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[freshmeat update] January 11, 2003
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January 11, 2003
Freshmeat Latest Updates
ACME 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109050/
ACME is a small GNOME tool to make use of the multimedia buttons present on most laptops and Internet keyboards: Volume, Brightness, Power, Eject, My Home, Search, E-Mail, Sleep, Screensaver, Finance, WWW, Calculator, Record, Close Window, Shade Window, Play, Stop, Pause, Previous, Next, Groups, Media, Refresh, and Help buttons. It works on all the platforms GNOME supports (laptops and PCs). It uses either OSS or ALSA for Volume control.
AJ's Internet Cafe for LTSP 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109080/
AJ's Internet cafe is a full featured and complete open-source internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
Apple Quicktime 6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109021/
Apple QuickTime allows users to create, play, and stream audio and video content over the Internet. Features include playback of MPEG-4 video, ACC audio and Instant-On media, easy-to-use controls, bass and treble controls, balance control, streaming media support, the ability to save movie favorites as well as the ability to view VR and interactive content.
Autocheck 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109051/
Autocheck is a distributed, extensively configurable systems monitoring tool for Unix written in Perl (and some C). It includes SMS and email notification and a lot of checks. It can take action on alarms by scripts that restart the dead process, etc.
BackerUpper 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109044/
BackerUpper is a simple, easy to configure backup utility that will perform monthly full backups and daily incremental backups. Backups are created in the zip or bzip2 file format.
bonnie++ 1.03a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109058/
Bonnie++ is based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray. The most notable features that have been added are support for >2G of storage and testing operations involving thousands of files in a directory. This program is used by ReiserFS developers, but can be useful for anyone who wants to know how fast their hard drive or file system is. It now includes ZCAV in the package. This program tests the performance of different zones on the hard drive. ZCAV has been released separately before but will now only be released as part of the Bonnie++ suite.
Bugzero 2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109017/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
CrisoftRicette 1.0pre11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109028/
CrisoftRicette is a simple PHP application to build your personal archive of cooking recipes in a MySQL database. The interface has international support.
CyberNeko HTML Parser 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109023/
NekoHTML is a simple HTML scanner and tag balancer that enables Java application programmers to parse HTML documents and access the information using standard XML interfaces. The parser can scan HTML files and "fix up" many common mistakes that human (and computer) authors make in writing HTML documents. NekoHTML is written using the Xerces Native Interface (XNI) that is the foundation of the Xerces2 implementation. This enables application programmers to use the NekoHTML parser with existing XNI tools without modification or rewriting code.
digicamerge 1.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109038/
DigicaMerge is a commandline tool to merge directories of pictures taken with digital cameras. If you've got a digital camera, your hard disk probably contains many directories full of pictures all named with the same names. This utility allows you to merge such directories' contents into a new directory, and renames all the pictures on the fly, ensuring no filename clash will occur. You can define your own naming scheme, using either a set of predefined variables or any recognized Exif tag which may be present in your pictures, and also specify a pattern to select only certain files.
DocBook Doclet 0.33
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109056/
The DocBook Doclet creates DocBook SGML or XML from Java source documentation or HTML files. It is helpful if you want to print reference handbooks of your API. Normally it is used with the Javadoc tool but it can also be used as a standalone application to convert HTML to DocBook. Additionally it comes with a Swing application to manage documentation projects and to transform the resulting DocBook files to PDF.
FAQbot 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109043/
FAQbot works with a MySQL database to maintain and organize connected articles (generally help pages or FAQs) as well as provide a uniform format and display. It includes a simple ranking system. It is intended for Web masters with article-based Web sites, but it is flexible enough to provide multiple site layouts to fit different site designs. It uses MySQL, PHP4, and some Javascript.
