Oreillynet.com has a story about the Open Source tools available for guitar players. Really, there are several.

From BusinessWire: Sleepycat Software, Inc. today announced the availability of Berkeley
DB version 3.3 for immediate download from the company’s Web site. Version 3.3 includes provides key features for high availability,
significant performance enhancements, and support for the Lineo Embedix embedded Linux operating system. Berkeley DB
runs on all major UNIX and Linux systems, Wind River’s VxWorks, QNX’s RTOS, and Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

Posted at LWN.net: “The beta release of the LSB-FHS test suite for FHS2.2, for the filesystem
hierarchy aspects of the Linux Standard Base is now available from
ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/lsb/test_suites/.”

Slashdot readers talk about the press release from SuSE saying the company has laid off about 50 of its German workers.

Interactive Week reports that Brazilian crackers took credit for the damage, which was still up late Monday morning, eastern U.S. time.

Slashdot has posted a couple of links to pictures at Free Dmitry protests today.

Reaffirming its
commitment to the open source movement, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW)
announced today the Sun Grid Engine Project, an initiative to offer the source code
for Sun(tm) Grid Engine software to users and the developer community. Sun Grid Engine
software is an advanced distributed resource management (DRM) tool. It has been
available as a free download at www.sun.com/software/gridware since its introduction
in September 2000. (See also: story from Interactive Week.)A leader in the open source community, Sun will add this project’s half million lines
of code to its total of more than 8 million lines of code already contributed to open
source efforts. Sun is coordinating this worldwide project with CollabNet, a leading
provider of collaborative software development solutions based on open source
concepts, in making the code available for download at www.gridengine.sunsource.net.

The project is designed to further remove the cost and implementation barriers
associated with deploying DRM software in a compute farm. Additionally, both open
source users and Sun Grid Engine software customers will benefit from this open source
project through enhanced industry support. For example, service and support providers
will be able to customize the powerful software for specific customer needs, and
software developers will be able to reduce complexity for end users by creating
applications that are tightly integrated with Sun Grid Engine software. Over time, the
open source effort should facilitate the adoption of open standards for DRM software,
facilitating interoperability with applications and easing integration.

“As cluster computing scales up towards grid computing, tools like Sun Grid Engine
software will become ubiquitous and essential,” said Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of
technology information firm O’Reilly & Associates. “Computing is moving towards the
development of what you might call an Internet operating system. Sun recognizes that
key components of that operating system shouldn’t be controlled by any one company,
and they’re putting their money where their mouth is by releasing it as open source.”

“Sun will continue to deliver products that support our core philosophy that the
network is the computer,” said Robbie Turner, vice president of Client and Technical
Market Products at Sun Microsystems. “Sun is encouraging the grid computing model via
free downloads of Sun Grid Engine software–and now by making its code available to
the open source community–because the productivity gains of the grid computing model
will increasingly serve as a decisive factor in a business’s ultimate success or
failure.”

CollabNet is providing the Web infrastructure and comprehensive development platform
that enables geographically dispersed groups of developers to collaborate on Grid
Engine projects. Based on CollabNet’s SourceCast environment, this platform includes
tools for revision control, issue tracking, mailing list creation and management, and
Web-based administration. This open source project follows on the heels of the
successful OpenOffice.org initiative — also supported by CollabNet–which made
available the source code for Sun’s StarOffice(tm) software under the same
industry-accepted Sun Industry Standards Source License. Full details of Sun’s
involvement with open source projects can be seen at www.sunsource.net.

“The Grid Engine Project continues to demonstrate Sun’s true leadership within the
open source community,” said Brian Behlendorf, co-founder and CTO of CollabNet.
“CollabNet is delighted to be working with Sun on yet more compelling open source
software. Sun’s decision to open this previously proprietary software demonstrates its
understanding of the technical community’s fundamental need and interest in scalable
DRM technology.”

Delivering Network-Wide Compute Power to the Desktop

Sun Grid Engine software was introduced in September 2000 as the first product
resulting from Sun’s acquisition of Gridware, formerly a privately-owned commercial
vendor of advanced DRM software tools. Since then, the software has been downloaded
nearly 8,000 times in more than 90 countries. A comprehensive web-based training
course for installing and managing the software is also available at no cost at
www.sun.com/software/gridware. By distributing Sun Grid Engine software as a free
download and with all Sun systems, Sun is changing the economics of technical
computing and breaking down the barriers of employing distributed computing.

