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February 23, 2003

Freshmeat Latest Updates

A Joint Monitoring System 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113929/

AJMS (AKA "AMS") displays syslog messages in realtime through a standalone Java client or in a browser. It offers straightforward configuration and integrates easily into any existing syslog environment.

ActivePerl Build 805, based on Perl 5.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113944/

ActivePerl is a binary package containing the latest build of ActiveState's distribution of Perl. It includes new documentation and tutorials for using Perl, and the Perl Package Manager, which makes installing modules faster and easier. The Windows package provides additional features to take advantage of that platform. ActivePerl is available for Linux (RPM and Debian), Solaris, and Windows.

aEGiS t0xirc 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113938/

Do you need help?

t0xirc is a PHP class that enable applications to interact with the popular IRC bot Eggdrop. It can be used to include a list of connected users on a Web page, or even to write a CLI PHP script that runs in the background and gives some intelligence to idle bots.

Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113864/

Anthill Pro is an automated manager for the build and release process of software development. It can provide daily reports of an overnight build, with automated test runs, a revision log which lists newly implemented features. Anthill Pro adds to the already robust feature set of the open source version of Anthill. Anthill Pro is easy to use in heterogeneous environments since it allows you to use different JDKs and different classpaths to build different projects. It also provides robust support for project dependencies, allowing you to rebuild all dependent projects with the latest version of a dependency. Every project can store its latest artifacts in Anthill's built-in repository, and Anthill gives you the ability to rebuild any previously built version.

BasicLinux 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113918/

BasicLinux is a multi-purpose mini-Linux that boots from DOS or Win9x and runs in a RAM disk. It can dial an ISP, browse the Web, send/receive mail, and download files. It can boot from a floppy, or be installed to a permanent Linux native partition (where X and GCC may be added using standard packages from Slackware).

Binc IMAP 1.0.24-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113977/

Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.

bogofilter 0.10.3.1 (Current)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113973/

Do you need more help?

Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.

BPhpWebmail Frontend 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113961/

BPhpWebmail Frontend is an easy-to-use and easy-to-install Web mail frontend. It features support for multiple POP and IMAP servers, Inbox, Outbox, Sent, and Saved folders, and an address book.

cgi-exec 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113969/

cgi-exec preprocesses data from an HTML form and redirects the data to a CGI script specified in a database located next to cgi-exec. It acquires the input from the browser, regardless of method; decodes the input into plain text; places that input into environmental variables corresponding to the fieldnames designated in the HTML form; searches a database to determine the name of the script to be executed to process the form data; spawns the script, after appropriate headers are emitted; and prints out footers after the return of the script. The environment is protected by disallowing the overwriting of existing variables.

Checky 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113972/

The Checky plug-in for Mozilla, Phoenix, and Netscape is a simple interface for Web content and resource developers to free and commercial online Validator and Checker services. With Checky, you can easily set up, combine, and use 18 online validator and checker services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to a Web resource and press F10 to display the results of the selected services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, and various viewers, valets, and purifiers.

Cherokee 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113926/

Can we help you?

Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.

Corruption Corrector 1.0 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113974/

Corruption Corrector (CCorr) is a program designed for fixing corrupt files. It is for situations when you have (downloaded) many copies of the same file, but all of the copies are a bit corrupt. If the corruptions are in different parts of the file, it is possible to combine the good bytes from each file and get an uncorrupted copy of the file.

DBMAIL 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113928/

The DBMAIL package replaces the normal UNIX mailing system. All email and user data is stored in a database. You can create an unlimited number of email accounts, which can be checked using the POP3 or IMAP protocol. Users can maintain their own set of email addresses. It is more scalable, more secure, and faster than traditional mail systems. DBMAIL has storage drivers for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and it has authentication drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and LDAP.

distcc 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113924/

distcc is a program that distributes compilation of C code across several machines on a network, resulting in speed increases of 1.5 to 10 times. It does not require machines to share a filesystem, have the same libraries or header files, or superuser privileges.

Dive tools for Linux 0.1.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113970/

Can't find what you're looking for?

Divetools is a set of tools to read out a dive computer. In addition it includes a conversion program that makes UDCF files out of thet dump and a Plotting tool that produces nice PostScript pages for your loogbook. It supports the Suunto EON and Uwatec Aladin Series dive computers.

