Newsletter for Sunday, April 29th 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (43) :::
[001] - Alpy 0.1.5
[002] - appctl 1.13
[003] - Areca Backup 4.5.1
[004] - BalanceNG 1.840
[005] - Bazaar Subversion Plugin 0.3.3
[006] - CBoard 0.4
[007] - ccextractor 0.17
[008] - check_tcptraffic 1.1
[009] - Clabbers 0.0.6
[010] - CLFSWM 070429
[011] - DisTract 0.2
[012] - Dnsmasq 2.39
[013] - DocFrac 3.1.5
[014] - Dockboard 0.3
[015] - dtrx 4.0
[016] - easyNotes 0.2.2
[017] - EiffelStudio 6.0.6.8021 (Development)
[018] - eKitaab 0.5.4
[019] - ep128emu 2.0.3
[020] - FBReader 0.8.2b
[021] - Geomview 1.9.0
[022] - GNU GTick 0.3.14
[023] - Hardened Linux 1.6.6-snapshot
[024] - inotify-tools 3.9
[025] - JDiveLog 2.3
[026] - KThinkBat 0.2.6
[027] - La-Nai 1.2.9
[028] - Minimum Profit 5.0.0-rc1
[029] - mrtg 2.15.2
[030] - NiX Security scanner 0.2
[031] - Nixstaller 0.2.2
[032] - OSGlobeLAN 0.9
[033] - phpMyFAQ 2.0.0-RC (Development)
[034] - Python rope 0.5rc1
[035] - radare 0.8
[036] - Sarien 1 (Sarien for Cibyl)
[037] - SILC Server 1.0.4
[038] - SmokePing 2.1.0 (Stable)
[039] - SubEtha Mail 1.0.2
[040] - sysstat 7.1.4
[041] - The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre3
[042] - Viking 0.1.2.20070429 (Test)
[043] - Xfprot 1.20
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[001] - Alpy 0.1.5
by Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz (http://freshmeat.net/users/gradha/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:21
Games/Entertainment
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Alpy provides Python bindings to the Allegro game programming
library.
Changes: Experimental Windows precompiled binary support. Basic support
for AllegroGL 0.4.x in an extra module named aglpy. tostring() and
fromstring() methods in the Bitmap class for converting to and from raw
strings for use with other libraries (PIL, pyopengl, etc.). topil() and
frompil() methods for converting to and from PIL images. The Python
Imaging Library is only required if these methods are called. All examples
have been changed to use allegro_message and be GUI friendly, plus other
minor bugfixes. AlpyError has been replaced with the correct AlpyException
in the documentation.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/alpy/
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[002] - appctl 1.13
by Rainer Meier (http://freshmeat.net/users/skybeam/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:57
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 release fixes the Linux status message printout where the
PID was omitted from the printout. This does not affect the functionality
at all; only the output text has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/appctl/
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[003] - Areca Backup 4.5.1
by Olivier PETRUCCI (http://freshmeat.net/users/aventin/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:59
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: Areca is a file backup system that supports data compression (zip /
zip64 format) and encryption, incremental backups, FTP file transfer, a
file history explorer, and many other features. It includes a transaction
mechanism, which guarantees the integrity of your backups. Two user
interfaces are available: a command-line interface (useful for backup
automation) and a graphical user interface (useful for backup
administration).
Changes: This version adds FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS) storage. Both explicit
and implicit modes are supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/areca/
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[004] - BalanceNG 1.840
by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:37
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random,
Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to
set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports
SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap
packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a
"transparent forensic logging bridge".
Changes: The commands "show conf vrrp", "show conf gateway", and "show
conf parameters" have been added, interfacing to external user interface
functionality. The VMware virtual machine has been updated. The manual was
upgraded to release 1.840.0.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/balanceng/
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[005] - Bazaar Subversion Plugin 0.3.3
by Jelmer Vernooij (http://freshmeat.net/users/jelmervernooij/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:17
Software Development :: Version Control
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
About: Bazaar Subversion Plugin is a Bazaar plugin that adds support for
foreign Subversion repositories. This allows committing changes to
Subversion branches as if they were native Bazaar branches.
