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[osdn business] September 06, 2003
Date: Sat Sep 06 2003 - 01:30:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Congress Again Considering Database Protection Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/034221
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo News is [0]reporting on a new bill in Congress: '... a proposed bill that would prevent wholesale copying of school guides, news archives and other databases which do not enjoy copyright protection.'" The idea of [1]database protection legislation has been kicking around for a long time. It's a bad idea, but it would make a lot of money for a few companies, so they keep pushing it, and no doubt will eventually get it passed. Links
Microsoft Settles Be Antitrust Suit for $23.25M http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/06/0257220
[0]ewhac writes "Without admitting wrongdoing, Microsoft today agreed
to pay $23,250,000 to Be, Inc., to [1]settle anti-trust claims against
the software giant. The payout is anticipated to be used to complete
the orderly dissolution of the company. Shortly after announcing sale
of key assets to Palm, Be, Inc., [2]filed suit against Microsoft in
February 2002, [3]alleging destruction of its business via illegal
exclusionary and anti-competitive business practices."
Links
0.
http://ewhac.best.vwh.net/
1.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030905/sff027_1.html
2.
http://www.beincorporated.com/press/pressreleases/02-02-19_msft_complaint.html
3.
http://www.beincorporated.com/msft_complaint.pdfElectronic Voting: The Other Side of the Story http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2140216
_randy_64 writes "We've all read about the [0]perils of online voting.
But in [1]an article in MIT's [2]Tech Review, noted technologist
[3]Simson Garfield looks at the other side of the story and comes away
thinking that e-voting might not be so bad, if done properly. He
mentions several ways that traditional ballot voting is just as
'hackable' as the electronic version."
Links
0.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/04/199210&tid=172
1.
https://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_garfinkel090303.asp?p=1
2.
http://www.techreview.com/
3.
http://www.simson.net/
The Innovators' Ball
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2136214
[0]Babylon Rocker writes "Latest Cringely: [1]The Innovators' Ball: Why
Business Isn't as Fun as it Used to be. 'Sharp business is cheating and
not getting caught.'"
Links
0. mailto:wrkf-9sx5@[ ]mex.com ['spa' in gap]
SCO's Next Target: SGI?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2131217
[0]FatRatBastard writes "ZDNet News is [1]speculating that SCO's next
target in its legal actions against Linux may be SGI. According to the
article its legal strategy will be to claim that XFS is a Unix
derivative and therefore under SCO control, much like they claim JFS is
in their suit with IBM. One fact not mentioned in the article that
would support SGI being the next target is the malloc code they claimed
was infringing at this years SCOForum was copyrighted SGI."
Links
0. mailto:acentofantiNO@SPAMyahoo.com
Myst Online Trailer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/2125204
[0]Allaran writes "The latest installment in the Myst story, an online
experience entitled [1]URU: Ages of Myst, is ramping up to its release.
This has been up and coming for some time, but a [2]trailer
(Warning:20MB) [[3]BitTorrent link via GameTab] has just been released,
made entirely from within the game engine. Apparently, there is a
significant offline game that can be played, with the option to
subscribe as well."
Links
0. mailto:allaran@hotmail.com
1.
http://uru.ubi.com/
2.
http://www.uruobsession.com/multimedia/video/trailers/trailer2.mpg
3.
http://www.gametab.com/files/torrents.php?fuse=70
Racketeering Suit Filed Against DirecTV
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/196242
[0]dki writes "Another attempt is being made to head off the lawsuits
DirecTV has been filing against purchasers of smart-card programmers.
This time, lawyers have [1]filed suit under the mob-busting Racketeer
Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) federal organized crime
statute, accusing DirecTV of organized extortion, money laundering and
fraud. Background on the ongoing saga can be found [2]here and
[3]here."
Links
0.
http://www.dawnandgreg.com
1.
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/6865
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/0351233&tid=129
3.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/17/190232&tid=126
Java vs .NET
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1855250
CHaN_316 writes "Yahoo is running a story called '[0]Is Java Finished?'
It provides a brief overview of the strengths and weaknesses of [1]J2EE
and contrasts them with [2].NET. Classic arguments are brought up like
Java being great for portability while .NET ties you down to Microsoft
products, etc. It's interesting that they bring up the [3]Java
Community Process, and how it is a rather slow moving procedure that is
causing Java to become stagnant."
Links
0.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nf/20030904/tc_nf/22216&e=5
1.
