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[osdn developer] September 16, 2003
Date: Tue Sep 16 2003 - 01:15:51 EDT
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Sourceforge
Tiny COBOL Compiler release 0.61
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=309483
This release contains mainly bugs fixes, and some enhancements. It includes updates to the main compiler and run-time. Tiny COBOL is a COBOL compiler being developed on the Linux OS. It generates GNU x86 assembler code.
Gallery v1.4-pl1 released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=309878
Gallery v.1.4-pl1 has been released. Gallery is a slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums. Easy to install, configure and use. Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc. User privileges make this great for communities. Version 1.4 premieres some major new features: Gallery is now internationalized, and can be displayed in more than 20 languages, with more on the way! In addition, we've completely overhauled the documentation and made it more accessible and more informative. Other changes include ownership of individual album items, not just of albums, and a slew of minor improvements and bugfixes. Additional features new to Gallery 1.4 include: * Support for lossless JPEG rotation, and new "flip photo" options * Image size and JPEG EXIF data can be displayed below photos * Data loss prevented if disk space is exceeded * Image dimensions and file size can be restricted * Support for "*" wildcards in search field * Add items to front or back of album * Tons of other feature enhancements and bugfixes Gallery Remote v.1.1 is also now available. This new version now sports a preferences dialogue. Also: Proxy and HTTPS support, ability to rotate pictures before uploading them, a more efficient protocol for getting the list of albums, and support for the "Extra Fields" functionality introduced in Gallery 1.3.4. Download: http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7130 Read more: http://gallery.sf.net/article.php?sid=88
NASM 0.98.38 is released
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=310061
The most important change to 0.98.38 is that the broken ELF backend in
0.98.37 has (hopefully) been fixed. The Netwide Assembler, NASM, is an
80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity. It supports a
range of object file formats, including Linux and NetBSD/FreeBSD a.out,
ELF, COFF, Microsoft 16-bit OBJ and Win32. It will also output plain
binary files. Its syntax is designed to be simple and easy to
understand, similar to Intel's but less complex. It supports Pentium,
P6, MMX, 3DNow!, SSE and SSE2 opcodes, and has macro capability. * Add
Makefile for 16-bit DOS binaries under OpenWatcom, and modify mkdep.pl
to be able to generate completely pathless dependencies, as required by
OpenWatcom wmake (it supports path searches, but not explicit paths.) *
Fix the STR instruction. * Fix the ELF output format, which was broken
under certain circumstances due to the addition of stabs support. *
Quick-fix Borland format debug-info for -f obj * Fix for %rep with no
arguments (#560568) * Fix concatenation of preprocessor function call
(#794686) * Fix long label causes coredump (#677841) * Use autoheader
as well as autoconf to keep configure from generating ridiculously long
command lines. * Make sure that all of the formats which support
debugging output actually will suppress debugging output when -g not
specified.
Updates to mp4live - testing help wanted http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=310093
We're finished with the main updates to mp4live. Our in-house test has been running for 10 days still maintaining audio/video sync. These changes were accomplished by updating to the V4L2 driver, and updating faac. These changes have been submitted to CVS on sourceforge. To use them you must install v4L2 (server/mp4live has a new html file telling you how we accomplished that). The MPEG4IP project provides an MPEG and IETF standards-based system for encoding, streaming, and playing MPEG-4 encoded audio and video. We also require a seperate installation of the faac package, like we did with lame. You must go to www.audiocoding.com and download the latest faac. Then, before configuring or compiling, un-tar the faac_mpeg4ip_add.tar in the faac directory. Then configure, build and install faac. faac_mpeg4ip_add.tar is used to install the faac.h file. We will be working with the faac guys to have that as part of their package. Then configure and install mpeg4ip. Bill
KDE 3.1.3(a) RPMs moved to stable
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=310176
The kde 3.1.3(a) packages have been moved to the stable repository. Get 'em while they're hot. The KDE for RedHat project intends to promote the use of KDE and KDE-based applications on RedHat Linux. (3.1.4 is in the works, and maybe, just maybe, we may see a preview of 3.2 showing up in unstable in the not-too-distant future.).
