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LANshark Systems, Inc has announced their fall training class schedule.

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There will be a Linux Users Party during the "Fiestorro" in Benaguasil (Valencia/Spain), formerly : Benaguasil-P@rty. July 23 - 25. Click here to get more information.

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July 15, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AbiWord 0.7.3 Fully featured word processor
ac3dec 0.5.3 A free Dolby Digital (AC-3) decoder for unix
Aegis 3.18 Transaction-based software configuration management system
aewm 0.9.1 A minimalistic window manager for X
Alfajor 1.2 Cookie Filter (Python)
Alien 6.44 Converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, andslackware tgz file formats
AlsaPlayer 0.99.23 PCM (audio) player for Linux/ALSA
AOLserver 3.0 beta 1 America Online's own web application development platform
Appindex browser 0.3 Simple ncurses-based Freshmeat appindex.txt browser
Artistic Style 1.10.0 Indentation and reformatting filters for C, C++, Java
auto-upload 1.0.2 program that uploads files to an FTP account non-interactively
Bandmin 0.62 Bandmin is a package that monitors and logs ip accounting data
BetaFTPD 0.0.8pre1 Single-threaded, small FTP daemon
Big Brother 1.2b Highly efficient network monitor
bk2site 0.7.2 Transforms Netscape bookmark file into yahoo-like website.
Bluefish 0.3.2 Gtk based HTML editor
BlueLava v0.2 A CGI-based x10 interface for home automation, etc
Bomb 1.24 automatic interactive visual stimulation
bookmarker 1.5 WWW based bookmark manager
BottleRocket 0.04 command-line X10 FireCracker control software
BRICO Knowledge Base 1.0 Large semantic network of concepts and words referring to them
Build Your Linux Disk BYLD - 0.9 A package that helps you to build a Linux distribution on a single floppy.
Cd Backup PERL 1.1 Backups files onto multipule CDs.
cdlabelgen 1.5.0 Generates frontcards and traycards for CDs
cdplayer.app 1.1 CD player with CDDB support.
CDR-Toaster 1.01 Tk frontend for cd-burning. Uses mkisofs and cdrecord
cgi-util 2.0 A C library for developing web CGI programs.
CGI-x10 0.2 Perl/CGI interface to Bottlerocket x10 firecracker software
cgvg 1.3 Tools for convenient grepping through code.
Columns 1.0 A columns game using SDL
Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) 1.0b5 Internet Printing System for UNIX
CompuPic 4.6 build 1006 CompuPic Graphical Digital Content and File Manager for Linux
Condor 6.0.3 A distributed batch system that takes advantage of idle cycles of computer
Cookiecutter 0.1.1 Utility for removing unwanted cookies from Netscape cookie files
COSA 1.06 Linux driver and tools for the COSA and SRP synchronous serial boards
crocodiles 0.11-patch1 An ISP packet accounting management package
Dante 1.1.0-pre2 Free socks v4/5 implementation
Darxite 0.3 Controllable daemon that downloads via FTP in the background
Data::Address::Standardize Perl Module 0.001 A Perl module for standardizing U.S. postal addresses
DB_Browser 1.2 Web-based utility to browse and modify a postgres database
Debian Intelligent Backup System 0.2.0 The intelligent backup system for Debian GNU/Linux.
Dejafilter 0.02 Content-filtering CGI-based proxy script for Deja.com queries
DejaSearch 1.63 DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive
DGen/SDL 1.16 DGen Sega Genesis emulator, ported to SDL
Diary.py 0.8 Diary is a simple journal program to record daily events, etc.
Doubly Linked List 1.1.0 Doubly Linked List API with indexing
Downloader for X 0.99 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
Downtime 2.2.1 Network monitor, watches your connection, and logs downtime.
EasyGTK 1.1.3 Wrapper library for GTK
ecasound 1.2.1r3 Sound processing, multitrack recording and mixing
Edcom Pre1.2.1 An easy to administer, multiuser, story posting system, written in perl5.
