The GNU C compiler by Richard Stallman et al. A very high quality, very portable compiler for C, C++ and Objective C. The compiler is designed to support multiple front-ends and multiple back-ends by translating first into Register Transfer Language and from there into assembly code for the target architecture. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
GConf is the GNOME Configuration database system. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. It is an easy touse, powerful, and highly configurable desktop environment. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
GConf is a configuration data storage mechanism scheduled to ship with GNOME 2.0. GConf does work without GNOME however; it can be used with plain GTK+, Xlib, KDE, or even text mode applications as well. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to support workgroup administration. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
GENDIST (the Linux Distribution Generator) allows you to create your own special mini-distribution. It creates a makefile-based build system for your distribution, and helps you to automate the following three tasks: maintaining your root filesystem, maintaining your "CD filesystem" (in case you create a bootable CD), and packaging everything on media. GENDIST 1.4.7 (Stable) was released December 29, 2002. A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. From LWN Distribution List
Global File System; an open source shared disk file system for networked storage. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
the Glasgow Haskell Compilation system the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation system (GHC). GHC is a compiler for Haskell98. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language. Haskell98 is the current version of the language. The language definition and additional documentation can be found in the `haskell-doc' package. Alternatively, there is an online version at http://haskell.org/onlinereport/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Group identification number for the process. Valid group numbers are given in /etc/group, and in the GID field of /etc/passwd file. When a process is started, its GID is set to the GID of its parent process. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
is an acronym for Graphic Interchange Format, developed by compuserve this is a very popular format for exchanging pictures, it is slowly being replaced by the JPG image format. From KADOWKEV
A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG. From Matisse
There are many ways to describe a Geographic Information System. Here are three working definitions (from David A. Hastings, 1992, Geographic Information Systems: A Tool for Geoscience Analysis and Interpretation): (The minimal definition): A GIS is a hardware/software system for the storage, management, and (with hardcopy or screen graphic) selective retrieval capabilities of georeferenced data. Definitions like this one are often used by vendors and users of vector-only GIS, whose objective is sophisticated management and output of cartographic data. (A parallel definition): A GIS is a hardware/software system for managing and displaying spatial data. It is similar to a traditional Data Base Management System, where we now think in spatial rather than in tabular terms, and where the "report writer" now allows output of maps as well as of tables and numbers. Thus we can consider a GIS a "spatial DBMS" as opposed to traditional "tabular DBMSs." Few people use this definition, but it might help to explain GIS to a DBMS user. (A more aggressive definition): A GIS is a system of hardware, software, and data that facilitates the development, enhancement, modeling, and display of multivariate (e.g. multilayered) spatially referenced data. It performs some analytical functions itself, and by its analysis, selective retrieval and display capabilities, helps the user to further analyze and interpret the data. Properly configured, the GIS can model (e.g. synthetically recreate) a feature or phenomenon as a function of other features or phenomena which may be related - where all features or phenomena are represented (characterized) by spatial and related tabular data. The analytical objectives described here are sometimes controversial - and often given lip service by cartographic GIS specialists who have not yet seen what can be accomplished scientifically by a select few GISs that go beyond cartographic approaches. Another definition can be found at the University of Edinburgh. From GRASS mini-HOWTO
stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project, and GNOME is part of the OpenSource(tm) movement. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
/gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out software hoarding!" Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org. See EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux. 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>, founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy. From Jargon Dictionary
GNU is Not Unix. A project to replace Unix with GPL'd software. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
The GNU project's goal is to provide freely redistributable Unix software. Gopher An information system available as a Unix command that provides access to many information services, see also WWW. From KADOWKEV
An effort of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Free Software Foundation (FSF) to develop and promote alternatives to proprietary UNIX implementations. GNU software is licensed under the GPL. From I-gloss
intended to guarantee the freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users. The term free refers to freely distributable. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Same as Linux. So-called because many of the components included in a Linux distribution are GNU tools. From I-gloss
Administration of school networks is complicated, time- and money-consuming. Even stable and low-adminstration Linux networks still need complete and powerful computers. Software still has to be installed on each computer. The FSuB TerminalServer (Code name "Dead sisyphos") is an approach to make administration of networks easier and to enable the reuse of older computers. Debian based. The website is available in German and English. From LWN Distribution List
A argentinian distribution does seem to be there. Also news and comments. From LWN Distribution List
/gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. `StallMACS', referring to Richard Stallman, is less common but also heard. Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS and X Emacs. From Jargon Dictionary
OpenStep (based on NeXTStep) was a GUI specification published in 1994 by Sun Microsystems and NeXT Computers, meant for building applications. It uses the Objective-C language, which is an object-oriented extension to C, that is arguably more suited to this kind of development than is C++. OpenStep requires a PostScript display engine that is analogous to the X protocol, but it is considered superior to X because all graphics are independent of the pixel resolution of the screen. In other words, high-resolution screens would improve the picture quality without making the graphics smaller. The GNUStep project has a working PostScript display engine and is meant as a Free replacement to OpenStep. From Rute-Users-Guide
/goz'maks/ n. [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS. Originally freeware; a commercial version was modestly popular as `UniPress EMACS' during the 1980s. The author, James Gosling, went on to invent NeWS and the programming language Java; the latter earned him demigod status. From Jargon Dictionary
/G-P-L/ n. Abbreviation for `General Public License' in widespread use; see copyleft, General Public Virus. Often mis-expanded as `GNU Public License'. From Jargon Dictionary
A common usage and redistribution license. Visit www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/app-gpl/node1.html to see a copy of the GPL agreement. From I-gloss
is a public domain raster based GIS, vector GIS, image processing system, and graphics production system. Created by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Constriction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) and enhanced by many others, it is used extensively at government offices, universities and commercial organizations throughout the world. It is written mostly in C for various UNIX based machines. Linux is one of its more robust implementations. GRASS contains over 40 programs to render images on monitor and paper; over 60 raster manipulation programs; over 30 vector manipulation programs; nearly 30 multi-spectral image processing manipulation programs; 16 data management programs; and 6 point file management programs. GRASS' strengths lie in several fields. The simple user interface makes it an ideal platform for those learning about GIS for the first time. Users wishing to write their own code can do so by examining existing source code, interfacing with the documented GIS libraries, and by using the GRASS Programmers' Manual. This allows more sophisticated functionality to be fully integrated within GRASS. Other strengths include GRASS' pioneering of mixed resolutions in a data base, mixed geographic coverage areas in a data base, raster image compression techniques via run-length encoding and reclassification lookup tables, GRASS' rescaling of display images on the fly to fill the display screen, plus its fundamental design criterion of powerful computer-assisted scientific analysis of environmental issues (as opposed to merely going for intricate cartographic output of relatively simple processes). GRASS is usually supplied as free, non-copyright source code to be compiled on host machines. Some compiled binaries are also easily obtainable at no cost via the Internet. It runs on a variety of UNIX platforms. Copied from Project Assist Intro to GRASS. From GRASS HOWTO
The GIMP Tool Kit is a set of widgets for the X11 windows system originally made for GIMP; the GNU Image Manipulation Program. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
A design for the part of a program that interacts with the use and uses icons to represent programs features. The Apple Macintosh and Microsft Windows operating environments are popular GUIs. Having found that people recognise graphic representations faster they read word or phreases, a Xerox research team designed a user interface with graphic images called icons. GUIs typically work with moussable interfaces with pull-down menus, dialog boxes, check boxes radio buttons, drop-down list boxes, scroll bars, scroll boxes, and the like. Progams with a GUI require a computer with suffceint speed, power, and memory to display high-resolution, bit-mapped display. From QUECID
A Microsoft Windows concept, a GUID is a large, unique number. Each Windows computer has its own GUID to identify it unique. Likewise, every time a user account is created, a GUID is assigned to the user. Key point: Microsoft got in trouble in 1999 for automatically shipping up the GUIDs as part of its registration process. Key point: GUIDs are sometimes placed within hidden fields within Microsoft documents (Word, Excel), allowing the original author to be identified. This was used in order to help track down the author of the "Melissa" worm. Key point: The GUID is generated from other "unique" information on a machine, such as the MAC address of the Ethernet adapter. It isn't guaranteed to be absolutely unique, but chances of any two GUIDs in the world being identical are remote. From Hacking-Lexicon
A free compression program commonly available as a Unix command for file compression, gzip, which is also available for MS-DOS, compresses files and appends either '.z' or '.gz' to the filename. From KADOWKEV
The technical meaning is a hardware or software set-up that translates between two dissimilar protocols, for example America Online has a gateway that translates between its internal, proprietary e-mail format and Internet e-mail format. Another, sloppier meaning of gateway is to describe any mechanism for providing access to another system, e.g. AOL might be called a gateway to the Internet. From Matisse
Gentoo Linux is a source-based distribution, versatile, fast and completely free. It's geared towards developers and network professionals. Gentoo 1.4_rc4 was released April 15, 2003. From LWN Distribution List
Gibraltar is a project that aims to produce a Debian GNU/Linux-based router and firewall package. This package boots and runs from CD-ROM, so a hard disk installation is not necessary. Version 0.99.6 was released January 13, 2003.. Version 0.99.7a was released April 30, 2003. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List
1000 or 1024 Megabytes, depending on who is measuring. See also: Byte From Matisse