Slashdot
Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0319255
[0]Ken Greenebaum writes "Soon there will be a 'new' Porsche 959 racing down highway 520 in Redmond. This [1]article in autoweek describes how Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Ralph Lauren teamed up with Bruce Canepa to make the 959 street legal. Best quote: Gates 'suggested to Canepa that perhaps they could federalize the car by buying a number of sacrificial 959s to "crash and test."' They modernized and increased the performance of the already super car to: 575HP making the 15 year old cars race to 60 in 3.3 seconds with a top speed of 215MPH." Links
0. mailto:keng@sworks.com
Xbox Auto-Update Blocks Linux Usage
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0310224
An anonymous reader writes "According to [0]The Inquirer, Microsoft has
used their Xbox Live Vole System to patch any Xboxes that access
it....without asking their permission before installing the software.
However, in this occurrence, the bug appears to be the 'dashboard bug'
that allows Linux to be easily installed on an Xbox. Further, according
to [1]The Xbox Linux Project, users who do not have an Xbox Live
account may find themselves being patched without permission as well.
If a gamer tries to access any part of a game that uses Xbox Live, the
console can 'phone home' and install the patches anyway. While patching
bugs can be a nice touch to poor software, I don't know if I feel
comfortable with ANYONE installing software on my hardware without
asking permission first."
Links
0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11548
Worst Jobs In Science
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0146237
[0]FortKnox writes "Popular science has the [1]worst jobs in science. Some are silly, some are sick, some make you angry, and some just flat-out suck." And some of them sound fun :) Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~FortKnox/journal
Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/16/0034210
[0]DragonHawk writes "As of a little while ago (it is around 7:45 PM US
Eastern on Mon 15 Sep 2003 as I write this), VeriSign added a wildcard
A record to the .COM and .NET TLD DNS zones. The IP address returned is
64.94.110.11, which reverses to [1]sitefinder.verisign.com. What that
means in plain English is that most mis-typed domain names that would
formerly have resulted in a helpful error message now results in a
VeriSign advertising opportunity. For example, if my domain name was
'somecompany.com,' and somebody typed 'soemcompany.com' by mistake,
they would get VeriSign's advertising." Read on below for some more
information.
Links
0. http://slashdot.org/~DragonHawk
Does C# Measure Up?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2057209
An anonymous reader queries: "Windows::Developer is offering [0]a detailed, quantitative examination [free login required] of C#'s performance versus Java, C, C++ and D. 'Overall the results were surprising, although perhaps unexciting, in showing that C# (and to a less extent Java) is, to a good degree, on a par in efficiency terms with its older and (presumed to be) more efficient counterparts C and C++ at least as far as the basic language features compared in this analysis are concerned,' writes the author, Matthew Wilson. I'm only an amateur coder, and confess to not understanding most of the two-part article. I'd love to hear how true programmers view his results, which are too wide-ranging to summarize easily here. How about it Slashdot, as this special edition asks, 'Can C# keep up with compiled languages like C, C++, and D or byte-code based Java?'" Links
0. http://www.windevnet.com/wdn/webextra/2003/0313/
Can You Raed Tihs?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2227256
An aoynmnuos raeedr sumbtis: "An interesting tidbit from [0]Bisso's blog site: Scrambled words are legible as long as first and last letters are in place. Word of mouth has [1]spread to [2]other [3]blogs, and [4]articles as well. From the languagehat site: 'Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe. ceehiro.' Jamie Zawinski has also [5]written a perl script to convert normal text into text where letters excluding the first and last are scrambled." Links
0.
http://www.bisso.com/ujg_archives/000224.html
1.
http://blogs.salon.com/0001092/2003/09/12.html#a460
2.
http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/09/14/ordering_of_letters_dont_matter.html
3.
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php
4.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/990429/990429-2.html
5.
