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FAQ: Linux in science and engineering. The Science and Engineering SIG of the Vancouver Linux Users Group has put together a FAQ about Linux in scientific and engineering endeavors.

"favicon.ico" is something that shows up in the error logs of many Linux-oriented web sites. Internet Explorer looks for an icon by that name when a reader bookmarks a site - it shows up in the bookmark list later. These icons need to be in a Windows format - not something that comes readily to hand for a lot of Linux folks. Now, however, one can go to Bruce Stephens' favicon page and get icons - including a nice little Tux - to keep your IE-based readers happy.

Linux Gazette #48. Issue number 48 of the Linux Gazette has been released.

Linux Today co-founder announces 'LinSight'. Dave Whitinger, co-founder of Linux Today, has announced that he is working on a site called "LinSight." "LinSight will be an information resource for the community, targeting a wide variety of user-bases, but specifically entering the mainstream market of users who are only now entering the community."

Events

Pervasive Computing 2000 has been announced for January 25 and 26 in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It looks at mobile and embedded systems - areas where Linux should have a major role. Speakers include Bill Joy.

Eric Raymond will be speaking Friday, December 3rd, at the University of Southern California (USC) and again on Saturday, December 4th, at Caltech, according to this note from Dan Kegel. "Topics will include: Linux and Open Source as Social Revolutions, Open Source Business Opportunities in LA, and The Future of Open Source Operating Systems."

Report from SC99. Since none of the LWN.net staff were able to attend this year's SuperComputing '99 (SC99) conference, Susan Spring at Aspen Systems was kind enough to send in a report and some pictures from the events.

Several reports from Comdex have been put up on the web. Here's a few:

  • Marc Merlin has put up a page with his coverage of Comdex. As usual, it is full of pictures and explanations in scrapbook style - worth a look.

  • Bruce Perens posted over 71 photos from Comdex, including this one of Jon and Rebecca Sobol, our assistant editor.

  • AboutLinux.com has posted a Mini-Tour of the Linux Business Expo, which contains pictures from Bill Henning's visit to the event.

User Group News

A new LUG in Clarksville, TN has been announced.

SlugFest in Vermont. The Small Linux Users Group of Vermont (SLUG-VT) will be holding its second Installfest (or SlugFest!) on Saturday, December 11th in Colchester, VT, USA. Please see the main information page for more details and directions. Please contact William Stearns if you're interested in attending.

A new LUG in Portland, Maine is being established by the Maine LUG. The first meeting is on December 9.


December 2, 1999

   

 

