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Those of you who have been asking us for a Palm Pilot version of the Linux Weekly News may want to check out snarfnews, a package which pulls down and packages news sites for the Pilot. They have a "site file" for LWN, as well as for LinuxToday, Kernel Traffic, and NTK (which is where we found it) as well as a number of other sites.

Events

Linux Expo in France. The French Linux Expo, to be held in Paris on June 17 and 18, has put up the conference schedule. Lots of familiar names are to be found on the list: Stallman, de Icaza, Augustin, Young, Allison, ...

And, a little further ahead, is Linux World France, to be held in Paris on January 11-13, 2000 (yes, simultaneously with the U.S. LinuxWorld event being held in Washington). See the web pages for details.

Back in the U.S., PC EXPO has announcedthat there will be a Linux pavillion, sponsored by Red Hat Software, at their upcoming June 22-24 event in New York.

Ziff-Davis has announcedsome of the speakers that will be appearing at their Open Source Forum at the end of June. The names include Jon "Maddog" Hall and Mike Prince (from the Burlington Coat Factory).

More Linux Expo coverage: Craig Burley, creator of GNU Fortran, has put up an excellent summary of his experience at the show.

Red Hat on the road. Red Hat has announcedits latest road show. They start in Los Angeles on June 4, and pass through a dozen U.S. cities.


