Newsletter for Saturday, January 26th 2008

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::: L I N K S F O R T H E D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/01/26/
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::: A R T I C L E S (1) :::

Comparison of Free Software Shooters
by Leo Keselman (mailto:[email protected])
Section: Category Reviews
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 00:00

Last Fall, Joe Barr posted a feature on Linux.com titled "New Alien Arena
6.10 blows away its FPS competition", yet gave no real comparisons with
other similar games. This was done in the same style as Barr's previous
feature, "Tremulous: The best free software game ever?", which described
Tremulous, but also lacked comparisons and relations to other games. This
feature hopes to be a thorough comparison of the major Free Software
shooters.

URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/3036/

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (40) :::

[001] - AceUnit 0.6.1
[002] - Aloofix 0.4
[003] - Anyterm 1.1.18 (Development)
[004] - Arachnida 1.2.00
[005] - astahttpd web server 0.1-beta1
[006] - autotools-idl 1.1
[007] - Backup-DVD 1.0.0-19
[008] - BitNami Alfresco Stack 2.1.0-3
[009] - BitNami Redmine Stack 0.6.3-2
[010] - bonnie++ 1.03c (Stable)
[011] - Botan 1.7.3 (Development)
[012] - Daylight Chart 2.5
[013] - dirac 0.9.1
[014] - domingo 1.5
[015] - Flickcurl 1.1
[016] - Free-SA 1.4.3
[017] - fwknop 1.9.1
[018] - Gnome Chemistry Utils 0.8.6
[019] - GNU Wget 1.11
[020] - GOBLIN Graph Library 2.8b20
[021] - InspIRCd 1.1.16
[022] - Jal v2 2.4
[023] - Katoob 0.5.9.1
[024] - memlockd 0.04
[025] - OpenVRML 0.17.4
[026] - orDrumbox 0.7.06
[027] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 90
[028] - pdf2djvu 0.4.3
[029] - phpMyPhotoGallery 2.1
[030] - Pinot 0.82
[031] - Potscript 1.0
[032] - pws 0.2.0rc3
[033] - Rainpress 1.0
[034] - RESTORE 4.0.5-1 (RESTORE-EE)
[035] - STX B+ Tree 0.8.1
[036] - TextCite: Publication Quotation Manager 1.0.3
[037] - The Launcher 2.3.1
[038] - uxdstools 0.3
[039] - VForm 0.7
[040] - yeaGTD 18

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[001] - AceUnit 0.6.1
by Christian Hujer (http://freshmeat.net/users/christianhujer/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:22

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing

About: AceUnit (Advanced C and Embedded Unit) is a comfortable C code unit
test framework. AceUnit is in the style of JUnit 4.x, and is easy, modular,
and flexible. AceUnit can be used in resource constraint environments such
as embedded software development.

Changes: This release fixes a bug that caused the Java Generator to run
out of heap space.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aceunit/

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[002] - Aloofix 0.4
by Aloof Schipperke (http://freshmeat.net/users/aloofschipperke/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:20

System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: Aloofix is conceptually similar to the Ubuntu JeOS (Just enough
OS), but much more aggressive when it comes to the term "just enough". The
build environment consists of a collection of Makefiles, scripts, and
configuration files capable of creating a bootable ISO image. This ISO
image contains a small set of scripts and utility programs for installing
Aloofix on a primary hard drive in a VM environment. The build environment
provides the raw materials for creating and provisioning a set of guest
instances for VirtualBox, VMWare, and Qemu.

Changes: This initial release is capable of creating a working
distribution.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aloofix/

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[003] - Anyterm 1.1.18 (Development)
by Phil Endecott (http://freshmeat.net/users/endecotp/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:21

Communications :: WAP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: Anyterm provides a terminal emulator on a Web page using Javascript
and an Apache module. The module forks a shell and communicates with the
script using XMLHTTP on port 80, or securely using SSL. This provides you
with shell access to your machine from almost any Web browser, even when
firewalls are in the way. Experimental features include support for
standalone operation without Apache, and the my.anyterm.org service
provides access without the need to install anything on your servers.

Changes: This release fixes a potential segfault in the stand-alone
daemon, and improves handling of the alt-gr key on some non-English
keyboards. It also makes it possible to send ctrl-^, which is filtered by
browsers, by typing ctrl-. .

