Newsletter for Friday, March 14th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (48) :::
[001] - Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 5.2 (Stable)
[002] - allmydata-tahoe 0.9
[003] - AnotherScrapBook A.04.01.12
[004] - Antares Project 0.0.5.3
[005] - Autodist 1.4
[006] - BEJY 1.4.1.62
[007] - Benojt 0.3
[008] - brisk 0.0.9 (Spawn)
[009] - CacheGuard OS 5.3.0
[010] - cfunge 0.1.0
[011] - Clonezilla 1.0.9-19 (Clonezilla live)
[012] - CorneliOS 0.8.3r14
[013] - Covered 0.6.1
[014] - Crate Game Engine 20080313
[015] - CrunchyFrog 0.2.0 beta1
[016] - Editra 0.2.90
[017] - Entwine 0.0.2
[018] - Envoy 0.4
[019] - Florence 0.1.1
[020] - FreeNAS 0.686.3
[021] - Funpidgin 2.4.0
[022] - gAny2DVD 0.1-5
[023] - Gentle.NET 1.5.0
[024] - GeoWebCache 0.7.2
[025] - GLE (Graphics Layout Engine) 4.1.2
[026] - GPM 1.20.3pre4
[027] - Mapyrus 0.803
[028] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.44
[029] - MOSIX 2.23.1.0 for Linux-2.6.24.3 (Linux 2.6)
[030] - MyJgui 0.6
[031] - Nanoki 1.06
[032] - ns4 4.0(7)
[033] - OBM 2.1.7
[034] - OpenStego 0.4.2
[035] - PatientOS 0.60
[036] - peekabot 0.3
[037] - PgWorksheet 1.9
[038] - plptools 1.0.0
[039] - python-rope 0.7.9
[040] - SILC Server 1.1.1
[041] - SILC Runtime Toolkit 1.2-beta3
[042] - Surftrackr 20080314
[043] - tenshi 0.10
[044] - The Blue Programming Language 1.5
[045] - The Tiny Multi Agent Platform 4.0
[046] - VisIt 1.8.1
[047] - waitmax 1.0
[048] - XLOGO 0.9.92
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Advanced Bash Scripting Guide 5.2 (Stable)
by M. Leo Cooper (http://freshmeat.net/users/thegrendel/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:17
Education
Software Development :: Documentation
System :: Systems Administration
About: The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a
tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book (the equivalent of
880+ print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It
contains 340 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of
tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting
tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming
techniques, such as sorting and recursion. It is well suited for either
individual study or classroom use. It covers Bash, up to and including
version 3.2x.
Changes: Many bugfixes and stylistic cleanups were done. Four new example
scripts were added. A new subsection on version 3.2 Bash update was added.
Explanations of certain difficult concepts were clarified. This is an
important update.
License: GNU Free Documentation License (FDL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/advancedbashscriptingguide/
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[002] - allmydata-tahoe 0.9
by zooko (http://freshmeat.net/users/zooko/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 00:50
Communications :: File Sharing
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
About: With Tahoe, you can store your files in a distributed way across a
set of computers, such that if some of the computers fail or become
unavailable, you can still retrieve your data from the remaining
computers. You can also securely share your files with other users. The
source code is dual licenced under the GPL and the Transitive Grace Period
Public Licence.
Changes: This is the first release which is considered stable and
functional enough to serve as a permanent store of valuable data. New
versions of Tahoe are expected to maintain backwards compatibility with
this version for the forseeable future.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/allmydata-tahoe/
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[003] - AnotherScrapBook A.04.01.12
by ewl (http://freshmeat.net/users/ewl/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 00:49
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
About: AnotherScrapBook is a static Website generator. It can currently
handle (almost) all kinds of pictures, as well as MJPEG films as
typically generated by a digital camera.