Sun Grid Engine software is designed to aggregate compute resources, match them to
individual job requirements, and deliver network-wide compute power to the desktop.
Through this horizontal scaling, Sun’s powerful DRM tool manages an organization’s
compute resources and job distribution, which:

• allows engineers to move beyond the desktop to leverage all the resources
  available on the network;
• frees the engineer to focus on the project, not computing tasks;
• provides easy access to resource-rich compute environments, allowing for
  expanded product development, simulations and testing;
• speeds time to market;
• and fundamentally changes the economics of technical computing.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision — “The Network Is The Computer” —
has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the
Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $19.2 billion
in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide
Web at http://www.sun.com.

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Java, Solaris, StarOffice, Java Reliable
Multicast Service, NetBeans, Java Community Process, JavaServer Pages PicoJava, J2EE,
J2SE, Jiro, Forte, The Network Is The Computer and all Java-based marks are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other
countries. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries,
exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd. Mozilla is a trademark or registered
trademark at Netscape Communications Corporation in the United States and other
countries.

About CollabNet

CollabNet provides companies with solutions for collaborative software development by
combining open source community expertise with business excellence. CollabNet offers
customers a comprehensive Web-based development environment, and a suite of consulting
services to facilitate software development across a worldwide community. CollabNet is
currently working with customers ranging from hardware and software providers to
companies from industries such as finance, wireless and healthcare. Brian Behlendorf,
co-founder of the Apache Software Foundation, founded CollabNet in July 1999. For more
information, see http://www.collab.net.

CollabNet and SourceCast are trademarks of Collab.Net, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, the
Sun Logo, and the Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks
or registered trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

Jody Goldberg announces the latest version of Gnumeric (0.68) and the latest addition to the Goldberg family (no version number announced).

Apologies for the delay in announcing last weeks release of gnumeric
0.68, I've just become a father
    Male
    3.25 kg
    53 cm
    Very cute
    Conversant in C/C++ but requires a drool proof keyboard.

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Gnumeric 0.68 aka 'the ice pane cometh' is now available.

This is a _development_ release.  There are several fixes for problems 
in
previous releases (some serious) however this release also adds support 
for
frozen panes which required some non-trivial adjustments.  We did more
usability tuning so scrolling should now feel smoother.  Thanks to 
auspex,
UnNamed, jwz, and acuster for their suggestions.

There are known limitations to this release.  Most importantly frozen 
panes
will only show sheet objects in the lower right pane.

* New features

        * Frozen panes.                                         (Jody)
        * Over-the-Spot style support for XIM.                  (Nakai)
        * Add experimental support for Evolution.               (Lutz)

* Bug fixes, Polishing & Optimisations

        * Even more missing files.                              (Jody)
        * Fix backspace key.                                    (Almer)
        * Improve component handling.                           (Lutz)
        * Fix autosave dialog.                                  (Almer)
        * Bug when printing wrapped text in merged cells.       (Jody)
        * Fix bugs in analysis-tools' t-test.                   (Andreas)
        * Add support for BonoboStreams with every file saver.  (Zbigniew)
        * Improve scrollbars.                                   (Almer, Jody)
        * Crash after exiting 1 of many shared views.           (Jody)
        * Fix double-click autofill.                            (Almer, Jody)
        * Improve bsd support.                                  (Morten)
        * Shine-up string functions.                            (Almer)
        * Fix CONCATENATE.                                      (Morten)
        * Fix STF for CRLF terminated files.                    (Almer)
        * Fix MULTINOMIAL.                                      (Morten)
        * Fix bounds handling and leakage in STF.               (Almer)
        * Fix LCM.                                              (Morten)
        * Add csv default importing + probing.                  (Almer)
        * Improve font preview in cell format dialog.           (Almer)
        * Finish two-factor anova tool in analysis-tools.       (Andreas)
        * Some span bugs.                                       (Jody)
        * Adjust scrollbars for data analysis output.           (Andreas)
        * Fix dependency tracking problem.                      (Morten)
        * Update gda support.                                   (Rodrigo)
        * Misc bugs.                                            (Gnumeric Team)