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anyterm/

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[004] - Arachnida 1.2.00
by Ronald Landheer-Cieslak (http://freshmeat.net/users/blytkerchan/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:23

Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development

About: Arachnida is an embeddable Web server. It uses the OpenSSL library
and consists of a small framework for networking that allows you to
asynchronously accept and handle connections using a "new connection
handler" to handle new connections and a "data handler" to handle incoming
data. This makes it possible to add support for any TCP/IP based protocol
by just adding a handler. A test suite is included.

Changes: This release adds Damos, an HTTP(s) client library. Sending an
HTTP request and receiving a response is easy with this library.
Documentation has not yet been added for this feature, which was released
early at a client's request.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arachnida/

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[005] - astahttpd web server 0.1-beta1
by c0kr3x (http://freshmeat.net/users/c0kr3x/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:27

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: astahttpd is a Web server for Linux written in pure PHP, mainly
targeted for PHP developers. It supports GET, POST, and HEAD request
methods, alias directories, CGI script processing, and both IP and name
based virtual hosts.

Changes: Content Encoding support (gzip format) was added. Support was
added for virtual host (both IP and name based virtual host). A bug in
which \r\n\r\n characters on terminal based requests could not be handled
was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/astahttpd/

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[006] - autotools-idl 1.1
by Vladimir Panov (http://freshmeat.net/users/gbrdead/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 23:07

Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Object Brokering :: CORBA

About: autotools-idl is a patch for automake and some autoconf scripts
that adds support for IDL and C++ ORBs. It tries to provide full support
for compiling IDL files to C++ stubs and skeletons. The autoconf scripts
provide unified detection of different C++ ORBs.

Changes: A few minor bugs were fixed. All the scripts were refactored so
that they no longer use shell functions. (This might improve portability a
bit.) This version was merged with automake 1.10.1.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autotools-idl/

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[007] - Backup-DVD 1.0.0-19
by GabrieleV (http://freshmeat.net/users/gabrielev/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:05

System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: Backup-DVD is a simple script to backup the entire system on a
rewritable DVD. It is designed to be manily used as a cron job. It logs
operations in /var/log/backup.log and sends feedback by email, and it is
fully configurable by editing /etc/backup-dvd/backup-dvd.conf. This script
cannot be run as sudo; it must be run directly as root.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/backup-dvd/

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[008] - BitNami Alfresco Stack 2.1.0-3
by beltran (http://freshmeat.net/users/beltran/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 13:42

About: BitNami Alfresco Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the
KnowledgeTree ECM software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run
versions of Apache Tomcat, Java, MySQL, ImageMagick, and OpenOffice
(optional), so users can get an Alfresco installation up and running in
minutes after answering a few questions. Linux and Windows are currently
supported.

Changes: Support for Mac OS X was added.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitnamialfresco/

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[009] - BitNami Redmine Stack 0.6.3-2
by beltran (http://freshmeat.net/users/beltran/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 13:39

About: BitNami Redmine Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of
Redmine, a flexible project management Web application. It includes
pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of Apache, MySQL, Ruby On Rails, and
Subversion, so users can get a Redmine installation up and running in
minutes after answering a few questions. Currently, Linux, Windows, and
Mac OS X are supported.

Changes: Support was added for Windows and for Mac OS X on Intel and
PowerPC. Default data is loaded. The ImageMagick and RMagick gems are
included.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitnamiredmine/

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[010] - bonnie++ 1.03c (Stable)
by etbe (http://freshmeat.net/users/russellcoker/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 23:06

System :: Benchmark
System :: Filesystems

About: Bonnie++ is based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray.
The most notable features that have been added are support for >2G of
storage and testing operations involving thousands of files in a
directory. This program is used by ReiserFS developers, but can be useful
for anyone who wants to know how fast their hard drive or file system is.
It now includes ZCAV in the package. This program tests the performance of
different zones on the hard drive. ZCAV has been released separately before
but will now only be released as part of the Bonnie++ suite.

Changes: Some failures to check the return code of chdir() were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bonnie/

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[011] - Botan 1.7.3 (Development)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 23:04

Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms. It includes a
wide selection of cryptographic algorithms (including AES, DES, SHA-1,
RSA, and DSA, among many others). It also support X.509 certificates and
several common certificate-related formats and protocols. It has a high
level interface, is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and
includes a substantial tutorial and API reference.

