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[osdn business] July 22, 2003
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Embarrassing Governments Into Adopting Open Source
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0433236
caitsith01 writes "An effort is currently underway to embarrass the
Australian Federal Government into adopting open source software. As
[0]this story explains, the Australian Democrats have put questions on
notice in Parliament that will require all government ministers to
disclose how much money their departments spend on Microsoft products
each year. The idea is to force open source issues to the fore by
showing just how much money Microsoft receives from the government. It
could be a smart approach - the average taxpayer knows little or
nothing about OSS, but will rapidly form and express vocal opinions
about the government wasting money. The article also mentions that a
bill may be introduced to Federal Parliament to mandate the
consideration of open source solutions (you may remember [1]this story
about an Australian state trying to introduce similar legislation).
Some quotes from the article: "What the country doesn't need is to be
tied into a profit-maximising licensing system, and the way to combat
that is to get government to break out of the paradigm." On the other
hand, the (right wing) Liberal Party criticises suggestions that use of
open source should be compulsory as "hi-tech affirmative action.""
Links
0. http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6788724%255E15306,00.html
Color Printing Without the Inkjet Mess?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0240222
Above writes "Many recent /. stories have been about the problems of
inkjet Printers. Seems they all want to sell the printer for cheap, and
then use the ink to make up the difference. There are also problems
where a lack of printing, or printing too much, could make it much more
expensive to use your inkjet. So, since mine just died, what are the
best options? I'm intersted in two catagories, a 'personal' color
printer, probably USB to a machine, and a 'workgroup' color printer,
with ethernet, postscript prefered. While Windows is good for my
application, something that plays well with FreeBSD and Linux would be
a major win as well. I'd consider laser if it's cheap enough (read
$500/printer), and I don't think that it is. I'm willing to pay a bit
more for the printer if that means bigger ink tanks, better cleaning,
and easier to buy replacement supplies, the question is, are there
really good options out there or have the low-end 'throwaway' printers
taken over the market?" One option is a modded inkjet like the ones
here, [0]liberated from tiny ink cartridges. Any recommendations out
there for decent color lasers?
Links
0. http://www.continuousflowprinters.com/
DVD Player With DVI Output
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0127258
ffierling writes "Why are there no big name DVD Players with digital
video outputs? With all the available digital displays (LCD, plasma,
DLP, etc) and the obvious benefits of an all-digital connection, it's
easy to conclude the threat of litigation from copyright holders is
holding up the big name manufacturers. So how is it [0]V Inc. can sell
their [1]Bravo D1 DVD Player with DVI output? Are they below the MPAA's
radar, or just quicker to market?"
Links
Qt On DirectFB
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/2341237
[0]Ashcrow writes "The feasibility for [1]DirectFB to replace
[2]XFree86 just a little stronger thanks [3]Maurizio Monge very first
alpha release of [4]Trolltech's Qt library for use in DirectFB. You can
check out some [5]screenshots or go straight to the [6]source. And yes,
it has been released as [7]Free Software."
Links
0.
http://www.gnulinux,net
1.
http://www.directfb.org/
2.
http://www.xfree86.org/
3.
http://linuz.sns.it/~monge/qt-directfb/index.html
4.
http://www.trolltech.com/
5.
http://linuz.sns.it/~monge/qt-directfb/story.html
6.
http://linuz.sns.it/~monge/qt-directfb/download/
7.
http://www.gnu.org/Sony's New Vaio PCG-TR1A: 12" Powerbook Killer? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/2310222
Anonymous Howard writes "Sony has a hot new subnote on it's hand: the
[0]Vaio PCG-TR1A. This subnote is packed full of features: integrated
camera (still and video), 10.6 inch bright wide-format screen, 900MHz
Centrino, CD-RW/DVD Combo drive, 30GB drive, 802.11b, two usb ports,
firewire, 3.11 pounds and a magnesium alloy case. The thing looks
really cool. For me, it's the first subnote that actually gives me a
viable option for purchase instead of a the Apple Powerbook 12". Read a
[0]article about it over at [1]Designtechnica. Check out this [2]forum
thread that has good pics, other then the stock pics, next to a VPR
Matrix 200A5."