* Translations

        * Updated: de (Karl Eichwalder), es (German Poo Caamaño,
        Carlos Perelló Marín), ja (Yukihiro Nakai), nn (Kjartan Maraas),
        pl (Zbigniew Chyla), ru (Valek Filippov), sv (Christian Rose),
        tr (Nilgün), da (Ole Laursen), zh_CN.GB2312 (Donald Park)

* Availability

        ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnumeric

NOTE : Please do not submit bug reports for the graphing as yet.  It is 
under
        active developemnt and is not ready for production use.

– By Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller –
My email address (and several email aliases that feed into my primary email account) are on a number of popular Web sites, so I am a prime spam target. I get literally hundreds of pieces of unsolicited bulk email every day. And yet, I can understand the impulse that makes people become spammers, and I feel a certain amount of sympathy for businesses that use unsolicited email as a marketing tool. I also think spam has created at least one business opportunity that hasn’t yet been exploited properly.

The “900” number problem

The original purpose of 900 phone numbers, where services you access through your telephone could be charged on your telephone bill instead of separately, was to deliver information like sports scores and stock prices. I remember a telco pitch, more than 20 years back, for poetry and music 900 services. But almost as soon as 900 numbers became readily available, they were co-opted by entrepreneurs who used them to provide sexual content, and the $3 per minute psychics jumped onto the 900 train shortly thereafter. From then on, any normal business that tried to provide legitimate information through a 900 number was tainted by association with the shady crowd using the same information delivery method.

The same thing has happened with direct email marketing. It is not that the idea of sending email asking Internet users to buy a product, join an association or vote for a candidate is inherently evil (in small doses), but that the idea has been misused so badly that it is tainted — in many cases by people who have the same business mentality as the worst 900 number operators.

The positive side of bulk email marketing

Marketers who claim email is more ecologically sound than postal mail are right. No trees are killed and hardly any fuel is used to deliver spam.
Spam is less intrusive than telemarketing. It offers small businesses a chance to reach new customers at a fraction of the cost of older promotional tactics, and, in my opinion, anything that gives small businesses a chance to compete effectively with big ones is a good thing, because small businesses are the lifeblood of capitalism.

The negative side of bulk email marketing

This has been done to death, but my largest personal pet spam peeve has to do with the serial nature of email delivery. Example: I am in a hotel room, hooked to the Internet through a dialup modem that only gives me a true connection speed of 28KBPS, and I am checking my email because it is my primary means of communication with both readers and coworkers. Freelance writers submit story pitches by email, and some of those pitches are time-sensitive and need to be answered as close to immediataly as possible. Then there are the DMCA complaints. Part of my job at OSDN is to field DMCA and copyright infringement complaints, and these must be handled promptly. So I log in to get my email, and it take an hour for all of it to download because 90% of it is not just spam, but spam sent as bandwidth-sucking HTML or in some other non-ASCII format. Damn spammers!

Yes, I can and do filter spam once it hits my laptop, but the download time is the killer.

There are many other bad things about spam, but you already know them so there’s no point in me doing a rehash here.

The business opportunity

Let’s face it: today’s most typical email pattern, where we use POP to download emails one at a time, in sequence, then sort our email on our client machines, is going to be killed by spam overload. Email handling must move almost entirely to corporate or ISP servers. IMAP is now a decent standard. There are Web email interfaces available, although most of them are clunky (slow and hard to use) compared to clientside POP or IMAP utilities.

I thought about using SpamCop’s email filtering service, which costs $30 per year, but I had trouble getting their signup utility to accept multiple accounts, and I do not like Paypal, which is the only direct, online payment method they offer. Quite frankly, the SpamCop signup problems made the company look amateurish enough that I did not want to trust them with my email.