Enemies of Carlotta 0.19 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113979/

Enemies of Carlotta is a simple mailing list manager. It tries to mimic the ezmlm software somewhat, but is written completely from scratch in Python. It has a less restrictive license than ezmlm and qmail, and is smaller and simpler than GNU Mailman.

FLP-i18n 1.045
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113939/

FLP-i18n (Flaimo's Little Package) is a collection of PHP classes for internationalization. It formats date and time strings, replaces keywords, converts measurement units between SI and the US Customary System, and more.

gitty-gitty 2.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113953/

gitty-gitty, the (general | GNU) template generation tools, are a set of scripts for creating a whole set of sources which may already be compiled and installed using the GNU development tools. Think of gtgt as a program which is able to create an already compilable, very sophisticated "hello world" program, written in C or C++ and constituted by a main program, two internal modules (classes), and one static and one shared library, and this complex "Hello World" is already fully embedded into the GNU autoconf/automake development environment. By using gitty-gitty, you will get a template of sources for the main cases you might meet, and which you can also use as examples for automake, autoconf, etc.

GNOME Installation Guide 22/02/2003
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113955/

Don't know where to look next?

The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs, both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are not.

gonvert 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113976/

gonvert is a conversion utility that allows conversion between many units such as CGS, Ancient, and Imperial. It supports many categories like length, mass, numbers, and more. All converted values are shown immediately as you type. It is easy to add/change your own units. It was written in Python and uses pygtk and libglade.

Gst-Player 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113920/

Gst-Player is a full-featured media player for GNOME 2 using the GStreamer multimedia framework. Features include support for a wide range of media formats (both video and audio), support for fullscreen playback, and audio output to a range of sound systems and sound servers.

hdup 1.6.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113978/

hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (via mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host (via scp/rsync), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).

HTun 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113983/

Confused? Frustrated?

HTun is a VPN (Virtual Private Network) interface that allows you to create a fully bidirectional IP-layer VPN over an HTTP proxy or just over port 80, allowing you to bypass restrictive firewalls and use any IP-based service you desire.

J-Pilot 0.99.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113949/

J-Pilot is a full-featured desktop organizer application for the Palm Pilot that runs under Linux and UNIX. It includes support for datebooks, addresses, memos, todos, expenses, and has plugin support. It uses the GTK+ libraries.

jEdit 4.1pre11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113968/

jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor.

Kannel WAP and SMS Gateway 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113927/

Kannel is a WAP gateway. It attempts to provide this essential part of the WAP infrastructure freely to everyone so the market potential for WAP services, both from wireless operators and specialized service providers, will be realized as efficiently as possible. It also works as an SMS gateway for GSM networks. Almost all GSM phones can use it to send and receive SMS messages, so this is a way to serve many more clients than just those using a WAP phone. Kannel was among the first WAP gateways to be certified as WAP 1.1 compliant by the Open Group, responsible for certifications of WAP Forum specifications.

lgsp 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113956/

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LGSP (the Little GNU Site Preparer) is an environment for creating the initial version of a site. You write your wishes into the LGSP configuration file, and you are not only able to determine the whole logical structure but also the outfit of your site. By evaluating this configuration file LGSP automatically generates all demanded files of your site, and these pages already respect the wished visual design. For generating and editing such configuration files, LGSP also offers a full elaborated WYSIWYHC HTML frontend (What You See Is What You Have Configured).

LinuxTrade 3.30 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113946/

LinuxTrade is a curses (text-based) implementation of the Scottrader Java application, plus additional features inspired by the excellent MedVed QuoteTracker Windows program, plus its own set of unique features. It is lightweight, yet full featured. It can save a session to a file and replay it. It has portfolios, real time quotes, charts with live updates, time and sales, fundamental and technical indicators, top ten and market movers, news articles, alerts, and Level 2 market depth indications from Archipelago and the Island Book.

LooperDB 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113963/

LooperDB is a secure, multithreaded alert database used primarily for network/security management. It is indended to be used as a central MoM
(manager-of-managers) platform to collect, consolidate, and correlate
event messages. When coupled with looper, LooperDB can provide the framework for a sophisticated alert management infrastructure.