Links
0.
http://reviews.designtechnica.com/firstlook24.html
1.
http://www.designtechnica.com/
2.
http://forums.designtechnica.com/showthread.php?threadid=2554&perpage=10&pagenumber=1Comcast Offers Trial Of Microsoft TV Software http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/222258
Anonymous Howard writes "Designtechnica has a news article about Comcast and Microsoft [0]announcing an agreement to test digital TV services using the "Microsoft TV Interactive Program Guide (IPG)". The trial is scheduled to start this fall using Motorola DCT2000 set-top boxes. The software is designed to help network operators get more value from on-demand and other digital TV services." There are [1]some more details in an article over at CNET News. Links
0. http://news.designtechnica.com/article826.html
ATM For Anonymous Online Payments
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/2051205
[0]prichardson writes "The New York Times has an article about [1]a way
to anonymously transfer cash online (NYT registration required)." The
inventor, Carl Amos, believes the target market for his newly-patented
'Aunty IM' ATM machine "..might be teenagers.. [who] do not usually
have their own credit cards, they usually have cash and are more than
willing to spend it to download music or games", as well as "those who
were worried about identity theft on the Internet, or who simply wanted
the privacy it provided."
Links
0. mailto:p_richardson_25&;yahoo,com
Corel Ousted From Public Life?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1920231
[0]gagy writes "Ottawa's [1]Corel Corp. has been showing signs of
weakness in the past few years, and looks very likely to be bought out
by Vector Corp, at which point it will become a privately held company.
A Toronto Star story [2]spells out the details of the deal, and takes a
brief look at the history of Corel." We [3]mentioned Corel's deal with
Vector last month.
Links
0.
http://isteppedin.virtualdogshit.com
1.
http://www.corel.ca/
2.
http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1058698926735&call_pageid=968350072197&col=969048863851
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/07/1352204&tid=132
Fossil/Palm PDA Watch Reviewed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1744255
SLiK812 writes "Walt Mossberg of the [0]Wall Street Journal has [1]a pretty good review of [2]Palm's and [3]Fossil's new [4]wrist PDA. We all knew some time ago that this was coming out, and was [5]initially covered last November and [6]briefly last month. This is the first review I've seen, and Mossberg does bring up some interesting points, both good and bad. Definitely worth the read before buying it." Links
0.
http://www.wsj.com/
1.
http://ptech.wsj.com/ptech.html
2.
http://www.palm.com/us/
3.
http://www.fossil.com/
4.
http://www.fossil.com/tech/default.asp?Tier1=Tech
5.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/18/1427246&tid=100
6.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/1444235&tid=100
Canada Splits Local Phone, DSL Services
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/178233
s20451 writes "Running counter to the [0]recent [1]string of pro-consolidation [2]FCC rulings in the United States, the [3]Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled that big Telcos like [4]Bell and [5]Telus [6]must offer ADSL service even when local phone service is provided by another company. Effectively this ruling splits local phone and net services, opening both up for competition and lower prices. Press release [7]here." Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1617259&tid=103
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1638224&tid=149
2.
http://www.fcc.gov/
3.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/
4.
http://www.bell.ca/
5.
http://www.telus.ca/
6.
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/07/21/crtc_net030721
7.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/NEWS/RELEASES/2003/r030721.htm
Newsforge Reports
Open Asia: Japan and Korea embrace open source
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/2056234
- by Frederick Noronha - A country-by-country survey of the state of Free Software in Asia is difficult, not least because of the disparate natures of Asian societies, the wide use of languages other than English, and the lack of international reporting on technical issues. However, we'll begin looking this week at recent initiatives in two countries, Korea and Japan, and follow up in the future with views from other regions.
Cluster filesystems for Linux?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1444241
Francesco M. Taurino writes: Do you know good cluster filesystems for Linux? Is available for Linux a filesystem with cache coherency across all the nodes in a cluster, efficient locking mechanism or with a distributed lock manager, with good scalability features and SAN (fibre channel) compatible?
The IP wars
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1911226
- by John O'Sullivan - The first shot in the intellectual property wars was fired by no less than William H. Gates III on February 3, 1976. In a famous letter decrying the theft of his programs, Mr. Gates set out the philosophy that IP was essentially the same as traditional property, and that the same rights and laws should apply.
Newsforge Newsvac
SCO: We are not talking about BSD code
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/213241
An open source user writes "SCO announced today that they confirm the fact that the Linux 2.4 kernel contains hundreds of files taken directly from their code. SCO said "If all was removed, Linux would have no enterprise use." Read the article at BSDnewsletter.com."
IBM and generic Beowulf clusters on Linux Intel boxes http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1755248
Anonymous Reader writes "Many organizations have assembled Intel (and other) processor-based servers into clusters of various types. Proprietary solutions such as Microsoft Wolfpack and HP/Compaq Alpha TruCluster compete for mind share with the generic Beowulf clusters on Linux Intel boxes. Beowulf, in fact, was the outgrowth of NASA researcher Donald Becker's solution to the problem of creating a supercomputing resource without having a ...
