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January 17, 2003

Freshmeat Latest Updates

Big Medium 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109741/

Big medium is an affordable, full-featured content management system that makes it easy to manage dynamic, fast-changing Web sites. The browser-based interface allows even the most non-technical staff to add, edit and publish Web content without needing to learn HTML. Big Medium empowers writers, editors, and business users to update Web sites directly, freeing Web professionals to be more productive and creative. It is written in Perl to run on Web servers running a UNIX operating system.

calc 2.11.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109712/

Calc is arbitrary precision arithmetic system that uses a C-like language. It's useful as a calculator, an algorithm prototype, and as a mathematical research tool. More importantly, calc provides a machine-independent means of computation. Calc comes with a rich set of builtin mathematical and programmatic functions.

CVSspam 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109731/

Do you need help?

CVSspam sends email when a change is commited to the CVS repository. Syntax-highlighted diffs describe the changes made, and hyperlinks to Bugzilla and ViewCVS are generated where possible.

Directory administrator 1.3.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109715/

Directory administrator is a smart LDAP directory server manager. It can be used to manage UNIX users and groups, corporate address book information, host-based access control, and advanced mail routing. It's extremely easy to install and use, yet powerful at the same time.

dmi 1.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109740/

dmi is a Web photo album/image gallery written in PHP. The main difference between dmi and other similar scripts is that it requires little to no setup time. Just drop it in a directory containing image and/or video files, and adjust permissions. It also makes thumbnails of MPEG movies as animated GIF files.

Dolphin SCI drivers 1.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109751/

SCI is a high-speed point-to-point networking technology, using SCI adaptors. The Dolphin SCI drivers in this package will work under Linux, VxWorks, Solaris, Lynx, and Windows NT/2000. They are aimed at Dolphin's SCI adaptor cards. The latency of the driver itself is around 1.4us. It's intended for use in clusters that need the extra performance. Note that the drivers are GPL, and the bundled libraries are LGPL.

Firewall Tester 0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109719/

Do you need more help?

The Firewall Tester is a tool designed for testing firewalls filtering policies. It includes an Intrusion Detection System testing feature, along with a packet generator tool and a sniffer. Unlike common firewall testing tools or packet generators ftester is capable of generating network traffic that will looks like real connections to the firewall or IDS system tested, which allows users to test stateful inspection firewalls (like netfilter or ipfilter) and IDS (like snort).

GImageView 0.2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109726/

GImageView is a GTK+ based image viewer. It supports tabbed browsing, thumbnail table views, directory tree views, drag and drop, reading the thumbnail cache of other famous image viewers, and a flexible user interface. It also support movies using the Xine library.

GNU Libidn 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109723/

GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep (with the Nameprep and Kerberos 5 profiles), Punycode, and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group, used for internationalized domain names. It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world.

Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109724/

The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland).

jCIFS 0.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109738/

Can we help you?

jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more.

JFreeVote 1.0 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109745/

JFreeVote is a set of Java tools to manage a e-vote process. It provides authentication, vote unicity, vote secrecy (with extensive use of cryptography), deferred vote counting, an interventor module, atomic transtactions with failure recovery, proctection against direct database inspection, emission and validation of digital vote certificates, multiple simultaneous consults, and census. A chat and forum system are included. JFreeVote is oriented to domestic (Web) or presidential votes (via an electoral collage).

JGAP 0.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109717/

JGAP (pronounced "jay-gap") 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.

KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109737/

KDE Pocket PC Contacts Import lets you import your Windows CE (or PocketPC) contacts into KDE's address book.

KMovisto 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109761/

Can't find what you're looking for?

KMovisto is a free molecule viewer which reads GAUSSIAN files, exports POV-Ray scripts for high quality presentations, and VRML files for creating 3D molecule sceneries for the Web.

Komplete 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109728/

Komplete is a content management system for small and medium sized enterprises that need to publish dynamic content on the Web, improve their interdepartmental communications, and transmit information to clients and partners. It is a publishing platform that provides an intuitive structure and allows content management by everyone, even non- programmers. Unlike dynamic Web sites that combine the logic and the presentation in a rigid approach, it offers a completely maintainable and extensible solution.

