Newsletter for Sunday, June 01st 2008

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/06/01/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards

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in the 2008 SourceForge Community Choice Awards before you start throwing
bananas at defenseless people.

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::: A R T I C L E S (1) :::

freshmeat.net moves datacenters [DONE]
by Patrick Lenz (http://freshmeat.net/users/scoop/)
Section: freshmeat
Sun, Jun 1st 2008 00:00

This coming Sunday, June 1st at 07:00 UTC (view this time in your
timezone) freshmeat.net will move out of the current location on the west
coast into the brand new SourceForge, Inc. datacenter on the east coast.
The switch itself should be brief. Please allow a downtime of 1-2 hours
though should the data synchronization processes not proceed as smoothly as
planned and tested.  While we will shortly drop the TTL (time to live) on
our nameservers, you may still experience that access to the freshmeat.net
domain routes you to the old datacenter, in which case we will redirect you
over to the new one with a slightly changed hostname your local nameservers
are unlikely to have cached.  We are also moving onto brand new machines
that have been re-installed from scratch. If you experience any bugs or
oddities in site behavior after the switch, please don't hesitate to submit
a trouble ticket through our contact page. As always, please be as specific
as possible to ease reproduction of your problem and speed up the solution.
 Thanks for your understanding and we'll see you on the other side. 
Update: We've moved. Welcome to the new farm. Please bear with us while we
bring back the rest of the services.  Update #2: We should be all set. As
mentioned above, if you run into a brick wall anywhere, please let us know.
Thank you for your patience. 

URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/3240/


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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (43) :::

[001] - Ah3 beta10 
[002] - Anyterm 1.1.24 (Development)
[003] - Bitflu 0.50 
[004] - check_websites  0.3 
[005] - Ctalk 0.0.54a 
[006] - CWallpaper 0.3.3 (FLTK)
[007] - DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0.m2 
[008] - Dell 1600n network scanner driver 1.12 
[009] - Duplicate Files Finder 0.8.0 
[010] - Fedora Project 9 
[011] - gc-utils 0.2.2 
[012] - getsnmp 0.8 
[013] - GNU Typist 2.8.1 
[014] - Group Shell 0.3 
[015] - HEYU 2.3.1 
[016] - Hydrogen CMS 1.0 
[017] - JCR 0.6.2rc1 
[018] - libqrencode 3.0.3 
[019] - Lynis 1.1.4 
[020] - MathGL 1.7 
[021] - Mathomatic 14.0.4 
[022] - MX 1000 Laser Mouse Driver 0.1.4 
[023] - NaSMail 1.5 
[024] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.31.1279 
[025] - Nexenta Storage Appliance 1.0.2 
[026] - OpenSSL 0.9.8h 
[027] - openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 (Development)
[028] - phptelemeter 1.33 
[029] - pkgmake 0.1.7 
[030] - pyswisseph 1.73.00-0 
[031] - python/pg_foundation 1.0 
[032] - python/pg_greentrunk 1.0 
[033] - python/pg_pqueue 1.0 
[034] - python/pg_proboscis 1.0 
[035] - python/pg_typical 1.0 
[036] - sakura 2.1.2 
[037] - segatex 6.40 
[038] - Skaringa r3p8 
[039] - STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.8.0/0.9.5 (STUBS Configurations)
[040] - Tux Commander 0.6.36 
[041] - UDAV 0.4 
[042] - uGNU/RTOS 0.0.1 
[043] - upoints 0.11.0 


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[001] - Ah3 beta10 
  by Joe Croft (http://freshmeat.net/users/croftj/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 04:38

Office/Business :: Financial :: Point-Of-Sale

About: Ah3 is an invoicing and inventory system for repair shops. It comes
configured for an auto repair shop but can be configured to handle any shop
with customers who have things to be repaired. It includes a customer and
vehicle database, the ability to generate invoices, and the ability to
track the repair history of a vehicle. It also tracks inventory, allowing
for parts with multiple vendors and costs and other information. Ah3 is the
successor to Autohouse II. 

