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Here you will find various libraries for LINUX, including programmer libraries, software libraries and more. Many other programs on Linuxberg require these libraries.

Aout Libs

• Version: Stable 1.4
• Byte Size:  1.3 MB (1,408,985 bytes)
• License: Distributable
• Revision Date: September 10th, 1998
• Binary: RPM Source
• Description: Old Linux systems used a format for programs and shared libraries called a.out while newer ones use the ELF format. In order to run old a.out format programs, you need the a.out format libraries which this package provides. With it, you are able to run most a.out format packages for text, X, and SVGAlib modes
  

APE

• Version: Stable 1.2.1
• Byte Size:  292.0 KB (299,008 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 8th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.tycho.com/ape/
• Binary: RPM Source Alpha
• Description: APE is a C++ class library primarily for development of threaded servers in a portable manner. A separate source tree is maintained for both pthread "Posix" targets (Linux, xBSD, Solaris, etc), and for win32 targets. The goal is to provide a truly common framework for C++ for writing portable, threaded, server applications that do not require a huge amount of runtime overhead to support, and hence can make C++ and threads suitable even for development of trivial servers and services.
  

AutoLink

• Version: Stable 2.20
• Byte Size:  40.4 KB (41,342 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 30, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.nist.gov/itl/div895/auto/
• Description: AutoLink provides functions to the user for transferring dynamic MPI (Message Passing Interface) data-types (complex data-types with C pointers) to other complex data-types (e.g. graphs). It requires the use of AutoMap.
  

Bugs

• Version: Stable 1.8.1
• Byte Size:  50.7 KB (51,896 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 23, 1998
• Description: It is a cryptography library, you can crypt any type of data whose key length to crypt is unlimited.
  

CGIlib

• Version: Stable 0.5
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 26, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.infodrom.north.de/pub/people/joey/cgilib
• Description: This library offers a simple programming interface to the Common Gateway Interface (CGI), including Cookies.
  

Curses Development Kit

• Version: Stable 4.9.9
• Byte Size:  248.0 KB (253,977 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.vexus.ca/CDK.html
• Binary: RPM
• Description: CDK is a widget set developed on top of the basic curses library. It contains 21 ready-to-use widgets. Some which include a text entry field, a scrolling list, a selection list, an alphalist, pull-down menu, radio list, viewer widget, dialog box and many more.
  

dot.conf

• Version: Stable 0.7.0
• Byte Size:  132.0 KB (135,168 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.azzit.de/dotconf/
• Description: dot.conf is a simple-to-use and powerful configuration-file parser library written in C. The configuration files created for dot.conf look very similar to those used by the Apache Webserver. Even Container-Directives known from httpd.conf can easily be used in the exact same manner as for Apache-Modules. It supports various types of arguments, dynamically loadable modules that create their own configuration options on-the-fly, a here-documents feature to pass very long ARG_STR data to your app, and on-the-fly inclusion of additional config files.
  

EasyGTK

• Version: Stable 1.2
• Byte Size:  150.0 KB (153,600 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 18, 2000
• Home Page: http://devplanet.fastethernet.net/EasyGTK/
• Description: EasyGTK is a wrapper library to make GTK programming easier, and quicker. A typical 30 line function in GTK can easily be reduced to 5 lines in EasyGTK. EasyGTK can easily be learned in a few hours, compared with days or weeks for GTK.
  

eNITL

• Version: Stable 1.0b1
• Byte Size:  33.0 KB (33,791 bytes)
• License: OpenSource
• Revision Date: March 1, 1999
• Description: A scripting language engine for C++ applications which require flexible, user-configurable output generation and internal scripting. The eNITL engine is embeddable, extensible, fast, thread-safe, cross-platform, and open source. The language itself is user-friendly, simple, and template-oriented.
  