Software Announcements


Package Version Description
AccuRev 1.2 Cross Platform Configuration Management for Distributed Development
ACS 0.5.0 GPL licensed multi-line voice response telephony platform
ALE Clone pre1.16 #2 Clone of WarCraft II
ALife 0.0.1-011299 Artificial Life for Linux
ALINKA LCM 1.1.3 Tool for the management and configuration of Linux Beowulf clusters.
ALINKA RAISIN 1.1.3 Web based tool to build and administrate beowulf type clusters
Alkaline UNIX/NT Search Engine 1.3_26-Nov-1999 Web site and intranet search engine and spider, ala Altavista or Excite.
ALSA driver 0.4.1f An alternative implementation of Kernel sound support
APE 0.9.6 APE Portable Environment for C++ Threads, Sockets, etc.
aproxy 0.81 A forwarding TCP-proxy.
arla 0.28 A free AFS client and server for Linux, *BSD and others.
asapm 2.9 X11 application with AfterStep look for monitoring APM on laptops
August 0.50 A free html editor for Linux/Unix.
aumix 1.29 Color text mode sound mixer with GPM support
AutoSig 1.0 A Signature/Plan file generator.
Bastille Linux 0.90 beta A comprehensive hardening program for Redhat Linux 6.0.
BBPic 0.2 Online image archive management
bcnu 1.18 Powerful Web-based client-server system monitoring
Beavis 0.4.1 Mail poller for Enlightenment
becrweb 0.02.03 (very primitive) backend for association of files with comments.
Behemot Graphics Editor 0.9.0 3d graphics editor and renderer
BibleTime 0.2 A bible study program for KDE
Black Penguin 0.2 Arcade style jump-on-cubes game
BLADE 0.5.1 Broad Language Aided Document Environment
bug-buddy 0.5 graphical bug-reporting utility for GNOME
cardwords 0.0.8 Form crosswords on the cardtable with cards showing characters.
cd-console 2.3 curses-based cd-player program
CGIPing .01 A Python CGI script to ping a list of systems and return HTML.
Citadel/UX BBS Software 5.60 Advanced client/server BBS program
CoCo Linux Utilities 0.1 Utility collection to handle Tandy Color Computer files
Coin alpha 19991130 3D graphics library with Open Inventor API
CoreLinux++ 0.1.0 A set of C++ class libraries to support common patterns in software development.
Coyote Linux 1.01 A single-floppy distribution for sharing an Internet connection.
Cross-CGI 0.91 A portable and complete CGI libtool library in C.
crypt_l 1.1 A simple, small, fast cryptographic utility.
csvdump 1.2 Dump, process, and mail a MySQL table.
Darkbot 5f11 IRC Help Robot
dbXML 0.1 Nov 99 Structure Document DBMS
DB_Browser 1.30 Web-based utility to browse and modify a postgres database
Defendguin 0.0.0 (alpha) A Linux-themed Defender clone.
DeleGate 6.0.3 alpha Multi-purpose application level gateway (proxy)
dep.pl 1.12 Check dependencies of multiple files.
dfm 0.99.6 Filemanager like OS/2 WPS
Disc-Cover 0.9.4 Generate covers for audio cds non-interactively using cddb
doIRC 1.0 Complete JAVA GUI IRC Client. Supports multiple Channels, Queries, DCC Chat/File
Dozer 0.01a Share files with others without the need for a server.
DPS-FTP 0.6.0 Bulletproof-like ftp client
DWUN 0.5d Controls PPP link by client requests for connection
DynamicJava 1.1 Java source interpreter
editek 0.4.2 Colorizer for /etc/issue, /etc/issue.net and /etc/motd
egrep-finger 1.28-2 Extended finger program using extended regular expressions
ELSA 1_0b-017 RTSP/RTP Streaming Media Server
Emacspeak 11.0 A full-fledged speech output interface to Emacs
emelFM 0.6.3 Two-Window File Manager
Erlang OTP-R6B Full-featured programming language developed at the Ericsson CS Laboratory
Etherboot 4.2.11 Source code for making TCP/IP boot ROMs to boot Linux and other OSes
Ethereal 0.7.9 GUI network protocol analyzer
Eucalyptus 0.1.3 Advanced MIME email program
Euphoria Programming Language 2.2 Simple, flexible, powerful programming language for Linux, DOS and Windows
Exim 3.11 Message Transfer Agent for Unix systems
Explore2fs 1.00pre2 A win32 explorer for Linux ext2 partitions.
farsh 1.2.0 Find and Run shell
Fast Webpage Exchanger 2.0.7 A non-interactive FTP client for updating Web pages
FastGL 1.70 A very wonderfull C/C++ graphics library
fetchmail 5.2.0 Free, full-featured, robust, well-documented remote-mail retrieval utility
Filesystems HOWTO 0.7.2 HOWTO about filesystems and accessing filesystems from several OSes.
