Newsletter for Sunday, July 08th 2007
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[001] - Angband 3.0.8
[002] - Apache LDAP vhost driver 1.1
[003] - aria2 0.11.1
[004] - Blitz templates 0.4.20
[005] - cmdftp 0.9.6
[006] - crosstool-NG 0.1.2
[007] - DirectFB 1.0.0 (Development)
[008] - DjVuLibre 3.5.19
[009] - DjVuLibre 4.1 (DjView4)
[010] - DutchPIPE 0.2.1
[011] - Gnome Subtitles 0.6
[012] - Group-Office 2.17-stable-8
[013] - Growler distributed object architecture 0.3.2
[014] - gscan2pdf 0.9.13
[015] - GTKPBButtons 0.6.10
[016] - Ion 3rc-20070708 (Ion3)
[017] - ItSucks 0.2.0-b2
[018] - Java GForge SOAP Interface 0.0.7
[019] - KBPack 0.1
[020] - klick 0.4
[021] - loggerfs 0.1
[022] - MySQL 5.1.21 (Beta (5.1.x))
[023] - NagVis 1.1rc2 (Development)
[024] - naim 0.11.8.3 (Release)
[025] - Nameko 1.9.999.8
[026] - Nameko 1.3.1 (NamekoAttachmentsRetriever)
[027] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.30.6778
[028] - Open Babel 2.1.1 (Development)
[029] - oSync 1.0.0.b1
[030] - parapin 1.5.0-beta2
[031] - PBButtonsd 0.8.1
[032] - Phex 3.2.0
[033] - phpMyFAQ 2.0.2
[034] - plpastebin 2007-07-07
[035] - PsyncX 2.2.2
[036] - RacePoint 0.4
[037] - segatex 3.05
[038] - Simple Groupware 0.297
[039] - Slingshot 0.8p
[040] - Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition 6u2 (Java 6)
[041] - sysstat 7.1.6
[042] - tetex-upmethodology 20070707
[043] - ToxTox 0.2.0
[044] - ttylinux 6.1
[045] - Videotrans 1.6.0
[046] - Webware for Python 0.9.4
[047] - WikklyText 0.99.50
[048] - XHTML Doclet 0.2
[049] - xlike Kernel Patchset 0.16
[050] - XySSL 0.7
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Angband 3.0.8
by Andrew Sidwell (http://freshmeat.net/users/takkaria/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:40
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing
About: Angband is a single-player rogue-like dungeon exploration game that
runs on a wide variety of computer systems.
Changes: This release includes many, many UI improvements, much better
underlying code, and mouse support.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/angband/
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[002] - Apache LDAP vhost driver 1.1
by Turbo Fredriksson (http://freshmeat.net/users/fransurbo/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:16
Database :: API
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Apache LDAP vhost driver lets you put vhost with all possible
information in an LDAP database for both Apache 1.x and 2.x.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mod_ldap_cfg/
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[003] - aria2 0.11.1
by SlotGazer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slotgazer/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:38
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: aria2 is a utility for downloading files. It has completely new
design concept from its predecessor, Aria, and is written from scratch.
aria2 has a segmented downloading engine in its core. It can download one
file from multiple URLs or multiple connections from one URL. This results
in very high speed downloading, much faster than ordinary browsers. This
engine in was implemented in a single-thread model. The architecture is
clean and easy to extend. aria2 currently supports HTTP, FTP, and
BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink version 3.0.
Changes: This release fixes two regression bugs. It adds a selective
download feature to metalink, as well as the ability to create directory
structures listed in metalink and the ability to read URIs from stdin. The
console readout has been refined: ETA is now available for an individual
transfer.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aria2/
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[004] - Blitz templates 0.4.20
by Alexey Rybak (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexeyrybak/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:25
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Blitz templates is a fast template engine written in C and compiled
as a PHP module. It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed
into much more. It is based on extensible template controllers (custom
view classes in PHP) and weakly-active templates (simple logic in HTML).
Benchmarks show that it is one of the fastest template engines for PHP,
even though it's not trivial and makes Web application closer to the MVC2
architecture model. It was designed for big Internet projects with a lot
of complex presentation logic.
Changes: This release "officially" supports assigning of lite variables.