Changes: Compatibility with Bazaar 0.16 has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzrsvn/
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[006] - CBoard 0.4
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:13
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: CBoard is an NCurses PGN browser, editor, and front end to chess
engines that use the XBoard protocol. It supports human/human (local),
human/engine, and engine/engine play, the FEN tag, annotations with RAV
(limited), NAG, and comments, and more.
Changes: A better move clock. Bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cboard/
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[007] - ccextractor 0.17
by carlos.fernandez (http://freshmeat.net/users/cfsmp3/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:20
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: ccextractor is a fast closed-captions extractor for MPEG files. It
can generate .srt (subtitles) files directly from your HDTV recordings or
DVDs, as well as from other sources.
Changes: This releaes adds direct .srt generation and transport stream /
program stream automatic detection. There are minor bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccextractor/
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[008] - check_tcptraffic 1.1
by Matteo Corti (http://freshmeat.net/users/corti/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:19
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking
About: check_tcptraffic is a simple Nagios plugin to monitor network
traffic on Linux systems.
Changes: This release will retest if the time difference between two tests
is too small.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/check_tcptraffic/
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[009] - Clabbers 0.0.6
by Martin A. Brooks (http://freshmeat.net/users/MartBrooks/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:33
About: Clabbers is an anagram tool aimed towards solving Scrabble racks.
It consists of a couple of Perl scripts, a word list, and an SQL schema.
It was designed for use with PostgreSQL, though it could be ported to
other database backends.
Changes: The plperl stored procedure is now used to calculate the word
index.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clabbers/
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[010] - CLFSWM 070429
by Philippe Brochard (http://freshmeat.net/users/hocwp/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:57
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: CLFSWM (Common Lisp FullScreen Window Manager) is an X11 window
manager where windows are almost always fullscreen maximized or tiled. It
can be driven using the keyboard alone or with the mouse.
Changes: A configuration file is read at startup for tweaking. Some new
bindings were added (like stop all pending actions and open all future
windows in a new group (i.e. like other window managers)). A hook system
was added to tweak all X11 events if needed (like a map window). Some
minor bugs were fixed (unclutter is now usable, for example).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clfswm/
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[011] - DisTract 0.2
by Matthew Sackman (http://freshmeat.net/users/scroteman/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:27
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: DisTract is a distributed bug tracker. DisTract allows you to
manage bugs in a distributed and potentially offline manner through your
Web browser on your local machine. The distribution is achieved by making
use of a distributed software control system, Monotone. Thus Monotone is
used to move files across the network, perform merging operations, and
track the development of every bug.
Changes: Many changes from 0.1, including major bugfixes. The most
significant change is the ability to list bugs.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/distract/
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[012] - Dnsmasq 2.39
by Simon Kelley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simonkelley/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:29
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
About: Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP
server. It is designed to provide DNS and (optionally) DHCP to a small
network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the
global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows
machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names
configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq
supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP/TFTP for network booting
of diskless machines.
Changes: This release adds some features to the log subsystem: it is now
possible to log directly to a file, and to log asynchronously to syslog.
More detailed logging of DHCP transactions is available. DHCP options can
now be specified by name instead of by number. DHCP configuration can now
use information from a DHCP relay agent. There are a few minor bugfixes
(notably failure of TFTP with --listen-address). Some translations have
been updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dnsmasq/
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[013] - DocFrac 3.1.5
by teambob (http://freshmeat.net/users/teambob/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Text Editors :: Word Processors
Text Processing
About: DocFrac is a tool that converts documents from RTF to HTML and from
HTML to RTF. It is useful for bulk document conversion and dynamic Web
pages. It does not require a word processor to work.
Changes: This version fixed many major problems with HTML to RTF and HTML
to text conversions. It has also fixed a few minor problems with RTF to
HTML.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/docfrac/
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[014] - Dockboard 0.3
by Andrew Krause (http://freshmeat.net/users/RedHatRebel0/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:24
Education
Information Management
Text Editors
About: Dockboard is an outline editor created for authors writing books,
articles, and other published works. It provides the ability to organize
small to large documents.
Changes: This widget adds editable labels to make editing nodes easier,
the ability to hide children, and a file browser along the side.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dockboard/
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[015] - dtrx 4.0
by Brett Smith (http://freshmeat.net/users/bretts/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 17:04
About: dtrx intelligently extracts many different archive types. It will
get the contents from tar, zip, rpm, deb, and cpio archives, as well as
compressed files, with one simple command. It helps keep your filesystem
sane by putting every archive's contents into a dedicated directory, and
making sure the owner can read and write whatever's extracted. It can even
recursively extract archives.
