Newsletter for Saturday, September 08th 2007
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (48) :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.0.5
[002] - Avis 1.1.1
[003] - BpmDj 3.6
[004] - CellWriter 1.0.2
[005] - Cryosleep 0.2
[006] - Ctpp 1.0.15
[007] - Das Schaefchen 0.1.7
[008] - DeskOpt 005
[009] - Easy Funktion 6.03
[010] - EventCal 0.43
[011] - Evolution RSS Reader Plugin 0.0.5
[012] - FBReader 0.8.6d
[013] - FreeGuide TV Guide 0.10.5
[014] - GCstar 1.2.0
[015] - gpss 2007-09-07
[016] - gtkbfc 0.1
[017] - GWintree 0.9.8-6
[018] - Heirloom Documentation Tools 070908
[019] - KAlarm 1.4.15 (KDE 3)
[020] - KAlarm 1.9.7beta (Development)
[021] - libpng 1.2.20
[022] - Library Finder 1.2.2
[023] - LON-CAPA 2.5.1
[024] - mach 0.9.2
[025] - Mahara 0.8.4
[026] - mp3fs transcoding FUSE filesystem 0.11
[027] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.30.6882
[028] - Pardux 2007.2
[029] - peak-o-mat 1.0rc10
[030] - Perl Audio Converter 4.0.0beta1
[031] - PureAdmin 0.4
[032] - qaManager 1.0 Beta 1
[033] - Qtractor 0.0.5.702
[034] - Quamachi 0.2.1
[035] - simplus 0.8.3
[036] - smtp2mix 0.8 (mixmaster-smtp)
[037] - Spotter 2.3.1
[038] - system-config-printer 0.7.74.1 (Stable)
[039] - TuxCap 1.3.01
[040] - ucommon 0.7.0
[041] - Vee 08Aug07
[042] - vlock 2.1 (Stable)
[043] - Weasel GNU/Linux 0.80.2
[044] - WebJob 1.7.0
[045] - Whid 1.00
[046] - X11 7.3
[047] - XRNS-PHP 1.04
[048] - YouGrabber 0.20.1
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.0.5
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 17:29
About: Absolute is a lightweight Slackware Linux derivative distribution
that uses an Icewm, ROX-Filer window/file manager combination. It comes
with Firefox, The GIMP, MPlayer, K3B, kTorrent, Gaim, Frostwire, Gftp,
StarDict, Skype, and many other titles all set up and ready to run.
Several utilities are included to ease configuration and management. It is
compatible with all Slackware 11 packages and can be installed just like a
Slackware disk, except that you cannot choose which packages to install or
remove, as it just installs everything.
Changes: Kernel woes have been put to rest. The final kernel image is
2570k and can install on a Pentium Classic with just 48MB of RAM. Any
lingering patent-encumbered software has been removed. Several UI tweaks
have been made and source code diffs included for customized KDE-LIBS and
abs_fdisk used by linHDD. An ISO is now available from SourceForge, as
well as a zip file containing ISO and HTML installation instructions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/
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[002] - Avis 1.1.1
by Matthew Phillips (http://freshmeat.net/users/scramjet/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 00:00
Internet
Software Development
About: Avis is a multicast event bus. It provides a fast publish/subscribe
event routing service compatible with the commercial Elvin implementation
developed by Mantara Software.
Changes: This release corrects a minor error in the subscription parser
and fixes a Java 6 compatibility issue.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avis/
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[003] - BpmDj 3.6
by Werner Van Belle (http://freshmeat.net/users/krubbens/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 12:20
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Mixers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: BpmDj is a program that can be used by a DJ. It plays MP3 and Ogg
files. It has a fully automatic BPM counter. It can determine the sound
color. It has a full fledged Qt based interface. It will help you manage a
large amount of songs. It can help in creating playlists and has proven to
be very robust. The program also allows offline automatic mixing and
contains a wavelet based beat graph analyzer to visualize audio tracks.
