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[osdn developer] April 24, 2003
Date: Thu Apr 24 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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April 24, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Computing: Bay-Mounted 6-in-1 Card Reader
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/5ee4/
Electronics: PRISMIQ MediaPlayer
http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5e77/
Computing: USB 2.0 Kit
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/5eda/
Cube Goodies: Nerf Air Tech 2000
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5e15/
Gadgets: Powerball Gyroscope
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/5ea1/
Gadgets: 3D Green Laser Show
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5e80/
Electronics: Casio Exilim EX-M2 Digital Camera http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/cameras/5e6f/
Electronics: Panasonic DVD Player - DVDS35 http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/video/5eaf/
Tshirts: Mostly IP Creeper & Toddler Tee http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/kids/5e09/
Interests: Megatokyo Endgames - Pirogoeth Poster http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/megatokyo/coolthings/5e98/
Books: The Matrix & Philosophy: Welcome To The Desert Of The Real http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d52/
Books: The Book Of Overclocking
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/nonfiction/5d46/
Books: Pattern Recognition
http://www.thinkgeek.com/books/scifi/5d4a/
Computing: Multi-Fan Speed Controller
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e51/
Computing: Zalman Silent 400W Power Supply http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e4c/
Computing: Half Keyboard
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/keyboards/5e2b/
Computing: Zalman VGA Heatsink w/ HeatPipe http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e5e/
Computing: Zalman CNPS7000-Cu CPU Cooler http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/casemods/5e55/
Cube Goodies: Portable Mini Fridge
http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/toys/5d57/
Gadgets: LightWedge Reading Light
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5cf2/
Sourceforge
py-xmlrpc 0.8.8.3 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270940
Py-xmlrpc is a fast and stable implementation of the xmlrpc spec for Python (written in C). It supports both blocking and non-blocking clients and servers on Windows and POSIX (Linux, Sun) platforms. Speed improvements are often an order of magnitude over Python's standard xmlrpclib library. This release includes several new features, including a drop-in compatibility wrapper for xmlrpclib.
New KDE-cygwin 3.1.1 Beta 1 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269806
We are proud to present the first KDE 3.1.1 release of the KDE desktop environment for cygwin/xfree. See project web site for further information. The KDE on Cygwin project is started to enable the kde desktop on Windows OS based on cygwin, the posix emulation layer for Windows, the xfree86 server and the qt library (qtlib).
Etherboot 5.0.10 (production) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270843
Etherboot is Open Source code for creating boot ROMs for network booting x86 platforms. It is also a coordination point for information about free software related to network booting. eepro100 users should give this release a try, hopefully it deals with the issues that caused the driver to be broken after 5.0.7.
OSCAR 2.2.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270846
The OSCAR working group is pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.1 of the Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) toolkit. This release offers full IA-64 support with the inclusion of updated SIS and Kernel_Picker packages. OSCAR (Open Source Cluster Application Resource) is a snapshot of the best known methods for building, programming, and using clusters. It consists of a fully integrated and easy to install software bundle designed for high performance cluster computing. The supported distributions include RedHat 7.2 & 7.3 as well as Mandrake 8.2. There is experimental support for RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0. Feature list of 2.2+ are: * RedHat 7.2, 7.3 and Mandrake 8.2 supported * RedHat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0 experimentally supported * IA-64 Support * SIS update, including SystemImager 3.0 * Kernel_Picker updated (tool to assist with alt kernel usage) * Import/export MAC addresses from/to a file * MAC address auto-assign and auto-dhcpd restart * OSCAR Database (ODA) enhancements * OSCAR Package Downloader (OPD) updated * C3 updated * LAM/MPI updated This release is available for download at the OSCAR project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscar/ (note that SourceForge marks the download file as "i386", but the file will work on ia64 platforms as well) Please use the oscar-devel mailing list for help and discussions and report any bugs in the bug tracker. Both of these are also available at the OSCAR project page. ANNOUNCEMENT: The OSCAR group would like to invite all interested users to attend the first annual OSCAR Symposium this May 11-14, 2003 in Sherbrooke, Canada. http://oscar2003.ccs.usherbrooke.ca/
NTFS 2.1.3a available for Linux kernel 2.4.20 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270897
This release fixes all known issues with the NTFS driver. If you still experience problems with this new release please let us know. The goals of this project are: create a new Linux kernel driver for the NTFS file system (v1.2 and later 3.0), user space utilities (e.g. format, ntfs check, etc.) and a library to avoid code duplication and provide access to NTFS to other GPLed programs.