Changes: This version compiles and runs on Windows. Pre-built binaries use
Bitrock installers for the binary installation on both Windows and Linux.
These should contain all of the files required to run on any current Linux
or Windows platforms. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ah3/

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[002] - Anyterm 1.1.24 (Development)
  by Phil Endecott (http://freshmeat.net/users/endecotp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:17

Communications :: WAP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: Anyterm provides a terminal emulator on a Web page using Javascript
and an Apache module. The module forks a shell and communicates with the
script using XMLHTTP on port 80, or securely using SSL. This provides you
with shell access to your machine from almost any Web browser, even when
firewalls are in the way. Experimental features include support for
standalone operation without Apache, and the my.anyterm.org service
provides access without the need to install anything on your servers. 

Changes: This version adds support for OpenBSD.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/anyterm/

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[003] - Bitflu 0.50 
  by broccoli (http://freshmeat.net/users/broccoli/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:03

Communications :: File Sharing

About: Bitflu is a BitTorrent client designed to run non-stop as a daemon.
It does not provide a graphical interface, but offers a telnet interface
and can handle multiple torrent downloads. 

Changes: The BitTorrent plugin is now able to create new .torrent files
itself using the new 'create_torrent' command. A configuration option to
disable the 'history' feature has been added, and a few bugs were fixed.
This release includes an experimental (new) storage driver.

License: Artistic License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitflu/

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[004] - check_websites  0.3 
  by mex (http://freshmeat.net/users/mexkomplex/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:44

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: check_websites is a very simple virus scanner for Web sites. It
checks a document root directory for files with the .js extension and for
codewords which might be a hint of defacement or SQL injection. This tool
is made to run as a cronjob. There's no output on the screen, but it
generates a logfile and mails output. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/check_websites/

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[005] - Ctalk 0.0.54a 
  by thx1132 (http://freshmeat.net/users/kiesling3/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:54

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 many bug and compatibility fixes for DJGPP
platforms.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ctalk-lang/

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[006] - CWallpaper 0.3.3 (FLTK)
  by Xentalion (http://freshmeat.net/users/xentalion/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:51

Desktop Environment

About: CWallpaper is a front end for fbsetbg, Esetroot, feh, and other
wallpaper changers. It can also change the wallpaper for several desktop
enviroments, and works with any root wallpaper changer. It can also restore
the last wallpaper set. 

Changes: Rewritten in C++ and using FLTK.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cwallpaper/

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[007] - DataNucleus Access Platform 1.0.0.m2 
  by DataNucleus (http://freshmeat.net/users/datanucleus/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:23

Database
Database :: API
Database :: Front-Ends

About: DataNucleus Access Platform is a standards-compliant Java
persistence product. It is fully compliant with the JDO1, JDO2, JDO2.1, and
JPA1 Java standards. It also complies with the OGC Simple Feature
Specification for persistence of geospatial Java types. It allows access to
all popular RDBMSs available today, together with db4o, LDAP, Excel
documents, and XML databases.

Changes: Support for persistence to db4o as an embedded server was added.
Support for persistence to NeoDatis ODB was added. Support for persistence
to JSON (RESTful) was added. Persistence to XML was improved, adding more
control over XML schema. Support for XA transactions via JCA was completed.
A user API for RDBMS schema information was added. Several bugs were fixed.


License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/datanucleusaccess/

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[008] - Dell 1600n network scanner driver 1.12 
  by sigra (http://freshmeat.net/users/sigra/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 04:36

System :: Hardware

About: This is a driver for network scanning using a Dell 1600n
Printer/Scanner/Fax/Copier. It is implemented as a Perl script. In
principle, this means that it should be cross-platform. It has been tested
under Linux (Debian and Gentoo) and Windows (NT4 with Cygwin) on Intel.
Supported formats are TIFF and JPEG. With an external program (e.g.
ImageMagick convert), PDF is supported.

Changes: A fix was made for ActiveState perl on Windows XP. 

License: Freely Distributable

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dell1600n-net-scan/

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[009] - Duplicate Files Finder 0.8.0 
  by Matthias Boehm (http://freshmeat.net/users/ma_boehm/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:18

Utilities

About: Duplicate Files Finder is an application which allows you to easily
find and remove duplicate files. Creating hardlinks and symbolic links is
also supported. A special algorithm minimizes the disk traffic, so the
program is very fast. It uses byte by byte comparison. 