Changes: Mpc files are recognized now. If the tempo is unknown, the player
will jump forwards or backwards by seconds. The software should be more
64-bit compatible. The bpmmerger was extended with a "use last cue"
option.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bpmdj/
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[004] - CellWriter 1.0.2
by Risujin (http://freshmeat.net/users/Risujin/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 17:23
Adaptive Technologies
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Scientific/Engineering :: Image Recognition
About: CellWriter is a grid-entry natural handwriting input panel. As you
write characters into the cells, your writing is instantly recognized at
the character level. When you press 'Enter' on the panel, the input you
entered is sent to the currently focused application as if typed on the
keyboard. Writer-dependent, CellWriter learns your handwriting for
reliable recognition. Correcting preprocessor algorithms account for
digitizer noise, differing stroke order, direction, and number of strokes.
Unicode support enables you to write in any language.
Changes: The source and the Debian package are now compatible with Debian
Etch and Ubuntu.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cellwriter/
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[005] - Cryosleep 0.2
by Werner Van Belle (http://freshmeat.net/users/krubbens/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:15
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: Cryosleep generates changing noisewaves with a superimposed
binaural brainwave. In contrast to many brainwave generators, the sound
itself is nice to listen to and varies over time. Demonstrations and
sample settings are included.
Changes: This version was ported to Qt4.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cryosleep/
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[006] - Ctpp 1.0.15
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 11:33
About: Ctpp is the C99-compatible C preprocessor of the ctalk language,
which provides object oriented extensions for C. You can download the
preprocessor separately while ctalk is between versions for development.
Changes: This release fixes a bug that can cause ctpp to crash if it is
run as a subprocess of other programs.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctpp/
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[007] - Das Schaefchen 0.1.7
by Guido (http://freshmeat.net/users/guidoreina/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 11:35
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: Das Schaefchen is a lightweight HTTP server for Linux platforms. It
supports the minimum requirements of the HTTP/1.1 protocol and virtual
hosts, basic authentication (which can be used to protect either files or
directories), directory listing, and byte ranges. It is an event-driven
server that runs as a single process with a single thread using
non-blocking I/O. It uses epoll as the event notification mechanism to
multiplex control between active connections.
Changes: The header fields: "Date" and "Last-Modified" showed the day of
the month with just one digit (instead of two) when it was less than 10,
which is not conformant with the RFC 822. This made the
"If-Modified-Since" request header field useless. This release now
displays all days with two digits. The "304 No Modified" response didn't
include the "Last-Modified" header field.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schaefchenws/
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[008] - DeskOpt 005
by Rodrigo Vigna (http://freshmeat.net/users/skrull/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 00:11
About: The DeskOpt daemon is a script that helps to automatically tune the
I/O scheduler and the process scheduler to offer better performance for
certain applications such as games or audio applications. The script
supports the default CFS process scheduler and CFQ I/O scheduler, as well
as the anticipatory I/O scheduler and the deadline I/O scheduler.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/deskopt/
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[009] - Easy Funktion 6.03
by magr (http://freshmeat.net/users/magr/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 12:55
Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation
solver. It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket
calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions for
electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to export to
spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with automatic
formatting.
Changes: A Submodules option was added for enabling more complex
calculations. Accelerator keys were fixed. Open panels are saved and
restored when a document is reloaded.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/easyfunktion/
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[010] - EventCal 0.43
by OMouse (http://freshmeat.net/users/OMouse/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:32
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: EventCal is a calendar class that allows events to be managed and
output to HTML in daily, weekly, and monthly views.
Changes: Unicode fixes. A proper setup.py file and generated setup
packages were added.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eventcal/
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[011] - Evolution RSS Reader Plugin 0.0.5
by Luci Langa (http://freshmeat.net/users/cooly/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:17
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary
About: The Evolution RSS Reader Plugin enables support for RSS feeds in
the Evolution mail reader.
Changes: Feed version detection support was added. Support for XML
namespacing was added. Support was added for different rendering engines,
such as gtkmozembed (gecko layout engine) and Apple's Webkit. Feed
validation was improved. A function to import/export with opml was added.
