Newsletter for Sunday, October 22nd 2006
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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::
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countries, or just our unwavering commitment to the open source community.
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (52) :::
[001] - ++Skype library 1.10
[002] - AntiRight 2.99.2
[003] - anyfs-tools 0.84.7
[004] - Asymptote 1.15
[005] - Autoconf Macro Archive 2006-10-23 (cryp.to)
[006] - Barbecue 1.5-alpha2
[007] - Bartlby 1.2.4
[008] - BasKet Note Pads 0.6.0
[009] - bogom 1.9
[010] - BuGLe 0.0.20061022
[011] - DBsight 1.3.3 (Bundled with App Server)
[012] - Editline 20061022-2.9
[013] - fastutil 5.0.5
[014] - FBReader 0.7.4m
[015] - Filesystem in Userspace 2.6.0 (Second Generation)
[016] - FlowPlayer 1.7.1
[017] - gEDA 20061020
[018] - goblinhack 0.6
[019] - gscan2pdf 0.7.12
[020] - GtkComboGrid 0.0.1
[021] - Hilbert II 0.02.01
[022] - Internote 2.1.1
[023] - Java Print Dialog Framework 1.5.1
[024] - Katoob 0.5.4
[025] - KDE 3.5.5
[026] - KLiveJournal 0.5
[027] - Konstruct 20061022
[028] - LaTrine 0.9.0
[029] - Laurux 1.0.5
[030] - libcaca 0.99.beta8 (Development)
[031] - Modularized Information Environment 0.8.0
[032] - MPCA 1.55
[033] - Network Query Tool 1.8
[034] - OGMRip 0.10.0
[035] - openQRM Plug-ins 2.2-3.0.1 (Linux-VServer)
[036] - OpenSign 1.5.2 (Unstable)
[037] - Pengupop 2.1.9
[038] - PHP mySQL Database Wrapper Class 1.0.6
[039] - PHPEncFs 0.9
[040] - phpPasswordManager 0.89.85
[041] - Pie 0.5
[042] - pro-search 0.16.0
[043] - QSF Portal 1.3.2
[044] - Qt 3.3.7 (3.3.x Maintenance)
[045] - QueryXMMS 1.06
[046] - RumAVL 2.0.0
[047] - SlimServer On DiskStation r2b6
[048] - SmallSQL 0.16
[049] - sysstat 7.0.2
[050] - TestDisk 6.5
[051] - UseBB 1.0.3
[052] - X-Moto 0.2.2
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - ++Skype library 1.10
by Vitaly A. Repin (http://freshmeat.net/users/vitrepin/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:43
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing
Communications :: Internet Phone
About: ++Skype is a C++ library for skype add-on platform independent
software development. It is platform independent, easy to use, and easy to
extend because of the flexible library design, inspired by modern C++
design ideas. Performance is one of the goals: only compile-time
polymorphism is used.
Changes: X11 Protocol support is included in the Linux implementation of
the library. D-BUS library is no longer a requirement. You can remote
control Skype via the X11 protocol.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libppskype/
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[002] - AntiRight 2.99.2
by Jeffrey Bedard (http://freshmeat.net/users/jefbed/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:48
Desktop Environment
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
Office/Business
About: AntiRight is a lightweight and scripted desktop environment.
AntiRight provides an interface for scripting of the GUI. Around this
interface, applications can be defined at the command line.
Changes: This release features a rewrite of the dynamic widget framework
to allow multiple updating widgets, an updating progress bar, undecorated
windows for panels, and the removal of relief around image buttons to
improve panel appearance.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antiright/
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[003] - anyfs-tools 0.84.7
by unDEFER (http://freshmeat.net/users/undefer/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:41
System :: Filesystems
System :: Recovery Tools
About: anyfs-tools allows you to recover and convert filesystems while
using minimal extra disk space. Unlike other recovery tools, anyfs-tools
doesn't copy all the files found on other disks (or partitions), but only
saves information about the location of the file blocks to an external
inode table. After recovery, a user may mount the damaged filesystem with
anyfs and the external inode table and then interact with all recovered
files with any program.
Changes: The progress bar in anysurrect was fixed to raise performance.
