Newsletter for Monday, February 11th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (51) :::
[001] - abcm2ps 5.8.0 (Development)
[002] - Absolute OS 12.1.0 Beta 6
[003] - AgileWiki 3.0.1 (CowDb)
[004] - Amahi F8
[005] - Anjuta IDE 2.3.4 (DevStudio)
[006] - aria2 0.12.1
[007] - Browser CRM 5.002
[008] - CGIScripter 2.38
[009] - Clam AntiVirus 0.92.1
[010] - Code Browser 2.20
[011] - course-manager 0.1.1
[012] - DBsight 1.5.2 (Upgrade)
[013] - dfsch 0.2.0
[014] - DynaStop 08023.1417-06
[015] - EDFbrowser 1.02
[016] - Envoy 0.1
[017] - GeoTools 2.4.0 (Stable)
[018] - GMime 2.2.17
[019] - granule 1.3.0
[020] - IMAP4 authenticator for Squid 2008-02-11
[021] - ISPConfig 2.2.20
[022] - Java SOS 5.70
[023] - Knoppix 5.1.1 (CD)
[024] - libASSA 3.5.0
[025] - Maven Archetypes 1.0.0
[026] - MLdonkey 2.9.3
[027] - Multiplication Station 0.5.0
[028] - NoMachine NX 3.1.0-6 (Node)
[029] - NS2Html 0.4.1
[030] - OpenAFS 1.5.31 (Development)
[031] - openPlaG 2.1
[032] - OpenStego 0.4.0
[033] - PCMan File Manager 0.3.8.5
[034] - Pound 2.4
[035] - QBankManager 0.9.49beta
[036] - Risk 1.0.9.4
[037] - SamePlace 0.9.0
[038] - SchilliX 0.6.2
[039] - Seismic ToolKit 0.58
[040] - ServerKit 2.1.0
[041] - SmartSVN 3.0.6
[042] - spamdyke 3.1.6
[043] - The Kiwi Toolkit 2.3
[044] - Tiny Blogr 1.0
[045] - uriparser 0.6.3
[046] - VWM 1.3.2
[047] - Worker 2.16.2
[048] - Xfce WMdock Plugin 0.2.0
[049] - xine xine-lib 1.1.10.1
[050] - XWiki 1.2.2
[051] - [ini4j] 0.3.0
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - abcm2ps 5.8.0 (Development)
by Guido Gonzato (http://freshmeat.net/users/goccia/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:37
Printing
About: abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to
print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or
more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the
ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
Changes: This release greatly enhances tablature support. The %%tablature
command scope was expanded, the command line argument "-T" was added, and
-W was removed as redundant.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/abcm2ps/
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[002] - Absolute OS 12.1.0 Beta 6
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:20
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: This release fixes (via recompiled kernel patch) the vmsplice
root control vulnerability. There are several other changes since the last
official beta release, including updated mplayer and plugin (online video
works after multimedia files install).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/
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[003] - AgileWiki 3.0.1 (CowDb)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:37
Database
Documentation
Information Management
About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.
Changes: A small bug in the way Xpress trims text content has been fixed.
There is a small change to PHandle to support COODBMS's rolon-relative
pathnames (which begin with @). A small bug in Ordered App Map (not
expressing or binging the ascension attribute) has been fixed. Problems
found in PNode.resolvePathname when called from an Ent subclass have been
fixed.
License: Common Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agilewiki/
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[004] - Amahi F8
by cpg (http://freshmeat.net/users/cpg/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 00:04
Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: The Amahi Home Server is a "Home Digital Assistant," or HDA. It's a
server targeted for home and home office environments. It provides
calendaring, a wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer
server, remote access, and more.
Changes: This is the initial (beta) release based on Fedora 8. It gains
stability and features from Fedora 8. The code is being rebased to tackle
the next release, including the Ruby on Rails infrastructure inside the
server.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/amahi/
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[005] - Anjuta IDE 2.3.4 (DevStudio)
by Naba Kumar (http://freshmeat.net/users/khnaba/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 13:20
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Software Development
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
About: Anjuta is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for
the GNOME desktop. It features a number of advanced programming facilities
that include project management, application wizards, an on-board
interactive debugger, an integrated glade UI designer, integrated devhelp
API help, an integrated valgrind memory profiler, an integrated gprof
performance profiler, a class generator, a powerful source editor, source
browsing, and more.
