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[osdn developer] August 26, 2003
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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August 26, 2003 DEVELOPER SERIES
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Sourceforge
Tiki 1.7.1.1 -Eta Carinae- released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303692
TikiWiki 1.7.1.1 has been released! (1.7.1.1 fixes a blocking wiki edit bug in 1.7.1). This release offers various bugfixes and improvements. All Tiki sites (1.6, 1.7) are recommended to upgrade to this stable version. Affected features: challenge/response feature, email validator, translations, page description, HAWHAW toolkit, HotWords, category listing, LDAP authentication, forum threads, caching URLs with common binary file, TikiHelp? links & various theme and visual fixes.
Gallery v1.4 Release Candidate 1 Available http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=303714
This is the first *release candidate* for Gallery v.1.4. This new version premieres some major new features: Gallery is now multilingual, and can be displayed in 18 different languages, with more on the way! In addition, we've overhauled the documentation and made it more accessible and more informative. Other changes include ownership at the image level, not just the album level, and a whole slew of minor improvements and bugfixes. Download it: http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more about the release: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=85
slrn 0.9.8.0 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304279
Slrn (``S-Lang read news'') is a Usenet newsreader that runs in text mode on various Unix- and Unix-like operating systems (including Linux), Windows, OS/2, BeOS, MacOS X and VMS. It supports scoring rules to highlight, sort or kill articles to make reading news more efficient. Furthermore it is highly customizable, allows free key-bindings and can be extended using the S-Lang macro language. Offline reading is possible using either slrnpull (shipped with slrn) or a local newsserver like leafnode or INN. The new version of slrn finally has been released. It has an impressive list of changes, including the long-awaited true offline reading functionality. I also integrated a lot of patches and want to thank everyone who made a contribution.
DrJava stable release
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304274
A new stable release of DrJava is now available. DrJava is an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions. It is primarily intended for students, but it has features useful even for advanced users. This release includes many large new features, including the ability to test all open JUnit test files, easily run the main method of a program, find and replace across all open documents, and load a history file as a script that can be executed one line at a time. There have been interface improvements including a convenient box that appears in the Interactions Pane to accept input from System.in, listing JUnit test methods as they are being run, and configurable colors that now work in all panes. More detailed information can be found in the Release Notes.
JFreeReport 0.8.3f released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=304276
JFreeReport 0.8.3f was released yesterday. It contains more bugfixes to JFreeReport while waiting on the next real release. JFreeReport is a Java class library for generating reports. It provides a flexible printing functionality for Java applications and supports output to Printers and PDF, Excel, HTML and XHTML, PlainText, XML and CSV files. To give everybody a reason to upgrade, this version now contains a progress monitor dialog for all gui report-operations. The reporting is also no longer so selfish to block the entire event dispatcher while processing the report... Have more fun, said Thomas
Slashdot
Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/0147202
[0]feklee writes "The preparations for the [1] rally against software
patents on Wednesday are running at full speed. Thanks to announcements
in [2]DWN, on [3]KDE, in the [4]Register, and elsewhere, the [5]Online
Demo has already more than 600 participants such as [6]Savannah and
[7]KDE.de. Now, what about your project?"
Links
0. mailto:felix.klee@inka.de
1.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/20/1244241&tid=155
2.
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2003/33/
3.
http://www.kde.org/
4.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32457.html
5.
http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/
6.
http://savannah.gnu.org/
7.
http://www.kde.de/NTT Verifies Diamond Semiconductor Operation At 81 GHz http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/0430236
[0]Anonymous Coward writes "[1]This story over at eetimes.com reports
of a semiconductor made of diamond that is able to run at 81 GHz."
Mmmm, [2]foreshadowing.
