[osdn business] February 08, 2003

0. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57585,00.html

prgrmr writes "Wired has an article about Colorodo and Missouri's latest [0]legislative proposals to deal with spam and with spammers. There appears to be actual consumer-protective teeth in these bills which mirror the telephone 'do not call' lists. A nice example of a government perpetuating a working concept instead of trying inventing new ways to break things."
Links

Japan Subsidizes Linux Development, Considers Switch http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2125218

TheAB writes "Japan is [0]betting 50 million yen ($450k US) that the next-generation of high-tech products and computer networks will rely on open-source software. The money is to develop an 'operating system for consumer electronics goods'."
Links

0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030205/ap_wo_en_bu/as_tec_japan_linux_1

Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225224

[0]Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that [1]Castle Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it into their own product, "RISC OS", which is distributed in binary ROM form built into machines they sell. This code is linked with other proprietary code.' Full details from [2]Russell King on lkml." Links

    0. 
http://jriddell.org/
    1. 
http://www.castle.uk.co/castle/front.htm
    2. 
http://lkml.org/archive/2003/2/7/55/index.html

Command-Line Crypto From Phil Zimmermann, Again http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1936221

0. http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,46179,00.html

A few months ago, PGP creator Phil [0]Zimmermann became a reseller for the [1]current graphical version of the software he originally spawned, produced by PGP Corporation. Now, Zimmermann has just started selling through [2]his own website a modern command-line encryption product called [3]FileCrypt, which has its roots in an older version of PGP. Confusingly enough, this software is produced by a company called
([4]Veridis), and doesn't say PGP on the box, because legally it can't.
Network Associates, which acquired PGP Inc. in 1997, still holds the rights to that name; when NAI spun off PGP to PGP Corporation in 2002, they held onto the command-line version. PGP Corporation, for whom Zimmermann serves as a technical advisor (as well as a reseller), is contractually unable to sell a command-line version. (He is on the board of Veridis as well.) But why introduce a text-only version of utility software, anyway, when the GUI-fied desktop version has been maturing for years and costs less? Update: 02/07 23:07 GMT by [5]T: Here are three instant clarifications: PGP Corporation was misrendered as "Open PGP" in this paragraph; Veridis' command line product was inspired by PGP but independently created; its codebase is separate from NAI's version of PGP; and the rights holder to the PGP name is PGP Corporation, not NAI.
Links

    0. 
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/1850209&tid=99
    1. 
http://www.pgp.com/display.php?pageID=2
    2. 
http://www.philzimmermann.com/sales.shtml
    3. 
http://www.veridis.com/openpgp/en/index.asp
    4. 
http://www.veridis.com
    5. 
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/

Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1849243

[0]wilko11 writes "There have been two cases recently where websites have requested the removal of modules from CPAN. These modules could be used to access the websites ([1]EuroTV and [2]Streetmap) from a PERL program. The question being asked on the mailinglists (threads [3]about EuroTV and [4]about Streetmap) is 'can companies dictate what software you can use to access web content from their server?'" Links

    0. 
http://www.wilko.com
    1. 
http://www.eurotv.com/
    2. 
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/
    3. 
http://www.mail-archive.com/advocacy%40perl.org/msg01755.html
    4. 
http://penderel.state51.co.uk/pipermail/london.pm/Week-of-Mon-20030203/016588.html

Gamers, Upgrade your Systems
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1736207

jbischof writes "Looking to upgrade your aging PC? [0]Ace's Hardware has a new [1]upgrade guide tailored specifically to gamers. The data shows exactly which upgrades - processor, motherboard, gfx card, or combination of the three - will give the best performance boost on all the latest and most popular games (according to their recent [2]poll)." Links

    0. 
http://www.aceshardware.com/
    1. 
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000356
    2. 
http://www.aceshardware.com/polls/results.jsp?poll=3

Negative Effects of Workplace Net Monitoring http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1719255

Masem writes "Business2.com [0]reports that while many corporations have monitoring tools and restrictions on Internet usages for non-work related activities, these can have negative effects on the productivity of the workplace. The report notes that people have to take days off from work to deal with personal business that could have been done in a few minutes or hours from a work net connection, and that employee morale is generally down when net controls are in place." A related study suggests [1]employees spend more time doing work from home than playing at work.
Links

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1044486883322049333.djm,00.html

Can't find what you're looking for?

