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[osdn developer] June 17, 2003
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 04:15:50 EDT
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June 17, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
Civil 0.82 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=284082
Civil 0.82 was released today. This version includes faster LOS code, support for battles from multiple theatres and numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Civil is a turn-based strategy game about battles in the American Civil War. Features network play, fancy graphics and audio.
PCGen 5.1.6 is available
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=284520
PCGen is a Java-based RPG character generator and maintenance program
that works on all platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc). All
datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available
through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. Mac OS X
users - if you quit PCGen using close or quit, your preferences will
not be saved. The preference files are only saved if you use the
File->Exit menu item to exit PCGen. This is a java issue (our thanks to
Conor for finding the reason for this long-standing issue!) For users
who have trouble getting the 3 zip files to unzip properly, we have
some OS-specific installs that should help minimize the chance of
install related errors. Links to these installs can be found at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen/files/Alternate%20PCGen%20Releases/
These are the same PCGen everyone else uses, just packaged with
installers which target Windows and Mac OS X users specifically.
Typically there is a lag between when the official release is done and
when these special installers are ready. We always recommend that users
install new versions of PCGen in a 'new' directory. Below is a list of
everything that has been addressed in this release. If you reported one
of these, please verify that it is was addressed properly. PCGen is
available at http://pcgen.sourceforge.net , and the main discussion
group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgen . If you wish to
discuss making your own custom lst files for use with PCGen, the data
monkeys have made their home at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcgenlistfilehelp and they pride
themselves in being able to field all questions about the data - from
very basic to very advanced. All three zips are required to run PCGen:
pcgen516_part1of3.zip, pcgen516_part2of3.zip and pcgen516_part3of3.zip.
Bugs 730410 Character Sheet Output of HTML generates error 698090
SKILLLIST does not work 701285 COUNT[FEATTYPE=xxx] doesn't count all
feats of type xxx 747292 Make NATURALATTACKS: tag available in
class.lst 750983 Exporting an SA class list causes exception 750265
Skill editor doesn't save class info Features 725099 Add PREVISION
743826 PREVISION tag 722063 Feat Tab is inconsistent with other Tabs
PCGenDocs: Documentation Requests 727374 Post Export Sheet processing
PCGenDocs: Output Sheet Bugs 748030 TH weapon attack not showing up in
XSLT sheets 750860 Bardic Music checkboxes not appearing 750861
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Treebeard version 0.8 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=284615
Treebeard is a cross platform XSLT IDE written in Java; it's editor allows the loading and editing of an XML document and an XSLT document at the same time. It can apply the XSLT to the XML and display the output for further editing / saving in XML, HTML or PDF. Treebeard also has a plug-able XML and XSLT parser architecture, and comes bundled with Xalan2.5 and Saxon7.5. Treebeard can be downloaded at http://treebeard.sourceforge.net New stuff: * Basic code completion * Look & Feel * (very minimal) Emacs key bindings * Upgraded xalan, fop, etc * Ability to (mostly) save desktop layout * updated the plain / html view pane * Fixed the systemid error so xsl includes work :) * Misc bugs
PHPSurveyor release 0.97 Final
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=285184
PHPSurveyor, a set of PHP Scripts for developing, and publishing online surveys, makes its final 0.97 release. 0.97 concentrated on implementing templates so that users could develop their own 'look and feel' to their surveys. This release includes 3 templates. Releases with the 0.98 moniker will be aimed at implementing localisation for the public survey screens, and some additional features like date/time-stamping of survey responses and a better way of ordering pre-defined answers.
OpenEJB 0.9.2 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=282705
The 0.9.2 release is one that the whole team is quite proud of. OpenEJB
0.9.0 marked are first release with special Tomcat embedded support.