Changes: dtrx is now interactive. If an archive has unusual contents for
example, it only contains one item this release will ask you how you
would like to handle it. You can turn these questions off with the -n
option. If you just want to see what's in an archive, rather than
extracting it, you can now do that with the -l option.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dtrx/
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[016] - easyNotes 0.2.2
by Carsten Gräf (http://freshmeat.net/users/carstengraef/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:18
Internet
Office/Business
Text Editors
About: easyNotes is a Web application for managing notes within a large
group of different users.
Changes: There are some bugfixes. An initial plugin (calendar) has been
added to show how easyApplications can be customized according to your
needs.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/notesmanager/
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[017] - EiffelStudio 6.0.6.8021 (Development)
by Emmanuel Stapf (http://freshmeat.net/users/manus_eiffel/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:25
Database
Office/Business
Software Development
About: EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel language (ECMA-367, ISO/IEC
25436, and ACM Software System Award 2006). It includes an Eiffel
compiler, an Eiffel GUI editor, an Eiffel code browsing tool, a diagram
editor with round-trip, a refactoring tool, a debugger, a profiler, and
Eiffel analysis tools (Metrics, Dependencies, etc.). Eiffel generates C or
CLI for .NET or Mono. Eiffel applies O-O principles and Design by Contract
for high-quality software. Many Eiffel libraries are included: ADT,
network, GUI, database, parsing (including an Eiffel parser), XML, Web,
COM, and more.
Changes: Minor bugfixes in the docking with the addition of pick and drop
facilities in the docking library. Bugfixes when handling .NET projects.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eiffelstudio/
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[018] - eKitaab 0.5.4
by Balaji Srinivasan (http://freshmeat.net/users/vinylrec/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:29
Desktop Environment
Education
Games/Entertainment
About: eKitaab is an eBook Catalog Manager to manage large collections of
ebooks. eKitaab is not an eBook reader. eKitaab displays a list of all
books you have, with their titles, authors, descriptions, and photos of
the book covers. It also shows if you have read that book before or not.
eKitaab downloads all this information from the Internet, based on the
ISBN of the book, or by searching by author or title. eKitaab is designed
to be extremely safe for the eBooks; the eBooks themselves are never
changed.
Changes: An Authors filter was added. A "checkout" feature was added. A
split-pane was added in the main window. The project build settings were
downgraded so this can be run with Java 1.4 as well, instead of 1.5 and
above. A bug was fixed where files from the root folder would not load,
only sub-folders would load. The build was corrected to see the proxy and
about box changes. Other miscellaneous bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ebookmanager/
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[019] - ep128emu 2.0.3
by Istvan Varga (http://freshmeat.net/users/istvanv/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:24
System :: Emulators
About: ep128emu is a portable emulator of the Enterprise 128 computer
supporting Windows and POSIX platforms (32-bit Windows, and 32- and 64-bit
Linux have been tested). It implements accurate, high quality hardware
emulation, but the system requirements are higher than that of most other
emulators.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ep128emu/
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[020] - FBReader 0.8.2b
by Nikolay Pultsin (http://freshmeat.net/users/geometer/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:23
Text Processing
About: FBReader is an e-book reader. It currently works on the Sharp
Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM, Nokia 770/N800 Internet
Tablet, Archos PMA430, Motorola E680i/A780 smartphones, PepperPad 3, IRex
iLiad, and Linux/Windows XP i386 computers. It supports several e-book
formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, CHM, fb2, TCR (psion text), OEB,
OpenReader, RTF, non-DRM'ed Mobipocket, and plain text.
Changes: In the CHM reader, image support and lists support have been
improved. Scrolling to the end of text has been fixed. In Unix versions, a
bug with filenames including '...' has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbreader/
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[021] - Geomview 1.9.0
by Lloyd Wood (http://freshmeat.net/users/lloydwood/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:26
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: Geomview is an interactive program written by the staff of the
Geometry Center for viewing and manipulating 3D (and higher dimensional)
geometric objects. It can be used as a standalone viewer for static object
or as a display engine for other programs which produce dynamically
changing geometry.