giotto is a floppy Linux, a bootable floppy disk that comes with the necessary parts of the Linux operation system. giotto boots from a floppy (it can be installed also on a hard disk) and runs completly out of the system's RAM. Generally no hard disks are required. Distribution development is not all that active. From LWN Distribution List
The latest version of the GNU C Library. It currently runs unmodified on GNU Hurd systems and Linux i386, m68k, and alpha systems. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
a proprietary API plus drivers to access 3D graphics accelerator hardware based on chipsets manufactured by 3Dfx. Glide has been developed and implemented for DOS, Windows, and Macintosh, and has been ported to Linux by Daryll Strauss. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Glide3 provides the necessary low-level interface glue between the Mesa3D graphics library, and 3Dfx Voodoo series of hardware. This package is required by the XFree86 tdfx driver in order to provide 3D acceleration support for the 3Dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Voodoo Banshee hardware. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
A momentary power interruption or some other unexpected fluctuation in electronic circuits, such as those caused by power surges or dirty connections, that causes computer systems to generate garbage output or, in the extreme, to crash. A glitch is a hardware problem; software problem is called a bug. From QUECID
a fully-distributed information-sharing technology. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Comes with PC!Linux magazine. German. From LWN Distribution List
Good-Day GNU/Linux HA Server is a Debian-based distribution, which uses only free software. It is developed by Good-Day Inc. (in Japan). They say that their distribution features high availability, and is for Web applications. The folks at Good-Day Inc. also make a "real-time backup utility for PostgreSQL" named "Usogres" ("Uso" is a Japanese word for "fake") available before the PostgreSQL team made replication available. From LWN Distribution List
Gopher is an almost irrelevant protocol today, but it was very popular in the early 1990s. Gopher is simply a hierarchical menu of hyperlinks. This means that like HTTP/HTML, you can build virtual sites containing documents from other sites. However, unlike HTTP/HTML, the only structure is that of a hierarchical menu: it doesn't support hyperlinking within the documents that it points to. Key point: There are still a lot of Gopher servers out there, However, since they are no longer mainstream, they are rarely maintained by security people. Therefore, they often present a way to compromise the network. From Hacking-Lexicon
In UNIX based systems linked to the Internet, a menu-based progam that helps you find files, programs, definitions, and other resources on topics you specify. Gopher was originally developed at the University of Minessota and nameeed after the school mascot. Unlike FTP and Archie, Gopher doesn't require you to know and use details of host, directory, and file names, Instead, you browse though menus and press Enter when you find something interseting. You usually see another menu, with more options, until finally you seect an option that displays information. You can then read the infromation or save it to your disk storage area after retreiving it with anonymous FTP. The World Wide Web (WWW) has begun to make Gopher and other text-based Internet search tools obsolete. From QUECID
Invented at the University of Minnesota in 1993 just before the Web, gopher was a widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher was designed to be much easier to use than FTP, while still using a text-only interface. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet and we can expect they will remain for a while. From Matisse
Formerly Kaiwal Linux, GrandLinux 4.4 seems to be the most recent version (as of September 2002). Looks like box sets and training and other Linux stuff. Website text in Thai. From LWN Distribution List
A picture-like control panel or screen (as opposed to a text-based screen), that makes a computer or presentation system easy to use. Amiga, Macintosh, and Windows environments are example of GUIs. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology
Linux abbreviation for "get regular expression". A grep tool lets you search through a set of text files for a pattern called the regular expression, which is a syntax that lets you specify in great detail what kind of text you're looking for. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
A tool that searches files for a string of text and outputs any line that contains the pattern. From I-gloss
Programs that help people work together collectively while located remotely from each other. Groupware services can include the sharing of calendars, collective writing, e-mail handling, shared database access, electronic meetings with each person able to see and display information to others, and other activities. For Linux there is the Teamwave Workplace and Lotus Notes will be ported. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Programs that increase the cooperation and joint productivity of small groups of co-workers. From QUECID
At one point, before KDE was substantially complete, Qt antagonists reasoned that since there were more lines of Qt code than of KDE code, it would be better to develop a widget library from scratch--but that is an aside. The Gtk widget library was written especially for gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program), is GPL'd and written entirely in C in low-level X calls (i.e., without the X Toolkit), object oriented, fast, clean, extensible and having a staggering array of features. It comprises Glib, a library meant to extend standard C, providing higher-level functions usually akin only to scripting languages, like hash tables and lists; Gdk, a wrapper around raw X Library to give GNU naming conventions to X, and to give a slightly higher level interface to X; and the Gtk library itself. Using Gtk, the Gnome project began, analogous to KDE, but written entirely in C. From Rute-Users-Guide
A powerful, fast open source graphics library for the X window System on UNIX/Linux, used by programmers to create buttons, menus and other graphical objects. (Also, see GNOME, Motif and Qt.) From I-gloss
A GNOME-based data analysis and visualization system. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The original file compression program for UNIX/Linux. Recent versions produce files with a .gz extension. (A .z or .Z extension indicates an older version of Gzip.) Compression is used to compact files to save storage space and reduce transfer time. (When combined with Tar, the resulting file extensions may be .tgz, .tar.gz or .tar.Z.) From I-gloss
The GNU C++ compiler. This is the GNU C++ compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C++. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
g-wrap is a tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries. At the moment it is most heavily focused on providing access to C libraries from guile, but it also supports RScheme. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
extract data from scanned graphs g3data is used for extracting data from graphs. For example, graphs are typically published in scientific journals without tables of the actual data; g3data makes the process of extracting these data easy. Home page: http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~frantz/software/g3data.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gtk-based 5-in-a-row game A simple game vs. an AI player. Still beta, but the core game is there; authors are looking for contributions of graphics or sound. This game is a Debian exclusive (at least for now). :-) From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The GNU Fortran 77 compiler. This is the GNU g77 Fortran compiler, which compiles Fortran 77 on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Fortran 77 compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 2.95.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A GNOME Jabber client. Gabber is a Free and Open Source GNOME client for an instant messaging system called Jabber. Jabber is a Free and Open Source distributed instant messaging system. It does not rely on a single server, and the protocol is well documented. Jabber allows communication with many different instant messaging systems, including ICQ and AIM. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Small Gnome personal databases manager Gaby is a _small_ personal databases manager for Linux using GTK+ and Gnome for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward access to databases a 'normal' user would like (addresses, books, ...) while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. On a technical side it was designed with extensibility in mind and thus use relies a lot on plug-ins. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Personnal accounts manager gAcc is a program intended to manage one's bank accounts. It provides basic functions such as : - having multiple accounts in a wallet file - user readable configuration file & wallets files - add / remove any account from the file (happily ;-) ) - add / remove any operation from any account (idem :) ) - modify the category list - point or un-point operations - display intermediate balance for each operation - re-edit operations - re-edit accounts - internationalisation (not yet finished. volunteers ?) and locale formats - etc... Some other functions need to be implemented for better use. See the TODO file to know what they are. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gaddr is a nice simple little address book written using GTK+. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
SQL database and parser generator in Python Gadfly is a relational database management system which uses a large subset of very standard SQL as its query language and Python modules and optional Python/C extension modules as its underlying engine. Gadfly stores the active database in memory, with recovery logging to a file system. It supports an optional TCP/IP based client server mode and log based failure recovery for system or software failures (but not for disk failures). kwParser, included as part of the Gadfly package, is a parser generator for Python. It transforms an abstract specification of a language grammar (for example the CORBA Interface Definition Language) together with "interpretation functions" that define the semantics of the language into a compiler or translator or interpreter. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GAIL implements the abstract interfaces found in ATK for GTK+ and GNOME libraries, enabling accessibility technologies such as at-spi to access those GUIs. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Gail is the GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
GPL multi-protocol instant messenger client - Gtk+ version Gaim is a Gtk+ based instant messenger client that supports the TOC and OSCAR (and hence ICQ) AIM protocols, as well as providing plugins for the Gadu-gadu, IRC, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Napster, old ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Zephyr protocols. As the name suggests, it was originally designed for using AOL's Instant Messenger service (you can sign up at http://www.aim.aol.com/). Consequently it contains many of the same features as AOL's IM client, as well as incorporating many new features, such as the multiple protocol support. This version is compiled without GNOME support, making Gaim a stand-alone Gtk+ program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!,MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just load the plugin for it. Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins. Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by AOL. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The GNOME Application Library (GAL) contains GNOME widgets and utility functions. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Galeon is a browser written in GTK+ which uses Gecko, the Mozilla renderingengine, for rendering Web pages. It is developed to be fast and lightweight. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel Galeon is a fast Web Browser for the GNOME Desktop Environment. Galeon's use of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine makes it more feature complete and standards compliant than most other browsers available. By using the GNOME and GTK libraries for the user interface, Galeon is usually faster than mozilla and the interface integrates well with the GNOME Desktop Environment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a web-based photo album written in php Gallery is a web-based photo album with multiple user support. It provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. Created in an effort to prevent well meaning folks from sending obscenely large photos by email, Gallery provides an easy place for friends and relatives to create and maintain their own photo albums. The upstream web site is: http://gallery.sf.net From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Command line image gallery generator. It also makes thumbnails. Galrey is a command line image gallery generator. It takes your pictures and creates thumbnails and browsable HTML pages. Galrey also allows you to add a comment for each image. The HTML output can be fully customized editing the template file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Graphical mixer for ALSA using gtk+. This package contains a graphical front-end (using the GTK+ toolkit) to the ALSA native mixer device. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Archiver with a WinZip and a tree interface, and full drag and drop. garchiver is an archiver for Gnome. It has a tree interface that lets you navigate through your archives very easily, as well as the classic WinZip interface. File can be dragged from a file manager and dropped on garchiver. Single files can be extracted with or without the path they were in. It currently fully supports .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.Z. Extracting and viewing of rar and arj archives is working, but not stable. It uses python modules to do all the work, so it is very easy to extend. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
[Chemistry] a free molecular visualization program Garlic is probably the most portable molecular visualization program in the Unix world. It's written for the investigation of membrane proteins. It may be used to visualize other proteins, as well as some geometric objects. The name should has something to do with the structure and operation of this program. This version of garlic recognizes PDB format version 2.1. Garlic may also be used to analyze protein sequences. Features include (but not limited to): o The slab position and thickness are visible in a small window. o Atomic bonds as well as atoms are treated as independent drawable objects. o The atomic and bond colors depend on position. Five mapping modes are available (as for slab). o Capable to display stereo image. o Capable to display other geometric objects, like membrane. o Atomic information is available for atom covered by the mouse pointer. No click required, just move the mouse pointer over the structure! o Capable to load more than one structure. o Capable to draw Ramachandran plot, helical wheel, Venn diagram, averaged hydrophobicity and hydrophobic moment plot. o The command prompt is available at the bottom of the main window. It is able to display one error message and one command string. Author: Damir Zucic (zucic@pref.etfos.hr), University of Osijek, Croatia. Keywords: molecular visualization, protein structure, DNA structure, PDB, molecular rendering, biological macromolecule From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gnome front end to the aspell spell checker Gnome frontend to the Aspell library. It has a 'Lookup' facility to look up definitions from online dictionaries using the dict protocol. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Database administration tool gASQL is a program which helps administer a DBMS database using the gnome-db framework (see http://www.gnome-db.org/ for more information about gnome-db). Basically, it memorizes all the structure of the database, and some queries, and does the SQL queries instead of the user (not having to type all over again those SQL commands, although it is still possible to do so). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A program or piece of hardware that passes data between networks. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
GUI interface to the "at" command. Gato is a GTK interface to the "at" command. The "at" command is the standard Unix way to allow you to schedule commands to be run sometime in the future. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software The General ATI TV and Overlay Software (GATOS) suite for capturing video. This package does not require kernel patches, and includes: * xatitv: GUI TV-in-a-window application GUI access to all GATOS functionality, save tv-out. * atitv: Simple text-mode program Basic functionality to record video and toggle tv-out. * atitoppm: * atitogif: * atitojpg: YUV conversion utilities * yuvsum: video field to frame converter Averages all images in gatos.yuv (must all be same size). * atisplit: YUV conversion to ucbmpeg This splits the output file for MPEG encoding. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language `awk', a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them. Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features defined in the System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gnome Basic - VB compatible Basic for GNOME Gnome Basic is an embryonic attempt to provide Visual Basic compatible functionality for the GNOME project, particularly with respect to office (VBA) compatibility. This package provides the command-line Gnome Basic controller. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
small numeric base converter If you specify a number on the command line (preceded by a switch to describe the base the number is in) the program will display that number in all four bases on the console and exit. You can also specify the -s switch which will allow you to enter/display signed numbers. (This allows the use of a - (minus) before a decimal number). Just running the program without any switches will display the main window. There are four entry boxes, corresponding to each of the four bases. You can type into any of these boxes and the others will update automagically. The program will ignore any characters that are not allowed for that particular base. It will only allow a - (minus) at the start of a decimal number, if the signed option is on. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
networked BattleShip game Batalla Naval is a networked BattleShip game. It supports multiple players and multiple robots at the same time. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
user-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document. gBib is able to import and export BiBTeX databases. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A mail notification program supported GTK+ and Gnome gbiff checks for mail within a file, a qmail or MH style dir, or an IMAP4 or a POP3 server. It can display headers (number, sender, subject, and date) when new mail has arrived. It interprets any ISO-8859 encoding and supports both GTK and GNOME. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A GTK+-based, XBuffy-like multiple mailbox "biff" program GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also highlight the mailboxes which have new mail. Pressing the left mouse button on a mailbox with new mail will display the Sender and Subject of each new message. Additionally, GBuffy will display the X-Face header for messages which have them. Pressing the middle mouse button on a mailbox will launch the configured command, generally a command to read the mailbox with your favorite mailreader. Pressing the right mouse button will bring up the configure menu. GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER mailboxes. Support for an external program for notification is planned. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Utility to calculate bearing and range to a location Gcb computes Great Circle Bearing and Range given the latitude and longitude (degrees and minutes). You must input the lat/long of the two stations. The output will then be relative from station1 to station2. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Prints calendars Gcal displays a calendar for a month or a year, eternal holiday lists and fixed date lists, in many ways. The program correctly omits the dates that were skipped when the current Gregorian calendar replaced the earlier Julian calendar. Apart from the usual and well known calendar functions like the output of a month or a year calendar sheet, or the output of an eternal holiday list, Gcal offers the facility to display fixed dates on the day of their occurrence and to remind or inform the user about them. So it's imaginable after booting the computer or starting the work session, that the user is informed on screen or by means of electronic mail, about all holidays or appointments which are observed or scheduled for that day. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Calculator From whatis
GNOME applet for changing PCMCIA-CS schemes. GCardScheme is a GNOME applet for changing PCMCIA-CS card schemes. Schemes allow for multiple configurations without having to change configuration files (e.g. different schemes for home and office networks). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A compiler aimed at integrating all the optimizations and features necessary for a high-performance and stable development environment. This package is required for all other GCC compilers, namely C++, Fortran 77, Objective C and Java. If you have multiple versions of GCC installed on your system, it is preferred to type "gcc-$(gcc3.2-version)" (without double quotes) in order to use the GNU C compiler version 3.2.2. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Memory access debugger for C language development Checker automatically finds: * null pointer dereferences (read, write, and execute accesses) * writes to read-only memory * accesses to free blocks (read, write, and execute) * reads of uninitialized bytes (in automatic and dynamic memory) * reads/writes to "red zones" (in automatic and dynamic memory) * reads/writes/executes outside memory segments * free called with address not obtained from malloc * free an already freed block * ...and many other kinds of memory and API errors. Checker's main disadvantage is that it causes the program to run much slower. You can compile your program to use Checker by replacing calls to gcc by calls to checkergcc. Please read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gccchecker. This version of Checker works only with GNU gcc 2.95. It will not work with earlier or later versions. There is limited support for C++, with no support for libstdc++. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
create dependencies in makefiles using 'gcc -M' From whatis
MySQL/PHP billing system. gcdb is a GUI to a MySQL database. It supports Customer, Payment, Invoice, Account, and Trouble Ticket entries. Records can be added, edited, or deleted. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Create audio CDs and write them in disk-at-once mode gcdmaster allows creation and editing of audio CD images in an easy to use GNOME environment. It can read audio CDs with jitter compensation for outstanding quality, add CD-TEXT and perform direct CD to CD copies. gcdmaster is a graphical version of the cdrdao command-line utility. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Ada quality & style checker This is an ASIS application that enforces various quality and style rules, including those from the Ada Quality and Style Guide. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
the GNOME Character Map From whatis
The GNU Java compiler. GCJ is a front end to the GCC compiler which can natively compile both Java(tm) source and bytecode files. The compiler can also generate class files. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Java compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 3.0.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNU Common Lisp compiler. GNU Common Lisp (GCL) is a Common Lisp compiler and interpreter implemented in C, and complying mostly with the standard set forth in the book "Common Lisp, the Language I". It attempts to strike a useful middle ground in performance and portability from its design around C. This package contains the Lisp system itself. Documentation is provided in the gcl-doc package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Draft ANSI Common Lisp specification in info format This is a draft specification of the ANSI Common Lisp language in the GNU info format. The gclinfo-html package contains the same document in HTML format. GNU Common Lisp specific information can be found in gcl and gcl-doc packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The Gnome Comics Organizer. GCO is a database for keeping track of your comics collection. It supports titles, publishers, types, writers, pencilers, inkers, cover prices, current prices, comments, and much more. It also allows you to sort the list in various ways. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
the GNOME Color Browser From whatis