Fire Gnome 19991128 A GNOME tool for an ipchains firewall configuration.
fpted 4 Easy to use Text Editor (small but powefull)
freemed 19991129 Free medical management software in a web browser
FreeWorld BBS 0.3.1 BBS Software for Linux
Freshmeat Headline Grabber 2.01 Perl-based headline grabber
Fworld IRC Operator Services 2.0.0 IRC Operator Service with features to rival that of Undernet's.
G2LogAnalyzer 0.1r1 Logging analyzer for the G2 realaudio server.
GameStats 1.3 An integrated tool to monitor game servers using QStat and MRTG.
gEdit 0.6.1 GTK+ based text editor
getIt! redhog.5 Turns a server directory structure into a collapsable tree on a web-page.
gfind 0.1 GUI front-end to GNU find utility
ggitv 0.0.11 TV-application on ggi
gif2png 2.2.4 converts GIF image files to PNG format.
GiNaC 0.4.0 A C++ library for symbolic calculations.
Giram 0.1.3 Giram is a modeller, written in GTK+
GKrellM 0.7.4 System monitor package
GMatH 0.0.8 Computer Algebra Environment
Gnome Toaster 991130 create CDRs the easy way with Gnome/Gtk
GnomeHosts 0.6 Edits /etc/hosts.
GnomeSensors 0.2.0 GNOME Panel hardware sensors display applet
GNU Keyring 0.4.0 Securely store digital secret keys on your Palm handheld computer.
GOB 0.90.5 Preprocessor for building GTK+ Object
GOGO 2.23 Fast, open source MP3 encoder based on LAME
GSwitchIt 0.2 Xkb state indicator for the GNOME panel
GTC 0.4 Game Programming Library
GTK MikMod 0.12 pre 21 An advanced multi-threaded module player.
Gtk Undo Library 0.3 A multilevel undo/redo facility for GTK.
GTK+XFce 3.2.1 Easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11
GtkShadow 0.4 web-oriented graphic tool
gtktetcolor 0.2 A small Tetris clone for X.
GtkTiLink 0.35_1.92 A TI calculators <-> PC communication program using a GTK interface
Guava 1.0 C-like preprocessing for HTML
HB 1.9.8 Simple language to create dynamic web content
hd2u 0.5.0 Hany's DOS to UNIX converter.
Heretic for Linux 1.0.2 Port of Heretic to Linux
Hermes 1.2.6-2 An optimized pixel format conversion library with other tricks
HP OfficeJet Linux Driver 0.3 Linux support for the HP Officejet All-In-One series
HTML Tidy 24nov99 Cleans up HTML source and formats it nicely.
Html2PHax 0.0.3a Webclient to Hylafax for a PHP enabled Apache webserver
HTMLPerlSETI 0.9 Display SETI@home client statistics in an HTML table.
I-Spy 2.0b1 A remote FTP and Web site content-spy.
Ilib 1.1.6 Image manipulation library for reading and writing images
ImageMagick 5.1.0 Beta Package for display and interactivemanipulation of images for X11
ipchains-firewall 1.6.2 Rules-based ipchains firewall/masquerading script suite
iplog 2.0.0 tcp, udp, and icmp logging utilities for Linux.
IPWatch 0.01b9 Restores network connectivity when there is a loss or change of IP.
ip_masq_icq 0.55 ICQ masquerading module for Linux
irssi 0.7.20.1 GTK+ based IRC client with GNOME panel support
isreal 1.3 Tells if an image is real, computer generated, or not real.
Jabber 0.7 Instant Messaging Platform
JEsd 0.0.1 A re-implementation of EsounD in pure Java.
Johnson Keyboard 0.1 Hacker's keyboard layout for X11
Journal 0.4 A text-based journal/diary.
jwhois 2.3.1 A collection of Perl programs for the whois service
karma 0.9.0 Oracle Database Monitor
Kazlib 1.16 Robust ANSI C data structure library.
KBlade 0.0.9 KBlade is a frontend to BladeEnc (mp3 encoder) for KDE
KBshare 0.3.1 Web based knowledge manager
kdbg 1.0.1 A graphical KDE front end to the GDB debugger. Also used by kdevelop.
Kgutenbook 0.1 KDE port of the perl app gutenbook, to download, and read etexts from Gutenburg
kmp_sybase 0.0.2 KMySql plugin for Sybase.
Kmud 0.2 KDE mud client
KNode 0.1.10 Online-newsreader for KDE
kruiser 0.4pre2 Win95-like file manager for KDE with many features
l2tpd 0.61 Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP) user space implementation
Laptop-HOWTO 2.2 How to make the best of Linux features with laptops.
libGLobs 0.5.0 A set of C++ OpenGL object manipulation classes
libmcal 0.5 Modular Calendar Library
libmcrypt 2.3.0pre2 A library to access various encryption algorithms
Lift Off Java Installer 0.0 An installer for Java applications.
LingoTeach 0.14 A very simple language-teaching program.
LinkChecker 0.9.8 LinkChecker is a URL link checker