Changes: This is the first major release since 1.8.1. It includes major
bugfixes and enhancements to rendering, to the OOGL command language, and
to visualization of higher dimensions. It also improves the user
interface.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geomview/
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[022] - GNU GTick 0.3.14
by Roland Stigge (http://freshmeat.net/users/stigge/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:55
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: GNU GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 10
beats per minute to 1000 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses
GTK+2 and OSS.
Changes: The translations to Russian, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese have been
updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtick/
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[023] - Hardened Linux 1.6.6-snapshot
by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:19
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Operating System
About: Hardened Linux is a hardened and minimalized Linux distribution
based on Slackware. It includes a grsecurity/PaX patched kernel, stack
smashing protected and hardened packages, additional security scripts, and
automatically enabled host intrusion detection.
Changes: Different packages were updated. The documentation package now
includes HTML files instead of a PDF file. This release also includes
permission fixes in the binutils package and a 2.6.20.10 kernel.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hardenedlinux/
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[024] - inotify-tools 3.9
by Rohan McGovern (http://freshmeat.net/users/rohanpm/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:08
About: inotify-tools is a simple library and a set of simple command line
utilities for the Linux inotify filesystem change notification system.
Changes: A crash when watching a very large amount of files was fixed. A
memory leak was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/inotify-tools/
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[025] - JDiveLog 2.3
by pellmont (http://freshmeat.net/users/pellmont/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:11
Other/Nonlisted Topic
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: JDiveLog is a logbook for scuba diving. It manages all important
dive data, as well as the pictures taken during the dive. Features include
the ability to import UDCF data or data from Suunto computers, profile
generation, and a Web page generator.
Changes: This release adds a new Gas Blending utility. It supports
RXTX-2.1 as well as a Java Comm API with RXTX-2.0. A diagnostics utility
has been added to find problems in your installation. There are several
bugfixes (most of them to do with gas switching).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jdivelog/
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[026] - KThinkBat 0.2.6
by le petit fou (http://freshmeat.net/users/lefou/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:13
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Utilities
About: KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is
inspired by the "Battery Maximizer" included with Levono (former IBM)
ThinkPads. Although there are allready some battery monitor applications
for the K-Desktop Environment, they ar mostly too small to see the current
battery charge at a glance. Features include display of current battery
strength as a percentage, and visually as a gauge, display of the current
online/offline state, and display of current power consumption. It has
support for a second battery. On ThinkPads, it can use the SMAPI BIOS
interface.
Changes: Beside more complete translation, this version deals with laptops
whose batteries don't provided correct power consumption values. On those
laptops, older KThinkBat versions didn't calculate reliable remaining time
information. All users with ACPI or SMAPI-based batteries should be able to
use all features of this release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kthinkbat/
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[027] - La-Nai 1.2.9
by Anoochit Chalothorn (http://freshmeat.net/users/redlinesoft/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 12:53
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: La-Nai is a CMS-like system that has basic modules, blocks, and
templates. It is ready to create a Web site, but it has a new way of
development called "Generated Framework", which means that a developer can
generate module and source code from a command line script called "La-Mud".
In just a few minutes, you can create your own module or database driven
module.
Changes: Loading a shopping cart session has been fixed. File upload in
fckEditor has been fixed. Block input layout has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lanaicms/
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[028] - Minimum Profit 5.0.0-rc1
by Angel Ortega (http://freshmeat.net/users/angeltriptico/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:07
Text Editors
About: Minimum Profit (mp) is a programmer's text editor. It features
small memory and disk requirements, syntax highlighting, context-sensitive
help for the source code being edited, multiple simultaneous file editing,
ctags support, word wrapping, and more. It can be compiled for Linux /
Unix (console), GTK, and MS Windows.
Changes: This release includes full Unicode support, unlimited undo
operations, a new scripting language, several fixes in word wrapping, and
other minor improvement and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpmp/
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[029] - mrtg 2.15.2
by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:33
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the
traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing
GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.
Changes: SNMVv3 handling was improved. Support for SNMPv2/3 devices
WITHOUT HC counters was added. Indexmaker parsing was made more robust.
Netware support was updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mrtg/
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[030] - NiX Security scanner 0.2
by Tapio Niemelä (http://freshmeat.net/users/tniemela/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 08:02
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: NiX Security Scanner is a security scanner for Linux distributions.
