Newsletter for Wednesday, April 02nd 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (52) :::
[001] - Anki 0.9.5.5
[002] - audiokonverter 5.7
[003] - Bacula 2.2.9-b4 (Development)
[004] - BG-Rescue Linux 0.9.1
[005] - BonGoLipi 0.1
[006] - cconf 0.0.1
[007] - CLEX 3.18
[008] - Coherence 0.5.4
[009] - collectd 4.3.2
[010] - CrossFTP Server 1.09
[011] - cufps 0.0.1
[012] - Cyan Secure Web Proxy 1.4.1
[013] - DSI utilities 1.0.2
[014] - eTcl 1.0-rc27
[015] - fastutil 5.1.3
[016] - FSVS 1.1.14
[017] - GAdmin-HTTPD 0.1.2
[018] - GNU Gatekeeper 2.2.7
[019] - Hijra Islamic Calendar هجرة 0.1.2
[020] - Ignoramus 0.2.1
[021] - Jess 7.1b3 (Development)
[022] - JLanguageLearn 0.8.2
[023] - JOpt.ASP 2.2.0
[024] - libev 3.2
[025] - libmpq 0.4.1
[026] - LimeSurvey Stable 1.70+ Build 4600
[027] - LiVES 0.9.8.10
[028] - Métamorphose 0.4.2 (Métamorphose 2)
[029] - MirBSD Korn Shell R33c
[030] - Monitorix 1.2.0
[031] - mpq-tools 0.4.1
[032] - MUSoSu 0.9.6
[033] - MySQL Savior 1.0.2
[034] - Ocsigen 1.0.0
[035] - OfflineIMAP 5.99.9
[036] - OpenChange 0.7 (libmapi)
[037] - pc 0.3-2008-04-02
[038] - PeerStream Audio Video Streaming Server 4.85 (P2P Relay)
[039] - poMMo PR16.1
[040] - Schedule Generator 1.0
[041] - Scriptella 1.0 RC
[042] - SpeedCrunch 0.10
[043] - Squirrel Shell 1.2.1
[044] - The Chronicle Blog Compiler 2.5
[045] - Tobu 0.4.13
[046] - tpop3d 1.5.4
[047] - uni2ascii 4.6
[048] - VTD-XML 2.4
[049] - WDB 0.7.0
[050] - XIST 3.2.4
[051] - YaaCs 2.1.1
[052] - Zsh 4.3.6 (Development)
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Anki 0.9.5.5
by Mikael Magnusson (http://freshmeat.net/users/Mikaelj/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:38
Education
About: Anki is an intelligent, spaced-repetition flash card program
designed to maximize your memory potential and minimize the time spent
studying. It has special features useful when studying Japanese, but can
be used to study anything.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anki/
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[002] - audiokonverter 5.7
by labrum (http://freshmeat.net/users/labrum/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:31
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
About: audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3,
AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV, and movies to MP3,
OGG, M4A, WAV, and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them. It needs
oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer, wvunpack, and lame to work.
id3lib, metaflac, and vorbis-tools are optional, but needed for full
functionality.
Changes: Length of audio extraction from movies has been fixed. Copying of
audio from movies to files and showing the properties of audio from movies
have been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/audiokonverter/
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[003] - Bacula 2.2.9-b4 (Development)
by Lev_Arris (http://freshmeat.net/users/LevArris/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:27
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup,
recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different
computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient
and relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage
management features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged
files.
Changes: This release remembers the last non-tape autochanger volume that
was mounted on each drive, fixes bug #1068 which caused an SD crash using
a "pure virtual" file based autochanger, and generates correct JobMedia
records (indexes) during spooling/despooling when running concurrent jobs.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bacula/
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[004] - BG-Rescue Linux 0.9.1
by Bodo Giannone (http://freshmeat.net/users/bgiannone/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:20
System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: Floppy-Based
About: BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox and uClibc-based rescue system with a
2.4 series Linux kernel. It supports full read/write support for NTFS
using ntfs-3g and limited but fast NTFS support using the NTFS 2.1.6b
kernel driver. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or from one 2.8MB
El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It supports a wide range of
hardware (including SATA) and filesystems (including ext2/3 and xfs) and
can serve as a full backup/restore system for MS Windows systems that use
FAT12/16/32 or NTFS. It also includes many utilities.
Changes: ntfs-3g 1.2310 was added, which is a much more stable ntfs
read-write driver than ntfsmount with fewer dependencies. Therefore,
ntfsmount was removed, along with the now unneeded FUSE userspace tools.
