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Resources

The High performance cluster computing page was put up by Rajkumar Buyya in support of his books by the same name. There is a lot of information there for anybody looking for information on clustered systems or applications.

Here's a brief note from Eric S. Raymond about the new release of `Homesteading the Noosphere' a followup paper to ``The Cathedral and the Bazaar''.

Events

Ted T'So will speak at the New York Linux Users Group meeting on August 18. Ted is a core kernel hacker, and a good speaker as well; this one is worth seeing if you're in the area. Details in the announcement.

The Brookhaven National Laboratory will hold a one-day conference, titled "Open Source/Open Science", on Saturday, Oct 2, 1999, on the Laboratory campus which is located on Long Island NY. They now have a web site online ready to take abstract submissions and registrations. For details see this announcement.


August 12, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AccuRev 1.0.7c Cross Platform Configuration Management for Distributed Development
ACE 5.0 Object-oriented C++ class library and framework
acl 0.4.0 Colorizes log files using advanced parsing capabilities.
adns 0.4 An advanced alternative, asynchronous resolver
adzapper 0.1.25 HTTP proxy that filters ads
Aegis 3.19 Transaction-based software configuration management system
aewm 0.9.4 A minimalistic window manager for X
AML 1.5 AML -- an implementation of a basic register machine with support for ASM.
APE 0.9.2 APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc.
Applix SHELF 2.1 An embedable fully featured programming language for Linux
Applixware 4.4.2 Integrated suite of desktop productivity tools.
Array-util 0.8 Util to monitor Compaq Smartarray controllers
asNews 0.4.1 Simple news retrieving software which shows the news on your desktop
August 0.40 A free html editor for Linux/Unix.
Aurora redhog.4 Graphical init controller for Linux
barboot 1.2 Fancy boot loader
BeOpen.com InfoDock 4.08u2 An Integrated Development Environment & Info Manager
Birthday 1.0 Birthday reminder
bzip2 0.9.5c Very high-quality data compression program
CDDBP Proxy 1.4 CDDBP to HTTP proxy.
CDPlayer.app 1.3c CD player with CDDB support.
cfingerd 1.4.0 The Configurable Finger Daemon
ClanBomber 0.97 Bomberman clone for ClanLib (X11 for now).
CompuPic 4.6 build 1012 CompuPic Graphical Digital Content and File Manager for Linux
costd 0.12 log phone costs
CrashMail II 0.52 Fidonet tosser for *.msg and JAM
cst-calendar 1.2 Web based, php3/mysql powered organisational calendar
Cyrus IMAP server 1.5.19
Dallas DS-1820 Temperature Sensor Monitor 0.1.0 Application and library for talking to Dallas Semi 1-wire devices
Dancer 4.15 beta 2 IRC defense bot, protects your channel and your users
DejaSearch 1.64 DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive
DeleGate 5.9.3 Multi-purpose application level gateway (proxy)
DGen/SDL 1.18 DGen Sega Genesis emulator, ported to SDL
dhcpxd 1.0.2 An endlessly customizable DHCP client daemon
Digital Media System (DMS) 0.0.2 A streaming floating point audio architecture.
DizzyICQ 0.15 ICQ clone for console text, ncurses/icqlib based.
dNotes 0.2g Java based notes collector
Doc++ 3.3.14 Powerful Javadoc like C++ documentation creation tool.
docbook2X 0.5 Convert DocBook documents to man and Texinfo formats
Dynamics - HUT Mobile IP 0.5 Dynamic, scalable, hierarchical Mobile IP system with localized location updates
EasyGTK 1.1.4 Wrapper library for GTK
Eddie 1.2.0 Robust, clustering, load balancing, high availability, web server tool.