Visual Tcl 1.6.0b2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=269800
Visual Tcl is a freely-available, high-quality application development environment for UNIX, Windows, Macintosh and AS400 platforms. Visual Tcl is written entirely in Tcl/Tk and generates pure Tcl/Tk code. This release fixes problems seen with the img package on tck/Tk 8.4.2, hanging vTcl on startup or with broken image links. More simple tutorials have been added, and support for creating and reusing megawidgets enhanced. Easy implementation of modal dialogs can be done with the toplevel alias command. Thanks to RJ Nelson for fixing bugs! While saving, a temporary project file is now created. This prevents corrupted project files when an unexpected error aborts saving. Auto indent has been fixed. The toolbar was redesigned because of problems caused by resizing itself.
Treebeard/Fangorn v0.8rc1 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270146
Treebeard is an XSLT IDE written in Java; a text editor that allows the loading and editing of an XML document and an XSLT document at the same time. It also can apply the XSLT to the XML and display the output for further editing/saving. Plugable XML and XSLT parsers. The new 0.8rc1 version fixes several bugs from the 0.7 version, it also adds the ability to save your desktop, and has look and feel support. 0.8rc1 now come bundled with Saxon7.4 (some XSLT 2.0 support) and Xalan 2.5.0. but can use any compatable parser / transformer. The new 0.8rc1 also uses Ashpool for back end storage. You can check out Treebeard/Fangorn at http://treebeard.sourceforge.net
TA-LIB 0.0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270248
TA-LIB is a C/C++/Excel library for technical analysis (TA) of financial data, providing indicators like MACD, RSI, STOCH etc... plus some statistical and financial functions. Access stock market data from ASCII files or Yahoo! Does also performance measurements of tradings. A number of new TA functions are included in this release. V0.0.8 (April 2003) - New TA Functions: AROON Aroon AROONOSC Aroon Oscillator MAMA MESA Adaptive Moving Average KAMA Kaufman Adaptive Moving Average T3 Triple Exponential Moving Average HT_TRENDLINE Hilbert Transform - Instantaneous Trendline HT_DCPERIOD Hilbert Transform - Dominant Cycle Period HT_DCPHASE Hilbert Transform - Dominant Cycle Phase HT_PHASOR Hilbert Transform - Phasor Components HT_SINE Hilbert Transform - SineWave HT_TRENDMODE Hilbert Transform - Trend vs Cycle Mode AD Chaikin A/D Line ADOSC Chaikin A/D Oscillator The Hilbert Transform functions are the ones found in John F. Ehlers books "Rocket Science For Traders". - MA types parameters have been changed, hopefully for the last time. - Fix #701060: Fix TA_TRIMA function. Thanks to Chris. - Excel shutdown logic corrected. Sync with latest XLW 1.2.2 release See HISTORY.TXT for summary of previous version. Info: http://ta-lib.org
CUTE 0.1.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270232
CUTE is a Qt and Scintilla based programmers text editor. It can be extended and customized using the python programming language and is available on linux/unix. The editor supports syntax highlighting for many languages. With this release, key mapping can now be done with map python function. There is also a dialog for shortcut manipulation. Began to implement ctags support.
Glame 1.0.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=270187
Glame 1.0.0 is the first release of the stable series 1.0 that will be the last Gnome 1.x based one. Compared to the 0.6 series improvements were made to multitrack recording and speed. GLAME is targeted to be the GIMP for audio processing. Currently we support non destructive multitrack editing and recording, undo, redo, cut&paste and even realtime effects with OSS/ALSA.
