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Sourceforge
WebGUI 5.3
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279638

WebGUI 5.3 is here and packed with new goodies. It includes a new theme management system that will easily enable you to transport your designs and templates from one site to another with the click of a mouse. 5.3 also includes a new Data Form wobject that allows content managers to build simple data entry applications on the fly. The default rich editor has been upgraded to include direct integration with the collateral manager, spell checking, and emoticons. There is also a brand new trash and clipboard management system which makes it even easier to move your content around. Among dozens of other features there are also over 10 new macros to make your content mangement experience faster and easier. You can find our latest release here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=51417

FreedroidRPG 0.9.5 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279673

Can we help you?

Version 0.9.5 of Freedriod RPG has been released. Freedriod RPG is a graphical single player role playing game for Linux, featuring the Tux as the hero battling evil MS machines in a future universe. Version 0.9.5 now comes with map editor, dialog editor and item editor. Any new submissions for characters, dialogs, quests and other content welcome. You can find our latest release here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54521

YAM Amiga 2.4p1 bugfix release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279701

    The YAM (Yet-Another-Mailer) open source team is pleased to announce     the release of version 2.4p1 of the well-known AmigaOS Email client
(MUA). This release is a minor bugfix release which mainly fixes some
    last-minute bugs that weren't fixed in the last full 2.4 release. YAM
(short for 'Yet Another Mailer') is a MIME-compliant Internet mailer
    written for AmigaOS computers. It supports multi-POP3, APOP, SMTP,     TLSv1/SSLv3, multiple users, PGP, unlimited hierarchical folders,     filters, configurable GUI, ARexx interface. You can find the latest     release here:
    https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13560

Columba 0.10.1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280523

A new stable version of Columba is now available. Columba is an email client written in Java, featuring a user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internalionalization support. Its a powerful email management tool with features to enhance your productivity and communication. So, take control of your email before it takes control of you! This version fixes several bugs related to i18n and attachment issues. http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=download For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=news

par2cmdline v0.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=280247

    PARv2.0 is a parity archive file format specification that uses     reed-soloman code to protect sets of files within your filesystem.     PARv2.0 allows for protection of files without having to archive them     first by operating on virtual "blocks" of data within those files. For     every N recovery blocks, you can recover N missing or corrupted blocks.     PARs main purpose is helping to insure binary usenet propigation, but     is by no means limited to that purpose. Announcement: Version 0.2 of     par2cmdline is now available for download in source code form from the     following URL:
    http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/parchive/par2cmdline-0.2.tar.gz?down     load This version has been compiled and tested on the following     platforms (and you can download pre-compiled binaries for them from:     http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30568&release_id=     161776): CPU OS Distribution --- -- ------------ Alpha Linux 2.2 Debian     3.0 Cerfcube SA1110 Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 J2EEE IBM Websphere PPC G4     MacOS X 10.2 Server Edition Sparc R220 Sun Solaris 8 Sparc Ultra 60     Linux 2.4 Debian 3.0 x86 Cygwin 1.3.22 x86 Linux 2.4 Debian 2.2 x86     Linux 2.4 Red Hat 7.3 x86 Linux 2.4 Red Hat 9.0 x86 Windows The     following changes have been made since version 0.1 was released: *     Corrected a fault in the handling of filenames that have 8-bit     characters. * Reduced restrictions on permitted characters in filenames     on unix operating systems. * Added many portability enhancements     including the use of GNU Autoconf/Automake for configuration and     compiling on different cpu/os platforms. * Added support for verifying     and repairing using version 1.0 PAR files. Please report any problems     you encounter with this version of par2cmdline in the parchive tracker     at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=30568 Peter B Clements
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    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/parchive

OggCarton Home Jukebox goes beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278737

Can't find what you're looking for?

OggCarton is a cross-platform CD ripper, database, and web server for Ogg and MP3 files. OggCarton needs no external database or web server. With this release, the OggCarton Home Jukebox software moves from the alpha to the beta stage. Accordingly, binaries and installers for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows are now available for those who prefer to not roll their own. Full source is still available for those who do. Enjoy!

Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278739

Tool Command Language (Tcl) is an interpreted language and very portable interpreter for that language. Tcl is embeddable and extensible, and has been widely used since its creation in 1988 by John Ousterhout. The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 Release Announcement May 20, 2003 The Tcl Core Team is pleased to announce the 8.4.3 releases of the Tcl scripting language and the Tk toolkit. This is the third patch release of Tcl/Tk 8.4. More details can be found below. We would like to express our gratitude to all those who submit bug reports and patches. This information is invaluable in enabling us to identify and eliminate problems in the core. Where to get the new releases:

Tcl/Tk 8.4.3 sources are freely available as open source from the Tcl Developer Xchange web site at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html This web page also contains additional information about the releases, including new features and notes about installing and compiling the releases. Sources are always available from the Tcl SourceForge project's file distribution area: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10894 Windows, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX binaries are available from: http://www.activestate.com/Tcl For additional information:
- Please visit the Tcl Developer Xchange web site: http://www.tcl.tk/ This site contains a variety of information about Tcl/Tk in general, the core Tcl and Tk distributions, Tcl development tools, and much more. Thank you for your contributions:
  - As usual, this release includes contributions from the Tcl community. We have a page honoring these contributors at: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/contributors.html Summary of Changes since Tcl/Tk 8.4.2:
    - The following were the main changes in Tcl/Tk 8.4.3. A complete list can be found in the changes file at the root of the source tree. The more complete ChangeLog is also included with each source release. This is a patch release, so it primarily included bug fixes and corrections to erratic behavior. Below are only the most notable changes. * Correct case-insensitive unicode string comparison in Tcl_UniCharNcasecmp * Corrected loading of tclpip8x.dll on Win9x * Correct Tcl_SubstObj handling of \x00 bytes * Correct wide int issues in 'format' * Remove assumption that file times and longs are the same size * Allow Tcl to differentiate between reparse points which are symlinks and mounted drives on Windows * Bad command count on TCL_OUT_LINE_COMPILE * Store pointers to notifier funcs in a struct to work around some platform linker issues * Load correct (non-)debug dll for dde or registry * Fixing ObjMakeUpvar's lookup algorithm for the created local variable * Make sure that tclWideIntType is defined and somewhat sensible everywhere * Corrected inconsistent results of [string is integer] observed on systems where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int) * Substantial changes to the Windows clock synch phase-locked loop in a quest for improved loop stability * Made changes so that the "wideInt" Tcl_ObjType is defined on all platforms, even those where TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG is defined. Also made the Tcl_Value struct have a wideValue field on all platforms. Potential incompatibility for TCL_WIDE_INT_IS_LONG platforms because that struct changes size *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY *** * Catch any errors returned by the Windows functions handling TLS ASAP instead of waiting to get some mysterious crash later on due to bogus pointers * Correct 'glob -path {[tcl]} *', where leading special character instead lists files in '/'. Bug only occurs on Windows where '\' is also a directory separator. * Fixed memory leak in threaded allocator on Windows caused by treating cachePtr as a TLS index * Ensure cd is thread-safe * Correct mem leak on closing a Windows serial port * Prevent string repeat crash when overflow sizes were given * Worked around the issue of realpath() not being thread-safe on Mac OS X by defining NO_REALPATH for threaded builds on Mac OS X * Correct handling of the gb2312 encoding by making it an alias of the euc-cn encoding and creating a gb2312-raw encoding for the original. Most uses of gb2312 really mean euc-cn. * Corrected another putenv() copy behavior problem when compiling on Windows and using Microsoft's runtime * Stop buttons from being very wide when a tk_messageBox has a lot of content on Unix * Fixed crash in [winfo server] on Mac OS X * Correct compound button display in the disabled state * Correct crash when generating postscript for a single-line polygon (point) with no color * Updated French message catalog * Use gb2312-raw as the alias for gb2312* charset fonts on unix -- Tcl Core Team and Maintainers Jeff Hobbs, Tcl Core Release Manager

SCons 0.14 adds Java support, Autoconf-like functionality http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279029