A more relaxed XML parsing function was added. A remove option when
deleting a feed was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/evolution-rss/
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[012] - FBReader 0.8.6d
by Nikolay Pultsin (http://freshmeat.net/users/geometer/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 00:00
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, UMPC, and Linux/Windows XP/FreeBSD desktop 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: This release is for the maemo platform only. A crash during
application loading (on some devices) has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbreader/
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[013] - FreeGuide TV Guide 0.10.5
by Andy Balaam (http://freshmeat.net/users/axis3x3/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 03:32
Desktop Environment
Internet
About: FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings for
many countries from the Internet and allows you to view them and construct
a personalised guide to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab
listings, and requires Java 1.4 or above.
Changes: This release adds support for the new North American listings
service Schedules Direct and contains a very large number of small
bugfixes and features.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freeguide-tv/
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[014] - GCstar 1.2.0
by Tian (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tian_sait/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:31
Database
Information Management
About: GCstar is an application that can be used to manage collections of
different types. Users can enter all the items they own, along with
associated information and later perform searches using filtering
criteria. A plugin system allows some information to be downloaded
automatically from Internet sites. Collections can be exported to many
formats, including HTML, XML, CSV, or Tellico file format, or imported
from Ant Movie Catalog or Tellico, among others. It currently manages
collections of movies, video games, books, music, numismatic, wines, and
lets users define their own types of collections.
Changes: New translations were made for Swedish, Indonesian, and
Brazilian. A new default collection type was made for wines. A plugin to
export to LaTeX format was added. New plugins for fetching information
from Web sites were added. When grouping in a list, a number of items may
be added to categories. Quick searching is also available in picture mode.
A field may be selected for sorting when using export plugins. The time for
startup and to load a collection were reduced.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcstar/
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[015] - gpss 2007-09-07
by gulfie (http://freshmeat.net/users/gulfie/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 00:01
About: gpss is a gnuplot front end for gathering and analyzing data.
Currently supported sources are various /proc entries, ping, traceroute,
vmstat, nagios, snort perf data, etc. It offers both 2D and 3D interactive
or batch graphing and capture of things like bits per second, packets per
second, drop percentage, fragments per second, and more. It is useful as
both a performance evaluation tool or a NOC tool in the short term, and a
trending tool for longer terms.
Changes: The system has been modularized and extended to support data
types other than snort performance files. It now handles about 10
different /proc files, nagios_perf data, snmpgets, traceroute, vmstat, and
arbitrary key-value pairs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpss/
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[016] - gtkbfc 0.1
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:21
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Terminals
About: gtkbfc (GTK+ bash file chooser) is a hack that replaces the slow
and hard-to-use GTK+ file chooser with an rxvt-unicode window that runs a
little script that lets you use readline (and tab-completion) to enter
filenames.
Changes: A minor bug in unquoting filenames entered with the supplied
helper was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtkbfc/
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[017] - GWintree 0.9.8-6
by David J. Cooke (http://freshmeat.net/users/djcooke/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 01:45
About: GWintree is a GEDCOM-based genealogy program. It provides
facilities to view, edit, and merge data, and to produce charts, family
trees, and reports in a range of formats, including HTML. Charts can show
all relatives, ancestors only, or descendants only. HTML charts allow you
to click on a person in your HTML report to see where they are on the
chart. Automatic matching and merging of data between files is supported.
Changes: This release features improved options for HTML reports and
charts, including support for sources, and a facility for viewing and
selecting from the 140 named colors supported by browsers.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gwintree/
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[018] - Heirloom Documentation Tools 070908
by Gunnar Ritter (http://freshmeat.net/users/gritter/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:27
Documentation
Software Development :: Documentation
System
About: The Heirloom Documentation Tools provide troff, nroff, and related
utilities to format manual pages and other documents for output on
terminals and printers. They are portable and enhanced versions of the
respective OpenSolaris utilities, which descend from ditroff and the
historical Unix troff. troff provides advanced typographical features such
as kerning, tracking, and hanging characters. It can access PostScript Type
1, OpenType, and TrueType fonts directly. Internationalized hyphenation,
international paper sizes, and UTF-8 input are supported.