EO Evolutionary Computation Framework

• Version: Stable 0.8.5
• Byte Size:  184.1 KB (188,548 bytes)
• License: free for non-commercial use
• Revision Date: June 22, 1999
• Home Page: http://geneura.ugr.es/~jmerelo/EO.html
• Description: EO is a templates-based, ANSI-C++ compliant evolutionary computation library. It contains classes for any kind of evolutionary computation (specially genetic algorithms) you might come up to, except maybe genetic programming. It is component-based, so that if you don't find the class you need in it, it is very easy to subclass existing abstract or concrete classes.
  

Epeios C++ Library

• Version: Stable 19990804
• Byte Size:  107.7 KB (110,335 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 6, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.epeios.org/
• Description: a set of C++ libraries which include a new concept of memory management and error handling. You can also handle sockets, multitasking, semaphores, pipes, shared memory, etc., and various data structures like lists, stacks, queues, indexes, etc. The Epeios libraries work under UNIX and Windows.
  

Epeios Java Library

• Version: Stable 19990804
• Byte Size:  8.7 KB (8,870 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 6, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.epeios.org/
• Description: a set of Java libraries which include a new concept of memory management and error handling. You can also handle sockets, multitasking, semaphores, pipes, shared memory, etc., and various data structures like lists, stacks, queues, indexes, etc.
  

eSockets

• Version: Development prebeta-2
• Byte Size:  59.9 KB (61,289 bytes)
• License: Eiffel Forum Freeware License
• Revision Date: February 19, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.shadow.net/~stimuli/esockets/
• Description: The Eiffel Sockets Library (eSockets), is an application level networking framework based on the traditional UNIX networking model. It provides basic socket services for connecting between networked hosts and an event-driven framework for multiplexing multiple connections. It's primarily for implementing servers in Eiffel, although plans are in the works to integrate it with the GTK Widget libraries for client side work.
  

FFTW

• Version: Stable 2.1.3
• Byte Size:  1.1 MB (1,139,406 bytes)
• License: Open Source
• Revision Date: November 8, 1999
• Home Page: http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~fftw/
• Binary: Generic, Sparc PPC, Source Alpha RPM
• Description: FFTW is a collection of fast C routines for computing the discrete fourier transforms in one or more dimensions. It includes complex, real, and parallel transforms, and can handle arbitrary array sizes efficiently.
  

FreeType

• Version: Stable 1.3.1
• Byte Size:  1.4 MB (1,427,072 bytes)
• License: See Web Page for details
• Revision Date: February 7th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.freetype.org/
• Binary: RPM PPC Alpha Sparc Source
• Description: The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments. Note that FreeType is a library. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is not a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is easy, as demonstrated by the test programs.
  

FTPlib

• Version: Stable 3.1
• Byte Size:  88.1 KB (90,221 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 26, 1999
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.cnj.digex.net/pub/cnj/pfau
• Binary: Generic,RPM
• Description: Library of callable FTP routines and a command line utility for transferring files via FTP.
  

GD

• Version: Stable 1.8.1
• Byte Size:  174.6 KB (178,809 bytes)
• License: BSD
• Revision Date: March 17th, 2000
• Binary: RPM PPC Alpha Sparc Source Usparc
• Description: This library allows you to easily create and manipulate GIF image files from your C programs.
  

GD Development

• Version: Stable 1.3
• Byte Size:  2.6 KB (2,656 bytes)
• License: BSD
• Revision Date: October 1, 1999
• Binary: RPM Alpha PPC Usparc Sparc Source
• Description: This package contains the files needed for development of programs linked against GD.
  

GGI

• Version: Development 990723
• Byte Size:  2.6 MB (2,777,597 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 23th, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.us.ggi-project.org/docs/index.html
• Binary: RPM Source
• Description: General Graphics Interface is a complete rewrite of the Linux console subsystem that gives the standard Linux Virtual Consoles (VCs) pixel-graphics drawing and display capabilities, an enhanced and flexible message-based console IO subsystem and a suite of GGI-native userspace libraries, platforms, APIs, utilities and applications.
  

GLib

• Version: Stable 1.2.6  /  Development 1.3.0
• Byte Size:  399.7 KB  /  367.2 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.gtk.org/
• Binary: Debian PPC Alpha Sparc RPM M68K
• Description: Handy library of utility functions. Development libs and headers are in glib-devel.
  

