 Amiga Development Environment
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996
Tempe, Arizona - Cronus has announced the release of the long awaited Geek Gadgets CD-ROM. Geek Gadgets contains the Amiga Developers Environment (ADE) which is a project conceived and managed by Cronus to produce and support Amiga ports of dozens of the most popular development tools and utilities from the Free Software Foundation, BSD and other sources. This CD contains all the tools necessary to get started programming on the Amiga including advanced C, C++, Fortran and ADA compilers, assembler, linker, EMACS editor, "make", source code control systems (rcs&cvs), text and file utilities, GNU debugger, text formatters (groff & TEX) and more. Geek Gadgets is the perfect companion to the AT Developers CD which contains documentation and utilities but no development tools. Released quarterly, Geek Gadgets provides a quick and cost effective way to obtain the latest ADE for those with slow and/or expensive Internet connections. As a bonus, all the tools can be run directly from the CD-ROM without the need to install any files on your hard drive.
Available from your local Amiga dealer or directly from Cronus. SRP $ 24.95
For additional information:
Michelle Fish,
Objective-C 4.3.4 For Linux
Date: 30 Oct 1996
Release "4.3.4" of the Stepstone Objective C compiler is now available from System Essentials Limited for Linux versions 1.2.13 and higher.
See: http://www.nai.net/~lerman
Both Linux and OSF/1 Objective C 4.3.4 releases include:
- compiler-chain driver script (objcc)
- executable of the Objective C compiler (objcc.exe)
- source of the original Objective C runtime library
- sources of the ICpak101 Objective C foundation classes
- man pages for both objcc and objcc.exe
- tutorial program
For additional information:
Kenneth Lerman,
Systems Essentials Limited
C++ Matrix Math Library
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996
MathTools Ltd. is pleased to announce MAT<LIB>, a Matlab Compatible C++ Matrix Class Library, designed for development of advanced scientific high-level C++ code. Evaluation version of the MAT<LIB> can be downloaded from our home page, http://www.mathtools.com.
The library includes over 300 mathematical functions covering Complex math, Binary and unary operators, Powerful indexing capabilities, Signal processing, File I/O, Linear algebra, String operations and Graphics.
For additional information:
MathTools Ltd., http://www.mathtools.com
FIDOGATE 4.1.1 - Fido-Internet Gateway
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 04:30:07 GMT FIDOGATE 4.1.1, an update to version 4 of the FIDOGATE package is available.
FIDOGATE Version 4
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* Fido-Internet Gateway
* Fido FTN-FTN Gateway
* Fido Mail Processor
* Fido File Processor
* Fido Areafix/Filefix
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Internet:
- ---------
http://www.fido.de/fidogate/
ftp://ftp.fido.de/pub/fidogate/
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Fido/
fidogate-4.1.1.tar.gz 657 Kbyte
For additional information:
Martin Junius,
fxvolume 0.1, a simple xforms volume control.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996
Fxvolume is a simple, no frills volume control designed to sit at the side of your screen and not get in the way. You simply run it, and then ignore it until you need to use it.
It controls the level of the master sound device under Linux, using a slider created from the Xforms library.
http://www.ee.mu.oz.au/staff/pbd/linux/fxvolume/
Use at your own risk - it has not been widely tested, but seems to work well enough... ;)
For additional information:
Paul Dwerryhouse,
University of Melbourne, Australia
The JAZZ midi sequencer version 2.6
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996
Announce: The free JAZZ midi sequencer version 2.6
JAZZ is a full size midi sequencer allowing record/play and many edit functions as quantize, copy, transpose ..., multiple undo; two main windows operating on whole tracks and single events; graphic pitch editing, GS sound editing functions and much more ...
JAZZ is copyright (C) by Andreas Voss and Per Sigmond, and is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE (Gnu GPL).
Web site: http://rokke.grm.hia.no/per/jazz.html
Linux binary distribution: ftp://rokke.grm.hia.no/pub/midi/jazz/linux-bin/
Files: jazz-bin-v26b-xview.tar.gz, jazz-help-v26b-xview.tar.gz
Source code distribution: ftp://rokke.grm.hia.no/pub/midi/jazz/
File: jazz-src-v26b.tar.gz
For additional information:
Andreas Voss.
Per Sigmond,
Ericsson AS, ETO,
util-linux 2.6
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 util-linux-2.6.tar.gz (source only distribution)
Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. It's primary audience is system integrators (like the people at Red Hat) and DIY Linux hackers. The rest of you will get a digested version of util-linux installed with no risk to your sanity.
Util-linux is attempting to be portable, but the only platform it has been tested much on is Linux/Intel. There have however been integrated several patches for Arm, m68k, and Alpha linux versions. The present version is known to compile on at least Linux 1.2/libc 4.7.5 and Linux 2.0.22/Libc 5.3.12 (the Linux versions I run :-). People are encouraged to make _nice_ patches to util-linux and submit them to [email protected].
Util-Linux 2.6 is immediately available from
ftp.math.uio.no:/pub/linux/util-linux-2.6
NOTE: Before installing util-linux. READ the README or risk nuking your system. Thank you.