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/
2.
http://www.microsoft.com/net/
3.
http://www.jcp.org/
Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1738249
[0]Mikkeles writes "From an [1]Associated Press story: 'It sounds like
a chapter out of "Spy vs. Spy": Researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University have launched a [2]project called Camera Watch that lists
Internet cameras that monitor public spaces, letting Web surfers try
the role of bored security guard.' The site permits searching for an
available webcam in the geographical region (US) of your choice. About
600 webcams of 6000 in the pipe are now available."
Links
0. mailto:mikkeles@netscape.net
1.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030904.gtjailcamsept4/BNStory/Technology/
2.
http://privacy.cs.cmu.edu/dataprivacy/projects/camwatch/Separate Cargo and Personnel Missions for NASA? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1731237
l8f57 writes "Hal Gerham (from the NASA CAIB report) is calling for
[0]cargo and people to be separated into different missions. He also
goes on about how a re-usable spacecraft may not be the most cost
efficient vehicle."
Links
0. http://edition.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/09/04/sprj.colu.house.hearing/
Newsforge Reports
Politics in Free Software
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/02/1930234
- by Tom Chance - When he added a line crediting the United States Army to four of his applications, Neil Stevens created a small storm in the KDE community; politics, people said, was not to interfere with KDE, and his credit was removed. However, when the KDE Web site took part in the online protest against software patents in Europe, people said politics was important to KDE. So what role does politics play in KDE, and in Free Software in ...
OpenOffice trails MS Office in vulnerabilities http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1414247
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This week Microsoft Office once again affirmed its leadership in the office software world by releasing news of not one, two, or three, but five security holes. Meanwhile, OpenOffice.org, the primary open source competitor to MS Office, has no vulnerabilities to report. And OpenOffice developers say they have no plans to introduce Microsoft-competitive vulnerabilities, even though most PC users obviously consider ...
Linux Advisory Watch - September 5th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1143203
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for sendmail, gdm, node, pam_smb, vmware, horde, phpwebsite, eroaster, mindi, gallery, atari800, sendmail, and up2date. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
Newsforge Newsvac
Microsoft steps up Linux assault with benchmark claim
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1531208
OwlWhacker writes "Microsoft has released file and web server benchmark results which claim to show that Linux on the mainframe lags behind Windows 2003 on Intel systems in a price-performance comparison."
SCO in fight with self
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1534234
Anonymous Reader writes "Since at least August, SCO have been floating the idea of sending invoices to Linux users. It's even been reported, seemingly incorrectly, back in August, that SCO was beginning to send invoices. The invoice story has been taken up with a vengence in the last few days, for example, here, here and here. Now SCO in Australia says the invoicing plan doesn't "ring true" and contradicts recent very strategy discussions. ...
Germans Have It Right, Standing Up to SCO! http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1837213
Jim Musser writes "SCO fined for Linux claims." The SCO Group Inc. has been fined $10,800 for violating a German court's ruling that SCO must cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual property, the Lindon, Utah, company confirmed on Monday.
The Linux Test Project ltp-20030905 Released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1835214
Robbie Williamson writes "The Linux Test Project test suite has been released. The latest version of the testsuite contains 2000+ tests for the Linux OS. Our web site also contains other information such as: test results, a Linux test tools matrix, an area for keeping up with fixes for known blocking problems in the 2.5/2.6 kernel releases, technical papers and HowTos on Linux testing, and a code coverage analysis tool.
UNDP releases OS primer for public review http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1811221
An anonymous coward writes "The UNDP is putting out a open source primer draft for public review for three weeks before the document is sent for publication and distribution through UNDP communication channels. After initial publication, the primer will be maintained as a live document, updated to reflect recent changes. Feedback on this primer is being solicited. Further details can be found here. A previous paper on FOSS and governments, based ...
School switches to linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/175250
Anonymous Reader writes "An article in T.H.E. Journal by a school tech administrator talks about his experiences making the switch from Windows and Microsoft apps to Linux and Open Source. He talks about what motivated him to do it and the advantages the school gained from the initiative, as well as the problems encountered."
Microsoft Palladium Threat Just Around The Corner http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/1529235
OwlWhacker writes "The spectrum of Palladium/TCPA and of all its negative consequences is finally appearing on the horizon with all of its ugliness."
Rilke CMS 0.95 beta released!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/158226
Jay Sheth writes "I am happy to announce the release of Rilke CMS 0.95 beta, after several months of hard work!
