Newsletter for Saturday, March 01st 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (40) :::
[001] - AgileWiki 3.3.1 (CowDb)
[002] - babase 2.0
[003] - BalanceNG 2.038
[004] - Bayesian Spam Filter 1.1
[005] - BeeDiff 1.0
[006] - boodebr 1.1.0
[007] - Bos Wars 2.5
[008] - climm 0.6.2
[009] - Coherence 0.5.2
[010] - Ekee 2.0.0 (Main)
[011] - eric4 4.1.1
[012] - Fast Audio Playlist Generator 0.40
[013] - fwm 0.1
[014] - Gmsh 2.1.1
[015] - libftdi 0.11
[016] - libpwmd 5.0.3
[017] - LightOrm 0.1a
[018] - Mod_Survey 3.2.5 (Stable)
[019] - Nanoki 1.05
[020] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.31.0407
[021] - One-Wire Weather 0.82.1
[022] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.24-ovz002.2 (2.6.24)
[023] - Password Manager Daemon 1.8
[024] - phlyMail Lite 3.6.25
[025] - phpMyAdmin 2.11.5
[026] - PictureFlow 0.1.0
[027] - Policy Daemon snapshot-200803011128 (New Development)
[028] - PowerDNS Administrator 1.1.5
[029] - RadialNet 0.43
[030] - RivetTracker 1.0
[031] - SMI 0.9.9e
[032] - SndBite 3.2
[033] - Sockso 0.8.9
[034] - Syslinux 3.62 (Release)
[035] - The Frink Language 2008-03-01
[036] - The Launcher 2.4
[037] - ucommon 1.5.0
[038] - WLA DX 9.4
[039] - XScreenSaver 5.05
[040] - Yakuake 2.9
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[001] - AgileWiki 3.3.1 (CowDb)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 23:55
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 bug in which Serialized objects held by an Entry were not being
cloned (the reference was shared) was fixed. EXpress has been moved to
common. The common portion of Display has been moved to common. Element is
now PElement for consistency with PHandle.
License: Common Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agilewiki/
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[002] - babase 2.0
by Karl O. Pinc (http://freshmeat.net/users/kpinc/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 18:18
Database
Education
Information Management
About: Babase is a baboon data management system. It is designed to
facilitate the retrieval, storage, and maintenance of the following broad
data categories: group membership, life events, sexual cycle events
(including progeny), sexual cycle day-to-day status, dyadic social
interactions, and multi-party social interactions. Weather data tracking
is designed but not implemented. Babase is designed for Web access.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/babase/
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[003] - BalanceNG 2.038
by Thomas Obermair (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasobermair/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:41
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: BalanceNG is a modern software IP load balancing solution. It is
small, fast, and easy to use and setup. It offers session persistence,
different distribution methods (Round Robin, Random, Weighted Random,
Least Session, Least Bandwidth, Hash, Agent, and Randomized Agent) and a
customizable UDP health check agent in source code. It supports VRRP to
set up high availability configurations on multiple nodes. It supports
SNMP, integrating the BALANCENG-MIB with Net-SNMPD. It integrates pcap
packet dumping for debugging purposes and allows the implementation of a
"transparent forensic logging bridge".
Changes: Processing of private, node specific configuration files has been
added, allowing easy implementation of configuration synchronization
between nodes. The commands "save private", "save all", and "save conf"
have been added to support this concept. The manual for Release 2.x has
been split off, resulting in BalanceNG User and Reference Manual 2.038.0.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/balanceng/
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[004] - Bayesian Spam Filter 1.1
by Cesar Rodas (http://freshmeat.net/users/saddor/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:38
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: Bayesian Spam Filter is a class that can be used to detect spam in
text messages using Bayesian techniques. It analyzes the text in terms of
n-grams in a way that is idiom independent. It can be trained to
progressively distinguish what is spam and what is not spam by detecting
patterns in training samples. Training data is stored in a MySQL database.
Changes: A new algorithm (Fisher-Robinson's Inverse Chi-square) was added.
