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Resources

November LinuxFoxus released. The November issue of Linux Focus is now out, with a couple of graphics-related articles, part II of a perl tutorial, a summary of the state of gaming under Linux, a review of FreeCiv and more.

Linux Gazette #47 available. Issue #47, the latest issue of the Linux Gazette, is now available.

Linux writers and publishers list Dan York and LinuxCare have set up a mailing list for people writing or publishing in the Linux community.

Tutorial: routing NetBIOS on a Linux box. Matt Clements at LinuxPlanet has written a tutorial on how to route NetBIOS traffic with your Linux box, so your NT/95 Workstations can see the Network Neighborhood across different Masqueraded TCP Networks.

A new Linux magazine in the UK. Linux Answers has published its first issue in the UK. This issue looks at UK Linux user groups, Corel Linux, and has the obligatory Linus interview.

Events

IBM sponsors The Bazaar. EarthWeb announces that IBM has become a "platinum sponsor" of The Bazaar, happening in December. The addition of Ralph Nader as a keynote speaker was also announced.

Linux day in Bremen. Lenz Grimmer dropped us a note to mention that the local LUG in Bremen, Germany was sponsoring a Linux Day on November 28th. Alan Cox will be attending, Lenz (who was born there) will be giving an introduction to Samba, and (of course) demonstrating the installation of SuSE 6.3. There will be parallel tracks of talks as well.

SGI Linux University Road Tour. Jason G. Fleming forwarded a copy of DevEdge, the monthly e-newsletter from the SGI Developer Program which talks about SGI's current Linux University Road Tour. "Following the tremendous success of the Linux University recently held at the Ronald Reagan Center in Washington D.C. We are extending the Linux University campus to nine cities across the nation."

Report from Open Source/Open Science 1999. Stephen Adler posted posted a report from the Open Source/Open Science 1999 conference, held on October 2nd, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. (Thanks to Jay R. Ashworth)

O'Reilly Java Enterprise Computing Conference. O'Reilly has announced the Java Conference 2000, to be held March 27th through the 30th, 2000 in Santa Clara, CA, USA.

Pictures from the Linux Pavilion at Bangalore IT.COM. The Linux India site is providing coverage of the Linux Pavilion at Bangalore IT.COM. Pictures are available, so you can see it being built, literally, from the ground up.

Web sites

FreeGIS web site. Intevation GmbH, a new free software company in Germany, has announced a FreeGIS website (German version) to "promote free GIS software and data". GIS, of course, stands for Geographical Information Systems.

User Group News

Joseph Arruda at UCLALUG Joseph Arruda of VA Linux Systems will be speaking on November 6, 1999 at an event jointly sponsored by UCLALUG and CSUA. Check the UCLALUG website for more details.

Linux.com LUG Database Updated. The Linux.com LUG Database has been updated, according to this note from Kara Pritchard at Linux.com. "No more spam email farming!" The updated site is automated to allow people to add, edit and update their LUG entries.