Building with e2fsprogs 1.39 was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anyfs-tools/
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[004] - Asymptote 1.15
by John Bowman (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcbowman/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:24
Education
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Scientific/Engineering
About: Asymptote is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for
technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like
syntax. It provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting
that LaTeX does for scientific text. Asymptote is a programming language as
opposed to just a graphics program. It can exploit the best features of
script (command-driven) and graphical user interface (GUI) methods.
High-level graphics commands are implemented in the language itself,
allowing them to be easily tailored to specific applications.
Changes: Graphics label bounds and incorrect path bounds in latticeshade
were fixed. A unitlength of 1pt is now enforced in inlinetex mode. In
cases like 2D graphs where only an approximate picture size estimate is
available, the transform is adjusted so that the fitted frame meets the
size specification. The cube animation and binary space partition were
fixed. The determinant of a singular matrix now returns zero instead of an
error. Temporary PDF files are removed. A workaround for a compilation
problem under Mac OS X 10.3.9 was implemented. A DIN 15 CAD package and
new examples were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asy/
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[005] - Autoconf Macro Archive 2006-10-23 (cryp.to)
by Peter Simons (http://freshmeat.net/users/peti/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 17:52
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: The Autoconf Macro Archive provides documented and tested macros
that are useful to many software writers using the autoconf tool, but too
specific to be included into autoconf itself.
Changes: Various new additions and cosmetic changes to existing macros.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ac-archive/
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[006] - Barbecue 1.5-alpha2
by Sean (http://freshmeat.net/users/sullis/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:46
Information Management
Multimedia :: Graphics
Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale
About: Barbecue is a Java barcode generator. It provides barcode
generation for Swing/AWT, printing, and Web sites. Barcodes can be
generated as (J)Components, JPEGs, and SVG.
Changes: This release adds net.sourceforge.barbecue.BarcodePortlet. A bug
in the SVG namespace (#1575809) and in 2of5 bar widths (#1554791) have
been fixed. Javadocs have been improved.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/barbecue/
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[007] - Bartlby 1.2.4
by helmut januschka (http://freshmeat.net/users/hjanuschka/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:47
System :: Diagnostics
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Bartlby is a network and system monitor, completely written in C,
to provide a scalable framework with the ability to monitor networks of
various sizes. It consists of a core daemon, several plugins, and a Web
GUI (PHP extension). The core daemon checks (over active/passive TCP)
services/hosts and notifies users in case of critical service conditions
(mail, SMS, ICQ, and custom triggers are supported). Bartlby provides an
open plugin interface to give every administrator an easy to use option to
extend the plugin base, and a fully customizable GUI (written in PHP using
a C extension). Nearby everything can be controlled via an XML interface.
Changes: Server-wide options have been added, a lot of notification
related issues have been fixed, and the CLI has been retouched.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bartlby/
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[008] - BasKet Note Pads 0.6.0
by Sebien (http://freshmeat.net/users/Sebien/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 17:52
About: BasKet Note Pads is an application that provides several baskets
into which the user can drop all sorts of notes: rich text, links, images,
sounds, files, colors, application launchers, and more. Objects in the
baskets can be edited, copied, and rearranged. This application can be
used to quickly store Web objects (such as links, text, or images) or
notes, and it can also help clean up a clutered desktop. It is also useful
for collecting information for a report. The data in baskets can be shared
with co-workers by exporting them to HTML.
Changes: This release makes it easier to handle a lot more data, by
grouping baskets/notes, loading much faster even with 100 baskets,
searching in every basket at once, helping categorize data with tags,
adding data quickly (one click and it's added where you clicked), and
allowing more condensed layouts (columns, free layout, etc.). It's now
mature enough to be used by everyone, especialy Kontact users (because
BasKet Note Pads can be integrated).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/basket/
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[009] - bogom 1.9
by Juan J. Martínez (http://freshmeat.net/users/reidrac/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:47
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: The bogom plugin can be used with the milter API of sendmail to
filter mails using bogofilter bayesian filter. It is intended to be used
with only one words database for the whole system.