EHD (encrypted-home-directory) 0.6 patch for login to allow encrypted home directories under linux
EiC 4.1.1 A bytecode C interpreter/compiler
Elvis 2.1_3 A clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor.
encrypt 0.7 turns plaintext words into encrypted strings in a variety of ways.
Ensemble 0.61 A toolkit for constructing reliable distributed applications.
Epeios 19990627 Collection of general purposes C++ libraries working under UNIX and Windows.
Etherboot 4.2.4 Source code for making TCP/IP boot ROMs to boot Linux and other OSes
eXtace 1.1.4 ESD FFT visual plugin, eye-candy
fbgetty 0.1.3 An extended mingetty for Linux
fbview 0.3.0 An image viewer for Linux consoles, using the oFBis library. It uses libjpeg and
Fcheck 2.06.27 Baseline filesystem and administration policy monitor.
Free Trek 0.16 Star Trek type space battle simulator
Freeciv 1.8.1 Implementation of Civilization II for UNIX/X released under the GPL
freemed 19990709 Free medical management software in a web browser
fwdl-yam4416s 0.0.1 Yamaha 4416S CDRW firmware upgrade utility
Galway 0.8.0 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
Ganymede 0.99.4 GPL'ed Network Directory Management System
gchbkgrd 0.8.0 Program to constantly change the desktop's background
getAlias 1.1 returns email aliases or list of aliases user belongs to.
GF1 1.01 Play GIPF against your computer
GFingerPoken 0.20 BlackBox-type GTK-based game
gFTP 2.0.3 A multithreaded ftp client for X Windows
gimp-python 0.5 A package that allows you to write gimp plugins in python
glFtpD 1.16.7 FTP Daemon for Linux. Great program for an ISP or anyone!
GnoMail 0.0.2 GnoMail is a yet another GNOME email client.
GNU Pilot Logbook Pro 0.91 A logbook program for pilots.
GNU Pth 1.0b7 GNU Portable Threads
GNU shtool 1.4.3 Shell Script Collection
GNU xhippo 1.05 Gtk-based playlist manager for various UNIX sound players
GOB (GTK+ Object Builder) 0.0.1 Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object
GPeriodic 1.2.1 Periodic Table Reference and Browser
Gqcam 0.3 GTK based QuickPict clone
grep-dctrl 1.0 grep Debian control files
GTC 0.1 Game Programming Library
GTetrinet 0.3 A clone of the game Tetrinet.
GTK File Browser pre-0.20 Small, fast, lightweight, GTK File Browser
GTK xset 0.1 GTK xset is a graphical frontend to xset(1), based on GTK+
GTK+XFce 3.0.0 (final) Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11
Gtk::Dialogs 1.0-1 Simple Perl interface to create dialog boxes with Gtk
GtKali 0.9.1 Gtk+ interface to Kali.
GTKdiff 0.9.5 GTK+ diff frontend
GTKeyboard 0.96 Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled
gtkpool 0.2 Simple GTK+ pool game
gtk_pizza 2.0 Pizza Delivery System for Pizza Services and Bistros
gtml 3.34 An HTML pre-processor specially designed for maintaining web sites.
Guppi 0.11.0 GNOME application for plotting and analyzing data
Hevea 1.04 HEVEA is a quite complete and fast LATEX to HTML translator.
HTML PLAIN 1.0.7 A revolutionary HTML precompiler
HTMLPerlSETI 0.4 Display SETI@home client statistics in an HTML table.