Thanks to all the user feedback that support has just gotten better and
better. The 0.9.2 release contains a neat surprise for OpenEJB/Tomcat
users -- TOOLS! The new integration features a webapp with a setup
verifier, JNDI browser, EJB viewer, Class browser, and even an Object
invoker! You can browse the OpenEJB namespace and know right away
exactly where the ejb is and what it is called. When you find one you
like, just click it and it will open up into the EJB viewer. While
there you can check out it's home, remote and bean classes in the class
browser. The Object invoker allows you to actually create and invoke
your EJBs without writing a single line of code. OpenEJB 0.9.2 also
contains a new openejb.base variable to complement the openejb.home
variable. The openejb.base variable allows you to have several
configurations of OpenEJB all running against the same OpenEJB install.
This makes using OpenEJB in IDEs like Eclipse or NetBeans even easier.
Move the openejb_loader-0.9.2.jar into your project's lib directory,
set the openejb.base, and you'll be debugging your EJB apps
front-to-back without the need for remote debugging support or special
editor plug-ins. Thanks to all the OpenEJB users for all the great
ideas! You speak, we listen.
http://openejb.sourceforge.net/download.html
Slashdot
Lobbyists Urge South Australia To Drop Open Source Bill
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/0253255
[0]Red Wolf writes "[1]The Age [2]reports that South Australia has
caused eyebrows at the [3]Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) to be
raised in concern, with the organisation [4]writing to Premier Mike
Rann over a proposed [5]Open Source software bill. The ISC, by its
[6]own definition, is a "global coalition of large and small companies
committed to advancing the concept that multiple competing software
markets should be allowed to develop and flourish unimpeded by
government preference or mandate"."
Links
0. mailto:redwolfNO@SPAMredwolf.com.au
1.
http://www.theage.com.au/
2.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/16/1055615720403.html
3.
http://www.softwarechoice.org/
4.
http://softwarechoice.org/download_files/DearSouthAustraliaRann.pdf
5.
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/oss-bill/
6.
http://softwarechoice.org/about.asp
Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/0041250
[0]JasonMaggini writes "Popular Science has an article on how to whip
up [1]a batch of ice cream in 30 seconds or so by using liquid
nitrogen. Just the thing for those hot summer days. The article is by
Theodore Gray, creator of the ultra-spiffy [2]Periodic Table Table."
Links
0. mailto:maggini@bigfoot.com
1.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/hometech/article/0,12543,458641,00.html
2.
http://www.periodictabletable.com/
Sony Launches 2 New "Video" Clie Models
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/0411246
boss_ton writes "Sony is launching its newest Clie handhelds(NX80V,
NX73V ), a combination personal video player and personal digital
assistant, to the United States.Its already a huge hit in Japan. Amazon
is reporting the launch date as July 11th. The NX80V is priced at $600.
[0]Here's the scoop on CNet. The [1]official product page is here."
Links
0. http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-1017581.html
(Short-, Medium-, Long)wave Radio Meets Digital Stereo http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/2240202
[0]cryptec writes "Today shortwave radio will have some new life pumped
into it as the German broadcaster [1]Deutsche Welle will be the first
full time shortwave broadcaster of [2]DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale). DRM
is a full stereo fully digital broadcast system. The quality of the
broadcasts are close to that of FM radio. [3]For samples check out this
link." Akai adds this link to an [4]article in the San Francisco
Chronicle with some more information, like the involvement of the BBC
and Voice of America in this undertaking.
Links
0.
http://www.scanbc.com
1.
http://www.dw-world.de/
2.
http://www.drm.org/
3.
http://www.drm.org/system/centraudiov201.htm
4.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/06/16/financial1812EDT0283.DTL
Worms Going Further, Faster
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/2226249
Major Byte writes "Rob Kolstad's [0]MOTD (pdf) column in [1]Usenix
[2]login; passes along a few distilled factiods from a CAIDA analysis
of the 'Sappire/Slammer' Worm. When it was at full blast it was
scanning over 3 billion systems per hour--a speed that 'a "better"
vulnerability would have enabled infection of the entire internet in 15
minutes, a "flash worm" or a "Warhol Worm."' I think 'better' to mean
'able to infect across a lot of platforms.'"
Links
0.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2003-04/openpdfs/motd.pdf
1.
http://www.usenix.org/
2.
