WavePhore WaveTop, Inc.

WaveTop is the first-ever free, advertising-supported nationwide data broadcast medium to deliver multimedia content - news, magazines, software and more - to the home via broadcast-ready PCs.

Quite simply, WaveTop has partnered with PBS National Datacast to send Internet content over the vertical blanking interval (VBI) - the pause between the transmission of TV images - of PBS's television broadcasts.

What does this mean to you? It means that if you have a PC equipped with a low-cost TV tuner, and if you are part of the 99% of the US who receives PBS via over-the-air antenna or cable, you will be able to get topnotch Internet content free - without slow connections and without tying up your phone line.

WavePhore WaveTop, Inc. uses Linux for the following functions:

• X-Windows:

  • X-Windows terminal (display, keyboard, mouse -- applications run elsewhere)
  • X-Windows server (runs applications, possibly exports display)

• Network file server:

  • Samba server for a network of PCs.
  • NFS server for other PCs and Unix systems.
  • File server for other types of clients.

• Print server:

  • Print spooler using lpd (Unix, NFS clients)
  • Print spooler using samba (PC clients)

• Modem communications:

  • Server answers the phone, provides shell logins.
  • Server answers the phone, provides PPP, SLIP or term logins.

• Office productivity software:

  • Document preparation with ApplixWare.
  • Other document management.

• Internet client software - WWW

  • NetScape Navigator.
  • Other browsers.

• Internet client software - mail

  • Pine.
  • Mail.
  • Netscape's mail client.
  • Other mail clients.

• Network management:

  • Internet or WAN router.
  • Internet or WAN firewall.

• Electronic mail server:

  • POP-3 server.
  • IMAP server.
  • SMTP server (sendmail, others).
  • SMTP mail router.

• Network services provided to local users:

  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
  • Anonymous ftp server.
  • Runs one or more database servers.
  • Other services.

• Network services provided to remote users over dial-up or the Internet:

  • HTTP (World-Wide Web) server or cache.
  • ``Regular'' (user-ID and password required) ftp server.
  • Anonymous ftp server.
  • Runs one or more database servers.

• Software development tools:

  • C and/or C++
  • Java
  • Perl
  • Bourne, Korn, C or another shell; using sed, awk, grep and similar tools.
  • Others.

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