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Linux-Announce Digest #992
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Linux-Announce Digest #992, Volume #3 Sun, 8 Jul 01 08:13:10 EDT
Contents:
New Quake and DooM RPMS (Max Heijndijk)
New RPM packages for Linux (Max Heijndijk)
[free linux authoring tool] ("Robert Della Malva")
FreeTDS 0.52 Release Announcement ("Brian Bruns")
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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 06:50:42 CST
From: Max Heijndijk <cchq@wanadoo.nl>
Subject: New Quake and DooM RPMS
Reply-To: Max Heijndijk <cchq@wanadoo.nl>
QUAKE
=====
* I have built Quake RPMS for Glibc 2.2.2. The older
* packages which you can find at ID Software's FTP
* site are mostly for libc5. Happy fraggin' !
QUAKE: Quake single/multi player game engine.
Built from ID Software's original sources.
QUAKEWORLD: Quake multi player game engine.
Built from ID Software's original sources.
QUAKEFORGE: QuakeForge is a 3D game engine based on ID Software's
Quake engine. This is the Newtree client (Quakeworld).
PAK, GTKPAK: A couple of command-line tools for working with the
pak archives used by Quake, Quake 2, and QuakeWorld.
Pakc can create and add files to archives, pakx can
list and extract files from them. Gtkpak is a nifty
GTK frontend for pak.
DOOM
====
* Some DooM RPMS I have built:
LXDOOM: An enhanced version of DooM.
LXMUSSERV: Music server for Linux games to play MUS music.
YADEX: A level editor for DooM.
PSDOOM: psDooM is a process monitor and manager for *nix systems.
It could be considered a graphical interface to the 'ps',
'renice', and 'kill' commands. psDooM is based on XDoom,
which is based on id Software's 'DooM'.
OBTAINING THE PACKAGES
======================
Visit: Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Best Regards, Max Heijndijk.
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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 06:51:38 CST
From: Max Heijndijk <cchq@wanadoo.nl>
Subject: New RPM packages for Linux
Reply-To: Max Heijndijk <cchq@wanadoo.nl>
Announcing new RPM packages for Linux.
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I have created a collection of RPM packages most of which could
previously only be obtained as a .tar.gz package.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PACKAGES
===========================
NEW PACKAGES
============
AUDIT: The 'audit' program recursively searches through
directories looking for files that may not be needed or
have strange permissions, ownership, etc...
CLOCKSPEED: Synchronizes and adjusts the system clock with a
remote NTP time server.
DIALOG: Dialog is a program that will let you to present a
variety of questions or display messages in nice
looking color non-graphical dialog boxes from a
shell or perl script. Various dialog boxes can be
presented such as yes/no, menu, input, message,
checklist, radiolist, and more. This program is based
on the no longer maintained cdialog, but contains bug
fixes and more features.
FCRON: A replacement for vixie-cron and anacron
with added functionality.
GSHIELD: GShield is a firewall script which should run
"out of the box" for most folks with minimal fuss.
GSHIELDCONF: Gshieldconf is a graphical configuration
editor for gShield.
MUTTZILLA: Muttzilla allows the use with Netscape Communicator
or Navigator of mail and news programs other than
those built into Communicator.
PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED PACKAGES
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AIDE: A file integrity checker like Tripwire(tm).
MHASH: Libraries needed by AIDE.
BSETBG: Wrapper script for setting backgroundimage
for BlackBox.
CDRTOASTER: Graphical frontend for burning CD-ROMS.
EZNET: A simpler way to do PPP for internet dialup connections.
GPSTREE: Shows process tree in an X window and allows you
to kill a process. Something like ktop or gtop,
but you don't need KDE or GNOME.
GTKTETRIS: A tetris game that looks much better
than cxhextris.
IFLED (+DUTCH VERSION): For monitoring a network interface
with the keyboard LED's.
JOHN THE RIPPER: Password checking /cracking utility.
NAPSTER: A GTK+ napster clone.
NCFTP DUTCH VERSION: An improved FTP-client.
PI: Yellow Notes for X.
PDQ: Printing tool. Complete replacement for lpr,
lp, lpd, lpq, lpstat, and lprm with a
graphical interface.
QPROMPT: Qprompt allows reading from the command line,
like read but without the enter. Great for
shell scripting.
RIPENC: Console frontend for ripping and encoding of CD'S.
RT: Root Tail, shows text (logfile) on root window in X.
SCANLOGD: Detects TCP port scans.
SMIX: A sound mixer that does it all.
TCLINPUTBOX: Run a command in X.
TCT: Graphical frontend for crontab.
TOOLBOX: A style-file editor for the BlackBox Window Manager.
WAVE: A waveform generator (guitar tuner included).
XPROC: Graphical tool to view system information.
XWGUI: Printing Utility. Graphical frontend for the XW TOOLS.
Prints high quality graphics.
OBTAINING THE PACKAGES
======================
Visit: Linux Shell Scripts & RPM Software Packages - http://go.to/conmen/
Best regards, Max Heijndijk
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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 06:54:26 CST
From: "Robert Della Malva" <robert@xlreader.com>
Subject: [free linux authoring tool]
=========================================================================
[Platforms: Linux-Unix-Windows; Java VM: 1.3.0-1.3.1]
=========================================================================
XLR Doc Builder 1.0.3-beta released.
XLR Doc Builder allows the author to quickly generate and deploy organized
documents in several formats: JavaHelp's XMLs, HTMLs (being viewed by all
browsers), XL-Reader's XLRs.
XLR documents may be viewed either offline, or online thanks to JavaWebStart
technology.
End-users can explore, make search, authentify the author, annotate pages,
save appli's preference.
For more information, please visit http://www.xlreader.com
Download page: http://www.xlreader.com/download.html
Direct download for Linux (5.64 MB):
http://www.xlreader.com/download/xlg103b/InstData/Unix/Others/ixlg103.bin
-- Robert Della Malva
PS: Attention Java Developers:
If interested in getting the source code, please go to
http://www.xlreader.com/support.html , select the link on the left
"Technical support ", and fill in the respective form, thanks.
=====
robert@xlreader.com
XL-Reader Java Project
www.xlreader.com
=====
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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 06:56:34 CST
From: "Brian Bruns" <camber@ais.org>
Subject: FreeTDS 0.52 Release Announcement
The FreeTDS Project is proud to announce the availability of FreeTDS 0.52.
FreeTDS is a open re-implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) Protocol
used by Sybase and Microsoft in their database products. Specifically, FreeTDS
allows Linux and Unix machines to act as clients to a Microsoft SQL Server,
Sybase ASE or ASA dataserver and related products.
FreeTDS supports a range of protocol dialects from both vendors and three
client APIs (dblib, ctlib, and ODBC).
New features in this release include:
.. Major enhancements to the ODBC driver allowing it to work with the unixODBC
and iODBC driver managers as well as working with PHP and Perl ODBC
interfaces.
.. New configuration file format for finer grained control. The older
'interfaces' format is retained as a fallback for Sybase compatibility.
.. Preliminary connection pooling code.
.. Better documentation.
.. FreeTDS is now 64bit clean.
.. Added support for nullable bit types under TDS 7.0
.. Many bug fixes.
Source packages or RPMs for FreeTDS 0.52 can be obtained at iBiblio or any of
its mirror sites:
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/freetds-0.52.tgz
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/freetds-0.52-1.i386.rpm
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/ALPHA/freetds/freetds-devel-0.52-1.i386.rpm
For more information on the FreeTDS project or the related FreeTDS/JDBC native
Java driver please visit http://www.freetds.org
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