* New in SuSE Linux 6.2

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Kernel 2.2.10

You will find an indepth article to Kernel 2.2 on the webpage: http://linuxtoday.com/stories/296.html.

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Hardware:

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RAID controller:

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KDE: New packages

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New packages:

3dpong (3D arcade game)

3D Pong is an X-Window game for 1 or 2 players. It's a 3D game based on the first arcade game, "Pong." Like "Pong," it's a game played witha ball and paddles. The object is to hit the ball and get it in the other player's goal. Use your paddle to deflect the ball and keep it from getting in your goal.

alevt 1.4.9 (Teletext/Videotext decoder for the BTTV driver)

AleVT is a teletext/videotext decoder and browser for the bttv driver (/dev/vbi) and X11. It features multiple windows, a page cache, regexp searching, built-in manual, and more. There's also a program to get the time from teletext.

arpwatch 2.1a4 (Arpwatch - keep track of ethernet/ip address pairings)

Arpwatch keeps track for ethernet/ip address pairings. It syslogs activity and reports certain changes via email.

arts 0.3.0 (Modular software synthesizer)

Modular software synthesizer, generates realtime audio stream, midi-support, easily extendable, uses CORBA for seperation of gui and synthesis.

ax25apps 0.0.2 (Applications for kernel AX.25)

This package contains the applications which were found in the former AX.25 Utilities: ax25ipd, ax25rtctl, ax25rtd, call, listen.

ax25spyd 0.18 (This daemon listens for AX.25-packets from the kernel)

This is ax25spyd (formerly known as monixd), a daemon, which listens for AX.25-packets from the kernel-ax.25. These packets are decoded (like listen(1)) but not displayed on the screen. Other programs can connect to ax25spyd via sockets and issue commands. They will get all heard ax.25-Packets in a human-readable-format, amheard qstructure, DX-Cluster-messages or spydata.

ax25tool 0.0.3 (AX.25 tools)

These are the support utilities required to make use of the internal AX.25, NET/ROM and Rose support in the linux kernel. The ax25tools are mostly configuration utilities, applications can be found in the package ax25apps.

bluefish 0.3.2 (HTML Editor)

Bluefish is a HTML editor designed for the experienced web designer. Resting on Gtk.

bonnie (File System Benchmark)

Bonnie is a popular performance benchmark that targets various as pects of Unix filesystems.

bzflag 1.7c (3D networked multiplayer tank battle game)

Bzflag is a 3D multi-player tank battle game that allows users to play against each other in a networked environment. Since it makes heavy use of 3D graphics (OpenGL), a fast CPU or a supported 3D video-card is heavily recommended.

caitoo 0.6.3 (Internet download manager)

calamari 2.27 (A report generator)

Calamaris parses Logfiles from Squid V1.1.x, V1.2.x, V2.x and Net Cache in Native Log Format and generates a report. Written in perl5.

catdoc 0.90.2 (Viewer for MS-Word-files)

cracklib (A password-checking library)

CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain security-oriented characteristics. You can use CrackLib to stop users from choosing passwords which would be easy to guess.

crafty 16.10 (Crafty chess program)

A quite strong playing chess program. Uses opening books and endgame database. The graphical interface (xcrafty) requires the xboard package.

darcnes (Multi system video game emulator)

Darcnes is able to emulate the video game system Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, Sega Mega Drive and NEC PC-Engine (aka TurboGrafx 16). Support for the last two systems, however,is still in an early stage of development. Darcnes comes in three flavours: sdarcnes (SVGALib version), xdarcnes (X11 version) and gdarcnes (GTK version).

dbmaker 3.0 (A low-cost, feature-rich SQL Database Management System)

DBMaker is an SQL Database Management System built around a tightly integrated, modern database engine. Designed from the ground up for today's data management needs, DBMaker is not burdened by the limitations of earlier SQL engines. As a result it seamlessly blends a wealth of advanced features with a full complement of traditional database functions, providing unmatched flexibility and power. With a native ODBC interface, multimedia capabilities, large database features, and cross-platform support, DBMaker integrates multimedia and traditional database functions in an affordable, easy-to-use package.

docbktls 0.5 (DocBook Tools)

