Newsletter for Monday, May 05th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (53) :::
[001] - Altse Internet Search Engine 2008-04-29
[002] - BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk 0.8
[003] - Bugzilla 3.0.4 (3.0)
[004] - clipf 0.4
[005] - coolcurve_create 1.0
[006] - CorneliOS 0.8.5r5
[007] - Ctalk 0.0.50a
[008] - Deliantra MORPG Client 0.9971
[009] - DokuWiki 2008-05-05
[010] - echinus 0.2.8
[011] - EditiX 2008 - SP3
[012] - EFEU 3.2-2 (Stable)
[013] - EiffelStudio 6.2.7.3306 (Development)
[014] - flashdist 20080504
[015] - fotofix 1.63
[016] - FreeMarker 2.3.13 (Lazarus)
[017] - Gammu 1.19.91 (Testing)
[018] - HTML Forms generation and validation 2008.04.30
[019] - Igelle 0.3.0
[020] - Java syslogd 1.00
[021] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.1 (JOpt.NET)
[022] - kexec-loader 1.3
[023] - Knitter 0.2.0
[024] - libmemcached 0.20
[025] - LimeSurvey Stable 1.70+ Build 4758
[026] - Links 2.1pre35
[027] - Mathomatic 14.0.2
[028] - mhWaveEdit 1.4.15
[029] - nautilus-follow-symlink 1.0.99-pre.1 (Experimental)
[030] - OfflineIMAP 5.99.12
[031] - OpenBSD Network Shell 20080426
[032] - ourico 0.1.4
[033] - P4A 3.0.0-rc1 (Development)
[034] - Plash 1.19
[035] - QMC2 0.2 beta 2
[036] - queXML 1.1.0
[037] - Rally 0.4.1
[038] - samhain 2.4.4
[039] - segatex 6.30
[040] - Simple components for Ada 2.9
[041] - SPTK 3.5.7.08
[042] - Tcpreplay 3.3.0 (Stable)
[043] - TeleGNOME 0.1.0
[044] - The Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine 0.2
[045] - tinyTiM 1.5.0 alpha 2
[046] - Tor 0.2.0.25-rc (Testing)
[047] - TorChat 0.9.9.140
[048] - TuxGuitar 1.0-rc4
[049] - TuxShop 2.6
[050] - Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.3
[051] - Word War vi 0.09
[052] - xvkbd 3.0
[053] - Zild Database Library 2.2.1
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Altse Internet Search Engine 2008-04-29
by Jari Tuominen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jerofpanic/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:53
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: ALTSE is an alternative search engine technology. It can index up
to a couple million Web pages. Altse does not aim to replace existing
search engine technologies such as Google, Yahoo, and so on. Instead, it
aims to provide an affordable alternative to index Web pages for small
size businesses and organizations.
Changes: A central configuration file has been put into use more widely in
all applications. The search engine has been tested and developed further
to achieve faster searches and faster indexing. Some major bugs in the
search have been identified and removed. Installation instructions were
added, along with a couple of scripts that will aid in the installation,
although the process is still mainly manual.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/altse/
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[002] - BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk 0.8
by Bodo Giannone (http://freshmeat.net/users/bgiannone/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:08
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: Floppy-Based
System :: Recovery Tools
About: BG-Tiny Linux Bootdisk is a Linux bootdisk that does not use a
ramdisk, so it will run on computers with very little RAM. It is basically
a somewhat extended fork of Tiny Linux Bootdisk. It is based on Linux 2.4
series, uClibc, and BusyBox. It includes dosfsprogs, e2fsprogs, gpart,
lilo, and ms-sys. Supported filesystems are ext2, ext3, iso9660, tmpfs,
and vfat.
Changes: The Linux kernel has been updated to 2.4.36.3. The devfsd applet
has been removed from busybox, since it is no longer needed. The init
applet has been removed from busybox, and an extra busybox compiled that
contains only init and halt/poweroff/reboot. This saves a lot of RAM,
since not all busybox code has to be kept in RAM when running init. When
compared to version 0.7, the total amount of free RAM (free low RAM +
buffers + cached) is now 844kb instead of 772kb on a machine with 4 MB of
RAM.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bgtlb/
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[003] - Bugzilla 3.0.4 (3.0)
by Max Kanat-Alexander (http://freshmeat.net/users/avatraxiom/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:03
Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business
About: Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking
system, with high-profile installations at mozilla.org, GNOME, Red Hat,
and NASA, among others. It features a comprehensive set of fields,
attachment management, inter-bug dependencies, email notification of
changes, a powerful query interface, reporting, and Web, XML, email, and
console interfaces. It can be managed entirely using a Web-based UI. The
user UI is customizable using templates.
