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March 14, 2003

Freshmeat Latest Updates

abaXX elements 3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116086/

abaXX elements is a development environment for building component-based Web applications on top of JBoss. It is based on the proven J2EE standard technologies, including the JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL). Web applications are built with components called Parts, which are implemented according to the Model-View- Controller pattern, tying together a plain JavaBean as Model, a Controller class, and a JSP page as View. It includes an integrated Portal Builder toolkit and an application skeleton for rapid prototyping.

Bayesian Pattern Filtering Library 0.1.0alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/116197/

Bayesian Pattern Filtering Library is a general purpose library designed for building Bayesian Filters. Its primary purpose is to provide an easy-to-use interface to allow the building of Bayesian filters regardless of the data being analyzed. A user will only need to provide a tokenizer, hash function, and comparison function in order to build a Filter.

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BEAST/BSE 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116222/

BEAST (the BEdevilled Audio System) is a GTK+/GNOME-based frontend to BSE (the Bedevilled Sound Engine). BSE comes with the abilities to load/store songs and synthesis networks (in .bse files), play them modify them, etc. BEAST provides the necessary GUI to make actual use of BSE. Synthesis filters (BseSources) are implemented in shared library modules, and get loaded on demand.

Binc IMAP 1.0.25-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116161/

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

Bluebeard 1.0b6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116146/

Bluebeard locates and downloads single- and multi-part file attachments on the Usenet forum network. It is robust, able to handle between 1-4 simultaneous downloads, and supports however many queued downloads you want to throw at it. It is able to piece together multi-part attachments and handle popular encoding formats, including UUE and yEnc. Decoding is automatic and quick.

CheckInstall 1.6.0beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116215/

CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or equivalent, creates a Slackware, RPM, or Debian package with those files, and adds it to the installed packages database, allowing for easy package removal or distribution.

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Coin 2.0.1 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116163/

Coin is an implementation of Open Inventor. Open Inventor is the de facto standard API for retained-mode 3D graphics programming. Open Inventor has a highly extensible design, and has been designed to allow for rapid development of highly interactive 3D graphics applications in the fields of CAD, engineering, scientific computing, simulation, VRML, and visualization.

Comic Collection 1.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116217/

Comic Collection is a Java (AWT) application to allow automatic download, storage, categorisation, and search of Web comics.

Consultant Communicator 3 Beta 8 (Testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/116145/

Consultant Communicator (ConsultComm) is a lightweight, cross-platform program that allows anyone managing multiple projects, clients, or tasks to effectively keep track of exactly how much time has been spent on each project.

CourseForum 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116183/

CourseForum provides a painless, straightforward and flexible solution for posting and sharing course materials, class discussions, and student collaboration. It can be used for lecture notes, Q&A, class discussions, research, student portfolios, projects, and more. The easy Web browser interface and quick installation lets you get started in minutes, and everyone can easily create, read, and contribute.

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CVSps 2.0b1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116192/

CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset' information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows you to see history of committed patchsets, restrict by author, date range, files affected, branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a given patchset.

denature 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116139/

denature uses several Perl modules and the fop utility to convert an HTML file to PDF. It has the beginnings of CSS support, and handles several HTML tags.

DHTML TreeMenu 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116154/

DHTML TreeMenu is a PHP class that generates DHTML menu trees that work under IE 5.5+, NS 6+, and other browsers that support InnerHTML. It supports indentation levels, linking on any node, and collapsing and expanding. Menus are defined with simple XML files.

DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets 1.78
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116181/

DocBook is an XML and SGML dialect that enables you to author and store document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content. Using the modular DocBook stylesheets and related resources, you can transform, format, and publish your DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files, and in many other formats, including TeX, RTF, FrameMaker MIF, JavaHelp, Microsoft HTML Help, UNIX man pages, and TeXinfo.

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DockExtender 3.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116221/

DockExtender allows you to organize and access your applications, documents and web sites through custom menus that you create. You can create up to 10 separate menus that you can access through the Dock, menu bar, or by pressing a HotKey. Items in your menus can be organized into as many submenus as you want, and sectioned by separator items. Load whole folders into submenus, or have them loaded when you access the menu, giving you the most up-to-date contents at your fingertips.

DvorakNG 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116201/

DvorakNG is a Dvorak typing tutor. It's heavily based on Dvorak7min, but adds many improvements like a progress information database.