SCons alpha release 0.14 is now available for download. SCons is a software construction tool (build tool, or substitute for Make) implemented in Python, based on the winning design in the Software Carpentry build tool competition (in turn based on the Cons build tool). This release most notably adds support for Java builds (javac, javah, rmic and jar), and adds integrated Autoconf-like functionality for finding #include files and libraries. This release also contains significant performance improvements from previous releases. IMPORTANT: Release 0.14 contains the following interface changes: - Tool specifications no longer take a "platform" argument. - Emitter functions in Builders are now passed Node objects, not strings, for all targets and sources. - New TargetSignatures() and SourceSignatures() functions have been added to replace SetBuildSignatureType() and SetContentSignatureType(). - The Export() function and the exported variables argument of SConscript() now search for variables using the same rules as Python: local first, then global. - The SetJobs() and GetJobs() functions have been deprecated in favor of using SetOption('num_jobs', num) and GetOption('num_jobs'). - Callable expansions of construction variables in a command line now take a fourth "for_signature" argument that is set when the expansion is being called to generate a build signature. - Construction variables for building a target are now frozen when the Builder is called; later changes to the Environment do not necessarily affect how the target is build. See the release notes for more information about these changes. This release adds the following features: - Support for the Java tools javac, javah, rmic and jar has been added. - A Configure() function has been added that supports a lot of functionality similar to Autoconf. - A new PLATFORM construction variable stores a string representing the platform on which SCons is being run. - Dependencies may now be specified on in-core Python values. - Help text can now be sorted arbitrarily. - New $TARGET and $SOURCE attributes: ".posix" expands to a path name with forward slashes as separators, even on Win32 systems; ".srcpath" expands to a path to the source of a file in a BuildDir; ".srcdir" expands to a path to the BuildDir itself. - A new clear() method resets a Node's state for re-use by continuous integration build interfaces. - Support for using Ghostscript to convert Postscript to PDF files has been added. - A stand-alone "Alias" function has been added. - Import('*') will now import everything that's been Export()ed.

New SetOption() and GetOption() functions support setting and fetching various command-line options within an SConscript file. - The Tool() function now adds tool names to a $TOOLS variable, which may be used to examine what tools are available. - The C preprocessor "#import" statement is now supported. - Newly-built .dll files can now be registered with the Windows registry using regsvr32. - An IDL scanner has been added. - A builder for Windows type library (.tlb) files from IDL files. The following fixes have been added: - Cygwin fixes: Use the .dll extension for shared libraries; don't use -fPIC when compiling shared libraries; use 'rm' to remove files; use MSVC '@' syntax for linking long command-lines. - The SYSTEMROOT environment variable on Win32 systems is now automatically propagated to the execution ENV environment. - Remote CVS file names are now checked out using Posix-style path names. - Trying to expand an out-of-range subscript for a construction variable like $TARGETS or $SOURCES now interpolates the null string. - SCons now correctly links or duplicates files in subsidiary BuildDir() directories. - SCons now reports "Cleaning targets ..." when the -c option is used. - The "Entering directory" message now quotes the directory name exactly like Make does. - Export() now works correctly for local Python variables, and can accept a dictionary as an argument. - PDB files now get put in a BuildDir() correctly. Performance has been improved as follows: - Unnecessary redundant signature calculations for command lines and Nodes have been eliminated. Development tests suggest this may speed up builds up to 30% or more.

Python 2.2.3 rc 1
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279300

The first and hopefully only release candidate for Python 2.2.3 is now out. See http://www.python.org/2.2.3 for details. We expect Python 2.2.3 final to be released within a week of this announcement.

DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279457

Don't know where to look next?

Major bug fix for 1.61.1 and accumulated enhancements and fixes from previous releases.

Slashdot
Nullsoft's Waste: Encrypted, Distributed, Mesh Net http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/0140241

[0]Myriad writes "[1]Nullsoft, makers of the venerable [2]Winamp MP3 player, released today a secure, distributed mesh-like networking protocal and platform called [3]Waste. This v1.0 beta release uses RSA
(key based) and Blowfish encryption for [4]security, and features
Instant Messanging and group chat, along with file browsing, searching, and transfer. Waste has been released under the GPL, with source and binaries [5]available here."
Links

    0. 
http://`moc.livellafo' `ta' `toor'
    1. 
http://www.nullsoft.com/
    2. 
http://winamp.com/
    3. 
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/
    4. 
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/security.html
    5. 
http://www.nullsoft.com/free/waste/download.html

Contactless Credit Cards
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2252233

An anonymous reader writes "According to his article in EETimes, Visa and Phillips are teaming up to introduce a so-called "[0]contactless credit card". Basically it'll work like the proximity cards many of us use for access to our places of work or apartments. You won't need to physically swipe it, simply waving it over a reader is good enough." Links

0. http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030528S0030

A Good Summer Read?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/003200

binaryhead asks: "Well, the semester has just ended, and I have graduated from school! :-) I start my full-time job in a month and want to read a good book in the mean time. Having read Snowcrash, Neuromancer, and most of the hacker biographies, I am trying to find a scifi-geek-hacker book that people like. I might try the new [0]Kevin Mitnick book, but I wanted to see what Slashdot preferred. Thanks." Links

Confused? Frustrated?

0. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471237124/qid=1053913512/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-0014672-2959122?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Video Games Boost Visual Skills
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2329209

[0]cmburns69 writes "A new study published in Nature Magazine ([1]MSNBC summary) suggests that [2]playing action games improves visual skills. Among other things, young adults who played action games such as Grand Theft Auto and Medal of Honor regularly could track up to five objects at a time - 30% more than non-players. Apparently, the game type is important, as ten hours of the block-rotating game Tetris failed to improve test scores."
Links

    0. 
http://www.netnexus.com
    1. 
http://www.msnbc.com/news/919010.asp
    2. 
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030527/030527-5.html

Slashback: Rendering, Munich, Clones
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/24/2033228

Slashback tonight with a passel of updates, corrections and tangents related to recent Slashdot postings, including GNU/Linux vs. Windows in Munich, Bunnie Huang's book on Xbox hacking, Mozilla's 5-line crash-test, and (sigh) yet another SCO note, but at least it's one to smile at. Read on for the details.

SCO Might Sue Linus for Patent Infringement? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2240224

An anonymous reader writes "[Darl McBride, SCO's chief executive [0]stated] that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property, he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux operating system, for patent infringement." It's right at the end of the story and it's quite a statement. Links

0. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BC408959E-005A-4E93-9006-B32DCD1FCA22%7D&siteid=yhoo

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Nucular Hydrogen Economy
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/149239

[0]Mark Baard writes "The hydrogen economy will at least in part be [1]based on nukes. The DOE will build a pilot high-temperature, gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), which theoretically can co-generate electricity and hydrogen, side by side, inside a cheap modular unit." Links

0. http://www.baard.com

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0322/baard.php

Play GNU Chess On Your Scanner
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/2016232

[0]leighklotz writes "Debian developer and Internet Mail Archive founder [1]Jeff Breidenbach of [2]PARC has made [3]GlyphChess, a chess-playing copier using Python, [4]GNU Chess and [5]DataGlyphs attached to the bottom of the pieces. DataGlyphs are cool 2D barcodes made out of / and \ marks for ones and zeros that use the [6] coding from CDs for error coding. If you don't happen to have a Xerox machine at home, it also works with SANE..." Links

    0. mailto:klotz@graflex.org
    1. 
http://www.jab.org/www/projects.html
    2. 
http://www.parc.com/
    3. 
http://www2.parc.com/asd/members/jbreiden/glyphchess.html
    4. 
http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/
    5. 
http://www.parc.com/solutions/dataglyphs
    6. 
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal/reed_solomon_codes.html

Asia Running Out Of IP Addresses
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1959251

[0]miladus writes "According to a story at [1]Zdnet, Asian countries are running out of IP addresses. China, for example, was assigned 22 million IP addresses (for a population of 1.3 billion) under IPv4. The US owns 70 percent of current IP addresses. Perhaps [2]IPv6 will solve the problem."
Links

    0. 
http://www.miladus.org/mt
    1. 
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-1010666.html?tag=fdfeed
    2. 
http://www.ipv6.org/

Real Launches Music Download Service
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1549209

Do you need help?

fupeg writes "Spurred on by Apple's success, as well as their own purchase of [0]listen.com, [1]Real Networks announced their own online music service, dubbed RealOne Rhapsody. Here is the [2]press release. They're offering songs at $0.79 per song, but with a $9.99/month subscription. The first two months are free. The press release says that 2/3 of their 300,000 song catalog is available for CD burning, while everything is available for 'on-demand' listening." Links

    0. 
http://www.listen.com/
    1. 
http://www.realnetworks.com/
    2. 
http://www.realnetworks.com/company/press/releases/2003/rhapsody.html

Freshmeat
Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124237/

Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile
(with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.

America's Army Gentoo GameCD 20030528
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124290/

America's Army Gentoo GameCD is a bootable CD that contains the full America's Army combat simulation video game client. It features a completely graphical boot process and hardware auto-detection. It requires a modern PC with NVIDIA or ATI (Radeon 8500+) hardware, and includes accelerated graphics drivers.