Demand More From Your Copper
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1717239

[0]D3 wrote in with a submission about [1]fiber to the home, or the lack of it, and the reasons behind this, and ways to work around the Bells to provide high-speed access despite them. A pretty decent article, which actually goes beyond the Baby Bell PR-speak that deregulation is the solution to everything. Maybe at some point state and Federal regulators will realize that the Bells are the problem, not the solution.
Links

0. mailto:dhenning@speakeaHORSEsy.net minus herbivore

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38106-2003Feb6.html

Newsforge Reports
Linux Advisory Watch - February 7th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1147223

by Benjamin D. Thomas - Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages and descriptions of each vulnerability. This week, advisories were released for cvs, mcrypt, slocate, qt-dcgui, bladeenc, cim, mysql, kernel, kerberos, php, OpenLDAP, windowmaker, xpdf. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, FreeBSD, ...

E-Government Conference laden with Open (and Shared) Source goodies http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1512247

by Tina Gasperson - The Center of Open Source & Government is sponsoring a conference that is designed to "raise awareness" and "share experiences among policy makers" from the U.S. and Europe. The event is jam-packed with speakers that Open Source advocates will find interesting. And Microsoft will be there too.

SPI working on elections, welcoming Perens back to the fold http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1526200

by Tina Gasperson - Software in the Public Interest (SPI), the entity that owns the Debian trademark, is holding elections and working to generate enough interest in said elections to actually elect some new board members. Ironically, the last "original" board member just resigned at the same time a former board member is getting re-acquainted with the project.

Newsforge Newsvac
Broadband could cost AOL $1bn in revenue by 2005 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2234214

In its report Can AOL Bridge the Broadband Gap?Strategy argues that AOL will lose out financially as the dial-up market, which it dominates shrinks (as more and more people sign up to broadband). Even if punters sign up to AOL's "Bring Your Own Access" scheme, which lets users who get broadband from cable or telephone companies sign up to AOL's content service for $14.95 a month, Strategy estimates that it would cost AOL almost $9 a month per ...

Don't Underestimate Cyberterrorists, Experts Warn http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2233206

Greater network dependence boosts risk of damage by cybervandals who code with vengeance.

SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232239

Timothy R. Butler writes "SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more at OfB.biz."

Debian powers home entertainment gateway device http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232216

Anonymous Reader writes "This LinuxDevices.com article profiles the PRISMIQ MediaPlayer, a recently introduced device which is said to represent the first instance of a new consumer device category -- the "networked entertainment gateway."

US ponders cyber war plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225230

The US may be making plans for attacking enemy computer networks but experts are divided on how effective a cyber war would be.

Don't know where to look next?

Linux-based mobile humanoid robot to debut in Japan http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1838249

The 100 cm tall robot, called Wakamuru, is described as being able to assist the sick or elderly in their homes. It can conduct simple conversation using a 10,000 word vocabulary, and uses face recognition technology to find (and follow) faces and movements. Wakumuru's locomotion is based on wheels rather than leg-like motion used by several other experimental robots developed in Japan.

Investors plug Linux for phone work
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1826221

An international trio of venture capital firms has banded together to try to spark businesses that use IBM and Linux technology for telecommunications purposes.

Evolution Updated
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1655200

vmlinuz writes "Ximian updates the Unix leading mail program Evolution to version 1.2.2. Changes are mostly fixes. For more information go to Ximian's website."

SCO-Caldera and IP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1653259

Anonymous Reader writes "SCO's Blake Stowell, MozillaQuest Magazine's
(mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo, and others discuss SCOsource
intellectual property (IP) issues. At issue are libs owned by the SCO Group (formerly Caldera) that allow UNIX applications to run on Linux."

Confused? Frustrated?

Linux Test Project
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1548258

Robbie Williamson writes "Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20030206.tgz has been released. Visit our website
(http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of the
testsuite that contains 950+ tests for the Linux OS."