Links
0. mailto:lotbot@hotmail.com
1.
http://www.eetimes.com/at/hpm/news/OEG20030822S0005
2.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/2112237&tid=126
MIT Robot Walks On Water
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/0141229
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at MIT have solved the mystery
of how water striders propel themselves across water surfaces and in
the process have created a robot called [0]Robostrider that mimics the
behavior. With cool stuff like this, it's no wonder MIT is [1]number
one in engineering."
Links
0. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2003/robostrider.html
AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/2253232
mik writes "America Online [0] has been sued by [1]CI Host, a
Texas-based hosting company for defamation, interference with
contractual rights and unfair competition. CI Host [2]has been awarded
a temporary restraining order, though AOL has apparently not complied.
This may be the first such in a series of suits leading up to, perhaps,
to class-action status relating to AOL's recent zealotry in anti-spam
[3]policy resulting in the presumption that shared-hosting providers
are guilty (of spamming) unless proven innocent."
Links
0.
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/news/local/6597267.htm
1.
http://cihost.com/
2.
http://www.hostreview.com/news/news/030822CIHost.html
3.
http://postmaster.info.aol.com/
Florida Proposes Taxing Local LANs
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/2248224
Vellmont writes "From the state that brought you the 2000 presidential election debacle, now comes the proposal to tax your LAN. The Orlando Business Journal is reporting that the the state of Florida is thinking about [0]putting a 9% tax on LANs within the state. Exactly what they will be taxing isn't clear, since the tax amounts to 9% of... something. Will taxing the electrical wires within your home be next?" Links
0. http://orlando.bizjournals.com/orlando/stories/2003/08/25/story1.html
Is Linux as Secure as We'd Like to Think? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1959204
man_of_mr_e asks: "With all the recent brouhaha about [0]Blaster and
[1]Sobig, there's been a lot of talk about [2]how poor Windows security
is, especially compared to the Linux we all know and love. But is this
really true? The website defacement archive at [3]Zone-h shows that
Linux accounts for 61% of the defacements in the last 24 hours (note,
this figure changes, so it might be different when you view it). An
analysis of the last few weeks of [4]their archive shows a similar
percentage of exploited Linux systems. Note also that the 'Unknown'
category is rather high, and certainly contains at least some Linux
systems, further increasing the percentage. Why is this? Are we just
deluding ourselves about our own security? Could there be a Linux
'Blaster' just waiting to happen?" While "defacements" don't
necessarily mean "root level break-in", sometimes getting your foot in
the door is enough. If this happens, wouldn't Linux then be just as
exploitable as Windows? Are there other reasons why the likelihood of a
"Sobig" or an "ILUVYOU" would be lower for Linux than Windows?
Links
0.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/12/1326237&tid=201
1.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/21/1847254&tid=185
2.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/24/2255231&tid=109
3.
http://www.zone-h.org/
4.
http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacementsNative Java JDK 1.3.1 Support For FreeBSD http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1834249
ap writes "Justin T. Gibbs, of the [0]FreeBSD Foundation, [1]announced today the availability of a [2]native binary release of the [3]Java JDK 1.3.1 for FreeBSD. He also mentioned that more attention will now be focused on providing a release of the 1.4.x JDK. Such developments should allow for FreeBSD to be better suited for enterprise uses." Links
0.
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/
1.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2003-August/000905.html
2.
http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
3.
http://java.sun.com/
DeCSS Loses Free Speech Shield
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1940200
[0]JohnGrahamCumming writes "BusinessWeek/CNET is reporting that the
California Supreme Court has ruled that 'a Web publisher [1]could be
barred from posting DVD-copying code online without infringing on his
free speech rights.' They also say that 'the state Supreme Court ruled
that property and trade secrets rights outranked free speech rights in
this case.'" According to the article, this "...overturned an
[2]earlier decision that said blocking Web publishers from posting the
controversial piece of software called DeCSS, which can be used to help
decrypt and copy DVDs, would violate their First Amendment rights."
