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::: A R T I C L E S (1) :::
The Problem With Mirrors
by Anthony Bryan (http://freshmeat.net/~antini/)
Section: Editorials
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:00
Mirrors are extremely useful when used to their full potential -- but this
rarely happens. There is nothing wrong with mirrors but the way that we use
them. I want to make it so average users who don't (and shouldn't need to)
know too many technical details can automatically make the best use of
mirrors.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/2083/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (48) :::
[001] - ACE 5.4.10 (Development)
[002] - appctl 1.2
[003] - autotools-idl 0.10.8-0.9.0
[004] - BeleniX 0.4
[005] - Berkley Snoop for Linux 0.3-rc3
[006] - Bugzilla 2.20.1 (Stable (2.20))
[007] - CheckGmail 1.7
[008] - chemicalInventory 20060223
[009] - ChomboVis 4.16.4
[010] - conexus library 0.1.13
[011] - DBAHelper 0.1.7
[012] - Finance-QuoteHist 1.04 (Stable)
[013] - GANDI 0.5.3
[014] - Genoa Active Message MAchine 17-February-2006
[015] - GeSHi 1.0.7.7
[016] - gnormalize 0.48
[017] - GWorkspace 0.8.0
[018] - HTML::TableExtract 2.07 (Stable)
[019] - idioskopos 0.1.6
[020] - Joblist 0.3.1
[021] - jpartialdownloader 1.6
[022] - mgetty+sendfax 1.1.35
[023] - Micro Window-Gadgets 0.1.4
[024] - Mutt Folder List 1.5.11-20060225
[025] - P4A 0.44
[026] - Pinot 0.43
[027] - playground 0.3
[028] - PSF Tools 1.0.3
[029] - Qolyester 20060220
[030] - Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.8.1
[031] - Redet 8.7
[032] - RetroForth 9.0.2
[033] - robots.txt 1.0.1
[034] - Shipwreck 1.0 beta 5
[035] - SoundTracker 0.6.8
[036] - svk 1.07
[037] - The friendly interactive shell 1.21.0
[038] - The friendly interactive shell 1.21.1
[039] - Tile World 1.2.2
[040] - ubuildinit 0.1.4
[041] - Unified I/O 2.56
[042] - Video Disk Recorder 1.3.43 (Development)
[043] - Web100 2.5.8 (Stable)
[044] - Wyrd 1.3.0
[045] - Xen 3.0.1
[046] - XFCE Radio Plugin 0.1.0
[047] - XORP 1.2-RC
[048] - Zile is Lossy Emacs 2.2.13
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - ACE 5.4.10 (Development)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:38
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The ADAPTIVE Communication Environment (ACE) is an object-oriented
(OO) C++ framework that can help you develop and deploy high-performance
software systems faster and better. ACE is especially useful for systems
that use network and/or inter-process communications and that take
advantage of multithreading. While the ACE source code is free, that's not
the only way you save money with ACE. ACE's wrappers and higher-level
patterns help you develop your software quickly and portably, helping you
to complete your projects on time and within budget.
Changes: This release adds numerous minor bugfixes and extensions.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ace/
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[002] - appctl 1.2
by Rainer Meier (http://freshmeat.net/users/skybeam/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 08:09
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Software Distribution
Utilities
About: Appctl is a framework for virtually any server software. It
provides a central script called "ctl" which allows you to start, stop,
restart, maintain, or query the current status of an application. It is
meant as a completely generic replacement for application-specific
startup/stop scripts. The project also supplies generic monitoring scripts
for clusters, which can dramatically decrease clustering costs.
Changes: This is just a simple feature upgrade. If ctl worked for you
before, there is no need to upgrade. This release might be useful for you
if you plan to use it outside of the framework or if you experienced
problems on your Linux version.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/appctl/
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[003] - autotools-idl 0.10.8-0.9.0
by Vladimir Panov (http://freshmeat.net/users/gbrdead/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:19
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Object Brokering :: CORBA
About: autotools-idl is a patch for automake and some autoconf scripts
that adds support for IDL and C++ ORBs. It tries to provide full support
for compiling IDL files to C++ stubs and skeletons. The autoconf scripts
provide unified detection of different C++ ORBs.