November 4, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
ACS 0.3.0 GPL licensed multi-line voice response telephony platform
Adora 0.0.4 Cross-Platform Email Client for Linux and Windows
AtDot 2.90.0 Web based e-mail system
aumix 1.25.1 Color text mode sound mixer with GPM support
Automatic Todo List 1.2.1 To-do list program for bash
auto_ftp.pl 0.3 FTP client demon that watches a folder and transfers all files and folders.
BET 1.1 Encrypted network talk program
Big Ben 0.15 Spiffy themed clock
Bynari TradeMail Release 1 Enteprise email, information management for Linux
C2HTML 2.0 Makes HTML files that show the souce code of a program
calc 2.11.0t8.10 C-style arbitrary precision calculator
Calculator 0.9.2B Simple Command Line Calculator
camserv Streaming webcam server for Video4Linux with filters.
CapsiChat 0.20 Multi-user Internet chatbox/haven
CDRDAO 1.1.3 Disk-At-Once Recording of Audio CD-Rs
cftp 0.9.3 A termcap-based FTP client.
cgvg 1.6.0 Tools for command-line source browsing.
CONFIG:: 0.99.07 Cached and Pre-parsed file reading.
Configure-it 1.2 Perl script to configure bash aliases
Connect 1.2.0 Client-server to easily share (open/close) one ppp link among a small network
Courier-IMAP 0.15 IMAP server for maildirs
cowsay 3.01 An easy way to add speaking and thinking cows to anything.
cpuburn 1.0 CPU maximum load (heat) stability test
cthumb 2.1.2 Automatic creation of a picture album in HTML w/ thumbnails
Cyrus IMAP server 1.6.19 Full featured IMAP server
DeuTex 4.1.0 Doom wad composer/decomposer
Dia 0.81 gtk based diagram drawing program. Much like Visio.
DizzyICQ 0.17 ICQ clone for console text, ncurses/icqlib based.
DNRD 2.4 Proxy DNS server for home networks with multiple ISPs
Downloader for X 1.07 Downloads files from the Internet via both FTP and HTTP
Edcom Pre1.5 An easy to administer, multiuser, story posting system, written in perl5.
egrep-finger 1.28-1 Extended finger program using extended regular expressions
elknews 0.1.8 Usenet Newsreader
ELKS 0.0.80 A subset of the Linux kernel that runs in 8086 real mode and 286 protected mode
Enlightenment 0.16.1 Fast, flexible and very extensible Window Manager
esky 0.1.1 Userspace job freezing (checkpoint/resume) system
Ethereal 0.7.7 GUI network protocol analyzer
Ethernet TAP driver 0.1a Ethernet TAP driver for FreeBSD
Europa 1-29 multi-player realtime strategic action war game
Everybuddy 0.0.4 Universal Instant Messaging Client
FastGL 1.55 A very wonderfull C/C++ graphics library
Flash Web Server 0.1 A fast, portable web server that performs aggressive caching
fmPager 0.7 Freshmeat Pager
FOX 0.99.82 C++-Based Library for Graphical User Interface Development
FreeMarker 1.5.2 HTML templating system for Java servlets
Fujitsu Lifebook B112/B142 Touch panel driver Fujitsu Lifebook B112 Touch panel driver 0.1 Gpm and XFree86 touch panel driver for the Fujitsu Lifebook B112
FXPy 0.99.79 Python interface to the FOX GUI library
G-BOOK DeLUXE 1.6 PERL Based guestbook CGI
gaim 0.9.9 GTK based AOL Instant Messenger
Galway 0.29 Guile-gtk HTML Editor
GCO 0.1.2 A database for keeping track of your comic collection.
GdkMagick 0.5.1 Image conversion and communication library for the ImageMagick and GDK toolkits
Gem Drop X 0.6 A fast-paced puzzle game
Generic Colouriser 0.3 Colourises any files or outputs of commands.
gentoo 0.11.10 Two-pane filemanager using GTK+, 100% GUI configurable
Get Slashdot News 1.5 Grabs the Slashdot headlines. Great for putting into pages etc.
Getleft 0.7.3 Tcl/Tk site grabber powered by Curl
GFXIndex 0.2 A program for creating indices of your pictures by making thumbnails and HTMLs.
gIDE 0.1.5 GTK-based Integrated Development Environment for C
gif2png 2.0.1 converts GIF image files to PNG format
GKrellM 0.7.2 System monitor package
GMatH 0.0.5 Computer Algebra Environment