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@j g c . o rg
1.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/5067665.htm
2.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/01/1953236&tid=123
Sci-Fi Movies and 'Bad Science'
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1910254
[0]Roland Piquepaille writes "Science fiction movies can be fun, and
sometimes boring, when Hollywood producers want to show us a 2 1/2 hour
film when 90 minutes would be enough. But what about the 'science'
behind them? BBC News says it's pretty bad in [1]'When sci-fi forgets
the science.' For example, the metamorphosis of Bruce Banner into The
Hulk, based on work of marine biologist [2]Greg Szulgit from Hiram
College, Ohio, about sea cucumbers, is qualified by himself as "really
awful"." The [3]Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics website, which we've
[4]previously mentioned, is referenced in this article, and is now
[5]freshly updated to deal with movies like The Hulk.
Links
0.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0105910/
1.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3173935.stm
2.
http://home.hiram.edu/www/biology/gregszulgit.htm
3.
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/
4.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/14/1750211&tid=133
5.
http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/hulk.html
Linux 2.4.22 Stable Kernel Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/25/1739249
An anonymous reader writes "Marcelo Tosatti has officially [0]released another stable 2.4 Linux kernel. 2.4.22 was released early this morning and includes a [1]lengthy list of fixes. It follows the last stable kernel in this tree, 2.4.21, by a little over two months." Links
Freshmeat
European Protests Against Software Patents
http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/965
On Wednesday, August 27th, there will be a last-minute demonstration at the European Parliament in Brussels against the proposed directive on software patents, organized by the FFII. As an additional (or alternative) action, people and organizations are encouraged to participate in an online demonstration that day, replacing the main pages of their Web sites with text explaining the dangers of introducing unlimited patentability in Europe.
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 2.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133743/
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 544 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 265 profusely commented illustrative examples, and a number of tables.
AdvanceSCAN 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133766/
AdvanceSCAN is a command line ROM manager for MAME, MESS, AdvanceMAME, AdvanceMESS, and Raine for Unix, DOS, and Windows. It also contains a recompression utility for your .ZIP ROMs, .PNG snapshots, and .MNG clips.
Aegir CMS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133741/
Aegir CMS is an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) built on the reliable Midgard framework. Key features include an MS Word-compatible content editor, staging/live setup, multi-company hosting (ASP) support, and a flexible templating and layout system. Aegir CMS is derived from the Nadmin Studio M5 code base.
aio-xmms 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133674/
aio-xmms is an output plugin for XMMS which produces output for use with the libAIO library. A standalone GUI is also provided. However, volume control, effects processing, and the integrated config GUI are still missing.
AIOCP 1.0.021
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133758/
AIOCP (All In One Control Panel) is a Content Management System (CMS), a professional all-inclusive solution to completely manage a Web site or portal through a user-friendly Web-interface. AIOCP is also a framework for Web application developement and includes e-commerce and e-business modules. It includes all basic and extra modules: CMS,
WYSIWYG editor, languages, users, menus, forums, news, newsletter,
links, downloads, reviews, awards, chat, polls, calendar, banners,
search engine, statistics, online help, system tools, shell, backup,
MIME, whois, ping, traceroute, MySQL database management, transcoding,
custom modules, code libraries, images, and sounds.
amavisd-new 20030616-p5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133747/
amavisd-new is a high-performance and reliable interface between MTAs and one or more content checkers, including virus scanners, and/or the Mail::SpamAssasin Perl module. It talks to the MTA via (E)SMTP or LMTP, or by using helper programs. No timing gaps exist in the design, which could cause a mail loss. It is normally positioned at or near a central mailer, not necessarily where the user's mailboxes and final delivery takes place.
aMule 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133719/
aMule is short for "another eMule file-sharing program". It is another fork of the xMule project. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network, and supports Linux, *BSD, and Mac OS X platforms. aMule's distinctive feature is its new vision of the GUI.