The knowledge database size was decreased.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpspam/
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[005] - BeeDiff 1.0
by Piotr Pszczolkowski (http://freshmeat.net/users/PiotrPsz/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 14:15
Software Development
About: BeeDiff is a graphical file comparator. It compares two text files
and highlights differences in colors.
Changes: An interactive merge process was implemented. A user can
interactively merge compared files through copying, deleting, and
changing.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/beediff/
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[006] - boodebr 1.1.0
by Frank McIngvale (http://freshmeat.net/users/frankmci/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:58
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Text Processing :: Markup
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: boodebr is a collection of Python modules from boodebr.org.
boodebr.ion provides JSON and XML serialization with a common API
(internal and external). boodebr.config provides flexible configuration
file handling (similar to INI files, but using JSON/XML with full object
pickling).
Changes: Table-alteration methods were added to boodebr.sql.sqliteQ. These
methods provide functionality that is missing in SQLite's native "ALTER
TABLE" routine, including modifying and deleting columns from a table.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/boodebrpython/
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[007] - Bos Wars 2.5
by feb (http://freshmeat.net/users/francoisbe/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:35
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
About: Bos Wars is a futuristic real-time strategy game featuring a
dynamic rate-based economy. Resources are continuously produced while also
being consumed by creating buildings and training new units. Bos Wars aims
to create a completely original and fun RTS game.
Changes: Some fixes were made. This version adds recyclable buildings and
beautiful explosions using particle graphics. The start position in
campaign level 5 was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/boswars/
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[008] - climm 0.6.2
by Tadu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tadu/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:55
Communications
Communications :: Chat :: ICQ
Internet
About: climm (CLI-based Multi-Messenger) is a portable, small, yet
powerful console-based ICQ and XMPP client. It supports password changing,
auto-away, creation of new accounts, and other features that makes it a
very complete yet simple client. It is able to send and receive messages
from the ICQ network, list users that are offline and online (including
their online status), search for users by email address, and look up basic
(name, UIN, email) information. climm was formerly known as mICQ.
Changes: The program was renamed to climm. Many improvements were made to
XMPP support. ICQ login was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/climm/
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[009] - Coherence 0.5.2
by Erwan Velu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ErwanVelu/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 03:03
Communications :: File Sharing
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: Coherence is a set of DLNA/UPnP devices, like MediaServer and
MediaRenderer. In addition, it includes a well-designed framework to
extend other applications with DLNA/UPnP functionality. It also has an
emerging DBus API, enabling these applications to participate in digital
living networks. It supports Playstation 3 (PS3), XBox, and many other
devices.
Changes: XBox 360 support was reworked and refinements and improvements
were made in the client side API. The user experience was improved. The
way multiple res elements are ordered was changed. Issues with UPnP stacks
and their 'wayward' interpretation of the specs were fixed. There were many
bugfixes and enhancements.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coherence/
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[010] - Ekee 2.0.0 (Main)
by Ronan Le Hy (http://freshmeat.net/users/rlehy/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:58
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
About: Ekee is an equation editor that produces images interactively from
LaTeX expressions. Drag and drop in several common formats (PNG, SVG, PDF,
EPS) to other applications is supported. Ekee can reopen the equations it
has created in PNG format.
Changes: Eqe was completely rewritten. It now sports a Qt4 interface,
improved drag and drop facilities, and the capacity to reopen equations it
has created. It was also renamed to Ekee.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ekee/
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[011] - eric4 4.1.1
by Detlev Offenbach (http://freshmeat.net/users/detlev/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 15:55
Software Development
About: Eric4 is a Python IDE written using PyQt4 and QScintilla2. It has
integrated project management capabilities with class browsing functions,
gives developers an unlimited number of editors with syntax highlighting
and code folding, an integrated Python shell, an integrated Python
debugger, a file system browser with class browsing capabilities for
Python files, and more. Eric4 is the successor of the well known eric3
development environment.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eric4/
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[012] - Fast Audio Playlist Generator 0.40
by royale (http://freshmeat.net/users/royale/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:36
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Utilities
About: FAPG is a tool to generate list of audio files (WAV, MP3, Ogg,
etc.) in various formats (M3U, PLS, HTML, etc). It is very useful for
quickly creating a playlist of a large number of audio files.