Changes: Many bugfixes, i18n improvements, and updated translations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anjuta/
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[006] - aria2 0.12.1
by SlotGazer (http://freshmeat.net/users/slotgazer/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 07:08
Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols
are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. It has a powerful segmented
downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple
protocols and utilizing your download bandwidth to the maximum. It supports
downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while
the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm.
Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of
data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.
Changes: This release updates gettext related files and fixes the critical
bugs reported since the previous release. It also adds two translations:
Finnish and Hebrew. The existing translations have also been updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aria2/
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[007] - Browser CRM 5.002
by BrowserCRM (http://freshmeat.net/users/BrowserCRM/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:51
Communications :: Conferencing
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3
About: Browser CRM is a Web-based suite combining integrated email
functionality with flexible and powerful CRM (customer relationship
management) and collaboration tools. Browser CRM is a single,
comprehensive application that is accessible from anywhere. Browser CRM
logs incoming and outgoing email against the customer record to build a
complete customer history along with other Browser CRM events including
Opportunities, Tasks, Appointments, Memos, Documents, and custom events.
Changes: The 5.x branch is very stable and 5.002 packages a number of key
changes, including user interface fixes for Internet Explorer 7 and Safari
on Mac, general user interface enhancements, significant improvements to
People & Company module configurations, and improvements for foreign
fields, sorting, and menu based filters. The default character set is now
UTF-8 and there are configuration changes to the default home page to
avoid memory limit issues in some configurations. There is also an
improved import script, with fixes for merging and improved memory
handling for large imports.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bcrm/
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[008] - CGIScripter 2.38
by David Simpson (http://freshmeat.net/users/dsimpson1/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 11:25
About: CGIScripter automates the development of Perl CGI scripts for
MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, PostgreSQL, FrontBase, and
FileMaker 7 databases. Perl CGI scripts are generated for each form
specified within CGIScripter and include customized data entry and data
validation for each Web form. The Perl CGI scripts generated by
CGIScripter also provide support for insert/update/view/delete of GIF/JPEG
images via a Web-based interface. Critical Web form processing parameters
are hard-coded within each script instead of being accepted via POST or
GET operations in order to prevent Web form hijacking.
Changes: Compiled as a Universal Binary application on MacOS X, with
Leopard compatibility. An issue with DB2 Script generation has been fixed.
This release is available for free with TrialPay.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cgiscripter/
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[009] - Clam AntiVirus 0.92.1
by Luca Gibelli (http://freshmeat.net/users/nervous/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 13:24
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Security
Utilities
About: Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit designed especially for
email scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities,
including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a commandline
scanner, and a tool for automatic database updates. The core of the
package is an anti-virus engine available as a shared library.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clamav/
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[010] - Code Browser 2.20
by Marc Kerbiquet (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkerbiquet/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 11:01
Text Editors
About: Code Browser is a folding and outlining editor. It is a
lightweight but powerful tool for structuring and browsing source code
using folders and links. It is especially designed to keep a good
overview of the code of a large project.
Changes: This release fixes several bugs with markers in output capture
and search results.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/code-browser/
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[011] - course-manager 0.1.1
by Isidor Zeuner (http://freshmeat.net/users/zeuner/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:38
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: course-manager is a Web-based registration system for courses held
at an educational institution. It features a public interface for filing
registrations, and an internal interface for managing course attendance
approvals by the coordinating staff.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/courseman/
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[012] - DBsight 1.5.2 (Upgrade)
by Chris (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrislusf/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 04:31
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text
search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It
features a built-in database crawler following user-defined SQL,
incremental indexing, user-controllable result ranking, the ability to
return results with highlights (like Google), and categorized result
counts (like Amazon). It can easily integrate with other languages with
XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations, so no Java coding is
necessary. Deleted or updated records in database can be synchronized
also.
