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The hottest new Linux downloads for this month.

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Products in this section include: Blade 0.1.0, FreeWRL 0.21, GnomeICU 0.68, GtkExtra 0.99.0, jEdit 2.2final, JEL 0.8.3, JSwat 0.5.5, Licq 0.75-991219, LTSP 1.01, memtester 2.85, mod_cgisock 0.1.4, PHP firewall generator 0.3, pi-address 0.3.3, PuzzleSquare 0.0, smtm 0.8.0, TkHeadlines 0.68, VeteScan 12-18-99, WebNews 0.06a, X-Chat 1.3.9, XCounter 1.0.1

 

Blade 0.1.0

 

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Description: Blade-- is a C++ wrapper/interface to the BLADE web-based environment. Blade-- will allow you to use all features of BLADE in a structured object-oriented fashion. Also, the BladeGen-- Code Generator constructs Blade-- project frames to get your BLADE project off the ground quickly.
Licence: LGPL
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Links online: http://www.iit.edu/~duerchr/blade/

 

FreeWRL 0.21

 

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Description: FreeWRL is a free VRML browser for Linux. It aims to be fully VRML97 compliant, complete with scripting in Perl, Java and Javascript, and EAI. It is written mostly in Perl with some C for library interfaces & rendering, and uses OpenGL (Mesa) for graphics. The current versions are still alpha-stage and there are several pieces missing but it is quite usable in various types of worlds.
Licence: LGPL
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Links online: http://www.crc.ca/FreeWRL/

 

GnomeICU 0.68

 

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Description: GnomeICU is a Gnome application which allows one to communicate with other GnomeICU users or others who use ICQ (Windows, Java, Mac, etc). With GnomeICU, one can send and receive messages, change online modes, chat in realtime, send and receive URLs, and much more.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://gnomeicu.gdev.net/

 

GtkExtra 0.99.0

 

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Description: GTKExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUIs for the X Window System using GTK+. It is written in C and includes the following widgets: GtkSheet, GtkPlot, GtkPlotLayout, GtkPlotCanvas, GtkItemEntry, GtkComboBox, GtkColorCombo, GtkBorderCombo, GtkFontCombo, GtkDirTree, GtkIconList, GtkFileList, GtkIconFileSelection, and GtkCheckItem.
Licence: LGPL
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Links online: http://magnet.fsu.edu/~feiguin/gtk/

 

jEdit 2.2final

 

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Description: jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, keyboard macros, and much more.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/907907929/

 

JEL 0.8.3

 

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Description: JEL (Java Expressions Library) is a library for evaluating a simple single line expressions in Java. The key feature of JEL is the fact that it is a compiler. The language of JEL expressions resembles the Java Language expressions as close as possible. JEL supports all Java primitive types and classes (even in form of constants), allows to call both static and virtual methods of Java classes (with no additional runtime costs and no wrappers), and performs evaluation of constant subexpressions at a compile time.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://galaxy.fzu.cz/JEL/

 

JSwat 0.5.5

 

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Description: JSwat is an extensible, standalone, graphical Java debugger front-end. It is used with the Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) package provided by JavaSoft. It is currently still under development, though it has many of the basic features you would expect in a debugger: single-stepping, watching variables, print objects, classes, etc. and viewing source code.
Licence: LGPL
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Links online: http://home.earthlink.net/~nfiedler/java/jswat/

 

Licq 0.75-991219

 

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Description: Licq includes all the basic features of ICQ, like sending/receiving messages, chat, file transfer, contact list with pixmaps and user status, basic/extended user info, add/edit users from within the gui, user history, user groups, new user registration. All commands and information are available through a simple and convenient tab dialog. Licq also has a completely configurable user interface with Skin and Icon pack support. It is written in C++ using the Qt
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/899064365/

 

LTSP 1.01

 

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Description: Linux makes a great platform for deploying diskless workstations that boot from a network server. The LTSP is an open source project to create the administration tools that will make setting up a diskless Linux workstation easier.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/937800434/

 

memtester 2.85

 

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Description: memtester is a user-space utility for testing the memory subsystem in a computer to determine if it is faulty. It does a reasonably good job of finding intermittent faults and non-deterministic faults. It has many tests to help catch borderline memory, and generates a verbose report of faults found, tests run, and time taken.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/memtester/

 

mod_cgisock 0.1.4

 

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Description: mod_cgisock is a module for the Apache HTTP server. It implements the CGI 1.1 gateway over a UNIX domain socket. The concept behind cgisock is to 'cut loose' the CGI script from Apache memory space and thus allows the CGI script writer a high degree flexibility in creating CGI 'servers'.
Licence: OpenSource
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Links online: http://www.midcoast.com.au/~mvoase/

 

PHP firewall generator 0.3

 

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Description: The PHP firewall generator is a simple PHP script that generates a firewall script for ipchains-based firewalls. The aim is to support an easily configurable rule set similar to those supported by commercial firewall systems.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://www.babel.com.au/phpfwgen/

 

pi-address 0.3.3

 

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Description: pi-address is a GUI front-end to address databases from a 3Com Palm Pilot. It can read/edit/save database files in PDB-format. These files can be read from or written to the pilot using 'pilot-xfer' from the pilot-link package.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://www.in-berlin.de/User/miwie/pia/

 

PuzzleSquare 0.0

 

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Description: PuzzleSquare is an amusement with limited educational value. It might be used to help learn other numbering systems.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/945566474/

 

smtm 0.8.0

 

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Description: smtm (Show Me The Money) is a configurable Perl/Tk stock ticker and an aggregate profit/loss calculator. smtm displays the name of the company, the most recent price and both absolute and relative price changes. If the number of shares held is supplied, a net wealth change is also displayed. Foreign currencies are recognised via cross-currency pairs to translate into domestic units. Stocks can be added and deleted, and the selection can be stored. smtm is being used with US, Canadian, British, French and German stocks. Firewalls are fully supported via proxy and account/password settings.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/943917986/

 

TkHeadlines 0.68

 

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Description: TkHeadlines is a headline viewer for some news and software sites. It keeps track of what headlines you've already seen. You can click on the headlines that are displayed to bring them up in Netscape.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://loki.dhs.org/~rick/

 

VeteScan 12-18-99

 

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Description: VeteScan is a bulk vulnerability scanner containing programs to scan Windows NT systems and UNIX systems for latest trojans/remote exploits, a scanner for vulnerabilities of a single hosts (with or without host checking), a tool for scanning multiple hosts, a scanner for class A/B/C networks, as well as fixes for various vulnerabilities along with the exploits and fixes.
Licence: freely distributable
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Links online: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/939563685/

 

WebNews 0.06a

 

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Description: WebNews is a set of PHP scripts which facilitates the adding, editing, and removing of Web page news. It also allows you to add, edit and remove users of the interface. Multiple user levels are available with an option to hide your email from the news additions.
Licence: OpenSource
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Links online: http://sonicboom.2y.net/

 

X-Chat 1.3.9

 

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Description: X-Chat is a fully-featured IRC client using the GTK toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.
Licence: GPL
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Links online: http://xchat.org/

 

XCounter 1.0.1

 

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Description: XCounter is a X11-based traffic monitoring program for Linux that displays information about IP traffic on a selected interface. It returns such information as byte counts, time of current connections, and speed for last 5 seconds. XCounter works on Ethernet, FDDI, ISDN, PLIP, and SLIP/PPP interfaces.
Licence: OpenSource
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Links online: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/romrow/935/

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