Changes: Tuxedo and Orbix support was added and various small fixes were
made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autotools-idl/
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[004] - BeleniX 0.4
by Moinak (http://freshmeat.net/users/moinakg/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:22
System :: Operating System
About: BeleniX is a new live CD distribution based on the version of
OpenSolaris that runs on x86 machines. It includes all of the OpenSolaris
components (core kernel, libraries, and utilities) and also includes
additional GNU/OSS software. BeleniX will ultimately become a full
OpenSolaris and GNU/OpenSolaris distribution.
Changes: On-the-fly decompression support was added to the lofi kernel
module using zlib. This allows 1.5 GB of open source software to be packed
in under /usr with space for more. Compression significantly reduces bootup
time. The live CD now includes the latest KDE 3.5.1 and Office 1.5 beta. Qt
was built with font antialiasing. Placement of files for Xfce and KDE on
the CDROM was optimized with the help of DTrace (iosnoop.d) and the
mkisofs "-sort" option. This results in shorter KDE startup times.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/belenix/
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[005] - Berkley Snoop for Linux 0.3-rc3
by Ivan Keberlein (http://freshmeat.net/users/ikeberlein/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 09:38
Internet
System :: Networking
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: Berkley Snoop for Linux is a module which adds support for the
Snoop protocol, a TCP-aware link layer protocol designed to improve the
performance of TCP over networks of wired and single-hop wireless links.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bsnoop/
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[006] - Bugzilla 2.20.1 (Stable (2.20))
by Max Kanat-Alexander (http://freshmeat.net/users/avatraxiom/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:51
Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business
About: Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat,
and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields,
attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of
changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and
console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The
user UI is customizable using templates.
Changes: All users of the 2.20 series are highly recommended to upgrade to
this version, as it contains many improvements and fixes.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bugzilla/
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[007] - CheckGmail 1.7
by Owen Marshall (http://freshmeat.net/users/owenjm/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:42
Communications :: Email
About: CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail
account for new mail. It is fast, secure, and uses minimal bandwidth via
the use of Atom feeds.
Changes: This release fixes a bug that prevented new users from starting
the application. A commandline option, -profile, has also been added to
allow a new instance of the application to read a different preferences
file, allowing a different Gmail account to be checked.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkgmail/
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[008] - chemicalInventory 20060223
by Claus Stie Kallesoe (http://freshmeat.net/users/clausstie/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 06:15
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
About: chemicalInventory is an intelligent tool for managing chemical
inventories. You can find chemicals via substructure or text searches,
manage container and shelf locations, check containers in and out, or
transfer containers between users.
Changes: Various bugs were fixed. A location can now be added to a group.
The database script was updated and bugs in the login sequence and mail
were fixed. Attributes for mail setup were added to the configuration
file, and more attributes were included in the CIconfiguration file. The
sample is now connected to a container. The database script for this
release includes the report add-on, the new group-location link, and
support for samples linking to containers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chi/
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[009] - ChomboVis 4.16.4
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:40
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: ChomboVis is a program for visualization of 2D and 3D AMR data
sets. It is layered on top of the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) and provides
a graphical and programmable user interface for interacting with the data
set.
Changes: This release adds MacOS X portability fixes, improved grid
clipping and grid rendering, minor improvements to the GUI and controls,
the ability to build with GCC 4.1.0, camera clipping bugfixes, and an
upgrade from Boost 1.31 to 1.33.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chombovis/
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[010] - conexus library 0.1.13
by Rick Vinyard (http://freshmeat.net/users/rvinyard/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:37
Communications
Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries
About: conexus is a generalized C++ I/O library that includes support for
BSD sockets, serial/TTY, and packet capture (via pcap). It utilizes sigc++
for object communication. A companion library, conexusgtk, provides a set
of gtkmm widgets.