Changes: Bugfixes have been made to the hyphenation of words that contain
ligatures, font mounting, and floating-point to integer conversion.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/doctools/
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[019] - KAlarm 1.4.15 (KDE 3)
by David Jarvie (http://freshmeat.net/users/djar/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:23
Utilities
About: KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed,
commands to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It
allows you to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat,
whether to display an advance reminder, whether to speak the message or
play a sound when it is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it
can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As
well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the
command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
Changes: Incorrect triggering of deferred recurring alarms has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kalarm/
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[020] - KAlarm 1.9.7beta (Development)
by David Jarvie (http://freshmeat.net/users/djar/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 17:25
Utilities
About: KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed,
commands to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It
allows you to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat,
whether to display an advance reminder, whether to speak the message or
play a sound when it is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it
can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As
well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the
command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
Changes: This release adds a "working hours only" option, replaces simple
repetition with recurrence sub-repetition, adds an option to set the color
to list a resource's alarms, and fixes handling of exception dates in
recurrences.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kalarm/
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[021] - libpng 1.2.20
by Martin Schröder (http://freshmeat.net/users/martinschrder/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:14
Software Development :: Libraries
About: libpng (PNG library) is a collection of routines used to create
and manipulate PNG format graphics files. The PNG format was designed as
a replacement for GIF and, to a lesser extent, TIFF, with many
improvements and extensions.
Changes: The assembler code has been eliminated.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpng/
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[022] - Library Finder 1.2.2
by siddii (http://freshmeat.net/users/siddii/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:34
Software Development
About: Library Finder is a utility for finding Java library files
(.jar/.zip) for any class or file name pattern. It's a troubleshooting
tool for ClassNotFoundException or NoClassDefFoundError. It also helps in
setting up an IntelliJ project or workspace by identifying libraries used
by a set of Java source files. It can add library files to an IntelliJ
classpath. It supports wildcards and regular expressions for file name
patterns. It can also be used through a command line interface.
Changes: This version was compiled for backward compatibility (with Java
1.4 versions).
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libraryfinder/
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[023] - LON-CAPA 2.5.1
by Gerd Kortemeyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/korte/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:10
Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Education :: Testing
About: LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline Network with CAPA) is a learning
content and course management system. It offers an underlying shared
content pool from which instructors across departmental and institutional
boundaries can assemble granular learning content for their courses. It
has strong assessment capabilities, both formative (homework and in-class
using wireless PDAs) and summative (online and bubblesheet exams), with a
one-source multiple-target strategy for the content. It offers students
portfolio space in which they can stage materials for submission to
projects, and provides a number of tools for synchronous and asynchronous
student-student and student-faculty communication. LON-CAPA scales well
with number of students, as load-balancing is possible across the whole
network of servers at participating institutions.
Changes: This release supports the creation of author accounts with "@" in
the username. Errors in Kerberos 5 authentication are logged. Importing IMS
Packages into courses works again. The clicker interface now better
supports the error situation in which two users in one class registered
the same clicker. During course creation, restrictions on course cloning
are better supported. Several improvements in the user creation and
authorization interface were implemented to query the LON-CAPA or
institutional user directories. The German localization was improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/loncapa/
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[024] - mach 0.9.2
by Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasvs/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:22
System
System :: Software Distribution Tools
System :: Systems Administration
About: mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any
distribution or distribution variation supported. Currently, this is
limited to RPM-based distributions. This clean build root can be used for
making clean packages, running jailed services, testing builds, or making
disk images of clean roots.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mach/
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[025] - Mahara 0.8.4
by Mahara (http://freshmeat.net/users/maharateam/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 01:45
Education
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume
builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating
online communities.
Changes: This release contains bugfixes for blogs and views.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mahara/
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[026] - mp3fs transcoding FUSE filesystem 0.11
by David Collett (http://freshmeat.net/users/daveco/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 03:33
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
System :: Filesystems
About: MP3FS is a read-only FUSE filesystem that transcodes FLAC audio
files to MP3 on the fly when opened and read. It is useful to enable the
use of your FLAC collection with software and/or hardware that only
understands MP3s. It is also a novel alternative to traditional MP3
encoder applications. Just use your favorite file browser to select the
files you want encoded, and copy them somewhere.