June 3, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AddressBook 0.3 Portable Personal Information Manager written in perl
ALE Clone 1.15pre5 Clone of WarCraft II
arla 0.25 A free AFS client and server for Linux, *BSD and others.
asapm 2.7 X11 application with AfterStep look for monitoring APM on laptops
aumix 1.19 Color text mode sound mixer with GPM support
AutoConvert 0.1p1 Chinese GB/HZ/BIG5 encoding auto convert
AutoRPM 1.8.1 RPM Auto-Installer and/or FTP Mirrorer
Avataria 0.19990526.1 Graphical avatar chat environment
BFS Filesystem for Linux 19990528 read-only BFS modules for Linux
bigtwo 0.51 Dai-di (Big two) internet card game
Blackbox 0.50.5 WindowManager for X11 written in C++
Blender 1.63 Extremely fast and versatile 3D Rendering Package
Bridge Filter patch 0.1 Filtering capability for linux bridge.
C-Forge IDE 1.2-5 Multi-user C/C++ integrated development environment
CADC 0.3 device driver for cheap serial 8 Channel DAC
Cajun 3.0-4 Car Audio Jukebox mp3 player for your car/home
cdctl 0.12 Controls your CD-ROM drive under linux.
CDJ 0.0.0 CD player for DJs
cdplayer.app 0.3 CD player with CDDB support.
CDR-Toaster 0.97 Tk frontend for cd-burning. Uses mkisofs and cdrecord
CGI++ 0.6 C++ macro-preprocessor for writing CGI/Database applications
chbg 0.4 Desktop background changer and manager
Chebyshev 0.02 Engine for forwarding email service (w/spam filtering)
Clean_Mail 2.06 Scripts to help maintain mail spool files on a large system
confcollect 0.1d A small utility that posts the systems configuration to an adminostrator through
Cook 2.9 A tool for constructing files, and maintainingreferential integrity between fil
Cut The Crap 0.1.0 Ad-blocking proxy-like python-based software.
Dante 1.0.0 Free socks v4/5 implementation
DB2 Beta 6.0 Universal Database for Linux
dbMan 0.0.8pre1 DB manager based on Perl, Tk, DBI (about 20 DBMS incl. PgSQL, Oracle, MySQL ...)
DDD 3.1.5 Common graphical user interface for GDB, DBX and XDB
demcd 1.2 CDPlayer for Linux
devfs patch 106 Device FileSystem for Linux kernel
Diary.py 0.1 Diary is a simple journal program to record daily events, etc.
DigitalDJ 0.3 DigitalDJ is an SQL-based mp3
Display Ghostscript 0.5.7 The Display Ghostscript System for GNUstep.
djpim 1.0 Web-based to-do list manager in PHP3/MySQL.
dmcat 1.1 Digital Music CATalog
Doc Toolkit 1.1.0 E-text tools for Palm Computing platform users
DOSEmu 0.99.12 Application that enables the Linux OS to run many DOS programs
Downloader for X 0.96 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
dtfs 990509 A Log-Structured Filesystem For Linux
dvorak7min 1.4 ncurses-based typing tutor for the Dvorak layout
EasyGTK 0.95 Wrapper library for GTK
EiC 4.0.1 A bytecode C interpreter/compiler
elfnote 0.0.2 A program to manipulate the NOTE sections in ELF binaries.
Energymech 2.6.0 Bot for irc with eggdrop like features to manage a channel
Envy 2.33 Shell-independent environment variable management
EPIC 4pre2.004-19990528 ANSI capable textmode IRC Client
erpcd-talker 1.0 A simple set of utilities to talk to an erpcd (Annex manager software)
eThreads 0.9 Highly customizable database driven forum software
Exim 3.01 Message Transfer Agent for Unix systems
failoverd 1.7 Provide rudimentary failover capability for Linux
Flight Gear 0.6.0 Flight simulator
FORUM 1.1b1 Another PHP3/Mysql forum with some nifty features
FramerD/FDScript 1.0 Beta Distributed knowledge/object repository and scripting language
freemed 19990528 Free medical management software in a web browser
FTP4ALL 2.26a FTP server program for UNIX systems
Gaby 1.9.6 An address book written in GTK
Gamora 0.69.0 Java based server construction, hosting, and adminstration architecture.
Ganymede 0.99.1 GPL'ed Network Directory Management System
GCD 2.0 A cd-player with a gtk+ interface
gcombust 0.1.14 gtk+ frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord
Genius 0.4.3 An arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floatingpoint calculator
Genpage 1.01 Provides framework for separating content management from layout design
gensig 2.2 Random signature/tagline generator