GLib10

• Version: Stable 1.0.6
• Byte Size:  35.0 KB (35,861 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 1st, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.gtk.org/
• Binary: RPM Alpha Sparc PPC Source
• Description: Handy library of utility functions. Development libs and headers are in gtk+-devel.
  

GLibc 2

• Version: Stable 2.1.3
• Byte Size:  8.6 MB (9,013,927 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: Febuary 25, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
• Binary: Generic, Alpha, PPC, Sparc
• Description: Glibc 2 is the latest version of the GNU C Library. It currently runs unmodified on GNU Hurd systems and Linux i386, m68k, and alpha systems. Support for Linux PowerPC, MIPS, Sparc, Sparc 64, and Arm is in version 2.1. In the future support for other architectures and operating systems will be added.
  

Glibc Crypt

• Version: Stable 2.1.2
• Byte Size:  8.1 MB (8,504,830 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 5, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
• Description: This is the UFC-Crypt package. It is kept separate from Glibc due to export restrictions. This is included in Glibc 2.1.1
  

GLibc Linux Threads

• Version: Stable 2.1.3
• Byte Size:  149.5 KB (153,137 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 25, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
• Description: This is an implementation of the Posix 1003.1c "pthread" interface.
  

Glibc Locale Data

• Version: Stable 2.0.6
• Byte Size:  510.4 KB (522,643 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 28, 1997
• Home Page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: This package contains the data needed to build the locale data files to use the internationalization features of the Glibc. This is included with Glibc 2.1.1
  

GMP

• Version: Stable 2.0.2
• Byte Size:  361.2 KB (369,832 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 1st, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.swox.com/gmp/index.html
• Binary: RPM Alpha Sparc PPC Usparc
• Description: GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers. There is no limit to the precision except the ones implied by the available memory in the machine GMP runs on. GMP has a rich set of functions, and the functions have a regular interface. GMP is designed to be as fast as possible, both for small operands and for huge operands. The speed is achieved by using fullwords as the basic arithmetic type, by using fast algorithms, with carefully optimized assembly code for the most common inner loops for a lot of CPUs, and by a general emphasis on speed (instead of simplicity or elegance).
  

GNU Pth

• Version: Stable 1.3.0
• Byte Size:  412.0 KB  /  406.9 KB
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.gnu.org/software/pth/
• Description: GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions.
  

GSL

• Version: Development 0.4.1
• Byte Size:  974.7 KB (998,075 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: October 1, 1999
• Binary: Slackware Alpha RPM PPC Sparc
• Description: GSL is the GNU Scientific Library. It contains high-level algorithms, and provides high-level mathematical functions to the developer. It is used by such programs as extace.
  

GTC

• Version: Development 0.7
• Byte Size:  302.4 KB (309,663 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 7, 2000
• Home Page: http://gtc.seul.org/
• Binary: Source
• Description: : The Game Programming Toolchest (GTC) is a library of various things useful for games.
  

kazlib

• Version: Stable 1.17
• Byte Size:  76.0 KB (77,824 bytes)
• License: Freeware
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/kazlib.html
• Description: Kazlib is a package of reusable code: it provides several aggregate structures based on red-black trees, hashing and linked lists, as well as a portable exception handling module. The interfaces are carefully documented in a 55 page LaTeX document which can also be read in HTML form online. Kazlib is robust, efficient, well-tested code ready for production use. It is written in portable ANSI C.
  

LCDd.pm

• Version: Development 0.02
• Byte Size:  5.7 KB (5,879 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 10, 2000
• Home Page: http://clan.ch/flaviocu/lcdd.html
• Description: LCDd.pm handles communication with an LCDproc v0.4 server. With this Perl library you avoid using raw sockets and the native LCDproc protocol.
  

