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[osdn everything] July 23, 2003
Date: Wed Jul 23 2003 - 01:45:28 EDT
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Slashdot
Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/067202
ashitaka writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that an Open Source group has gone on the offensive in response to SCO's latest demands that Linux users must buy a Unixware license to avoid any possible future unpleasantries. '[0]Open Source Victoria today [1]filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, asking it to investigate SCO's activities in light of 'unsubstantiated claims and extortive legal threats for money' against possibly hundreds of thousands of Australians.' I especially like the last bit: 'One feels that this whole fiasco is the IT industry equivalent of a Nigerian scam or internet extortion ploy.' Oh yeah.." Links
Next Wave Of Hard Drive Tech: Perpendicular Recording http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/23/0013235
angrytuna writes "New serial technologies are set to replace standard SCSI and ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) interfaces over the next two years, even as hard-disk drive manufacturers prepare for an entirely new form of bit storage. [0]Perpendicular recording will replace longitudinal recording in storage devices, placing bits on end instead of lying them parallel on the disc surface, thus dramatically increasing the possible storage density." Links
0. http://eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030718S0038
Mozilla 1.5 Alpha Available
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/2316243
An anonymous reader writes "[0]Mozilla.org released Mozilla v1.5 alpha
today, with flavors available for [1]Linux, [2]Mac OS X, and
[3]Windows. Some of the [4]new features include Composer enhancements,
Chatzilla logging, multiple tab window closing confirmation, and
quicksearch support in about:config. A [5]more detailed rough changelog
is also available. In a somewhat related note, [6]Mozilla 1.4 has been
downloaded over a half million times in the past 3 weeks (not counting
mirrors)."
Links
0.
http://www.mozilla.org/
1.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5a/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.5a-sea.tar.gz
2.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5a/mozilla-mac-MachO-1.5a.dmg.gz
3.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.5a/mozilla-win32-1.5a-installer.exe
4.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5a/README.html#new
5.
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.5a/changelog.html
6.
http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article3460.html
Keeper of the Objects
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1947222
cEnTiBeE writes that this is "not about the Matrix," but rather about
Near Earth Object tracking. "It's accomplished by a staff of 2.5 people
watching to see when any 'vermin of the sky' plan to pay earth a visit.
This piece titled [0]Keeper of the Objects is in the August '03 issue
of [1]Scientific American."
Links
0. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000C14F2-565A-1F03-BA6A80A84189EEDF&catID=2
No Doom 3 This Year?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/2330250
[0]Ant writes "According to [1]an article at Blue's News: 'Though id
Software basically invented the idea of using "when it's done" as a
release date, and thus [2]did not specify a release date when DOOM 3
was announced, many have been assuming that the game would be available
for this year's holiday season. Now [3]a report on HomeLAN Fed cites
Activision's 2003 release calendar and quarterly financial conference
call.. [saying that] Activision admits that this matter is entirely in
id's hands, but that they are not expecting the game this year, and
have it "penciled" on their calendars for fiscal Q4 (Jan-March) 2004.'
Additionally, Quake IV is now due in Fiscal 2005 (which begins April
2004)."
Links
0.
http://antfarm.ma.cx
1.
http://bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=43062
2.
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=34684
3.
http://www.homelanfed.com/index.php?id=15762MIT, Boston College Refuse DMCA Subpoenas http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/2221223
phreakmonkey writes "Here's an interesting change of pace- According to
today's [0]Boston Globe, MIT and Boston College have both [1]refused to
turn over the identities of students to the RIAA under subpoenas.
Citing failure of compliance with court rules and student privacy
concerns, both colleges have refused to give out the names, addresses,
or phone numbers of students based on their Kazaa screen names and IP
addresses. I wonder how long the schools will be able to keep the
RIAA's pack of lawyers at bay..."
Links
IBM Moving Developer Jobs Overseas
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1924228
[0]helixcode123 writes "According to the [1]New York Times (also on
[2]Yahoo News), IBM is planning on moving a substantial number of high
level jobs overseas to 'India and other countries.' IBM argues, in
essence, that they need to do this to stay competitive. The article
quotes that Forrester Research '...estimated that 450,000 computer
industry jobs could be transferred abroad in the next 12 years,
representing 8 percent of the nation's computer jobs.'"