Makepasswd 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113937/

Makepasswd generates pseudo-random passwords of a desired length. It is expected that it will be able to generate its crypted equivalent (at least MD5).

mathplot 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113936/

Do you need help?

mathplot is an interactive function grapher. It supports equations, inequations, displaying tangent, finding roots, extrema, and the intersection of 2 functions, and much more.

mboxstats 0.92
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113889/

mboxstats creates top-10 lists of the messages in a mailbox (top writers/subjects/messages per day, etc.).

mrtg 2.9.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113672/

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.

MRX Ramdisk 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113965/

MRX Ramdisk is a simple ramdisk creation tool. It writes the current system binaries and snapshot to /boot/ramdisk.gz, with automatic library dependency tracking.

Naamah 1.07
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113954/

Do you need more help?

Naamah is a Web application that stores the ID3 tags from your MP3s and details of your audio CDs in a MySQL database. It scans drives for MP3 files and can generate LaTeX listings.

netcount 0.4a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113942/

netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis.

OPEN DESIRE 10.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113861/

Open DESIRE is a modeling/simulation language for dynamic systems and neural networks, a runtime compiler, and an experiment-protocol script for simulation studies. It supports up to 20,000 differential equations or matrix/vector operations.

OpenH323 Gatekeeper 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113923/

The OpenH323 Gatekeeper is a free H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 project. You can use it to manage a Voice-over-IP network and let endpoints (e.g., Netmeeting) communicate through symbolic names. It also has an external interface for billing and other applications. It runs on a number of Unix versions (including Linux and Solaris) and Windows.

Outlook save as text/CSV to Unix mailbox 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/113991/

Can we help you?

These tools convert mail folders saved from Outlook as text or CSV into standard mbox files.

pam_pwcheck 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113988/

The pam_pwcheck is a PAM module for password strength checking. It makes additional checks upon password changes, but it doesn't make the change itself. It only provides functionality for one PAM management group: password changing. This module works in the following manner: if enabled it calls at first the Cracklib routine to check the strength of the password; if crack likes the password, the module does an additional set of strength checks.

pdftohtml 0.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113993/

pdftohtml converts Portable Document Format files to HTML. This release converts text and links. Bold and italic face are preserved, but high level HTML structures (like lists or tables) are not yet generated. Images are ignored in the current version (but you can extract them from the pdf file using pdfimages, distributed with xpdf).

PennMUSH 1.7.7p9 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113958/

PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS.

PhotoPnMTools 1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113967/

Can't find what you're looking for?

PhotoPnMTools is a simple toolkit for processing photographic images using improved algorithms. It is based on Poskanzer's PPM toolkit. It contains resizing, sharpening, and contrast / saturation / color balance filters. It can be used for cropping, color editing, and making Web albums.

PHPReports 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113971/

PHPReports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and show a report.

pysmb 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113919/

Pysmb is an experimental SMB/CIFS client library written in Python without any native code dependencies. Tested to run on Python 1.5.2, 2.1, and 2.2, it can upload, download, copy, rename, remove, and list files and directories.

QFaxReader 0.2-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113925/

QFaxReader is a monochrome multipage tiff files visualization utility.

Rolo 001
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113990/

Don't know where to look next?

Using the vCard format as the data storage structure, Rolo will keep track of your contacts and display them to you with a curses frontend.

RRDtool 1.0.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113670/

RRDtool is basically the time-series graphing and data storage/management component of MRTG, broken out and `done right'. `done right' means that RRDtool is magnitudes faster than MRTG and extremely configurable.

Script Identifier 2003-02-22 08:22 (Neural Network Weights) http://freshmeat.net/releases/113941/

Scriptid is a program and a library that can be used to determine whether a given text file contains code of a specified programming language. The current release can tell whether a file contains vbscript or not. It should be possible to extend this to any number of other languages. It is important to also download the latest neural network weights update file.

Script Identifier 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113940/

SHFS 0.29-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113922/

Confused? Frustrated?

SHFS (Shell Filesystem) is a simple and easy-to-use Linux 2.4 kernel module which allows you to mount remote filesystems using a plain shell
(ssh/rsh) connection. It supports some nice features like number of
different caches for access speedup, target system optimizations, etc.

shntool 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113930/

shntool is a multi-purpose WAVE data processing and reporting utility that supports various lossless file formats with helper programs. These include SHN (via shorten), FLAC (via flac), AIFF (via sox), APE (via mac), OFR (via OptimFROG), LPAC (via lpac), and WV (via WavPack). It features len, fix, md5, join, split, cat, cmp, conv, info, and strip modes.