LCL

• Version: Stable 19990913
• Byte Size:  182.9 KB (187,259 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: September 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://dentrassi.de/lcl/
• Description: The LinuxClassLibrary (LCL) is a growing set of classes which everyone needs everyday (although Linux is a bit misleading since it is running on all types of Unixes). Currently it is a library which is working in the background (non GUI). It is not yet complete. Current features are LString (powerful string class), LDBSystem (database system like DBI), LEmit (event system using templates, LHash/LMap/LHeap/LSet (template collection classes), LIPC (IPC classes) and more.
  

libcda

• Version: Stable 0.3
• Byte Size:  14.9 KB (15,271 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 6, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.alphalink.com.au/~tjaden/libcda/
• Description: libcda is "A simple, cross-platform CD playing library". It was designed to be used in games.
  

Libcdaudio

• Version: Stable 0.99.4
• Byte Size:  157.9 KB (161,688 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 5th, 2000
• Home Page: http://cdcd.undergrid.net/libcdaudio/
• Binary: RPM Sparc Alpha Source
• Description: a library designed to provide functions to control operation of a CD-ROM when playing audio CDs.
  

libdatablk

• Version: Stable 0.99.1
• Byte Size:  31.4 KB (32,183 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 24, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.dnc.net/users/orionc/downloads.html
• Description: libdatablk is a MOO-like type library for C. It is being developed for use in a MOO-like server, but may have other, useful applications. Basically, it allows a variable to contain either a string, number or list (or one of several MOO-like values, errors, object references).
  

libGGI

• Version: Stable 2.1 beta
• Byte Size:  642.9 KB (658,294 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 23, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.ggi-project.org/
• Binary: RPM
• Additional Software Required: libGII
• Description: Libraries for GGI. GGI stands for "General Graphics Interface", and it is a project that aims to develop a reliable, stable and fast graphics system that works everywhere.
  

libGII

• Version: Stable 0.6
• Byte Size:  252.1 KB (258,201 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 23, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.ggi-project.org/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: LibGII is an input library developed by the GGI Project, which deals with graphics output. LibGII is based on the concept of input streams, which virtualize access to the underlying input drivers. Events from various input devices are abstracted into easy-to-use structures. LibGII also allows the application to join streams together, receiving input from an arbitrary combination of devices. LibGII is a separate component from LibGGI, although LibGGI depends on LibGII for input purposes.
  

libgraph

• Version: Stable 0.0.4
• Byte Size:  120.9 KB (123,754 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 19, 1999
• Home Page: http://arcavia.com/rd/libgraph/
• Description: Libgraph is a library to provide generic graph building capabilities under Linux and other unix like systems. It is built on top of the gd library. Currently it can provide bar graphs and line graphs of arbitrary size. Output can be put into a gif file.
  

libICAL

• Version: Stable 0.15a
• Byte Size:  194.7 KB (199,361 bytes)
• License: MPL
• Revision Date: February 18, 2000
• Home Page: http://softwarestudio.org/libical/index.html
• Description: libICAL is an Open Source implementation of the IETF's iCAL Calendaring and Scheduling protocols. The library parses iTIP components and provides a C API for manipulating the component properties and sub-components.
  

libiconv

• Version: Stable 1.2
• Byte Size:  1.6 MB (1,691,648 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
• Description: libiconv provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. It supports all the important encodings in use today.
  

libmcrypt

• Version: Stable 2.3.3
• Byte Size:  268.0 KB (274,432 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://hq.hellug.gr/~mcrypt/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: libmcrypt is the library mcrypt(1) is based on. It is intended to have a simple interface to access encryption algorithms in ofb, cbc, cfb and ecb modes. The algorithms it currently supports are DES, 3DES, Blowfish, Twofish, Safer-SK64/128, IDEA, GOST, CAST-128 /256, RC2, RC6, LOKI97, SAFER+ and xTEA.
  