Humanoid 0.3.3.3 a pure Java arcade video game clone of the classic
icecast 1.3.0 MP3 Audio Broadcasting System
icoutils 0.9.0 A set of programs that deal with MS Windows icons and cursors
iGecko 0.99 Financial Media Player
ILD 0.1.2 Throughput logging for the Traverse Technologies NetJet ISDN router
IMHO 0.96.2 IMAP4 Mail Host for Roxen
IMP 2.0.9 IMAP and PHP3 based webmail system
indent 2.1.0 GNU indenting program
InfoPrism pre0.0.7 A General Document Processing System
InfraRed-HOWTO 2.7 How to use the software provided by the Linux/IrDA project.
inpowerd 1.0 UPS power event notification server.
intimed 2.00 A time server for synchronizing networked machines' clocks.
ircu 2.10.06.24 Undernet's IRC daemon
IRMP3 0.3.1 MP3 jukebox daemon, controllable by IR remote control, optional LCDisplay output
isp-watcher 1.06.1 A perl script which monitors lines at an ISP for disconnects.
jdrinfo 0.1 Implements a hypothetical machine-information retreival protocol
jed 0.99-8 Powerful editor, terminal and X11 interface
jEdit 1.7pre5 Powerful text editor
Kalendar 0.5d Simple, easy to use calendar and to-do list manager
Keystone 0.60.01 Web-based problem tracking system, rewrite of an older system called PTS
KHexEdit 0.8.1 Versatile binary file editor for KDE
kISDN 1.0 ISDN configuration and monitoring GUI
KPackage 1.3.6 GUI interface to the RPM and the Debianpackage manager
Krabber 0.4.2 Pre 4 KDE audio cd grabber and mp3 encoder front-end
Krio 0.19990708 A graphical interface to your Diamond Rio
KRunning 0.1.9 A database manager for your private running events
KVIrc 1.0.0 beta 1 Enhanced visual IRC client for X11/KDE
leak 1.0 Simple sysadm shell script for finding which process is leaking memory.
Lesstif 0.88.9 LGPL'd re-implementation of Motif
liboop 0.1 Low-level event loop dispatcher.
LiCe4 4.0.7 Fully functional script for EPIC4, with excellent userlist functions.
LilyPond 1.1.54 The GNU Project music typesetter
LinKT 0.6.1 Packet-Radio terminal for radio amateurs
Linux Backup 1.0 A small utility to backup files
Linux Virtual Server 0.7 for Kernel 2.2.10 Linux Load Balancing and NAT
Linuxconf 1.16r1.1 Sophisticated administrative tool
Lithium 0.3.0 Suite of Network/System Admin Tools with a GTK+ GUI
Logresolve.pl 0.3 Replaces the standard logresolve application that comes bundled with Apache
Lothar project 0.2 Tools for hardware configuration
Lua 3.2 An extensible extension language
lwm 0.8
Lynx 2.8.3.dev4 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
MachineInfo 1.1 author
mailblink 0.3 Blinks LEDs when new mail arrives.
Majik 3D 0.00/M1 An online role-playing world
maketool 0.3 GTK front end for GNU make
MathMap 0.10 A very generic GIMP plug-in
mbx2mbox 0.2 Converts Outlook Express .mbx files into standard RFC822 mail files.
mGSTEP 0.144 An attempt at creating a small lite derivative of GNUstep
mg^2 0.1.12 Truespace work/look alike 3D modeler using Gtk and OpenGL
mhash 0.5.2 Provides an easy to use C interface for several hashalgorithms
Midgard 1.1 A PHP Application Server Suite - Web building with Web-based tools
Midnight Commander 4.5.37 Unix file manager and shell
MindTerm 0.98-4 SSH-client in pure Java, includes stand-alone ssh- and terminal(vt100)-packages
MiniMate 3.14.0.3 Administration tool for MiniVend
minordomo 0.7 A minimalistic mailing list manager
mkdnstab 0.3 DNS Table generator in Perl
monitor.c 1.0.0 power off after prolonged inactivity
MP3c 0.17 Audio-CD to MP3-Converter, with use of CDDB. Included GUI and cmdline-support
MPEG Movie Tools 1.0.0 Complete set of tools for encoding MPEG-I movies with picture and sound
mpstat 0.0.9 Helps monitoring SMP machines
mtools 3.9.6
Multi-vendor UPS Monitoring Project 0.41.1 Multiple vendor (APC, Powercom) UPS monitoring software
MyGuestbook 0.7.0 A simple Guestbook using PHP3 and MySQL, several languages supported
MySQL 3.23.1-alpha SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
NAMG 0.0.7 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
NetLeds applet 0.9.0 A gnome applet that displays lights (RX, TX and COL) from a network device.