It's possible to use a "hash" of scalar/array values for a single
iteration, which makes the code much more clear. To have a single
iteration of a context named "block", assigning a variable $var = "value",
one can just say $data['block']['var'] = 'value' and then
$View->set($data). This would also work in previous versions, but not for
all cases; with fetch, this even caused a segfault. Now it's fixed.
Several minor bugs were also fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blitz-templates/
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[005] - cmdftp 0.9.6
by Claudio (http://freshmeat.net/users/sick_soul/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:57
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
About: cmdftp is a tiny command line FTP client for Unix systems that
features shell-like functions, passive mode, local and remote transparent
modes, broken connection resumption, multiple and recursive file
transfers, auto-login, completion, and large file support.
Changes: The main focus of this release is the move to the GPLv3.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cmdftp/
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[006] - crosstool-NG 0.1.2
by Yann E. MORIN (http://freshmeat.net/users/integrator/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:02
Software Development
About: crosstool-NG is a versatile toolchain generator. It supports
multiple target architectures, different components such as compilers and
C libraries. It aims at being highly configurable.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crosstool-ng/
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[007] - DirectFB 1.0.0 (Development)
by Denis Oliver Kropp (http://freshmeat.net/users/dok666/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:23
Artistic Software
Home Automation
Multimedia
About: DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers with hardware
graphics acceleration, input device handling and abstraction, an
integrated windowing system with support for translucent windows and
multiple display layers on top of the Linux framebuffer device. It is a
complete hardware abstraction layer with software fallbacks for every
graphics operation that is not supported by the underlying hardware.
Changes: This release has bugfixes and stabilization/resource improvements
in multi-application environments.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/directfb/
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[008] - DjVuLibre 3.5.19
by Leon Bottou (http://freshmeat.net/users/leonbottou/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:20
Internet
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: DjVu is a Web-centric format and software platform for distributing
documents and images. DjVu content downloads and displays faster than
competing formats. DjVu images can be smoothly zoomed and panned.
DjVuLibre is an open source implementation of DjVu, including viewers,
browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.
Changes: This release contains a license change. It is distributed under
either version 2 of the GPL or (at your option) any later version.
Previous versions were released strictly under the GPL version 2.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/djvulibre/
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[009] - DjVuLibre 4.1 (DjView4)
by Leon Bottou (http://freshmeat.net/users/leonbottou/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:20
Internet
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: DjVu is a Web-centric format and software platform for distributing
documents and images. DjVu content downloads and displays faster than
competing formats. DjVu images can be smoothly zoomed and panned.
DjVuLibre is an open source implementation of DjVu, including viewers,
browser plugins, decoders, simple encoders, and utilities.
Changes: This release can export DJVU files as (voluminous) TIFF and PDF
files. It also fixes various bugs that appear when djview4 is compiled
using Qt 4.2 and Qt 4.3.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/djvulibre/
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[010] - DutchPIPE 0.2.1
by Lennert Stock (http://freshmeat.net/users/lennert/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:56
Communications :: Chat
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
About: DutchPIPE allows Web developers to make virtual multi-user "avatar"
environments. Each Web page becomes an abstracted environment or location
where visitors and other items on the page are visualized. This status is
retained as visitors move around. A lot of real-time interaction is
possible, resulting in persistent interactive page environments. DutchPIPE
uses AJAX and the DOM for the browser, and it works without Java, Flash,
plugins, or firewall adjustments.
Changes: A more powerful action system: most notable is the ability to
create sub-menus in a variety of ways. The action system now has its own
page in the online documentation. The manual was removed from the main
distribution to keep the size down. A separate download may be created
later. There are various small patches.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dutchpipe/
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[011] - Gnome Subtitles 0.6
by Pedro Castro (http://freshmeat.net/users/noup/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:26
Multimedia :: Video
Text Editors
About: Gnome Subtitles is a subtitle editor for the GNOME desktop. It
supports the most common text-based subtitle formats and allows for
subtitle editing, translation, and synchronization.