libmikmod

• Version: Stable 3.1.8  /  Development 3.1.9 Beta
• Byte Size:  490.0 KB  /  497.9 KB
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: October 26th, 1999
• Home Page: http://mikmod.darkorb.net/
• Binary: Debian RPM Source PPC Alpha Sparc
• Description: libmikmod is a portable sound library, which used to be packaged with the MikMod module player, but is now released independently. It is capable of playing samples as well as module files, using the OSS driver for output, as well as Alsa and EsounD. Supported module format include mod, s3m, xm, it, med, mtm and 669, to name a few
  

liboop

• Version: Stable 0.4
• Byte Size:  154.9 KB (158,572 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 16, 1999
• Home Page: http://ofb.net/~egnor/oop/
• Description: Liboop provides a generic, callback-based event dispatch service, and aims to ease the development of multiplexed, non-blocking, event-driven modular applications, components, and libraries under POSIX-based operating systems. The library and its interfaces are still in flux; stuff should work, but things may change to better support more developers. Suggestions are welcome.
  

Libpcap

• Version: Stable 0.1.1
• Byte Size:  31.0 KB (31,693 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 26, 2000
• Binary: RPM Alpha
• Description: A packet capture library.
  

libra

• Version: Stable 0.1.3
• Byte Size:  88.9 KB (91,018 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: Febraury 19, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/programming/libra/
• Description: Libra is a free (GPL, modified for run-time) library of reusable code for the Ada '95 programming language. It contains generic data structures and networking abstractions, as well as other useful bits and pieces. It will eventually offer Ada programmers a rich programming environment for creating modern applications. It is currently under fairly rapid development, with a new version appearing every month or so.
  

Libradio

• Version: Stable 0.3.4
• Byte Size:  16.8 KB (17,167 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: March 17th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/1868/libradio.html
• Binary: Redhat Source
• Description: Libradio is a small, simple C library to control FM Tuner Cards supported by the video for Linux API. Libradio is very early in its development and as of yet has only been tested with the Aztech/Packard Bell FM card.
  

libRPG

• Version: Stable 1.0.1
• Byte Size:  112.7 KB (115,418 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 29, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Screen/4079/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: libRPG is a C++ library for creating RPG/Adventure games. It should compile on any C++ compiler, and features management of objects, items, and a 3d map (ie you can go north, south, east, west, up, and down).
  

Librt

• Version: Stable 0.3.1
• Byte Size:  78.1 KB (79,981 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: April 4, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.primenet.com/~jerome/software.html
• Description: The rt library is a general purpose library written in C. It includes socket functions, random number generator, hash table subsystem, general list (stack/queue) subsystem, notification subsystem, binary tree subsystem, etc.
  

libsigc++

• Version: Stable 0.8.6
• Byte Size:  192.2 KB (196,858 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 7, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~kenelson/libsigc++/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: libsigc++ implements a full callback system for use in abstract interfaces and general programming. It is the most complete library of its kind with the ability to connect an abstract callback to a class method, function, or function object. It contains adaptor classes for connection of dissimilar callbacks and has an ease of use unmatched by other C++ callback libraries.
  

libsndfile

• Version: Stable 0.0.17
• Byte Size:  205.7 KB (210,672 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 24, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing sound files such as AIFF, AU and WAV files through one standard interface. It can currently read/write 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit PCM files as well as 32 bit floating point WAV files and IMA/DVI ADPCM WAV files. This library should compile and run correctly on any unix as well as Win32 (MSVC++).
  

libtcp

• Version: Stable 0.1.1
• Byte Size:  31.0 KB (31,693 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 7, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.sashanet.com/internet/download.html
• Description: libtcp is a free C++ class library to facilitate writing TCP/IP client-server applications
  

Magick

• Version: Stable 0.9.2
• Byte Size:  447.5 KB (458,213 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 4, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.simplesystems.org/Magick++/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: A C++ API wrapper around the powerful ImageMagick image-processing library. It provides a simple reference-counted object model in combination with a well-documented interface in order to support the rapid development of robust image processing applications. Magick++ takes advantage of current C++ features such as the STL, the string class, bool, namespaces, and object references in order to support writing code in a bug-free style.
  