SciTech SNAP Graphics for Linux Final Released http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/147258
Anonymous Reader writes "After a few months in beta, SciTech Software has just released the final version of their main product, SciTech SNAP Graphics, for Linux. The 2D drivers are reportedly much faster than the equivelants found on the default XFree86 release. There is also a review by the LinuxFormat magazine about the project. Overall, it is something that is worth checking out if you are into additional speed and feature-set, too bad ...
SCO evidence falls flat in Sydney
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/05/143234
Anonymous Reader writes "Businesses should move forward with their adoption of open source, despite fears that they may be targeted by SCO for breach of copyright, industry representatives said at a recent Unix conference. Greg Lehey, president of the Australian Unix and Open Systems User Group (AUUG), speaking in the "Who Owns Unix?" panel discussion at the AUUG conference in Sydney yesterday, said that he hadn't seen "even the slightest ...
Freshmeat
Ajaqs 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134951/
Ajaqs is a Web app that organizes FAQs on a per-project basis. It is designed to be deployed under popular Web and application servers. It aims to serve two purposes: to provide engineering groups a mechanism for consolidating and preserving in-house knowledge in connection to product development and usage, and to provide small companies with a Web interface for exposing searchable, internationalizable information related to products and services.
AndroMDA 2.02 Final
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134896/
AndroMDA is a code generation framework that follows the model driven architecture (MDA) paradigm. It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool and generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other).
Battlemech 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134926/
Battlemech is a game in which you steer a mech from a top-down view in various arenas. A lot of weapons and powerups are available. It is meant to be played on a LAN, but you can play against bots, too (though the bots don't score). It is based on an advanced version of the Quake engine and written in QuakeC.
Buildtool 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134965/
Buildtool is a set of integrated utilities which make programs more portable and easier to build on any kind of Unix-like system.
CCT Chinese TeX system 0.5.0-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134957/
CCT is a Chinese Language Extention to TeX that was developed by the Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
Clustered JDBC 1.0beta10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134933/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more.
Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.20rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134980/
CUPS provides a portable printing layer for Unix(r)-based operating systems. It has been developed to promote a standard printing solution for all Unix vendors and users. CUPS provides the System V and Berkeley command line interfaces, and uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues. The Line Printer Daemon (LPD) Server Message Block (SMB), and AppSocket (a.k.a. JetDirect) protocols are also supported with reduced functionality. CUPS adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real world printing under UNIX. It includes an image file RIP that supports printing of image files to non-PostScript printers. A customized version of GNU Ghostscript 7.05 for CUPS called ESP Ghostscript is available separately to support printing of PostScript files within the CUPS driver framework. Sample drivers for Dymo, EPSON, HP, and OKIDATA printers are included that use these filters.
CVSGnome 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134989/
CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu.
CycleAtlas 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134903/
CycleAtlas is a cycling diary based on a custom road atlas. It can be used to store or to plan new rides. Functions includes generation of planimetry, profiles, and route time tables of rides. A map editor is included, in order to create a custom road map.
Damn Small Linux 0.4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134899/
Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.
DCGUI-QT 0.2.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134936/
DCGUI-QT a QT GUI Direct Connect filesharing client.
Digital Tester 0.5 ALPHA
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134940/
Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results, allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have bugs.
DotPHP 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134931/
DotPHP is framework similar to ASP.NET. It contains FormForge, Web components, NuSOAP, and PHPBaseClasses.
Dr. Geo 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134945/
Dr. Geo is interactive geometry software that uses GTK. It allows you to create geometric figures and interactive manipulate them within their geometric constraints.
DSPAM 2.6.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134938/
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.
evelin 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134906/
Evelin is a Linux distribution based upon Mandrake. Its main purpose is to be kept secure and small, while providing the basic functionality that system administrators might need. It runs within its own chroot jail.
FLEX-db 3.0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134891/
FLEX-db is an enterprise digital asset manager. It takes and links metadata with files, creates thumbnails, and processes files using business rules. It has a JSP client, Java app server for file input and output, and an EJB metadata layer.
FreeBSD JDK 1.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134900/
This is the offical FreeBSD port of Sun's Java Development Kit, including compilers, a run-time environment, appletviewer, and standard Java executors, the Java debugger, and more.
g3data 1.4.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134966/
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.
Gtk2-Perl 0.97
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134897/
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.