Gnome Toaster 1999-11-02 create CDRs the easy way with Gnome/Gtk
GNOME-DB 0.0.27 GNOME Database Access
GnomeHack 1.04 Nethack for Gnome
GNU Ada 3.12p Ada95 Compiler frontend based on gcc and Tools.
GNU parted 1.0.0-pre1 A partition editor, for creating, destroying, resizing and copying partitions.
GNU Pth 1.2.0 GNU Portable Threads
GNU Trueprint 5.1 A program for printing source code in a variety of languages to ps printers
GNU xhippo 2.0 Gtk-based playlist manager for various UNIX sound players
GOGO 2.20 Fast, open source MP3 encoder based on LAME
gpppwrap 0.4 A Gtk based graphical user interface to run ppp-scripts
GProc 0.5.0-pre3 Managing process from the Gnome panel
Green Frog Linux 0.4a (Kaeru) A small fully featured 2.2.x+devfs/glibc 2.1 based Linux distro.
GS(SBNI) tty driver 1.6 Serial tty driver for SBNI-12x
Gseq 0.3.1 Gnome based, plugin extensible music sequencer
GStreamer 0.0.9 Streaming-media framework
GtkAda 1.2.4 Ada95 binding of Gtk+
GtkLevel 0.1 Addon widget to Gtk
Hallo 0.1 Finds words with a character string
HB 1.9.5 Simple language to create dynamic web content
Hoard 1.2 A fast, scalable, and memory-efficient SMP memory allocator
HTML Tidy 22oct99 Cleans up HTML source and formats it nicely.
html2c 0.1 HTML - CGI-BIN C development tool
HTML::Template 1.0 A simple and fast HTML Template module for Perl
Hugs 98-September 1999 Haskell 98 intepreter
ICEMail 2.8.2 Java email client based on JavaMail API with SMIME support.
id3tool 1.1b Command Line tool for editing ID3 tags on MP3s.
Impulse Tracker 3 0.2 Music tracker.
intel2gas 1.3 A converter between the NASM and GAS asm format (Intel/AT&T)
ipac 1.05 Linux IP accounting package
iroffer 1.1b1 Standalone, compiled fileserver for IRC
Jabber 0.7pre3 Instant Messaging Platform
jEdit 2.2pre2 Powerful text editor
Jooky 0.93 MP3 controller with a foreground curses client, or background client/server.
Katy 0.2 Text editor inspired by UltraEdit
kautorun 0.1 a KDE panel-docking CDROM automounter
Kazlib 1.13 Robust ANSI C data structure library.
KCron 0.5 KDE Task Scheduler
kdbg 1.0.0 A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. Also used by kdevelop.
kdc2tiff 0.1 Convert from Kodak .kdc file to .tiff or .jpg
KDEStudio 0.0.3 IDE for Linux
KDevelop 1.0Beta4.1 KDevelop is a new C++ development environment for Unix/X11.
KEasyISDN 0.1 Frontend to isdnctrl and onlinecounter.
kgrep 1.2 Find lines on either side of a matching pattern.
kmikmod 2.05pre2 Multithreaded module player for KDE
KMySQL 1.2.0 A MySql client for KDE.
KPlot3d 0.69 Tool for ploting 3d function z = f(x,y) for KDE
KPooka 0.2.5 Logic game for KDE
Ky 0.1 yes for KDE
l0g monitor 0.15 Log monitor for X Window
LAME 3.50 open source MP3 encoder and graphical frame analyzer
Laptop-HOWTO 2.1 How to make the best of Linux features with laptops.
libasset 0.1.1 A library for managing game assets
Lightflow Rendering Tools 1.1 Advanced photorealistic 3d rendering tools.
LinPopup 1.1.1 Linux port of Winpopup, running over Samba.
Linux Intrusion Detection System Linux Intrusion Detect System 0.3 Linux Kernel-Based Intrusion Detect System
LinuxInfo 1.1.5 Gives system information about your Linux system
LPRng 3.6.12 The Next Generation of LPR
lukemftp 1.0 the enhanced ftp client in NetBSD
Mad Bomber 0.0 An SDL-based clone of Activision's 2600 game,
MagicPoint Gallery 1.0 A gallery of MagicPoint presentation templates
Mexx 1.0.4 Shoot'em up for Linux/Win32/BeOS
MindTerm 1.1.2 SSH-client in pure Java, includes stand-alone ssh- and terminal(vt100)-packages
mktclapp 3.8 Mix C/C++ with Tcl/Tk to build a standalone program
mMosaic 3.4.4 Web browser for X11
Mmucl 1.3.0 Mud client written in Tcl
ModSQL 0.10 Modular JDBC SQL Engine
mod_auth_kerb 4.6 kerberos v5/v4 authentication module for apache
mod_dtcl 0.6.3 Apache server-parsed Tcl module, inspired by PHP
mod_perl Calendar System 1.2 Web-based calendaring system in mod_perl