Changes: This version fixes a few annoying problems like errors when
transcoding films and hanging when calling external applications.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asbook/
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[004] - Antares Project 0.0.5.3
by Phillip Jacobs (http://freshmeat.net/users/phillyqueso/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 14:30
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: Antares is a PHP 5 framework intended to provide a community
network allowing developers to publish, rate, and grow code up the Antares
ladder. The main idea is reusability, agility, and standards-compliant
non-intrusive development.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/antares-project/
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[005] - Autodist 1.4
by priikone (http://freshmeat.net/users/priikone/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:06
Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: Autodist is a source distribution management system that allows
powerful mechanisms to define what is included in and excluded from a
distribution and what license is used. It is especially targeted at large
software projects that create multiple distributions from a source tree.
Autodist supports distribution management in directory, file, and file
content level, and automatic relicensing of a distribution.
Changes: This release adds support for distdefs in .mm, .M, and .S files.
It fixes some shell compatibility issues and the .ad file processing.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autodist/
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[006] - BEJY 1.4.1.62
by bebbo (http://freshmeat.net/users/bebbo/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 09:59
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3
About: BEJY is a modular server application. It is packaged, by default,
as a Web application container and mail server with SSL. It has
functionality similar to inetd, and has some helper classes/functions to
ease the implementation of new protocols. It provides a generic
multithreaded TPC/IP server implementation with optional SSL support,
covering the complete connection and thread management. Each supported
service provides its protocol implementation. The current version comes
with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP protocol implementations. The HTTP
protocol implementation also contains a servlet engine, a JSP 1.2 engine,
a handler to invoke CGI, and other useful things. The mail protocols
require a database using JDBC, as MySQL, MSSQL, and others.
Changes: This release improves the 'GuessPermission' algorithm to block
spam. It fixes the SEARCH command in the IMAP4 implementation. It improves
the conformance of the servlet engine. Some performance optimizations have
been made.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bejy/
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[007] - Benojt 0.3
by innerspace (http://freshmeat.net/users/felfe/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:06
Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Benojt is a fractal explorer that focuses on easy navigation in a
fractal image and flexible creation of new fractals. Due to its modular
design single components like iterators, renderers, and colorings can be
replaced, making it easy to experiment with individual aspects of the
creation of a fractal image. Using the Java class loading API, new
components can be created from templates and compiled and supplied at
runtime.
Changes: A new window menu bar. The ability to pause and continue
rendering. Moving the visible area via drag and drop (middle button). A
progress bar. New configurable iterators for Mandelbrot, Julia, and spider
iterator. The ability to edit and delete local iterators. A new offset in
gradient coloring. Saving preferences to disk, and a new preferences
dialog. The iterator manager dialog has been reworked. This release can
show the template source. It has an improved menu structure and localized
number formatting.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/benojt/
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[008] - brisk 0.0.9 (Spawn)
by mop (http://freshmeat.net/users/nastasi/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:12
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: brisk is an implementation of the Briscola in 5 card game that uses
Ajax technology.
Changes: All old features were implemented with the new modular data
architecture. Recovery of crashed game data areas was added. The "white
tables" inconsistency bug which occurred when returning to the main room
from an ended game was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/brisk/
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[009] - CacheGuard OS 5.3.0
by Afshin Tajvidi (http://freshmeat.net/users/tajflow/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 13:02
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security
About: CacheGuard is a Linux-based OS/appliance dedicated to Web traffic
security and optimization. It transforms an x86-based machine into a
powerful Web gateway appliance. It allows you to control Web traffic for
Web surfers and Web servers by acting as a forwarding and reverse HTTP /
HTTPS proxy. It supports HTTP transparent implementation, HTTP
compression, Web caching, URL black- and whitelist guarding, and Web
server load balancing. It features a stateful firewall with NAT and PAT,
and a content filtering module blocking malicious HTTP requests like XSS,
SQL and Command Injection. It integrates a caching DNS, a DHCP server, a
bandwidth shaper to manage the QoS, a load sharing system, and an HA (high
availability) mode with VRRP and link bonding.
Changes: The furtive error while adding a list item in the Web GUI has
been corrected. Connections to next peers work properly. Object sharing
between cache peers has been optimized. All source code has been rebuilt
using gcc 4.1.2. All basic packages are upgraded. The command "halt" may
power off the system even if the administrator is remotely logged in.