Links
0. mailto:slashdot@ethanbrown.org
1.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/22/technology/22JOBS.html
2.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt/20030722/ts_nyt/ibmexploresshiftofwhitecollarjobsoverseas
MPAA to Launch Anti-Piracy Commercials
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1853256
cfish writes "The MPAA is [0]launching expensive 30 second TV
commercials to preach about movie piracy. Featuring starving artists in
the movie industry."
Links
0. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1938687
Sell Your Music on iTunes Music Store
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/1428201
[0]Photo_Designer writes "[1]CD Baby is now accepting music to be sold
via digital distibution through iTunes Music Store, Listen.com and
others. Their cut is 9 percent. The artists get 91 percent of the sale
and retain all the rights to their music. There is a $40 fee for each
album submitted. It will be interesting to see how much indie music
gets on and how it does. Imagine being a touring indie band and be able
to tell people to go to iTunes and buy your songs; it seems this could
be a huge boon to musicians wanting to circumvent/boycott/avoid/destroy
the RIAA." Note that this is not an agreement to get on iTMS or any
other service, only for CD Baby to be your distributor. iTMS can still
reject your sorry attempt at fame.
Links
0. http://younkin3 aaaattt yah__.com
Getting Back Into Shape While At The Office? http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/22/0246244
rhuntley12 writes "Personally, I sit at a computer desk for 10 hours a day with very little actual work. I've also started to get a little belly and out of shape. I know it's real bad in my office, especially with all the beer I consume. What do you do to stay in shape? Any secrets? Recently I've started to do sit ups, push ups, and running up and down the stairs. I get a lot of odd looks, and would prefer something that doesn't make the whole office stare at me. I've looked through some websites with equipment, but it's all serious equipment I can't/won't lug into work. Any suggestions?"
Freshmeat
8rdavcore 0.4p
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130152/
8rdavcore is able to set the VCore on Epox EP-8RDA(+) mainboards using the nForce2 I2C-bus and the ATXP1 Overclock controller attached on it.
a place to go 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130149/
aptg(2) (a place to go) is a Web-based email client written in PHP, using localhost connections to a running IMAP4 server. It is designed to work with Postfix. Authentication is against a MySQL database as used by pam_mysql (username + password) or by using one of the virtual email addresses (also stored in the MySQL database) and that password. A powerful addressbook is also included. It uses its own session handling system with one-time session ids.
acarsd 1.oo
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130140/
acarsd is the first ACARS decoder for Linux. ACARS stands for Communications Addressing and Reporting System. acarsd tries to decode ACARS transmissions from aircrafts. Some features include Type of Aircraft, Flight, and Operator.
AIOCP 1.0.018
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130107/
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.
Aldo 0.0.12
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130139/
Aldo is a Morse code tutor. It generates some strings of chars using a random number generator, and translates and sounds these strings in Morse code. You must catch the code and check what you have heard. It has 6 skills and 4 speeds.
amandalogp 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130127/
amandalogp is a package whose goal is to facilitate the interpretation of the logs and reports produced by Amanda (the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver).
Bibkeeper 0.21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130184/
Bibkeeper is a Java graphical interface for working with BibTeX (.bib) databases. The intention is to provide a user-friendly tool for accessing and editing your bibliographical databases.
BIE 5.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130182/
BIE (Business Integration Engine) is an open source integration system that makes it easy for organizations to exchange data with external trading partners regardless of their native applications. It competes in the same space as applications like Microsoft BizTalk except that it is truly cross-platform since it written in Java.
BKchem 0.5.0-pre3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130104/
BKchem is a chemical drawing program written in Python.
Blox 0.9.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130189/
Blox is a Web suite designed to allow webmasters to focus on developing content instead of the site. What makes Blox unique is that adding a feature (say, a message board) is as simple as dropping a folder onto the server.
Boost.Build 2.0-m6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130121/
Boost.Build is a build system with a simple and high-level language. It supports build variants, and several different compilers and tools.
