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[osdn developer] May 31, 2003
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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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
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
(Author of par2cmdline and QuickPar) The Parchive Project
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/parchive
OggCarton Home Jukebox goes beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=278737
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
- 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:
- 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:
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.
DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.2 released http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=279457
Major bug fix for 1.61.1 and accumulated enhancements and fixes from previous releases.
TuxTyping 1.5.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=277737
After over a year of development with no releases, we are pleased to present Tux Typing 2 "Preview" release. Most of the internals have been rewritten with a focus on extensibility and internationalization. Creating a language pack is now as simple as creating a file for translations (lang.po file), maybe finding a font [1], setting up how the keyboard maps to the characters [2], and finally creating some word lists. TuxTyping is an educational typing tutorial game for children starring Tux, the Linux Penguin. It is graphical and requires SDL. It is free software copyrighted under the Gnu GPL. There is a new style of game "Comet Zap" and the start of tutor components with the new "Practice" mode. We really look forward to getting feedback about what parents/teachers/students/kids think about the new work. This release has a few rough edges, but we feel that it is time to let the world see what has been happening with Tux Typing. We have forums, mailing lists, and most importantly windows and linux builds are available at http://tuxtype.sf.net We are already hard at work at 1.5.1 and hope to have it released soon making it even easier for translators and users! Thanks, Jesse Andrews - jdandr2@uky.edu Calvin Arndt - calarndt@tux4kids.net Notes: [1] We are using a font that has support for many languages (Dansk, English, French, Spanish, ...) So if the included font works with your language, you don't need to find a new font. [2] for instance in the default (English) language pack, we set up the game so if the student presses 'A' or 'a' it both works for "A".
Slashdot
Preview of Java 1.5
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1942259
[0]gafter writes "An early access prototype implementation of the proposed new J2SE 1.5 language features is available. The prototype includes [1] generics (JSR 14), [2] typesafe enums, varargs, autoboxing, foreach loops, and static import (JSR 201). In other words, all the new language features planned for 1.5 except [3] metadata (JSR 175). The prototype includes full sources for the compiler, written in the extended language. You can download the prototype from [4]java.sun.com. It requires J2SE 1.4.1 and provides some examples of how to use the new language constructs. The prototype includes an experimental type system (variant type parameters) for Generic Java that is being considered for Tiger (1.5) based on a paper by [5] Igarashi and Viroli at ECOOP 2002 . Comments and votes for the new type system are being gathered at [6]bugParade." Links
0.
http://www.gafter.com/~neal
1.
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=14
2.
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=201
3.
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=175
4.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/adding_generics/index.html
5.
http://www.sato.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~igarashi/papers/variance.html
6.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4856545.html
Mozilla 1.4 RC1
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1938256
[0]Mister.de writes "[1]Mozilla 1.4 RC 1 is out. We've added lots of
features and fixed lots of bugs since Mozilla 1.3. Help us shake it
down in preparation for Mozilla 1.4 final. More information is
available in the [2]release notes. Mozilla is an open-source Web
browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and
portability."
Links
0.
http://mister.de
1.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/
2.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.4rc1/
Build Your Own Fuel Injection Computer
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1459201
renaissance-redneck writes "I was searching for details on assembling a
fuelie setup from junkyard parts when I stumbled across this:
'[0]MegaSquirt is an Experimental Electronic Fuel Injector Controller
for Internal Combustion engines. Its main goal was to create a simple
fuel-only controller that could be easily reproduced with
cost-effective components.' If you've got the time and the skills, it
beats spending $2000."
Links
0. http://www.bgsoflex.com/megasquirt.html
Biofeedback Gaming
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/193255
[0]runningwater writes "A new kind of game was debuted at the E3 expo. It is called [1]Journey to Wild Divine. The game features a biofeedback USB interface designed to allow a player (or players) to navigate through the game using their mind power, breath, and heart rate. This is a wild and visionary concept which works so fluidly you can blow on the screen and objects move as if propelled by your breath. The game features an awesome soundtrack, including Grammy-nominated artists and spanning many genres. This is the new generation of gaming, and you have never seen anything like this before." Their site has a page with [2]more information about the biofeedback aspect. Links
0. mailto:runningwater5@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.wilddivine.com
2.
http://wilddivine.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43
fvwm Turns Ten
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1819238
Some Old Dude writes "[0]fvwm, F* Virtual Window Manager, is
celebrating its 10th birthday in a few days. This is the window manager
I used when cutting my Linux teeth back in the last millennium, and the
one I still use today (after trying many newer ones). If it's been a
while since you've seen what fvwm can do, check out its [1]features and
[2]screenshots."