Changes: This is the latest stable version, containing several useful
bugfixes over 3.0.3, particularly for the inbound email interface. It also
has two security fixes.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bugzilla/
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[004] - clipf 0.4
by gdv (http://freshmeat.net/users/gdv_zp/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:56
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
About: clipf is a personal finance manager with a command line interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clipf/
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[005] - coolcurve_create 1.0
by Attitude Adjuster (http://freshmeat.net/users/AttitudeAdj/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:26
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
About: ccurve_create.tcl is a TCL script (plus associated csh scripts)
that makes it is possible to calculate cooling curves (plasma
emissivities, in units of erg cm^3 s^-1) as a function of plasma
temperature using the hot plasma codes available in the XSPEC spectral
fitting program. Element-or-line-specific cooling functions can also be
created. These can be used in hydrodynamical simulations to assess the
total cooling rate, calculate the luminosity in a specific
wavelength/energy range, or more generally to calculate X-ray or UV line
diagnostics.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coolcurve/
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[006] - CorneliOS 0.8.5r5
by Jos Kirps (http://freshmeat.net/users/joskirps/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:31
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 release introduces an improved Website Display Engine (WDE)
that supports IP redirections, a new DMS architecture, new SQL definitions
for the DMS, a DMS I/O library prototype, and improved code generation
libraries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cornelios/
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[007] - Ctalk 0.0.50a
by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:23
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Ctalk provides object oriented programming features, like classes,
methods, operator overloading, and inheritance to otherwise standard C
programs. You can use only a few objects and classes in a program, or you
can write programs entirely in Ctalk. The package provides a translator
from Ctalk source code into C for compilation and a library that provides
run-time support for class objects. The preprocessor, ctpp, is also
available separately, and the package includes sample programs and
documentation.
Changes: This release contains compatibility bugfixes and updates for
Cygwin platforms.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctalk-lang/
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[008] - Deliantra MORPG Client 0.9971
by Marc A. Lehmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/pcg1/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:41
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
Games/Entertainment :: Multi-User Dungeons (MUD)
About: Deliantra is a client for Deliantra game servers. It offers an
intuitive user interface for exploring the vast game world, a persistent
minimap, powerful macros and keymaps, dialog-based NPC interaction, and
easy configuration for the skill, spell, and item system. It is based on
Perl, SDL, and OpenGL for high performance on modern systems, and works on
both Unix and Windows. Ports to other platforms should be very easy and are
underway.
Changes: Some issues with the default sort order have been sorted out,
some tooltips were fixed, a long standing bug with the stats tab being
empty has been resolved, and some GUI fixes have been made. The
pseudo-items are only shown in the inventory and not the floorbox.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/deliantra/
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[009] - DokuWiki 2008-05-05
by Andreas Gohr (http://freshmeat.net/users/agohr/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:14
Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki
Software Development :: Documentation
About: DokuWiki is a standards-compliant, simple-to-use Wiki mainly aimed
at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams,
workgroups, and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which
makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki, and eases the
creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files, so
no database is needed
Changes: This release adds several frontend improvements like an AJAXified
index, a completely rewritten ACL manager, better RSS support, support for
diffs between arbitrary revisions, and much more. An XML-RPC interface was
added, and several improvements for plugin and template writers were made.
Security measurements against CSRF attacks were introduced, and several
minor bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dokuwiki/
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[010] - echinus 0.2.8
by polachok (http://freshmeat.net/users/polachok/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:37
Desktop Environment
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: echinus is a lightweight window manager for X based on dwm's source
code. It manages windows in tiled, maximized, and floating layouts. It is
extremely small, rather fast, and supports Xft. It features nice
titlebars, multiple desktops, theming support, a simple configuration
file, the ability to switch desktops with the mouse wheel, X bitmaps for
title buttons, and true transparency support (through xcompmgr). There is
no need to recompile or restart X to change its configuration.