Guis widget server 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134983/
Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for widget requests (in the Python or Ruby scripting languages), and emit replies or events in textual lines (e.g. Lispy, XML or plain token syntax). It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to delegate the user interface to another process.
H2O Rotisserie 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134977/
H2O is a system that supports gathering people around ideas. In addition to the traditional features of learning management systems, H2O includes support for collaboration between projects through the sharing of syllabus elements and through joint discussions between projects. It also supports Rotisserie-structured discussions, which provide an alternative to traditional online discussion boards by structuring the timing and flow of discussions. It can be used as a traditional course management platform, but it can also be used for more informal projects centered around the exploration of a set of ideas, whether the project be a conference, an ongoing public discussion, or a traditional academic course.
Haystack Snapshot 0820
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134946/
Haystack is a powerful tool designed to enable each and every individual manage all of her information in the way that makes the most sense. By removing the arbitrary barriers created by applications that only handle certain information "types", and recording only a fixed set of relationships defined by the developer, users can define whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of information they find most effective. Such personalization of information management will dramatically improve your ability to find what you need when you need it.
HTTP-WebTest 2.04
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134976/
HTTP-WebTest is a Perl module which runs tests on remote URLs or local Web files containing Perl/JSP/HTML/JavaScript/etc., and generates a detailed test report. This module can be used "as-is" or its functionality can be extended using plugins. Plugins can define test types and provide additional report capabilities. This module comes with a set of default plugins, but can be easily extended with third-party plugins.
ImTask 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134893/
ImTask is a set of Ant tasks for sending Instant Message notifications. It currently supports AIM (TOC protocol), XMPP/XMPP Secure (Jabber), and MSN.
iTab Pro QuickNavBar 2.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134905/
iTab Pro QuickNavBar is a high-speed, multi-level, scalable topbar navigation tool. As well as tabs and switchbars, it includes deep multi-level frame-crossing drop-down menus and an optional search interface.
ITracker 2.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134928/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, configurable field values, customizable project level fields, pluggable authentication, a built-in scheduler, and email notifications.
Jaffm 0.9.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134917/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
Java XTools 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134955/
The Java XTools are an extensive collection of enhanced functions and features for Java and Java 3D. It includes an enhanced BranchGroup Node, object loaders for Renderware .rwx files and Caligari TrueSpace .cob and .scn files, RotationInterpolators for combinations of the X-, Y-, and Z-axes, enhanced keyboard navigation, and a text to texture converter. It also includes functions and classes for images and PNG files, a ByteArrayReader, data download including a disk caching mechanism, and enhancements for Swing components.
Jaxor 3.3 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134961/
Jaxor is a simple but powerful tool for creating an object to relational mapping layer. It allows developers to painlessly insert, update, and delete rows from tables, but can be expanded on to create an extensible mapping layer that creates a full domain model, transparently mapping to database tables.
KAON 0826
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134956/
KAON is an ontology management infrastructure targeted at business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management. Persistence mechanisms of KAON are based on relational databases.
Lame Node System 0.6-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134948/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-09-05 (Pattern Definitions) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134970/
This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.
Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.2.0 (Linux 2.5/2.6 patch) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134968/
This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure.
lin-seti 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134987/
lin-seti is a command line program allowing the user to mantain a cache of work units for the Seti@Home client. It should run without any problem on Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is designed to be fully compatible with SETI Driver (similar software for Windows), so you can share the same cache on dual boot systems.
Linux FreeS/WAN 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134978/
Linux FreeS/WAN provides IPSEC (IP Security, which is both encryption and authentication) kernel extensions and an IKE (Internet Key Exchange, keying and encrypted routing daemon) as well as various rc scripts and documentation. It is known to interoperate with other IPSEC and IKE system already deployed by other vendors such as OpenBSD, Cisco, or CheckPoint. It also features Opportunistic Encryption, subnet extrusion, and with the appropriate patches interops nicely with Microsoft Windows XP/2000 using X.509 certificates.
Linux Test Project ltp-20030905
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134943/
The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 950 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.
Mod Four 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134888/
Mod Four is a modified version of the default theme in the Kahakai 0.4 release.
