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Chats

  • BNC - an irc proxy daemon 
  • CCFchat - a text-based low bandwidth chat tool that shows messages in the same order on all displays 
  • cIRCus - an IRC client for Linux/X11 
  • eIRC - IRC client motif under Linux 
  • EPIC - an Enhanced Programmable ircII Client 
  • FAIM - an open source client for America Online's Instant Messenger service 
  • gicq - a GTK-based ICQ clone 
  • GTK-ICQ - a GTK-based ICQ clone 
  • IRC - Internet Relay Chat - German Web Pages 
  • IRCIT - a non-trivial, full-featured, text-mode, macro-extensible modern IRC client
  • JavaChat - a java internet chat server 
  • keirc - anothEr IRC client for KDE 
  • kicq - an KDE/Qt based clone which very closely resembles Mirabilis ICQ
  • kIRC - an IRC using the KDE libraries 
  • KSirc - a script-able X IRC client 
  • ktalk - a graphical talk client for the K Desktop Environment (KDE)
  • Licq - an ICQ clone written fully in c++ using the Qt widget set 
  • MELANGE chatserver - an easy way to set up your own chat server with a Java-based client 
  • Micq - a text-based ICQ clone 
  • mUH - a smart IRC-bouncing-tool that remains on IRC all the time 
  • Naken Chat - a chat server written in C 
  • pircd - an IRC daemon written in Perl 
  • QtIRC - an IRC client based on Qt 
  • sirc - an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for Unix programmed and programmable in perl 
  • SJChat - a Simple Java Chat system for WWW pages 
  • SmIrc - an X11R6/Motif 2.1 IRC client 
  • sula - a multiple server chat client that runs under X 
  • TiK - an AOL Instant Messenger Tcl/Tk 8.0 Client 
  • X-Chat - an IRC Client based on the GTK+ toolkit 
  • Xicq - a KDE and text-based ICQ clone 
  • xIrc - an X11 Irc client written in C++ using the QT GUI class library 
  • yagIRC - Yet Another GTK+ IRC Client 
  • zICQ - an ncurses-based ICQ clone 
  • Zircon - an X11 Client for IRC 