Changes: This release adds support for the Windows key (Mod4). Layouts are
now individual per tag. EWMH Struts support has been added. Bugs in
focusview have been fixed.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/echinus/
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[011] - EditiX 2008 - SP3
by Alexandre Brillant (http://freshmeat.net/users/abrillant/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:58
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
Text Processing :: Markup :: DocBook
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML
About: EditiX is a cross-platform and multi-purpose XML editor and XSLT
debugger (1.0 and 2.0), which helps Web authors and programmers use XML
and XML-related technologies, such as XSLT, FO, and XSD schemas. It
provides a lot of functionality within a refined IDE, which guides the
user with intelligent entry helpers, and has real-time XPath location and
syntax error detection. It allows the user to apply an XSLT or FO
transformation, and shows the result in a separate view. It includes
default templates for XML, DTD, XHTML, XSLT, XSD, XML RelaxNG, SVG,
MathML, and XML FO. It can generate schema W3C, DTD or RelaxNG from a
document instance.
Changes: This release adds an XML Snippets system. Thus it is possible to
store and restore complex XML structures. The main toolbar includes
actions for navigating inside previous/next files. XML Diff works with
current XML files. A new formatting scenario has been added for trimming
text. A dozen bugs have been fixed.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editix/
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[012] - EFEU 3.2-2 (Stable)
by efeu (http://freshmeat.net/users/efeu/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:39
Database :: Front-Ends
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: EFEU is suitable for handling data cubes, which are especially
useful for building data warehouses. It consists of a building system
including mkmf (a xmkmf like Makefile generator), esh (a powerful C/C++
interpreter), efeudoc (a document generator with different output formats
(LaTeX, HTML, roff, etc.)). EFEU has a huge set of C library core
features, including robust memory allocation tools, functions to
concatenate and copy strings with memory allocation, buffers for
dynamically-growing strings and fields, data structures with reference
counters and garbage collection, and file tools that allow you to specify
pipes wherever a filename is expected and support automatic implementation
of (de)compression filters (gzip) depending on filename extensions. It also
includes a high-level interface to files, strings, and anything else you
can read from or write to.
Changes: Path setting in the starter script has been fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/efeu/
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[013] - EiffelStudio 6.2.7.3306 (Development)
by Emmanuel Stapf (http://freshmeat.net/users/manus_eiffel/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:54
Database
Office/Business
Software Development
About: EiffelStudio is an IDE for the Eiffel language (ECMA-367, ISO/IEC
25436, and ACM Software System Award 2006). It includes: Eiffel compiler,
Eiffel editor, Eiffel code browsing tool, graphical design tool,
refactoring tool, debugger, profiler, and Eiffel analysis tools (Metrics,
Dependencies, etc.). Eiffel generates C or CLI for .NET or Mono. Eiffel
applies O-O principles and Design by Contract for high-quality software.
Many Eiffel libraries are included: ADT, network, GUI, database, parsing
(including an Eiffel parser), XML, Web, COM, and more.
Changes: This is a feature-complete version of EiffelStudio 6.2. Since the
last intermediate release, various small bugs in the UI and compiler have
been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eiffelstudio/
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[014] - flashdist 20080504
by Chris Cappuccio (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrisc/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:35
System :: Installation/Setup
About: Flashdist is an embedded OpenBSD installer for flash disks, hard
disks, and pseudo disks. It keeps the entire system mounted read-only
during normal operation for minimal chance of failure. It installs an
entire set of system utilities and manual pages (targeted towards
networking features) in less than 32MB of disk or flash space. The
distribution list can be customized to target other applications, or to
use even less space.
Changes: This release adds a flag to flashdist that disables SSH private
key generation. Use this flag in flashimgbld. SSH key generation has been
moved ahead of nsh execution (for current nsh.) In /etc/nshrc, sshd is
active by default. Outdated items have been removed from kernel
configurations. All disk images on the Web site now have SSH private keys
removed (and will auto-generate on first boot.)
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/flashdist/
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[015] - fotofix 1.63
by Dmitry Karasik (http://freshmeat.net/users/uint32/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:24
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: FotoFix is a very simple image viewer mostly for managing freshly
downloaded photos from your camera. It can walk through image lists,
rotate images, and remove red eyes (with some luck). It was inspired by
IrfanView for Windows. It requires the Prima and IPA libraries.
Changes: Support for animated GIFs was implemented (but needs the latest
Prima 1.26). Slide-show image transition effects were implemented.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fotofix/
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[016] - FreeMarker 2.3.13 (Lazarus)
by Dániel Dékány (http://freshmeat.net/users/ddekany/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: FreeMarker is a template engine that was originally designed so
that servlet-based applications could keep graphical design separate from
application logic. The templates provide an easy and highly flexible way
to generate any kind of text output (HTML, PostScript, TeX, source code,
etc.) from a variety of data sources such as Java objects, Jython objects,
XML object models, and more.
