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[osdn developer] July 04, 2003
Date: Fri Jul 04 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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July 04, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
EVMS 2.1.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289226
The EVMS team is announcing the next major release of the Enterprise Volume Management System. Package 2.1.0 is now available for download. This release is for the new EVMS design, which is based on user-space volume discovery and communication with existing kernel drivers, such as MD/Software-RAID and Device-Mapper. Downloads at the project page: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/evms/ Please see the INSTALL file in the 2.1.0 package for information about installing and getting started with the new EVMS. Since this new design is based on user-space discovery, there will no longer be boot-time volume activation. Please see the INSTALL file for information about how to activate your volumes using the EVMS user-interfaces and utilities. The INSTALL file also contains instructions for how users may easily "upgrade" an existing 2.4 kernel with Device-Mapper and EVMS 2.0.1 patches. Please see the README file in the 2.1.0 package for more detailed notes concerning this release and it's new features. EVMS 2.1.0 is supported on 2.4.21, 2.4.20, 2.4.19, and 2.5.73 kernels. If you have any questions, find any bugs, or simply want to report success stories, please send email to the EVMS mailing list (evms-devel@lists.sf.net) or visit the EVMS IRC channel (irc.freenode.net, #evms). Please see the notes and changelog at: http://www.sf.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=168707
NDoc version 1.2 beta released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289572
A beta of the latest version of NDoc, the .NET Code Documentation Generator, has been released. The new features include: - new HTML Help 2 documenter (beta version), - new HTML Linear documenter (alpha version), - the MSDN documenter can now generate CHM or Online documentation, - option to link to the .NET Framework SDK v1.0, v1.1 or MSDN Online - support for Visual Studio 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.1, - plus many improvements and bug fixes... The NDoc v1.2 beta source code is available for download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=36057&release_id= 168934
Columba 0.11.0 (unstable) released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289631
A new unstable 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 contains numerous new features we want you to testdrive. http://columba.sourceforge.net/downloads_unstable.php For more information visit: http://columba.sourceforge.net/news.php
Python 2.3b2
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=288768
Python 2.3b2 has been released (29-Jun-2003). We encourage you to test your applications with this release, as we plan on a final Python 2.3 release by early August.
SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-06-20 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=289543
0. Intro. 1. Improved Search. 2. Project of the month: Megamek. 3. Updated Project Registration System. 4. New RSS Feeds. 5. Stats and Top Projects.
Dear SourceForge.net, One of our biggest challenges in managing SourceForge.net has been handling our growth. With approximately 70 new Open Source Projects and 700 new registered users being added to the site each day, it can be quite a trick trying to stay ahead of the curve. This month I want to mention two improvements that are noteworthy. The first is project search. You can read about it below, but essentially the average time for searching for projects (using the left navbar) been reduced from 30 seconds to 1 second. The second is the beginning of the process of weeding out "dead" projects. These are projects that haven't had any real activity in the past 6 months and have never released any files. This is a big change for us. When SourceForge.net was started over 3 1/2 years ago, the vision was that it would be the permanent record of Open Source Software - Nothing would be deleted. We held on to the mission so strongly that we never developed internal tools to delete projects. Now with over 63,000+ projects and 70 new ones being added daily, we do realize that not -every- project has taken root. The real crusty/vacant ones (haven't released files and have zero activity) will be put in a queue for removal. This process will be done very carefully; we will give the registered admins of the project ample warning and the ability to 'opt-out' of the removal. The upside for the SourceForge.net community is that soon things will be a bit cleaner around here. Search results will list less dead projects and the software map will be easier to traverse. We still have some growing pains, but I hope you enjoy these latest improvements. I want to thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. As always if you have some feedback or issues related to the site, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net. Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET Pat@sf.net Improved
Project Search --------------------------------------------- As
SourceForge.net continues to have significant growth in the size of its
user base, count of hosted projects, and daily activity, a significant
amount of work is done by the SourceForge.net team to ensure suitable
site performance and to work to resolve existing performance problems.
The SourceForge.net team is happy to announce that the "Software/group
search" facility is now operating in a more proper and functional
manner. Searches are now performed in real time and last only seconds.