Changes: A bug in argument parsing was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fapg/
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[013] - fwm 0.1
by polachok (http://freshmeat.net/users/polachok/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 23:50
Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: fwm is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source
code. It manages windows in maximized and floating layouts. It is
extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft. It features nice
titlebars, multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration
file, the ability to switch desktops with the mouse wheel, X bitmaps for
title buttons, and true transparency support (through xcompmgr).
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwm/
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[014] - Gmsh 2.1.1
by Christophe Geuzaine (http://freshmeat.net/users/geuz/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:06
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Gmsh is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with built-in
CAD and post-processing facilities. Its design goal is to provide a simple
meshing tool for academic problems with parametric input and advanced
visualization capabilities. It is built around four modules: geometry,
mesh, solver, and post-processing. The specification of any input to these
modules is done either interactively using the graphical user interface
(based on FLTK and OpenGL) or in ASCII text files using Gmsh's own
scripting language.
Changes: This minor update fixes the bugs discovered in version 2.1.0.
These bugs concerned second order meshes with quad faces, view->combine
with empty views, a crash after initial mesh, and compilation problems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmsh/
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[015] - libftdi 0.11
by intra2net (http://freshmeat.net/users/intra2net/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 03:01
Software Development :: Libraries
About: libftdi is a library that talks to FTDI's FT232/245BM, FT2232C/D,
and FT232/245R type chips, including the popular bitbang mode, using
libusb.
Changes: Detection of R-type chips was added, including the ability to
read out the FTDIChip-ID. Support for different EEPROM sizes was added. An
experimental Linux only async write mode was introduced. Helper functions
for the Vala bindings were included.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libftdi/
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[016] - libpwmd 5.0.3
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:05
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Utilities
About: libpwmd is a library that makes it easy to patch applications to
use pwmd (Password Manager Daemon). It supports password retrieval from a
pinentry program.
Changes: A few important fixes and features for asynchronous clients were
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libpwmd/
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[017] - LightOrm 0.1a
by Tereshchenko Andrey (http://freshmeat.net/users/Terechenko/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 18:12
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: LightOrm is a small, fast, and powerful ORM library for PHP 5. It
has all the main features of an ORM and even more, such as object cache
control, memory usage control, and some others.
License: The PHP License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lightorm/
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[018] - Mod_Survey 3.2.5 (Stable)
by faidros (http://freshmeat.net/users/faidros/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:56
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: Mod_survey is an Apache mod_perl module which allows users to
create their own Web questionnaires using an XML-based tag notation. It
supports exporting of data into several file formats, including SPSS
syntax, semi-colon delimited fields, and SQL script. It also provides
limited support for descriptive statistics of the submitted data, and
stylesheet customizations of layout.
Changes: Many bugs concerning uniqueness and multiple answers in MATRIX
were fixed. The code has been updated and tested to run under IndigoPerl
in Windows. IP-based uniqueness checking was implemented. It is now
possible to customize error messages. There is now a valid DTD available.
Flushing data will now also remove stale keys and lock files for unique
answers. A bug with pipe signs as delimiter in exports was fixed. Perl
snippets will no longer block time(), localtime(), and crypt().
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/modsurvey/
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[019] - Nanoki 1.05
by Zoe (http://freshmeat.net/users/ZoeInfo/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:04
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
About: Nanoki is a simple, elegant wiki engine implemented in Lua.
Changes: A "Safe" rendering mode was added. The Markdown library was
updated.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nanoki/
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[020] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.31.0407
by Angels Holocaust (http://freshmeat.net/users/AngelsHolocaust/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 03:00
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: Bugs were fixed in the internal file viewer (especially in the
file panel quickview), FTP VFS, internal editor, CD player (D32 only), and
archive handling.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ndn/
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[021] - One-Wire Weather 0.82.1
by Dr. Simon J. Melhuish (http://freshmeat.net/users/sjmelhuish/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:40
Scientific/Engineering
About: Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor
/ AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated) display
to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and
humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A 1-wire "hub" may be
used for improved reliability and range. Weather data may be logged to CSV
files, parsed to command line programs, sent to the Henriksen Windows
client, or uploaded to Web servers at Dallas, The Weather Underground, and
HAMweather.