Busybox was updated to 1.9.2 and e2fsprogs was updated to 1.40.7.
linld.com 0.97, dd_rescue 1.14, and regedit from regutils 0.10 were added.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bgrescue/
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[005] - BonGoLipi 0.1
by Sambit Basu (http://freshmeat.net/users/sambitbasu/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:38
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: BonGoLipi is a transliteration tool for converting phonetically
typed Bengali (Bangla) into text displayable with Unicode or non-Unicode
fonts. It supports different transliteration schemes. Its objective is to
propagate standardized Bengali.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bongolipi/
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[006] - cconf 0.0.1
by Nico Schottelius (http://freshmeat.net/users/telmich/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 16:13
Software Development :: Build Tools
About: cconf aims to be a very lightweight and easy to use build assistant
(like auto*).
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cconf/
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[007] - CLEX 3.18
by Vlado Potisk (http://freshmeat.net/users/vpfm/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:48
System :: Shells
System :: Systems Administration
About: CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in
C with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file
status details) and provides features like command history, filename
insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct
commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands).
CLEX is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the
on-line help.
Changes: The column widths are now variable allow the display of more data
on the file panel screen. The core of the name completion routine was
rewritten. A few small bugs have been corrected.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clex/
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[008] - Coherence 0.5.4
by Erwan Velu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ErwanVelu/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:33
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: A DesktopApplet was added to easily start a Coherence instance
from your desktop's panel. More efforts were made to simplify the ordinary
user experience. The backend definition and other options may be specified
via command line. The --help output is a bit more usable. A MediaServer
backend was added for Ampache. Device implementations were made for
BinaryLight and DimmableLight. A little helper to extract device and
service XML files and send them was added as a beginning of a UPnP device
fingerprint program.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coherence/
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[009] - collectd 4.3.2
by Florian Forster (http://freshmeat.net/users/flocto/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 03:12
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: collectd is a small and modular daemon which collects system
information periodically and provides means to store the values. Included
in the distribution are numerous plug-ins for collecting CPU, disk, and
memory usage, network interface and DNS traffic, network latency, database
statistics, and much more. Custom statistics can easily be added in a
number of ways, including execution of arbitrary programs and plug-ins
written in Perl. Advanced features include a powerful network code to
collect statistics for entire setups and SNMP integration to query network
equipment.
Changes: Bugs in the creation of notifications have been fixed. Error
reporting while parsing the configuration has been improved. The sensors
plugin has been fixed to collect temperatures correctly using libsensors4,
and the reading of noise values has been fixed in the wireless plugin. The
unixsock plugin has been improved to handle multiple input and output
operations during the same session better.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/collectd/
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[010] - CrossFTP Server 1.09
by Tony Zhou (http://freshmeat.net/users/morningboat/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 19:46
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
About: CrossFTP Server is a professional FTP server for multiple
platforms. It offers a high-performance, easily configurable, and, most of
all, secure-enabled FTP server. Its main advantage is that it is very easy
to get started by novice users, and meets advanced users' requirements as
well. It supports user virtual directories, write permissions, idle
time-out, and upload/download bandwidth limitations. You can monitor all
user activities. Both upload and download files are resumable. A database
and LDAP can be used to store user data. "MODE Z" is supported for faster
transfers.
Changes: This version adds MD5 support for files and fixes a lot of bugs
to further improve stability.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/crossftpserver/
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[011] - cufps 0.0.1
by Karvur (http://freshmeat.net/users/Karvur/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:53
System :: Monitoring
About: cufps is a very small console program for retrieving CPU usage
information from /proc/stat.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cufps/
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[012] - Cyan Secure Web Proxy 1.4.1
by mko (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkofler/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:38
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security
About: Cyan Secure Web Proxy Server is a carrier grade, high performance
Internet filtering proxy server for Linux. It includes scalable
(user/group/host) Web filter and virus scan utilities for blocking
malicious applications at the gateway. It has an advanced URL database,
authentication support (Active Directory, LDAP, NTLM), SSL Interception,
easy deployment, and remote administration.
Changes: Windows authentication (NTLM), remote authentication via Secure
authentication daemon, user agent recognition, and hiding of user relevant
data in log files were added.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cyansecureweb/
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[013] - DSI utilities 1.0.2
by Sebastiano Vigna (http://freshmeat.net/users/vigna/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 16:02
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: The DSI utilities are a mixed collection of classes accumulated
during the last ten years in projects developed at the DSI (Dipartimento
di Scienze dell'Informazione, i.e., Information Sciences Department) of
the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Changes: Several fixes and speed improvements in bit vector classes. New
transformation strategies for ISO-8859-1 strings.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dsiutils/
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[014] - eTcl 1.0-rc27
by Evolane (http://freshmeat.net/users/evolane/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:47
Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries :: Tcl Extensions
About: eTcl is a "batteries-included" thread-enabled Tcl/Tk runtime
available as a single standalone executable. It includes several popular
extensions (Thread, Sqlite, Zlib, etc.), together with a Tcl wrapper for
the Pixane image processing library.