It will try find rootkits and backdoors, and try to determine whether your
system hacked or not. It will also scan your distribution for
misconfigured daemons (services).
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nixsecscan/
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[031] - Nixstaller 0.2.2
by Rick (http://freshmeat.net/users/rickhelmus/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:36
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
System :: Software Distribution
About: With 'nixstaller' you can easily make installers for Unix-like
systems. Some of the project goals: support for many different platforms,
support for different (optional) frontends used by the installer
(currently FLTK, ncurses, GTK 2, and Qt are planned), ease of use for the
install creator and the end user, different ways of installing (extract
files to a location, compile software on the user's system, and maybe even
integration for the package manager running on the user's system).
Nixstaller can be fully translated and is programmed in C++ and sh.
Changes: This release fixes several small bugs: startupinstaller.sh would
not sort files, geninstall.sh didn't check given commandline arguments
anymore, and quotes were missing in startupinstaller.sh. This release
supports a way of choosing frontends: instead of trying to find available
C/C++ system libraries, each frontend is checked with ldd for missing
libraries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nixstaller/
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[032] - OSGlobeLAN 0.9
by Lars Åge Kamfjord (http://freshmeat.net/users/laaknor/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:56
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: OSGlobeLAN is a Web portal for LAN parties, featuring a seat map
system, registration, and more.
Changes: A lot of changes have been made, but this release is primarily to
announce that work on the pre-1.0 codebase of OSGL has been stopped, and
will no longer be maintained. Serious security-related issues might be
fixed, but all focus is now on the 2.0 codebase.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/osglobelan/
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[033] - phpMyFAQ 2.0.0-RC (Development)
by Thorsten Rinne (http://freshmeat.net/users/thorstenr/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:39
Information Management
About: phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ system.
It support various database systems and it also offers a content
management system with a WYSIWYG editor, an image manager, flexible
multi-user support, a news system, user tracking, language modules,
templates, extensive XML support, PDF support, DocBook XML support, a
backup system, and an easy to use installation script.
Changes: This release adds stylesheets for right-to-left text-direction
and an improved administration backend. The Hebrew and Spanish
translations were updated. Many bugs were fixed.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyfaq/
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[034] - Python rope 0.5rc1
by Ali G Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:06
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Software Development :: Refactoring
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
About: Python rope is a Python refactoring library and IDE. The IDE uses
the library to provide features like refactoring and coding assistance.
Changes: This release adds support for showing current file history and
for opening types. "persisted_memory" and "sqlite" objectdbs were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyrope/
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[035] - radare 0.8
by pancake (http://freshmeat.net/users/poptph/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:53
Software Development :: Debuggers
About: radare is a toolchain that aims to create a complete set of
utilities for handling binary files from the command line. It's mainly an
hexadecimal editor for the command line but with advanced features. There
are extensions for debugging processes on x86-32 and ARM, libusb and fd
sniffers, binary diffing utilities, base format conversions, generating
graphs of a program, A cross-platform disassembler as an objdump frontend,
and more.
Changes: A new search engine. I/O plugin layers (debugging, Haret, and
POSIX). Debugging on NetBSD. Arguments to the debugged process (radare
"dbg:///bin/ls /usr"). Base address ('B' command). xc now can convert from
stdin binary data to hex pairs. Date format string and filetime (NTFS)
support. Non-readline interface fixes (more orthogonalized). Wide-char
support (reading and writing '00' filled strings). Fixes in the visual
mode. The debugger can backtrace on Linux/x86 (needs more work). New
xor/xorpair hashing algorithms for 'hasher'.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/radare/
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[036] - Sarien 1 (Sarien for Cibyl)
by Simon Kagstrom (http://freshmeat.net/users/sys2066/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:31
Games/Entertainment
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Sarien is a portable Sierra AGI resource interpreter engine that
allows you to play Sierra On-Line AGI version 2 and version 3 games (such
as Space Quest 1 and 2, and Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge
Lizards) natively in Linux, Solaris, Windows, and other platforms.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sarien/
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[037] - SILC Server 1.0.4
by Patrik Weiskircher (http://freshmeat.net/users/patw/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 17:03
Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing
About: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which
provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to
send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This
includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All
messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages
can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1,
PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software
is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system
administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
Changes: This release fixes a small problem with parsing the 1.3 protocol
version string correctly. Clients that conform to the 1.3 protocol will
not be able to connect to a SILC server that isn't running this version.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/silc/
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[038] - SmokePing 2.1.0 (Stable)
by Tobias Oetiker (http://freshmeat.net/users/oetiker/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 07:54
System :: Benchmark
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: SmokePing is a network latency monitor which works in a way that is
similar to MRTG. It measures network latency to a configurable set of
destinations on the network, and displays its findings in easy-to-read Web
pages. SmokePing has special support for monitoring hosts with dynamic IP
addresses. SmokePing uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end,
making the system very efficient. The presentation of the data on the Web
is done through a CGI which creates graphs on demand.
