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[osdn business] August 09, 2003
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
FSF's Opinion of the Apple Public Source License
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/2145206
Stian Engen writes "Bradley Kuhn of the [0]FSF does [1]not recommend the release of new software using the [2]Apple Public Source License (APSL) 2.0 despite its [3]newly accuired Free Software License." Links
0.
http://www.gnu.org/
1.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html
2.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/2.0.txt
3.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/news/2.0-announce.html
NASA's Sensor Web
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1728201
ddtstudio writes "[0]PC Mag has a [1]story about the Sensor Web: 'a cutting-edge application of networked sensor technology currently on the fast track at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).' Not only a new way to test tech, but also perhaps a pervasive and inexpensive way to explore remote places such as Antarctica -- or Mars." Links
The Wireless Wardriving Rig
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/143207
An anonymous reader writes "If James Bond was into wireless hacking,
[0]this would be his rig."
Links
0. http://dp.penix.org/projects/bond/bond.html
LWCE Wrapup
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/2227258
An anonymous reader writes "Extremetech.com reports that: 'Computer scientists from think tank SRI will present a novel take on distributed computing at LinuxWorld, all in a [0]search for a little lost penguin.' For more information on Centibots, head over to the [1]Centibots Project homepage." ReadthePaper writes "I just read a great interview with [2]Jon "Maddog" Hall of Linux International." And finally, Hawkxor writes "Sun Microsystems VP Jonathon Schwartz demoed Sun's new desktop-oriented Linux distro '[3]Mad Hatter' and 3-D Desktop Environment 'Looking Glass' at LinuxWorld. Sounds pretty cool." Links
0.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1210529,00.asp
1.
http://www.ai.sri.com/centibots/
2.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1212461,00.asp
3.
http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2126/030806madhatter/
Hams Complain about Powerline Broadband
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/2020237
dwm writes "Think [0] broadband over power lines (BPL) would be wonderful? There might be some collateral damage. The [1] American Radio Relay League (your friendly neighborhood ham radio operators) have documented [2]dramatic HF radio interference in areas where BPL is being tested (Check out the [3]video of actual interference)." Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/1340220&tid=99
1.
http://www.arrl.org/
2.
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/08/08/2/?nc=1
3.
http://216.167.96.120/BPL_Trial-small.mpg
Following the Spam Trail
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1833213
An anonymous reader writes "MSNBC's Bob Sullivan doggedly [0]follows a
spam trail from Alabama to Argentina to find out who actually benefits
from spam. The beneficiaries aren't necessarily the pasty faced, high
school drop out industrial spammers we have gotten to know, but well
known companies."
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/940490.asp?0ql=c9p
Will Classic Games Disappear Forever?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1544238
Knightfall writes "Who doesn't remember pumping tons of quarters into
games like Joust and Tron? I shudder at the thought of what could have
become of that large quantity of money. Well, it seems remembering
those games may soon be all that is left. As companies are dropping
support, but not property rights to our old favorites, many are in
danger of vanishing forever. There are a few trying to prevent this
though. An article in [0]Wired tells a little about it. I for one still
find these games, on a pure gameplay level, better than most anything
out there currently. What can we do to prevent them from no longer
being available?"
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59948,00.html
Free Software as a Public Good
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/142255
[0]acone asks: "Have any national governments taken measures to
subsidize open source projects? I'm aware that many have endorsed Linux
in particular, and free software in general, but I was wondering about
actual funding. I ask because the notion of a good built and maintained
by the community almost inevitably suggests that such be treated as a
public good. Many of the public goods we now take for granted--such as
police, public libraries, and public fire departments--were
historically provided either by private enterprises or by
loosely-organized volunteers, neither of which have proven nearly as
effectively for the common goods as their current government-run
equivalents. An excellent example is the organization of the police
force, libraries and fire department in colonial Philadelphia, in which
these services became established in a very grassroots manner, then
gradually gained acceptance as something that the state should provide.
This pattern looks temptingly applicable to free software. In addition
to the current, community-based mechanisms in which free software is
developed, wouldn't it be beneficial to have dedicated groups of
professional free software developers, paid by national governments to
serve the overall interests of society? Seems to me like such would be
a Good Thing."