Search users should no longer encounter the dreaded "search server is
overloaded" messages previously offered during peak traffic hours. The
SourceForge.net team expects to further expand the search facility in
the near future, and to increase the frequency of search updates
(currently twice-weekly) to better meet the needs of our hosted
projects. Your patience has been appreciated; we hope you enjoy your search results... http://sourceforge.net/search/ Project of the Month:
MegaMek --------------------------------------------- The
SourceForge.net team loves games. Our favorites are online, net-based
games that offer the ability to battle friends and foes from all over
from world. SourceForge.net's June 2003 project of the month, MegaMek,
is a Java based networkable game for 2 or more players. It's a
strategic game that features brains over fast reflexes. The Software,
licensed under the GPL, has enjoyed a position in the top 25 SF.net
most active projects since it's founding in February 2002. With new
features being added daily, MegaMek is a project to keep an eye on.
http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2003-06.php Updated Project
Registration System ---------------------------------------------
SourceForge.net provides hosting for Open Source software development
projects. Each day, SourceForge.net evaluates more than 100 new
projects for hosting. Historically, there have been a number of
pitfalls in this process. In particular, ensuring that each new project
registration contains enough information to be properly considered by
the SourceForge.net team without the added delay of asking the
submitter for more information. Delays due to lack of information
previously impacted roughly 15% of our new project registrations,
causing these registrations to take more than our ideal two business
days to be processed fully. The project registration system on
SourceForge.net has recently been completely rewritten, integrating
fixes for all previously-reported issues (in the past couple of years)
and generally making the process more seamless for the submitter. Based
on information collected during the early stages of the project
registration process, the project registration system automatically
advises you as to what should be included in your project description,
and helps to bring potential pitfalls to your attention before the
registration request is submitted. Users of our past project
registration pages will note a larger amount of integrated
documentation, the ability to easily return to earlier stages in the
process without losing entered data, and the capability to review the
information you have provided (and make necessary changes) before
submitting it to the SourceForge.net team for consideration. We hope
these changes will help make the process of registering a project on
SourceForge.net easier to understand, and help us to further improve
the turnaround time on hosting requests. New RSS Feeds.
- This is information from
the last sitewide email, but we think it's worth repeating. A
convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site,
project news, activity information, and new projects is now available.
SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed
using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also
allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as
Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using
these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news
and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics
(such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed
using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 63,569 Number of Registered Users: 642,495 Daily Stats for June 11th, 2003 SF.NET : 1,762,941 pages served SF.NET project web space : 4,037,233 pages served Total Pages: 5,800,174 CVS updates: 15,017 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 310,666 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 124712 Top 25 Projects: 1. GAIM http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique feature. 2. phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 3. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java 4. AWStats http://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats/ Advanced Web Statistics
(AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer
that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc. 5. Dev-C++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 6. guliverkli http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils. 7. BZFlag http://sourceforge.net/projects/bzflag/ OpenSource OpenGL Multiplayer Multiplatform battlezone capture the flag. 8. Tiki CMS/Groupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/ Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty) 9. ScummVM http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for SCUMM-based games, used by LucasArts in games like: Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Day Of The Tentacle, The Dig, etc. It also includes a non-SCUMM interpreter for Simon The Sorcerer 1/2. 10. Freecraft http://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft 2 compatible theme is available. 11. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 12. wxWindows http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/ wxWindows is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.- POPFile http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface. It runs on most platforms and with most email clients. 14. moregroupware http://sourceforge.net/projects/moregroupware/ Web-based groupware written in PHP4. Including modules like webmail, notes, todo, contacts, project management, calendar and others. 15. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 16. TUTOS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a webbased groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events/ calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. 17. filezilla http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server. 18. Armagetron http://sourceforge.net/projects/armagetron/ Armagetron is a simple action game modeled after the lightcycle sequence of the movie Tron. The main focus lies on the multiplayer mode, which has already made Armagetron a popular warmup game on LAN parties. 19. ffdshow http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow/ ffdshow is DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DIVX and XVID movies using libavcodec or xvid with rich set of video postprocessing filters. ffdshow can also be used as a separate postprocessing filter for other decoders. 20. TV-Browser http://sourceforge.net/projects/tvbrowser/ TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide which is easily extensible using plugins. It is designed to look like a paper based tv guide. 21. Mobicq http://sourceforge.net/projects/mobicq/ Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as celluar phones. It is written using Java 2 Micro Edition (MIDP 1.0) and uses ICQ protocol version 8. 22. Alvaro's Messenger http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn/ Alvaro\'s Messenger is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing... 23. MAMEoX http://sourceforge.net/projects/mameox/ MAMEoX is a port of the popular MAME (Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) system to the XBOX. The main goals of the project are to provide a well documented port with a consistent coding style. 24. WebCalendar http://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar/ WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendar for a single user or an intranet group of users. 25. TortoiseCVS http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisecvs/ TortoiseCVS is an extension for Microsoft Windows Explorer that makes using CVS fun and easy. Features include: colored icons, tight integration with SSH, and context-menu interactivity.