Links
0.
http://fvwm.org/
1.
http://fvwm.org/features.php
2.
http://fvwm.org/screenshots/index.phpApplication Layer Packet Shaping on Linux http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/180224
[0]sommere writes "We have added application layer (layer-7) filtering to Linux. That means that you can set up your linux-router/linux-switch to prioritize mail over the web over kazaa or gnutella regardless of what port each program is using. Colleges have been paying thousands of dollars for packet shapers to prioritize their networks, now you can do it for free. Get your kernel patch at [0]l7-filter.sourceforge.net." Links
0. http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/
More on Media Consolidation/Deregulation http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1617259
I'll try to accumulate some links not [0]previously posted. [1]William
Safire comments. [2]The Register has an editorial; see also [3]The
Guardian for more on the British perspective. [4]Associated Press
story. The [5]Washington Post has a good and lengthy (and rare) piece.
The phone companies are making a [6]cynical political announcement that
they've agreed on a standard for fiber-to-the-home; that doesn't mean
they'll ever use the standard, and indeed they've already promised
*not* to roll it out anytime soon. Note that the FCC is removing any
requirement for the Bells to share their fiber, so if Verizon runs
fiber to your house, you'll be able to get Verizon service or none at
all.
Links
0.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/1450243&tid=103
1.
http://www.iht.com/articles/97184.html
2.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/30933.html
3.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,966694,00.html
4.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030528/ap_on_go_ot/media_ownership_4
5.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46442-2003May27?language=printer
6.
http://wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59035,00.htmlUK Police Expand License Plate Camera Systems http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/1522259
An anonymous reader writes "According to this article at the BBC British Police forces are [0]widening their use of automatic License Plate recognition. One of the police officers involved says 'we can effectively deny criminals the use of the roads.' For those who don't know central London already has a network of number plate recognising camera systems to support the [1]Congestion Charge system." Links
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2947136.stm
OrbiTouch Keyless Keyboard Review
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/30/156208
[0]robyn217 writes "When I last looked at strange, new keyboards
([1]here's the previous thread here on slashdot), I thought I'd seen it
all... not even close! I just reviewed a new keyless keyboard, called
the OrbiTouch, and gave it a run for its money. It's literally made up
of two humps--it reminds me of holding onto my knees rather a keyboard.
To type or mouse, you need to move the humps around in a synchronized
manner. It's twisted--but it's better for you to decide for
yourself--here's the article, [2]OrbiTouch Review: A Keyless Keyboard
with lots of pictures. Think you'll give it a test drive? Will it
survive the year?"
Links
0. mailto:robyn_peterson@ziffdavis.com
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/2138210&tid=137
2.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1112012,00.asp
Law and Virtual Worlds
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/29/176236
[0]Greg Lastowka writes "In light of yesterday's [1]spirited discussion
of the Shadowbane hack, I thought folks might be interested in [2]this
forthcoming article about the laws of virtual worlds. The article has
three parts: 1) a history of virtual worlds (e.g. Space War -->
MMORPGs), 2) a theoretical analysis of whether virtual world "property"
can/should be treated as legal property, and 3) an analysis of whether
virtual worlds can/should give rise to any other legal rights, i.e.
rights of avatars -- [3]an idea first floated by Raph Koster. I realize
there are plenty of strongly-held and divergent opinions on this, so
hopefully this might add to the ongoing conversation. Also, we're
revising this for publication over the summer, so we will be reading
the comments for any corrections/insights/humor that we can incorporate
into our revisions."