Changes: This version embeds Tcl/Tk 8.5.2 and up-to-date extensions
(including tls 1.6, sqlite 3.5.7, and tkhtml3). Startup time has been
optimized, using VFS caching and look-ahead. Image sub-scaling in pixane
accepts a new quality option. Implementation of the scene widget has been
cleaned up, and its documentation has been updated. Controling radio
devices (bluetooth, phone, wifi) on WinCE has been fixed.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/etcl/
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[015] - fastutil 5.1.3
by Sebastiano Vigna (http://freshmeat.net/users/vigna/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:43
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: fastutil extends the Java Collections Framework by providing
type-specific maps, sets, lists, and queues for Java with a small memory
footprint and fast access and insertion; it also includes a fast I/O API
for binary and text files. The classes implement their standard
counterpart interfaces (e.g., Map for maps) and can be plugged into
existing code. Besides the usual features, fastutil provides
reference-based containers (which do not use equals() to compare objects)
and linked structures. Most iterators provided by fastutil classes are
bidirectional, or even implement the standard list iterator interface.
Changes: A few bugs have been fixed. There is a new set of type-specific
Iterable classes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fastutil/
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[016] - FSVS 1.1.14
by Ph. Marek (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmarek/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 04:11
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Recovery Tools
System :: Software Distribution
About: FSVS is the abbreviation for “Fast System VerSioning”,
and is pronounced [fisvis]. It is used for backing up, restoring,
versioning, and system configuration management, using a Subversion
repository as the backend.
Changes: This version brings automatic merging of local and remote changes
with conflict marking (and an explicit "resolve" command). Updates can be
restricted to a subset of URLs (if you're using multiple). Note that this
cannot be done for a subset of the working copy. The filter option "text"
now means removed entries too. "urls dump" can now work verbosely to
produce more human-readable output. "checkout" now prints the entries as
they're checked out. The user gets better messages on wrong options.
Compatibility with Solaris was improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsvs/
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[017] - GAdmin-HTTPD 0.1.2
by Magnus-swe (http://freshmeat.net/users/magnusswe/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:36
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
About: GAdmin-HTTPD is an easy to use GTK+ frontend for Apache. It
features management of default servers and multi-vhosting, users, and
modules. It handles configuration import and creation, manual editing,
access and error log browsing, and more.
Changes: This release adds automatic configuration backups. It adds
missing options. It uses user/group www-data for standard Debian defines.
It changes "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride AuthConfig". It fixes
major version detection. It works out of the box for Fedora. There are
some code cleanups.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gadmin-httpd/
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[018] - GNU Gatekeeper 2.2.7
by Jan Willamowius (http://freshmeat.net/users/willamowius/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:46
Communications :: Telephony
System :: Networking
About: The GNU Gatekeeper is a free H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323
project. You can use it to manage a Voice-over-IP network and let endpoints
(e.g., Netmeeting) communicate through symbolic names. It also has an
external interface for billing and other applications. It runs on a number
of Unix versions (including Linux and Solaris) and Windows.
Changes: This version extends virtual queues to work on unregistered
calls, adds per prefix capacity limits and Q.931 cause code translation
per gateway. It includes a new "sql" routing policy, enables
auto-reconnect for current MySQL versions and implements the status port
MakeCall command. Other new features include H.460.9 realtime QoS
monitoring, H.460.interop support and H.350 authentication, bugfixes, and
much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnugk/
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[019] - Hijra Islamic Calendar هجرة 0.1.2
by alsadi (http://freshmeat.net/users/alsadi/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 20:15
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Hijra Islamic Calendar هجرة is an
application for viewing the Islamic calendar (also known as Hijri
calendar). It features a GUI with a tray applet. It includes both a
high-level OOP library and a low-level library which can be used to
implement other software that makes use of this type of calendar. It uses
a special algorithm which gives much better precision than other known
algorithms. It uses integer operations to avoid round off errors in
floating point operations.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hijra/
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[020] - Ignoramus 0.2.1
by MonkInsane (http://freshmeat.net/users/monkinsane/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 03:52
System :: Networking
About: Ignoramus is a configuration tool for Nagios.