Changes: This release brings the long-awaited support for subtitle
translation. The cursor position and editing mode (INS or OVR) are now
shown in the status bar. While editing text, Undo/Redo was improved, and
is now based on words. When opening a file, the remaining character
codings are tried when the first one fails. A different way of detecting
the system data directory, which works on FreeBSD, is now used. Multiple
menu underlines and accelerators have been fixed, and an updated version
of the character coding auto-detection library is now used.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome-subtitles/
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[012] - Group-Office 2.17-stable-8
by Merijn Schering (http://freshmeat.net/users/mschering/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:21
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Group-Office is a Web-based office suite written that is extensible
with modules. It features user management, module management, an email
client, a file manager, a calendar, project management, Web site
management, and customer relations management. It also features
synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
Changes: In the previous version, there was a problem with new users that
stopped them from using the calendar. This version fixes that problem.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/group-office/
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[013] - Growler distributed object architecture 0.3.2
by Bryan Green (http://freshmeat.net/users/bgreen0/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:43
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: Growler is a component-oriented framework aimed at distributed and
collaborative visualization and computational steering. It is released
under the NASA Open Source Agreement. Growler's distributed object and
event architecture is suitable for application to high-performance LAN
environments as well the Internet. Its features include strong integration
with C++, selective distributed reference counting, and efficient
well-typed event channels for local and remote event broadcast, with
support for low-latency/low-perturbation events via a loss-tolerant
"state-based" event model. There is also support for event transmission
over Infiniband, and event sizes greater that 4 gigabytes.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/growler/
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[014] - gscan2pdf 0.9.13
by Jeff (http://freshmeat.net/users/3ra28145/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 04:21
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. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF
conversion is done by PDF::API2. Perl is used for portability and ease of
programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI.
Changes: Select all or Ctrl-A works properly in thumbnails or OCR buffer,
depending on focus. Tesseract support was added. Mode is unset if the
device is changed. The "scan all pages" radio button is disabled if
flatbed is selected. The device busy error is now trapped. The PDF
metadata date format was modified to conform to ISO-8601. A double scan
bug with the scanadf frontend was fixed. A bug where custom paper size is
not set from default was fixed. The Danish, French, and Polish
translations were updated. Blocking while setting up or updating the scan
dialog was fixed. US Legal paper is supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gscan2pdf/
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[015] - GTKPBButtons 0.6.10
by M. Grimm (http://freshmeat.net/users/matthiasgrimm/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:14
About: GTKPBButtons is a visualisation client for PBButtonsd, the hardware
daemon for Apple Powerbooks, that displays messages and events sent by
PBButtonsd in nice popup windows. This includes backlight and volume
levels, battery warnings, trackpad mode, and some more. The appearance of
the popup windows is themable.
Changes: This releases fix some minor bugs. GTKPBButtons plays sound again
and doesn't block the sound device anymore when launched as daemon.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkpbbuttons/
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[016] - Ion 3rc-20070708 (Ion3)
by tuomov (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuomov/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:53
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also
has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows.
These features help to keep windows organized and to switch quickly
between them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive
window manager for users who prefer the keyboard.
Changes: This is the third "rc" release with minor fixes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ion/
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[017] - ItSucks 0.2.0-b2
by BanishedKnight (http://freshmeat.net/users/BanishedKnight/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:28
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: ItSucks is a Web spider with the ability to download (and resume)
files. It is also highly customizable with regular expressions and
download templates. All backend functionality is also available in a
separate library.
Changes: Saving and loading templates was fixed. Templates are now saved
as XML files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/itsucks/
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[018] - Java GForge SOAP Interface 0.0.7
by kama (http://freshmeat.net/users/kama/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 17:22
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Software Development
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
About: The Java GForge SOAP Interface (JaGoSI) is an approach to access
the GForge collaboration platform via Java. This can be used to put other
applications on top of JaGoSI. It may be integrated with other
applications like the former MyLar project.
Changes: The group name will now be the Unix group name, because it has to
be unique. The methods createRelease, createPackage, getReleases,
getPackages, createFile, and getFiles have been implemented. The
implementation of createFile has forced the implementation of two new
functions in the GForge SOAP API (getFileTypes and getFileProcessorTypes).
The PHP source of GForge has been patched to fit these requirements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jagosi/
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[019] - KBPack 0.1
by Y.C. Ken Chen (http://freshmeat.net/users/yckenchen/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 02:38
Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Utilities
About: KBPack is a package for installing pre-compiled utilities,
libraries, and services, and for extending some functionality on QNAP
TS-101/TS-201. KBPack contains a Web UI to manage its services and
functions.