NetSaint 0.0.4b1 A relatively simple active network monitor
news2html 0.2 converts news articles into HTML formatted files.
nget 0.7 auto-resuming command line nntp file grabber
ngrep 1.33 network grep
nis-utils 1.1 Linux NIS+ Tools
ntop 1.2a2 Network usage monitor
oFBis 0.0.9 Framebuffer graphical library for Linux.
OfflineMailer 0.2 Offline mail handler
ojstools 0.3 Tools to simplify JavaScript programming
OpenNaken 0.20 Tcl/Tk client for Naken Chat
ORBit 0.4.92 Thin/fast CORBA ORB
Paloma 0.82a Relational music/mp3 database system
passwdd 0.03 Password synchronization server/client
PCCS NRM 0.8c Network Resource Manager (PC, NW Printers, and Software)
PCI Utilities 2.1-pre4 Utilities for diagnostics and cofiguration of PCI devices
PDAddUser 1.1 Tool for administering large amounts of users easily from simple text lists
ped 0.1.2 A text editor with an emacs/vi-like user interface written in perl.
Perl App Server 19990712 Object Oriented Application Server written in Perl
PHPLIB 7 Web Application Development Package for the PHP 3 language
phpop 0.2 Simple PHP Web based POP e-mail reader
phpPolls 1.0.2 PHP Voting Booth
popexec 0.0 Runs any arbitrary command when new e-mail arrives at a POP mailbox
Popol 0.2 ID3v1.1 tagger, doesn't append tags to already tagged file...
PoPToP 0.9.5 PPTP Server for Linux
PortSentry 0.98 Detects and responds to port scans against a target host inreal-time.
PPP_Install 0.1.2 Easy way to install PPP internet scripts for use on Console or Xwindow
privtool 0.90 Beta GT009 Sun mailtool replacement with PGP support
psiconv 0.3.0 Psion 5 file conversion utilities and file format documentation
ptkfonted 0.11 Perl/Tk BDF Font Editor
PURP 0.9.0 An ncurses-based RPM-manager
PyGCS 1.3.2 A very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python.
Q10 0.20 A basic Qt GUI for manipulating X10's Firecracker devices
QScheme 0.2 Really fast, small and easy to interface Scheme interpreter
QuickList 0.6.0 MS Works like database application
QuIRC 0.9.79 X IRC client written in C++ with full Tcl/Tk scripting.
Quotable Homer quotes 19990711 Homer Simpson quotes for `fortune`
RadioActive 0.6 patch 1 Radio tuner for X11 and Video4Linux
radkill 1.21 BASH script for ISP's that wish to guarantee no busy signals
REalizer 0.3 Python regular expression tester
RearSite 0.81 Tool for updating personal www pages
Remembrance Agent 2.04 Remembrance Agents are an augmented, associative memory.
ripperX 0.98 A graphical interface to cdparanoia and 8hz-mp3
RPM 3.0.2 Red Hat's package management system
sblive (EMU10K1) v0.3b Linux Driver for SoundBlaster Live! and Live! Value.