Changes: Support for spamicity score in the X-Bogosity header has been
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bogom/
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[010] - BuGLe 0.0.20061022
by Bruce Merry (http://freshmeat.net/users/bmerry/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:03
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Debuggers
Software Development :: Libraries
About: BuGLe combines a graphical OpenGL debugger with a selection of
filters on the OpenGL command stream. The debugger allows viewing of
state, textures, framebuffers, and shaders, while the filters allow for
logging, error checking, free camera control, video capture, and more.
Changes: The statistics system has been completely rewritten and is now a
lot more powerful, supporting customisable statistics, graphs, batch
counts, NVPerfSDK, and lower overhead.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bugle/
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[011] - DBsight 1.3.3 (Bundled with App Server)
by Chris (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrislusf/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 21:48
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: DBSight is a J2EE search platform for rapidly developing search
engines on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It's
scalable, easy to create, and fast to search. It features a built-in
database crawler following user-defined SQL, incremental indexing,
user-controllable result ranking, the ability to return results with
highlights (like Google), and categorized result counts (like Amazon). It
can easily integrate with a non-Java environment with XML/JSON. There is a
UI for all operations, so no Java coding is necessary.
Changes: A configurable multi-searcher mode was added. A status report in
XML format was added for system and specific index. Applying global stop
words is avoided. PingAction was added to check DBSight health. Options
were added to show all contents for an empty query.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbsight/
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[012] - Editline 20061022-2.9
by Jess Thrysoee (http://freshmeat.net/users/Thrysoee/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:00
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Editline is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD
Editline library (libedit). This command line editor library provides
generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to
those found in GNU Readline.
Changes: Synchronized with upstream source.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editline/
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[013] - fastutil 5.0.5
by Sebastiano Vigna (http://freshmeat.net/users/vigna/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:32
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: fastutil extends the Java Collections Framework by providing
type-specific maps, sets, lists, and queues for Java with a small memory
footprint and fast access and insertion; it also includes a fast I/O API
for binary and text files. The classes implement their standard
counterpart interfaces (e.g., Map for maps) and can be plugged into
existing code. Besides the usual features, fastutil provides
reference-based containers (which do not use equals() to compare objects)
and linked structures. Most iterators provided by fastutil classes are
bidirectional, or even implement the standard list iterator interface.
Changes: A very old bug with null keys in hash structures has been fixed.
Heaps have been optimized after profiling LaMa4J, and are now
significantly faster.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fastutil/
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[014] - FBReader 0.7.4m
by Nikolay Pultsin (http://freshmeat.net/users/geometer/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:50
Text Processing
About: FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux PDAs and desktop computers.
FBReader currently works on Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad
ROM, Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780
smartphones, and Linux desktop computers. FBReader supports several e-book
formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, fb2, TCR (psion text), OEB, RTF,
non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.
Changes: A segmentation fault at start has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbreader/
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[015] - Filesystem in Userspace 2.6.0 (Second Generation)
by Miklos Szeredi (http://freshmeat.net/users/mszeredi/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:51
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Filesystems
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: Filesystem in Userspace is a simple interface for userspace
programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel. It also aims
to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and mount
their own filesystem implementations.
Changes: The highlights of this release include the addition of POSIX file
locking and synchronous request interruption to the interface. Multiple
bugs have also been fixed, including one that could cause an SMP system to
hang in rare circumstances.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fuse/
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[016] - FlowPlayer 1.7.1
by api (http://freshmeat.net/users/apiatikidotfi/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:40
Communications
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: FlowPlayer is a video player for Flash Video in FLV format. The UI
is clean and simple. The player is easy to configure and embed into your
home page, site, or blog.
Changes: FLV video dimensions are now detected from the FLV metadata. The
different resizing options are based on these detected dimensions.
Initially, the size is maximized according to the 'videoHeight' setting.
The aspect ratio of the video is always preserved. Adobe Flash Media
Server seems to send the FLV metadata again and again when seeking. This
caused unnessessary rearranging of the thumbnails. The thumnail list's
scrollbar is now hidden if all thumbnails fit the available visible space.
There are fixes correspoding to the following bugs filed in SourceForge:
1574640, 1581085, and 1568612.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flowplayer/
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[017] - gEDA 20061020
by Ales Hvezda (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahvezda/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 21:52
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
About: gEDA is a suite of electronic design automation (EDA) tools.