Changes: A bug was fixed in the "Services Config" page where a script
would write two check commands to an output file. The "Check Command"
option on the "Services Config" page now includes new checks for the
Device 2: Cisco 1721 Series Router to check the FastEthernet0 interface,
the Serial0 interface, and the VirtualAccess1 interface.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ignoramus/
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[021] - Jess 7.1b3 (Development)
by Ernest Friedman-Hill (http://freshmeat.net/users/ejfried/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:51
Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Jess is a fast, light rule engine and scripting environment written
entirely in Java. You can build Java software that has the capacity to
"reason" using knowledge you supply in the form of declarative rules. It
is supplied as a programmer's library, making it ideal for embedding in
larger applications. Jess includes development tools built on the Eclipse
platform. It is free for academic use and can be licensed for commercial
use.
Changes: Support for Eclipse linked projects was added, along with a
number of engine bugfixes.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jess/
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[022] - JLanguageLearn 0.8.2
by Sebastian Parkitny (http://freshmeat.net/users/sparkitny/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 03:57
Education
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: JLanguageLearn is a generic language course. It is based on Java
and XML. You can define your own lessons in an easy way, and lessons are
displayed in a graphical user interface. An editor is included for
creating lessons.
Changes: Minor improvements were made. More Spanish lessons for German
learners were added.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jlanguagelearn/
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[023] - JOpt.ASP 2.2.0
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 15:55
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries
About: JOpt.ASP is a consistent advancement of JOpt.NET that exposes the
unique JOpt vehicle routing capabilities via standard HTTP/SOAP
interfaces. JOpt.ASP has been designed for enterprise applications and
Web-based solutions that are based on ASP.NET. JOpt.ASP provides its
optimization facilities through a stateful Web service that comes with a
comfortable programming interface that is very similar to JOpt.NET.
Changes: This version enables assessment and optimization of CO2 emission
and energy efficiency.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jopt.asp/
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[024] - libev 3.2
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:34
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Perl Modules
System :: Networking
About: Libev is a high-performance event loop for C (with optional and
separate interfaces for C++ and Perl), featuring support for I/O, timers
(relative and absolute, cron-like ones), signals, process status changes,
and other types of events. It has both a fast native API and libevent
emulation to support programs written using the libevent API. The libev
distribution consists of libevent with the core event handling parts
replaced by the libev embedded event loop. Differences to libevent include
higher speed, simpler design, more features, less memory usage,
embedability, and no arbitrary limits. libev supports epoll, kqueue,
Solaris event ports, poll, and select.
Changes: A bug that caused the select backend to malfunction on 64-bit
architectures has been fixed (the impact was small as poll was preferred
on POSIX and the Win32 backend was not affected). Recursive ev_loop
invocations will no longer clear the ONESHOT and NONBLOCK flags of an
outer loop call. ev_async_pending has been added, and the ev_time and
ev_sleep functions are now accessible via the (optional) Perl XS
interface.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libev/
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[025] - libmpq 0.4.1
by Maik Broemme (http://freshmeat.net/users/babyface/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:43
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Archiving :: Compression
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
About: libmpq is a library for manipulating MPQ (MoPaQ) archives, which
are used by Blizzard in most of their games (e.g., Diablo, Diablo 2,
StarCraft, WarCraft 3, and World of Warcraft). It can extract, move,
delete, and create archives.
Changes: Initial version, derived from mpq-tools. The library is now built
as a shared library by default. It significantly improves the usage.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libmpq/
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[026] - LimeSurvey Stable 1.70+ Build 4600
by Carsten Schmitz (http://freshmeat.net/users/cronostitan/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is a Web application that
interacts with MySQL, MSSQL, or Postgres to develop surveys, publish
surveys, and collect responses to surveys. Once a survey has been created,
data can be inserted into the survey either by a "pretty" public screen
which presents each question one at a time, or by a quick and nasty data
entry screen. It includes the capacity to generate individualized
"tokens", so that invitations can be issued to participants. It also has
the capacity to set conditions on whether questions will display
(branching), numerous question types, and a basic statistics function.
Changes: A PHP parse error that resulted from group import was fixed.
Output when no "header" is set for dual scale matrix was fixed. An empty
progress bar in the template editor was fixed. The absense of the "No
Answer" option for array questions was fixed. Other issues in data entry
when using different languages in the admin interface and survey were
fixed. A DB error when deleting the tokens table with Postgres DB was
fixed. The fact that changing answer codes doesn't update conditions was
fixed. The loss of entered answers when "Save All" is not clicked was
fixed. The Norwegian Bokmal, Spanish, Hungarian, Greek, and German
translations were updated. A Welsh Language stub was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/limesurvey/
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[027] - LiVES 0.9.8.10
by salsaman (http://freshmeat.net/users/salsaman/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:26
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Video
About: LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing,
conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ.
It uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it
works on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS
X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It can handle almost all types of video,
and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder
tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.
Changes: Fixes for the Mplayer audio player. Improved backend process
handling. A fix for a possible crash after playback. A fix for a
crash/critical when progress dialog goes over 100%. Fixes for regressions
in the merge dialog. Fixes/simplifications for the latest frei0r builds.
Various small fixes/code cleanups. Real-time effect support has been
enabled for BSD/IRIX (needs testing).
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lives/
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[028] - Métamorphose 0.4.2 (Métamorphose 2)
by ianaré sévi (http://freshmeat.net/users/ianare/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:45
System :: Systems Administration
About: Métamorphose batch renames files and folders with great
flexibility. It has many powerful functions and is well suited for those
with daily renaming needs. In addition to general usage operations, it is
useful for photo and music collections, Web masters, programmers, legal
and clerical, etc.
Changes: This release fixes config files not saving under some non-English
systems. It fixes several bugs relating to the error panel's display and
deselection of items. It adds wxPython version checking: requires 2.6,
prefers 2.8.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/metamorphose/
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[029] - MirBSD Korn Shell R33c
by mirabile (http://freshmeat.net/users/mirabile/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 16:01
System :: Shells
About: The MirBSD Korn Shell (mksh) is an actively developed successor of
pdksh (the Public Domain Korn Shell), aimed at producing a shell good for
interactive use, but with the primary focus on scripting. It is intended
to be portable to most *nix-like operating systems as long as they're not
too obscure. mksh incorporates improvements from OpenBSD and Debian, as
well as bugfixes and enhancements developed for the MirOS, FreeWRT, and
MidnightBSD projects. The emacs command line editing mode is UTF-8
capable, and Byte Order Marks are ignored in scripts. The shell supports
large files, as well as all pdksh and some csh, AT&T ksh, and GNU bash
features, is compatible with the Bourne shell and POSIX (within limits),
has no limit on array sizes, and incorporates some other useful builtins
and features. While being already fast and small (without losing
functionality), flags to make it even smaller can be given at compile
time. An interactive shell reads "~/.mkshrc" on startup.
Changes: The export/readonly/typeset command output has been corrected for
the case of displaying a list of variables (without and with -p). mksh is
now fully supported on Ultrix 4.5. Some minor code cleanup has been done
as well.
License: DFSG approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mksh/
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[030] - Monitorix 1.2.0
by Jordi Sanfeliu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Mikaku/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 10:07
System :: Monitoring
About: Monitorix is a lightweight monitoring tool designed to monitor as
many services as it can. At this time, it monitors from the CPU load and
temperatures to the users on the system. Network device activity, network
service demand, and even the devices' interrupt activity are also
monitored. It uses RRDtool as its logging and graphing back-end. The
current status of any corporate UNIX/Linux server with Monitorix installed
can be accessed via a Web browser.
Changes: This version includes support for systems using an LVM-based disk
structure on top of a CCISS RAID of disk drives. There are several fixes
that will help to reduce error messages from crond, and a silly bug
introduced in the last version that prevented seeing the interrupt names
on systems with 2.4 Linux kernels has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/monitorix/
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[031] - mpq-tools 0.4.1
by Maik Broemme (http://freshmeat.net/users/babyface/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:40
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Archiving :: Compression
System :: Archiving :: Packaging
About: mpq-tools is a set of utilities for manipulating MPQ (MoPaQ)
archives, which are used by Blizzard in most of their games (e.g., Diablo,
Diablo 2, StarCraft, WarCraft 3, and World of Warcraft). It can extract,
move, delete, and create archives.
Changes: A segmentation fault on non-mpq-archives was fixed, and this is
the first version not uses separate libmpq library.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpq-tools/
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[032] - MUSoSu 0.9.6
by V. Marios (http://freshmeat.net/users/marios_v/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 15:52
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
About: MUSoSu is a free software project for playing, solving, and
generating Sudoku games. It is written in Java and emphasizes both solving
Sudokus simulating methods used by hyman solvers and generating Sudoku
problems that don't require trial and error methods to be solved. MUSoSu
is partly themeable and platform independent.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/musosu/
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[033] - MySQL Savior 1.0.2
by tek (http://freshmeat.net/users/t3kn0/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 04:12
Database
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Systems Administration
About: MySQL Savior is a bash script that, after configuration, will
create local backups of your databases. If configured to do so, it can
also email your backups or scp them to a remove server.