Freshmeat
AccWhizz 0.0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112241/

AccWhizz is a multilingual accounting application for small business companies and accounting offices. It is modular, written in PHP 4.x, and operates on top of PHP GroupWare. It runs as a Web application with Apache and phpgroupware serving as a middle layer. Internal data is managed by PostgreSQL/MySQL databases. The SQL server can either be local or remote.

Apache File Manager 0.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112234/

The Apache::FileManager module is a simple HTML file manager. It provides file manipulations such as cut, copy, paste, delete, rename, extract archive, create directory, create file, edit file, and upload files. It also has the ability to rsync the server htdocs tree to another server with the click of a button.

apcupsd 3.10.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112224/

apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for APC Products, including most BackUPS series models (including USB), SmartUPS V/S, SmartUPS(NET/RM), and Matrix series.

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

apcupsd 3.8.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112220/

apcupsd provides UPS power management under Linux and BSD systems for APC Products, including most BackUPS series models (including USB), SmartUPS V/S, SmartUPS(NET/RM), and Matrix series.

APSR 0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112202/

APSR is a network testing tool designed to send and receive arbitrary network packets. Its main purposes are firewall, security, routing, and a lot of other tests. It can also be used to analyze your network. The project is split into three main programs: apsend to create and send packets, aprecv to dump the network traffic, and the apsrlib which provides the appropriate low-level functions. A very wide range of protocols are supported by the aprecv program. The application layer is implemented through modules using a simple API. Modules can be written in Perl, Ruby, C, or PCL (a special-purpose packet construction language).

Ariadne 2.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112188/

Ariadne is a multi-language Web Application Server and Content Management System built with PHP. It has a rich user interface which includes wizards, pulldown menus, and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Data is stored in a structured object store and can be accessed via filesystem-like calls (ls, find, get). It supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MSSQL.

avidemux 0.9pre32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112230/

Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit AVI. It allows you to multiplex and demultiplex audio to/from video. It is able to cut video, import BMP, MJPEG, and MPEG video, and encode them. You can also process video with included filters. It requires divx4linux and GTK/GDK.

blib 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112192/

blib is a library full of useful things to hack the Blinkenlights. If you need to read the various formats for Blinkenlights movies, want to implement the network protocol, or aim to develop a viewer/editor or simulator for the Blinkenlights, this is what you need.

Chipcard::CTAPI 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112172/

Chipcard::CTAPI is a Perl module for accessing chipcard terminals based on the standardized CTAPI library. It provides not only the CTAPI functions but also a complete set of convenience methods for easy reading and writing of memory cards. Chipcard::CTAPI comes with a couple of demo applications, including a tool to create encrypted file systems with randomly-created passwords which are then stored on a memory card.

DB Web Admin Build 04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112209/

DB Web Admin provides simple access to an Oracle database and
(optionally) Oracle applications through the Web using PL/SQL. It shows
existing users, processes, and system locks, and also allows users to kill sessions and execute SQL queries.

db-backed 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112195/

db-backed is a Ruby library providing a convenient mechanism for describing objects bound to a backing database. This relieves the programmer from much of the tedium associated with writing programs with DB access. Instead of spending a lot of time working on code that reads data from the database, code that stuffs it into useable objects, remembering whether a particular piece of data lives in the database or not, etc., db-backed allows the programmer to simply design their database schema (with a few constraints), and write a very simple class definition which describes the mapping between database fields, class methods, and foreign key mappings.

Debt Minder 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112187/

Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files

DjVuLibre 3.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112225/

DjVu is a Web-centric format and software platform for distributing documents and images. DjVu content downloads and displays faster than competing formats. DjVu images can be smoothly zoomed and panned. DjVuLibre is an open source implementation of DjVu, including viewers, browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.

Dustismo 1.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112248/

Dustismo contains a standard sans-serif TrueType and a serifed Roman TrueType font good for most applications. It contains most common glyphs (about 360 for the sans-serif and 470 for the Roman). The sans-serif font has associated italics, bold, and bold italics.

ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112201/

ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.

Can't find what you're looking for?

evolvotron 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112157/

Evolvotron is an interactive "generative art" application to evolve images/textures/patterns through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. If you like lava lamps, and never got tired of the Mandelbrot set, this could be the software for you. It's implemented using Qt, and is multithreaded.