Arachne 0.20a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133677/
Arachne is a Perl-driven RPG gaming engine loosely based on Dungeons and Dragons and Nethack. It aims at making it possible for novice programmers to learn as they go, and more experienced programmers to contribute their experience to a versatile and interesting gaming concept.
Audio Input-Output Library 0.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133673/
libaio is meant to solve the problem of differing digital audio platforms once and for all. JACK is unnecessarily complex for most applications, and while libao's support for file output is cool, it limits what the API can do and is therefore inadequate for any kind of real time application. libaio provides a clean application interface and a simple compile-time driver switching decision, yielding a lightweight way to use the local sound hardware without having to care what it is.
ayttm 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133658/
Ayttm is an instant messenger program, supporting various protocols such as MSN, Yahoo, AIM, Jabber, and more. It is a fork of Everybuddy, and initially aims to address its problems. It should not segfault when you use it, and should be almost instantly usable by your mother. Almost useless prefs should be hidden, reserved for "advanced" users, and things have to work without wondering what this or that will produce.
Blazerd 0.1.52
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133725/
Blazerd is a UPS monitoring daemon for the Centralion Blazer UPS. It monitors a serial connection from the UPS for power failures and shuts the machine down gracefully if the power remains off for more than a specified interval, or when the battery power goes too low.
C++ Portable Types Library (PTypes) 1.8.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133704/
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.
Cerberus Helpdesk 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133711/
Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc. department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was written originally as a trouble ticket system.
cgixx 1.06 (Release)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133679/
The cgixx C++ CGI class library is intended as a modern Common Gateway Interface library for ISO standard C++ compilers. The focus of the cgixx library is to ensure fast and reliable conversations between the Web server's CGI and your C++ code.
Clover 1.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133682/
Clover makes the gathering and analysis of code coverage metrics as painless as possible. It features include tight integration with the Jakarta Ant build tool and accurate, configurable coverage recording. It gathers Method, Statement, and Branch coverage data. Compile-time properties and source level directives allow for precise control over the coverage gathering process. Coverage data can be viewed in XML, HTML, or via a Swing GUI. Report-time options allow for the exclusion of particular statement types from coverage analysis. Plugins for the Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEs are provided.
Coriander 0.99.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133732/
Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade DV cameras.
d 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133630/
d is an alternative to ls and its long format output. It optimizes the output to create more space for the filename and reduce the chance of wrap around. On a system with short user/group names it can save as much as 22 spaces for the filename. It also has a --dirs-first option to always print directories before regular files regardless of the current sort option. Those familiar with Midnight Commander will recognize this behavior. It allows for system and user configuration files, which can specify several options that are available on the command line, as well as the 'color' option which can be used to completely customize the colorization of output, like ls but in a more convenient configuration file. There is a --tree option to simulate the output of the tree command.
dailystrips 1.0.28
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133687/
dailystrips is a utility to download your favorite online comic strips each day. What sets it apart from the rest is its "local" mode of operation, which automatically downloads strips for you. Avantgo is also supported, for downloading comics to PDAs.
DC Maintenance Management System 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133753/
DC Maintenence Management System is a Web-based application to record and analyze customer complaints and repairs in water supply networks. It uses PHP, mapserver, and PostGIS.
DENIC2XML 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133660/
DENIX2XML is a Tcl script that converts WHOIS answers from the .de TLD into XML, which are much easier to parse.
DeskNow MJ 1.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133670/
DeskNow MJ is a complete instant messaging server that can be plugged into any Java/J2EE application like a normal library. DeskNow MJ lets you enhance your Web application by providing secure instant messaging and real time alerts. Its major features are use of the Jabber/XMPP protocol, 128-bit SSL encryption, support for one-to-one and group chat, and transparent access across firewalls, proxies, and NAT gateways.
