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About: The net-tools package contains a collection of programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating system. It contains the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel including arp, hostname, ifconfig, netstat, rarp and route. Changes: netstat supports a new option `--listening' to show only listening sockets, netstat -s is improved, route/netstat -r display the routing cache correctly, plipconfig and slattach are included, ipaddr and iptunnel are included and as ever, various bugs have been fixed.
About: mod_ssl provides provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1). It is based on the SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL and supports all SSL/TLS related functionality, including RSA and DSA/DH cipher support, X.509 CRL checking, etc. Additionally it provides special Apache related facilities like DBM and shared memory based inter-process SSL session caching. per-URL SSL session renegotiations, DSO support, etc. Changes: This version is the start of the mod_ssl 2.2 series which smoothly tries to introduce new functionality. This version starts with two major new functions: First per-URL renegotiation of SSL parameters are supported which makes the server a lot more flexible. Second an additional SSLRandomSeed directive is provided for explicit seeding the PRNG from an internal source, from an external file or even from an external program.
About: ivtools is a collection of drawing editors for PostScript, TeX, and Web graphics with both direct-manipulation and scriptable user interfaces. Changes: This release includes greatly expanded online/offline/inline documentation, a lot of dialog box hacking, and a rudimentary dataflow mechanism added to ivtools graphdraw.
About: Delay is a program that counts down the number of seconds specified on its command line. In this way, it's sort of like the standard sleep(1) command, except for the fact that it provides feedback of the time remaining. Changes: This is the initial release of delay.
About: FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes. Changes: This release includes more documentation and code fixes. See the FLTK web page for a complete list of the changes.
About: Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and fast GDK/Imlib image viewer designed to replace the classic image viewers like xv or xloadimage. It features setting an image as an X11 background with a user-definable background color, fullscreen viewing, a screensaver mode, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, real transparency, zoom, slideshow, support for external programs, and more. It runs on Linux (libc5/glibc), Solaris (SunOS), FreeBSD, and HP-UX. Changes: Only small bugfixes and speed-ups.
About: Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive. Exim is in use at many sites around the world. Changes: This is mostly a tidy-up/bug-fix release. However, there are two small changes of function, and three small additions, all documented in doc/NewStuff.
About: Jazilla is an ongoing work by a group of Java programmers to create a 100% Java version of the Mozilla browser. It's still a work in progress and so should only be downloaded by developers, but can read a web page from a remote web server and display it. Changes: Jazilla now has an improved startup time, has the ability to use renders other than the standard Swing one, and has improved error handling.
About: Wterm is a color VT102 terminal emulator for the X Window System. While lightweight, it provides an elegant interface, including NeXTSTEP style scroll bars and an application menu that integrates well with the Window Maker window manager and GNUstep based applications. Wterm works well with any window manager or desktop environment. Other features include background images, transparency, and reverse transparency. Support is included for the Latin, Chinese, Greek, and Kanji character sets. An extensive set of runtime options is available. Changes: Advanced shading options, speed optimisations, and misc. bug fixes.
About: Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. It contains the following programs: addpart, agetty, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chfn, chkdupexe, chrt, chsh, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, delpart, display-services, dmesg, elvtune, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, flock, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, halt, hexdump, hwclock, initctl, ionice, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, last, line, logger, login, look, losetup, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, need, newgrp, partx, pg, pivot_root, provide, ramsize, raw, rdev, readprofile, reboot, rename, renice, reset, rev, rootflags, script, scriptreplay, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, shutdown, simpleinit, swapoff, swapon, taskset, tailf, tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode, vipw, wall, whereis, and write. Changes: mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab, documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb, mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline and cfdisk got a more specific exit status.
About: KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the Unix operating system. KDE is a completely new desktop, incorporating a large suite of applications for Unix workstations. While KDE includes a window manager, file manager, panel, control center and many other components that one would expect to be part of a contemporary desktop environment, the true strength of this exceptional environment lies in the interoperability of its components. Changes: In case the developers will not discover very serious problems with these packages they will become the final KDE-1.1.
About: GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ v1.2 based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which can view industry standard VCD/EVCD files as well as Synopsys (EPIC) TimeMill and LXT format files. Changes: Added support for VCD (Value Change Dump) file format and automatic decompression of .gz suffixed dump and scope state files.
About: GRPN is a RPN calculator for the X Window system built using the GIMP Toolkit (GTK). GRPN works with real numbers, complex numbers, matrices, and complex matrices. Numbers can be displayed in 4 different radix modes, and complex numbers can be displayed in either Cartesian or polar form. Changes: First public release.
About: xbeats is a beats clock dockable in both Window Maker and AfterStep. It can also run in its own window. Changes: New design, some code cleanup and now uses automake/autoconf.
About: Terraform allows you to create fractal terrain (also called a height field) and transform it using a number of algorithms. It is meant to be a tool for those who want to generate digital terrain models for use in raytracing or other simulations. Terraform features different views and colormaps and has a preview mode which features interactive real-time rotation of the terrain object. Terraform is written for the GNOME desktop environment. Changes: This version contains better color support as well as some bugfixes.
About: Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi. Many new features have been added including multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, commandline history, online help, filename completion, and block operations. It is descended from the vi clone "stevie" and runs on many systems, including Unix, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS, and Amiga. Changes: A macro for diff windows have been added, ctags has been updated to 3.1.1a, clipboard support when using the mouse in an xterm, added configure arguments to be able to disable a specific GUI Toolkit.
About: FreeTDS is an open-source implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) database client access protocol and related libraries used by Sybase and Microsoft. FreeTDS supports all versions of the protocol from both vendors, and includes DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC libraries. Changes: dblib's behaviour more closely matches OpenClient's, ctlib support is much improved (sqsh 1.6 runs), capabilities negotiation is working, improvements to the server library, better platform support, and much bug fixing.
About: KVirc is a Visual Internet Relay Chat Client based on the Qt library. Features include a MDI user interface, drag & drop, built-in scripting language (aliases, popups and events), customizable backgrounds and colours, DCC (chat, send with resume, voice), CTCP functions, mIRC colour support with preview, notify list, online help and configurable logging. Changes: This version requires at least KDE 1.1 beta. Any snapshot starting from December 1998 should work. Update the file http://www.kvirc.org/kvi_sparser.cpp.gz and recompile if you have problems connecting to a BrasNET server.
About: TiK is a pure TCL/Tk implementation of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It has most of the features the native Win32 and Mac clients have, plus some extras. It includes a graphical buddy list display, full font support, graphical emoticons, away messages, buddy pounce, buddy ticker, IM/Chat capturing, message broadcasting, a GUI preferences system, and much more. TiK's expandable nature allows the addition of new features through packages. Changes: Away message set the auto response flag like they should, titles of IM windows now have idle and evil in them, typo in example.tikrc and HTTPProxy error message about variables to set, ticker was using a stock variable by mistake.
About: Gaby is a small personal database manager using GTK+ and GNOME (if available) for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward access to the types of databases a casual user would normally use, while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. It was designed with extensibility in mind and relies heavily on plug-ins. Changes: This is the first officially stable release featuring a few bugfixes and a new german translation.
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