Fopps 0.18a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109078/
FOPPS (Feature Oriented Product Planning System) is a tool that helps you to design your software product line. It provides feature-based configuration to maintain your core assets and applications.
geskoctrl 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109055/
geskoctrl is an application to download/upload firmware for GESKO PBXes. geskoctrl is also useful for controlling these PBXes.
glHack 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109036/
glHack is a full-screen SDL port of NetHack 3.4.0 (a role-playing dungeon game), with support for both OpenGL and software rendering. Currently it runs under Linux.
GNU Scientific Library 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109034/
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical computing. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in ANSI C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high-level languages.
gqueue 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109061/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It shows all jobs in printing queues and can remove jobs.
GStreamer 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109057/
GStreamer is a streaming media library and set of tools that enable applications to share a common set of plugins for things like MP3 decoding, audio I/O, and anything else that streams in real-time or otherwise. It is modelled after research software worked on at the Oregon Graduate Institute.
GTK-Lsof 0.9.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109030/
GTK-Lsof is a simple GTK 2 GUI for lsof.
IPA 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109037/
IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6
Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter
accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting
rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and
"reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible
configuration file with many sections and options.
JavaDICT 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109047/
JavaDICT is a server for the DICT protocol (RFC 2229), a TCP transaction-based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
Javassist 2.3p
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109049/
Javassist (Java programming assistant) is a load-time reflective system for Java. It is a class library for editing bytecodes in Java; it enables Java programs to define a new class at runtime and to modify a class file when the JVM loads it. Unlike other similar systems, Javassist provides source-level abstraction; programmers can use Javassist without detailed knowledge of the Java bytecode. This ease of use is a unique feature of Javassit against other tools.
JGAP 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109067/
JGAP is a genetic algorithms package written in Java. It is designed to require minimum effort to use "out of the box", but is highly modular and allows custom components to be easily plugged in by the more adventurous.
Jikes RVM 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109048/
The Jikes RVM includes state-of-the-art virtual machine technologies for dynamic compilation, adaptive optimization, garbage collection, and thread scheduling and synchronization. A distinguishing characteristic of the Jikes RVM is that it is implemented in the Java™ programming language, and is self-hosted, i.e. its Java code runs on itself without requiring a second virtual machine.
Kernel Mode Linux 2.5.55_001 (For Linux 2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109068/
Kernel Mode Linux is a technology which enables the execution of user programs in a kernel mode. In Kernel Mode Linux, user programs can access kernel address space directly. Unlike kernel modules, user programs are executed as ordinary processes (except for their privilege level), so scheduling and paging are performed as usual. Although it seems dangerous, the safety of the kernel can be ensured through such methods as static type checking, software fault isolation, and so forth.
Libsigc++ 1.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109062/
libsigc++ implements a full callback system for use in abstract interfaces and general programming. It is the most complete library of its kind with the ability to connect an abstract callback to a class method, function, or function object. It contains adaptor classes for connecting dissimilar callbacks and has an ease of use unmatched by other C++ callback libraries.
LibTPT 1.10.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109019/
TPT is a template scripting language implemented in C++. The LibTPT parser transforms TPT templates into text. The parser, which integrates with your C++ code through a simple class API, is small and fast, focusing on functionality instead of rich feature sets. Uses include on-the-fly HTML and source code generation.
Linux Test Project 20030110
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109074/
The Linux Test Project is an Open Source project to provide a collection of tools for testing Linux. It was created by SGI, and was recently joined by IBM and OSDL. The project consists of well over 500 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.
Meeting Room Booking System 1.1-pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109041/
The Meeting Room Booking System (MRBS) is a PHP/MySQL-based Web application for booking meeting rooms. It uses 'areas' to group rooms, and rooms within each area are shown side-by-side.
mmftpd 0.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109022/
mmftpd is a secure FTP server that runs as a normal user, and supports virtual users only. Each user may have specific permissions, including the maximum home directory size limit and download/upload speeds. The daemon uses libpth for portable threads instead of fork(). It runs on both BSD and Linux systems, and is ideal for a setup with many Web virtual host customers. It was written from scratch, with no borrowed code.
mmmail suite 0.0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109024/
mmmail provides SMTP and POP3 daemons using MySQL, running as a non-root user. It also supports bandwidth shaping. Relaying is not supported, although it has been designed to handle many users on many virtual hosts. It is fast and secure, uses threads, and has been written entirely from scratch and does not rely on mbox or Maildir formats.
mmstatd 0.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109033/
mmstatd consists of a C library and server for applications to easily update counters and administrators to maintain them. It supports a crash recovery system using internal logs.