GTK+ based CD mastering and burning program gcombust is a GTK+ frontend for mksisofs and cdrecord. Features: * burning on the fly from HD * CD-to-CD copying (audio CD on-the-fly copy is experimental) * makes creation of iso-images easy * maximize CD usage by hinting which directories/files to use * audio CD creation (DAO support) * bootable CD support * multisession support * CD-RW support * cover printing via cdlabelgen * save/load path selections (for always burning the same set of files) * save/load settings * tooltips * NLS support * verify From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gcombust is a gtk+ frontend for mkisofs, mkhybrid, cdrecord and cdlabelgen. It's written in C. It has primitive support for controlling the directory (root) structure and size of image without copying files/symlinking or writing 10 lines of arguments and can maximize disk by hinting which directories/files to use. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Educational game for small children GCompris is a framework for educational games for the GNOME desktop, already providing a number of boards. It is meant to become some sort of unified interface for more educational games. In French GCompris is pronounced like "j'ai compris", which means "I Have Understood". Currently available boards include: * learning how to use a mouse and keyboard * learning simple arithmetics * learning how to read an analog clock * recognize letters after hearing their names * reading practice * small games (memory games, jigsaw puzzles, ...) * etc. It is designed so that it is easy to implement new boards to GCompris. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME configuration database system. (daemon and tools) GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the Windows registry but lots better. :-) It's being written for the GNOME desktop but does not require GNOME. This package contain gconfd daemon and gconf tools binaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
An editor for the GConf configuration system. An editor for the GConf configuration system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME configuration database system. (daemon and tools, for GNOME2) GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the Windows registry but lots better. :-) It's being written for the GNOME desktop but does not require GNOME. This package contain gconfd daemon and gconf tools binaries for GNOME2 From Debian 3.0r0 APT
test coverage program for GNU CC From whatis
Global Consciousness Project EGG Software The GCP studies data from random event generators in widely distributed locations, to discern non-random patterns that may result from the interaction of human consciousness with the generators. This package provides the software required to operate a random event generator and return data to the project. Unless you are registered with the GCP and have received event generator hardware, this package will be useless to you. If you have no idea what this means, don't bother installing this package! More GCP information is available at http://noosphere.princeton.edu. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GTK crontab editor gcrontab is a simple GTK editor for the UNIX cron system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gtk+ front-end for cvs An advanced, easy to use C++ front-end for cvs distributed under the GPL. gCvs features: - gCvs is part of the CvsGui project and shares a large portion of code with WinCvs and MacCvs, both of which are fairly mature. - gCvs is written in C++ using GNU gtk+. - Uses the latest cvs source code. - Makes cvs easier for the novice. - Increases the power of cvs by providing an high-end interface. - The project is growing because it is supported and developed by several cvs users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills. The library will write out the result as a PNGor JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most Web browsers. Note that gd is not a paint or graphics manipulation program. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Visualization plug-in for xmms GDancer is a plugin to animate characters to the beat of the music. The default character is Space Ghost, but you can use and make your own characters through themes. You can find more theme here: http://figz.com/gdancer/themes.php From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Gdb is a full featured, command driven debugger. Gdb allows you to trace the execution of programs and examine their internal state atany time. Gdb works for C and C++ compiled with the GNU C compiler gcc.If you are going to develop C and/or C++ programs and use the GNU gcc compiler, you may want to install gdb to help you debug your programs. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The GNU Debugger GDB is a source-level debugger, capable of breaking programs at any specific line, displaying variable values, and determining where errors occurred. Currently, it works for C, C++, Fortran Modula 2 and Java programs. A must-have for any serious programmer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gdbm is a GNU database indexing library, including routines which use extensible hashing. Gdbm works in a similar way to standard UNIX dbm routines. Gdbm is useful for developers who write C applications andneed access to a simple and efficient database or who are building C applications which will use such a database. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Remote Server for the GNU Debugger From whatis
display dialog boxes from shell scripts From whatis
Gnome client for MIT dictionary server From whatis
molecular display A GTK based program for the display and manipulation of isolated molecules and periodic systems. It is in development, but is nonetheless fairly functional. It has the following features: * Support for several file types (CIF, BIOSYM, XYZ, XTL, MARVIN, and GULP) * A simple molecular creation and manipulation tool * A dialogue for creating starting configurations for molecular dynamics simulations * Assorted tools for visualization (geometry information, region highlighting, etc.) * Animation of BIOSYM files (also rendered animations, see below) GDIS also allows you to perform the following functions through other packages: * Model rendering (courtesy of POVRay) * Energy minimization (courtesy of GULP) * Morphology calculation (courtesy of cdd) * Space group processing (courtesy of SgInfo) * View the Periodic Table (courtesy of GPeriodic) * Load additional filetypes, such as PDB (courtesy of Babel) http://gdis.seul.org/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME utility to monitor disk space usage From whatis
Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with gtk Gdk-Imlib is a low-level gdk interface for gtk programmers. It allows easier access to many graphics formats and can write to them as well. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library used with the GNOME desktop environment. The GdkPixBuf library provides image loading facilities, the rendering of a GdkPixBuf into various formats (drawables or GdkRGB buffers), and a cache interface. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
GNOME-dependent portions of the gdk-pixbuf image loading library. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
The GdkPixBuf library provides a number of features: - Image loading facilities. - Rendering of a GdkPixBuf into various formats: drawables (windows, pixmaps), GdkRGB buffers. This package provides image loaders used by all versions of GdkPixBuf From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
gtk+-1.2 anti-aliased font support control panel *** THIS WILL CAUSE APPLICATIONS TO CRASH, DIE, LOSE INFORMATION, AND OTHER NASTY EFFECTS. DON'T USE THIS IF YOU WANT STABILITY *** This gnomecc capplet can assist in managing the use of libgdkxft. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
GNOME Display Manager host chooser window From whatis
GNOME Display Manager greeting window From whatis
Tcl interface to GD graphics creation library. This package provides a simple Tcl interface to the gd (PNG drawing) package, version 1.3. It includes an interface to all the gd functions and data structures from Tcl commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNU Enterprise Application Server The GNU Enterprise Application Server provides a way to do CORBA communication without having to understand CORBA. It turns relational data structures into objects for use by a client. Methods are written in Python. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNU EDA -- Electronics design software GNU EDA, an electronics design package, including gschem, a schematic editor. This is alpha software! From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Light-weight text editor Gedit has all the basic features you come to expect from a simple text editor, but Gedit has a native graphic user interface (GUI). Gedit also has command line arguments available to users to quickly and easily view and edit files from a terminal. Overall, Gedit is an easy to use text editor with utilizing the powerful capabilities of the GNOME desktop. Gedit has a versatile plug-in architecture to extend its capablilties. This allows you to perform functions you don't normally expect from a text editor, such as piping the output of a shell command to the screen. The plug-in architecture also lets you email people, browse the internet, or produce a diff from gedit. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gEdit is a small text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Program for generating geekcode. This is a program for generating the geekcode. See http://www.geekcode.com for more info and for discovering if you need the geekcode. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a GTK+ Equation Grapher geg is a very simple utility for parsing and plotting 2D-functions, eg f(x) = 3 + sin(x), and much more complicated functions of course. It is written with GTK+ and provides a neat, configurable user interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gem Drop X is an interesting one-player puzzle game for X11 The game is played with YOU at the bottom of the screen. At the top is a random assortment of colored shapes ("gems"). As time goes on, more gems appear at the very top of the screen, pushing the rest downwards. The game is over when the gems reach the bottom. It's your job to keep the screen from filling up. You do this by "grabbing" gems from the top of the screen, carrying them around, if need be, and "throwing" them back up. If, when you throw some gems back up, you create a "match" of 3 or more gems in a vertical column, they disappear (with a cool little explosion). At this point, if there are any "matches" of the same gem to the left or right of this column, they disappear too! And so on. This is great for cool chain-reactions! You also get more points for the more gems that disappear in a match. (Matching four gives as many points as matching three twice, for example.) From Debian 3.0r0 APT
utility to aid in error-free diff file generation From whatis
Documentation generation from Python source files From whatis
General-purpose neural simulator GENESIS is a general purpose simulation platform which was developed to support the simulation of neural systems ranging from complex models of single neurons to simulations of large networks made up of more abstract neuronal components. GENESIS has provided the basis for laboratory courses in neural simulation at both Caltech and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Most current GENESIS applications involve realistic simulations of biological neural systems. Although the software can also model more abstract networks, other simulators are more suitable for backpropagation and similar connectionist modeling. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Genealogy Software with Web Interface Geneweb allows you to keep track of ancestral data. It is a powerful system for maintaining a set of data about your family history. It supports much of the GEDCOM tag system for data storage, and can be used either as your primary system for archiving genealogical data, or as a web service (through a CGI interface) for publishing your data for others to use. Geneweb is under active use and development, so its feature set is constantly improving. It already boasts features not found in most off-the-shelf products, such as consanguinity and relationship calculations, as well as other statistical analysis tools. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
skeleton main.c generator gengetopt reads an interface description file, and writes a skeleton main.c file. gengetopt supports: long and short options, 11 types of parameters (including flag, int, double, string, and function call), and a usage message. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
generate symbol version information From whatis
generate symbol version information From whatis
command line parser generator Genparse is a generic command line parser generator. From simple and concise specification file, you can define the command line parameters and switches that you would like to be able to pass to your program. Genparse creates the C code of the parser for you, which you can then compile as a separate file and link with your program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Monitor UPS and handle line power failures The express aim of the genpower package is to add additional functionally and a simpler means of configuring UPS monitoring, in a full featured suite that can be configured to work with most UPSs featuring an RS232 monitoring port. Depending on the UPS, cable, and the manner in which the genpower package is configured, the genpower package provides the following features: * Line power sensing * Low battery detection * Physical cable detection * The ability to kill the UPS's inverter The Debian package has an extra cable description called "apc-pnp" that should support all of the above for the APC Back-UPS Pro, Smart-UPS, and Matrix-UPS systems using the included Windows-95 Plug-and-Play cable! From Debian 3.0r0 APT
This is the mkfs equivalent for romfs filesystem You need it to build a romfs filesystem. romfs is a small, read-only filesystem intended for installation/rescue disks or "embedded" applications. This filesystem is supported by Linux 2.1.25 and later. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Generate /etc/sgml/sgml.env and /etc/sgml/sgml.cenv From whatis
A fully GUI configurable X file manager using GTK+ gentoo is a file manager for X11, written from scratch in pure C. It utilises the GTK+ toolkit for its interface. A goal with gentoo is to let the user do all configuration from within the program itself; there should be no need to hand-edit configuration files and restart the program in order to customize it. gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful file identification system, coupled to a object-oriented style system, which together give you a lot of control over how files of different types are displayed and acted upon. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
interactive geometry viewing program Geomview is interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display things in hyperbolic and spherical space as well as Euclidean space. Modules that rely on the non-free libforms library are not included. Geomview allows multiple independently controllable objects and cameras. It provides interactive control for motion, appearances (including lighting, shading, and materials), picking on an object, edge or vertex level, snapshots in SGI image file or Renderman RIB format, and adding or deleting objects is provided through direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts. External programs can drive desired aspects of the viewer (such as continually loading changing geometry or controlling the motion of certain objects) while allowing interactive control of everything else. Homepage: http://geomview.org. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
format equations for troff From whatis
Gerber file viewer for PCB design gerbv is a utility for viewing Gerber files. Gerber files are used for communicating printed circuit board (PCB) designs to PCB manufacturers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Frontend for Simple Asynchronous File Transfer Gerstensaft is an easy to use graphical oriented frontend for sendfile(1). It features sending files and directories and provides a history for addresses. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Query system configuration variables From whatis
get entries from administrative database From whatis
print the current format information TQ From whatis
print kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table From whatis
POP3, APOP mail gatherer/forwarder. getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into a qmail-style Maildir, mbox file or to a command (pipe delivery) like maildrop or procmail. specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Parse command line options From whatis
parse command options (enhanced) From whatis
GNU Internationalization utilities Interesting for authors or maintainers of other packages or programs which they want to see internationalized. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing programs. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
add internationalization files to your project From whatis
alternative Linux getty From whatis
The GNU HaliFAX Sender This is the GNU HaliFAX Sender, a component of GNU HaliFAX which will help you send Postscript and TIFF g3/g4 files to mgetty+sendfax or hylafax for sending faxes. The GNU HaliFAX will be a complete free client package for HylaFAX and maybe for other fax systems in the future. It is intended to run on both the Win32 platform and the GNU system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GTK firewall control center Allows setup of a firewall using a GTK gui. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a simple floppy formatter for the GNOME From whatis
the GNOME Font selector From whatis
A font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType fonts gfontview is a font viewer for outline fonts, PostScript(tm) Type 1 and TrueType(tm). gfontview allows you to display a particular character or string of a font in an own window, thus allowing a comparison between several fonts with a particular string sample. This character or string can be antialiased (smoothed). The string can also consider the kerning pairs if available in the AFM or TTF file. The displayed character or string can be saved in GIF format. A table with all glyphs in the font (for PostScript Type 1 fonts also in several encodings) can also be created. A custom encoding will be generated on the fly to allow you to see all characters (also not encoded ones) in a Type 1 font, the so called "Custom" encodings. You can also print a sample of a font. The program generates PostScript code with sample strings in several sizes, which you can download to any PostScript printer or to ghostscript. TrueType fonts can be saved as Type42 PostScript fonts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNU Forth Language Environment This is the GNU'ish implementation of a Forth programming environment. Forth, as a language, is best known for being stack-based, and completely extensible. Each Forth environment provides one or more dictionaries of pre-defined words, and programming in Forth consists of defining and executing new words that are combinations of previously defined words. It has been said that learning Forth changes forever the way you think about writing programs. For more information about Forth, visit the Forth Interest Group web site at http://www.forth.org/fig.html. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Recreate a grid of mirrors from clues given by tests Send balls through an invisible grid of mirrors (and other interesting widgets) and observe where they end up. Then, try to recreate the same grid from the results you just obtained. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A utility to split and join files gfslicer is a utility which allows you to split (slice) files into files with the size of your choice. It can also join (desclice) these files back into the original file. Other features are compression and error checking. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
make proof sheets from generic font files From whatis
convert generic font files to packed font files From whatis
X/GTK+ FTP client gFTP is a multithreaded FTP client, available in two versions: * version for X, written using GLib and GTK+ * version for the console, using only GLib This is an upgrade convenience package, it's only useful for depending on From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gFTP is a multi-threaded FTP client for the X Window System. gFTPsupports simultaneous downloads, resumption of interrupted filetransfers, file transfer queues to allow downloading of multiple files, support for downloading entire directories/subdirectories, a bookmarks menu to allow quick connection to FTP sites, caching of remote directory listings, local and remote chmod, drag and drop, a connection manager, and much more. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
translate a generic font file for humans to read From whatis
An instant messenger compatible with Gadu Gadu - GNOME version Gadu Gadu is a Windows instant messenger, very popular in Poland. GNU Gadu is a GTK+/GNOME version for *nix systems. This version is linked against GNOME, and allows you to use gg as a panel applet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
An instant messenger compatible with Gadu Gadu - GTK+ version Gadu Gadu is a Windows instant messenger, very popular in Poland. GNU Gadu is a GTK+/GNOME version for *nix systems. This is a GTK+-only version, which allows you to use gg without the need to install GNOME libraries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a Gradebook to help teachers manage student grades. A well-featured Gradebook which uses gtk. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Ghostview (ggv) is a frontend for Ghostscript, an interpreter of PostScript that is able to properly render PostScript documents in a display or a printer. GGv serves as a layer that isolates the user from the cumbersome options and interface of Ghostscript, and, at the same time, gives extra features such as panning and persistent user settings. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
A GNOME molecular modelling environment Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package written in C++. It has a graphical user interface and it supports both quantum- mechanics (semi-empirical) models and molecular mechanics models. Geometry optimization, molecular dynamics and a large set of visualization tools using OpenGL are currently available. Ghemical relies on external code to provide the quantum-mechanical calculations. Semi-empirical methods MNDO, MINDO/3, AM1 and PM3 come from the MOPAC7 package (Public Domain), and are included in the package. The project started as a freeware molecular modelling package, but since the graphical user interface part of the package is quite advanced and clearly written (according to our own biased view, at least), the package now aims to become a common framework for molecular modelling programs generally. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Hex editor for files The GHex program can view and edit files in two ways, hex or ascii. Good for editing savegame files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The GNU HaliFAX Viewer This is the GNU HaliFAX Viewer, a component of GNU HaliFAX which will help you look at the TIFF g3/g4 fax files produced by HylaFAX The GNU HaliFAX will be a complete free client package for HylaFAX and maybe for other fax systems in the future. It is intended to run on both the Win32 platform and the GNU system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements thegraphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers. Most applications use PostScript for printer output. You should install ghostscript if you need to display PostScript files, orif you have a non-PostScript printer. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
a PostScript viewer for X11 This is the GNU PostScript viewer (an X11 frontend for GhostScript, in the gs package), and it is VERY old. Its last release was in 1993, and its user interface is considered ugly by some. You may find the gv package a better alternative. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
wrapper library for imlib2, and other stuff. giblib is a library of handy stuff. Contains an imlib2 wrapper to avoid the context stuff, doubly-linked lists and font styles. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Boot support for Gibraltar live CD-ROM This package contains the necessary support for the live Gibraltar CD-ROM. It will manage /etc and /var to be writeable and will take care of saving and restoring /etc. Therefore this package should be installed on the master copy that will be used as the live file system on the CD-ROM. Do not install it on a system that boots from a harddisk partition (e.g. the development system for creating the bootable CD-ROMs), it will break. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
RFC1413 compliant IPv4/IPv6 ident daemon gidentd is a fully functional, RFC1413 compliant ident daemon, written by Joern Heissler. It provides IPv4/IPv6 functionality. Its possible to run the gidentd from inetd or as standalone daemon. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A simple GTK Dictionary gidic (Gtk Inter DICtionary) is a simple dictionary program which is a GTK-based front-end to The Internet Dictionary project from Tyler Chambers, which includes French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish dictionaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GIF -> PNG conversions This program can convert GIF images to PNG images. It comes from ESR's page at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a. Allows for setting the transparent or background color, changing colors, adding or removing comments. Also code to analyze GIF contents. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Giftrans will convert an existing GIF87 file to GIF89 format. In other words, Giftrans can make one color in a .gif image (normally the background) transparent. Install the giftrans package if you need a quick, small, one-purpose graphics program to make transparent .gifs out of existing .gifs. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The GNU Java bytecode interpreter. GIJ is not limited to interpreting bytecode. It includes a class loader which can dynamically load shared objects, so it is possible to give it the name of a class which has been compiled and put into a shared library on the class path. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Java bytecode interpreter for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 3.0.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