Changes: This release mainly contains symbolic link support for Windows,
many GUI changes, improved search support (exclude masks have been added
and masks can contain separators), and improved compilation support.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dupfinder/

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[010] - Fedora Project 9 
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:50

System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: The Fedora Project (Fedora Core) is a community-run Linux
distribution sponsored by Red Hat.

Changes: This release features GNOME 2.22 and KDE4, a 2.6.25-rc5 based
Linux kernel, the Firefox 3 Beta 5 browser, Java in the OpenJDK6
implementation with free replacements coming from IcedTea, and X.org 1.4
with a pre-release of X Server 1.5. The Anaconda installer was improved,
along with enhancements for seamless updates. Dictionary support was
consolidated among OpenOffice.org, Firefox, Thunderbird, GNOME, and KDE.
Several Bluetooth and NetworkManager enhancements were made. PackageKit was
introduced as a software management method. FreeIPA was added, allowing you
to easily manage security information.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fedora_project/

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[011] - gc-utils 0.2.2 
  by somnium (http://freshmeat.net/users/somnium/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:29

Software Development :: Version Control
Utilities

About: gc-utils is a small set of scripts that let you import and update
CVS repositories into git very easy and let you export patches back into a
CVS working copy. To makes the exchange easy, gc-utils stores the CVS
working copy into a subdirectory and receives all information from there
whenever necessary. 

Changes: This releases mainly fixes a portability issue on BSD like
systems that don't have GNU install(1). Additionally, some script outputs
were beautified. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gc-utils/

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[012] - getsnmp 0.8 
  by Thierry FOURNIER (http://freshmeat.net/users/fourniert/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:51

System :: Monitoring

About: getsnmp is a scheduler for collecting SNMP values from any network
equipment and storing these values in an rrdtool database.

Changes: Specific MIB directories can be added. Logging is done in all
cases. A segfault which occurred in some cases when loading configuration
was fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/getsnmp/

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[013] - GNU Typist 2.8.1 
  by Paul Goins (http://freshmeat.net/users/vultaire/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:02

Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)

About: GNU Typist (gtypist) is a universal typing tutor. It includes
typing tutorials in several languages and for several keyboard layouts. GNU
Typist is a direct descendant of the famous program "Typist".

Changes: This release fixes a bug with installation of the typefortune
script: "make install" will now install it properly. There are no other
changes.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtypist/

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[014] - Group Shell 0.3 
  by Guillaume Chazarain (http://freshmeat.net/users/guichaz/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:55

System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
System :: Shells

About: Gsh is a tool to aggregate several remote shells into one. It is
used to launch an interactive remote shell on many machines at once. 

Changes: Some command line options were removed and some added. The
control shell is replaced with colon-prefixed commands. The prompt uses
readline even when not all remote shells are ready. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-D, and
Ctrl-Z sent to gsh are forwarded to the remote shells. Shell commands
prefixed by an exclamation mark are run locally. Some control commands have
been added as well as support for file transfer. Common SSH key problems
are detected and some help is printed. There is a new completion mechanism
from the local filesystem.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/groupshell/

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[015] - HEYU 2.3.1 
  by Charles Sullivan (http://freshmeat.net/users/cwsulliv/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:53

Other/Nonlisted Topic
Utilities

About: HEYU provides a command line interface to communicate with the
CM11A hardware module from X10. The CM11A will send remote control signals
over the power lines to remote modules within your house. HEYU can be run
from cron to automate lights, sprinklers, etc., or can store macros and
timers in the CM11A memory for standalone operation. Auxiliary input is
supported from MR26A, W800RF32A, and RFXCOM X10 RF receivers. Arbitrary
commands and scripts can be launched based on X10 signals and the state of
the system. HEYU also supports the CM17A "Firecracker" device for
transmission of X10 RF signals. 

