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Stable releases of LinPac

Current stable release provides text mode user interface (Linux console or terminal window). You can find some screenshots here. A description of the main features, system requirements and the installation instructions can be found here.

Current stable release is 0.20 (Jan 01, 1970)

Previous releases:
LinPac 0.15 - Jan 31, 2001
LinPac 0.16 - Jul 30, 2002

Unstable releases of LinPac

Current unstable version of LinPac is a preview only. It introduces a graphical user interface and more features. You can also see a screenshot. Main features of this release are:

LinPac lost the user interface, it's now a daemon only (in this release it is not running in the background but it will run in the background in the future)
The user interface is provided by a separate application. There are two implementations now: lpterm (the original console interface intended for the systems that have less memory) and JLPTerm (implemented in Java, high requirements but graphical user interface).
There is no mailer now (it needs to be re-implemented)
Some other functions are limited

Current unstable release is 1.0pre4 (Jun 29, 2003)

Previous releases:
LinPac 1.0pre3 - May 26, 2003
LinPac 1.0pre2 - Mar 06, 2003

Other packages

Various additional packages which implement some special features. These packages may not work with unstable releases.

lptelnet

Additional package for telnet. Adds following commands to LinPac:

:Telnet
:Finger
:IPCONTROL - allows connecting LinPac via telnet

Current release is 0.03 ( Jun 14, 2002)

Page last updated: Jan 26, 2015