Slashdot
Xbox Linux Made Possible Without a Modchip
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/0521245
An anonymous reader writes "Free-X have released an [0] exploit for the Xbox that will let you get Linux on the machine without any hardware mods at all... Microsoft is already [1]threatening them with legal action. Here's the [2]Free-X statement. Free-X say they had been trying to contact MS for a month but were ignored, which is why they've released the exploit. Should be interesting to watch this one." Links
0.
http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/010895.html
1.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20275965-1,00.htm
2.
http://www.maxconsole.com/?topic=news&sys=all&article=230
dB Drag Racing
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/144236
Exedore writes "For a paltry $80,000 outlay, you too can fight back against the punk kids blasting gangsta rap from their Honda Civics. Enter the strange (and rather loud) world of [0]dB Drag Racing and join a small group of dedicated competitors in their quest for the loudest car sound system possible. The numbers: 130,000 watts output, 177dB, 10,000 lbs. of equipment (including the vehicle and all the sound insulation needed to protect those nearby). It might not be quite up to [1]Disaster Area standards, but it's not far off." Links
0. http://www.popsci.com/popsci/auto/article/0,12543,460648,00.html
Melamine Ceiling Tiles and the Quiet PC
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2323210
Delta Screemer writes "What good are ceiling tiles when it comes to making a computer quieter? Well, Max Page of [0]FrostyTech has [1]found a use for 'Melamine Foam Sound Absorbing Ceiling Tiles' as a cheap way of lowering the noise a computer produces. By lining the insides of a computer with these $3 24"x24" industrial office panels he was able to quiet a computer by several dBA. That may not sound like much (pun intended), but when you compare the price of these melamine foam panel to products like [2]Dynamat the price difference is substantial." Links
0.
http://www.frostytech.com/
1.
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=982
2.
http://www.dynamat.com/World Radiocommunications Group OKs New WLAN Spectrum http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2216225
[0]BenFranske writes "The World Radiocommunications Conference [1]will
allow a portion of spectrum in the 5GHz band to be used for WLANs, a
decision hailed as a 'defining moment' for the WLAN industry. Although
this doesn't impact the US much as this spectrum is already being used
for wireless networking here, this will help standardize the
frequencies worldwide."
Links
Ink More Expensive Than Champagne
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2037207
laing writes "According to [0]this story, ink for home printers is now seven times more expensive than vintage champagne.Ink in a typical replacement cartridge costs about £1.70 per millilitre, compared with 1985 Dom Perignon at 23p per millilitre." Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze! Links
0. http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/5590282?source=Evening%20Standard
Laptops Outsell Desktops in Retail Stores http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/186258
TechnoPope writes "According to [0] this article on MSNBC.Com, laptop
computers accounted for 54 percent of of 500 Million in retail computer
sales last year. Also mentioned was that LCD's outsold CRT's in retail
as well. "
Links
0. http://www.msnbc.com/news/934120.asp?0dm=C18MT
Microsoft Patenting IM Translation?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1759201
[0]theodp writes "The USPTO just published Microsoft's patent application for a [1]Method and system for translating instant messages, in which the software giant demonstrates how an English-speaking sender can type 'Hi' in an IM and it will be translated to 'Hola' for a Spanish-speaking recipient." Links
0. mailto:theodp@aol.com
Which Organizations Have Standardized on Mozilla? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/0039200
andy brunetto asks: " We are investigating email clients to deploy as our "standard" at the college where I work. I'm trying to find out who is using Mozilla for their email. When I say "who" I mean organizationally, as I realize 99% of us geeks already use it. What organizations out there are rolling out Mozilla as their standard web and/or email client, and why? Yes, we are considering using Thunderbird, once it is final. Thanks!" Hopefully this will make companies realize that the Internet isn't comprised of just IE users.
