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Resources

Audio LinuxToday. LinuxToday is getting into the audio broadcast realm; they are looking for beta testers. Check it out.

Apache under attack. Conrad Sanderson's The Anatomy of a Frontal Assault on Apache describes the strategy he thinks Microsoft will take to bring about the end of the Apache web server. It is certainly a plausible scenario, worth a look.

RPM signing HOWTO updated. Dan Anderson has put together an updated version of his RPM 3.0 Signing HOWTO. RPM 3.0 (as present in Red Hat 6.0) includes a number of incompatible and undocumented changes; this HOW is Dan's attempt to fill in the information gap.

Events

Wizards of OS. The Wizards of OS Conference on Open Source and Free Software has settled into its final form. The event will happen on July 16 and 17 in Berlin; notable participants include Richard Stallman, Tim O'Reilly, Kalle Dalheimer, and many others. Much of the event will be held in the German language.

Personal Computing Strategies Workshop. Netproject, the organizer of a couple of successful open source conferences in the UK, has organized a conference on personal computing strategies and technologies for July 15 in London. It includes a segment on Linux on the desktop.

LinuxTag 1999 summary. Here is a summary release from the organizers of LinuxTag 1999, held on June 26 and 27. The event appears to have been a success, with 7000 attendees.

Web sites

The Linux Consultants Support and Resource Center is meant to help Linux consultants learn more and do their job.

User Group News

The LUG of Jackson (MS) has announced their first Linux installfest, to be held on July 10.