DHCP-locator 0.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133718/
DHCP-Locator is a pair of programs/scripts that log the switch IP address, port in switch, MAC address, and IP address when a host is getting an IP address from a DHCP server. It uses ISC DHCP server logs as input. It's excellent for abuse issues in large networks.
dialog-mp3-list 0.30
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133678/
dialog-mp3-list generates an organized list of your CDs and directories of MP3s. It shows a numbered list of MP3s with information on their encoding speed and track lengths. It uses Dialog/XDialog and Latex to create lists in .tex, .ps, and .pdf formats, and uses English or Brazilian Portuguese.
digio 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133763/
Digio is a Linux driver set for supporting Digital I/O (general-purpose I/O) devices. The master module provides character device driver functionality which is common part for all such devices. Dependent modules just handle particular devices.
DRT 0.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133700/
DRT is a design recovery tool for interactive graphical applications running under the X Window System. The tool automatically captures actions performed while using such an application. Functions particularly relevant to each action are highlighted. Moreover, the action itself is described visually from fragments of the application display. One can search and browse these actions to learn about the design of an application.
Drupal 4.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133694/
Drupal is a modular content management/discussion/community engine written in PHP. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue and content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, a weblog/journal/diary module, support for content syndication (RSS/RDF import and export), locale support, and much more.
dxr3Player 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133702/
dxr3Player is a lightweight command line DVD player for Linux and the DXR3 (aka Hollywood+) MPEG-2 decoder boards. It supports all major DVD features, including menus, navigation, fast forward and backward playback, subtitles, and camera angle changes. The player is very conservative on memory usage and tries very hard (and mostly succeeds) to keep video and audio in sync.
Echo Web Application Framework 1.1Beta2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133703/
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.
Efax-gtk 2.0.9 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133739/
Efax-gtk provides a GUI frontend for the efax fax program. It interfaces with efax directly, replacing the scripts supplied with efax, and can be used for receiving and sending faxes, and for viewing, printing, and managing faxes which have been received and sent. It requires the GTK+ and Gtkmm libraries. Ghostscript (gs) must also be installed.
Enhydra XMLC 2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133680/
Enhydra XMLC radically simplifies Web development by cleanly separating presentation from code. Enhydra XMLC parses an HTML file and creates a Java object that enables an application to change the HTML file's content at runtime, without regard for its formatting.
etalpmet 0.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133675/
The etalpmet script is an easy HTML template system that does not require you to rewrite your source HTML files to fit the system - instead, all of the work is done in the template file. This makes it easy to give a common look and feel to an existing site, or a site where many of the files are generated by other scripts (such as by conversion from text).
EzSDK 4.79
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133724/
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.
furious_tv 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133748/
furious_tv is a PVR backend that uses an SQLite database to hold XMLTV listings data. Using that data, it can automatically execute commands to record TV shows off of a capture device (multiple capture devices are supported). If Shuriken is installed, furious_tv can also automatically power the system on/off for recordings to save power.
gnocl 0.5.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133742/
gnocl is a GTK+ / Gnome extension for the programming language Tcl, loosely modeled after the Tk package. It provides easy to use commands to build quickly GTK+ / Gnome-compliant applications including a canvas widget, GConf, and drag and drop.
gnome-python 1.99.18 (GTK 2.0)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133668/
gnome-python is a set of interfaces to gnome-libs. It also contains a copy of PyGTK, so you don't have to worry about gnome-python getting out of sync with your copy of PyGTK. The bindings cover almost all of the APIs in gnome-libs.
GNU Anubis 3.9.92 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133696/
GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail User Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform various sorts of processing and conversion on-the-fly in accordance with the sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions system. It operates as a proxy server, and can edit outgoing mail headers, encrypt or sign mail with the GnuPG, build secure SMTP tunnels using the TLS/SSL encryption even if your mail user agent doesn't support it, or tunnel a connection through a SOCKS proxy server.
GNU Scientific Library 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133706/
The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a collection of routines for numerical computing. The routines are written from scratch by the GSL team in ANSI C, and present a modern API for C programmers, while allowing wrappers to be written for very high-level languages.