Currently, the project offers a mature suite of free software applications
for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management,
bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist
formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB)
layout.
Changes: This release includes a new component selection dialog box, the
return of the preview widget to the file selectors, support for cygwin,
auto titleblock when creating new schematic pages, print dialog box
improvements, support for using libgd instead of the libgdgeda, various
usability improvements, and some bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geda/
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[018] - goblinhack 0.6
by goblin hack (http://freshmeat.net/users/goblinhack/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 21:49
Games/Entertainment
About: Goblin Hack is the world's first and probably last
smooth-scrolling, ASCII-graphics-based, OpenGL accelerated, rogue-like
dungeon game. The brave and noble warrior must navigate through random
dungeons, picking up goodies and picking off baddies along the way. Quiver
in fear at the ASCII fireball-breathing Dragons, Beholders, Vampires, and
even the occasional Goblin.
Changes: Halloween edition. Magic potions, spider webs, more ghost
pumpkins, good and evil knights, stoat packs, killer bees, maggots,
centipedes, black mamba, creepy things, and more treasure. Ported to Mac
OS.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goblinhack/
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[019] - gscan2pdf 0.7.12
by Jeff (http://freshmeat.net/users/3ra28145/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:32
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Scanners
Office/Business
About: gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs from
scanned documents. You scan in one or several pages and create a PDF of
selected pages. At maturity, the GUI will have similar features to that of
the Windows Imaging program, but with the express objective of writing a
PDF, including metadata. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF
conversion is done by libtiff. Perl is used for portability and ease of
programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI.
Changes: A bug displaying detail view in multi-page scans has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gscan2pdf/
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[020] - GtkComboGrid 0.0.1
by Andrea Zagli (http://freshmeat.net/users/AndreaZak/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:24
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: User Interfaces
About: GtkComboGrid is a GTK+ widget that is like GtkComboBoxEntry, but
instead of using a GtkMenu as a popup, it uses a GtkTreeView.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkcombogrid/
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[021] - Hilbert II 0.02.01
by m31 (http://freshmeat.net/users/m31/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:27
Documentation
Education
Internet
About: The Goal of Hilbert II, which is in the tradition of Hilbert's
program, is the creation of a system that enables a working mathematician
to put theorems and proofs (in the formal language of predicate calculus)
into it. These proofs are automatically verified by a proof checker.
Because this system is not centrally administered and enables references
to any location on the Internet, a world wide mathematical knowledge base
could be built. Any proof of a theorem in this "mathematical web" could be
drilled down to the very elementary rules and axioms. To make it more than
a huge number of logical correct formulas, it also contains information in
"common mathematical language". Think of an incredible number of
mathematical textbooks with hyperlinks, and each of its proofs could be
verified by *Hilbert II*. For each theorem, the dependency of other
propositions, definitions, and axioms could be easily derived.
Changes: The formula output now looks better (see "Proposition 1.7" in
"qedeq_set_theory_v1_en.pdf"). The XSD and the QEDEQ parser were slightly
changed. Parsers for different text types (LaTeX, ASCII) were added; see
package org.qedeq.kernel.parser. They still have no user interface. Look
at LatexMathParserTest for usage information. The "qedeq_logic_v1.xml"
file was added. Now "qedeq_set_theory_v1.xml" has much more in it: all
axioms are assembled and roughly half of the planned theorems and
definitions are there.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qedeq/
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[022] - Internote 2.1.1
by Tim Horton (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheHortonsVT/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 08:59
About: Internote is an implementation of persistent sticky notes for
Firefox. Internote allows you to create notes on a Web page which will
still be there when you return. Notes are very customizable, and come with
many small, useful features. A manager is available, in which you can see
all of your saved notes, edit them, print them, and delete them.
Changes: Works with Firefox 2.0.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/internote/
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[023] - Java Print Dialog Framework 1.5.1
by JPDF Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/hlander/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:45
Printing
About: The Java Print Dialog Framework (JPDF) allows software developers
to add a comprehensive printing capability to existing Java applications
and applets. The JPDF is designed to be integrated into Java Swing client
applications and applets. It can preview and print the Swing components
that compose the application's GUI. Reports containing data obtained from
external sources (e.g. databases and files) can be generated. The JPDF
includes a wide variety of page-setup, print-preview, and print dialogs
which can easily be plugged into an application.
