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[osdn business] August 12, 2003
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Slashdot
A Real Living With Virtual Goods
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0156203
RussHart writes "The BBC is [0]reporting on a [1] Julian Dibbell who
has quit his day job to sell items from Ultima Online in the real
world, hopefully making a living on which to support his wife &
daughter."
Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3135247.stm
Microsoft Nailed by Software Patent
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2340225
An anonymous reader writes "It was just [0]announced that Microsoft
lost the case where it was accused of violating Eolas' patent on
embedded applications in the Internet Explorer browser. They have been
fined $521 million in damages."
Links
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/030811/tech_microsoft_patent_2.html
Interview with SLASH'EM Developers
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/0234215
[0]MilenCent writes "The O'Reilly Network posted an [1]interview with super-deluxe [2]Nethack variant [3]SLASH'EM's Warren Cheung and J. Ali Harlowe last month talking about the impending beta release of v0.0.7E2. (Don't you just love incredibly provisional version numbers? In development for years and not even a 0.1 yet!) There's [4]another recent O'Reilly article on the game too." Links
0. mailto:johnh@hiddenglade.com
1.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/3892
2.
http://www.nethack.org/
3.
http://slashem.sourceforge.net/
4.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/12/slashem.html
Roomba Competitor Slightly Lacking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2332235
[0]tivojafa writes "Following hot on the heels of the [1]Roomba vacuum cleaner, TV Products (USA) Inc have released the "[2]RoboSweep" - "The intelligent sweeper that sweeps while you rest!". Roomba by [3]iRobot is an engineering masterpiece with 15 sensors and 5 motors to navigate and clean the floors. It has been [4]stripped apart and there are rumors of a replacement processor so it can be used as a general purpose robot platform. Now the RoboSweep "intelligent" sweeper has redefined intelligence (or lack of it) - the internals have got to be [5]seen to be believed." Very funny. Links
0.
http://www.roombacommunity.com
1.
http://www.roombavac.com/
2.
http://shop.infomercial.tv/home_and_garden/misc/robosweep/
3.
http://www.irobot.com/home/default.asp
4.
http://www.roombacommunity.com/internals.html
5.
http://www.roombacommunity.com/robosweep/robosweep.html
GPL in Court - Good or Bad?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2137210
Irvu asks: "[0]The Register has a lengthy opinion piece today about IBM's lawsuit, and the GPL. Barring a settlement this case will see the first test of the GPL in a court of law. Previously the GPL has functioned as a social contract with the implicit (albeit untested) force of law behind it. Any ruling now could radically alter the free-software/open-source landscape for good or ill. Andrew Orlowski dwells on these possible ills in his piece. What does Slashdot think? Is this test a good or bad thing? Do you have faith in the justice system (or IBM's Lawyers) to draw the right conclusions? And, how do you see any outcome affecting you?" Links
0. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32272.html
GnuCash - A Call For Help
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/200212
sedition writes "GnuCash developer Benoit Gregoire has written the [0]State of the GnuCash Project. It is a call for help to the Open Source community regarding the open-source accounting software for Linux, Mac OSX, and more. [1]GnuCash is one of the largest (287,853 lines of code), but least publicized Open Source projects. Now it needs developer support, as its future is uncertain." Links
0. http://gnucash.org/en/state_of_the_gnucash_project.phtml
Webcams Watching The Classrooms?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1737216
embarcadero writes "Webcams will be [0]tuned to watch over 500
classrooms in the Biloxi, Mississippi school district this year,
according to a story in USA Today. The goal is to make classrooms
safer, but there's a lot of speculation about how the recorded info
could be used for or against teachers in disputes or teaching reviews.
I can just see Mrs. Waters pointing towards the camera, 'If I don't
catch you cheating on this spelling test, that camera will! Don't even
think about it.'"
Links
0. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030811/5396054s.htm
SCO: Fortune 500 Company Buys License, IBM Retort http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2040201
An anonymous reader writes "SCO announced today that an [0]undisclosed
Fortune 500 company purchased Linux licenses for each of their servers
running in their business. SCO: 'This Fortune 500 company recognizes
the importance of paying for SCO's intellectual property that is found
in Linux and can now run Linux in their environment under a legitimate
license from SCO. We anticipate this being the first of many licensees
that will properly compensate SCO for our intellectual property.'"
kanly writes "The [1]full text of IBM's countersuit against SCO is now
online at LWN." [2]M: Our own Roblimo has a [3]pretty good take on it.