Links
0. http://acone at uchicago dot edu
RFID Will Stop Terrorists?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1619232
[0]W33dz writes "Retailers and manufacturers around the world are
enamored with the new [1]radio frequency identification, or RFID,
devices. The problem? What about when a thief or the police want to
find out what you have in your house? Oddly enough, according to a
[2]Wired magazine article, the United States' largest food companies
and retailers will try to win [3]Dept of Homeland Security approval for
radio identification devices by portraying the technology as an
essential tool for keeping the nation's food supply safe from
terrorists. This will give them blanket immunity from all law suits
related to the product."
Links
0. mailto:jntrea@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/
2.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,59624,00.html
3.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/index.jspConsumer Reports Discovers Tech Support Sucks http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1558203
fuzzykitty writes "CNN just posted an article about how [0]commercial software is filled with bugs and customers are used as an army of unpaid testers. It also goes on about the lack of good technical support. Best quote: 'I'm unaware of any company that would shortchange the customer in their speed to get the software to market,' LOL" Links
0. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/08/07/software.glitches/index.html
Newsforge Reports
Litigation for FUD and Profit
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1246245
- by Joe Barr - The SCO Group picked a bad week to try to give up their addiction to news conferences, especially those regarding their lawsuit against IBM. Red Hat filed a lawsuit against The SCO Group on Monday and IBM did the same on Wednesday. Both filings appeared to catch SCO by surprise.
Open Source by Osmosis
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/07/2259214
- by Matt Asay - Much has been said and written about open source software in the past few years. So much, indeed, that one would think we would be super-saturated with it, and ready to move on to the 'next big thing.' But we have not, and do not appear to be even remotely close to the limit of open source's potential. It apparently cannot be over-hyped.
LinuxWorld wrapup: Bigger, better, and more boring than ever http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/0035222
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - San Francisco - Although final attendance figures won't be available until next week, a spokesperson for LinuxWorld organizer IDG said preregistrations were up about 20% from the last iteration of this show. It certainly felt more crowded than the last couple of LinuxWorlds, and it occupied substantially more floor space than last year. And it was very businesslike, very management-oriented, almost to the point of ...
Newsforge Newsvac
Week In Security: Linux Security Certification, eSoft Rebate Offer
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/2041204
Here's a rundown of events, announcements and other happenings in information security this week.
SCO wants $32 for each embedded Linux device http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/207208
SAN JOSE, Calif. The SCO Group said Tuesday (August 5) it wants $32 for each embedded system using Linux. That request stems from the Lindon, Utah company's claim that Linux versions 2.4 and above contains code that infringes on its Unix software.
Linux Software Puts New Face on File Management http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1946201
A small developer hopes to get managers of Linux servers to break their command line habit. At this week's LinuxWorld show, Tactile Interactive offered a look at the latest beta of Interrogator, its powerful, graphical file manager for Linux and Solaris platforms.
Making Linux more gadget-friendly
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1930252
TimeSys, a seller of Linux designed to be embedded into various computing devices, has joined the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, and its competitor MontaVista Software plans to announce a similar move next week.
IBM Court Filing interpretation
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/179200
We still are digesting IBM's 45-page puppy. It's a hum-dinger. But here are some highlights of IBM's counterattack.
Lindows.com, Inc.'s New KooBox is the World's Most Affordable Computer, All-In-One for Only $449 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1653246
Kraig writes "Lindows.com, Inc. today unveiled its new KooBox, an all-in-one computer system, including a flat-panel LCD monitor, available now for only $449. The KooBox offers users a complete system fulfilling every computing need, at an ultra-low price making it truly the world's most affordable computer Koobox."
LinuxWorld: Users yawn at SCO's legal action http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1617249
Michael S. Mimoso writes "LinuxWorld Conference & Expo attendees ho-hum the SCO Group's legal battle against Linux. Advocate Bruce Perens, however, points out that SCO may have started an avalanche of patent suits."
Miniature Linux-based XScale SBC for mobile robotics http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/162217
K-Team announced KoreBot, a miniature Linux-based single-board computer (SBC) board designed for mobile robotics and other embedded applications. KoreBot is based on an Intel XScale processor equipped with 64MB RAM and 32MB Flash memory, runs the Familiar Linux distribution from handhelds.org, and includes an extensive set of interfaces useful for implementing control and communications functions.
Sun Microsystems Showcases Growing Momentum of Linux Projects on Java.Net http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/1424249
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced growing momentum of Linux-based projects within the Java(TM) developer community, with cutting-edge Linux telecommunication projects on java.net(SM), a unique, online global community established to foster Java(TM) technology collaboration and innovation.