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/scrmable.pl
Head Of Homeland Cybersecurity Named
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2134248
ziggy_zero writes "Security software industry veteran Amit Yoran is [0]expected to be named the new head of federal cybersecurity by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday. The DHS is also [1]partnering with CERT to form the "US-CERT" cyber-attack coordination center, coordinating efforts to fight cyber-attacks, worms, etc." Links
0. http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNczar_1.html
Has P2P Become a Passing Fad?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/2033232
[0]plasticmillion asks: "As the RIAA launches increasingly rabid attacks against P2P networks and users, pundits continue to debate the future of P2P. On the one hand, some argue that P2P is just a clever way to escape detection from copyright owners, like in [1]this recent Slashdot story. Others, like Clay Shirky, make a strong case that processing is destined to move to the 'edges' of the network. I'm curious to know what Slashdot readers think: is P2P the start of a major new trend that is just getting started, or is it a passing fad that will fade once legal client/server systems for media distribution finally take hold? If the former, which of the supposed advantages of P2P over client/server systems are really significant?" Links
0. mailto:matthew@acepoint.cz
Ford To Move To Linux
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/1843221
[0]KingDaveRa writes "The Register is reporting that [1]motor giant Ford is switching to Linux for its sales systems, human resources, customer relations and infrastructure, referencing [2]a report in yesterday's Scotland on Sunday. According to The Register, the biggest battle was over which Linux vendor to use - RedHat or SuSE." Update: 09/16 01:51 GMT by [3]T: An anonymous reader points to this [4]NewsForge report, according to which Ford is not moving to Linux. Links
0.
http://www.davidrickard.net
1.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/32837.html
2.
http://www.business.scotsman.com/technology.cfm?id=1014442003
3.
http://www.monkey.org/~timothy/
4.
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/09/15/228202.shtml?tid=3
Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/15/1920232
[0]shelleymonster writes "Infoworld points out that, after two years of coding, [1]Borland has [2]released its latest C++ development toolkit. Borland C++BuilderX is a multiplatform IDE for Windows, Linux, and Solaris that provides a brand-new visual development environment. Press release [3]here." According to the Infoworld piece, "While newer languages, such as Java and Microsoft's C#, garner more attention than C++, research firm IDC projected that C and C++ professionals will remain the largest group of developers through 2005." Links
0.
http://www.shelleymonster.com
1.
http://www.borland.com/
2.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/15/HNborlandstudio_1.html
3.
http://www.borland.com/news/press_releases/2003/09_15_03_borland_lanches_cbx_estudio_cpp.html
Freshmeat
1060 NetKernel 2.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136013/
1060 NetKernel is a Java-based virtual Internet OS with an XML runtime. It offers a microkernel modular component architecture and integrates a comprehensive set of XML technologies. It features an XML runtime, XML pipeline processes with loops and exception handling, virtualized modular URI address spaces, and a dependency-based cache.
6nome 1.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135979/
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.
AbstractDB 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135971/
AbstractDB is a PHP wrapper class which provides easy and simple class
methods to access the most important database functions. It contains
classes implementing the functionality for native PHP functions
(MySQL), PEAR, PHPLIB, ADOdb, and METABASE. It allows you to switch
between these database abstraction layers by changing only a single
line of code, allowing you to use a unified abstraction layer for
database access.
Access Point Utilities for Unix 1.3.3-pre3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135966/
Access Point Utilities for Unix is a set of utilities that configure
and monitor a Wireless Access Point under Unix. It is known to compile
(with GCC and the IBM C compiler) and run under Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD, MacOS X, AIX, and QNX.
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136029/
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 554 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 267 profusely commented illustrative examples, and a number of tables.
aMule 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136047/
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.
Analog DJ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136058/
adj is a command line front end to the SQL database produced by Grip. It will let you search by genre, title, album (disc), and artist using regular expressions, and play them for you using the players you defined in a config file. You can print and or randomize playlists and all that sort of stuff.