July 1, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
ac3dec 0.5.0 A free Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder for unix
AddressBook 0.4-19990626 Portable Personal Information Manager written in perl
Aegis 3.17 Transaction-based software configuration management system
aliasman.pl 0.1 A Perl program for majordomo-like management of /etc/aliases.
Alien 6.41 Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats
ALSA driver 0.3.2 An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support
AlsaPlayer 0.99.20 PCM (audio) player for Linux/ALSA
Amaya 2.1 Ttest-bed browser/authoring tool of the W3C
APE 0.9 APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc.
aperts 0.0.2 The APE class framework for Real Time Streaming
apt-find 0.6.5b2 AptFind is an ncurses interface for finding and installing packages using APT.
Arrow 1.0.5 An elegant, powerful, graphical interface to electronic mail
AS TOOL .00001 An AfterStep Configurator
asmon 0.60 Afterstep or Window Maker CPU/Load/Mem/etc Meter
asNews 0.3.3 Simple news retrieving software which shows the news on your desktop
Autonice 1.0 Automatic renice of cpu-intensive user processes
autorun 2.2 CDROM mounter for beginners and lazy users
Banner Ad Rotation Program 1.01 Sell out and manage banner ads with Perl and SSI
BetaFTPD 0.0.7 Single-threaded, small FTP daemon
binarifier 0.2 Useless command line utilities to convert strings to binary and back
bindmon 0.3 Server health monitoring + DNS failover for Linux, other Unix.
binutils 2.9.4.0.7 Provides programs to assemble and manipulate binary andobject files.
BladeEnc 0.80 Freeware MP3 Encoder
blink 0.4 a perl script that downloads random jpegs and draws them on your X11 display
Bluefish 0.3.1 Gtk based HTML editor
bpowerd 3.0b1 UPS line monitor daemon for Best Patriot power supplies
Buzzer Electronic Notebook 0.5 A note and to-do list program for X.
Cashcow 1.0.7 Library for clearing credit card payments with the Danish PBS system
cdplayer.app 0.7b CD player with CDDB support.
CGILua 3.2 CGILua is a tool for developing dynamic Web pages.
Clean_Mail 2.07 Scripts to help maintain mail spool files on a large system
CLPQ 0.2 Console Printer Queue Program
coda 5.2.7 Full featured network filesystem
Code Crusader 2.1.1 complete code development environment, inspired by MetroWerks CodeWarrior
Code Medic 1.5.0 UNIX Debugging Environment
cole 1.0.1 A free C OLE library
Common UNIX Printing System 1.0b4 Internet Printing System for UNIX
Cooledit 3.11.4 Full featured text editor for the X Window System
crocodiles 0.01 An ISP packet accounting management package
dbMan 0.0.9pre1 DB manager based on Perl, Tk, DBI (about 20 DBMS incl. PgSQL, Oracle, MySQL ...)
Dejafilter 0.01 Content-filtering CGI-based proxy script for Deja.com queries
DejaSearch 1.6 DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive
dfm 0.99.3 Filemanager like OS/2 WPS
DGen/SDL 1.15 DGen Sega Genesis emulator, ported to SDL
dhcpxd 1.0.0 An endlessly customizable DHCP client daemon
DigitalDJ 0.5 DigitalDJ is an SQL-based mp3
DirML 1.0 Directory markup language parser/interpreter
Disc-Cover 0.8 Generate covers for audio cds non-interactively using cddb
dopewars 1.4.3 Drug dealing game set in New York
Double Choco Latte 19990625 Software Configuration Management/Bug/Enhancement Tracking Software
DreamIrcd 3.2.2 Advanced irc server daemon with lots of enhancements
durep 0.8 Disk Usage Reporter
Edcom 990626 An easy to administer, multiuser, story posting system, written in perl5.
Eddie 1.1.0 Robust, clustering, load balancing, redundant, queueing web server frontend.
EHD 0.4 patch to util-linux-2.9r to create/use encrypted home directories
EiC 4.1.0 A bytecode C interpreter/compiler
Encrypted Home Directory 0.5 Patch to to login/losetup to create/use BLOWFISH-encrypted home directories
Ethereal 0.6.3 GUI network protocol analyzer
f/Calc 1.00 Calculate several different photographic formulae.
FastTemplate.php3 0.8 A PHP class for managing ASCII (HTML) templates.
fbsound 990623 Framebuffer waveform viewer and frequency analyzer like X11Amp
Fetchmail 5.0.5 Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mailretrieval utility
FOP 0.7.2 An XSL formatter written in Java that outputs PDF
Free Pascal Compiler 0.99.12a Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi II compatible 32bit Pascal Compiler
FreeMarker 1.4.8 HTML templating system for Java servlets
FreeTDS 0.45 Open Source implementation of the TDS database protocol
frequency 0.2 stylostatistical analysis tool
Ftwalk 1.5.2 General purpose high level script programming language
g3dav 0.0.3 GNU 3D Anaglyphc Viewer (need Red-Cyan glasses)
Galway 0.5.1 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
GameStalker Linux 1.03 Quake II/Quake3A Server Browser
Ganymede 0.99.3 GPL'ed Network Directory Management System
gbuild 0.6 build tool to automate cvs update, compilation, and packaging
gcombust 0.1.18 gtk+ frontend for mkisofs and cdrecord
gd 1.5 A library used to create GIF images
Generic Information Server Toolkit 1.0.1 GIST is a free tool kit for the development of interactive web sites
gengetopt 1.1.0 Easy generate a C `main' function that uses `getopt_long' to parse given options
