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March 30, 2003

Freshmeat Latest Updates

Too Much Free Software
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/774

The plethora of Free Software applications available today, none working perfectly, is a problem which stands in the way of major adoption of Linux on the desktop. In order to conquer the desktop, we have to stand united.

Aorta 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117922/

Aorta is a load-balancing clustered P2P application. It executes Tasklets (which have the ability to split themselves into sub tasks that can be executed in pararell). A typical cluster contains of a LAN with 1-256 computers, each one running aorta. A Tasklet can be of any type ranging from encoding MP3s to rendering Web pages for high speed/heavily loaded Web sites. You can make functions calls to C/C++, applications like Matlab, etc.

AutoDia 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117923/

Do you need help?

AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple handler for C++ are included.

Binc IMAP 1.1.2-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117885/

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

CCZE 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117919/

CCZE is a robust and modular log colorizer with plugins for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog, and more.

cdwrite 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117947/

cdwrite is the shell for creation of data and audio disks, especially compilations. It uses mkisofs and cdrecord for data and cdparanoia and cdrdao for audio.

CollegeLinux 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117925/

Do you need more help?

CollegeLinux is a new, stand-alone operating system based on Slackware. The aim of this experimental Linux distribution is to provide to RKC students and the student population at large an operating system which is easy to install and use, and which provides an alternative to the traditional commercial operating systems.

cweb 3.64
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117879/

CWEB is a software system that facilitates the creation of readable programs. It was originally developed by Donald E. Knuth as he wrote the TeX typesetting system. It can be used to write programs of superior quality, produce state-of-the-art documentation, greatly reduce debugging time, and maintain programs easily as conditions change.

DBIx::Perform 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117945/

DBIx::Perform emulates the Informix Perform character terminal-based database query and update utility. Given a screen-description file in the style of the original's, it presents a curses-implemented form for handling a table. If the local version of DBD::whatever supports the column_info method, it can generate such a description file from the schema.

DocBase 1.6 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117908/

DocBase is an easy and fast documentation system. It includes an internal Web rich text editor. All documents and attachments are stored in a MySQL database. It includes versioning, locking, and a classification system.

Draco 0.99.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117720/

Can we help you?

Draco is a framework for creating dynamic Web sites and Web applications. It is structured around a simple but powerful paradigm for a clean separation of code and markup. It provides a programming environment which offers much of the functionality required by dynamic Web sites, including features like automated session management, persistence, events, and task scheduling.

dvipng 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117876/

This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.

e3 2.42
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117912/

e3 is a full-screen, user-friendly text editor with an interface similar to that of either WordStar, Emacs, Pico, Nedit, or vi. It's heavily optimized for size and independent of libc or any other libraries, making it useful for mini-Linux distributions and rescue disks. The assembler version supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Win9x, QNX, Atheos, BeOS, ELKS, and DOS. There is also a separately distributed version written in C which supports some other Unix versions and CygWin. It is also possible to use regular expressions by using child processes like sed. e3 has a built in arithmetic calculator.

Ebotula 0.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117883/

Ebotula is an IRC bot for administration tasks in one or more channels. He has four access levels. The top level is the bot master. In this level have a user complete acces of all functions. The next level is the channel owner. He is the administrator in one channel. The other both are friends and other users. The bot is a multithread applikation and can execute simultaneously more commands. The data are contained in gdbm hash files.

eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/117899/

Can't find what you're looking for?

eXtended Account Managing Software (XAMS) allows Administration of Unix, Web, FTP, DNS, and email accounts to manage a provider's typical userbase. Especially focusing on email account management, it enables you to easily create accounts, set aliases, and delegate domain administration to 2nd party resellers or customers. It uses PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend, and is therefore able to manage tons of email accounts independently from your Unix/Linux accounts. Exim for SMTP and Courier for POP/IMAP are fully supported, but postfix, Cyrus, and qmail can be used too.

EzSDK 4.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117904/

EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.

galculator 1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117915/

galculator is a GTK 2 based scientific calculator supporting algebraic mode as well as RPN. Features include arithmetic operations plus precedence handling, full keypad support, trigonometric functions, power, square root, natural and common logarithm, constants (e, PI), and inverse and hyperbolic functions. It supports different number bases (decimal, hexadecimal, octal, and binary) and angle bases
(radiant, degree, and grad).

gimp-print 4.3.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117946/

Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.

gnatsperl 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117910/

Don't know where to look next?

gnatsperl is a collection of Perl modules providing a Perl interface to the gnatsd daemon (GNU gnats issue tracking system). It is intended to allow developers to more easily create tie-in applications to gnats.

gperiodic 2.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117895/

gperiodic is a program for browsing the periodic table and looking up data for different elements. It also features a non-graphical interface.

GrubConf 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117943/

GrubConf is a graphical GRUB configuration editor. It provides an easy to use interface allowing effortless modification of OSes and the flexibility to configure the most obscure options. It is designed to require minimal user interaction while providing tools for the most adventurous user.

