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Resources

Joffer's old Linux RIVA128 Xconfigurator Guide has been updated and is back on-line, with a new name: the Linux SVGA Guide.

Events

Ziff-Davis events announced LINUX Business Expo, the company's first Linux-dedicated conference and exposition set to run November 15-19, 1999, in the Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, and co-located with COMDEX/Fall '99.

The Call-For-Papers for the Freenix Track at the Usenix 2000 conference (June 2000) has been released. Submissions are due by November 29th. "FREENIX is the showcase for the latest developments and interesting applications in freely redistributable software. The FREENIX forum includes Apache, FreeBSD, GNOME, GNU, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Samba, and more. "

Web sites

DeployLinux.Net is a Linux OS site dedicated to practical application of open-source technology in the enterprise. Here's an announcement.

User Group News

The Central Ohio Linux Users Group (COLUG) July meeting is scheduled be held SATURDAY, 31 July 1999 13:00-15:00 -- It will be an INSTALLFEST, at the LanShark facility -- see: linux.lanshark.com/. For more details see this announcement.

Folks interested in the Linux Standard Base may wish to mark their calanders. The July 24 meeting of the Suncoast Linux Users Group will feature Stuart Anderson of MetroLink. Stuart Anderson is the Technical Subcommittee Lead of the Linux Standard Base project and will talk about the LSB and other assorted goodies. [Thanks to Paul Braman]