Genpage 1.0.4 Provides framework for separating content management from layout design
gentoo 0.11.8 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
gfcc 0.7.0 GTK+ firewall (ipchains)
gFTP 2.0.2 A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
ghttpd 1.4 A HTTP daemon, secure, fast, efficient with CGI support
GIMP Imagemap plug-in 1.1.1 GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.
glFtpD 1.16.6 FTP Daemon for Linux. Great program for an ISP or anyone!
GlobeCom Jukebox 3.0final2 Music jukebox with integrated CDDB aware ripping and groupware functionality
Glove 1.0.1 Data acquisition, manipulation, and analysis program for X-Windows
GMailWatch 1.01 Mail monitor applet for GNOME Panel which displays summary of incoming mail
Gnofin 0.5.9 A simple GNOME checkbook application
GnoMail 0.0.1 GnoMail is a yet another GNOME email client.
Gnome Toaster 06-24-1999 create CDRs the easy way with Gnome/Gtk
gnome-core 1.0.7 GNU Network Object Model Environment
GnomePGP 0.4 Gnome frontend for PGP
GNU awk 3.0.4 a pattern scanning and processing language
GNU Privacy Guard 0.9.8 GPLed PGP replacement tool
GNU shtool 1.3.2 Shell Script Collection
Gnumeric 0.27 Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
good-dog 1.3 better than cat
GPeriodic 1.0.6 Periodic Table Reference and Browser
gPhoto 0.3.3 GNU Digital Camera download software
GTK MikMod 0.10c GTK interface to MikMod for Unix
Gtk::Dialog 0.5-1 (Beta 2) Simple Perl interface to create dialog boxes with Gtk
GtkPlot 2.0 2D Scientific plots widget for Gtk+
GTKtrue 0.1 The long awaited GUI to /bin/true
GTKWave 1.1.32 Wave viewer for Verilog simulation
Homer Applet 0.0.3 Animated Homer for the GNOME panel
HTMLPerlSETI 0.1 Display SETI@home client statistics in an HTML table.
htmlwrap 0.2 PHP3 html wrapper
hwinfo2html 0.1 Benchmark Outputs To Html File
ics.el 0.3.7alpha Emacs mode for internet chess server interactions
ija 0.1 Interactive command-line client for Deja
iODBC Driver Manager and SDK 2.50.3 Cross Platform ODBC Driver Manager
IPTraf 2.0.0 An ncurses-based IP LAN monitor
IRMP3 0.2.4 Console mp3 jukebox controllable by an IR remote control
jack 1.3.3 A console cd-ripper written in python
JChemPaint 0.3 A 2D molecular structure editor written in Java
JX 1.5.0 C++ application framework and GUI widget library for X
KBiff 2.3.9 New mail notification utility for KDE
KFibs 0.9.4 KFibs is a KDE client for FIBS.
kfstab 0.3.10.1 Easy editing of /etc/fstab via KDE
khylafax 0.3.1 KDE utility to set up a Fax server with hylafax.
KJukeBox 0.3.2 KJukeBox is an MP3 Player which can handle big MP3 archives
klavg 1.1 Small KDE applet showing load average graph on the panel.
kmp_msql 0.1.0 KMySql plugin to connect to mSQL databases
KMsgModem 0.1.1 A tool to read the memory of an USR Message Modem
KMySQL 1.1.3 A MySql client for KDE.
KPackage 1.3.3 GUI interface to the RPM and the Debianpackage manager
kspaceduel 0.3.2 KSpaceduel is a two player arcade space game for KDE
ktranslator 0.5 A graphical utility that helps translating po files for GPL projects.
Kugel 2.0 Board Game - moving objects on the board and putting them into rows
K_TAG 0.2.1 An easy to use KDE based TAG editor for MP3 files.
Lexmark 2070 B/W Linux Driver 0.6 B/W 300dpi printer driver (filter) for the Lexmark 2070 inkjet printer
lftp 2.0.1 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
libmcrypt 2.2.1 A library to access various encryption algorithms
libmikmod 3.1.7 Full-featured sound library
libradio 0.3.3 A simple, easy to use C library to control FM Tuner cards
LinuxGT Server Edition 1.02S FINAL Streamlined (textual install) Linux for use as a robust Server
LinuxInfo 1.1.4 Gives system information about your Linux system
Logresolve.pl 0.1 Replaces the standard logresolve application that comes bundled with Apache
lsof 4.44 List open files
LUCGI 1.2.0 CGi Library for C++
Mahogany 0.23a Powerful, user-friendly, scriptable mail/news client
mcrypt 2.2.2 A replacement for the old unix crypt(1). Uses several block algorithms.
Midnight 0.9.2 Midi/Karaoke player and C++ midi library
MigrationTools 3.19 Perl scripts for populating LDAP directories
MiniMate 3.14.0.2 Administration tool for MiniVend
MM 1.0.8 Shared Memory Library
Mmucl 1.2.0 Mud client written in Tcl
mon 0.38.13 Highly configurable service monitoring daemon
moodss 7.1 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
Moonshine 0.1.2 An application development environment for Linux.
Mp32SQL 0.1 Searches for mp3 files and adds them to an SQL database
MP3c 0.16 Audio-CD to MP3-Converter, with use of CDDB. Included GUI and cmdline-support
mp3tree v1.0 prints a formated dir tree showing playtime and size of all MP3s in each dir
MpegTV Player (mtv) 1.0.9.8 A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
MSWordView 0.5.17 Microsoft Word 8 document viewer
MultiMail 0.27 Offline Mail Reader (QWK)
mwhcounter 0.7 Simple web-counter written in perl
MyGuestbook 0.6.5 A simple Guestbook using PHP3 and MySQL, several languages supported
NAMG 0.0.3 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
NetInfo 1.15 Distributed directory service, includes nsswitch module
NetLeds applet 0.8.1 A gnome applet that displays lights (RX, TX and COL) from a network device.