Animail 2.0-pre16 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124293/

Animail is a multiserver POP3/APOP/IMAP4 (with or without SSL) mail retrieval utility. It features an advanced filtering system based on blacklisting, whitelisting, or a combination of both. It is possible to send an autoresponse which prompts people to reply and add themselves to the 'autoaccept' file. It also allows filters based on regular expressions which match against the email headers. (If a message is filtered, only the header is downloaded, not the entire body.) Combining external filtering programs (e.g. SpamAssassin or Bogofilter) as message post-download plugins is also easily acomplished, thus extending filtering capabilities in an unlimited way. Available delivery options include mailbox, maildir, local SMTP, and pipe to a command.

ANT is Not a Telephone 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124263/

Do you need more help?

ANT is a telephone application for GNU/Linux, ISDN4Linux, and OSS.

Apache 2.0.46 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124275/

Apache is the world's most popular HTTP server, being quite possibly the best around in terms of functionality, efficiency, security and speed.

arch revision control system 1.0pre24
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124239/

arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming.

AutoUpdate 5.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124300/

AutoUpdate is a Perl script which performs a task similar to Red Hat's up2date or autorpm. It can be used to automatically download and upgrade RPMs from different HTTP(S) or (S)FTP sites, while also handling dependencies. Moreover, it can also be used to keep a server with a customized (Red Hat) distribution plus all clients up to date.

BANG! R6-V7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124218/

Can we help you?

BANG! is a news CGI script written in Perl. It generates an HTML file
(news.txt) containing your news that can be included in your site via
SSI #include directives.

Bauk 1.76 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124304/

Bauk is a high performance HTTP server for UNIX-like operating systems. It brings together a rich set of features with real configurability and ease of administration. Some of Bauk's features include virtual hosts, URL aliases, execution of CGI programs, HTTP authentication: Basic method, network traffic per virtual host quotas, connections per client IP number quotas, directory browsing, server host name aliases, access restriction by IP address, configurable HTTP log format, multiprocess architecture, simple configuration, easy administration, flexibility and much more.

beltane 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124242/

Beltane is a Web-based central management console for the samhain file integrity system. If samhain is used in a client/server setup, beltane enables the administrator to browse client reports, acknowledge them, and update file signature databases stored centrally on the log server.

bind 8.4.0-RC2 (Bind8-Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124266/

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.

BinPost 0.3 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124236/

Can't find what you're looking for?

BinPost is multi-platform tool for posting multi-part binaries to Usenet. It features an intiutive GUI and many features for experts.

Blassic 0.5.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124276/

Blassic is a classic Basic interpreter. The line numbers are mandatory, and it has PEEK & POKE. The main goal is to execute programs written in old interpreters, but it can be used as a scripting language.

Bookcase 0.6.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124225/

Bookcase is a personal book collection manager for KDE. It uses an XML file storage format, and tracks 26 book properties by default. Unlimited user-defined fields are allowed. Author names are automatically formatted, and the collection may be sorted by any property. Filters are available to limit the visible books by definable criteria. Full customization for printing is possible through editing the default XSLT file. Automatic ISBN validation is included. Exporting to Bibtex and Bibtexml is possible.

bosdl 0.11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124235/

bosdl is a client for Boss Ogg based on the SDL. It features TrueType fonts, album covers, and a progress meter.

cdrtools 2.00.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124245/

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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.

Cone 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124269/

Cone (COnsole Newsreader And Emailer) is a text-based email client. It seamlessly handles multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts and local mail folders. It is also a simple newsreader. It is designed to be foolproof enough to be used by inexperienced users, but also offers advanced features for power users.

Connect Daily Web Calendar 2.1.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124250/

Connect Daily, a Web-based calendaring system, allows multiple users to add and edit calendar events using a Web browser. The calendar display can be directly integrated into your Web site. It provides advanced capabilities for managing resources and facilities. The approval processes allow many users to edit calendars, with the assurance that all items added are approved. It supports event download to MS Outlook and Palm OS PDAs. Authentication to LDAP directories is also supported.

Crash Core Analysis Suite 3.3-28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124267/

The Crash Core Analysis Suite utility is a self-contained tool, loosely based on the SVR4 crash command but completely merged with gdb, thereby combining the kernel-specific nature of crash with the source level debugging capabilities of gdb. The utility can be used to investigate live systems, kernel core dumps created from the Kernel Core Dump patch offered by Mission Critical Linux, and kernel core dumps created from the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) patch offered by SGI.

devlabel 0.38.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124299/

Confused? Frustrated?

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.

