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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

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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

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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.
1. 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
Another Water-Cooling System For Laptops http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2354216

Can't find what you're looking for?

[0]big writes "NEC has developed the world's first [1]slim sized water-cooling module for notebooks. It uses a piezoelectric pump driving method. This water cooling-module enables a highly advanced, slim sized, notebook PC with minimal operating noise." Toshiba has been working on [2]water cooling in laptops at least as far back as the year 2000.
Links

    0. mailto:big@fack.net
    1. 
http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C1811/
    2. 
http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/2000/0400-2.html

Warriors Of Freedom Prompted Rampage Attempt? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/0132204

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Philadelphia Inquirer article [0]linking videogames to an alleged spree killing attempt. According to the article, "Investigators suspect the three teens arrested.. as they allegedly were about to launch a killing rampage in the small town, found inspiration in violent computer games.. [police] learned that the name the three reportedly had given themselves - Warriors of Freedom - is also an Internet-based combat game." But only a few media reports mention that the violent game connection was made by Jack Thompson, a Miami lawyer and [1]outspoken critic of [2]violent video and [3]computer games - is this a case of [4]shameless Googling to find [5]any obscure game with a similar name and make a connection, or is there genuine evidence here?
Links

    0. 
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/6253512.htm
    1. 
http://www.fradical.com/Sniper_trained_on_Halo.htm
    2. 
http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/5966240.htm
    3. 
http://www.aim.org/publications/media_monitor/2003/02/26.html
    4. 
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22warriors+of+freedom%22+game&btnG=Google+Search
    5. 
http://www.dd-clan.org/rpg/

Armadillo Aero One Step Closer To Space
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2328203

[0]RobertB-DC writes "The folks at [1]Armadillo Aerospace have taken another step toward the X-Prize, dropping their re-entry vehicle from 2000 feet with no major problems noted. As usual, the Armadillo crew [2]documented the event with text, pictures and video, and the story is also [3]covered by Space.com (though without as many cool technical details). It's a bumpy ride, though -- instruments recorded some 10 G's on touchdown."
Links

    0. 
http://www.dixie-chicks.com/
    1. 
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/
    2. 
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=215
    3. 
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/armadillo_test_030707.html

Wi-Fi, Linux, And VoIP In Canada
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2039213

WEFUNK writes "Canadian Business magazine has a [0]cover story promoting Wi-Fi, VoIP, and Linux as 'Stuff that Works: 3 hot technologies that live up to their hype.' The article goes on to describe a number of Canadian success stories, ranging from [1]Spotnik Mobile's growing network of Wi-Fi hotspots to the [2]Canadian National Railway's use of Linux since 1993, and quantifies the benefits of VoIP to a Canadian [3]insurance company's call centre. The article also includes some shipment numbers for Linux servers in Canada, mentions the growing number of Linux apps, and nicely downplays the SCO debacle."
Links

    0. 
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columns/article.jsp?content=20030707_54765_54765
    1. 
http://www.spotnikmobile.com/
    2. 
http://www.cn.ca/
    3. 
http://www.canadalife.ca/

Glitches in Massive Government Databases? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2059205

Don't know where to look next?

HBergeron asks: "Rather then post this as another YRO in the litany of new government datamarts there is a more fundamental question for all the coding Slashdot readers out there. [0]This story, in [1]Government Executive magazine, outlines the range of programming glitches in what is a relatively simple database. As a matter of public policy (and taxpayer money) is this level of non-functionality to be expected in these sorts of projects? Is the contractor just ripping off the taxpayers with bad code? How hard is it to write software like this that works?" The article focuses on the [2]SEVIS database, but have others noticed similar trend in other government information systems? Links

    0. 
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0703/070303h1.htm
    1. 
http://www.govexec.com/
    2. 
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/27/0756253&tid=158

Extending And Embracing In Portland At OSCON 2003 http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/2222243