Client/Server

  • asp - finds the ip address of a host connected to Internet knowing the host name 
  • BANAL - a distributed bookkeeping system that allows you to create and track invoices, clients, projects, TODOs, bank accounts and expenses
  • BIND - the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon, an implementation of DNS 
  • Bootpc - a boot protocol client 
  • Castanet - a system to distribute up-to-date self-installing software and data across companies and continents under Linux 
  • CCVS - a Credit Card Verification System 
  • chrony - a Network Time Protocol (RFC1305) client and server 
  • CombiFAX - Client/Server based FAX System 
  • Condor - a software system that runs on a cluster of workstations to harness wasted CPU cycles
  • CyberScheduler for Linux - a workgroup calendaring solution for deployment on a Linux web server 
  • Datbkr - a simple program to handle dat tape backup's both locally and over a ssh link to a dat server 
  • dictd - a client/server software implementing the Dictionary Server Protocol 
  • distpov - a program to allow you to distribute the rendering of POV-Ray scenes across many machines 
  • Dive - an experimental platform for the development of virtual environments, user interfaces and applications based on shared 3D synthetic environments. 
  • drealmBBS - a multi-user BBS system 
  • EntireX DCOM - DCOM for Linux 
  • ESEMfax - a fax frontend for ms-windoze(3.11/95/nt) to send a fax to a linux-box where it gets handled via sendfax 
  • EtherPage - a client/server based product for delivering messages from computers to wireless messaging services such as alphanumeric and numeric pagers
  • Faxit - a fax frontend for mgetty+sendfax 
  • GDB Kernel Stubs Patch - a kernel patch and utility program to allow one Linux system to run GDB remotely on the kernel of a second Linux system
  • Getdate - a utility that queries an RFC 868 time server and adjusts or sets the local date and time 
  • GFax - Front End Fax Software For Linux 
  • GHX - GTK Hotline for X is a clone of a mac software (AFAIK) gathering in one program FTP, IRC and NEWS like functions using a proprietary protocol 
  • GroupLens - an Open Architecture for Collaborative Filtering 
  • HotWire EasyFAX - an easy to use and yet full-featured UNIX Fax program 
  • HTX - a clone of a mac software (AFAIK) gathering in one program FTP, IRC and NEWS like functions using a proprietary protocol 
  • HylaFAX - a facsimile software system 
  • I-NET Ticker Tape - a client/server software system consisting of I-NET Ticker Tape servers which provide information to remote clients on request 
  • Interswitch Link (ISL) - is used to inter-connect two VLAN capable ethernet switches using the Ethernet media 
  • IntraStore Server 98 - provides a comprehensive integration of web, messaging, and directory services
  • Kermit - comm software for file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming 
  • KiT - Keep in Touch is a program that let's you see people that are online, send messages to them and do lots of other things 
  • ktalkd - an X11/KDE-aware talk daemon with answering machine 
  • K VNC Viewer - a KDE GUI for VNC which allows to view a remote computing desktop environment 
  • Latch - a Low Cost Secure Remote Access Program for Linux 
  • LDAP-NDS - an implementation of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol/Network Directory Service 
  • Linux-SNA - an IBM SNA server for Linux 
  • LinPopUp - an X11 port of Winpopup, running over Samba which permits to communicate with a windows computer that runs Winpopup, sending or receiving message. 
  • LLNL XDIR - a Network-Oriented File Manager 
  • Lore - a Linux OMEN (Off-line Message Environment) Reader 
  • LX tools - to access files on your HP100LX or HP200LX palmtop computer via a serial line 
  • MARS-NWE - NetWare 3.x Server 
  • Message Daemon - a daemon that waits on a port and sends a message to anyone who connects 
  • Mgetty + Sendfax - make optimum use of your faxmodem in a unix environment 
  • midentd - an identd replacement with masquerading support 
  • Modem - a distributed communication package for modems 
  • modemd - a simple remote modem service for TCP/IP 
  • MQSeries Client Library for Linux - an API Client Library for IBM's transaction processing/messaging product family (MQSeries)
  • NCPFS - NetWare Bindery Client 
  • NetCharge - an electronic commerce solution for companies that wish to process credit cards electronically 
  • NetWare for Linux - NetWare file, print and directory services running native on Linux
  • Nevermind Who - a GUI for the linux/unix utility rwho 
  • NIS(YP) Server for Linux - the Network Information Service (NIS) provides a simple network lookup service consisting of databases and processes 
  • NIS+ for Linux 
  • NQS - Network Queueing System for Linux/ELF 
  • NSBD - Not-So-Bad Distribution, is an open WWW-based authenticating software distribution system 
  • oidentd - an ident (rfc1413) daemon for Linux
  • OpenLDAP - an open source suite of LDAP applications and development tools 
  • perlradius - a drop-in replacement for the livingston radiusd plus a few bits 
  • PowerRPC - a RPC development tool 
  • psearch - a search-prog for files located in ftp/pub at localhost and with psearchd also at remote hosts 
  • Queue - a load-balancing system for UNIX that allows intuitive control of remote executing jobs through job control by the local shell 
  • Radiator - a highly flexible, configurable and extensible Radius server 
  • ReCap - a clinet/server-based system to share a copy-buffer between two computers
  • Remote Reboot - uses an network connection to reboot a machine remotely 
  • rexec - remote execution client for an exec server 
  • rinetd - an internet redirection server which redirects TCP connections from one IP address and port to another 
  • RIPmaster - an Online System Development and Design system for creating sophisticated online graphical services 
  • rjobs - Remote Periodic Job Agent/Daemon 
  • RSF-1 - a Resilient Server Facility which provides backup and failover capabilities to pairs of servers, allowing each to take over and restart its sibling's applications following a failure 
  • sendfile - an asynchronous file transfer service for the Internet, like the sendfile facility in Bitnet 
  • Silent Messenger - a paging gateway and messaging groupware system 
  • sidentd - a perl implementation of the Identification Protocol as specified in RFC 1413 
  • SMBFS - Windows or LAN Manager Client 
  • SMS Client - a client implementation for the Cellnet GSM Short Message Service centre using TAP 
  • snarf - a command line resource grabber to transfer files through the http, gopher, finger, and ftp protocols without user interaction 
  • SNIPIX - allows to run SNA LU6.2 client/server applications across an IP network 
  • SOCKS - establishes a secure proxy data channel between two computers in a client/server environment 
  • Spatch - LINUX users can send text messages to alphanumeric pagers from a user, an application, an operating system, or an E-Mail system. 
  • SVMlib - a Shared Virtual Memory Library for clustered PC's 
  • Synchronize - a distributed real-time calendaring and scheduling application 
  • TCFS - a Transparent Cryptographic File System 
  • TermPkg - a package to build a terminal server using a Unix server and 1 or more serial ports 
  • The Board - a BBS package for linux 
  • Tkchooser - a Macintosh Chooser-like network browser utility that supports multiple protocols (appletalk, smb) 
  • TkScan/TkFax - a tcl/tk GUI for command-line scanner driver and for sending and receiving faxes with mgetty+sendfax 
  • tn5250 - a curses based 5250 emulator 
  • vbox - a voice message box written for isdn4linux
  • Virtual Domain Hosting for ftp sites (modified wu-ftpd) 
  • VNC - Virtual Network Computing - a display system which allows to view a remote computing desktop environment 
  • VPS - the Virtual Private Server, is a linux-based VPN solution for connecting disparate networks securely over the internet 
  • Worldgroup for UNIX - introducing a new generation of online services 
  • x3270 - an IBM 3270 terminal emulator for X windows 
  • xfloppy - is used to access a remote floppy disk drive 
  • Xwhois - a small and fast X client for the whois network service 
  • ZanNet - provides a Windows 95 network drive to access your server files on a Unix System 
  • Zombie - a simple C++-class to communicate over the network with other clients using the same client-class 

Cooperative Work

  • BSCW - Basic Support for Cooperative Work 
  • CCF - Collaborative Computing Frameworks is a suite of software systems, communications protocols, and tools that enable collaborative, computer-based cooperative work 
  • Lusenet98 - a database backed Web threaded discussion system 
  • TeamWave Workplace - provides an Internet forum where teams coordinate, collaborate and share information 
  • Rendezvous - a real-time Collaboration software that integrates whiteboard and text-based communications 
  • RR|Himalaya - Groupware for Intranet and Internet 
  • Shared Calendars - Web-Based Group Scheduling 
  • TEAMate Web Applications 
  • WrapBit - a Distributed Groupware
  • WWWThreads - a Discussion forum that supports multiple boards, user registration, built-in search engine, forum archiving, automated email replies and a complete web based administration package 

