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[osdn developer] August 27, 2003
Date: Wed Aug 27 2003 - 01:15:50 EDT
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August 27, 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
Brazilian Government Continues Push For Free Software
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0122230
rmello writes "The 'Legislative Free Software Week' in Brazil ended
last week, drawing 2,000 people, including 3 ministers and presidents
of congress and senate. [0]Computerworld reports (in Portuguese,
[1]translation by submitter), among other things, that 1) House of
Representatives will NOT renew MS-Office licenses, but is looking at
free software alternatives, 2) The free software parliamentary front
was announced in congress, 3) The e-mail system of the house of
representatives is being replaced by a free software one, 4) The
federal government is looking at concrete measures to stimulate free
software as means of saving money and stimulating the national software
industry. Looks like free software is here to stay in Brazil. Kudos to
the many Brazilian free software groups working to make such victories
a reality."
Links
0. http://idgnow.terra.com.br/idgnow/corporate/2003/08/0018
Osirusoft Blacklists The World
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/0214238
ariehk writes "As of today, [0]Osirusoft, distributer of the SPEWS and
open relay blocklists, among others, is [1] no longer operational.
Servers using these lists (including the [2]FTC) are currently
rejecting ALL email. This shutdown seems to be in response to a
several-week-long DDoS attack on Osirusoft, SPEWS and others, resulting
in both sites being down. This has caused [3] much discussion on
n.a.n-a.e, including the suggestion that the attack is somehow related
to the SoBig worm. The spammers must be hurting if they can devote
these kinds of resources to attacking blocklists." Read on below a
related submission.
Links
0.
http://osirusoft.com/
1.
http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg12818.html
2.
http://www.ftc.gov/
3.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=osirusoft+group:news.admin.net-abuse.email&scoring=dVideogames Attract More Women Than Boys? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/27/014224
Thanks to Yahoo!/Reuters for their story about [0]a new Entertainment Software Association poll showing the demographics of gaming. According to the poll, "...26 percent of game players are women 18 or older, while 21 percent are boys 6 to 17", and the survey also revealed that "...the average gamer spends 6.5 hours a week playing games... while boys 6 to 17 average 7.3 hours per week of game time." Explicit games are also on the increase, as "13.2 percent carried a "Mature" or "M" rating, up from 9.9 percent in 2001 and under 8 percent in 2000." Links
0. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030826/media_nm/media_videogames_dc_2
PanIP May Be Standing On Shaky Ground
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/2236239
[0]GoatEnigma writes "You may remember the name PanIP, the company
trying to [1] hold e-commerce hostage with their patents. Well,
according to [2]this update on the [3]PanIP Defendants site, it might
not be as easy as they thought. Apparently a little bit of successful
legal opposition has slowed down their nefarious scheme. Tim claims to
have found evidence to undermine their patents, although the article is
very short on details as to what this evidence might be..."
Links
0.
http://www.drinknation.com
1.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021020S0002/1
2.
http://www.youmaybenext.com/updated803.html
3.
http://www.youmaybenext.com/
GTK+ TTY Port
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/2042206
An anonymous reader writes: "[0]FootNotes is [1]reporting about what
might be the coolest thing since [2]textmode Quake: a curses-based
GTK-2.0 port called [3]Cursed GTK. This not only makes it possible to
give Gnome the look and feel of [4]Contiki, but also brings many real
opportunities, such as remote logins where X forwarding is not
possible, or remote logins over very slow modem lines. Screenshots
[5]here, [6]here, [7]here and [8]here! Patches for bugs are welcomed by
the authors."
Links
0.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/
1.
http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1299&mode=thread&order=0&thold=1
2.
http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/
3.
http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/
4.
http://dunkels.com/adam/contiki/
5.
http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/demo_rozdily.png
6.
http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/file_selection.png
7.
http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/gamma.png
8.
http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/najdi_rozdily.png
Beyond Binary Computing?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1942216
[0]daksis writes "Non base two computing [1]is nothing new. But it is
an idea that, for various reasons, never really caught on. Embedded.com
is running an op/ed piece that asks if hardware and software engineers
are [2]ready to move to ternary or quaternary logic. A move to
multi-valued logic provides more computational capability without the
standard increase in die size or transistor count. Is the need to make
do with the current fabrication technology enough to drive the move to
multi-valued logic? Or will [3]Moore's law continue without the need
for doing more with less silica based real estate?"