gentoo 0.11.7 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
GeoStats 1.1.0 IRC Statistical Services
GFingerPoken 0.10 BlackBox-type GTK-based game
GHX 2.95 GTK clone of the Hotline software
gIDE 1.1 Gtk-based Integrated Development Environment for C
GIMP Imagemap plug-in 1.0 GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.
GIncoming v 0.12 A GTK app to monitor a directory for new files, like an incoming FTP directory.
Giram 0.0.17 Giram is a modeller, written in GTK+
gLaptop 0.2 Laptop utility for GNOME
gmessage 0.2 xmessage clone written in gtk+
gMOO 0.4.1 GTK+ based MOO (and MUD) client
Gmurf 0.3.3 A wave audio processor for Linux to mix and edit waves.
Gnofin 0.5.6 A simple GNOME checkbook application
GNOME Portfolio Manager 0.0.11 GNOME equivilent of the Yahoo! (C) Java Portfolio Manager
GNU cfengine 1.5.0-beta5 A tool for administering Networks of Diverse Machines
Gomoku Apprentice 0.5 A gomoku player learning from its own mistakes
Goose 0.0.9 Statistical library.
gPalmDoc 0.5 GUI web page to AportisDoc converter.
gPhoto (CVS) GNU Digital Camera download software
GPLAboutDialog.java 1.1 Generic Java About Dialog generator for GPL'd programs
gpppkill 1.0.0 Ends idle ppp connections
GQ 0.2.2 GTK LDAP client
GQmpeg 0.6.1 A front end to the mpg123 mpeg audio player
GQview 0.6.1 X11 image viewer for the Linux operating system
Graphic Counter Language 2.30 Programming language for the development of web counters
GREED 0.8+ BETA4r2 A utility that can get and resume files from a web site.
Green Box 0.2 Next-generation drum machine
Grip 2.1 A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
gRMA 0.01a A graphical tool for rate monotonic analysis of real time systems
GSokoban 0.10 A GNOME implementation of the Sokoban game.
GSpot 2.0 A control panel for cDc's Back Orifice
gsynth 0.4.8 gtk+ modular synthesizer/buzz clone
GtkAda 1.2.2 Ada95 binding of Gtk+
GtkPlot 1.1 2D Scientific plots widget for Gtk+
GtkSheet 7.5 A matrix/grid widget for Gtk+
Guppi 0.8.0 GNOME application for plotting and analyzing data
gView 0.1.6 GTK/ImLib Image Viewer
GXAnim 0.35 GTK+ front end for Xanim movie player
HTML::Template 0.02 A simple and fast HTML Template module for Perl
htmlwrap 0.1 PHP3 html wrapper
IBM Visualization Data Explorer 4.0 An application for data visualization.
IceDJ 0.9.13 MP3 streaming and radio station managment suite written in Perl
id3ed 1.5 ID3 tag editor for mp3 files. Interactive and command line modes.
ImageMagick 4.2.7 Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
IMHO 0.96 IMAP4 Mail Host for Roxen
indent 1.10.0 GNU indenting program
industrialMUD 0.2.0 MUD Telnet Server for Linux,
Install-Sendmail 4.3 install-sendmail will configure sendmail and fetchmail for you.
install-ssh 1.0.1 Downloads, Patches, Compiles, and Installs SSH in RPM format
Install-Webserver 0.1 Install Apache, PHP and MySQL by running one script.
ipac 1.04 Linux IP accounting package
ipchains 1.3.9 Linux packet filter control utility (replaces ipfwadm for kernels 2.1.102+).
jBase 3.2.3 Application Development and Database Independent Management System
jEdit 1.7pre1 Powerful text editor
Jik-Dice pre-alpha 3 AD&D IRC game play bot
jmake 1.00 jmake is a tool for software developers that like to write code, not makefiles.
jonama 1.1.2 SSL proxy
KBootSelector 0.3 KDE Boot option selector
kdesu 0.9 A KDE front end to the UNIX su(1) command.
KDiskCat 0.1 The KDE Disk Catalog software.
kexpress 0.8.0 kexpress is a newsreader for KDE. Easy to use, with offline reading.
kfirewall 2.0 GUI for ipchains or ipfwadm
KJukeBox 0.3 KJukeBox is an MP3 Player which can handle big MP3 archives
klavg 1.1 Small KDE applet showing load average graph on the panel.
KMonop current The Monopoly(tm) boardgame for KDE.
kmuser 0.9.2 User-Administration-Tool for the KDE-Desktop
KPackage 1.3 GUI interface to the RPM and the Debianpackage manager
KPriMa 0.1 A KDE Print Manager, a GUI to the ps utilities and your print command
LAGII 0.1.5 Linux AGI Interpreter
lando 0.1.2 command execution server for UNIX
libfax 0.0.1 Library for C programs to easily send faxes using external programs.
LibGTop 1.0.2 A library that fetches information about the running system such as cpu ...