E-Commerce

  • Commerce.cgi - a free shopping cart program 
  • MiniVend - a freely redistributable shopping cart package 
  • ShopSite - an online store creation system that allows merchants to build and maintain catalogs of products to sell on the Internet 

E-Mail

  • AMaViS - a Mail Virus Scanner 
  • Arrow - a powerful, easy to use e-mail program for X
  • Balsa - the official GNOME mail client supporting local mailboxes, POP3 and IMAP connections 
  • BlackMail - a configurable SMTP mail filter that runs at a system level as a proxy to your existing mailer 
  • check_local - an extended spam filter for sendmail 
  • despam - a Tool for filtering out E-Mail Spam 
  • DMail Server - an Internet / Intranet email solution including Mail, POP3 and List servers 
  • Elm - Electronic Mail for UNIX 
  • email2SMS - a simple utility to automatically collect email and forward some details to a mobile phone via SMS 
  • Exmh - an X user interface for MH mail 
  • FaxMail - a utility to assist in preparing and sending faxes via the internet's Email-Fax gateway 
  • fetchmail - a full-featured, robust and very configurable POP2/POP3/RPOP/APOP/IMAP/ESMTP ETRN mail forwarder 
  • getpop3 - a POP3 client for Linux 
  • glbiff - an OpenGL-based mailbox monitor
  • GNUS - a Usenet Newsreader and Electronic Mail User Agent implemented as a part of Emacs
  • grepmail - Searches a normal or gzip'ed mailbox for a given regular expression, and returns those emails that match it 
  • HT-MIME - enhancement for the rmail mode of Emacs 
  • ifmail - Fidonet to Internet mail and news gateway program 
  • ifmail-tx - Fidonet to Internet mail and news gateway program with tx patches 
  • ishmail - Multi-media Internet Mail 
  • JM_MailTool - a Motif Mail Tool
  • KNewMail - a small utility for KDE that will check your email at preset intervals
  • Listar - a from-scratch implementation of a mailing list management software 
  • M - a powerful and scriptable mail/news client 
  • mailBot - a mailing lists filter 
  • Mailcrypt - an Emacs interface to PGP which allows seamless integration of cryptography and internet usage 
  • Majordomo - a mailing list management tool 
  • Magnum - sends you mail about user who fingered you 
  • map-regex - using regular expressions in sendmail.cf (e.g. to filter spam) 
  • March - a mail achiving program with a WWW based user interface 
  • MH - Message Handler, an electronic mail user agent 
  • ML - a mail program for X and IMAP 
  • MultiMail - an offline mail packet reader for Unix systems 
  • MUMail - a Java applet designed to let you read your mail from your home page
  • Mutt - a small but very powerful curses-based mail client 
  • mxMail - an X/Motif mail-tool 
  • nmh - new MH is a powerful electronic mail handling system 
  • Pandora - a Majordomo mailing list manager with a WWW Interface 
  • pgp4pine - a PGP shell for Pine 
  • Pine - a Program for Internet News & Email 
  • Privtool - a PGP-aware replacement for the standard Sun Workstation mailtool program 
  • Poppy - a Perl script to read/save/delete messages from a POP3 server 
  • premail - a program for transparent encryption of email 
  • Procmail - to automatically process mail as you receive it or after it is already in a message folder 
  • qmail - a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent 
  • QPopper - a POP3 server of QUALCOMM 
  • Read-Index - a plug-in extension to Majordomo written in Perl 
  • sandmail - a user mail agent being written for the XFree86 with the GTK+ widget set 
  • Sendmail - UNIX e-mail agent 
  • SOMA - a Mailreader for Linux under X11 
  • spamcan - a sendmail patch to capture spam by regular expression 
  • TkMail - an X Window Mail Reader using TCL/TK 
  • TkRat - a powerful and easy to use Mail User Agent 
  • Truc - scripts to transfer big files or directories through e-mail 
  • Ultimate Mail Tool - an X Window e-mail reader providing Rich Text message editing and viewing 
  • UW IMAP Server - an IMAP source distribution including the IMAP4rev1 server, as well as a POP server 
  • wmmail - an xbiff-like applet for WindowMaker 
  • WWW / E-mail Gateway - lets users create forms on their web pages that results in clearly formatted e-mail messages 
  • XCmail - a MIME and POP3 capable mailtool for X11 using the Xclasses layout library 
  • XFMail - X-Forms based mail application for Unix operating systems 
  • XLassie - a replacement for the standard X mail notification tool, XBiff 
  • speaking xmailbox - an xmailbox which can speak From and Subject fields 