Changes: Improved template cache performance, new "built-ins" for number
rounding, and more.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freemarker/
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[017] - Gammu 1.19.91 (Testing)
by Michal Čihař (http://freshmeat.net/users/nijel/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:41
Communications :: Telephony
Utilities
About: Gammu (formerly known as MyGnokii2) is a cellular manager for
various mobile phones/modems. It supports a wide variety of Nokia,
Symbian, and AT devices (Siemens, Alcatel, Falcom, WaveCom, IPAQ, Samsung,
SE, and others) over cables, infrared, or BlueTooth. It contains libraries
with functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time,
alarm, calls, and more (used by external applications like Wammu). It also
includes a command line utility that can make many things (including
backups) and an SMS gateway with full MySQL and PostgreSQL support from
the PHP interface.
Changes: This release fixes decoding of SMS messages from newer Nokia
phones.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gammu/
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[018] - HTML Forms generation and validation 2008.04.30
by Manuel Lemos (http://freshmeat.net/users/mlemos/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:31
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: HTML Forms generation and validation is a PHP class that generates
HTML forms supporting many built-in validation types on server and client
sides. It prevents security attacks by discarding spoofed values, has
multiple submit protection, outputs HTML for fields displayed as fully
accessible or in read-only mode, and has field value filtering and
reformatting. It can be extended with custom control plug-ins. AJAX based
form submission, upload monitor progress bar, auto-complete text input,
automatic layout renderer, calendar date, CAPTCHA, Google Maps world
location selection, linked select, and animation effects plug-ins are
available.
Changes: The paged layout plug-in was enhanced to automatically adjust the
container size to fit all pages. Now it also supports displaying caption
texts at the top of each page. The vertical layout plug-in was also
enhanced to support displaying multiple groups of inputs in side by side
columns. The date input plug-in has a new option to let the user set a
value different from the default only after clicking on a check box.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlformsgenerationandvalidation/
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[019] - Igelle 0.3.0
by M. Kero (http://freshmeat.net/users/pokxm/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:02
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: Igelle is a Linux-based operating system distribution that is
designed to run on various different devices, including desktop/laptop
computers, cellular phones, mobile internet devices, and other handheld
computers. As much as reasonably possible, it aims to produce the same
user experience across all supported platforms.
Changes: This is the first publicly available release of the operating
system. This is an early development release, and not suitable for general
end-users yet. A prebuilt ISO for x86 and a source package have been
released for this version.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/igelle/
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[020] - Java syslogd 1.00
by Mario Viara (http://freshmeat.net/users/mviara/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:07
Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Networking
About: Java syslogd is a simple Java syslog daemon with multiple screens
and filters.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/syslogd/
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[021] - JOpt.SDK 2.2.1 (JOpt.NET)
by dnaevolutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/dnaevolutions/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:36
Office/Business :: Scheduling
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: JOpt.SDK is an automated vehicle routing and dispatching component
for both Java/J2SE and .NET. It can solve Travelling Salesman Problems
(TSP) and Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows
(CVRP,VRPTW). It offers route and transport optimisation with respect to
various constraints such as time windows, load capacities, and prescribed
itinerary. The component is based on genetic algorithms, and automatically
determines an optimized allocation of vehicels to an arbitrary set of
orders.
Changes: This version adds a load-based fuel consumption matrix in order
to support a more realistic truck model.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joptsdk/
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[022] - kexec-loader 1.3
by solemnwarning (http://freshmeat.net/users/solemnwarning/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:40
System :: Boot
About: kexec-loader is a Linux-based bootloader that aims to fit on a
floppy and have a grub-like interface and configuration system. It loads
kernels using the kexec system calls.
Changes: This release adds support for loading the GRUB menu.lst and
device.map files.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kexecloader/
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[023] - Knitter 0.2.0
by dpw13 (http://freshmeat.net/users/dpw13/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:26
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Scientific/Engineering :: Physics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: Knitter produces a 3-dimensional model of a knitting pattern. It
supports KnitML, as well as a native language similar to that of
traditional knitting patterns. It uses wxWidgets as a GUI framework and is
available for Windows, Unix, and OS X.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/knitter/
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[024] - libmemcached 0.20
by Brian Aker (http://freshmeat.net/users/briantangentorg/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:13
Software Development :: Libraries
About: libmemcached is a C client library for interfacing to a memcached
server. It has been designed to be light on memory usage, thread safe and
to provide full access to server side methods. It also implements several
command line tools: memcat, memflush, memrm, memstat, and memslap (for
load generation). The library has been designed to allow for different
hashing methods on keys, partitioning by keys, and to use consistent
hashing for distribution.