Asymptopia Crossword Builder 0.1 (Math Crossword Puzzles) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135954/
Asymptopia Crossword Builder is a JavaScript application. A robust GUI
allows users to submit arbitrary length lists of key-hint pairs which
can be regenerated an unlimited number of times until the user wants to
accept the layout. The dhtml interface provides a configuration panel,
key- generating panel (i.e. answer sheet), puzzle-generating panel
(blank squares with numbers for accross/down), and an across-down-hints
panel which generates the text hints and numerical location on the
puzzle. It includes support for hyphenated words, and an example file
demonstrating how you can produce math crosswords.
AudioLink 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135985/
AudioLink is a tool that makes searching for music on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can include a variety of criteria, like male artists, female artists, band, genre, etc. It is flexible: you can use a command line interface or your choice of multiple GUIs, design your own search criteria, etc.
AutoBrowser 0.3 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136059/
AutoBrowser is a stateful replacement for lwp- request (the "GET"/"POST" commandline tools). It provides a mechanism to describe a series of interactions with a server and tracks cookies, redirections, etc. throughout the interactions. It supports SSL connections via use of Crypt::SSLeay.
avelsieve 0.9.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135956/
avelsieve is a Squirrelmail plugin for creating SIEVE scripts on a Cyrus IMAP server that runs timsieved (Tim's SIEVE daemon). SIEVE is a mail filtering language, intended for server-side filtering of emails. avelsieve provides a user-friendly interface for adding and manipulating mail filtering rules on a Cyrus IMAP mail server.
bandwidthd 1.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136008/
bandwidthd tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds HTML files with graphs to display network utilization. Charts are built by individual IP. It color codes HTTP, TCP,UDP, ICMP, VPN, and P2P traffic. Unlike MRTG, it tracks each individual IP address, not the status of any particular link. It is easy to install, low overhead, and has few dependencies.
bes-cms 0.4rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135969/
Bes-cms is a multi-user application server which features automatic downloading and installing of plugins with its true tree-like filesysteme structure, Linux-like permissions, internationalization support, and a complete error management system to allow debugging without leaving the site. Bes-cms is appropriate for making small to large Web sites, intranet systems, backup systems, and weblogs.
bond - building object network databases 2.0.0-pre2 (Main tree) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135944/
BOND (building object network databases) is a rapid application development tool which allows you to develop GUI front ends to PostgreSQL databases. It uses XML to define widget layout and how to obtain information from databases. This project is designed to simplify the process of developing database applications for GTK.
bonddb 0.7.2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136068/
bonddb is an object orientated wrapper for PostgreSQL. It's a fast data abstraction layer written in C for C/C++ applications, to allow easy access to class objects. You can use existing PostgreSQL databases without any modification or additional tables needed in the backend.
Bugloo 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136000/
Bugloo is a source level debugger for the Scheme compiler Bigloo. It aims at helping to debug Bigloo programs compiled into JVM bytecode. It is implemented by means of the JVM Debugging Architecture, a set of standard APIs provided by Sun to make debuggers and profilers. Currently, Bugloo can debug Bigloo programs, Java programs, or a mix of both. It is based on the debugging model used in GDB and provides additional features like debug sessions, traces, memory debugging, programmable breakpoints and embeddable interpreters. It is a command-line debugger. For the sake of simplicity, it includes a graphical user environment for GNU Emacs or XEmacs.
Change Password Utility 1.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136041/
Change Password Utility (CPU) gives system administrators the ability to administer users and groups on a wide range of backends, currently including LDAP and flat files. Simply, CPU is for user and group administration. The commandline is almost completely compatible with existing Linux user and group management tools, so it can easily be dropped in place. It supports several different hashing algorithms and allows existing users to be imported from Unix-style passwd and shadow files into the backend of your choice.
checksuite 2.4-1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135948/
checksuite is a suite of programs that provide notification and assistance with day-to-day system administration tasks. These programs monitor system resources as well as some security aspects on a system. There are several options that can be passed to the command line, and a full listing can be shown by passing a -h to each program.
chrpath 0.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136056/
chrpath allows you to modify the dynamic library load path (rpath and runpath) of compiled programs and libraries.
