Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-040
2003-12-18
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Name : ethereal
Version : 0.10.0a
Release : 0.1
Summary : Network traffic analyzer
Description : Ethereal is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems.
This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for ethereal. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-041
2003-12-18
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Name : pango
Version : 1.2.5
Release : 4
Summary : System for layout and rendering of internationalized text.
Description :
Pango is a system for layout and rendering of internationalized text.
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-042
2003-12-18
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Name : gnome-libs
Version : 1.4.1.2.90
Release : 36
Summary : The main GNOME libraries.
Description :
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.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-039
2003-12-16
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Name : dia
Version : 0.92.2
Release : 1
Summary : A diagram drawing program.
Description :
The Dia drawing program is designed to be like the Windows(TM) Visio program. Dia can be used to draw different types of diagrams, and includes support for UML static structure diagrams (class diagrams), entity relationship modeling, and network diagrams. Dia can load and save diagrams to a custom file format, can load and save in .xml format, and can export to PostScript(TM).
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-025
2003-12-12
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Name : lftp
Version : 2.6.10
Release : 1
Summary : A sophisticated file transfer program
Description :
LFTP is a sophisticated ftp/http file transfer program. Like bash, it has job control and uses the readline library for input. It has bookmarks, built-in mirroring, and can transfer several files in parallel. It is designed with reliability in mind.
Red Hat has published the schedule for Fedora Core 2
Wine 20031212 for Fedora Core 1 has been released
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-011
2003-12-12
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Name : redhat-config-printer
Version : 0.6.79.2
Release : 1
Summary : A printer configuration backend/frontend combination.
Description :
The printconf utility is a printer configuration and filtration system based on magicfilter (the alchemist data library) and the foomatic filter system. It rebuilds local print configuration and spool directories from data sources at lpd init time, and is integrated to use the multi-sourced features of the alchemist data library.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-037
2003-12-11
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Name : net-snmp
Version : 5.1
Release : 2.1
Summary : A collection of SNMP protocol tools and libraries.
Description :
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for network management. The NET-SNMP project includes various SNMP tools: an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents, tools for generating and handling SNMP traps, a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP, and a Tk/Perl mib browser. This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons, documentation, etc.
You will probably also want to install the net-snmp-utils package, which contains NET-SNMP utilities.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-003
2003-12-10
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Name : grep
Version : 2.5.1
Release : 17.4
Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.
Description :
The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.
You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text.
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-035
2003-12-10
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Name : quagga
Version : 0.96.4
Release : 0.fc1
Summary : Routing daemon
Description :
Quagga is a free software that manages TCP/IP based routing
protocol. It takes multi-server and multi-thread approach to resolve the current complexity of the Internet.
Quagga supports BGP4, BGP4+, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng.
Quagga is intended to be used as a Route Server and a Route Reflector. It is not a toolkit, it provides full routing power under a new architecture. Quagga by design has a process for each protocol.
Quagga is a fork of GNU Zebra.
Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-025
2003-12-10
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Name : gnupg
Version : 1.2.3
Release : 2
Summary : A GNU utility for secure communication and data storage.
Description :
GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with any version of PGP2 (PGP2.x uses only IDEA for symmetric-key encryption, which is patented worldwide).
A FAQ about the unofficial Fedora Core AMD64 Preview Release is now online
Read more
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-032
2003-12-09
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Name : procps
Version : 2.0.17
Release : 5
Summary : System and process monitoring utilities.
Description :
The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch. The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the current time, how long the system has been running, how many users are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five, and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block I/O, traps, and CPU activity.
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-033
2003-12-09
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Name : bash
Version : 2.05b
Release : 34
Summary : The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 2.05b.
Description :
The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification. This package (bash) contains bash version 2.05b, which improves POSIX compliance over previous versions. However, many old shell scripts will depend upon the behavior of bash 1.14, which is included in the bash1 package. Bash is the default shell for Red Hat Linux. It is popular and powerful, and you'll probably end up using it.
KDE 3.2 Beta 2 RPMs for Fedora Core 1 are now available
Download
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-031
2003-12-04
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Name : xboard
Version : 4.2.7
Release : 1
Summary : An X Window System graphical chessboard.
Description :
Xboard is an X Window System based graphical chessboard which can be used with the GNUchess and Crafty chess programs, with Internet Chess Servers (ICSs), with chess via email, or with your own saved games.
Install the xboard package if you need a graphical chessboard.
Fedora Security Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-030
2003-12-04
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Name : rsync
Version : 2.5.7
Release : 2
Summary : A program for synchronizing files over a network.
Description :
Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into sync very quickly. Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences in the files over the network instead of sending the complete files. Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command. A technical
report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this package.
Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-028
2003-12-04
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Name : gphoto2
Version : 2.1.3
Release : 1
Summary : Software for accessing digital cameras
Description :
The gPhoto2 project is a universal, free application and library framework that lets you download images from several different digital camera models, including the newer models with USB connections. Note that
a) for some older camera models you must use the old "gphoto" package.
b) for USB mass storage models you must use the driver in the kernel
This package contains
i) the library that digital camera applications can use
ii) the command-line utility gphoto2
Other (GUI) frontends are available separately.
Updates are now available for the unofficial Fedora Core AMD64 Preview Release