Links
0.
http://www.chaihana.com/pers.html
1.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/28/1452201&tid=209
2.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=402860
3.
http://www.legendmud.org/raph/gaming/playerrights.html
Freshmeat
123mp3 2.1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124460/
123mp3 is a frontend to BladeEnc and cdparanoia that produces MP3s from selected tracks on a CD in one automated process. Support for CDDB is also available.
2-Disk X window embedded Linux 1.0.8 (Source code) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124481/
2-Disk X window embedded Linux is a tiny net-centric Linux that aims at portable secure remote system usage. It contains many utilities including: X Windows, vncviewer, rdesktop, a Web browser, a file manager, a text editor, a terminal, a window manager, a menu system, a dialog system, X scripting facilities, and many others. It aims to work from 1 or 2 floppy disks in any remote location.
a place to go 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124407/
aptg (a place to go) is a Web-based mail client written in PHP, using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database or by a virtual mail address (also stored in the MySQL database). A powerful addressbook is also included.
Access Control Designer beta1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124450/
Access Control Designer is a universal modular tool for visually designing access control policies. The user of this system depicts requirements for the designed security policy in a graphical notation based on a generally accepted security model. The tool will then generate a configuration of security mechanisms, which will be used for the implementation of the security policy. Modularity of the tool will allow users to design security policies for a lot of various environments - systems needed to have access controlled. A pluggable module API allows third-party programmers to provide ACD modules for systems and so allow users to use ACD for designing access control policies for the systems.
ALE 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124467/
ALE aligns and merges several similar images from a digitizing device
(such as a digital camera or scanner) into a single image. This may
have the effect of producing a relatively alias-free image (sometimes
called "anti-aliasing").
Astaro Security Linux 4.007 (Stable 4.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/124483/
Astaro Security Linux is a firewall solution. It does stateful packet inspection filtering, content filtering, user authentication, virus scanning, spam protection, VPN with IPSec (PKI for X.509 certificates) and PPTP, Wireless LAN, VLAN, PPPoE, PPPoA, and much more. With its Web-based management tool, WebAdmin, and the ability to pull updates via the Internet, it is pretty easy to manage. It is based on a special hardened Linux 2.4 distribution where most daemons are running in change-roots and are protected by kernel capabilities.
Barracuda Presentation Framework 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124480/
Barracuda is an open-source Presentation Framework designed to make it easier to build servlet-based Web apps by applying proven client-server patterns to the Web development paradigm. It features a DOM-based templating mechanism for better separation of code from content, a UI component model that provides a series of server-side widgets (table, list, template, etc.) that make it easy to manipulate DOM structures, strongly typed MVC interfaces just like in Swing, support for multiple markup languages, an event model that provides Model 2 style flow control and allows for true event-driven programming on the server, powerful localization services, and much more.
BCWipe 1.2-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124439/
BCWipe securely erases data from magnetic and solid-state memory, by repeatedly overwriting special patterns in the files to be destroyed. In normal mode, 34 patterns are used (of which 8 are random); in quick mode, U.S. DoD (Department of Defence) 5200.28 standard are used with 7-pass wiping; and in custom mode, U.S. DoD 5200.28 standards are used with a user-defined number of passes.
BIE 5.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124508/
BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft Biz Talk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.
Botan 1.2.4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124504/
Botan is a library of cryptographic algorithms written in C++. It includes a wide selection of block and stream ciphers, public key algorithms, hash functions, and message authentication codes. It has an easy-to-use filter interface and supports many common industry standards, including X.509v3.
cacti 0.8 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124442/
Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also handles the data gathering. There is SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG.
CleanIce 1.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124464/
CleanIce is a simplistic, semi-flat theme engine for GTK+ 2.x, based on the ThinIce and Clean engines of old. The GTK+ 2.x engine has many benefits over the original theme. The arrows are more consistent, the colors are slightly revised to be more usable, etc.
DKMS 0.30.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124489/
DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code.
DocLite 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124500/
DocLite is a simple documentation authoring system. It produces multi-page HTML output in a style similar to that found in the Linux HOTWTOs or other DocBook-created documents. DocLite processes a single XML file into a number of separate HTML pages, and it creates a contents page that contains links to the various topics within each page. The idea is to produce usable documentation with a minimum of hassle.