Keep in mind that SCO could sell a blanket license for $1, for the
publicity value.
Links
0.
http://investor.news.com/Engine?Account=cnet&PageName=NEWSREAD&ID=543900&Ticker=SCOX
1.
http://lwn.net/Articles/43592/
2. mailto:michael@NoSpam.slashdot.org
3.
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1922213&tid=17
RPC DCOM Worm On The Loose
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2048249
[0]GPez writes "The first of I'm sure many RPC DCOM worms affecting Windows [1]is on its way, according to the Internet Storm Center. [2]Patch those systems!" According to the site, "The worm uses [3]the RPC DCOM vulnerability [affects Win2k through Server 2003] to propagate. Once it finds a vulnerable system, it will spawn a shell on port 4444 and use it to download the actual worm via tftp." Links
0. mailto:gspam@umich.edu
1.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?date=2003-08-11
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
3.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/2218216&tid=172
Linux Gaining Ground In India
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1912218
GillBates0 writes "Yahoo/Reuters is reporting that [0]Linux seems to be gaining over Microsoft in India. According to [1]Red Hat, about 10 percent of India's personal computers will be sold with Linux rather than Microsoft operating systems by March, 2004, up from nothing in January. Linux already drives India's [2]National Stock Exchange, and the [3]Government of India has been [4]promoting open source lately." Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=581&e=2&u=/nm/20030811/tc_nm/tech_india_linux_dc
1.
http://www.redhat.com/
2.
http://www.nse-india.com/
3.
http://goidirectory.nic.in/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/1226247&tid=106
Newsforge Reports
SCO sells a Linux license
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1922213
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Yes, they found someone gullible enough to bite. At least that's what they're claiming in a press release that's being spread all over the place, including on money.cnn.com. Naturally, SCO can't tell you who it is because of "confidentiality provisions," but the truth will certainly come out sooner or later.
Open Source is good for the Philippine economy http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/09/1355255
- by Victor Serafica - I really do not know why the article "IT
investment and the economy" written by Wison Ng,
(http://www.inq7.net/inf/2003/aug/08/text/inf_38-1 -p.htm) was worth
posting at the most-read news site in the Philippines, since rather than being an article about IT and the Philippine economy, it is more of a broadside attack on open source. In this article, "While it may noted that any savings is always appreciated, any savings ...
Making Linux more like Windows than Windows http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/09/1329244
by Chris Gulker Alan Nugent, CTO of Novell, thinks he knows how to drive wide adoption of the Linux desktop. Everywhere. Today.
Newsforge Newsvac
Linux Virtual Server Manager Debuts
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2055253
Server provisioning management software vendor Linuxcare on Monday unveiled the newest version of Levanta, its application for administering virtual Linux servers on IBM's eServer zSeries systems.
TeraCloud Adds Novell NetWare 6.0 and Linux Support To SRM Solution http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2043225
BELLEVUE, Wash. - August 12, 2003 - TeraCloud Corporation, a leading provider of storage resource management (SRM) solutions for distributed and mainframe environments, today announced that its flagship SRM solution, SpaceNet, will support RedHat(tm) Linux and expand Novell support to include NetWare v6.0. SpaceNet will help NetWare and Linux users reduce the cost of managing their storage and improve storage efficiency with via SpaceNet's ...
Lycoris Tablet OS Shipping on New Toshiba Tablet PCs for $1899 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2035233
*Redmond, WA - August 11, 2003 - *Lycoris Affiliate Desktop Evolution Launches De-Tablet: an integrated Toshiba Portege Tablet Platform running Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet Edition. De-Tablet provides a flexible Linux desktop operating system in Lycoris Desktop L/X Tablet Edition on a powerful Toshiba hardware platform. To show dedication to this new market, the De-Tablet Productivity Bundle is immediately available for purchase from ...
iAnywhere Teams Up With SuSE Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/2022214
iAnywhere Solutions Inc. and SuSE Linux have forged a technology alliance that will give the mobile technology company access to ongoing Linux developments, iAnywhere officials announced on Monday.
Caldera employee was important Linux kernel contributor http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1751255
A man employed by SCO Caldera was heavily involved in Linux-ABI binary emulation modules, it has emerged.
SCO Battle Rooted In Unix History
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1747214
The SCO Group's attempts to squeeze a revenue stream out of Linux is rooted in the long and tangled history of computer operating systems.