Changes: The ability to print to Adobe PDF files has been added (requires
the Ghostscript PDF interpreter). The Text Component pagination logic has
been improved, resulting in more attractively paginated documents
(particularly HTML). Printed JTable columns can be automatically sized to
fit the data. Several minor bugs have been fixed.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jpdf/
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[024] - Katoob 0.5.4
by Mohammed Sameer (http://freshmeat.net/users/Uniball/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 21:50
Text Editors
About: Katoob is a light-weight, multi lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It
supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support
was for the Arabic language but other languages are also supported.
Changes: Importing or exporting text with bidi and shaping applied won't
reverse it. The Japanese translation has been updated. The preferences
dialog sections are now translated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/katoob/
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[025] - KDE 3.5.5
by binner (http://freshmeat.net/users/stbinner/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:36
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
About: KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix
workstations. It combines ease of use, contemporary functionality and
outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the
Unix operating system. KDE is a completely new desktop, incorporating a
large suite of applications for Unix workstations. While KDE includes a
window manager, file manager, panel, control center and many other
components that one would expect to be part of a contemporary desktop
environment, the true strength of this exceptional environment lies in the
interoperability of its components.
Changes: This release includes plenty of bugfixes and updated translations
for 65 languages, but also features improvements such as version 0.12.3 of
Kopete, sudo in kdesu, CUPS 1.2 support, and speed improvements in KHTML.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kde/
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[026] - KLiveJournal 0.5
by Martin Mueller (http://freshmeat.net/users/orvio/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:02
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
About: KLiveJournal is a KDE client primarily for the LiveJournal.com
site, but it should work with any other journal provider that uses the
software from livejournal.org as long as it supports the
challenge/response authentication mode.
Changes: This release adds support for the check friends feature, and has
improved drag and drop support and simple HTML syntax highlighting.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/klivejournal/
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[027] - Konstruct 20061022
by binner (http://freshmeat.net/users/stbinner/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:36
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
System :: Installation/Setup
About: Konstruct is a build system which helps you install KDE releases
and applications on your system. It downloads defined source tarballs,
checks their integrity, decompresses, patches, configures, builds, and
installs them. A complete KDE installation should be as easy as "cd
meta/kde; make install". Optionally, you can install additional
applications like KOffice or KDevelop (for example, "cd
apps/office/koffice; make install").
Changes: KDE 3.5.5 is now installed. KOffice 1.6 is available as an
optional installation. All included packages were updated to the latest
versions.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/konstruct/
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[028] - LaTrine 0.9.0
by Martin Godisch (http://freshmeat.net/users/godisch/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:35
Education
About: LaTrine is a curses-based LAnguage TRaINEr. It takes a dictionary
and asks you for a word or a phrase, and you try to give the correct
answer. The direction is configurable. The selection of the words or
phrases depends on how often you don't know the correct translation. It
can be used with the Free Dictionaries Project, which provides
dictionaries for about 50 language combinations.
Changes: Word selection algorithms were improved in version 0.8, and input
of digraphs was implemented in version 0.9. The current release contains
several bugfixes and some new localizations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/latrine/
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[029] - Laurux 1.0.5
by Laurux (http://freshmeat.net/users/Laurux/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 23:54
Office/Business
About: Laurux is accounting and invoicing software with stock management.
It also provides some statistics.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/laurux/
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[030] - libcaca 0.99.beta8 (Development)
by Sam Hocevar (http://freshmeat.net/users/sammy/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:49
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The libcaca library is a graphics library that outputs text
instead of pixels, so that it can work on older video cards or text
terminals. It is not unlike the famous AAlib library except it supports
colour output.
Changes: This version adds support for fullwidth Unicode characters in all
text operations. Canvas flipping and rotation was improved. The X11 and
OpenGL drivers can now be built as separate plugins to ease the task of
binary package maintainers.
