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IACT & Linux users
A message from the Land of Beyond web site!
We have devoted a new section for IACT, the "International Alliance
for
Compatible Technology." Users of major platforms such as OS/2,
Linux,
FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS, Unix, DOS etc., are invited to sign-on to
IACT's
Declaration! IACT is working for greater freedom of choice in software,
for
better access to computer-based services & technology, and for
open
standards, including higher standards of compatibility. To achieve
such
important goals for all people, IACT will join in anti-monopoly
efforts
against Micro$oft, while we find positive ways to help consumers &
users
regardless of their chosen platforms. Join us at...
http://pages.cthome.net/iact/
For more information:
Diane Gartner, dgwhiz@earthling.net
IACT Co-ordinator
Software Announcements
Dotfile Generator 2.2
Date: December 24, 1997
Jesper Pedersen has announced the release of The Dotfile Generator version
2.2.
New in this release is:
- Added the ipfwadm module for configuring IP Firewalling,
Forwarding and Masquerading.
- Added the procmail modules for configuring mail filters.
- The menu system, from which one select the configuration
pages has been rewritten, so it's now much more intuitive.
- Some bugs have been fixed.
- Made it work with Tcl/Tk 8.0, which is much faster than
the older versions of Tcl/Tk
The source is available from the home site of TDG:
ftp://ftp.imada.ou.dk/pub/dotfile/dotfile.tar.gz
For more information:
Jesper Pedersen, blackie@imada.ou.dk
TeamWave Workplace 2.1
Date: November 27, 1997
TeamWave Software Ltd. today
announced the release of version 2.1 of TeamWave Workplace, its popular
software that lets teams work together in shared electronic rooms
across the Internet.
For teams within an organization who are sometimes physically separated
yet still need to work closely together, TeamWave Workplace provides
an Internet forum where teams collaborate, communicate and share
information.
For more information:
info@teamwave.com
http://www.teamwave.com/
Red Hat Linux 5.0, HURRICANE
Date: December 1, 1997
Red Hat Software, Inc. has announced the
availability of Red Hat Linux release 5.0 for Intel and Alpha
computers. This release is a major update to the Red Hat Linux 4.X
series.
Red Hat Linux is available on their FTP site:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/
For more information:
http://www.redhat.com/
info@redhat.com
Nighthawk
Date: December 19, 1997
Nighthawk is An X-Windows game for Linux (Freeware GPL),
based on Andrew Braybrooks C-64 classic- "Paradroid",
written by Jason Nunn (JsNO)
Nighthawk 1.0 uploaded onto the following sites:
For more information:
Jason Nunn, jsno@dayworld.net.au
C++ GUI IDE
Date: November 28, 1997
Simple IDE for: Qt C++. GUI dialog editor, all developed on Linux X11R6
available at: http://qtez.commkey.net/
All distributes of QtEZ include: documentation, a set of tutorials, and
many
demonstration programs to illustrate features in the environment. I hope
QtEZ
is well received.
For more information:
Sam Magnuson, zachsman@commkey.net
r2d2 - easy but powerful boot-concept
Date: December 3, 1997
r2d2 is a newly developed boot-concept for Unix. In some
way r2d2 combines the easeness of the BSD-style scripts
(e.g. in Slackware Linux) with the power and flexibility
of the traditional SysV scripts (e.g. in RedHat, Debian or
S.u.S.E. Linux).
r2d2 is available at
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/daemons/init/
For more information:
Winfried Truemper, winni@xpilot.org
TkSTEP 8.0p2
Date: December 5, 1997
This is Tk 8.0p2 with some modifications to make it look like N*XTSTEP's
interface, plus some new widgets inspirated on N*XTSTEP and the ability
to utilize the full power (and more) of the OffiX Drag'n'Drop protocol.
The programming aspects of Tk have not been changed much, so you can run
your old Tk apps normally with it, although some options will not do
anything (like -relief for scrollbars).
To get TkStep go to
http://www.fga.de/~ograf/TkStep.shtml
For more information:
Oliver Graf, ograf@fa.de
Steve Murray, stevem@eng.uts.edu.au
t1lib-0.4-beta: A rasterizer for Adobe Type 1 Fonts
Date: December 5, 1997
t1lib is a library for generating character- and string-glyphs from
Adobe Type 1 fonts under UNIX. t1lib uses most of the code of the X11
rasterizer donated by IBM to the X11-project. But some disadvantages
of the rasterizer being included in X11 have been eliminated.