Changes: A segmentation fault bug with executables compiled under Fedora 9
Linux has been fixed. The bug was exhibited when an attempt was made to
upload a schedule of macros and timers to the interface.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/heyu/

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[016] - Hydrogen CMS 1.0 
  by Rick Rein (http://freshmeat.net/users/jeebusroxors/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:34

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Hydrogen CMS is an extremely lightweight, modular blogging system.
New blogs are created by sending an email with the hydrogen tags to an
existing or dedicated email address. CSS and static pages are supported. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hydrogencms/

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[017] - JCR 0.6.2rc1 
  by John Dickson (http://freshmeat.net/users/captsens/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:59

Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: JCR is a Web application for performing and managing formal code
reviews. Although it has some special logic for reviewing Java projects, it
can be used for reviews of any type of source code. JCR manages all stages
of the review process (initial project setup, individual review, joint
review meeting, post-review tidy-up), but it's mainly there to show diff
views of files that have changed and to allow comments to be made on any
line of any file marked for review.

Changes: This release candidate contains a number of functional
enhancements. The most important are improved generation of file diffs,
display of intra-line diffs in files, keyboard navigation support when
reviewing, and display of modification stats (lines, diff chunks, and
percentage change) for each file. The keyboard navigation in particular
speeds the review process up markedly. There have been many other more
minor enhancements, plus a number of bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jcr/

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[018] - libqrencode 3.0.3 
  by FUKUCHI Kentaro (http://freshmeat.net/users/fukuchi/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:23

Software Development :: Libraries

About: libqrencode is a library for encoding data in a QR Code symbol, a
kind of 2D symbology that can be scanned by devices such as a mobile phone
with a CCD.

Changes: Portability was enhanced. The command line tool "qrencode" now
accepts long options. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libqrencode/

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[019] - Lynis 1.1.4 
  by M. Boelen (http://freshmeat.net/users/MBoelen/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:35

Security :: Forensics
System :: Diagnostics

About: Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix (specialists). It scans the
system configuration and creates an overview of system information and
security issues usable by professional auditors. 

Changes: This release adds several feature enhancements to improve the
execution of tests. For example, a new option has been added to disable the
upgrade test. Another parameter has been added to perform an update
availability check manually. A new section, LDAP Services, has been added
with small support for OpenLDAP. Additional file systems and boot loader
support is available. Several tests have code cleanups, improved
descriptions, or additional checks. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lynis/

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[020] - MathGL 1.7 
  by A.Balakin (http://freshmeat.net/users/aabalakin/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:05

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: MathGL is a library for making high-quality scientific graphics
under Linux and Windows, fast data plotting and handling of large data
arrays, working in window and console modes, and easily embedding into
other programs. It has more than 40 general types of graphics for 1d, 2d,
and 3d data arrays. It can export graphics to raster and vector (EPS or
SVG) formats. It has an OpenGL interface and can be used from console
programs. It has functions for data handling and MGL language scripting for
simplification of data plotting. It has several types of transparency and
smoothed lightning, vector fonts and TeX-like formula drawing, an arbitrary
curvilinear coordinate system, and many other useful things.

Changes: The MGL parser has been partially rewritten (adding user-defined
commands, export of MGL to C++, conditions and cycles, and Unicode
support). Export to IDTF files has been added (can be converted to U3D
pictures). Nonlinear data fitting has been added. Color specification in
the color scheme now supports "brighted" colors like "b1b2b3...b9". A color
scheme may contain up to 32 colors. Improved automatic axis positioning and
a feature for manual setting of the tick starting position. The set of
functions for data handling has been extended. Font loading has been sped
up. Some bugs are corrected.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mathgl/

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[021] - Mathomatic 14.0.4 
  by George Gesslein II (http://freshmeat.net/users/gesslein/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:18

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Mathomatic is a fast and easy-to-use console mode Computer Algebra
System (CAS) 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: Two new command options were added: "derivative nosimplify" and
"solve verify". A general cleanup was done and simplification was improved.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mathomatic/

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[022] - MX 1000 Laser Mouse Driver 0.1.4 
  by Undefined (http://freshmeat.net/users/juergenh/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:44

System :: Hardware

About: MX 1000 Laser Mouse Driver is a Linux driver for the Logitech MX
1000 Laser Mouse Receiver. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mxlaser/

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[023] - NaSMail 1.5 
  by Tomas Kuliavas (http://freshmeat.net/users/tokul/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:57

Communications :: Email :: Email Clients (MUA)

About: NaSMail is a standards-based webmail package. It includes support
for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages render in HTML 4.01 with
minimal JavaScript and CSS. It has very few requirements and is very easy
to configure and install. NaSMail has all the functionality you would want
from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and
folder manipulation. NaSMail is based on SquirrelMail 1.4.x. It includes
internationalization and other code changes from SquirrelMail version
1.5.x. 