DHCP Usage Statistics 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124273/

DHCP Usage Statistics is a Perl script that analyzes your dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.leases files and generates output for a Web page.

doxygen 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124249/

Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions.

Easy-to-Say password generator 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124248/

Easy-to-Say password generator is called as a PHP function with arguments. You can specify a predefined part of the password, password length, "fuzzy factor", and other characteristics.

Edit Source 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124202/

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Edit Source is a script that allows files on a Web site to be edited without requiring FTP. It features the ability to create directories and normal text files, as well as editing and deleting files.

Elm ME+ PL102 (25)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124286/

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 also includes modules for TLS/SSL, iconv, and SMTP.

eXtended Account Managing Software 0.0.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/124252/

eXtended Account Managing Software (XAMS) allows Administration of Unix, Web, FTP, DNS, and email accounts to manage a provider's typical userbase. Especially focusing on email account management, it enables you to easily create accounts, set aliases, and delegate domain administration to 2nd party resellers or customers. It uses PHP with MySQL or PostgreSQL as a backend, and is therefore able to manage tons of email accounts independently from your Unix/Linux accounts. Exim for SMTP and Courier for POP/IMAP are fully supported, but postfix, Cyrus, and qmail can be used too.

eZ publish 3.1 Beta 1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124240/

eZ publish is an open source content management system and development framework. As a content management system (CMS) it's most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customizable, and extendable content model. This is also what makes it suitable as a platform for general Web development. Its stand-alone libraries can be used for cross-platform, database independent PHP projects. eZ publish is also well suited for news publishing, e-commerce (B2B and B2C), portals, and corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets. eZ publish is dual licenced between GPL and the eZ publish professional licence.

findutils 4.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124282/

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The findutils package consists of three programs. `find' is a program which searches a directory tree to find a file or group of files. It walks the directory tree and reports all occurences of a file matching the user's specifications. `locate' scans one or more databases of filenames and displays any matches. `xargs' builds and executes command lines by gathering together arguments it reads on the standard input. Most often, these arguments are lists of file names generated by `find'.

Free Bangla Fonts 0.6.0 (Sagar)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124233/

The Free Bangla Fonts project is a volunteer run project dedicated for creating Free, high quality, completely Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts. This project aims to be the central resource for getting and developing Free Bengali fonts. The initial aim of this project is to release a full set of Bengali fonts that supports all the major Bengali Yuktakhars (conjuncts).

Free Bangla Fonts 0.8.5 (Akaash)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124232/

FreeBSD-boot-rescue 1.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124257/

FreeBSD-boot-rescue is a small FreeBSD system for the purpose of system booting or repairing a boot/rescue system. You can put it on a CD or floppy and boot it. It has support for many filesystems (ext2, ufs, ntfs, msdos, and iso9660).

Genius 0.5.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124309/

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Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language similiar in some aspects to C,bc or pascal. It can deal with rational numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a command line and a GNOME interface.

giFToxic 0.0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124308/

giFToxic is a GTK 2-based client for giFT

Gmemo 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124231/

Gmemo is an applet which reminds you of birthdays, feasts (with first name, Mother's day, etc.), or any other event. It is customizable
(name, type, date & time, repeat mode, multi-alarm mode, etc.).

gURLChecker 0.4.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124291/

gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.

Human Activity Logger 2.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124224/

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Human Activity Logger allows you to keep track of your time. It lets you add, edit, and delete log entries, which are classified according to categories of your choosing. You can quickly browse around old log entries, go to a date, and search. You can maintain separate logs accessible from the same installation of the program (e.g., for separate projects). You can browse statistics by day, week, month, and year, each screen providing totals and averages. There are various other helpful functions.

Ian 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124222/

Ian (I am normal) is a shell script designed to make a honeypot look more like a production system. This is accomplished by creating bogus data and history files, altering modification times of these files, adding users, patching x number of programs, and allowing the user to include their own created files.

ifGraph 0.4.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124246/

ifGraph is a set of Perl scripts created to help network administrators to visualize network flow on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. The graphics are created with RRDTool, and it shows bytes
(in/out) and errors for each interface. It also shows the
current/average/max use and the respective link/interface usage in percentages. The program also outputs HTML files to make the visualization of the PNG/GIF/GD images more friendly and easy.