ClusterKNOPPIX 3.2-2003-06-06-EN-cl1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135916/
ClusterKnoppix is a modified Knoppix distribution that uses the OpenMosix kernel. It features an OpenMosix terminal server that uses PXE, DHCP, and tftp to boot Linux clients via the network. It also includes openMosix auto-discovery, cluster management tools, and an optional X environment.
College Radio Database 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135996/
The College Radio Database is Web-based software for radio stations. It allows you to track large collections of CDs by unique ID, assign status, do basic searches, and more. It also tracks airplay, allowing easy entry of spins from the CD database, as well as entry of DJ-supplied music. Top XX overall/by genre charts can be generated between 2 dates, and you can check up on DJ attendance, number of spins versus station spins, and more. It also includes the ability to maintain DJ schedules in table form for multiple semesters. This software has been in use at WMBC Radio and evolving since the year 2000.
Cosmos of Methos 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135821/
Cosmos of Methos is a game where you are placed behind the wheel of a Hellenik Trireme, a Phoenecian trade-ship, or a Skythian pirate ship. Nevertheless, you have equal oportunity to rule your destiny--to become from a peaceful trader, or a fearsome captain. After all, was Odysseus better than you?
cuckooo 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136049/
cuckooo is a KDE KPart which allows OpenOffice.org to be run inside a Konqueror window or as a standalone application with the KDE look and feel.
dbf 0.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135960/
dbf is an easy-to-use command line tool to show and convert the content of dBASE III, IV, and 5.0 files. It reads dBASE databases and prints the content to the screen or converts it to comma-separated (*.csv) files which can be opened in Excel, StarOffice, and most other spread sheets. It can also be used to show some statistics about the content.
DiaSCE 1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136024/
DiaSCE is a C/C++ code editor for GNOME. It pretends to be a complement to Glade, so it doesn't include an environment for GUI's development. It has neither a debugger or other kind of tool to help debugging. Its goal is to provide a light code editor that doesn't need too many resources and makes use of external tools (gcc, glade, ddd, etc.) for some tasks.
DSPAM 2.7.0-beta.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136028/
DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for Unix email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and effectively filters spam using a combination of de-obfuscation techniques, token chains, and Bayesian analysis. The result is an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam tool. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.01% chance of false positives.
Eternal Lands 0.8.2. Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135943/
Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D isometric MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2.
fake-tools 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135968/
fake-tools consists of various tiny utilities that help to make building of bigger projects easier. You can merge multiple data files into one, link data files into your executable, and convert from one format to another.
fireparse 3.1 (ADMLogger)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136074/
fireparse is an ADMLogger plugin that emails a report of all packets
that have been logged by the kernel's packet filtering subsystem
(iptables/netfilter or ipchains). The report includes source and
destination ports, direction, logged packet count, matched rule, and
fully resolved host names (if available). The email report can be
formatted to plain text or a colored HTML table.
Galeon 1.3.9 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136072/
Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant.
GCompris 4.0PRE1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135967/
GCompris is a complete educational suite for children 2 to 10 years old. It includes more than 40 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids like learning the mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector drawing, and much more.
gimp-print 4.2.6-pre2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136076/
Gimp-Print is a collection of very high quality printer drivers for UNIX/Linux. The goal of this project is uncompromising print quality and robustness. Included with this package is the Print plugin for the GIMP (hence the name), a CUPS driver, and two drivers (traditional and IJS-based) for Ghostscript that may be compiled into that package. This driver package is Foomatic-compatible and provides Foomatic data to enable plug and play with many print spoolers. In addition, various printer maintenance utilities are included. Many users report that the quality of Gimp-Print on high end Epson Stylus printers matches or exceeds the quality of the drivers supplied for Windows and Macintosh.
GKrellM gamma 2.03 (GKrellM2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136048/
Gkrellm gamma is a Gkrellm plugin which allows you to control your monitor's gamma correction with XFree86 (as xgamma).
GKrellM xkb 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136050/
GKrellM xkb is a plugin for GKrellM which displays a small country flag indicating the currently-active national keyboard layout. It requires GKrellM2 and the XKB X Window extension.
GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135988/
GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor.
GnuCash 1.8.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135950/
GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income, and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports. It is backed by an active development community and is blossoming into a full-fledged accounting system.
gqueue 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136006/
gQueue is a Gnome2 frontend for lpq and lprm working with CUPS. It has Gnome system tray support and can show all jobs in printing queues as well remove jobs.
gURLChecker 0.6.2 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135947/
gURLChecker is a C/GNOME 2 tool that can check links on a single Web page or on a whole Web site in order to determine the validity of each page.
Gv4l 2.1.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135941/
Gv4l is a v4l (Video4Linux) frontend of transcode used to watch and/or record from a v4l-capable device. The v4l device streams can be recorded in both raw and encoded format, such as DivX.
H2O Rotisserie 1.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135999/
H2O is a system that supports gathering people around ideas. In addition to the traditional features of learning management systems, H2O includes support for collaboration between projects through the sharing of syllabus elements and through joint discussions between projects. It also supports Rotisserie-structured discussions, which provide an alternative to traditional online discussion boards by structuring the timing and flow of discussions. It can be used as a traditional course management platform, but it can also be used for more informal projects centered around the exploration of a set of ideas, whether the project be a conference, an ongoing public discussion, or a traditional academic course.
iClip 2.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136067/
iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application. It lets you quickly store, organize, and access bits of information, and copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop clippings to and from its multiple "clipping bins". The clippings can be text, pictures, URLs, sounds, etc. They can be arranged into unlimited groups called "clipping sets".
IlohaMail 0.8.10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136025/
IlohaMail is a lightweight, multilingual Webmail client that is easy to
use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require
databases (although database support is available) or the IMAP library
(it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library). It also includes basic
PIM-like features, including a calendar/scheduler, a full fledged
contacts manager, and a bookmarks manager.
Jameleon 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136077/
Jameleon is an automated testing tool that separates applications into features and allows those features to be tied together independently, creating test-cases. These test-cases can then be data-driven and executed against different environments. The goal is to create an automated testing tool that can be used for the enterprise. A UI that ties a series of features to a test-case, generating both the test script and the test-case documentation is in the works.
JATOMIX-DEPOT 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135970/
JATOMIX-DEPOT is a persistence layer for Java, working on relational databases, and offers fast, efficient, and easy development of Java-based database applications. JATOMIX-DEPOT carries out the entire communication with the database through a simple API, automatically generates the data model for any unmanipulated Java class, and permits the storage, loading, changing, and removing of any Java object. The intuitive generated data model allows easy access and change of the data on an SQL level at any time. It supports any relational database, versioning of different versions of a Java class, multiple user operations based on a transaction system, and excellent performance because of an elaborate cache system.
Jeff's Mailing List Manager 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135952/
Jeff's Mailing List Manager is a really simple Python mailing list package that is intended for those who do not have a dedicated server. It turns any POP3 account turn it into a full-featured mailing list.
JFtp 1.35
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135992/
JFtp is a Swing Java network and file transfer client. It supports FTP using its own FTP API and various other protocols like SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and file I/O using third party APIs. It includes many advanced features such as recursive directory up/download, browsing FTP servers while transferring files, FTP resuming and queueing, browsing the LAN for Windows shares, and more. The FTP API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications. It should ideally be launched in a Web browser via Java Web Start (contained by the Java 1.4 plugin), but can also be started locally.
JMail 0.8.6 RC2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135991/
JMail is a Java mail client that handles attached files, HTML mail, and more. It can also be used with an LDAP directory.
John the Ripper 1.6.35 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135973/
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types are added with contributed patches.
Knoppix Auto-configuration 0.2.3 (Red Hat) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136071/
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.
Knoppix Auto-configuration 0.2.3 (Mandrake) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136069/
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.