My roblimo.com Web site hosting and email service are currently provided by NTT/Verio, but I will probably move to Hostway before long because Hostway offers several services I need that NTT/Verio does not. Neither of these companies offers “built in” spamtrap or virus-elimination email utilities to small-time users that I have been able to find. I would pay extra for these services because they would save me time and money. If you know a hosting company that can reliably provide the equivalent of Hostway’s Gold Plus account plan (minus the FrontPage extensions, which I do not need) that also includes spam and virus filtering service, please let me know. I will probably patronize that company. I suspect that many others would, too.

This would not necessarily be an expensive service to provide; SpamAssasin is a mature, respected solution that (I suspect) could easily be added to a user’s email servers as as point/click option by a technically competent ISP or hosting service provider.

Yes, I know many ISPs provide spam filtering, but this doesn’t help commercial users like me who use email aliases and may have multiple ISP accounts. Not only that, SpamAssasin uses the widely respected Vipul’s Razor to determine what is and isn’t spam, which means neither the user nor the hosting service need to devise filter criteria, which can be extremely time-consuming.

In a business as competitive and commoditized as Web hosting, serverside spam and virus filtering could become a powerful differentiator. Would I pay a premium price for it? Of course! I would happily pay the price of my current Hostway service plus the price of SpamCop. Remember, price — $30 per year, plus $15 per year for each additional account in the same household — was not the reason I have not signed up with SpamCop. My concern with them has to do with their management practices.

Killing legitimate email marketing

This article will probably help me find a hosting service that includes SpamAssasin email filtering. Suddenly I will be immune to virtually all email marketing efforts. Eventually spam filtering at the server level will become overwhelmingly popular, and marketing email will only be seen by new users or users of free email services like Yahoo and Hotmail — which will no doubt start offering spam filtering options as part of their pay-for premium packages.

Members of the Direct Marketing Association and its spinoff, the Association for Interactive Marketing, probably won’t like widespread spam filtering. To them, this is as bad as the Post Office offering a “deliver no solicition mail to this address” option to postal patrons.

I feel little sympathy for (potentially) legitimate email marketers at this point. Their trade groups have consistently fought anti-spam legislation, even though removing the nastiest spammers from the Internet would make people like me less likely to block all email marketing efforts.

“As ye sow, so shall ye reap” is an appropriate quote in this context, is it not?

Sun’s GNOME usability report, Ximian’s Mono project, and the latest Metatheme release are discussed in this edition of the GNOME Summary, covering announcements made between July 9 and July 22, and compiled by Christian Schaller.

This is the GNOME Summary for 2001-07-09 - 2001-07-22
    
==============================================================
Table of Contents
--------------------------------------------------------------

1. Sun releases GNOME usability report
2. Paolo Casarini gets recognition for his work on Gdome2
3. Ximian announces Mono project
4. New Metatheme release available
5. Mathieu Lacage documents the libArt library
6. LibStroke GNOME Version Released
7. First of four Evolution beta releases available
8. New Control Center released
9. GNOME at Linux Tag 2001: A Summary
10. Galeon as an info-station
11. Project of the week
12. CVS stats information
13. Hacker Activity
14. New and Updated Software

==============================================================
1. Sun releases GNOME usability report
--------------------------------------------------------------

Calum Benson announced the availability of the results of the Sun
useability tests this week. By putting non-technical people in front 
of GNOME and making notes of their progress trying to use GNOME they
have put togeheter a document which will help us improve Gnome's
usability. Developers wanting to help out with these issues, but who 
are
new to GNOME should join the gnome-love mailing-list for instructions 
on
how to proceed. 

        http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/ut1_report/http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/index.html

==============================================================
2. Paolo Casarini gets recognition for his work on Gdome2
--------------------------------------------------------------

Paolo Casarini has been working the last 6 months on Gdome2 as his
Computer Science thesis. Well he has now graduated and his work on
Gdome2 has been 
awarded as the best thesis of this semester. Also of importance is that
Paolo will get married soon, so double congratulations to Paolo! Gdome2
is an implementation of the W3C DOM specification using libxml. 

        http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdome/2001-July/msg00006.html

==============================================================
3. Ximian announces Mono project
--------------------------------------------------------------