Design Slashdot's New T-Shirt and Win Cool Stuff! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1441203
It's been some time since we had a new shirt design for folks to buy, and it's time to change that. More specific guidelines for the contest follow, but in short, we're taking design submissions starting immediately. Winners will get a $75 credit at [0]ThinkGeek, as well as 3 copies of of their t-shirt design. Winners will be chosen by me. Links
Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1639249
Kong99 writes "A group at UC-Berkeley has proposed [0]Soft Walls to stop hijacked planes from entering a protected airspace. Interesting read especially since they claim it is 'hack' proof." Links
0. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993893
Freshmeat
aiSee 2.1.88 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128157/
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).
Amrita VPN 0.97-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128150/
Amrita VPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN solution that runs on the GNU/Linux platform. The implementation is fully in userspace and requires no kernel patches or enhancements. It uses SSL for strong encryption and authentication.
audio recording server 2.2.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128200/
erec is a tool program for recording raw audio stream from the soundcard. Multiple instances of erec can be running at the same time sharing the same audio device. It works as a frontend to the audio device for programs wishing to listen at the same time.
brinance 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128186/
Brinance is a commandline financial planning and tracking program, hoping to be a functional replacement for something overly complicated like GnuCash for those who prefer the commandline. It is written in simple Perl and has a few advanced features, such as scheduling transactions in the future and having as many accounts as one might care to have.
Build it Fast 0.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128167/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128133/
The C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) is a simple alternative to the STL that includes multithreading and networking. It defines dynamic strings, character sets, variants, lists and other basic data types along with threads, synchronization primitives, and IP sockets. It is portable across modern Unix and Windows systems and includes a sample HTTP daemon showing the full power of the library.
Calendario Class 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128162/
Calendario Class is a PHP class that helps you to create calendar and organizers. It's highly configurable, letting you choose how many days are in a week, when a week starts, the details of the HTML output, and so on. It also knows about holidays.
Confirm 0.55
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128185/
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.
Crimson Fields 0.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128054/
Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
CWirc 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128136/
CWirc is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin. CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel. Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, and the sound is played through the soundcard.
Date::Manip 5.42a (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128202/
Date::Manip is a Perl module for handling Gregorian dates. Operations such as comparing two times, calculating a time a given amount of time from another, or parsing international times are all easily done. The library is oriented towards the type of operations people tend to think of rather than those operations used routinely by computers.
DSPAM 2.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128156/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives.
dutchtpl 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128139/
dutchtpl is a PHP-based template parser which supports multiple templates and subtemplates at the same time. It also has a lot of other handy functions like caching and a parse all function.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128143/
Echo is a framework for developing object-oriented, event-driven Web applications in Java. Echo removes the developer from having to think in terms of "page-based" applications and enables him/her to develop applications using the conventional object-oriented and event-driven paradigm for user interface development. Knowledge of HTML, HTTP, and JavaScript is not required. Tutorials, white papers, and full API documentation are available.
Effort: Zero Franchise Manager 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128198/
The Effort: Zero Franchise Manager (EZFM) is a set of PHP files designed to minimize the effort needed to create a website for a Madden 2003 PC Franchise. One of the modes offered by Madden 2003 PC is the "Franchise" mode which allows you to play and manage a team over multiple seasons. This program aim to reduce some of the busywork by automatically generating Web pages to display the information contained in the Stat Files, and in a consistent and appealing manner.
ego file manager 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128171/
The ego file manager is a GTK+2 file manager that uses libferris for its VFS and provides evas2 and GTK tree views.
eXtented SErver Grapher 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128144/
xseg (eXtented SErver Grapher) is a server monitoring tool. It can check whether your server's services are alive. Its output is written to an HTML file. xseg can check the services on both local and remote machines. xseg can also run user-defined shell commands and write the stdout of these commands to an output file. This makes xseg very flexible, since you can write your own shell scripts and xseg will run them and capture their output.