File Transfer

  • ECLiPt Mirror - a nifty little program to mirror ftp and web-sites 
  • FTP Daemon - of Troll Tech 
  • LLNL XFTP - an X Window FTP Client 
  • Mirror - a tool designed to duplicate a directory hierarchy between two machines 
  • Mirrordir - an utility for copying and mirroring directories and files locally or over ftp 
  • mxFtp - an X/Motif FTP interface 
  • NcFTP - a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client 
  • NcFTPd - a high-performance File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for UNIX systems, designed especially for high-traffic sites 
  • NFTP - a powerful interactive textmode ftp client for OS/2, Windows 95/NT, Linux, FreeBSD, SPARC Solaris, BeOS Intel 
  • ProFTPD - an FTP daemon for unix and unix-like operating systems 
  • rpmwatcher - a Python script to monitor remote web pages and FTP directories, watching for new RPMs and downloading them when needed
  • rsync - a file transfer program for Unix systems. rsync uses the "rsync algorithm" which provides a very fast method for bringing remote files into sync 
  • sFTP - a curses-based FTP client 
  • sidecopy - a program for copying locally stored websites to remote ftp servers 
  • SimpleMirror - a simple ftp mirroring utility
  • Sprocket - a graphical FTP client for X 
  • SRP FTP - secure FTP application using Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol 
  • wu-ftpd - FTP Daemon of Washington University 
  • WXftp - a GUI FTP client for X Window System
  • xmftp - a simple X/Motif FTP client 
  • yafc - yet another ftp client is a command line interface to the FTP protocol, used to transfer files between computers

Multimedia and Conferencing

  • CCFaudio - a multi-party internet audio conferencing application for Solaris/sparc, SGI, and Linux/Intel 
  • Confman - a conference management tool for online conferences over the Internet 
  • CyberPhone - The Internet Telephone 
  • Cyber Radio 1 - a live Internet audio broadcast system 
  • ERIKYYYPHONE - an audio internet conferencing software 
  • Ethernet Phone - allows real time point-to-point voice communications over the Internet 
  • Free Phone - an audio tool to transmit High Quality Audio over the Internet supporting multiple concurrent unicast and multicast conversations 
  • gp - Poetic Generator creates a virtual picture by a large set of people on the internet over Mbone 
  • IVS - Inria Videoconferencing System for Mbone 
  • LINUXFONO - an XForms speakerphone 
  • Linux Phone Project - Digital voice using 4,800 bps modems... 
  • mrouted - an application that runs on Unix workstations and allows them to route IP multicast traffic to and from locally connected LANs onto the Mbone 
  • Multicast and Mbone on Linux 
  • MVoD - Mbone Video Conference Recording on Demand 
  • Netaudio - provides a standard way of sending and receiving a stream of audio between two machines using an IP connection 
  • NetShow - plays live and on-demand audio and video 
  • NetText - a shared text editor designed for use on the Mbone 
  • NetStreamer - a audio streaming application to be used over 24+ kbit/s networks, like LAN's and ISDN 
  • PerlMUD - a MultiUser Dimension (MUD), a text-based environment that allows multiple users to converse, explore, and interact 
  • Pileup - a morse code program which generates callsigns using a specified number of the SoundBlaster's voices 
  • rat - Robust Audio Conferencing Tool over Mbone 
  • Q-SeeMe - a videoconferencing client that speaks the protocol used by Windows and Macintosh CU-SeeMe clients 
  • RealPlayer - plays live and on-demand audio, video and streaming animations in real time 
  • rplay - a flexible network audio system that allows sounds to be played to and from local and remote Unix systems 
  • Rush - a Netscape plugin for ultraefficient encoding of graphics for use on the World Wide Web 
  • sdr - Session Directory: An Mbone Conference Scheduling and Booking System 
  • Speaker - a speakerphone application for voice modems 
  • StreamWorks - Xing's Live and On-Demand Audio/Video Server 
  • vat - a Audio Conferencing Tool for Mbone 
  • vic - a Video Conferencing Tool for Mbone 
  • Washington Photo Server - an internet-ready, multi-threaded photo-server which operates in conjunction with the Kodak DC200 or DC210 Digital Cameras and a web browser 
  • wb - a shared Whiteboard Tool for Mbone 
  • Ztalk - TCP/IP Voice Communication 