Linux Firewall 2.0rc8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109750/

Projectfiles.com Linux Firewall is a robust, well-designed firewall for Linux 2.4 based on netfilter/iptables. It supports advanced features for both servers and routers such as port forwarding and connection logging. It has verbose success and failure messages, and is easy to install and configure.

Linux Kernel Module Builder 0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109713/

LKMB is a Perl module that can be used to create a kernel module package, that can later be used to create a package that can be bootstrapped on any GNU machine. It is incomplete, but still partially usable. LKMB is part of the Comprehensive Linux Archive Network (CLAN) meta-project.

MacOS9 .3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109706/

Don't know where to look next?

MacOS9 is a theme resembling the operating system of the same name.

Millstone 3.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109733/

Millstone is a user interface library for development of Internet applications with Java. It provides a terminal independent component model that can be adapted to different terminal types and user interface themes. The development model of Millstone is closely related to traditional client side UI development: it has a continuous application lifecycle and an extensive event model. The Millstone library also provides an interface for directly connecting UI components to business logic and data storage.

NetCDF 3.5.1-beta10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109753/

NetCDF is a format originally developed at NASA and then taken over by Unidata. CDF stands for "Common Data Format" and is a self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and engineering applications.

NSA Security-enhanced Linux 2003011510
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109742/

NSA Security-enhanced Linux is a set of patches to the Linux kernel and some utilities to incorporate a strong, flexible mandatory access control architecture into the major subsystems of the kernel. It provides a mechanism to enforce the separation of information based on confidentiality and integrity requirements, which allows threats of tampering and bypassing of application security mechanisms to be addressed and enables the confinement of damage that can be caused by malicious or flawed applications. It includes a set of sample security policy configuration files designed to meet common, general-purpose security goals.

NuxDocument 1.1alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109755/

Confused? Frustrated?

NuxDocument is a Zope product that represents generic documents by using plugins to convert native productivity suite formats to HTML (for viewing or previewing in a regular browser) or to plain text (for indexing). With the appropriate external conversion programs, NuxDocument currently provides support for MSOffice (DOC, XLS, and PPT), OpenOffice (a.k.a. StarOffice 6), RTF,and PDF formats.

Nuxeo Collaborative Portal Server 2.2 beta1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/109714/

Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for Zope. Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow. Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers, and Readers). All actions are available through simple Web interfaces. Nuxeo CPS also features office document integration, indexing, and conversion to HTML format; versioning; attached comments; interactive services (e.g. mailing-lists); and skinning of hierarchies.

openbechede 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109746/

openbechede is a fast and simple way to install OpenBSD packages and their dependencies. With openbechede you can keep your obsd packages updated. Also, you can install packages (and automatically, their dependencies), remove them, fetch new lists of packages. openbechede logs its activity to a file you can specify.

Pauker 20030116 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109734/

Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.

PFinger 0.7.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109739/

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PFinger is a highly configurable, secure and portable finger deamon. It is started by inetd but does not run as root. The service may be disabled for individual users by the administrator or by the users themselves. It offers configurable special files (e.g. a users PGP-Key could be retrieved with 'finger john.pgpkey@host), no printing of users home directory or shell and it also provides a graphical frontend that allows users to easily alter the output that will be sent, when they are fingerd.

PHAkt 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109725/

PHAkt is an open-source PHP extension for Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, allowing PHP generation using the same techniques as when developing ASP/JSP/CF. PHAkt has a lot of improvements over the original PHP_MySQL server model of Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, including support for multiple databases in a transparent way, support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MsSQL date locales, user authentication server behaviors, master/detail server behaviors, go to detail page server behaviors, improved code generation, and multiple and extensible recordset support. IIS and Apache 2 are supported by using absolute redirects.

phpBB 2.0.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109756/

phpBB is a UBB-style dissussion board written in PHP backended by a MySQL database. It includes features such as posting/replying/editing messages, private messages, private forums, user and anonymous posting, robust theming, user ranking by posts or by special, admin definable, ranks, and much more.

PJIRC 1.71
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109749/

PJIRC is a very complete IRC applet which handles multichannel, privates, text coloration, graphical smileys, etc. In addition, it's still quite light.

Pliant 81
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109732/

Do you need help?