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/
IBM Responds To SCO: Business As Usual
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/2248200
Newsforge is running a statement from IBM on its [0]decision not to bow to [1]SCO's demand that they stop shipping AIX. In a statement this short, there's not much room for weaselly language, but the even-shorter version is this: "IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated." Links
0. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/06/16/2232255.shtml?tid=52
Hydrodemolition Robot Crushes With Water http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/2154254
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "In [1]'Robot pummels roads with water',
the Augusta Chronicle says that a hydrodemolition robot is going to
restore seven bridges in Georgia. "It's a robot that destroys
everything in its path with a crushing stream of water 15 times more
powerful than a jackhammer. The robot looks like a street cleaner
machine on steroids and is expected to begin use August 1 to resurface
seven bridges on Gordon Highway from Walton Way to the bridge at the
South Carolina state line." This kind of robot needs only two workers
to operate it, instead of 15 workers for a jackhammer, is less noisy
and more gentle for the foundations. You'll find more details in
[2]this summary."
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/061203/met_045-6278.000.shtml
2.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/2003/06/16.html
UK To Hold Public Enquiry On Spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/2048239
feepcreature writes "Is something going to be done about email spam at last? In the UK, the [0]All Party Parliamentary Internet Group is to hold a [1]public enquiry into spam. These politicians seem to understand the scale of the spam problem, and they are considering a new global level organization to deal with the Internet, as well as new laws, inter-government action and technical solutions. But will more international bodies help? Would laws work?" Links
SCO Terminates IBM's Unix License
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/1940219
AKAImBatman writes "SCO has [0]terminated IBM's license to use Unix
code. SCO is filing for an injunction that will require IBM to cease
all sale of AIX as well as accrue damages for each day IBM continues to
sell AIX."
Links
Chinese Manned Space Flight Set For Autumn http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/16/174205
brandido writes "According to an article at [0]Space.com, "Chinese
space officials remain on schedule for the [1]first piloted flight of
that nation's Shenzhou spacecraft. Chief designers and mission
directors say Shenzhou 5 will be launched in autumn, reported the
People's Daily last week." Between this, the [2]X-Prize, and
[3]multiple launches of [4]Mars probes in the last few weeks, it looks
like the space race may be heating back up?"
Links
0.
http://www.space.com/
1.
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html
2.
http://www.xprize.com/
3.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/02/1048218&tid=160
4.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1916247&tid=160
Freshmeat
abcm2ps 3.6.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126197/
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.
aiSee 2.1.87 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126214/
aiSee reads a textual, easy-to-read, and easy-to-learn graph specification and automatically calculates a customizable graph layout. This layout is then displayed, and can be printed or interactively explored. aiSee features 15 basic graph layout algorithms (including force-directed layout), recursive subgraph nesting, fish-eye views, and an animation interface. It has been optimized to handle huge graphs automatically generated by applications (e.g. compilers).
Anthill Pro Build and Release Management Server 2.0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126256/
Anthill Pro is an automated manager for the build and release process of software development. It can provide daily reports of an overnight build, with automated test runs, a revision log which lists newly implemented features. Anthill Pro adds to the already robust feature set of the open source version of Anthill. Anthill Pro is easy to use in heterogeneous environments since it allows you to use different JDKs and different classpaths to build different projects. It also provides robust support for project dependencies, allowing you to rebuild all dependent projects with the latest version of a dependency. Every project can store its latest artifacts in Anthill's built-in repository, and Anthill gives you the ability to rebuild any previously built version.
arch revision control system 1.0pre0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126189/
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.
Brian 0.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126211/
Brian is a jump-and-run platform game that uses Pygame and was inspired by Commander Keen. It is named after "Monty Python's Life of Brian", of which the game may contain some references.
C Server Pages 4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126171/
"C Server Pages" is a C++ application server. It runs server pages written in HTML with C++ embedded and templates with C++ beans. It features scalability and integration with the backend, multiprocess and multithread functionality, and it is tunable, load balancing, and behaves well even when highly loaded.