You can get t1lib by anonymous ftp at:
ftp://ftp.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/software/t1lib/t1lib-0.4-beta.tar.gz
For more information:
Rainer Menzner,
Rainer.Menzner@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
SGML-Tools 1.0.1
Date: December 5, 1997
After a year of mostly code restructuring and bugfixing, the time finally
arrived to let SGML-Tools 1.0 see the light. This means the final demise of
Linuxdoc-SGML. Loads and loads of features were added. Most of the code was
redone in Perl 5,
which adds a lot of flexibility for people who want to override
certain parts
of the functionality (but at the same time be able to install newer
versions);
uncountable bugs were fixed (more were introduced, of course :-)), lots of
small enhancements, etc.
Visit the SGML-Tools homepage, at http://pobox.com/~cg/sgmltools/, for
latest
news, pointers to locations, etcetera. Note that I haven't been able to get
this stuff on SunSite yet, so you'd better go via the homepage.
For more information:
Cees de Groot, cg@pobox.com
http://pobox.com/~cg/sgmltools/
LinuxThreads 0.7 -- POSIX thread library
Date: December 5, 1997
LinuxThreads is a thread library for Linux implementing the POSIX
1003.1c API and based on the "one thread = one process" model.
The sources are available through the LinuxThreads home page:
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/
or directly on our FTP server:
ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/Xavier.Leroy/linuxthreads.tar.gz
For more information:
Xavier Leroy, xavier.leroy@inria.fr
TkDesk 1.0b5 released
Date: December 9, 1997
TkDesk 1.0b5, a Desktop and File Manager for UNIX's running X11, has been
released.
TkDesk is a graphical desktop and file manager for several brands
of UNIX (such as Linux) and the X Window System. It offers a very
rich set of file operations and services, and gives the user the
ability to configure most aspects of TkDesk in a powerful way. The
reason for this is the use of Tcl/Tk as the configuration and (for
the biggest part of TkDesk) implementation language.
You can get TkDesk from its homepage at:
http://people.mainz.netsurf.de/~bolik/tkdesk/
For more information:
Christian Bolik,
Christian.Bolik@mainz.netsurf.de
MP3Blaster V2.01 -- Mpeg audio player for Linux
Date: December 9, 1997
A new release of MP3Blaster, an Mpeg-layer 1/2 audio
player for Linux is available. This player has a smart and intuitive user-interface that
allows a user to split up a playlist into sections. An interesting use of
this feature is that you can put about 10 of your audio CD's in MP3-format
on one CD-ROM and have each section in the playlist represent an album.
Then, you can have the player play the songs in every imaginable order you
want.
Available at:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/sound/players/mp3blaster-2.0b1.tar.gz
http://www.stack.nl/~brama/src/mp3blaster-2.0b1.tar.gz
For more information:
Bram Avontuur, brama@mud.stack.nl
X-CD-Roast 0.96c
Date: December 9, 1997
X-CD-Roast 0.96c, a CD writer package for X, has been released.
Really new stuff:
- based on Tcl/Tk 8.0
- includes cdrecord-1.5 and mkisofs 1.11.1
- lots of fixes.
Check out the web page:
http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast/
For more information:
Thomas Niederreiter,
p7003ad@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de
ADABAS D Workgroup Edition
Date: December 11, 1997
ADABAS D Workgroup Edition 10.0 for Linux is now available. Visit
http://www.IoS-online.de
For more information:
Bjoern Bayard,
Bjoern.Bayard@ios-online.de
Linbot 0.1 web site management tool
Date: December 12, 1997
Linbot 0.1 is a tool that can examine a web site for broken links,
outdated pages, and other useful information. It is based on the
commercial LinkBot from TetraNet Software (http://tetranetsoftware.com/)
though Linbot will be free.
You can get Linbot at
http://home1.gte.net/marduk/linbot/index.html
For more information:
Marduk, marduk@gte.net
Published in Linux Gazette Issue 24, January 1998
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