Easy Integrity Check System 2.0b-rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116147/

Easy integrity check system is an easy-to-install and use file integrity system. It is intended to be used by system administrators to aid with intrusion detection.

eMoviX 0.8.0pre6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116190/

eMoviX is a micro (7MB) Linux distro meant to be embedded in a CD together with all video/audio files you want. A CD burned with eMoviX will be able to boot and play automagically all of its files with MPlayer. Supported formats are AVI (in particular DivX & XviD formats), MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, Ogg, and in general everything supported by MPlayer.

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fastutil 2.52
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116225/

fastutil provides type-specific Java maps and sets with a small memory footprint, which feature much faster (2 to 10 times) access and insertion. The classes implement their standard counterpart interfaces
(e.g., Map for maps) and can be plugged into existing code. Besides the
usual features, fastutil provides reference-based containers (which do not use equals() to compare objects) and linked structures. Most iterators provided by fastutil classes are bidirectional, or even implement the standard list iterator interface.

FauBackup 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116229/

FauBackup uses a filesystem on a hard drive for incremental and full backups. All backups can easily be accessed by standard filesystem tools. Later backups to the same filesystem will automatically be incremental, as unchanged files are only hard-linked with the existing version of the file.

FCKeditor 0.9.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116151/

FCKEditor is an HTML editor that brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer.

General Purpose Converter 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116160/

General Purpose Converter (GPC) is a tool for converting between different units of measurement. It contains internal tables with many convertion values, and a parser that can interpret strings such as "10 km to miles". It is easily customizable and can be used from other programs with a simple method call. It includes a text mode interface and an applet.

Confused? Frustrated?

GKrellM 2.1.8 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116195/

GKrellM is a GTK-based stacked monitor program that charts SMP CPUs, disks, load, active net interfaces, and internet connections. There are also builtin monitors for memory and swap, file systems with mount/umount feature, mailbox checking including POP3 and IMAP, clock/calendar, laptop battery, sensors (temperatures, voltages, and fans), and uptime. It has LEDs for the net monitors and an on/off button and online timer for PPP. There is a GUI popup for configuration, plugin extensions can be installed, and many themes are available. It also features a client/server monitoring capability.

GProFTPD 8.0.3 (GNOME 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116207/

GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server.

GRAB 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116159/

    GRAB (Greg's RPM Application Builder) adds functionality and     ease-of-use to RPM, by allowing a user to search through a collection     of RPMs on various FTP servers (given in a configuration file), and     download and install all in one action. It can perform system upgrades,     and display all packages that are "outdated". It also has the     ability to be run through cron, to automatically upgrade all packages
(except ones defined in a skip list) that are available. This project
    began to provide similiar functionality to RPM based distros as apt-get
(Debian package tool). Apt has since been ported to RPM. GRAB's
    functionality now is still fairly similar, but also provides additional     features that makes it easier to use and more intuitive. It can also     work with any FTP server, as opposed to a specifically configured RPM     repository server.

Gretools 0.0.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116200/

Gretools is a collection of programs which use the Barron's word list to help users improve their vocabulary. The wordlist is adapted from the one found at http://pllab.kaist.ac.kr/~gladius/gre/, and contains about 4000 words. gretools consists of a gtk-based synonym quizzing program and a command line word-guessing game, among others. Features include automatically remembering the words on which the user erred and applying a filter to restrict the wordspace to practice on. It is particularly useful for preparing for word tests.

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JaxMeJS 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116165/

The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource, JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a pipelining process.

JDistro 0.25
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116202/

JDistro is a project to build a Java distribution. The main subprojects are an application launcher, a desktop with a document management, and access to remote applications.

Jelie 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116198/

Jelie is a JTAG port driving software for the Intel XScale CPU family. With only a JTAG connection, Jelie is able to upload a debug handler, initialize the memory, upload and debug programs. Jelie can reach the JTAG port of the target processor trough a parallel port and a OCDemon McGraigor Wiggler adapter. A USB connection using Anchor's EzUSB is also possible. Jelie understands GDB's serial protocol on a TCP/IP port.

JOnAS 3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116196/

JOnAS is a pure Java implementation of the J2EE 1.3 specification, available in open source. It is useful to those building applications like e-commerce, eportal, management systems, intranet application, inventory systems, reservation systems, banking applications, etc.