License: WTFPL
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libcaca/
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[031] - Modularized Information Environment 0.8.0
by U Asked 4 It (http://freshmeat.net/users/uasked4it/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 21:49
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: MIE is a Web-based system for displaying and controlling access to
information. It supports multiple users and has a role-based method of
controlling access to all the pages, scripts, and gadgets that make up the
system.
Changes: A complete rewrite of the core.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mie/
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[032] - MPCA 1.55
by Wray Buntine (http://freshmeat.net/users/wbuntine/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:31
Scientific/Engineering
About: MPCA is a comprehensive suite of tools for doing discrete principal
components analysis on data sets of size 100Mb or more. Scaling is done
using sparse vectors, multi-threading, memory mapping, and other POSIX
tricks. Reports, file dumping utilities, and other utilities are included.
The general problem of discrete components analysis is variously called
grade of membership, PLSA, non-neg.matrix factorization, multinomial
admixtures, LDA, and multinomial PCA.
Changes: A bug in mpbags that made it constantly use the CPU was fixed.
There is no need to update from 1.54 if you don't use mpbags.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpca/
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[033] - Network Query Tool 1.8
by Shaun (http://freshmeat.net/users/frigax/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:49
Internet
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System :: Networking
About: Network Query Tool (NQT) is a one-stop solution for getting
information about a domain or IP address. Instead of manually using
different Unix commands or visiting numerous Web sites to investigate a
host, just load Network Query Tool and enter the hostname or IP. NQT does
the rest. As well as the .com, .net, and .org TLDs, it supports .name,
cc, .us, .ws, .info, and .biz TLDs.
Changes: This version was entirely rewritten from the ground up using PHP5
and object-oriented capabilities.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nqt/
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[034] - OGMRip 0.10.0
by billl (http://freshmeat.net/users/bi3l/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:38
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: OGMRip is an application and a set of libraries for ripping and
encoding DVDs into AVI/OGM files using a wide variety of codecs. It relies
on mplayer, mencoder, ogmtools, oggenc, and lame to perform its tasks. The
GUI features a clean HIG-compliant GNOME 2 interface and tries to minimize
(as much as possible) esoteric settings.
Changes: This version adds support for new containers and codecs (MP4,
Theora, AAC, and vobsub) and options to set the video quality and the
fourcc. A lot of work has been done to improve A/V sync, to determine the
size of the overhead, and to detect cropping information. The code has
been greatly simplified and the API was reviewed. Support for mplayer-1.0
pre8, libdvdread 0.9.5, and hal >= 0.5 has been added. This release also
contains several fixes and improvements.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ogmrip/
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[035] - openQRM Plug-ins 2.2-3.0.1 (Linux-VServer)
by M. Rechenburg (http://freshmeat.net/users/waplocater/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:03
About: openQRM Plug-ins is a collection of community-supported plug-ins
that enable openQRM to manage other enterprise and open source software.
Changes: This plugin provides the initial integration of the Linux-VServer
virtualization technology into openQRM. It is suitable for openQRM-server
version 2.2.3 and 2.2.4.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openqrm-plugins/
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[036] - OpenSign 1.5.2 (Unstable)
by The OpenOces Development Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/openoces/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:50
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Security
About: OpenSign is a collection of Java applets providing client-side
digital signing functionality using x.509 certificates. It currently
consists of two applets, one for signing plain ASCII text and arbitary
attachments and another providing login functionality.
Changes: This version fixes a bug during signature generation on MS JVMs.
It also contains several bugfixes in the serial-number filtering
mechanism, the attachments part of the GUI, and the password-entering
dialog.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/opensign/
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[037] - Pengupop 2.1.9
by Morten Hustveit (http://freshmeat.net/users/mortehu/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:33
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: Pengupop is an online multiplayer clone of Frozen-Bubble/Bust a
Move. The purpose of the game is to shoot colored balls so they form
groups and thus fall down. Any balls that fall down will reappear on your
opponent's playfield as a side-effect.
