PACKAGES.TXT; Fri Dec 9 20:24:49 CST 2005 This file provides details on the Slackware packages found in the ./patches/ directory. Total size of all packages (compressed): 116 MB Total size of all packages (uncompressed): 329 MB PACKAGE NAME: apache-1.3.34-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 1691 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 6470 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: apache: apache (The Apache HTTP Server) apache: apache: Apache is an HTTP server designed as a plug-in replacement for the apache: NCSA HTTP server. It fixes numerous bugs in the NCSA server and apache: includes many frequently requested new features, and has an API which apache: allows it to be extended to meet users' needs more easily. apache: apache: Apache is the most popular web server in the known universe; over apache: half of the servers on the Internet are running Apache or one of apache: its variants. apache: PACKAGE NAME: bash-3.0-i486-4.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 703 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1530 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: bash: bash (sh-compatible shell) bash: bash: The GNU Bourne-Again SHell. Bash is a sh-compatible command bash: interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or bash: from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn bash: and C shells (ksh and csh). Bash is ultimately intended to be a bash: conformant implementation of the IEEE Posix Shell and Tools bash: specification (IEEE Working Group 1003.2). bash: bash: Bash must be present for the system to boot properly. bash: PACKAGE NAME: bzip2-1.0.3-i486-2.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 197 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 610 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: bzip2: bzip2 (a block-sorting file compressor) bzip2: bzip2: Bzip2 compresses files using the Burrows-Wheeler block sorting text bzip2: compression algorithm, and Huffman coding. Compression is generally bzip2: considerably better than that achieved by more conventional LZ77/LZ78- bzip2: based compressors, and approaches the performance of the PPM family of bzip2: statistical compressors. bzip2: bzip2: Julian Seward is the author of bzip2. bzip2: PACKAGE NAME: curl-7.12.2-i486-2.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 554 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1320 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: curl: curl curl: curl: Curl is a command line tool for transferring data specified with URL curl: syntax. The command is designed to work without user interaction or curl: any kind of interactivity. Curl offers a busload of useful tricks curl: like proxy support, user authentication, ftp upload, HTTP post, SSL curl: (https:) connections, cookies, file transfer resume and more. curl: curl: libcurl is a library that Curl uses to do its job. It is readily curl: available to be used by your software, too. curl: PACKAGE NAME: elm-2.5.8-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 278 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 730 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: elm: elm (Menu-driven user mail program) elm: elm: Elm is an interactive screen-oriented mailer program originally elm: written by Dave Taylor, and continued by the Elm Development Group. elm: PACKAGE NAME: imapd-4.64-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 746 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1420 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: imapd: imapd (IMAP4rev1 from pine4.63) imapd: imapd: /usr/sbin/ipop3d and /usr/sbin/imapd are servers supporting the POP3 imapd: and IMAP remote mail access protocols. They allow users to download imapd: mail from your Linux system for remote viewing. imapd: PACKAGE NAME: koffice-1.4.1-i486-2.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 23230 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 59570 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: koffice: koffice (KDE office productivity suite) koffice: koffice: KOffice office productivity applications, including: koffice: KWord (Professional text editing) koffice: KSpread (Professional number cruncher/spreadsheet) koffice: KPresenter (Professional presentation program) koffice: KChart (Graphing of your abstract data) koffice: Karbon (Vector graphics tool) koffice: Kugar (Database report creation) koffice: Kivio (Flowcharting program) koffice: KOffice Workspace (A combination of all of the above) PACKAGE NAME: libxml2-2.6.22-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 2181 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 9950 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: libxml2: libxml2 (XML parser library) libxml2: libxml2: XML parser library. libxml2: PACKAGE NAME: lynx-2.8.5rel.5-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 1937 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 4510 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: lynx: Lynx (text mode browser) lynx: lynx: Lynx is a distributed hypertext browser with full World Wide Web lynx: capabilities. Lynx can be used to access information on the World lynx: Wide Web, or to build information systems intended primarily for local lynx: access. For example, Lynx has been used to build several Campus Wide lynx: Information Systems (CWIS). lynx: lynx: Lynx's authors include Lou Montulli, Garrett Blythe, Craig Lavender, lynx: Michael Grobe, and Charles Rezac. lynx: PACKAGE NAME: mod_ssl-2.8.25_1.3.34-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 477 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1460 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: mod_ssl: mod_ssl (Apache module for SSL) mod_ssl: mod_ssl: mod_ssl provides provides strong cryptography for the Apache web mod_ssl: server via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer mod_ssl: Security (TLS v1). It is based on OpenSSL and provides support for mod_ssl: all major security needs through HTTP. mod_ssl: mod_ssl: mod_ssl is written by Ralf S. Engelschall. mod_ssl: PACKAGE NAME: mozilla-1.7.12-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 16410 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 64030 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: mozilla: mozilla (an open-source web browser) mozilla: mozilla: The Mozilla web browser. Mozilla is a cousin to Netscape mozilla: Communicator that is being developed by the Free Software Community mozilla: with the cooperation and support of Netscape. Mozilla uses a next- mozilla: generation browser engine known as Gecko. mozilla: PACKAGE NAME: mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-i686-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 8055 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 20850 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: mozilla-firefox: mozilla-firefox (Mozilla Firefox Web browser) mozilla-firefox: mozilla-firefox: This project is a redesign of the Mozilla browser component written mozilla-firefox: using the XUL user interface language. Firefox empowers you to mozilla-firefox: browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other mozilla-firefox: browser. mozilla-firefox: mozilla-firefox: Visit the Mozilla Firefox project online: mozilla-firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ mozilla-firefox: PACKAGE NAME: mozilla-thunderbird-1.0.7-i686-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 10162 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 27650 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: mozilla-thunderbird: mozilla-thunderbird (Mozilla Thunderbird mail application) mozilla-thunderbird: mozilla-thunderbird: Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component mozilla-thunderbird: written using the XUL user interface language. Thunderbird makes mozilla-thunderbird: emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the mozilla-thunderbird: industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam mozilla-thunderbird: filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more. mozilla-thunderbird: mozilla-thunderbird: Visit the Mozilla Thunderbird project online: mozilla-thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/ mozilla-thunderbird: PACKAGE NAME: openssl-0.9.7g-i486-2.