Changes: PortugueseAnalyzer was added. Case-insensitive searching for
comma-semi colon separated values was added. Comma separated synonyms were
added, in addition to empty space separated synonyms. A configuration
maximum summarizer length was added.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbsight/
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[013] - dfsch 0.2.0
by Ale Hakl (http://freshmeat.net/users/xadh/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 13:23
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries
About: dfsch is Scheme-like LISP dialect. It draws inspiration from R5RS,
but also contains concepts inspired by other languages, mainly Common
Lisp. The implementation is written in plain C with a Boehm-Demers-Weiser
conservative garbage collector using some object-oriented concepts on top
of plain C.
Changes: This version contains many minor fixes and enhancements. New
features include a unified module loading mechanism, ports, and object
system based on generic functions. Modules for interfacing with Unix,
regular expression handling, multithreading, and Internet data handling
and ports for files and strings are included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dfsch/
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[014] - DynaStop 08023.1417-06
by BpMatthias (http://freshmeat.net/users/BpMatthias/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:35
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Filters
Internet
About: DynaStop is a utility to examine IPv4 based addresses for Exim and
procmail for the purpose of filtering based upon patterns defined by the
administrator. This can be a pivotal factor in email filtering and server
load management, since dynamic IP addresses are typically used for
dial-up, DHCP, and DSL accounts. All of which have a designated mail
exchange server through which all outbound mail flows as defined with
many, if not most, large Internet service providers.
Changes: The example configuration files were updated.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dynastop/
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[015] - EDFbrowser 1.02
by Teuniz (http://freshmeat.net/users/Teuniz/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:38
Scientific/Engineering :: Neuroscience
About: EDFbrowser is a multi-platform viewer for EEG, EMG, and ECG storage
files. It supports the EDF, EDF+, BDF, and Nihon Kohden file formats. It
supports montages, annotations, precise measurements by using crosshairs,
and a zoom function by drawing a rectangle with the mouse. It shows
signals from different files at the same time. It includes a built-in
EDF/EDF+/BDF to ASCII converter, a built-in Nihon Kohden to EDF+ converter
(including annotations), and a built-in EDF/EDF+/BDF compatibility checker.
It is available for Linux and Windows.
Changes: A bug that potentially could crash the program when opening EDF+
files with a durationfield in annotations was solved.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/edfbrowser/
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[016] - Envoy 0.1
by cruise (http://freshmeat.net/users/CruiseWD/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 11:00
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Envoy is a stand-alone database for file associations and MIME
types. You can easily set and change file associations in one central
location, and keep existing settings between different software. The core
functionality is implemented in a shared library for easy access from any
other software. It supports launching any file from a program with just
one function call.
Changes: Everything needed for day-today usage, but missing a few "nice to
have" functions in the X-based frontend.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/envoy/
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[017] - GeoTools 2.4.0 (Stable)
by Andrea Aime (http://freshmeat.net/users/aaime/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 13:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: GeoTools is a GIS toolkit that is used for OGC-based projects via
GeoAPI interfaces. It includes two great SLD based renderers and tools for
raster access and reprojection as well as plugins for Shapefile, ArcGrid,
ArcSDE, Postgis, OracleSpatial, MySQL, and many more.
Changes: Sgnificant speedups in shapefile and PostGIS data rendering. Many
expressions improvements using converters to correctly handle a range of
queries. Style interfaces now use the GeoAPI filter. This release can
redirect to an alternate logging API, makes use of Java connection pools,
and uses a registered java DataSource for the epsg database in a Java EE
environment. Datastore dispose has been added. There is a user guide with
a small section for 2.4.0. The ISO geometry implementation is available as
a supported module. The community change proposal process has been adopted.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geotools/
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[018] - GMime 2.2.17
by steinel (http://freshmeat.net/users/stonehead/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 13:20
Communications :: Email
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GMime is a library and set of utilities for parsing and creating
messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME).
Changes: This release adds more accurate encoding-length macros for
base64, quoted-printable, and uuencode that try to minimize
over-calculating the amount of output data needed. They have also been
namespaced. IP address literals within []'s are handled.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmime/
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[019] - granule 1.3.0
by Vladislav Grinchenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/vladg/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:32
Education
About: granule is a multi-platform (Linux, Windows, NetBSD, Nokia770
Internet Tablet, OpenEmbedded GPE PDAs) flashcards program that implements
Leitner space repetition methodology for expanding your vocabulary. It
features both short-term and long-term memory training capabilities to
improve memory retention.