Fink 0.5.3 CVS_SNAP-20030307 (CVS)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128161/
The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. It modifies Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and makes it available for download as a coherent distribution. Fink uses Debian tools like dpkg and apt-get to provide powerful binary package management. You can choose whether you want to download precompiled binary packages or build everything from source.
GCalc 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128128/
GCalc is a well-rounded mature implementation of a graphing calculator, featuring a complete set of often- used functions. It has many convenient features such as predefined zooms and tracing. But it's small, making it reasonable to host on a Web site for download.
GNU Development Environment 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128174/
The GNU Development Environment (GNUDE) is a complete suite of GNU C/C++, Fortran, Java cross compilers, and the GDB simulator/debugger for embedded microprocessor application development.
Grassy Plain 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128164/
Grassy Plain is a landscape theme. The original background is by americanpsycho (Pat Bateman) and was modified by Xeon Inc.
Gridlock 1.6.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128155/
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.
GtkAda 2.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128129/
GtkAda is an Ada graphical toolkit based on GTK+ 2.2. It allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada using GTK+ and Gnome.
GWorkspace 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128145/
GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
Hastymail 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128122/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
Impact 0.3.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128175/
Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats.
JACK Rack 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128190/
JACK Rack is a LADSPA effects rack for the JACK audio API. It supports MIDI control, arbitrary channels, LRDF XML plugin descriptions, and the LADCCA session management system.
Jameleon 1_0-docs-RC3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128152/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
JBoss 4.0 DR 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128138/
JBoss is an Open Source, standards-compliant, Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java. JBoss provides JBossServer, the basic EJB container and JMX infrastructure, JBossMQ for JMS messaging, JBossMail for mail, JBossTX for JTA/JTS transactions, JBossSX for JAAS based security, JBossCX for JCA connectivity, and JBossCMP for CMP persistence. It integrates with Tomcat Servlet/JSP container and Jetty Web server/servlet container, and enables you to mix and match these components through JMX by replacing any component you wish with a JMX-compliant implementation for the same APIs. The goal is to provide a full J2EE stack in the Free/Open Source software world.
John the Ripper 1.6.34 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128163/
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.
Kadu 0.3.4rc2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128097/
Kadu is a KDE client for Gadu-Gadu, a Polish messenger application similar to AIM or ICQ. It's based on libgadu, a reverse-engineered Unix API for Gadu-Gadu, and implements most features of the original.
Kodo JDO 2.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128197/
Kodo JDO allows you to write database calls using Java statements instead of SQL statements, by supporting the Java Data Objects standard for transparent persistence. It is the most complete implementation of the JDO specification for relational data stores, and comes with tools for producing a schema from an object model, producing class files from an existing schema, and a performance pack (distributed caching and statement batching) that improves performance by 15 - 30 times. It supports most relational databases, application servers, and IDEs, and reduces the total coding effort by 20-40%.
KXParse 2.0pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128153/
KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser. It does not require installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of reading files.
Leverlåda 2.6.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128148/
Leverlåda is an X-Chat script to retrieve files from FSERVE bots running on IRC. This script is useful when lots of fserves are offering something and you get bored of waiting and hitting a zillion triggers. In addition, fserves tend to come and go capriciously, and their queues are usually full. Leverlåda tries to automate the processes of locating and receiving files, enabling you to spend your time on something more useful.
lfwmail 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128160/
lfwmail is a lightweight webmail program. It will run with acceptable speed even on a Pentium 100Mhz Linux mailserver. It has just basic features and no calendar or folders, but it is fully MIME capable and can handle attachments. It is also very secure when you use https encryption. It converts HTML messages to ASCII for security reasons, but you can still see the HTML versions if you want. The code is clean and structured. The installation is straightforward and doesn't require a lot of non-standard modules.
libferris 1.1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128168/
libferris is a virtual filesystem that exposes hierarchical data of all
kinds through a common C++ interface. Access to data is performed using
C++ IOStreams and Extended Attributes (EA) can be attached to each
datum to present metadata. Ferris uses a plugin API to read various
data sources and expose them as contexts and to generate interesting
EA. Current implementations include Native (kernel disk IO with event
updates using fam), xml (mount an xml file as a filesystem), edb (mount
a berkeley database), ffilter (mount an LDAP filter string) and mbox
(mount your mailbox). EA generators include image, audio, and animation
decoders.
libparportled 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128131/
libparportled is intended to control a LED device plugged into a parallel port.