Candle Bolsters Support For Linux-Based Management http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/08/147240
Candle is expanding Linux support in its enterprise management products with PathWAI Monitor for WebSphere MQ and Omegamon XE.
Freshmeat
Active Knowledge Base 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131980/
ActiveKB is an easy to use, powerful knowledge base software package. It features simple installation, a WYSIWYG HTML editor, attachments, unlimited questions and answers, an active response system, and much more. It is also totally rebrandable.
Advanced Web Ranking 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131987/
Advanced Web Ranking is a tool that will help you check your Web site position on all major search engines. It saves you hours of tedious work while monitoring your Web site's search engine position. It generates tabular and graphical reports that will help you check not just the position of your Web site, but the position of your competitors' Web sites as well.
AIM Sniff 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132019/
AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and archiving AOL Instant Messenger messages across a network. It can be used to monitor for cases of harassment or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP file and parse the file for IM messages. You also have the option of dumping the information to a MySQL database or STDOUT. AIM Sniff will also monitor for an AIM login and then perform an SMB lookup on the originating computer in order to match NT Domain names with AIM login names (handles). A very basic Web frontend is included.
Alana 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132060/
Alana is a highly responsive Turing Machine simulator. The documentation contains an introduction to Turing Machines as well as some interesting theoretical information (halting problem, busy beaver) and pointers to further literature.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.20 PRE 3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/131985/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web site publishing, and more.
arCHMage 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132004/
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 Jed Wing.
ArX 1.0pre10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131993/
ArX is a distributed revision control system that features distributed repositories, fancy merging, support for renaming, unobtrusive operation, a Web interface, and revision libraries. It consists of a collection of shell scripts and C code, and brings together many shell utilities, SSH, HTTP, diff, and patch.
Bauk 1.81.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132066/
Bauk is a high-performance HTTP server for Unix-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, virtual host aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, directory browsing, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format and location, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility, and much more.
Bookmark4U 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132002/
Bookmark4U provides you a comfortable bookmarking environment. With Bookmark4U, users can access to their favorite Web sites everywhere just by one click without remembering URLs of them any more. The bookmark data are stored in a database in the server, and can be searched very easily. Bookmarks can be arranged in folders in any depth. For each bookmark, visit information is managed, such as the visit counter, or the last visit time and date, etc. It is written in PHP script language, and requires a database interface such as MySQL.
Build it Fast 0.1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131757/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
Cherokee 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132017/
Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.
Choclate for XDoclet 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132013/
Chocolate for XDoclet is an EJB designer tool with XDoclet support for the Borland JBuilder IDE. It has been designed to simplify the development of Enterprise JavaBeans for various supported J2EE servers. It helps developers create and edit JavaBean source files that will be processed by the XDoclet code generation engine.
ClairVoyanT SysAdmin 0.1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132080/
CVTSA is a tool that allows a user to run arbitrary commands remotely on a Linux system by sending email to the system. It maintains security by requiring a password to be present in all email messages that provide commands. There is a command wrapper file where the user can set denied commands. It also uses a few other security techniques which are outlined in the documentation. CVTSA can use a local fetcher to download email, or it can create a connection to a remote mail server to download email by itself. There is also an option that allows a pseudo-random password to be created.
Clipperton 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132056/
Clipperton is a meta theme based on the bluec*rve theme with an icon theme (with actions icons), a KDE style, a KDE window decoration, a color scheme, a splash screen, and a wallpaper.
Coherent Mail Gateway 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132003/
Coherent Mail Gateway is intended to be a very easy to set up MTA using SMTP and POP3. Greylisting is used on the SMTP daemon to reduce spam. In addition, quite a lot of checks on the validity of information from the SMTP client (such as claimed server name and sender) are carried out, and anyone caught telling lies is disconnected. As well as greylisting, black and white listing is also supported. The target market is small offices and home users with static IPs. Others can use the system but its value will be limited. Dial-up is not yet supported.
Crimson Fields 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131982/
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
cThreads 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131989/
cThreads is a forum to be combined with cMeeting but can also be used as a standalone forum. It's completely based on files, so no database is required. Each thread is one file. Quoting works better than in most other forums. Multiple moderators with different privileges are supported. Moderators can remove single messages or whole threads and can also restore them. User authentication is done with HTTP with the possibility of posting anonymous or as a named guest.