Changes: The documentation was enhanced. Some major changes were made and
and some incomplete preview features were included. Major changes included
support for CIDR addresses, the replacement of netdb calls like
gethostbyname() with getnameinfo() and gethostinfo(), and proper exception
handling for DNS lookup errors.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libconexus/
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[011] - DBAHelper 0.1.7
by Izzy (http://freshmeat.net/users/izzysoft/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:52
Database
About: DBAHelper is a collection of scripts to ease the daily maintenance
work of Oracle database administrators. Examples are moving objects
between tablespaces, analyzing schemata, and rebuilding invalid indices.
Changes: This release adds some restructuring/cleanup and extends
idxrebuild_all and tabreorg to adjust storage parameters.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbahelper/
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[012] - Finance-QuoteHist 1.04 (Stable)
by mojotoad (http://freshmeat.net/users/mojotoad/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 01:00
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Office/Business :: Financial :: Investment
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
About: Finance-QuoteHist provides Finance::QuoteHist, a Perl module that
provides easy fetching of historical stock quotes from a variety of
sources on the Web. The bundle includes the underlying site-specific
modules. Reliability is enhanced through the use of symbolic extraction
provided by HTML::TableExtract along with automatic failover to alternate
sites.
Changes: This release compensated for the Yahoo! symbol switch from ^DJA
to ^DJI, which was causing some tests to fail. The quotemedia URL was
updated.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quotehist/
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[013] - GANDI 0.5.3
by Ygrex (http://freshmeat.net/users/Ygrex/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:20
Software Development :: User Interfaces
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: GANDI (Gathering of Additional Ncurses Development Implements) is a
collection of widgets written in C for ncurses. It's designed to ease
writing new ncurses software with a user-friendly interface. GANDI is a
library for developers and not an application for end-users.
Changes: The configure script was completely rewritten using
autotools/libtool. Some bugfixes were made.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gandi/
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[014] - Genoa Active Message MAchine 17-February-2006
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:18
Software Development
System :: Networking
About: The Genoa Active Message MAchine is a low-latency, high-throughput
driver wrapper for the Linux kernel, using Active Ports (a version of
Active Messages). It runs parallel to the IP stack and is designed for
LANs only.
Changes: This release adds minor bugfixes, portability improvements, and
documentation improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/genoa/
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[015] - GeSHi 1.0.7.7
by Nigel McNie (http://freshmeat.net/users/oracleshinoda/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:20
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: GeSHi is a generic syntax highlighter for PHP that takes any source
code and highlights it in XHTML and CSS. It features case-sensitive or
insensitive highlighting, auto-caps/non-caps of any keyword, an unlimited
scope for styling, the use of CSS in which almost any aspect of the source
can be highlighted, the use of CSS classes to massively reduce the amount
of output code, function-to-URL capabilities, line numbering, and much
more. Over 50 languages are supported, including Java, C, PHP, HTML, CSS,
SQL, Pascal, C++, XML, ASP, and ASM.
Changes: This version added support for five more languages. A few bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geshi/
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[016] - gnormalize 0.48
by Claudio F. S. Rodrigues (http://freshmeat.net/users/claudiofsr/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:15
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: gnormalize is a front end to the "normalize" tool, a ripper, an
encoder, and an audio converter. It decodes MP3, MP4 (or M4A or AAC), MPC
(or MPP or MP+), OGG, APE, or FLAC files to wave, then normalizes the wave
and re-encodes it. It can also rip audio CDs, encode audio data, convert
audio formats between MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, APE, and FLAC, and change the
encoding properties and edit Meta Info (like title, artist, album, etc.)
of the final normalized files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnormalize/
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[017] - GWorkspace 0.8.0
by Gürkan Sengün (http://freshmeat.net/users/tarzeau/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 06:14
Desktop Environment :: GNUstep
About: GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone
of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gws/
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[018] - HTML::TableExtract 2.07 (Stable)
by mojotoad (http://freshmeat.net/users/mojotoad/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 01:01
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: HTML::TableExtract is a Perl module that simplifies the extraction
of information from tables within HTML documents. Tables, no matter how
nested or clustered, can be targeted symbolically with column headers or
by more specific depth and count information.
Changes: A subtable slicing bug and an hrow() attachment bug were fixed.
