PLUTO Journal nr. 8							News

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General Info	Linux Users' Guide beta-1 released Nuovo responsabile e nuovo sito del Linux Software Map (LSM) Linux Journal's 1997 Buyer's Guide Woven Goods for LINUX Version 1.0 Linux on your PCI-based PowerMac man-pages-1.13 released Just another Linux Link Page.... Linux/m68k v2.0.25 - first "stable" release of Linux 2.0 for Motorola 680x0-based systems LAS - Linux Archive Search Multiprocessor Simulation on Linux New O'Reilly Linux web site Linux News Agency free Linux upgrade package available Debian 1.2 - free Linux distribution Linux User Support Team (LUST)
System Administration	Linuxconf 1.8 - administration system util-linux 2.6 Big Brother - Free Web-based Systems monitoring tool... Clobberd 2.4 - regulate users satools-1.2.1 - System administration tools SIS - free/web-based support and logging software Webbin' - web-based network management netload 0.92 - network load statistics program gdbstub 2.0.24 - debug kernels over serial lines acctsum 1.0 - summarize accounting data
Device Drivers	i2c-bus driver 0.3 released DC390(W/U/F) SCSI driver X-CD-Roast - CD- Writer-Package mv1000drv- 0.24 driver for PCI-framegrabber Joliet CDROM Support Patch v0.1.1 SpellCaster ISDN4Linux ISDN Driver Beta SCSI media changer (jukebox) device driver PCMCIA driver release 2.9.0 esp 0.9 - Hayes ESP serial card driver icpci 0.2.0 - device driver for IC-PCI frame grabber pc537 0.12 - driver for microcontroller board
System Servers	smbfs-0.6 - mount shares exported by W95, NT etc. etherboot-2.1 - boot Linux on diskless PC Termpkg-2.02 - Terminal server daemon FIDOGATE 4.1.2 - Fido-Internet gateway and utilities dmsdosfs 0.7.4 - compressed DOS filesystems under Linux hfs_fs new releases - HFS filesystem module for Linux ext2-os2 2.10 - Linux ext2fs IFS for OS/2 UPSD 1.0 - Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) monitor program Windows 95 network client (with Linux server)
X Servers	dxpc-3.4.0 - Differential X11 Protocol Compressor
Shell & System Utilities	tidylinks - search for and tidy dangling and messy symbolic links symlinks-1.2 - Symbolic link scan/repair tool Procmeter-2.2 - System performance meter AFDisk 0.2c - Fdisk for Linux/m68k Amiga SOLO operating system loader (can load Linux and many others) TkMan 1.8 - a hypertext manual page browser Faxit - a fax frontend for mgetty+sendfax fontprint 2.5.1 - print text with Linux console fonts rlpr 1.40 - remote printing between hosts on the internet Upgraded - Linux Upgrade Daemon 1.0 GFax - a popup fax manager for Linux and X Install-Jet - print postscript on a HP Deskjet Dotfile Generator 2.0 beta 5 - configure programs easily cal 3.5 - enhanced cal (calendar) command tkxcd 1.0.1 - graphical front end to diff
File Managers	X-Files 1.21 - graphical file manager in tcl/tk minfo 1.3.3 - Motif browser for GNU info files FileRunner 2.1.2 - file manager with FTP browsing
Emulators	Stella Version 0.5 - Atari 2600 emulator DOSEMU 0.64.1 - DOS emulator for x86 Wabi 2.2 for Linux XZX 2.1.1 - Spectrum 48/128/+3 emulator for UNIX/X11
Word Processing - Document preparation	YODL - or, Yet Oneother Document Language xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools	Linux port of Marimba Inc.'s Castanet and Bongo WebAdmin - oding=1e xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools	Linux port of Marimba Inc.'s Castanet and Bongo WebAdmin - oding=1e xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools	Linux port of Marimba Inc.'s Castanet and Bongo WebAdmin - oding=1e xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools	Linux port of Marimba Inc.'s Castanet and Bongo WebAdmin - oding=1e xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools	Linux port of Marimba Inc.'s Castanet and Bongo WebAdmin - oding=1e xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools	Linux port of Marimba Inc.'s Castanet and Bongo WebAdmin - oding=1e xpdf 0.6 - a PDF viewer for X Adobe Acrobat 3.0 beta for Linux
Groupware/Suites	Newtl! - Newton/UNIX Communications System TeamRooms Beta 5 - Internet groupware environment for Mac/Windows/Unix
Science/Math	xldlas - Statistical application LINGVISTO - foreign language word-trainer for Linux Viewmol 2.0 - chemistry visualization program MuPAD 1.3 - general purpose computer algebra system
Web Browsers	lynx- gpm - patch to mouse on Linux consoles
Java/WWW/HTML Tools</