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Resources

Version 1.6 of the Linux Laptop HOWTO is available, though the latest version is not currently on the LDP pages. See the announcement for information and location.

Recovering a deleted mail spool is the subject of this column on LinuxCare's site. Have a look, and hope you never find yourself in the same situation...

A Linux and C programming mailing list has been created, see the announcement for details. It is intended to be a forum for people seeking (or providing!) help around C programming on Linux systems.

Gimp book reviewed. There is a review of the book "The Artists' Guide to the Gimp" by Michael J. Hammel at AboutLinux.

A new email book. O'Reilly has announced "Programming Internet Email," by David Wood.

Events

The Bazaar, now scheduled for December 14-16, 1999 in New York, has issued a Call For Participation. The submission deadline is September 17.

The call for papers for the 2000 Usenix technical conference has gone out; submissions are due by November 19.

Incorporating Linux into your business strategy is a two-day conference consisting of "Compelling Case-Studies Demonstrating Why Linux Should be on Your Radar Screen." It will be held in Washington, DC on November 1 and 2. See the announcement for more.

Web sites

The GNOME-es (Spanish GNOME document translation) project web pages have moved, check them out at the new site.

September 2, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
acl 0.5.0 Colorizes log files using advanced parsing capabilities.
acmemail 2.1.5 acmemail is a single-user POP3 to Web gateway with full MIME support
Adaptive Server Enterprise Sybase 11.0.3.3 Adaptive Server Enterprise, (formerly Sybase SQL Server)
adzapper 0.1.27 HTTP proxy that filters ads
AfterStep 1.7.142 Window manager for the X/Windows environment with NeXT look and feel
alarm applet 0.8.7 Simple alarm for the GNOME panel
ALSA driver 0.4.1 An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support
Anachronism 0.3 RTS strategy
angif 1.0.0beta1 LZW-free GIF code to output animation and/or true-color
Appletalk Configurator 1.0 GTK+ GUI for Netatalk package
arla 0.27 A free AFS client and server for Linux, *BSD and others.
ArmedLINUX 1.1b Final Beta A Linux Distro Aimed at windows Users
aRts 0.3.3 Analog realtime synthesizer
AsciiArtWidget 0.3 TCL/TK Ascii Art Widget
Aspell .28.2.1 Intelligent Spell Checker
Authenticated User Community for Education 0.5.1 CGI-based intranet system intended for K-12 settings
BibleTime 0.1 A bible study program for KDE
bibtool 1.5 Simple tool to help BibTeX users maintain bibliography files
bidwatcher 0.9.9-3 tool for eBay users - track and snipe auctions
Blackbox 0.51.1 WindowManager for X11 written in C++
boxes 1.0 Draws any kind of box around some given text
BP6mon 1.3 GTK app displaying temperatures, voltages and fans speed of an Abit BP6.
Bugzilla 2.6 mozilla.org's bugtracking system
Cacheability Engine 1.20 CGI/command line script to check Web page cacheability
Caliban Instant Messaging 0.12 Implementation of OpenPGP-secured Instant Messaging System
cdctl 0.14 Controls your CD-ROM drive under linux.
cdr 2.0 CD ripper and encoder frontend
cdrecord 1.8a25 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
centerICQ 1.3.3 a textmode-based ICQ clone for Linux
Cervisia 0.2.1 KDE CVS frontend
cfingerd 1.4.1 The Configurable Finger Daemon
CircleMUD 3.0 beta patchlevel 16 Multi User Dungeon for Linux
Clarrhmos 2.2 Description language and simulator for models of heart electrophysiology.
code2html 0.8.2 Converts a program's source code to syntax highlighted HTML