Changes: New arguments to configure.pl, --cc, --os, and --cpu, allow the
user to individually override parts of the build target (rather than
requiring a tuple of all three arguments, even if only one autodetected
portion was incorrect). IPv4 addresses are supported in the
SubjectAlternativeName extension of X.509 certificates. Unbuffered I/O is
used to read from entropy devices like /dev/random. The default
malloc-based allocator no longer goes through the Pool_Allocator
abstraction.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/botan/

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[012] - Daylight Chart 2.5
by Sualeh Fatehi (http://freshmeat.net/users/sualeh/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:17

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical

About: Daylight Chart shows sunrise and sunset times in an attractive
chart for any location in the world. The effect of daylight savings time
is also displayed. Charts can be exported to image files.

Changes: You can now customize the format of the PDF and HTML reports. All
configuration is written to the .daylightchart directory in the user's home
directory.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/daylightchart/

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[013] - dirac 0.9.1
by Anuradha Suraparaju (http://freshmeat.net/users/asuraparaju/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:15

Multimedia :: Video

About: Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from
QCIF (176x144) to HDTV (1920x1080), progressive or interlaced. It uses
wavelets, motion compensation, and arithmetic coding, and aims to be
competitive with other state-of-the-art codecs. The Open Source
implementation provides a C++ library with an encoder and decoder.

Changes: This is a minor release that complies with Dirac Bytestream
Specification 2.1.0. Bugs in the motion compensation block weighting
matrix and in the constant bit rate module when encoding I-frame only
sequences were fixed. Bugs in the Dirac patches for MPlayer and FFmpeg and
the Dirac DirectShow Filter were fixed.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirac/

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[014] - domingo 1.5
by kriede (http://freshmeat.net/users/kriede/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:20

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: Domingo is a simple, consistent, object-oriented, easy-to-use
interface to the Lotus Notes/Domino Java API. It helps with the "recycle"
problem and simplifies exception handling.

Changes: All known bugs were fixed. Especially, all time zone problems
were fixed. Many new features were added.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/domingo/

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[015] - Flickcurl 1.1
by Dave Beckett (http://freshmeat.net/users/dajobe/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 23:07

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Flickcurl is a C library for calling the Flickr Web service API. It
handles the API signing, token management, and parameter encoding and
decoding, resulting in C functions for the Web services APIs. It uses
libcurl to call the REST Web service, and libxml2 to manipulate the XML
responses. The library supports reading photo, tag, and comments
information, the photo upload and searching APIs, and writing tags and
comments. It provides utilities such as "flickcurl" to exercise the API
and "flickrdf" to get RDF metadata descriptions out of photos, tags, and
machine tags.

Changes: The Flickr Places API was updated to the 2008-01-23 version by
adding new methods. Complete HTML API reference documentation was added. A
few other bugs and enhancements were made.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flickcurl/

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[016] - Free-SA 1.4.3
by Sapon Oleg (http://freshmeat.net/users/xsaper/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 22:52

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: Free-SA is tool for statistical analysis of daemons' log files,
similar to SARG. Its main advantages over SARG are much better speed
(7x-20x), more support for reports, and W3C compliance of generated
HTML/CSS reports. It can be used to help control traffic usage, to control
Internet access security policies, to investigate security incidents, to
evaluate server efficiency, and to detect troubles with configuration.

Changes: The horisontal axis of a user graphs report (UGR) will be
automatically scaled to best fit the actual period (hours of day, days of
month, and months of year). Support for filtering by method, code, stat
codes, and bytes fields to global and local filters was added. Some other
tiny changes related to speed and correctness were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/free-sa/

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[017] - fwknop 1.9.1
by Michael Rash (http://freshmeat.net/users/michaelrash/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 22:56

Security
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: fwknop implements an authorization scheme that requires only a
single encrypted packet to communicate various pieces of information,
including desired access through a Netfilter policy and/or specific
commands to execute on the target system. The main application of this
program is to protect services such as SSH with an additional layer of
security in order to make the exploitation of vulnerabilities much more
difficult. The authorization server works by passively monitoring
authorization packets via libpcap.

Changes: The ENABLE_OUTPUT_ACCESS keyword was added to access.conf file
parsing. This provides a configuration gate for the iptables OUTPUT chain
that is similar to the ENABLE_FORWARD_ACCESS keyword, and adds the abiliy
to control which access.conf SOURCE blocks interface to the OUTPUT chain.
Installation support was improved for various Linux distributions,
including Fedora 8 and Ubuntu 7.10. The test suite was updated to include
OUTPUT chain tests, to reference access.conf files in the test/conf/
directory, and to perform SPA packet format validation tests by parsing
fwknopd output.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwknop/

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[018] - Gnome Chemistry Utils 0.8.6
by Jean Bréfort (http://freshmeat.net/users/jbrefort/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 01:12

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: The Gnome Chemistry Utils includes the following utilities: a
chemical calculator (computes raw formule, molar weight, mass composition,
and isotopic pattern), a 3D molecule viewer using OpenGL to display
molecular models, a crystal structure viewer and editor, and a periodic
table of the elements.