Internet Communications Engine 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124285/

Ice is a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+. It is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications. It features an object-oriented specification language, easy to use C++ and Java mappings, a highly efficient protocol (including protocol compression), asynchronous method invocation and dispatch, dynamic transport plug-ins, TCP/IP and UDP/IP support, SSL-based security, a firewall solution, and much more.

j 0.19.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124278/

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J is a multifile, multiwindow programmer's editor written entirely in Java. It features syntax highlighting for Java, C, C++, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Tcl/Tk, Verilog, and VHDL, automatic indentation, directory buffers, regular expressions, multifile find and replace, autosave and crash recovery, undo/redo, and FTP/HTTP support. All keyboard mappings can be customized. Themes may be used to customize the editor's appearance.

Ksetiwatch 2.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124229/

Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the SETI@home distributed computing project, which searches for signals of extraterrestrial life. It displays the state of the Seti@home client(s) running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units.

libposition 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124297/

libposition provides a set of functions for calculating motion and displacement in one-, two-, and three-dimensional space. It is part of The Universe Project.

Links 2.1pre11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124271/

Links is graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.

Luola 1.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124279/

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Luola is a cavern-flying game for 1-4 players. Each player flies a small V-shaped ship and has one special weapon. The object of the game is simply to destroy all other players.

Mailgust 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124234/

Mailgust is a mailing list manager, newsletter distribution tool, and message board system. All sent mail is stored on a Web message board for visitors to read. It features unlimited lists, many different read and write permission settings, HTML newsletters, post approval, no timeouts, a Web archive, list importing, notification management, and much more.

N-View 2.7 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124238/

N-View is a network monitor for small and medium-sized networks. It features automatic scanning of subnets for host addresses, monitoring of ICMP responses from all hosts, signalling of timeouts and delays in the GUI and by mail, a portscanner, an SNMP client (MIB browser and trap receiver), a graphical display of network traffic for network interfaces, connectivity to hosts by telnet, HTTP browser, or an arbitrary external program (such as ssh), printing of network diagrams, automatic generation of HTML pages, and more.

New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124228/

The New Kinetics DB/Java Mapper is a GUI tool used to create Java source code files which map to a JDBC reachable database table. The tool not only produces Java bean pattern representations of database tables, it also inserts Javadoc comments automatically. The code generating methods are also available as a library that can be used from within your own code.

newsgrab-ui 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124265/

Confused? Frustrated?

newsgrab-ui is simple graphical user interface for the newsgrab.pl "complete set" binary downloader. It uses a Perl background daemon for downloading and an object oriented PHP Web interface.

newsgrab-ui 3.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124223/

newsgrab-ui is simple graphical user interface for the newsgrab.pl "complete set" binary downloader. It uses a Perl background daemon for downloading and an object oriented PHP Web interface.

PsyncX 2.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124281/

PsyncX allows you to backup either part or all of your hard drive. You can mirror your selected folder to a FireWire drive, a disk image, or a network drive (this feature doesn't seem to be working right now). In addition, psync will create a bootable drive if you mirror your entire harddrive. PsyncX allows you to schedule regular backups as well.
(Note: your computer can't be asleep for this to work properly).

QTads 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124289/

QTads is a graphical, non-HTML interpreter for Tads games. Both Tads 2 as well as Tads 3 games are supported. It uses Trolltech's Qt library, which means it's highly portable. It has some nice features, like fullscreen mode, text justification, margins, and font anti-aliasing. It fully supports Unicode in Tads 3, ISO Latin character mapping files in Tads 2, and the full set of Multimedia Tads character entities in both Tads 2 and 3 (like "curly" quotes and typographical dashes).

RH Email Server 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124259/

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The RH Email Server uses OpenLDAP authentication for IMAP, POP3, SMTP, and SSL/TLS protocols. It includes a Web interface, administration, and filters.

RSS-IM Gateway 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124198/

The RSS-IM Gateway allows you to let visitors read your RSS feed through an instant messgaing network such as AIM, MSN, ICQ, YIM, or Jabber. It is very easy to set up and can easily handle hundreds of users.

samhain 1.7.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124241/

samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.

SBAM 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124264/

SBAM (Software Based Abled Mixer) is a new approach to computer-based DJing.. This project aims to help DJs concentrate on the important aspects of DJing and to decrease the stress factor. It is intended for the DJs that have no need for beatmixing or other advanced mixing techniques, which means you'll be limited when it comes to creative individual mixing of tracks. Instead, you'll be able to concentrate on finding the right track for the audience.

screen-scraper 0.8.7b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124270/

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