Changes: New consistent distribution tests. A memory leak when a server
constantly fails has been fixed. There is a fix in the watchpoint macro.
The default timeout has been changed to 1 second for poll timeouts. Wheel
uses less memory/dynamic allocation for size (no longer limited to 512
hosts by default). A memslap memory leak has been fixed. Ketama
distribution has been added. An assert.h compile problem on CentOS has
been fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libmemcached/
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[025] - LimeSurvey Stable 1.70+ Build 4758
by Carsten Schmitz (http://freshmeat.net/users/cronostitan/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:06
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: Updates to Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Croatian
language files. Fixes for several bugs when trying to send HTML invitation
email. fixes for numerous smaller bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/limesurvey/
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[026] - Links 2.1pre35
by Gürkan (http://freshmeat.net/users/tarzeau/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:02
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: Finger
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
About: Links is graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It
displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive
connections, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it displays PNG,
JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types,
and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering,
and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/links/
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[027] - Mathomatic 14.0.2
by George Gesslein II (http://freshmeat.net/users/gesslein/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:33
Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: Mathomatic is a fast and easy-to-use algebraic calculator program
that can manipulate symbolic equations and expressions, perform standard,
complex number, and polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does some calculus and
displays expressions in 2 dimensions and in color when using a terminal
emulator.
Changes: A useful new "simplify sign" command option was added. (a^m)^n is
now handled as documented.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mathomatic/
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[028] - mhWaveEdit 1.4.15
by Magnus Hjorth (http://freshmeat.net/users/magnush/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:00
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
About: mhWaveEdit is a program for playing, editing, and recording sound
files. It supports .wav files and a few other formats. It is good at
editing both large and small files, and has support for 8/16/24/32-bit
signed and unsigned sample formats.
Changes: This version fixes some portability issues affecting 64-bit
platforms. It also adds support for displaying times in units of frames
for video-related sound editing, and has some other small improvements and
bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mhwaveedit/
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[029] - nautilus-follow-symlink 1.0.99-pre.1 (Experimental)
by outlyer (http://freshmeat.net/users/outly3r/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:10
Desktop Environment :: File Managers
About: nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus extension that adds a context
menu entry to nautilus on symbolic links pointing to directories, which
once clicked opens the pointed directory (the real path) in a window. It
does so both when right clicking on the folder icon or on the contents of
an opened symbolic link.
Changes: Initial support for GNOME 2.22.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nautilus-follow-symlink/
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[030] - OfflineIMAP 5.99.12
by John Goerzen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jgoerzen/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:41
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 bug that caused a crash on new folder creation has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/offlineimap/
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[031] - OpenBSD Network Shell 20080426
by Chris Cappuccio (http://freshmeat.net/users/chrisc/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:38
System :: Networking
System :: Shells
About: NSH consolidates configuration for interfaces, bridging, routing,
PF packet filtering, NAT, queueing, BGP, OSPF, RIP, IPsec, DHCP, DVMRP,
SNMP, relayd, and NTP. It presents the user with a vaguely Cisco-like
interface with all configuration in one easy to read text list. It also
gives the user access to system information and diagnostics. NSH replaces
the userland commands that handle these functions, and talks directly to
the OpenBSD kernel (or to the control utilities for external managed
daemons.)
Changes: Command completion for first level and most second level
commands. ftp-proxy, sshd, and inetd handlers (no options yet, just
on/off) and a resolv.conf handler (with local-control or dhcp-control.)
Various bugfixes. Daemon controls including SSH, NTP, BGP, and OSPF are
now production-tested and considered reliable.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nsh/
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[032] - ourico 0.1.4
by polachok (http://freshmeat.net/users/polachok/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:40
Desktop Environment
About: ouriço is a simple EWMH taskbar (no clocks, icons, trays, bells, or
whistles).
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ourico/
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[033] - P4A 3.0.0-rc1 (Development)
by Fabrizio Balliano (http://freshmeat.net/users/balliano/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:30
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: P4A (PHP For Applications) is a RAD and object oriented PHP
framework for building event-driven stateful Web applications. It features
tableless HTML, accesskey support, transparent AJAX support, auto data type
recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support, handheld "zero
code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR
integration.
Changes: The saveUploads() method was moved to P4A_Data_Source.