Network Administration, Management and Monitoring

  • Big Brother - a Web-based Unix Network Monitoring and Notification System 
  • calamaris - a Squid Native Logfile Analyzer 
  • cfengine - a high level language for simplifying the task of administrating and configuring large numbers of workstations 
  • connect - a client-server program designed to ease the sharing of a PPP link to the internet over a small network 
  • dennis - an automated DNS builder
  • Diald - giving you complete automated control over your SLIP or PPP links 
  • DialMon - a monitor daemon for diald which allows clients on remote machines to display the current status of diald 
  • DNi - a graphical user interface for configuring the firewall rules, being a front-end to ipfwadm 
  • Dpad - an X-windows tool for monitoring and starting/stopping daemon processes like httpd, sshd, pppd, etc. 
  • EtherBoot - a package for booting x86 PCs over a network
  • Ethereal - a network protocol analyzer for Unix 
  • euracom - a logging tool for incoming charge advises from a PBX-device (AKA german "Telephon-Anlage") 
  • EzPPP - a GUI PPP configuration utility 
  • Fidogate - a Fido-Internet gateway and a Fido tosser 
  • freefire - Support for Developers of Free Security Solutions
  • ftpcheck - scans hosts and networks for FTP and anonymous FTP archives
  • g_ncp - a GTK frontend which helps mounting and unmounting with ncpmount and ncpumount (Novell Server)
    • GxSNMP - a GPL based full featured network management application for the GNOME project
  • HummingBird - a distributed component for any Intrusion Detection System
  • IPAC - an ip accounting package
  • IPacct - a program to do per user ip accounting 
  • ipchains - Linux IP Firewalling Chains is an update to the normal Linux Firewalling code, for 2.0 and 2.1 kernels 
  • ip_count - a tool to analyze the output of nacctd or other ip-accounting daemons 
  • ipfwadm - a utility to administer the IP accounting and IP firewall services 
  • IPTraf - a network monitor and statistics generator for IP LANs
  • irqtune - a Linux x86 IRQ Priority Optimizer 
  • IsinGlass - a firewall setup script designed to protect dial-up users 
  • ispcost - a program that keeps track of your on-line time and costs 
  • kISDN - a GUI tool to setup ISDN
  • KPPPLoad - displays current transmit and receive rate of PPP links 
  • KSniff - a network packetsniffer for KDE 
  • LNET-Config - a Configuration utility for the G7LED-LNET amateur packet radio TCP/IP program 
  • Logtime - Tracks ISP connection time/cost on Windows 95/98, Windows 3.1 and Linux 
  • MacGate - an IP to LocalTalk gateway 
  • masqdialer - provides easily accessible control of multiple dialout modem connections to the members of a LAN using IP Masquerade 
  • MASQ/MASQD - a management utility for a Linux Firewall 
  • mklinuxfw - a GUI interface to generate the configuration files for any firewall product 
  • momond - a program that logs the activity of your modem line 
  • mtr - combines the functionaly of the 'traceroute' and 'ping' programs in a single network diagnostic tool 
  • Nessus - a free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool 
  • Netcat - a utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol 
  • netenv - a configuration ultility for using a laptop in different network environments 
  • net-tools und net-drivers - eine Programmsammlung zur Netzsteuerung 
  • NewPass - a simple utility which allows your users to change their Unix Passwords easily from MS-Windows. 
  • NT95 Script - allows TCP services (e.g. ftp, pop) to be authenticated via an NT server 
  • ntop - a interactive or web-based Unix tool that shows the network usage 
  • pam_smb - a PAM module which allows authentication of users using an NT server 
  • PIKT - Problem Informant/Killer Tool is a facility for administering heterogeneous networked workstations 
  • pppcosts - a utility that calculates, displays and saves online time and phone costs for ppp connections 
  • Qial - a DTMF generation program meant to dial phones 
  • QtDragon - a Qt-based configuration utility for Hagenuk's DataBox Speed Dragon
  • REGULUS - a real-time accounting, billing, monitoring software package designed specifically for the ISP's 
  • relaycheck - scans the network for SMTP hosts that permit "relaying" of email
  • ringconnect - make modem dial after getting rings 
  • RMONX - a Web based system for network management 
  • rtpmon - a tool for monitoring and displaying the control messages (RTCP) that are sent as feedback from an RTP session 
  • SAINT - Security Administrator's Integrated Network Tool is a security assesment tool based on SATAN
  • SATAN - Security Administrator's Tool for Analyzing Networks 
  • SDragon - a ncurses-based configuration utility for Hagenuk's DataBox Speed Dragon
  • SecureNet PRO - a full featured network administration and diagnostic tool 
  • Serialmon - a program to monitor a modem on a serial port, and simulate the modem LEDS on a colour console using curses 
  • shrimp - a Squid Native Log Format V1.0.x and V1.1.x to Common Log Format converter 
  • SINUS Firewall - a TCP/IP packet filter for the Linux operating system 
  • Squij - a Squid logfile analysis program 
  • Tcharge - a tool to watch the time a telephone connection is up and the money to pay for it 
  • TIS Firewall Toolkit - a software kit for building and maintaining internetwork firewalls 
  • TkApache - a configuration and management tool for the Apache Web server 
  • tklog - a software to log the data transmitted by the Ackerman and Quante PBX (german: Telefon- oder Tk-Anlagen) on their serial printer port
  • TkNet - an easy to use X front end to a dial-up SLIP/PPP Internet connection 
  • TLEDS, XTLEDS - programs which blinks keyboard LEDs indicating outgoing and incoming network packets 
  • traf - a network traffic monitor 
  • Webbin'CMIP - to simplify the access to network management information and resources 
  • WMnet - a little X dock.app network monitor
  • WMPPP - a GUI frontend to pppd
  • WvDial - an intelligent PPP dialer for Linux 
  • WXPPP - an X Window- and Motif-based front-end for the chat and pppd programs 
  • X-ISP - a visual, X11 and XForms based, user-friendly interface to pppd/chat 
  • Xmdipmon - a Motif tool for monitoring a dial-up connection 
  • Xnetload - an X11 program to monitor throughput on a network connection
  • xppp - a graphical interface to your IP connection 
  • Xtraceroute - a graphical version of the traceroute program, which traces the route your IP packets travel to their destination 

Networks, Drivers and Protocols

Remote Login

  • Java Telnet Applet - a fully featured telnet program that allows users to connect and login to remote hosts via Internet or Intranet using their WWW-Browser only 
  • SRP Telnet - secure Telnet application using Secure Remote Password (SRP) protocol 
  • Ssh - Secure Shell to log into another computer over a network 