LinPopup 2.0.1 (GTK+ 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128121/
LinPopUp is a GTK port of Winpopup, running over Samba. It permits communication with a Windows-running computer that runs Winpopup, sending or receiving messages. Please note that LinPopUp is not only a port, as it includes several enhanced features like it doesn't need to run permanently, full message base management, can be run minimized, full message editor capabilities, clipboard cut&paste, documentation, etc.
Linux 2.5.74 (2.5)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128141/
Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking.
Lurker 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128182/
Lurker is a mailing list archiver designed for capacity, speed, simplicity, and configurability, in that order. Noteworthy features include: Google-style searching on all fields, chronology preserving threads, multilingual support, and attachment support.
Megamek.NET 0.323
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128189/
Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060.
miASMa 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128178/
miASMa is a powerful 2 pass macro assembler for x86 machines that generates relocatable object Files that conform to the ELF format. It uses LEX/YACC for scanning and parsing of the source file, unlike most other assemblers which use customized routines. It is supported with extensive documentation that can serve as an introduction to understanding assemblers in general as well as understanding the ELF Format. It is bundled with example assembly language programs which can help one better understand the syntax used by it (which closely resembles MASM).
migrate-me 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128011/
migrate-me migrates users' mail boxes from an Exchange server to a Linux mail server using the Maildir format. With the help of imapsync. It has only been tested by migrating accounts from Exchange 5.5 using the IMAP protocol to a courier-imap server, but it should work with any IMAP to IMAP migration. It features a single mode and a batch mode and a simple menu interface.
Minibar Drink Guide 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128191/
Minibar is a bartending application for PalmOS. It includes a database of over 100 mixed drink recipes and filters for searching by drink and ingredient type.
MP3Gain 1.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128127/
MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding.
nb++ 0.7.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128154/
nb++ is a nuts-and-bolts C++ toolkit. It includes classes for basic operating system features such as sockets, threads and regular expressions, along with threading strategies, a framework for writing daemons and tools for reference counting and event dispatching. Special attention has been given to thread safety. There is an emphasis on supporting Unix idioms.
OpenInteract 1.99_01 (Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128159/
OpenInteract is an extensible Web application server written in pure Perl. It includes a robust system of components, object-oriented data access, a consistent security scheme for both tasks and data objects, a simple user and group management system, and a convenient packaging system that makes it easy to distribute custom applications, amongst other things. It is stable, and runs out of the box on five different databases.
Oralux 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128176/
Oralux is a GNU/Linux distribution for blind or visually impaired people. It is based on Knoppix, and runs from the CD-ROM. An audio desktop replaces the graphical user interface.
Panoptis 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128169/
Panoptis is a tool to detect and stop DoS/DDoS attacks. It relies on data provided by NetFlow-enabled routers, and includes functionality to cooperate with other "Panoptis" detectors in order to trace the attack back to its source.
pkdump 0.96
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128140/
pkdump detects TCP and UDP port scans and connection attempt from foreign hosts over the Internet.
PowerDNS daemon 2.9.10 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128137/
PDNS is an advanced high performance authoritative nameserver with a host of backends. Besides plain BIND configuration files, PDNS reads information from MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and many other databases. Backends can easily be written in any language, and a sample Perl backend is provided. PDNS powers http://express.powerdns.com, a Web-based DNS maintenance site, and the top level domain .TK.
reciteword 0.8.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128126/
reciteword is education software developed using GTK 2 to help people study English and recite English words. It has a very beautiful interface to make reciting words an interesing thing. It can change skins, and comes with many sound events, including over 400 books for you to choose. It also includes a dictionary, which can also run separately.
RFC 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128170/
RFC (Remote Filesystem Checker) is a set of scripts that aims to help system administrators run a filesystem checker (like tripwire, aide, etc.) from a "master-node" to several "slave-nodes" using ssh, scp, sudo, and few other common shell commands.
RSSCreator 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128158/
RSSCreator is a PHP class that provides an easy way to create RSS feeds from within PHP. RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0 are supported.
Samba Make Logon Script 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128125/
Samba Make Logon Script is a shell script to produce Windows logon scripts with Samba.