Links
0.
http://daksis_at_Mail_that_is_hot_dot_com
1.
http://www.mortati.com/glusker/
2.
http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=13100886
3.
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm
Big Company on Campus
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1840214
[0]Daniel Dvorkin writes "MSNBC (oh, the irony) is running a scary
article entitled [1]Microsoft's big role on campus, detailing how
Microsoft is working its way into academic computer science through a
combination of bribery and propaganda. The aricle may be overstating
the case, but it does make it sound as though MS products are
displacing others at a disturbing rate in computer science departments.
Given that academic computing has traditionally been both the source of
and the stronghold for innovative software, this is a disturbing
long-term trend."
Links
0. http://www.sff.net/people/Daniel.Dvorkin/
Perfect Pitch for Those Without It
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1710251
airrage writes "Sometimes technology is a good thing, and sometimes it
ends up in a hardware device called an [0]autotuner. Apparently, it
allows real-time pitch correction. They are actually being used at
concerts. I think we all realize that some singers sound different --
much different -- live than they do on CD's, but this just seems so,
so, what's the word: fake?"
Links
0. http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030825.gtsinging/BNStory/Technology/
P2P Spam?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1638207
Sgt York writes "In a NYT article ([0]republished in the Houston
Chronicle, no subscription required) experts at [1]CERT, [2]F-secure,
[3]Trusecure, and the [4]Hall of Justice (see article) think that
SoBig.F is a spam scheme in the making. They say that SoBig.F is the
6th variant in an ongoing experiment with the possible goal of setting
up a distributed spam network, to be rented out to the highest bidder.
If that is their goal, they are well on their way. Another disturbing
note in the article is that "In the case of four of the six programs, a
new version was launched immediately after the self-timed expiration
date of the preceding one". SoBig.F expires in two weeks. "
Links
0.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2065902
1.
http://www.cert.org/
2.
http://www.f-secure.com/
3.
http://www.trusecure.com/index.shtml
4.
http://fantasia.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Doug/superhtml/superheros.html
Diamonds & the RIAA
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/26/1417214
[0]eaglebtc writes "After reading the previously-posted article on
cdfreaks.com about the [1]rapid erosion of cheap CDR's, I found another
equally scintillating write-up about [2]the economics of music CDs
written by Richard Menta, founder of [3]MP3 Newswire. Sure, we've all
heard the whining about how CDs are so expensive, but Mr. Menta takes a
unique perspective on the issue by comparing the RIAA to [4]DeBeers. He
argues that both companies control distribution of products in their
respective markets with an iron fist, and by so doing can artificially
raise prices. Coincidentally, the bubble is beginning to burst in both
markets: the RIAA is fighting against the uprisings of P2P software,
and the diamond cartel's lawyers are losing sleep over the [5]$5
diamonds produced in a lab."
Links
0. mailto:homsarNOSPAM@byu.edu
1.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751
2.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/scarce.html
3.
http://www.mp3newswire.net/
4.
http://www.debeers.com/
5.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.html
Freshmeat
6nome 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133896/
6nome is a theme loosely based on the background of the GNOME logo. The Metacity theme has embossed title text, and features the GNOME footprint as the menu button. The GTK theme has light and few colors, and its widgets have rounded corners.
abcm2ps 3.7.3 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133846/
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.
abcMIDI 2003-08-22
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133847/
The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways.
Accounting 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133810/
Accounting is software that was developed to keep track of money lent and owed. It can be used from a RIM wireless pager. It is easy to install and use, and uses basic double-entry accounting.
Ant Shell 20030826
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133857/
Ant Shell is a project that extends Apache Ant to provide a command shell that exposes ant tasks. In Ant Shell, you can run ant tasks in an interactive mode much the same way you can run commands in a command shell such as bash, csh, or DOS. Currently, most of the ant core tasks are enabled. Ant Shell is developer code and is not expected to remain stable or consistent.
Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module 1.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133898/
The Apache DoS Evasive Maneuvers Module is a module for both Apache 1.3 and 2.0 that provides functionality for detecting and fighting off DoS attacks and brute force attacks. It does this by adding addresses to a 10-second '403 List' and rejecting rapidly repeated requests for the same URL from the same addresses, using an internal hash table, on a per-child basis. This module can be configured to talk to ipchains, ipfilter, or any other tool designed to push the attack out to the network layer, and provides email notification in the event of an attack.
Atomic Tanks 1.0.0-rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133915/
Atanks is a multi-platform scorched earth clone similar to Worms. Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition. It features a wide array of weapons, destructible landscape, weather, parachutes, teleports and a wide range of other features.
Audio::Xmpcr 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133793/
Audio::Xmpcr is a Perl API to the XM PCR Satellite radio. It offers two different operating modes (direct and remote+daemon) via a single interface, continuous device polling for instant, accurate song listings, auto notification when songs change on any channel, and a few utility programs including a Web interface for remote control/listening to the radio via icecast, a stream ripper that divides songs up into properly-named wav files (for making MP3s), and a finder that searches channels for the song(s) wanted, and records just those.
Barracuda Presentation Framework 1.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133908/
Barracuda is an open-source Presentation Framework designed to make it easier to build servlet-based Web apps by applying proven client-server patterns to the Web development paradigm. It features a DOM-based templating mechanism for better separation of code from content, a UI component model that provides a series of server-side widgets (table, list, template, etc.) that make it easy to manipulate DOM structures, strongly typed MVC interfaces just like in Swing, support for multiple markup languages, an event model that provides Model 2 style flow control and allows for true event-driven programming on the server, powerful localization services, and much more.
bind 9.2.3rc1 (Bind9-Beta)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133798/
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or `daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with other objects in the network.
bogofilter 0.14.5.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133785/
Bogofilter is a Bayesian spam filter. In its normal mode of operation, it takes an email message or other text on standard input, does a statistical check against lists of "good" and "bad" words, and returns a status code indicating whether or not the message is spam. Bogofilter is designed with fast algorithms (including Berkeley DB system), coded directly in C, and tuned for speed, so it can be used for production by sites that process a lot of mail.
Bonita 2.0 beta4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133866/
Bonita is a flexible cooperative workflow system based on the workflow model proposed by the ECOO Team, which incorporates the anticipation of activities as a more flexible mechanism of workflow execution. This flexibility allows a considerable speed increase in the design and development phases of cooperative applications. The workflow engine is built on EJB (Enterprise Java Beans), using Jboss as the application server. The system offers a comprehensive set of integrated graphical tools for performing the process conception and definition, the instantiation and control of this process, and the interaction with the users and other applications.
Booby 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133897/
Booby is a multiuser, multilanguage, fully themeable Web-based desktop application which provides online management for bookmarks, contacts, todos, notes, and news. It is written in PHP and is mostly database independent by using the database abstraction layer 'ADOdb'. It is fully themeable (using Smarty). It is based on a generic MVC design pattern/framework that uses items with a potential hierarchical relationship as its base.
BrowserCRM 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133816/
BrowserCRM is a complete business solution designed for the small-to-medium business that features CRM, email, multi-person calendar, intranet, tasks, memos, mail-merge, conference chat, and admin. It is customisable and the source code can be purchased and modified. It also additionally provides an interface to the open source accounting program SQL-Ledger.
Bulk Meter Flow and Operations 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133877/
The Bulk Meter Flow and Operations project provides a Web-based application to manage water meter readings.
Camera Picture Copier 0.0.2-3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133894/
Camera Picture Copier reads files from a source and copies them, making a directory for each day and renaming all files to the time they where last modified. This can be used to copy/rename pictures from a digital camera (USB-mounted) to have them make more sense.
ccrypt 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133788/
ccrypt is a commandline utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard Unix crypt utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). This cipher is believed to provide very strong security. A compatibility mode is included for decrypting legacy "unix crypt" files.