Officially, the theme of [0]this year's Open Source Software Convention
(OSCON) 2003 is "Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software," and to
that end approximately 1,500 attendees (and companies including Apple, Active State, online book-seller Powells.com and MySQL) are sharing space in three floors of Portland's downtown Marriott, and will until the conference's close on Friday. ([1]Representatives from Microsoft are along for the ride, too. Lunch on Wednesday is Microsoft's treat.) An unoffical theme of ubiquitious connectivity and creative collaborative in much in evidence as well: besides the conference-furnished wireless access points throughout the classroom area, numerous other base stations (like the one I'm connected to right now) have popped up. What do you expect with more than a thousand laptop-toting programmers in one hotel? There's also a [2]"semi-unofficial" wiki ([3]applauded by Tim O'Reilly), an [4]ongoing web log of the conference, and an irc channel filled with conference attendees. Read on for more.
Links

    0. 
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/
    1. 
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1185987,00.asp
    2. 
http://oscon.kwiki.org/
    3. 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3404
    4. 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3438

Open Source Law
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/204225

[0]Russ Nelson writes "The U.S. Supreme Court just announced its refusal to review the 5th Circuit's en banc decision that there can be no copyright of privately authored laws offered to U.S. governmental bodies for adoption. The model law itself may be copyrighted, but once it's adopted, the law must be open source. The entire case is laid out on [1]Peter Veeck's page." Slashdot [2]touched on this before, but never really covered this dispute in depth. Here's a nice [3]legal summary of the case.
Links

    0. 
http://russnelson.com
    1. 
http://regionalweb.texoma.net/cr/filings.htm
    2. 
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/13/1921223&tid=153
    3. 
http://www.gtwassociates.com/answers/veeck.htm

Evolving the Wireless Robot
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1953238

An anonymous reader writes "This article is one of the first to discuss [0]wireless robotics from an integrated approach. It explains the ins and outs of wireless robots: their components, their shortcomings, and how they can interact in a competitive or cooperative team within professional environments. Learn how smarter robots can relieve us of the most tedious -- and dangerous -- tasks." Links

0. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-robotics.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01WirelessRobots

Confused? Frustrated?

Inside Electronic Voting Machines
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/1949200

[0]Alien54 and several other people wrote in about a couple of stories published in a New Zealand webzine: an [1]examination of an electronic voting system, and some less interesting [2]political speculation about it. [3]Diebold voting systems are in fairly wide use, and apparently provide zero security to keep election officials from writing in whatever election totals they want. Links

    0. 
http://radiofreenation.net
    1. 
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00065.htm
    2. 
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00064.htm
    3. 
http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/

Linux vs. SCO: The Decision Matrix
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/182211

[0]hexidec writes "Haven't seen this here yet, though I may have missed it. Anyway... A group of Australian techies have put together an analysis [1]matrix of the likelyhood of each SCO Unix claim being true, and what outcome would most likely result if so. Puts a lot of the various recent suppositions in one handy place." Links

0. mailto:deviledham@techie.com

http://www.cybersource.com.au/users/conz/linux_vs_sco_matrix.html

Freshmeat
2Pong 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128666/

2Pong is a Pong clone that is played with two balls instead of one. The game features three modes of play: the regular Pong game, a time-based mode against an unbeatable AI opponent, and a "2 vs 2" mode. Network support for 1-vs-1 games is also available.

3D Pong for Palm Pilot 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128674/

Call Pantek today for Open Source Technical Support at 1-877-546-8934 - 24/7/365

3D Pong is a fast-paced three-dimensional pong game for Palm OS. It features a computer opponent and multiple stages.

abcm2ps 3.6.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128627/

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.

ActiveDeveloper 2.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128641/

ActiveDeveloper is a runtime Objective-C and C IDE, JIT compiler, and debugger for Cocoa and WebObjects 4.x. It features fast incremental Objective-C and C compilation, full native speed applications in deployment, and no ActiveDeveloper dependency in your products.