Changes: Code cleanup was done. Echo statements that were used to debug
during initial code workup were removed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysqlsavior/
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[034] - Ocsigen 1.0.0
by Vincent Balat (http://freshmeat.net/users/balat/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:28
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Ocsigen is a research project aiming at developing new programming
techniques for the Web. It contains a full featured Web server and a
programming framework that provides a way to create dynamic Web sites. Its
goal is to offer an alternative to Apache/PHP, based on technologies from
research in programming languages. There is also a module, called Eliom,
for generating dynamic Web pages. With Eliom, you program in a concise and
modular way, with a strong type system which helps you to produce valid
XHTML. The server handles sessions, URLs, and page parameters
automatically.
Changes: The full set of features planned for the first version are now
implemented. This release has a fully featured Web server (static pages,
CGI scripts, reverse proxy, access control, etc.) and a powerful module
(Eliom) to create dynamic Web sites using OCaml.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ocsigen/
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[035] - OfflineIMAP 5.99.9
by John Goerzen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jgoerzen/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 20:18
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
About: OfflineIMAP is a tool to simplify email reading. It allows you to
read the same mailbox from multiple computers and ensures that your
changes will be automatically reflected on all computers. You can use
various mail clients to read a single box or read mail while offline with
full synchronization when you reconnect. You can read IMAP mail with
readers that lack IMAP support (same goes for SSL). OfflineIMAP's
multithreaded synchronization algorithm performs between 10 and 60 times
faster than many mail readers' internal IMAP support, and it can be used
even with mail readers that support IMAP already. There are five available
user interface modules, including scripted execution, an interactive
terminal interface, and GUI interfaces.
Changes: A top level localfolder is automatically created for Maildirs.
Kerberos support was documented. Empty LocalStatus files are ignored.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/offlineimap/
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[036] - OpenChange 0.7 (libmapi)
by Julien Kerihuel (http://freshmeat.net/users/openchange/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 20:03
Communications :: Email
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Office/Business :: Groupware
About: OpenChange intends to provide a portable implementation of
Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Exchange protocols.
Changes: This release is a major step in comparison to version 0.6. It
implements many new MAPI calls, brings significant improvements to the
openchange tools, introduces the OpenChange Property File library
(libocpf) for developers and administrators, and makes openchange easier
to install.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openchange/
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[037] - pc 0.3-2008-04-02
by osod (http://freshmeat.net/users/osod/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:35
System :: Systems Administration
About: pc is a small daemon to manage user applications. It repriorizes
user processes dynamically depending on their CPU usage, system load, and
input parameters. It can kill off memory or cycle-grabbing applications as
well as limit the time an application is allowed to run. It has found use
in system environments where many instances of potentially buggy end-user
programs share the resources of a single machine.
Changes: Much more extensive error checking on input values. More
attention to the assignment of 'reasonable' default operating parameters
for the program when configuration errors are found. Better logging of
input errors and assigned defaults. The man pages and administrative guide
are updated to reflect changes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pc/
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[038] - PeerStream Audio Video Streaming Server 4.85 (P2P Relay)
by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 10:02
Internet
Multimedia
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
About: PeerStream Audio Video Streaming server is a lightweight, scalable
and multi-purpose streaming server for broadcasting nearly every known
audio and video format. It supports all major formats and can be
configured to use other, not directly supported media types. Encoding of
live data is also possible. Streaming via unicast, multicast, podcast,
UPnP shares and bandwidth-saving via a peer-to-peer-network is supported.
Changes: Native support for 64-bit Linux (x86_64) has been introduced.
This version is released only as a 64-bit variant; all other packages stay
unchanged.
License: Other/Proprietary License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/peerstream/
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[039] - poMMo PR16.1
by Brice (http://freshmeat.net/users/briceb/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 19:49
Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: poMMo is versatile mass mailing software. It can be used to add a
mailing list to your Web site or to organize stand alone mailings. Unique
features such as the ability to mail subsets of your subscribers set it
apart from alternatives.
Changes: This is a maintenance release which primarily features bugfixes
in WYSIWYG integration (FCKEditor) and fuzzy translations. Fine-grained
control of messages sent or displayed to users was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pommo/
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[040] - Schedule Generator 1.0
by Kodi (http://freshmeat.net/users/Quintic/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:44
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Schedule Generator is a small Perl script that draws up a weekly
schedule as a Scalable Vector Graphics image. Running it on your own
computer may take some basic knowledge of how to use a command line, but
the form interface on the demo site ought to be usable by anybody. It's
implemented as a module rather than a standalone program so that the same
code can be used in a CGI script (as on the demo site) or a Perl
one-liner. It depends on the SVG module.