A shell script to convert SGML documents which are based on the DocBook DTD.

eagle_de 3.55r5 (Schematic and PCB layout editor and autorouter)

EAGLE is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for designing printed circuit boards. The software package consists of three modules: Layout Editor, Schematic Editor, and Autorouter, which are embedded in a single user interface. Therefore there is no need for converting netlists between schematics and layouts. The Layout Editor is the basic part of the software. It comes with the Library Editor, all the libraries, and the CAM Processor which is used to generate the production data.

econf 0.15 (E-conf the Enlightenment configuration tool)

e-conf lets you configure the Enlightenment Window Manager.

eterm 0.8.9 (E-Term)

ETerm is the terminal program for the Enlightenment Window Manager.

etherael (GTK basierter Netzwerk Analyser)

fbset 2.1 (Framebuffer config tool)

Utility to tweak resolutions, refresh rates, etc. of your Linux-2.2 framebuffer console devices. Note that some framebuffers don't support this, eg. vesafb.

fgnuserv 1.0 (Server and Clients for Emacs)

If you're using XEmacs, you don't need these tools; they are part of the XEmacs package.

fltk 1.0.4 (free C++ GUI toolkit for X, OpenGL and WIN32 (Windows 95,98,NT))

The Fast Light Tool Kit (´FLTK´, pronounced ´fulltick´) is a LGPL'd C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX(r)), OpenGL(r), and Microsoft(r) Windows(r) NT 4.0, 95, or 98. It was originally developed by Mr. Bill Spitzak and is currently maintained by a small group of developers across the world with a central repository in the US. The installation of this package requires you to install a 3D-lib rary. If you don't have hardware 3D you can use the software OpenGL lib rary in package mesasoft (Seriess x3d). The library can be recompiled without 3D-support.

gfcc 0.7.0.p1 (GUI-frontend for the firewall rules)

(GTK+ Firewall Control Center) is a GTK+ application which can control Linuxfirewall policies and rules, based on the ipchains package.

gftp 2.0.1 (a multithreaded FTP client for X11)

FTP is a multithreaded FTP client for X11 written using Gtk. It has some of the following features: simultaneous downloads, resuming of interrupted file transfers, file transfer queues, downloading of entire directories, ftp proxy support, remote directory caching, passive and non-passive file transfers, drag-n-drop support, a very nice connection manager and many more features.

ggv 0.40 (GNOME Ghostview)

glidev3 2.60 (Glide Bibliothek for 3Dfx Voodoo 3 / Banshee)

glxg200 0.3 (Matrox G200 GLX driver for Mesa)

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL*. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc. This is a GLX/Mesa driver for Matrox G200 Chips.

glxriva 1.0 (Riva 128/128ZX/TNT/TNT2 GLX driver for Mesa)

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL*. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc. This is a GLX/Mesa driver for Riva 128/128ZX/TNT/TNT2 Chips.

gphoto 0.3.2 (Digital camera utility)

gPhoto (GNU Photo) is a free graphical application for retrieving, organizing and publishing images from a range of supported digital cameras or existing images on your local harddrive.

gtkglare (GtkGLArea is an OpenGL widget for GTK+ GUI toolkit.)

This packet contains a widget for the GTK+ toolkit, which allows you to program OpenGL under GTK+. It is needed by xtraceroute.

gxsnmp 0.0.11 (GNOME SNMP Manager)

homer 0.0.2 (Homer on your GNOME panel)

html2txt (TML to ASCII converter)

hugs98 (A Haskell interpreter)

Hugs is a Haskell interpreter and programming environment for developing cool Haskell programs. This release is largely conformant with Haskell 98, including monad and record syntax, newtypes, strictness annotations, and modules. In addition, it comes packaged with the libraries defined in the most recent version of the Haskell Library Report and with extension libraries which are compatible with GHC 3.0 and later. Hugs is best used as a Haskell program development system: it boasts extremely fast compilation, supports incremental compilation, and has the convenience of an interactive interpreter (within which one can move from module to module to test different portions of a program). However, being an interpreter, it does not nearly match the run-time performance of, for example, GHC or HBC.