Changes: More fixes were made for printing and image export of 3D scenes
in both Gnome Crystal and the 3D molecules viewer. The build system was
enhanced and patches were applied from various sources to make the life of
packagers easier. The off-screen rendering feature should not crash
anymore, but might not produce a correct image for some architectures.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gchemutils/

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[019] - GNU Wget 1.11
by Micah J. Cowan (http://freshmeat.net/users/cylence/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:35

Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking

About: GNU Wget is a utility for noninteractive download of files from
the Web. It supports HTTP and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through
HTTP proxies. It can follow HTML links, download many pages, and convert
the links for local viewing. It can also mirror FTP hierarchies or only
those files that have changed. Wget has been designed for robustness
over slow network connections; if a download fails due to a network
problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved.

Changes: The license was changed to GPLv3+. Improvements were made to the
HTTP password authentication code, bringing it a little closer to RFC
compliance. Basic support was added for respecting filenames specified via
"Content-Disposition" headers. An --ignore-case option was added to make
wildcard- and suffix-matching case-insensitive. The --spider feature is
working again (as it was broken in previous release). Many bugs were
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wget/

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[020] - GOBLIN Graph Library 2.8b20
by cfp (http://freshmeat.net/users/cfp/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:17

Education
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: The GOBLIN project consists of a C++ class library for a large
series of graph optimization problems, GOSH, an extension of the Tcl/Tk
scripting language to graph objects, and GOBLET, a graphical user
interface to the library functions. GOBLET includes a graph editor and
supports the standard graph layout methods.

Changes: The GUI now supports partial upload of the transcript file. This
considerably reduces the response time after computations. It is now
possible to step back in the transcript while computations are running.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/goblin/

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[021] - InspIRCd 1.1.16
by Brain (http://freshmeat.net/users/braindigitalis/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:11

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: InspIRCd is a fully modular IRC daemon with modular SSL (gnutls or
OpenSSL), ziplinks (through zlib) support, advanced spam filters, flood
controls, settable operator levels, and SQL login using PostgreSQL, MySQL,
or SQLite.

Changes: Servers no longer occasionally go "missing" during problems while
trying to link. This will be of most importance to unstable networks or
ones with lots of splits with autoconnect, and should enhance performance
and stability greatly. Rehash will also now bind new server ports.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/inspircd/

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[022] - Jal v2 2.4
by SirLoon (Sébastien Lelong) (http://freshmeat.net/users/SirLoon/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 03:09

Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Libraries

About: JALv2 is a rewrite of Wouter van Ooijen's Just Another Language. It
adds more variable types, built-in multiply and divide, CASE statements for
flow control, and co-operative multi-tasking. An index is allowed in FOR
loops, and variables are automatically placed on any page.

Changes: Initial 16-bit support was added along with a '-loader18' option
to support bootloaders on the 16-bit cores. c18c* chipdef files were
fixed, and some 18f* ones were added. Several other bugs were fixed.

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jalv2/

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[023] - Katoob 0.5.9.1
by Mohammed Sameer (http://freshmeat.net/users/Uniball/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:09

Text Editors

About: Katoob is a light-weight, multi lingual, BIDI-aware text editor. It
supports opening and saving files in multiple encodings. The main support
was for the Arabic language but other languages are also supported.

Changes: A problem that caused katoob to ignore key presses was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/katoob/

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[024] - memlockd 0.04
by etbe (http://freshmeat.net/users/russellcoker/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 23:05

About: memlockd locks a list of files into RAM so that if the system
starts paging excessively (as the result of a DOS attack or buggy
program), the sysadmin will still be able to login to recover it. It will
lock regular files as well as programs in memory, and for programs, it can
optionally lock all shared objects that they are linked against.

Changes: Portability and the Debian daemon start process were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/memlockd/

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[025] - OpenVRML 0.17.4
by Braden McDaniel (http://freshmeat.net/users/braden/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 01:13

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: OpenVRML is a VRML and X3D browser plug-in and C++ toolkit for
incorporating VRML support into applications. OpenVRML provides VRML97 and
Classic VRML X3D parsers, a runtime, and an OpenGL renderer as C++
libraries. The renderer is fully separate from the runtime library so that
users can also provide their own renderer.