Bosco 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130150/
Bosco is a rewrite of the popular Bugzilla defect tracking software in PHP. It is database-independent, and aims to be easy to maintain and modify. It also has an API to allow external applications to work with its data.
cdrtools 2.01a17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130091/
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs with a CDR/CDRW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD writers.
chopro2anything 0.1d
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130126/
Chopro2anything is a suite of programs that convert chopro files into a range of other formats. It consists of chopro2chopro, to clear Chordpro files; chopro2latex, to convert Chordpro files into latex files for use with the included guitarbook style; chopro2lyrics, which strips tablature and chords from chordpro files; chopro2crdlist, to create a list of used chords from a set of chordpro files; chopro2summary, to create a summary of a chordpro files; fingers, which calculates all possible ways to play a given chord; and fingers2html, which makes a statically linked Web site that contains chords with fingerings for a set of fingerings calculated by fingers.
chpox 0.5-b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130145/
chpox provides transparent checkpointing and restarting of processes on Linux clusters. It was originally designed for recovering of tasks that takes long execution time (i.e. numerical simulations) in case of system crashes, power failures, etc. It works with openMosix, is SMP safe, works as a kernel module, does not require kernel patches or program recompiling/relinking, and supports virtual memory, regular open files, current directory, termios, and child processes.
Clover framework 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130148/
CloverETL is Java-based framework for creating ETL transformations. It follows the concept of transformation graphs which consist of individual nodes performing simple operations on data. Any transformation can be defined as a set of interconnected nodes through which data flows.
Dial! 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130137/
Dial! offers an easy way to communicate with your GSM mobile phone over the IR-port. It features fast access to numbers stored in the internal addressBook database, the ability to dial numbers quickly over the IR port, to write SMS messages up to 160 characters on your Palm and send them over your mobile, Flash SMS (SMS appears directly on the display of the receiving mobile), SMS report, store SMS in the outbox of your mobile, save SMS in the Palm Memopad after sending, and an optional provider database.
Eclipse Project 3.0Milestone2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130173/
Eclipse is a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular. The real value of Eclipse comes from tool plug-ins that "teach" Eclipse how to work with things - java files, web content, graphics, video, etc. Eclipse allows you to independently develop tools that integrate with other people's tools seamlessly.
encdec 0.4.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130106/
Encdec encodes and decodes C objects such as integers, IEEE754 float and double values, times, and internationalized strings to and from popular binary formats and a wide variety of character encodings as they might appear in various file formats or network messages. It is compiled directly against the libiconv sources.
Exodus proxy 20030721-2257
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130056/
Exodus is a tool designed to assist security practitioners and other curious people to observe and manipulate conversations between a browser and a server. It supports HTTP and HTTPS, and fakes the upstream SSL server to allow decrypting of the content.
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE 0.10.0pre5 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/130183/
Fast OnlineUpdate for SuSE (fou4s) is a bash script that provides the functionality of YOU (YaST OnlineUpdate), but can also work in background and check for updates every night. It supports resumed downloads and proxies by using wget. GPG signatures are also checked.
FireStorm 1.1 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130089/
FireStorm is a powerful development tool that reduces the amount of coding required for a typical business application by automatically generating the persistence tier. It reverse-engineers existing data sources and generates a Java persistence framework that is independent of any specific persistence technology, and then offers the choice of generating implementation logic based on JDBC or EJB. The generated source code conforms to the widely accepted Data Access Objects (DAO) design pattern and has no dependencies on any proprietary runtime libraries.
FluxAqua 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130054/
FluxAqua is a pixmap-based Aqua theme. Developed from files found for the Enlightenment XAquaX theme and the Blueflux style file, this is the result of messing with Fluxbox themes and The GIMP in some spare time.
FreeMarker 2.3pre9 (Lazarus)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130105/
FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way to generate any kind of text output (HTML, RTF, PostScript, TeX, source code, etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects, XML object models, and more.
GameQ 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130180/
GameQ is a small PHP class for querying servers and parsing the returned data. It's designed for easy use and modification.
GECO 0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130151/
Geco is an ERP/e-commerce/e-procurement solution for Italian Small-Medium Enterprises (PMI), and is especially suited for accounting/financial purposes. Written in pure PHP (with extensive use of OOP), it can run both in ASP and in "Linux box" mode, and the look and feel is provided by the use of stylesheets for quick and easy personalization.
GNAT Programming System 1.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130099/
GPS is a free software multi-platform and multi-language integrated development environment (IDE). It provides a wide range of tools integrated together, and features particularly powerful source navigation capabilities. GPS also integrates GVD, the GNU Visual Debugger, and replaces it.
gpsdrive 2.00
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130159/
Gpsdrive is a map-based navigation system. It displays your position on a zoomable map provided from a NMEA-capable GPS receiver. The maps are autoselected for the best resolution, depending of your position, and the displayed image can be zoomed. Maps can be downloaded from the Internet with one mouse click. The program provides information about speed, direction, bearing, arrival time, actual position, and target position. Speech output is also available.
gtkmm 2.2.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130093/
gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces.