icepref 0.9.1 (An IceWM configuration tool)

iproute 2.2.4

This package provides the tools ip,tc,rtmon needed to use the new and advanced routing options of Linux kernel 2.2. Not needed for 'regular'routing.

ipmasqad 0.4.2 (for the IP-masquerading modules portfw,autofw,mfw)

This packet makes it possible to use additional features of the kernel 2.2 masquerading code like port forwarding (forwarding connections coming from the Internet to internal servers) or load balancing.

kamplus 0.95 (Host mode terminal program for the Kam Plus TNC)

kmplot 0.1.0 (A mathematical function plotter)

lesstif 0.88.1 (a free replacement for OSF/Motif®.)

libax25 0.0.5 (AX.25 libraries for development)

libpcap 0.4a6 (Library for network sniffers)

libglad 0.2 (libglade library (runtime))

This library allows you to load glade interface files in a program at runtime. It doesn't require GLADE to be used, but GLADE is by far the easiest way to create the interface files.

mailgw 0.3.1 (bidirectional mail gateway)

majorcoo 1.3.2 (Cool Web interface to Majordomo v1.9x)

MajorCool is a CGI script written in Perl that provides a Web interface to Majordomo v1.9x*.

mmm 0.0.3 (Mathi's Music Magic)

A realtime software synthesizer and sound processor. You can place modules on a canvas and connect them with wires. Then MMM simulates this sound network in realtime. Such a network itself can be used as a module in a more complex network. It possible to control the sound with widgets in realtime.

mswordvw 0.5.14 (A Word 8 converter for Unix)

MSWordView is a program that can understand the microsofts word 8 binary file format (office97), it currently converts word into html, which can then be read with a browser.

mtrack 0.2c (X window based satellite tracking program)

Mtrack is a X window based satellite tracking program, it is avai lable under the GPL and of course comes with full source. The program provides a window which contains a map along with the sub-satellite point and footprint, as well as the users home location. Information about the satellite is provided below the map.

nisplus 1.1 (NIS+ Client Utilities for Linux)

The NIS+ Utilities are a collection of NIS+ administration and testing tools.

node 0.3.0 (Simple node frontend)

nps 3.0.3 (Web Publishing System)

NPS is a Web publishing solution for Internet and Intranet.

nspr 3.1 (Netscape Portable Runtime Library)

nss_ldap 2.81 (NSS LDAP Module)

nss_ldap is a glibc NSS module which allows X.500 and LDAP directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases, ethers, groups, hosts, networks, protocol, users, RPCs, services and shadow passwords (instead of or in addition to using flat files or NIS).

nt 0.98 (´Downloader for X´ download manager)

Downloader for X is a tool for downloading files from the Internet via bothHTTP and FTP. It supports reconnecting on connection timeouts, has a download queue for multiple files as well as support for simultaneous down loads.

openssl 0.9.3 (Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1))

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation.

ossmixer 1.1 (Open Sound System Mixer for your sound card)

pam (A security tool which provides authentication for applications)

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool which allows system administrators to set authentication policy without having to recompile programs which do authentication

pam_ldap

This is a PAM Module, which supports LDAP.

pam_smb

pam_smb is a PAM module which allows authentication of UNIX users using an NT server.

pavuk 0.9pl17 (Mirrors WWW sites)

Pavuk is UNIX program used to mirror contents of WWW documents or files. It transfers documents from HTTP, FTP, and Gopher servers.

pbm2l7k (Driver for Lexmarkprinter 7000, 7200 and 5700)

perlgnom 0.5121 (Perl module for gtk and gnome)

pharmacy (Frontend for CVS)

Perl modules for access to the functions of gtk and gnome.

pilotsdk 0.5.0 (Palm Pilot development system)

This package contains a complete development system enabling you to create applications for PalmOS 1 and 2 on your Linux PC.

pinfo 0.5.5 (Lynx-style info browser)

pingus 0.1.1 (A free Lemmings clon)

plib 1.0.12 (A collection of useful Game libraries)