Support for old Pentium Pro CPUs has been added to the Linux kernel.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cacheguard/
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[010] - cfunge 0.1.0
by AnMaster (http://freshmeat.net/users/AnTux/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:12
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: cfunge is a fast interpreter for the Befunge98 esoteric language.
It is standard conforming.
Changes: This release is standard conforming and has the basic features
needed in Befunge98.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cfunge/
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[011] - Clonezilla 1.0.9-19 (Clonezilla live)
by Steven (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevenshiau/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:36
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring
About: Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec
Ghost. It saves and restores only blocks in use on the hard drive if the
file system is supported. For unsupported file systems, dd is used
instead. It has been used to clone a 5 GB system to 40 clients in about 10
minutes.
Changes: The bugs related to cciss RAID device restoration and creating
recovery CDs have been fixed. The latest syslinux is used now. More
descriptions have been added to the boot menu.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clonezilla/
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[012] - CorneliOS 0.8.3r14
by Jos Kirps (http://freshmeat.net/users/joskirps/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 13:01
Information Management
Internet
About: CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop
Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a
set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so
that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a
Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of
database application.
Changes: This is a maintenance release that offers several forum
application handler fixes and enhancements, a calendar application handler
prototype that allows you to add and manage events, improved HTML parser
support for colored tables, and multiple personal finance management
application handler enhancements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cornelios/
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[013] - Covered 0.6.1
by phase1geo (http://freshmeat.net/users/phase1geo/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:07
Scientific/Engineering :: Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
About: Covered is a Verilog code coverage utility that reads in a Verilog
design and a generated VCD/LXT dumpfile from that design and generates a
coverage file that can be merged with other coverage files or used to
create a coverage report. Covered also contains the GUI coverage report
utility that reads in a coverage file to allow interactive coverage
discovery. Areas of coverage measured by Covered are: line, toggle,
memory, combinational logic, FSM state/state-transition and assertion
coverage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/covered/
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[014] - Crate Game Engine 20080313
by Jason Turner (http://freshmeat.net/users/lefticus/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:24
Games/Entertainment
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The Crate Game Engine is a game engine that is designed to make
creating games trivial. The rendering and scripting engines are removed
from the game engine to make the specialization of games as easy as
possible. Currently, scripting support is implemented to allow a Lua
script to be put directly in the game file, which can be validated as XML.
Multiplayer text based adventure-style games can be played with the
existing console rendering engine.
Changes: Crate Game Engine has been completely rewritten from scratch
after realizing that the current direction was not going to scale as
intended. This release represents the first working release after the
rewrite. No games are currently playable, but it is a working
proof-of-concept of the new asynchronous message passing-based engine.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/emtpycrate/
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[015] - CrunchyFrog 0.2.0 beta1
by Andi Albrect (http://freshmeat.net/users/aalbrecht/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 14:30
Database :: Front-Ends
About: CrunchyFrog is a database navigator and query tool for GNOME.
Currently PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite3 databases, and LDAP servers
are supported for browsing and querying. More databases can be added using
the plugin system.
Changes: This is the first beta release for the 0.2.x series. It features
some important performance fixes, some UI improvements, and new features
like the SQL library.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crunchyfrog/
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[016] - Editra 0.2.90
by Cody Precord (http://freshmeat.net/users/cprecord/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:22
Text Editors
About: Editra is a general, extensible, multi-platform text editor with an
implementation that focuses on creating a clean and easy-to-use interface
with features that aid in code development. Currently, it supports syntax
highlighting and variety of other useful features for more than 50
programing languages.
Changes: This release adds a new bundled plugin "CodeBrowser" which can be
used to browse the structure of important elements in a code document, a
new version of the Projects plugin which adds support for the Bazaar
source control system, and new localizations and updates to older ones.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editra/
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[017] - Entwine 0.0.2
by Rob Cakebread (http://freshmeat.net/users/justrob/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 00:57
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: Entwine is a command-line client and library written in Python
using rdflib to access twine.com.