Changes: The scoreboard has a list of 'hottest' targets. Echoping V6
compatibility. Mail templates. A failover server for alert email messages.
Many new plugins. Several bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smokeping/
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[039] - SubEtha Mail 1.0.2
by Jon S. Stevens (http://freshmeat.net/users/jons/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:22
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers
Information Management
About: SubEtha is a sophisticated mailing list manager, similar in many
respects to the popular Mailman package but far more feature-rich. SubEtha
offers easy installation on Windows and Unix platforms, a user-friendly Web
interface, searchable, threaded archives, virtual domains, support for
users with multiple email addresses, intelligent attachment handling,
configurable message processing filters, per-list role-based permissions,
and more.
Changes: This release works around a a backwards compatibility issue issue
where SubEtha would not run on Java 5 because the released code was
compiled using Java 6.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/subetha/
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[040] - sysstat 7.1.4
by Sébastien Godard (http://freshmeat.net/users/godard/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 13:17
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 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. 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 pidstat command reports
statistics for Linux tasks (processes). The mpstat command reports global
and per-processor statistics. Both UP and SMP machines are fully
supported. Sysstat has support for hotplug CPUs and for National Language
(NLS).
Changes: The addition of a new command "pidstat" aimed at displaying
per-process statistics. The option -N has been added to iostat, which
enables the user to query any device-mapper devices for their registered
device name (useful for viewing LVM2 statistics). A small memory leak in
the readp_uptime() function has been fixed. iostat -t now also takes into
account the value of the environment variable S_TIME_FORMAT.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysstat/
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[041] - The Amsterdam Compiler Kit 6.0pre3
by David Given (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgtaocouk/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 17:06
Software Development :: Assemblers
Software Development :: Compilers
About: The Amsterdam Compiler Kit is a fully-featured retargetable
compiler toolchain. It will cross-compile ANSI C, K&R C, Pascal, Modula-2,
Occam, Fortran and Basic for a number of architectures including, but not
limited to, the 6500, 68000, Z80, i80, i86, i386, and PDP-11. It provides
a complete development environment including preprocessors, compilers,
assemblers, linkers, librarian tools, and target download tools.
Changes: Support has been added for generating CP/M binaries using the
8080 code generator. The various optimisers have been beaten into shape,
and it's now possible to use them on all platforms; a basic peephole
optimiser has been set up for the 8080. The floating point system has been
confirmed working on the pc86 and linux386 platforms. ANSI compatibility
has been improved, binary sizes have been reduced, and there are many
bugfixes everywhere.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ack/
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[042] - Viking 0.1.2.20070429 (Test)
by Guilhem BONNEFILLE (http://freshmeat.net/users/guyou/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 04:35
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: Viking is a GTK2-based GPS data editor and viewer. It can download
and show Terraserver maps, import and draw tracks and waypoints over them,
add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different
things, and more. It uses a hierarchical layering system to organize GPS
data, maps, and other layer types with spatial data (such as coordinate
lines).
Changes: As usual, this release updates the Google access. Concerning map
sources, three new sources are available, all concerning the OpenStreetMap
project. Futhermore, Viking now supports libcurl, so it is possible to use
Viking through proxies. This release also offers a default .spec for
building RPM packages and improves some GUI aspects.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viking/
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[043] - Xfprot 1.20
by Tito (http://freshmeat.net/users/Titox/)
Sun, Apr 29th 2007 17:04
Utilities
About: XFPROT is a graphical frontend for the F-Prot Antivirus for Linux
Small Business Edition.
Changes: Various bugs were fixed. Runtime terminal emulator autodetection
and experimental KDE menu action support were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xfprot/
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