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Linux hardware mailing list launched. Rik van Riel has announced a mailing list for the discussion of Linux and hardware; his purpose is to encourage such discussions to move out of the linux-kernel list.

Events

February LinuxWorldExpo speakers announced. The Linux World Expo has announced the list of keynote speakers for the upcoming conference, to be held in New York in February. There are not many surprises; the list includes Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, and IBM's Steven Mills.

Web sites

PontoBR (.BR) is a new news site in Brazil (and thus in Portoguese) which covers technical news in general, and Linux in particular.

Now out of beta, Appwatch send us this announcement about their site:

"AppWatch, the Open Source-only Apps site, has completed its Beta cycle. Major improvements to the site include: new default Square layout (the Round layout is still available in Preferences), enhanced Lynx and W3M support (automatically detected), more than doubled the Apps in the Library (over 550 now), improved Find function and several new Preferences (filters, apps per page, etc). Announced Apps are garanteed to have just been released and all links and changelogs are double checked against Author-supplied documentation."

Linux Laughs launches Linux Laughs is a new site aimed toward penguin-oriented humor...

User Group News

The Linux/Unix Users Group of Virginia Tech is holding an installfest on October 30.

October 21, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
adns 0.5 An advanced alternative, asynchronous resolver
Aegis 3.20 Transaction-based software configuration management system
aewm 0.9.5 A minimalistic window manager for X
Apache JetSpeed 1.0 Beta 1 An OpenSource GroupWare/Portal
Audio::DSP Audio-DSP 0.01 Perl interface to *NIX digital audio device
AutoConvert 0.1p2 Chinese GB/HZ/BIG5 encoding auto convert
AVFS 0.5.1 C library add-on, which enables all programs to look insidecompressed files
Bandmin 0.80 Bandmin is a package that monitors and logs ip accounting data
bbrb 0.1.0 GUI root image front-end for the blackbox root menu.
bcnu 1.17 Powerful Web-based client-server system monitoring
Beavis 0.3 Mail poller for Enlightenment
Berkeley DB 2.7.7 Provides embedded database support for traditional and client/server application
BetaFTPD 0.0.8pre3 Single-threaded, small FTP daemon
bibtool 1.6 Simple tool to help BibTeX users maintain bibliography files
bigloo 2.1a Scheme compiler
Biglook 0.3 A graphical Toolkit for Bigloo
Bind 8.2.2 Berkeley Internet Name Domain
bip 1.3.2 Send messages to pagers using the Internet
BitGen 1.2 convert strings of 1's and 0's to SPICE voltage sources
BP6mon 1.4 GTK app displaying temperatures, voltages and fans speed of an Abit BP6.
Buz/Linux driver 1.0 Hardware driver for Iomega Buz video hardware
buz_tools 1.1.2 MJPEG video capturing tools
BX/CIK 1.0 Cold Fusion/BX Pro integration
Cabinet Library 0.29 (0.30 prerelease 1) Portable Cabinet Library and Utilities
calc 2.11.0t8 C-style arbitrary precision calculator
CardInfo 1.0 Replacement for the cardinfo application from the pcmcia package.
ccirc An irc client written in shell scripts and telnet.
cdrecord 1.8a30 Allows the creation of both audio and data CDs
CGICQ 0.1.2 A CGI Application that sends CGI input to a configurable UIN.
Cistron Radius Server 1.6.1 Free Radius Server with many features
Cohesion 1.0 Java-based Plugable Application Framework, including Modelling Plugin and others
ConsoleSaver 0.01 An application to use screensavers in console.
Cooledit 3.11.6 Full featured text editor for the X Window System
Crafty 16.19 Computer Chess engine
crocodiles 0.021 An ISP packet accounting management package
curl 6.1 Command line tool for getting data from a URL
Cyrus IMAP server 1.6.16 Full featured IMAP server
Darwersi 2.1 Othello game (strong genetic AI)
ddclient 2.1 Client for www.dyndns.org's free dynamic DNS service