Danpei 2.9.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132008/
Danpei is a GTK+ based image viewer. It allows you to browse through your image files in thumbnail form, and it can rename, cut, and paste them easily with an interface similar to that of Windows Explorer.
Debt Minder 1.8.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132069/
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
Distributed Hardware Evolution 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131996/
This project allows the distribution of a genetic algorithm evolving hardware designs across the Internet by setting up an island on each clients' PC which will evolve during idle time. Individuals from these islands will migrate between each other as they compete for survival. All source code is available and is generalizable to any GA or distributed processing task.
Distributor load balancer 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132052/
Distributor is a software TCP load balancer. Like other load balancers, it accepts connections and distributes them to an array of back end servers. It is compatible with any standard TCP protocol (HTTP, LDAP, IMAP, etc.) and is also IPv6 compatible. It has many unique and advanced features and a high-performance architecture.
dmidecode 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132063/
Dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI (some say SMBIOS) table contents in a human-readable format. It was first written by Alan Cox and is now being maintained by Jean Delvare. Part of its code can be found in the Linux kernel, because DMI data may be used to enable or disable specific portions of code depending on the hardware vendor. Thus, dmidecode is mainly used to detect system "signatures" and add them to the kernel source code when needed.
DSPAM 2.6.4B1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132031/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
Elaya 0.5.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131936/
Elaya is a compiler for the Elaya language, a modern object-oriented language with some unique features.
Experiment001 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131820/
Experiment001 is a theme created from the image Experiment001 from art.softshape.com.
FCKeditor 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131998/
FCKeditor is an HTML/DHTML editor for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP, and JavaScript that brings to the Web much of the powerful functionality of known desktop editors like Word. It's very lightweight, and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.
Formsess 2.0.0 RC1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132057/
Formsess is a Smarty-powered forms framework. It adds support for an XHTML-compliant set of tags, directly inspired from standard form tags, and allows you to skip most common steps implied in forms manipulation, validation (Javascript and server side) and data persistence (any validated field is automatically kept).
Free Pascal Compiler 1.0.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132011/
The Free Pascal Compiler is a Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi-compatible 32bit Pascal Compiler. It comes with a fully TP 7.0-compatible run-time library. Some extensions have been added to the language, like function overloading. Shared libraries can be linked. Basic Delphi support is implemented with classes, exceptions, RTTI, and ansistrings. A Free Component Library (FCL) is available with the base classes. Bindings for X11, ncurses, GTK, OpenGL, zlib, mysql, interbase and postgres are available.
ftpproxy 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132021/
ftp.proxy is an application level gateway for FTP. It allows either forwarding to a specific host or optional client side server selection w/o allowed host list, access and command control trough external programs.
g3data 1.3.2 (GTK-2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131986/
g3data is a program for extracting data from graphs (i.e., scanned graphs from scientific publications). It can read many different image formats and outputs the extracted data through stdout or to a file.
Ganglia 2.5.4 (Monitoring core)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132046/
Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Ganglia is currently in use on over 500 clusters around the world and has scaled to handle clusters with 2000 nodes.
gimp-print 4.3.19 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132074/
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.
GreenThumb 1060336327
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131994/
GreenThumb is a Java Jabber client applet. It supports SSL, group chatting, and much more.
Gtk2-Perl 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132042/
Gtk2-Perl allows Perl developers to write GTK+ 2.x applications. The bindings use an object oriented syntax that attempts to remain close to the C API, but take a Perlish approach where appropriate.
Hastymail 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132050/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
hdup 1.6.18 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132055/
hdup is used to back up a filesystem. Features include encryption of the archive (with mcrypt), compression of the archive (bzip/gzip/none), the ability to transfer the archive to a remote host or restoring from a remote host (with ssh), the ability to split up archives, and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
Hog Bay Notebook 2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132028/
Hog Bay Notebook provides a central location for all of your miscellaneous information. It allows you to search your data and keep it well organized.
Java Service Wrapper 3.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131979/
Java Service Wrapper is a configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services. It includes fault correction software to automatically restart crashed or frozen JVMs. It is built for flexibility.
