First I'd like to tell, that I don't subscribe to debian-devel, but I can read its archives from WWW. And I am not a Debian developer.
I propose these packages to be added to Debian GNU/Linux. I have proposed them once before, but they are not yet added. ************************************** Varkon: Personally I do not use CAD-software, but this is so ueber-cool thing that I just can't help informing you all about this: A CAD-software called Varkon is now available under the terms of GNU GPL. It would be nice to make it available as Debian-pacakge. http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/08/0917217.shtml http://linuxtoday.com/stories/3841.html http://www.varkon.com/ Somebody was packaging this package, but haven't heard about it then. * * * http://www.electriceditor.com/ The Electric VLSI Design System is a complete Electronic Design Automation (EDA) system that has a long history. Electric can handle many forms of circuit design. And now it is under the terms of GNU GPL! I don't think, that I would need this program, but others might be very interested. * * * This company called BeOpen has some cool free pieces of software for programming. And they seems to be GPL'ed http://www.BeOpen.com/ OO-Browser is already packaged, but not that InfoDock. I'd like to use them, when I learn more programming. AFAIK If you download InfoDock, it has OO-Browser and Hyperbole included. And if you download OO-Browser, it has Hyperbole included. * * * http://www.wwdsi.com/saint/index.html Saint has been developed from SATAN. It seems, that it is not free software. But feel free to debate about it in a mailing-list called debian-legal. I use this software myself, and I really like it. * * * COPS - security tools for unix. Available in many security-related ftp-sites, for example: http://www.fish.com/cops/ * * * Titan: http://www.fish.com/titan/ Security analysis program. * * * The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT): http://www.fish.com/tct/ The Coroner's Toolkit (TCT) is a collection of tools that are either oriented towards gathering or analyzing forensic data on a Unix system. * * * Here is some other security tools, you might be interested: http://freshmeat.net/appindex/console/firewall-and-security.html http://www.opensec.net/ http://www.cert.org/other_sources/tool_sources.html * * * WCD: http://www.xs4all.nl/~waterlan/ KCD: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~lerdsuwa/util/kcd.html They are both Norton Chance Directory-clones and licenced under GNU GPL. I use them both myself and can't decide, which one to choose. * * * NDIR: http://www.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE/~mw/software/ndir.html Extended and advanced ls-replacement. Not unlike already-packaged limo. I use them both myself and can't decide, which one to choose. * * * XMLTerm http://xmlterm.com/ XMLterm - A graphical command line interface. If you don't understand, check out those screenshots. * * * rpl: http://www.laffeycomputer.com/rpl.html rpl is a UN*X text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new strings in multiple text files. It can scan directories recursively and replace strings in all files found. I use this software myself, and I really like it. * * * http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/~penne/Zsid/ Yes, we have that xsidplay, but it uses qt-libraries, and therefore it is not in main-directory. Zsid is under GNU GPL. I would actually use this program. * * * gASQL: http://malerba.linuxave.net/ Gnome-front-end for PostgreSQL. GPL'd. * * * Gnome-db: http://www.gnome.org/gnome-db/ Needed by gASQL. * * * Who's Afraid of C++? - the WWW version http://www.steveheller.com/whos/ Review on Slashdot: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/09/2153222&mode=thread Other On-Line Books of Steve heller: http://www.steveheller.com/ But I can't find any licence information. * * * Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM) http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/index.html A little bit like Gnome DIA. Can be used as CASE-tool. * * * Cacheprof http://www.cacheprof.org/ * * * asp2php http://asp2php.naken.cc/ Convert asp to php. Licence: GPL * * * GVD, the GNU Visual Debugger http://gtkada.eu.org/gvd/gvd.html * * * UNIX Bourne Shell Programming http://www.torget.se/users/d/Devlin/shell/index.html http://www.torget.se/users/d/Devlin/shell/shell.zip * * * Open Inventor http://oss.sgi.com/projects/inventor/ "Open InventorTM is an object-oriented 3D toolkit offering a comprehensive solution to interactive graphics programming problems. It presents a programming model based on a 3D scene database that dramatically simplifies