Miguel de Icaza and Ximian announced the Mono project which aims at 
implementing part of the .net platform for Linux and GNOME. This comes
as the result of Miguel having worked on a C# compiler for linux for
quite some time now. If successful, this project could in the future go
a long way in making GNOME a viable alternative for business users
looking into the possibility of moving away from the Windows platform
for their desktops. Below are links to the Ximian press release, 
Miguels
mail to GNOME hackers and last but not least the Mono project homepage. 

        http://www.ximian.com/newsitems/mono_announce.php3http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-hackers/2001-July/msg00037.htmlhttp://www.go-mono.com/

==============================================================
4. New Metatheme release available
--------------------------------------------------------------

Richard Hestilow has announced the availability of Metatheme 0.6.1.
Metatheme is a plugin based system for creating desktopwide themes for
GNOME. This means that you can create a metatheme for GNOME which
includes both a GTK+ theme, a XMMS theme, a backgroud image, a Nautilus
theme and a Sawfish theme. As more plugins gets created more things can
be included in such themes like support for multiple windowmanagers,
alternative toolkits, Mozilla and so on. 

        http://news.gnome.org/994694718/index_html

==============================================================
5. Mathieu Lacage documents the libArt library
--------------------------------------------------------------

Been wanting to use the libArt library for some time, but have not been
able to do it due to the lack of API documentation? Well Mathieu Lacage
must have heard your cry of despair, because he released a full set of
documentation for libArt this week. Thanks Mathieu! 

        http://www.gnome.org/~mathieu/libart/libart.html

==============================================================
6. LibStroke GNOME Version Released
--------------------------------------------------------------

LibStroke is a stroke translation library which is now available in a
GNOME 
version. Strokes are motions of the mouse that can be interpreted by a
program as a command. Strokes are used extensively in commercial CAD
programs for instance. Suggestions for a good motion to use for spam
deletion under Evolution are welcome :) 

        http://www.etla.net/libstroke/

==============================================================
7. First of four Evolution beta releases available
--------------------------------------------------------------

The Evolution team announed that they will make four beta releases
before 
Evolution 1.0 hits the street this fall. As part of this run-up to 1.0
they 
will be hosting weekly 'Bug days' in order to iron out the last
remaining 
showstoppers. As an extra incentive for users to join in these bug days
they plan on giving out gifts to the most helpfull volunteers. Full
announcement below. 
        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2001-July/msg00033.html

==============================================================
8. New Control Center released
--------------------------------------------------------------

Chema Celorio mailed us a screen-shot of the new GNOME Control-center
1.5.0 (development release) which has been released. The screenshot
shows the 
fallback shell for the control-center which will be used if Nautilus is
not installed. If Nautilus is installed the new control-center will be 
a
view in Nautilus. Also worth nothing is that the Ximian Setup Tools 
will
integrate with the new control-center. P.S. Some issues have been
discovered with 1.5.0 so it might be wise to wait for the soon to be
released 1.5.1. 

        
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2001-July/msg00068.htmlhttp://www.gnome.org/~chema/new-control-center.png

==============================================================
9. GNOME at Linux Tag 2001: A Summary
--------------------------------------------------------------

Matthias Warkus have posted a summary of GNOME at Linux Tag in Germany.
Seems Nautilus, Galeon and Gnumeric where the big crowd pleasers. Great
to see that the effort of our German GNOME team is paying off by higher
visibility in Germany. 

        http://news.gnome.org/995725623/index_html

==============================================================
10. Galeon as an info-station
--------------------------------------------------------------

Ever wanted to set up a Galeon on a touch-screen kiosk? Well there is a
short tutorial and patch available that will let you do this now. Check
of the link below for more information. 

        http://www.uytun.com/galeon/

==============================================================
11. Project of the week
--------------------------------------------------------------

This weeks project ties in with one of our news items. Currently there
is only one theme package available with Metatheme and we need more.
There is an application bundled with Metatheme which is called
metatheme-edit, which will enable you to easily create new metathemes.
So please all you creative souls out there, start putting togeheter
great themes for GNOME. A themes.org page is planned, but in the
meantime please post a link to your new themes in the discussion forum
on news.gnome.org under the announcement of this summary. The new
metatheme package is easily available from the Ximian Preview Channel
for those of us using the Ximian Red Carpet Installer. 


