The GNU Debugger
gengetopt 1.0.0 Easy generate a C `main' function that uses `getopt_long' to parse given options
Genius 0.3.0 An arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floatingpoint calculator
gfontview 0.2 Font Viewer
GIMP Imagemap plug-in 0.6 GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.
Giram 0.0.14 Giram is a modeller, written in GTK+
glFtpD 1.16.0 FTP Daemon for Linux. Great program for an ISP or anyone!
GNOME 1.0.5 GNU Network Object Model Environment
Gnome RPM Workstation 0.1 GNOME tool to create spec files
GnoRPM 0.8 A graphical front end to the Redhat package managementsystem
GNU cfengine 1.4-5 A tool for administering Networks of Diverse Machines
GnuCash 1.1.27 A program to keep track of your finances
GNUMail.app 0.03 Clone of the excellent NeXTSTEP Mail.app
gogmagog 3 Lightweight, robust, UNIX systems integrity monitor
GREED 0.652 A utility that can get and resume files from a web site.
grepmail 3.7 Searches a normal or gzipped mailbox for a given regularexpression
Gsh 0.1.0 Shell with an integrated terminal window.
GtkAda 1.2.0 Ada95 binding of Gtk+
gView 0.1.2 GTK/ImLib Image Viewer
GXanim 0.20a GTK+ front end for Xanim movie player
Heretic for Linux 1.0beta2 Port of Heretic to Linux
HTML PLAIN 1.0.2 A revolutionary HTML precompiler
htnews 0.6.0 Email robot for adding news items to a webpage.
HuggieTag 0.8.1 Tagline and signature adder for email and news
hunt 1.3 Tool for exploiting well-known weaknesses in the TCP/IP protocol suite
hutrans 1.0 Converts text to UTF-8
Hypermail 2 alpha 18 Mail(box) to HTML converter with threads and MIME support.
Icon-2 9.3.2 A very high level language
icqtech 0.01 A Unix console daemon that assists technical support via ICQ
IDS POP 0.9.2 A small, fast, and efficient POP3 server.
Ilib 1.1.1 Image manipulation library for reading and writing images
imwheel 0.9.6 Support for wheel and 4+ button mice in X11
INANE 0.93 Trivial PPP connection utility
incant 1.2 Command Line and Tk dictionary client
intel2gas 1.1 A converter between the NASM and GAS asm format (Intel/AT&T)
ipac 1.02 Linux IP accounting package
ippl 1.4.4 IP Protocols Logger
irssi 0.7.8 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
ITK 0.0.13 Basic self-contained no-frills toolkit for Xlib.
JavaORB 1.2.2 A free Java implementation of CORBA 2.2
javelin 0.0.2 Server side javascript-HTML web scripting system
jonama 1.1.0 SSL proxy
jSig 1.0 A signature randomizer written in java
Juke 0.3 Curses based juke box program
kaffe 1.0b4 Complete, PersonalJava 1.1 compliant Java environment
kexpress 0.2.0 kexpress is a newsreader for KDE. Easy to use, with offline reading.
KJukeBox 0.1.9 KJukeBox is an MP3 Player which can handle big MP3 archives
KLACK 0.005 A small game with spheres
KnightCap 3.6 Great looking 3D chess-program
KRunning 0.1.3 A database manager for your private running events
ktb 0.9 KDE filesystem viewer with multipage printing
Launcher 0.80 One-stop filetype/application mapping solution
less 337
libgcj 1.0 Runtime library for gcc's Java front end
libgeom 0.0.6 Geometry library useful for OpenGL programming, games, simulations
Linux FreeS/WAN 1.00 Build secure VPN's with Linux FreeS/WAN's IPSEC and IKE implementation
Linuxconf 1.14r3 Sophisticated administrative tool
lpe 1.1.5 Small, fast console mode programming editor
lsof 4.42 List open files
Lua-CGI 1.0 UnCGI for Lua
Lua-Linux 0.9 Lua Language Interpreter 3.1, Linux-optimized, Distribution Version 0.9
Lynx 2.8.2dev22 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
makeissue.pl 0.02 Creates system info in a nice format to /etc/issue.*
man 1.5g The man page suite used to read most of the documentation for Linux
MARS 1.3pre1 Java-based network services status monitor
mdate 0.5.6 A freely-available mayan date program
Meteor 1.5.4 Driver and utilities for the Matrox Meteor frame grabber.