Pliant is a new generation language, which is modular, reflexive, and dynamically-compiled. It looks like a merging of typed Lisp and C. The programming environment includes HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS servers and clients, a database engine, a multi-forum administration tool, etc. It runs on Linux, POSIX, and Windows platforms or as a standalone OS on top of the Linux kernel.

PostgreSQL Session Save Handler 0.4.1 (HEAD) http://freshmeat.net/releases/109722/

The PostgreSQL Session Save Handler is a C program that allows you to use a PostgreSQL database to store PHP session data. The session module that is included with PHP4 can accomplish the same thing via its 'user' save handler, but it is much slower than using this program. PostgreSQL Session Save Handler is more than 2 times faster than the equivalent session save handler written as a PHP script.

rip 1.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109752/

Rip is a commandline-based Perl script which rips Compact Disc tracks to either Motion Picture Expert Group Layer 3 (MP3) files, Ogg Vorbis files, or FLAC files without user intervention between the steps of ripping. It supports cdparanoia and cdda2wav for ripping, BladeEnc, LAME, notLAME, and GOGO for WAV to MP3 encoding, oggenc for WAV to Ogg Vorbis encoding/tagging, FLAC for WAV to flac encoding. In addition, it supports CDDB for automatic renaming of files and MP3::Info for MP3 tagging.

SaveMyModem 0.14b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109735/

SaveMyModem is an anti-spam, mail-shaping, and delete-on-server mail tool. It is designed for users with slow dialup connections, who are tired of downloading large amounts of spam and worm and virus attachments.

screen-scraper 0.8.4b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109743/

Do you need more help?

screen-scraper is a tool for extracting data from Web sites. It consists of a proxy server that allows the contents of HTTP and HTTPS requests to be viewed, and an engine that can be configured to extract information from Web sites using special patterns and regular expressions. It handes authentication, redirects, and cookies, and contains an embedded scripting engine that allows extracted data to be manipulated, written out to a file, or inserted into a database. It can be used with PHP, Java, or any COM-friendly language such as Visual Basic or Active Server Pages.

Senken 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109720/

Senken is a city simulation game. Players buy the land, build the infrastructure, balance the books, and convince people to move in. The game has both goal-oriented and just play modes. There is multiplayer support but it is not well tested.

Siag Office 3.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109744/

Siag Office is a free office package which consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu. Siag is easy to use, yet infinitely flexible through multiple embedded interpreters and a plugin mechanism that allows other programs to run inside the main document. The supported interpreters are SIOD, Guile, Tcl, and Python.

Soya 3D 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109716/

Soya 3D is a high-level 3D engine for Python, designed with games in mind. The engine is fully object oriented, high level (even more than traditional "scene graphs"), and practical.

Station Location and Information 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109747/

Can we help you?

The station-info program searches for and displays AM, FM, and TV station entries from databases supplied by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). It provides many ways of selecting a collection of stations for display, and several criteria by which these stations can be sorted. Detailed information on each station is available, including an antenna radiation pattern, ownership information, and whatever else seems useful.

Vega Strike 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109721/

Vega Strike is a Linux action space simulator designed to bring 3d space combat to a whole new level of graphics, gameplay, and customizability.

VOCP 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109729/

VOCP is a complete messaging solution for voice modems, with voicemail, fax, email pager, DTMF command shell and Text-to-Speech support, 4 graphical interfaces, and a Web interface. Callers navigate the system using a touch-tone phone and may send and receive faxes, voice mail, and pager messages, listen to text/HTML email messages, or execute configured programs on the host and hear the resulting output.

WebMacro Servlet Framework 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109757/

WebMacro is a Java server-side web template engine and servlet development framework. It makes it easy to separate business logic from presentation, so that programmers need not worry about presentation, and designers need not worry about business logic. WebMacro lets programmers get back to programming in a standard language with standard objects while letting page designers spend more time on appearances and less time wading through program code they don't want to understand.

XOSD 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109759/

Can't find what you're looking for?

XOSD is a simple library to display shaped text on your X display, like a TV On Screen Display. It also contains an XMMS plugin, and a simple example program that can display system logs overlayed on your desktop.

Yahoo Mail Sucker Prototype 25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/109754/

Yahoo Mail Sucker allows you to fetch Yahoo Mail messages to your local inbox (after the free POP3 service has been suspended).

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