Open Office Software Development Kit 1.1 Release Candidate Three http://freshmeat.net/releases/134950/
The Open Office Software Development Kit is an add-on for OpenOffice.org. It provides the necessary tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs and creating your own extensions (UNO components) for OpenOffice.org.
openMosix Cluster for Linux 2.4.22-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134985/
openMosix is a a set of extensions to the standard Linux kernel allowing you to build a cluster of out of off-the-shelf PC hardware. openMosix scales perfectly up to thousands of nodes. You do not need to modify your applications to benefit from your cluster (unlike PVM, MPI, Linda, etc.). Processes in openMosix migrate transparently between nodes and the cluster will always auto-balance.
OpenVPN 1.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134972/
OpenVPN is a robust and highly configurable VPN (Virtual Private Network) daemon which can be used to securely link two or more private networks using an encrypted tunnel over the Internet. OpenVPN's principal strengths include wide cross-platform portability, excellent stability, support for dynamic IP addresses and NAT, adaptive link compression, single TCP/UDP port usage, a modular design that offloads most crypto tasks to the OpenSSL library, and relatively easy installation that in most cases doesn't require a special kernel module.
P2P-Radio 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134925/
P2P-Radio is a peer-to-peer audio (MP3) and video (NSV) broadcasting system that features freeloader detection, stream signing, SHOUTcast support, an easy-to-use GUI, and a separate monitor application which displays the current structure of the P2P network.
Pen 0.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134901/
Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance.
PHPGenerator 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134927/
PHPGenerator is a homepage generator which supports creation and editing of homepages without any knowledge about HTML. Nevertheless, different HTML tags can be added manually or by using the functionality of the generator.
PircBot 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134915/
PircBot is a Java framework for writing IRC bots quickly and easily. Its features include an event-driven architecture to handle common IRC events, flood protection, DCC chat, file resuming, ident support, multiple servers, and more. Its comprehensive logfile format is suitable for use with pisg to generate channel statistics. Full documentation is included, and the Web site contains a 5-minute step-by-step guide to making your first IRC bot.
Prima 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134914/
Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development. Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11 workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.
Process Change Detection System 2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134973/
Process Change Detection System is a script to monitor changes in processes--not to monitor if your Web server is still running, but to see if there are new programs running. When debugging a honeypot logging, you often see that there's an extra inetd running, to open up a backdoor port. Or, less dramatically, people login to a system and "forget" to logout.
PyGantt 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134935/
PyGantt reads a project description from a xml formatted file and outputs a html Gantt diagram.
Qastrocam 3.8.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134984/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
qjackctl 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134981/
Qjackctl is a simple Qt application to control the JACK sound server daemon, specifically for the Linux Audio Desktop infrastructure. It is written in C++ around the Qt3 toolkit for X11, most exclusively using Qt Designer. It provides a simple GUI dialog for setting several JACK daemon parameters, which are properly saved between sessions, and a way to control of the status of the audio server daemon.
Rabid Rabbit 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134979/
Rabid Rabbit is a 2D arcade style shoot 'em up. On each of its sixteen levels, you are required to get sheep to safety while avoiding and killing everything that is out to get you. It is controlled using a mouse.
Recovery Is Possible! 6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134932/
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has PCMCIA, RAID, LVM, and Ethernet/DSL/cable/PPP/PPPOE network support.
S tar 1.5a23 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134910/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.
schedtool 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134918/
schedtool can be used to alter or query a process' scheduling policy under Linux. The O(1)-sched-patch is required to take full advantage of it. All scheduling modes of Linux are supported.
Scrubber 0.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134988/
Scrubber is a server-side, high performance, extendable, SMTP-independent mail content filtering system. It supports global, per- domain, and per-user configurations with caching support. Any number of configuration storage mechanisms are supported through the plugin interface. It supports anti-virus scanning, whitelist/blacklist matching, Bayesian probability scoring, and attachment blocking. Clients exist for SMTP-level integration in the common client-server architecture. Additional clients can be created for any mailer on any platform.
Sentinel IRC Services 2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134939/
Sentinel provides statistical and operator services for EFnet, IRCnet, and Dalnet IRC daemons. It supports Hybrid/Comstud (5, 6, 7, comstud 1.x, CSr, csircd, ircd-ratbox), IRCnet 2.10.x, and Bahamut. It features a StatServ, a SplitServ, flood protection, customized HTML output, a Jupe service, and a number of drone/clone tracking tools. It fully supports many Hybrid 6 and 7 extensions.
SiouX 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134913/
SiouX is an HTTP server developed mainly for use in Linux. It supports CGI/1.1, and forks off children to serve connections. It is designed to be fast and easy to use.
