New Debian packages
Hello everyone,
I've had some various programs on my system for some time that I really like,
and so I'd like to help out with Debian and turn them into Debian packages.
As far as I know, by looking at my /var/lib/dpkg/available file (built from
the ftp.debian.org site), none of these are in Debian. If anybody is
maintaining any of these, or working on them, let me know.
* modemu. A modem emulator. Lets you use programs like Minicom and Seyon
over a telnet connection (as opposed to a modem connection). Nice if you
like telnetting into BBSs and the like. Has an 8-bit clean option so you
can even run ZModem or Kermit over it. I use it to do UUCP over Telnet.
This is one of those little gems that you like to have around :-)
* The WorldVU-Atlantis BBS package. I will need to check the specific legal
requirements of this one, but it will certainly have to go in non-free or
contrib. This is a powerful system that takes advantage of Linux security
features (groups, /etc/passwd, etc) while still having a "friendly" look
and feel. This is a good-sized system, and has no source available.
To Debianize it will take me a bit of time since I will basically have
to redo the install routine and default configs. (It puts everything in
a location that goes against the filesystem standard)
* mp. A MIDI player, like playmidi but different :-) I get better
output on my PAS with mp than with playmidi, but for others, it is
the opposite.
* Netmaze, the 3-D networked multi-player combat game. A cool 3-D X game.
Also includes robot players, if you don't have any friends that like playing
cool games :-) Actually, I may be taking over development of this game
itself form its current author, Michael Hipp, FYI.
* Filerunner, the best X FTP client I've used. Doesn't quite equal NcFTP yet,
but for an X program, it's nice. It does have the advantage of not
having to keep typing "ls" when things scroll off the screen :-)
Written in Tcl/TK, but I think it has a few C modules too.
Comments anyone?
cya,
John Goerzen
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