An OpenAmulet graphical user interface builder Gilt is an interface builder for the OpenAmulet graphical user interface toolkit. Gilt allows dialog boxes and other windows to be created interactively using the mouse. Widgets, such as scroll bars, buttons, and text input fields can be placed with the mouse, and properties set. Then, Gilt will generate C++ code to generate the same window at run time. Gilt stands for Graphical Interface Layout Tool. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Image Viewer using GTK+ GImageView is image viewer. It has some useful features such as, Simple GUI. Tabbed thumbnail viewer for directories. Low memory use. Image file management tool. Slide show. read/write many image cache formats of thumbnail. read : Konqueror, GQview, Electric Eyes (Picview) write : Nautilus, .xvpics Supported image formats are: JPEG, PNG, PNM, GIF, TIFF, XBM, XPM, XWD, BMP and PCX. Drag and Drop. You can drop image into like a Gimp from GImageView window. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A GTK configuration tool for imgstamp gimgstamp is a GTK configuration tool that can customise imgstamp, and allows the user to see what an image will look like after being stamped. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The GIMP is an image manipulation program suitable for photo retouching,image composition and image authoring. Many people find it extremely useful in creating logos and other graphics for web pages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo. This version of The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP ftpsite has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gzand ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are soinclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, stable version 1.2 The GIMP lets you draw, paint, edit images, and much more! GIMP includes the functionality and plug-ins of other famous image editing and processing programs. This is the stable 1.2 version of GIMP. You ***MUST*** <--- (really!) have the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages available on the X server, whether via files or via a font server like xfs. The gimp package only Recommends: these packages because it's possible to have them served remotely, but you really should install them. :) From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Some tools for the GiNaC framework GiNaC (which stands for "GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)") is a library for doing symbolic (i.e. non-numeric) computation directly in the C++ programming language. This package provides some additional tools, like the popular ginsh (GiNaC interactive shell) and viewgar (for inspecting GiNaC archive files). See <http://www.ginac.de/> for detailed information about the GiNaC framework. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
IP Subnet Calculator for X. The IP Subnet Calculator is a tool that allows network administrators to make calculations that will assist in subnetting a network. You give the network class and subnet bits and you get back the maximum number of subnets, maximum number of hosts per subnet, a bimap showing the breakdown of network bits, subnet bits, and host bits, the decimal and hexadecimal class netmask, the decimal and hexadecimal subnet mask and lists subnets and host information. CIDR support, reverse engineer the network information for a particular interface (e.g. eth0, ppp0) and save capability. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNU Interactive Tools git is a file system browser with some shell facilities which was designed to make your work much easier and more efficient. gitps is an interactive process viewer/killer. It calls the ps(1) utility internally. and gitps parameters are in fact ps(1) ones. Running gitps is self explanatory. Use the arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, C-n, C-p, C-v, ESC v to move in the list, C-l to refresh it and F10 or C-g to leave. You can change these keys. gitview is a hex/ascii file viewer. Too simple to need a separate manual page. Use the arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, C-n, C-p, C-v, ESC v to move in the file, C-l to refresh the screen and F10 or C-g to leave. You can change these keys. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Helper to reconfigure packages with Debconf This is a program that helps one using the "dpkg-reconfigure" tool. It is basically a graphical frontend. It makes life easier showing a simple menu of packages which can be reconfigured with Debconf and the Debconf frontends that can be used for the reconfiguration. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gtk-based PPP dial-up configuration tool. GKDial stands for Gtk Kov Dialer. It is meant to setup PPP connections easily without needing to edit config files. It is also meant to dial to the peers you registered using pon/poff or another ppp dialer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A serial and network communications package. Gkermit is a GPL'd kermit package. It offers medium-independent terminal session and file transfer. The non-free package ckermit adds connection establishment, charecter-set translation and scripting features. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image GKrellKam is basically wmGrabImage in a GKrellM panel, except that it is more flexible (you can specify a local or remote image, or a list of local or remote images, or a script that outputs the right image, etc). The image (any format or size) is resized to a thumbnail and placed in a GKrellM panel, where it is updated periodically. Multiple images are rotated. This plugin is useful for keeping track of webcams, weather maps, or any other kind of changing image information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Multiple stacked system monitors: 1 process. GKrellM charts CPU, Disk, and all active net interfaces automatically. An on/off button and online timer for the PPP interface is provided. Meters for memory and swap usage as well as a system uptime monitor are provided. Additional features are: * Clicking on left or right frame slides GKrellM shut to gain screen space. * Autoscaling grid lines with configurable grid line resolution. * LED indicators for the net interfaces. * Configurable chart sizes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gtk+ Frontend to su and sudo gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user. gksu can also act as a frontend to sudo. It installs a link /usr/bin/gksudo, which you can call to use this feature. When using sudo, gksudo respects /etc/sudoers definitions. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GTK+ User Interface Builder Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick and easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit. It also contains built-in support for generating the C source code needed to recreate the interfaces. If you want Glade with support for the Gnome libraries, you should install the glade-gnome package. The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in the well-known XML format, enabling easy integration with external tools. Several tools are already available which can turn the XML files into source code in other languages such as C++, Perl and Python. Other tools such as libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces at runtime. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A versatile audio processor. GLAME provides a powerful and extensible framework for processing audio files similar to what GIMP offers in the graphics area. GLAME so far features a graphical frontend to set up filter networks and perform basic audio editing tasks. A flexible Scheme-based command line editor offers low-level access for scripting purposes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
This is a program similar to xbiff with a nicer output This is a program similar to xbiff, except that it provides somewhat nicer output. It requires the Mesa (OpenGL clone) libraries to render the 3D mailbox. The idea comes from the "mailbox" program available on SGI machines, and hence tries to mimic some of the features present in it. Note that this is an alpha version, and hence there are still some outstanding bugs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a program for viewing text files From whatis
GLib is a library of utility functions designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
GLib is a handy library of utility functions. This C library is designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code iskept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. The glibc package also contains national language (locale) support. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
glibc-kernheaders includes the C header files from the Linux kernel. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building some standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the glibc package From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Provides ld-lsb* dynamic loader links for LSB compliance. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Report a bug to the Glibc developers From whatis
Binaries for glide2. This is a support package which should be installed if you have a card based on 3dfx Interactive, Inc's Voodoo chipsets. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Programmer's editor with multiple windows and syntax highlighting Glimmer is a simple code editor for use with just about any programming language, which makes use of of the Gtk+ widget set and the GNOME libraries, which includes drag and drop support. It includes syntax and bracket highlighting, the ability to build from within the editor, and support for saving sessions of many different code files open at once. Most settings can be customised from within the editor. Glimmer includes support for the following languages: Ada, bash/sh, C, C++, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, Javascript, Latex, GNU Make, Perl, PHP, Python, Lisp (guile, scheme, etc), SGML, SQL, Tcl/Tk, XML, XHTML, and Z80 Assembly, to name a few. Glimmer is also very extensible in the languages it supports for its syntax highlighting. If support for your language of choice is not included, you can write it very easily. In addition to this, Glimmer is completely scriptable with python. See http://glimmer.sourceforge.net for more information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
image viewer using gdk-pixbuf and OpenGL GLiv is an image viewer that uses gdk-pixbuf to load images, and OpenGL to render them. Moving and zooming is very fast and smooth if you have an OpenGL board. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
/glob/, not /glohb/ v.,n. [Unix; common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing'). The Unix conventions for filename wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some of them in written English, especially in email or news on technical topics. Those commonly encountered include the following: * wildcard for any string (see also UN*X) ? wildcard for any single character (generally read this way only at the beginning or in the middle of a word) [] delimits a wildcard matching any of the enclosed characters {} alternation of comma-separated alternatives; thus, `foo{baz,qux}' would be read as `foobaz' or `fooqux' Some examples: "He said his name was [KC]arl" (expresses ambiguity). "I don't read talk.politics.*" (any of the talk.politics subgroups on Usenet). Other examples are given under the entry for X. Note that glob patterns are similar, but not identical, to those used in regexps. Historical note: The jargon usage derives from glob, the name of a subprogram that expanded wildcards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell. From Jargon Dictionary
To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing'). From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a `.' in the results of pathname expansion. From Rute-Users-Guide
From the beginning of a file to the end. This term is often used to describe an operation such as a search; the opposite of local. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux
Source code search and browse. GLOBAL is a source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments. Currently, it supports the following: o Shell command line (see 'Global') o nvi editor (see 'Extended nvi using global') o emacs editor (see 'Emacs using global') o Web browser (see 'Hypertext generator') o Elvis editor (see 'Elvis using global') Supported languages are C/C++ Yacc and Java. You can locate a specified function in the source files and move there easily. It is especially useful for hacking large projects containing many subdirectories, many '#ifdef' and many main() functions, like X or kernel source. This package include the htmake(1) extension which allows GLOBAL's hypertext search function to be implemented from a single central cgi script. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Slide the blocks to reach a goal Slide blocks around the puzzle until a certain goal condition is reached. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Linear programming kit with integer (MIP) support GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a library. This package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and other related problems. GLPK has the following main features: * implementation of the revised simplex method (based on sparse matrix technique, steepest edge pricing, and two-pass pivoting technique); * implementation of the primal-dual interior point method; * implementation of the branch-and-bound procedure (based on the dual simplex method); * application program interface (API). Included is a solver that reads problems in the standard MPS format, or in the GLPK/L modeling language. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
3D lightcycle game glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective. 3D acceleration is recommended. More information can be found at the gltron web site http://www.gltron.org . From Debian 3.0r0 APT
sample programs using gltt A couple of sample programs that come with gltt, a library that allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGl application. Includes a general demo, a logo program that lets you deform text in interesting ways, and a bounding box demo. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The OpenGL Utility Toolkit. GLUT (pronounced like the glut in gluttony) is the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL programs. It implements a simple windowing application programming interface (API) for OpenGL. GLUT makes it considerably easier to learn about and explore OpenGL programming. GLUT is designed for constructing small to medium sized OpenGL programs. While GLUT is well-suited to learning OpenGL and developing simple OpenGL applications, GLUT is not a full-featured toolkit so large applications requiring sophisticated user interfaces are better off using native window system toolkits like Motif. GLUT is simple, easy, and small. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GLX version of the infamous "gears" GL demo. From whatis
display info about a GLX extension and OpenGL renderer. From whatis
GNOME mail client using SQL-based vfolders Gmail is an experimental SQL-based vfolder email system, using MySQL as its back-end database, which allows for large volumes of mail, without risk of data loss. The vfolders (virtual folders) are implemented as SQL queries. A cache system keeps gmail fast. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
small X/GTK+ based man(1) front-end Gman is nothing else but only a simple front-end for the original man page system. The most basic job of gman is to build a database for all the man pages and display them (or part of them) on the screen. When user decides to read a man page, gman will launch a terminal window and call the original man system to display the man page in the window. Gman can launch more than one terminal window at same time. And user can use the index search function to look for the man pages that he needs. It's simple, but it's useful. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GTK+/GNOME Man pages editor GNOME Manpages Editor is an editor for man pages that runs on X with GTK. It's like most common HTML editors but more easy. You need to know manpages format. You can learn it from 'man(7)'. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - Gnome version Warning: The gnome version from mc is alpha software! Midnight Commander is a feature-rich file manager. It started as a Norton Commander clone but now it is far superior to it. Among other things it can do FTP, includes a hex editor, comes with an internal editor and lets you do most system administration tasks. Browsing, unpacking and installation of Debian packages is possible by just pressing enter on a *.deb file. Handling of other archive formats like rpm, zip, zoo and tar.gz is equally supported. This version comes with undelete for ext2 filesystems compiled in. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Displays a graph detailing memory usage of each process. Gmemusage is a graphical program modelled after the Silicon Graphics Inc. program of the same name. Gmemusage displays a window with a stacked bar. Areas on the bar correspond to individual processes running on the system and are updated periodically. Multiple copies of the same program (actually, programs with the same name) are merged into one area on the stack. Sizes of areas in the stack correspond to resident sizes of the processes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Graphical menu editor for the Gnome panel From whatis
GNOME MFSK terminal for HF/amateur radio MFSK is a data communication mode used by amateur radio operators for reliable communications on HF. It is used for chatting and not packet communications. gmfsk is an implementation of an MFSK terminal for GNOME. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Matrox G400 graphics card overclocking tool gMGAclock is a GNOME-based overclocking utility for Matrox G400 cards users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Module player for Ultrasound and SB AWE soundcards Gmod plays MOD/669/MTM/S3M/ULT/XM modules on machines that have an Gravis Ultrasound family sound card or a Soundblaster AWE. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a GTK+ based MOO (and MUD) Client Gmoo is a GTK+ based MOO client that also works for MUDs, MUSHs, etc. It's many features include internal and external editors, multiple world connecting, (configurable) ANSI, PERL and/or TCL based scripting and MCP (the MOO Client Protocol). Each world is independently configurable, with it's own settings and logs. Logging and shell integration are possible. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic which operates on signed integers, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast because it uses full words as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops, and generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Featureful CLI-like GTK+ application launcher This is gmrun; a small fast, yet featureful application launcher for use under X11, which uses GTK+ widget toolkit. Some features include tab- completion of file names and programs, history, easy x-terminal-emulator launching, and URL handling. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Generic Mapping Tools GMT is a free, public-domain collection of ~60 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views in black and white, gray tone, hachure patterns, and 24-bit color. GMT supports 25 common map projections plus linear, log, and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Low resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools This package contains the crude, low and intermediate resolution coastlines contained in the GMT distribution which will be enough to get you started. Originally there were two more coastline packages (gmt-coast-high and -full) but they were to big for our servers and pulled from the distribution. Read /usr/share/doc/gmt/README.coastlines to learn were to get coastline data on the net. Otherwise you will not be able to create high quality maps with gmt. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gnome client for Napster GNOME/GTK based client for Napster From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GTK client for the Napster online mp3 community (GNOME version) Gnapster is a powerful client for the Napster online mp3 community. Currently, Gnapster supports all major features of the protocol including many opennap extensions to the protocol. This version of the client uses GNOME features and requires it to run. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GTK client for the Napster online mp3 community (GTK version) Gnapster is a powerful client for the Napster online mp3 community. Currently, Gnapster supports all major features of the protocol including many opennap extensions to the protocol. This version of the client uses only GTK, not GNOME. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The GNU Ada 95 compiler GNAT is a full Ada 95 compiler, which implements the whole Ada language. GNAT is actively maintained by Ada Core Technology (http://www.gnat.com/). This package contains the compiler, as well as the needed unstripped libraries so that debugging is possible. If you install this package, you do not need to install the `libgnat-3.14p-1' package as the latter contains only a version of the libraries unsuitable for debugging. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The GNU problem report management system (central database) GNATS is a bug-tracking tool designed for use at a central "Support Site". Users who experience problems use electronic mail to communicate these problems to "maintainers" at that Support Site. GNATS offers many of the same features offered by more generalized databases, including editing, querying, and basic reporting. You can access the submitting, editing, and querying functions of GNATS through provided utilities or from within GNU Emacs. The "gnats" package has the full installation for the central database server. For client systems, use the "gnats-user" package which has just the user tools. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats From Debian 3.0r0 APT
a scrolling news ticker applet designed for GNOME Supports the following news sites: debianplanet.net freshmeat.net slashdot.org mozilla.org bsdtoday and more. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A program that tries to learn a human language. gNiall attempts to learn whatever language you try to teach it. It is basically a dissociator: it collects statistics on sentences you type and tries to construct meaningful replies. gNiall is inspired by Niall, an Amiga program by Matthew Peck. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Bookmarks Organizer Gnobog (GNOME Bookmarks Organizer) is a program that lets you manage your favorite Internet sites' addresses. For more information visit the gnobog web site at http://gnobog.sourceforge.net/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gnocatan server - a game for Gnome Gnocatan is an emulation of the Settlers of Catan board game which can be played over the internet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME financial manager Gnofin is a light-weight financial management program well-suited for helping you keep your checkbook and savings accounts up-to-date. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A GTK+ based wave file editor GNoise is a wave file editor that uses a display cache and a double- buffered display for maximum speed with large files. It supports common editing functions such as cut, copy, paste, fade in/out, reverse, interpolate, normalize and more with unlimited undo. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Datasuite for Nokia mobile phones (console & X) Gnokii is a suite of programs linked against a backend library that allows communication with Nokia phones. It currently supports the 5110/6110 series, 3110/3810/8110 series and others. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Samba browser Gnomba is a GUI machine and share browser for the SMB protocol. Gnomba allows you to scan any number of subnets for machines with SMB. The workgroups, machines and share are shown in a tree-view. For each machine you can then view the list of shares, and mount, unmount or browse them. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
The Gnome about box. From whatis