libmmoss 1.4 Provides Java sound in Linux version of Netscape Communicator
libodbc++ 0.2beta2 A class library for accessing databases from c++
Libsigc++ 0.7.1 Callback framework for C++
Libtool 1.3.2 GNU libtool is a generic library support script
libxml-perl 0.03 A collection of Perl modules and documents for working with XML.
Limo 0.1.4 Configurable replacement for ls
LinKT 0.6.0 Packet-Radio terminal for radio amateurs
Linux Administrators Security Guide 0.1.0 A 130+ page PDF on Linux Security
Linux Router Project 2.9.4 A networking centric mini-distribution of Linux
LinuxInfo 1.1.3 Gives system information about your Linux system
Lookout 0.1 Populate and manage LDAP directory
lsh 0.1 GPL'd implementation of SSH.
lxTimeClock 0.7-pre1 A great Timecard program for businesses
Lynx 2.8.2pre11 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
Majik 3D 0.00 Online multiuser 3D role-playing world
maketool 0.2 GTK front end for GNU make
mcrypt 2.2.0pre10 A replacement for the old unix crypt(1). Uses several block algorithms.
mdate 1.0.0beta3 A freely-available mayan date program
Mesa 3.1 beta 2 3-D graphics library which uses the OpenGL API
Midgard 1.0.2 Application Server Suite - Web building with web-based tools
Midnight Commander 4.5.33 Unix file manager and shell
Minimalist 1.3.5 Minimalist Mailing List Manager
mktclapp 3.0 Mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk to build a standalone program
MM 1.0.5 Shared Memory Library
Mobitex Radio Modem Driver 2.1 Network driver for Ericsson Mobidems and other MASC-speaking modems
mod_ssl 2.3.1-1.3.6 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
Mozilla M6 Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator
mpstat 0.0.3 Helps monitoring SMP machines
MRTd 1.6.1a Routing protocol daemon (BGP, RIP, OSPF) and tools
mSQL 2.0.10 Mini SQL implementation
MyNews 0.9 A news displayer
Nemesis 1.0 Linux Video Security System
NEStra 0.62 Dynamic-Recompiling NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) emulator
netcomics 0.7 A perl script that downloads today's comics from the Web
NetLED 2.0 Monitor connections using your keyboard LEDs.
NewsForum 1.0 NewsForum - Put your news on the web
NIL 0.1b A simple Netbus client with a clean interface.
NNTP for Gamora 0.0 NNTP services for Gamora applications
NotifyMe 1.2 Program which displays message if a specific user just logged in
npasswd 2.05 Replacement for the passwd command
NPS 0.9.13 Non-Preemtive Thread Scheduling Library
oidentd 1.6.2 ident (rfc1413) daemon for linux that allows users to specify usernames
OpenSSL 0.9.3a The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
pam_cucipop 1.31-3 Patch to use PAM with cucuipop
Panorama 0.12 Framework for creating, rendering, and processingthree-dimensional images
PCI40A/FastDAC Linux driver 1.01 Device driver for PCI40 Industry pack carrier board and FastDAC
pcmcia-cs 3.0.11 Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA or ``PC Card'' support package.
PCP 1.24 Stubborn upload/download program
PCRE 2.05 A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions.
perdition 0.0.0 POP3 Proxy
pftp 1.0.5 A tool for IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP data transfer.
pgp4pine 1.56 Interactive program for using PGP with email programs, specifically Pine
pgpgpg 0.12 wrapper around GnuPG which takes PGP 2.6 command line options
PHP Cyrus-Tools 1.0.0 Webtools for the cyrus imapd written in PHP3
pidentd+fm patch 1.1 Patch for pidentd to add fake userid query, IP masquerade and relay
Pike 0.6.131 Interpreted, object-oriented programming language with a syntax similar to C
Pingus 0.0.15 Lemmings clone with penguins.
pk 0.8.12 An Open-Source POSIX Threads embedded real-time kernel
playdough 2.01 BitchX/EPIC IRC script
Poorcount 1.4 CGI scripts to enable counters in home pages for Web servers
PoPToP 0.8.7 PPTP Server for Linux
povfront 0.9-2 GTK+ graphical interface for povray
prips 0.9a Print IP addresses in a given range
pyKDE v0.8 Python bindings for QT 1.42 and KDE1.1 Code your KDE applications in python.
Pyrite 0.7.1 Palm Computing platform communication kit for Python