MRTNK 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109020/
MRTNK is a set of scripts that generate RRD databases, update these databases with SNMP data or external scripts, create graphics with rrdtool (a set of pre-designed graphics is available), and create HTML pages with the graphics. All of this is done through an easy-to-setup config file. As the graphics contain all the relevant information, HTML pages need to be created only once.
ncc 1.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109029/
ncc is a C source code analyzer which generates program flow and variable usage information. Using it should be as easy as changing CC=gcc to CC=ncc in makefiles, and effort has been made to support most common gcc extensions. ncc has been tested with the sources of the Linux kernel, gtk, gcc, gdb, bind, mpg123, ncftp, and many other famous projects.
Netacct-NetStat 3.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109031/
Netacct-NetStat is a PHP Web interface for Netacct-MySQL, the popular traffic statistics daemon for Linux and BSD.
ObexFTP 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109060/
ObexFTP enables you to access the memory of your mobile device. It is confirmed to work well with Siemens S45/ME45 and similar mobile phones. You may access the Flex Memory on Siemens mobile equipment via IrDA or serial connection.
OpenCM 0.1.2alpha4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109083/
OpenCM is designed as a secure, high-integrity replacement for CVS. It includes features such as file renaming, branch and file level access control, cryptographic authentication, and end-to-end integrity controls.
Palantir 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109045/
Palantir is a client-server streaming system designed to transmit live video, audio, and data over a TCP/IP network. The server runs on a Linux box. The supplied Java client can display the live video stream as well as interact with hardware devices connected to the server. A native Windows client also allows full-duplex audio communications with the server.
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109026/
Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall.
PVote 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109032/
PVote is a PHP voting system. It uses MySQL to hold all information about the system.
ROX-Filer 1.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109063/
ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background.
SILC 0.9.11 (Server)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109040/
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
SnipSnap 0.3.2a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109039/
SnipSnap is an easy to install and use Web log and Wiki engine written in Java. It has no external dependency on Web servers or databases, as both are built-in.
Vega Strike 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109027/
Vega Strike is a Linux action space simulator designed to bring 3d space combat to a whole new level of graphics, gameplay, and customizability.
w3m 0.3.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109075/
w3m is a pager/text-based WWW browser. It is similar to Lynx, but has several features Lynx doesn't have. It can render tables, frames (by converting frames into tables), display a document given from standard input, be navigated by mouse in an xterm or in a gpm driven console, and it is small.
Webtop web-based email system 1.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109064/
Webtop is a Web-based POP3 email client that includes many filter options, spam fighting features, custom folders, email import/export, and email-to-PDF generation. The Webtop also includes a calendar, notepad, Webdrive, automated email reminders, contacts, mailing lists, and Web-based administration. One installation can support multiple users and each user can set up as many POP3 accounts as they need.
white_dune 0.20beta163 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109052/
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for
displaying 3D data over the web via browser plugins. It has support for
animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound).
Dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the
scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (next generation VRML xml
format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators.
It also has support for stereoscopic view via
"quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals.
WormScan 1.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109071/
WormScan is a utility written in Java for the purpose of reporting attempted attacks on your Apache Web server. It was written to be able to support an unlimited number of worms. It is, however, very extendable, and can easily be configured to search and report on just about anything that can be found in your Web server's log files. The reports themselves are customizable, and can easily be modified to suit your needs. Numerous configuration options let you tweak the performance and the output.
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