P4A_DB::quote() method's 2nd parameter "autoquote" is now false by
default, solving some problems with P4A_Data_Field::getSQLValue() and
getSQLNewValue(). When P4A_DB_Source needs a quoted value, it uses
P4A_DB->quote() with autoquote turned on. The P4A_DB::quote() method, if
the autoquote parameter is on, always encloses the value within single
quotes. jQuery::form was updated to 2.0.8. jQuery::iFixPNG was updated to
2.1. P4A_Menu's CSS was changed a bit, solving a bug with IE6.
P4A_DB_Navigator movements were disabled (due to the unavailable jQuery
UI).
License: Affero General Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/p4a/
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[034] - Plash 1.19
by mseaborn (http://freshmeat.net/users/mseaborn/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:17
Security
System :: Filesystems
System :: Operating System
About: Plash is a sandbox for running GNU/Linux programs with minimum
privileges. It is suitable for running both command line and GUI programs.
It can dynamically grant Gtk-based GUI applications access rights to
individual files that you want to open or edit. This happens transparently
through the Open/Save file chooser dialog box, by replacing
GtkFileChooserDialog. Plash virtualizes the file namespace and provides
per-process/per-sandbox namespaces. It can grant processes read-only or
read-write access to specific files and directories, mapped at any point
in the filesystem namespace. It does not require modifications to the
Linux kernel.
Changes: The build system for PlashGlibc has been changed to integrate
better with glibc's normal build process. As a result, it is easier to
build Plash on architectures other than i386, and this is the first
release to support AMD-64. The forwarding of stdin/stdout/stderr that was
introduced in the previous release caused a number of bugs that should now
be fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plash/
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[035] - QMC2 0.2 beta 2
by Prian (http://freshmeat.net/users/prianthefist/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 10:39
System :: Emulators
About: M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II (also referred to as QMC2) is the
successor of one of the first XMAME GUI frontends available, QMamecat
(derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMC2 has been rebuilt from
scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by
its predecessor. The new design was made as flexible as possible to
minimize dependencies from frontend- and CLI-related MAME changes, which
was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 uses a template-based MAME
configuration scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command
line options (defined in an XML template file).
Changes: A Polish translation of the emulator options template has been
completed, as well as a French translation. The template reader for
emulator options has been improved (using QXmlStreamReader), and template
syntax has changed to a new format to allow for easier translation (this
format is not compatible with older versions of QMC2). The game's short
name (the game ID) is now also included in the gamelist and can be used
for sorting.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/qmc2/
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[036] - queXML 1.1.0
by Adam Zammit (DCARF) (http://freshmeat.net/users/azammitdcarf/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 05:54
About: queXML is a simple XML schema for designing questionnaires.
Included are stylesheets to administer a questionnaire in PDF (paper),
CASES, and LimeSurvey. queXML is compatible with the DDI standard for data
description. Instruments can also be designed in LimeSurvey and exported.
Changes: PDF export is supported using Apache FOP 0.94 and Barcode4j 2.0
alpha 2.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quexml/
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[037] - Rally 0.4.1
by Maxim Udushlivy (http://freshmeat.net/users/maxim_udushlivy/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:28
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Software Distribution Tools
About: Rally is a fast GuiLoader-based front end for RPM. It provides RPM
package management functionality via an intuitive tree-less graphical
interface. Users are able to browse available repositories, search for
packages, and perform updates, installations, and removals. Rally employs
Parallel Installer, which downloads and updates packages simultaneously,
potentially reaching a vast performance boost. Rally is a part of the Crow
Designer project, and was started as a sample GuiLoader-based application.
Changes: Grouping of the obsoleted packages was improved. Several visual
enhancements were made.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rally/
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[038] - samhain 2.4.4
by rainer (http://freshmeat.net/users/rainer/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:40
Security
About: samhain is a daemon that can check file integrity, search the file
tree for SUID files, and detect kernel module rootkits (Linux only). It
can be used either standalone or as a client/server system for centralized
monitoring, with strong (192-bit AES) encryption for client/server
connections and the option to store databases and configuration files on
the server. For tamper resistance, it supports signed
database/configuration files and signed reports/audit logs. It has been
tested on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Unixware.
Changes: It is possible to store the full content of (small) files in the
baseline database, which allows this release to determine what has changed
in a file. A couple of bugs have been fixed, and the mount check and
process check modules are supported on OpenBSD.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/samhain/
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[039] - segatex 6.30
by intrajp (http://freshmeat.net/users/intrajp/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 05:56
Security
About: segatex is a tool to configure SELinux policy with the help of a
GUI. At the push of buttons, it can generate a .te file in the
/root/segatex directory. You can then edit your .te file, make a module,
and install. You can make any module name and also edit present modules.
