Dear all, As you all know Debian has the largest collection of foss packages. Everyday new packages are added - mostly due to popular request. I think it will be useful to all, whether debian users or not to know about some additions to foss repository.
Hence, I am forwarding relevant portion from the debian news. I wish to continue posting, until you all feel it is useless. Please let me know when I have to stop. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ >From debian project news : http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2011/08/ New and noteworthy packages --------------------------- 270 packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently. Among many others [58] are: 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * collabtive -- web-based project management software [59] * crtmpserver -- high performance RTMP/RTSP streaming server [60] * edisplay -- fast image manipulation programs (image viewer) [61] * exabgp -- BGP route injector [62] * fonts-horai-umefont -- Japanese TrueType font, Ume-font [63] * fonts-pagul -- TrueType font for the Sourashtra language [64] * fonts-yozvox-yozfont -- Japanese proportional handwriting OpenType font [65] * fookebox -- web-based jukebox frontend to MPD [66] * goldencheetah -- set of analysis tools for cycling performance [67] * jsonbot -- framework for building bots for IRC, XMPP and the web [68] * kate-syntax-go -- syntax files to highlight Go in Kate [69] * mangler -- Ventrilo compatible client for Linux [70] * nautilus-image-manipulator -- resize and send images from Nautilus [71] * nwchem -- high-performance computational chemistry software [72] * paprass -- manager of electronic documents [73] * pcsxr -- Sony PlayStation emulator [74] * vim-syntax-go -- syntax files to highlight Go in Vim [75] * wavesurfer -- sound manipulation program [76] * xnbd-client -- network block device client with support for live migration [77] * xnbd-server -- network block device server with support for live migration [78] 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/collabtive 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/crtmpserver 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/edisplay 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/exabgp 63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-horai-umefont 64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-pagul 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fonts-yozvox-yozfont 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/fookebox 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/goldencheetah 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/jsonbot 69 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/kate-syntax-go 70 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mangler 71 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nautilus-image-manipulator 72 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/nwchem 73 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/paprass 74 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/pcsxr 75 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/vim-syntax-go 76 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wavesurfer 77 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xnbd-client 78 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/xnbd-server _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