Samsung high-speed SOC for handhelds supports Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1749247
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. unveiled a new system-on-chip (SOC) processor for handheld devices today, calling it "the world's fastest mobile CPU." The chip boasts a processor clock rate of 533MHz, and is aimed at enabling new services, functions, and multimedia capabilities for mobile handheld devices such as PDAs and smartphones, the company said.
Europe to push for open source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1652228
The European Commission is placing open standards and open-source software at the centre of its efforts to promote interoperable e-government services with a new working paper introduced this month.
Linux kernel 2.6 previewed
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1646208
WarPengi writes "A brief article on what is new in the Linux 2.6 kernel links to more in depth articles by Joseph Pravenich and Dave Jones here and here respectively. The less technical article by J. Pravenich (which is more my speed) is an excellent read and describes the new functions in the kernel. What has been done to this point and some future developments to expect."
SCO Gets Unix Copyrights, Will Force Users To License UnixWare To Run Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1639248
The SCO Group has secured U.S. copyright registrations for Unix System V code and now intends to begin charging customers to run Linux.
Migration of Visual Basic Projects to Linux! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1625221
REAL Software, announced today its plans to support Linux in REALbasic 5.5, the next major upgrade to the cross-platform visual development environment. REALbasic enables developers to create native applications for multiple platforms from a single code base. REALbasic 5, currently shipping, creates applications for Windows and Macintosh from either platform. REALbasic 5.5 will add the ability to create Linux applications from Windows or ...
LinuxInstall.org 1.4 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1549257
Thomas Chung writes "Here is a list of major changes from last release:
Global Partnership Highlights Open Souce J2EE Applications http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/160230
jrcmatthews writes "10x Software(TM) and IonIdea(TM) Sign Global Agreement to Deliver Value-Added. Migration from Proprietary Java(TM) Application Servers.
Great News for PHP Developers - New Contest http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1452229
stuart writes "Great news for PHP Programmers: PHP-Editors.com are currently running 2 PHP Programming Contests.
Freshmeat
A bird of prey 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129913/
A bird of prey is a theme featuring a colorful eagle.
abcMIDI 2003_07_20 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129980/
The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways.
abcMIDI 36.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129955/
The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways.
Aegis Virus Scanner 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129989/
Aegis Virus Scanner is a virus scanner for Linux/Unix systems with a simple and intuitive user interface. It uses the File:: Scan module for detecting viruses.
Alien Hunt Engine 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129762/
Alien Hunt Engine is a basic first person shooter game engine.
Ammerum 0.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130038/
Ammerum is a forum similar to the popular German newsticker "Heise Online". Neither cookie nor frames support is needed. It is fully CSS themeable but still works in any browser (even in those without CSS support) including text browsers. It features good quoting support.
AnimalTracker 0.65
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130060/
AnimalTracker can be used to track the position of animals (or other objects) in the context of an observation. Users can draw a map of the area and position the animals on it. The application can then calculate the distance between the animals and the distribution of them on the map across a specified time period. All data can be exported as tables to be used in spreadsheet applications or statistics programs.
Arch Linux 0.5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130026/
Arch Linux is an i686-optimized Linux distribution. It is lightweight and contains the latest stable versions of software. Packages are in .tar.gz format and are tracked by a package manager that is designed to allow easy package upgrades. Arch is quite streamlined compared to some other distributions. Things that are relatively unused are not kept (info pages, for example). A default Arch install leaves you with a solid base; from there, you can add packages to create the custom installation you're looking for. Arch has a package build system that allows you to easily create your own packages, which makes it very easy to rebuild a package with your own custom configuration. Arch also aims to use the newer features available to Linux users, such as reiserfs/ext3 and devfs.
arCHMage 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129957/
arCHMage is an extensible reader and decompiler for files in the CHM format. This is the format used by Microsoft HTML help, and is also known as Compiled HTML. arCHMage is based on chmlib by M. Russotto.