Changes: Filename handling and recognition fixes, a fix for translating
names, and a fix for a crash on bad (e.g. empty) FLAC files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3fs/
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[027] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.30.6882
by Angels Holocaust (http://freshmeat.net/users/AngelsHolocaust/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 12:18
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: There were several bugfixes to the directory compare operation,
directory notification, directory change via cd, and calculator. The Linux
version now shows and reads the volume label of FAT and NTFS drives. The
editor "go to file" operation can be executed by mouse. Last but not
least, the DBF viewer got more enhancements.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ndn/
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[028] - Pardux 2007.2
by mehmetburhan (http://freshmeat.net/users/mehmetburhan/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 12:34
About: Pardux is a Pardus Linux based lightweight Linux distribution. It
uses small window managers like Fluxbox, and it has great desktop
applications such as PcmanFM, Leafpad, and fbpanel. It can be run via a
live CD. It is also installable from a live CD like Ubuntu.
Changes: An installion bug has been fixed. The Fluxbox window manager has
been configured to be good looking. A configuration application was added
for configurating an Internet connection. Unicode problems were fixed. A
login manager for graphical login was added. Many more bugfixes and new
abilities were added.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pardux/
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[029] - peak-o-mat 1.0rc10
by Christian (http://freshmeat.net/users/ckkart/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 01:46
Scientific/Engineering
About: peak-o-mat is a curve fitting program. It was designed to fit
spectroscopic data but should be suited for any other fitting task. It
allows for clearing, transforming, fitting, calibrating, etc. of spectra
with few mouse clicks and can easily be extended by writing modules.
Changes: Usability and speed were improved significantly, several modules
were added, and many bugs were fixed. In addition to the source code and
Python distutils packages, a standalone binary package for Windows is now
available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peakomat/
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[030] - Perl Audio Converter 4.0.0beta1
by Philip Lyons (http://freshmeat.net/users/viiron/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:25
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
About: Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types
from one format to another. It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR,
BONK, CDR, FLA, FLAC, LA, LPAC, M4A, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, OFR, OFS,
OGG, PAC, RA, RAM, RAW, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, WAV, and WMA. It can
also convert audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX,
MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK,
VOB, FLV, and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch
conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag
reading/writing, and extensions for Konqueror and Amarok are also
provided.
Changes: The user interface was improved. Support for speex was added.
Support for user modules was added. The ability to alter or add meta-data
during conversion was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pacpl/
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[031] - PureAdmin 0.4
by Isak (http://freshmeat.net/users/stengeten/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:49
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Utilities
About: PureAdmin is a graphical tool used to make the management of
PureFTPd a little easier. It is not dependent on a specific desktop
environment such as GNOME or KDE, but is designed with the GNOME Human
Interface Guidelines in mind.
Changes: Pureadmin now shows a list of system changes needed before using
the user manager for the first time. A progress bar showing
download/upload progress has also been added. Lots of 64-bit issues have
been fixed, making pureadmin runnable on 64-bit distributions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pureadmin/
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[032] - qaManager 1.0 Beta 1
by Janesh Kodikara (http://freshmeat.net/users/qamanager/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 00:12
Information Management
Information Management :: Records Management
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: qaManager is a software quality assurance project management tool.
It can be used for keeping track of comprehensive details of engineering
and QA releases, resource allocation, and project and resource diaries.
Reports can be generated in PDF and Excel format. Installation is very
simple and all major databases are supported.
Changes: This release features email and telephone number validation in
models, an improved portlet distribution, new Stereotypes for EMAIL and
TELEPHONE, and minor bugfixes. The resource bundle was updated to extract
labels and messages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qamanager/
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[033] - Qtractor 0.0.5.702
by Rui Nuno Capela (http://freshmeat.net/users/rncbc/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:27
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application. The
initial target platform is Linux, using the infrastructure of the Jack
Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI. It is meant to be a fairly-featured Linux
desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home
studio.
Changes: Audio and MIDI export is now fully implemented and accessible
from the Track menu. MIDI editor tools to quantize, transpose, normalize,
randomize, and resize selected events have been introduced. Several nasty
bugs and audible glitches affecting audio looping and MIDI file capture
and recording were fixed. MIDI editor instances were made more consistent
and stable, and visual update feedback was improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qtractor/
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[034] - Quamachi 0.2.1
by Chris Giles (http://freshmeat.net/users/C_B_G/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:21
Communications :: File Sharing
About: Quamachi is a Hamachi GUI that resides in the system tray. Hamachi
is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN) application.