Tests were added.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tableextract/
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[019] - idioskopos 0.1.6
by Rick Vinyard (http://freshmeat.net/users/rvinyard/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:33
Software Development
About: idioskopos (Greek: idio- inward, within, private; -skopos look,
aim, target) is a C++ library that attempts to simplify the addition of
object reflection and introspection. The idioskopos library is based
heavily on the approach taken in Gtkmm to wrap the gobject interface.
However, it is a standalone library and depends only on the sigc++
library.
Changes: This version removes the dependency upon the Boost libraries by
replacing boost::shared_ptr with std::tr1::shared_ptr.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/idioskopos/
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[020] - Joblist 0.3.1
by tobias-digital (http://freshmeat.net/users/dersheriff/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 06:12
Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: Joblist is a script for managing jobs. Jobs have different
priorities. With integrated team management, everyone is able to insert
and update members and jobs. Every job has a deadline and can be marked as
done.
Changes: A "Show User" field description was added. The font size was
reduced.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joblist/
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[021] - jpartialdownloader 1.6
by Ali G Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:43
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: JPartialDownloader is a program for downloading files using
HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent protocols. It supports many features like resuming
unfinished downloads, retrying, and multi-connection HTTP/FTP downloads.
What makes this program different from similar programs is that you can
download any range of a file.
Changes: It is now possible to select files to be downloaded from
multi-file BitTorrent downloads, The program now re-downloads if resuming
from a server that does not support ranges. Files can now be be extracted
from partially downloaded multi-file BitTorrents. A better piece selection
algorithm was implemented for the BitTorrent protocol. The Extractor and
Merger CLIs now accept input directories and include all *.range files in
them. Protocols are now guessed for input URLs not explicitly specifiying
one. maxSeedingTime configuration was added. Listening ports are now
chosen dynamically. Key short-cuts were added to the GUI.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jpd/
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[022] - mgetty+sendfax 1.1.35
by Gert Doering (http://freshmeat.net/users/cron2/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 09:28
Communications
Communications :: Fax
Communications :: FIDO
About: The mgetty package contains an intelligent getty for allowing
logins over a serial line (such as through a modem) and receiving incoming
faxes. The companion program sendfax is used for sending faxes from the
commandline or from other applications. The third main component is
vgetty/vm which can be used with a voice-capable modem to implement an
answering machine, a voice menu system, and similar things.
Changes: This release adds class 1/1.0 fax reception (still considered
experimental).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mgetty/
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[023] - Micro Window-Gadgets 0.1.4
by Fred Barnes (http://freshmeat.net/users/nuked/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:22
Software Development :: Libraries
About: UWG is a lightweight gadget/windowing toolkit for C and X11.
Interfaces are described using XML and are turned into C code using the
ubuildinit utility. Currently, only a small percentage of the planned
gadgets are implemented.
Changes: This release adds various bugfixes and more gadgets, including
Star Trek-style "lcars" gadgets.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uwg/
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[024] - Mutt Folder List 1.5.11-20060225
by Thomer Gil (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomer/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:39
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
About: Mutt Folder List is a mutt patch that adds a sidebar showing all
mail folders and the total and number of new messages each contains. It
allows users to hide or display the sidebar with a single keystroke, and
optionally highlights folders with new messages. Users can scroll up and
down the list of folders and open the selected folder, and configure the
sidebar width, colors, and key bindings.
Changes: This version works with the completely revised Debian source
package. A minor aesthetic change related to IMAP was made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mutt-folderlist/
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[025] - P4A 0.44
by Fabrizio Balliano (http://freshmeat.net/users/balliano/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 06:13
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: P4A (PHP For Applications) is a PHP object oriented framework for
building Web-based event-driven applications. It features tableless HTML,
accesskey support, point and click app generator, auto data type
recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support, handheld "zero
code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR
integration.
Changes: TinyFCK was updated to 0.8. Locale support was rebuilt with a new
conversion engine, fixing some bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p4a/
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[026] - Pinot 0.43
by Fabrice Colin (http://freshmeat.net/users/colinf/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 06:11
About: Pinot is a metasearch tool built around the GTKmm toolkit, the
Xapian information retrieval library, and the language guessing
functionality of libtextcat. It enables one to query search engines, and
display as well as analyze and locally index the returned results. It can
also be used as a lightweight desktop search tool (local documents and
mbox mail accounts can be imported and indexed). The type of documents is
currently limited to plain text, HTML, PDF, and MS Word.