Cayenne 1.0b4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126290/
Cayenne is a free object-relational persistence framework written in Java. Its goal is to make development of database Java applications faster and more consistent with the Object Oriented Programming concept. Some of the ideas used in Cayenne have been inspired by the persistence mechanism of NeXT's (and now Apple's) WebObjects application server.
CFL 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126184/
CFL (C Foundation Library) is a C library that simplifies systems software development on UNIX. The library includes functions for memory management, string parsing, sub-process execution, filesystem traversal, I/O, interfaces to IPC mechanisms including pseudo-terminals, shared memory, semaphores, and other facilities. It also has implementations of common dynamic data structures like linked lists, queues, stacks, and hash tables, a real-time scheduler similar in functionality to the cron daemon, and high-level APIs to Berkeley sockets and other networking functions. Full API documentation is included.
changedfiles 0.9.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126279/
changedfiles is a framework for filesystem replication, security monitoring, and/or automatic file transformations--essentially any application where you'd poll files or directories and either do something to them or send them somewhere else (or both). The difference is, the kernel tells you when they change, instead of you having to poll. Besides which, it's an easy real time FTP push mirror to one or multiple sites. The changedfiles system consists of two parts: a kernel module (works with Linux kernel version 2.4) which reports to a device whenever a file on the filesystem changes, and a daemon which runs in user space and can be configured to do almost any action when a change to a file matching the one of the patterns it looks for is reported. The kernel module is SMP safe and has been tested on Intel, PowerPC, and Alpha.
Compact Disc Input and Control Library 0.61 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126183/
The Compact Disc Input and Control library encapsulates CD-ROM reading and control. Applications wishing to be oblivious of the OS- and device-dependent properties of a CD-ROM can use this library. Some support for disk image types like BIN/CUE and NRG is available, so applications that use this library also have the ability to read disc images as though they were CDs. A sample utility for displaying CD info is included.
Confirm 0.50
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126241/
Confirm is an email challenge-response system which virtually eliminates all unsolicited email. It is written in C and procmail, and is easily customized. Unsolicited email is checked against valid sender/recipient headers; unauthorized email is held pending a one-time confirmation reply from the sender.
Desktop ROCK Linux 2.0.0-beta5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126280/
Desktop ROCK Linux is a source distribution based upon the distribution build kit ROCK Linux. It is released with an automatic build system as well as prebuilt ISO images. It inherits the state-of-the-art tool chain from ROCK Linux and also includes the latest KDE and GNOME releases and many other packages. The build system allows optimized rebuilds of single packages or the whole ISO.
distcc 2.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126199/
distcc is a parallel build system that distributes compilation of C/C++/ObjC code across machines on a network. It can be set up in just a few minutes and makes builds up to ten times faster. It does not require machines to share a filesystem or have the same libraries or header files, and installation does not need superuser privileges.
EzSDK 4.70
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126249/
EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more.
Framework for Object Oriented Web Development 0.8.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126257/
Framework for Object Oriented Web Development is a collection of base classes (ripe for extending) which handle object persistence, user authorization, security, data administration, input handling, and all the things required to build OO Web applications.
FreeVMS 0.0.46 (Unstable kernel)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126196/
FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. It consists of a POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture currently supported is i386.
FUDforum 2.5.0RC6 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126218/
FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.
Generic Information Server Toolkit 2.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126205/
Generic Information Server Toolkit (GIST) provides support for managing user definable information objects, so you don't write any CGI programs or SQL in your HTML, or worry about indexing your data: GIST does it for you. You define your data and its structure and GIST takes care of adding, changing, deleting and indexing it, allowing you to focus on the important issues of providing the features and facilities your user community expect and demand.
GFax 0.6beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126281/
Gfax is a pop up fax application for Gnome. It supplies the familiar pop up window when printing to a fax printer. Gfax currently works with Hylafax.
gnocl 0.5.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126264/
gnocl is a GTK / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl. It provides easy to use commands to quickly build Gnome compliant user interfaces including the Gnome canvas widget and drag and drop support. It is loosely modeled after the Tk package.
