Good Publicly Available Software
I greatly believe in not reinventing the wheel. To that
end, I load up our systems with good public software. What I have under
construction here is a list of web resources detailing where to get software
that we use frequently, and hopefully some notes on how to configure it
for our systems. We have at least one of each of the following:
- IBM RS/6000's (Microchannel and PCI) running IBM AIX 3.2.5 and 4.1.5
- IBM PS/2 Model 70 running IBM AIX 2.1
- IBM PS/2 Model 80 running SCO UNIX 3.2
- AT&T 6386/StarStation running AT&T UNIX System V Release 3.2
- Pentium box running Linux 2.0.18
- AT&T 6386E/33 running Windows 3.1
- Macintosh Performa running System 7
- Assortment of X-Stations from IBM, Visual, and Tektronix
We used to waste a lot of space saving copies of compressed tar and cpio
archives, back when uucp was our only option for getting this stuff, and
archive machines were few and far between. Now that we're connected, we
can just use references to this stuff. The information added is the
configuration information.
I've got these divided up into some arbitrary categories, that have been
useful to us over the years:
Software Repositories
GNU Utilities
All of these can be gotten from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu.
Browse their
official
, or obsolete
unofficial
information.
- GNU Utilities:
a2ps,
bison-1.24,
cvs,
diff-1.15,
diffutils-2.3,
emacs-18.55,
epoch-3.2,
find-3.5,
finger-1.37,
flex-2.5.2,
gcc,
gdbm,
genscript,
ghostscript,
ghostview,
gnuplot,
grep-1.5,
gzip-1.2.4,
libg++-2.4,
m4-1.4,
make-3.76,
mtools-2.0.7,
patch-2.1,
rcs-5.7,
split,
tar-1.11.8,
texinfo-2.16,
textutils-1.9,
uucp-1.04
Linux
Networking
- Connection Managers:
ICQ
- Domain Name Service:
bind
- World Wide Web
- Mail
- User Agents:
- Delivery Agents:
deliver.
- Transport Agents:
bsmtp,
postfix (formerly
VMailer),
qmail,
smail-3.2,
smail-2.5,
ZMailer
- Miscellaneous:
bogofilter,
grepmail,
Mailman
(mailing list manager),
Majordomo
(mailing list manager),
hypermail
(a WWW interface to archived mailing lists),
MHonArc
(a better WWW interface to archived mailing lists),
MailServ
(a WWW interface to mailing list administration),
LWGate
(a WWW interface to mailing list administration),
demime,
pathalias-10 (UUCP mail routing database generator),
reroute (UUCP mail rerouter)
- Information:
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists
- Usenet News
- File Transfer Programs
- Terminal Emulation Programs:
hyperterm,
kermit,
procomm (DOS),
pcomm,
screen,
teraterm
- Internet Relay Chat
(DeadelviS'
IRC Archive - EFnet)
- Audio/Video Teleconferencing
- User Agents:
nv,
Video
Conferencing With sd, nv, vat, and wb,
CU-SeeMe
(There is also a wealth of other cuseeme stuff floating around:
CU-SeeMe Desktop Videoconferencing),
LBL's
sd (session management),
vic (video),
vat (audio),
wb (shared drawing).
- CU-SeeMe specific information:
CU-SeeMe Windows V0.90 Visual User's Guide,
Bill Woodland's CU-SeeMe Info Page,
White Pine Support: CU-SeeMe® Frequently Asked Questions,
Cornell University's CU-SeeMe Page.
- Other Quickcam and CU-SeeMe Compatible Software:
QSeeMe 0.4a,
Third-party Quickcam software page at
UNM or
Virginia,
cqcam,
README for cqc/qcread.
- Reflectors:
reflect,
sref,
Spacer's Enhanced Reflector.
- MBONE:
MBONE Information Web,
Linux Multicast Information
- Audio Services:
RealAudio
- Information and Indexing Services:
freeWAIS-0.5
- Security Packages:
cipe,
crack,
fwtk,
icmpinfo,
IPSEC
(charter,
Working Group News,
info from
Cisco,
and a
Linux
implementation),
openssh,
openssl,
pidentd-2.4.1,
portmap-3.0,
ssh-keyscan,
tcp_wrappers
- UUCP:
hdb,
traffic,
uustatus
- DOS, Windows, and Macintosh IP Connectivity
- Time Synchronization (NTP, Network Time Protcol)
xntpd
- Network Management:
dhcp,
mrtg,
scotty,
tcpdump-3.0.4
X11
- Window Managers:
gwm-1.8a
(GWM
Mailing List Archives)
- Viewers:
mpeg_play,
xanim,
xv-3.10a,
ThumbsPlus
- Libraries:
xpm,
LessTif (Motif clone),
XForms
- Miscellaneous:
lesstif,
t3d,
xclock,
xcmdpanel,
xkeycaps,
xmcd,
xfig,
TeXcad,
dirt
- Compiling: Once upon a time (1993), the only way I could get imake to
run correctly (back before xmkmf) was to run:
/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/bin/imake -TImake.tmpl \
-I/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/lib/X11/config -s Makefile \
-DTOPDIR=/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples "$@"
Previous to that, I had to use:
/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/util/imake/imake -TImake.tmpl \
-I/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples/util/imake.includes -s Makefile \
-DTOPDIR=/usr/lpp/X11/Xamples "$@"
Languages
perl-4.0,
perl-5.0,
Perl-tk,
bwbasic-1.10,
expect,
f2c,
f77,
fpc,
python,
sbprolog-2.5,
smalltalk,
tcl
and tk.