Midnight Commander 4.5.30 Unix file manager and shell
mkrdns 1.3 Program to automatically generate reverse DNS zone files (PTR records)
mod_perl 1.19 Brings together the full power of Perl and the Apache HTTP server
mod_ssl 2.2.8-1.3.6 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
mp3tools 1.0 Utilities for managing MPEG audio files
mpserv 0.10 A LAN distributed MP3 architecture
mtr 0.35 Network diagnostic tool
Muddleftpd 1.0 beta2 A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.
muLinux 5.0r2 A tiny implementation of Linux, which can reside on a single floppy
NDir 0.8.0 Console tool to display directory's contents
NEStra 0.6 Dynamic-Recompiling NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator
NetSaint 0.0.2 A relatively simple active network monitor
NetSpades 4.1.4 Four player networked spades game
newplayer 2.3 ncurses based mp3 player.
News Peruser 4.0 Beta 3 An offline newsreader for Linux and X11
NFTP 1.52 Powerful, full-featured FTP client
Ninja IRC 1.0.7 Yet another ircII based client.
nis-utils 1.0 Linux NIS+ Tools
ODBC-ODBC Bridge 0.2.2.0 Provides ODBC access from Linux to remote data sources
OfflineMailer 0.1 Offline mail handler
onShore Timesheet 2.1 beta 3 A comprehensive, web-based, multi-user, time-billing and project management tool
OpenMap 3.2.2 JavaBeans tool kit for building applications/applets with maps
OverCR 1.49.02 A simple system monitoring tool that utilizes a simple language for queries
Panorama 0.11 Framework for creating, rendering, and processingthree-dimensional images
passwdd 0.01 Password synchronization server/client
pavuk 0.9pl8 Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI
PentiumGCC 1.1.2 Pentium/PPro/P-II/K6/Cyrix/MMX optimising egcs clone
Perl/Tk Finger 0.1 Perl/Tk Finger Client
Perl/Tk NSLookup 0.1 DNS Lookup app written in Perl/Tk
Perl/Tk Time Client 0.1 Compares your system time with another machine
pg_model 1.0 Library to simplify building some PostgreSQL queries
PHPGen 0.2 Small PHP-script for generating PHP frontends to MySQL Databases
phpMyAdmin 2.0.0 Handles the basic adminstration of MySQL over the WWW
pinfo 0.4.8 Hypertext info file viewer
Pollera 1.2.00 A www poll system meant to be run via CGI.
PoPToP 0.7.40 PPTP Server for Linux
populate 0.5 MySQL database populator
PostgreSQL 6.5beta1 Robust, next-generation, Object-Relational DBMS(ORDBMS)
procmail 3.13.1 Versatile e-mail processor.
ptrans 1.0 Convert UTF-8 to plain text
Public Bookmark Generator 0.3 Generate a public bookmark (selected items) out of your bookmarks
PySol 2.11 A Python-based Solitaire card game
Python 1.5.2 High-level scripting language.
QpThread Library for C++ 0.6 Thread library for C++ with support for signals, exceptions, timer etc.
Quicktime for Linux 1.0.0 Low level Quicktime library for *NIX
QuIRC 0.9.71 X IRC client written in C++ with full Tcl/Tk scripting.
Quotes 1.4-0 Financial Quotations and Linux headlines
R 0.64.0 A language and environment for statistical computing.
RabbIT 1.8.1 Mutating, caching webproxy to speed up surfing over slow links
RAPID 5.13 Commodity and stock graphing for technical analysis trading decisions
Rasca 1.1.0 Extended MP3 Player.
redir 2.0 Redirects TCP ports to another IP address and port.
rpm2html/rpmfind 1.2 Utilities to create HTML pages and solve dependancy problems of RPM packages
rsync 2.3.1 File transfer program to keep remote files into sync
runmaint 1.01 wrapper for cron jobs
Scene 0.1.2 Inventor and VRML toolkit.
Scitech Display Doctor 7.0 Beta5 fixed Universal VESA driver and utilities
ScryMUD 1.8.11 Original MUD Server and Java Client
SETI@Home Client 0.46 Distributed SETI data-analysis client
SetIP 0.01 A shell script to make it easy to connect to a Dynamic IP computer.
setiview 0.1.4 ncurses frontend for setiathome
sfspatch 2.2.5 The Steganographic File System Kernel Patch
Siag Office 3.1.10 Free office package for Unix
Sing-Along Disc Player 1.1.0 A text-mode CD player with spectrum analyser, oscillator and DB.
sitemapper 1.009 Perl script for generating site maps
Slackware 4.0.0-beta The Slackware distribution
SmIRC 0.70pre1 IRC client based on the Motif widget set.