Changes: Various small bugs were fixed, including a swap of rain values
reported to CWOP. The statistics reset operation has been revised, which
should improve operation in 1-shot mode.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/oww/
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[022] - OpenVZ kernel 2.6.24-ovz002.2 (2.6.24)
by Kir Kolyshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/k001/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 18:15
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for
OpenVZ Virtual Environments (VE, also known as VPS). VEs are isolated,
secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server
utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VE
performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VEs can be
rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory,
processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files.
Due to a single kernel model, OpenVZ has native performance and very high
density. It is the core of Virtuozzo.
Changes: This is the first release of an 2.6.24-based OpenVZ kernel. It is
based on the mainline 2.6.24.3 kernel. Checkpointing is back and working.
The fair scheduler was dropped, and the mainline scheduler is used.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vzkernel/
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[023] - Password Manager Daemon 1.8
by Ben Kibbey (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjk/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:01
Information Management
Security
Security :: Cryptography
About: Password Manager Daemon serves clients data via a local socket. The
data is stored in an encrypted XML file, and the client must provide the
key to modify it. There is also a library available to make patching
applications to use the daemon easier.
Changes: The CLIENTS and CONFIG status messages were added. The encryption
iterations can now be set with OPTION ITERATIONS. The command line option
-i was added to specify iterations when importing. pth_msgport_t is used
instead of signals.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pwmd/
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[024] - phlyMail Lite 3.6.25
by Matthias Sommerfeld (http://freshmeat.net/users/flyingbit/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 18:23
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
About: phlyMail is a Webmail and data hosting application. It features
folders, unlimited POP3/IMAP profiles, quotas, an integrated address book,
SMS support, themes, and multilingual support. It uses either sendmail or
SMTP to send email, and can handle MIME. Support for IDN
(Internationalized Domain Names) is included. Through its modular design,
various new functions (like RSS, personal file storage, a bookmark
manager, etc.) are easily included.
Changes: The last build has been missing one important updated file, which
leads to problems with the stored email accounts. This has been fixed in
this release.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phlymail/
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[025] - phpMyAdmin 2.11.5
by phpMyAdmin Devel Team (http://freshmeat.net/users/phpmyadmin/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 15:56
Database :: Front-Ends
System :: Systems Administration
About: phpMyAdmin is a tool intended to handle the administration of MySQL
over the Web. It can create, rename, and drop databases, create/drop/alter
tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on
fields, create dumps of tables and databases, export/import CSV data, and
administrate one single database and multiple MySQL servers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyadmin/
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[026] - PictureFlow 0.1.0
by Ariya (http://freshmeat.net/users/ariya/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 23:59
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Libraries
About: PictureFlow is a Qt2/Qt3/Qt4/Qtopia4 widget to display images with
animated transition effect, much like Apple's Cover Flow (used, for
example, in iTunes, Finder, iPhone, and iPod). PictureFlow uses a portable
and optimized software renderer and runs smoothly on smartphones and other
mobile devices. It is, fast and lightweight, performs no floating-point
operations, does not need OpenGL, and does not require 3D hardware
acceleration.
Changes: This initial release implements basic functionalities similar to
Apple's Cover Flow, and has an optimized software renderer implementation
with an optional blur effect for the reflection. It supports Qt 4/3/2 with
a single code base.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pictureflow/
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[027] - Policy Daemon snapshot-200803011128 (New Development)
by Nigel Kukard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nkukard/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:40
Communications :: Email :: Filters
About: Policyd is an anti-spam plugin for Postfix that does greylisting,
sender (envelope, SASL, or host/IP)-based throttling (on messages and/or
volume per defined time unit), spam trap monitoring/blacklisting, HELO
auto-blacklisting, and HELO randomization prevention (HRP).