Haring 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130118/
Haring is a tool to manipulate the internals of the Linux kernel. It helps you to tweak the inner workings of Linux to keep it healthy and sane. It is a wrapper around /proc/sys and a documentation effort for the entire /proc/sys system combined in one project.
HBCI4Java 0.2 (Passport Editor)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130147/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
HBCI4Java 2.4.0 (Package)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130146/
HBCI4Java is a Java library for the HBCI home banking interface. It supports almost all aspect of the HBCI versions 2.01, 2.1, 2.2, and HBCIplus (with PIN/TAN support). Its API is very application-oriented, so no knowledge about HBCI is required.
Highlight 2.0-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130166/
Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet 1796 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130122/
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet is a German introduction to the technical aspects of the Internet. This book explains both the low-level protocols like IP, TCP, and UDP and the high-level protocols like SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, and DNS.
JMap Port Scanner 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130169/
JMap is a Java network portscanner, a security tool to identify open ports on any host or network subnet. It features the ability to scan every host in a given network segment, for a range of ports or a specified network service. Supported protocols are TCP and UDP. Scanning is done using multiple Java Threads, which should produce significantly faster results when scanning individual hosts, network subnets or scanning for a specific service on a subnet.
jUDDI 0.8.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130158/
jUDDI (pronounced "Judy") is an implementation of the Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specification for Web Services.
KAON 0.5 (Description Logic Programs)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130090/
KAON is an ontology management infrastructure targeted at business applications. It includes a comprehensive tool suite allowing easy ontology creation and management. Persistence mechanisms of KAON are based on relational databases.
KLogo-Turtle 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130120/
KLogo-Turtle is a LOGO language interpreter for KDE desktops. The LOGO language is useful for teaching geometry and computer programming concepts.
ktools 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130097/
ktools is a library of various text-mode user interface controls. It provides window, vertical, and horizontal menus, input lines, dialog boxes, file selection boxes, a text editor, and a text browser. It is not documented at all, but there is a good example from which people who can read sources can understand how to use the library routines.
Kydpdict 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130178/
Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish and Polish-English/German dictionaries.
LinuxInstall.org 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130086/
LinuxInstall.org is a distribution based on Red Hat with Personal Desktop Packages including Mozilla, Evolution, and OpenOffice.org. It features hardware detection, root account creation, hard drive partitioning, network setup using DHCP, and package selection. Since it does not ask any questions during installation, the process is completely automated, and it only takes about 15 minutes. Best of all, it's all on one CD.
livarot 0.0.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130154/
livarot is a set of C++ classes to compute voronoi diagrams of polygons, do usual operations on polygons (boolean operations, offsets), and create, fill or stroke paths (polyline, bezier, cubic). Rasterization is done with anti-aliasing in 32bit argb.
Lorentz 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130138/
Lorentz is a curve fitting program aimed for the fitting of spectroscopic data. The fitting function is specified as a user-extendable list of symbols representing various peak shapes, backgrounds, etc.
macstl 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130192/
MacSTL is a C++ source library designed to bring the Macintosh into the world of modern generic programming. It offers a new implementation of std::valarray optimized for the Altivec. Even with Altivec optimizations off, it is almost 2x faster than gcc, due to the ruthless weeding out of redundant loads and stores. Much of the code base is cross-platform and the Altivec optimizations are encapsulated in a traits class, making it straightforward to target other vector processors like Intel SSE2, GPUs, etc. The Mach copy-on-write vector is a partial specialization of std::vector for the Mach allocator. It neatly uses the OS vm_copy facility to "get around" thread safety issues when doing copy-on-write and reference counting. As a result, std::vector can be copied, passed back by value and enlarged without the same overheads.
man-pages 1.57
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130170/
The manpages package contains a large collection of man pages for Linux covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc.
MerlinWork 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130087/
MerlinWork (the Merlin Web Application Framework) is a framework for Web-based, event driven stateful applications written in PHP. It allows easy integration with databases, or other data sources such as text files. It is fully object-oriented so the code is very re-usable and extendable.