EzSDK 4.0 (EzPageBuilder)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112175/

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.

EzSDK 4.0 (EzCalendar)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112148/

File access statistics 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112186/

File access statistics is a Perl script that can check the last access time of your files. The script sorts the files in packages (packages by file type). In a Debian Linux system it can sort the packages using the Debian PacKaGe (DPKG) groups. The main usage of this script is to detect which Debian packages are not used for a long time, so they can be removed from the system.

Firewall Builder 1.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112149/

Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, and support for a new firewall platform can be added to the GUI without any changes to the program (only a new policy compiler is needed). This provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, and OpenBSD pf.

Football Manager 0.99
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112223/

Football Manager is a rewrite from scratch of Kevin Toms' famous Sinclair Spectrum Football Management game. It uses the SDL library for graphics and sound. Graphics are quite simple, being based on the original. Football Manager is not the most complicated or prettiest game in the world, but it is one of the most fun.

Forest Web Application Builder 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112226/

Forest is a Web-based IDE for Web applications. It's in the alpha stage, but you can use it to create your XML files already. For now, it has four frames: the "Add Component" frame which allows you to add a new component to your page, the "Object Inspector" which allows you to add/edit properties and delete components, the "Preview" which will show how your XML is looking, and the "Component Tree" frame that show the hierarchy of components in your page.

fpted 4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112178/

fpted is a very small and fast text editor. It has many features and a rich keyboard command-set including automatic word completion, auto-indent, search and replace, regular expressions, parenthesis matching, macros and interactive key definitions, mouse support, the ability to pipe to external commands, horizontal scroll, online help, multiple files, etc.

Don't know where to look next?

Gauche 0.6.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112173/

Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation that aims to be a handy tool for daily work. Quick startup, a built-in system interface, and native multilingual support are some of its goals. It has an OO system similar to STklos and Guile. It supports UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift-JIS multibyte encodings natively.

GImageView 0.2.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112251/

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.

GKrellM Timers 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112184/

GKrellM Timers is a plugin for GKrellM that lets you define timers and stopwatches. It supports visual alarms, popups, and alarm commands for multiple timers and stopwatches.

glitch killer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112162/

glitch killer solves the problem of protected CD rips sometimes having scratchy noises by analysing the recorded .wav file and removing all "clicks".

Confused? Frustrated?

Glubs 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112194/

Glubs is a clubbing system similar to Yahoo! or MSN Groups. Users browse through a category-hierarchy and create clubs to share news, files, pics, links and a calendar with friends. Some of the core features are multi-language and -timezone support, and custom HTML templates/skins.

Gnofract 4D 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112203/

Gnofract 4D is a Gnome-based program to draw fractals. What sets it apart from other fractal programs (and makes it "4D") is the way that it treats the Mandelbrot and Julia sets as different views of the same four-dimensional fractal object. It can draw a variety of fractal types, including Barnsley, Newton, Mandelbar, Nova and Burning Ship fractals, using numerous coloring and bailout function options.

GNU texinfo 4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112232/

"Texinfo" is a documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information (info, HTML, XML, Docbook) and printed output (DVI, PDF).

GTetrinet 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112257/

GTetrinet is a clone of the popular Windows game Tetrinet. It is written for Gtk/GNOME, and is designed to be fully compatible with the original Tetrinet, as well as being identical in gameplay.

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GTKWave 2.0.0pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112213/

GTKWave is a fully featured GTK+ v1.2 based wave viewer for Unix and Win32 which can view industry standard VCD/EVCD files as well as Synopsys (EPIC) TimeMill and LXT format files.

gzip Recovery Toolkit 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112206/

The gzip Recovery Toolkit attempts to automate the recovery of data from corrupted gzip files through a program called gzrecover and from corrupted tar files through a new --recover option to GNU tar. This package is very experimental at this point.

Hird Of PHP Parts 0.10.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112032/

HOPP is a function-oriented, programmer-friendly PHP library. It provides libraries for a custom static cache, WYSIWYG editable templates, database abstraction, authentication, calendar-based directory navigation, common MIME types, custom debug and error logging, and featureful and abuse-resistant poll generation.

HPC Cluster autosetup scripts 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112179/

These are multiple scripts to setup HPC cluster server and client nodes. They are used in the CLIC distribution.

