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Matt Michie, a struggling computer science student in New Mexico who has been a linux advocate for more than three years, sent in an editorial piece dealing with the upcoming battle between software giant Microsoft and the Free Software community. It is entitled Microsoft and the Art of War v1.00. To read the editorial, hit the details link. Links: Matt Michie [Comments are disabled]
About: PySol is an exciting collection of more than 200 solitaire card games. Its features include a very nice look and feel, multiple cardsets and table backgrounds, unlimited undo/redo, loading/saving games, player statistics and log files, a hint system, demo games, support for user-written plugins, sound support (including samples and background music), an integrated HTML help browser, and lots of documentation. Changes: This is a new beta release of the upcoming PySol 3 featuring about twenty new games and a number of other improvements. Feedback is welcome as thoroughly testing solitaire games is somewhat time consuming by definition.
About: Mozilla is a project to continue Netscape Navigator/Communicator as an open project. The project was founded and staffed by Netscape, and has now contributors from other companies as well as volunteers. The Netscape 6 and original Mozilla browser and email client is called Seamonkey. Mozilla is also the basis of Firefox and Thunderbird, thus Seamonkey shares 90% of its code with them. Changes: Big usability improvements for Linux and many more bugfixes, improvements (e.g. Profile handling)
About: GNU xhippo is a simple GTK-based playlist manager, designed to play music using mpg123, xmp, or most other commandline-based players while providing a friendly, clean X interface. It is localised in both English and German. Its interface is based upon the Amiga program HippoPlayer. It supports drag-and-drop, has optional GNOME support, and has a simple text-based playlist format compatible with many other players. Changes: Xhippo is now a GNU application. Tighter code, and window sizing changes. This is also the first stable release.
About: BetaFTPD is a single-threaded FTP daemon. The single-threadedness makes it faster than most other FTP daemons (contrary to common belief), and makes it extremely light on memory. Although it lacks a few functions (which you probably won't miss), the current version is very small and has a decent amount of functionality. BetaFTPD is built on the concept of heavy code reuse, which should hopefully make it easier for other programmers to contribute. Changes: 0.0.5 uses GNU autoconf, and fixes some problems in unpacking the tarball fixed. Minor size and speed improvements, and now has support for mmap()-less machines again.
About: Linux Logo is a small utility that displays an ANSI or ASCII logo of the Linux penguin, along with some sytem information. Instructions are included on how to add it to rc.scripts to have the logo displayed on login. Changes: Version 3.01 is a minor bug-fix release. K6-2 and pentium III problems were adressed. Also a new '-d' option to disable "pretty printing" of cpu-info was added. All known linux architectures except ARM supported [netwinder people, send me your /proc/cpuinfo files].
About: The Internet Software Consortium DHCP distribution includes a DHCP client, a DHCP server, and a DHCP relay agent. DHCP is a protocol for automatically configuring nodes on an IP network. The ISC DHCP server and client are well known for being extremely configurable, reasonably easy to use, and quite efficient. Changes: Fixed a bug in the way the program name for syslog was derived, as well as a long-standing bug that prevented the DHCP server from broadcasting responses to BOOTP clients that requested a broadcast response. Also fixed a potential coredump with the server in the way it determined if a lease was in effect before acknowledging such to the client.
About: tkxanim is a Tcl/Tk front end to xanim which aims to provide a graphical interface that allows the user to configure most, if not all, of xanim's options available from the command line. Since the program is in early alpha development, only a handful of xanim's options are present for configuration. However, more will be added with each new release. Despite the lack of options at the time being, the program is still very usable and visually appealing. Changes: Added a couple minor features (Debug Level and Animation Loops entry fields). Also cleaned up the options box a bit.
About: GNU Zebra manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) and BGP-4+, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. GNU Zebra has a good client interface, so the user can change configuration dynamically. Changes: This release contains many buffer overflow fixes and updates. zebra starts with forwarding set to on automatically. ospfd is much improved and it can speak LSA now. bgpd community attribute support improved. ripngd related bugs is fixed. ospf6d is in progress.
About: quftp is a command line ftp client that allows you to select a slew of files to upload and download. When you are ready it transfers them one after the other. Also you can transfer files directly between servers, and write scripts to do regular tasks. Changes: Script file processing, lots of buffer overrun errors fixed (more stable now), can specify the rcfile to read on the command line.
About: MyGuestbook is a simple guestbook that uses MySQL/PostgreSQL and PHP. It features an admin script to delete entries. Currently supported languages are German, English, Dutch, French, Norsk, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese, Icelandic, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Bavarian, Turkish, Danish, and Swabian. Changes: Added Spanish and Swabian, other code changes.
About: DGen/SDL is a free, open source emulator for Sega Genesis/MegaDrive systems. The latest version supports save states, interlace mode, Game Genie, Linux joystick support, compressed ROM images, and other nice features.
About: ICU provides a Unicode implementation, with functions for formatting numbers, dates, times, and currencies (according to locale conventions, transliteration, and parsing text in those formats). It provides flexible patterns for formatting messages, where the pattern determines the order of the variable parts of the messages, and the format for each of those variables. These patterns can be stored in resource files for translation to different languages. Included are more than 100 codepage converters for interaction with non-unicode systems. Changes: This is a brand new release.
About: Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, Hammer, and Hyperstone machines over a network using Internet protocols, namely DHCP and tftp. Changes: A fix for Compex RL2000 NICs. A preassembled start32.o with ANSIESC and FLOPPY defined. ASM files can be assembled with nasm now. Probe delay for 3c509 increased to improve detection. MD5sums: a08dde384b4e2f3631aa6957472b2892 etherboot-4.2.3.tar.bz2 406e9f8f8b5f01c22b992b80637deca7 etherboot-4.2.3.tar.gz
About: MyGuestbook is a simple guestbook that uses MySQL/PostgreSQL and PHP. It features an admin script to delete entries. Currently supported languages are German, English, Dutch, French, Norsk, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese, Icelandic, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Bavarian, Turkish, Danish, and Swabian. Changes: Fixed a major Bug, addslashes() was added.
About: LinkScan is an industrial-strength link checking and Web site management tool. It delivers flexible test automation capabilities for the entire spectrum of Web-based applications. LinkScan offers exceptional performance and scalability, and it allows Web masters and quality assurance engineers to quickly create completely automated test suites. It features cross-platform and cross-product compatibility to provide seamless migration. LinkScan operates on AIX, BSDI, FreeBSD, Digital Unix, HP/UX, IRIX, all major Linux distributions, SunOS/Solaris, and Microsoft Windows (95/98/ME and NT 4.0/2000/XP). Changes: LinkScan 5.4 Windows GUI, Workstation, lower prices announced San Jose, CA, June 15, 1999. Electronic Software Publishing Corporation (Elsop) introduces LinkScan version 5.4 for Windows 98, Windows NT systems and Unix that includes a new low cost Workstation version, new agressive discount pricing and a graphical user interface (GUI) for Windows systems. LinkScan is the industrial strength link checking and website management tool for Unix, Windows 98 and Windows NT operating systems. It is the most accurate, fastest and most scalable product available and it is highly customizable. It also does HTML validation. LinkScan creates two types of publication quality SiteMaps and it is professionally supported. LinkScan requires web server software and Perl 5. Reports may be viewed using all industry standard browsers.
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: Tunelp patch, German messages
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