AODV-UU 0.7.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128646/

AODV-UU (Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing, from Uppsala University) is a routing protocol under investigation by the IETF for use in ad-hoc networks, where both end-users and routers are mobile. This implementation supports IPv6 and multicasting and is compliant with AODV Draft v.13.

Apollon 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128696/

Do you need help?

Apollon is the filesharing client you were waiting for! It uses giFT/openFT as a filesharing protocol, and the GUI is very user-friendly and intuitive.

Arbitrary Command Output Colourer 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128610/

acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then applies matching rules to patterns in the output and applies colours to those matches.

Bugzero 2.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128655/

Bugzero is an all-in-one product for software bug tracking, defect issue incident tracking, trouble ticketing, help desk support, and customer email management. It is simple to use and avoids complexity by making the tasks or projects separate and independent. It is platform and database system independent (based on Java). It supports multiple projects, group-based access, automatic bug assignment, file attachment, email notification, inbound email management, metric reports, and workflow. It also features advanced search capability, a comprehensive bug audit trail, CVS version control integration, and an easy to use system administration tool for project configuration and user account management.

Build it Fast 0.1.13
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128651/

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.

Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128700/

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Bungisoft Syntax Visualizer adds visual impact and interactivity to the documentation of your parsers. It supports a wide variety of parser generation formats, including yacc, bison, JavaCC, BNF, EBNF and ISO EBNF (ISO/IEC 14977). It is a self-contained Java-based visualization application that dynamically creates visual representation of your syntax and grammar, saving it as images for inclusion in your documentation. It supports all common image formats, easy integration with your existing build environment, full customization of the look of your railroad diagrams, and multi- platform support.

CDAY Calendar Almanac 0.51 (cday-php)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128697/

The CDAY Calendar Almanac displays historical anniversaries such as birthdays and general events. It displays the equivalent date in multiple calendar systems, including Hebrew, Julian, JDNs, Great Underground Empire (Zork), and Shire (Lord of the Rings). Separate command line and Web-based versions are available, along with a free library of thousands of events.

changedfiles 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128690/

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.

Cherokee 0.4.5 rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128626/

Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings.

Cocoa 3D Tutorial 0.3 alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128644/

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Cocoa 3D Tutorial provides a Cocoa framework to interface the OpenGL library in a more OO-fashioned style. It is not meant to be the fastest code possible, nor to leverage all the power of OpenGL, but to give developers a easy way to start working in 3D.

dnSQLpanel 0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128618/

dnSQLpanel is an easy to use control panel for Bind, using the MySQL SDB module. It provides direct access to the tables that Bind reads from modifying data in real time.

eboard 0.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128645/

eboard is a chess board interface for ICS (Internet Chess Servers, like FICS) and chess engines (like Crafty) based on the GTK+ toolkit. It provides a friendly user interface with input history, locked scroll back, and multiple board windows.

Echo Web Application Framework 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128623/

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.

eDContainer 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128640/

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eDContainer is a PHP container that defines a framework for content publishing via a Web interface or for building a Web application. It enables you to set up a fully customizable Web site or a Web interface for an application in a few minutes. It allows the definition of multi-lingual content, skins, dynamic content, customized error pages, and more.

Electronic Design Automation - Index 0.1-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/128630/

Electronic Design Automation - Index is a system that can be used in the electronic world to keep track of your: Schematic, PCB, Front Plate, and Programmable Logic numbers. This is very useful when you have drawn some electronic schematics and PCBs in an EDA program such as Eagle, gEDA, Protel, or Orcad. It is also useful if you've created a front plate layout in an image editor such as GIMP, Corel Draw, or Photoshop.

EMacro 2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128681/

EMacro is a .emacs that easily configures Emacs and XEmacs on most platforms, without any elisp programming.