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JSwat Java Debugger 2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116152/

JSwat is a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger, using the JPDA library. It offers breakpoints with monitors and conditions, colorized source code display, single-stepping, displaying variables, viewing stack frames, and expression evaluation.

KdeRadio 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116214/

KDERadio lets you listen to the radio, add stations, etc.

Languenet 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116199/

Languenet is a PHP application originally written for Language departments of Universities, allowing users to register for educational courses online and administrators to manage course data, add grades, print certificates, and more. The whole program is accessible by a simple browser. It is currently only available in German.

LibCGI 0.8.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116182/

LibCGI is a simple to use and powerful library written from scratch to assist in the making of CGI appliactions in C. It has support for string manipulation, linked lists, cookies, sessions, GET and POST methods, and more.

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LiveCut 1.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116188/

LiveCut is a graphical helper for people who have to synchronize different media sources like audio or video sources, slides, text transcriptions, while making movies or SMIL presentations. It allows you to easily mark the time at which events happen, and generates a simple text file which can be reused either manually or automatically later (e.g., in an SMIL generator).

lvs-kiss 1.22 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116191/

lvs-kiss is designed to make load-balancing with fail-over simpler. The primary design-goal is for you to get load-balancing with fail-over up and running withing an hour or so. The secondary design goal is to be able to make this software as flexible as possible. Embedding of perl in configuration-files and load-balancing with custom made tests should be possible without too much hassle.

Maillog View 1.03.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116157/

Maillog View is a Webmin module that allows you to easily view all your /var/log/maillog.* files. It features autorefresh, message size indication, ascending/descending view order, compressed file support, and a full statistics page. Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, and Qmail
(partially) are supported. Courier MTA support is experimental.

Managing Gigabytes for Java 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116226/

MG4J (Managing Gigabytes for Java) is a collaborative effort aimed at providing a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques; as a by-product, it offers several general-purpose optimised classes, including fast and compact mutable strings, bit-level I/O, fast unsychronised buffered streams, (possibly signed) minimal perfect hashing, etc.

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MLton 20030312
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116227/

MLton is a whole-program optimizing Standard ML compiler that runs on x86 machines with Linux, FreeBSD, or Cygwin/Windows. MLton generates excellent code, has a fast C FFI, source-level time and allocation profiling, and many useful libraries.

mod_pgauth 2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116216/

mod_pgauth is a PostgreSQL authorization module designed to work with Apache 1.3.*.

Moto 0.19.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116220/

Moto is a server-side scripting language much like PHP or ColdFusion. The difference between Moto and other server-side scripting languages is that Moto pages can run interpreted (like PHP) or be natively compiled into dynamically loadable Apache modules (an entire Web site could be compiled into one .so file). It comes with a full suite of objects and functions for state and session management, MySQL and PostgreSQL database connectivity, and a slew of utility classes like stacks, hashtables, string buffers, etc. There is also an included interface definition language for exposing C functions to Moto. All object allocation occurs in a shared memory segment, so maintaining state in objects between page views is a snap.

MoviX 0.8.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116186/

MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you to use MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) to play any DVD/VCD, video/audio files (most noticeably DivX, AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG/VORBIS), TV (provided you have a TV card), and radio stations on the Internet (if you are connected to a LAN). Since the entire operating system is loaded into RAM, you do not even need a hard disk to use MoviX.

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Open Remote Collaboration Tool 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116209/

OpenRCT is a multidisciplinary effort to enhance collaboration between people who are not co-located in time and space. It is a platform independent multimedia tool that supports synchronous and/or asynchronous communication.

OpenBottle 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116176/

OpenBottle is a per user anti-spam system based on a sender authenticated whitelist mechanism. The core of the system is written in Perl, with a Web-based user interface in PHP.

PIMd 2.1.0-alpha29.16 (development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116218/

PIMd is a PIM-2 sparse-mode multicast router, ported to Linux; kernel patches are available for various BSD-based OSes that do not already support PIM multicasting. It can support native multicasting and/or tunnels.

Pizza Business 1.0-beta8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116189/

Pizza Business is a platform-independent restaurant simulation game written in object-oriented C++. It utilizes the WxWindows library.

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PyBabelPhish 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116166/

PyBabelPhish is a GTK-based program providing fast translations from one natural language to another. Texts translated to Spanish can be read aloud in Spanish through optional text-to-speech support.