ColdStore 990830 gigabyte-scale persistent object store
Common UNIX Printing System 1.0b8 Internet Printing System for UNIX
CompuPic 4.6 build 1018 CompuPic Graphical Digital Content and File Manager for Linux
CorbaScript 1.3.1 CORBA Scripting Language
Crystal Space 0.14 A free and portable 3D engine based on portals
curl 5.11 Command line tool for getting data from a URL
CYCAS 1.93a CAD Software for Linux
Cyrus IMAP server 1.6.13 Full featured IMAP server
Datalink library 08.25.1999 Send data to the Timex DataLink watches
DataManager pre0.2 Shared memory ringbuffers client-server library
Date::Pcalc 1.0 All-Perl module for date calculations, based on Date::Calc
demcd 2.0.7 CDPlayer for Linux
DHCP with Dynamic DNS 0.51 Dynamically update DNS from dhcpd.leases file
dhcp-dns 0.2.1 Update DNS with data from DHCPD
DHS.ORG Auto Updater 0.05 DHS.ORG (Domain Host Services) Dynamic Domain Updater
Disc-Cover 0.9.1 Generate covers for audio cds non-interactively using cddb
divine 0.5 automatic IP configuration detection for laptops
DNSTools Software 0.9b1 A web-based and command-line tool to administer DNS
Downloader for X 1.0 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
ds3 0.3.2-1 Modem/ISDN sharing tool for linux
dtheatre.php3 1.0 Retrieves the latest 'digital theatre' news for a webpage.
e-smith server and gateway 3.0 Open-source software that converts a PC into a Linux Internet server
eBison 0 Parser generator for Elisp and Javascript compiler for Elisp
eEMU 2.32 Enterprise Event Management and Monitoring Utility
Epeios 19990828 Collection of general purposes C++ libraries working under UNIX and Windows.
Ethereal 0.7.3 GUI network protocol analyzer
eXtace 1.1.16 ESD FFT visual plugin, eye-candy
FreeAmp 1.3.1 Open Source MP3 player
freecolor 0.6.1 Colorized free command with graphs
freemed 19990830 Free medical management software in a web browser
FTP Logger 1.4 Perl(CGI) WU-FTPD log analyzer for WEB
FTP4ALL 3.004 FTP server program for UNIX systems
gaddr 1.1.3 A simple GTK+ Addressbook
Ganymede 0.99.6 GPL'ed Network Directory Management System
gEDA 19990829 gEDA is an collection of tools which are used to make electrical circuit design,
Geek Code Generator 1.3 Generates a Geek Code using a series of qeustions
Getleft 0.6.2 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
GHX 3.05 GTK clone of the Hotline software
Gifsicle 1.16 Command-line tool for creating, editing, and optimizing GIFs and animations
GIMP Imagemap plug-in 1.2 GIMP plug-in for creation of clickable imagemaps.
GKrellM 0.6.6 System monitor package
GLib 1.2.4 The GLib library of C routines
GlobeCom Jukebox 3.1final2 Music jukebox with integrated CDDB aware ripping and groupware functionality
gnomba 0.4.2 Gnome Samba Browser
Gnome Toaster 08-30-1999 create CDRs the easy way with Gnome/Gtk
GnomePM 0.6.0 GNOME equivilent of the Yahoo! (C) Java Portfolio Manager
GNU make 3.77.94 Controls the generation of executables and other non-source files
GNU Pth 1.1.4 GNU Portable Threads
GOB 0.90.0 Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object
Gone 19990822 Newsreader for the Gnome Desktop Environment
GProc 0.2.7 Managing process from the Gnome panel
gPS 0.3.2 GTK-based process status reporting like ps, top and task manager
Grany-3 0.9.1 The cellular automaton simulator.
Grip 2.6 A gtk-based frontend for CD-rippers
GTC 0.3 Game Programming Library
GTK+ 1.2.4 Library for creating graphicaluser interfaces
GTKeyboard 0.97.3 Graphical Keyboard for the physically disabled
GTKWave 1.2.9 Wave viewer for Verilog simulation
Gzilla 0.2.2 Free web browser written in the GTK+ framework
HB 1.7.15 Simple language to create dynamic web content