Changes: Initial support for RDF parsing was added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/entwine/
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[018] - Envoy 0.4
by cruise (http://freshmeat.net/users/CruiseWD/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 13:05
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Envoy is an "open and display things" library. It provides an
interface for storing file associations and launching files based on those
associations. This comes with a wrapper program to enable desktop users to
benefit from the file associations without developers adding explicit
support. It also supports opening any URI transparently, as long as the
corresponding protocol support exists: applications that want simple read
(and write, depending on the protocol) access to files, wherever they are,
can use the envoy API to do so.
Changes: This release adds a proof-of-concept for URI/protocol handling
via plugins. It renames the frontend to "consul", and includes a working
pc file. There are small updates to the GTK frontend. The project
structure and build process have been cleaned up a lot.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/envoy/
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[019] - Florence 0.1.1
by François Agrech (http://freshmeat.net/users/agrech/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 13:00
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
About: Florence is a scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that
stays out of your way when you don't need it. It is useful if you can't
use a real keyboard either because of a handicap, disease, broken
keyboard, or tablet PC but you can use a pointing device. It aims at being
easy and pretty.
Changes: Some info bubbles have been added and some bugs have been fixed.
The biggest changes are internal. The layout key file is now an XML (XSD
validated) file instead of a basic key file. It makes florence dependant
on libxml. This allows more complex changes in the future layout. Future
versions will include extensions like function keys, arrow keys and a
numpad support as well as eye-candy features like SVG keys and composite
effects.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/florence/
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[020] - FreeNAS 0.686.3
by Olivier Cochard-Labbe (http://freshmeat.net/users/cochard/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:51
System :: Archiving
System :: Networking
About: FreeNAS is a minimal FreeBSD distribution that provides NAS
(network-attached storage) services: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, local
user authentication, and software RAID. It may be booted and run from
compact flash or CD-ROM. It also features a full Web-based configuration
interface.
Changes: This is a maintenance release, so no new features have been
added. This will be the last stable release based on FreeBSD 6.2.
consolehm sensor support was removed because it doesn't work or recognize
up-to-date hardware. WebGUI uses NiftyCubes for rounded corners with CSS
and JavaScript. The minutes, hours, days, months, and week days are
validated. /bin/chflags was added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenas/
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[021] - Funpidgin 2.4.0
by Connor Behan (http://freshmeat.net/users/ConnorBehan/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:19
Communications :: Chat
About: Funpidgin is a modified version of the Pidgin instant messenger
application. It was made in response to the controversial auto-resizing
textbox that was implemented in Pidgin. Current features of Funpidgin
include manual resizing and the ability to turn off persistent window
placement. Funpidgin's releases are meant to coincide with Pidgin's
releases.
Changes: The textbox can be manually resized. The window manager is
allowed to decide where new conversation windows pop up.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/funpidgin/
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[022] - gAny2DVD 0.1-5
by toba (http://freshmeat.net/users/ganjalood/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 09:57
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: gAny2DVD is a graphical application that can convert any of your
video files supported by your installation of "mplayer" into MPEG2 format
suitable for creating DVDs. A simple DVD authoring tool is included as
well. You need to have mplayer, mencoder, and dvdauthor installed in order
to run gAny2DVD.
Changes: This release adds an option for adding black borders around the
video (expand). Aspect info is restored, as dvdauthor lacked it. Better
construction of the MEncoder command. .tgz and .rpm packages. Insertion of
'autoaspect' instead of 16/9 or 4/3, as it seems to keep the a_ratio
correct. 'expand' has been removed from menc encoding. The vbitrate value
has been fixed so that the resulting MPEG file is not bigger than the
specified DVD size.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gany2dvd/
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[023] - Gentle.NET 1.5.0
by Morten Mertner (http://freshmeat.net/users/EPrime/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:10
Database
Software Development
Software Development :: Code Generators
About: Gentle.NET is a CLS-compliant, database independent object
persistence framework. It has an extensive feature set, excellent
performance, and reasonably complete docs. It features automatic SQL
generation, object construction/caching/uniquing, validation, bindable
list support, relation management, transactions, and much more. Oracle,
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Firebird/InterBase, MS SQL Server (incl. CE), MS
Access, SQLite, Sybase, and Sybase ASA are supported. It includes a NAnt
build file as well as VS.NET project files for building under Windows.