Changes: KBPack supports the maximum number of connections limitation and
bandwidth limitation of Apache HTTPd. KBPack supports functions like
enabling and disabling TCP/IP networking, setting the port number, and
changing the root password of MySQL (which requires MySQL Pack to be
installed). KBPack provides an MTA (Message Transfer Agent, using sSMTP)
which can support the PHP mail() function.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kbpack/
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[020] - klick 0.4
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:43
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Capture/Recording
About: klick is an advanced JACK-based metronome, supporting tempo
changes, meter changes, and more. It allows you to define complex tempo
maps for entire songs or performances.
Changes: JACK transport support was much improved. Many minor additions
were made.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/klick/
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[021] - loggerfs 0.1
by achillean (http://freshmeat.net/users/achillean/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 04:25
Database
System :: Filesystems
System :: Logging
About: loggerfs is a FUSE-based virtual file system that automatically
parses log files and sends that information to a defined database.
Existing log parsers usually run periodically and scan the entire file for
changes. loggerfs takes a different approach by providing a virtual file
system. Whenever data is appended to a virtual file by the logging daemon,
the information is directly stored in the database. There is no need to
poll the file and monitor for changes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/loggerfs/
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[022] - MySQL 5.1.21 (Beta (5.1.x))
by Patrick Lenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/scoop/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:18
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
About: MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and
many different client programs/libraries.
Changes: This release includes two security fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysql/
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[023] - NagVis 1.1rc2 (Development)
by LaMi (http://freshmeat.net/users/LaMi/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:39
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: NagVis is a visualization add-on for the well known network
management system Nagios. NagVis can be used to visualize Nagios data,
e.g. to display IT processes like a mail system or a network
infrastructure.
Changes: Some bugs in the NDO backend have been fixed. The getState
methods were completely reviewed, and some code was optimized. A bug when
NagVis was trying to detect/prevent loops in maps has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nagvis/
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[024] - naim 0.11.8.3 (Release)
by n (http://freshmeat.net/users/n/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:36
Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: AOL Instant Messenger
About: naim is the original ncurses (console) AIM client, which also
supports IRC, ICQ, and Lily CMC. For AIM and ICQ, it uses the TOC
protocol, and includes many commonly-requested features found nowhere
else, while still preserving naim's classic look and feel.
Changes: Simple heuristics were added for disabling encryption.
Availability messages and profile and away message retrieval were added. A
workaround was made for empty hyperlinks sent by the official AIM client.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/naim/
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[025] - Nameko 1.9.999.8
by Wiz (http://freshmeat.net/users/wizzent/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 17:19
Communications :: Email
About: Nameko is a Web mail script. It's very simple to install and
maintain, because it's composed of only one file. Just copy it into your
Web space and it works.
Changes: This release can read the complete email message and show it
properly. Parts of multi-part emails are correctly parsed. Attachment
downloading is available. Text encoding is improved, and email with parts
with different encoding are read correctly.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nameko/
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[026] - Nameko 1.3.1 (NamekoAttachmentsRetriever)
by Wiz (http://freshmeat.net/users/wizzent/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 17:21
Communications :: Email
About: Nameko is a Web mail script. It's very simple to install and
maintain, because it's composed of only one file. Just copy it into your
Web space and it works.
Changes: The class NamekoMailParser has been upgraded to version 1.3.1.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nameko/
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[027] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.30.6778
by Angels Holocaust (http://freshmeat.net/users/AngelsHolocaust/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:25
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
About: Necromancer's Dos Navigator is a "Norton Commander" clone. It uses
a well known text-mode interface, is highly customizable, and has a lot of
features. Its key features are a text editor with syntax highlighting,
horizontal/vertical blocks, multiple codepages, undo/redo, bookmarks,
powerful searching, and regex; a file viewer with text view, asm/dump/hex
edit, raw blocks, header viewer, search, regex, and unlimited filesize; a
powerful filepanel with higlighting, VFSs, and filefind with textsearch
and regex; a calculator; and more.
Changes: This release contains bugfixes and enhancements to extension
execution, archiver setup, dialogs, the DBF viewer, the command line, file
copy/move, VFS, the file panel, and keyboard macro code.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ndn/
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[028] - Open Babel 2.1.1 (Development)
by Geoff Hutchison (http://freshmeat.net/users/ghutchis/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:27
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Open Babel is a community-driven scientific project including both
cross-platform programs and a developer library designed to support
molecular modeling, chemistry, and many related areas, including
interconversion of file formats and data.