Gridlock 1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126212/
Gridlock is a collection of grid-based board games for GNUstep, including Ataxx, Reversi, Gomoku, Connect Four, Breakthrough, and Glass Bead. You can play against another person or computer opponents of varying difficulty.
gURLChecker 0.5.2 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126247/
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.
hackerlab 1.0pre0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126193/
libhackerlab is a general purpose C library that offers a pleasantly refreshing alternative to libc.
HASAS 1.6.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126269/
HASAS (HydroAcoustic Signal Analysis System) is a modular system for passive sonar signal analysis. It can be used for biological research or surveillance, for example. The soundcard is used as input device, and it currently includes all the very basic functionality; beamformed audio, direction finding, level histogram, LOFAR/DEMON (narrowband spectrogram), wideband spectrogram, and raw audio.
HOZ 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126260/
HOZ (Hacha Open Zource) is an Hacha clone written in pure C. It's smaller and faster than the original, and it's Open Source.
ImageArchive 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126215/
ImageArchive is a PHP class for browsing images. This class enables you to look through a tree structure of images as thumbnails and then to zoom in to an individual image and rotate it. The zoomed image is created on the fly and can be a variety of sizes. The GD extension is required on the server, and JavaScript is required on the client. The class was tested on Apache under Windows and Linux, but does not contain any Apache-specific code.
iNet Factory 5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126271/
iNet Factory is a robust suite of TCP/IP networking components for the Java platform. They provide all the tools necessary to quickly develop network-capable Java applications with minimum coding effort. Included are components for finger, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, MIME, NNTP, nslookup, rexec, rlogin, rsh, telnet, whois, and other frequently-used protocols.
Infrared-HOWTO 3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126242/
The Infrared-HOWTO (formerly known as the IR-HOWTO) is an introduction to Linux and infrared devices and how to use the software provided by the Linux/IrDA project. This package uses IrDA(TM) compliant standards. Remote Control (RC) via infrared is not the aim of the project, though this topic is partly treated in the HOWTO.
install4j 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126213/
install4j is a cross platform Java installer that produces native launchers and installers for all major platforms. install4j offers an intuitive GUI that makes it easy to quickly define installation projects. A command line compiler and an integration for Apache ANT are included.
International Components for Unicode (C/C++) 2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126035/
ICU provides a Unicode implementation, with functions for formatting numbers, dates, times, and currencies (according to locale conventions, transliteration, and parsing text in those formats). It provides flexible patterns for formatting messages, where the pattern determines the order of the variable parts of the messages, and the format for each of those variables. These patterns can be stored in resource files for translation to different languages. Included are more than 100 codepage converters for interaction with non-unicode systems.
IRC BotNET 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126259/
BotNET is an IRC bot that has two modes: stand-alone and BotNET mode. Its features include: authentication, channel control, a full-featured memo system, seen system, info system, raw commands, logging capabilities, a help system, and the ability to act as a file sharing node. In BotNET mode, the bot cooperates with others of its kind to perform these features in tandem.
ITracker 1.7.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126217/
ITracker is a Java J2EE issue/bug tracking system designed to support multiple projects with independent user bases. It supports features such as full i18n support, multiple versions and project components, detailed histories, issue searching, file attachments, dynamic reports with charts, configurable field values, and multiple email notifications.
JASA 0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126231/
JASA (Java Auction Simulator API) allows researchers in computational economics to write high-performance trading simulations using a number of different auction protocols. The software is designed to be highly extensible, so that new auction rules can easily be implemented. The software also provides base classes for implementing simple adaptive trading agents. It was developed for research carried out at the Agent Applications, Research and Technology group of Liverpool University.
Jaxe 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126204/
Jaxe is a Java XML editor with a graphical document-oriented interface. It is configurable with an XML schema and a configuration file. It supports validation at element insertion, and is customisable with Java modules. There is an HTML preview with an XSLT stylesheet. Examples include XHTML strict and a Docbook article.