PyInstallShield 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116172/

PyInstallShield is a GTK-based, cross-platform installation and un-installation program. It is known to work on both Linux and Windows.

PyPrint 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116168/

PyPrint is a print dialog and printer spool manager for LPRng-based printing systems on Linux and Unix.

Python and Vim Livejournal poster 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116184/

pyljvim is a simple Python script to do posts to LiveJournal and a couple of handy vim macros to interface it, including syntax file for LJ posts and actual create-and-submit macro functions.

Confused? Frustrated?

Pytho&ntilde;ol 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116164/

Pythoñol is an all-in-one program that helps English speakers learn Spanish. It features pronunciation, verb conjugation, a dictionary with over 70,000 words, a thesaurus, quizzes, full-text translation, idioms, a verb browser, and a large reference section.

qpopper-mysql 0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116193/

qpopper-mysql is a patch to Qualcomm's qpopper POP3 daemon to enable it to do user authentication via a MySQL database, support virtual domains, support Maildir-style mailboxes, and log logins into a MySQL database for possible MTA SMTP authentication relaying use.

Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.7.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116228/

The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.

Remote Arpwatch 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116153/

Remote Arpwatch collects ARP tables from remote devices using SNMP and checks them for changes. It is very useful for detecting problems and malicious users in networks with routers that don't support static ARP tables.

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runit 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116167/

runit is a daemontools alike replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.

SDBA Revolution 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116187/

SDBA Revolution is an open-source architecture written in Perl which simplifies and streamlines the process of writing applications that run on an instant messaging network. It features easy scripting of IM responses, session variables which are consistent across messages, session time limits, support for multiple "apps" from one bot, basic security, and the ability to use multiple access lists. It makes writing IM apps very much like writing mod_perl or PHP pages. It currently supports AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, and Jabber. The homepage has full tutorials and documentation.

Shark CGI Function 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116179/

The Shark CGI Function simplifies programming CGIs in C. It extracts variables and contents from GET, POST, and multipart/form-data forms
(including file uploads and cookies), and makes them accessible as
environment variables.

syslog-ng 1.5.26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116149/

syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular expressions. The new configuration scheme is intuitive and powerful. Forwarding logs over TCP and remembering all forwarding hops makes it ideal for firewalled environments.

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Time Manager 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116170/

Time Manager is a CGI script that keeps track of how much time you have spent at work. This works with the user signing on and off whenever he or she arrives or leaves.

Timo's Rescue CD Set 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116171/

Timo's rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based on Debian's "woody" release. LILO, syslinux, isolinux, and GRUB are supported. The project is evolving more and more into a "Debian on CD" project, which means that its use is not limited to a rescue CD; it is also possible to install a whole Debian system on CD.

Turaco CL 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116185/

Turaco CL is a tool for extracting PNM image files out of arcade game ROMs. It also can regenerate arcade game ROMs from PNM image files. Once the image files have been extracted, you can edit them in your favorite paint program. They can then be encoded back into game ROMs to be played in an emulator or real arcade hardware.

W3Mail 1.0.7 (Version 1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116211/

W3Mail is Webmail server application. It allows an organization to give its email users Web access to their POP3 email. It provides support for address books and MIME attachments.

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webCDwriter 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116158/

webCDwriter can be used to make a single CD-writer available to all users in your network. It consists of the server CDWserver and the clients webCDcreator and rcdrecord. CDWserver stores the files transmitted by the clients, reserves the CD-writer and controls the CD-writer using cdrecord. webCDcreator is a Java applet that runs within your browser (Netscape or IE), assists you when putting together a CD, and transmits the files. Finally rcdrecord is a command line client that trys to offer the functionality of cdrecord over the network.

xbiso 0.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116210/

xbiso is an Xbox xdvdfs ISO extraction utility.

XiMoL 0.7 alpha 03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116155/

XiMoL is an XML reader/writer (non-validating) library written in C++. It is a iostream-oriented library based on the STL and not a SAX or DOM library (like Xerces, expat, etc.). Each object has its own reader/writer.

Yngvi 0.1a1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/116178/

Yngvi allows Apache Webmasters to determine filesystem locations that are accessible through the server--including those which have not been explicitly published. It's good for finding inadvertent exposures or unintended configuration inheritances.

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