Dustbowl Clan Tools 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124433/
Dustbowl Clan Tools is a community system for e-sport teams and gaming clans, providing an integrated forum, scheduler, voting system, and lots of other features. It is PHP/MySQL-based and supports multiple languages.
FAUS 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124405/
FAUS is a Perl CGI to permit user administration through a Web interface. It manages users for both UNIX and Samba systems, uses sudo to give the rights to the Apache user to run some (limited) scripts as root, features different forms of authentication when using Apache, offers multilanguage support, and has log support.
Fire Flower 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124449/
Fire Flowers is a fractal theme with fire colors on a grey background. The background is by d-b-c.
Freeside 1.4.1rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124468/
Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.
FVWM 2.4.16
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124495/
FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally derived from twm. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and a rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable and have a high degree of Motif mwm compatibility. FVWM is highly extensible through its module interface.
GNULinux 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124448/
GNULinux is a theme with a gnu and a penguin. The background is by 73lab (Ayo).
Highlight 2.0-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124462/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.
IPA 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124458/
IPA allows one to perform IP accounting based on FreeBSD IPv4/v6 Firewall (including IPFW2), OpenBSD Packet Filter, and IP Filter accounting rules on Free/Net/OpenBSD. It supports limits for accounting rules, and limits events such as "limit is reached" and "reached limit is expired." It also has a flexible configuration file with many sections and options.
IronEye Cache 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124499/
IronEye Cache is a Java tool that easily enables intelligent caching in any JDBC application with no changes to source code. It lets you quickly fine-tune database performance and scalability without the cumbersome and invasive complications of traditional caching systems.
JaBaCATs 0.5 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124490/
JaBaCATs is a set of basic Java tools for developers who need Certificate Authority (CA) root certificates and user certificates signed by the CA. This software is useful for application developers which use the SSL protocol and for people and organizations who want to be a Certificate Authority.
jEdit 4.2pre2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124438/
jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor.
JpGraph 1.12.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124515/
JpGraph is an OO Graph drawing library for PHP 4.0.2 and above. Highlights of the available features are: text, linear, and log scales for both the X and Y axes, anti-aliasing of lines, color-gradient fills, support for GIF, JPG, and PNG formats, support for two Y axes, spider plots (a.k.a Web plots), pie-charts, lineplots, filled line plots, impulse plots, bar plots, and error plots, support for multiple plot types in one graph, intelligent autoscaling, and extensive documentation (145 pages).
jrMan 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124512/
jrMan is an open source Java implementation of the Renderman standard using the Reyes algorithm.
Kleanux 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124476/
Kleanux is a clean theme that inherits all its colors from the active GTK theme. It works with dark and light GTK themes.
Libbt CVS
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124219/
Libbt is a C-language implementation of the BitTorrent protocol suite for Unix that was designed to be linked into a variety of languages. It is implemented as a memory-efficient single threaded library, and has fdset maintenance that can be used to either add in to your select loop or its own main loop.
libieee1284 0.2.8 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124484/
libieee1284 is intended to be used by applications that need to communicate with (or at least identify) devices that are attached via a parallel port.
LibTomCrypt 0.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124443/
LibTomCrypt is a comprehensive, modular, and portable cryptographic toolkit that provides developers with a vast array of well known published block ciphers, one-way hash functions, chaining modes, pseudo- random number generators, public key cryptography, and a plethora of other routines. It has been designed from the ground up to be very simple to use. It has a modular and standard API that allows new ciphers, hashes, and PRNGs to be added or removed without change to the overall end application. It features easy to use functions and a complete user manual which has many source snippet examples.
LibTomMath 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124444/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
LiVES 0.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124463/
LiVES (the Linux Video Editing System) is intended to be a simple yet powerful video effects and editing system. It will use commonly available tools (mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+, and in the future possibly gstreamer or xine), so it should work on most systems. It is currently usable for small video files.