Changes: A crash in the Mozilla plug-in was fixed. EXTERNPROTO behavior
was fixed such that EXTERNPROTO instances now get initialized with the
PROTO's default field values (if no other values have been provided).

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openvrml/

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[026] - orDrumbox 0.7.06
by OisoftRekords (http://freshmeat.net/users/OisoftRekords/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 01:14

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis

About: orDrumbox is a fully-featured drum machine and audio sequencer that
is pattern oriented, has an automatic composer, automatic sound
assignations, custom drum kits, loop support, and the ability to import
and export songs.

Changes: Some bugs were fixed and a recent file menu was added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ordrumbox/

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[027] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 90
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:22

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Logging

About: Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal
combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform
and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying
for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of
arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports
filtering of log messages based on severity level.

Changes: Several back-ends were refactored to almost completely eliminate
the use of sprintf() and snprintf() in the library, except where necessary
to support variadic API functions.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pantheios/

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[028] - pdf2djvu 0.4.3
by Jakub Wilk (http://freshmeat.net/users/ubanus/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:16

Multimedia :: Graphics

About: pdf2djvu creates DjVu files from PDF files. It's able to extract:
graphics, text layer, hyperlinks, document outline (bookmarks), and
metadata.

Changes: The ability to specify some hyperlinks display options was added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdf2djvu/

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[029] - phpMyPhotoGallery 2.1
by r@tchet (http://freshmeat.net/users/ranch137/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:13

About: phpMyPhotoGallery is a Web-based photo album with a "Windows
Explorer" look-n-feel. It is designed to make it easy for people with
organized directories of photos to upload them in one go. Thumbnails are
generated on the fly.

Changes: This version adds back most of the API functions available in
version 1.0. The API allows you to upload photos from your own
application. In addition, the phpMyPhotoGallery has been structured to
allow upgrades with fewer problems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyphotogallery/

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[030] - Pinot 0.82
by Fabrice Colin (http://freshmeat.net/users/colinf/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 02:50

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search

About: Pinot is a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents, and
monitors them for changes. It is also a GTK-based user interface that
enables you to query the index built by the service or your favorite Web
engine, and display and analyze the results. It makes full use of advanced
indexing and search facilities offered by Xapian, features language
detection, dynamic document summaries, easy labelling of documents, and
internal support for common file types. The D-Bus interface allows easy
integration with other applications.

Changes: The Xapian-related code was moved into a separate back-end.
Several issues were fixed with query stemming, which is now independent of
the language filter. Viewed documents are added to the desktop
environment's list of recently used files. When the index needs updating,
the user is now told on every run until they click the "Don't warn me
again" check box. The Status window shows which engines are available. The
Sherlock plugin parser was fixed. Support for Xesam languages was updated
to RC1. The D-Bus interface was expanded. The Dutch, Spanish, and Swedish
translations were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pinot/

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[031] - Potscript 1.0
by Iain Cambridge (http://freshmeat.net/users/wackiebackie/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:07

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: Potscript is an Xchat script that reads RSS feeds and searches
milw0rm. It also has random quit, part, and kick messages and a random
slapper.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/potscript/

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[032] - pws 0.2.0rc3
by Timo Benk (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbenk/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 01:13

About: pws aims to be a fully compatible passwordsafe implementation. The
heart of the project is libpws, a general library for reading and writing
passwordsafe compatible files. Currently, passwordsafe files format v2 and
passwordsafe files format v3.2 are supported. The other part of the project
is pws, a Qt-based GUI built around libpws which aims to be an easy-to-use
but powerful passwordsafe implementation.

Changes: A serious bug that lead to a segfault when the password history
is switched on was fixed along with some minor bugs and usability issues.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p-w-s/

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[033] - Rainpress 1.0
by xhochy (http://freshmeat.net/users/xhochy/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:13

Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
Text Processing :: Markup

About: Rainpress is a CSS compressor. It can be used either as a library
in Ruby programs or as a standalone executable. Rainpress doesn't apply
common compression algorithms like gzip; rather, it removes unecessary
characters and replaces long attributes with shorter equivalents.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rainpress/

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[034] - RESTORE 4.0.5-1 (RESTORE-EE)
by Garret (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gacott/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:09

System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Networking

About: RESTORE is an enterprise network backup and recovery solution for
Windows, Novell, Mac OS X (data fork), Unix, and Linux systems. It is
scalable to a complete backup solution for multiple workstations, servers,
and data centers. It operates over local area networks, wide area networks,
and the Internet.