July 22, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AbiWord 0.7.3 Fully featured word processor
aewm 0.9.2 A minimalistic window manager for X
Aldona 0.6.0 Lithuanian keymap utility for the Window Maker dock
AMaViS 0.2.0-pre5 A Mail Virus Scanner, looks for viruses in e-mail attachments
Apache-SSL 1.3.6+1.3.5 Secure Webserver (using SSLeay)
apmd 3.0beta8 Set of tools for managing notebook power consumption
Artistic Style 1.10.1 Indentation and reformatting filters for C, C++, Java
August 0.37 A free html editor for Linux/Unix.
bfs 0.1 UnixWare Boot Filesystem for Linux
boclient 1.3.1 BackOrifice and NetBus remote administration client
Bulli 1.0 Parquet Deformation Toolkit
CD Jukebox 0.5 Multi-drive console CD player
CDlib 0.7 Graphical tool to search for files in your CD-ROMs
cdrecord 1.8a23 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
Chaperon memory access checker 1.2.3 Checks memory accesses for bad behavior
ClanBomber 0.95 Bomberman clone for ClanLib (X11 for now).
Compaq Smart-2 Driver 1.0.5 Linux Driver for Compaq Smart-2 PCI Disk Array Controllers
Cookiecutter 0.1.1 Utility for removing unwanted cookies from Netscape cookie files
Data::Address::Standardize Perl Module 0.001 A Perl module for standardizing U.S. postal addresses
DECnet for Linux 2.00 DECnet socket layer and applications
Diary.py 0.9 Diary is a simple journal program to record daily events, etc.
divine 0.4 automatic IP configuration detection for laptops
DynDNS 0.35 Dynamic DNS server
Efsane 0.6.0 Turkish Window Manager for X
ELKS 0.0.78 A subset of the Linux kernel that runs in 8086 real mode and 286 protected mode
Emacs 20.4 The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time displayeditor
EO Snapshot 160799 Templates-based, ANSI-C++ compliant evolutionary computation library
EPIC 4pre2.004-19990718 ANSI capable textmode IRC Client
eXtace 1.1.8 ESD FFT visual plugin, eye-candy
FOP 0.8.1 An XSL formatter written in Java that outputs PDF
FREEdraft 0.37 2D mechanical cad project
freemed 19990714 Free medical management software in a web browser
freerdist 0.90 Free remote distribution application
fryit 0.3.0 Graphical frontend for cdrecord.
g3d 0.0.2 3D polygonal modeler built with Gtk+
GAG 1.3 A graphical boot manager, with a lot of interesting features.
Galway 0.10.0 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
Gamora 0.72 Java based server construction, hosting, and adminstration architecture.
gchbkgrd 0.9.1 Program to constantly change the desktop's background
gd 1.6.1 A library used to create GIF images
ghost_edit 0.1 A fast and simple GTK-based host table editor
gisdn 0.1 GTK-port of imon/imontty
Glacier 0.0.1 Another e-mail client for Gnome.
GNOME Weather 0.05-4 Gnome weather monitor
GnomePM 0.1.3 GNOME equivilent of the Yahoo! (C) Java Portfolio Manager
GnoRPM 0.9 A graphical front end to the Redhat package managementsystem
GNU Oleo 1.99.5 Free spreadsheet application
GNU Pth 1.0.0 GNU Portable Threads
GNU shtool 1.4.4 Shell Script Collection
GPeriodic 1.2.1 Periodic Table Reference and Browser
GProc 0.0.2 Managing process from the Gnome panel
gpsd 0.99 Listens to a GPS and provides clients with the data.
GSLgen code generator 1.2 Universal XML template-based code generator
gtaskman 0.06 A process manager for X using GTK+
GTC 0.2 Game Programming Library
GTK xset 0.2 GTK xset is a graphical frontend to xset(1), based on GTK+
GTK+XFce 3.0.2 Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11
GtkAda 1.2.3 Ada95 binding of Gtk+
GTKeyboard 0.97 Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled
gtkpool 0.3 Simple GTK+ pool game
GTKstep 1.6 Improves the default look and feel of the GTK+ widget set
gtml 3.3.6 An HTML pre-processor specially designed for maintaining web sites.
hindent 1.1.0 HTML indentation (pretty printing) utility
HTML::Mason 0.6 A component-based perl web development environment
HTMLPerlSETI 0.5 Display SETI@home client statistics in an HTML table.
Ilib 1.1.2 Image manipulation library for reading and writing images
ImView 0.1 Image viewer for scripts
indent 2.1.1 GNU indenting program
infobot 0.44.1 Pseudo-AI IRC bot written in Perl
IPTraf 2.0.1 An ncurses-based IP LAN monitor
ircd-hybrid 5.3p7 Internet Relay Chat daemon
ircII 4.4J
J'Express Professional 3.1.5 Lets you create multilingual installers and auto-updaters
jack 2.0.1 A console cd-ripper written in python
jdresolve 0.4 Resolves IP addresses into hostnames. Supports Apache logs and recursion.
jdrinfo 0.2 Implements a hypothetical machine-information retreival protocol
Jetty 2.2.1 HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java
KFibs 1.0.1 KFibs is a KDE client for FIBS.
King of the Hill (KOTH) 0.5 Full client/server multiplayer artillery game in the scorched earth tradition
Kingpin 1.09 Beta Kingpin Full Linux Client Port
Kmp3 kmp3 1.0-pre A KDE MP3 Player
KMySQL 1.1.5 A MySql client for KDE.
kpsql 0.9 A SQL GUI client for PostgreSQL/K Desktop
Leafnode 1.9.4 NNTP server for small leaf sites
Lemon 1.0 Modern parser generator
Libero 2.32 Generates code in many languages from state diagrams.
Lynx 2.8.3.dev4 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
makeheaders 0.0unknown Automatically generates headers from C/C++ source
Market Analysis System (MAS) 1.0 market data analysis software
memwatch 2.61 Memory leak/corruption detection, ANSI-C source code with test program.
Midgard 1.1.1 A PHP Application Server Suite - Web building with Web-based tools
mlvwm 0.90 Window manager for X11 designed to look and feel like the Macintosh environment
mod_ssl 2.3.6 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
moodss 7.99 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
Mozilla M8 Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator
MP3c 0.18 Audio-CD to MP3-Converter, with use of CDDB. Included GUI and cmdline-support
MP3info 0.4 A small program to set MP3s' ID3
mpstat 0.1.0 Helps monitoring SMP machines
mxODBC 1.1.1 Python DatabaseAPI compliant interface to ODBC 2.0