Mono 1.1.4 and higher is fully supported.
Changes: This release updates Gentle to .NET 2.0 and adds support for
generic access methods. Additionally, it contains bugfixes and
improvements made since the last release almost 2 years ago. Sadly, it is
also a wrap-up release for a project where development has stagnated and
is unlikely to be revived (at least by the original author).
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentle/
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[024] - GeoWebCache 0.7.2
by arneke (http://freshmeat.net/users/arneke/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 13:00
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: GeoWebCache is a WMS tile cache implemented as a Java HttpServlet.
It does automatic matching to the best available tile and supports JCS and
file backends. The response time is typically measured in milliseconds.
Changes: This release introduces native support for Microsoft Virtual
Earth and Google Maps clients. Support for vendor specific parameters and
multiple WMS backends, with automatic failover, has been added. The
program now uses JAI for improved performance and to avoid problems with
GIF images.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/geowebcache/
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[025] - GLE (Graphics Layout Engine) 4.1.2
by jeans (http://freshmeat.net/users/jeans/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 00:57
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based
Scientific/Engineering
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: GLE (Graphics Layout Engine) is a graphics scripting language
designed for creating publication quality graphs, plots, diagrams,
figures, and slides. GLE supports various graph types (including function
plots, histograms, bar graphs, scatter plots, contour lines, color maps,
and surface plots) through a simple but flexible set of graphing commands.
More complex output can be created by relying on GLE's scripting language,
which is full featured with subroutines, variables, and logic control. GLE
relies on LaTeX for text output and supports mathematical formulae in
graphs and figures.
Changes: This release fixes a problem with reading certain JPEG files, one
with plotting non-square height maps, and one with rotated LaTeX formulas.
It includes fixes for compilation with GCC 4.3 and has better support for
path names with special characters.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gleinteractivegraphicslanguageeditor/
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[026] - GPM 1.20.3pre4
by Nico Schottelius (http://freshmeat.net/users/telmich/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:01
System
Utilities
About: GPM (General Purpose Mouse) is a mouse server for the console and
xterm, with sample clients included (emacs, etc).
Changes: gpm.c and gpn.c were split off from each other. Some Debian
patches were applied.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpm/
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[027] - Mapyrus 0.803
by simonchenery (http://freshmeat.net/users/simonchenery/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:03
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: Mapyrus is software for creating plots of points, lines, polygons,
and labels in PostScript, PDF, SVG, and Web image output formats. It
combines the following three components: A Logo or turtle graphics
language, reading of GIS datasets and RDBMS tables, and running as a
stand-alone program or as a Web server.
Changes: This release fixes the use of clipping in SVG output. It adds
more options and examples for better street labeling.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mapyrus/
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[028] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.44
by Mjrz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjrz/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:34
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for
those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage
expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save
complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and
graphs for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock
prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX
data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format,
and also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card
accounts.
Changes: A foreign exchange converter and monitor feature was added. Bugs
were fixed.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mjrz/
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[029] - MOSIX 2.23.1.0 for Linux-2.6.24.3 (Linux 2.6)
by A. Barak (http://freshmeat.net/users/amnon/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:44
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: MOSIX is a management system targeted for high performance
computing on Linux clusters and multi-cluster organizational grids. In
MOSIX, there is no need to modify or link applications with any library,
copy files or login to remote nodes, or even assign processes to different
nodes. It is all done automatically, similar to a single computer with
multiple processors; just fork and forget.
Changes: A new administrator guide was written. The installation script
and mosconf were improved. Bugs were fixed. Support for Linux kernel
2.6.24.3 was added.