Libraries
- Public:
alloca,
b+tree,
Berkeley DB,
dial,
expat,
freetype-2.X,
gd,
hsearch,
libhdf,
libident,
libjpeg,
libpng,
libposix,
libtiff,
localtime,
malloc.cc,
malloc.trace,
mdbm,
ncurses,
ncurses,
ndir,
readline,
regexp,
strings,
xpm,
xxalloc,
zlib
- Commercial:
DISAM,
WFC,
WFD,
VV,
dbvista
Games
- Multimedia:
Duke Nukem 3D,
doom,
quake
- Rogue-like:
nethack,
rogue
- Adventure-like:
adventure
- Puzzles:
chess,
scrabble,
xsoko
- Pretty Pictures:
asciixmas,
speral,
spheral,
xmandel
- Others:
bluemoon,
crabs,
empire.dec,
hunt,
jive-val,
lyapunov,
mines,
mud,
phoon,
sfs,
simpsons,
spatial,
tetris-v,
whpl,
xantfarm,
xataxx,
xblast,
xcapture,
xconq,
xlife,
xpipe,
xrobots,
xtetris-2.4
Utilities
- Document Processing:
- Printing:
enscript
- TeX:
tex-3.1415/mf-2.7182,
detex-2.4,
dvi,
dvi2tty,
hyperlatex,
l2a,
latex2html-95.1
- Text Indexing:
glimpse
- Spell Checkers:
ispell
- SGML:
openjade,
OpenSP,
The SGML Web Page,
Linuxdoc-SGML,
SGML-Tools,
Public SGML Software,
comp.text.sgml FAQ,
InfoPrism
- Compression:
bzip,
compress,
pkzip/winzip,
unarj-241a,
unzip-5.0,
zip-1.9,
WinZip (Windows)
- Emulators:
DOS (dosemu)
Windows 3.1 (Wine),
Nintendo (iNES,
Snes9X,
SNES ROM Links)
- System Administration:
lsof,
monitor-1.12
- Databases:
Interbase,
MySQL,
postgreSQL
- Miscellaneous:
aes,
bogofilter,
Clam AntiVirus,
cURL,
coolmail,
cproto,
cshar,
dist,
dtree,
gnupg,
htmltidy,
HylaFAX,
less,
mcvert-1.65,
mpage,
perltidy,
pbmplus,
pcprint,
pdksh,
pgp
(FTP, and the WWW Virtual
Library entry)
plan
ploticus
shar,
swish-e
ticker-2.0,
unclutter,
vim.
- Unused:
NBStime,
aegis,
afs,
arc-5.21.8,
bdf,
beav,
browse,
calctool,
calen,
cardfile,
cextract-1.7,
coda,
config,
cops,
crypt,
cscript,
ease,
ecu-3.20,
elmedit,
ephem-4.12,
fas-2.09,
fm,
fsanalyze-4.2,
genmake,
grep,
head,
ils,
indent,
index,
indir,
joe,
ksh88,
libcproto,
login,
lunisolar,
lwho,
man,
mbase,
mkproto,
month,
msql-1.0.7,
netpbm,
nlist,
opqcp,
packdisk,
par,
peerssa,
policy,
pps,
preroff,
pt,
pty,
pty-4.0,
ptyshl,
rcsutil,
rdist,
rolodex,
rpn,
sc-6.16,
script,
shcc,
shql,
slip,
slip386,
snefru,
stevie,
tags++,
talk,
ted,
tpscript,
transfig-2.1.7,
trouble,
ttybench,
u386mon,
uipc,
undump,
unproto,
usnotime,
vtree-1.1,
xbbs-7.2
DOS/Windows
Some of these may be mentioned elsewhere in this list, but it was
convenient here to put the list of all the DOS/Windows software that
we have copies of, for one-stop clicking to load everything. I put
this together after I wiped out a hard drive and wanted to reload
the things I could. All of this is Windows 3.1 software.
- Compression: PKZip, WinZip
- Winsock: Trumpet Winsock
- Internet Apps: Winsock Applications, Netscape, Eudora, Pegasus, Pine, Mirc,
ICQ, AOL IM
Stuff to Look At
Jay Schuster at
The Physician's Computer Company.
Last modified at:
Wed Jan 16 14:50:28 EST 2002