Changes: A Windows-only WebDAV issue was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/restore_backup/

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[035] - STX B+ Tree 0.8.1
by Timo Bingmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbingmann/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 03:09

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The STX B+ Tree package is a set of C++ template classes
implementing a B+ tree key/data container in main memory. The classes are
designed as drop-in replacements of the STL containers set, map, multiset,
and multimap, and follow their interfaces very closely. By packing multiple
value pairs into each node of the tree, the B+ tree reduces heap
fragmentation and utilizes cache-line effects better than the standard
red-black binary tree. The tree algorithms are based on the implementation
in Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest's Introduction into Algorithms, Jan
Jannink's paper, and other algorithm resources. The classes contain
extensive assertion and verification mechanisms to ensure the
implementation's correctness by testing the tree invariants.

Changes: This release fixed a possibly illegal memory access during a
find() or derived lookup call, if the queried key is larger than any item
contained in the tree.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/stx-btree/

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[036] - TextCite: Publication Quotation Manager 1.0.3
by Erik Norvelle (http://freshmeat.net/users/enorvelle/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 15:29

Education
Information Management

About: TextCite is a program for organizing and commenting textual
citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use
in producing scientific or academic publications. You can organize by
publication, author, category, or outline. It works with bibliographic
management programs like Citation, EndNote, RefWorks, and BibTeX,
providing important text/citation management capabilities that these
programs lack, while still allowing for rapid footnote and bibliography
generation by means of your favorite bibliography manager. It also exports
to PDF and Word (RTF).

Changes: This is a minor feature addition release. Accelerator keys were
added for main menu actions. A popup menu was added to add formatting tags
to the citation text fields. The option to have a CiteBook automatically
load upon program startup was added.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/textcite/

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[037] - The Launcher 2.3.1
by Alte (http://freshmeat.net/users/alte/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 01:12

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: The Launcher is an innovative GNOME panel applet or stand-alone
application launcher automatically adapting to your habits. The ultimate
goal is to make it possible to run any application with as few clicks as
possible. This means tracking your favorite applications, and not forcing
you to mark or organize them by hand. Preferences change with time, and
The Launcher responds to that automatically. It delivers a simple, clean,
and usable interface with advanced features like 'search as you type' and
'smart search', and requires zero configuration effort. It should be
especially handy on touch screens and in keyboard-only scenarios.

Changes: GNOME panel applet installation fixes and SuSE Linux support.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thelauncher/

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[038] - uxdstools 0.3
by Michael Brown (http://freshmeat.net/users/tipt0e/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 23:05

About: uxdstools is a set of Unix directory service tools. It is a suite
of command tools to administer POSIX user and group accounts in an LDAP
directory. It is similar in spirit to the useradd/mod/del tools found on
Linux and Solaris, the pw tools on BSD, the mk|ch|rmuser/group tools on
AIX, etc. However, instead of manipulating local accounts, uxdstools
manages POSIX-type accounts that can be found in LDAP directory services
installations, namely those with posixAccount and posixGroup attributes.

Changes: Kerberos ticket fetching was added.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uxdstools/

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[039] - VForm 0.7
by Galawa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Galawa/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 03:26

About: VForm is a script to check forms. It can validate many type of
fields, checks input lengths, minimum, and maximum values, and can compare
fields and check enumarated values. It is multilingual.

Changes: 'File' fields are now processed

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vform/

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[040] - yeaGTD 18
by Dan Graham (http://freshmeat.net/users/dgraham/)
Sat, Jan 26th 2008 16:16

Information Management
Office/Business :: Scheduling

About: yeaGTD is an acronym for "yaml encoded approach to getting things
done". It is a script which extracts information from simple text files,
one for each project, and then produces nicely formatted summary reports.
Flexible rules can be used to specify repeated projects. Context, project,
and date views are supported and output can be filtered in a variety of
ways. Output can optionally be printed or sent to standard output in
several formats. Commands are provided for marking tasks complete, opening
files for editing, and backing up project files.

Changes: Configuration settings were added to ~/.yeagtdrc which determine
which columns are displayed, their order, titles and widths, and whether
vertical and/or horizontal rules are displayed in the graphical interface.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yeagtd/

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