Linux/Unix Links

	Web Tools			Multimedia Tools			Drivers
	Utilities			Java under Linux			Linux/UNIX Software Sites

My current flavour of Linux is Debian from a local site ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian/. The Debian packages are a handy source for code to public domain programs; the .deb files are UNIX "ar" files in disguise.
Altering the behaviour of backspace/delete keys under X: http://aterm.sourceforge.net/keyboard.html
The WinE project allows emulation of windows programs under Linux
www.willows.com/ - TWIN - libraries to let you compile windows source under Linux using X-Windows to keep up appearances :-)
www.kohala.com/start/troff/troff.html - Documentation for troff, eqn, pic etc.
The online book Unix Unleashed is a useful source on info on all things Unix. Part III - "Text Formatting and Printing" - is a useful reference for troff & friends.
mkcsum - a perl script -- invoking find and cksum -- for checksumming whole all the files in a directory
wh - a 'which'-like script that searches for files using file patterns and reports all occurrences found in $PATH order
KDrill - Kanji quiz program for flavours of Unix, including Linux

Web Tools

Amaya - WWW browser & WYSIWYG editor ; supports MathML for marking up mathematics
Apache WWW Server
Mason - Integrates Perl into HTML on a Web Server
MySQL - Open Source Database -- Documentation -- Reference manual for 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 -- Developer Shed MySQL notes
Postgres - database
ICRadius - Analyse those radius logs!
Radius RFCs: RFC 2138 and RFC 2139
ned and ns, shell scripts for invoking composer/netscape under Unix/Linux ; nsmailpoll - get netscape to check for mail. See also REMOTE CONTROL OF UNIX NETSCAPE
Configuring Netscape Helper Apps for X windows
mime and dump - scripts for dumping the MIME header and contents, respectively, of a URL via the lynx browser

Multimedia Tools

Rip is a command-line perl script for extracting CD audia tracks as WAV or MP3 files. It can use the CDDB database to rename tracks with their song titles.
CDParanoia is a Linux track-ripper
NotLame is a Linux MP3 encoder based on the LAME engine.
[Sep 2002 -- The NotLame site at hive.me.gu.edu.au/not_lame/ was decommissioned in Aug 2002, has since resurfaced at the link above]
mplayer is a movie player for Linux that can cope with AVI files
Audacity is a sound editor for Linux/Windows/Mac. The Linux version requires the wxGTK libraries. I've had trouble with the MP3 export under Linux, but I just use NotLame on an exported WAV (see above).
realplayer-8.0-1.i386.rpm (4.8 Mbyte) -- RPM module for RealPlayer 8.0.3.412
VSound is a library which mimics an audio device and lets you save sound output (e.g. from RealPlayer) to a file. VSound can no longer be officially obtained, but you should be able to dig up copies of, e.g. vsound_0.5.orig.tar.gz on the net. When using VSound with a Linux version of RealPlayer, set "Enable support for old OSS drivers (Linux Only)" from View | Preferences | Performance | Audio Driver Options
Ogg Vorbis is an open-source audio format, comparable to MP3. It is part of the Ogg open multimedia project.

Drivers

The NTFS driver for Linux
Peeter Joot's Windows NT Ext2 Tools (390 Kbyte) allows read-only access to a Linux ext2fs partition under NT.

Utilities

Gimp - the Gnu Interactive Manipulation Program. Unix's answer to photoshop.
XPad - Postit notes for X windows - requires GTK 2.2 or better, which in turn requires GLib, Pango & AKT (available on GTK site) and pkgconfig
XNotesPlus - Postit notes for X windows
NOTE [2003-04-23] XNotesPlus is now shareware, NOT freeware
GNotes - Postit notes for X windows, part of the GNOME project - an alternative desktop/window manager for Linux
Dia is a tool for producing Visio-like drawings
Graphviz is a suite of programs to draw graphs (in the mathematical sense of a bunch of nodes connected by lines). Available for many platforms including Linux & Win32
The K Desktop Environment project - alternative desktop/window manager for Linux
TimeTracker - Records time allocated to tasks
NcFTP - nice FTP client for Unix - features recursive gets (beta 3.0 has recursive puts, but they're painful; manual confirmation of file-overwrite - yuck!)
WxFTP - another FTP client featuring recursive gets & puts + a GUI
List of Productivity Tools at LinuxLinks
The fvwm95 window manager doesn't seem to be maintained any more. Some fvwm95-2 sources can be downloaded from ftp://mitac11.uia.ac.be/pub/fvwm95/; [f2.org copy of fvwm95-2043b.tgz (825 kbyte)]. Note - under Solaris with gcc, specify compiler option "-fpic" instead of "-rdynamic". Under Solaris 2.6 you'll also need the xpm library [f2.org copy of xpm-34ktar.gz (146 kbyte)]
SSH (Secure SHell) utilities for Linux/Solaris/Other platforms
MuPad is a symbolic algebra package with free single-user licences available for non-commercial educational use.

Java under Linux

Info on running Java under the Linux operating system can be found at http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html. Here is an FTP mirror site. You'll need ONE of the following:
- the development kit (jdk...) to develop Java programs
- or the run-time environment (jre...)
- or the minimal run-time environment (rt1...)
JDK Documentation can be found at java.sun.com/products/archive/jdk/1.1/

Linux/UNIX Software Sites

GNU archive - USA - ftp.uu.net
smc.vnet.net/solaris_2.5.html - Solaris freeware
www.sunfreeware.com/ - Solaris freeware
www.gnu.org/ - GNU home
www.debian.org/distrib/packages - Debian Linux software packages
www.sgi.com/fun/ - source files for various games & software development packages

Dr Fun -- 1997-07-10

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