Changes: This release added support for OpenSearch Description plugins in
addition to better handling of Sherlock plugins. The build system now uses
autotools, and a new command-line tool called pinot_search allows queries
to be run from the shell. The UI's extract field is now resizable. Term
prefixes were changed to conform to conventions used by other Xapian-based
tools. Queries on an index that cannot be locked no longer loop. A number
of UTF-8 fixes were made. Errors in worker threads and at startup are
caught and handled more gracefully.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pinot/
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[027] - playground 0.3
by Aleix Conchillo Flaque (http://freshmeat.net/users/aleix/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:20
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: playground is a simple GNOME panel applet that lets you control
basic functions of audio players.
Changes: This release adds two new translations, Catalan and Swedish. It
updates the plugins interface to support a track's rating and minimum
playground version. The XMMS and BMP plugins have been updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/playground/
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[028] - PSF Tools 1.0.3
by John Elliott (http://freshmeat.net/users/johnelliott/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:37
System :: Console Fonts
About: The PSF Tools are a set of utilities for manipulation of console
fonts in PSF (PC Screen Font) format. It can be used to convert to and
from other font formats.
Changes: More options have been added to psfxform, giving several methods
of converting characters from one size to another. The various changes
made by psfxform (bold, thin, scale, etc.) can be applied to subsets of
the font rather than to all characters.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/psftools/
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[029] - Qolyester 20060220
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:16
Communications
Internet
System :: Networking
About: Qolyester is a C++ implementation of the OLSR protocol for mobile
wireless ad hoc networks. It is meant to be enhanced with QoS features
from the QOLSR research group.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qolyester/
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[030] - Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port 0.8.1
by Tugrul Galatali (http://freshmeat.net/users/tugrul/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:41
Desktop Environment :: Screen Savers
About: The Really Slick ScreenSavers GLX Port is a port of some nifty
OpenGL screensavers that were originally written for Windows to GLX. It is
intended for use with an existing screensaver daemon like xscreensaver.
Changes: This release fixes minor bugs exposed by newer compilers and
libraries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rss-glx/
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[031] - Redet 8.7
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:41
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: Redet is a tool for developing and executing regular expressions
using any of more than 40 search programs, editors, and programming
languages, intended both for developing regular expressions for use
elsewhere and as a search tool in its own right. For each program in each
locale, a palette showing the available constructs is provided. The
properties of each program are determined by runtime tests, which
guarantees that they will be correct for the program version and locale.
Additional features include persistent history, extensive help, a variety
of character entry tools, and the ability to change locale while running.
Redet is highly configurable and fully supports Unicode.
Changes: Redet now supports Vim and Pcregrep. There are also miscellaneous
lesser improvements and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/redet/
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[032] - RetroForth 9.0.2
by Charles Childers (http://freshmeat.net/users/crc2/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:41
Software Development :: Assemblers
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: RetroForth is a compact, open source implementation of the
venerable Forth programming language. It can be used under FreeBSD, Linux,
BeOS, Windows, SCO OpenServer, Dex4u, L4Ka::Pistachio, or as an operating
system. It was designed to be easy to learn and use, yet remains powerful
enough to allow useful applications to be developed in it.
Changes: This release fixes a bug that caused the Windows version to crash
when saving a blockfile.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/retroforth/
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[033] - robots.txt 1.0.1
by Andrew Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/arse/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 06:13
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: robots.txt is a PHP script that acts like a normal robots.txt file,
but with a few differences. When a Spider attempts to access robots.txt,
the script will "disallow" access to a list of pre-defined directories.
When a normal user attempts to access robots.txt, it will "disallow"
access to all directories. This is a security precuation and an attempt to
prevent users from finding "hidden" directories by looking at the
robots.txt file.