MIB Smithy SDK 2.3b1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130102/
MIB Smithy SDK is a dynamic extension to Tcl/Tk (8.1+) that allows development of custom scripts for controlling SNMP agents, manipulating SMI definitions, doing conversions, and more. It is based on the core of Muonics' MIB Smithy, and the SDK supports SMIv1 and SMIv2, as well as SNMPv1/v2c/v3 with HMAC-SHA-96 and HMAC-MD5-96 authentication and CBC-DES privacy. It also provides complete read-write access to all elements of SMI/MIB Module definitions, unlike similar extensions that provide only read access to a limited subset. The SDK allows multiple discrete SMI databases and SNMP sessions, and provides all of the built-in validation and error recovery capabilites of the full product, without the visual MIB development environment.
Mini-XML 1.1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130110/
Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard libraries. It only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works, as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program. It supports reading and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files, and provides a hierarchical view of the file via a linked-list tree structure of typed nodes and functions for managing, traversing, and searching the tree.
Musicrename 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130128/
Musicrename parses MP3 and Ogg files for their ID tags and renames them based on the information found in the tag. It depends on the mp3info and ogginfo programs. It can not only rename files, but also move them to directories based on their tag-information. It is really useful for restructuring a collection of Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files. It's inspired by the mp3rename tool.
NFC Chat 1.1 rc1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130174/
NFC is a chat server and client implemented in Java. Notable features include HTTP-tunneling support and applet compatability across nearly all Java-enabled Web browsers.
nullredir 0.1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130131/
nullredir is a TCP traffic redirector that changes \0 into \r\n and vice versa. This is needed in order to talk to anything else besides other XMLSockets from flash. XMLSockets in flash use \0 (the ASCII NULL character) as the EOL ("end of line") character.
OpenIM 1.0a2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130134/
OpenIM is a Java implementation of a Jabber server. It is a complete rewrite of the Jaba Server project, and it supports the Jabber server to server communication protocol. It also supports Presence, Message, and Roster. Persistant storage is done in an XML file, using the Apache cornerstone store class. It has been tested successfully with GAIM and the Kopete client software.
Pauker 20030722 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130112/
Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary, capitals, important dates, etc.
Phex 0.9.0.44
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130094/
Phex is a P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella network. It offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella extensions like multi-source downloads and advanced search features.
phpMyAdmin 2.5.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130171/
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data and administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
phpMyFAQ 1.3.4-dev (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130114/
phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system. It also offers a content management system, flexible multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules, templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, a backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
pppusage 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130196/
pppusage summarizes PPP transfer volumes, number of connections, and (on BSD systems) online time. The data is collected by reading the syslog files which contain the ppp[d] messages. A database file is used to store the relevant data. Certain time ranges (that is: a year, month, or day) may be specified on the commandline.
pwbuilder 0.6b11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130108/
pwbuilder is a powerful tool for creating software packages for Slackware Linux. pwbuilder aims to be the easiest tool in its category. However, pwbuilder provides an advanced API that allows you to make packages exactly in the way you want.
Qastrocam 3.6.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130085/
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
Qparser 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130157/
Qparser is a perl script that reads the output of a sendmail -bp command and parses the data into summary format. It splits mails by users and domains, and tracks the number of emails by domain that are in the queue, sorting and presenting the information in a readable format.
QTVBA 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130191/
QTVBA is a Qt 3.x and C++-based graphical frontend to the VisualBoyAdvance Nintendo Gameboy Advance Emulator.
R5 0.0.59
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130125/
r5 is a bot that runs as a client on IRC networks, and allows you to make it listen to commands. An easy way to add your own commands is available.
Remote SWT 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130111/
The Remote Standard Widget Toolkit (RSWT) is an implementation of the SWT API that is designed to radically simplify the development, deployment, and use of thin-client network applications that have rich graphical user interfaces. RSWT applications are developed using the SWT API as if they were stand-alone programs. RSWT enables SWT applications to run unchanged in a client/server mode on an intranet or over the Internet.
S tar 1.5a17 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130088/
Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server.
SQLite 2.8.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130130/
SQLite is a small, fast, embeddable SQL database engine that supports most of SQL92, including transactions with atomic commit and rollback, subqueries, compound queries, triggers, and views. A complete database is stored in a single cross-platform disk file. The native C/C++ API is simple and easy to use. Bindings for other languages are also available.
stoned 1.1.4 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130098/
Stoned is a simple but fully functional curling simulation. It features 3D graphics, network play, and funky sound.
stresslinux 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130100/
stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems.