Cewolf 0.9.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133909/
Cewolf can be used inside a Servlet/JSP-based Web application to embed complex graphical charts of all kinds (e.g. line, pie, bar chart, plots, etc.) into a Web page. It provides a full-featured tag library to define all properties of the chart (colors, strokes, legend, etc.), thus the JSP which embedds the chart is not polluted with any Java code. Everything is described with XML-compliant tags.
CherryPy 0.9-gamma
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133825/
CherryPy is a Python-based tool for developing dynamic Web sites. It sits between a compiler and an application server. Compiling source files generates an executable containing everything to run the Web site, including an HTTP server. CherryPy lets you develop your Web site in an object-oriented way, using both regular Python and a templating language. It also comes with a handy standard library for things like cookie-based authentication, form handling, HTTP authentication, etc.
Clustered JDBC 1.0beta9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133837/
Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more.
ColorDesigner 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133911/
ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set.
Common Lisp Jpeg Library 1.031
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133868/
Common Lisp JPEG Library implements JPEG lossy image compression/decompression routines in ANSI Common Lisp.
Cool Linux CD 2.3rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133812/
Cool Linux CD is a bootable CD that contains a a live Linux distribution based on RedHat 7.3. It also includes the XFS filesystem, devfs, IceWM, QVWM, ROX-filer, OpenOffice.org, Opera, Mozilla, Sylpheed, Pan, Licq, X-chat, GFTP, ppp-redialer, xmms, xine, mplayer, gqview, LinNeighborhood, IPTraffic, VMWare, and more.
cpudyn 0.4.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133873/
cpudyn controls the speed in Intel SpeedStep, Pentium 4 Mobile, and PowerPC machines with the cpufreq compiled in the kernel. It saves battery, lowers temperature, and can put the computer disks in standby mode if a given period has passed without any I/O operation. It works well even with journaled file systems such as Ext3, XFS, or ReiserFS.
crackalaka 1.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133806/
Crackalaka is a small, standalone IRC server. It does not implement the inter-server portions of the IRC protocol, and is meant for use by a small workgroup, preferably behind a firewall.
Cursed GTK beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133833/
Cursed GTK is an ncurses-based text console port of GTK+. It allows a lot of X applications to run on text consoles, SSH terminals, etc. Colors, mouse, and simple text decorating (optionally more decorating for monochrome terminals) are supported.
D Parser 1.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133932/
The DParser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both speculative and final actions.
Database of Managed Objects 1.910 Beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133787/
DMO is generic object management, documentation, and inventory software. It enforces defining an abstract hierarchical structure for the data stored, making object management very intuitive. All the data in a company can be stored in a structured manner, from hard disks, computers, and printers to routers, UPSes, and alarm systems. Powerful querying and PDF report generation, plugin support, a high level of customization, and very clean code make DMO a very powerful tool.
Debt Minder 1.8.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133930/
Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files
dmi 1.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133865/
dmi is a Web photo album/image gallery written in PHP. The main difference between dmi and other similar scripts is that it requires little to no setup time. Just drop it in a directory containing image and/or video files, and adjust permissions. It also makes thumbnails of MPEG movies as animated GIF files.
DNS Flood Detector 1.06
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133913/
DNS Flood Detector was developed to detect abusive usage levels on high traffic nameservers and to enable quick response in halting (among other things) the use of one's nameserver to facilitate spam. DNS Flood Detector uses libpcap (in non-promiscuous mode) to monitor incoming dns queries to a nameserver. The tool may be run in one of two modes, either daemon mode or "bindsnap" mode. In daemon mode, the tool will alarm via syslog. In bindsnap mode, the user is able to get near-real-time stats on usage to aid in more detailed troubleshooting.
Drums++ 0.80
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133807/
Drums++ is a programming language for creating drum sequences for MIDI devices. It comes with a player program for parsing .dpp files and sending MIDI commands to a MIDI keyboard or drum machine. It can alternatively create .midi files for playing on a PC.
dvipng 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133848/
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. Its benefits include speed; it is the fastest bitmap-rendering code for DVI files. On a fairly low-end laptop, it takes less than a second to generate 150 one-formula images. Furthermore, it does not read the postamble, so it can be started before TeX finishes. There is a -follow switch that makes dvipng wait at EOF for further output, unless it finds the POST marker that indicates the end of the DVI. It supports PK and VF fonts, color specials, and more.