Changes: This release includes security updates in HTML email sanitizing.
These updates prevent some interface abuse with CSS. This release adds SASL
PLAIN support to IMAP and SMTP authentication functions, has optimizations
in IMAP EXPUNGE commands and UIDPLUS support, and has many updates in RBL
filtering options. It contains other small bugfixes and code cleanup.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nasmail/

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[024] - Necromancer's Dos Navigator 2.31.1279 
  by Angels Holocaust (http://freshmeat.net/users/AngelsHolocaust/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:14

Desktop Environment :: File Managers

About: Necromancer's Dos Navigator is a "Norton Commander" clone. It uses
a well known text-mode interface, is highly customizable, and has a lot of
features. Its key features are a text editor with syntax highlighting,
horizontal/vertical blocks, multiple codepages, undo/redo, bookmarks,
powerful searching, and regex; a file viewer with text view, asm/dump/hex
edit, raw blocks, header viewer, search, regex, and unlimited filesize; a
powerful filepanel with higlighting, VFSs, and filefind with textsearch and
regex; a calculator; and more. 

Changes: This release mainly contains internal code changes, as several
core VP RTL files were merged with external sources. It has been verified
to work in Vista, and contains bugfixes and enhancements to the internal
editor and viewer.

License: Freeware

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ndn/

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[025] - Nexenta Storage Appliance 1.0.2 
  by Erast Benson (http://freshmeat.net/users/Erast/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:42

System
System :: Archiving
System :: Archiving :: Backup

About: Nexenta Storage Appliance is designed and built to operate as a 2nd
tier storage alongside pre-existing commercial storage, providing online
continuation of data for months and years, with tapes relegated to archival
purposes only. The appliance is targeted for 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI
applications requiring extremely low cost storage as well as dramatically
simplified provisioning, expansion, backup, replication, and archiving. It
can also be used as a primary NAS in businesses that wish to expand at
closer to commodity pricing. It supports unlimited snapshots, snapshot
mirroring (replication), and easy management of extremely large storage
pools.

Changes: NMCD may be used as a reliable SMF service. Dynamic volroot was
added to support mounting volumes at arbitrary mountpoints. A patch to
write throttle results in excessive delay was integrated. An IBM ServeRAID
SATA (IPS) driver was added. Additional interfaces were added for NMV,
namely lunsync and volume version. Many bugs were fixed. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nexentastor/

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[026] - OpenSSL 0.9.8h 
  by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:46

Software Development :: Libraries

About: The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust,
commercial-grade, fully featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as
well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.

Changes: Two crashes discovered using the Codenomicon TLS test suite, as
reported in CVE-2008-0891 and CVE-2008-1672, were fixed. The root CA
certificates of commercial CAs were removed from the distribution.
Functions were added to implement RFC3394 compatible AES key wrapping.
Utility functions to handle ASN1 structures were added. The certificate
status request TLS extension, as defined in RFC3546, was implemented.
Several other bugfixes and enhancements were made.

License: OSI Approved

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openssl/

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[027] - openSUSE 11.0 RC 1 (Development)
  by binner (http://freshmeat.net/users/stbinner/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:52

System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. It
promotes the use of Linux everywhere, and provides free, easy access to the
openSUSE Linux distribution. 

Changes: This release candidate introduces a themed and simplified DVD
installer, an improved live CD installer, fast package management, and the
latest software like KDE 3.5.9 and 4.0.4 (including some 4.1
backports/parts), GNOME 2.22.1, OpenOffice 2.4, and Firefox 3.0.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/suselinux/

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[028] - phptelemeter 1.33 
  by Jan De Luyck (http://freshmeat.net/users/jandeluyck/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:53



About: phptelemeter is a script that can read the Web pages for the
Web-based "quota" monitor made available by ISPs. These pages can contain
both the actual status and the status since the last "reset", which happens
on a date set by the ISP. This is what makes up the used quota. It supports
Telenet, Dommel, Skynet, Scarlet, and EDPNet for Belgium and UPC for the
Czech Republic.