Changes: Hostile balls now appear at a maximum rate of 10 per second, and
not before they have fallen out of your opponent's screen. Connection
issues when playing against other people on the same NATed network have
been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pengupop/
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[038] - PHP mySQL Database Wrapper Class 1.0.6
by Stefan Gabos (http://freshmeat.net/users/stefangabos/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 21:57
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: PHP mySQL Database Wrapper Class provides a set of methods for
interacting with a MySQL database easily and securely. Most of the methods
are extended versions of PHP's native functions, but providing a lot more
functionality and powerful debugging features. There are also new methods
that greatly simplify the process of executing specific queries like
returning specific rows or even single values from specific rows, SUM(),
COUNT(), and MAX() queries.
Changes: The actual data in the returned rows of SELECT queries is now
also shown in the debug window. Debug information can no longer be saved
to a log file. Instead, the show_debug_info() method can be instructed to
display debug information only for a specific IP address. Each entry of
each tab in the debug window can now be collapsed/expanded.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmysqlwrapper/
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[039] - PHPEncFs 0.9
by BlackFire (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheBlackFire/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:07
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
About: PHPEncFS is a simple PHP Web interface to EncFS. It was developed
some time ago to allow users in a Samba network to mount their secret
directories without having to log in.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpencfs/
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[040] - phpPasswordManager 0.89.85
by hollow (http://freshmeat.net/users/hollow/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:36
Database
Information Management
Internet
About: phpPasswordManager is a Web-based password management system. It
organizes your different accounts in groups and makes them accessible over
a Web interface. Each account can be encrypted with a different master
password.
Changes: The search keyword is now also sought in the URL field. On the
account-add, edit, edit-pass, and view pages, the first text field
automatically gets the focus. The table rows are highlighted on mouseover.
Access key help is shown on each page.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phppassmanager/
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[041] - Pie 0.5
by pm (http://freshmeat.net/users/ekkaia/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:35
Communications :: File Sharing
Documentation
Information Management
About: Pie is a lightweight content management system for Web-sharing
documents, files, and arbitrary pieces of information. Making use of a
Wiki's meta language and page-linking abilities, it lets authors create
and maintain content via HTTP on a corporate basis. It features an
emphasis on fast content delivery to its recipients rather than
sophisticated add-ons, therefore conveying compiled output instead of
performing time consuming run-time processing.
Changes: The code library has been completely rewritten, focusing on
extendability and abstraction. All low-level functions have been
implemented as OO classes. Both pages and files support an arbitrary
number of versions, limited only by the capacity of the underlying file
system. Usability has been improved. Most operations are selectable from
drop-down menus via mouse clicks or Editing Mode. Editing has been
fine-tuned. Text can be marked and, by clicking a button, applied various
markup properties.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pie/
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[042] - pro-search 0.16.0
by pro (http://freshmeat.net/users/proller/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:02
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: pro-search is a crawler for FTP servers, SMB shares, HTTP servers,
and DC++ networks. It has a powerful, Web-based search and navigation
interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pro-search/
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[043] - QSF Portal 1.3.2
by Samson (http://freshmeat.net/users/RLibiez/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:24
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards
About: QSF Portal is a fast, secure, easily maintained Web community
portal. It comes with powerful forum and download modules, as well as
lightweight CMS capability. New modules and skins can be added easily. It
supports 18 languages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qsfportal/
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[044] - Qt 3.3.7 (3.3.x Maintenance)
by binner (http://freshmeat.net/users/stbinner/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:37
Desktop Environment
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: Qt is a comprehensive, object-oriented development framework that
enables development of high-performance, cross-platform rich-client and
server-side applications. When you implement a program with Qt, you can
run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11), Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft
Windows NT/9x/2000/XP by simply compiling the source code for the platform
you want. Qt is the basis for the KDE desktop environment, and is also used
in numerous commercial applications such as Google Earth, Skype for Linux,
and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
Changes: A security flaw was discovered in the way Qt 3.x and 4.x handles
pixmap images. This issue can occur only when transforming specially
prepared images from untrusted sources.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qt/
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[045] - QueryXMMS 1.06
by bob (http://freshmeat.net/users/paied/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:34
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: QueryXMMS (qxmms) is a small command line application that queries
XMMS about what it is currently doing. It is useful for writing scripts
that react to the status of XMMS.