Emdros 1.1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128620/

Emdros is a text database engine for annotated or analyzed text. It is applicable in linguistics, publishing, text processing, and other fields dealing with annotated text. Emdros has a powerful query language for asking relevant questions of the data. It is middleware, acting as a layer between a client (written by the user), and an underlying database. PostgreSQL and MySQL are supported.

EMS PostgreSQL Manager 1.2.0-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128643/

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EMS PostgreSQL Manager is a powerful graphical tool for PostgreSQL administration and development. It makes creating and editing PostgreSQL database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL scripts and queries, manage users and their privileges, extract, print and search metadata, export data to 12 available formats, and import them from most popular formats.

Eternal Lands 0.7.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128701/

Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D graphical online world that will evolve into a fully-featured MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.

EzSDK 4.75
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128692/

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.

Gnome Run Program Utility 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128703/

gmrun provides a small window which lets you launch programs by typing their names. It features tab completion similar to bash or Emacs. It can complete program names from $PATH, or if the command starts with "/" it will complete file names. It provides a command history of configurable size, as well as the ability to perform forward/backward searches through the command history. gmrun was developed as a replacement for the Gnome Run program.

GOBLIN Graph Library 2.6.1 Build4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128628/

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The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor, but provides only basic graph layout methods.

GraphPak for Qt 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128658/

GraphPak is a programming library of 2D and 3D charting objects for the Qt toolkit. It provides software developers with a set of C++ objects to easily create charts or graphs that aid in the visual presentation of technical and business data. This release includes Bar, Line, Pie, Ring, Area, Hi-Lo, Box and Whisker, and Polar charts. It is based on the KD Chart product from Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB.

Grip 3.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128657/

Grip is a CD player and CD ripper/MP3-encoder for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 encoders (presets for lame, bladeenc, l3enc, xingmp3enc, mp3encode, and gogo), letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. The Ogg Vorbis format is also supported. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers. Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified, "computerized" version of your music collection.

hackerlab 1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128609/

libhackerlab is a general purpose C library that offers a pleasantly refreshing alternative to libc.

Hierarchical Data Format 1.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128647/

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HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets
(multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing
objects).

IBM OpenDX 4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128678/

IBM OpenDX, the successor to IBM Visualization Data Explorer, (known simply as DX) is a general-purpose software package for data visualization and analysis. It employs a data-flow driven client-server execution model and provides a graphical program editor that allows the user to create a visualization using a point and click interface. Applications can also be built on top of portions of the Data Explorer system, so that custom, turnkey applications can be easily developed using DX as the computational and rendering engine.

IPA 1.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128683/

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.

IRCG XML 4 Gamma 21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128606/

IRCG is a solution for delivering XML messages to huge numbers of clients in real-time. IRCG leverages the power of established IRC products and the PHP programming language for providing low-latency message streams over persistent HTTP connections. The use of time-proven technology and an easy-to-adapt scripting language is designed to reduce development time and to maximize the value of existing hardware investments. Typical applications of IRCG include online gaming communities and chat systems. IRCG is fully compatible with the ActionScript XMLSocket technology found in Flash-enabled clients.

iStumbler 0.8b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128616/

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iStumbler is a small utility for finding local wireless networks and services. iStumbler combines a compact Aqua user interface with advanced wireless scanning and reporting.

ITracker 2.0.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128648/

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.

iWebXF 1.0-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128613/

iWebXF is a Website engine which allows users to easily create an uniform layout for a whole site. It can take care of XML documents as long as the corresponding XSLT stylesheet for the document dialect is provided. It has some features which facilitate the localization of a Web site, can create dynamic menus, and includes a cache system.

j 0.20.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128677/

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

Jess 6.1p4 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128642/

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Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to "reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It is supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in larger applications. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial use.

Kalpa 0.0.0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128631/

Kalpa is a full-featured multi-user client-server cross- platform accounting, management, market support, and CRM system for Russian enterprises.