License: Perl License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schedgen/
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[041] - Scriptella 1.0 RC
by Fyodor Kupolov (http://freshmeat.net/users/ejboy/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:26
Database
Software Development
About: Scriptella is an Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and script execution
tool. Its primary focus is simplicity. It doesn't require the user to
learn another complex XML-based language to use it, but allows the use of
SQL or another scripting language suitable for the data source to perform
required transformations.
Changes: The driver attribute was made optional with a default value of
"auto". etl.text utility methods were added to format strings. The ability
to execute multiple ETL files in Spring was added. The "exclude=true/false"
attribute was added for the dialect tag. A NullpointerException in JEXL
expressions if running in multiple threads was fixed. Inserting NULL
values into a DB2 database was fixed. The onerror regex matching for
message and type attributes was simplified. New drivers were added for IBM
AS/400 and SqlSheet JDBC Excel driver. The CSV driver was improved. The
opencsv library was replaced with a built-in implementation.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/scriptella/
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[042] - SpeedCrunch 0.10
by Ariya (http://freshmeat.net/users/ariya/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 15:50
Scientific/Engineering
About: SpeedCrunch is a fast and compact calculator. It is designed to be
controlled using the keyboard. There is support for a few built-in
functions (with an autocomplete feature) as well as variables. The result
is shown in a scrollable window, and a history of expressions is available
with up and down arrows.
Changes: This release adds significant improvements to the user experience
such as the full-screen mode, on-the-fly language change, a user-friendly
math book, rewritten session management, batch calculation, complete
support for right-to-left languages, and many other small touches as well
as bugfixes. In addition, it can be compiled in "portable" mode
(especially on Windows platforms) so that it can run from a USB memory/pen
drive.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/speedcrunch/
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[043] - Squirrel Shell 1.2.1
by Dinosaur (http://freshmeat.net/users/dinosaur2006/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 15:53
System :: Shells
About: Squirrel Shell is a cross-platform alternative to system shells
like bash in *nix and command.com (cmd.exe) in MS Windows. It is based on
a powerful scripting language named "Squirrel".
Changes: PCRE and Squirrel were updated to the latest available versions,
and constants were made read-only. The setenv() function does not make
permanent changes anymore. Some functions and values were marked as
deprecated. This is the first version released under the GPLv3.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/squirrelsh/
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[044] - The Chronicle Blog Compiler 2.5
by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:49
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Text Processing
About: Chronicle is a simple tool that will convert a directory of simple
text files into a formatted and static HTML blog. In short, it compiles
text entries into pretty HTML, complete with support for tagged entries,
and RSS feeds.
Changes: This release includes a new theme, and updates the handling of
blog titles. Blog titles may now be specified via a "Subject:" header,
rather than just a "Title:", which makes it easier to configure your site
to submit entries by email.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/chronicle/
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[045] - Tobu 0.4.13
by rainy (http://freshmeat.net/users/rainy/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 15:58
Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Records Management
About: Tobu is a freeform information organizer. It can be used to
organize notes, todo lists, files, clips, code snips, diary entries, and
more or less any type of information that can be entered as text or stored
in a file. Tobu revolves around tagging each item of information and using
filters to create lists of items and to sort and filter them as needed.
Changes: This release allows you to set the font style and color for the
text area, as well as print the text area. Auto-completion for tags now
shows matches in the status bar if there is more than one match.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tobu/
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[046] - tpop3d 1.5.4
by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz (http://freshmeat.net/users/arekm/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 12:34
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: POP3
About: tpop3d is yet another POP3 server. It is intended to be fast,
extensible, and secure. It is especially extensible in regard to its
authentication subsystem. Supported authentication mechanisms include
auth-pam (Pluggable Authentication Modules) and auth-passwd to mediate
access between users and their Unix-style mailboxes, auth-mysql which uses
vmail-sql to mediate access to virtual-domain email, auth-ldap which allows
authentication of users against an LDAP directory, auth-other which allows
you to authenticate with an external program communicating via pipes, and
auth-perl which allows you to authenticate users with custom Perl code.
There is integrated support for POP-before-SMTP relaying. tpop3d supports
traditional (BSD-format) mailspools and the maildir format of qmail.
Changes: This release fixes a couple of memory leaks. It adds recursion
into subfolders of a maildir mailbox, and adds support for SHA1 passwords.
By default, changes are committed on close-after-QUIT. Support has been
added for intelligent filenames in maildirs. A new authenticator auth_gdbm
added has been added. Support has been added for qmail-pop3d style UIDLs.