Changes: An update option was added to check for a newer release.
Notification is given when a newer release is available. /dev/net/tun is
now created by TunCfg if it is absent. Subtle improvements were made to
the help menu. The dialog item spacing in the GUI was compressed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quamachi/
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[035] - simplus 0.8.3
by hph (http://freshmeat.net/users/hph/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:23
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries
About: simplus is a C++ library for constructing event-driven simulations
with an abstraction for processes, messages, virtual time, and more. It
features a built-in debugger, support for configuration files, and a
flexible logging mechanism. It is lean, fast, and portable. It can be used
for telecommunication, engineering, for traffic simulations, simulation
based games, or as a framework for your own simulator.
Changes: Feature enhancements and performance improvements were made.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplus/
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[036] - smtp2mix 0.8 (mixmaster-smtp)
by Karsten N. (http://freshmeat.net/users/awxcnx/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 17:40
Communications :: Email
About: smtp2mix are two small mail proxies that relay incoming email to an
anonymous remailer network. It allows the use of your preferred email
client to send email anonymously via the mixmaster or mixminion network.
Changes: mixmaster-smtp now uses a special remailer chain for multipart
messages. The init script for Debian GNU/Linux has changed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smtp2mix/
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[037] - Spotter 2.3.1
by Ben Crowell (http://freshmeat.net/users/bcrowell/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:20
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
About: Spotter is software that can check students' answers to symbolic
and numerical problems in math and science. It recognizes an answer
regardless of the form it's in, and the instructor can put in helpful
hints as responses to frequently-occurring mistakes. Symbolic answers can
be input in a notation closely resembling normal human math notation
(e.g., xy rather than x*y, and sin x instead of sin(x)). Spotter runs as a
Perl CGI application on a Web server; the student doesn't need to install
any software.
Changes: This version has a performance optimization, and also does a
better job of alerting the user if login fails because the user's browser
isn't accepting cookies.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spotter/
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[038] - system-config-printer 0.7.74.1 (Stable)
by Tim Waugh (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmw/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 13:12
Printing
About: system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS
API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the
server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to
configure a remote CUPS server as a local one.
Changes: Some minor user interface problems have been fixed, and the
Polish translation has been updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/system-config-printer/
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[039] - TuxCap 1.3.01
by W.P. van Paassen (http://freshmeat.net/users/peterpaassen/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:23
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: TuxCap is a GNU/Linux port of PopCap's games framework, which is a
very commonly used framework for professional casual game development on
Windows.
Changes: This includes six original framework demos and seven additional
physics demos.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxcap/
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[040] - ucommon 0.7.0
by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 17:24
Software Development :: Libraries
About: UCommon is a lightweight C++ library to facilitate using C++ design
patterns even for very deeply embedded applications, such as for systems
using uClibc along with POSIX threading support. For this reason, UCommon
disables language features that consume memory or introduce runtime
overhead. UCommon introduces some design patterns from Objective-C, such
as reference counted objects, memory pools, and smart pointers. UCommon
introduces some new concepts for handling of thread locking and
synchronization.
Changes: This release adds documentation for core library concepts, use of
doxygen for library documentation, and new thread synchronization objects,
including rexlock and condlock types. Some classes have been
re-rationalized for clarity and simplicity, including the cidr class and
socket/address classes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ucommon/
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[041] - Vee 08Aug07
by BDE (http://freshmeat.net/users/estrabd/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:20
System :: Logging
Terminals
Text Processing
About: Vee is a command-line blog tool that is very portable across Unix
systems. It provides an interactive as well as a batch interface to
maintain a log of entries. Formatting is done using a module architecture
that allows a high degree of customization. There are minimal flags and no
set up is required.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vee-the-blog-tool/
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[042] - vlock 2.1 (Stable)
by Frank Benkstein (http://freshmeat.net/users/toidinamai/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:25
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Security
Terminals
About: vlock is a program to lock one or more sessions on the Linux
console. This is especially useful for Linux machines which have multiple
users with access to the console. One user may lock his or her session(s)
while still allowing other users to use the system on other virtual
consoles. If desired, the entire console may be locked and virtual console
switching disabled.