HSX 3.0 Hotline Server clone for Unix
HybServ 1.5.0 Services for the Hybrid IRCD server
IglooFTP PRO 0.9.2 Powerfull and User Friendly FTP client
ImageMagick 4.2.9 Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
inn 2.2.1 Complete and full-featured Usenet System
IntraSite 1.0.1 Intranet Website with news, search, etc.
irssi 0.7.15-2 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
Jacl 1.2.4 Tcl shell implemented in Java, a perfect way to add scripting to a Java app.
Java Test Driver 1.1 Test driver for Java class libraries
JavaORB 2.0.1 A free Java implementation of CORBA 2.2
jdresolve 0.5.2 Resolves IP addresses into hostnames. Supports Apache logs and recursion.
jEdit 2.0final Powerful text editor
jpilot 0.94 Palm pilot desktop software for Linux
Kazlib 1.10 Robust ANSI C data structure library.
kdesu 0.97 A KDE front end to the UNIX su(1) command.
KDiskCat 0.3.1 The KDE Disk Catalog software.
KDynUpdate 0.1 Program to update your dyndns.org dns.
Kmap 0.5.5 Nmap port-scanner frontend for QT/KDE
kmp_msql 0.1.1 KMySql plugin to connect to mSQL databases
kmp_psql 0.1.1 KMySQL plugin providing access to PostGres databases
KMySQL 1.1.8 A MySql client for KDE.
knetload 1.0 A network speed monitor for kpanel
knowledgebase 0.05 Knowledgebase tool based on PHP
KPackage 1.3.8 GUI interface to the RPM and the Debianpackage manager
Krabber 0.4.3 KDE audio cd grabber and mp3 encoder front-end
KShell 0.1 Wrapper to shell that restricts hosts, ttys, multiple logins and more.
ksysv 1.0.0pre2 Editor for System V Init configurations
Kticker 1.0.0beta2 News ticker widget that downloads news headlines and displays them periodically
KTsp 0.2.0 TSP optimizer for KDE
kWall 0.1 A GUI to ipfwadm to help new users to make a firewall.
KWebSearch 0.3 KDE Web Search Engine Frontend
kwintv 0.7.3 Watch TV in a window on your PC screen
KWvDial 0.4 Graphical Re-Implementation of WvDial PPP Dialer Command Line Interface
LCDproc 0.4-pre8 Displays system statistics on an external LCD display
LCL 19990830 The LinuxClassLibrary
leaguetable 0.1.0 Little program/library generating league tables
Linux Administrators Security Guide 0.1.7 A 160+ page PDF on Linux Security
Linux trustees 1.5 An advanced file permission system for Linux
Linuxconf 1.16r3 Sophisticated administrative tool
Lynx 2.8.3.dev8 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
macfork 1.0 Macintosh resource fork reader and extracter
Mail Man 3.0.16 A web-based application which allows the user to send and receive mails
Majik 3D 0.0/M3 An online role-playing world
mcl 0.52.00 MUD client for Linux
Metaverse 0.1 Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK
mfm 0.4 A graphical frontend for mtools
mgetty 1.1.21 Intelligent getty and fax support
MM 1.0.10 Shared Memory Library
mod_ssl 2.4.1-1.3.9 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
Moonshine 0.1.8 An application development environment for Linux.
MOSIX 0.93.3 Single-system-image Clustering Software for Linux
Mozilla M9 Webbrowser for X11 derived from Netscape Communicator
Mp3Maker.app 1.0-pre-2 Window Maker enhanced cdda grabber and mp3 encoder frontend
MPage 0.5 Send a mobilecomm text pager a page from the command line.
Muddleftpd 1.1.beta3 A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.
Multiverse 0.1.3 A system for building an online world/RPG
Mutt 1.0pre2 Small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operatingsystems
Nacho Chaesebot 0.00 Interactive chatbot IRC interface (ala Eliza)
Naken Chat 1.09 Chat Server ported from Javachat
ncp 0.3 Copy files quickly inside your LAN
net-tools 1.53 Programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution
NetBSD 1.4.1 The world's most portable Operating System.
netfilter 0.1.5 New NAT/packet-filtering infrastructure for Linux 2.3.5
nmap 2.3BETA4 Full featured, robust port scanner
NmapFE 0.9.5 GTK+ front end for Nmap.
NTP 4.0.97d A time synchronization daemon which keeps your system time accurate.
OBAS O.93b Web-based bibliography maintainer
omega 0.6.4 Implementation and extension of the M-Technology (MUMPS) standards
Open GRiD 0.1.2 A project to create Open Global Ranking Search Engine and Directory (Open GRiD)
Open Track 4.0.1 Flexible Unix based client/server issue tracking tool, customizeable via tcl
Oracle Procedit 1.1 X11 Oracle Procedure and Function Editor
Oracle SQLWork 2.1 An SQL Worksheet-like querying tool for Oracle
ORBacus 3.2 CORBA 2.0 compliant ORB for C++ and Java
P'mail 0.5 Interface between PalmOS (TM) Mail application and Unix mailbox files
Pagecast 1.1.1 Automates submitting lists of URL's to various Internet search engines.
Paloma 0.83b Relational music/mp3 database system
passwdd 0.07 Password synchronization server/client
perlbot 1.1.7 An IRC bot in Perl written with simplicity in mind
perldap 1.4 Perl C and OO interface to LDAP
PerlSETI 0.6 GUI front end for the SETI@home client, programmed in Perl. Many Statistics.
PgAccess 0.98 TCL/TK frontend for PostgreSQL
PHPezmlmAdmin 0.02 Browser based ezmlm-idx mailing list administrator
PoPToP 0.9.14 PPTP Server for Linux
PowerChute plus 4.5 APC's usual UPS interface for Linux.
PowerPak 990828 An attempt at a high-level game SDK
print_filter 0.5.2 Simple print filter which allows printing of different filetypes with lpr.
ProFTPD 1.2.0pre4 Advanced, incrediblyconfigurable and secure FTP daemon
pstill 1.21b
PulseTLM 0.1 A full featured 3D Transmission Line Matrix (TLM) simulator
Pybliographer 0.9 tool for bibliographic databases manipulation
pydf 0.4 colourised df(1)-clone
Pygmy Linux 0.6 UMSDOS based, internet ready minilinux.
QDMerge 0.21 A utility to generate documents from a template and data files.
QDu netPONG .2 Network playable pong.
QScheme 0.2.2 Really fast, small and easy to interface Scheme interpreter
Quake3: Arena test 1.08 The test version of Quake3: Arena
QuickPage 3.3 Client/server package for sending alphanumeric pages via SNPP
randtype 1.4 Displays text at random intervals.
RawSnif 0.8 Easily configurable Perl based network sniffer written using Net::RawIP modules.
rbison 0.0.4 parser generator for ruby
RealTimeBattle 0.9.11 RealTimeBattle, a robot programming game for Unix
Record Management 0.6 Program to manage large sound carrier archives (LPs, CDs, MP3s, singles, ...).
ROBODoc 3.1 Documentation tool for many programming languages
ROCK Linux 1.3.0 Linux Distribution for high skilled Linux User and Admins
RocketJSP 0.9c JSP 1.0 Engine
rrlogind 2.32 Login client for Time Warner Cable and Media One cable modem services
Sapphire 0.12.8 A new window manager for the X Windows System.
sarep 0.5 Command-line search and replace tool written in Perl.
sdts++ 1.0.3.1 C++ toolkit for reading and writing Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) files
SENSE 1.0.5 Distributed Shared Memory system
Shadow 19990827 Shadow password file utilities
shredder 1.00 Punishes users who have too many processes running
sifi 0.1.3 Stateful TCP/IP packet filter for Linux.
sitecopy 0.8.0 Maintain remote copies of locally stored web sites
slashes.pl 1.5 A Perl/GTK Slashdot news ticker
SmallEiffel -0.77Beta#2 The GNU Eiffel Compiler
SmartHTML 1.3 HTML preprocessor
SmartWorker 0.81 Web Application Development / Deployment Framework
snes9express 1.21 Gtk GUI front-end for snes9x
SoundTracker 0.3.1 A music tracker for X / GTK+