Hardware Monitor applet 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117914/

The Hardware Monitor applet is an applet for the Gnome panel which tries to be a beautiful all-around solution to hardware monitoring. It also tries to be user-friendly and generally nice and sensible, integrating pleasantly with the rest of your Gnome desktop.

iCalendar 1.031
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117893/

Confused? Frustrated?

iCalendar generates ICS files for importing events into iCalender compatible programs.

IceWM Control center 2.0pre
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117948/

The IceWM Control Center allows you to run various tools for configuring IceWM's options.

Icon Peeper 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117937/

Peeper is an image discovery tool. With it, you can find all those deeply buried icons laying around your computer.

Java YEnc Decoder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117897/

jyenc decodes files encoded with yEnc. It's meant to be used by others as a component in their own projects to support yencoded files.

JFtp 1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117898/

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JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP with its own FTP API, SMB using jcfis, SFTP using j2ssh, and local file IO using the j2se library. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a commandline mode. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin) but can also be started locally.

KPlayer 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117896/

KPlayer is a KDE media player based on mplayer. It provides video, audio, and subtitle playback from files, URLs, DVDs, VCDs, and audio CDs, and features various player controls and a status display.

KSimus 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117930/

KSimus is a KDE tool for simulation, automation, and visualization of technical processes. It is also useful for education and experiments in the scope of logical and automatic control circuits. The main feature of KSimus is the use of component libraries (packages) which makes extending KSimus easy for developers.

LAM/MPI 6.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117936/

LAM/MPI is an implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) parallel standard that is especially friendly to clusters. It includes a persistent runtime environment for parallel programs, support for all of MPI-1 (except MPI_Canceling sent messages), and a good chunk of MPI-2, such as spawn, one-way communication, C++ bindings, and MPI-IO.

LameBrain 0.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117935/

Do you need help?

LameBrain is a LAME-based MP3 encoder with the following features: drag-and-drop batch file processing, CD ripping with FreeDB support, and saving of encoding settings in "profiles," which can be loaded for later use.

Lmule 1.1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117888/

Lmule is a Linux port of the eMule file sharing client that uses the wxWindows class library. It supports downloading, uploading, searchomg, adding ed2k links, statistics, a shared files tab, a messages tabs, and friend management.

netrik 1.6.0 (alpha)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117924/

Netrik is an advanced text mode WWW browser. Its purpose is to give access to as much of the Web as possible in text mode, without forsaking any comfort.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 Beta (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117884/

OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite.

PHP 4.3.2 RC 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117891/

Do you need more help?

PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.

PHPki 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117950/

PHPki is an Open Source Web application for managing a Public Key Infrastructure within a small organization. It provides a mechanism for the centralized creation and management of digital certificates for use with S/MIME-enabled email cilents. It will not create server, browser, or code signing certificates. PHPki was specifically designed to set up a multi-agency PKI for HIPAA compliance.

phpQLAdmin 2.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117913/

phpQLAdmin was designed to administrate a Qmail-LDAP server with an easy-to-use Web interface. It allows you to control the server with the Qmail-LDAP/Controls patch, add/remove domains, add/remove/edit users, change attributes for all domain members, and set passwords, quotas, mailhosts, mail addresses, alias addresses, forwarders, and more. The application's language is configurable (except for the control part) and contains translations for English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Japanese. It supports Ezmlm mailing lists.

Powermanga 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117901/

Powermanga is an arcade 2D shoot-em-up game with 41 levels and more than 200 sprites. It runs in 320x200 or 640x400 pixels, with Window mode or direct to screen (DGA) and support for 8, 15, 16, 24, and 32 bpp.

PTlink IRCd 6.14.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117918/

Can we help you?

The PTlink IRC daemon integrates some of the most advanced features needed to manage an IRC network into the stable core from Hybrid IRCd. It is fully integrated with PTlink IRC Services and PTlink Open Proxy Monitor, providing a great platform for anyone starting an IRC network.

PyKota Print Quota System 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117900/

PyKota is a centralized and extensible print quota system for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). It features per-printer user and group quotas, automated email warning to users and quota administrator, commandline tools which mimic the disk quota utilities, and much more.

QTParted 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117892/

QTParted is a Partition Magic clone. It uses libparted for raw disk access, so you need parted installed to use it. The goal of QTParted is to fully wrap all function of parted and create a user friendly PM clone for Linux.

REBComm 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117934/

REBComm is a commandline program for GNU/Linux that lets the user upload and download files from the RCA eBook REB1100 reader device through a USB connection. It aims to provide much of the same functionality as the eBook Librarian software in Windows. It can be used to send user-generated content to the device.

Remote Arpwatch 0.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117886/

Can't find what you're looking for?

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.

replimenu 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117882/

replimenu is a small menu program mainly for configuration/installation scripts. It's not as powerful as "dialog" but it's small, does the job, and is very customizable. replimenu does not use curses.