NAMG 0.0.9 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
NcFTPd 2.5.0 High-performance File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for UNIXsystems
ngrep 1.33 network grep
ojstools 0.4 Tools to simplify JavaScript programming
pasu 1.1.2 Probability and Statistics Utilities
Paw 0.46 Perl ASCII Widgets
PCCS NRM 08e Network Resource Manager (PC, NW Printers, and Software)
PDAddUser 1.2 Tool for administering large amounts of users easily from simple text lists
pdksh 5.2.14 Public domain version of the Korn Shell , POSIX sh
Penguineyes 0.8 Linux-ified version of Xeyes written with GTK+ and Imlib
PerlSETI 0.4.5 GUI front end for the SETI@home client, programmed in Perl. Many Statistics.
pftp 1.0.15 A tool for IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP data transfer.
PHP 4.0 Beta 1 HTML-embedded scripting language
PHPGen 0.7 Small PHP-script for generating PHP frontends to MySQL Databases
pop3check 0.90.1 simple program checks a pop3 server to see if you have new mail
Powertweak-Linux v0.1.1 System performance enhancer.
ppower 0.1.2 Software for listening to and controlling x10 home automation devices.
proxy 2.0 Simple Proxy Server
Public Bookmark Generator 0.4 Generate a public bookmark (selected items) out of your bookmarks
pvmsync 0.35 extends POSIX-like synchronization mechanisms to a Linux Beowulf cluster
Pyrite 0.7.5 Palm Computing platform communication kit for Python
Q10 0.30 A basic Qt GUI for manipulating X10's Firecracker devices
QmailAdmin 0.23 Web based interface for Qmail Administration
QScheme 0.2 Really fast, small and easy to interface Scheme interpreter
QuickList 0.6.1 MS Works like database application
Quicktime for Linux 1.1.0 Low level Quicktime library for *NIX
radkill 1.21 BASH script for ISP's that wish to guarantee no busy signals
REalizer 0.5 Python regular expression tester
RealTimeBattle 0.9.8 RealTimeBattle, a robot programming game for Unix
Remembrance Agent 2.05 Remembrance Agents are an augmented, associative memory.
rglclock 1.3.3 Rotating 3D clock
RRDtool 1.0.0 time-series data logging and graphing
Saint 1.4beta3 Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool
sci 0.5.5 A data entry screen builder which works from ASCII templates
ScryMUD 1.9.12 Original MUD Server and Java Client
Sentinel 1.0.2c Fast system file scanner
Setedit 0.4.29 An editor for C/C++ programmers with a nice text interface.
SETI@Home Client 1.3 Distributed SETI data-analysis client
si 0.2 /proc system information viewer
Sketch 0.7.1 Vector drawing program, implemented in python
SLRN 0.9.5.7 An NNTP based newsreader for Unix, VMS, and OS/2 systems
SMPEG 0.2.5 SDL MPEG player with sound
SMS Client 2.0.8i Command line based utility which allows you to send SMS messages
Sox 12.16 Sound Processing Tool
strobe-classb 1.8 Compact network scanner, Linux-specific, for scanning large networks.
Sula Primerix II 0.09.1c Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
svgalib 1.4.0 Low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console
sws 0.1 A Star Wars style scroller using GLUT
tar 1.13.3 utility used to store, backup, and transport files.
Tcl/Tk 8.2b1 A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh
Terraform 0.3.5 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
The Bomb's black jack 0.1 A console Black Jack game.
The Comic Book Database for Linux 0.8.0 Comics helps you keep track of almost every facet of you comic book collection.
The Gimp 1.1.7 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The Linux Console Tools 0.2.1 Allows you to set-up and manipulate theLinux console
the PHP Snurk 0.01 Search-engine friendly URLs for dynamic content in PHP.
The Virtual Society 0.0.1 A non interactive simulation of a society.
tixlpq 0.3.8p1 Nice GUI for printmanagement
tkload 1.2.1 TkPerl tool for monitoring load on remote servers using SNMP
tkvnc 0.4 Button pallette for AT&T's VNC remote control software
twonz 0.1 secure hash calculator for password management
txt2pdf 2.2 A very flexible and powerful PERL5 converter from text files to PDF
typespeed 0.3.4 Type speed testing program, gives your fingers' CPS
Unix Desktop Environment 0.2.4-BETA A new GUI for Unix with a completely new look'n'feel
Vacation 1.0 A mail auto-responder
Venezia 1.0 C++/GTK++ based client for the c-mserver (masqdialing)
VenGaboyTK 1.00 Gameboy Emulator using GTK
Virtual X68000 0.36.19990714 X68000 emulator
WaveForge 0.0.3 A Sound Forge Wave Editor Clone for Linux.
web-FTP 0.05 A lightweight Perl/CGI FTP client
webbase 5.2 Internet crawler C library and program
WebEvent 3.2 Beta WebEvent is web calendar software for your web site.
Window Maker Theme Install 0.31 Window Maker theme installation program written in Gtk
wmfire 0.0.1p1 fire in a window maker dock applet
wmRecord 1.0.0 wmRecord is a general purpose audio recording utility
wmx10 0.02 A WindowMaker/Afterstep applet to control X10's Firecracker kit
WPAM 0.0-alpha-19071999 A simple set of routines to handle login/session managment for web applications.
WSoundServer 0.1.1 Sound Server for Window Maker
X-Chat 1.1.3 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
X-Tract Build 202 XML Script processor
Xcd-Fnord 0.5 GUI frontend to various mp3-rippers and mp3-compressors
XGlobe 0.3 A toy that displays a globe on your X desktop
xinetd 2.1.8.6b6 Powerful inetd replacement
XML-Template 1.0 A flexible templating system using XML markup
XRacer 0.65 Clone of Psygnosis WipeOut
XRoads v0.6 A 2D maze/shoot-em-up game for X
XSane 0.29 A GTK-based X11 frontend for SANE, also a GIMP plugin
XScreenSaver 3.17 Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
xterm Patch #112 A terminal emulator for the X Window System
Yacas 1.0.3 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Zebra 0.73 Route Server and Route Reflector daemon
Zope 2.0.0a4 Web application platform used for building high-performance, dynamic web sites.
 

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