DDUpdate 1.4 A cross-platform update client for dyndns.org's DynamicDNS Service
DejaSearch 1.6.8 DejaSearch is a frontend to DejaNews, the leading Usenet archive
Dia 0.80 gtk based diagram drawing program. Much like Visio.
DialupDNS Client 1.0.0 DialupDNS Dynamic IP DNS Client
DialupDNS Java Client 1.0.3 Java Client for DialupDNS.com
Dieresis Newsboy 1.0.0 Revision 99.10.18 Web-Based News and Announcements Publishing Perl Script
DNRD 2.0 Proxy DNS server for home networks with multiple ISPs
Drall 0.14.0 Allows users to access their directories and files remotely via a web browser
DreamBot 0.0.5 IRC Bot written in Perl
DSM 0.0.1 Distributed Site Management
DynamicJava 1.0beta4 Java source interpreter
Dynamics - HUT Mobile IP 0.6 Dynamic, scalable, hierarchical Mobile IP system with localized location updates
ecg2png 0.3.0 Utility to convert high-res ECGs to Web-friendly PNG format
ECLiPt Mirroring Tool 2.1 pre 10 Full-featured mirroring script
EHeadlines 1.4 Root Menu news system.
electricsheep 0.2.1 Collaborative screensaver
Emix 0.9 A simple audio mixer Epplet
Entity 0.3.8 Allows you to use XML and Perl/Tcl/C to build graphical user interfaces.
Eucalyptus 0.1.1a4 Advanced MIME email program
Event Calendar 1.0 PHP/PostgreSQL-based online event calendar
Everybuddy 0.0.3 Universal Instant Messaging Client
eXtace 1.2.7 ESD FFT visual plugin, eye-candy
FastGL 1.53 A very wonderfull C/C++ graphics library
FCheck 2.07.45 Baseline filesystem and administration policy monitor.
fetchnews 0.5 'fetchmail' for NNTP protocols
Flash Web Server 0.1 alpha A fast, portable web server that performs aggressive caching
flexbackup 0.9.7 Flexible backup script
fltags 0.4 GUI frontend for Exhuberant Ctags
Fl_Editor 0.3 Multiline text editor widget for FLTK, with extras.
Fract-O-Rama 1.2.3 Qt-based, flexible fractal generation program
FramerD/FDScript 1.0 pentultimate beta Distributed knowledge/object repository and scripting language
Freeciv 1.9.0 Implementation of Civilization II for UNIX/X released under the GPL
FreeMarker 1.4.9 HTML templating system for Java servlets
freemed 19991013 Free medical management software in a web browser
FreeVet 1.0.8 A Y2K ready Animal Clinic System
FTP4ALL v3.007 FTP server program for UNIX systems
Fwctl 0.21 High level configuration tool for Linux 2.2 packet filters firewall
gaddr 1.1.4 A simple GTK+ Addressbook
Galway 0.28 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
Ganymede 0.99.7 GPL'ed Network Directory Management System
gd 1.7.3 A library used to create PNG images
geg 1.0.1 Simple GTK+ 2D-function plotting program
Generic Colouriser 0.1 Colourises any files or outputs of commands.
Generic Information Server Toolkit 1.0.3 GIST is a free tool kit for the development of interactive web sites
Gentry 0.1.1 GTK application for data entry into a MySQL database
gfocustimer 0.3 Tracking of X input focus for time charging
gif2png 1.1.1 converts GIF image files to PNG format
gladecc 0.6 Generates delphi style C++ source code for Gtk-- from Glade's XML output
gman 0.0.8 A user-friendly graphical front end for the man page system
Gnofin 0.6.1 A simple GNOME checkbook application
Gnome Chess 0.2.3 GNOME Chess Client
GNOME QuickRes Applet 1.0.0 GNOME panel applet to change the X11 video mode
Gnome Toaster 99-10-19 create CDRs the easy way with Gnome/Gtk
gnome-o-phone 0.2.2 Internet telephone with a gtk interface
GNU Chess 5.00 A computer program which plays the Game of Chess.
GNU parted 0.0.7 A partition editor, for creating, destroying, resizing and copying partitions.
GNU Phantom.Home Beta0.60 Home Automation
GNU Phantom.Security Beta0.95 Computer Controlled Security System
GNUJSP 1.0.0 A free Java Server Pages implementation
Gnumeric 0.39 Spreadsheet, a new foundation for spreadsheet development, part of GNOME
GObb 1.0 Lisp code for playing Go
Goose 0.0.11 Statistical library.
gpp 2.0 generic preprocessor with customizable syntax
GProc 0.5.0-beta1 Managing process from the Gnome panel
gPS 0.4.1 GTK-based process status reporting like ps, top and task manager