Changes: This release terminates gracefully if XMMS is not running. The
'--start' command was also added to launch XMMS if there is not one
already.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qxmms/
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[046] - RumAVL 2.0.0
by Jesse Long (http://freshmeat.net/users/jesselong/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:01
Software Development :: Libraries
About: RumAVL is an ANSI/C99 compliant implementation of a Threaded AVL
tree, providing an efficient ordered dictionary sorting and searching
mechanism. It is ideal for use as a base of other complex data types.
Changes: This is a partial rewrite of RumAVL, removing compulsory
dictionary behaviour and allowing you to define your own mapping (if
mapping is needed). Buggy traversal code has been removed; it did not work
where a record was a pointer (or other reference) to a real record, and the
current node was deleted. Documentation has been rewritten.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rumavl/
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[047] - SlimServer On DiskStation r2b6
by Philippe Kehl (http://freshmeat.net/users/phkehl/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 14:33
Home Automation
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: SlimServer on DiskStation is an add-on package to the Synology
DiskStation family of PowerPC based NAS devices providing the environment
to run SlimDevice's SlimServer on it. It integrates into the DS
administrative Web interface and comes with various user-friendly tools
and scripts to maintain the installation. It furthermore provides the
ability to download podcasts into the music library and tools to manage
playlists.
Changes: This version adds on-the-fly transcoding support for some exotic
file formats, including Apple Lossless (via alac), Musepack Audio (via
mppdec), Monkey Audio (via mac), and Shoten compressed audio (via
shorten). Besides minor documentation updates, man pages for the
transcoding tools have been added.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ssods/
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[048] - SmallSQL 0.16
by SmallSQL (http://freshmeat.net/users/smallsql/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:52
Database :: API
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: SmallSQL is a pure Java DBMS, a relational database for Java
desktop applications. It has a JDBC 3.0 interface and offers many ANSI SQL
92 and ANSI SQL 99 features. It is very small and fast because it does not
have a network interface.
Changes: A command line interface was added. Now you can modify the
database without a third party GUI tool.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smallsql/
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[049] - sysstat 7.0.2
by Sébastien Godard (http://freshmeat.net/users/godard/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:04
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat and mpstat,
commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity
information. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar
in various formats (XML, database-friendly, etc.). The iostat command
reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The
mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics. The
information collected by sar can be saved in a file in a binary format for
future inspection. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer
rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network
activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel
activities, and TTY statistics, among others. Both UP and SMP machines are
fully supported.
Changes: Hotplug CPU support has been added to sar and mpstat. /sys is
used to count the number of available processors. NLS has been updated (a
Swedish translation has been added).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysstat/
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[050] - TestDisk 6.5
by GRENIER Christophe (http://freshmeat.net/users/grenierchristophe/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 08:18
System :: Recovery Tools
Utilities
About: TestDisk is a tool to check and undelete partitions. It works with
the following partitions: FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, Linux, Linux swap (version
1 and 2), NTFS (Windows NT/W2K/2003), BeFS (BeOS), UFS (BSD), JFS, XFS,
and Netware.
Changes: A screen has been added to control the log file creation. It's
now possible from TestDisk file listing to copy files from an NTFS
partition to a selected directory. NTFS MFT can also be repaired in more
cases. A compilation problem has been fixed with old versions of libntfs.
New file formats have been added for Photorec. File size detection for
bmp, .pdf, .gif, and Office documents has been improved. An endless loop
bug and a memory leak have been fixed. The I/O cache engine now caches
read failure, which will speedup some recovery.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/testdisk/
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[051] - UseBB 1.0.3
by Dietrich Moerman (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcfreak/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 05:30
Communications :: BBS
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards
About: UseBB is an easy-to-set up and easy-to-use PHP/MySQL bulletin board
system with several user and administration possibilities, especially
designed for small to medium sized Web sites which do not need the
overdose of features found in other forum packages.
Changes: This version provides minor improvements and bugfixes. It
contains, among other changes, httpOnly cookies support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/usebb/
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[052] - X-Moto 0.2.2
by LBLeo (http://freshmeat.net/users/LBLeo/)
Sun, Oct 22nd 2006 09:02
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
About: X-Moto is a challenging 2D motocross platform game, where physics
play an all-important role in the gameplay. You need to control your bike
to its limit if you want to have a chance finishing the more difficult
challenges.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-moto/
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