Slashdot
Aussies Face Jail Over MP3s
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/0154235
An anonymous reader writes "Two Australian students have been
[0]charged over music piracy offences, according to this story on
[1]Australian IT. It's short on details, but presumably they weren't
running a P2P network. The maximum penalties for breaching copyright
under Australian law is 5 years jail."
Links
0. http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,6329862%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
The Two Towers DVD Release Dates
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/2336203
[0]FortKnox writes "Mark these dates on your Calendar: 6/28/03 &
11/18/03. These are the (US) [1]DVD release dates for The Two Towers.
Like Fellowship, the first date is the release of the DVD, and the
November date is the release of the special edition (with rumored extra
48 minutes of footage). Another [2]one ring.net page has more details
on the actual footage."
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/~FortKnox/journal
1.
http://comingsoon.net/cgi-bin/archive/fullnews.cgi?newsid1050901402,18211,
2.
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/view/6377
More On Detecting NAT Gateways
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/24/0119209
[0]tcom91 writes "The Slashdot article [1]Remotely Counting Machines
Behind A NAT Box described a technique for counting NAT hosts. A
recently published paper [2]Detecting NAT Devices using sFlow describes
an efficient way of detecting NAT gateways using [3]sFlow, a traffic
monitoring technology built into many switches and routers. This
technology could be used to enforce single host access policies and
eliminate unauthorized wireless access points."
Links
0. mailto:tcom91@yahoo.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/2129218&tid=95
2.
http://www.sflow.org/detectNAT/
3.
http://www.sflow.org/
Starting a Home-Based Software Company?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/0841249
deanj asks: "I'd like to start a new software business, as I'm sure many Slashdot readers would. I'd like to be able to run the company out of my home, at least until I can afford to move into an office in commercial area. A major roadblock to starting a home business are zoning restrictions, set by both home-owners associations and by the town you live in. So, I'd like to Ask Slashdot: What were your experiences with getting your company zoned properly and started? What did you have to do? What other tips do you have for someone starting their own home-based software business?"
Anonymous Online Diaries With Invisiblog http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/2232219
An anonymous reader writes "The Cypherpunks have finally caught on to
the blog phenomenon: enter [0]Invisiblog. This blog system allows users
to register accounts and update their weblogs using Len Sassaman's
[1]Mixmaster anonymous remailer program. Now you can post all those
tales of late-night dumpster diving, without fear of being branded a
terrorist!"
Links
Matrix Sequels To Get the IMAX Treatment http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1838255
hondo77 writes "As if the two sequels to "The Matrix" weren't a big
enough event already, it has [0]been announced that both films will
also be showing in IMAX theaters. "Although "The Matrix Reloaded" will
open in Imax theaters two or three weeks after its general release May
15, "The Matrix Revolutions" will open Nov. 5 in both conventional and
Imax cinemas..."."
Links
0. http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030423/1108001165_1.html
SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1925259
[0]Guy Smith writes "[1]CRN reports that SCO will target SuSE and Red
Hat with lawsuits after they are finished with IBM (providing that IBM
allows them live). To quote Sco, "There will be a day of reckoning for
Red Hat and SuSE when this is done." They seem bent on destroying the
Open Source community and they deserve to [2] hear the community’s
opinion on the matter."
Links
0.
http://www.SiliconStrat.com
1.
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=41480
2.
http://www.sco.com/company/feedback/index.htmlAmazon Calls Children's Privacy Complaint Groundless http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/182212
[0]theodp writes "Eleven groups, including the Electronic Privacy
Information Center and Junkbusters, filed a complaint with the FTC,
asking that it [1]investigate Amazon for violations of the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act. An Amazon spokesman called the complaint
groundless because "Amazon.com is not a site directed at children." So
what was the deal with those Amazon Press Releases for the [2]Harry
Potter Magical Candy Contest For Children Ages 6 to 13, [3]Toy Quest
Toy Design Contest For Kids 12 And Under, and the [4]Be a Poet Contest
For All Kids 12 and Under?" Update: 04/23 23:54 GMT by [5]T:[0]theodp
writes with an [6]update from Ad Age which says that Amazon has
"announced it has removed children's identifying information from its
Web sites."
Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
1.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-997893.html
2.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=IROL-NewsText&t=Regular&id=231856&
3.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=IROL-NewsText&t=Regular&id=231844&
4.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=IROL-NewsText&t=Regular&id=233860&
5.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
6.
http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=37684
New Online Music Push by EMI
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1731208
[0]akadruid writes "EMI has [1]signed deals with 20 top European
websites to sell its music online. According to [2]Reuters, 'Consumers
will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to
recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives'.
This represents a major shift in policy by EMI, who previously went to
great lengths to protect their music from copying. Does this mark the
beginning of a major change in the music industry?"
Links
0.
http://www.thedruid.co.uk
1.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=2610549
2.
http://www.reuters.com/
Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1717224
SuperBanana writes "The Register reports in a story today that
[0]spammers have banded together under the name
[1]EmarketersAmerica.org to sue various anti-spam groups- days before a
large conference on spam hosted by the FTC(which will be attended by
many spammers). Anti-spam groups think the timing is not by
coincidence, but believe the move may backfire because they will be
able to countersue and get access to spammer's internal documents. By
the way, if you're wondering who these guys are, check out Spamhaus's
[2]directory of top spammers."
Links
0.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30368.html
1.
http://EmarketersAmerica.org
2.
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/index.lasso
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.5.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120532/
abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Against TCPA 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120446/
Against TCPA is a theme designed in opposition to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance.
Amaya 8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120567/
Amaya is a complete web browsing and authoring environment and comes equipped with a WYSIWYG style of interface. It lets users both browse and author valid Web pages, with standards including (X)HTML, native MathML, and SVG documents. It also includes a collaborative annotation application (RDF).
Amrita VPN 0.91
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120579/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication.
ANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120528/
This project adds plugins for the lexer/parser generator ANTLR to the Eclipse platform. The plugins provide a grammar file editor with syntax highlighting, outline view and a project nature with incremental builder.
Article Manager 1.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120586/
Article Manager is a fully featured Web content management system that makes it easy for non- technical users to easily update and manage articles, news stories, headlines, and editorials. It includes the following features: supports multiple users with different access levels (Administrators, Editors, Trusted Writers, and Writers), uploads up to 25 images per article, password protected login screen, advanced setup options to make it easy to customize the program, a powerful search engine, a customizable database, a WYSIWYG editor, the ability to customize the HTML templates, and much more.
BabelKit BabelKit-1.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120564/
BabelKit is an interface to a universal multilingual database code table. It takes all of the programming work out of maintaining multiple database code definition sets in multiple languages. The code administration and translation page lets developers define new virtual code tables, new languages, enter all codes and their descriptions, and then translate them into all languages of interest. Perl and PHP classes retrieve the code descriptions and automatically generate HTML code selection elements in the user's language. This makes internationalization and localization of Web sites and database interfaces much easier.
basit 1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120585/
Basit is a Web site content management system developed using PHP and XML technologies. The package provides a Web-based user interface to configure all the attributes and contents of the Web site. Basit does not need any database support on the Web server.
Binc IMAP 1.1.5-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120562/
Binc IMAP is a simple xinetd/tcpserver based IMAP server with support for Maildir. It is very easy to install and use.
Brainfucker 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120571/
Brainfucker is a compiler for the brainfuck programming language. Given a brainfuck input file it will generates output as an executable, assembler source file, or C++ source file depending on what the user specifies.
Bugzero 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120520/
Bugzero is an easy-to-install Web-based bug, defect, issue, and incident tracking system. It can be customized to fit software, hardware, and help desk support situations. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.