Kismet 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132010/
Kismet is an 802.11b network sniffer and network dissector. It is capable of sniffing using most wireless cards, automatic network IP block detection via UDP, ARP, and DHCP packets, Cisco equipment lists via Cisco Discovery Protocol, weak cryptographic packet logging, and Ethereal and tcpdump compatible packet dump files. It also includes the ability to plot detected networks and estimated network ranges on downloaded maps or user supplied image files.
lesspipe.sh 1.36
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131988/
lesspipe.sh is an input filter for the pager less as described in less's man page. The script runs under a ksh-compatible shell (ksh, bash, zsh) and allows you to use less to view compressed files, archives, and files contained in archives. Viewing files by accessing a device file is implemented to some extent (DOS filesystems and tar files). It supports the following formats (both as plain and compressed files using compress, gzip, bzip2, or zip): tar, nroff, (sh)ar, HTML, executables, directories, RPM and Debian (.deb) archives, MS-Word, PS, DVI, PDF, Perl, and MP3.
Local Area Security Knoppix 0.3b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132072/
Local Area Security Knoppix is a 'Live CD' distribution based on Knoppix but with a strong emphasis on security tools and small footprint. There are four different versions of L.A.S. Knoppix to fit three specific needs. These are a Firewall/IDS-centric version, a penetration testing/forensics version, a MiniCD-size version covering a full spectrum of tools, and a SECSERV secure mini-server that runs off CD.
log4cxx 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131977/
log4cxx is a port to C++ of the log4j project.
LON-CAPA 0.99.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132006/
LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline network with CAPA) is a learning content and course management system. It is similar to BlackBoard and WebCT in many respects, but with a focus on science and math in higher education.
Mailbox Copy 0.93
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132059/
Mailbox Copy is a set of tools to copy/archive email accounts. It works with IMAP, mbox, and maildir mailboxes. You can use the copy tool to migrate from one IMAP server to another, to archive your IMAP email to a local mbox copy, to move some maildir email to an IMAP server, etc. This project was previously called IMAP Copy/imapcp because it worked only with IMAP. It has been renamed to reflect its more general purpose.
Maintain 2.1-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132033/
Maintain is a multi-user, Web-based management tool for managing host information for building DNS, DHCP, VMPS, and Radius configurations.
MakeModules 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132030/
MakeModules (mamo) consists of a collection of Makefile snippets called modules. Each module defines features for a single or some related common tasks. For instance, the module "C" defines features for generating object files from C sources, the module "Pod" defines features to generate documentation from pod sources, and the module "Install" defines features for installing files in various ways locally or on a remote host. The important module "Subdirectory" defines recursive operation in a directory tree. In no way are tasks limited to programming. For instance, mamo can be used to maintain a Web site.
monotone 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132029/
monotone is a distributed version control system with a flat peer model, cryptographic version naming, meta-data certificates, decentralized authority, and overlapping branches. It works out of a transactional version database stored in a regular file. Network communication is mediated via netnews.
msmtp 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132024/
msmtp is a simple program that works as an "SMTP plugin" for Mutt and (probably) other MUAs. It forwards messages to an SMTP server which does the delivery. Features include various SMTP AUTH methods, TLS-encrypted connections, and IPv6 support.
MWChat 6.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132043/
MWChat (My Web based Chat) is a Web-based chat system that uses PHP4 and an SQL backend database. It has support for multiple rooms and languages, a large number of IRC-like commands, private messages and rooms, message encryption, buddy lists, logging, registered users, chat profiles, file sharing, and more. It is a very lightweight, full-featured, and secure chat room.
Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132036/
The Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME is an application development environment that can be used as a stand alone tool or with Borland or Sun IDE products to build J2ME applications. It features integrated deployment to FTP servers and an audio converter for MIDI and XML tones. It contains the Nokia Series 40 MIDP Concept SDK with the according MIDP APIs, classes, documentation, and sample applications to build, debug, and run J2ME applications in a simulated environment. It is designed for Red Hat Linux 7.2.
omniORB 4.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132014/
omniORB is an Object Request Broker (ORB) which implements version 2.6 of the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). It supports the C++ and Python language bindings, is fully multithreaded, uses IIOP as the native transport, and comes complete with a COS Naming Service. omniORB is possibly the fastest available C++ ORB.
omniORBpy 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132018/
omniORBpy is a high-performance CORBA 2.6 ORB for Python. It consists of an interface between Python and the omniORB C++ library. IDL is compiled into pure Python code, so new IDL interfaces can be used without involving the C++ compiler.
pal 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132061/
pal is a commandline utility which displays a color calendar and marks approaching events and holidays. It supports several different types of recurring events (one time, annual, monthly, etc.). Events are defined in text files, and pal is distributed with files for significant holidays and events. pal is similar to both the Unix "cal" command and OpenBSD's "calendar" command.