Grace Generator 1.0 Generator for graph editors
GRASS 5.0beta3 Public Domain GIS software
GTK File Browser 0.40 Small, fast, lightweight, GTK File Browser
GtkIconList 1.2 Icon List Widget for GTK+
GtkPlot 4.1 2D Scientific plots widget for Gtk+
GtkSheet 8.0 A matrix/grid widget for Gtk+
Guile-gtk 0.17 guile bindings for GTK.
gViewConfig 0.6 GTK system information program
HarnMaker 0.2.0 A character generator for the HarnMaster role playing game.
HB 1.9.4 Simple language to create dynamic web content
HTML::Mason 0.72 A component-based perl web development environment
HTML::Template 0.96 A simple and fast HTML Template module for Perl
htmlPX 1.0 Cross-platform HTML pre-processor
IDEntify 0.5 Extensible Integrated Development Environment
ifbridge 0.03 User-space ethernet bridge for Linux 2.2.x.
IglooFTP-PRO 0.9.6 Powerfull and User Friendly FTP client
Install-Sendmail 5.2 install-sendmail will configure sendmail and fetchmail for you.
instmon 2.0 Monitors installations and detects the files that were added or modified
InterfaceLED 0.5 Interface monitor program
iplog 2.0 (alpha 10171999) tcp, udp, and icmp logging utilities for Linux.
irssi 0.7.18 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
Jakarta 19991018012101 Open-source, community-developed commercial-quality Java server solutions.
Java-Log 0.7 Java logging and tracing class library
jbofihe 0.27 Parses Lojban text and provides rough English translation
JDDB 1.0.116305 GUI debugger for JDK1.3
jEdit 2.1pre5 Powerful text editor
Jetty 3.0.A4 HTTP/1.1 Servlet server written in Java
JFlex 1.2.2 flex-like scanner generator for Java
Jooky 0.92 MP3 controller with a foreground curses client, or background client/server.
jsd 0.10 Joystick daemon/mp3 player/image viewer
Kapm 0.3 An APM-BIOS monitor for the KDE desktop.
KCommander 0.49 Windows Commander Clone for KDE
KDiskCat 0.4 The KDE Disk Catalog software.
Kernel Core Dump 1.0 A Linux kernel core dump facility for the redhat 6.0 release/ix86 platform
Keystone 0.60.05 Web-based problem tracking system, rewrite of an older system called PTS
KFibs 1.0.5 KFibs is a KDE client for FIBS.
Kmap 0.5.6 Nmap port-scanner frontend for QT/KDE
KModem 1.2.1 Displays the status of a modem over aninternet connection using ppp
KMySQL 1.2.0pre3 A MySql client for KDE.
knetload 1.3 A network speed monitor for kpanel
KNode 0.1.7 Online-newsreader for KDE
kooBase Brahms 0.97.2 Extendable music application
KPlot3d 0.61 Tool for ploting 3d function z = f(x,y) for KDE
Kppp 1.6.18 KDE dialer and front end for pppd
KSamba 0.3.4 Setup SAMBA networking and connect to Windows
kTFXshell 2.1 KDE frontend for tfmx-play
KWebSearch 1.2 KDE Web Search Engine Frontend
LANdb 0.71 Provides network managers with a means of cataloging network connections.
lavaps 1.8 A lava lamp of currently running processes
Legend 0 A Swedish BBS/MUD system
lftp 2.1.3 Sophisticated command line based FTP client
libGLobs 0.2.5 A set of C++ OpenGL object manipulation classes
libpng 1.0.5
libsmbpw 1.1 getpwent/putpwent interface to the Samba smbpasswd file
Libundo 0.7.0 Undo/redo management library
lids 0.2 Linux Kernel-Based Intrusion Detect System
Linux driver for OnStream DI30 beta Driver for Onstream's DI30 tape drive
Linuxconf 1.16r4 Sophisticated administrative tool
LinWars 0.1.1 Role Playing Game in Bard's-Tale-Style
Listar 0.126a Modular Mailing list management software
logController 0.3 Console-log size controller
LxDoom 1.4.1 Enhanced Linux port of the classic fps Doom
Lycadican FRPG Arakasha 2.0 Lycadican Pen and Paper Open Content FRPG Game. A CRPG game is being designed.
Lynx 2.8.3.dev12 fully-featured, text-based World Wide Web browser
MagiCapture 0.4 Screen capture and preview utility for the X Window System
Magick++ Debian: New version of mirror Object-oriented C++ API to the ImageMagick image-processing library.
mail2sms 0.35 Convert a mail to a short message
MAMELANG 0.9.1b A portable, dynamic translation system
man-pages-ja 991015 Japanese man-page collection.