Changes: This release adds partial support for the SM-2 algorithm, a
variable number of CardBoxes, support for embedded pictures, fine-grained
control over text alignment and appearance, improved keyboard
accelerators, and support for Nokia IT OS2008. There are some bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/granule/
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[020] - IMAP4 authenticator for Squid 2008-02-11
by nightstalker (http://freshmeat.net/users/nightstalker/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 05:42
Internet :: Proxy Servers
About: IMAP4 authenticator for Squid allows users of the Squid Web cache
proxy to authenticate against an IMAP4 server.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/imap-squid/
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[021] - ISPConfig 2.2.20
by Projektfarm (http://freshmeat.net/users/projektfarm/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:24
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Systems Administration
About: ISPConfig is an ISP management and hosting control panel. It
manages your Web server, email server, BIND DNS, proftpd + vsftpd FTP
server, MySQL databases, SpamAssassin, and disk quotas with an easy to use
Web interface for administrators, resellers, and clients.
Changes: This release adds support for Ruby and a Dutch translation of the
user manual. Apache has been updated to 1.3.41, mod_ssl to 2.8.31, and
SpamAssassin to version 3.2.4. It contains many small enhancements and
several minor bugs were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ispconfig/
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[022] - Java SOS 5.70
by Coldbeans (http://freshmeat.net/users/coldjava/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:17
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Email
Communications :: File Sharing
About: Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site
building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc.
Changes: New components were added, bringing the total amount up to more
than 115 servlets and filters. Features were updated for the existing
controls.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/javasos/
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[023] - Knoppix 5.1.1 (CD)
by danliker (http://freshmeat.net/users/danliker/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:38
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Window Maker
Games/Entertainment
Internet
About: KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software,
automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound
cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux
demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install
anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/knoppix/
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[024] - libASSA 3.5.0
by Vladislav Grinchenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/vladg/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:33
Adaptive Technologies
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: libASSA is an OO C++ UNIX networking library based on some of the
design patterns such as Configurator, Reactor, Acceptor, and Connector
collectively known as Adaptive Communication Patterns described in various
papers published by Dr. D. C. Schmidt.
Changes: This is a catch-up release of minor bugfixes and library
interface improvements.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libassa/
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[025] - Maven Archetypes 1.0.0
by Alexander Shvets (http://freshmeat.net/users/shvets/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:24
About: Maven Archetypes helps to generate an initial Java project layout.
It is not required to have Maven 2 preinstalled; instead, it uses
JLaunchPad (as part of the installation). Software required by Maven and
the Maven Archetypes Plugin will be downloaded and installed
automatically. All you need to do is to specify the location of Java and
the location of the Maven repository, as well as proxy parameters if
behind a firewall.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/maven-archetypes/
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[026] - MLdonkey 2.9.3
by danliker (http://freshmeat.net/users/danliker/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:34
Communications :: File Sharing
About: MLdonkey is a multi-platform, multi-network peer-to-peer client. It
supports several large networks such as eDonkey, Overnet, Kademlia,
Bittorrent, Gnutella (Bearshare, Limewire, etc.), Gnutella2 (Shareaza), or
Fasttrack (Kazaa, Imesh, Grobster). Networks can be enabled or disabled.
Searches are performed in parallel on all enabled networks. For some
networks, each file can be downloaded from multiple clients concurrently.
Changes: Allows compilation with Ocaml 3.10.1 to fix a crashed on 64bit
platforms. Small code optimizations and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mldonkey/
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[027] - Multiplication Station 0.5.0
by Charles B. Cosse (http://freshmeat.net/users/asymptopia/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 04:44
Education :: Testing
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Multiplication Station will teach your child to add, subtract, and
multiply. It is a multi-user application with a simple admin interface.
All parameters are configurable, like grid size and the fonts and colors
of number ranges. A countdown timer is used to keep the player's attention
focused. A list of high scores is maintained.
Changes: Major changes were made to the underlying software with some
minor changes in appearance. The user interface was simplified.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/multiplicationstation/
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[028] - NoMachine NX 3.1.0-6 (Node)
by NXAdmin (http://freshmeat.net/users/NXAdmin/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:40
Communications
Desktop Environment
Software Development
About: NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server and desktop virtualization
system based on the X11 protocol. NX is an order of magnitude faster than
VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. In addition,
NX translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols
into X/NX, enabling users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and
VNC sessions. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11
proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport
of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio and video over
the Internet.