USENET News

  • DNews Server - a high performance, Internet (USENET) news server software 
  • Evil Purple - a combined NNTP proxy and cache 
  • GNUS - a Usenet Newsreader and Electronic Mail User Agent implemented as a part of Emacs
  • Knews - a threaded nntp newsreader for X 
  • Leafnote - a USENET software package designed for small sites 
  • news2mail - a gateway to read USENET news via e-mail 
  • newsBot - a sophisticated news filter 
  • newsfetch - a utility to download news and store in the mailbox format 
  • News Peruser - an X-based, offline newsreader 
  • Newselect - a tcl/tk program to manage newsgroups in netscape database 
  • NewsX - an NNTP client for Unix 
  • pnews - a simple news system 
  • pnf - Personal News Fetcher, a suck-like tool written in Perl 
  • SimpleNews - an ncurses based newsreader 
  • Skim - to read USENET news from an NNTP server over a slow modem line 
  • SLRN - a NNTP based newsreader 
  • suck - a program used to grab news from a remote NNTP news server 
  • UsePkt - grabs Newsgroups from a NNTP server, and dumps them into a fido-style packet for tossing later with a DOS mail tosser to your message base 
  • XRN - an X News reader 

WWW Browsers and Plug-ins

  • Amaya - the W3C testbed client 
  • Arena - a graphical web browser comprised entirely of free software 
  • CandleWeb 
  • Chimera 
  • CULT3D - a multi-platform 3D object rendering engine as a plug-in
  • DjVu viewer/plug-in - a document image compression technology that allows users to browse through high-resolution scanned documents in color over the Web 
  • Flash Plugin - a Netscape plugin that allows to view Flash files 
  • Fortify for Netscape - a program that provides world-wide, unconditional, full strength 128-bit cryptography to users of Netscape Navigator (v3) and Communicator (v4) 
  • GNUscape Navigator - an Emacs World Wide Web Browser 
  • GRAIL 
  • InvisibleWeb - a graphical web-surfing aid 
  • HotJava - JavaSoft's Browser written in JAVA under Linux 
  • Lynx - a text mode web browser 
  • METIS Model Browser Plug-in - Plug-in which allows to browse METIS models published on the World Wide Web 
  • Midas 
  • Mnemonic - an effort to build a free, extensible, modular web browser 
  • Mosaic 
  • MpegTV Plug-in - a streaming-capable Netscape Plug-in that plays MPEG movie embedded inside HTML documents 
  • mozilla - source code of Netscape Communicator
  • Netscape Communicator - combines a browser with a suite of Internet tools for mail, news and discussion group access, online conferencing, web page creation, and instant messaging 
  • Netscape Communicator 4.0 Support for JDK 1.1 - a preview release of JDK 1.1 for Communicator 4.05 is available for several Unix platforms
  • NewsWire - a specialized mini WWW browser that presents information in a ticker-tape manner 
  • PhonyNet - PhonyNet Commuter introduce Phone URL 
  • Plugger - a multimedia plugin for Unix Netscape 3.0 or later that handles Quicktime, Mpeg, MP2, AVI, SGI-movie, Tiff, DL, IFF-anim, MIDI, Soundtracker, AU, Wav and Commodore 64 audio files 
  • PNG Magick Plug-In 
  • QtScape - a Qt based port of Netscape Navigator 5.0 beta 
  • QWeb - a Web Browser that displays SGML documents (including HTML) according to style sheets 
  • Rush - a netscape plugin for ultraefficient encoding of graphics for use on the World Wide Web 
  • Tcl Plugin - allows you to embed Tclets, small Tcl scripts with active user interfaces, right in your web pages 
  • UMP - a netscape plugin for playing MIDI 
  • Vosaic - integrates continuous media into the World Wide Web 
  • Vosaic - brings streaming video and audio to the World Wide Web 
  • WebRouser 
  • Xquote - a WWW quote retrieval tool for X 
  • XSwallow - a netscape plugin that can run an X app in response to a mime type 
  • Zeus Server - an advanced, powerful full-featured commercial grade server 

WWW and Proxy Servers

  • Apache HTTP Server 
  • Apache JServ (mod_jserv) - a Java servlet engine, an external process written in Java which runs separate from the web server and handles requests to Java servlets 
  • Apache-SSL - a secure Webserver based on Apache and SSLeay 
  • axw3 - an HTTP proxy server and AX25 gateway
  • Boa - a fast, lightweight webserver 
  • CERN HTTP Daemon 
  • getstatd - a simple http server emulation daemon that allows users to watch their accounting statistic and admins to watch general users statistic, terminal lines and other system wide statistic for any period of time 
  • GN - a multi-protocol Server for Gopher and HTTP 
  • fhttpd - an FTP/HTTP server 
  • http_forward - a perl script to forward http request to a different port on a different machine 
  • Internet Junkbuster Proxy - blocks unwanted banner ads and protects your privacy from cookies and other threats 
  • Jeeves - JavaSoft's Internet Server/Framework under Linux 
  • Jigsaw server - W3C's leading-edge Web server platform, providing a sample HTTP 1.1 implementation and a variety of other features on top of an advanced architecture implemented in Java 
  • Jungle - a WWW server in tcl/tk 
  • mod_ssl - interfaces Apache 1.3 to Eric Young's SSL library in a clean way while still providing compatibility to Ben Laurie's Apache-SSL 
  • Muffin - a filtering proxy server for the World-Wide Web 
  • NCSA HTTP Daemon 
  • Pi3Web - a free, multithreaded, highly configurable and extensible HTTP server 
  • RabbIT - a proxy for HTTP 
  • Raven SSL Module - a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Module for the Apache Web Server
  • Red Hat Secure Web Server - an Apache-based Web Server with RSA key technology
  • Roxen Challenger - a HTTP Server supporting Secure Socket Layer (SSL 3) 
  • Squid - Internet Object Cache 
  • Stronghold - a commercial version of Apache with Security Features 
  • thttpd - a simple, small, portable, fast, and secure HTTP server 
  • tinyproxy - a small, non-caching HTTP proxy suitable for use on small networks 
  • web500gw - a WWW/HTTP - LDAP/X.500 Gateway 
  • WN - a Web server which runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and is freely available 
  • WWWOFFLE - a World Wide Web Offline Explorer 
  • Zeus Web Server - a scalable web application server providing solutions for ISP hosting, intranets and secure e-Commerce 