MAPM

• Version: Stable 2.15
• Byte Size:  58.0 KB (59,375 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 19, 2000
• Home Page: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/math/calc
• Description: MAPM is an Arbitrary Precision Math Library written in C. This library also has math functions typically found in math.h. The library has the obvious add, subtract, multiply, and divide. It also has the following math functions : SQRT, SIN, COS, TAN, ARC-SIN, ARC-COS, ARC-TAN, ARC-TAN2, LOG, LOG10, EXP, POW, and FACTORIAL. Since the library supports math.h type functions, it has a slant towards floating point math (as opposed to integers). However, this library may also perform integer only math if so desired
  

Mesa

• Version: Stable 3.1
• Byte Size:  1.5 MB (1,580,874 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 15th, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.mesa3d.org/
• Binary: RPM Alpha PPC
• Description: The Mesa 3-D graphics library is a powerful and generic toolset for creating hardware assisted computer graphics utilizing OpenGL. This package includes the base libraries, development libraries, examples, and GLUT. Those who want a licensed implementation of OpenGL should contact a licensed vendor. However, Mesa is very similar to OpenGL, and you might find Mesa to be a valid alternative to OpenGL.
  

ncurses

• Version: Stable 5.0  /  Development
• Byte Size:  1.4 MB  /  1.4 MB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 19th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.html
• Binary: RPM PPC Alpha
• Description: Ncurses (new curses) is a freely distributable "clone" of System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses. Curses is a pun on the term "cursor optimization". It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100.)
  

NPS

• Version: Stable 0.9.18  /  Development 1.0b1
• Byte Size:  169.1 KB  /  183.6 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 20, 1999 / June 27,
• Home Page: http://www.engelschall.com/sw/nps/
• Binary: RPM
• Description: NPS is a portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual run-time stack and program-counter. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions.
  

Objext eXtention Library

• Version: Stable 0.99.2
• Byte Size:  37.8 KB (38,751 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 26, 1999
• Home Page: http://wildrose.miee.ru/wps
• Description: This library contains some useful C++ classes: Posix Threads, Sockets (Unix, TCP, UDP...), Configuration file parser, CGI Document classes (a-la Perl's CGI.pm), .SO Plugin implementation (Binary plugins - in future), TCP Server class (with authorization via libwrap), CGU Runtime session (abstract,memory; SQL in future).
  

OOMPI

• Version: Stable 1.0.2f
• Byte Size:  192.0 KB (196,618 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: July 8, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.mpi.nd.edu/research/oompi/software.htm
• Description: The Object Oriented MPI (OOMPI package is an object oriented approach to the Message Passing Interface (MPI)). OOMPI is a class library specification that encapsulates the functionality of MPI into a functional class hierarchy to provide a simple, flexible, and intuitive interface.
  

OpenAL

• Version: Stable  /  Development 03082000
• Byte Size:  504.0 KB (516,096 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: March 8th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.openal.org
• Description: OpenAL, the Open Audio Library, seeks to become the audio counterpart to OpenGL for audio. With OpenAL it is possible to create three-dimensional sound across many platforms, such as Linux, Apple Macintosh, Windows and more, with quality suitable for professional projects like games and multimedia applications.
  

OpenSSL

• Version: Stable 0.9.5
• Byte Size:  1.8 MB (1,886,248 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 1st, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.openssl.org/
• Binary: PPC
• Description: The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop the OpenSSL toolkit and its related documentation.
  

OS Kit

• Version: Stable 0.97
• Byte Size:  7.5 MB (7,889,543 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 16, 1999
• Description: OS Kit is a development kit lets you easily build your own kernel that can run on bare hardware. It has lots of component libraries and example kernels, and has almost everything you need to build a new OS. It includes full documentation, CPU schedulers, simple virtual memory, most Linux filesystems, several networking libraries including TCP/IP, most of Posix, lots of device drivers, and much more. Almost all components are optional, and all components are designed to fit into other operating systems if desired. A compatible version of the Kaffe JVM is also available.
  