Changes: This release includes fixes some security issues affecting the
X11 related software.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nx/
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[029] - NS2Html 0.4.1
by rpacce (http://freshmeat.net/users/rpacce/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:56
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: NS2Html is a tool which converts configuration files extracted from
Netscreen devices into friendly HTML rulebases. It was developed to gather
data from policies used at old firewalls under administration.
Changes: Vsys support was corrected when naming HTML files. There was an
error when proccessing the rules actions, which limited processing to only
all-lowercase spellings. Some code was improved and corrected.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ns2html/
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[030] - OpenAFS 1.5.31 (Development)
by Edgester (http://freshmeat.net/users/edgester/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:26
Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Filesystems
About: AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server
architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single
namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.
Changes: On all platforms, a cmdebug -cellservdb option and a pts
-localauth option has been added. A volserver incremental restore issue
has been fixed. A critical Windows bug where no .readonly failover
happened when a file server was unable to attach a volume. The Explorer
Shell option Symlinks->Add no longer crashes the shell when the path is
not in AFS. An error with symlinks containing "." or ".." has been fixed.
A new "-literal" option is available for some fs commands. A crash in
afsdb handling is avoided. This release is more compatible with Linux Xen
and Linux 2.6.24. An ARM Linux port has been added.
License: IBM Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openafs/
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[031] - openPlaG 2.1
by jurii (http://freshmeat.net/users/jurii/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 13:26
Education
Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: openPlaG is a function graph plotter for use on Web sites. It
allows the display of up to three function graphs, their derivatives, and
their integrals. It can compute several different functions, with a focus
on probability functions.
Changes: ^ works as a power function. There are more display options like
transparency and rotation. The functions odd and even have been added, and
there are some bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openplag/
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[032] - OpenStego 0.4.0
by Samir Vaidya (http://freshmeat.net/users/syvaidya/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 00:06
Multimedia :: Graphics
Security
About: OpenStego is a tool for steganography. It also supports optional
encryption of data before embedding. It uses a plugin-based architecture,
and support for various steganographic algorithms can be added using
external plugins.
Changes: Support for external plugins was added so that other algorithms
like DCT/FFT can be used.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openstego/
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[033] - PCMan File Manager 0.3.8.5
by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee) (http://freshmeat.net/users/PCMan/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 07:10
Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Desktop Environment :: Tools
About: PCMan File Manager is a very fast and lightweight file manager
which features tabbed browsing.
Changes: There are few new features in this release. However, upgrading to
this version is highly recommended. Thumbnail support was rewritten, and
both the speed and stability were improved. Random crashes during
thumbnail loading were fixed. Minor UI improvements and bugfixes were
made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pcmanfm/
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[034] - Pound 2.4
by roseg (http://freshmeat.net/users/roseg/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:58
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It
proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the
requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1
requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes
requests.
Changes: The PARM session type was added for tracking based on HTTP
parameter. Beware that the old PARM session type is now called URL, so
configuration files must be changed. Full support for IPv6 was added.
poundctl can now show status as an XML file. A shutdown grace period was
added (Pound still accepts requests for existing sessions, but nothing
else). A buch of smaller changes and bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pound/
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[035] - QBankManager 0.9.49beta
by aquamaniac (http://freshmeat.net/users/aquamaniac/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:59
Office/Business :: Financial
About: QBankManager is a home banking program. It is the reference
application for AqBanking, AqHBCI, AqDTAUS, and AqGeldkarte, therefore it
supports all transfer types and jobs of those projects.
Changes: This release fixes category reports and some other bugs. It also
reintroduces transfer status tracking.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qbankmanager/
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[036] - Risk 1.0.9.4
by Yura (http://freshmeat.net/users/yuranet/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:37
Education
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: Risk is a Java version of the classic RISK board game, with a
simple map format, network play, single player mode, hotseat, and many
more features. It works on all operating system that run Java 1.4 or
higher.