GraphicsMagick 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133669/
GraphicsMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries which support reading, writing, and manipulating an image in over 88 major formats including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, JPEG-2000,PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, SVG, and GIF. A high-quality 2D renderer is included, which provides a subset of SVG capabilities. C, C++, Perl, Java, PHP, Python, ColdFusion, and Ruby are supported. Originally based on ImageMagick, GraphicsMagick focuses on performance, minimizing bugs, and providing stable APIs and ABIs. It runs on all modern variants of Unix, Windows, VMS, and MacOS 9.
GRating 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133756/
GRating is an NFL and college football quarterback rating calculator. The program requires PyGTK2 with libglade support.
Jaffm 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133714/
Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface.
Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133676/
Java Serialization to XML 2 allows you to convert Java objects into streams of XML and back again. Using it is as easy as replacing "ObjectOutputStream" with "JSX.ObjectWriter" to convert objects to XML, and replacing "ObjectInputStream" with "JSX.ObjectReader" to convert XML into objects. JSX subclasses Java's serialization classes, so it can be used in their place with the same simple power. This allows you to check and correct your distributed, persisted, and logged object data, and process it with XSLT, SAX, and DOM. JSX handles all objects, complex object graphs, new classes, old classes, and evolving classes. JSX even handles classes that do not implement the "Serializable" interface.
JBoss 3.2.2 RC3 (3.2.x Development Releases) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133698/
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.
KBBTray 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133671/
KBBTray is a KDE task bar tray applicaton that monitors a Big Brother page and shows its status.
Keystone2 0.90.05
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133709/
Keystone2 is a Web-based tool for managing a small to medium-sized IT department. Its primary use is for tracking problems and tickets within the department, but also includes contact and resource management, all tightly integrated. The system is entirely Web-based, with extremely low requirements for the browser. Keystone2 is a work-in-progress rewrite of the original Keystone project.
KGuitune 0.3 (KDE3)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133713/
KGuitune is a guitar-and-other-instruments tuner. It takes a signal from the microphone, calculates its frequency, and displays it on a note scale graphic and an oscilloscope. It supports normal, Wien, and physical tuning.
kissme 0.0.31
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133750/
kissme is a free Java Virtual Machine that can run console Java applications. It is to be used with the GNU Classpath Java class library, and also provides support for orthogonally persistent Java.
Kroneko 0.3.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133663/
Kroneko is a KDE3 tool for configuring cron and anacron.
Kronophobia 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133707/
Kronophobia is a complete event-based school calendaring system that supports recurrence, transportation assignments, alerts, parent/public registration, custom reports, event tracking, and e-mail notification.
LargoRecipes 0.9.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133689/
LargoRecipes is an application for managing recipes. It does sophisticated ingredient parsing, handles RecipeML and MealMaster file formats, and generates recipe Web pages. Future plans include integration with an XML database.
libinklevel 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133781/
Libinklevel is a linux library for retrieving the ink level of a printer attached via the parallel port or USB.
libmba 0.6.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133762/
The libmba package is a collection of mostly independent C modules potentially useful to any project. There are ADTs like linkedlist, pool, and varray, a path canonicalization routine, a CSV parser, I18N text abstraction, a "mini DOM" for easy XML processing, a configuration file API (like java.util.Properties), and more. The code is designed so that individual modules can be integrated into existing codebases rather than requiring the user to commit to the entire library. The code has no typedefs, few comments, and extensive man pages and HTML documentation.
libstatgrab 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133774/
The libstatgrab library provides an easy-to-use interface for accessing system statistics and information. Available statistics include CPU, Load, Memory, Swap, Disk I/O, and Network I/O. It was developed to work on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.
LilyPond 1.9.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133776/
LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.
LKL 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133723/
LKL is a userspace keylogger that runs under Linux on the x86 architechture. LKL sniffs and logs everything that passes through the hardware keyboard port (0x60). It translates keycodes to ASCII with a keymap file.