Perl HL7 Toolkit 0.67
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132023/
Perl HL7 Toolkit provides a number of Perl libraries and scripts for developing HL7-capable applications in Perl.
Pogo 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132001/
Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, customizable application launcher for X11.
Posadis 0.60.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132083/
Posadis is a domain name server for Unix and Win32 systems. It can both act as an authoritive and as a caching DNS server, and it supports standard DNS master files, zone transfers, and DNS Notify. Its modular structure allows plug-ins to define new zone types and add new functionality.
Posadis Master file editor 0.60.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132084/
Mfedit is a graphical editor for DNS master files based on GTK+ and Poslib. Using this tool, you can add, modify, and remove resource records, and run syntax checks on your DNS zones. It supports standard DNS master files as well as some BIND extensions.
Poslib DNS library 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132085/
Poslib is a library which provides easy access to the Domain Name System. The client part can be used to create DNS client applications, while the server part lets you easily create a multi-threaded DNS server program, portable to many operating systems including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows.
prc-eclipse 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132067/
prc-eclipse is an Eclipse plugin that provides support for the GNU-based PalmOS development tools, prc-tools. It provides two useful features: The first is to allow the use of the Eclipse graphical debugger interface instead of the textual gdb interface. The second is (searchable) access to PalmSource's extensive online help through Eclipse's built-in help system. These combine with the C/C++ Development Tools to make a powerful development environment.
ProFTPDTools 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131990/
ProFTPDTools is a Web interface for managing users and groups in a setup of ProFTPd with mod_sql. It provides a session-based login system for admins and users. Users can manage their account data via a Web interface. Admins are able to change normal users to admins, and can enable and disable accounts. Formatted ftpwho output is also provided. English and German language files are included.
pWhiteboard 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132037/
pWhiteboard can be thought of as a single-page Wiki. It creates a Web page with built-in WYSIWYG editing, thanks to interactivetools' htmlArea. You can edit the whiteboard contents at any time, and save a snapshot to create a permanent record.
PyPE 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132078/
PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) was written in order to offer a lightweight but powerful editor for those of you who think emacs is too much and idle is too little. Syntax highlighting is included out of the box, as is multiple open documents via tabs. Being written in Python and wxPython allows PyPE to be used on basically every platform available.
qdk 1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132038/
qdk (Quick DocbooK) is a little utility designed to simplify the creation of DocBook documentation in a very quick way from a text file. It's user-extensible, and has built-in support for bibliographical references.
QT AGI Studio 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131991/
QT AGI Studio, formerly known as Linux AGI Studio, is a program that allows you to view, create, and edit AGI games. AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) is the adventure game engine used by Sierra On-Line(tm) to create some of their early games.
QTVBA 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132000/
QTVBA is a Qt 3.x and C++-based graphical frontend to the VisualBoyAdvance Nintendo Gameboy Advance Emulator. Features include dual screenshot handling, save game information, number and last date played recording, a built in ROM renamer, and compatibility with GBA-Shell's screenshot formats and indexing.
runit 0.11.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132009/
runit is a daemontools alike replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It currently runs on GNU/Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and can easily be adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2 starts the system's uptime services (via the runsvdir program). Stage 3 handles the tasks necessary to shutdown and halt or reboot.
Samizdat 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132044/
Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and open publishing Web sites. It will let everyone publish, view, comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on ratings and classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of criteria, and cooperate and coordinate on all kinds of activities. It intends to promote values of freedom, openness, equality, and cooperation.
Scribus 1.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131981/
Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible.
ScummVM 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132016/
ScummVM is a classic gaming interpreter and emulator that includes several interpreters for 2D adventures. There is currently support for several interpreters: AdventureSoft (Simon the Sorcerer 1/2), Revolution Software's Beneath a Steel Sky, and a SCUMM interpreter capable of running classic LucasArts and Humongous adventure games using the SCUMM/SPU engine. This includes titles such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, The Dig, and more.
SetDesigner 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132039/
SetDesigner is a tool specifically designed for aiding in the design and visualization of theatrical sets. It is not a CAD program. The laws of physics are not enforced by the program itself. Sets can be designed in SetDesigner by sizing and arranging predefined common elements of sets (for example: platforms, and flats), and defining paint schemes for these objects.
SMS Server Tools 1.12.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132020/
The SMS Server Tools were made to send and receive SMS from one or many GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them. It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call any external program for incoming or outgoing notification.
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