RxLinux 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117903/

Rxlinux is a modular system. The base system fits in 25M of RAMdisk. Extra packages (software) can be installed on demand in RAMdisk. The /var partition which contains the application data can reside either on a hard disk or in RAMdisk. Rxlinux can be configure as a Web server, an X11 terminal, a database server, an openmosix cluster node, etc. It is distributed as a 10M bootable ISO file. You can configure it to include more packages in the ISO if you donÃ‚Â’t want to download extra software at boot time.

Sendmail 8.12.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117933/

Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, which is the program that moves mail from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing to network gateways, and flexible configuration.

SILC 0.9.9 (Toolkit)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117921/

Don't know where to look next?

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.

Simplisite Site Generator 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117938/

Simplisite is a small and easy-to-use tool that helps you in your Web site creation. It generates the well-structured site from templates and lets you separate content from markup. With this software you can easily and quickly update and maintain your Web site.

Siproxd 0.3.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117894/

Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple ASCII text file.

Sizzle (the DVD author) 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117911/

Sizzle is a reasonably smooth Cocoa GUI wrapper for dvdauthor, mplex
(from mjpeg-tools), and mkisofs (from cdrecored) which makes it very
easy to author reasonably simple DVD Video discs.

SlakbootIBS 9.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117942/

Confused? Frustrated?

SlakbootIBS is a replacement set of boot scripts and utilities for starting and dynamically configuring Slackware Linux. IBS makes it easier for administrators to configure new installations and simplifies operations when multiple servers are deployed.

Solomon MySQL Web Interface 2.1.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/117939/

Solomon is a Perl Web frontend to MySQL tables. It displays table contents in an HTML table, which can be embedded in predesigned Web pages and customized to fit the look and feel of a site. You can use it for a todo list, an address book, an inventory database, a guestbook frontend, etc. It comes with the Solomon module, a Perl module for high-level access to DBI, which is the core of the frontend. It supports table ordering, data modification, deletion, insertion, searches, and data hiding, and gives the administrator detailed control over the display of database content.

Stenciltools 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117907/

StencilTools is a collection of miscellanous utilities, useful for text generation/manipulation and related tasks. It includes the following programs: count, which generates sequentially numbered strings; csvconv, which converts CSV files; linkget, which extracts links from HTML documents; memory, which implements file based hashtables; and rot13, a Rot13 encoder/decoder.

synergy2 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117917/

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). Just move the mouse off the edge of a screen to move to another screen; keyboard and mouse input is then redirected to the other screen. Synergy also lets you cut and paste between systems and it makes screen savers activate/deactivate in concert.

TinyDYN 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117890/

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TinyDYN is a package of client and server software for operating dynamic DNS services. It enables anyone to run dynamic DNS services using strong authentication or to be a client of someone using TinyDYN as a dynamic IP management system. The clients can communicate directly by UDP with the server, by email, or by any other transport the admin can imagine, as the mechanism is quite straightforward.

Unicode Font Info 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117928/

Unicode Font Info is a font inspection tool designed for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. It includes full support for Unicode 3.2 allowing you to easily navigate huge fonts with tens of thousands of supported glyphs representing most of the languages and scripts used in the world.

unrar 3.20 Beta 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117905/

unRAR is a utility to extract, view, and test the contents of an RAR archive, version 1.50 and above.

Veejay 0.3.3rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117926/

Veejay is a video tracker/editing tool for Linux, which is similar in concept to FastTracker and ProTracker but for video. You can make video samples and line them up on a pattern. You can set looptype, playback speed and do a number of effects or transitions on them while playing back from multiple video sources in realtime. The project emphasizes direct (user) interaction. It is possible to navigate through video samples, define various types of looping, increase and decrease playback speed, and navigate through the effect chain to apply a chain of effects using the keyboard while the interface keeps track of what you are doing.

vlorb 1.0pre9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117906/

Do you need help?

vlorb is a high quality Audio CD-to-Ogg Vorbis audio file ripper and encoder. It features CDDB support, VorbisGain support, easy configuration, and flexibility.

WebGUI 5.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117944/

WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management taking up the time of busy IT Staff. Whether you are building a consumer site, an intranet, or an extranet, WebGUI has something to offer.

WormScan 1.5.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117902/

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.

X-Itools pre1-0.5.98 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117877/

The goal of the X-itools project is to propose an alternative to products like Exchange or Lotus Notes/Domino. They are composed of several modules, and this project has been under development for several years. Modules include a shared public and private agenda, a flow-chart, task, and post-it manager, a visitors and associated badges manager, a password and history manager (with the ability to encrypt things other than passwords), a holiday manager (to manage public vacation days, illness periods, absence periods according to country profiles), a shared public and private address book, an incoming and outgoing phone calls manager, and a global management module.

yahoo2mbox 0.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117932/

Do you need more help?

yahoo2mbox retrieves the messages from Yahoo! Groups archive and stores them in a local file in mbox format.

yappa-ng 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117927/

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.

YASM 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117880/

YASM is a complete rewrite of the NASM assembler. It is designed from the ground up to allow for multiple syntaxes to be supported (e.g., NASM, TASM, GAS, etc.) in addition to multiple output object formats. Another primary module of the overall design is an optimizer module.

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