Soupermail 1.0.5 Generic form to email handler
speechd 0.52 Implements /dev/speech device (all plaintext written to it will be spoken aloud)
SplitFire 1.17 Complete IRC script for IRCII-EPIC.
Sporum 1.1 A better web-based dicussion board software
Spruce 0.4.9f Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
statfs 0.1 Command line wrapper for statfs(2) call
syslog-ng 1.1.32 A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.
TABLA 0.2 HTML table generator
tal 1.9 Aligns common trailing characters
tar 1.13.9 utility used to store, backup, and transport files.
TarCust 0.7.1 A tar post-processor to ease rolling tarballs
TBTM 0.5 Pre-processor system designed to simplify web site development and maintenance
Tcl Blend 1.2.4 Tcl Blend is a Tcl extension that provides access to Java inside Tcl.
TeamWave Workplace 4.3b1 Shared Internet places for any-time collaboration
Terraform 0.4.0 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
The Calculator 2.0 A four function calculator for UNIX and Linux
The Linux Console Data 1999.08.29 Data files for the Linux Console Tools
The Linux Console Tools 0.2.2 Allows you to set-up and manipulate theLinux console
Timesheet.php 1.0 PHP application to keep track of hours worked on a project.
tk_Brief 3.2 GUI for writing letters with LaTeX
tomsrtbt 1.7.140 Single floppy diskette linux distribution
TSambaClass 1.1 Cross platform C++ class library for accessing smb.conf file.
TT-News 0.2.5 A headline-news ticker for various news-sources.
TVListing.sh 1 Fetches today's TV listings and emails them to you.
TwinTRIS 0.080 Multiplayer tetris clone for all Unix boxes
Tya 1.4 JIT-compiler
Type decomposition library 0.3 C++ library for discovering compile-time type information.
urmcore 0.2.2 Quickly finds, verifies, and removes old core files with minimum system load.
Vacation 1.0.2 A mail auto-responder
vidbg 0.9.2 Curses based front end to command line debuggers.
Virtual GameBoy 1.6 Free Gameboy Emulator for Linux
WaveLAN/IEEE driver 1.0.1 Kernel network device driver for WaveLAN/IEEE wireless network card
WebAlbum 0.33 A perl script which produces html photo albums.
WebMail 0.5.4 Web frontend for Unix system mailboxes
wmbp6 1.5 DockApp monitoring sensors for temperatures and fans speed.
wmessage 0.8 WINGs based message viewer
wmG 0.14.8 A small, lightweight, GNOME-compliant window manager for X.
wmGrabImage 0.70 Displays a thumbnail version of an image from the www.
wmjulia 0.4 Window Maker dock applet that draws animated julia sets.
wmMand 1.0 A mandelbrot set explorer.
wmseti 0.2.0 Windowmaker dockapp for your SETI@home statistics
wmSMPmon 1.2 CPU monitoring applet SMP systems running Window Maker
wmSpaceWeather 1.04 Shows environmental conditions in space.
wmSun 1.03 Shows Rise/Set times for the Sun.
wmWeather 1.31 Displays your current local weather conditions.
wxWindows/GTK 2.1 snapshot 9 GTK port of the cross-platform wxWindows C++application framework class library
X ARCHON 0.2 A clone of the classic ARCHON game
X-Chat 1.1.9 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
X-Mame 0.36b3.1 The Unix version of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator
XFMail 1.3.1 Email client for X11 based on XForms
xoscope 1.5 Digital Oscilloscope via Sound Card and/or ProbeScope
XRacer 0.90 Clone of Psygnosis WipeOut
XShipWars 1.14 Space oriented highly graphical network game system.
Xskat 3.1 Skatordnung card game, playable against humans or the computer
xtell 1.3 Simple messaging client and server, kind of networked write
ZAngband 2.2.6c Rogue-like roleplaying game
Zebra 0.78 Route Server and Route Reflector daemon
 

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