Ice Sound Manager 0.2beta-2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112160/

Ice Sound Manager was designed to ease the management of sound events, sound themes, and the IceSound server in the IceWM window manager. It is also intended to be an improvement upon the noble but primitive icesndcfg. The main improvements over icesndcfg include a support for sound event "themes", more comprehensive help, easy management and configuration of the IceSound server, a cleaner GUI interface, automatic starting of the IceSound server, and a more conservative approach to disk space usage.

IcePref2 2.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112165/

IcePref2 is an updated, overhauled, improved, and perfected version of the original IcePref (which was abandoned by the original author). This new version includes many new features and bugfixes, and is a sub-project of the IceWM Control Panel project. It is optimized for IceWM 1.2.2 and better.

IceWM Control Panel 0.1beta-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112168/

IceWM Control Panel is the first full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. It features such tools as Ice Sound Manager (for managing IceWM sound events), IcePref2, a wallpaper manager, and many other tools bundled into a familiar Windows-like Control Panel interface.

IDMS Database Mail Agent 0.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112150/

IDMS Database Mail Agent is an effort to develop a highly-scalable, plugin-based, database-driven mail agent, hopefully replacing the commercial ones used by large ISPs today. It is cluster-friendly and easily configurable. Web-based frontend support is available.

Jay's Iptables Firewall 0.9.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112247/

    Jay's Iptables Firewall is a script with support for multiple
(external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading,
    synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding, upload limits
(experimental), VPNs, ToS, denying hosts, ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list
    IP, log options and more. It is able start and shut down the firewall     without deleting your other iptables rules (optional). The     configuration of the firewall is assisted by a optional, interactive,     curses-based Perl script.

JDiskReport 1.1 Pre (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112191/

JDiskReport enables you to understand how much space the files and directories consume on your disk drives, and it helps you find obsolete files and folders. The tool analyses your disk drives and collects several statistics which you can view as overview charts and details tables.

JDiskReport 1.0.7 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112189/

KickPIM 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112256/

KickPIM is an applet for KDE's Kicker panel which displays your KAddressbook entries in a popup menu. You can view and edit address data and send email messages very easily. It will also remind you about birthdays.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Lesstif 0.93.40
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112166/

LessTif is an LGPL'd implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit for X11. LessTif aims to be source compatible with the OSF/Motif versions 1.2 and 2.1. Currently 1.2 support is almost complete and most Motif 1.2 apps should compile and run out of the box, whilst 2.1 still has very little functionality.

LJChk 0.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112153/

LJChk is a script for working with livejournal servers via the XMLRPC over HTTP protocol. Functions include continous checking for friends' updates, monitoring changes in a friends list, posting both in your own journal and in community journals, with the ability to use all the options available through the livejournal Web interface, and auto-posting quote lists with references to other users' posts.

LyX 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112154/

LyX is an advanced document processor for Unix. It encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents, not their appearance, allowing you to concentrate on writing rather than visual layout. It automates formatting according to predefined rule sets, yielding consistency throughout even the most complex documents.

Mesh Viewer 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112170/

The Mesh Viewer is an easy to use lightweight application to display triangular meshes from a variety of file formats. It uses the OpenGL API to render the models. Triangular meshes can be displayed texture mapped (optional with bilinear filtering), solid, or as a skeleton
(full or just the front lines). The surface normals of the triangles
can optionally be displayed. Loaded models can be rotated, translated, and scaled (all done with the mouse). The model is lighted by multiple light sources. Viewpoints can be saved. Screenshots of the model can be taken (as BMP, JPEG, PNG, etc.).

MRX PPP 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112180/

MRX PPP is a simple configuration tool for pppd. It is part of the Murix distribution.

MURIX Linux 2003-01-14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112185/

MURIX Linux is a distribution based on LFS for building bootable CDROMs.

MySQL Database Server 4.0.10 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/112252/

MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.

naim 0.11.5.4 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112249/

naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also supports IRC and Lily CMC. For AIM, it uses the TOC protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.

Don't know where to look next?