License: Free For Educational Use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mosix/
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[030] - MyJgui 0.6
by verontaka (http://freshmeat.net/users/verontaka/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:55
Database
Database :: Front-Ends
About: MyJgui is a GUI (graphical user interface) for MySQL. It aims to be
easy to use for new users as well as experts. You can store multiple
connections that can be used simultaneously. Stored passwords are
encrypted using symmetric encryption. Underlying databases and tables are
displayed in a tree structure with the connections being the first level
nodes. MyJgui is capable of easy data manipulation through a grid. It has
a unique feature of bookmarking parametrical queries (sqlmarks). The
documentation (user guide) is quite comprehensive and kept up-to-date.
Changes: The code was cleaned up and performance was enhanced.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/myjgui/
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[031] - Nanoki 1.06
by Zoe (http://freshmeat.net/users/ZoeInfo/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 12:58
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: Preliminary WebDAV support. An updated Blueprint CSS framework.
An updated Markdown library.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nanoki/
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[032] - ns4 4.0(7)
by Chris Mason (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrimaso/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:09
Utilities
About: ns4 is a configuration management tool which allows the automated
backup of just about anything, but it was designed for routers and
switches. If you are able to log into it through a CLI, you can back it
up. Commands are defined within a configuration file, and when they are
executed, the output is sent to a series of FTP servers for archiving. As
well as archiving configurations, it allows scripts to be run on nodes;
this allows configurations to be applied en masse and allows conditional
logic so different bits of scripts are run on different nodes.
Changes: This release adds support for a null proxy, which removes the
requirement of having to bounce through a proxy server if the node is
directly reachable. It adds support for cartridge implied tags that are
combined with the node defined tags, which allows vendor-specific tags. It
also includes various bugfixes and cleanups.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ns4/
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[033] - OBM 2.1.7
by Pierre Baudracco (http://freshmeat.net/users/pierreb/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:17
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Office/Business
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: OBM is a groupware, email, LDAP, Windows PDC, CRM, and project
management application. It is mainly used as an Exchange or Notes/Domino
groupware and mail server replacement, as an LDAP directory, as a Windows
PDC, as a contact and customer database, as a project management tool, or
as any combination of these functions. It provides groupware (calendars,
contacts, and tasks) connectors for Outlook, Thunderbird/Lightning, and
PDAs. It supports internationalization and themes. It is highly scalable,
and is used by sites from five to many thousands of users.
Changes: This release enhances the user-defined functions (hooks) of
Contact. Calendar meeting planification and bookmarks with groups were
cleaned up. Bugfixes were made to harden and improve the host modules and
mail handling and to improve the chart and contact display.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/obm/
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[034] - OpenStego 0.4.2
by Samir Vaidya (http://freshmeat.net/users/syvaidya/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:35
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: This release adds minor bugfixes and support for the new
algorithm RandomLSB. RandomLSB uses the Least Significant Bits of image
pixels in a pseudo-random manner, so it becomes very difficult to detect
the stegged data using statistical methods. This method is slower than
regular LSB, but it is more secure.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openstego/
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[035] - PatientOS 0.60
by Greg Caulton (http://freshmeat.net/users/caultonpos/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 14:27
Office/Business
Other/Nonlisted Topic
Scientific/Engineering :: Medical Science Apps.
About: PatientOS is a free healthcare information management system
designed for hospitals and healthcare practitioners. This software is for
physicians, nurses, pharmacist, the laboratory, and eventually all
hospital departments and clinicians.
Changes: This release adds internationalization tools to quickly translate
the English contents. Support was added for Unicode character sets, and
multi-byte characters such as those found in the Japanese language can be
displayed. Medications have been added demonstrating how to create a
custom order entry workflow. Initial integration with a commercial drug
database is demonstrated on the hosted demo. The CSV import for clinical
forms has been expanded, and resource schedule management revised.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/patientos/
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[036] - peekabot 0.3
by Staffan Gimåker (http://freshmeat.net/users/gimaker/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:23
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: peekabot is a versatile 3D visualization tool targeted at robotics
researchers and developers. It's multi-platform, general purpose, easily
extendable, scalable, and does not depend on any other frameworks to
function. It also provides some functionality for interacting with your
robots using the GUI. You can test your algorithms in both simulated and
real environments. The only requirement is that the device can use TCP/IP.