OSE

• Version: Stable 6.0pl9
• Byte Size:  797.8 KB (816,962 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: June 14, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.dscpl.com.au/
• Description: OSE is a collection of programming tools and libraries targeted mainly at C++ programmers. It consists of three main components. These are a C++ class library, a build environment and a set of documentation extraction tools.
  

PaintLib

• Version: Stable 0.2.3
• Byte Size:  537.5 KB (550,414 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 26, 2000
• Home Page: http://rio.xdev.org/paintlib/
• Description: PaintLib is a small but useful graphic C++ library. It's designed to help developers in graphic programming under Qt, by providing cool functions like gradients, antialias on graphics primitives and text, and alpha channel support.
  

Pilot Link

• Version: Stable 0.9.3
• Byte Size:  488.6 KB (500,335 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: September 25, 1998
• Binary: RPM PPC
• Description: Pilot-Link is a C library for uploading and downloading programs and data files between Linux systems and PalmPilots. Pilot-Link also includes a few extra utilities (for example, one for syncing the PalmPilot's calendar app with Ical).
  

Procps

• Version: Stable 2.0.6
• Byte Size:  184.3 KB (188,674 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: November 4, 1999
• Binary: RPM
• Description: Procps is a library which parses the textual /proc filesystem and a suite of utilities which use the library.
  

QpThread

• Version: Stable 0.7
• Byte Size:  53.8 KB (55,088 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: June 14, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.gncz.cz/kra/
• Description: The QpThread Library provides object oriented framework in C++ for threads and Unix signals on top of system level threads (currently POSIX Threads). Moreover it supports deferred cancellation through C++ exception, timer, producer/consumer containers, thread pool and much more.
  

RCX.pm

• Version: Development 0.7
• Byte Size:  12.0 KB (12,288 bytes)
• License: Artistic & GPL
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.members.home.net/quillan/lego/rcx.pm.html
• Additional Software Required: Perl
• Description: RCX.pm is a Perl module to communicate with your Lego MindStorms RCX. It has me thods for various things like setting variables, reading sensors, and turning o n motors.
  

rdbm

• Version: Stable 0.9
• Byte Size:  37.1 KB (38,012 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: May 5, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~leitner/rdb/
• Description: rdbm aims to be a reliable database library. It is based on cdb with logging and a in-core hash. Through a TCP based IPC interface, it allows more than one writer. Central feature of the database is that it is small and will not crash even if you kill the process at any period in time.
  

Readline

• Version: Stable 4.0
• Byte Size:  608.3 KB (622,939 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 20, 1999
• Binary: RPM
• Description: The Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.
  

S-lang

• Version: Stable 1.2.2  /  Development 1.4.0
• Byte Size:  532.7 KB  /  902.4 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: April 24, 1998 / January 26, 2000
• Home Page: http://space.mit.edu/%7Edavis/slang.html
• Description: The language features both global and local variables, branching and looping constructs, user-defined functions, structures, datatypes, and arrays. In addition, there is limited support for pointer types. The concise array syntax rivals that of commercial array-based numerical computing environments.
  

Scene

• Version: Stable 0.1.4  /  Development 0.1.5a
• Byte Size:  972.0 KB (995,328 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 15th, 2000
• Home Page: http://scene.netpedia.net/
• Description: Scene is a project to implement a library of Open Inventor 2.0 looks alike API. It is also extended to support VRML 1.0/2.0
  

SDL Mixer Library

• Version: Stable 1.0.5
• Byte Size:  301.4 KB (308,668 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 6th, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/projects/SDL_mixer/
• Binary: RPM Alpha
• Additional Software Required: SDL
• Description: SDL_mixer is a sample multi-channel audio mixer library. It supports any number of simultaneously playing channels of 16 bit stereo audio, plus a single channel of music, mixed by the popular MikMod MOD, Timidity MIDI and SMPEG MP3 libraries.
  

Shared Libraries Howto

• Version: Stable 0.1
• Byte Size:  11.0 KB (11,297 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: February 29, 2000
• Home Page: http://members.home.com/god-of-pain/
• Description: Programming examples of how to write C/C++ libraries for Linux. Excellent for beginners and programmers that want to learn to program in Linux. Also includes some Silicon Tao C++ libraries.
  

Simple DirectMedia Layer Library

• Version: Stable 1.0.8  /  Development 1.1.0
• Byte Size:  866.0 KB  /  954.5 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: March 6, 2000
• Home Page: http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/
• Binary: RPM, RPM
• Description: SDL is a free cross-platform multi-media development API.
  

SkySOUND

• Version: Stable 0.61
• Byte Size:  798.8 KB (817,920 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: January 26, 2000
• Home Page: http://tuo.planet-d.net/skysound/
• Binary: Source
• Description: SkySOUND is a free audio library build on top of common audio library like MIDAS or SEAL, but that will have its own system-dependant driver (for Linux, DOS, Win32, etc.). It includes a powerful IntelASM-optimized MPEG Audio 1/2, layer I/II/III decoder, that is a partially rewritten version of the XingMPEG Decoder.
  

SVGA Development

• Version: Stable 1.2.13
• Byte Size:  153.0 KB (156,627 bytes)
• License: Distributable
• Revision Date: May 7, 1998
• Description: These are the libraries and header files that are needed to build programs which use SVGAlib. SVGAlib allows programs to use full screen graphics on a variety of hardware platforms and without the overhead X requires.
  

svgalib

• Version: Stable 1.4.1  /  Development 1.9.2
• Byte Size:  898.8 KB  /  912.0 KB
• License: Free Software
• Revision Date: December 23th, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/%7Ezivav/svgalib/
• Binary: Libc5
• Description: svgalib is a low-level graphics library that provides VGA and SVGA modes in a console. It is not intended as an alternative to X for apps, but rather a set of tools for things like VGA games, image viewing in modes that X cannot support, etc.
  

SyncBuilder Framework

• Version: Development 19990524
• Byte Size:  1.1 MB (1,153,743 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: June 20, 1999
• Binary:
• Additional Software Required: JDK
• Description: This library allows you to build Java programs to communicate with PalmPilot.
  

TCFS Libs

• Version: Stable 0.3.1
• Byte Size:  73.1 KB (74,872 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: May 10, 1999
• Home Page: http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it/
• Description: Libraries for the TCFS Cryptographic File System.
  

tdof

• Version: Development 0.0.1
• Byte Size:  131.9 KB (135,046 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: December 21, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.voxilla.org/projects/projtdof.html
• Binary: RPM
• Description: An APE derived C++ framework for developing applications with low level telephony device drivers such as the QuickNet IXJ driver under Linux.
  

Turbo Vision

• Version: Stable 0.6
• Byte Size:  312.5 KB (320,004 bytes)
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: August 27, 1998
• Home Page: http://dldialog.linuxbox.com/
• Description: Turbo Vision is a library that provides an application framework. With it you can write a beautiful object-oriented character-mode user interface in a short time.
  

wxWindows/GTK

• Version: Stable 2.0.1  /  Development 2.1.13
• Byte Size:  1.8 MB  /  752.0 KB
• License: GPL
• Revision Date: May 26th, 1999
• Home Page: http://wesley.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~wxxt/download.html
• Binary: RPM
• Description: wxWindows/Gtk is the GTK+ port of the C++ cross-platform wxWindows GUI library, offering classes for all common GUI controls as well as a comprehensive set of helper classes for most common application tasks, ranging from networking to Unicode.
  

Xterminal

• Version: Stable 1.0.2
• Byte Size:  278.2 KB (284,834 bytes)
• License: LGPL
• Revision Date: March 6, 2000
• Description: : Text-based object oriented user interface creation libraries for C++, with examples.
  

zlib

• Version: Stable 1.1.3
• Byte Size:  164.5 KB (168,463 bytes)
• License: Free Software
• Revision Date: November 19th, 1999
• Home Page: http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
• Binary: Source, Debian PPC Sparc
• Description: zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system. The zlib data format is itself portable across platforms.
  

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