Changes: This release includes fixes for several important crashes and
many bugfixes and improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openbabel/
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[029] - oSync 1.0.0.b1
by Henrik (http://freshmeat.net/users/minisu/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 17:24
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
System :: Archiving
About: oSync provides a simple and secure way to synchronize bookmarks
between computers. oSync can also backup your bookmarks or publish them as
HTML and clean up bloated bookmark files. The synchronization can be
completely automated and is aimed to be as transparent as possible for the
user.
Changes: The codebase has been completely rewritten, and works with any
number of clients. Bookmarks and notes are available on the Web as HTML
(osync.sf.net), and are backed up automatically. The synchronization main
codebase has been reduced by half. The code is easier to debug, and has
fewer sources of errors. The screen output on the console and in windowed
mode has been clarified. The distribution and readme have been cleaned up.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/osync/
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[030] - parapin 1.5.0-beta2
by Al (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahooton/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 11:43
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Hardware
About: parapin makes it easy to write C code under Linux that controls
individual pins on a PC parallel port. This kind of control is very useful
for electronics projects that use the PC's parallel port as a generic
digital I/O interface. Parapin goes to great lengths to insulate the
programmer from the somewhat complex parallel port programming interface
provided by the PC hardware, and comes as a user-space C library, or
linked as part of a Linux kernel module.
Changes: An update to the beta1 release, including a new Java language
binding, a rearchitected language bindings build/install make approach, a
few bugfixes, and updated documentation. This is intended to be the final
beta release prior to a final 1.5.0 production release.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/parapin/
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[031] - PBButtonsd 0.8.1
by M. Grimm (http://freshmeat.net/users/matthiasgrimm/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:21
System
System :: Hardware
About: PBButtons is a daemon to handle special hardware on laptops such as
Apple PowerBooks and MacBooks. It controls the display brightness, the
sound volume, mutes the sound, changes the trackpad mode, puts the machine
to sleep, or ejects the CDROM on command. It also provides basic power
management features. An included client gives the user visual feedback
about all actions with nice little popup windows.
Changes: This release fixes some minor bugs. PBButtonsd is again able to
read the trackpad configuration from the configuration file. Some patches
from Ubuntu were merged in.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pbbuttonsd/
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[032] - Phex 3.2.0
by Gregor K (http://freshmeat.net/users/GregorK/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:13
Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Networking
About: Phex is a P2P filesharing client which is based on the Gnutella
network. It offers advanced functions and integrates all common Gnutella
extensions like multi-source downloads and advanced search features.
Changes: The GUI received many smaller improvements and a multitude of
lesser and bigger changes happened under the hood. Download-side THEX
integration was added, so poisoned files are no longer possible. The
upload architecture was redesigned and a far leaner security system is
used for better performance and a vastly reduced memory footprint. Many
bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phex/
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[033] - phpMyFAQ 2.0.2
by Thorsten Rinne (http://freshmeat.net/users/thorstenr/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 02:39
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 added some performance improvements, an updated
Danish translation, and many bugfixes.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyfaq/
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[034] - plpastebin 2007-07-07
by Antti Nykänen (http://freshmeat.net/users/aon/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:26
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
About: Plpastebin is a pastebin script. It's lightweight and doesn't
provide additional features that are in the user's way. It also tries to
be reasonably easy to set up. Plpastebin uses an SQLite database as its
storage.
Changes: The ID creation mechanism was changed. Some small bugs were
fixed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plpastebin/
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[035] - PsyncX 2.2.2
by db (http://freshmeat.net/users/psync/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:38
System :: Archiving :: Backup
Utilities
About: PsyncX allows you to backup either part or all of your hard drive.
You can mirror your selected folder to a FireWire drive, a disk image, or
a network drive (this feature doesn't seem to be working right now). In
addition, psync will create a bootable drive if you mirror your entire
harddrive. PsyncX allows you to schedule regular backups as well. (Note:
your computer can't be asleep for this to work properly).
Changes: The donation sheet bug was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/psyncx/
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[036] - RacePoint 0.4
by Paul Richards (http://freshmeat.net/users/pauldoo/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:29
About: RacePoint is software targeted at club admins for managing a pigeon
racing season.