Socks5 1.0r9 SOCKS is a network firewall, and more
Squid 2.2.DEVEL4 High performance Web proxy cache
STAMOS 0.2 Gathers several information about the computer and generates an HTML file
star trek ency reader 0.6.2 Reads the star trek encyclopedia under linux
suck 4.1.1 Grabs news from a remote NNTP news server
Sula Primerix 0.07.11c Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
Sulawesi 0.3 Multimodal wearable/ubiquitous agent development environment
Swift Generator 0.6.2 Dynamic Flash content generator.
sXid 3.2.4 All in one suid/sgid monitoring script written in C
Sybtcl 3.0b3 Sybase interface for Tcl
Syncal 0.5 Syncs an ical calendar with a Palm Pilot DateBookDB
syslog-ng 1.1.5 A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.
t1utils 1.10 Tools for manipulating PostScript Type 1 fonts
Tcl/Tk 8.1b3 A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh
tcpflow 0.10 TCP flow recorder
tetserv 0.10 Tetrix server web-based monitoring program
textutils 1.22i GNU text file processing utilities
tgif 4.1.7 Vector-based draw tool
The Guild 0.1.87 A fully 3d-rendered/raytraced first-person interactive adventure
The Linux Image Montage Project pre-645 LIMP Preview Release Tagged as Version 325
TiK 0.67 Tcl/Tk version of AOL Instant Messenger
TkWineSetup 0.2f TCL script to setup, compile, install, upgrade Wine
ToyFDTD 1.0 Open source 3d FDTD code
traffic-vis 0.34 Network analysis tool
Trfcrypt 1.1 Add-On to Trf, various encryption algorithms
trn 4.0-test70 Text-based newsreader with threading
U.S. Street Map database 0.0.1 Complete digital street map of the U.S.
uhtrans 1.0 Converts UTF-8 files to HTML-style 7-bit text
Uptime client 3.04 Keep track of your uptime and compare it with other hosts.
userindex 0.3 beta An indexer of all the homepages of all users on your webserver
V-Server v1.1c V-Server calculates/manages the internetcosts/-link
vgproxy 0.9.1 Virtual-hosting generic network proxy
ViperDB 1.0 A smaller and faster option to Tripwire
Virtual GameBoy 1.5 Free Gameboy Emulator for Linux
VM 6.71 Emacs-based mail reader
vpnd 1.0.3 Virtual Private Network Daemon - encrypted TCP/IP.
vtun 1.1 Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks.
WebFetch 0.04 Perl5 module infrastructure to export and retrieve news for web display
weblint 1.9.3 Syntax and minimal style checker for HTML
WebMacro Servlet Framework 0.85 Java server-side web template engine and servletdevelopment framework
Webmin 0.71 Web-based interface for system administration for Unix
WebTheme 2.0.0 Web Theme Library
Window Manager Icons 0.1.1 Efficient standardized icon distribution
wmakerconf 1.99.1 GTK based configuration tool for WindowMaker window manager
WMAmpMenu 0.23 A simple utility that inserts MP3 playlists in your WM root menu.
wmapm 3.01 Small dock-app that shows continually-updated APMstatistics
wmGrav 1.2 Simulates several objects acting under gravity.
WMLmMon 1.7 Lm78/75 monitor applet for WindowMaker
WMmpg123 1.0 Menu generator for WindowMaker and mpg123
WN 2.0.6 A simple, robust Webserver whose design emphasizes security
WTEST 1.0 Web application testing tool
X-Mame 0.35b10.1 The Unix version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
x11amp 0.9 beta 1.1 Mp3 player for Xwindows
XawTV 2.41 TV application and a few utilities
XDelta 1.1.1 Library and application for computing and applying file deltas
Xenon-SQL 2.3.5.8 A Java based interactive SQL editor which uses Swing/JFC pluggable GUI
XML::Parser 2.22 XML Parser module for perl based on James Clark's expat lib
XScreenSaver 3.09 Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
ZNibbles 0.0.3 Networked multiplayer nibbles/snake game for X11/Motif
 

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