Penguin Wooed By Platform Vendors
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1745200
At LinuxWorld last week, 64-bit Linux was big news. OEMs ranging from IBM, HP and SGI to lesser known names such as Newisys unveiled hardware systems based on Intel Itanium or AMD Opteron chip sets.
Starter kit for Sharp BlueStreak LH7A400 SoC supports Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1742239
Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas and Logic Product Development
(Logic) announced the release of a hardware/software development kit
for Sharp's BlueStreak LH7A400 32-bit system-on-chip (SoC) processor.
The kit supports LH7A400-based embedded development targeting the Linux
software platform, and is said to include "production quality" device
drivers, bootloader, board support packages (BSPs), and development
tools.
Linux heads for TVs and videos
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1654206
A group that aims to make Linux run in television sets and other consumer electronics products is growing in clout.
Samsung Electronics Chooses MontaVista Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/11/1650250
Annette Oevermann writes "SEOUL, South Korea and SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 11, 2003 -- Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:05930.KS), Ltd., a leader in advanced consumer electronics, and MontaVista Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the signing o f a corporate-wide contract to use MontaVista® Linux®, an industry standard Linux platform, in Samsung's advanced electronics devices. After a long and thorough ...
Freshmeat
AdaOpenGL 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132373/
AdaOpenGL is an Ada-binding to OpenGL that aims at providing the latest OpenGL features in a collection of Ada packages.
Admin4TheMasses 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132350/
Admin4TheMasses aims to provide non-technical users a means of creating a Web site and administering both the site and server features (i.e., email accounts, stats, database). The initial focus is to provide this functionality for music groups so they will have an easy way to update their page while still having the ability to use a professional design. The end result will be a content management system with templates for design and modules for placing the content within the page coupled with an admin area where the user can update everything simply and quickly. This is not another PHPNuke/PostNuke/Slashcode project; the focus is on personal and art/design/business sites (not community-driven content).
Agent Farms 0.3.0 (2003-08-11)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132327/
Agent Farms is a system for modeling and simulation of complex, multi-agent based systems. The system can be used for creating models of multi-agent systems, interactive and distributed simulation, observation and visualisation of the simulation, and population modification and migration. On those models one can learn about the evolution of strategies in the populations of agents.
AIM Sniff 0.1.2 (Web Aim Sniff)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132249/
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.
Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module 1.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132349/
The Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module is a module for Apache 1.3 that provides functionality for detecting and fighting off DoS attacks and brute force attacks. It does this by adding addresses to a 10-second '403 List' and rejecting rapidly repeated requests for the same URL from the same addresses, using an internal hash table, on a per-child basis. This module can be configured to talk to ipchains, ipfilter, or any other tool designed to push the attack out to the network layer, and provides email notification in the event of an attack.
Atomic Tanks 0.9.9a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132362/
Atanks is a multi-platform scorched earth clone similar to Worms. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition. It features a wide array of weapons, destructible landscape, weather, parachutes, teleports and a wide range of other features.
Azure 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132339/
Azure is a Web log client that allows you to create and edit Web log posts on your phone, PDA, or personal computer. It uses J2ME CLDC/MIDP 1.0. It can be used with any system that supports Moveable Type's XMLRPC API. bash programmable completion 20030811 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/132357/
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.
Big Sister 0.98beta5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132259/
Big Sister is an SNMP-aware monitoring program consisting of a Web-based server and a monitoring agent. It runs under various Unixes and Windows.
Cigol alpha-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132355/
Cigol is a scripting language designed to solve deductive logic problems. It is designed to be run from the command line or embedded inside an application. There is also a (limited) Cigol applet. Cigol has applications to AI, graph theory, automata, and database manipulation.
Cinelerra 1.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132333/
Cinelerra is a complete audio and video production environment for Linux. It replaces Broadcast 2000.
ClairVoyanT SysAdmin 0.1.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132302/
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.
Console Portscanner 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132286/
Cpscan is a simple portscanner.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132255/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
DevWiki 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132280/
DevWiki is Java servlet-based implementation of a Wiki web, which is a Web site that is editable by its users via a browser interface. It supports dynamic linking of content, back links, tables, off-site links, lists, CVS, and much more. It is highly customizable due to a generic Translator architecture.
distcc 2.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132254/
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.
dnspython 1.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132250/
dnspython is a DNS toolkit for Python. It supports almost all of the record types. It can be used for queries, zone transfers, and dynamic updates. It supports TSIG authenticated messages and EDNS0. dnspython provides both high and low level access to DNS. The high level classes perform queries for data of a given name, type, and class, and return an answer set. The low level classes allow direct manipulation of DNS zones, messages, names, and records.
