Software

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• Operating Systems
• Web Browser and Support Software
• News Reader
• System Software (BIND)
• Software for e-mail@
• Local Software
• Misc Software

Local Software

• Archive tool: ship; no man page; ship -h gives help
• Fingerprint: md5; no man page; usage: md5 files
• Utility: latex2html converts LaTeX to HTML, in directory ~ca/l2h; Newer versions should be available at a german ftp site or the site in the US. There is also a LaTeX mathematics and tables to HTML3 translator available.
  Other converters and tools: tth (latex 2 html)
  HTMLDOC Home Page

Web Browser and Support Software

• Squid Internet Object Cache is the successor of the Harvest Developers Group Cache.
  Squid Software: mirror sites in Germany are LEO, Regensburg, and Passau.

Web Browser

• w3m [NEW 1999-09-27]
  the coolest "browser" since Mosaic.
• Sun's Hot Java Browser
• mMosaic Informations
• MMM Browser Home Page
• Chimera
• Lynx Information
• X Mosaic Release Schedule
• Netscape Communications, if you are located outside the US, you should take a look at: Fortify for Netscape
  The next release is available in source form.

Support Software for Browser

• XAnim XAnim is an X11 client that plays Quicktime etc

Web Server

• Roxen
• The PHTTPD World Wide Web Server, Administrators Guide
  This server it multithreaded, but runs only on Solaris 2.x (x > 3).

News Reader

• NN is a news reader which allows you to read pretty fast through your news. NN Tk is a version with Tcl/Tk GUI. Getting Started with News and the NN News Reader
• SLRN Pages, FTP
• Other newsreaders are trn (version 4 is in alpha test), and some I've never even tested.

Operating Systems (and related)

• OpenBSD [NEW 1999-09-20]
  OpenBSD - a secure alternative
• The FreeBSD Project [NEW 1999-09-20]
  • The FreeBSD Diary
  • ``Making the world'' your own
  • FreeBSD Portege Homepage [NEW 1999-09-20]
  • Laptop Compatibility for FreeBSD [NEW 1999-09-20]
• The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. [NEW 1999-09-20]
• XFree86(TM): Home Page [NEW 1999-09-20]
• Plan 9 from AT&T
• Solaris Migration Initiative Home Page

System Software (BIND)

• ISC BIND - Berkeley Internet Name Domain, source release, local copy of 8.1.2.
  BIND Version 8 Online Documentation (local copy).
• Fast Guide to DNS
• Name Service and Resolver Configuraton
• DNS resources directory
• DNS Checker

Misc. Software

• Dave Barr's INN page
• Software for Usenet (cch, canlock)
• Sun Catalyst CDware Home Page
• (La)TeX navigator
• Expect automate interactive sessions
• PERL, Links, Introduction to Perl, Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
• The Berkeley Vi Editor by Keith Bostic

HowTo

• Linux IP Masquerade mini HOWTO
• The Linux HOWTO Index