For additional information:
Nicolai Langfeldt,
The popular front against MWM
LyX-0.10.7 - LyX is a WYSIWYG
Date: 30 Oct 1996
LyX-0.10.7 has been uploaded to sunsite. It is also available from ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx and from my home page: http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html
LyX is a WYSIWYG front-end to LaTeX. It is used much like a word-processor, but LaTeX produces the final document. Figures, tables, mathematical formulas, fonts, headers, etc., are all drawn on-screen essentially as they appear on the final document. Figures (postscript) are placed in the document using a simple menu, as are tables. General text formatting is accomplished by high-level menu choices that automatically set fonts, indentation, spacing, etc., according to general LaTeX rules, and display (essentially) these settings on the screen.
None of the power of LaTeX is lost, since you can embed any LaTeX command within a LyX document.
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/editors
501577 lyx-0.10.7-ELF-bin.tar.gz (binary release)
612839 lyx-0.10.7.tar.gz (original source)
Copying-policy: GPL
For additional information:
David L. Johnson,
Lehigh University, http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html
MpegTV Player
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996
Announcing a new release of MpegTV, the real-time software MPEG Player for Linux (x86 ELF) and FreeBSD.
A free version of the MpegTV player can be downloaded from the MpegTV web site at:
http://www.mpegtv.com/
Main features:
- Nice GUI with slide-bars and buttons (implemented with Xforms).
- Plays MPEG-1 SIF bitstreams (352x240 pels) at 30 frames/sec on a P-200.
- When the CPU resources are not sufficient, player skips some frames to achieve graceful degradation.
- Can be installed as a Web Browser helper application to play MPEG.
For additional information:
Tristan Savatier,
http://www.mpeg.org
SpellCaster ISDN4Linux ISDN Driver Beta
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996
This message is to announce the public Beta release of the ISDN4Linux driver for SpellCaster ISA ISDN adapters. This beta program is open to anyone who prefers the bleeding edge and just can't wait for MP support. The beta driver currently supports the SpellCaster DataCommute/BRI and TeleCommute/BRI adapters and will also include support for the DataCommute/PRI adapter before the end of the Beta program.
You can download the beta driver from:
ftp://ftp.spellcast.com/pub/drivers/isdn4linux
You require kernel revision. 2.0. You will also need the isdn4k-utils package also available the above mentioned FTP site or ftp.franken.de
For additional information:
Erik Petersen,
Public availability of the second beta of StarOffice 3.1 for Linux
Date: 30 Oct 1996
Star Division announces the public availability of the second beta version of its office productivity suite, StarOffice 3.1, for Linux/x86.
StarOffice 3.1 consists of:
- StarWriter 3.1 -- word processor
- StarCalc 3.1 -- spreadsheet
- StarDraw 3.1 -- drawing and presentation tool
- StarImage 3.1 -- image manipulation
- StarChart 3.1 -- bar-, pie- and other charts
- StarMath 3.1 -- graphical formula editor
You will need an ELF system, X11R6 and Motif 2.0 libraries.
This beta version expires at January, 1st, 1997. We will make newer beta versions available by then. The final version will be free of charge for private use. The price for commercial use is not yet decided.
StarOffice 3.1 can be downloaded from the directory:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/staroffice
For additional information:
Star Division GmbH, http://www.stardivision.de/
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer,
Marc Sewtz,
Wget, a Web Mirroring Tool
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996
Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of Geturl. Wget should now be easier to debug, maintain and most importantly, use.
Wget is a freely available network utility to download files from the World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off.
Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no additional software (like Perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file.
You can get the latest version of wget at:
ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/wget.tar.gz
For additional information:
Hrvoje Niksic,
SRCE Zagreb, Croatia
Woven Goods for LINUX Version 1.0
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996
Woven Goods for LINUX Version 1.0
Version 1.0 of Woven Goods for LINUX is a collection of World-Wide Web (WWW) Applications and Hypertext-based Information about LINUX. It is ready configured for the Slackware Distribution and currently tested with Version 3.1 (ELF). The Power Linux LST Distribution contains this collection as an integral part with some changes.
The five Parts of Woven Goods for LINUX are:
- Part 1 -- World-wide Web Browser from Netscape for X11 and Lynx for ASCII terminals.
- Part 2 -- LINUX Documents
- Part 3 -- Apache World-wide Web Server and documentation, Glimpse Search Engine and more.
- Part 4 -- Hypertext Markup Language Editor asWedit
- Part 5 -- External Viewers
Woven Goods for LINUX is available via anonymous FTP from:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/woven
The HTML Pages of Woven Goods for LINUX are snap shots of the LINUX Pages at FOKUS - Research Institute of Open Communication Systems and are available from: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux For additional information:
Lutz Henckel,
GMD FOKUS, http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/hel/
xldlas v0.30 now available
Date: 30 Oct 1996
Announcing xldlas v0.40 in sunsite's incoming directory:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/incoming/xldlas-0.40-srcbin.tgz
Soon to be moved to:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/math/xldlas-0.40-srcbin.tgz
xldlas is for doing statistics.
- Based on the xforms library (i.e. looks pretty slick)
- Point and click interface to statistical summaries, OLS regression, plotting, correlation analysis, etc.
- Experimental curve fitting routine that uses genetic algorithms with some nice visual feedback.
- Very handy automatic generating of .tex format log files, including tables and plots.
- Online help
For additional information:
Thor Sigvaldason,
http://www.a42.com/~thor/xldlas/
http://sunsite.math.klte.hu/mirrors/xldlas/
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