DSPAM 2.6.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132351/
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.
Easy Funktion 5.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132358/
Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation solver. It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions for electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to export to spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with automatic formatting.
Elm ME+ PL105 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132284/
Elm 2.4ME+ is based on Elm 2.4. It contains enhanced MIME and character set support. It can read mail from POP or IMAP folders and can pass mail to the PGP or GPG programs. It can also view digests as a mailbox and reassemble fragmented (message/partial) messages. It includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.
exifprobe 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132315/
Exifprobe examines and reports the contents and structure of JPEG and
TIFF image files. It will recognize all standard JPEG markers
(including APPn markers) and will report the contents of any properly
structured TIFF IFD encountered, even when entry tags are not
recognized. Recognized TIFF and TIFF/EP tags are expanded, including
EXIF2.2 sections and camera MakerNotes which are found to be in TIFF
IFD format. GPS and GeoTIFF tags are recognized and entries printed in
"raw" form, but are not expanded. Location, size, and format
of image data is reported.
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall 1.16.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132282/
FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.
FireDNS 0.9.3 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132371/
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.
Firehose 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132337/
Firehose is a simple library which stripes multiple, inexpensive, network devices to provide very high speed data transfers. It supports any number of devices as long as they have a TCP/IP layer.
FirePay 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132301/
FirePay is an implementation of the HashCash/MIME
(application/postage-hashcash) specification. HashCash is an anti-spam,
anti-DoS system for email. The concept centers around the sender of the
mail completing a computationally expensive task (in this case,
generating hash collisions) that the recipient can verify very quickly.
This allows the sender to "pay" for transport in CPU cycles,
creating artificial scarcity. Programs are included to add payment to
messages (for the sender) and to verify message payment (for the
recipient).
FluxAqua 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132332/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. Developed from files found for the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file, this is the result of messing with Fluxbox themes and The GIMP in some spare time.
FMPP 0.8.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132368/
FMPP is a text file preprocessor that uses FreeMarker templates to provide macros, flow control, and expressions. It uses recursive directory processing, so it can generate complete homepages (a tree of HTML files and images). It is extendable in Java to display data from any data source (such as a database). It is usable with a command-line interface, as an Ant-task, or embedded into a Java application.
FreeMarker 2.3pre11 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132289/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
Freeside 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132268/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
gcc 3.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132263/
The GNU Compiler Collection contains frontends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada as well as libraries for these languages. It is a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support for K&R C as well. GCC provides many levels of source code error checking traditionally provided by other tools (such as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many different optimizations to the resulting object code.
gdpc 2.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132318/
gdpc is a tool for visualising the output files of a molecular dynamic simulation. It can be customized to read almost any input file format and animate it. It can also be configured to output images of each frame.
GiNaC 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132328/
GiNaC (GiNaC is Not a CAS (Computer Algebra System)) is a C++ library for symbolic calculations. It is designed to allow the creation of integrated systems that embed symbolic manipulations together with more established areas of computer science (like computation-intense numeric applications, graphical interfaces, etc.). Contrary to other CASes it does not try to provide extensive algebraic capabilities and a simple programming language but instead accepts a given language (C++) and extends it by a set of algebraic capabilities.
GTK Cervi 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132265/
GTK Cervi is clone of very good game called Cervi. It is a multiplayer game (on one machine) where players drive a worm and mustn't collide into anything.
hddtemp 0.3 beta 8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132360/
hddtemp shows the temperature of your IDE or SCSI hard drive by reading S.M.A.R.T. information. Note: only modern drives have a temperature sensor. A plugin for Gkrellm is also available.
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project 0_5.7-dev-20030806 http://freshmeat.net/releases/132273/
Historical Event Markup and Linking Project (Heml) provides an XML schema for historical events and a Java Web app which transforms conforming documents into hyperlinked timelines, maps and tables. It aims to provide a most information-rich interchange format for historical data, and thus add a historical component to the growing movement for a 'Semantic Web.'
ink_level 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132309/
ink_level is a kernel module which allows you to check the ink level of your printer simply by reading two files in the /proc directory.
Inti-SourceView 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132287/
Inti-SourceView is an Integrated Foundation Classes binding for the GTK+ source editing widget, GtkSourceView. GtkSourceView extends the standard GtkTextView widget by adding syntax highlighting add other features typical of a source code editor.