efingerd 1.1 Another finger daemon for linux
eggdrop 1.3.28 IRC bot, written in C
Env::Array 1.001 Perl module for treating environment variables as arrays
Epeios 19990809 Collection of general purposes C++ libraries working under UNIX and Windows.
Ethereal 0.7.2 GUI network protocol analyzer
EveryChat 3.6 Minimalist Perl CGI Chat Program
eXtace 1.1.14 ESD FFT visual plugin, eye-candy
FCheck 2.07.37 Policy Enforcement and Intrusion Detection
fmscore 0.9 freshmeat daily newsletter parser (Mail::Freshmeat) and scorer
FORUM 2.0.2 Another PHP3/Mysql forum with some nifty features
FREEdraft 0.38 2D mechanical cad project
freemed 19990804 Free medical management software in a web browser
freesweep 0.87 Curses-based minesweeper
fryit 0.3.3 Graphical frontend for cdrecord.
gaddr 1.1.2 A simple GTK+ Addressbook
gaim 0.9.7 GTK based AOL Instant Messenger
Galway 0.18 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
GeneWeb 2.05 A combo web interface and genealogy program combined on steroids
GeomPrm 0.1.0 Linear Geometric Library- Solutions to generic linear geometric needs
Get Slashdot News 1.0 Grabs the Slashdot headlines. Great for putting into pages etc.
Getleft 0.5.4 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
GIMPressionist 0.99.4b Impressionistic plug-in for the GIMP
GIntMon 0.0.2 GNOME Panel Interrupt Monitor
GKrellM 0.6.0-2 System monitor package
glTron 0.40 tron-like game with a 3D view
gman 0.0.2 A user-friendly graphical front end for the man page system
GMasqdialer 0.99.5 Gnome Client for the Masqdialer System
GNU GRUB 0.5.92 GRand Unified Bootloader
GNU Privacy Guard 0.9.10 GPLed PGP replacement tool
GNU Pth 1.1b3 GNU Portable Threads
GnuCash 1.2.3 A program to keep track of your finances
GNUware 1.1 A low cost CD containing over 1000 free Linux and UNIX programs.
GOB 0.0.2 Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object
GPM 1.17.9 A mouse server for the console and xterm.
gPS 0.2.2 GTK-based process status reporting like ps, top and task manager
Grany-3 0.9 The cellular automaton simulator.
Grec 0.1.1 A file manager to X similar to Midnight Commander
GSnes9x 1.2 GNOME front end for the Snes9X SNES emulator
GTK+XFce 3.0.3 Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11
GtkComboButton 0.3.5 A Combobutton for GTK+
GTKeyboard 0.97.1 Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled
GtkGraph 0.3.0 Graphing calculator for X
GTKtalog 0.05 Fast Disk Catalog using a friendly interface with powerfull file research module
Hex 0.0.2 Puzzle Bobble clone in GTK.
HTMLPerlSETI 0.8 Display SETI@home client statistics in an HTML table.
htnews 0.6.6a Email robot for adding news items to a webpage.
icewm 0.9.44 Window Manager designed for speed, usability and consistency
Intelligent TETRIS 1.5.3 A tetris clone for SVGAlib or X11
ipfa 1.1.0 IP firewall and accouting
IPSC 0.3.0 IP subnet calculator (GNOME/CLI)
jdfetch 0.1 A set of tools to fetch and format news boxes
jdtracker 0.11 CGI/Javascript combo to gather remote sites statistics
jdwhatsnew 0.21 CGI/cron combo to check for updates on sites. full web interface.
JetSpeed 0.02 An OpenSource GroupWare/Portal
Jigsaw 2.0.3 W3C's leading-edge Web server platform
KAPM 0.2.2 An APM-BIOS monitor for the KDE desktop.
KFibs 1.0.3 KFibs is a KDE client for FIBS.
Kmap 0.3 Nmap port-scanner frontend for QT/KDE
kmp_psql 0.1.0 KMySQL plugin providing access to PostGres databases
KMySQL 1.1.6 A MySql client for KDE.
KReglo 1.0 KReglo displays a ruler with a magnifier on the screen.
libglade 0.3 XML-based runtime user interface loader for GNOME
Licq 0.70h Advanced graphical ICQ clone and more for Unix
Linux Memory Technology Device project 19990809 Support for Flash and RAM devices under Linux
Linux Palm Desktop 1.0 A program to integrate your Palm Pilot with Linux
Linux trustees 1.4 Linux ACL
Linuxconf 1.16r2.1 Sophisticated administrative tool
logcoloriser 1.0.3 Ssyslog log colourising PERL script
mathutils 0.1 Collection of math shell utilities like average, normalize, etc.
mGSTEP 0.168 An attempt at creating a small lite derivative of GNUstep
mg^2 0.1.14 Truespace work/look alike 3D modeler using Gtk and OpenGL
MHonArc 2.4.1 Perl mail-to-HTML converter.
MindTerm 99pre1 SSH-client in pure Java, includes stand-alone ssh- and terminal(vt100)-packages
miniCHESS 0.8 chess dock app
moodss 8.1 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
MOSIX 0.93.0 for Linux 2.2.10 Single-system-image Clustering Software for Linux
MP3SQL 1.1.0.1 Indexes your MP3 with MP3tags into an SQL database
MUD Board Plugin 1.0 Plugin for M* servers
MUD Plugin Package 1.0 Extends the usefulness of your M* server.
Muddleftpd 1.1alpha2 A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.
MyGuestbook 0.8.2 A simple Guestbook using PHP3 and MySQL, several languages supported
MySQL 3.23.2-alpha SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
NAMG 0.1.1 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
Ncurses Hexedit 0.9.7 Ncurses file hex editor - edit/insert/delete/search
netcomics 0.9.1 A perl script that downloads today's comics from the Web
NetSaint 0.0.4b3 A relatively simple active network monitor
neuralnets 0.8 An extendable Neural Network
NmapFE 0.7 GTK+ front end for Nmap.
NoNEdit 0.1 Makes noweb literate programming easier with NEdit.
OBAS 0.9beta Web-based bibliography maintainer
OfflineMailer 0.3 Offline mail handler
OpenClassroom - distribution for Education. Pre-alpha. Linux distribution for the Educational market.
OpenSSL 0.9.4 The Open Source toolkit for Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security
Oracletool 0.91 A web based tool for Oracle DBA's written in Perl.
PDAddUser 1.2p Tool for administering large amounts of users easily from simple text lists
Perl Fantasy Football League 0.1 Perl scripts to maintain a fantasy football league
PFinger 0.7.2 Highly configurable replacement for GNU Finger
PhatLINUX 3.0 PhatLINUX v3.0 is a full Linux distribution that runs on an MS-DOS partition.
PHP 4.0 beta2 HTML-embedded scripting language
Pingus 0.2.0 Lemmings clone with penguins.
pk 0.8.16 An Open-Source POSIX Threads embedded real-time kernel
PLUG 0.2 A HTML-based frontend to /var/log/messages
pop3gwd 1.2 POP3 proxy server
Portaloo Alpha-19990808 Web Portal Engine
PowerPak 990809 An attempt at a high-level game SDK
PURP 0.9.2 An ncurses-based RPM-manager
pvmsync 0.43 extends POSIX-like synchronization mechanisms to a Linux Beowulf cluster
PyGCS 1.3.4 A very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python.
Pyrite 0.7.7 Palm Computing platform communication kit for Python
qc-net 0.04 A streaming daemon & clients for the B&W Connectix QuickCam.
QDMerge 0.2 A utility to generate documents from a template and data files.
Quick-Tk 0.5 Quick/Visual interface to Tk 4.1 script development
QuickList 0.6.3 MS Works like database application
Qutar 0.98 rev 2 QT interface for tar
recover 0.6 A utility which automates some steps to undelete a file.
RegExplorer 0.1.2 Regular Expression Explorer
RePop 0.1 A pop3 daemon that seamlessly glues together a list of pop3 mailboxes.
ROCK Linux 1.0b14 Linux Distribution for high skilled Linux User and Admins
rotfl 0.6.1 simple text formatting language
Ruby 1.3.7 An object-oriented language for quick and easy programming
