November Linux freeware
By Mike McCana
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| AOL Instant Messenger, APC Uninterruptible Power Supply Daemon, asp2php, Blender 1.80a, LILO, Linuxconf, Microsoft FreeCell for Linux, PHP-Nuke 3.0, Raptor, Zope 2.1.6 |
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November Linux freeware
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| AOL Instant Messenger | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | An official version of AOL's instant messaging application for Linux. You don't need to be an AOL member to use it. | ||||
| Licence: | GNU Public License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution, X Window, Java 1.2, LibC 6 | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and install using rpm -ivh or use a graphical RPM manager such as kpackage. | ||||
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http://www.aol.com | ||||
| APC Uninterruptible Power Supply Daemon | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | A system for monitoring and interacting with American Power Conversion [APC] Uninterruptible Power Supplies [UPS]. Works with BackUPS, BackUPS Pro, SmartUPS v/s, or SmartUPS systems to provide battery backup and controlled shutdowns during power outages. | ||||
| Licence: | GNU Public License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution, GLibC, Ncurses 5, GPM 1.0 | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and install using rpm -ivh or use a graphical RPM manager such as kpackage. | ||||
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http://www.apc.com | ||||
| asp2php | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | This program converts Microsoft ASP [Active Server Pages] into PHP [Professional Home Page / PHP Hypertext Preprocessor] pages. | ||||
| Licence: | GNU Public License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution, a Web server, glibc | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and install using rpm -ivh or use a graphical RPM manager such as kpackage. | ||||
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http://asp2php.naken.cc/ | ||||
| Blender 1.80a | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | A 3D modelling and animation package for Linux, this was originally the inhouse software for professional animation studio Not A Number. It supports an exhaustive list of features and has been used in a wide variety of commercial environments. It was recently open sourced. | ||||
| Licence: | Shareware. Different licenses apply for different components of Blender, including both proprietary shareware and open source licenses. See the Blender FAQ for more details. | ||||
| Requirements: | Pentium 200, Linux 2.2, 32M RAM, 64M hard disk space, XFree 86 3.3.x, 3D accelerator | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and decompress using tar -zxvf. Read the README or INSTALL files included for installation instructions. | ||||
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http://www.blender.nl/ | ||||
| LILO | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | A popular bootloader, this is a tool used to select between operating systems upon startup for multiboot systems. It's easily the most popular in the Linux world, but has recently come under fire from other, better looking and more fully featured bootloaders. This new version adds a lot of the features of its competition: full menu driver operation, and an end to the annoying 1,024 cylinder limitation for recent computers. | ||||
| Licence: | MIT License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution, Perl 5, LibC 6 | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and install using rpm -ivh or use a graphical RPM manager such as kpackage. | ||||
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http://judi.greens.org/lilo/ | ||||
| Linuxconf | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | The latest version, with a wider range of tools and much stabler operation. Recommended to anyone running Linuxconf-based distributions. | ||||
| Licence: | GNU Public License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and install using rpm -ivh or use a graphical RPM manager such as kpackage. | ||||
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http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/ | ||||
| Microsoft FreeCell for Linux | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | Microsoft has recently made a version of FreeCell available for Linux. It's been ported using Mainsoft MainWin for Linux with Microsoft's blessing. MainWin has promised Linux versions of Internet Explorer and other Microsoft apps in the future. | ||||
| Licence: | Shareware | ||||
| Requirements: | Red Hat Linux 6.1 for Intel X86 processors, Kernel version is 2.2.12-20, X server configured for 16 or more bits per pixel | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your hard drive and run the file. | ||||
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http://ftp.mainsoft.com/products/linux | ||||
| PHP-Nuke 3.0 | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | This is a simple PHP-based Web portal and online community toolkit. Administered through a friendly Web-based GUI, the toolkit features news displays, surveys, access statistics and referrer tracking, user registration, user theming, banner advertising management, search engine, web directories, headline generation in Netscape RDF format, moderated forums and content management. | ||||
| Licence: | GNU Public License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution, a Web server with PHP3 or PHP4 installed, MySQL | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and decompress using tar -zxvf. Read the README or INSTALL files included for installation instructions. | ||||
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http://www.ncc.org.ve/php-nuke.php3?op=English | ||||
| Raptor | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | A port of Apogees original classic arcade game, Raptor is a vertically scrolling shooter in the style of R-Type and Raiden. A simple and addictive game that's also a stack of fun. | ||||
| Licence: | Shareware | ||||
| Requirements: | Pentium, Linux for Intel, Kernel 2.2.x, 32M RAM, 20M hard disk space, SDL 1.1.3, XFree86 | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and decompress using tar -zxvf. Read the README or INSTALL files included for installation instructions. | ||||
| Links
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http://www.mking.com/ | ||||
| Zope 2.1.6 | |||||
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Download the version for your operating
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| Description: | The Z Object Publishing Environment is a Web application builder. It provides a powerful framework to create dynamic Web content and applications, which may interface with Zope's own database or a number of external SQL packages. Zope's forte is the ability to create dynamic Web applications such as portal and intranet sites rapidly. It is easy to use and supports many Web standards. | ||||
| Licence: | GNU Public License | ||||
| Requirements: | Any recent Linux distribution, GLibC, Python 1.5.2 | ||||
| Install instructions: | Download to a temp directory on your drive and install using rpm -ivh or use a graphical RPM manager such as kpackage. | ||||
| Links
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http://www.zope.com | ||||
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