IzPack 3.1.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132292/
IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it. It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will launch it.
JaxMeJS 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132285/
The JaxMe JavaSource generation framework (a spinoff of the JaxMe Java/XML binding tool) is an object-oriented view to a set of Java classes created by you. For example, there are objects JavaSource, JavaMethod, and so on. Features include automatic generation of import lists, semiautomatic indentation, and the ability to postprocess generated sources. This allows source code generation to be a pipelining process. Additionally, a framework for generating SQL is included.
JCards 4.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132293/
JCards is a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple applications/spreadsheets to manage passwords, tasks, shopping lists, etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon. JCards was initially developed for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 PDA, but will run on any desktop or PDA that has a 1.1 or above version of the Java Virtual Machine on it. The advantage of this is that the user can use the same application on the PDA and desktop to manage their data.
JGraphpad 2.2.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132260/
JGraphpad is a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more. With JGraphpad, you can create flow charts, maps, UML diagrams, and networks with thousands of nodes. JGraphpad is available with sourcecode, which may be used to develop new (commercial) applications.
KMD 0.9.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132304/
KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over the network or any other communication medium. It can load many executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be created using very little memory on the target device.
LaTrine 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132195/
LaTrine is a curses-based LAnguage TRaINEr. It takes a dictionary and asks you for a word or a phrase, and you try to give the correct answer. The direction is configurable. The selection of the words or phrases depends on how often you don't know the correct translation. It can be used with the Free Dictionaries Project, which provides dictionaries for about 50 language combinations.
LibMPEG3 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132341/
Libmpeg3 decodes MP2, MP3, AC3, MPEG-1 video, MPEG-2 video, and DVD footage in a single library. It supports many esoteric features like parallel video decoding, frame-accurate editing, YUV 4:2:2, and ATSC transport stream decoding.
LinkChecker 1.9.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132330/
With LinkChecker, you can check HTML documents for broken links. It features recursion, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, HTTP proxy support, i18n support, multithreading, regular expression filtering rules for links, and user/password checking for authorized pages. Output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, or a sitemap graph in GML or XML format. Supported link types are HTTP/1.1 and 1.0, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Gopher, Telnet, and local files.
Linux Security Auditing Tool 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132345/
Linux Security Auditing Tool (LSAT) is a post install security auditing tool. It is modular in design, so new features can be added quickly. It checks many system configurations and local network settings on the system for common security/config errors and for packages that are not needed. It has been tested on Linux (Gentoo, Red Hat, Debian, etc.) and Solaris (SunOS 2.x).
logrelay-pop3 1.1.0 (ipop3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132217/
logrelay-pop3 is a POP-before-SMTP program on FIFOs and with real time updating (Perl). It is for solid-pop3d (syslogd) and Sendmail, but you can easy change this if you want in config section. It reads authenticated IP and modifies access file (makemap hash, makedb, or how you want). After a definite time (in conf section) IP expires and the access base is reloaded. Everything goes in real time.
logrelay-pop3 1.1.0 (Zmailer)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132216/
logrelay-pop3 is a POP-before-SMTP program on FIFOs and with real time updating (Perl). It is for solid-pop3d (syslogd) and Sendmail, but you can easy change this if you want in config section. It reads authenticated IP and modifies access file (makemap hash, makedb, or how you want). After a definite time (in conf section) IP expires and the access base is reloaded. Everything goes in real time.
Lunar-Linux 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132299/
Lunar-Linux is a source-based Linux distribution with a unique package management system that builds each software package or module for the machine it is being installed on. Although a complete installation can take some time, it tends to be quite fast once installed.
Martin's Picture Viewer 0.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132307/
Martin's Picture Viewer is a JPEG viewer for X Windows written in Perl and Tk. It is able to display and edit JPEG meta-information, including EXIF data, IPTC/IIM information, and embedded comments. It also serves as a frontend for performing lossless rotation, resizing, and filtering, and can displays images as thumbnails.
Matchball 0.33b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132344/
Matchball is a little puzzle game written in C++, using the Simple DirectMedia Layer. You have to click to remove all adjacent balls with the same color and reach as many points as possible.