graphics programming. It includes a rich set of objects such as cubes, polygons, text, materials, cameras, lights, trackballs, handle boxes, 3D viewers, and editors that speed up your programming time and extend your 3D programming capabilities." Licence: GNU LGPL. * * * OpenSource-programs of Applix Inc. Linux Palm Desktop Applix SHELF Linux Stoctracker http://www.applixware.org/Download.cfm http://www.applixware.org/ Linux Palm Desktops is software for communicating between Linux-box and 3Com Palm-computer. SHELF is free stand-alone-implementation of Applix ELF (Extension Language Facility). Stocktracker tracks stock prices, I think. BTW, SHELF is compiled with amake, the proprietary compiling system. They will pay very well for that person, who makes it to use GNU make, autoconf, automake etc. * * * si: http://siv.sourceforge.net/ Reads insane amount of information from /proc-directory as input and outputs system information in human-readable format according to that information. I use this software myself and like it very much. * * * Heretic: http://samuel.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wertmann/index.html Sources of this famous Doom-clone were released some time ago, and Linux port made of it is now in version one-point-oh. * * * AIDE: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide.html It seems, that this would be better Tripwire-clone than Sentinel. Licenced under GPL. Tripwire will become free software very soon, though. * * * XITE: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~blab/Software/Xite/ Some other drawing program. Very much features, but not as famous as Gimp. * * * boxes: http://www6.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~tsjensen/boxes/ Adds any kind of ASCII-boxes (including C/C++-comments) around text-input. Licenced under GPL. I'd like to use this. * * * QuickList: http://www.quicklist.org/ Tiny little databse program for situations, where SQL engines are too much. If you liked the Appleworks or Microsoft Works databases, you will like QuickList. QuickList means for database user as much Ted means for wordprocessor users. Licenced under GPL. * * * SARA: http://home.arc.com/sara/index.html SATAN/SAINT-clone except with a little bit different approach. Authors of SARA seems to have some other security-related tools, too: http://home.arc.com/se.html But I am not very sure, if their software is free at all. * * * Heroine Virtual-products: http://heroine.linuxbox.com/ including: XMovie Broadcast 2000 Quicktime4linux Video editing and viewing tools and library for them. Licencing information found in docs follows: Quicktime4linux: This is a Quicktime library for UNIX in a freely redistributable, statically linkable library. You can statically link it in a program and charge money for the program. The only condition is that if you use it in a program, you must put the author's name and email somewhere. If you improve the library itself or add a free codec to it, you should release your improvements. If you redistribute the code, you must also redistribute the author information and documentation. At this time it's very popular to license stuff under the GPL. You are free to include this library in a derived work and license the derived work under GPL. XMovie: The official license for this software is currently GPL, although you have permission to link commercial codecs and use snippets of code from this package in a commercial product. Why you'd want to use code from an unemployed programmer is entirely up to you. By commercial I mean stuff which was financed by debt or vapor capitol. There is no warranty, not even the implication of fitness for a particular purpose. Broadcast 2000: Currently Broadcast 2000 is commercially licensed. Although we want to get Broadcast 2000 under the GPL so you can have some source code to compile, the licensing depends on how we decide to pay the loans which financed it. * * * Radiance: http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/HOME.html Some big 3D-software. Has its own licence. * * * KIM http://home.zf.jcu.cz/~zakkr/kim/ ncurses-based interactive process-management-tool. Licenced under GNU GPL. * * * TkWho http://pel.cs.byu.edu/~alen/computers/TkWho/ Tk-version of who-command. Very useful addition to [x|g|k|w]dm, so people won't shutdown workstation having some users logged in. * * * XPS: http://www.netwinder.org/~rocky/xps-home/ Graphical process-tree-management-program. Licenced under GNU GPL. * * * TreePs http://www.slip.net/~gmd/tps/treeps.htm Just like xps, but seems to have more bells and whistles. I'd like to use them both. * * * SmartBee http://smartbee.org/ Very portable fortune-program. Licenced