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 2950 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 7900 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: openssl: openssl (Secure Sockets Layer toolkit) openssl: openssl: The OpenSSL certificate management tool and the shared libraries that openssl: provide various encryption and decryption algorithms and protocols. openssl: openssl: This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for openssl: use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org). This product openssl: includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young openssl: (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product includes software written by Tim openssl: Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com). openssl: PACKAGE NAME: openssl-solibs-0.9.7g-i486-2.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 688 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1710 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: openssl-solibs: openssl-solibs (OpenSSL shared libraries) openssl-solibs: openssl-solibs: These shared libraries provide encryption routines required by openssl-solibs: programs such as openssh. They are also used by KDE's Konqueror web openssl-solibs: browser to provide secure web connections. openssl-solibs: openssl-solibs: This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for openssl-solibs: use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org). This product openssl-solibs: includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young openssl-solibs: (eay@cryptsoft.com). This product includes software written by Tim openssl-solibs: Hudson (tjh@cryptsoft.com). PACKAGE NAME: php-4.4.1-i486-2.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 4861 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 11980 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: php: php (HTML-embedded scripting language) php: php: PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. It shares syntax php: characteristics with C, Java, and Perl. The primary objective behind php: this language is to make a fast and easy-to-use scripting language php: for dynamic web sites. php: php: More information can be found online at http://www.php.net/ php: PACKAGE NAME: pine-4.64-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 1841 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 4760 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: pine: pine (a menu driven mail client) pine: pine: A menu driven user mail program. Originally based on Elm (Pine Is pine: No-longer Elm), but with many additional features that make it pine: easier to use. Also contains pilot (a simple file manager) and pine: pico (an easy to use text editor). pine: PACKAGE NAME: samba-3.0.20b-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 16305 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 37680 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: samba: samba (SMB file and print server) samba: samba: Samba is an SMB file and print server for SMB and CIFS clients. It samba: allows you to make file space or printers on a Samba host available to samba: any PCs running SMB clients (such as PCs running Windows). samba: samba: If you have any SMB servers (such as Windows NT/2K Server), you may be samba: able to replace them by or supplement them with Samba. One of Samba's samba: big strengths is integration, so you can use it to tie together your samba: Linux hosts and Windows PC clients. samba: PACKAGE NAME: wget-1.10.2-i486-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 585 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1560 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: wget: wget (a non-interactive network retriever) wget: wget: GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the wget: World Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet wget: protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the wget: background after having logged off. wget: wget: The author of Wget is Hrvoje Niksic . wget: PACKAGE NAME: x11-6.8.2-i486-4.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 17860 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 53430 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: x11: x11 (X11 base package) x11: x11: This is the base package for X11, and provides the required binaries, x11: shared libraries, and support files (except fonts) to run X on Linux. x11: PACKAGE NAME: x11-xdmx-6.8.2-i486-4.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 822 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 1870 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: x11-xdmx: x11-xdmx (Distributed Multi-head X server) x11-xdmx: x11-xdmx: Xdmx is a proxy X server that uses one or more other X servers as its x11-xdmx: display devices. It provides multi-head X functionality for displays x11-xdmx: that might be located on different machines. x11-xdmx: PACKAGE NAME: x11-xnest-6.8.2-i486-4.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 1223 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 3330 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: x11-xnest: x11-xnest (a nested X server) x11-xnest: x11-xnest: Xnest is an experimental nested server for X that acts as both a x11-xnest: client and a server. Xnest is a client of the real server which x11-xnest: manages windows and graphics requests on its behalf. Xnest is a x11-xnest: server to its own clients. Xnest manages windows and graphics x11-xnest: requests on their behalf. To these clients Xnest appears to be a x11-xnest: conventional server. x11-xnest: PACKAGE NAME: x11-xvfb-6.8.2-i486-4.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 1324 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 3520 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: x11-xvfb: x11-xvfb (virtual framebuffer X server) x11-xvfb: x11-xvfb: Xvfb is an X server that can run on machines with no display hardware x11-xvfb: and no physical input devices. It emulates a dumb framebuffer using x11-xvfb: virtual memory. The primary use of this server is intended to be x11-xvfb: server testing. The mfb or cfb code for any depth can be exercised x11-xvfb: with this server without the need for real hardware that supports the x11-xvfb: desired depths. A secondary use is testing clients against unusual x11-xvfb: depths and screen configurations. x11-xvfb: PACKAGE NAME: xine-lib-1.0.3a-i686-1.tgz PACKAGE LOCATION: ./patches/packages PACKAGE SIZE (compressed): 4366 K PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed): 9550 K PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: xine-lib: xine-lib (xine multimedia playback engine libraries) xine-lib: xine-lib: xine-lib is a free (GPL licensed) high-performance multimedia xine-lib: playback engine. The xine shared libraries are used by xine-ui (and xine-lib: other media players and multimedia applications) for smooth video xine-lib: processing and playback of multimedia streams such as movies, radio xine-lib: and TV network streams, DVDs, and VCDs. xine-lib: