The GNU C++ compiler. This is the GNU C++ compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C++. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
g-wrap is a tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries. At the moment it is most heavily focused on providing access to C libraries from guile, but it also supports RScheme. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
extract data from scanned graphs g3data is used for extracting data from graphs. For example, graphs are typically published in scientific journals without tables of the actual data; g3data makes the process of extracting these data easy. Home page: http://www.physics.helsinki.fi/~frantz/software/g3data.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gtk-based 5-in-a-row game A simple game vs. an AI player. Still beta, but the core game is there; authors are looking for contributions of graphics or sound. This game is a Debian exclusive (at least for now). :-) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Fortran 77 compiler. This is the GNU g77 Fortran compiler, which compiles Fortran 77 on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Fortran 77 compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 2.95.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GNOME Jabber client. Gabber is a Free and Open Source GNOME client for an instant messaging system called Jabber. Jabber is a Free and Open Source distributed instant messaging system. It does not rely on a single server, and the protocol is well documented. Jabber allows communication with many different instant messaging systems, including ICQ and AIM. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Small Gnome personal databases manager Gaby is a _small_ personal databases manager for Linux using GTK+ and Gnome for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward access to databases a 'normal' user would like (addresses, books, ...) while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. On a technical side it was designed with extensibility in mind and thus use relies a lot on plug-ins. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Government Advisory Council (ICANN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Personnal accounts manager gAcc is a program intended to manage one's bank accounts. It provides basic functions such as : - having multiple accounts in a wallet file - user readable configuration file & wallets files - add / remove any account from the file (happily ;-) ) - add / remove any operation from any account (idem :) ) - modify the category list - point or un-point operations - display intermediate balance for each operation - re-edit operations - re-edit accounts - internationalisation (not yet finished. volunteers ?) and locale formats - etc... Some other functions need to be implemented for better use. See the TODO file to know what they are. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gaddr is a nice simple little address book written using GTK+. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
SQL database and parser generator in Python Gadfly is a relational database management system which uses a large subset of very standard SQL as its query language and Python modules and optional Python/C extension modules as its underlying engine. Gadfly stores the active database in memory, with recovery logging to a file system. It supports an optional TCP/IP based client server mode and log based failure recovery for system or software failures (but not for disk failures). kwParser, included as part of the Gadfly package, is a parser generator for Python. It transforms an abstract specification of a language grammar (for example the CORBA Interface Definition Language) together with "interpretation functions" that define the semantics of the language into a compiler or translator or interpreter. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Application Developers Kit (Sun) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Application Environment From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUI Application Interoperability Architecture (OSF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GAIL implements the abstract interfaces found in ATK for GTK+ and GNOME libraries, enabling accessibility technologies such as at-spi to access those GUIs. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gail is the GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gaim allows you to talk to anyone using a variety of messaging protocols, including AIM (Oscar and TOC), ICQ, IRC, Yahoo!,MSN Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Napster, and Zephyr. These protocols are implemented using a modular, easy to use design. To use a protocol, just load the plugin for it. Gaim supports many common features of other clients, as well as many unique features, such as perl scripting and C plugins. Gaim is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by AOL. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GPL multi-protocol instant messenger client - Gtk+ version Gaim is a Gtk+ based instant messenger client that supports the TOC and OSCAR (and hence ICQ) AIM protocols, as well as providing plugins for the Gadu-gadu, IRC, Jabber, MSN Messenger, Napster, old ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger and Zephyr protocols. As the name suggests, it was originally designed for using AOL's Instant Messenger service (you can sign up at http://www.aim.aol.com/). Consequently it contains many of the same features as AOL's IM client, as well as incorporating many new features, such as the multiple protocol support. This version is compiled without GNOME support, making Gaim a stand-alone Gtk+ program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
German Advanced Integrated Network (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Governmental Accessed Keys (cryptography) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Array celL / Logic From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNOME Application Library (GAL) contains GNOME widgets and utility functions. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look and feel Galeon is a fast Web Browser for the GNOME Desktop Environment. Galeon's use of Mozilla's Gecko rendering engine makes it more feature complete and standards compliant than most other browsers available. By using the GNOME and GTK libraries for the user interface, Galeon is usually faster than mozilla and the interface integrates well with the GNOME Desktop Environment. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a web-based photo album written in php Gallery is a web-based photo album with multiple user support. It provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums via an intuitive web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning, searching and more. Albums can have read, write and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy. Created in an effort to prevent well meaning folks from sending obscenely large photos by email, Gallery provides an easy place for friends and relatives to create and maintain their own photo albums. The upstream web site is: http://gallery.sf.net From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Command line image gallery generator. It also makes thumbnails. Galrey is a command line image gallery generator. It takes your pictures and creates thumbnails and browsable HTML pages. Galrey also allows you to add a comment for each image. The HTML output can be fully customized editing the template file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical mixer for ALSA using gtk+. This package contains a graphical front-end (using the GTK+ toolkit) to the ALSA native mixer device. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Area Network From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Access Profile (DECT, Europe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Address Parameter From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Archiver with a WinZip and a tree interface, and full drag and drop. garchiver is an archiver for Gnome. It has a tree interface that lets you navigate through your archives very easily, as well as the classic WinZip interface. File can be dragged from a file manager and dropped on garchiver. Single files can be extracted with or without the path they were in. It currently fully supports .zip, .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.Z. Extracting and viewing of rar and arj archives is working, but not stable. It uses python modules to do all the work, so it is very easy to extend. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[Chemistry] a free molecular visualization program Garlic is probably the most portable molecular visualization program in the Unix world. It's written for the investigation of membrane proteins. It may be used to visualize other proteins, as well as some geometric objects. The name should has something to do with the structure and operation of this program. This version of garlic recognizes PDB format version 2.1. Garlic may also be used to analyze protein sequences. Features include (but not limited to): o The slab position and thickness are visible in a small window. o Atomic bonds as well as atoms are treated as independent drawable objects. o The atomic and bond colors depend on position. Five mapping modes are available (as for slab). o Capable to display stereo image. o Capable to display other geometric objects, like membrane. o Atomic information is available for atom covered by the mouse pointer. No click required, just move the mouse pointer over the structure! o Capable to load more than one structure. o Capable to draw Ramachandran plot, helical wheel, Venn diagram, averaged hydrophobicity and hydrophobic moment plot. o The command prompt is available at the bottom of the main window. It is able to display one error message and one command string. Author: Damir Zucic ([email protected]), University of Osijek, Croatia. Keywords: molecular visualization, protein structure, DNA structure, PDB, molecular rendering, biological macromolecule From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Address Remapping Table (AGP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Admin SHell (Unix, Shell) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome front end to the aspell spell checker Gnome frontend to the Aspell library. It has a 'Lookup' facility to look up definitions from online dictionaries using the dict protocol. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Database administration tool gASQL is a program which helps administer a DBMS database using the gnome-db framework (see http://www.gnome-db.org/ for more information about gnome-db). Basically, it memorizes all the structure of the database, and some queries, and does the SQL queries instead of the user (not having to type all over again those SQL commands, although it is still possible to do so). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A network device or machine that connects a local private network to another network or the Internet. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A program or piece of hardware that passes data between networks. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The technical meaning is a hardware or software set-up that translates between two dissimilar protocols, for example America Online has a gateway that translates between its internal, proprietary e-mail format and Internet e-mail format. Another, sloppier meaning of gateway is to describe any mechanism for providing access to another system, e.g. AOL might be called a gateway to the Internet. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUI interface to the "at" command. Gato is a GTK interface to the "at" command. The "at" command is the standard Unix way to allow you to schedule commands to be run sometime in the future. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
ATI All-in-Wonder TV capture software The General ATI TV and Overlay Software (GATOS) suite for capturing video. This package does not require kernel patches, and includes: * xatitv: GUI TV-in-a-window application GUI access to all GATOS functionality, save tv-out. * atitv: Simple text-mode program Basic functionality to record video and toggle tv-out. * atitoppm: * atitogif: * atitojpg: YUV conversion utilities * yuvsum: video field to frame converter Averages all images in gatos.yuv (must all be same size). * atisplit: YUV conversion to ucbmpeg This splits the output file for MPEG encoding. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU AWK (GNU, AWK) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language `awk', a program that you can use to select particular records in a file and perform operations upon them. Gawk is the GNU Project's implementation of the AWK programming language. It conforms to the definition of the language in the POSIX 1003.2 Command Language And Utilities Standard. This version in turn is based on the description in The AWK Programming Language, by Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger, with the additional features defined in the System V Release 4 version of UNIX awk. Gawk also provides more recent Bell Labs awk extensions, and some GNU-specific extensions. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GigaByte From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome Basic - VB compatible Basic for GNOME Gnome Basic is an embryonic attempt to provide Visual Basic compatible functionality for the GNOME project, particularly with respect to office (VBA) compatibility. This package provides the command-line Gnome Basic controller. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GuoBao [codepage] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
see gigabit. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
see gigabyte. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
small numeric base converter If you specify a number on the command line (preceded by a switch to describe the base the number is in) the program will display that number in all four bases on the console and exit. You can also specify the -s switch which will allow you to enter/display signed numbers. (This allows the use of a - (minus) before a decimal number). Just running the program without any switches will display the main window. There are four entry boxes, corresponding to each of the four bases. You can type into any of these boxes and the others will update automagically. The program will ignore any characters that are not allowed for that particular base. It will only allow a - (minus) at the start of a decimal number, if the signed option is on. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
networked BattleShip game Batalla Naval is a networked BattleShip game. It supports multiple players and multiple robots at the same time. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
user-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document. gBib is able to import and export BiBTeX databases. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A mail notification program supported GTK+ and Gnome gbiff checks for mail within a file, a qmail or MH style dir, or an IMAP4 or a POP3 server. It can display headers (number, sender, subject, and date) when new mail has arrived. It interprets any ISO-8859 encoding and supports both GTK and GNOME. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Purpose Interface Bus From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GigaBits Per Second From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GTK+-based, XBuffy-like multiple mailbox "biff" program GBuffy will poll multiple mailboxes for new mail. It will list the number of new messages in each mailbox you configure. It will also highlight the mailboxes which have new mail. Pressing the left mouse button on a mailbox with new mail will display the Sender and Subject of each new message. Additionally, GBuffy will display the X-Face header for messages which have them. Pressing the middle mouse button on a mailbox will launch the configured command, generally a command to read the mailbox with your favorite mailreader. Pressing the right mouse button will bring up the configure menu. GBuffy is currently capable of watching MBOX, MMDF, Maildir and MH Folders. This version also supports IMAP4rev1 and NNTP with XOVER mailboxes. Support for an external program for notification is planned. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Catalog (MS, AD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Utility to calculate bearing and range to a location Gcb computes Great Circle Bearing and Range given the latitude and longitude (degrees and minutes). You must input the lat/long of the two stations. The output will then be relative from station1 to station2. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Communications Architecture (Ingres) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Geographical Computer Aided Design System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Prints calendars Gcal displays a calendar for a month or a year, eternal holiday lists and fixed date lists, in many ways. The program correctly omits the dates that were skipped when the current Gregorian calendar replaced the earlier Julian calendar. Apart from the usual and well known calendar functions like the output of a month or a year calendar sheet, or the output of an eternal holiday list, Gcal offers the facility to display fixed dates on the day of their occurrence and to remind or inform the user about them. So it's imaginable after booting the computer or starting the work session, that the user is informed on screen or by means of electronic mail, about all holidays or appointments which are observed or scheduled for that day. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME applet for changing PCMCIA-CS schemes. GCardScheme is a GNOME applet for changing PCMCIA-CS card schemes. Schemes allow for multiple configurations without having to change configuration files (e.g. different schemes for home and office networks). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A compiler aimed at integrating all the optimizations and features necessary for a high-performance and stable development environment. This package is required for all other GCC compilers, namely C++, Fortran 77, Objective C and Java. If you have multiple versions of GCC installed on your system, it is preferred to type "gcc-$(gcc3.2-version)" (without double quotes) in order to use the GNU C compiler version 3.2.2. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU C Compiler (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU C compiler by Richard Stallman et al. A very high quality, very portable compiler for C, C++ and Objective C. The compiler is designed to support multiple front-ends and multiple back-ends by translating first into Register Transfer Language and from there into assembly code for the target architecture. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Memory access debugger for C language development Checker automatically finds: * null pointer dereferences (read, write, and execute accesses) * writes to read-only memory * accesses to free blocks (read, write, and execute) * reads of uninitialized bytes (in automatic and dynamic memory) * reads/writes to "red zones" (in automatic and dynamic memory) * reads/writes/executes outside memory segments * free called with address not obtained from malloc * free an already freed block * ...and many other kinds of memory and API errors. Checker's main disadvantage is that it causes the program to run much slower. You can compile your program to use Checker by replacing calls to gcc by calls to checkergcc. Please read the documentation in /usr/share/doc/gccchecker. This version of Checker works only with GNU gcc 2.95. It will not work with earlier or later versions. There is limited support for C++, with no support for libstdc++. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
create dependencies in makefiles using 'gcc -M' From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Command and Control System (DISA, mil.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
MySQL/PHP billing system. gcdb is a GUI to a MySQL database. It supports Customer, Payment, Invoice, Account, and Trouble Ticket entries. Records can be added, edited, or deleted. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Create audio CDs and write them in disk-at-once mode gcdmaster allows creation and editing of audio CD images in an easy to use GNOME environment. It can read audio CDs with jitter compensation for outstanding quality, add CD-TEXT and perform direct CD to CD copies. gcdmaster is a graphical version of the cdrdao command-line utility. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ada quality & style checker This is an ASIS application that enforces various quality and style rules, including those from the Ada Quality and Style Guide. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
the GNOME Character Map From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Call IDentifier From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Call IDentifier- Information Element (GCID), "GCID-IE" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Java compiler. GCJ is a front end to the GCC compiler which can natively compile both Java(tm) source and bytecode files. The compiler can also generate class files. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Java compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 3.0.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Common LISP (GNU, LISP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Common Lisp compiler. GNU Common Lisp (GCL) is a Common Lisp compiler and interpreter implemented in C, and complying mostly with the standard set forth in the book "Common Lisp, the Language I". It attempts to strike a useful middle ground in performance and portability from its design around C. This package contains the Lisp system itself. Documentation is provided in the gcl-doc package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Command Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Draft ANSI Common Lisp specification in info format This is a draft specification of the ANSI Common Lisp language in the GNU info format. The gclinfo-html package contains the same document in HTML format. GNU Common Lisp specific information can be found in gcl and gcl-doc packages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Gnome Comics Organizer. GCO is a database for keeping track of your comics collection. It supports titles, publishers, types, writers, pencilers, inkers, cover prices, current prices, comments, and much more. It also allows you to sort the list in various ways. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
the GNOME Color Browser From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gcombust is a gtk+ frontend for mkisofs, mkhybrid, cdrecord and cdlabelgen. It's written in C. It has primitive support for controlling the directory (root) structure and size of image without copying files/symlinking or writing 10 lines of arguments and can maximize disk by hinting which directories/files to use. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+ based CD mastering and burning program gcombust is a GTK+ frontend for mksisofs and cdrecord. Features: * burning on the fly from HD * CD-to-CD copying (audio CD on-the-fly copy is experimental) * makes creation of iso-images easy * maximize CD usage by hinting which directories/files to use * audio CD creation (DAO support) * bootable CD support * multisession support * CD-RW support * cover printing via cdlabelgen * save/load path selections (for always burning the same set of files) * save/load settings * tooltips * NLS support * verify From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Educational game for small children GCompris is a framework for educational games for the GNOME desktop, already providing a number of boards. It is meant to become some sort of unified interface for more educational games. In French GCompris is pronounced like "j'ai compris", which means "I Have Understood". Currently available boards include: * learning how to use a mouse and keyboard * learning simple arithmetics * learning how to read an analog clock * recognize letters after hearing their names * reading practice * small games (memory games, jigsaw puzzles, ...) * etc. It is designed so that it is easy to implement new boards to GCompris. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GConf is the GNOME Configuration database system. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. It is an easy touse, powerful, and highly configurable desktop environment. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME configuration database system. (daemon and tools) GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the Windows registry but lots better. :-) It's being written for the GNOME desktop but does not require GNOME. This package contain gconfd daemon and gconf tools binaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An editor for the GConf configuration system. An editor for the GConf configuration system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GConf is a configuration data storage mechanism scheduled to ship with GNOME 2.0. GConf does work without GNOME however; it can be used with plain GTK+, Xlib, KDE, or even text mode applications as well. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to support workgroup administration. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME configuration database system. (daemon and tools, for GNOME2) GConf is a configuration database system, functionally similar to the Windows registry but lots better. :-) It's being written for the GNOME desktop but does not require GNOME. This package contain gconfd daemon and gconf tools binaries for GNOME2 From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Comprehensive Operating System (Honeywell, OS, Honeywell Series 60, Honeywell Series 6000) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
test coverage program for GNU CC From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Consciousness Project EGG Software The GCP studies data from random event generators in widely distributed locations, to discern non-random patterns that may result from the interaction of human consciousness with the generators. This package provides the software required to operate a random event generator and return data to the project. Unless you are registered with the GCP and have received event generator hardware, this package will be useless to you. If you have no idea what this means, don't bother installing this package! More GCP information is available at http://noosphere.princeton.edu. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gray Component Replacement (RGB, CYMK, DTP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Coded Recording From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Cell Rate Algorithm (UNI, ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK crontab editor gcrontab is a simple GTK editor for the UNIX cron system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Greek Computer Society (org., Griechenland) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Control System (IBM, VM, VME, VM/ESA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gtk+ front-end for cvs An advanced, easy to use C++ front-end for cvs distributed under the GPL. gCvs features: - gCvs is part of the CvsGui project and shares a large portion of code with WinCvs and MacCvs, both of which are fairly mature. - gCvs is written in C++ using GNU gtk+. - Uses the latest cvs source code. - Makes cvs easier for the novice. - Increases the power of cvs by providing an high-end interface. - The project is growing because it is supported and developed by several cvs users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gd graphics library allows your code to quickly draw images complete with lines, arcs, text, multiple colors, cut and paste from other images, and flood fills. The library will write out the result as a PNGor JPEG file. This is particularly useful in Web applications, where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most Web browsers. Note that gd is not a paint or graphics manipulation program. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Directory Agent (DCE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Visualization plug-in for xmms GDancer is a plugin to animate characters to the beat of the music. The default character is Space Ghost, but you can use and make your own characters through themes. You can find more theme here: http://figz.com/gdancer/themes.php From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Government Document Application Profile From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gdb is a full featured, command driven debugger. Gdb allows you to trace the execution of programs and examine their internal state atany time. Gdb works for C and C++ compiled with the GNU C compiler gcc.If you are going to develop C and/or C++ programs and use the GNU gcc compiler, you may want to install gdb to help you debug your programs. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GDB, the GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their data. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU DeBugger (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Debugger GDB is a source-level debugger, capable of breaking programs at any specific line, displaying variable values, and determining where errors occurred. Currently, it works for C, C++, Fortran Modula 2 and Java programs. A must-have for any serious programmer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gdbm is a GNU database indexing library, including routines which use extensible hashing. Gdbm works in a similar way to standard UNIX dbm routines. Gdbm is useful for developers who write C applications andneed access to a simple and efficient database or who are building C applications which will use such a database. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Data Base Manager (DB, GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Remote Server for the GNU Debugger From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Datenschutz und Datensicherung (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical Data Display Manager (IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical Device / Display Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
display dialog boxes from shell scripts From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome client for MIT dictionary server From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
molecular display A GTK based program for the display and manipulation of isolated molecules and periodic systems. It is in development, but is nonetheless fairly functional. It has the following features: * Support for several file types (CIF, BIOSYM, XYZ, XTL, MARVIN, and GULP) * A simple molecular creation and manipulation tool * A dialogue for creating starting configurations for molecular dynamics simulations * Assorted tools for visualization (geometry information, region highlighting, etc.) * Animation of BIOSYM files (also rendered animations, see below) GDIS also allows you to perform the following functions through other packages: * Model rendering (courtesy of POVRay) * Energy minimization (courtesy of GULP) * Morphology calculation (courtesy of cdd) * Space group processing (courtesy of SgInfo) * View the Periodic Table (courtesy of GPeriodic) * Load additional filetypes, such as PDB (courtesy of Babel) http://gdis.seul.org/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME utility to monitor disk space usage From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with gtk Gdk-Imlib is a low-level gdk interface for gtk programmers. It allows easier access to many graphics formats and can write to them as well. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gdk-pixbuf package contains an image loading library used with the GNOME desktop environment. The GdkPixBuf library provides image loading facilities, the rendering of a GdkPixBuf into various formats (drawables or GdkRGB buffers), and a cache interface. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME-dependent portions of the gdk-pixbuf image loading library. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GdkPixBuf library provides a number of features: - Image loading facilities. - Rendering of a GdkPixBuf into various formats: drawables (windows, pixmaps), GdkRGB buffers. This package provides image loaders used by all versions of GdkPixBuf From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gtk+-1.2 anti-aliased font support control panel *** THIS WILL CAUSE APPLICATIONS TO CRASH, DIE, LOSE INFORMATION, AND OTHER NASTY EFFECTS. DON'T USE THIS IF YOU WANT STABILITY *** This gnomecc capplet can assist in managing the use of libgdkxft. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log into your system with the X Window System running and supports running several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Display Manager host chooser window From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Definition of Management Information From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Display Manager greeting window From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guidelines for the Definition of Managed Objects (OSI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Device Operating System (OS, Atari) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Greater Detroit OS/2 User Group (org., user group, OS/2, USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Grundsaetze zum Datenzugriff und zur Pruefbarkeit Digitaler Unterlagen (BMF), "GDPdU" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
??? Read Only Memory (Sega, ROM), "GD-ROM" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generalized Data Stream (IBM, APPC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Directory Service (DCE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Descriptor Table From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tcl interface to GD graphics creation library. This package provides a simple Tcl interface to the gd (PNG drawing) package, version 1.3. It includes an interface to all the gd functions and data structures from Tcl commands. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Descriptor Table Register Cache (GDT, Intel, CPU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Electric (manufacturer, GE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Enterprise Application Server The GNU Enterprise Application Server provides a way to do CORBA communication without having to understand CORBA. It turns relational data structures into objects for use by a client. Methods are written in Python. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor / System (OS, GE, GCOS, predecessor, Honeywell) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU EDA -- Electronics design software GNU EDA, an electronics design package, including gschem, a schematic editor. This is alpha software! From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gEdit is a small text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop. gEdit includes a plug-in API (which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small), support for editing multiple documents using notebook tabs, and standard text editor functions. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Light-weight text editor Gedit has all the basic features you come to expect from a simple text editor, but Gedit has a native graphic user interface (GUI). Gedit also has command line arguments available to users to quickly and easily view and edit files from a terminal. Overall, Gedit is an easy to use text editor with utilizing the powerful capabilities of the GNOME desktop. Gedit has a versatile plug-in architecture to extend its capablilties. This allows you to perform functions you don't normally expect from a text editor, such as piping the output of a shell command to the screen. The plug-in architecture also lets you email people, browse the internet, or produce a diff from gedit. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Program for generating geekcode. This is a program for generating the geekcode. See http://www.geekcode.com for more info and for discovering if you need the geekcode. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a GTK+ Equation Grapher geg is a very simple utility for parsing and plotting 2D-functions, eg f(x) = 3 + sin(x), and much more complicated functions of course. It is written with GTK+ and provides a neat, configurable user interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Elektronische Informationsverarbeitung [mbh] (manufacturer, Aachen) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
German Encyclopedic Internet Service Terminal (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generalized Executive for realtime Multiprocessor applications (OS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Environment Manager (DR, PC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gem Drop X is an interesting one-player puzzle game for X11 The game is played with YOU at the bottom of the screen. At the top is a random assortment of colored shapes ("gems"). As time goes on, more gems appear at the very top of the screen, pushing the rest downwards. The game is over when the gems reach the bottom. It's your job to keep the screen from filling up. You do this by "grabbing" gems from the top of the screen, carrying them around, if need be, and "throwing" them back up. If, when you throw some gems back up, you create a "match" of 3 or more gems in a vertical column, they disappear (with a cool little explosion). At this point, if there are any "matches" of the same gem to the left or right of this column, they disappear too! And so on. This is great for cool chain-reactions! You also get more points for the more gems that disappear in a match. (Matching four gives as many points as matching three twice, for example.) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
utility to aid in error-free diff file generation From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GENDIST (the Linux Distribution Generator) allows you to create your own special mini-distribution. It creates a makefile-based build system for your distribution, and helps you to automate the following three tasks: maintaining your root filesystem, maintaining your "CD filesystem" (in case you create a bootable CD), and packaging everything on media. GENDIST 1.4.7 (Stable) was released December 29, 2002. A 'special purpose/mini' distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Documentation generation from Python source files From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General-purpose neural simulator GENESIS is a general purpose simulation platform which was developed to support the simulation of neural systems ranging from complex models of single neurons to simulations of large networks made up of more abstract neuronal components. GENESIS has provided the basis for laboratory courses in neural simulation at both Caltech and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Most current GENESIS applications involve realistic simulations of biological neural systems. Although the software can also model more abstract networks, other simulators are more suitable for backpropagation and similar connectionist modeling. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Genealogy Software with Web Interface Geneweb allows you to keep track of ancestral data. It is a powerful system for maintaining a set of data about your family history. It supports much of the GEDCOM tag system for data storage, and can be used either as your primary system for archiving genealogical data, or as a web service (through a CGI interface) for publishing your data for others to use. Geneweb is under active use and development, so its feature set is constantly improving. It already boasts features not found in most off-the-shelf products, such as consanguinity and relationship calculations, as well as other statistical analysis tools. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
skeleton main.c generator gengetopt reads an interface description file, and writes a skeleton main.c file. gengetopt supports: long and short options, 11 types of parameters (including flag, int, double, string, and function call), and a usage message. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Electric Network for Information Exchange (network, GE) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
generate symbol version information From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
generate symbol version information From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
command line parser generator Genparse is a generic command line parser generator. From simple and concise specification file, you can define the command line parameters and switches that you would like to be able to pass to your program. Genparse creates the C code of the parser for you, which you can then compile as a separate file and link with your program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Monitor UPS and handle line power failures The express aim of the genpower package is to add additional functionally and a simpler means of configuring UPS monitoring, in a full featured suite that can be configured to work with most UPSs featuring an RS232 monitoring port. Depending on the UPS, cable, and the manner in which the genpower package is configured, the genpower package provides the following features: * Line power sensing * Low battery detection * Physical cable detection * The ability to kill the UPS's inverter The Debian package has an extra cable description called "apc-pnp" that should support all of the above for the APC Back-UPS Pro, Smart-UPS, and Matrix-UPS systems using the included Windows-95 Plug-and-Play cable! From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
This is the mkfs equivalent for romfs filesystem You need it to build a romfs filesystem. romfs is a small, read-only filesystem intended for installation/rescue disks or "embedded" applications. This filesystem is supported by Linux 2.1.25 and later. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generate /etc/sgml/sgml.env and /etc/sgml/sgml.cenv From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A fully GUI configurable X file manager using GTK+ gentoo is a file manager for X11, written from scratch in pure C. It utilises the GTK+ toolkit for its interface. A goal with gentoo is to let the user do all configuration from within the program itself; there should be no need to hand-edit configuration files and restart the program in order to customize it. gentoo features a fairly complex and powerful file identification system, coupled to a object-oriented style system, which together give you a lot of control over how files of different types are displayed and acted upon. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gentoo Linux is a source-based distribution, versatile, fast and completely free. It's geared towards developers and network professionals. Gentoo 1.4_rc4 was released April 15, 2003. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
interactive geometry viewing program Geomview is interactive geometry software which is particularly appropriate for mathematics research and education. In particular, geomview can display things in hyperbolic and spherical space as well as Euclidean space. Modules that rely on the non-free libforms library are not included. Geomview allows multiple independently controllable objects and cameras. It provides interactive control for motion, appearances (including lighting, shading, and materials), picking on an object, edge or vertex level, snapshots in SGI image file or Renderman RIB format, and adding or deleting objects is provided through direct mouse manipulation, control panels, and keyboard shortcuts. External programs can drive desired aspects of the viewer (such as continually loading changing geometry or controlling the motion of certain objects) while allowing interactive control of everything else. Homepage: http://geomview.org. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphic Environment Operating System (OS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
format equations for troff From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GSM EDGE Radio Access Network (GSM, EDGE, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gerber file viewer for PCB design gerbv is a utility for viewing Gerber files. Gerber files are used for communicating printed circuit board (PCB) designs to PCB manufacturers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Frontend for Simple Asynchronous File Transfer Gerstensaft is an easy to use graphical oriented frontend for sendfile(1). It features sending files and directories and provides a history for addresses. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GESellschaft fuer Informatik in der Pharmazie [e.v.] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Query system configuration variables From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
get entries from administrative database From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
print the current format information TQ From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
print kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
POP3, APOP mail gatherer/forwarder. getmail is intended as a simple replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves mail (either all messages, or only unread messages) from one or more POP3 servers for one or more email accounts, and reliably delivers into a qmail-style Maildir, mbox file or to a command (pipe delivery) like maildrop or procmail. specified on a per-account basis. getmail also has support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Parse command line options From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
parse command options (enhanced) From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Government Emergency Telecommunications System (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Internationalization utilities Interesting for authors or maintainers of other packages or programs which they want to see internationalized. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU gettext package provides a set of tools and documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs. Tools include a set of conventions about how programs should be written to support message catalogs, a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs, a runtime library which supports the retrieval of translated messages, and stand-alone programs for handling the translatable and the already translated strings. Gettext provides an easy to use library and tools for creating, using, and modifying natural language catalogs and is a powerful and simple method for internationalizing programs. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
add internationalization files to your project From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
alternative Linux getty From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU HaliFAX Sender This is the GNU HaliFAX Sender, a component of GNU HaliFAX which will help you send Postscript and TIFF g3/g4 files to mgetty+sendfax or hylafax for sending faxes. The GNU HaliFAX will be a complete free client package for HylaFAX and maybe for other fax systems in the future. It is intended to run on both the Win32 platform and the GNU system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Flow Control (ATM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Going For Coffee (slang, Usenet, IRC) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK firewall control center Allows setup of a firewall using a GTK gui. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Free Documentation License (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a simple floppy formatter for the GNOME From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Giga FLoating-point Operations Per Second (CPU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
the GNOME Font selector From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType fonts gfontview is a font viewer for outline fonts, PostScript(tm) Type 1 and TrueType(tm). gfontview allows you to display a particular character or string of a font in an own window, thus allowing a comparison between several fonts with a particular string sample. This character or string can be antialiased (smoothed). The string can also consider the kerning pairs if available in the AFM or TTF file. The displayed character or string can be saved in GIF format. A table with all glyphs in the font (for PostScript Type 1 fonts also in several encodings) can also be created. A custom encoding will be generated on the fly to allow you to see all characters (also not encoded ones) in a Type 1 font, the so called "Custom" encodings. You can also print a sample of a font. The program generates PostScript code with sample strings in several sizes, which you can download to any PostScript printer or to ghostscript. TrueType fonts can be saved as Type42 PostScript fonts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Forth Language Environment This is the GNU'ish implementation of a Forth programming environment. Forth, as a language, is best known for being stack-based, and completely extensible. Each Forth environment provides one or more dictionaries of pre-defined words, and programming in Forth consists of defining and executing new words that are combinations of previously defined words. It has been said that learning Forth changes forever the way you think about writing programs. For more information about Forth, visit the Forth Interest Group web site at http://www.forth.org/fig.html. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Functional Plane (IN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Recreate a grid of mirrors from clues given by tests Send balls through an invisible grid of mirrors (and other interesting widgets) and observe where they end up. Then, try to recreate the same grid from the results you just obtained. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
??? File System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global File System; an open source shared disk file system for networked storage. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying (DFUe) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A utility to split and join files gfslicer is a utility which allows you to split (slice) files into files with the size of your choice. It can also join (desclice) these files back into the original file. Other features are compression and error checking. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
make proof sheets from generic font files From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
convert generic font files to packed font files From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gFTP is a multi-threaded FTP client for the X Window System. gFTPsupports simultaneous downloads, resumption of interrupted filetransfers, file transfer queues to allow downloading of multiple files, support for downloading entire directories/subdirectories, a bookmarks menu to allow quick connection to FTP sites, caching of remote directory listings, local and remote chmod, drag and drop, a connection manager, and much more. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
X/GTK+ FTP client gFTP is a multithreaded FTP client, available in two versions: * version for X, written using GLib and GTK+ * version for the console, using only GLib This is an upgrade convenience package, it's only useful for depending on From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
translate a generic font file for humans to read From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An instant messenger compatible with Gadu Gadu - GNOME version Gadu Gadu is a Windows instant messenger, very popular in Poland. GNU Gadu is a GTK+/GNOME version for *nix systems. This version is linked against GNOME, and allows you to use gg as a panel applet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An instant messenger compatible with Gadu Gadu - GTK+ version Gadu Gadu is a Windows instant messenger, very popular in Poland. GNU Gadu is a GTK+/GNOME version for *nix systems. This is a GTK+-only version, which allows you to use gg without the need to install GNOME libraries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Graphics Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gateway to Gateway Protocol (RFC 823) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a Gradebook to help teachers manage student grades. A well-featured Gradebook which uses gtk. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GueteGemeinschaft Software [e.v.] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gateway GPRS Support Node (GPRS, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Ghostview (ggv) is a frontend for Ghostscript, an interpreter of PostScript that is able to properly render PostScript documents in a display or a printer. GGv serves as a layer that isolates the user from the cumbersome options and interface of Ghostscript, and, at the same time, gives extra features such as panning and persistent user settings. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
the Glasgow Haskell Compilation system the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation system (GHC). GHC is a compiler for Haskell98. Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language. Haskell98 is the current version of the language. The language definition and additional documentation can be found in the `haskell-doc' package. Alternatively, there is an online version at http://haskell.org/onlinereport/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GNOME molecular modelling environment Ghemical is a computational chemistry software package written in C++. It has a graphical user interface and it supports both quantum- mechanics (semi-empirical) models and molecular mechanics models. Geometry optimization, molecular dynamics and a large set of visualization tools using OpenGL are currently available. Ghemical relies on external code to provide the quantum-mechanical calculations. Semi-empirical methods MNDO, MINDO/3, AM1 and PM3 come from the MOPAC7 package (Public Domain), and are included in the package. The project started as a freeware molecular modelling package, but since the graphical user interface part of the package is quite advanced and clearly written (according to our own biased view, at least), the package now aims to become a common framework for molecular modelling programs generally. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Hex editor for files The GHex program can view and edit files in two ways, hex or ascii. Good for editing savegame files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU HaliFAX Viewer This is the GNU HaliFAX Viewer, a component of GNU HaliFAX which will help you look at the TIFF g3/g4 fax files produced by HylaFAX The GNU HaliFAX will be a complete free client package for HylaFAX and maybe for other fax systems in the future. It is intended to run on both the Win32 platform and the GNU system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ghostscript is a set of software that provides a PostScript(TM) interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements thegraphics capabilities in the PostScript language) and an interpreter for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by your printer or screen. Ghostscript is normally used to display PostScript files and to print PostScript files to non-PostScript printers. Most applications use PostScript for printer output. You should install ghostscript if you need to display PostScript files, orif you have a non-PostScript printer. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a PostScript viewer for X11 This is the GNU PostScript viewer (an X11 frontend for GhostScript, in the gs package), and it is VERY old. Its last release was in 1993, and its user interface is considered ugly by some. You may find the gv package a better alternative. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guest Host Technique SuperTwisted Nematic (LCD), "GHT-STN" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
wrapper library for imlib2, and other stuff. giblib is a library of handy stuff. Contains an imlib2 wrapper to avoid the context stuff, doubly-linked lists and font styles. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gibraltar is a project that aims to produce a Debian GNU/Linux-based router and firewall package. This package boots and runs from CD-ROM, so a hard disk installation is not necessary. Version 0.99.6 was released January 13, 2003.. Version 0.99.7a was released April 30, 2003. A CD-based distribution. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Boot support for Gibraltar live CD-ROM This package contains the necessary support for the live Gibraltar CD-ROM. It will manage /etc and /var to be writeable and will take care of saving and restoring /etc. Therefore this package should be installed on the master copy that will be used as the live file system on the CD-ROM. Do not install it on a system that boots from a harddisk partition (e.g. the development system for creating the bootable CD-ROMs), it will break. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group ID From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group identification number for the process. Valid group numbers are given in /etc/group, and in the GID field of /etc/passwd file. When a process is started, its GID is set to the GID of its parent process. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Grafisch-Interaktives DatenAnalyseSystem From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Input Device Emulation Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
RFC1413 compliant IPv4/IPv6 ident daemon gidentd is a fully functional, RFC1413 compliant ident daemon, written by Joern Heissler. It provides IPv4/IPv6 functionality. Its possible to run the gidentd from inetd or as standalone daemon. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A simple GTK Dictionary gidic (Gtk Inter DICtionary) is a simple dictionary program which is a GTK-based front-end to The Internet Dictionary project from Tyler Chambers, which includes French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish dictionaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Intrusion Detection Object (CIDF) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
is an acronym for Graphic Interchange Format, developed by compuserve this is a very popular format for exchanging pictures, it is slowly being replaced by the JPG image format. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GIF -> PNG conversions This program can convert GIF images to PNG images. It comes from ESR's page at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/gif2png/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a. Allows for setting the transparent or background color, changing colors, adding or removing comments. Also code to analyze GIF contents. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Giftrans will convert an existing GIF87 file to GIF89 format. In other words, Giftrans can make one color in a .gif image (normally the background) transparent. Install the giftrans package if you need a quick, small, one-purpose graphics program to make transparent .gifs out of existing .gifs. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gb - 1,024 megabits or 1 billion bits of information. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
1000 or 1024 Megabytes, depending on who is measuring. See also: Byte From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GB - 1,024 megabytes or 1 billion characters of information. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Garbage In Garbage Out From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Input Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Java bytecode interpreter. GIJ is not limited to interpreting bytecode. It includes a class loader which can dynamically load shared objects, so it is possible to give it the name of a class which has been compiled and put into a shared library on the class path. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Java bytecode interpreter for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 3.0.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Informatik in der Land-, forst- und ernaehrungswirtschaft [e.v.] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An OpenAmulet graphical user interface builder Gilt is an interface builder for the OpenAmulet graphical user interface toolkit. Gilt allows dialog boxes and other windows to be created interactively using the mouse. Widgets, such as scroll bars, buttons, and text input fields can be placed with the mouse, and properties set. Then, Gilt will generate C++ code to generate the same window at run time. Gilt stands for Graphical Interface Layout Tool. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer informationstechnik und InformationsManagement [mbh] (ISC, Bremen) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Image Viewer using GTK+ GImageView is image viewer. It has some useful features such as, Simple GUI. Tabbed thumbnail viewer for directories. Low memory use. Image file management tool. Slide show. read/write many image cache formats of thumbnail. read : Konqueror, GQview, Electric Eyes (Picview) write : Nautilus, .xvpics Supported image formats are: JPEG, PNG, PNM, GIF, TIFF, XBM, XPM, XWD, BMP and PCX. Drag and Drop. You can drop image into like a Gimp from GImageView window. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GTK configuration tool for imgstamp gimgstamp is a GTK configuration tool that can customise imgstamp, and allows the user to see what an image will look like after being stamped. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General / GNU Image Manipulation Program (Linux, Graphik, GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GIMP is an image manipulation program suitable for photo retouching,image composition and image authoring. Many people find it extremely useful in creating logos and other graphics for web pages. The GIMP has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. The GIMP provides a large image manipulation toolbox, including channel operations and layers, effects, sub-pixel imaging and anti-aliasing, and conversions, all with multi-level undo. This version of The GIMP includes a scripting facility, but many of the included scripts rely on fonts that we cannot distribute. The GIMP ftpsite has a package of fonts that you can install by yourself, which includes all the fonts needed to run the included scripts. Some of the fonts have unusual licensing requirements; all the licenses are documented in the package. Get ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/freefonts-0.10.tar.gzand ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/fonts/sharefonts-0.10.tar.gz if you are soinclined. Alternatively, choose fonts which exist on your system before running the scripts. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Image Manipulation Program, stable version 1.2 The GIMP lets you draw, paint, edit images, and much more! GIMP includes the functionality and plug-ins of other famous image editing and processing programs. This is the stable 1.2 version of GIMP. You ***MUST*** <--- (really!) have the xfonts-75dpi and xfonts-100dpi packages available on the X server, whether via files or via a font server like xfs. The gimp package only Recommends: these packages because it's possible to have them served remotely, but you really should install them. :) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generische INteraktive Anwendung (GMD) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphic Identification and Authentication From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Some tools for the GiNaC framework GiNaC (which stands for "GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)") is a library for doing symbolic (i.e. non-numeric) computation directly in the C++ programming language. This package provides some additional tools, like the popular ginsh (GiNaC interactive shell) and viewgar (for inspecting GiNaC archive files). See <http://www.ginac.de/> for detailed information about the GiNaC framework. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Inter-ORB Protocol (OMG, CORBA, ORB, IIOP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
giotto is a floppy Linux, a bootable floppy disk that comes with the necessary parts of the Linux operation system. giotto boots from a floppy (it can be installed also on a hard disk) and runs completly out of the system's RAM. Generally no hard disks are required. Distribution development is not all that active. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Giga Instructions Per Second (CPU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
IP Subnet Calculator for X. The IP Subnet Calculator is a tool that allows network administrators to make calculations that will assist in subnetting a network. You give the network class and subnet bits and you get back the maximum number of subnets, maximum number of hosts per subnet, a bimap showing the breakdown of network bits, subnet bits, and host bits, the decimal and hexadecimal class netmask, the decimal and hexadecimal subnet mask and lists subnets and host information. CIDR support, reverse engineer the network information for a particular interface (e.g. eth0, ppp0) and save capability. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generalized Information Retrieval Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Geographic Information System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
There are many ways to describe a Geographic Information System. Here are three working definitions (from David A. Hastings, 1992, Geographic Information Systems: A Tool for Geoscience Analysis and Interpretation): (The minimal definition): A GIS is a hardware/software system for the storage, management, and (with hardcopy or screen graphic) selective retrieval capabilities of georeferenced data. Definitions like this one are often used by vendors and users of vector-only GIS, whose objective is sophisticated management and output of cartographic data. (A parallel definition): A GIS is a hardware/software system for managing and displaying spatial data. It is similar to a traditional Data Base Management System, where we now think in spatial rather than in tabular terms, and where the "report writer" now allows output of maps as well as of tables and numbers. Thus we can consider a GIS a "spatial DBMS" as opposed to traditional "tabular DBMSs." Few people use this definition, but it might help to explain GIS to a DBMS user. (A more aggressive definition): A GIS is a system of hardware, software, and data that facilitates the development, enhancement, modeling, and display of multivariate (e.g. multilayered) spatially referenced data. It performs some analytical functions itself, and by its analysis, selective retrieval and display capabilities, helps the user to further analyze and interpret the data. Properly configured, the GIS can model (e.g. synthetically recreate) a feature or phenomenon as a function of other features or phenomena which may be related - where all features or phenomena are represented (characterized) by spatial and related tabular data. The analytical objectives described here are sometimes controversial - and often given lip service by cartographic GIS specialists who have not yet seen what can be accomplished scientifically by a select few GISs that go beyond cartographic approaches. Another definition can be found at the University of Edinburgh. From GRASS mini-HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Interactive Tools (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Interactive Tools git is a file system browser with some shell facilities which was designed to make your work much easier and more efficient. gitps is an interactive process viewer/killer. It calls the ps(1) utility internally. and gitps parameters are in fact ps(1) ones. Running gitps is self explanatory. Use the arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, C-n, C-p, C-v, ESC v to move in the list, C-l to refresh it and F10 or C-g to leave. You can change these keys. gitview is a hex/ascii file viewer. Too simple to need a separate manual page. Use the arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End, C-n, C-p, C-v, ESC v to move in the file, C-l to refresh the screen and F10 or C-g to leave. You can change these keys. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Government Information Technology Service (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Java Server Pages (GNU, Java, JSP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Key Distribution Centre (KDC, CBT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Helper to reconfigure packages with Debconf This is a program that helps one using the "dpkg-reconfigure" tool. It is basically a graphical frontend. It makes life easier showing a simple menu of packages which can be reconfigured with Debconf and the Debconf frontends that can be used for the reconfiguration. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gtk-based PPP dial-up configuration tool. GKDial stands for Gtk Kov Dialer. It is meant to setup PPP connections easily without needing to edit config files. It is also meant to dial to the peers you registered using pon/poff or another ppp dialer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A serial and network communications package. Gkermit is a GPL'd kermit package. It offers medium-independent terminal session and file transfer. The non-free package ckermit adds connection establishment, charecter-set translation and scripting features. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Key Management Protocol From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GKrellM plugin that displays a periodically updating image GKrellKam is basically wmGrabImage in a GKrellM panel, except that it is more flexible (you can specify a local or remote image, or a list of local or remote images, or a script that outputs the right image, etc). The image (any format or size) is resized to a thumbnail and placed in a GKrellM panel, where it is updated periodically. Multiple images are rotated. This plugin is useful for keeping track of webcams, weather maps, or any other kind of changing image information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Multiple stacked system monitors: 1 process. GKrellM charts CPU, Disk, and all active net interfaces automatically. An on/off button and online timer for the PPP interface is provided. Meters for memory and swap usage as well as a system uptime monitor are provided. Additional features are: * Clicking on left or right frame slides GKrellM shut to gain screen space. * Autoscaling grid lines with configurable grid line resolution. * LED indicators for the net interfaces. * Configurable chart sizes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphic Kernel System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gtk+ Frontend to su and sudo gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user. gksu can also act as a frontend to sudo. It installs a link /usr/bin/gksudo, which you can call to use this feature. When using sudo, gksudo respects /etc/sudoers definitions. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+ User Interface Builder Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick and easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit. It also contains built-in support for generating the C source code needed to recreate the interfaces. If you want Glade with support for the Gnome libraries, you should install the glade-gnome package. The user interfaces designed in Glade are stored in the well-known XML format, enabling easy integration with external tools. Several tools are already available which can turn the XML files into source code in other languages such as C++, Perl and Python. Other tools such as libglade can load the XML files and create the interfaces at runtime. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A versatile audio processor. GLAME provides a powerful and extensible framework for processing audio files similar to what GIMP offers in the graphics area. GLAME so far features a graphical frontend to set up filter networks and perform basic audio editing tasks. A flexible Scheme-based command line editor offers low-level access for scripting purposes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
This is a program similar to xbiff with a nicer output This is a program similar to xbiff, except that it provides somewhat nicer output. It requires the Mesa (OpenGL clone) libraries to render the 3D mailbox. The idea comes from the "mailbox" program available on SGI machines, and hence tries to mimic some of the features present in it. Note that this is an alpha version, and hence there are still some outstanding bugs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Linguistische DatenVerarbeitung (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a program for viewing text files From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Lesser General Public License (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GLib is a library of utility functions designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GLib is a handy library of utility functions. This C library is designed to solve some portability problems and provide other useful functionality which most programs require. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code iskept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function. The glibc package also contains national language (locale) support. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
glibc-kernheaders includes the C header files from the Linux kernel. The header files define structures and constants that are needed for building some standard programs and are also needed for rebuilding the glibc package From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The latest version of the GNU C Library. It currently runs unmodified on GNU Hurd systems and Linux i386, m68k, and alpha systems. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Report a bug to the Glibc developers From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Provides ld-lsb* dynamic loader links for LSB compliance. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a proprietary API plus drivers to access 3D graphics accelerator hardware based on chipsets manufactured by 3Dfx. Glide has been developed and implemented for DOS, Windows, and Macintosh, and has been ported to Linux by Daryll Strauss. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Binaries for glide2. This is a support package which should be installed if you have a card based on 3dfx Interactive, Inc's Voodoo chipsets. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Glide3 provides the necessary low-level interface glue between the Mesa3D graphics library, and 3Dfx Voodoo series of hardware. This package is required by the XFree86 tdfx driver in order to provide 3D acceleration support for the 3Dfx Voodoo 3/4/5 and Voodoo Banshee hardware. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Programmer's editor with multiple windows and syntax highlighting Glimmer is a simple code editor for use with just about any programming language, which makes use of of the Gtk+ widget set and the GNOME libraries, which includes drag and drop support. It includes syntax and bracket highlighting, the ability to build from within the editor, and support for saving sessions of many different code files open at once. Most settings can be customised from within the editor. Glimmer includes support for the following languages: Ada, bash/sh, C, C++, FORTRAN, HTML, Java, Javascript, Latex, GNU Make, Perl, PHP, Python, Lisp (guile, scheme, etc), SGML, SQL, Tcl/Tk, XML, XHTML, and Z80 Assembly, to name a few. Glimmer is also very extensible in the languages it supports for its syntax highlighting. If support for your language of choice is not included, you can write it very easily. In addition to this, Glimmer is completely scriptable with python. See http://glimmer.sourceforge.net for more information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A momentary power interruption or some other unexpected fluctuation in electronic circuits, such as those caused by power surges or dirty connections, that causes computer systems to generate garbage output or, in the extreme, to crash. A glitch is a hardware problem; software problem is called a bug. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
image viewer using gdk-pixbuf and OpenGL GLiv is an image viewer that uses gdk-pixbuf to load images, and OpenGL to render them. Moving and zooming is very fast and smooth if you have an OpenGL board. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generalized Markup Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/glob/, not /glohb/ v.,n. [Unix; common] To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing'). The Unix conventions for filename wildcarding have become sufficiently pervasive that many hackers use some of them in written English, especially in email or news on technical topics. Those commonly encountered include the following: * wildcard for any string (see also UN*X) ? wildcard for any single character (generally read this way only at the beginning or in the middle of a word) [] delimits a wildcard matching any of the enclosed characters {} alternation of comma-separated alternatives; thus, `foo{baz,qux}' would be read as `foobaz' or `fooqux' Some examples: "He said his name was [KC]arl" (expresses ambiguity). "I don't read talk.politics.*" (any of the talk.politics subgroups on Usenet). Other examples are given under the entry for X. Note that glob patterns are similar, but not identical, to those used in regexps. Historical note: The jargon usage derives from glob, the name of a subprogram that expanded wildcards in archaic pre-Bourne versions of the Unix shell. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
To expand special characters in a wildcarded name, or the act of so doing (the action is also called `globbing'). From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
From the beginning of a file to the end. This term is often used to describe an operation such as a search; the opposite of local. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Source code search and browse. GLOBAL is a source code tag system that works the same way across diverse environments. Currently, it supports the following: o Shell command line (see 'Global') o nvi editor (see 'Extended nvi using global') o emacs editor (see 'Emacs using global') o Web browser (see 'Hypertext generator') o Elvis editor (see 'Elvis using global') Supported languages are C/C++ Yacc and Java. You can locate a specified function in the source files and move there easily. It is especially useful for hacking large projects containing many subdirectories, many '#ifdef' and many main() functions, like X or kernel source. This package include the htmake(1) extension which allows GLOBAL's hypertext search function to be implemented from a single central cgi script. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
If set, bash includes filenames beginning with a `.' in the results of pathname expansion. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[center for] GLObal COMmunications (org., Japan) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Slide the blocks to reach a goal Slide blocks around the puzzle until a certain goal condition is reached. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Linear programming kit with integer (MIP) support GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a library. This package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and other related problems. GLPK has the following main features: * implementation of the revised simplex method (based on sparse matrix technique, steepest edge pricing, and two-pass pivoting technique); * implementation of the primal-dual interior point method; * implementation of the branch-and-bound procedure (based on the dual simplex method); * application program interface (API). Included is a solver that reads problems in the standard MPS format, or in the GLPK/L modeling language. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
3D lightcycle game glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective. 3D acceleration is recommended. More information can be found at the gltron web site http://www.gltron.org . From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
sample programs using gltt A couple of sample programs that come with gltt, a library that allows you to read and draw TrueType fonts in any OpenGl application. Includes a general demo, a logo program that lets you deform text in interesting ways, and a bounding box demo. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
openGL Utility Library (OpenGL, GLU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The OpenGL Utility Toolkit. GLUT (pronounced like the glut in gluttony) is the OpenGL Utility Toolkit, a window system independent toolkit for writing OpenGL programs. It implements a simple windowing application programming interface (API) for OpenGL. GLUT makes it considerably easier to learn about and explore OpenGL programming. GLUT is designed for constructing small to medium sized OpenGL programs. While GLUT is well-suited to learning OpenGL and developing simple OpenGL applications, GLUT is not a full-featured toolkit so large applications requiring sophisticated user interfaces are better off using native window system toolkits like Motif. GLUT is simple, easy, and small. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GLX version of the infamous "gears" GL demo. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
display info about a GLX extension and OpenGL renderer. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General MIDI [standard] (MIDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Mess- und Automatisierungstechnik (org., VDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME mail client using SQL-based vfolders Gmail is an experimental SQL-based vfolder email system, using MySQL as its back-end database, which allows for large volumes of mail, without risk of data loss. The vfolders (virtual folders) are implemented as SQL queries. A cache system keeps gmail fast. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
small X/GTK+ based man(1) front-end Gman is nothing else but only a simple front-end for the original man page system. The most basic job of gman is to build a database for all the man pages and display them (or part of them) on the screen. When user decides to read a man page, gman will launch a terminal window and call the original man system to display the man page in the window. Gman can launch more than one terminal window at same time. And user can use the index search function to look for the man pages that he needs. It's simple, but it's useful. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+/GNOME Man pages editor GNOME Manpages Editor is an editor for man pages that runs on X with GTK. It's like most common HTML editors but more easy. You need to know manpages format. You can learn it from 'man(7)'. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - Gnome version Warning: The gnome version from mc is alpha software! Midnight Commander is a feature-rich file manager. It started as a Norton Commander clone but now it is far superior to it. Among other things it can do FTP, includes a hex editor, comes with an internal editor and lets you do most system administration tasks. Browsing, unpacking and installation of Debian packages is possible by just pressing enter on a *.deb file. Handling of other archive formats like rpm, zip, zoo and tar.gz is equally supported. This version comes with undelete for ext2 filesystems compiled in. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics and Memory Controller Hub (Intel, ICH) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (org., St. Augustin) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Medizinische Dokumentation, informatik und Statistik [e.v.] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft MikroElektronik (org., VDE, VDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Displays a graph detailing memory usage of each process. Gmemusage is a graphical program modelled after the Silicon Graphics Inc. program of the same name. Gmemusage displays a window with a stacked bar. Areas on the bar correspond to individual processes running on the system and are updated periodically. Multiple copies of the same program (actually, programs with the same name) are merged into one area on the stack. Sizes of areas in the stack correspond to resident sizes of the processes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical menu editor for the Gnome panel From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME MFSK terminal for HF/amateur radio MFSK is a data communication mode used by amateur radio operators for reliable communications on HF. It is used for chatting and not packet communications. gmfsk is an implementation of an MFSK terminal for GNOME. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Matrox G400 graphics card overclocking tool gMGAclock is a GNOME-based overclocking utility for Matrox G400 cards users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Management Information (OSI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Markup Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Module player for Ultrasound and SB AWE soundcards Gmod plays MOD/669/MTM/S3M/ULT/XM modules on machines that have an Gravis Ultrasound family sound card or a Soundblaster AWE. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a GTK+ based MOO (and MUD) Client Gmoo is a GTK+ based MOO client that also works for MUDs, MUSHs, etc. It's many features include internal and external editors, multiple world connecting, (configurable) ANSI, PERL and/or TCL based scripting and MCP (the MOO Client Protocol). Each world is independently configurable, with it's own settings and logs. Logging and shell integration are possible. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Multi-Precision [library] (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gmp package contains GNU MP, a library for arbitrary precision arithmetic which operates on signed integers, rational numbers and floating point numbers. GNU MP is designed for speed, for both small and very large operands. GNU MP is fast because it uses full words as the basic arithmetic type, it uses fast algorithms, it carefully optimizes assembly code for many CPUs' most common inner loops, and generally emphasizes speed over simplicity/elegance in its operations. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Giant Magneto-Resistive [heads] (HDD, IBM, Toshiba) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Featureful CLI-like GTK+ application launcher This is gmrun; a small fast, yet featureful application launcher for use under X11, which uses GTK+ widget toolkit. Some features include tab- completion of file names and programs, history, easy x-terminal-emulator launching, and URL handling. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Mapping Tools GMT is a free, public-domain collection of ~60 UNIX tools that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots through contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views in black and white, gray tone, hachure patterns, and 24-bit color. GMT supports 25 common map projections plus linear, log, and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Greenwich Mean Time [+0000] (TZ, UTC, UK) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Low resolution coastlines for the Generic Mapping Tools This package contains the crude, low and intermediate resolution coastlines contained in the GMT distribution which will be enough to get you started. Originally there were two more coastline packages (gmt-coast-high and -full) but they were to big for our servers and pulled from the distribution. Read /usr/share/doc/gmt/README.coastlines to learn were to get coastline data on the net. Otherwise you will not be able to create high quality maps with gmt. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Network Academy (Internet) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome client for Napster GNOME/GTK based client for Napster From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK client for the Napster online mp3 community (GNOME version) Gnapster is a powerful client for the Napster online mp3 community. Currently, Gnapster supports all major features of the protocol including many opennap extensions to the protocol. This version of the client uses GNOME features and requires it to run. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK client for the Napster online mp3 community (GTK version) Gnapster is a powerful client for the Napster online mp3 community. Currently, Gnapster supports all major features of the protocol including many opennap extensions to the protocol. This version of the client uses only GTK, not GNOME. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Ada Translator (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Ada 95 compiler GNAT is a full Ada 95 compiler, which implements the whole Ada language. GNAT is actively maintained by Ada Core Technology (http://www.gnat.com/). This package contains the compiler, as well as the needed unstripped libraries so that debugging is possible. If you install this package, you do not need to install the `libgnat-3.14p-1' package as the latter contains only a version of the libraries unsuitable for debugging. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU problem report management system (central database) GNATS is a bug-tracking tool designed for use at a central "Support Site". Users who experience problems use electronic mail to communicate these problems to "maintainers" at that Support Site. GNATS offers many of the same features offered by more generalized databases, including editing, querying, and basic reporting. You can access the submitting, editing, and querying functions of GNATS through provided utilities or from within GNU Emacs. The "gnats" package has the full installation for the central database server. For client systems, use the "gnats-user" package which has just the user tools. Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a scrolling news ticker applet designed for GNOME Supports the following news sites: debianplanet.net freshmeat.net slashdot.org mozilla.org bsdtoday and more. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GayNet International (network) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A program that tries to learn a human language. gNiall attempts to learn whatever language you try to teach it. It is basically a dissociator: it collects statistics on sentences you type and tries to construct meaningful replies. gNiall is inspired by Niall, an Amiga program by Matthew Peck. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Government Network Management Profile (USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Network Navigator (Internet, WWW) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Bookmarks Organizer Gnobog (GNOME Bookmarks Organizer) is a program that lets you manage your favorite Internet sites' addresses. For more information visit the gnobog web site at http://gnobog.sourceforge.net/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnocatan server - a game for Gnome Gnocatan is an emulation of the Settlers of Catan board game which can be played over the internet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME financial manager Gnofin is a light-weight financial management program well-suited for helping you keep your checkbook and savings accounts up-to-date. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GTK+ based wave file editor GNoise is a wave file editor that uses a display cache and a double- buffered display for maximum speed with large files. It supports common editing functions such as cut, copy, paste, fade in/out, reverse, interpolate, normalize and more with unlimited undo. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Datasuite for Nokia mobile phones (console & X) Gnokii is a suite of programs linked against a backend library that allows communication with Nokia phones. It currently supports the 5110/6110 series, 3110/3810/8110 series and others. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Samba browser Gnomba is a GUI machine and share browser for the SMB protocol. Gnomba allows you to scan any number of subnets for machines with SMB. The workgroups, machines and share are shown in a tree-view. For each machine you can then view the list of shares, and mount, unmount or browse them. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
stands for GNU Network Object Model Environment. The GNOME project intends to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. GNOME is part of the GNU project, and GNOME is part of the OpenSource(tm) movement. The desktop will consist of small utilities and larger applications which share a consistent look and feel. GNOME uses GTK+ as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Gnome about box. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME (like KDE) is based completely on Open Source software. The gnome-applets package provides Panel applets which enhance your GNOME experience. You should install the gnome-applets package if you would like to abuse the GNOME desktop environment by embedding small utilities in the GNOME panel. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Various applets for GNOME panel another_clock: Simple analog clock. asclock: The AfterStep Clock applet. clockmail: Clock and Mailcheck applet. jbc: Jon's Binary Clock applet. battery: Show battery charge. cpumemusage: Show CPU, memory and swap usage. diskusage: Show disk usage. cpuload: Show CPU usage. memload: Show memory usage. swapload: Show swap usage. netload: Show load on different network interfaces. loadavg: Show load average. charpick: Allows you to easily write many characters which are not available on standard keyboards, drivemount: Allows you to quickly and easily mount and unmount various types of drives and filesystems on your computer. gkb: Allows you to easily and quickly change the keyboard map to those used in various different countries. mini-commander: Adds a command line to your Panel. quicklaunch: An applet which holds application launchers. tickastat: Watches various aspects of your system and delivers information when certain events occur. whereami: Shows the position of your mouse pointer on the screen. gweather: Retrieves from the Internet and displays various weather information. screenshooter: A handy little screen grabber (Need imagemagick). gnotes: Allows you to cover your GNOME desktop with little, yellow, virtual sticky-notes. webcontrol: allows you to launch your Netscape browser with the URL you indicate in the URL text box. slash: Show last news from slashdot.org modemlights: Monitor your modem while it is working. fifteen: Is a version of the old game of moving squares around a grid to put them into numerical order. geyes: Is a pair of eyes which follow your mouse pointer around the screen. life: An applet which runs "the game of life" according to Conway's rules. odometer: Tracks and measures the movements of your mouse pointer across the desktop. cdplayer: Play CDs from a panel. mixer: Interface for controlling the sound volume and launching the Audio Mixer. sound-monitor: A sound volume display and an interface for controlling ESD. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome front-end to apt Gnome-apt is a graphical package management program for Debian. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gnome. Gnome-apt allows you to easily upgrade your Debian system, as well as install/uninstall packages using any of the methods that apt supports (http, ftp*, file). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Chess This is gnome-chess, a graphical user interface for playing chess. It works with chess programs and chess servers - it is also a PGN viewer. For chess programs, it works best with the chess engine crafty (ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt) but most features should also work with GNU Chess (ftp://ftp.gnu.org). You can use the "first chess program" option to choose the computer engine you want to play against. E.g. try "gnome-chess --fcp crafty" or "gnome-chess --fcp gnuchessx" From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
File mangager for GNOME GNOME Commander is a file mangager aimed at people that wants an efficent and fast file manager. The program can currently perform most common file operations such as copy, move, delete, chown and chmod and so on. It can also detect changes to files caused by other programs and update the views without the need for the user to manually reload. The program also supports Copy&Paste as well as Drag&Drop. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Control-center is a configuration tool for easily setting up your GNOME environment. GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. That's a fancy name, but really GNOME is a nice GUI desktop environment. It's a powerful, easy to configure environment which helps to make your computer easy to use. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Gnome Control Center Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains utilities to configure your desktop background, screen saver, keyboard and mouse properties. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tool for gnome-help-browser From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on free software. The gnome-core package includes the basic programs and libraries that are needed to install GNOME. GNOME Desktop provides the core icons and libraries for the gnome desktop. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tools, stylesheets and DTDs for GNOME. This package provides tools, stylesheets and DTDs for use by the GNOME Documentation Project. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tool for gnome-help-browser From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Dump the metadata database. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME executable Mime type Handler. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical Version of the GNU find utility Gnome-find really is a graphical version of the GNU find utility. It is not just a front-end which just forks and execs "find", nor is it a utility that reinvents the wheel by rewriting the "find" utility itself. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Fontmap file generator for gnome-print From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gnome-games package includes games for the GNOME GUI desktopenvironment, including GnomeScott, ctali, freecell, gataxx, glines, gnibbles, gnobots2, gnome-stones, gnomine, gnotravex, gtali, gturing,iagno, mahjongg, same-gnome, and sol. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
This is a GNOME port of the old game ataxx. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Build the extension database for mime-magic. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
This is a version of the color lines program Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This is GNOME's version of the color lines program, aka fiveormore. The program is fully GPL-ed. It's written by Robert Szokovacs <[email protected]> in gtk, I added gnome support... Shooby Ban From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A cute little game that has no description Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Second Gnome version of robots game for BSD games collection Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Gnome Robots 2 is a version of the text based robots game which can be found on a number of UNIX systems, and comes with the BSD games package on Linux systems. This version allows you to select a number of animated graphics scenarios, as well as providing a safe teleport feature so you are not totally at the mercy of your computer's random number generator. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A tetris clone. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Classic find the mines in the minefield game (from Gnome) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Classic find the mines in the minefield game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A game based on Tetravex. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. The goal of the game is to place all squares so that the numbers on their sides match. It is impossible to place a square beside another square without the numbers matching. When all squares are placed, the game is won, and over. It's possible to choose different sizes on the board from 2x2 to 6x6. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Derivative game from Klotski. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Gnome Klotski is a small game for GNOME. The idea is originally from a game called "Klotski". From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome version of Yahtzee Dice Game Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Yahtzee dice game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME PostScript/PDF viewer ggv is a graphical frontend to ghostscript which allows you to view postscript and pdf documents, and print ranges of pages. It is very comfortable due to many zoom and an anti-aliasing option and following the GNOME look and feel. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME help browser Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains the Gnome help browser application. Based on the gtk-xmhtml widget, it allows you to view documentation in the form of HTML, man pages, or GNU info pages. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
manual page for Gnome GnomeHelp 1.2.3 From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
show hint at Gnome startup. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Startup hint properties for Gnome From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome version of Othello (Reversi) board game Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Classic Othello (Reversi) board game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME-Iconedit is a simple icon editor for the GNOME desktop environment. It is not as powerful as the wonderful GIMP, but has enough features to create simple icons or cursors. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
UNIX Info Page to HTML translator From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Short introduction to Gnome This guide gives you a short introduction to Gnome. It is not intended to cover all details of Gnome. If you need more information, you should install the gnome-users-guide-en package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tool for gnome-session From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
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. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Data for Gnome libraries Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains shared data used by the Gnome libraries, such as i18n messages and pixmaps. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a windowmanager for the X Window System. The gnome-linuxconf package includes GNOME's front end for the linuxconf system configuration utility. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tool for gnome-session From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
basic interactive firewall configuration tool (GNOME interface) The gnome-lokkit package contains a utility which attempts to provide firewalling for the average Linux end user. Instead of having to configure firewall rules, gnome-lokkit asks a small number of simple questions and writes a firewall rule set for you. Gnome-lokkit is not designed to configure arbitary firewalls. To make it simple to understand, it is solely designed to handle typical dialup user and cable modem setups. It will not provide a complex firewall configuration, and it is not the equal of an expert firewall designer. Home Page: http://www.linux.org.uk/apps/lokkit.shtml From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Classic Chinese Tile Game (from Gnome) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. Classic Chinese Tile Game. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
UNIX Man Page to HTML translator From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
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-media package will install media features like the GNOME CD player. Install gnome-media if you want to use GNOME's multimedia capabilities. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly setof applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction witha window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME (as KDE) is based completely on Open Source software. GNOME's powerful environment is pleasing on the eye, easy to configure and use. This package will install such media features as the GNOME CD player. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome Media Utilities (gmix, gtcd) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains: gmix - a mixer gtcd - a cd player vumeter - watch sound output grecord - record sounds From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
base MIME and Application database for GNOME. This module contains the base MIME and Application database for GNOME. It is meant to be accessed through the MIME functions in GnomeVFS. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gnome-mime-data provides the file type recognition data files for gnome-vfs. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Documentation tool for GNOME From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
remote control of Mozilla. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A simple MUD Client for X and GTK+ GNOME-Mud is a Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) client for X. It supports aliases, triggers, variables, key bindings, colour settings, multiple connections, command queuing and also features a connection wizard and a mapper utility. There's a plugin interface too, which can be used to add your own features (for example, a graphical health monitor). It uses the GNOME libraries, but it can be used with any window manager. GNOME-Mud is the successor of AMCL, a simple, GTK+-based MUD client. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Orbit name service From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gnome network utilities. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains a ppp thingy, a mail thingy, a talk thingy and a sync thingy. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Launch and/or dock Gnome applications Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains a toolbar (the "panel") that you can attach to the edge of your X desktop. You can install "applets" on it. Several applets are supplied: an application menu, a clock, a mail checker, a network monitor, etc. You can customize the location, and the "autohide" animations. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
add a launched in the Gnome panel. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Data files for GNOME panel Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains data files (pixmaps etc.) for the panel that is not architecture-dependent. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Configure your Gnome panel. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GNOME applet for management of your Palm PDA gnome-pilot is a GNOME applet with a daemon that monitors for pilot connections from a serial port, XCopilot, etc. It features a conduit system and includes basic conduits for backing up, email, memos, etc. More conduits may be found in the gnome-pilot-conduits package. Note that this has only been tested on a Palm III; any successes with other models would make for encouraging reports :). gnome-pilot is not known to cause any data loss, but as the version number indicates, it is still deep in its first development stages. Please use it with caution. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Conduits for gnome-pilot This package contains conduits for the gnome-pilot Palm PDA applet. It adds expense, memo, time, email, and MAL (mobile application link) sync functionality to gnome-pilot. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNOME Personal Information Manager consists of applications to make keeping up with your busy life easier. Currently these apps are present: - gnomecal : personal calendar and todo list - gnomecard: contact list of friends and business associates From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gnome-pim-conduits package includes the conduits needed to connect your PalmPilot with gnome-pim applications. Currently these conduits are present: - gnomecal : synchronizes your GnomeCal calendar with your Palm's calendar - gnomecard: synchronizes your contact list From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME stock portfolio manager This is a replacement for the "Java Portfolio Manager" provided by Yahoo!; its intent is to be faster and less memory-intensive than its Java cousin. It currently supports multiple portfolios and symbol lookup. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window managerfor the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE,but GNOME is based completely on free software. The gnome-print package contains libraries and fonts that are needed by GNOME applications wanting to print.You should install the gnome-print package if you intend on using any of the GNOME applications that can print. If you would like to develop GNOME applications that can print you will also need to install the gnome-print devel package. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Helper setuid application From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gnome-python package contains the source packages for the Python bindings for GNOME called PyGNOME. PyGNOME is an extension module for Python that provides access to the base GNOME libraries, so you have access to more widgets, a simple configuration interface, and metadata support. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The "Same Game" puzzle (from Gnome) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. The "Same Game" puzzle. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. The GNOME Session Manager restores a set session (group of applications)when you log into GNOME. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gnome-session manages a GNOME desktop session. It starts up the other core GNOME components and handles logout and saving the session. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Starts up the GNOME desktop environment From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Session Manager Proxy. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking Gnome spell is a GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking. It's based on pspell. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUI frontend to sudo gnome-sudo will popup a dialog requesting the password for the user to run as (if necessary, sudo has caching), and copies ~/.Xauthority so that that user can reach it. This is to provide a way for GUI programs (such as package managers) to run in an easy, point-and-drool fashion. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gnome-system-monitor is a simple process and system monitor. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME interface to Debian tasks This package provides a GNOME interface for selecting tasks. It aims to be compatible with and identical in functionality to tasksel, the standard task selection interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome Telnet provides a very nice graphical user interface for 3-in-1 telnet, ssh, and rlogin client for Gnome From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME terminal emulator application. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Gnome terminal emulator application Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains the Gnome Gtk-based terminal application (based on the zvt widget). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
This packages contains Themes for GNOME, such as :-High Contrast-Large Print-Low Constrast From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Hierarchical organizer and outliner Think is a hierarchical organizer, allowing you to organize text in a tree form. It uses XML for its native file format. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
CD-Recording frontend for GNOME. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
This package contains the GNOME Glossary, Introduction to GNOME, and a Unix Primer. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME User's Guide Documentation for using the GNOME desktop environment and its components. It covers usage and setup of the core GNOME programs. This documentation comes in HTML format. For other formats, check the homepage at http://www.gnome.org/users-guide/project.shtml or create them yourself from the sgml source. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
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-utils package includes a set of utilities for GNOME, including Gcalc, Gdialog, Gdiskfree, and many others. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome Utilities (gtt, gsearchtool, and more) Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment". It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This package contains some assorted utilities for use with the Gnome. These are: gcalc - a simple calculator gcharmap - character map viewer. gcolorsel - a color selector gdialog - a Gtk version of the 'dialog' program gdict - dictionary server query and display. gdiskfree - graphical disk free (df) utility. gfloppy - GUI for formatting floppy gfontsel - a font selector gless - a Gtk version of the 'less' pager gsearchtool - a tool for finding and grepping through files gshutdown - reboot or shutdown your machine gtt - a task timer/tracker guname - display 'uname' information about your system gw - display users on the system, like 'w' idetool - an IDE disk viewing tool logview - Log viewing applications. splash/splac - splash screen renderer stripchart - plot system measurements (including applet version) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNOME Virtual File System provides an abstraction to common filesystem operations like reading, writing and copying files, listing directories and so on. It is similar in spirit to the Midnight Commander's VFS (as it uses a similar URI scheme) but it is designed from the ground up to be extensible and to be usable from any application. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNOME virtual file-system extra fs scripts for GMC. GNOME VFS is the GNOME virtual file system. It is the foundation of the Nautilus file manager. It provides a modular architecture and ships with several modules that implement support for file systems, http, ftp and others. It provides a URI-based API, a backend supporting asynchronous file operations, a MIME type manipulation library and other features. This package includes external fs scripts for GMC. Starting with version 3.1(gmc), the Midnight Commander comes with so called extfs, which is one of the virtual filesystems. This system makes it possible to create new virtual filesystems for the GNU MC very easily. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNOME Virtual File System provides an abstraction to common filesystem operations like reading, writing and copying files, listing directories and so on. It is similar in spirit to the Midnight Commander's VFS (as it uses a similar URI scheme) but it is designed from the ground up to be extensible and to be usable from any application. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Launches the user selected window manager for the GNOME session From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Fight the infection. Gnome is the "GNU Network Object Model Environment" It is a project to build a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. As the README puts it: Ever get the feeling that nothing is going right? You're a sysadmin, and someone's trying to destroy your computers. The little people running around the screen are trying to infect your computers with Wingdows [TM], a virus cleverly designed to resemble a popular operating system. Your objective is to click the mouse on them, ending their potential threat. If one of the people reaches a computer, it will attempt to replace your operating system with the virus it carries. It will then attempt to run off the screen with your vital software. The game ends when only 0 or 1 of your computers is being productive. Additionally, some computers are connected with network cables. When one computer on a network becomes infected, a spark will be sent down the cable, and will infect the computer on the other end when it reaches there. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set ofapplications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME (like KDE) is based completely on Open Source software. The gnome-core package includes the basic programs and libraries that are needed to install GNOME.This package is a virtual package which requires all needed package to have a fully working GNOME desktop environment. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
allows you to configure various parts of your Gnome system. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Small, fast and functional clone of Mirabilis' ICQ GnomeICU is a clone of Mirabilis' popular ICQ written with GTK+. ICQ informs you who's online at any time and enables you to contact them at will. -- Features -- * URL Transfer (w/transfer to Netscape ability) * Sign up as a new user, or with an existing account * Allow other users to add you to their list * Message History per user * Chat * Icon and Color Based on Status of User * Online and Offline Section * Receive Message Queue * Changeable Status * Sending Messages * Sound Events * Reply Box in Same Window as Receive Message * Send, Reply, Cancel, Read Next buttons in dialog boxes * Connection History Window * Invisible List * Color Customization * GUI Configuration * V5 Protocol (new) * Drag 'n' Drop support for files and URLs (from Netscape) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A KiSS paper doll viewer for GNOME GnomeKiSS is a viewer for all KiSS paper dolls. Cherry KiSS and Enhanced Palette are supported, with full alpha transparency and FKiSS. If you want to open any lzh paperdoll files you have to install the package lha from non-free as well. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
H323 Compatible Netmeeting clone for the Gnome Desktop Netmeeting clone for the Gnome Desktop. Supports LPC10, GSM-06.10, MS-GSM, G.711-Alaw and G.711-uLaw audio codecs and H.261-QCIF and H.261-CIF video codecs. Also supports H.245 Tunneling, Fast Start, Auto Answering of calls, ability to register to ILS directories and browse them. Gnomemeeting comes with an animated Gnome applet. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Board game for GNOME Gnomermind Mastermind(R) for your GNOME desktop. A nice looking and themeable game that can be played with mouse or customizable keybindings. The trade mark Mastermind(R) is owned by its owner. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME Bible Program based on the SWORD library A bible study program for GNOME using the SWORD library. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a XMMS control applet. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical interface segfault for Gnome program. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An MP3 player for large MP3 collections An MP3 player that supports large collections, with many options for manipulating that collection in playlists. Features: * Available songs can be displayed: * By album * By addition time * Sorted or unsorted * As the result of a text search * Dynamic playlists (generated from search rules) * XMMS compatible playlists * Drag and Drop support * MP3 search capabilities * Random play * Works well on slow filesystems such as NFS or SMB share From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A graphical configuration utility for Samba GnoSamba is a GUI tool for the configuration of Samba, the SMB file server on X11/Unix. It will read, edit and write /etc/samba/smb.conf, an alternate configuration file, or from a network. It uses the Gnome. The groff and bsdmainutils packages are needed for the online help system to work. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME-based Notepad editor This is an easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple text editor for Unix based systems running X11 and using GNOME (the GNU Network Object Model Environment). Gnotepad+ was designed to have as little bloat as possible, while still providing many of the common features found in a modern GUI-based text editor. It is still fairly light-weight, especially for the features it offers, and aims to remain that way. The "+" in gnotepad+ is there to differentiate it from other GNOME-based text editors which may call themselves "gnotepad". Additionally, gnotepad+ is not intended to be fancy, so it leverages its text editing capabilities on the GTK Text Widget. Hence, if you are looking for a programmer's editor, look for another text editor or help improve the GTK Text Widget. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnotes Applet for the GNOME panel. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GnoZip aims to be the WinZip(tm) of the Gnome environment providing graphical interface to the most common compression utilities. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/gnoo/, not /noo/ 1. [acronym: `GNU's Not Unix!', see recursive acronym] A Unix-workalike development effort of the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard Stallman <[email protected]>. GNU EMACS and the GNU C compiler, two tools designed for this project, have become very popular in hackerdom and elsewhere. The GNU project was designed partly to proselytize for RMS's position that information is community property and all software source should be shared. One of its slogans is "Help stamp out software hoarding!" Though this remains controversial (because it implicitly denies any right of designers to own, assign, and sell the results of their labors), many hackers who disagree with RMS have nevertheless cooperated to produce large amounts of high-quality software for free redistribution under the Free Software Foundation's imprimatur. The GNU project has a web page at http://www.gnu.org. See EMACS, copyleft, General Public Virus, Linux. 2. Noted Unix hacker John Gilmore <[email protected]>, founder of Usenet's anarchic alt.* hierarchy. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU is Not Unix. A project to replace Unix with GPL'd software. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU's Not Unix (rekursiv!, Unix, GNU, OS) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU project's goal is to provide freely redistributable Unix software. Gopher An information system available as a Unix command that provides access to many information services, see also WWW. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An effort of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Free Software Foundation (FSF) to develop and promote alternatives to proprietary UNIX implementations. GNU software is licensed under the GPL. From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
intended to guarantee the freedom to share and change free software - to make sure the software is free for all its users. The term free refers to freely distributable. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A graphical desktop environment for UNIX and Linux that is designed to provide an efficient and user-oriented environment. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A UNIX-compatible operating system developed by the Free Software Foundation. The design philosophy of GNU is to create a full-featured operating system composed of completely free software. Red Hat Linux combines several parts of GNU along with the Linux kernel. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU coding and package maintenance standards The GNU coding and package maintenance standards in a variety of formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Same as Linux. So-called because many of the components included in a Linux distribution are GNU tools. From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Administration of school networks is complicated, time- and money-consuming. Even stable and low-adminstration Linux networks still need complete and powerful computers. Software still has to be installed on each computer. The FSuB TerminalServer (Code name "Dead sisyphos") is an approach to make administration of networks easier and to enable the reuse of older computers. Debian based. The website is available in German and English. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A argentinian distribution does seem to be there. Also news and comments. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GTK/ascii backgammon program GNUbg is a strong backgammon program. It is used both as an engine by other programs (e.g. kbackgammon) but it also includes a sophisticated GTK interface. It should be considered beta software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Improved play for gnubg (gnu backgammon) This package includes a single large file of weights that gnubg uses to play slightly better. If you want gnubg to play at its best then install this file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/noo'bee/ n. Written-only variant of newbie in common use on IRC channels, which implies specifically someone who is new to the Linux/open source/free software world. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
SDL binaries for gnuboy - Game Boy Emulator. Gnuboy is a portable Game Boy emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color on your PC or workstation. This package includes SDL binaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
SVGALIB binaries for gnuboy - Game Boy Emulator. Gnuboy is a portable Game Boy emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color on your PC or workstation. This package includes SVGALIB binaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
X binaries for gnuboy - Game Boy Emulator. Gnuboy is a portable Game Boy emulator. It basically allows you to play most games designed for the Game Boy and Game Boy Color on your PC or workstation. This package includes X binaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Circuit Analysis package. GNUCAP is a general purpose circuit simulator. It performs nonlinear dc and transient analyses, fourier analysis, and ac analysis linearized at an operating point. It is fully interactive and command driven. It can also be run in batch mode or as a server. The output is produced as it simulates. Spice compatible models for the MOSFET (level 1,2,3) and diode are included in this release. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A personal finance tracking program. Gnucash can track finances in multiple accounts, keeping running and reconciled balances. It has an X based graphical user interface, double entry, a hierarchy of accounts, expense accounts (categories), and can import Quicken QIF files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GnuCash is a personal finance manager. A check-book like register GUI allows you to enter and track bank accounts, stocks, income and even currency trades. The interface is designed to be simple and easy to use, but is backed with double-entry accounting principles to ensure balanced books. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gnuchess package contains the GNU chess program. By default,GNUchess uses a curses text-based interface. Alternatively, GNUchess can be used in conjunction with the xboard user interface and the XWindow System for a graphical chessboard. Install the gnuchess package if you would like to play chess on your computer. You also need to install the curses package. If you want to use a graphical interface with GNUchess, you also need to install the xboard package and the X Window System. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Scripts to enable a server to provide dynamic IP to name mappings GnuDIP is a service desiged for an ISP to give its customers a static DNS name without having to give them their own IP address. For those who are familiar with ml.org this is a simple replacement. GnuDIP has 2 main parts on the server side. 1, the multi-threaded server that listens on a port 3495 that accepts connections from client applications and updates their hostname, and 2 the web cgi that is used as the administration tool and as the users tool to manage their own account. Using the web cgi a user can set their desired homepage in their settings and then set the special URL as the default page for their browser so now every time they open their browser their hostname will be automatically be updated without having to run any other sort of client application and then they would be redirected to the URL they set in their GnuDIP settings. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The shared library for many items of the GNU Enterprise Framework GNUe-Common provides a set of images and classes that GNUe-Forms, GNUe-Reports, and GNUe-Designer are dependent upon. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi). GNUGO is an updated version of the GNU go playing program. This software is an attempt to distribute a free program to play Go. The idea of this program is based on the article "Programming the Game of Go. Byte, Vol.6 No.4" by J. K. Millen. Currently, this program only understands basic Go rules and skills. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Plays the game of Go (Wei-Chi). GNUGO is an updated version of the GNU go playing program. This software is an attempt to distribute a free program to play Go. The idea of this program is based on the article "Programming the Game of Go. Byte, Vol.6 No.4" by J. K. Millen. Currently, this program only understands basic Go rules and skills. This is the "development version" of Gnugo. Development is fairly brisk, and new bugs occur frequently. Please support this software by reporting all (non-package related) bugs directly to "[email protected]". From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A Perl script that converts html files to latex gnuhtml2latex is a Perl script that converts html files to latex files. It takes list of .html files as arguments and make .tex ones. Can also convert html stdin to latex stdout. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A free implementation of Sun's Java Server Pages (JSP 1.0) GNUJSP is a Java servlet that allows you to insert Java source code into HTML files. When such a page is accessed, GNUJSP translates it into a pure Java source code, compiles it and runs the class file. This version conforms to the JSP 1.0 specification and is thus incompatible to GNUJSP 0.9.x which supported the 0.91 specification. For more information take a look at the GNUJSP home page at http://www.klomp.org/gnujsp/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNUlpr printing system. This task package installs packages needed to print using the advanced features of postscript printers. It installs a complete printing system, including autodetection and configuration utilities. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/gnoo'maks/ n. [contraction of `GNU EMACS'] Often-heard abbreviated name for the GNU project's flagship tool, EMACS. `StallMACS', referring to Richard Stallman, is less common but also heard. Used esp. in contrast with GOSMACS and X Emacs. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GNUstep Mail User Agent (clone of the NeXT/Apple's Mail.app) GNUMail.app is a clone of NeXT/Apple's excellent Mail.app application. It uses the GNUstep development framework (or Apple Cocoa, which is based on the OpenStep specification provided by NeXT, Inc.). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GNOME spreadsheet application Gnumeric is a powerful spreadsheet application that interoperates well with other spreadsheets. It comes with plugins that enable it to deal with commonly used spreadsheet file formats, including o Microsoft(R) Excel95 (.xls) o Comma/Character Separated Values (.csv) o XBase (.dbf), o MultiPlan (.sylk) o PlanPerfect o Lotus 123 (.wks, .wk1) o Applix version 4 (.as) o Data Interchange Format (.dif) o GNU Oleo (.oleo) o SC/XSpread o Linear and integer program expression format (.mps) and can export to LaTeX, Roff and HTML as well. Gnumeric should be easy to use, in particular if you are familiar with Excel. Gnumeric is a GNOME application. GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set of applications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME (GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a user-friendly set ofapplications and desktop tools to be used in conjunction with a window manager for the X Window System. GNOME is similar in purpose and scope to CDE and KDE, but GNOME is based completely on free software. This is the Gnumeric, the GNOME spreadsheet program. If you are familiar with Excel, you should be ready to use Gnumeric. It tries to clone all ofthe good features and stay as compatible as possible with Excel in terms ofusability. Hopefully the bugs have been left behind :). From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Privacy Guard (GNU, cryptography), "GnuPG" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement. GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. GnuPG does not use use any patented algorithms so it cannot be compatible with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented worldwide) and RSA. RSA's patent expired on the 20th September 2000, and it is now included in GnuPG. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A command-line driven interactive plotting program. Package for making 2D and 3D graphs from data and functions. Supports lots of output formats, including drivers for many printers, (La)TeX, (x)fig, X11, PostScript, and so on. Data files and self-defined functions can be manipulated by internal C-like language. Can perform smoothing, spline-fitting, or nonlinear fits. Can work with complex numbers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnuplot is a command-line driven, interactive function plotting programespecially suited for scientific data representation. Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats. Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Program a robot to explore a world GNU Robots is a game/diversion where you construct a program for a little robot, then watch him explore a world. The world is filled with baddies that can hurt you, objects that you can bump into, and food that you can eat. The goal of the game is to collect as many prizes as possible before you are killed by a baddie or you run out of energy. Programs for the robot are written in Scheme. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen Gnus is a message-reading laboratory. This is by far the most powerful and extensible news reader that I am aware of. It will let you look at just about anything as if it were a newsgroup. You can read mail with it, you can browse directories with it, you can ftp with it---you can even read news with it! It handles single file groups, MH format folders, mbox files, digests, knows about POP, etc. It can split incoming mail ala procmail. This version of gnus handles MIME natively. It adds offline reading capability with gnus-agent. It is not compatible with older versions of TM (since a large number of hooks and variables have changed to allow that). NOTE: Please do not use tm-gnus with this version. Instead of boring old KILL files, it has an adaptive multifaceted scoring mechanism -- you add or reduce the score of the article based on rules, and a component of the score comes in from your past behaviour -- for example, articles similar to ones you read and saved get higher scores. This adaptive mechanism is one of the most interesting part of Gnus. Gnus tries to empower people who read news the same way Emacs empowers people who edit text. Gnus sets no limits to what the user should be allowed to do. Users are encouraged to extend Gnus to make it behave like they want it to behave. A program should not control people; people should be empowered to do what they want by using (or abusing) the program. Gnus comes by default with XEmacs, but this is a stand alone package that replaces the stock Gnusii. A note for people using the nnimap backend: SSL support requires w3-el-e20; and even otherwise w3-el makes following hyperlinks in mail and news easier. The upstream sources for this package are available at http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Miscellaneous add-ons for Gnus This package contains a few Emacs-Lisp files, mainly obtained from the gnu.emacs.sources newsgroup, that provide various functions to Gnus, the Emacs mail and news reader. This package contains: gnus-junk.el: semi-automatic replies to junk e-mails; nnnil.el: empty, read-only backend; nntodo.el: manage to-do items; message-x.el: customizable completion in message headers; nnir.el: searchable mail backend; nnmaildir.el: maildir mail backend. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Allows you to attach to an already running Emacs gnuserv allows you to attach to an already running Emacs. This allows external programs to make use of Emacs' editing capabilities. It is like GNU Emacs' emacsserver/server.el, but has many more features. You do not need this package if you use XEmacs; it already includes gnuserv and gnuclient. If you want to use gnuserv with both GNU Emacs and XEmacs, you will only be able to use the alternative /usr/bin/gnuclient with one flavor of emacs; you will have to use either gnuclient.xemacs or gnuclient.emacs for the other flavor. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A program to play shogi, the Japanese version of chess. Gnushogi plays a game of Japanese chess (shogi) against the user or it plays against itself. Gnushogi is an modified version of the gnuchess program. It has a simple alpha-numeric board display, or it can use the xshogi program under the X Window System. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
OpenStep (based on NeXTStep) was a GUI specification published in 1994 by Sun Microsystems and NeXT Computers, meant for building applications. It uses the Objective-C language, which is an object-oriented extension to C, that is arguably more suited to this kind of development than is C++. OpenStep requires a PostScript display engine that is analogous to the X protocol, but it is considered superior to X because all graphics are independent of the pixel resolution of the screen. In other words, high-resolution screens would improve the picture quality without making the graphics smaller. The GNUStep project has a working PostScript display engine and is meant as a Free replacement to OpenStep. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNUstep Base Library The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects. It provides functionality that aims to implement the non-graphical portion of the OpenStep standard. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Debugging versions for the GNUstep Base Library This package contains the shared library of the GNUstep Base Library compiled with debugging symbols. Install this package if you wish to develop your own programs using the GNUstep Base Library. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNUstep Gui Library The GNUstep Gui Library is a library of graphical Objective C objects. It provides functionality that aims to implement the frontend-graphical portion of the OpenStep standard. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Debugging versions for the GNUstep Gui Library This package contains the shared library of the GNUstep Gui Library compiled with debugging symbols. Install this package if you wish to develop your own programs using the GNUstep Gui Library. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Basic GNUstep Scripts and Makefiles This package contains the basic scripts, makefiles and directory layout needed to run and compile any GNUstep software. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNUstep Postscript Printer Description The GNUstep Postscript Printer Description is a collection of ppd files provided by GNUstep GUI. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNUstep Xgps Library The GNUstep Xgps Library is a library of graphical Objective C objects. It provides functionality that aims to implement the xgps graphical-backend portion of the OpenStep standard. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A command-line based client compatible with Gnutella-net Gnut implements the Gnutella-net networking and file sharing protocol. For more information on Gnutella-net, visit http://gnutella.wego.com/ For more information on gnut, visit http://www.mrob.com/gnut/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a fully-distributed information-sharing technology. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU TLS library - runtime library gnutls is a portable library which implements the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocols. Currently gnutls implements: - the TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 protocols, without any US-export controlled algorithms - X509 Public Key Infrastructure (with several limitations). - SRP for TLS authentication. - TLS Extension mechanism This package contains the runtime libraries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Query the online Dutch Van Dale dictionary This program is a frontend for the online Van Dale dictionary, http://www.vandale.nl/. It will search any word in the dictionary and return its description in Dutch. Van Dale is a well known producer of dictionaries in the Netherlands. This package provides the commandline frontend. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Query the online Dutch Van Dale dictionary - Gnome frontend This program is a frontend for the online Van Dale dictionary, http://www.vandale.nl/. It will search any word in the dictionary and return its description in Dutch. Van Dale is a well known producer of dictionaries in the Netherlands. This package provides the Gnome frontend. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
console Yahoo messenger client with guile and readline interfaces Purely console based Yahoo messenger client application which has geeky "readline" and "guile" interfaces. It connects to the Yahoo server using the "libyahoo" library. Gnuyahoo is highly extensible through the scheme language. Readline support means that it has powerful command-line editing and history features. It supports almost all of the features of the conventional Yahoo messenger for example email alert, conference, ignore, etc. It also has numerous additional features not contained in the original client. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gateway Network eXchange 400 (Proteon, SNA, SDLC), "GNX 400" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Comes with PC!Linux magazine. German. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical GOAD browser From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A sticky-note type program for Gnome Goats is a yellow post-it note applet for the Gnome desktop. It's modelled after Knotes for KDE, and is also similar to gnome-gnotes. Goats features alarms, auto-saving and more.. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+ Object Builder GOB is a preprocessor which simplifies the writing of GTK+ objects in C. The syntax is somewhat similar to that for Java, yacc and lex. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Objective-C compiler. This is the GNU Objective-C compiler, which compiles Objective-C on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Objective-C compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 2.95.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A portable library of classes for Eiffel This portable Eiffel class library provides classes for various data structures. It also provides lexical analysis and parsing on the lines of lex and yacc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphic Object Content Architecture (IBM, MO:DCA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A commandline OCR gocr is a multi-platform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) It can read pnm, pbm, pgm, ppm, some pcx and tga image files Currently the program should be able to handle well scans that have their text in one column and do not have tables. Font sizes of 20 to 60 pixels are supported. If you want to write your own OCR, libgocr is provided in a separate package. Documentation and graphical wrapper are provided in separated packages, too. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global OutDial From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Grundsaetze ordnungsmaessiger Datenverarbeitung, "GoD" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK Based ODBC Configuration GUI GTK Based ODBC Configuration GUI - part of the unixODBC tools From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Offline mail reader for Fidonet and Usenet GoldED+ is an offline mail reader for Fidonet message bases in AdeptXBBS, EzyCOM, Fido (*.MSG), Goldbase, Hudson, JAM, PCBoard, Synchronet, Squish and WildCat. It is also able to import QWK (BBS offline mail format) and SOUP (Usenet offline mail format) packages into said message bases, and re-export packages for upload. GoldED+ is a successor of the well-known GoldED mail editor. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A generic audio mixer (Base versions) gom is a generic audio mixer program; it tries to provide a complete and convenient interface for all kind of audio mixer manipulation. gom's facilities include sound driver (compile time) and sound card (run time) independence, arbitrary mixer selection, loading and saving of mixer settings, volume fading, verbosity-level driven output, "Un*x-like scripting support", etc. At the moment, gom only supports the Open Sound System (OSS) sound driver. OSS comes with the Linux kernel as free software called OSS/Free, and is available for a number of other platforms. Apart from the exhaustive command line interface described here, gom optionally has two built-in interactive interfaces (that I call gomiis, gom interactive interfaces;): a terminal gomii using ncurses, and a X gomii using the xview toolkit. All gomiis support adjustable (this includes disabling) real time updating. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A generic audio mixer (X version) This package only includes a binary of gom with built-in X support (needs xview). It supersedes the binaries in the base package and will per default be the preferred alternative of all "gom" binaries. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Good-Day GNU/Linux HA Server is a Debian-based distribution, which uses only free software. It is developed by Good-Day Inc. (in Japan). They say that their distribution features high availability, and is for Web applications. The folks at Good-Day Inc. also make a "real-time backup utility for PostgreSQL" named "Usogres" ("Uso" is a Japanese word for "fake") available before the PostgreSQL team made replication available. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
v. [common] To search the Web using the Google search engine, www.google.com. Google is highly esteemed among hackers for its significance ranking system, which is so uncannily effective that many users consider it to have rendered other search engines effectively irrelevant. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
utility to search Google via your GNOME menu/panel This is a very simple and very handy utility that just spawns the configured GNOME browser with a Google search on whatever you have in the X clipboard (whatever you last selected). It's not even an applet, just a program with a launcher that's nice to put on the panel - drag it there from the menu. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guile interpreter linked with GOOPS. GOOPS is the object oriented extension to Guile. GOOPS can be dynamically loaded into any Guile interpreter. However, this package is useful if dynamic loading doesn't work on your system. Other GOOPS packages are: libgoops5, libgoops5-dev, goops-doc The implementation is derived from STk-3.99.3 by Erick Gallesio and version 1.3 of Gregor Kiczales `Tiny-Clos'. See `libgoops5' for further information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Of Pictures (video) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Distributed Hypertext Client, Gopher protocol This package contains the client for the distributed global directory and hypertext system known as gopher. This is a text-based (ncurses) client from the University of Minnesota. It also supports the gopher+ protocol, as well as links to ftp, http, and other external viewers. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gopher is an almost irrelevant protocol today, but it was very popular in the early 1990s. Gopher is simply a hierarchical menu of hyperlinks. This means that like HTTP/HTML, you can build virtual sites containing documents from other sites. However, unlike HTTP/HTML, the only structure is that of a hierarchical menu: it doesn't support hyperlinking within the documents that it points to. Key point: There are still a lot of Gopher servers out there, However, since they are no longer mainstream, they are rarely maintained by security people. Therefore, they often present a way to compromise the network. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
In UNIX based systems linked to the Internet, a menu-based progam that helps you find files, programs, definitions, and other resources on topics you specify. Gopher was originally developed at the University of Minessota and nameeed after the school mascot. Unlike FTP and Archie, Gopher doesn't require you to know and use details of host, directory, and file names, Instead, you browse though menus and press Enter when you find something interseting. You usually see another menu, with more options, until finally you seect an option that displays information. You can then read the infromation or save it to your disk storage area after retreiving it with anonymous FTP. The World Wide Web (WWW) has begun to make Gopher and other text-based Internet search tools obsolete. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Invented at the University of Minnesota in 1993 just before the Web, gopher was a widely successful method of making menus of material available over the Internet. Gopher was designed to be much easier to use than FTP, while still using a text-only interface. Gopher is a Client and Server style program, which requires that the user have a Gopher Client program. Although Gopher spread rapidly across the globe in only a couple of years, it has been largely supplanted by Hypertext, also known as WWW (World Wide Web). There are still thousands of Gopher Servers on the Internet and we can expect they will remain for a while. From Matisse http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web. Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of links; the links can be to documents, runnable programs, or other gopher menus arbitrarily far across the net. Some claim that the gopher software, which was originally developed at the University of Minnesota, was named after the Minnesota Gophers (a sports team). Others claim the word derives from American slang `gofer' (from "go for", dialectal "go fer"), one whose job is to run and fetch things. Finally, observe that gophers dig long tunnels, and the idea of tunneling through the net to find information was a defining metaphor for the developers. Probably all three things were true, but with the first two coming first and the gopher-tunnel metaphor serendipitously adding flavor and impetus to the project as it developed out of its concept stage. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gopher server The UMN gopher server. This server is a robust and full-featured gopher and gopher+ server with a HTTP mode as well. It features support for indexing, ASK blocks, .Links files, .names files, .cap support, and pretty much any gopher feature you could imagine. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generate web link files for gopher servers This program is used to let you add links to web sites from Gopher directories on your gopher server. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Giga Operations Per Second From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Government Open Systems Interconnections Profile (USA, UK) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/goz'maks/ n. [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS. Originally freeware; a commercial version was modestly popular as `UniPress EMACS' during the 1980s. The author, James Gosling, went on to invent NeWS and the programming language Java; the latter earned him demigod status. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Script to fetch mail out of a hotmail account Gotmail is a perl script to fetch mail out of a hotmail account. This is especially useful if you want to move from Hotmail into one of the other free mail services - one command can do it all. GotMail also supports getting any new mail only from your Hotmail account - perfect for using a HotMail account as a redirect address into another account. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a text renderer It's a commandline text renderer. It will take text on the commandline or from a file and render it using antialiased TrueType fonts, using optional font styles, word wrapping, justification and layout control. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Privacy Assistant (GNU, GnuPG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Privacy Assistant The GNU Privacy Assistant is a graphical user interface for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Paint - a small, easy to use paint program for GNOME This is gpaint (GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of 'Paintbrush' from a popular non-free operating system. Currently gpaint has the following features: * Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes. * Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons. * Preliminary print support using gnome-print. * Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes. * Multiple-image editing in a single instance of the program. * All the image processing features present in xpaint. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a friendly GUI frontend for the PayPal micropayment service gPal is a friendly GUI frontend for the PayPal micropayment service allowing users to check their balance, send money and make requests for money to and from other PayPal users. It uses SSL encryption to ensure the security of transactions. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guess PC disk partition table, find lost partitions Gpart is a tool which tries to guess the primary partition table of a PC-type disk in case the primary partition table in sector 0 is damaged, incorrect or deleted. It is also good at finding and listing the types, locations, and sizes of inadvertently-deleted partitions, both primary and logical. It gives you the information you need to manually re-create them (using fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, etc.). The guessed table can also be written to a file or (if you firmly believe the guessed table is entirely correct) directly to a disk device. Supported (guessable) filesystem or partition types: * BeOS filesystem type. * FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD disklabel sub-partitioning scheme used on Intel platforms. * Linux second extended filesystem. * MS-DOS FAT12/16/32 "filesystems". * IBM OS/2 High Performance filesystem. * Linux LVM physical volumes (LVM by Heinz Mauelshagen). * Linux swap partitions (versions 0 and 1). * The Minix operating system filesystem type. * MS Windows NT/2000 filesystem. * QNX 4.x filesystem. * The Reiser filesystem (version 3.5.X, X > 11). * Sun Solaris on Intel platforms uses a sub-partitioning scheme on PC hard disks similar to the BSD disklabels. * Silicon Graphics' journalling filesystem for Linux. Other types may be added relatively easily, as separately compiled modules. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
administer the /etc/group file From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General-Purpose Computation From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Pascal Compiler (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Performance Characterization [committee] (org., HP, IBM, DEC, SGI, Sun,...) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Policy Container (AD, GPO) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Pascal compiler. This is the GNU Pascal compiler, which compiles Pascal on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. The current version 2.2 (release candiate 2) implements Standard Pascal (ISO 7185, level 1), a large subset of Extended Pascal (ISO 10206), and Borland Pascal. Many Borland Pascal units supported. This is a dependency package providing the default GNU Pascal compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems (version 2.95.4 for architecture i386). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Pascal compiler. NOTE: This is not a final release, but taken from the CVS gcc-2_95-branch (dated 2001-10-02). This is the GNU Pascal compiler, which compiles Pascal on platforms supported by the gcc compiler. It uses the gcc backend to generate optimized code. The current beta release 2.2 implements Standard Pascal (ISO 7185, level 1), a large subset of Extended Pascal (ISO 10206), and Borland Pascal. Many Borland Pascal units supported. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Processor Command Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Perfect hash function generator. gperf is a program that generates perfect hash functions for sets of key words. A perfect hash function is simply: A hash function and a data structure that allows recognition of a key word in a set of words using exactly 1 probe into the data structure. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Perfect hash function generator (ACE version) gperf-ace is the ACE version of gperf. Both gperf-ace and gperf were written by the same author, and have basically the same options and functionality. gperf-ace simply takes advantage of the some of the features provided by the ACE library. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
periodic table application GPeriodic is a small X/GTK+-based program which allows you to browse through a periodic table of chemical elements, and view somewhat detailed information on each of the elements. 118 elements are currently listed. The program is available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Dutch and Russian. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Protection Fault (Windows) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
encryption and signing tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Privacy Guard (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
signature verification tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
X/GTK-based internet telephone. Gphone is an internet telephone. As the name implies, it aims to be fully gnome-groovy, but that hasn't quite happened yet. Gphone is definitely a work in progress and you probably shouldn't bet your business on it. Don't be too hard on the program, though -- although the user interface is mighty rough, gphone does actually work pretty well. The data rate should be low enough to work over a reasonable modem connection. The protocol is nominally RTP/RTCP, and gphone complies well enough with the standard to be able to talk to speakfreely. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gPhoto is part of the GNU project - and is an universal, freeGTK+ application and library framework that lets you download images from several different digital camera models, and from the local hard drive, and generate HTML albums. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Universal application for digital cameras Gphoto will allow downloading, saving and manipulation of images from several different camera models, or from the hardrive. It also comes with a HTML engine, to publish photos on the web, and a command line interface to use it from a script From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
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 the command-line utility gphoto2. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
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 for some older camera models you must use the old "gphoto"package. For USB mass storage models, you must use the driver in the kernel. This package contains the library that digital camera applications can use and the command-line utility gphoto2. Other (GUI) frontends are available separately. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A tool to manage your photo collection GNOME Photo Collector has been designed to help you managing your photo collection, or any type of images. It uses a PostgreSQL database (either local or not) to store all sort of informations about your images, such as : o type of film used o ID, pathname, etc... o type and model of camera o date o description o keywords o ... The keywords defined for each image allow you to perform a search in your database to find a particular image. GPC supports all formats supported by the gdk-pixbuf library, since it is used to load the images. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Programming Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General-Purpose Interface Bus (IEEE 488, GPIB) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
compile pictures for troff or TeX From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Purpose Input Output From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/G-P-L/ n. Abbreviation for `General Public License' in widespread use; see copyleft, General Public Virus. Often mis-expanded as `GNU Public License'. From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Public Licence (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Programming Language From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A common usage and redistribution license. Visit www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/gs/app-gpl/node1.html to see a copy of the GPL agreement. From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Purpose Mouse Interface This package provides a daemon that listens to the mouse when the console is displayed, and delivers them to applications. The default when no application is running is to emulate "selection", i.e. allow cut-and-paste with the mouse on the console the same way as under X. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer ProjektManagement [e.v.] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gpm provides mouse support to text-based Linux applications like the Emacs editor and the Midnight Commander file management system. Gpm also provides console cut-and-paste operations using the mouse and includes a program that allows pop-up menus to appear at the click ofa mouse button. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Policy Objects (AD, GPO) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[SCSI-3] Generic Packetized Protocol (SAM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+ pppd monitoring and control utility gpppkill is a small GTK+ program which displays a graph of ppp link usage and also has options to kill pppd after a specified time of low link usage, or after a given amount of time. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A gnome applet that is a wrapper around pon and poff. gpppon is a gnome applet that reads the names of the configured providers from /etc/ppp/peers and calls the pon and poff scripts with the selected provider as argument. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Purpose Register (CPU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUI for lpr: print files and configure printer-specific options GPr is a graphical interface to lpr that provides for easy configuration of printer-specific options. GPr interfaces with a PostScript printer's PPD file to create a user-interface of configurable options. Based upon user choice, the device-specific option code is then inserted into the PostScript job and sent to the printer. This can be used to tell the printer to duplex or staple the print job, or tell it what paper tray to draw paper from. NOTE: gpr will detect if the file to be print is postscript, and, if not, it will call a2ps to preprocess it before sending it to ppdfilt and to lpr. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
display call graph profile data From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Reference documentation to GNU gprof, the GNU Profiler. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Prolog compiler. GNU Prolog is a free Prolog compiler with constraint solving over finite domains (FD) developed at INRIA by Daniel Diaz. GNU Prolog is based on two systems developed by the same author (with lot of code rewriting and a lot of new extensions): wamcc and clp(FD). A lot of work has been devoted to the ISO compatibility, GNU Prolog is very close to the ISO standard, full compliance being one of its goals. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Packet Radio Service / System (ETSI, GSM, TCP/IP, GPRS, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Positioning System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical PS using GTK gPS a graphical applet to watch system processes, like ps and top. It shows lots of information on each process and allows users to kill, send signals to, renice and filter processes. And also with the rgpsp package can watch processes on other machines across a network. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Processor Software Interface From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Simulator for Microchip's PIC microcontrollers Gpsim is a full-featured software simulator for Microchip PIC microcontrollers. Gpsim has been designed to be as accurate as possible. Accuracy includes the entire PIC - from the core to the I/O pins and including ALL of the internal peripherals. Thus it's possible to create stimuli and tie them to the I/O pins and test the PIC the same PIC the same way you would in the real world. Gpsim has been designed to be as fast as possible. Real time simulation speeds of 20Mhz PICs are possible. Gpsim has been designed to be as useful as possible. The standard simulation paradigm including breakpoints, single stepping, disassembling, memory inspect & change, have been implemented. In addition, gpsim supports many debugging features that are only available with in-circuit emulators. For example, a continuous trace buffer tracks every action of the simulator. Also, it's possible to set read and write break points on values (e.g. break if a specific value is read from or written to a register). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
LCD module for gpsim Gpsim-lcd is a LCD module for gpsim, it consists of a shared library that is dynamically loaded. Examples how to use the module are included. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
LED module for gpsim Gpsim-led is a 7-segment led module for gpsim, it consists of a shared library that is dynamically loaded. Examples how to use the module are included. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
logic module for gpsim Gpsim-logic is a simple module library that contains a 2-input AND gate and a 2-input OR gate. It consists of a shared library that is dynamically loaded. This library also illustrates how a module can drive a pin on the pic. Examples how to use the module are included. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A gtk based psk31 This is a PSK31 transmission mode program using the sound card and optionally serial port to PTT the RIG. It has nice functions and listen very well. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GPS manager GPS Manager (GPSMan) is a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment. GPSMan supports communication and real-time logging with both Garmin and Lowrance receivers and accepts real-time logging information in NMEA 0183 from any GPS receiver. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
communicate with a Garmin Global Positioning System receiver GPStrans allows a user with a Garmin GPS receiver to upload and download waypoints, routes, almanac (satellite orbit elements), and track routes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Policy Template (AD, GPO) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUID Partition Table (EFI, GUID) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Processing Unit From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU PIC utilities Those utilities for the Microchip PIC microcontrollers family contain an assembler (compatible with MPASM), a disassembler, and other tools. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Public Virus From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Trigraph Password Generator This package generates pronounceable passwords. It uses the statistics of three-letter combinations (trigraphs) taken from whatever dictionaries you feed it. Thus pronounceability may differ from language to language. Based on the ideas in Morrie Gasser's password generator for Multics, and Dan Edwards's generator for CTSS. FIPS Standard 181 describes a similar digraph-based generator, derived from Gasser's. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK-based LDAP client GQ is GTK+ LDAP client and browser utility. It can be used for searching LDAP directory as well as browsing it using a tree view. Features include: - browse and search modes - LDAPv3 schema browser - template editor - edit and delete entries - add entries with templates - export subtree or whole server to LDIF file - use any number of servers - search based on single argument or LDAP filter - TLS support for LDAPv3 From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK Webcam control Gqcam is a program originally created to pull frames from a greyscale Connectix QuickCam, but that has grown into a frame grabber for most any Video4Linux compatible webcam- like camera. It should work with any camera that supports the read() method of grabbing frames. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a GTK+ front end to mpg321/mpg123 and ogg123 GQmpeg is a GTK+ front end to mpg321/mpg123 for mpeg audio file playing, as well as ogg123 for Ogg Vorbis support. It includes playlist support, many options, and its themeability is extraordinarily flexible. gqmpeg requires mpg321 or mpg123 for playback of mpeg audio files, and ogg123 for the playback of Ogg Vorbis files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A simple image viewer using GTK+ Simple image browser with thumbnail capability. Uses GTK+ and gdk-pixbuf. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GQview is an image viewer for browsing through graphics files. GQview features include single click file viewing, support for external editors, previewing images using thumbnails, and zoom. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An XY plotting tool Grace is a point-and-click tool that allows the user to draw X-Y plots. This is the program formerly known as Xmgr. A few of its features are: User defined scaling, tick marks, labels, symbols, line styles, colors. Polynomial regression, splines, running averages, DFT/FFT, cross/auto-correlation. Batch mode for unattended plotting. Hardcopy support for PostScript, FrameMaker and several image formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GRaphics Adapter Device Driver (OS/2, IBM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK FM radio tuner. GTK-based X11 application for adjusting the frequency and volume of, and muting and unmuting, FM radio cards. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
scientific visualization library Grafix is a utility originally designed to help scientists in the visualization of results of a computation, e.g. for numerical integrations of partial differential equations. It can be used, however, for any application that wants to use X for drawing pictures, functions or other graphic objects in a convenient interactive manner or even for writing a graphical user interface for any task. Grafix should be considered as a layer between an application and the X Window system built up of a bunch of basic classes as building elements. The simplest way of using it is to define instances of these classes. For more complicated programs the user has to define own derivations to the basic classes. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Transfer sound from gramophone records to CD GramoFile enables you to record audio from (for example) gramophone records, process the signal and listen to the results. Because sound files in .WAV-format are used, it is possible to exchange the files with many other programs. Cdrecord(1) can burn CD-Recordables of these, so you can make CDs with the music of your favorite records. The user interface of GramoFile has a windows-like look-and-feel, making it fairly easy to use. One of the most important parts of GramoFile is the ability to process digital audio signals. Through the application of several filters it is possible to accomplish a significant reduction of disturbances like ticks and scratches. These filters have been programmed in such a fashion that they can be applied in any order (and multiple times) in a single run, thus avoiding the use of temporary files. It is possible to adjust the properties of each filter independently, so in every situation an optimal result can be achieved. Another interesting feature is the track splitting. Just make one .wav file of an entire side of an record and GramoFile will detect where the individual tracks are located. This happens fully automatically, without need to set any options. More experienced users may fine-tune the algorithm, or change the detected track starts and ends, but generally that will not be necessary. Track-times are saved in an editable (plaintext) .tracks file, that will be used during the signal processing to produce one processed .wav file for each individual track. To record and play .wav files, modified versions of brec(1) and bplay(1) by David Monro are included. These programs provide buffered recording and playback, so all will go well even on a highly loaded system. Both programs have been modified to support the standard GramoFile user interface. Brec also got a `graphical' peak level meter, and bplay a running time display. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A small software utility that loads and manages multiple operating systems (and their variants). GRUB is the default bootloader for Red Hat Linux. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a clock that tolls time acoustically grandfatherclock plays audio files to report the time. The default configuration emulates a grandfather clock with Westminster chimes. Cuckoo clock and Close Encounters of the Third Kind files are included as well. As a matter of fact, grandfatherclock can be configured to execute any command. The upstream default is simply to write a *.au file to a sound device file by using cat(1). Since cat is not a good sound player, the default is changed to use sox instead. grandfatherclock depends on sox to ensure that it can run under the default configuration. You also need a kernel support for a sound device to use grandfatherclock. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Formerly Kaiwal Linux, GrandLinux 4.4 seems to be the most recent version (as of September 2002). Looks like box sets and training and other Linux stuff. Website text in Thai. From LWN Distribution List http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A program for typesetting graphs This is grap, an implementation of Kernighan and Bentley's grap language for typesetting graphs. The grap preprocessor works with pic and troff (or groff). Grap is a language for describing graphical displays of data. It provides such services as automatic scaling and labeling of axes, and for statements, if statements, and macros to facilitate user programmability. Grap is intended primarily for including graphs in documents prepared with groff or TeX, and is only marginally useful for elementary tasks in data analysis. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A graphical interface for logging into a desktop environment. Red Hat Linux uses the GNOME Desktop Manager (GDM) for graphical login; XDM and KDM are also supported. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A picture-like control panel or screen (as opposed to a text-based screen), that makes a computer or presentation system easy to use. Amiga, Macintosh, and Windows environments are example of GUIs. From Glossary of Distance Education and Internet Terminology http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A visual object that enhances interaction between a computer and a user. A GUI displays windows, icons, menus, labelled buttons, and a virtual desktop. A GUI sends commands to the system via these icons and menus rather than typed commands. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphic Animation System for Professionals From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
is a public domain raster based GIS, vector GIS, image processing system, and graphics production system. Created by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Constriction Engineering Research Laboratory (USA/CERL) and enhanced by many others, it is used extensively at government offices, universities and commercial organizations throughout the world. It is written mostly in C for various UNIX based machines. Linux is one of its more robust implementations. GRASS contains over 40 programs to render images on monitor and paper; over 60 raster manipulation programs; over 30 vector manipulation programs; nearly 30 multi-spectral image processing manipulation programs; 16 data management programs; and 6 point file management programs. GRASS' strengths lie in several fields. The simple user interface makes it an ideal platform for those learning about GIS for the first time. Users wishing to write their own code can do so by examining existing source code, interfacing with the documented GIS libraries, and by using the GRASS Programmers' Manual. This allows more sophisticated functionality to be fully integrated within GRASS. Other strengths include GRASS' pioneering of mixed resolutions in a data base, mixed geographic coverage areas in a data base, raster image compression techniques via run-length encoding and reclassification lookup tables, GRASS' rescaling of display images on the fly to fill the display screen, plus its fundamental design criterion of powerful computer-assisted scientific analysis of environmental issues (as opposed to merely going for intricate cartographic output of relatively simple processes). GRASS is usually supplied as free, non-copyright source code to be compiled on host machines. Some compiled binaries are also easily obtainable at no cost via the Internet. It runs on a variety of UNIX platforms. Copied from Project Assist Intro to GRASS. From GRASS HOWTO http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Clone of Gravity Force, for SVGA Gravity Wars is based on Gravity Force, one of the greatest games for the Amiga. This version is a little different, with a much higher resolution, and better graphics. It also includes some new features like water, exploding doors, bonus objects, fans (ie. wind), and some other special effects like exploding bullets, and splashing water.. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
generic colouriser for everything generic colouriser, can be used to colourise logfiles, output of commands, arbitrary text.... configured via regexp's. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Reference Configuration From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
sets your Xresources from your gtk theme grdb tries to apply the colors from your gtk theme to Xt/Motif/Tk apps. It does this by setting variables based on the current theme and piping them, along with some (supplied) appdefaults files into an "xrdb -merge" command. grdb uses the same appdefaults files as krdb from KDE. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome capplet for the grdb program grdb-capplet provides a capplet in the gnome control center for the grdb program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Routing Encapsulation (RFC 1701, VPN) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A tool testing framework. Greg is a framework for testing other programs and libraries. Its purpose is to provide a single front end for all tests and to be a small, simple framework for writing tests. Greg leverages off the Guile language to provide all the power (and more) of other test frameworks with greater simplicity and ease of use. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
/grep/ vi. [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p, where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via Unix grep(1)] To rapidly scan a file or set of files looking for a particular string or pattern (when browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of `grepping around'). By extension, to look for something by pattern. "Grep the bulletin board for the system backup schedule, would you?" See also vgrep. [It has also been alleged that the source is from the title of a paper "A General Regular Expression Parser" -ESR] From Jargon Dictionary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Regular Expression Print (Unix) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU grep, egrep and fgrep. The GNU family of grep utilities may be the "fastest grep in the west". GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to look at every character. The result is typically many times faster than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular expressions containing backreferencing will run more slowly, however.) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Linux abbreviation for "get regular expression". A grep tool lets you search through a set of text files for a pattern called the regular expression, which is a syntax that lets you specify in great detail what kind of text you're looking for. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
print lines matching a pattern From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches one ormore input files 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 files, for system administration tasks, etc. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A tool that searches files for a string of text and outputs any line that contains the pattern. From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Grep Debian package information The grep-dctrl program can answer such questions as * "What is the Debian package foo?" * "Which version of the Debian package bar is now current?" * "Which Debian packages does John Doe maintain?" * "Which Debian packages are somehow related to the Scheme programming language?" and with some help * "Who maintain the essential packages of a Debian system?" given a useful input file. It is a specialised grep program that is meant for processing any file which has the general format of a Debian package control file. These include the dpkg available file, the dpkg status file, and the Packages files on a distribution medium (such as a Debian CD-ROM or an FTP site carrying Debian). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
search mailboxes for mail matching an expression Grepmail looks for mail messages containing a pattern, and prints the resulting messages. Usage is very similar to grep. It can handle compressed mailbox files, and can search the header or body of emails. It also supports searches constrained by date and size. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GNU Regression, Econometric & Time-Series Library The GNU Regression, Econometric and Time-Series Library (gretl) is a software package for econometric analysis. It is currently at an experimental, "alpha", stage. The package comprises a shared library, a command-line client program, and a graphical client built using GTK+. This package provides the GTK+ client and the command-line client. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a language for scientific illustration. Gri is an open-source language for scientific graphics programming. It is command-driven, as opposed to point/click. Some users consider Gri similar to LaTeX, since both provide extensive power as a reward for tolerating a learning curve. The output is industry-standard PostScript as output, suitable for inclusion in other documents. Gri can make x-y graphs, contour graphs, and image graphs. Fine control is provided over all aspects of drawing, e.g. line widths, colors, fonts, etc. Greek letters and mathematical symbols are available in a TeX-like syntax. Folks who write 1000-line Gri scripts usually start with something as simple as the following: open file.dat # open a file read columns x * y # read the 1st column as x and the 3rd as y draw curve # draw the data and autoscale the axes A full manual is also available in HTML (gri-html-doc package), in PostScript suitable for printing (gri-ps-doc package) and on-line by following links from the gri home page: http://gri.sourceforge.net/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Research Internet Connection (org., ISP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
To continually guess passwords to find the correct one. Analogy: If someone steals your bank card, they cannot sit in front of the cash machine and guess all possible PIN numbers. After a certain number of unsuccessful tries, the bank machine will "eat" the card. Key point: Secure systems (UNIX, Windows NT) lock out accounts after a certain number of unsuccessful tries. These lock-outs can either be temporary (and restore themselves automatically), or permanent until an administrator intervene and unlocks the account. Key point: Non-secure systems (Win9x and many software applications) do not lock out accounts. For example, if you have Win9x "File and Print Sharing" turned on and protected with a password, a hacker can try continuously and invisibly to gain access to your machine. Nothing is logged, nothing is locked out. Contrast: When brute-force cracking, the hacker does all the calculations himself (comparing them against the stolen encrypted password file). When doing a grind, the hacker must enter the passwords one by one, and the target system does the calculations to see if they are valid. An intrusion detection system can detect grinds, but not cracks. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GRaphical iNterface to SMIL (SMIL, Oratix), "GRiNS" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME-based CD-player/ripper/encoder It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The CDDB protocol is supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified "computerized" version of your music collection. NOTICE: Old Grip did not depends on GNOME. But, the latest must depend on GNOME. You must install GNOME library to use Grip. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Grip is a gtk-based cd-player and cd-ripper. It has the ripping capabilitiesof cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such ascdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The CDDB protocol is supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified "computerized" version of your music collection. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical Process Monitor Gr_Monitor continuously displays information about processes resident on a UNIX system. For each process it displays a 3D bar graph of CPU consumed, memory consumed, resident set size, and elapsed time. The processes are grouped by username. Each username grouping sits on its own little plinth. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
front end for the groff document formatting system From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU troff text-formatting system This package contains optional components of the GNU troff text-formatting system. The core package, groff-base, contains the traditional tools like troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. This package contains additional devices and drivers for output to DVI, HTML, HP LaserJet printers, Canon CAPSL LBP-4 and LBP-8 printers, and PostScript. Besides these, the groff package contains man pages describing the language and its macro sets, info documentation, and a number of supplementary programs: - grn, a preprocessor for pictures in the 'gremlin' format; - tfmtodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tdvi'; - hpftodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tlj4'; - afmtodit, which creates font files for use with 'groff -Tps'; - refer, which preprocesses bibliographic references for use with groff; - indxbib, which creates inverted indices for bibliographic databases used by 'refer'; - lkbib and lookbib, which search bibliographic databases; - addftinfo, which adds metric information to troff font files for use with groff; - pfbtops, which translates a PostScript font in .pfb format to ASCII for use with groff; - mmroff, a simple groff preprocessor which expands references in mm. All the standard macro packages are supported. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output. The created documents can be shown on a display or printed on a printer. Groff's formatting commands allow you to specify font type and size, boldtype, italic type, the number and size of columns on a page, and more. You should install groff if you want to use it as a document formatting system. Groff can also be used to format man pages. If you are going to use groff with the X Window System, you'll also need to install the groff-gxditview package. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU troff text-formatting system (base system components) This package contains the traditional UN*X text formatting tools troff, nroff, tbl, eqn, and pic. These utilities, together with the man-db package, are essential for displaying the on-line manual pages. groff-base is a stripped-down package containing the necessary components to read manual pages in ASCII, Latin-1, and UTF-8. Users who want a full groff installation, with the standard set of devices, fonts, macros, and documentation, should install the groff package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The groff-for-man package contains the parts of the groff text processor package that are required for viewing manpages. For a full groff package, install package groff. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU troff components for the X Window System This package contains the X75, X75-12, X100, and X100-12 groff devices, which allow groff output to be conveniently viewed on an X display using the standard X11 fonts. These devices display their output with gxditview, which is also included here. gxditview can also be used to view PostScript output from groff. With this package installed, 'man -X' can show man pages in a graphical window. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
guess options for groff command From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A ncurse based CD player. Groovy CD Player is an ncurses based CD player for Linux with a really cool interface and big fluffy numbers. It has CDDB support, and local caching for quick reload. Planned features include submittable CDDB records and a spectrum analyzer. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
groff driver for typewriter-like devices From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A simple logic game. The purpose is to put balls in pockets of the same color by manipulating a maze of tubes. For more information: http://home-2.consunet.nl/~cb007736/groundhog.html From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a collection of users who have protected access to their resources. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A unique identifier for UNIX and Linux groups. Users and files are assigned GIDs to determine permissions and access control. From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Create a new group From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Delete a group From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Modify a group From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
print the groups a user is in From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Programs that help people work together collectively while located remotely from each other. Groupware services can include the sharing of calendars, collective writing, e-mail handling, shared database access, electronic meetings with each person able to see and display information to others, and other activities. For Linux there is the Teamwave Workplace and Lotus Notes will be ported. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Programs that increase the cooperation and joint productivity of small groups of co-workers. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
verify integrity of group files From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
convert to and from shadow passwords and groups. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
grpmi is a graphical frontend to show progression of download and installation of software packages. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+ reverse polish notation calculator grpn is a reverse polish notation calculator which uses the GTK+ widgets. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Packet Radio Service (GSM, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
convert to and from shadow passwords and groups. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GRand Unified Bootloader (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is a GPLed bootloader intended to unify boot loading across x86 operating systems. In addition to loading the Linux kernel, it implements the Multiboot standard, which allows for flexible loading of multiple boot images (needed for modular kernels such as the GNU Hurd). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GRUB (Grand Unified Boot Loader) is a boot loader capable of booting into most free operating systems - Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, GNU Mach, and others as well as most commercial operating systems. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GRUB is a GPLed bootloader intended to unify bootloading across x86 operating systems. In addition to loading the Linux and *BSD kernels, it implements the Multiboot standard, which allows for flexible loading of multiple boot images (needed for modular kernels such as the GNUHurd). From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
See Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB). From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An Open Source, distributed effort, data submission client This is the Grub crawler client, used to provide real time notification updates of webpage content to the distributed, Open Source project run and maintained at <http://grub.org/>. You will have to request a client-id at the homepage to let you join the force. This is needed for authenticated submissions to the database. Also, currently you can only join if you have a static IP address. Grub, in turn, provides the returned updates to any indexing or search project that needs crawled content themselves. Notifications are FREE for public consumption, but there will be some type of charge for larger queries to their database, such as those needed by the larger engines. By centralizing and organizing the crawling process, Grub hopes to increase the rate at which the Internet can be crawled and simultaneously decrease the amount of crawler traffic required for sites wanting their content indexed on a regular basis. Please don't confuse this package with the bootloader with the same name. It has nothing to do with it besides the name. The project is currently searching for a better name. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generate a web page with statistics about an IRC channel. gruftistats is a program which reads your IRC logs and turns them into a web page. This has a mixture of statistics (like who talked most), and amusing facts (like who got kicked most). From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK based Run dialog gRun is a GTK based Run dialog that closely resembles the Windows Run dialog, just like xexec. It has a intelligent history mechanism and a dual level fork() mechanism for launching the application in its own process. gRun also has support for launching console mode application in an XTerm as well as associations for file types. gRun is much more powerful than xexec, looks a lot better, and has the big advantage that you can start typing a command without having to mouse-click into the text field. gRun is especially useful if you do not use the GNOME desktop which has a built-in run command, and if you use a window-manager (e.g. IceWM) where you can define a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Alt-F2) for staring gRun. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Merge partial scans into a larger image grunch is a package of scripts and software which can take a pair of side-by-side partial scans of an image, and merge them into a single image without leaving an obvious seam. It was written to allow LP record jackets to be scanned using an ordinary single-page flatbed scanner. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Standard (MIDI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gepruefte Sicherheit From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer) From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Ghostscript Postscript interpreter Ghostscript is used for postscript preview and printing. Usually as a back-end to a program such as ghostview, it can display postscript documents in an X11 environment. Furthermore, it can render postscript files as graphics to be printed on non-postscript printers. Supported printers include common dot-matrix, inkjet and laser models. Package gsfonts contains a set of standard fonts for ghostscript. The Ghostscript World Wide Web home page is at http://www.ghostscript.com/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Common files for different Ghostscript releases There are two different flavours of the Ghostscript postscript interpreter, released under different licenses: GNU Ghostscript: Free software released under the GPL. This package in included in Debian in the "gs" package. AFPL Ghostscript: This flavour is the more current and more up to date one but under a license that is not free. If you want to use that package please make sure that you agree to the license. The AFPL variant of Ghostscript is not part of the official Debian distribution but we provide a package for it in the non-free section as a service to our users. This package contains the common files of both packaging for managing the font installation and some wrapper scripts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer) From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Provides support to view encrypted PDFs with GhostScript. This package provides the modifications necessary to view encrypted PDF files with the gs and gs-aladdin packages. When you give a PDF document an owner password, Adobe Acrobat encrypts it so that you can't just remove the password from the file. Unfortunately, because of stupid US regulations about exporting cryptographic software, the encryption cannot be added into programs like GhostScript which are distributed with source code from the US. You have to install this package to be able to view encrypted PDF files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
scan IEEE1394 (firewire/i.link) bus gscanbus is a little bus scanning, testing and topology visualizing tool for the Linux IEEE1394 subsystem, with some AV/C support, especially for controlling Camcorders and VCRs. It is intended as a debugging tool for IEEE1394 development, but can also be used to simply check your IEEE1394 setup on Linux. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNUstep frontend to the dict UNIX utility Based on the object oriented GNUstep environment, this program is a frontend to the query/response protocol 'dict' that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of dictionary databases. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Game Software Development Kit (Linux, GGI, OpenGL) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Genealogy Software Distribution System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
the GNOME Search Tool From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter These are free look-alike fonts of the Adobe Postscript fonts. Recommended for gs and gs-aladdin. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
render a ghostscript font in TeX pk format ' # small and boldface (not all -man's provide it) SB\$1 \$2 From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
reboot or shutdown your machine From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics Software Labs (AT&T) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global System for Mobile communications From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Groupe Speciale Mobile (org. , CEPT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A smart card reading, writing and managing program for Gnome Gnome Smart Card is a smart card reader for Gnome. It uses the program smartcard to communicate with the card reader and the cards. Both programs are developed close together. gsmartcard's ability to read/write different cards relies 100% on its underlying program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
General Switch Management Protocol (DEC, Sprint) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME/GTK user interface for SmsSend GNOME SmsSend is a user interface to SmsSend, a tool which allows you to send short messages to any GSM mobile through their provider's web site. GNOME SmsSend will detect each provider's respective script file from SmsSend's preference directory or its global defaults and create a tab in its user interface for each one. GNOME SmsSend will then fork or execute smssend with the proper options to send the SMS message you input into it. It also provides a link to SmsSend's homepage where you can download the required script (if available) for your GSM provider if it is not already provided with the SmsSend package. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gateway Service for NetWare (MS, Windows NT) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Server Pages (GNU, Java, JSP) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Security Service (IETF, GSS-API) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Support System From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Security Service API (RFC 2078, API), "GSS-API" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guam Standard Time [+1000] (TZ) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Stock and commodity price charting utility The gstalker program charts stock and commodity prices in a way that is very similar to commercial software. Gstalker is designed to be simple and easy to use, and light on resources. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a gtk front-end for the starchart program gstar is a gtk front-end for the "starchart" program (originally by Alan Paeth, updated in 1990 by Craig Counterman) which generates high-quality postscript charts of any chosen region of the sky. It also prints the current Julian date and gives positions of the planets. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GStreamer is a streaming-media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anythingfrom real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new datatypes or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing newplugins. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
pressure sensitive "ink" drawing The program allows drawing in black (pen) or white (eraser) on a high resolution bitmap which is filtered down to screen resolution. XInput devices can be used (with pressure support), and different tools and tool properties can be assigned to each device. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics System eXtension From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
plug-in replacement for standard talk GNU Talk supports talk protocols 0 & 1. Defines protocol 2. Client supports multiple connections, file transfer, primitive encryption, shared apps, auto-answer, multiple front-ends including GTK and Emacs. The daemon collects request versions 0, 1, & 2 together, and permits interaction between clients of different types. Also supports MRU tty announce, announce-redirect, blacklists, and tty-bomb filtering. This package contains the daemon and the clients. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Tangram (puzzle) game using GTK+ The Tangram is a Chinese puzzle where the player has to arrange a set of pieces to match a given shape. All the pieces must be used and should not be laid on top of one another. The pieces are five triangles, a square and a parallelogram. gtans contains more than 290 figures to play with. It uses the mouse to control pieces. gtans is highly customizable using the interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
format tables for troff From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Group Time Division Multiplexing [protocol] From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
multiplayer tetris-like game GTetrinet is a clone of Tetrinet, a multiplayer tetris version for Windows. It is compatible with the original tetrinet, although you need a separate program, such as tetrinet-x, to be able to create your own games. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generalized Timing Format (VESA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
an image viewer and browser for GNOME gThumb is an image viewer and browser for GNOME. It is based on gqview. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK-based metronome gtick is a small metronome app that uses the GTK widgets. It outputs to /dev/dsp and features a scale from 30 beats per minute to 250 BPM and 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4 time. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK-based X11 task timer Program to track how your time is spent. This useful piece of software allows multiple clocks to run simultaneously, allows for text annotations, and provides useful and portable reports (HTML and TXT formats.) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
At one point, before KDE was substantially complete, Qt antagonists reasoned that since there were more lines of Qt code than of KDE code, it would be better to develop a widget library from scratch--but that is an aside. The Gtk widget library was written especially for gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program), is GPL'd and written entirely in C in low-level X calls (i.e., without the X Toolkit), object oriented, fast, clean, extensible and having a staggering array of features. It comprises Glib, a library meant to extend standard C, providing higher-level functions usually akin only to scripting languages, like hash tables and lists; Gdk, a wrapper around raw X Library to give GNU naming conventions to X, and to give a slightly higher level interface to X; and the Gtk library itself. Using Gtk, the Gnome project began, analogous to KDE, but written entirely in C. From Rute-Users-Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The GIMP Tool Kit is a set of widgets for the X11 windows system originally made for GIMP; the GNU Image Manipulation Program. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
[GNU] GUI ToolKit (GNU, GUI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gtk+ package contains the GIMP ToolKit (GTK+), a library for creatinggraphical user interfaces for the X Window System. GTK+ was originally written for the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) image processing program, but is now used by several other programs as well. If you are planning on using the GIMP or another program that uses GTK+, you'll need to have the gtk+ package installed. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A powerful, fast open source graphics library for the X window System on UNIX/Linux, used by programmers to create buttons, menus and other graphical objects. (Also, see GNOME, Motif and Qt.) From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK+ application for digital still cameras gtkam is a graphical application based on GTK+ for digital still cameras supported by gphoto2. (http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto2/) It's available from the SourceForge gphoto project CVS repository. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTKam is now a part of the Gnome project, and is a fine interface for awide variety of digital cameras. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Editor for cookie files This package provides a graphical editor for cookie files as stored by Netscape or Mozilla. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Ready-to-use gtk+ dialog boxes:- xtest lets you test if X is running or not- gmessage show a message and some buttons, it returns with the number of the pressed button- gchooser presents a list of entries from which the user can choose From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A graphical text comparison tool gtkdiff is a graphical GTK/Gnome front-end to diff. gtkdiff can be used to compare files for directories. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical File Finder This package provides a graphical file finding program. Also includes a safe mktmp program. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A gtk+ based font selection utility This is a nice utility for browsing, previewing and selecting a X11 font to insert its correct name via the X clipboard into a configuration file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gimp Toolkit OpenGL area widget shared library A GTK widget for use with Mesa, an unlicensed OpenGL clone. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
C++ bindings for the GtkGLArea widget A Gtk-- widget for use with OpenGL From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK based go playing program with skins. A GTK-based go playing program. You can play go against another player or against a weak computer player. This program's main advantage is a pretty interface. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
an interactive function-plotter/calculator GtkGraph is an application designed to replace a conventional graphing calculator. It allows you to plot up to 10 functions on the same graph. Graphs may be exported to PostScript, printed, or exported to any bitmap file format that Imlib supports. The user can zoom and scroll, or set the range manually with X/Y minimums and X/Y maximums. In addition, a small arithmatic calculator window is included, which has a convenient history mechanism. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A gtk front-end to grepmail A gtk front end to grepmail which provides you with a GUI interface to search through your sent and saved mail. Support is provided for both local mailboxes and remote mailboxes that are accessible using IMAP and ssh/rsh. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GtkHTML is a HTML rendering/editing library. GtkHTML is not designed to be the ultimate HTML browser/editor: instead, it is designed to be easily embedded into applications that require lightweight HTML functionality. GtkHTML was originally based on KDE's KHTMLW widget, but is now developed independently of it. The most important difference between KHTMLW and GtkHTML, besides being GTK-based, is that GtkHTML is alsoan editor. Thanks to the Bonobo editor component that comes with the library, it's extremely simple to add HTML editing to an existing application. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GTK+ version of Hx, a UNIX Hotline Client This is a Hotline Client for Linux using the GTK+ libraries. Hotline is a protocol allowing chat, news, and file transfers. Any user can run his/her own server and register it with a public tracker, which is a meta-server that users can access to obtain a list of registered servers and connect to them. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Frontend for cups written in gtk Frontend for cups written in gtk. It has: theme-support IPP support Printer specific options All standard-cups options different preferences-files for each printer It comes now with gtklpq, a frontend for adminstering your current print jobs. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Digital image warper (gtk) gtkmorph loads, saves, warps, and dissolves images, and loads, saves, creates, and manipulates control meshes which determine the warping. It has support for making movies automatically (it needs extra packages). The technique was invented and first used by Industrial Light and Magic, and is commonly called "morphing." gtkmorph is a GUI for libmorph, using GTK; it is not completely finished but it is usable. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
simple GTK+ pool billiard game GtkPool brings that classic favourite game of lounge lizards to a Linux box near you. It currently has a rather simple playing interface, but supports a really nifty customizable physics system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUI for recover gtkrecover is a GUI for recover, a program that undeletes files on ext2 partitions. You can search for a deleted file by: * Hard disk device name * Year of deletion * Month of deletion * Weekday of deletion * First/Last possible day of month * Min/Max possible file size * Min/Max possible deletion hour * Min/Max possible deletion minute * User ID of the deleted file * A text string the file included (can be ignored) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK-based clone of ACDSee (an image viewer) GTKsee is an image viewer/browser. The browser shows thumbnails, you can quickly watch a picture in large or fullscreen by simply tapping on return. Also has slideshow capabilities. Really great stuff, but, if you like this try out ``gqview'' too. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK front end to the postgresql database. GtkSQL is a graphical query tool for PostgreSQL. The author states that it is unpolished, lacking several features planned for addition, but that it is stable and usable. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Disk catalog. GTKtalog is a GTK Disk Catalog program. It means you can create a database of all your CDs or other disks, and browse it or search specific files or folders. It's really useful when you have many CDs and you want to know in which CD some thing is. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Texas Instruments calculators emulator GtkTIemu emulates Texas Instruments calculators TI-92/92+/89. It is based on XTiger, the original TI emulator for Linux, which uses the 68k emulation core from UAE (The Ultimate Amiga Emulator). The emulation core has been split into a shared library, namely the libti68k. You need to either dump the ROM of your calculator (you can do so with TiLP), or get a ROM from Texas Instrument (see the software section concerning your calculator, then download the archive and extract the file) to use this emulator. There are *no* ROMs provided in this package, as they are copyrighted by Texas Instruments, Inc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The train-routing calculator with GTK interface gtktrain is a program to calculate the shortest route from a train station to another in consideration of time and distance. It tells you which line you should take and where you should transfer at. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a VCD (Value Change Dump) file waveform viewer gtkwave is a viewer for VCD (Value Change Dump) files which are usually created by digital circuit simulators. (These files have no connection to video CDs!) From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gunning Tranceiver Logic+ [bus] (Intel, SMP), "GTL+" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Generic Top Level DOMAIN (Internet, ICANN), "gTLD" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Multiple files transfer manager. GTransferManager allows the user to retrieve multiple files from the web. These files can be retrieved in multiple parts and each part retrieved on a separate session that the user is connected to the Internet. This is most useful to users with dialup connections. The program performs these tasks using wget as it's back-end. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
An HTML pre-processor GTML is an HTML pre-processor which adds some extra features specially designed for maintaining multiple web pages. HTML files generated by GTML are just like any other HTML files. Because GTML does not attempt to interpret your HTML commands in any way, it's fully compatible with all version of HTML, and does not require any specific browser or server. More information can be found at the gtml web site http://www.lifl.fr/~beaufils/gtml/. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome Toaster is a versatile CD creation suite. It is designed to beas user-friendly as possible, allowing you to create CD-ROMs with just a few simple mouse clicks. Audio and data CDs are both possible. Gnome Toaster is also well integrated with the GNOME and KDE filemanagers. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome Toaster, a GUI for creating CDs A cdrecord/mkisofs/cdda2wav frontend for creating data,audio and mixed mode CDs both from other CDs or from self compiled data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical TOP variant The graphical version of top provides an easy interface to process control on a GNU/Linux system. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GPRS Tunnel Protocol (GPRS, mobile-systems) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME SQL database client GNOME Transcript is a SQL database client that aims to provide an easy and powerful environment for SQL users. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
PO-file editor by the Gnome I18N team A 'translation-supporting' program, which makes translating programs easy even for non-programmers. You might want to subscribe to the gnome-i18n-mailing list (see developer.gnome.org for instructions) for more translation information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GigaTexel Shading From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTimeTracker - a time tracker From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A simple ncurses typing tutor Displays exercise lines, measures your typing speed and accuracy, and displays the results. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
manual page for gtypist 2.5 From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guess what network is connected to an ethernet device Based on the network detecting code of laptop-netconf, guessnet tries to guess what network an ethernet device is currently connected to, using fake ARP requests. It has been written to be coupled with the debian ifupdown package to achieve automatic network detection and configuration, but it can be used stand-alone to implement smart network scripts. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical User Interface (UI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
see graphical user interface (GUI). From Redhat-9-Glossary http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A design for the part of a program that interacts with the use and uses icons to represent programs features. The Apple Macintosh and Microsft Windows operating environments are popular GUIs. Having found that people recognise graphic representations faster they read word or phreases, a Xerox research team designed a user interface with graphic images called icons. GUIs typically work with moussable interfaces with pull-down menus, dialog boxes, check boxes radio buttons, drop-down list boxes, scroll bars, scroll boxes, and the like. Progams with a GUI require a computer with suffceint speed, power, and memory to display high-resolution, bit-mapped display. From QUECID http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global[ly] Unique IDentifier (COM) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A Microsoft Windows concept, a GUID is a large, unique number. Each Windows computer has its own GUID to identify it unique. Likewise, every time a user account is created, a GUID is assigned to the user. Key point: Microsoft got in trouble in 1999 for automatically shipping up the GUIDs as part of its registration process. Key point: GUIDs are sometimes placed within hidden fields within Microsoft documents (Word, Excel), allowing the original author to be identified. This was used in order to help track down the author of the "Melissa" worm. Key point: The GUID is generated from other "unique" information on a machine, such as the MAC address of the Ethernet adapter. It isn't guaranteed to be absolutely unique, but chances of any two GUIDs in the world being identical are remote. From Hacking-Lexicon http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical User Interface Design Editor (Sun) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A graphical PalmOS resource editor Guikachu is a resource editor for PalmOS systems. It can be used to visually create dialog boxes, menu bars and windows for Palm applications. More information is available at: http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Transforms Guikachu's XML documents to .rcp for PilRC Guikachu is a resource editor for PalmOS systems. It can be used to visually create dialog boxes, menu bars and windows for Palm applications. This package contains the command-line tool, guikachu2rcp, which can generate .rcp files from Guikachu's native XML files using XSL. More information about Guikachu is available at: http://cactus.rulez.org/projects/guikachu/ From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension (GNU) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GUILE (GNU's Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extension) is a library implementation of the Scheme programming language, written in C. GUILE provides a machine-independent execution platform that canbe linked in as a library during the building of extensible programs. Install the guile package if you'd like to add extensibility to programs that you are developing. You'll also need to install the guile-devel package. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GTK+ archive extraction/viewing tool. guiTAR is a TAR extraction tool written in GTK+ and including GNOME support. It currently supports the tar, tar.Z, tar.gz, tar.bz2, lha, lzh, rar, arj, zip, and slp formats. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME version of uname From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
compress or expand files From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
let a remote site change their newsgroups subscription Gup, the Group Update Program is a Unix mail-server that lets a remote site change their newsgroups subscription without requiring the intervention of the news administrator at the feed site. Gup is suited to news administrators that find they are spending an inordinate amount of time editing the INN newsfeeds file on behalf of the remote sites. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A GNOME-based data analysis and visualization system. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME client for the Network UPS Tools Package (nut) This package will display information about battery-status, load-status, AC-current and AC-frequency in a window. You can choose which machine to get the information from, and the rate at which it gets this information. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
gurpmi is a graphical front-end to urpmi From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Guide to the Use of Standards (SPAG) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphical document reader for Gutenberg Etext documents Gutenbook aims to be a free and more intuitive, comfortable document reader, within the scope of a computer's desktop metaphor, geared specifically towards Project Gutenberg Etexts, but supporting any ASCII document. Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/index.html) aims to make public domain literature available to the world in ASCII text format. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Project Gutenberg Etext reader gutenbrowser is a reader for etexts produced by Project Gutenberg. It integrates with KDE. You only need the libraries to run it though. Project Gutenberg (http://promo.net/pg/index.html) aims to make public domain literature available to the world in ASCII text format. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
German Unix User Group (org., user group, Unix) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A PostScript and PDF viewer for X using 3d Athena Widgets `gv' is a comfortable viewer of PostScript and PDF files for the X Window System. It uses the `ghostscript' PostScript(tm) interpreter and is based on the classic X front-end for `gs', `ghostview'. It is more comfortable and more powerful than `ghostview'. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GebaeudeVerteiler (cable, EN 50 173) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gv provides a user interface for the ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter. Derived from the ghostview program, gv can display PostScript and PDF documents using the X Window System. Install the gv package if you'd like to view PostScript and PDF documentson your system. You'll also need to have the ghostscript package installed, as well as the X Window System. From Mandrake 9.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Global Village Business Association (org., USA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNU Visual Debugger GVD is able to debug Ada and C programs, and will soon be extended to cover even more. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gnome X video mode changer applet. This applet allows you to switch between predefined video resolutions. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gtk app to quickly and easily change video resolutions in X. Running gvidm will pop up a list of available modes and allows the user to select one if desired. This makes it perfect for running from an application menu or a hotkey, so you don't have to use ram for an applet constantly running. If you are running dual or multi-head displays, it will give you a list of screens so you can select the appropriate one. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Vi IMproved, a programmers text editor From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
edit two or three versions of a file with Vim and show differences From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
German Volunteer Votetakers (Usenet, DANA) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GNOME version of w From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
German Workshop on Artificial Intelligence (conference, AI) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
a waveform viewer eg for spice simulators gwave - a viewer for the output of spice-like simulators and other viewing of analog data. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics and Windows Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC, MS-DOS), "GW-Basic" From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung Goettingen [mbH] (org.) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Weather Applet for the GNOME panel. From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
image viewer for KDE 2.X gwenview is an imageviewer for KDE 2.X. It features a folder tree window and a file list window to provide easy navigation in your file hierarchy. Image loading is done by the Qt library, so it supports all image formats your Qt installation supports. Gwenview correctly displays images with alpha channel. It uses docked windows, so you can alter the layout in any way you want. You can also browse your images in full screen. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
generic Whois Client / Server gwhois is a generic whois client / server. This means that it know for many (virtually all) TLDs, IP-Ranges and Handles out there where to ask. It queries other whois-servers as well as web-lookup forms. gwhois can be used as a client, but you can invoke it as a server (e.g. via inetd) as well for usage with a normal whois client. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The generic window manager. The GWM (Generic Window Manager) is an extensible Window Manager for the X Window System Version 11. It is based upon a WOOL (Window Object Oriented Language) kernel, which is an interpreted dialect of Lisp with specific window management primitives. GWM should be able to emulate efficiently other window managers, and play the same role for window managers as EMACS does for text editors. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Workspace Manager for GNUstep A clone of the file and application manager available on NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP used for managing files and starting applications. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Displays time and date in specified time zones This program displays the time and date of specified time zones using a GTK+ interface. It also allows the zones to be synchronised to a time other than the current time. The time zones may be entered by hand in TZ format or chosen from a list prepared from /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab. The zone list is kept in a format consistent with the shell script tzwatch. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Gesellschaft fuer Wirtschafts- und Sozialkybernetik (org., Uni Marburg) From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Graphics WorkShop From VERA http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Web interface for interacting with Geneweb databases Gwtp is a CGI program allowing owners of data bases accomodated in a GeneWeb site to upload and download their data bases on the site and change their configuration parameters. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The Gwydion Dylan Runtime Environment This package contains the libraries and other files needed to run programs compiled with the Gwydion Dylan compiler (d2c). At some point in the (hopefully near) future, this package will contain the Gwydion Dylan Listener, which will allow interactive exploration of the language. For more information, see the Gwydion Dylan maintainers' web page at <http://www.gwydiondylan.org/>. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK-based text editor GXedit is a graphical text editor, featuring everything a modern text editor should have including a toolbar, multiple windows options, scripting, cvs support, language support for C, html, perl and java, and it is network aware. It can display pixmaps in the background, and can use a 'say' program (e.g., the one in the non-free rsynth package) to "speak" your files. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK-based utility to show system information This utility, which was previously bundled with the gxedit package, pops up a window with information about your kernel, processor, etc. The program was previously named xproc. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
GTK based graphical frontend to the X command line tool xset(1) GTK xset is a graphical fronted to the X command line tool xset(1). It is a gtk application, designed with Glade. GTK xset can set auto repeat, key click, bell, mouse, screen saver and DPMS parameters. It also has a font path editor. Settings can be saved to a file. From Debian 3.0r0 APT http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
compress executable files in place From whatis http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
A free compression program commonly available as a Unix command for file compression, gzip, which is also available for MS-DOS, compresses files and appends either '.z' or '.gz' to the filename. From KADOWKEV http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Reference documentation to gzip. Gzip reduces the size of the named files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension `.gz', while keeping the same ownership modes, access and modification times. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program. Gzipped files have a .gz extension. Gzip should be installed on your Linux system, because it is avery commonly used data compression program. From Redhat 8.0 RPM http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
The original file compression program for UNIX/Linux. Recent versions produce files with a .gz extension. (A .z or .Z extension indicates an older version of Gzip.) Compression is used to compact files to save storage space and reduce transfer time. (When combined with Tar, the resulting file extensions may be .tgz, .tar.gz or .tar.Z.) From I-gloss http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html