Sodipodi 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113950/

Sodipodi is a general purpose vector drawing application which uses a subset of W3C SVG as its file format. It uses an advanced imaging engine, with antialised display, apha transparency, and vector fonts.

SoulSeek for Linux 1.0.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113964/

Soulseek (http://www.slsk.org) is a communication and file-sharing system. It is quite similar to Napster: it lets you exchange files, search for files, chat with other users in public and in private, browse their files, and get recommendations for music. SoulSeek for Linux is a GUI client for the system written in Python/wxPython. It includes all the major functionality: chat, searches and downloads.

SwingPBC 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113952/

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SwingPBC (Swing Project Budget Consolidator) is a desktop application that complements WebPBC, serving as a thick- client on a desktop PC. It allows small to medium-sized companies to perform budget consolidations on their projects, and is especially suitable for managers that need to review and analyse budget data that has been entered by different departments. It directly accesses a central PBC database and performs consolidations locally.

Tapestry 2.4-alpha-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113987/

Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs, dispatching directly to application-specific "listener" methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and a complete example J2EE application.

Tapestry 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113985/

Traffic tool Troll 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113960/

The Traffic Tool Troll is a traffic monitoring and managing skript. Traffic statistics are generated by port, hour, day, month, and year. You can define a special period for your needs. The script is written in Perl and uses iptables and MySQL to get and store the traffic.

Trash Can 3.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113943/

Do you need help?

Trash Can is a command line recycle bin for Linux/*NIX-based systems. ksh, bash, or zsh is needed. It can remove files and restore them in their original path, delete single files from the trash can, automatically delete 'core' and 'dead.letter' files, automatically purge the trash over X days old, empty the trash, and display the disk usage and stored files. It is compressed to take up less room, and entire directories can be restored/deleted. It will prompt the user if restoring over an existing file. An installation script is included.

ttylinux 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113966/

ttylinux is a minimalistic Linux distribution that can fit in 4 MB of disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem or ISDN, surf the Web, and provide Web content to the world. The minimum hardware requirement is a 386SX with 10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup or 5 MB of RAM for a hard disk setup.

Usermin 1.000
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113932/

Usermin is a Web interface that can be used by any user on a UNIX system to easily perform tasks like reading mail, setting up SSH, or configuring mail forwarding. It can be thought of as a simplified version of Webmin designed for use by normal users rather than system administrators.

Videograb 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113982/

Videograb is a simple deamon used to capture images continuously from a video4linux device, and save them in .ppm or .jpeg format.

web2ldap 0.11.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113996/

Do you need more help?

web2ldap is a full-featured LDAP client written in Python and designed to run as a stand-alone Web gateway or under the control of a web server with FastCGI support (e.g., Apache with mod_fastcgi).

Webmin 1.070
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113931/

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms, you can setup user accounts, internet services, DNS, file sharing and so on.

wxDialer 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113934/

wxDialer is a simple program written in wxPython/Python that allows you to make and recieve phone calls on your modem.

XDB-Money 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/114000/

XDB Money is a simple Web-based personal finance tracker that can keep track of multiple accounts and multiple transactions, grouping these transactions into categories for reporting facilities.

XOSD 2.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113999/

Can we help you?

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.

yappa-ng 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113997/

yappa-ng is an easy to use online PHP photo gallery. It has a comfortable and elaborate album-oriented photo album administration Web interface. Each picture can be viewed in many different sizes with resizing created automatically on the fly. It has complete user selectable language support, and supports password protected albums, hit counters for albums and images, album info, image captions, gallery overview, different themes, and a 'Top 10 images' ranking system for each photo album.

ZoneMaster 0.99.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/113921/

ZoneMaster is a tool for zone file and name server management. It consists of a library that can configure BIND and a Web-based user interface that is used to access the data that is stored in a database. A bootstrap script allows you to initialize the database with all necessary information retrieved from an existing configuration. All modifications are saved as jobs in the database, and a job handler makes the necessary changes from time to time. The user interface is based on XSLT-stylesheets and can be easily modified.

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