Mangle 2.4 C/C++ Source de-formatter/de-commentor
MasqMail 0.0.6 Offline Mail Transfer Agent
memwatch 2.64 Memory leak/corruption detection, ANSI-C source code with test program.
Micq 0.4.3 Publically available ICQ clone for the console
mod_dav 0.9.12-1.3.6 DAV protocol extensions for Apache
MOIS 1.0 My Own IRC Script for ircII
Momoko 0.1.9 Multi-user development environment
moodss 8.4 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
Moonshine 0.9.1 An application development environment for Linux.
Mork 0.2.0 Mork is like Lex/Yacc for Java.
MOSIX 0.93.5 Single-system-image Clustering Software for Linux
mp3tools 1.1 Utilities for managing MPEG audio files
MpCb 0.3 Multiplatform networked clipboard for UNIX and Win32
mpg123+eq patch 0.0 X11 Graphical Equalizer for mpg123-0.59r
Muddleftpd 1.1.1 beta 1 A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.
Muffin 0.9 Filtering proxy server for the World Wide Web written entirely in Java
MUMail 1.2.10 A Java applet designed to let you read your mail from a website
Mutt 1.0pre4 Small but very powerful text-based mail client for Unix operatingsystems
MySQL 3.23.5 SQL (Structured Query Language) database server
Naken Chat 1.10 Chat Server ported from Javachat
ncps 0.44 ncurses based process killer
nmpg 1.00Pre1 Command driven frontend for mpg123
nscache 0.1pl1 Simple manager and browser for Netscape(tm) cache directories.
nstreams 0.99.3 Network streams analyzer
NUKE 0.1-1 Perl Source Code for a complete automated news site with comments and surveys.
nums 1 Tiny C program to assist in shell loops.
OfflineMailer 0.45 Offline mail handler
OpenH323 0.9.alpha2 H.323 protocol stack
OpenVerse Visual Chat 0.6-2 Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK
Orgasm 0.2 Machine code assembler for 6502 microprocessors
OSS 3.9.2v Provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux
Pan 0.6.1 Gnome/GTK Newsreader
pavuk 0.9pl21 Webgrabber with an optional Xt or GTK GUI
Paw 0.47 Perl ASCII Widgets
Payload Delivery Vehicle 1.1 Creates a single executable for one-step end user installs.
pg2xbase 1.0 Converter from/to DBF file to/from Postgres database table
POSIX ACLs for Linux 0.5.5 Kernel patches for ACLs, Ext2 file system implementation, and user utilities
PowerChute plus 4.5.1 APC's usual UPS interface for Linux.
pppsum 0.3 A PPP daemon log analyzer
ptf 0.4 A TCP forwarder written in Python
ptkfonted 0.12 Perl/Tk BDF Font Editor
PTlink ircd 3.3.1 New featured ircd with a great services integration
PTlink Services 1.3.2 IRC Registration Services
PTSPACE 0.1 Patrol in Space X11 arcade game
pxtools 0.0.2 Collection of tools to convert a Paradox-database
QBrew 0.0.6 A homebrewer's recipe calculator
QDMerge 0.4 A utility to generate documents from a template and data files.
qps 1.9.2 Displays processes in an X11 window
Qt Architect 2.0 GUI dialog designer for the Qt widget set.
QtEZ 0.82.3 Qt based rapid application development environment
Qvwm 1.1.2 Windows 95 like window manager for the X Window System
RCode 1.2.4 Tool for encoding/decoding files
RearSite 1.0 Tool for updating personal www pages
Recall 0.1 Framework for replicated fault-tolerant storage servers.
Record Management 0.7beta1 Program to manage large sound carrier archives (LPs, CDs, MP3s, singles, ...).
redir 2.1 Redirects TCP ports to another IP address and port.
Remembrance Agent 2.07 Remembrance Agents are an augmented, associative memory.
Request Tracker 1.0.0 Web, command-line and email based trouble ticketing and bugtracking package
Resin 1.0 JSP (Javaserver Pages) engine
rh-isdn 0.55-1 A few scripts and documentation to set up ISDN on RedHat
ripperX 1.0 GTK program to rip and encode mp3 files
Rodian 0.5.2 Layer for handling, representing and storing information objects in a tree
Roxen Challenger 1.3rel2 Platform independent webserver featuring strong encryption and SSL3
RPGBoard 2.10 A WWWBoard-style message board script.
rpl 1.1.1 Multi-file recursive string replacement