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME (like KDE) is based completely on Open Source software. The gnome-applets package provides Panel applets which enhance your GNOME experience. You should install the gnome-applets package if you would like to abuse the GNOME desktop environment by embedding small utilities in the GNOME panel. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Various applets for GNOME panel another_clock: Simple analog clock. asclock: The AfterStep Clock applet. clockmail: Clock and Mailcheck applet. jbc: Jon's Binary Clock applet. battery: Show battery charge. cpumemusage: Show CPU, memory and swap usage. diskusage: Show disk usage. cpuload: Show CPU usage. memload: Show memory usage. swapload: Show swap usage. netload: Show load on different network interfaces. loadavg: Show load average. charpick: Allows you to easily write many characters which are not available on standard keyboards, drivemount: Allows you to quickly and easily mount and unmount various types of drives and filesystems on your computer. gkb: Allows you to easily and quickly change the keyboard map to those used in various different countries. mini-commander: Adds a command line to your Panel. quicklaunch: An applet which holds application launchers. tickastat: Watches various aspects of your system and delivers information when certain events occur. whereami: Shows the position of your mouse pointer on the screen. gweather: Retrieves from the Internet and displays various weather information. screenshooter: A handy little screen grabber (Need imagemagick). gnotes: Allows you to cover your GNOME desktop with little, yellow, virtual sticky-notes. webcontrol: allows you to launch your Netscape browser with the URL you indicate in the URL text box. slash: Show last news from slashdot.org modemlights: Monitor your modem while it is working. fifteen: Is a version of the old game of moving squares around a grid to put them into numerical order. geyes: Is a pair of eyes which follow your mouse pointer around the screen. life: An applet which runs "the game of life" according to Conway's rules. odometer: Tracks and measures the movements of your mouse pointer across the desktop. cdplayer: Play CDs from a panel. mixer: Interface for controlling the sound volume and launching the Audio Mixer. sound-monitor: A sound volume display and an interface for controlling ESD. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gnome front-end to apt Gnome-apt is a graphical package management program for Debian. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gnome. Gnome-apt allows you to easily upgrade your Debian system, as well as install/uninstall packages using any of the methods that apt supports (http, ftp*, file). From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Chess This is gnome-chess, a graphical user interface for playing chess. It works with chess programs and chess servers - it is also a PGN viewer. For chess programs, it works best with the chess engine crafty (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt) but most features should also work with GNU Chess (ftp://ftp.gnu.org). You can use the "first chess program" option to choose the computer engine you want to play against. E.g. try "gnome-chess --fcp crafty" or "gnome-chess --fcp gnuchessx" From Debian 3.0r0 APT
File mangager for GNOME GNOME Commander is a file mangager aimed at people that wants an efficent and fast file manager. The program can currently perform most common file operations such as copy, move, delete, chown and chmod and so on. It can also detect changes to files caused by other programs and update the views without the need for the user to manually reload. The program also supports Copy&Paste as well as Drag&Drop. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME Control-center is a configuration tool for easily setting up your GNOME environment. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name, but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It's a powerful, easy to configure environment which helps to make your computer easy to use. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
The Gnome Control Center Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains utilities to configure your desktop background, screen saver, keyboard and mouse properties. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Tool for gnome-help-browser From whatis
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on free software. The gnome-core package includes the basic programs and libraries that are needed to install GNOME. GNOME Desktop provides the core icons and libraries for the gnome desktop. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Tools, stylesheets and DTDs for GNOME. This package provides tools, stylesheets and DTDs for use by the GNOME Documentation Project. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Tool for gnome-help-browser From whatis
Dump the metadata database. From whatis
Gnome editor From whatis
GNOME executable Mime type Handler. From whatis
Graphical Version of the GNU find utility Gnome-find really is a graphical version of the GNU find utility. It is not just a front-end which just forks and execs "find", nor is it a utility that reinvents the wheel by rewriting the "find" utility itself. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Fontmap file generator for gnome-print From whatis
The gnome-games package includes games for the GNOME GUI desktopenvironment, including GnomeScott, ctali, freecell, gataxx, glines, gnibbles, gnobots2, gnome-stones, gnomine, gnotravex, gtali, gturing,iagno, mahjongg, same-gnome, and sol. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
This is a GNOME port of the old game ataxx. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Build the extension database for mime-magic. From whatis
This is a version of the color lines program Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This is GNOME's version of the color lines program, aka fiveormore. The program is fully GPL-ed. It's written by Robert Szokovacs <szo@appaloosacorp.hu> in gtk, I added gnome support... Shooby Ban From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A cute little game that has no description Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Second Gnome version of robots game for BSD games collection Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Gnome Robots 2 is a version of the text based robots game which can be found on a number of UNIX systems, and comes with the BSD games package on Linux systems. This version allows you to select a number of animated graphics scenarios, as well as providing a safe teleport feature so you are not totally at the mercy of your computer's random number generator. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A tetris clone. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Classic find the mines in the minefield game (from Gnome) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Classic find the mines in the minefield game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
A game based on Tetravex. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. The goal of the game is to place all squares so that the numbers on their sides match. It is impossible to place a square beside another square without the numbers matching. When all squares are placed, the game is won, and over. It's possible to choose different sizes on the board from 2x2 to 6x6. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Derivative game from Klotski. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Gnome Klotski is a small game for GNOME. The idea is originally from a game called "Klotski". From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Gnome version of Yahtzee Dice Game Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Yahtzee dice game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME PostScript/PDF viewer ggv is a graphical frontend to ghostscript which allows you to view postscript and pdf documents, and print ranges of pages. It is very comfortable due to many zoom and an anti-aliasing option and following the GNOME look and feel. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME help browser Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains the Gnome help browser application. Based on the gtk-xmhtml widget, it allows you to view documentation in the form of HTML, man pages, or GNU info pages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
manual page for Gnome GnomeHelp 1.2.3 From whatis
show hint at Gnome startup. From whatis
Startup hint properties for Gnome From whatis
Gnome version of Othello (Reversi) board game Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Classic Othello (Reversi) board game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME-Iconedit is a simple icon editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It is not as powerful as the wonderful GIMP, but has enough features to create simple icons or cursors. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
UNIX Info Page to HTML translator From whatis
Short introduction to Gnome This guide gives you a short introduction to Gnome. It is not intended to cover all details of Gnome. If you need more information, you should install the gnome-users-guide-en package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Tool for gnome-session From whatis
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-libs package includes libraries that are needed to run GNOME. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Data for Gnome libraries Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains shared data used by the Gnome libraries, such as i18n messages and pixmaps. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a windowmanager for the X Window System. The gnome-linuxconf package includes GNOME's front end for the linuxconf system configuration utility. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Tool for gnome-session From whatis
basic interactive firewall configuration tool (GNOME interface) The gnome-lokkit package contains a utility which attempts to provide firewalling for the average Linux end user. Instead of having to configure firewall rules, gnome-lokkit asks a small number of simple questions and writes a firewall rule set for you. Gnome-lokkit is not designed to configure arbitary firewalls. To make it simple to understand, it is solely designed to handle typical dialup user and cable modem setups. It will not provide a complex firewall configuration, and it is not the equal of an expert firewall designer. Home Page: http://www.linux.org.uk/apps/lokkit.shtml From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Classic Chinese Tile Game (from Gnome) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Classic Chinese Tile Game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
UNIX Man Page to HTML translator From whatis
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of GUI applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The gnome-media package will install media features like the GNOME CD player. Install gnome-media if you want to use GNOME's multimedia capabilities. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly setof applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction witha window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME (as KDE) is based completely on Open Source software. GNOME's powerful environment is pleasing on the eye, easy to configure and use. This package will install such media features as the GNOME CD player. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM
Gnome Media Utilities (gmix, gtcd) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains: gmix - a mixer gtcd - a cd player vumeter - watch sound output grecord - record sounds From Debian 3.0r0 APT
base MIME and Application database for GNOME. This module contains the base MIME and Application database for GNOME. It is meant to be accessed through the MIME functions in GnomeVFS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
gnome-mime-data provides the file type recognition data files for gnome-vfs. From Redhat 8.0 RPM
Documentation tool for GNOME From whatis
remote control of Mozilla. From whatis
A simple MUD Client for X and GTK+ GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client for X. It supports aliases, triggers, variables, key bindings, colour settings, multiple connections, command queuing and also features a connection wizard and a mapper utility. There's a plugin interface too, which can be used to add your own features (for example, a graphical health monitor). It uses the GNOME libraries, but it can be used with any window manager. GNOME-Mud is the successor of AMCL, a simple, GTK+-based MUD client. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Orbit name service From whatis
The gnome network utilities. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains a ppp thingy, a mail thingy, a talk thingy and a sync thingy. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Launch and/or dock Gnome applications Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains a toolbar (the "panel") that you can attach to the edge of your X desktop. You can install "applets" on it. Several applets are supplied: an application menu, a clock, a mail checker, a network monitor, etc. You can customize the location, and the "autohide" animations. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
add a launched in the Gnome panel. From whatis
Data files for GNOME panel Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains data files (pixmaps etc.) for the panel that is not architecture-dependent. From Debian 3.0r0 APT
Configure your Gnome panel. From whatis
A GNOME applet for management of your Palm PDA gnome-pilot is a GNOME applet with a daemon that monitors for pilot connections from a serial port, XCopilot, etc. It features a conduit system and includes basic conduits for backing up, email, memos, etc. More co