Woven Goods for Linux - Distribution
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  This is Release 2.1 of Woven Goods for Linux. It is a collection of World-Wide Web (WWW) Applications and Hypertext-based Information about Linux It is ready configured for the Slackware Distribution and currently tested with Version 3.5 (ELF).

The Collection consists of five Parts, so it can be used for multiple purposes depending on the installed Parts: 

  1. User-friendly browsing of locally available Linux Documentation even if you are not connected to the Internet.
  2. Accessing world-wide available Linux Documentation, WWW and FTP Servers, Linux Newsgroups and more. This is only possible if you are connected to the Internet.
  3. Providing Linux Information via your own WWW Server. Again this is only possible if you are connected to the Internet.
The five Parts of Woven Goods for Linux are: 
Part 1 - World-wide Web Browser
The World-wide Web Browser from Netscape Navigator for X11 and Lynx for ASCII terminals.
Part 2 - Linux Documents
The Linux Documents contain the HTML Pages of Woven Goods for Linux, FAQs, HOWTOs, LDP Documents and more in different formats like Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Plain Text, PDF and PostScript.
Part 3 - World-wide Web Server
The Apache World-wide Web Server with additional CGI Scripts for Statistics, viewing MAN Pages and Counters, Glimpse Search Engine and the Documentation for Apache Server. Furthermore the Apache Module PHP/FI is included.
Part 4 - Hypertext Markup Language
The HTML-Editor asWedit allows the creation of HTML-Pages.
Some Graphic Tools allow the creation and modification of GIFs.
Part 5 - Plug-ins and External Viewers
The external Viewers are nessesary to present Information which can not be viewed by the WWW Browsers. Only the usefull Viewers (Xanim, Acrobat Reader, Illustrated Audio, RealPlayer, MpegTV, MikMod, TiMidity, Xaudio, VRweb, Tcl Plugin, Plugger, ImageMagick, PDF Reader, etc.) are included which are not part of the Slackware Distribution (xv, ghostview, showaudio).
   
 
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  Woven Goods for Linux is available via anonymous FTP from:

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/woven

and the following Mirror Sites: 

ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/mirrors/misc/woven
ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk/pub/linux/woven
ftp://tsikora.tiac.net/pub/woven
ftp://linux.cis.nctu.edu.tw/pub/packages/woven

Note: I cannot guarantee for the topicallity of these sites! 

This Announcement is available via anonymous FTP and WWW: 

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/woven/README.announce
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/announce.html

   
 
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  For Installation Instructions see the Installation Guide

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/Linux/woven/README.install or
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux/install.html

   
 
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  The HTML Pages of Woven Goods for Linux are snap shots of the Linux Pages at 

FOKUS - Research Institute of Open Communication Systems

available from: 

http://www.fokus.gmd.de/linux

There exist Mirror Sites providing the Woven Goods for Linux Pages via WWW in: 

Europe 

http://luke.rz.uni-konstanz.de/woven/ - University of Konstanz, Germany
http://www.epi.mh-hannover.de/woven/ - Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
http://robo.fe.uni-lj.si/woven/ - University of Ljubljana, Republic of Slovenia
http://www.imm.upna.es/informatica/woven/ - Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain

North America 

http://www.realmagiclinux.com/woven/ - Real Magic Linux, Arlington, VA, USA
http://tsikora.tiac.net/linux2.html - The Power-Users BBS, USA
http://linux20.tamu.edu/ - Texas A&M University, TX, USA
http://limestone.uoregon.edu/woven/ - University of Oregon, OR, USA

Asia 

http://linux.cis.nctu.edu.tw/docs/woven/ - National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
http://www.cs.iitm.ernet.in/woven/linux.html - Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Note: I cannot guarantee for the topicallity of these sites! 

Please send your suggestions for corrections or enhancements by e-Mail to lutz.henckel@fokus.gmd.de.

 
 
Lutz Henckel
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