WWW Agents, CGI and Search Engines

  • AppGEN Development System - a high level fourth generation language and application generator for producing World Wide Web (WWW) based applications 
  • AtDot - a free web based e-mail system 
  • cgihtml - a set of CGI and HTML routines written for C 
  • cgi-lib.pl - de facto standard library for creating Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts in the Perl language 
  • cgi-man - a perl script which reads allows you to read man pages through your web browser 
  • C routines for a cgi query server 
  • CPdog - a web agent which progressively downloads linked web pages at a given WWW site 
  • CWMail - a Corporate Web Mail System 
  • Datapult/PF - a WWW script/template language for creating dynamic HTML documents 
  • DMailWeb - a Web Email Interface for ISP's 
  • DTS - a web-based problem tracking system 
  • Express DataWEB - a toolset designed to bring the power of the Empress Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) into the world of hypertext and hypermedia 
  • FastCGI - an open extension to CGI that provides high performance for all Internet applications without any of the limitations of existing Web server APIs 
  • GeneWeb - a genealogy software with a Web interface 
  • GlimpseHTTP - a collection of tools that allows you to use Glimpse to search your files using HTTP interface 
  • GnuJSP - a free implementation of Sun's Java Server Pages. Once the GnuJSP servlet is installed, files with the extension .jsp are translated into java source files, compiled, and ran. 
  • Guestbook - a guestbook for HTML pages 
  • Harvest - a tools set to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate information 
  • heitml - a server side extension of HTML 
  • ht://dig - a complete world wide web indexing and searching system for a small domain or intranet 
  • HyperNews - a cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and USENET News 
  • ICE - an easy to install software package for indexing World Wide Web archives 
  • IMP - a set of PHP3 scripts that implement an IMAP based webmail system 
  • Intermediate Search - an internal search engine for your website 
  • Isite - an integrated Internet publishing software package which includes a text indexer/search system (Isearch) and Z39.50 communication tools to access databases 
  • journyx WebTime - a web-based time and attendance tracking software 
  • KWebWatch - a a utility to run in the background and periodically poll a user's favorite web sites, looking for changes 
  • Mail4all - a cgi mailing program 
  • man2html - a Unix manpage-to-HTML converter 
  • man2html - a cgi programs to convert man pages to html 
  • man2html - a very basic Bourne shell script which acts as a gateway to `man` for httpd's cgi-bin 
  • Matrice W3 System (MWS) - a software package which seamlessly integrates a web server with ODBC database technology 
  • memelink - a collaborative link tracking system 
  • MRTG - a Multi Router Traffic Grapher 
  • myODE - a web based MySQL Database Editor using PHP 3 
  • NeoWebScript - a module for the Apache webserver that allows you to embed the Tcl/Tk programming language in your webpages as a scripting tool 
  • NetForum - a Web based group communication and collaboration system 
  • PHP3 - a complete rewrite of the web development scripting language, PHP/FI 2.0 
  • sanecgi - a web interface to all SANE-compatible scanners 
  • Server Scripts - a Collection of CGI Scripts in Perl 
  • siteSee - a search engine running on your web server 
  • update_count - a script to keep a hit count on html documents 
  • VirtuFlex - versatile Web-site rapid application development (RAD) tools 
  • VH-Man2html - a cgi programs to convert man pages to html 
  • VWbot - a Web-traversing robot 
  • WebAdmin - a Server-side On-line Web Editor 
  • webcounter - a Page Counter for Apache Webserver 
  • WebEvent - an interactive World Wide Web calendar program 
  • WebFilter - an extension to Cern's httpd web server which allows you to filter out annoying parts of web pages 
  • WebGlimpse - adds search capabilities to your WWW site automatically 
  • WebGlimpse Update - a fast, flexible search engine for finding information in a related web of pages 
  • WebGroove Script - a scripting language to develop dynamic Web applications on UNIX and Windows servers 
  • WebL - a scripting language for automating tasks on the World-Wide Web
  • WebMail - a www-frontend to Unix system mailboxes 
  • Webmin - a web-based interface for system administration for Unix 
  • WebSQL - a gateway to Yard-SQL databases from World-Wide Web documents 
  • webthreads - an all-inclusive site management tool 
  • Worldengine - a Freeware Java Searchengine 
  • w3ng - a utility designed to be used as a cgi-bin binary that will convert Norton Guide database files to HTML documents on the fly 
  • Xavatoria - a search engine designed for scanning large, text-intensive websites 
  • XWebcomber - a search utility for the World-Wide Web 
  • ZeusMail - an html front-end to mailboxes that uses the pop3 and imap protocols 