CCM Tools 0.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120531/
The CCM Tools are CASE tools used for generating CORBA components, test components, and test programs based on source IDL files. Various target languages can be generated. Scripting language wrappers can also be generated to enable rapid prototyping.
cdrtools 2.01a11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120524/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
Configuration File Library 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120574/
The Configuration File Library (CFL) is a collection of routines for manipulating configuration files. It is a portable library fully written from scratch in pure ANSI C. It is designed to offer C programmers common routines for manipulating configuration text files.
Darik's Boot and Nuke 2003042300 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120523/
Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.
DBFree 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120583/
DBFree is a set of Java database visualization and manipulation tools. It is component-based and comes with a full API for creating new components. It also comes with two components for submitting SQL queries and viewing the results and a simple wizard to help users create and store database connections.
devlabel 0.36.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120587/
Devlabel is a program which dynamically creates symbolic links to disk/partition names. It uses the disk's and/or partition's unique identifiers to keep the symlink pointed to the correct location even if the underlying partition's name has changed. So, regardless of whether /dev/sdb6 becomes /dev/sdc6, devlabel figures this all out and points the symlink to the correct data.
Dialog CD 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120576/
DialogCD is a dialog based frontend to cdrtools. It offers a simple menu-driven interface, being known that cdrecord has even more options than ls.
E-GnomeICU 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120582/
E-GnomeICU is an enlightenment epplet for controlling gnomeicu.
Efes 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120552/
The Efes hardware recognition and certification system is a graphical user interface able to run under (almost) every Linux distribution, so that the system administrator is assured that the underlying hardware is compatible with Linux.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120543/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
Forumtalk 1.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120551/
Forumtalk is the collective name for an Apache module and a server which, together, can be used to create high performance Web forums. The Apache module allows for special Forumtalk-tags to be placed within HTML templates which will be replaced by forum data. Currently, the server can store its data in a MySQL or a PostgreSQL database. Communication between the forum server and the Apache module is in XML, which makes it possible to easily extend Forumtalk with new clients.
FreeWRLduneInputDevice 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120542/
FreeWRLduneInputDevice together with FreeWRL allows users to retrieve 3D VRML/X3D data with 6DoF input devices. It is based on FreeWRL's "/tmp/inpdev" extern sensor input interface and white_dune's input device mechanism.
Genuts Framework 0.7b (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120530/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for game development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and collision detection.
gmencoder 0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120537/
Gmencoder is a GNOME 2 frontend to mencoder. It supports three output codecs for video (lavcodec, rawrgb, and copy) and three for audio (lame, PCM, and copy). It support postprocesing, cropping, scale, subtitles ripping, and multiple encoding passes.
gmodconfig 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120516/
gmodconfig provides a simple way for end- users to download, install, configure, and update Linux kernel modules through an easy- to-use graphic interface. The backend consists of XML files that contain module information and translations.
GNOME Cherokee 0.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120580/
GNOME Cherokee is a Web server applet for the GNOME 2 panel. It's configurable on-the-fly and very easy to use. It's also integrated with the rest of your GNOME desktop.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120545/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GraphicsMagick 1.0 Beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120591/
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, VMS, and MacOS 9.
gtkMaggot 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120566/
gtkMaggot is an improved Tron game, easy to play, with great sounds (esound needed), some fun options, and more.
hdup 1.6.11 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120536/
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), and no obscure archive format (it is a normal compressed tar file).
IBAM 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120544/
IBAM (Intelligent BAttery Monitor) is an advanced battery monitor for laptops, which uses statistical and adaptive linear methods to provide accurate estimations of minutes of battery left or of the time needed until full recharge.
Inhunmi 20030422
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120558/
Inhunmi is POS, Delivery, Contact, and Stock Control software for small (or even medium) companies. It was initially developed for a restaurant, but should be adaptable to other business. It is currently in Portuguese only.
Interface WM 0.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120584/
The Interface Window Manager uses Objective C and the GNUstep libraries to provide strictly minimal functionality, with all additional features in bundles called IWMComponents. It uses the GNUstep defaults database for user settings such as mouse button configuration, key bindings, and initial color settings, and is optimized for use in a strictly GNUstep environment.