PySol 2.14 A Python-based Solitaire card game
QALE 1.0 A revolutionary approach to Qt dialog layout
QGraphi 0.2.1 Solves graph problems in a wysiwyg way
Qpopper 3.0b18 POP3 server
QtDragon 0.7.5 A tool to configure the telephone-related stuff of a DataBoxSpeed Dragon
Quadra 1.0.0 A shareware, TCP/IP multiplayer T*tris-like game.
RadioActive 0.3 Radio tuner for X11 and Video4Linux
Random TagLine 0.1 Pick a random line from a text file and output it to a HTML page
recover 0.5 A utility which automates some steps to undelete a file.
ReqNG 1.3.9 Request tracking system
rglclock 1.3.2 Rotating 3D clock
Robot Race 52 An Excellent 90% completed Robo Rally server needing an equivalent client.
Roxen Challenger 1.3.111 Platform independent webserver featuring strong encryption and SSL3
rpl 1.0.1 Multi-file recursive string replacement
RPM 3.0.1 Red Hat's package management system
rrlms 0.4.1 RoadRunner login client
RXP 1.0.7 Validating XML parser in C
Sched-Gen 1.0 HTML weekly schedule generator
sci 0.2.5. A data entry screen builder which works from ASCII templates
ScryMUD 1.9.4 Original MUD Server and Java Client
SDF 2.001 The Author-Friendly Markup Language
Secure Locate 1.6 Secure version of the GNU locate program
shtool 1.2.9 Shell Script Collection
Siag Office 3.1.16 Free office package for Unix
SIDPLAY 1.36.34-OSS C64 music player and SID sound chip emulator
Slice 1.3.3 Extract out pre-defined slices of an ASCII file
SOMLib 0.3 The Simple Object Model for C++
Sprite32/X 0.5 2D sprite-based animation for X11
Spruce 0.4.0 Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
sredird 1.0.0 RFC 2217 compliant serial port redirector
strobe-classb 1.7 Compact network scanner, Linux-specific, for scanning large networks.
sudo 1.6b3 Provides limited super user priviledges to specific users
sugarplum 0.8 Automated, secure perl spambot poisoner with many features
syslog-ng 1.1.20 A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.
Tcl/Tk 8.1.1 A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh
The XPA Messaging System 2.0 Easy to use messaging (commands and library) or Unix, X11, Tcl/Tk
THUD 0.14 Cycle-based Scheme-HDL register-transfer level simulator
tinyProg 0.1 Tinyprog is a project for programming PIC controllers under Linux
tinyproxy 1.2.5 A small, lightweight, easy-to-configure HTTP proxy.
TkSETI 1.32 A GUI for automated control of the SETI@Home client for UNIX.
TkZip 1.0.10 X front end to standard archiving/compression programs
top 3.5b9 A Top-CPU usage display
TWIG 0.3.7 A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
UCS Checker 1.0 A simple network service checker
VFU File Manager 1.51 Extensivelyl featured console (text-mode) file manager.
vRouter 0.01 vRouter is an experimental open-source IP-network simulator
VSound 0.2 Allows you to record the audio stream of most sound applications
w3mir 1.0.8 HTTP copying and mirroring program
Wacom Driver for XFree86 alpha 4 Wacom driver for XFree86
Web User Interface 1.1 Builds a list of all available personal homepages.
Webmin 0.72 Web-based interface for system administration for Unix
Welcome2L 3.02 Linux ANSI boot logo
wmflame 0.2 A windowmaker dock applet that draws flames.
WMGlobe 1.0 The whole Earth spinning on your desktop
wmsound 0.9.5 Sound server package for WindowMaker
World Engine 3.1c Java Search Engine Front End
WPeople 0.10 Contact Manager written in WINGs
wu-ftpd 2.5.0 FTP Daemon for UNIX systems
X-SETI 0.7.3 Tk/Expect frontend for the SETI@home UNIX client
x11amp-midi 0.01 Midi file player plug-in for x11amp
XawTV 2.45 TV application and a few utilities
xcallerid 2.2.3 callerID program that pops up incomingphone numbers in an X-window
xhippo 0.85 Gtk-based playlist manager for various UNIX sound players
Xlockmore 4.13.1 screen saver / locker for the X Window System
XScreenSaver 3.13 Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
Yacas 1.0.1 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Zebra 0.67 Route Server and Route Reflector daemon
zpdb 0.6 Quake 2 Server Database with client/server query mechanism.
 

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