Support has been added for syslog-like log levels. The use of select(2)
has been replaced with poll(2). maildir-ignore-folders may now contain
regular expressions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tpop3d/
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[047] - uni2ascii 4.6
by Bill Poser (http://freshmeat.net/users/billposer/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 16:14
Software Development
Software Development :: Internationalization
Text Processing :: General
About: uni2ascii and ascii2uni convert between UTF-8 Unicode and 29 7-bit
ASCII equivalents including: hexadecimal and decimal HTML and SGML numeric
character references, \u-escapes, standard hexadecimal, raw hexadecimal,
and RFC2396 URI format. Such ASCII equivalents are useful for entering
Unicode in program source or in programs that are not 8-bit safe, and for
testing and debugging. Several options allow Unicode to be converted to
approximately equivalent ASCII, e.g. by stripping diacritics. An optional
GUI is provided.
Changes: Ascii2uni now handles arbitrarily long input lines without
introducing spurious breaks. A bug affecting format selection with the O,
T, and U formats was fixed. Support for OOXML format (e.g. _x00E9_) has
been added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uni2ascii/
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[048] - VTD-XML 2.4
by jimmy Zhang (http://freshmeat.net/users/jzhang2005/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 19:51
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: Virtual Token Descriptor for eXtensible Markup Language (VTD-XML)
refers to a collection of efficient XML processing technologies centered
around a non-extractive XML parsing technique called Virtual Token
Descriptor (VTD). Depending on the perspective, VTD-XML can be viewed as
either an XML parser, a native XML indexer or a file format that uses
binary data to enhance the text XML, an incremental XML content modifier,
an XML slicer/splitter/assembler, or an XML editor/eraser.
Changes: Performance was enhanced for small documents. More
functionalities were added for in XMLModifier. Mixed content is supported
for XPath. Various bugfixes and enhancements were done.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vtd-xml/
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[049] - WDB 0.7.0
by Michael Akinde (http://freshmeat.net/users/michael_akinde/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 04:07
Database
Information Management
Scientific/Engineering
About: WDB is a weather data storage system for storage of weather and
water observations, forecasts, analysis fields, and models. The system
should be compatible with the meteorological standards BUFR and GRIB
(version 1 and 2). In addition to generic loading programs, WDB also
features a flexible retrieval interface for retrieving weather data in
time series or entire fields. WDB is built using PostgreSQL extended with
PostGIS.
Changes: Extensive improvements were made to the call interface, adding
multi-language support (namespaces). Support was added for retrieval of
the "latest" data through data versions.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wdb/
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[050] - XIST 3.2.4
by Walter Dörwald (http://freshmeat.net/users/doerwalter/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 09:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML
About: XIST is an extensible HTML and XML generator. It is also an XML
parser with a very simple and Python-esque tree API. Every XML element
type corresponds to a Python class, and these Python classes provide a
conversion method to transform the XML tree (e.g. into HTML). XIST can be
considered 'object-oriented XSLT'.
Changes: Functions have been added for parsing CSS. When applying CSS
rules it's now possible to specify whether the preferred stylesheets or an
alternate stylesheet group should be used. ExpatParser has new options for
passing the XML declaration and/or the DocType declaration on to the
application.
License: Python License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xist/
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[051] - YaaCs 2.1.1
by andreaFS (http://freshmeat.net/users/andreaFS/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 03:55
Communications :: Fax
Communications :: Telephony
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Window Maker
About: YaaCs (Yet Another Advanced Cati system) is written in Tcl/Tk to
manage and realize computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) and
telemarketing. It make easy monitoring survey progress (giving several
information), and it allows the management of the the survey with several
administration tools. It simplifies the interviewer's work reading all
contact's data from an easy and functional GUI. It can send faxes via
hylaFAX and save all contact's data in a PostgreSQL database.
Changes: This is mainly a bugfix release. There's no need to alter the
yaacs database schema if you're upgrading from a 2.1 version.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yaacs/
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[052] - Zsh 4.3.6 (Development)
by Peter Stephenson (http://freshmeat.net/users/PeterWStephenson/)
Wed, Apr 2nd 2008 06:40
Software Development :: Interpreters
System
Utilities
About: Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard
shells most resembles the Korn shell (ksh). It includes enhancements of
many types, notably in the command-line editor, options for customising
its behaviour, filename globbing, features to make C-shell (csh) users
feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh.
Changes: This version contains mostly bugfixes for problems in version
4.3.5, but there are a couple of minor enhancements. Everyone using 4.3.5
or an earlier 4.3 release is encouraged to upgrade.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zsh/
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