SuperVESA FrameBuffer Driver 0.9 beta 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130188/
SuperVESAfb is a framebuffer driver for VESA 2.0-compliant graphic cards. It allows you to change the resolution and color depth on-the-fly.
System Rescue CD 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130115/
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data. It contains a lot of system utilities (such as parted, qtparted, partimage, and fstools) and basic utilities (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools).
TestGen 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130186/
TestGen is a very powerful program that allows developers to quickly generate test data for their Web services before publicly or internally releasing them for production.
The BWidget Toolkit 1.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130095/
The BWidget Toolkit is a high-level widget set for Tcl/Tk that uses native Tcl/Tk 8.x namespaces. They feature a professional look and feel and don't require a compiled extension library.
ToscanaJ 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130103/
ToscanaJ is a Java reimplementation of the classic Formal Concept Analysis frontend Toscana. It was built using software development techniques like MVC architecture and XML based files to provide more flexibilty for implementation of new features.
Turbo Vision 2.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130175/
Turbo Vision is a C++ library that provides a very nice user interface for console applications. This UNIX port is based on Borland's version 2.0 with fixes. It was made to create RHIDE, a nice IDE for gcc and other GNU compilers. The library supports /dev/vcsa devices for fast access to local consoles, and it uses ncurses to run from telnet and xterm. This port, in contrast to the Sigala's port, doesn't have "100% compatibility with the original library" as goal. Instead, many modifications were made for the sake of security (especially buffer overflows). This port is also available for the original platform (DOS).
Webmatic applets 1.37
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130109/
The Webmatic applets are some Java applets with various graphics effects to add to your Web site.
WeBSET 2.03
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130156/
WeBSET is a special education management system that operates within EzEnterprise, a cross platform middleware environment. It is a full-featured IEP reporting system and screening and evaluation system, and provides applications that automate all aspects of the IEP process using a forms builder, report builder, and data dictionary. It provides solutions specifically designed for teachers, administrators, and special education staff, can be accessed over the Web, and meets federal, state, and local reporting needs.
WebTK 0.alpha3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130136/
WebTK is a Python framework, using Twisted as its underlying Web server, and allowing webmasters to develop websites like any classic GUI software. It is object-oriented, providing and handling event-based widgets. It also does not need any database to work, as it uses object persistence with the help of PyPerSyst.
white_dune 0.25beta46 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130113/
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Statistics 20030722 http://freshmeat.net/releases/130096/
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Statistics generates various statistics out of ET server log files in HTML format. ETS is single executable utility and only requires Perl.
xMule 1.4.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130124/
xMule is a multi-platform clone of the popular eMule client for the eDonkey filesharing network. Currently supporting various Linux/Unix/BSD platforms, it aims at higher stability and portability than the competitors.
zebot 2.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130133/
Zebot is an IRC bot with a completely modular design, POE event driven architecture, multi channel and server support, dynamic internationalization support, and user- definable reactions and emotes along with basic IRC bot functionality including channel camping, rights distribution, user authentication, and a message system.
Zoinks 0.3.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/130144/
Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. Zoinks supports comparing/diffing files and directory hierarchies. It also supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages).
Newsforge Reports
20% Linux is all we need
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/140205
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Let's get over Linus Torvalds' old "world domination" goal (which was a joke), stop gnashing our teeth over The Evils of Microsoft, and think rationally about what percentage of the world's desktops we really need to switch to Linux. I figure 10% would be a minimum, and 20% would be more than enough. Enough for what? For everything we really want.
Open Asia: Japan and Korea embrace open source http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/11/2056234
- by Frederick Noronha - A country-by-country survey of the state of Free Software in Asia is difficult, not least because of the disparate natures of Asian societies, the wide use of languages other than English, and the lack of international reporting on technical issues. However, we'll begin looking this week at recent initiatives in two countries, Korea and Japan, and follow up in the future with views from other regions.
Cluster filesystems for Linux?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/19/1444241
Francesco M. Taurino writes: Do you know good cluster filesystems for Linux? Is available for Linux a filesystem with cache coherency across all the nodes in a cluster, efficient locking mechanism or with a distributed lock manag