MiddleMan 1.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132266/
Middleman is a robust proxy server with many features designed to remove unwanted content, increase privacy, and to simply make surfing the Web a more pleasant experience. Some of the highlights include banner and popup blocking, HTTP and FTP content caching, NTLM and Basic authentication when forwarding through another proxy server, regular expression substitution in downloaded files and HTTP headers, regular expression substitution on requested URLs, many URL commands to temporarily change the proxy settings or to view information about a requested file, complete support for HTTP/1.1 including persistent connections and gzip encoding, and an intutive Web interface for configuring the proxy.
mkvtoolnix 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132346/
mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows.
Modeling Framework 0.9pre13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132257/
Modeling Framework fills the gap between the Python object world and relational databases in that it allows users to transparently create, retrieve, update, or delete Python objects from a database without having to write a single line of SQL. Main features include generation of database schema, generation of Python code templates ready to be used, support for transparent mapping of (class) inheritance in relational databases, object-oriented query language, use of standard Python getters to traverse relationships (the related objects are automatically fetched when needed and when appropriate), and automatic checking for referential-integrity constraints, etc. Supported databases are PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
msmtp 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132374/
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.
mudsbuilder 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132366/
Mudsbuilder is a set of tools for the creation of dungeon maps in MUDs. Once a map is created, the user has the ability to generate LPC code from that map for virtually any mudlib. It supports standard (south, north, east, etc.) exits, ups and downs, and miscellaneous exits, such as one-way exits.
NetCDF 3.5.1-beta12 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132305/
NetCDF is a format originally developed at NASA and then taken over by Unidata. CDF stands for "Common Data Format" and is a self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and engineering applications.
Newts 0.11.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132372/
Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients.
objobf 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132269/
objobf obfuscates IA32 Linux .o ELF object files and can create graphs that visualize the structure of a function. It does simple control- and dataflow-analysis, loop-detection on control flow graphs, and generates output code. It can insert junk instructions, duplicate code blocks, insert simple opaque constructs, and reorder the basic blocks within an object file.
Open Systems Accounting Software 6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132264/
Open Systems Accounting Software (OSAS) is an accounting and business management system. It is designed to be easy to learn and use. It is best suited for companies ranging in size from small companies with 12 users or less to mid-market companies. It comes with many modules for accounting, distribution, and reporting.
OpenAMF 1.0RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132348/
The OpenAMF Project is an open-source alternative to MM's Java Flash Remoting. The project's goal is to produce a program which is much more capable of providing application services to SWF clients than the proprietary MM solution. This project began as a Java port of amfphp.
osdchat 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132297/
osdchat is a program that sends messages from a console client to the on-screen display on a remote machine. It uses the xosd library.
P::Classes 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132317/
P::Classes is a portable C++ Application Framework. It includes everything needed for real world application development, such as classes for networking, GUI, databases, config, logging, and plugins.
Petal 0.71.0beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132314/
Petal helps maintain the owner, group, and mode on trees of files by recalling this information from a configuration file. In turn, this allows system administrators to separate the publication of files (e.g. pulling system configurations from a change management system) from their presentation (tweaking the owner/group/mode to satisfaction). If recursive chown/chmod commands provide inadequate precision for your needs, Petal may be the tool for you.
photos 4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132274/
photos is a Web-based photo database for storing metadata about digital photos so you can find them again later. It supports adding photos one at a time, or as a group by directory. It is intended to be run locally but can be run on a remote Web server if you've got the space and the bandwidth.
PHP multiple dataset bar graph 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/131831/
This class creates a PNG image bar graph for inclusion into HTML pages. The graph can display one or more data set in user defined colors. The font size, font color background color, spacing between sets of bars, labels, and y-axis tick marks are all set by the user. To use the class you first need to collect some information, such as the data, labels and the image dimensions. While the thickness and height of the bars will adjust to fit your image, the text will not. After creating the image you can set many of the features.
PHPCoder 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132359/
PHPCoder is a Web-based frontend to the Turck MMCache encoding functions, which are similar to the Zend Encoder product. PHPCoder enables you to encode your PHP scripts and applications into non-reversible bytecode, thus preventing users of your programs from viewing or altering the source code while having full functionality. Another excellent use for PHPCoder is to encode your applications PHP configuration files, that way someone viewing your source code does not see your databae login and password information. It also allows you to set restrictions on the encoded scripts, you can lock a script to a particular server IP address, server host name, visitor IP, or even place a time limit on the script so it will expire after a configurable amount of time. You specify Text, HTML, or PHP code that should be prepended and appended to each file before it is encoded, allowing you to easily and securely implement your own licensing scheme.
Picfolio 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/132303/