Changes: The Swedish and Galician languages were added. Lots of bugs were
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jrisk/
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[037] - SamePlace 0.9.0
by hyperstruct (http://freshmeat.net/users/hyperstruct/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:53
Communications :: Chat
About: SamePlace is an instant messaging client for Firefox, Thunderbird,
and Flock, and a platform for hybrid Web/IM applications.
Changes: This release provides a completely redesigned user interface,
with avatars, the ability to detach the contacts sidebar and open
conversations in an external window, the ability to sort contacts by
latest activity or alphabetically, and contact find-as-you-type. It also
supports Twitter natively.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sameplace/
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[038] - SchilliX 0.6.2
by Jörg Schilling (http://freshmeat.net/users/schily/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 11:17
Software Development
System :: Operating System
About: SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is
intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard
drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure
OpenSolaris environment. SchilliX tries to be as Sun Solaris compatible as
possible and to be the optimum development platform for Solaris and
OpenSolaris.
Changes: Updated to use Solaris Nevada build 82. The SVr4 packeet database
is now included unpacked. This release allows you to install packages from
Blastwave "out of the box".
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schillix/
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[039] - Seismic ToolKit 0.58
by Dominique Reymond (http://freshmeat.net/users/Reymond/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:18
Education
Scientific/Engineering
About: Seismic Toolkit is a tool for processing and displaying seismic
signal data in a graphical interface. It reads seismic signals in SAC
format, and provides a variety of signal processing, such as filtering,
spectral analysis, polarisation analysis, time-frequency representation,
Hilbert transform, and singular value decomposition. Some utilities are
included for useful seismological applications, like computation of
Seismic Moment Mo, Mantle magnitude Mm and Moment magnitude Mw, MTPA
spectral analysis, plotting focal mechanisms, computation (and plotting)
of instrumental response from poles and zeros, and some usefull GMT
(Generic Mapping Tool) scripts for plotting signals, responses, and
time-frequency in Postscript files for high quality prints.
Changes: This release gives a portable code for the Win32 application.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/seismictoolkit-stk/
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[040] - ServerKit 2.1.0
by swivel (http://freshmeat.net/users/swivel/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:24
Database :: API
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: ServerKit helps developers quickly build efficient, scalable, and
uniformly configured, installed, and executed multi-threaded server
applications for Linux. A core server program handles configuration
parsing, database connection pool creation, and switching of users.
Application-specific modules are loaded at runtime and access the already
parsed configuration data and database connection pools via simple
well-defined program interfaces. ServerKit also provides a rich API for
quick and painless module development.
Changes: This release adds the ability to delay work with only a timer in
the thread pool delayed work manager. Previously, you could only accompany
a timer with a file descriptor waiting for I/O as well.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/serverkit/
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[041] - SmartSVN 3.0.6
by SyntEvo GmbH (http://freshmeat.net/users/syntevo/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:34
Software Development :: Version Control :: Subversion
About: SmartSVN is a platform independent, powerful, and easy-to-use
Subversion client. In addition to the normal SVN commands like checkout,
update, commit, merge, etc., it provides tag and branch handling (no need
to deal with URLs just to switch to a different tag or branch), a built-in
file compare and conflict solver, and many more. There is no need to
install additional tools for handling SVN working copies, like a command
line SVN client or a file compare tool.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smartsvn/
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[042] - spamdyke 3.1.6
by Sam Clippinger (http://freshmeat.net/users/samc_silence_org/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 10:30
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: spamdyke is a drop-in filter for qmail to provide connection-time
blacklisting, graylisting, DNS RBL/RHSBL checking, sender MX checking,
improved logging, and more. spamdyke will provide SMTP AUTH and TLS to
unpatched qmail servers. Installing spamdyke does not require patching or
recompiling qmail.
Changes: This version fixes a pair of bugs that were corrupting message
content (especially large attachments) under specific (rare)
circumstances.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spamdyke/
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[043] - The Kiwi Toolkit 2.3
by Mark Lindner (http://freshmeat.net/users/mesmerism/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:15
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: The Kiwi Toolkit is a foundation class library containing many
useful classes that complement the Java Foundation Classes (JFC). It
includes many classes and components that were not provided with the JFC,
such as a TreeTable component, a DateChooser, an MVC charting package (bar
charts, line charts, pie charts), a plugin framework for Java, an
application resource manager (for loading images, icons, HTML pages, audio
clips, and other resources from JAR files), a better internationalization
API, and much more.