Changes: This release includes new primitives for easy and efficient
visualization of line clouds, point clouds, 2D occupancy grids, and grids.
It also features a plethora of bugfixes and minor improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peekabot/
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[037] - PgWorksheet 1.9
by Henri Michelon (http://freshmeat.net/users/hmichelon/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:20
Database :: Front-Ends
About: PgWorksheet is a simple GUI frontend to PostgreSQL for executing
SQL queries and psql commands without using the psql command line tool.
Changes: This release adds support for the python-pgsql module to resolve
dependency problems on some operating systems (pyPgSQL is still supported)
and official support and binary packages for OpenSUSE.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pgworksheet/
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[038] - plptools 1.0.0
by Reuben Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/rrt/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:13
Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities
About: plptools lets Unix (mainly Linux) systems communicate with EPOC
PDAs (such as the Psion Revo, Psion Series 5, and Geofox 1) via a serial
or (on Linux) infra-red connection. The following tools are part of the
package: plpftp, an FTP-like frontend with some extensions; plpfuse, a
FUSE-based file system that mounts the EPOC device's file systems on the
PC; sisinstall, a SIS package installer; and plpprintd, a print server for
printing via a PC.
Changes: This release marks the transition of plptools to being a stable,
mature package. It also fixes return codes in plpfuse to reflect better
error conditions on the EPOC device. Some other minor clean-ups were done.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plptools/
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[039] - python-rope 0.7.9
by Ali Gholami Rudi (http://freshmeat.net/users/aligrudi/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:24
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Software Development :: Refactoring
About: Rope is a Python refactoring library. It can be used in other IDEs
to provide features like refactoring and coding assistance.
Changes: This release adds support for built-in and c-extension modules.
An in_hierarchy option was added to find occurrences. A maxfixes argument
has been added to get documentation and definition locations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyrope/
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[040] - SILC Server 1.1.1
by priikone (http://freshmeat.net/users/priikone/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:00
Communications
Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing
About: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which
provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to
send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This
includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All
messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages
can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1,
PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software
is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system
administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers.
Changes: This version fixes a crash related to processing of NEW_CLIENT
packets.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/silc/
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[041] - SILC Runtime Toolkit 1.2-beta3
by priikone (http://freshmeat.net/users/priikone/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:04
Software Development :: Libraries
About: SILC Runtime Toolkit (SRT) provides useful utility functions for
application programmers. SRT can be used as the main runtime in any
application. It provides an application main loop, hash tables, lists,
atomic operations, threads, locks, queues, a file descriptor stream, a
socket stream, network routines, a finite state machine, a memory pool, a
random number generator, buffers, regular expressions, and many other
features. It natively supports Unix/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Symbian
OS platforms.
Changes: This version adds several new utility functions.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/srt/
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[042] - Surftrackr 20080314
by Simon Burns (http://freshmeat.net/users/simonburns/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:23
Internet :: Log Analysis
Internet :: Proxy Servers
System :: Systems Administration
About: Surftrackr is a log file analyzer for squid and Dan's Guardian. It
is designed to allow per-user scrutiny and analysis of squid log files.
The program allows a non-technical user to extract information about Web
usage patterns, the type of information downloaded, the sites visited by
users, and the amount of information (per-byte or per-file) accessed. The
program runs from a Unix system via a Web browser, and uses Google Charts
to produce graphics.