Echelon Linux 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133890/
Echelon Linux is a Linux distribution designed to monitor and to manage your network. It features IDS (intrusion detection system), vulnerability scanning, and services monitoring. Echelon Linux configuration can be defined via a Web interface. It is based on Knoppix.
file2divx3pass 1.0b2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133858/
file2divx3pass is a simple frontend to mencoder for converting any
media-file to Divx, with features such as an automatic video bitrate
calculator, an automatic bits per pixel calculator, and 1-pass, 2-pass,
and 3-pass Divx encoding. It can encode any media file supported by
mencoder, such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, ASF, WMV--even RM (buggy) and
CUE/BIN.
FluidSynth 1.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133792/
FluidSynth is a real-time software synthesizer based on the SoundFont 2 specifications. It can read MIDI events from MIDI input devices or files and render them to an audio device using SoundFont instrument banks. It can also play MIDI files. Other features include real time effect control and a powerful API for embedding FluidSynth in other programs.
FOX 1.1.35 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133811/
FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent.
ftv_web 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133901/
ftv_web is a Web-based interface for furious_tv that allows the user to search for programs/movies on TV and select them for automatic recording on multiple capture cards. It can search for conflicts in the user's selections.
FWReport 1.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133765/
FWReport is a log parser and reporting tool for IPTables. It generates daily and monthy summaries of the log files, allowing the admin to free up substantial time, maintain better control over security of the network, and reduce unnoticed attacks.
GAI bgswitcher 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133923/
GAI bgswitcher is a dockapp and GNOME 2 panel applet that provides a quick, one-click background rotator.
ganttproject 1.9.8-rc1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133840/
Ganttproject is a pure Java application thats lets you plan project using Gantt charts. It lets you easily breaks down a project into tasks, show dependencies, and manage resources. It uses a file format based on XML and can export into HTML Web pages or PNG images.
glark 1.6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133906/
glark offers grep-like searching of text files, with very powerful, complex regular expressions (e.g., "/foo\w+/ and /bar[^\d]*baz$/ within 4 lines of each other"). It also highlights the matches, displays context (preceding and succeeding lines), does case-insensitive matches, and automatic exclusion of non-text files. It supports most options from the GNU version of grep.
Glirnath 0.16.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133502/
The Glirnath is a Web utility to browse and play MP3s on a remote Unix computer dedicated to be a music jukebox, implemented using PHP and Perl. The Glirnath does not stream MP3s to other computers, but rather acts as a remote agent to play music on the server itself. It is useful for keeping in your living room hooked up to a stereo.
gmorgan 0.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133789/
gmorgan is a fully programmable General MIDI rhythm station. It features chord recognition for playing in real-time.
GProFTPD 8.0.7 (GNOME 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133815/
GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server.
Group Editing and Authoring System 1.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/133918/
GEAS (Group Editing and Authoring System) provides a Web portal for a group of people to work on a set of documents together. It is optimized for RPG communication (campaign background, between-session summaries and details, online gaming) but is useful for any group that needs to manage an evolving collection of shared documents. It supports multiple forums (i.e. campaigns) managed by moderators (i.e. GMs) with a flexible yet intuitive privileges model that enables users (i.e. players) to safely view, add, and edit content. It is based on a MySQL and Perl backend.
GTK Cervi 0.0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133853/
GTK Cervi is clone of very good game called Cervi. It is a multiplayer game (on one machine) where players drive a worm and mustn't collide into anything.
HelpmeICT 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133869/
HelpmeICT provides support team help desk functions with support for multiple sites, site groups, and role security. It features full issue tracking, cross-server knowledge bases, and management reporting and statistics. The entire system is Web enabled, including management and administration roles. Apart from just ICT, the system can be used for administration and reprographics requests and is being adapted as a pupil behaviour tracker.
Hermes 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133870/
HERMES is a Web application framework designed to help provide a rapid application development framework for business tools with an initial focus of CRM (application included). It provides an integrated and flexible approach to business tools, and allows for database abstraction, library models, user rights management, and other critical areas.
Hierarchical Data Format 1.7.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133881/
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).