SafeGossip 0.0.1 SSL support for FTP, IMAP, POP, SMTP and telnet
sawmill 0.13 Extensible window manager
Secure Locate 2.1 Secure version of the GNU locate program
selectwm 0.1 A window manager selector
sendmail-tls 0.2 SSL/TLS Wrapper for sendmail (and other MTAs)
sherpa 0.1.3 A system security configuration and maintenance tool
Sketch 0.7.3 Vector drawing program, implemented in python
Small Linux 0.7.2 Three diskette distribution that uses less than 4 megs of RAM
SMM++ 4.0 MUD client with mapping functionality and lots of other features
splitpea 1.0 Python script for splitting and joining files.
Sporum 1.2b3 A better web-based dicussion board software
Spy 3.1.22 LAN Protocol Analyzer
squishdot 0.3.0 Zope-based weblog (Slashdot-like forum)
steghide 0.3 A steganography tool
Sula Primerix II 0.09.5d3 Extensible multi-server IRC Client for X with embedded Scheme interpreter
Summary (Pro) 1.4 Web server log analyzer tool
super-session 1.9.4 Ultimate configuration for shell prompt and environment
Swift Generator 0.12.1 Dynamic Flash content generator.
syslog-ng 1.1.33 A portable syslogd replacement with enhanced, flexible configuration scheme.
tailbeep 0.2 Watches an open file for a string and beeps the console if it sees it.
TCDial 1.0 DTMF dialer for Linux
TCMixer 1.0 Yet Another Mixer App
Terraform 0.4.3 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
TextTools 1.0.1 ncurses development package for Ada
The Dotfile Generator 2.3b3 Configures programs dotfiles using a GUI
The Text Critter 0.80 PerlTk text-search app.
The Veganizer 0.03 A spam counter-attack
TIA 0.6 console/xterm IDE for GNAT
TiMidity++ 2.7.0 Experimental MIDI to WAVE converter
TkNotePad 0.6.9 A simple notepad editor written in Tcl/tk
tk_Brief 4.1 GUI for writing letters with LaTeX
TOM 1.1.1 The TOM compiler, tools, and basic libraries
TroubleTickets 0.2 HelpDesk Trouble Ticket Web Application
Tsinvest 0.8 Quantitative financial analysis of equities.
TV Soup alpha 0.0 A Web application for viewing and discussing Internet videos.
ucppkit 0.2 A tiny C++ toolkit for Linux
UNiBACK for Linux 3.0.3 Fast, easy, reliable network backup solution for UNIX & Linux.
Universal TUN/TAP device driver 0.2 Universal TUN/TAP device driver
uredir 1.1 Program to redirect UDP packets
urlredir 2.0 URL redirector for use with the squid proxy server
VTun 2.0b4 Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks.
vux 0.0.6 Highly configurable logging system. (CGI)
w-agora 3.0b5 Web-based forum and publishing software
w3m 991015 pager/text-based WWW browser
Wacom Driver for XFree86 alpha 11 Wacom driver for XFree86
WebER 0.8 WebER is a simple Java Web Server that implements HTTP/1.0.
WebEvent 3.2-BETA-1 WebEvent is web calendar software for your web site.
webfs 0.5 Lightweight HTTP server for static content
WebMagick 1.46 Generates HTML to put image collections on the Web
WebRun 3.11 Simple Java application distribution tool
WEKA 3.0 Data Mining Workbench in Java
wmgpager 0.10 Simple desktop pager for the WindowMaker dock.
Wroonian 0.5.2 A script which will help you create and maintain knowledge, information and FAQs
WSoundServer 0.2.2 Sound Server for Window Maker
X-GnuDIP2 1.2 GTK client for the GnuDIP dynamic dns project
xinetd 2.1.8.7 Powerful inetd replacement
XMMS-Solaris 0.3.1 Output plugin for XMMS to play on Solaris audio
xpcd 2.08 PhotoCD browser
XPhotoHunter 1.4 xphotohunter
XPrint 0.0.2 XPrint allow to print ASCII document very quickly and simply in a local printer
xpuyopuyo 0.2.7 Tetris-like puzzle game with AI
XScreenSaver 3.18 Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
XShipWars 1.19 Space oriented highly graphical network game system.
Yacas 1.0.10 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
YAMP 1.01 Mp3 player written with GTK+
Yams 0.5.2 An e-commerce package written in Perl and utilizing a MySQL database.
ypserv 1.3.9 Simple network lookupservice consisting of databases and processes
Zsh 3.0.7 Powerful UNIX shell
 

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