==============================================================
12. CVS stats information
--------------------------------------------------------------

The CVS stats below cover the periods 7th to 14th july and 14th to 21th
July. Also worth nothing is that we will probably start including CVS
stats from a few selected GNOME projects not stored in GNOME CVS in
future listings. First out here will probably be Gnucash. 


==============================================================
13. Hacker Activity
--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 205 evolution
 181 SashMo
 150 SashWDE
 93 galeon
 55 gnome-control-center
 53 gnome-applets
 51 mc
 43 gnumeric
 35 gimp
 32 procman
 31 setup-tools-backends
 29 ximian-setup-tools
 29 gnome-games
 27 semerkent
 22 ORBit2
 21 web-devel-2
 21 gal
 20 gail
 20 libgda
 19 soup
[114 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 84 tyeler
 83 kmaraas
 65 chema
 65 dkc
 54 kabalak
 54 chatham
 46 proskin
 39 ajshankar
 37 darin
 35 veillard
 34 maubury
 34 leonardl
 34 michael
 32 martin
 31 iain
 29 atevstef
 29 hovinen
 29 dmueth
 28 barreiro
 27 menthos
[118 active hackers omitted]


==============================================================
13. Hacker Activity
--------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks for Paul Warren for these lists.

Most active modules:
 171 evolution
 142 SashWDE
 117 SashMo
 112 gnome-control-center
 59 galeon
 55 gtranslator
 48 ximian-setup-tools
 45 gnumeric
 43 mc
 35 gtkhtml
 32 gimp
 32 control-center-plus
 30 gnome-docu
 27 nautilus
 25 web-devel-2
 25 libgda
 23 procman
 23 gail
 22 setup-tools-backends
 21 gnome-i18n
[107 active modules omitted]

Most active hackers:
 73 kabalak
 65 chema
 62 dkc
 60 kmaraas
 58 tyeler
 49 hovinen
 42 proskin
 41 chatham
 35 kevinv
 33 carlos
 32 ajshankar
 32 stano
 31 rodrigo
 31 sander
 31 martin
 31 darin
 30 hestgray
 30 peterw
 29 chyla
 29 michael
[120 active hackers omitted]


==============================================================
14. New and Updated Software
--------------------------------------------------------------

gThumb  - Image viewer and browser.
XFce  - A lightweight desktop environment and fully Gnome compliant.
Gnome-chord  - A guitar chord index that graphically displays chords.
gtktalog  - Easily browse a CDROM database.
gnoclm_applet  - Applet that displays the ISDN modem status. 
gmmusic  - Gnomified music collection database, based on PostgreSQL.
Gnome Predict  - A GUI client to satellite tracking program
gnect  - A "four in a row" game
gmrun  - Run-program utility, bash-like TAB completion and history
gnobb-cal  - A simple scheduling application for GNOME.
mpterm  - A tabbed-terminal for GNOME.
chbg  - Simple manager of desktop background.
Gibbon  - A cash register (POS) for retail written in Perl/Gtk/Glade
XdeFactor  - Program is for printing and create invoices.
MpCb  - Allow sharing clipboard contens between computers over network.
Moleskine  - A source code editor for the GNOME desktop.
Sawfish  - Lisp-extensible window manager for X11.
Procman  - GNOME process viewer and system monitor.
uf-view  - A viewer for User Friendly and more
bloksi  - A sliding-pieces puzzle.
Balsa  - Balsa is an email client for GNOME.
Jungle Monkey  - A distributed file sharing program.
GnomePath  - Gnome widget for easilly perform path operations.
gnochive  - Gnome front-end for all common archivers under linux.
Gtkdial  - GNOME frontend to the wvdial intelligent PPP dialer
gnome-crystal  - A light model visualizer for crystal structures.
Glimmer  - A very functional all-purpose code editor.
B4Step  - B4Step is a Window Manager running under X11R6
FileMenuApplet  - Small applet for browsing your home directory 
Metatheme  - Manager for system wide themes
CD-Rom Control Panel  - Mounting, umounting/ejecting CD-Rom drive.

For more information on these packages visit the GNOME Software map: 
http://www.gnome.org/applist/listrecent.php3


Sincerely,
Christian