Lodju 1.99.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133652/
Lodju creates indexes of digital images, such as photographs taken with a digital camera. It can also generate Web galleries of them. These indexes will help you to manage your image collection, making it easy to organize and search for images.
Lucane 0.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133736/
Lucane is an extensible groupware platform written in Java. Some sample applications are bundled with the platform, like a peer to peer quick message service, client/server and peer to peer file sharing, multi-user chat, and forums. The platform as a whole provides easy development for your networked applications with an object based network protocol, client/server and peer to peer integration, user and groups management, internationalization, and more.
ma2p 0.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133726/
ma2p is a converter from Mozilla Address Book to Palm Pilot and Mobile Phone (vCard format).
macho 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133735/
macho is an email Web archiving system, similar in scope to Pipermail or MHonArc. It generates static HTML views of an email archive, organized and indexed for easy browsing.
MailStripper Pro 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133722/
MailStripper Pro is a mail scanner that aims to remove spam and viruses from incoming mail using the F-Prot anti-virus. It is written in Tcl and was designed to be MTA-independent.
Mantis 0.18.0RC1 (Developlment)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133730/
Mantis is a PHP/MySQL-based bugtracking system. It is extremely easy to deploy and customize, and features one of the simplest and cleanest interfaces of any tracking tool available. It supports multiple projects and email notification, and is localized for over 18 languages.
Mibble 2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133746/
Mibble is an SNMP (Simple Network Managment Protocol) MIB (Manageable Information Base) parser library for Java. The library can be used to read SNMP MIB files as well as simple ASN.1 files. The library also contains classes for simple handling of the information contained in the MIB file, such as OID:s and types.
Mimir 2.0-alpha-9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133771/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
Mindmeld 1.2 RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133773/
Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge sharing system designed for any Web community that needs to capture and share information. It is unique in that the knowledge base grows smarter every time it's used. It incorporates terms used in each search into a contextual map of the answer itself, continually improving its ability to derive contextual information from a given search. The system learns how people typically search for an answer by identifying which terms are most valuable in any specific context.
mirmon 1.32
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133752/
Many project are mirrored worldwide. Mirmon helps in monitoring these mirrors. In a concise graphic format, mirmon shows each site's history of the last two weeks, making it easy to spot stale or dead mirrors. Mirmon quietly probes a subset of the sites in a given list, writes the results in the 'state' file, and generates a Web page with the results.
mkxvcd.sh 1.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133705/
mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates an PAL VCD MPEG1 stream that fits up to 2 hours of movie data on an 80-minute CDR. It can use any file that can be played by mplayer as input. It only requires tools from the mplayer and mjpegtools packages.
Mobicq 0.1b5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133770/
Mobicq is a native ICQ client for mobile devices, such as mobile phones. It is written in Java 2 Micro Edition (CLDC/MIDP 1.0.3).
moodss 17.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133767/
Moodss (the Modular Object Oriented Dynamic SpreadSheet) displays data described and updated in one or more modules loaded at startup time or dynamically. Data is originally displayed in tables. Graphical viewers, summary tables, free text viewers, and threshold entries can be created from any number of table cells. Moodss has full drag'n'drop support in the UI, and comes with numerous modules for system, database, network, and other types of monitoring. New modules can be developed in Tcl, Perl, Python, or C. A monitoring daemon (moomps) for UNIX is included. It can react to thresholds and record data history in any database for later analysis or for presentation using common software.
Mserv 0.37 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133620/
Mserv is a jukebox-style music server designed to play MP3, Ogg, etc. (configurable) files based on ratings of users who are logged in to the system. It includes features such as searching, filtering, biased random play, queuing, talking, online and off-line track editing, and a standardised TCP protocol. This allows for a variety of interfaces including a built-in telnet interface, a command line program for scripting, a Perl-based Web client, and many 3rd-party GUI front ends.