Krename 2.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128615/

Krename is a very powerful batch file renamer for KDE3 which can rename a list of files based on a set of expressions. It can copy/move the files to another directory or simply rename the input files. Krename supports many conversion operations, including conversion of a filename to lowercase or to uppercase, conversion of the first letter of every word to uppercase, adding numbers to filenames, finding and replacing parts of the filename, and many more. It can also change access and modification dates, permissions, and file ownership.

Kroupware 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/127895/

Kroupware is a Microsoft Exchange replacement that was commissioned by the German government. It features email capability, task planning, calendar scheduling, contacts management, notes keeping and sharing resources with your co-workers in the group. On the client side, you can use the following software packages: KMail, KOrganizer, KAddressbook, or Kitchensync (for Palm sync).

lin-seti 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128663/

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lin-seti is a command line program allowing the user to mantain a cache of work units for the Seti@Home client. It should run without any problem on Unix-like systems, including Linux. It is designed to be fully compatible with SETI Driver (similar software for Windows), so you can share the same cache on dual boot systems.

LiteSpeed Web Server 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128704/

LiteSpeed Web Server is a full-featured, high-performance, secure, and easy-to-use Web server that runs on Unix and Linux. It supports HTTP 1.1, SSL, CGI, FastCGI, PHP, and JSP Servlets. It is easy to install and easy to configure or control through its Web interface.

Litestream 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128679/

Litestream is a MP3 streaming server based on the Shout protocol and written in C. It aims to be a small and robust MP3 streaming server solution.

lowlife 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128654/

Lowlife is a documentation project which tells the user how to put together a simple uClibc-based Linux boot-floopy. It also describes the installation of the SVGA vncviewer on the floppy, thus enhancing it with X terminal capabilities. Besides the documentation, the package also contains a precompiled demo floppy image.

MegaPov 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128607/

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MegaPOV is a version of POV-Ray that features various custom and unofficial patches.

ModLogAn 0.8.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128632/

ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by several server-types
(HTTP, FTP, mail, streaming, etc.) and other logfile sources
(flow-tools, ipchains, PABXs): currently 24 parsers. It features
incremental logfile processing and internal resolving, and is able the split (mass-hosting) and combine logfiles (clusters) internally. The output can be based on the internal template engine to generate your own look & feel.

Mrwtoppm 0.0.a10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128625/

Mrwtoppm provides a command line utility and a Gimp plugin for processing RAW image files from Minolta's DiMAGE 5 and 7 series digital cameras. The programs decode Minolta's RAW format, perform Bayer pattern interpolation, and color space conversion. The programs also perform tone control and sharpening in CIELab color space. Utilities for displaying much of the additional data stored in the RAW file are also included.

MSBang! 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128669/

MSBang! is a Linux-based text editor. The name is a twist of the creators' names. Some of the main features it has are: macro operations that start recording, stop recording, and save and load oft-repeated editing patterns, multi-threaded search capabilities with a choice of thread scheduling priorities, syntax highlighting systems with an easy facility for the creation of user-defined highlighting rules, extensive documentation, and autosave and complete recovery of files in case it crashes due to unforseen circumstances.

NetCDF 3.5.1-beta11 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128650/

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NetCDF is a format originally developed at NASA and then taken over by Unidata. CDF stands for "Common Data Format" and is a self-describing data format, commonly used in scientific and engineering applications.

Netxx 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128686/

Netxx is a C++ network programming library. In addition to having a nice clean API, it also provides a TLS/SSL abstraction layer via OpenSSL.

NewSyslog 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128687/

NewSyslog is an updated version of a package put together by Theodore Tso of MIT Project Athena (which is included in NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.). It manages the rotation and archiving of log files
(primarily those written to by syslogd). This version has a mix of
features from all of the other versions, and it has been made more portable than any of the others with the help of GNU Autoconf.

O-Zone's EDITor 0.1.0pre2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128653/

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.

pam_dotfile 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/128699/

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