Plib contains a selection of libraries, that can be helpful for 3D game programming. It contains the following libraries:
o JS - A Joystick interface.
o PUI - A simple GUI built on top of OpenGL
o SG - Some Standard Geometry functions
o SL - A Games-oriented Sound Library
o SSG - A Simple Scene Graph API built on top of OpenGL

plink 0.9.3 (PalmPilot Link Tool (Backup, Memo, etc. ))

This is a keen choice of cool tools for the PalmPilot user. It contains
- backup utility for the Pilot data
- up- and downloading tools (e.g. memo)
- a simple addressbook
- import utility for POP3 mailboxes into the PalmPilot and sending through sendmail
- perl interface

pload 0.9.3 (a program to monitor network device statistics)

popt 1.3 (C library for parsing command line parameters)

Popt is a C library for parsing command line parameters. Popt was heavily influenced by the getopt() and getopt_long() functions, but it improves on them by allowing more powerful argument expansion. Popt can parse arbitrary argv[] style arrays and automatically set variables based on command line arguments. Popt allows command line arguments to be aliased via configuration files and includes utility functions for parsing arbitrary strings into argv[] arrays using shell-like rules.

pygdmod 0.22 (Python interface to the GD library)

GD module is an interface to the GD library written by Thomas Bouttel. 'It allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills, and write out the result as a .GIF file. This is particularly useful in World Wide Web applications, where .GIF is the format used for inline images.' It has been extended in some ways from the original GD library.

pyimglib 1.0b1 (Python Imaging Library - PIL)

The Python Imaging Library adds fairly powerful image processing capabilities to the Python interpreter and provides extensive file format support, and efficient internal representation. It provides also an alternative shared library to Tkinter.

pyldapm 1.5 (Python interfac for LDAP)

This module provides an LDAP API to Python in the spirit of RFC1823 using the UM LDAP or OpenLDAP library.

pysol 2.14 (Solitaire)

pyxml 0.5.1 (XML-Tools in Python)

qgrid 1.0d (Converts between Maidenhead grid squares and latitude/longitude)

Qgrid is a X11-tool for converting between maidenhead grid squares and latitude/longitude and calculating the distance and bearing between two given points.

qsstv 2.0c (SSTV for Linux/X11)

A SSTV program for Linux/X11 and soundcard (Soundblaster 16, GUS Max, ES1371) and support for various transmit and receive modes.

regframe (Library with register_frame_info symbols for preloading)

This library contains the _register_frame_info symbols from egcs. You need this library on systems, where the glibc 2.0 is compiled with gcc, and on which binaries compiled on SuSE Linux with egcs should work.

ripit 1.3 (Perlscipt to create mp3 from Audio-CD)

This Perlscript makes it easy to create mp3 from your audio-cd. It tries to find out the Group and the names of the songs with help from cddb.

rvplayer 5.0 (RealPlayer 5.0 Application / Plugin for Netscape)

Realplayer is able to play RealAudio and RealVideo files in RealPlayer format.

rxp 1.0.7 (XML-Parser in C)

saint 1.4beta2

The 'Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool' is designed to assess the security of computer networks. Built upon SATAN, SAINT is an improved version of that product.

sarien 0.4.6 (interpreter for early Sierra adventures)

This package allows you to play AGI adventures as manufactured by Sierra for, among others, MS-DOS systems in an X window. King's Quest I through IV, Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest and Police Quest are some of the games that can be played.

skyrix 3.0

This is the demo version of the SKYRIX application server.

statseri 1.1 (statserial helps debugging serial lines)

Statserial displays a table of the signals on a standard 9-pin or 25-pin serial port, and indicates the status of the handshaking lines. It can be useful for debugging problems with serial ports or modems.

swig 1.1p5 (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)

SWIG is a compiler that attempts to make it easy to integrate C, C++, or Objective-C code with scripting languages including Perl, Tcl, and Python. In a nutshell, you give it a bunch of ANSI C/C++ declarations and it generates an interface between C and your favorite scripting language. However, this is only scratching the surface of what SWIG can do--some of its more advanced features include automatic documentation generation, module and library management, extensive customization options, and more.

terrafor 0.3.5 (Fractal terrain generator)

Terraform allows you to create fractal terrain (also called a height field) and transform it using a number of algorithms. It is meant to be a tool for those who want to generate digital terrain models for use in raytracing or other simulations.