Changes: The license was changed to the GPL. Recording of bird sex was
added. The number of entrants for race and pools is now saved. It is now
possible to edit member and racepoint information after a race has been
entered. Reports print with a smaller font to fit on an A4 page. Race
reports now correctly show the pools entered and the prize won.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/racepoint/
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[037] - segatex 3.05
by intrajp (http://freshmeat.net/users/intrajp/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:27
Security
About: segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with the help of GUI.
Just push a button and it will generate a .te file in the same directory.
You can then edit your .te file, make a module, and install.
Changes: This is an experimental release. It works on F7 strict policy in
permissive mode, and can install mypolicybysegatex.pp.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/segatex/
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[038] - Simple Groupware 0.297
by Thomas Bley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simplegroupware/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:27
Communications
Information Management
Office/Business
About: Simple Groupware is a complete groupware package. Unlike other
groupwares, Simple Groupware contains a new programming language called
sgsML, which was created to quickly create powerful Web applications.
Changes: Server-based sorting and searching was added to the IMAP module
to improve the performance with big folders. The layout was adapted for
Safari by adding border radius styles. The chart library was replaced by a
new one called Artichow. The history view was moved to the button bar at
the upper right corner. A fix was applied to the touch function for a bug
in PHP 5. A problem with broken mail structures in the IMAP module was
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplegroupware/
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[039] - Slingshot 0.8p
by musther (http://freshmeat.net/users/musther/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 02:31
Games/Entertainment
About: Slingshot is a two dimensional, turn based simulation-strategy game
set in the gravity fields of several planets. It is a highly addictive
game, and never the same from round to round due to its randomly generated
playing fields. It is a deceptively simple game, the goal of which is to
shoot the other spacecraft through the field of planets, but their gravity
makes it tricky. In order to hit your opponent, you can rotate your ship to
aim in any direction, and you can change the power with which your
projectile is launched.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slingshot/
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[040] - Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition 6u2 (Java 6)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 04:24
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: The Sun Java Platform, Standard Edition (JSE) Development Kit (JDK)
contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs for
developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in the
Java programming language. The JSE Runtime Environment (JRE) contains the
runtime libraries and tools for running applets and applications.
License: SUN Community Source License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sunjdk/
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[041] - sysstat 7.1.6
by Sébastien Godard (http://freshmeat.net/users/godard/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:22
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: New virtual memory paging metrics have been added to sar (option
-B). Options -x and -X have been removed from sar (use the pidstat(1)
command instead.) NR_CPUS has been increased to 16384 so that sysstat can
be used on very large systems. A bug in sadc.c where it was using a
hardcoded 256 char buffer to store lines read from /proc/interrupts has
been fixed. sar has been updated to avoid overflow when computing some
average values.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysstat/
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[042] - tetex-upmethodology 20070707
by sgalland (http://freshmeat.net/users/sgalland/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:17
Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX
About: tetex-upmethodology provides a complete set of LaTeX styles that
permit you to write documents according to a UP-based methodology. Its
major features are document history, task management, design and
specification documentation, and helping tools.
Changes: This release fixes the modern style front page. It fixes the
reference/label macros (use of the varioref package instead of internal
functions). It adds bibliography style and people name formatting macros.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tetex-upmethodology/
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[043] - ToxTox 0.2.0
by ToxTox (http://freshmeat.net/users/toxtox/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:09
Artistic Software
Games/Entertainment
Home Automation
About: ToxTox is a media browser / WebTV platform. You can watch your
favorite (Internet) movies and control them with a remote, or use ToxTox
as a platform to develop TV applications and interactive services. It is
based on Mozilla XulRunner and VLC. It uses open standards like Ogg
Vorbis, OPML, RSS, SVG, HTML, etc.