mod_ssl 2.4.7-1.3.9 Apache Interface to OpenSSL
Moonshine 0.9.2 An application development environment for Linux.
Mp3 Commander 0.5 A tool to search and play mp3 collections and generate playlists
MultiMail 0.32 Offline Mail Reader (QWK)
MultiSeti 0.2 Seti@Home Utility to manage multiple seti@home packets
multisort 1.1 small, fast C program that merges httpd logs and orders by date
namegen 0.5 Tool and library for randomly generating strings of a specified format.
NAMG 0.2.0 Downloads mail from a NetAddress account and forwards it locally
ncurses 5.0
Nessus 0.98.4 A free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool
netfilter 0.1.11 New NAT/packet-filtering infrastructure for Linux 2.3.5
NetMon 1.0 LAN-wide process monitor
NetteBook 0.4.0 Web-based PIM
nitfol 0.5 Z-machine interpreter and debugger
nmh 1.0.2 Enhanced version of the MH electronic mail system.
nscache 0.2 Simple manager and browser for Netscape(tm) cache directories.
NTP 4.0.98b A time synchronization daemon which keeps your system time accurate.
OBM 0.2.3a Intranet application to help manage a company or a contact database.
oneline calculator 19991102 perl oneliner in an alias statement that makes a calculator
Open Source Audio Library Project 0.1 C++ Audio class library
OpenNaken 0.70 Tcl/Tk client for Naken Chat
OpenSSH Linux Port 1.2pre5 Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release to Linux
OpenVerse Visual Chat 0.7-1 Free Multiplatform Visual Chat software written in Tcl/TK
Oregano 0.0.1 Schematic capture and circuit simulation application
Pan 0.6.2 Gnome/GTK Newsreader
parsecfg 3.0.3 a library for parsing a configuration file
pasmon 0.5 A Graphical Passive Network Monitor
PCI Utilities 2.1 Utilities for diagnostics and cofiguration of PCI devices
pcwd 1.22 Berkshire Products PC Watchdog Card Linux Kernel Driver
Perl Shell 0.00204 Simple interactive Perl shell
phpop 0.3.0 Simple PHP Web based POP e-mail reader
pinfo 0.5.9 Hypertext info file viewer
plextor-tool 0.4.0 tool for querying and setting options of Plextor CD-ROM drives
PMFirewall 1.1.1 An Ipchains Firewall and Masquerading Configuration Utility.
PopApp 0.5d GNOME Applet to check multiple pop3 accounts.
PowerPak 991031 An attempt at a high-level game SDK
Powertweak-Linux 0.1.5 System performance enhancer.
Prometheus-Library 0.50 Object-oriented PHP API
PyGCS 1.3.7 A very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python.
Pyrite 0.7.8 Palm Computing platform communication kit for Python
QBrew 0.0.7 A homebrewer's recipe calculator
qmp3 0.2 Quick MPG123 frontend to support m3u playlists
qpasswd 1.1 POP3 password changing utility for qmail+poppasswd
Qvwm 1.1.3 Windows 95 like window manager for the X Window System
radkill 02111999 BASH script for ISP's that wish to guarantee no busy signals
rbison 0.0.5 parser generator for ruby
RBoot 3.0.1 A remote boot facility for PC operating systems.
RCode 1.2.5 Tool for encoding/decoding files
Recall 0.2 Framework for replicated fault-tolerant storage servers.
RED-Linux 0.6 A real-time extension of the Linux kernel
ResCafé 1.1 Mac Resource Fork reader written in Swing Java
rglclock 1.3.5 Rotating 3D clock
rlpr 2.03 Print from remote sites to your local printer w/o configuring remote site
Root-Portal 0.3.6 Background Desktop System Logger
rpcobol 991028 compiler for cobol74
rshaper 1.05 RSHAPER - shape incoming traffic
SambaLink/Q .49 Qt version of smb.conf file editor
sawmill 0.15 Extensible window manager
SCREEM 0.1.92 Site CReating & Editing EnvironMent
Secure-Linux Patch 2.2.13 version 1 Linux kernel patch to block most stack overflow exploits
SeeR 0.94 C/C++ scripting engine
Self Serve FAQ 0.1 PHP scripts for Web-based FAQs
setup.sh 0.1.1 Package management aware source code installation script
sfront 0.44 Translates MPEG 4 Structured Audio to C