Jabberwocky 1.0.02 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120597/
Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project.
jnettop 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120521/
Jnettop allows administrators of routers to watch online traffic coming across the network in a fashion similar to the way top displays statistics about processes. It is useful for quickly evaluating the state of the network.
JOELib 2003-04-23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120577/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
jpegrdf 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120561/
Jpegrdf reads and manipulates RDF metadata stored in the comment section of JPEG images. It can extract, query, and augment the data. Manipulating JPEG images with jpegrdf does not modify the actual image data or any other sections of the file.
jvider 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120556/
With jvider (Java Visual Interface Designer) you can easily design graphical user interfaces for your Java applets and applications. It features use of GridBagLayout for layout (no absolute positioning), interactive UI design with drag & resize features, the ability to test the UI on the fly without compiling, and the ability to save/load your designs. You can also view and export produced Java source code as Frame or Applet. It's easy to get started with the tutorial and samples provided.
kbirthday 0.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120540/
kbirthday is a Panel applet which reminds you of birthdays and anniversaries listed in your KDE addressbook.
Kurd 0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120560/
KDE Universal Remote Desktop (Kurd) has the goal of becoming an extendable remote desktop control client frontend. For now it supports rdesktop and tightvnc.
Leafnode 1.9.38.rel
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120578/
Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.
libQGLViewer 1.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120534/
libQGLViewer is an open source C++ library which enables you to quickly start the development of a new 3D application. It is designed for 3D developers, who can very easily display and move around a 3D scene by simply providing the openGL orders that define their 3D geometry. The viewer is designed to be as general as possible and is not designed for a specific 3D application. It provides some useful classical functionalities such as a camera trackball, screenshot saving, mouse manipulated frames, stereo display, keyFrames and more.
magicSquare 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120525/
magicSquare is inspired by a game played on a HP48 / 49G.
Matchbox Window Manager 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120573/
Matchbox is a unique X11 window manager designed for computers with little screen real estate, limited input devices and low CPU/storage resources. Touchscreen PDAs fit well into this category.
Mindi Linux 0.84
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120601/
Mindi-Linux uses a skeleton ramdisk and your kernel, modules, and tools to build a boot/root disk set. The first floppy boots your kernel, then loads your modules and installs your tools from additional floppies. Mindi works for almost any Linux kernel or distribution.
MLdonkey 2.4-rc5 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120514/
MLDonkey is a multi-network file-sharing client. It was the first open-source client to access eDonkey. It runs as a daemon, that can be controlled through telnet (command-line), HTTP (Web pages), and many different GUIs. It is written in Objective-Caml. It can currently access eDonkey, Overnet, Gnutella, BitTorrent, and Soulseek. Support for other networks (Direct Connect, Open Napster) is only partial.
Mondo Rescue 1.64 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120602/
Mondo Rescue archives Linux and Lin/Win sytems to tapes or CDs, which may be used to restore some or all of your OS and data in the event of catastrophic data loss. The emphasis is on stability and ease of use. Currently, ext2, ext3, (v)fat, minix, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported, as are RAID and LVM.
Nast 0.1.7d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120549/
Nast is a packet sniffer and a LAN analyzer based on Libnet and Libpcap. It can sniff the packets on a network interface in normal mode or in promiscuous mode. It dumps the headers of packets and the payload in ASCII or ASCII-hex format. Various packet filters can be applied. The data sniffed can be saved in a separate file. As an analysis tool, it can check for other NICs on the network which are set in promiscuous mode, build a list of all hosts on a LAN, find a gate­way, perform port scanning on a multiple hosts, catch daemon banners, follow the TCP data stream, reset a connection, and determine whether a link type is a hub or switch.
Nietzsche 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120519/
An interpreter for a programming language.