You can install, update, and remove modules. Also, you can semanage list
and semanage login, fcontext, and port. You can download SELinux related
RPMs, including xguest and sepostgresql.
Changes: An FTP tab to download Fedora ISO files was incorporated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/segatex/
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[040] - Simple components for Ada 2.9
by Dmitry Kazakov (http://freshmeat.net/users/kazakov/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:36
Database
Database :: API
Software Development
About: This library provides implementations of smart pointers for
automatically collected objects (using reference counting), object
persistence, unbounded and bounded arrays of smart pointers, generic
unbounded arrays of private objects and plain pointers, generic sets,
maps, stacks, and storage pools. It also includes table management, string
editing, and infix expression parsing tools. Implementations of some
lock-free shared data structures are provided.
Changes: This version adds lock-free shared data structures. The package
Generic_FIFO provides a lock-free peer-to-peer queue. The package
Generic_Blackboard provides a lock-free messages blackboard, which can be
used for one publisher and any number of subscribers. Children packages
provide partially lock-free specializations.
License: GNAT Modified GPL (GMGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/components/
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[041] - SPTK 3.5.7.08
by Ilya VE (http://freshmeat.net/users/iluxa/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:15
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: SPTK (Simply Powerful Toolkit) is a cross-platform toolkit that
provides a set of C++ classes for fast and easy application development.
It provides GUI components that use FLTK, and features database support
with seamless connection to GUI components. There are drivers for use of
SQLite and PostgreSQL directly, as well as support for other database
engines through UnixODBC. SPTK includes many classes for working with
strings, dynamic arrays, and maps, and is faster and has a smaller
footprint than STL. It also supports reading, writing, and creating Excel
7 files, high-level GUI components with dataset support, support for
automatic layouts, and support for Aspell.
Changes: This release introduces a new tool: sql2cpp. Sql2Cpp reads SQL
scripts that create stored procedures and generates C++ source files.
Every C++ source file defines a single class that corresponds to an SQL
script file. Every method implements a single stored procedure call.
Sql2Cpp tries to support strong type control of parameters and returned
data. This is achieved by using classes for DB-specific types such as
table and view records.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sptk2/
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[042] - Tcpreplay 3.3.0 (Stable)
by Aaron Turner (http://freshmeat.net/users/aturner/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 11:06
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
Software Development :: Testing :: Traffic Generation
About: Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the editing and
replaying of captured network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be
used to test a variety of passive and inline network devices, including
IPS's, UTM's, routers, firewalls, and NIDS.
Changes: This release dramatically improves packet timing, introduces full
fragroute support in tcprewrite, and improves Windows/Cygwin and FreeBSD
support. Additionally, a number of smaller enhancements have been made and
user discovered bugs have been resolved. All users are strongly encouraged
to update.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcpreplay/
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[043] - TeleGNOME 0.1.0
by steinel (http://freshmeat.net/users/stonehead/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:28
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
System :: Networking
About: TeleGNOME is a little GNOME program to view Teletext pages over the
Internet.
Changes: This release has been ported to GNOME 2, GnomeVFS, and
gnome-doc-utils. Translations: az, fr, pt_BR, sv, and zh_CN.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/telegnome/
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[044] - The Analysis & Reconstruction Sound Engine 0.2
by Michel Rouzic (http://freshmeat.net/users/michelrouzic/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:05
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: The Analysis & Recontruction Sound Engine analyzes a sound file
into a spectrogram and is able to synthesize this spectrogram, or any
other user-created image, back into a sound.
Changes: Noise synthesis has been re-implemented. Full command line
support has been added, meaning the ARSS can now be scripted. This means
you can define settings you couldn't directly modify before, and
front-ends can easily be made for it. The non-DSP code has been
reorganized to ease the re-use of functions and the implementation of
image/sound I/O functions by third-party developers. Brightness
correction, a parameter similar to gamma correction, has been added. It
makes spectrograms brighter, which allows for better visibility when
editing a spectrogram and better sounding results.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arse/
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[045] - tinyTiM 1.5.0 alpha 2
by Lars Heuer (http://freshmeat.net/users/heuer/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:48
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: tinyTiM (the tiny Topic Maps engine) is a small and lightweight
in-memory implementation of TMAPI.