under GNU GPL. * * * asmutils http://lightning.voshod.com/asm/asmutils.html Many utils of Linux ported to intel 80x86 assembler. Licenced under GNU GPL. * * * gbase http://www.hibernaculum.demon.co.uk/ GBase is a GTK program designed to convert between the four common bases used in programming (decimal, hexadecimal, octal and binary). It converts numbers on-the-fly as they are typed in. I use this software myself. Licenced under Artistic Licence. * * * ImPress http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/index.html ImPressTM is a WYSIWYG layout program designed especially for Linux. It allows you to create presentations and Postscript documents using fully scalable graphics similar to programs like Macromedia Freehand, Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator and Visio. * * * Dead Link Check http://www.loria.fr/~michel/DLC/ Dead link checker for Netscape Bookmarks. Can be used with Public Bookmark Generator or with itself. Licenced under GNU GPL. * * * Public Bookmark Generator http://www.loria.fr/~michel/PBM/ Generates tree-like link-list of Netscape Bookmarks. Licenced under GNU GPL. * * * Gimp Clickable Imagemap Plug-in http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/imagemap.html It is possible, that this plugin is part of Gimp 1.1. * * * ControlFreak http://controlFreak.sourceforge.net/ Very configurable launcher panel. * * * Reed: http://www.sacredchao.net/software/reed/ Autoscrolling text-reader. I use this myself and I like it. * * * Sysstat: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/sebastien.godard/ The sysstat package contains the sar and iostat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. This information can also be saved in a system activity file for future inspection. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are fully supported. * * * ncps: http://www.columbia.edu/~pc171/ncps.html curses-based process-viewer * * * Wv library: http://www.wvWare.com/ Derived from mswordview * * * xls2xml: http://arturo.directmail.org/filtersweb/#xls2xml xls2xml is a free filter from Microsoft Excel to XML, and a free C library. Licence: GPL. * * * Artistic Style: http://astyle.sourceforge.net/ A Free, Fast and Small Automatic Indentation Filter for C , C++ , Java Source Codes. Artistic Style may be used and distributed under EITHER the Artistic License or the GNU General Public License (GPL). * * * dehtml: http://www.moria.de/~michael/dehtml/ Dehtml removes HTML constructs from documents for indexing, spell checking and so on. I use this very much and like it. * * * deroff: http://www.moria.de/~michael/deroff/ This is from the maker of dehtml. Deroff removes roff constructs from documents for the purpose of indexing, spell checking etc. I don't use this at all. * * * Flying Windows: http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/flyingwindows/ xscreensaver compatible screensaver. I use this and like it. * * * hinv: http://reality.sgi.com/raju/software.html lhinv: http://lhinv.sourceforge.net/ Implementations of hinv (Hardware Inventory) for Linux. A command called hinv exists in IRIX and AFAIK in AIX, too. * * * xproc: Graphical tool that examines /proc. * * * mp3_check: http://mp3check.sourceforge.net/ mp3check: http://programmierer.freepage.de/overmann/ Tools for analyzing condition of MP3-files. I like and use that second program, because it can cut junk-start and junk-end. * * * xdiskusage: http://www.cinenet.net/~spitzak/xdiskusage/index.html Graphical equivalent of du. Licence: GPL. * * * pip: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~epa98/work/apps/pip/ Makes any program to able to use pipes. Some programs (often those from a non-Unix background) don't read input from stdin, nor write to stdout. Instead, they make you specify an 'input file' and an 'output file' on the command line. At least most Unix programs that do this let you use the special filename '-' to mean stdin or stdout, but there are some programs that don't recognize this convention. pip is fairly general and works for 90% of the annoying DOSish programs out there, but it won't handle more complex programs like TeX that generate multiple output files. The separate program pip_latex wraps latex, turning it into a filter that reads LaTeX source from stdin and writes a DVI file to stdout. -- Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * * * U of Jyväskylä * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/index.html * "STRAIGHT BUT NOT NARROW!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- "so impressed with all you do. tried so hard to be like you. flew too high and burnt the wing. lost my faith in everything" nine inch nails