nettest 1.2 Notifies you if your network connection goes down audibly or through email
NewsPilot 0.1 News converter for Palm* platforms, which uses the multi-page feature of iSilo
ngrep 1.31 network grep
nn 0.2 A scriptable, back-propagation neural network
NPS 1.0b1 Non-Preemtive Thread Scheduling Library
nss_ldap 2.77 LDAP Nameservice Switch Module
ODBC-ODBC Bridge 0.2.4.0 Provides ODBC access from Linux to remote data sources
OpenLink Virtuoso 1.0 Virtual Database Engine enabing Heterogeneous Data Access
OpenMap 3.3.2 JavaBeans tool kit for building applications/applets with maps
pam_ldap 36 LDAP Pluggable Authentication Module
PaNtS 1.0 Allows an individual to connect an internal LAN to the Internet.
pavuk 0.9pl16 Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI
Perceps 3.5.0 Themable documentation generator for C++
pftp 1.0.13 A tool for IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP data transfer.
PHP HTML-embedded scripting language
PHPGem 0.8 A generator of PHP-scripts for working with tables on SQL-servers.
PIKT 990626 An innovative new systems administration paradigm
pircd Alpha Eleven An IRC daemon, written in Perl.
PLUG 0.1 A HTML-based frontend to /var/log/messages
pppParse 0.2 pppd usage statistics log file generator
Printer Port Programming Tool 0.4 Printer Port Programming Tool
Privacy Guard Glue 19990628 A library written in C to add GnuPG support to applications.
proxyarp 0.7.3 A proxyarp daemon for linux.
pyWeather 0.1b pyWeather gets local weather info and mails it out to any given email address
QGraphi 0.3.0 Solves graph problems in a wysiwyg way
QmailAdmin 0.20 Web based interface for Qmail Administration
Qt 2.0 GUI software toolkit
quftp 0.93.4 Command line FTP client with queueing
Radius 2.1 Remote Authentication Dial In User Service
RearSite 0.75 Tool for updating personal www pages
Record Management 0.4 Program to manage large sound carrier archives (LPs, CDs, MP3s, singles, ...).
reiserfs A filesystem which stores the files themselves in a B*-tree, gaining speed.
Remote Microscope 1.0a3 Client/server system for controlling an optical microscope over the Internet
Ripenc 0.7 Bourne shell script frontend to Cdparanoia, and Bladeenc.
robomod 0.4.1 Perl sripts(s) to moderate newsgruops; multiple moderators support
RPGBoard 2.02 A WWWBoard-style message board script.
sci 0.4.6 A data entry screen builder which works from ASCII templates
Sclinet 1.0 ShoutCast Internet Radio Server Monitor
ScryMUD 1.9.9 Original MUD Server and Java Client
SDL 0.9.13 SDL is a library that allows you portable low level access for graphics/sound
Settlers 1.1 Update 2-4 player TCP/IP strategy game of expansion and trading
ShareTheNet 2.1.2 Linux router on a floppy with a Windows based setup.
Siag Office 3.1.18 Free office package for Unix
SIDPLAY 1.36.35 C64 music player and SID sound chip emulator
sitescooper 1.1 Downloads stories from various news sites and converts to text or Pilot format.
SMPEG 0.2.4 SDL MPEG player with sound
Spruce 0.4.8 Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
Starmap 0.2 View a 3-D starmap from astronomical data.
stk-mysql 1.0 STk interface to MySQL databases.
Strip 0.2 Secure password and account manager for Palm Pilots.
swapd 0.3 Swapspace management daemon
swc 1.1 Simple Webpage Counter
SysWatch 1.2 Web based system watch utility
tclHTML 0.003 An HTML editor coded in Tcl/TK.
The Linux Console Tools 0.3.0 Allows you to set-up and manipulate theLinux console
The SCOOBS Context Based Search Engine A Java Based XML Search Engine that allows searching with context.
tkFTP 1.0.1 tkFTP is an FTP client completely written with the Tcl/Tk scripting language.
TkSETI 1.36 A GUI for automated control of the SETI@Home client for UNIX.
tksmtp 0.3 A simple SMTP client ONLY, no POP3 or IMAP, written in TCL and TK
tk_Brief 3.0 GUI for writing letters with LaTeX
TWIG 1.0.0 A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
UdmSearch 2.1 Fast WWW search engine for your site
Vacation 1.0b2 A mail auto-responder
VCDKutter 0.3 Split VideoCD dat file.
VMWare 1.0.2 Allows you to run multiple OSs at the same time
Wacom Driver for XFree86 alpha 7 Wacom driver for XFree86
Webalizer 1.29-14 Web server log analysis program
WebMail 0.5.3 Web frontend for Unix system mailboxes
Welcome2L 3.04 Linux ANSI boot logo
wxPython 2.1b1 Python extension module for wxWindows
wxWindows/GTK 2.1 snapshot 7 GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library
X-Chat 1.0.0 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
xDiary 0.1.4 a program for writing a diary
Xing MP3 Encoder 1.5 MP3 encoder
Xlockmore 4.14 screen saver / locker for the X Window System
xmms-alsa 0.4.1 ALSA output plugin for xmms
xmms-midi 0.02 Midi file player plug-in for x11amp
XMMS-Solaris 0.1.2 Output plugin for XMMS to play on Solaris audio
XRacer 0.26 Clone of Psygnosis WipeOut
XRoads v0.5 A 2D maze/shoot-em-up game for X
ypldapd 1.0FCS LDAP to NIS gateway
Zgv 3.3 graphic file viewer for VGA and SVGA displays
Zircon 1.18.217 An IRC client written in tcl/tk
Zope 1.10.3 Web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites.
zpdb 0.8 Quake 2 Server Database with client/server query mechanism.
 

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