Asset Tracker 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130021/
Asset Tracker is a free inventory management system that allows flexibility in choosing column names and types and contains a plugin system, an access control system, filtering and sorting in the list view, and bookmarkable pages and views.
bash programmable completion 20030721 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129974/
Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
BINS photo album 1.1.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129972/
BINS is a valid HTML 4 photo album generator with support for internationalization, EXIF, and customizable charset encoding, including UTF-8 (Unicode). Albums can contains other sub-albums. The appearance of the album can be fully personalized by using template and configuration parameters. The number and size of scaled pictures can be chosen in pixels or percentage of the original image. Several description fields (date, location, etc.) can be associated with the pictures, and you can add additional description fields. A command line utility or a GTK+ GUI can be used to set or edit description fields. BINS can use the EXIF data structure found in some pictures to automatically fill some fields (most notably, date and time) and to produce a page providing all information available on the picture, as well as the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken. All image meta-data are stored in XML files.
CapiSuite 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130043/
CapiSuite is an ISDN telecommunication suite providing easy-to-use telecommunication functions which can be controlled from Python scripts. It uses a CAPI-compatible driver for accessing the ISDN-hardware, so you'll need a CAPI-compatible driver. CapiSuite is distributed with two example scripts for call incoming handling and fax sending. They provide a multi-user answering machine with fax recognition, remote inquiry, and fax receiving/sending functions.
CLIP 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130016/
CLIP is a Clipper/XBase compatible compiler with initial support for FoxPro, Flagship, and CAVO syntax. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Win32 (via Cygwin). It features support for international languages and character sets, including two-bytes character sets like Chinese and Japanese. It also features OOP, a multiplatform GUI based on GTK/GTKextra, all SIX/Comix features (including hypertext indexing), SQL and ODBC drivers, a C-API for third-party developers, a few wrappers for popular libraries (such as BZIP, GZIP, GD, Crypto, and Fcgi), a multitasking client and server based on TCP/IP sockets, and more.
Conflux Groupware 1.0-4 (Lite)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129971/
Conflux is a Web-based groupware and file management solution intended to organise and facilitate the work of the client. The basic functionality includes shared calendars, tasks, contacts, discussions, and an email client. Built on open source components such as PostgreSQL, Python, mod_python, and Apache, Conflux is a stable and cost-effective solution for optimizing the time you spend on your daily tasks.
CourseForum 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129987/
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.
CxxTest 2.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129967/
CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that doesn't require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header files which makes it extremely portable and usable.
dchub 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130004/
dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing.
DirectFB 0.9.19 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129995/
DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.
Disk Based HashTables 1.0-15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130011/
Disk based hashes is a method to create multidimensional binary trees on disk. This library permits the extension of the database concept to a plethora of electronic data, such as graphical information.
distcc 2.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129952/
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
dxr3Player 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129951/
dxr3Player is a lightweight command line DVD player for Linux and the DXR3 (aka Hollywood+) MPEG-2 decoder boards. It supports all major DVD features, including menus, navigation, fast forward and backward playback, subtitles, and camera angle changes. The player is very conservative on memory usage and tries very hard (and mostly succeeds) to keep video and audio in sync.
EHS 1.0.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130052/
Embedded HTTP Server (EHS) is a C++ class which can be inherited from to give HTTP server functionality to any class or application. It supports form data via POST or GET, and uploads via multi-part form attachments. It is useful for adding Web-based administration or statistics to any C++ program.
Enrapture Beta 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130057/
Enrapture is an OpenGL-based 3D space/RPG game. It takes its influences from the old master piece Elite.
EvilBoss 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129689/
EvilBoss is a set of utilities to configure/control a big FidoNet node or hub.
evolvotron 0.1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130046/
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.
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.10.0pre4 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130059/
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.
Feedbackd 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130015/
Feedbackd is a client/server system that provides dynamic feedback of server load in a Linux Virtual Server (LVS)-based cluster. Monitor plugins are used to measure the health of each server, allowing a flexible way to report load back to the load balancer. It also facilitates the addition and removal of servers from the cluster.
File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 10 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130018/
FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years).
FindBugs 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130049/
FindBugs looks for bugs in Java programs. It can detect a variety of common coding mistakes, including thread synchronization problems, misuse of API methods, etc. It is written in the GJ dialect of Java, and will run on any Java VM compatible with Sun's JDK 1.4.0 or later. It includes both GUI (Swing) and commandline frontends.
FireDNS 0.9.1 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130037/
FireDNS is a C library for handling asynchronous DNS queries. It includes asynchronous functions and low-timeout blocking functions. In general, it completes DNS queries faster than standard libc resolver functions such as gethostbyname.
FireMake 1.9.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130040/
FireMake is a shell script designed to be packaged with a piece of software and run on each computer building that software. It creates a Makefile based on the architecture, the build environment, and the files in the directory from which it is run.