Poseidon for UML 1.6.1 (Community Edition) http://freshmeat.net/releases/120526/
Poseidon for UML is a fully featured UML CASE Tool which directly extends the open source project ArgoUML, and lifts it to a professionally usable level. It is fully implemented in Java, and it features platform independence, support for all 9 diagrams of the UML, compliance to the UML 1.3 standard, support for XMI as the standard file format, the ability to export diagrams as GIF, PS, EPS, and SVG, undo/redo, copy/cut/paste, drag and drop, internationalization and localization for English, German, French, and Spanish, code generation for Java, reverse engineering from Java sources, auto-layout of reverse engineered diagrams, cognitive support, and a discrete critique mechanism. Poseidon for UML seamlessly integrates into Netbeans (3.3 and 3.4), Forte for Java (4.0), and SunOne Studio, and it is easy to install and update with InstallAnywhere or JavaWebStart.
ProjectForum 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120351/
Easier to use and more interactive than conventional forum, collaboration, or intranet software, ProjectForum lets you build an intranet or project site where everyone can actively and directly contribute, without complex software or a full-time administrator getting in the way. It can be used for project planning, task assignments, meeting notes, team discussions, research, brainstorming, and more.
Python Desktop Server 0.4.22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120565/
The Python Desktop Server is a combined Weblog authoring tool, XMLRPC/SOAP server, and news aggregator. It allows one to read RSS news feeds, post to a community server (such as Radio Userland or any Python Community Server installation), and includes tools for Weblog and homepage management. It features a Web interface, a built-in Web server, extensibility through scripts that connect via XMLRPC or macros, and a plugin architecture.
rb.log 1.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120505/
rb.log is a full-featured weblogger written in Ruby. It features file uploads, comments, blog- rolling, side-bar editing, bookmarklets, the Blogger API, searching, RSS syndication, and archives. It also performs well on slower machines by regenerating static pages after posts are made.
sendEmail 1.41
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120572/
SendEmail is a lightweight tool written in Perl for sending SMTP email from the console. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, Perl programs, and Web pages. It requires no special modules, and has a simple interface, making it very easy to install and use. It should work on any platform that has Perl and supports Unix sockets, but was designed for Linux.
Server Status 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120604/
Server Status is a server monitor that simply displays a list of servers to monitor and displays whether they are alive on the network or not.
sgml2x converter 0.99.10 (sgml2x-1.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120541/
sgml2x is a script designed to help applying a DSSSL stylesheet to an SGML or XML document. It has a couple of interesting features, such as multiple possible stylesheets per document class, easy integration of new stylesheets by adding a simple new definition file in a configuration directory (system-wide, per-user, or per-project), and automatic selection of a default stylesheet to be used. It is already set up for DocBook SGML/XML.
SMS Server Tools 1.10.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120592/
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.
SoundForge FQ 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120489/
SoundForge FQ is a semi-modern orchestral sound theme for use in window managers such as KDE and GNOME, instant messaging, and elsewhere, such as in loops.
swsusp 2.4 Beta19-24 (2.4 Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120535/
swsusp enables you to suspend your machine without having to use APM or BIOS support. It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
Synergy for Mac OS X 0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120559/
Synergy is a tiny Cocoa application for Mac OS X 10.2 (and later) that puts three buttons to control iTunes in your menubar: previous track, next track, and play/pause. It also provides you with visual feedback about the currently playing tune and allows you to control iTunes via system-wide hot key combinations. These features provide a very fast way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse, without having to switch to iTunes or access its Dock menu.
The Tamber Project 1.2.6 (Pogo)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120547/
The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects; business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection, search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues; shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt tools and forums.
The Vendetta™ Test 3.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120496/
The Vendetta™ Test is an online-game testbed project by Guild Software, Inc. Eventually, it will evolve into the Vendetta MMORPG, for which its engine has been created. At present, the Test is a freely available, multiplayer space combat game with elements of team Capture the Flag and trading. Supporting Win32, Linux/x86 and MacOS X, it sports an active community and frequent development updates.
Tulip 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/120550/
Tulip is a software system dedicated to the visualization of huge graphs. It manages graphs with up to 500,000 elements (node and edges) on a personal computer (PIII 600, 256MB RAM). Its SuperGraph technology architecture provides the following features: 3D visualizations, 3D modifications, plugin support