Links 0.80 Lynx-like text WWW browser
Linux Intrusion Detection System 0.4.1 Linux Kernel-Based Intrusion Detect System
Linux JDK 1.2.2-RC2 Provides a full port of Sun's JDK (Solaris version) to Linux
Linux Napster Client 0.7 beta Application that locates and downloads MP3s.
Linuxconf 1.16r9 Sophisticated administrative tool
loopy 0.1.1 Utility for creation and mounting of encrypted loopback device filesystems.
LxA 0.0.1 Linux appliance construction set.
LZO 1.06 Data compression library with very fast (de-)compression
Mace 991130 A free Macintosh compatibility layer, implemented similar to Wine.
Magick++ 0.8.9 Object-oriented C++ API to the ImageMagick image-processing library.
makeself 1.5 Script to create self-extractable gzipped tar archives
Math Literature 0.0.1 Learn to calculate with positive numbers.
MBSE Bulletin Board System (BBS) MBSE Bulletin Board System 0.33 Gamma-5 Fidonet-capable ANSI BBS.
mcal-drivers 0.5 Calendar drivers for libmcal
mcrypt 2.3.0pre4 A replacement for the old unix crypt(1). Uses several block algorithms.
mepl 0.43 Software to control the self-employed mode of 3COM/USRobotics Messagemodems.
Mexx 1.0.5 Shoot'em up for Linux/Win32/BeOS
MICO 2.3.0-multithreading MICO Is COrba
MindTerm 1.1.3 SSH-client in pure Java, includes stand-alone ssh- and terminal(vt100)-packages
MiniVend 4.0 alpha Powerful freely redistributable shopping cart package
mminstance 1.6 Makes single-master PostScript fonts from multiple master fonts
modutils 2.3.7 Linux module utilities
mod_litbook 1.0.8 Experimental design in referencing www documents.
moodss 8.6 Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet
Moonshine 0.9.5 An application development environment for Linux.
Mp3Maker.app 1.0 Window Maker enhanced CDDA grabber and MP3 encoder frontend
MpegTV Player (mtv) 1.1.0.6 A realtime MPEG Video+Audio player
MRPC 0.9.1 A very open and modular remote procedure call system.
MRTd 2.1.0 Routing protocol daemon (BGP, RIP, OSPF) and tools
Muddleftpd 1.1.1 A small, fast configurable ftp server that can run without root.
MuTATE! 35 Networked board game with chatrooms. Touch pieces to gain them.
NetBiff 0.9 A more featureful version of the traditional biff.
netcomics 0.11 A perl script that downloads today's comics from the Web
nmpg 1.1.1 Command driven frontend for mpg123
note 0.2 commandline note tool
NTP 4.0.98f A time synchronization daemon which keeps your system time accurate.
objdump-beautifier 0.2 An objdump beautifier.
OCaml 2.04 Objective Caml is the latest implementation of the Caml dialect of ML
OpenNaken 0.90 Tcl/Tk client for Naken Chat
OpenScheme 1.3.2 OpenScheme programming environment
OSS 3.9.2y Provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux
pam_cucipop 1.31-5 Patch to use PAM with cucuipop
Pan 0.6.5 Gnome/GTK Newsreader
perl-cfd 1.0.0 High-stability cfengine server daemon.
PMFirewall 1.1.3 An Ipchains Firewall and Masquerading Configuration Utility.
PngEncoder 1.2 A Java class to convert Java images to a byte-array in PNG format
portfwd 0.0 Forwards incoming TCP connections and UDP packets.
Primax GUI 0.99-5 Tcl/Tk Frontend GUI for Primax D600 Scanner
profit alpha Low-level Open Flight support library
Prometheus-Library 1.0 Object-oriented PHP API
pxtools 0.0.3 Collection of tools to convert a Paradox-database
Pyrite 0.7.9 Palm Computing platform communication kit for Python
qdologs 1.1 Archive and process qmail logs.
Qpopper 3.0b21 POP3 server
Quesa 0.0.9 An Open Source implementation of QuickDraw 3D.
Quosack 0.1 Remote service checker with pager notification.
RabbIT 2.0.1 Mutating, caching webproxy to speed up surfing over slow links
reap 0.4A Disassembler for x86 architecture, and assembly code editor
renameit 0.0.2b bash/sed scripts for standardizing MP3 filenames.
Request Tracker 1.0.1 Web, command-line and email based trouble ticketing and bugtracking package
RIMPS 0.02 Web-based MP3 server.
rmligs 0.81 Ligature corrector for German LaTeX documents.
ROX-Filer 0.1.5 Drag-and-drop based filemanager.
RRDtool 1.0.8 time-series data logging and graphing
rt 2.0 An n-dimensional raytracer.
RTLinux 2.0
rzMail 7cf.b.1a-00 A wxPython-based e-mail client.
sawmill 0.17 Extensible window manager
seatris 0.0.14 ncurses-based tetris game.