NetStats Baseball 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112145/

NSB is a simulation of major league baseball which will play single games and entire seasons. It will keep statistics for the individual players and the teams. It will keep track of the season schedule as well as seasonal and lifetime records.

newfile 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112221/

newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more.

nflash 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112200/

nflash is a Perl/CGI script providing an easy to use and maintain way of posting news to a Web site. It is possible to create users able to edit their own preferences and postings. There is a Web interface, a simple user system, optional commenting, multiple language support, and templating.

nMicrocoder 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112198/

nMicrocoder is an ncurses EDA tool to write microcode. Basically it is a stripped-down spreadsheet program which lets you fill a tabular layout with "0", "1", and "-", and gives you compile-ready verilog-code in return.

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OpenAntiVirus samba-vscan 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112155/

samba-vscan provides on-access scanning of Samba shares with FRISK F-Prot Daemon, Kaspersky AntiVirus, OpenAntiVirus.org ScannerDaemon, mks AntiVirus, Sophos Sweep (via Sophie), Symantec AntiVirus Engine
(via ICAP), and Trend Micro (via Trophie). It supports Samba 2.2.x/3.x
alphaX with working virtual file system (VFS) support.

openMosixview 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112169/

openMosixview is a cluster-management GUI for openMosix-cluster which contains useful applications for monitoring and administration. It is a complete rewrite of Mosixview.

Pebrot 0.5.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112210/

Pebrot is an MSN messenger text client implemented with Python 2 (not 1.5). It also has a pretty curses-based interface.

Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.11beta4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/112147/

Perdition is a fully featured POP3 and IMAP4 proxy server. It is able to handle both SSL and non-SSL connections and redirect users to a real-server based on a database lookup. Perdition supports modular based database access. The distribution ships with modules for ODBC, MySQL, PostgreSQL, GDBM, POSIX Regular Expression, and NIS. The API for modules is open, allowing abitary modules to be written to allow access to any data store. Perdition can be used to create large mail systems where an end-user's mailbox may be stored on one of several hosts, to integrate different mail systems together, to migrate between different email infrastructures, and to bridge plain-text, SSL, and TLS services. It can also be used as part of a firewall.

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Perl Oak Component Tree 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112227/

The Perl Oak Component Tree is a set of objects designed to provide the maximum reusability to software development. Oak can be used in any development platform, but just the Web platform is implemented. In Oak, you define an XML file to each page and you will implement just the events.

Perl Object Environment 0.25 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112255/

POE (Perl Object Environment) is a framework for creating multitasking, state-driven programs. It is very good for networking applications, but it is not limited to that.

PHP Documentation Generator 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112163/

PHP Documentation Generator is a Perl script similar to javadoc. It helps you generate a set of HTML pages from comments in PHP source files. Currently, this script parses the PHP source code to detect the objects attached to the comments.

PHPReports 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112167/

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

phpWatermark 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112236/

phpWatermark aims to provide a simple way of marking an image with a digital "watermark".

Pizza Business 1.0-beta7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112181/

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

Prima 1.09
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112171/

Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11 workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.

RUNT 1.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112207/

RUNT (ResNet USB Network Tester) is Slackware Linux designed to run off of a 128 MB USB pen drive. It consists of a boot floppy image and a zip file, similar to zipslack. It is intended to be a fairly complete Linux installation for use as a testing tool capable of booting on any x86 computer with a USB port and a bootable floppy drive.

Security Filter 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112174/

SecurityFilter is intended for use by Java Web application developers. It provides robust security and automatic authentication services for Web applications. It mimics the behavior and configuration format of container-managed security, but has several important advantages that make it an ideal solution for single-context, public Web sites, or when it is necessary or simply desirable to avoid the server configuration hassles and portability issues associated with container-managed security.

Senken 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112158/

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.

SFTP Team provider for Eclipse 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112164/

SFTP Team provider for Eclipse provides file and directory synchronization between the Eclipse workspace and a remote location using the SSH Sftp protocol. The interface of the OpenSSH sftp client program is similar to the FTP client program, but the communication with the server is done using a modern protocol which is more like NFS than FTP.

Sketch 0.7.12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/112242/

Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator. It is written almost completely in Python with some modules written in C, combining the flexibility and power of Python with the speed of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip masks, text along a path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and more.