Changes: Hostname checking functionality was added along with partially
implemented IP range checking. Some minor things such as comment typos and
code layout were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/robots.txt/
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[034] - Shipwreck 1.0 beta 5
by core_dump (http://freshmeat.net/users/core_dump_0/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:31
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: Shipwreck is a game in which you and the computer both have 5 ships
which must collect treasure without crashing into ships, islands, or going
off of the screen. The wind may blow you off course, and some ships are
more resistant to wind than others. The game ends when either all ships of
one team are gone or all treasure is collected, after which the amount of
treasure both teams have is counted and the player with the most treasure
wins. Shipwreck is a Web-based Java applet, so it is available for play
online as well as for download.
Changes: The computer's brains were cleaned up and improved to make it
much more intelligent and active.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shipwreck/
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[035] - SoundTracker 0.6.8
by Michael Krause (http://freshmeat.net/users/rawstyle/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 09:29
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Mixers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: SoundTracker is a pattern-oriented music editor (similar to the DOS
program 'FastTracker'). Samples are lined up on tracks and patterns which
are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the
player code is the one from OpenCP. A basic sample recorder and editor is
also included.
Changes: This release adds permanent-channels support, trim and crop
functions for the sample editor, key-off recording, an SDL output driver,
lots of small bugfixes, and several updated and new translations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/soundtracker/
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[036] - svk 1.07
by Chia-liang Kao (http://freshmeat.net/users/clkao/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:34
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
Software Development :: Version Control
About: svk is a decentralized version control system. While Subversion
(svn) aims to take over the CVS user base, svk attempts to take over the
user base of the other version control systems, including people who have
already switched to another version control system, as well as people who
have not yet started using a version control system. It is written in Perl
and uses Subversion's underlying filesystem.
Changes: A patch generation failure and an infinite loop in "svk revert
//path" were fixed.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/svk/
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[037] - The friendly interactive shell 1.21.0
by liljencrantz (http://freshmeat.net/users/liljencrantz/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:26
Software Development :: Interpreters
System :: Shells
Utilities
About: fish, the friendly interactive shell is a shell that is focused on
interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal
of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that
is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a user-friendly and
powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion,
tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for
specific commands. It also features an extensive and discoverable help
system. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation
in your preferred Web browser. Other features include syntax highlighting
with extensive error checking, support for the X clipboard, smart terminal
handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history.
Changes: A German translation was added along with advanced
command-specific completions for the svn and darcs commands, multiple OS
X-specific fixes, and a subsystem for dynamically loading shell script
functions at startup, which should make developing and deploying shell
scripts easier while reducing startup time and memory usage. A nasty bug
was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thefishshell/
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[038] - The friendly interactive shell 1.21.1
by liljencrantz (http://freshmeat.net/users/liljencrantz/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 09:28
Software Development :: Interpreters
System :: Shells
Utilities
About: fish, the friendly interactive shell is a shell that is focused on
interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal
of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that
is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a user-friendly and
powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion,
tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for
specific commands. It also features an extensive and discoverable help
system. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation
in your preferred Web browser. Other features include syntax highlighting
with extensive error checking, support for the X clipboard, smart terminal
handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history.
Changes: This release fixes a minor typo in an init file that caused major
breakage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thefishshell/
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[039] - Tile World 1.2.2
by Brian Raiter (http://freshmeat.net/users/breadbox/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:31
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: Tile World is an emulator of "Chip's Challenge", a popular game
created for the Atari Lynx and later ported to MS Windows 3.x. "Chip's
Challenge" is a tile-based game, demanding complex puzzle-solving and
occasionally quick reflexes. Tile World, in addition to bringing the game
to modern OSes, provides emulation of the Atari Lynx version in addition
to the more well-known Windows version of the game. It also deals with
user-created levels intelligently, and provides game-saving features,
customization, etc.
Changes: This relase fixes a number of minor bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tile-world/
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[040] - ubuildinit 0.1.4
by Fred Barnes (http://freshmeat.net/users/nuked/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:21
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: ubuildinit is a utility for use with micro window-gadgets (UWG)
that generates C source and header files from XML descriptions of visual
interfaces. Interfaces are described using XHPD, an XML-based hierarchical
program description.