signature 0.01 a dynamic signature generator for e-mail and news
sinus 0.1.3 A program that generates interesting sine waves
sitecopy 0.8.4 Maintain remote copies of locally stored web sites
SkyVIDEO 0.99.954 Portable drawing library for dos, win32 and linux
Slackware 7.0 The Slackware distribution
slashem 0.0.5e5 variant of the Rogue-like console game Nethack
SleezeBall 0.2 Make Squid replace known banners with a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF
SMiaB System Manager in a Box () 1.0 System Manager in a Box (SMiaB)
SML/NJ 110.24 Compiler, development environment, and libraries for Standard ML
spamstop 0.0.1 Semi-intelligent spam-sorter
speyes 1.0.0 South Park-inspired xeyes dockapp for WindowMaker.
Splitter 0.02 File splitter
Sporum 1.2b5 A better web-based dicussion board software
Spruce 0.5.7 Simple email client coded for X with the Gtk widget set
STAMOS 0.4 Gathers several information about the computer and generates an HTML file
stock-simulator 0.61 A stock-trading simulator and game
Sulawesi 0.3.5 Multimodal wearable/ubiquitous agent development environment
Sympa 2.3.4 A powerful multilingual List Manager- LDAP and SQL features.
sysstat 2.1 The sar and iostat commands for Linux
TAPIIR 0.2.4 Multi-tap-delay audio effect processor
Terraform 0.4.5 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
tgif 4.1.23 Vector-based draw tool
The Gimp 1.1.11 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
think 0.1.3 Outliner and project organizer
TkBox 0.49alpha MPEG remote access control client/server architecture
tkMOO-light 0.3.22 Powerful cross-platform chat client.
TkPGP 1.11 UNIX GUI shell for PGP and GnuPG
tksqlbind 0.2 tksqlbind is a perl script that will edit sqlbind zones
TroubleTickets v0.3 HelpDesk Trouble Ticket Web Application
Tsinvest 0.9 Quantitative financial analysis of equities.
TT-News 0.9.0 A headline-news ticker for various news-sources.
TWIG 2.0.1 A web-based IMAP client written with PHP3
ucppkit 0.3.1 A tiny C++ toolkit for Linux
unalog 0.2 A lightweight, universal logging model for human-machine events.
uptimer 1.0.3-rc1 Adds the current uptime to your .sig file
User Tools Suite 1.0.0.2 Local User Admin. Tools that simplify user management.
Vacation 1.0.4 A mail auto-responder
ViPEC 2.0 Network analyzer for high frequency electrical networks
VTun 2.0b5 Virtual Tunnels over TCP/IP networks.
WebCal 2.01 A simple browser based calendar program.
WebEvent 3.2 WebEvent is web calendar software for your web site.
Webmon 1.0 Web-based Packet Loss reporter
WebNNTP 0.2 Web-based news reader
WHAMp 0.5.1 An mpg123 frontend using the gtk-toolkit
whatpix 0.2 Duplicate file finder.
whois 4.3.1 A modern whois client
Whois2 1.0 Recursive whois client
Wine 991031 Emulator of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs.
wmappl 0.2 Window Maker Application Launcher
wmmp3 0.09 mpg123 front end for Window Maker
Wolfshade mud 1.63.8 Wolfshade Mud: an original MUD code base written in C++
X-Chat 1.3.6 GTK+ Based IRC Client. Alot like AmIRC (Amiga).
x10ephem 0.20 Computes sunrise/sunset times and modifies crontab entries
xmemo 1.01 X Windows desktop memo.
XScreenSaver 3.19 Modular screen saver and locker for the X WindowSystem
xsheep System Manager in a Box (SMiaB) 1.0 X toy, clone of Windows Esheep.
xspeakfree 0.8.1 TCL/TK frontend for Speak Freely
xtell 1.8 Simple messaging client and server, kind of networked write
XTerminator 0.9 Robots implementation for X in Ada95
XZip 1.8.1 A Z-machine (Infocom games) interpreter for Unix / X windows
Yacas 1.0.11 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Zebra 0.81 Route Server and Route Reflector daemon
Zfm 0.1.1 A new, very extensive and portable filemanager
ZIM 0.3.0 A perl/tk instant-messenger client wrapper for the Zephyr Notification Service
 

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