Changes: Data acquisition has been improved to allow direct loading from
your server's squid or Dan's Guardian log file. Admin users can now
customize the menu options available to other Surftrackr users to enhance
usability. Support for Dan's Guardian CSV files has been added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/surftrackr/
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[043] - tenshi 0.10
by Andrea Barisani (http://freshmeat.net/users/lcars/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 10:02
System :: Monitoring
About: tenshi (formerly wasabi) is a log monitoring program designed to
watch a log file for lines matching user defined regular expressions and
report on the matches. The regular expressions are assigned to queues that
have an alert interval and a list of mail recipients. Queues can be set to
send a notification as soon as there is a log line assigned to them, or to
send periodic reports. Additionally, uninteresting fields in the log lines
(such as PID numbers) can be masked with the standard regular expression
grouping operators ( ). This allows cleaner and more readable reports. All
reports are separated by hostname and all messages are condensed when
possible.
Changes: The option includedir now skips dotfiles. The PID file is now
created in debug, profile, and foreground modes. An incorrect UID check
not handling the root user has been fixed. Buggy time_to_die, buggy
tail_multiple option parsing, empty report sending if the filter program
returns no output, and a bug regarding unmatched subpatterns have been
fixed. This release dies before the pipe if tail_file is not readable,
which prevents an fd leak. IO::Select has been replaced with
IO::BufferedSelect, which fixes parsing delay of buffered lines.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tenshi/
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[044] - The Blue Programming Language 1.5
by Erik Lechak (http://freshmeat.net/users/elechak/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:32
Software Development :: Assemblers
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Blue is a new multi-purpose dynamic programming language. The
minimalistic syntax is intuitive, easy to learn, and adapts to a broad
range of programming styles and standards.
Changes: This release introduces a more versatile, reliable, and
expandable type system. The documentation now lives in a wiki and has been
updated to reflect recent additions to the language. A number of bugs were
fixed, and a major push to re-factor the code has been started.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bluelang/
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[045] - The Tiny Multi Agent Platform 4.0
by sgalland (http://freshmeat.net/users/sgalland/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:46
Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: tinyMAS is a multiagent platform that provides base concepts (such
as kernel, message, yellow pages, white pages, and transport service) and
extended concepts (such as environment, influence, and perception). It
aims to provide an easy-to-understand and and easy-to-use platform
dedicated for multiagent engineer/research courses.
Changes: Several time-management functions were added.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinymas/
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[046] - VisIt 1.8.1
by Brad Whitlock (http://freshmeat.net/users/BradWhitlock/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 01:01
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Scientific/Engineering
About: VisIt is an interactive parallel visualization and graphical
analysis tool for viewing scientific data. Users can quickly generate
visualizations from their data, animate them through time, manipulate
them, and save the resulting images for presentations. VisIt contains a
rich set of visualization features so that you can view your data in a
variety of ways. It can be used to visualize scalar and vector fields
defined on two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) structured and
unstructured meshes. It was designed to interactively handle very large
data set sizes in the terascale range, and works well down to small data
sets in the kilobyte range.
Changes: This version is a patch release that fixes issues that were
discovered with the 1.8.0 release. Several crashes on the Windows platform
were fixed. Profiles for LLNL hosts were updated to comply with new machine
configurations. Problems with reading KullLite and Silo data files were
resolved.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/visit/
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[047] - waitmax 1.0
by Mathias Kettner (http://freshmeat.net/users/supermathi/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 12:14
Utilities
About: Waitmax is a small command line utility that executes a program in
a new process. If that process does not exit withing a certain time, it is
killed with the TERM signal. The precompiled RPM runs on all i386-based
systems. It contains a version of waitmax that is statically linked with
diet and does not need libc or any other library.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/waitmax/
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[048] - XLOGO 0.9.92
by loic (http://freshmeat.net/users/lolosuperlolo/)
Fri, Mar 14th 2008 05:25
Adaptive Technologies
Education
About: XLogo is an interpreter for the Logo programming language.
Changes: This release adds 3D Primitives (the XLogo turtle can now move in
3D space), a Java 3D viewer which displays points, planes, and text in full
3D, the ability to create property lists containing paired key-value items,
two new test operators, and support for the Galician language.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xlogo/
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