tf 40s1 (TinyFugue (MUD-client))

tfhelp 40s1 (Helpfiles for TinyFugue)

tfkiss 1.0.5 (Software TNC Emulator)

Various packet radio applications need a TNC with TheFirmware connected to a serial interface. Tfkiss can emulate this firmware on a TNC in KISS-mode.

thttpd 2.04 (small and very simple webserver)

thud 0.1 (Drumcomputer)

A simple drum machine built with 8 WAV-triggering channels.

tkconv 3.0 (Tcl/Tk-Convers Client)

traf_vis 0.34 (Network traffic analysis suite)

traffic-vis is a suite of tools to help determine which hosts have been communicating on an IP network, with whom they have been communicating and the volume of communication that has taken place. Output is plain text, HTML or postscript.

tux_afqh 1.0.4 (Tuxedo T. Penguin: A Quest for Herring)

OpenSource 3D game starring your Favorite Hero - Tux, the Linux Penguin.

tuxeyes 0.0.3 (Tux with rolling eyes)

A penguin toy similar to XPinguin. Very cute with its rolling eyes following the mouse cursor. A successfully mixture of xteddy, xpinguin and xeyes.

uemacs 3.12 (MicroEmacs text editor)

This is a small version of Emacs designed for use on microcomputers. It is also Linus Torvalds' favourite editor.

unrar 2.50 (Extract, test and view RAR archives)

The unRAR utility is a freeware program distributed with source code and developed for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the RAR archiver.

upsilon 1.3

This Package contains several program pieces to start and stop the control deamon and to configure and monitoring the ups.

viavoice Beta1.0 (Speech recognition system by IBM)

ViaVoice is a speech recognition system by IBM, consisting of a runtime kit and an SDK.

vmware 1.0.2 (Virtual PC for Linux)

This is a time-limited demo version of the VMware virtual machine for Linux. It allows Intel PC and workstation users to run more than one operating system concurrently on a single computer, enabling you to work with applications for different OSs at the same time.

wmaconf 2.1 (Configuration program for WindowMaker)

wmfire 0.0.1p1(load meter as Windowmaker applet)

wmfire is an eye-candy dock applet for Window Maker that displays generated fire, possibly according to how much load the system is experiencing. wmfire requires very little CPU.

word2x 0.004 (Converter for MS-Word files)

Word2x is a GPLed program for converting word documents to text without any Microsoft software to help you, including non-microsoft operating systems (and therefore no OLE dll's, etc). The currently supported output formats are plain text, LaTeX and HTML.

wsndsrv 0.1.0 (Soundserver for Windowmaker)

wsndpref 1.1.0 (A setup programm for WSoundServer)

wterm 6.2.7a1 (A transparent terminalemulator for wmaker)

This is a terminalemulator based on xvt. It supports transparent backgrounds.

wxgtk 2.0.1 (C++ framework for cross-platform development)

x2x 1.27 (X11 Display Remote Control)

x2x allows the keyboard and mouse on one ("from") X display to be used to control another ("to") X display.

xfce (XFce is a lightweight desktop environment)

XFCE is a deskop environment similar to KDE. It doesn't need many resources. There is no support for this packet, it also is not included in the autoconfiguration process, i.e. you have to configure it yourself.

xmame 0.35b12.1 (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator)

Mame is an arcade machine emulator able to emulate more than 1300 different machines. Started in 1997 by Nicola Salmoria Mame started out as a Seriess of emulators for individual games. This Seriess was combined into a multiple game emulator format. In its current form mame is no longer a one man show; there are over 100 contributors to the project. To be able to use Mame you need images of the arcade machine ROMs which you can find e.g. on the Internet. Please note that posession of these images is usually only legal if you also posess the actual arcade machine circuit board.

xmms 0.9.1 (xmms MP3 player)

xtermset 0.3 (change settings of an xterm)

xtermset allows you to change the characteristics of an xterm window from the command line. Most options have the same names as those that you would give xterm at startup.

xvoice 0.4 (dictate using ViaVoice)

xvoice allows you, using IBM ViaVoice, to dictate text to any X11 application.

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