MLAutosearch 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124485/
MLAutosearch is a shell script which is good for searching for rare files within multiple p2p networks. It uses the mldonkey utility to carry out much of the work. It reads a file named "slist.txt" which contains mldonkey search commands and starts a mldonkey search for each line in the file. It will download the first file that matches the search, and then will remove that search string from the list. When it reaches the end of the list, it begins reading it from the beginning again. MLAutosearch will download up to 3 files simultaneously.
Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.7.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124506/
Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small, powerful, and fast Web server for Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 , a config file (optional for every user), a mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, resume, and more.
myDVDs 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124494/
myDVDs is a complete personal Web-based graphical DVD inventory database based fully upon PHP with a MySQL backend and the master Region1 DVD database. Additionally, it makes use of the :CueCat: barcode reader for database Adds and Searches. It represents an easy and efficient way of managing that ever-growing collection of DVDs.
net2ftp 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124491/
net2ftp is a Web-based FTP client, offering standard FTP client functionality for Web pages.
neutralmixer 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124313/
neutralmixer is a simple, light Linux mixer usable in the X environment, working as an OSD. Running in the background, it becomes visible through [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[anArrow].
O-Zone's EDITor 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124457/
O-Zone's EDITor is a simple GTK+ 2 editor that is designed to be used for coding. Its design is based on SSEX, and it aims to be an integrated IDE.
Octave 2.1.48 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124446/
Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a convenient command line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments. It may also be used as a batch-oriented language.
OpenSched 0.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124482/
OpenSched is used to automatically schedule resources for a project. For instance, if 5 programmers cooperate on a software development project, and 100 tasks must be done, opensched can capture information about who can do what, what tasks depend on which, etc.
OZradio 0.9.5.2b beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124454/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
PCRE 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124452/
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5, with just a few differences. The current implementation corresponds to Perl 5.005. PCRE is used by many programs including Postfix and PHP.
Penguin Greetings 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124472/
Penguin Greetings is a Perl Web application to implement Internet greeting cards on Linux and other Unix-based systems. It can be run as a standard CGI application or as a persistent Perl interpreter (via SpeedyCGI) for production settings. It includes a complete e-card Website with 45+ cards for users who want a "plug and play" e-card solution. It is intended to make e-cards more like email by using multipart MIME email and including message text. The HTML for the cards and the creation screens are stored in templates based on Embperl so that users can completely customize the look of the program. Via Embperl, Perl expressions can be incorporated into templates for server-side processing. Access to the card creation functions can be optionally restricted to users in an htpasswd file. Cards are emailed and databases updated by a separate daemon program which allows for card scheduling and improves security and logging. Extensive documentation is provided as well an demonstration Website that make full use of the Embperl scripting capabilities.
PHP 4.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124461/
PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available.
PHP Text File Database 0.2.1-beta-01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124505/
With the PHP Text File Interface (Txt-Db-API) you can access normal text files like an SQL Database. You don't need any special database software on the Web server, yet you can still use SQL calls. You can use the API to create, query, change, or delete SQL tables, and you don't have to bother with the text files themselves; almost everthing can be done with the supported API calls. The Txt-Db-API is object-oriented and very simple to use.
phpWebSite 0.9.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124507/
phpWebSite provides a complete Web site content management solution. All client output is valid XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements. Features include articles, page creation, menu management, an event scheduler, a form generator, and much more.
PHPX 1.0.0 (PHPX Lite)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124473/
PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site.
php_tree 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124455/
php_tree supplies raw functions to display, inject, retrieve, and delete information from MySQL databases holding "flat" tree information in rows ident, parent, and haschild.
pip 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124496/
Pip is a wrapper for programs that won't use stdin and stdout, but require filenames to be given on the command line; it lets you use '-' as a special filename. Now you can build pipelines to your heart's content. Pip takes care of creating and removing the temporary files needed. Also included is pip_latex, which handles the peculiarities of TeX and LaTeX.
Plush 1.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124436/
Plush is a portable renderer that can render 3D images in real time.
Posadis 0.60.0pre2 (Pos6 development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/124511/
Posadis is a Domain Name Server for Unix and Win32 systems. Its main target currently is to create a useful and stable DNS server.