Changes: The "voc" package was added, which provides access to common
PSIs. "DuplicateRemovalUtils" was added, which is used to remove duplicate
Topic Maps constructs. "TypeInstanceConverter" was added, which is used to
convert. The type-instance associations were moved into the topic's
[types] property. Several index optimazions were done. All indexes return
copies of their collections to avoid concurrent modification exceptions.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinytim/
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[046] - Tor 0.2.0.25-rc (Testing)
by Martin Balvers (http://freshmeat.net/users/nosferatu/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:31
Communications
Internet
Internet :: Proxy Servers
About: Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allows people and groups
to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. It also enables
software developers to create new communication tools with built-in
privacy features. It provides the foundation for a range of applications
that allow organizations and individuals to share information over
public networks without compromising their privacy. Individuals can use
it to keep remote Websites from tracking them and their family members.
They can also use it to connect to resources such as news sites or
instant messaging services that are blocked by their local Internet
service providers (ISPs).
Changes: This release adds dizum as the new sixth v3 directory authority.
Relays with dynamic IP addresses and no DirPort now notice more quickly
when their IP address changes. A few rare crashes and memory leaks were
fixed. A few other miscellaneous bugs were fixed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tor/
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[047] - TorChat 0.9.9.140
by Bernd (http://freshmeat.net/users/7bit/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:35
Communications :: Chat
Security :: Cryptography
Utilities
About: TorChat is a peer-to-peer instant messenger with a completely
decentralized design, built on top of Tor's location hidden services,
giving you extremely strong anonymity. It is very easy to use, and doesn't
need to be installed or configured on Windows systems.
Changes: This version has a protocol change which is not backwards
compatible, so it is recommended to update to 0.9.9.140 and stop using any
older version. The new version features pseudo-offline messages. The
process of adding and removing buddies from the list has been improved.
Many bugs have been fixed, including a critical one that could have led to
a possible DoS attack.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/torchat/
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[048] - TuxGuitar 1.0-rc4
by Julian Casadesus (http://freshmeat.net/users/akdmia/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:40
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI
About: TuxGuitar is a multitrack guitar tablature editor and player
written in Java-SWT. It can open GuitarPro, PowerTab, and TablEdit files.
Changes: Bugs have been fixed. A file format converter plugin has been
added. Dutch, Russian, and Ukrainian translations have been added.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxguitar/
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[049] - TuxShop 2.6
by Tuxsoft (http://freshmeat.net/users/rosslinder/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 17:00
Office/Business :: Financial
About: TuxShop is a modern point of sale and shop management application,
supported on Linux and Windows XP. It is feature packed yet provides an
interface that is simple to operate.
Changes: LCD now supports the new numeric format. A bug with numbers over
1000 has been fixed. A bug where markups and discounts were not being
correctly accepted has been fixed. An optional Semper Interface module is
available.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxshop/
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[050] - Ubuntu Customization Kit 2.0.3
by Fabrizio Balliano (http://freshmeat.net/users/balliano/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 14:27
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: Ubuntu Customization Kit is a tool that helps you to customize
official Ubuntu Live CDs (including Kubuntu/Xubuntu and Edubuntu) to your
needs. You can add any package to the live system, including language
packs and applications.
Changes: Minor documentation updates. The menu icon was moved from
"utilities" to "system tools".
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/uck/
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[051] - Word War vi 0.09
by Stephen Cameron (http://freshmeat.net/users/StephenCameron/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:36
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
About: Word War vi is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up '80s style arcade
game. You pilot your "vi"per craft through core memory, rescuing lost .swp
files, avoiding OS defenses, and wiping out those memory hogging emacs
processes. When all the lost .swp files are rescued, head for the socket
which will take you to the next node in the cluster.
Changes: Ogg files are now decoded directly to memory, rather than relying
on oggdec to decode to wav files. "Kernel defense guns" were added. The
look of the ground based guns was enhanced. The starfield rendering code
was optimized for trivial cases below or above the horizon line.
Miscellaneous other small bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wordwarvi/
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[052] - xvkbd 3.0
by Tom Sato (http://freshmeat.net/users/tsato/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 06:55
Utilities
About: xvkbd is a virtual (graphical) keyboard program for X which
provides a facility to enter characters onto other clients software by
clicking a keyboard displayed on the screen. It also has facility to send
characters specified as the command line option to other client.
Changes: A new key-click sound and automatic click feature were
implemented.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xvkbd/
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[053] - Zild Database Library 2.2.1
by hauk (http://freshmeat.net/users/hauk/)
Mon, May 5th 2008 05:58
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: The Zild C Database Library implements a small, fast, and easy to
use database API with thread-safe connection pooling. The library can
connect transparently to multiple database systems. It has zero runtime
configuration and connections are specified via a URL scheme.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libzdb/
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