WWW/HTML Tools

  • Analog - a program to analyse the logfiles from a web server 
  • Bulldozer - a WYSIWYG HTML editor for the X Windows system 
  • CandleWeb - a software architecture for presentations using real-time interactivity and fast graphics in animations 
  • Casbah - an attempt to build an integrated content management system for Linux that provides for web-development, content-creation and content-management 
  • CheckURL - a script that checks a list of URL's for changes 
  • CmmCGI - a tool for developing CGI application 
  • Comanche - a COnfiguration MANager for apaCHE webserver written in tcl/tk 
  • cURL - a tiny program for getting files from FTP, HTTP and GOPHER servers, with URL syntax support 
  • cvs2html - a Perl 5 program which is used to transform the 'cvs log' output to HTML 
  • EZ-EDIT - an Online HTML Editor 
  • FavToHTML - converts your Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x Favorites to an HTML file suitable for use as bookmarks.html for Netscape Navigator/Communicator under Linux 
  • fetchurl - Connect to an url and fetch data 
  • FTPWebLog - an integrated WWW and FTP log reporting tool 
  • Gwstat - processes the html output from wwwstat to generate a set of GIF graphs 
  • HtEdit - a CGI script that allows a Web site administrator to manage NCSA style access control password lists 
  • HTML Check Toolkit - a HTML Validation Toolkit 
  • Linbot - a tool that can examine a web site for broken links, outdated pages, and other useful information 
  • linkCheck - a hypertext link checker, used to keep your site up to date 
  • Linklint - a Perl shareware program that checks all local and remote links on a web site 
  • LinkScan - a Web Server utility which automatically detects broken links caused by missing files and unreachable URL's 
  • lvrfy - a HTML Link Verifier 
  • Mapedit - a WWW Imagemap Editor 
  • mapster - a Tcl/Tk-based graphical application that generates client-side image maps for web pages
  • MHonArc - an Email-to-HTML converter 
  • MOMspider - a web-roaming robot that specializes in the maintenance of distributed hypertext infostructures 
  • MuLaW - a Multi Language Web Authoring System 
  • NetTracker - an Internet and Intranet Usage Tracking Software 
  • ng2html - converts a Norton Guide to a series of HTML documents 
  • nolce - Netscape's Off Line Cache Explorer allows off-line navigation of Netscape Navigator cache files 
  • Pavuk - a WWW mirroring tool with or without GUI interface 
  • PGPHTML - a perl script to make PGP signed web-pages 
  • rpm2html - a generator of Web pages for RPM packages 
  • Sawmill - a hierarchical log file analysis software, web log analysis tool and web site statistics program 
  • sitecopy - easily manage remote web site via FTP 
  • SiteMap - a small bash script that creates a html SiteMap of your *.*htm* files 
  • squid-stats - Daily usage statistics for Squid Internet Object Cache 
  • UrlGet - a command-line utility to get files using HTTP, FTP or GOPHER protocols 
  • urlmon - a URL monitoring and report program 
  • VeloMeter - a Java-Based Web Server Load Tester 
  • w3mir - an all purpose HTTP copying and mirroring tool 
  • Webalizer - a Web server log file analysis program 
  • WebCheck - a website administration tool 
  • WebCopy - a perl program that retrieves the URL specified in a unix-like command line 
  • Weblint - a syntax and minimal style checker for HTML 
  • WebLog Classes - Web Logfile Parsing and Manipulation in Python 
  • WebMagick - a package which makes putting images on the Web 
  • WebPlus - a tool for creating dynamic Web sites 
  • Web Secretary- a web page monitoring software, which detects changes based on content analysis and emails the changed page with the new contents highlighted 
  • WebTest - a CGI Testing Tool 
  • WebTrack - a control tool for your corporate Internet connection 
  • WebTune - a program that analyses the webserver access logfiles 
  • WMF - Web Mail Folder converts Emails to HTML and make index files 
  • WML - Website META Language - a HTML generation toolkit for Unix 
  • WPP - a small perl5 script that allows preprocessing of html files 
  • Wrench - a Web Report Writer 
  • Wusage - a Usage Statistics System for Web Servers 
  • wwwstat - output a summary of WWW access logging files in HTML 

Integrated WWW Packages

  • AOLserver - a complete Web Development Environment 
  • Hawkeye - a complete Internet/Intranet server suite 
  • Woven Goods for LINUX - a Collection of World-Wide Web (WWW) Applications and Hypertext-based Information about LINUX 
  • Web Server Developer CDROM - a highly valuable package for those developing and installing Web Server sites 
  • WEBworx - a complete interactive web server, WEBworx includes a comprehensive selection of software (as well as the operating system) to allow your PC to create and deploy complete, interactive, database-enabled web applications. 

Miscellaneous
 
 
Lutz Henckel
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