SlackCheck 2.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134941/
SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine.
slashem 0.0.7E3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134967/
Slash'EM (Super Lotsa Added Stuff Hack -- Extended Magic) is a variant of the hugely popular roguelike game NetHack. It adds more monsters, more objects, more dungeon levels, more roles, and more races, shopkeeper services, and techniques for you to use, and invisible objects and gypsies for those who feel lucky. It also comes with a GTK windowing interface and higher resolution tile sets as options.
Snownews 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134912/
Snownews is a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS feeds that comply to W3C's RDF 1.0 specification and Radio Userland's 0.9x and 2.0. Snownews depends on ncurses and uses libxml2 for XML parsing.
Sound Juicer 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134954/
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and automatic tagging of files.
STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.3.16 (Earlgrey Linux) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134909/
Franki and Earlgrey Linux are proof-of-concept Linux distributions for small and embedded-class systems whose configuration is controlled by a loosely-knit suite of scripts designed to produce utility toolchains, known as STUBS. STUBS (the Toolchain and Utility Build Suite) is driven by an easily-tailored set of configuration files and acquires the requisite sources by download. Subject to runtime dependencies, it is capable of working within the Franki Linux environment.
SuaveDNS 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134907/
SuaveDNS is a set of Perl and PHP programs which allow DNS administrators to easily add, remove, or update zones with an easy to use Web-based control panel. The DNS server is DJBDNS, and the data is stored in a MySQL database.
Support Information Tracker 2.0.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134929/
Support Information Tracker is a knowledge base for organizations. Features include multiple document versions, group permissions, document submission reviews, and many more.
Sussen 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134942/
Sussen is a security scanner which remotely tests computers or other devices and provides a report on their vulnerabilities. It features Python-based security tests, a GNOME interface, a GNOME-DB backend, and customizable reports.
The Distribulator 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134944/
The Distribulator is an SSH-based command execution and file transfer utility. It includes support for both batch and console mode, XML configuration, multiple server enviornments, and auditing via syslog. The Distribulator is meant to be distributed computing for the rest of us.
The Distributed Library Project 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134958/
The Distributed Library Project is a distributed library of people's books and videos, an experiment in creating community and sharing information. Users create accounts complete with bios and interest enumerations, then list the books and videos that they own. Those users are then free to browse the books that others have listed, sorted by proximity, interest, and book commonality. If a book or video is available, a user can check it out directly from the owner. There is an eBay-style feedback system for managing trust--users who return books on time get positive feedback, while users who damage books or return them late get negative feedback. These points create an overall "score" that lenders can use to judge the trustworthiness of a borrower. The system also supports user reviews, ISBN lookups, and collaboritve filtering.
The Singularity System 2003.09.05-alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/134895/
The Singularity System allows developers to easily create applications and web services based on service definitions expressed in XML schema language. It allows any program developed with it to become "pluggable", meaning that parts can be swapped out at runtime. "Method calls" in the form of messages can be sent either to local code or code mounted on remote machines.
Virtual Object System 0.12.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134908/
The Virtual Object System (VOS) is an infrastructure and collection of applications for building a multiuser object-oriented virtual reality for the Internet. An abstract messaging layer (the VOS core) provides a powerful abstraction, presenting a peer-to-peer distributed system as a single unified whole. The 3D client (Ter'Angreal) enables any number of users to interact in a virtual environment by communicating with one another and by modifying and building onto the virtual environment itself. This projects aims to realize the vision of a free 3D immersive Internet.
Virtual Universe / Virtual Worlds 0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134975/
VU/VW is a 3D cyberspace which offers more possibilities than just chat: it is a combination of the Web, chat, and instant messaging within a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace. Here people can meet, interact with each other, and build houses and whole worlds. The Virtual Universe is a virtual reality environment which runs on top of the Internet.
WaveSurfer 1.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134953/
WaveSurfer is a sound visualization/manipulation tool for novice and advanced users, with a simple and intuitive user interface. It can be adapted to different tasks, such as speech research and education, speech/sound analysis, and sound annotation/transcription. You can also make more advanced/specialized applications by extending it with custom plugins or embed WaveSurfer components in other applications. Its flexible interface handles many different file formats, and it runs on many flavors of Windows and Unix. It also supports encoding and Unicode with unlimited file size, and more.
Wipe Release Candidate 0901
http://freshmeat.net/releases/134947/
Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the file or files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access, in order to lessen the chance of data recovery using techniques such as magnetic force microscopy.