IcePHP 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133809/
IcePHP provides PHP scripts with access to Ice facilities. It is a thin integration layer implemented in C++ using the Ice C++ run-time library. It supplies a robust subset of the Ice run-time facilities. PHP scripts are able to use all of the Slice data types in a natural way, make remote invocations, and use all of the advanced Ice services such as routers, locaters, and protocol plug-ins.
ink 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133783/
Ink is a command line tool which displays the ink level of your printer. It makes use of libinklevel.
Internet Communications Engine 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133808/
Ice is a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+. It is easy to learn, yet provides a powerful network infrastructure for demanding technical applications. It features an object-oriented specification language, easy to use C++ and Java mappings, a highly efficient protocol (including protocol compression), asynchronous method invocation and dispatch, dynamic transport plug-ins, TCP/IP and UDP/IP support, SSL-based security, a firewall solution, and much more.
iWare 3.0.5B
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133859/
iWare is a Web-based Content Management System designed to make creating a professional Web presence easy without the associated hassles of learning to program or master a third-party application. Setup is made easy through an intuitive installation script and installation guide. Changes to the site's content are made in realtime through an easy-to-use browser-based control panel. The visual appearance and layout properties can be changed instantly at a global level by selecting from pre-installed skins. Uploading and managing files is done through a browser-based file management utility.
Jar Browser 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133921/
Jar Browser is a Swing app designed for searching across a large set of jar or zip files. It is great for answering the "where is that class located" question. It is especially useful when dealing with a system (like a J2EE server) that has tons of jar files you need to deal with. You can browse all jars from a directory tree, or from the CLASSPATH. Search for a class or file by name or partial name. Jar Browser can call out to "jad" to perform decompilation, which can make it an extremely useful debugging tool. Search for a class, decompile it, find a referenced class, then repeat.
JOELib 2003-08-26
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133885/
JOELib is a computational chemistry library which supports SMARTS substructure search, descriptor calculation, processing/filtering pipes, and conversion of different chemical file formats. It is written in 100% pure Java, and interfaces to external programs are available.
Jools 0.20
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133905/
Jools is a clone of Bejeweled, a popular graphical puzzle game that follows in the footsteps of Tetris. It offers both Time Trial and Untimed modes of play, is written using Pygame, and features attractive 3D rendered graphics.
JSch 0.1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133891/
JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2. It allows you to connect to an sshd server and use port forwarding, X11 forwarding, file transfer, etc. You can integrate its functionality into your own Java programs.
Katoob 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133817/
Katoob is a light-weight, multi lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support was for the Arabic language but other languages are also supported.
khtml2png 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133912/
khtml2png is a command line program to create PNGs of Web pages. It uses the KHTML engine, but runs from the command line and doesn't flash windows up. It can be used to generate thumbnails of Web pages.
Knoppix Auto-configuration 0.2.2 (Mandrake) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133835/
Knoppix Auto-configuration for Installed Distributions is a port of the hardware detection package from the Knoppix Live CD to Mandrake Linux and other distributions.
Lame Node System 0.6-9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133800/
Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input.
LDAP User Manager for the Web 0.61a (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/133910/
LDAP User Manager for the Web uses PHP to create an easy to use interface.
Liferea 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133926/
Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a clone of the Windows-only FeedReader. It can be used to maintain a list of subscribed feeds, browse through their items, and show their contents using GtkHTML.
lyskom-server 2.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133844/
LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20 operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the server software itself.
MakeXS 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133826/
MakeXS is a build system that is based on GNU make and GNU m4. It is simpler to set up than autoconf and automates some mundane tasks.
man-pages 1.60
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133871/
The manpages package contains a large collection of man pages for Linux covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc.
mdate 1.3.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133803/
Mdate is a freely-available mayan date utility. It calculates Mayan Long Counts, Julian Day Numbers, and dates of the Mayan Tzolkin and Haab calendars.
Mixxx 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/133821/
Mixxx is a digital DJ system, where wave, Ogg, and MP3 files can be mixed on a computer for use in live performances. Filters, a crossfader, and speed controls are provided. It is controlled by mouse and/or MIDI events.