Changes: FreeBSD and Debian/kFreeBSD are now supported platforms. Timeout
support was added to the password prompt. "vlock --new" now works even if
stdin is not a terminal, e.g. from an X run command dialog.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlock/
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[043] - Weasel GNU/Linux 0.80.2
by Filip Brcic (http://freshmeat.net/users/brcha/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 00:11
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: Weasel GNU/Linux is a mostly KDE-based distribution that includes
some of the latest desktop features such as Beagle, a kickoff menu, and
composite desktop while maintaining a high level of security and
reliability.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/weasel/
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[044] - WebJob 1.7.0
by Klayton Monroe (http://freshmeat.net/users/mavrik/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:28
Security
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: WebJob downloads a program over HTTP/HTTPS and executes it in one
unified operation. The output, if any, may be directed to stdout/stderr or
a WebJob server. WebJob may be useful in incident response and intrusion
analysis as it provides a mechanism to run known good diagnostic programs
on a potentially compromised system. WebJob also provides a framework that
is conducive to centralized management. Therefore, it can support and help
automate a large number of common administrative tasks and host-based
monitoring scenarios.
Changes: Generally, code was cleaned up and refined as necessary. Several
bugs have been fixed. Externally, there have been several changes: basic
proxy support has been added; the client now includes a mode for
downloading a specified URL; the CGI script now includes support for GET
hooks, which can be used to create dynamic job content; and several useful
utilities have been added to the tools directory.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webjob/
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[045] - Whid 1.00
by jgaa (http://freshmeat.net/users/jgaa/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 03:40
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Whid (What Have I Done) is a simple application that keeps track of
time. You can use it to see what you actually did today, or you can use it
to keep track of time spent on projects. It can also print invoices.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/whid/
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[046] - X11 7.3
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 03:32
System
About: X11, or X, is a vendor-neutral, system-architecture neutral
network-transparent window system and user interface standard. In other
words, it's a GUI for UNIX. X can use your network -- you may run
CPU-intensive programs on high powered workstations and display the user
interface (the windows) on inexpensive desktop machines.
Changes: The server was updated to 1.4, which features RandR 1.2 with
output hot-plugging, on-the-fly output reconfiguration, and mode
switching. Support was also added for input hot-plugging through HAL or
dbus, with enhanced support for touch screens and tablets. An xbacklight
utility was added for controlling laptop background illumination. The EXA
framework was improved. Drivers were added for Vermilion and Glide,
supporting 1st and 2nd generation Voodoo cards. Support was added for font
catalog directories in the font path. DTrace support was added for
OpenSolaris.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11/
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[047] - XRNS-PHP 1.04
by conner_bw (http://freshmeat.net/users/conner_bw/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 14:18
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
About: XRNS-PHP is a collection of PHP5 command-line scripts for working
with Renoise, a program for composing music using samples and sequencing.
XRNS-PHP provides tools to convert, merge, compress, and otherwise
manipulate the data files that are produced by and used with Renoise.
Changes: The xrns_searchandreplace script was added. Schema validation is
automatically handled. xrns2midi bugs related to tick-based timing,
volume, and panning column effects were fixed. An xrns_merge bug was fixed
for changes between Renoise 1.8 and Renoise 1.9. xrns_ogg now skips files
smaller than 4096 bytes. An xrns_ogg bug for filenames with dots being
skipped was fixed. The Windows GUI for XRNS-SF no longer includes scripts;
instead, the user is redirected to the SourceForge download page. A "text"
keyword was added to accept any text input from the user. The PHP CLI
updated to version to 5.2.4.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xrns-php/
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[048] - YouGrabber 0.20.1
by Quetzy Garcia (http://freshmeat.net/users/quetzyg/)
Sat, Sep 8th 2007 03:35
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video
About: YouGrabber is an ncurses-based, lightweight, multi-threaded
(NPTL-based) commandline YouTube.com video downloader with proxy (HTTP,
SOCKS 4 and 5) support, made from scratch in ANSI C using the libcURL API.
Although only tested on GNU/Linux, it should compile/run on other POSIX
platforms.
Changes: This release was updated for changes made by YouTube.
yg.conf.sample was updated. The configuration file delimiters were changed
from {} to [].
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yougrabber/
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