Changes: HELO/EHLO checks were added. SPF checks were added. Amavisd-new
integration was added. The Web interface was updated to support all
modules.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/policyd/
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[028] - PowerDNS Administrator 1.1.5
by Samson (http://freshmeat.net/users/RLibiez/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:33
Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Networking
About: PDNS-Admin, or PowerDNS Administrator, is a Web-based script which
aids in administering domains and records for the PowerDNS SQL name server
software. PDNS-Admin is targeted mainly toward individual domain owners,
but should be robust enough to be used in a larger capacity by an ISP or
other big host. For those who may not know, PowerDNS is a domain name
server application, much like BIND, but offering alternative backends for
the storage of domain information.
Changes: Some more useless code was trimmed out. Several configurable
domain authority settings were added. Pagination support was added to the
domain listings and records displays. Support was added for LOC, SRV,
NAPTR, and SPF records. Support for configuring supermasters was added.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdns-admin/
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[029] - RadialNet 0.43
by João Medeiros (http://freshmeat.net/users/joaomedeiros/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:02
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Security
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: RadialNet is a network visualization tool. It consists in a
graphical visualization of the networks mapped with Nmap, with some
efforts to make it easy to find security problems.
Changes: The MAC vendor was added to the address field. Problems related
to nmap XML file parsing were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/radialnet/
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[030] - RivetTracker 1.0
by firefly2442 (http://freshmeat.net/users/firefly2442/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 18:22
Communications :: File Sharing
About: RivetTracker is a modified version of PHPBTTracker. This program
provides the same functionality as most other bittorrent trackers and uses
MySQL as the database backend. It improves on PHPBTTracker by adding a more
robust installer, a centralized administration page with authentication,
and more detailed statistics on users connected to the tracker.
Changes: Multiple security updates were done to make authentication more
secure.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rivettracker/
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[031] - SMI 0.9.9e
by Galawa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Galawa/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:57
Office/Business
About: SMI (Services Maintenance Interventions) is a complete free
solution to manage services and technical support to customers with
frontoffice and backoffice modules.
Changes: A phone input mask (09xxxxxxxx) for France was added. The SQL
installation file was corrected. The installation script was optimized.
Translation has continued.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smiservicesmaintenanceinterventions/
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[032] - SndBite 3.2
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 03:00
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech
About: SndBite is a specialized audio editor designed for breaking large
recordings into smaller components with great efficiency. Its principal
intended application is in linguistic research where it is often desirable
to put each word or sentence into a separate file before further
processing. It is also useful for measuring pause durations. Its features
include multiple simultaneous views of the waveform at different
resolutions, the ability to position window edges at transitions between
sound and silence, automated setting of cut points at zero-crossings,
automatic filename generation easily controlled by the user, and optional
automatic playback on window motion. It is scriptable and may be run in
batch mode without the GUI.
Changes: This release fixes a bug where right-clicking in the neighborhood
window past the end of the waveform caused a crash and adds the option of
displaying the amplitude along with the location of the pointer, which is
useful when adjusting the silence/audio threshold. There are several other
minor improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sndbite/
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[033] - Sockso 0.8.9
by naph (http://freshmeat.net/users/naph/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 17:33
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: Sockso is a personal music server for everyone. It's designed to be
as simple as possible so that anyone with a mouse and some MP3s can get
their friends listening to their music across the Internet in minutes.
Changes: Folder browsing was fixed for Windows users. Some serious
problems with collection paths were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sockso/
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[034] - Syslinux 3.62 (Release)
by H. Peter Anvin (http://freshmeat.net/users/hpa/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 18:20
System :: Boot
About: SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux operating
system which operates on Linux EXT2/EXT3 filesystems, MS-DOS FAT
filesystems, network servers using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs. SYSLINUX
has an advanced extension API and contains two optional menu systems. It
also includes MEMDISK, a tool for booting legacy operating systems from
non-traditional media like PXE or CD-ROM.