rxvt 2.7.0 A VT102 emulator for the X window system
Saint 1.4 beta 4 Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool
Sapphire 0.11.4 A new window manager for the X Windows System.
Sarah Tracker 0.4 Program to create music with samples
SCREEM 0.1.1 Site CReating & Editing EnvironMent
ScryMUD 2.0.1 Original MUD Server and Java Client
Send Packet 1.0 Network administration tool
sh-utils 1.16m GNU shell programming utilities
si 0.5 /proc system information viewer
Sketch 0.6.1 Vector drawing program, implemented in python
SMSLink 0.41b Client/server gateway to the SMS protocol
SNES9x 1.21 Portable, freeware Super Nintendo Entertainment System(SNES) emulator
Snort 1.2.1 Libpcap packet sniffer/logger/lightweight IDS
Socks5 1.0r10 SOCKS is a network firewall, and more
SoundTracker 0.1.11 A music tracker for X / GTK+
Space Racer 0.012 An OpenGL Car Game
speechd 0.50 Implements /dev/speech device (all plaintext written to it will be spoken aloud)
Sporum 1.1b1 A better web-based dicussion board software
Squid 2.3-DEVEL2 High performance Web proxy cache
Sula Primerix II 0.09.3 Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X
Superficie 0.6.5 A program for basic 3D surfaces viewing and manipulation.
Synaesthesia 2.0 Program to reperesent music from CD or MP3 graphically.
Synapse DR1/a 3d Graphical User Interface
Tcl/Tk 8.2b2 A portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, andMacintosh
Tempest-AM 0.8 AM Radio Signal Transmitter
Terraform 0.3.7 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
Test Environment Toolkit 3.2g A toolkit for test development and management
textutils 2.0 GNU text file processing utilities
The BeOpen.com OO-Browser 4.07 A fast, multi-language, multi-platform object-oriented code browser
The Innerworld Project 0.1.1 A system for building an online world/RPG
tin pre-1.4-19990805 Curses based threaded NNTP and spool based UseNet newsreader
tinyproxy 1.2.8 A small, lightweight, easy-to-configure HTTP proxy.
TkDiff 3.04 Graphical 2-way diff/merge
TkSETI 1.42 A GUI for automated control of the SETI@Home client for UNIX.
TkZip 1.0.13 X front end to standard archiving/compression programs
Todokeru 05 FTP Daemon implemented in Perl.
Tragic Release I Peer to Peer chat and ftp user lookup network
UnrealIRCd 2.1.5 Advanced IRC daemon based off EliteIRCd with numerous of new features
urmcore 0.1.1 Quickly finds, verifies, and removes old core files with minimum system load.
User Scan 0.0.3 User monitoring tool
WebRun 1.9 Simple Java application distribution tool
WHAMp 0.4.1 An mpg123 frontend using the gtk-toolkit
which 2.8 Show full path of commands
Wine 990731 Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
wmmmnn 0.0b wm-mail-mon-net-netselect combined in one compact app.
wmpinboard 0.9 Window Maker pinboard dock-app
wmy2k 2.0beta3 Countdown to y2k for your Window Maker dock
wsmake 0.5.6 Website make tool written in C++
wxPython 2.1b2 Python extension module for wxWindows
wxWindows/GTK 2.1 beta 8 GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library
X-Chat 1.1.7 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
X-Tract 262 XML Script processor
XGlobe 0.3.1 A toy that displays a globe on your X desktop
XRN 9.02-beta-3
Xterminal 0.6.10 Object Oriented User Interface with a client-serverarchitecture
Xtheater 0.1.0 GTK-based MPEG-1 video & video/audio player
xusertool 0.2 GUI based account management.
Xwhois 0.3.8 Small and fast GTK+ X11 client for the internet whois network services.
Xwrits 2.8 Reminds you to take wrist breaks
 

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