JTMOS Operating System Build 5991
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126223/
The JTMOS Operating System project aims to create a fully functional multitasking x86 operating system. It primarily targets low-end systems with small hard disks, preferably i586 family or newer.
Kernel TCP Virtual Server 0.0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126181/
Kernel TCP Virtual Server is a Layer-7 switching software in the Linux Virtual Server framework. It can do application-level load balancing (such as content-based scheduling) inside the Linux kernel. The reason for implementing it inside the kernel is to avoid the overhead of context switching and memory copying between user-space and kernel-space. Although the its scalability is lower than that of IPVS (IP Virtual Server), it is flexible, because the content of the request is known before the request is redirected to the real server.
KRconLinux 0.1RC4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126237/
KRconLinux is a KDE tool for querying and managing game servers like Half-Life mods (Counter Strike, Dod, etc.), Quake series, and more. It features a console to send rcon commands, a server log receiver, an (incomplete) IRC bot to monitor the games, and a chat console to interact with the players inside the game. It is capable of listing the available server maps and changing them, establishing server settings via configuration files, changing the current server password, updating and modifying the server ban list, kicking and banning players, and changing server variables.
Landscapes by B. Kaemper 3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126234/
Landscapes by B. Kaemper is a theme created with artworks of the painter B. Kaemper. It contains a KDE theme, an IceWM decoration, an icon set, images for the slide show screensaver, a console schema, a splash screen, and a KFM background image.
libDSP 4.6.0 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126248/
libDSP is a C++ library of digital signal processing routines, including standard vector operations, digital filtering, and transforms.
libptp 1.0pre4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126240/
libptp is a Picture Transfer Protocol support library. It is used for downloading images from PTP cameras. It currently works with most modern Kodak, HP, SONY, Nikon, Canon, and other cameras that are PTP compatible. It also works with some MP3 players, like the Kodak MP3. This package contains also 'ptpcam', the tool used to tweak camera properties.
LibTomMath 0.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126201/
LibTomMath provides highly optimized and portable routines for a vast majority of integer-based number theoretic applications (including public key cryptography).
LILO 22.5.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126268/
LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files.
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator 4.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126216/
Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator allows beginning-to-advanced network administrators to control bandwidth. It is designed to be completely turn-key in its default configuration. You just plug it into your network trunk, and it self configures and immediately starts slowing "bandwidth hogs". It also comes with finer controls that are easy to use, and can be configured to target specific applications such as Kazaa, IMAP, and POP. Traffic can be limited by host IP, subnet, and time of day controls can be set.
Linux-Mobile-Guide 3.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126244/
The Linux-Mobile-Guide (formerly called the Laptop-HOWTO) is a guide covering laptop and PDA related Linux features, such as installation methods (via PCMCIA, without CD drive, etc.), hardware features (PCMCIA, IrDA, APM, etc.), and configurations for different (network) environments.
LUFS Userland Filesystem 0.9.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126258/
LUFS is a hybrid userspace filesystem framework supporting many "exotic" filesystems (localfs, sshfs, ftpfs, httpfs, socketfs, freenetfs, and nutellafs) transparently for any application. It can be regarded as doing the same job as the VFS (virtual filesystem switch) in the kernel: it is a switch, distributing the filesystem calls to its supported filesystems. However, LUFS filesystems are implemented in userspace. This would be a drawback for local filesystems where the access speed is important, but proves to be a huge advantage for networked filesystems where the userland flexibility is most important.
monopd 0.8.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126270/
monopd is a dedicated game server daemon for Monopoly-like board games. Clients such as Atlantik can connect and allow users to play various games with other users of the network.
MoviX2 0.3.0rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126230/
MoviX2 is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. Using the GUI version of mplayer to play audio/video files, after booting your PC with MoviX2 you will be able to play any DVD/VCD, most video/audio files (most noticeably DivX but generically any AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, WMV, ASF, MP3, and OGG), and also radio stations on the Internet if you are connected to a LAN. And since all systems will be completely loaded in RAM, you do not even need a HD to use MoviX2.