Changes: The primary new feature of this release is support for
hierarchical submenus in the simple menu system. In addition to that, this
release eliminates a lot of hardcoded limitations, such as the maximum
number of labels, which are now only limited by memory, and the length of
the command line. Furthermore, this release fixes the graphical display on
systems which do not support the linear framebuffer option in the VESA
BIOS.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syslinux/
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[035] - The Frink Language 2008-03-01
by Alan Eliasen (http://freshmeat.net/users/eliasen/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 15:53
Education
Internet
Scientific/Engineering
About: Frink is a calculating tool and programming language designed to
help you in the real world. It tracks units of measurement throughout all
calculations and ensures that answers are correct. It converts between
systems of measurement and has a huge library of physical data. It handles
conversions between time zones, currencies, and historical values of the
U.S. dollar and the British pound, translates between several languages,
does date/time math, and more.
Changes: This release allows Frink to represent fractional exponents of
base dimensions. This is necessary to properly support some systems of
units, such as Gaussian or Heaviside-Lorentz units, and to make various
calculations in quantum mechanics possible, among other things.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/frinklang/
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[036] - The Launcher 2.4
by Alte (http://freshmeat.net/users/alte/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 23:59
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: The interface was simplified to a single view without tabs that
retains all the functionality of version 2.3. A tray icon launcher was
added. Startup time was significantly decreased. The "--debug" option was
added to run the applet in a separate window.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/thelauncher/
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[037] - ucommon 1.5.0
by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:39
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: GNU Common C++ classes were migrated to the UCommon codebase,
including TCP streaming, persistence, and an XML stream parser. This is
preliminary development for a merged GNU Common C++ 2/UCommon 2.0 project
release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ucommon/
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[038] - WLA DX 9.4
by Ville Helin (http://freshmeat.net/users/vhelin/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 23:12
Software Development :: Assemblers
Software Development :: Compilers
About: WLA DX is yet another macro assembler that can program the GB-Z80,
Z80, 6502, 65c02, 6510, 65816, HuC6280, and SPC-700 CPUs. Included in the
package there is a GB-Z80 disassembler and few converters. WLA DX was
initially programmed to compile ROM images for Gameboy, but nowadays it
can also patch existing ROM images with code, and even compile program
files and ROM files for other CPUs like the NES-6502, C64-6510, and SNES's
SPC-700.
Changes: This version fixes some small bugs, adds filter macros to .db,
dw, and .incbin, and incorporates a Mersenne Twister. This release also
changes the way label addresses are calculated inside branch opcodes'
pending calculations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wla/
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[039] - XScreenSaver 5.05
by jwz (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwz/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 23:57
Desktop Environment :: Screen Savers
Multimedia :: Graphics
About: XScreenSaver is the standard screen saver collection shipped on
most Linux and Unix systems running the X11 Window System. These screen
savers also work on Mac OS (X11 is not required). More than 200 screen
savers are included.
Changes: New hacks include "cubicgrid", "hypnowheel", and "lcdscrub".
Updates were made to "m6502", "gears", "cubestorm", and "noof". An attempt
was made to work around the latest Xinerama bugs. A Mac OS 10.5 perl bug
that caused the text-displaying hacks to fail on some systems was worked
around. Font-related System Preferences crashes in Mac OS savers were
hopefully fixed. The recent PAM changes broke the "Caps Lock" warning in
the password dialog, the failed login warnings, and syslogging, so all of
that was fixed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xscreensaver/
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[040] - Yakuake 2.9
by Eike Hein (http://freshmeat.net/users/eikehein/)
Sat, Mar 1st 2008 16:59
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
About: Yakuake is a drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole. It
features smoothly rolling down from the top of your screen, a tabbed
interface, configurable dimensions and animation speed, a skinnable GUI,
and a sophisticated DCOP interface.
Changes: This is the first stable release built on the KDE 4 platform, by
way of a newly-written, improved codebase that incorporates frequently
requested new features as well as robustness improvements. New features
include support for XComposite translucency and dynamic tab titles.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yakuake/
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