FireRPC 0.9.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130034/
FireRPC is a library that provides an easy interface for C programs to make remote function queries via the XML RPC protocol. It supports SSL/TLS, HTTP authentication, HTTP 1.1 persistent connections, and pipelining. It also supports POST data compression via bzip2 and response compression via bzip2, gzip, deflate, and compress.
FireString 0.9.2 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130028/
FireString is a library to make string handling easier in C. It provides replacements for some non-ANSI libc string functions, binary and length-safe string functions, and an interface for easy, intelligent configuration file parsing.
Freenet 0.5.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129961/
Freenet is a peer-to-peer network designed to allow the distribution of information over the Internet in an efficient manner, without fear of censorship. It is completely decentralized (there is no person or computer essential to its operation), meaning that Freenet cannot be attacked like centralized peer-to-peer systems such as Napster. Freenet also employs intelligent routing and caching to learn to route requests more efficiently, automatically mirror popular data, make network flooding almost impossible, and move data to where it is in greatest demand.
FreeRADIUS 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130045/
The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server. While the server is conceptually similar to the Livingston server variants, it has many more features, and is much more configurable. It includes plug-in modules with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, IODBC, IBM DB2, MS-SQL, Sybase, LDAP, Kerberos, EAP, PAM, MS-CHAP and MPPE, Digest authentication, Python, X9.9, and many more. It allows the administrator to fully customize the behaviour of authentication, accounting, and logging.
Fremtris 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130036/
Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA.
fu 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129977/
fu is an orange, small, and clean theme.
gluX 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130025/
GluX is a cross-platform, easy-to-use OpenGL extension loader. It offers a very simple mechanism for loading and using OpenGL extensions. It allows your code to compile under Windows and Linux even if your video card doesn't support the OpenGL extensions used by your program. At run time, gluX will detect if required extensions are present or not.
gmorgan 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129894/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
gnocl 0.5.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130020/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Graphical certification authority 0.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/129988/
Graphical certification authority is an interface for managing RSA keys and certificates, and the creation and signing of PKCS#10 requests. It uses the OpenSSL library and a Berkeley DB for key and certificate storage. It supports importing and exporting keys and PEM DER PKCS8 certificates, signing and revoking of PEM DER PKCS12, and the selection of x509v3 extensions. A tree view of certificates is presented.
honeyd 0.6a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130047/
Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their TCP personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain versions of operating systems. Honeyd enables a single host to claim multiple addresses on a LAN for network simulation. It is possible to ping the virtual machines, or to traceroute them. Any type of service on the virtual machine can be simulated according to a simple configuration file. Instead of simulating a service, it is also possible to proxy it to another machine.
Host Grapher 1.0a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129969/
Host Grapher is a very simple collection of Perl scripts that provide graphical information for CPU, memory, and processes. There are clients for Windows, Linux, and Tru64. No socket will be opened on the client, nor will SNMP be used for obtaining the data.
hYPerSonic 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129966/
hYPerSonic allows you to build and manipulate signal processing pipelines from Python scripts. It is designed for real-time control. It includes objects for oscillators, filters, file IO, and soundcard and memory operations. It is low-level: every byte counts.
ILIAS 2.3.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130010/
ILIAS is a platform for Web-based training. It is being developed at the University of Cologne, in Germany, using PHP and MySQL. It has been available since September 2000 as open software software under the GPL. The system's core is an authoring tool for creating courses. Other main components include personal desktops, a mail system, newsgroups, a group system, and system administration.
IMLogger 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130003/
IMLogger provides a usable program to enable network administrators to log certain instant messaging activities (namely, login and logout). AIM, Yahoo, MSN, and Jabber will eventually be supported. This is very useful in Universities where campus police want to trace a SN back to a port/dorm room.
Interactive Bandwidth Monitor 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130030/
ibmonitor is an interactive Linux console application which shows bandwidth consumed and total data transferred on all interfaces. It shows received, transmitted, and total bandwidth, calculates and displays the combined value of all interfaces; can display values in Kbits/sec(Kbps) and/or KBytes/sec(KBps), can show the maximum bandwidth consumed, can show average bandwidth consumption, and can interactively change its output display format.
Java TimeTracker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130041/
TimeTracker is a Java desktop application that allows the user to enter in categorized task information with descriptions and durations. It uses XML to persist the information and XSLT to transform the information into various reports.
JFaceDbc 2.0 beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129986/
JFaceDbc is a JDBC client application written in Java. It can run as a stand-alone application or as an Eclipse Plugin, and features a GUI based on JFace and the SWT libraries from the Eclipse Project.