Mplayer Orange 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126224/
Mplayer Orange is a clean and shiny skin.
myperl 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126245/
myperl allows you to execute Perl from inside of MySQL. It can either be stored in a row, or it can be specified in your SQL statement. You also can select other columns which will be passed to Perl.
MyPPP 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126226/
MyPPP is a PPP dialer and logger for Red Hat Linux. It lets users start a PPP dialup connection to an ISP and records how much time has been spent online every month.
Natural Docs 0.95
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126182/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation. It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output.
netcount 0.8b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126276/
netcount is a command line PPP traffic logging and statistics display tool for Linux. Logging is done via a small shell script which is called during the ip-up, ip-down, and system startup processes and from cron, while analysis and printing is done by a program written in Python. Statistics can be made on a per-call, daily, and/or monthly basis. Also part of the package is nstat, an X utility to display connection status, to hang up, and to start and terminate pppd.
Nmap 3.28 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126261/
Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host OS or device identification). Nmap also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning, sunRPC scanning, and more. Most Unix and Windows platforms are supported in both GUI and commandline modes. Several popular handheld devices are also supported, including the Sharp Zaurus and the iPAQ.
noexec 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126225/
noexec is a package for preventing a process from exec'ing another process. It can be a useful security measure to prevent a user from escaping to a shell. It may be able to prevent some kinds of CGI exploits.
ogmtools 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126246/
The ogmtools allow users to display information about (ogminfo), extract streams from (ogmdemux), merge several streams into (ogmmerge), and split (ogmsplit) Ogg files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or with the OggDS Direct Show filters under Windows.
Open WebMail 2.10 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126262/
Open WebMail is a webmail system written with Perl. It is designed to manage very large mail folder files in a memory efficient way. It also provides a range of features to help users migrate smoothly from Microsoft Outlook to Open WebMail. Open WebMail has the following features: multiple languages, multiple iconset/styles, strong MIME support, SMTP relaying, virtual hosting, user aliases, pure virtual user, per user based capability, multiple authentication modules, PAM
support, folder/message management, draft folder, confirm reading
support, full content search, spellchecking, auto reply, mail filter,
webdisk, calendar, event reminder, POP3 support, online password
changing, message count preview, user history, and persistant running
support.
OpenGUI 4.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126167/
OpenGUI (formerly FastGL) is a high-level C/C++ graphics & windowing library built upon a fast, low-level x86 ASM graphics kernel. It provides 2D drawing primitives and an event- driven windowing API for easy application development, and it supports the BMP image file format. You can write apps in the old Borland BGI style or in a windowed style like QT. OpenGUI supports the keyboard and mouse as event sources, the Linux framebuffer, SVGAlib, and XFree86-DGA2 (HW accelerated) as drawing backends, Mesa3D under Linux, and 8, 15, 16, and 32- bpp color modes.
Parasite 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126274/
Parasite is a PHP PEAR::DB-based blogger with support for spell checking, pingback, highlighted searching, Weblogs.com ping, RSS headlines, and more.
Penguin Greetings 0.8.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126227/
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 65 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.
Phony Mplayer 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126222/
Phony Mplayer makes Mplayer look like a desktop DVD player.
phpBB 2.0.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126221/
phpBB is a UBB-style dissussion board written in PHP backended by a MySQL database. It includes features such as posting/replying/editing messages, private messages, private forums, user and anonymous posting, robust theming, user ranking by posts or by special, admin definable, ranks, and much more.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.3 beta2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126236/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
PreMail 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126161/
PreMail is a mail previewer and deleter that checks POP accounts and presents a list of messages. You can then select and delete any of these messages. By default, it uses .fetchmailrc as its list of accounts.
QDist 0.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126198/
The QDist package implements the O(n log^2 n) time method for computing the quartet distance between unrooted evolutionary trees.
Ragnarok Online Client 0.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/126190/