sci 0.5.4 A data entry screen builder which works from ASCII templates
ScryMUD 1.9.11 Original MUD Server and Java Client
sherpa 0.1.1 A system security configuration and maintenance tool
sitecopy 0.7.0 Maintain remote copies of locally stored web sites
slang 1.3.8 A powerful interpreted language
SMS Client 2.0.8h Command line based utility which allows you to send SMS messages
spec-gen 0.0.6 simple spec file generator
Spruce 0.4.8a Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
sqlbind8 0.9.0 SQL backend to Bind 8
sqrmimport 1.0 Import util for the Squirm redirector
Squid 2.2.STABLE4 High performance Web proxy cache
Squirm 1.0B A fast & configurable redirector for the Squid Internet Object Cache.
strace 4.0 System call tracing utility (like trace, truss, etc)
sudo 1.6b6 Provides limited super user priviledges to specific users
Sula Primerix II 0.09.1 Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
susi 071399 An easy user-interface management
SWplayer 1.1 Plays Simon Jansen's Star Wars ASCIImation on a Unix text terminal. With source.
syslog-ng 1.1.27 A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.
tar 1.13.1 utility used to store, backup, and transport files.
TCE/Java 1.0.1 Java class library - minsize, maxperf - BigDecimal, string conversions, more
TCL Developer Studio 1.0 small
tcpdstats 1.2 tcpd log analyzer
The Loci Project (alpha) A network-distributed system of clients and servers for computational biology
The Newsroom 1.01c The Newsroom for the Falken BBS Software.
The SCOOBS Context Based Search Engine 1.0.1 A Java Based XML Search Engine that allows searching with context.
TkFM 1.0.2 Tcl/Tk File Manager
tkFTP 1.0.2 tkFTP is an FTP client completely written with the Tcl/Tk scripting language.
TKnetbus 0.2.1 Tcl/tk-client for the cracking-tool netbus
tkWorld 1.3.0 Wes's Own Really Lazy Desktop
tpctl 0.1.9 a ThinkPad configuration tool for Linux
Traveller's Linux 1.1.8 Minimal floppy Linux distribution
twonz 0.1 secure hash calculator for password management
uri 2.3 URI manipulation library
util-linux 2.9u Miscellaneous system utilities
Venezia 0.9 C++/GTK++ based client for the c-mserver (masqdialing)
Vim 5.4o Popular vi clone that features syntax highlighting and an X11 interface
ViperDB 0.8 A smaller and faster option to Tripwire
Wacom Driver for XFree86 alpha 8 Wacom driver for XFree86
WaveForge 0.0.2 A Sound Forge Wave Editor Clone for Linux.
webbase 5.1 Internet crawler C library and program
Webinterface for Unix Listproc 0.1 A Webinterface for Unix Listproc; user functions only; no admin stuff (yet?)
Webmin 0.73 Web-based interface for system administration for Unix
WebRFM 0.2a CGI file manager supporting WebDAV and other HTTP extensions
which 2.7 Show full path of commands
WMmhcheck 1.0 Window Maker applet to display number of messages in your mailboxes
WMmnt 2.5 a mount.app-like dockapp, that uses LEDs and big icons
WMNetMon 0.2 A WindowMaker dockable network host monitoring tool using ICMP pings.
wmRecord 1.0.0 wmRecord is a general purpose audio recording utility
wmx10 0.01 A WindowMaker/Afterstep applet to control X10's Firecracker kit
wmy2k 2.0 beta1 Countdown to y2k for your Window Maker dock
X-Chat 1.1.2 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
XEmacs 21.1.4 (Arches) Internationalized text editor
xmemo 1.00 XWindow desktop memo.
XML::Parser 2.24 XML Parser module for perl based on James Clark's expat lib
XMMS-Solaris 0.2.1 Output plugin for XMMS to play on Solaris audio
Xplanet 0.30 An Xearth wannabe
xps 3.14 X/Motif dynamic display the Unix processes tree/forest
XRacer 0.52 Clone of Psygnosis WipeOut
XSane 0.28 A GTK-based X11 frontend for SANE, also a GIMP plugin
xterm Patch #111 A terminal emulator for the X Window System
Yacas 1.0.3 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Zircon 1.18.220 An IRC client written in tcl/tk
 

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