Kraken 1.9.19
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136011/
Kraken is an application for managing knowledge objects, which can be documents, remote or locally cached Web pages, personal information, todo list items, appointments, and so on. It also allows users to annotate these knowledge objects with metadata, perform complex queries about these annotations, and to present the queries as HTML pages. The format of annotations is RDF, thus the annotation files can be easily parsed by third party applications.
LaptopConfig 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136021/
LaptopConfig is a GUI for accessing laptop ACPI events (such as hotkeys), LCD brightness, and powerprofiles.
libtc 0.6.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136022/
Libtc is a collection of useful functions for C programming. It includes implementations of linked list, hash table, red-black tree, and priority queue. There is also a flexible configuration file parser and some other odds and ends. All functions are totally reentrant and thread safe.
log4php 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136046/
Log4php is a PHP port of the most popular Java logging framework, log4j. It supports configuration through an XML file (with the same structure as log4j) and custom Configurators. File, RollingFile, DailyFile, Echo, Console, Mail, PEAR::Db, PHP error, Syslog or NT events, and socket appenders are supported. Simple, TTCC, Pattern, Html, and Xml Layouts are supported. Internal debugging can be switched on and off. Log4php can be used inside a class or inside a main/sub function.
Looper Event / Alert System 1.0b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136060/
Looper is a highly modularized application designed to simplify the event / alert model. Primarily used for Network Management, this application can be used to accomplish a variety of tasks related to logging and alerting such as listening for SNMP traps and logging to a file or sending notification to Netcool (a la "trapd probe"), reading a log file for alerts and sending notification via e-mail, parsing syslogs and sending notifications to Netcool (a la "syslog probe"), etc. Looper can also be used as an ad-hoc Netcool probe or Gateway.
man-pages-ja 20030915
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136051/
man-pages-ja is a comprehensive collection of Japanese man pages for Linux. It contains Japanese version of LDP man-pages, man pages for GNU tools, and ones for various opensource applications.
Mercury Splat 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136061/
Mercury Splat is a theme containing a splat of mercury. The background is by Aphaits.
Mimir 2.0-alpha-10
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136066/
Mimir is an overkill, threaded, antiflood plugin for X-Chat 2.0.x.
mkxvcd.sh 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135990/
mkxvcd.sh is a shell script that creates a VBR 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, transcode, and mjpegtools packages.
mpgfe 1.0.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135976/
mpgfe is an ncurses front-end to mpg123 with mouse support via GPM, advanced playlist editing features (load/save/add playlists in m3u format, order/shuffle a playlist, move/add/delete playlist entries), and resizing support. An interesting feature is the ability to display the lyrics of the song that is playing (provided that you added the name of the lyrics file after the song file. Song information is displayed while playing, in a customizable format. Volume control is available (both channels at a time) and also movement. You can display the length of every song and total playing time. The super user may run the player with real-time priority (playing will not be interrupted by disk access).
Multivalent PDF Tools R7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/135963/
Multivalent PDF Tools is a suite of tools for manipulating PDF documents. It includes tools for compressing, uncompressing, obtaining information, splitting and merging, encrypting and decrypting, validating, extracting text, and full-text indexing (with Lucene). The compress tool shrinks the PDF 1.5 Reference from 13.5MB down to 8MB in PDF 1.5/Acrobat 6 format and way down to 5.1MB in a new proposed "Compact" format.
MUSCLE 2.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136045/
MUSCLE (Multi User Server Client Linking Environment) is a messaging server and networking API. It is portable to any OS with a sockets API and a C++ compiler. It lets programs communicate via streams of PortableMessages (very similar to BeOS's BMessage class) layered over TCP streams. The included server program ("muscled") lets its clients message each other, and/or store information in its serverside hierarchical database. The database supports queries via regex and "live" updates via a subscription mechanism, and may be subclassed to if application-specific logic is needed.
My Address Book SQL 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136030/
My Address Book SQL is a Web-based contact list program. It stores information like addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and Web sites, and has a notes section for custom information. Add, delete, and edit functions can be password protected using htaccess.
MySQL Database Server 3.23.58 (Recent (3.23.x)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136055/
MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
Natural Docs 1.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/136023/
Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-languag