Changes: this release features RSS support for podcasts with audio or
video, OPML support for open and distributed directories, the ability to
play local video and audio files, channels, the ability to customize the
ToxTox main menu to suit your viewing needs by creating folders and
storing content, a screen saver, and support for text input using a
numeric key pad.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/toxtox/
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[044] - ttylinux 6.1
by Pascal Schmidt (http://freshmeat.net/users/cobol/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:24
Internet
System :: Software Distribution
About: ttylinux is a minimalistic GNU/Linux distribution that can fit in 4
MB of disk space. It contains software needed to log into an ISP by modem
or ISDN and surf the Web. The minimum hardware requirement is a 486SX with
10 MB of RAM for a ramdisk setup or 5 MB of RAM for a hard disk setup.
Changes: This release updates bash, busybox, e2fsprogs, and iptables to
their latest versions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttylinux/
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[045] - Videotrans 1.6.0
by Sven Berkvens-Matthijsse (http://freshmeat.net/users/svenberkvens/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 02:30
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: videotrans is a set of scripts that convert a movie file in any
format that mplayer understands to a DVD-compatible VOB file, doing all
the necessary conversions automatically. An automatic DVD menu generator
is also provided.
Changes: All sorts of clean-up was done. Some long-waiting feature
requests have been implemented. In general, the program should work on
more systems now.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/videotrans/
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[046] - Webware for Python 0.9.4
by Chris Zwerschke (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrisz/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:21
Database
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: Webware for Python is a suite of Python packages and tools for
developing object-oriented, Web-based applications. The suite uses well
known design patterns and includes a fast Application Server, Servlets,
Python Server Pages (PSP), Object-Relational Mapping, Task Scheduling,
Session Management, and many other features. Webware is very modular and
easily extended. It is well proven and platform-independent. It is
compatible with multiple Web servers, database servers, and operating
systems.
Changes: This release contains some fixes and improvements of WebKit, and
it adds some more configuration options that have been requested.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webware/
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[047] - WikklyText 0.99.50
by Frank McIngvale (http://freshmeat.net/users/frankmci/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 17:18
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: WikklyText is a wikitext engine that is compatible with the
TiddlyWiki markup language. It can be used both as a Drupal plugin as well
as for creating standalone XML/HTML documents. It is written in Python for
portability and is not tied to any particular Web framework.
Changes: A new abstract storage layer that allows reading and writing
wikitexts from Tiddlywikis, a flat set of text files, and SQLite
databases. twextract has been rewritten to use the new storage layer. This
release reorganizes the package namespace and simplifies installation with
a standard setup.py. It no longer requires the lxml module.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wikklytext/
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[048] - XHTML Doclet 0.2
by Quinn Taylor (http://freshmeat.net/users/quinntaylor/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 02:34
Software Development :: Documentation
About: XHTML Doclet is a standards-compliant alternative to the Javadoc
standard HTML doclet. It revises the document structure to exclude
outdated tags and inline styles, creates valid XHTML markup, and provides
better hooks for more flexible CSS manipulation.
Changes: Main navigation is fully functional, and most pages are fairly
complete, with a few still in skeleton phase. The backbone is in place,
and document generation is successful. The primary areas needing work
right now are the class summary and class use pages, as well as the
deprecated and serialized form pages.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xhtmldoclet/
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[049] - xlike Kernel Patchset 0.16
by m0hs|n (http://freshmeat.net/users/inaam/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 08:17
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Filesystems
System :: Networking
About: [xlike] Kernel Patchset is a patch collection for the Linux vanilla
kernel. It includes as many stable enhancements for the Linux kernel as
possible. These include code from Xen, Kernel Mode Linux, Rule Set Based
Access Control, Novell AppArmor, Openswan, grsecurity, Linux VServer,
Linux-PHC, web100, Nefilters, Suspend2, Speakup, SquashFS, fbsplash,
BadRAM, and more. It also contains many drivers and fixes.
Changes: Updated for Linux 2.6.19.4. Linux VServer, Linux-PHC, Speakup,
UnionFS, and SquashFS have been added. ReiserFS4 and LinuxIMQ have been
removed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xlike/
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[050] - XySSL 0.7
by Christophe Devine (http://freshmeat.net/users/devine10/)
Sun, Jul 8th 2007 00:31
Security
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Networking
About: XySSL is a cryptographic library written in C. It currently
features several ciphers (AES, Triple-DES, and ARC4), hash functions
(MD{2,4,5}, SHA-1, and SHA-256), and RSA and X.509 reading support. It
also implements the Secure Sockets Layer version 3 protocol (SSLv3), as
well as the Transport Layer Security version 1 protocol.
Changes: This releases fixes several bugs and adds nine demonstration
programs.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xyssl/
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