sickday.pl 0.0.1 Gives you an occasional day off from work.
sinus 0.9.1 A program that generates interesting sine waves
Sketch 0.6.3 Vector drawing program, implemented in python
Slashdot Headline Grabber 2.01 A Perl-based Slashdot headline-grabber
SLiRP 1.1.0pre1 SLIP/PPP emulator over shell/telnet/ssh/etc.
smtm 0.5.0 A Perl/Tk stock ticker.
SNiFF+ Penguin IDE 3.2 Free professional IDE for Linux C/C++ developers
SPAST 1.5 Simple Procmail Anti-Spam Template
Spice Opus 1.2 A circuit simulator based on Berkeley's SPICE 3f4, with optimization utilities.
SPIRO Linux 1.0 A Linux distribution that is easy to install and use
Sportal 1.9 A file watcher with a GTK frontend.
star trek ency reader 0.7.3 Reads the star trek encyclopedia under linux
start 0.8.2 General purpose home page for an intranet
strace 4.1 System call tracing utility (like trace, truss, etc)
sudo 1.6.0 Provides limited super user priviledges to specific users
supersniffer 1.3 A portable enhanced super-sniffer with many modifications.
survey 0.95 Lists all your config files and installed packages.
SyncDet 4.0 Clone detection program for IRC admins
System Pantheon 1.0 IRC RPG Game System
TermBaum 0.1 Java Library for function parsing, calculation, and derivation.
Terraform 0.4.7 Interactive digital terrain (height field) editor/viewer
The Dammit Patch 0.0.0 Adds the long option --dammit to ln, mv, and rm.
The Gimp 1.1.13 The GNU Image Manipulation Program
The GOTE converter 0.3 Automatic GTK Objects To Eiffel converter.
TickMail Preview Release Fast, efficient, attractive and friendly X11 e-mail program.
TinyMARE 1.0.7101 TinyMARE (Multi-user Adventure Roleplaying Epic) MUD Server
TkBox 0.65 MPEG remote access control client/server architecture
tkchooser 0.64
TkDiff 3.05 Graphical 2-way diff/merge
tkspong 0.1 Perl/Tk frontend for spong
TNT 1.8 Emacs Clients for the AOL Instant Messenger service
tree.pl 1.13 Simple script to generate a html sitemap
tsbiff 1.3 Tsbiff will oversee your mailbox and notify you when new messages appears
Tsinvest 1.1 Quantitative financial analysis of equities.
UCDP 0.1 A console-based Linux CD-player with a nice interface.
UdmSearch 2.2.1 Fast WWW search engine for your site
umodunpack.pl 0.2beta Unpack umod files for Unreal Tournament.
UnLockPRO 2.0.0 ZZT world lock manipulator
UnrealIRCd 2.1.7 Advanced IRC daemon based off EliteIRCd with numerous of new features
UPX 0.93 powerful executable packer
uri 2.4 URI manipulation library
urmcore 0.2.5 Quickly finds, verifies, and removes old core files with minimum system load.
VMWare 1.1.2 Allows you to run multiple OSs at the same time
vobTools 1.0 manipulation tools for MPEG2 VOB files
vpnd 1.1.0 Virtual Private Network Daemon - encrypted TCP/IP.
vpopmail 3.4.10 qmail addon package for virtual domain email
vsa 0.9.2 Visual Sound Analyzer
waspchat 0.0.3 Human to computer chat prog
wb0 30.11.1999 A quick SVGAlib-based Web browser
wcd 2.2.8
webbase 5.3 Internet crawler C library and program
webget 0.3 A CGI frontend and backend to wget written in Perl.
WebRAT 0.5 Remote Administration Tool
Winie 1.0.3 HTTP/1.1 Put Tool
wmbiff 0.2 A new mail notifier for WindowMaker.
wmG 0.15.0 A small, lightweight, GNOME-compliant window manager for X.
WMpop 0.43 WidowMaker DockApp for monitoring a POP3 mailbox
WPC 0.1b web password security checker
WPP 2.11 Small perl5 script that allows preprocessing of HTML files
X-CD-Roast 0.98alpha1 A program-package dedicated to easy CD creation underLinux
x2vnc 1.0 A dual-screen hack for VNC.
Xcdda2wav 1.0.1 An X frontend for cdda2wav.
XDaliClock 2.17 Digital clock for the X Window System
XDBM 0.9.3 Database Manager designed specifically to hold XML data
XSane 0.46 A GTK-based X11 frontend for SANE, also a GIMP plugin
xtell 1.9 Simple messaging client and server, kind of networked write
XVoice 0.6 Enables speech to text for many X applications
Xxl 2.1.2 Simple, easy to use and user friendly graphical spreadsheet
Yacas 1.0.17 Yet Another Computer Algebra System
Yadex 1.2.0 Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X
ZAngband 2.3.3 Rogue-like roleplaying game
Zircon 1.18.230 An IRC client written in tcl/tk
Zut 1.5 Easy and fast graphical back-end
 

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