Changes: Code cleanup, minor API enhancements, and bugfixes were done.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thekiwitoolkit/
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[044] - Tiny Blogr 1.0
by Anoochit Chalothorn (http://freshmeat.net/users/redlinesoft/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 00:08
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Tiny Blogr is a tiny personal journal blog system with beautiful
URL support. Tags are used to categorize entries. Members can upload files
and manage their files via a file manager.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinyblogr/
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[045] - uriparser 0.6.3
by Sebastian Pipping (http://freshmeat.net/users/dllmain/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 00:12
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries
About: uriparser is a strictly RFC 3986 compliant URI parsing library. It
is cross-platform, fast, and supports Unicode.
Changes: This release fixes major bugs for normalization again. A short
tutorial on using uriparser was written, which can be found online at
http://uriparser.sourceforge.net/doc/html/. This release introduces
documentation as a .chm file for download. The six warnings are gone
finally. A "uriparser-users" mailing list was set up.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uriparser/
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[046] - VWM 1.3.2
by TragicWarrior (http://freshmeat.net/users/TragicWarrior/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:23
Desktop Environment
System :: Shells
About: VWM is an extensible window manager for the console. Built on top
of libpseudo and libviper, VWM is more visual alternative to Screen.
Mozilla-style plugins allow for simple expandability: follow a few simple
API rules and drop your shared object into a directory to have it added to
the main menu.
Changes: This release fixes a bug in the Makefile that prevented building
on first-time installations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vwm/
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[047] - Worker 2.16.2
by BOOMERANG (http://freshmeat.net/users/boomerang/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:23
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
About: Worker is a file manager for the X Window System with the classical
two panel interface. It features a fully graphical configuration, while
still allowing manual editing of the configuration file without the need
to restart Worker. Any external program can be integrated easily into the
GUI using buttons, hotkeys, and file type actions. Worker uses file
recognition by file content or by filename extension (or both). Different
actions with completely configurable commands can be assigned to each file
type.
Changes: This release adds a text search for the internal file viewer. The
saving of the Worker state at program exit can now be disabled. There is a
new menu for accessing the configuration, saving the Worker state, and
quitting Worker. Some minor bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/worker/
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[048] - Xfce WMdock Plugin 0.2.0
by Andre Ellguth (http://freshmeat.net/users/ellguth/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 05:43
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: XFCE
About: The WMdock plugin is a compatibility layer for running WindowMaker
dockapps on the XFCE desktop. It integrates the dockapps into a panel,
closely resembling the look and feel of the WindowMaker dock or clip.
Changes: Fallback command line detection of the dockapp via the PID was
integrated. The dockapp can be previewed in the configure dialog. The
configure dialog will now refresh if a dockapp is swallowed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xfce4-wmdock-plugin/
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[049] - xine xine-lib 1.1.10.1
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:35
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and
VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from
local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It
interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some
of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable
library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
Changes: A potential stack buffer overflow via crafted FLAC tags, as
reported in CVE-2008-0486, was fixed. Detection of MP3 streams with ID3v2
tags was improved. A RealPlayer codec detection bug was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xine/
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[050] - XWiki 1.2.2
by Vincent Massol (http://freshmeat.net/users/vmassol/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 17:22
Information Management
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: XWiki is a WikiWiki clone written in Java that supports many
popular features of other Wikis like the Wiki syntax, version control,
attachments, security, and searching, but also many advanced features like
templates, database and dynamic development using the velocity or groovy
scripting language, a plugin system and skinability, J2EE scalability,
XML/RPC remote API, Portlet integration, statistics, an RSS feed, PDF
exporting, and WYSIWYG editing.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xwiki/
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[051] - [ini4j] 0.3.0
by Ivan Szkiba (http://freshmeat.net/users/szkiba/)
Mon, Feb 11th 2008 06:25
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: [ini4j] is a simple Java API for handling configuration files in
Windows .ini format. Additionally, the library includes a Java Preferences
API implementation based on the .ini file.
Changes: SVN is now used instead of CVS. Maven is now used instead of Ant.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ini4j/
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