JOELib 2003-07-21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129959/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
Just For Fun Network Management System 0.7.3-pre1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/129943/
Just For Fun Network Management System is a PHP-based network management system that features an integrated syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration downloading, SNMP polling, SNMP traps, journalling, auto-discovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more. It uses MySQL or PostgreSQL as the backend and works under Linux and Windows.
KcmPureFTPd 0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129927/
KcmPureFTPd is a KDE KControl module for configuring the pure-ftpd FTP server. It lets users configure their server securely and conveniently, without the burden of knowing tons of command line switches.
knetfilter 3.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130014/
Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables. It is used with Linux 2.4 to manage the functionality of netfilter. Knetfilter lets you set up most common firewall configurations, as well as perform more sophisticated management of a complex firewall. It is also possible to use an integrated interface to tcpdump and nmap.
KVim 6.2.14pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130022/
KVim is a port of the Vim GUI to KDE 2/3. It provides all of Vim's GUI functions. KVim aims at providing all the power of Vim with a nice and friendly interface.
Landscapes by B. Kaemper 3.1d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129979/
Landscapes by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the painter B. Kaemper. It contains a KDE theme, an IceWM decoration, an icon set, images for the slide show screensaver, a console schema, a splash screen, and a KFM background image.
libQGLViewer 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130006/
libQGLViewer is an open source C++ library which enables you to quickly start the development of a new 3D application. It is designed for 3D developers, who can very easily display and move around a 3D scene by simply providing the openGL orders that define their 3D geometry. The viewer is designed to be as general as possible and is not designed for a specific 3D application. It provides some useful classical functionalities such as a camera trackball, screenshot saving, mouse manipulated frames, stereo display, keyFrames and more.
LilyPond 1.7.27 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129991/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
LilyPond 1.6.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129984/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
LimSee2 1.0 Beta 7, build 021
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129956/
LimSee2 is a cross-platform SMIL2.0 authoring tool. SMIL stands for "Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language", and it is the XML-based standard language defined by the W3C to describe multimedia presentations for the Web. LimSee2 provides advanced editing views and powerful visual paradigms to facilitate the authoring of SMIL presentations. It also includes many features to improve SMIL design productivity. It is written in Java and therefore runs on most platforms. It has been successfully tested under Linux and Win32.
LP-PPP 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129962/
LP-PPP is a PPP dialer that includes an HTML page viewer and automatic connection updates.
Magick-X 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129945/
Magick-X is a blue and gray theme. It's based very very loosely on both the Nice-X2 and Cthulhain themes. The background included in the tarball is BlueExt Ver2.
mod_fastcgi 2.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130044/
mod_fastcgi provides FastCGI support for the Apache web server. FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance and persistence without the limitations of server specific APIs.
Moosic 1.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129975/
Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.
Nerys 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130033/
Nerys is a "Watchdog"-like daemon designed to help you monitor state changes (up or down) of the network interface, with the ability to execute specified commands on defined state change. It can also ignore "state-flood" (interface changing its state too fast) and dump statistics.
OpenDocMan 1.2rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130029/
OpenDocMan is a full featured Web-based document management system designed to conform to ISO 17025/IEC. It features an automated installation script, check-in/out, departmental access control, file moderation, fine grained user access control, and a great search function. Written in PHP, and utilizing MySQL for the backend, this project is useful for any company looking to keep their documentation in a centralized repository.
pam_dotfile 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130000/
pam_dotfile is a PAM module which allows users to have more than one password for a single account, each for a different service. This is desirable because many users have objections to using the same password for (as an example) an IMAP4 mailbox and SSH access.
Pancho 9.2.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130001/
Pancho is a utility that allows network administrators to make changes to the configuration for a single node or group of nodes through SNMP and TFTP. It also provides archiving functionality by allowing you to copy the device configurations to a remote server through a scheduled cron or at job.
PeerProtect 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129973/
PeerProtect is an addon for Jay's firewall that generates a file which contains all IP addresses from the RIAA and MPAA, etc. and will protect peer-to-peer programs from them.
Perl Panel 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129992/
PerlPanel is an attempt to build a useable, lean panel program (like Gnome's gnome-panel and KDE's Kicker) in Perl, using GTK 2. It has an object-oriented design for easy customisation and extension, and an applet architecture that means that you can create an applet in a matter of minutes.
PHPX 3.0.6 (PHPX 3.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130002/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site.