Changes: This release adds updates for UWG 0.1.4, including some fixes to
the XHPD parser and support for new properties/types.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ubuildinit/
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[041] - Unified I/O 2.56
by ak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imagero/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 01:02
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: UnifiedIO allows a Java programmer to access files, URLs, primitive
arrays, and streams through the same interface. It features high
performance, transparent buffering, a memory manager, implementations of
ImageInputStream and ImageOutputStream, a bridge between the
RandomAccessFile world and the InputStream/OutputStream world, directly
reading from and writing to primitive arrays, optimized reading over HTTP
(using byteserving), an easily extensible design, and many codec
utilities.
Changes: This release added JpegFilterInputStream. Some bugs were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uio/
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[042] - Video Disk Recorder 1.3.43 (Development)
by SvR Marty (http://freshmeat.net/users/svrmarty/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:40
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Video
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
About: Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital satellite receiver program
using Linux and DVB technologies. It can record MPEG2 streams, as well as
output the stream to TV. It also supports plugins for DVD, DivX, or MP3
playback and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vdr/
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[043] - Web100 2.5.8 (Stable)
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:19
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Networking
System :: Operating System Kernels
About: The Web100 project was created to produce a complete host-software
environment that will run common TCP applications at 100% of the available
bandwidth, regardless of the magnitude of a network's capability. Web100
has endowed TCP with better instrumentation. This instrumentation is the
foundation for both the TCP autotuning performed in process-level code and
the process- level tools designed to locate bottlenecks within the
following major subsystems: the sending application, the sending OS, the
Internet path, the receiving OS, and the receiving application.
Measurement tools have also been built on this instrumentation to display
performance indicators to end-users, as well as provide internal
diagnostics for network and system administrators.
Changes: This release fixes a bug in reno congestion control which
occurred when ABC was off and an unresolved symbol in the congestion
control modules.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/web100/
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[044] - Wyrd 1.3.0
by Paul Pelzl (http://freshmeat.net/users/pelzlpj/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 00:32
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Wyrd is a curses front-end for Remind, a powerful calendar and
alarm application. The display features a scrollable time table suitable
for visualizing your schedule at a glance. Wyrd integrates with an
external editor of your choice to make editing of reminder files more
efficient, and provides hotkeys to quickly access the most common Remind
options. Other features include extensive configurability, Mutt-like
interface design, and minimal resource requirements.
Changes: Reminders may now be cut, copied, and pasted. The display can be
scrolled directly to a specific day by typing in that date. The default
editor is now set to $EDITOR.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyrd/
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[045] - Xen 3.0.1
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:18
System :: Boot
System :: Emulators
System :: Operating System Kernels
About: Xen is a virtual machine monitor for x86 that supports execution of
multiple guest operating systems in isolated environments.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xen/
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[046] - XFCE Radio Plugin 0.1.0
by Stefan Ott (http://freshmeat.net/users/cockroach/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 09:38
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: XFCE Radio Plugin is an XFCE panel plugin which allows you to
control your v4l radio device from within the panel.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xfce4-radio-plugin/
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[047] - XORP 1.2-RC
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:38
Internet
System :: Networking
About: XORP is the eXtensible Open Router Platform, an open- source router
software stack. The goal is to develop a software router platform that is
stable and fully featured enough for production use, and flexible and
extensible enough to enable network research. It implements routing
protocols for IPv4 and IPv6 and a unified means to configure them.
Changes: This release adds major bugfixes to BGP and PIM-SM. PIM-SM has
been updated to the latest protocol specification. OSPF has been
completely replaced and rewritten. The RIP configuration has been cleaned.
Major bugfixes and cleanups have been made for the commandline interface
and other underlying libraries and mechanisms.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xorp/
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[048] - Zile is Lossy Emacs 2.2.13
by Reuben Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/rrt/)
Sat, Feb 25th 2006 18:55
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: Floppy-Based
Text Editors
Text Editors :: Emacs
About: Zile is a small, fast, and powerful Emacs clone. It is useful for
small footprint installations (e.g. on floppy disk) or quick editing
sessions.
Changes: This release fixes a crash which occurred when killing a buffer
currently displayed in more than one window, a build failure on platforms
without va_copy, and a bug in back-to-indentation. Some dead code has been
removed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zile/
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