Changes: This release adds further red-highlighting in the text parser,
support for EDPNet as a Belgian ISP, and a new publisher for PNG graphbars.
New configuration parameters have been added to allow better integration in
3rd party tools, and code cleanup has been done to allow for further
expanding of phptelemeter. It also fixes the scarlet_web and telemeter_web
parsers, which were broken due to Web site updates.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phptelemeter/

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[029] - pkgmake 0.1.7 
  by Izzy (http://freshmeat.net/users/izzysoft/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:51

Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools

About: pkgmake automates some steps when making software releases. It
creates a copy of the development tree, optionally cleans it up a bit (i.e.
removes CVS/* and .svn/*), tars it, places the tarball in the SOURCES/
directory, creates the corresponding .spec file from a provided template
(and the data specified in the configuration/on the command line), and runs
rpmbuild and/or debbuild.

Changes: More placeholders for RPM/Debian specific stuff have been added,
and package dependencies have been updated.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pkgmake/

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[030] - pyswisseph 1.73.00-0 
  by stnsls (http://freshmeat.net/users/stnsls/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:11

Religion
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pyswisseph is a Python extension to AstroDienst's Swiss Ephemeris C
library (also known as swisseph). This extension implements very accurate
astronomical calculations for astrological purposes. 

Changes: A function to get the magnitude of stars and a new house system,
"Whole Sign", have been implemented. The function house_pos now works with
the Alcabitius house system. 

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyswisseph/

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[031] - python/pg_foundation 1.0 
  by James William Pye (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:53

Database
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pg_foundation provides data and classes that relate to core
PostgreSQL elements, such as exception hierarchy, type implementations,
type oid identification, and encoding aliases. The Postgres foundation
package provides various utilities for working PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL
exception classes and SQL state codes; PostgreSQL types and named oids; a
version parser; a pg_config dictionary converter; encoding aliases; a byte
codec; "optparse" options for command line client programs; the pgpass file
parser; an environment variable collector; and a PQ IRI parser. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pg_foundation/

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[032] - python/pg_greentrunk 1.0 
  by James William Pye (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:59

Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pg_greentrunk provides fundamental components of GreenTrunk, an
interface protocol (API) for using a PostgreSQL database with Python. It
provides an interface for implementations to use, and provides
documentation in the form of Python modules to allow immediate access to
object descriptions, even when inside a Python console. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pg_greentrunk/

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[033] - python/pg_pqueue 1.0 
  by James William Pye (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:59

Database
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: pg_pqueue is a Python package that provides low-level PQ protocol
classes for interacting with a PostgreSQL database. It supports version 3.0
of the protocol. The package also provides a basic protocol transaction
class. This class keeps the state of the protocol in an interrupt safe
manner, and validates the integrity of the communication as messages are
received. In general, you probably will never use this package directly,
unless you are writing a driver. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pg_pqueue/

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[034] - python/pg_proboscis 1.0 
  by James William Pye (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:37

Database :: Front-Ends

About: pg_proboscis is a pure Python driver/interface for PostgreSQL. It
is designed to give maximum flexibility to a user by providing
protocol-level prepared statements and cursors. It features basic SSL
support, COPY TO/FROM, automatic encoding/decoding of character data, and
timestamp support regardless of the backend
configuration(integer_datetimes).

Changes: The API was stabilized. Many bugs were fixed and many features
were completed. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pg_proboscis/

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[035] - python/pg_typical 1.0 
  by James William Pye (http://freshmeat.net/users/jwp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:53

Database
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: Typical is a project that provides PostgreSQL binary type I/O
routines for Python. At the core, pstruct, it provides the transformation
routine. The outer layers, oidmap and stdio, it provides dictionaries that
associate the PostgreSQL type oid with the transformation routine. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pg_typical/

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[036] - sakura 2.1.2 
  by davidge (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidge/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:31

Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

About: sakura is a vte-based terminal emulator. It aims to provide a
terminal emulator that only depends on GTK and VTE. It uses a notebook to
allow multiple tabs in the same window. 

Changes: Options to toggle fullscreen and the scrollbar were added in the
popup menu. The bug with fake transparency was solved. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sakura/

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[037] - segatex 6.40 
  by intrajp (http://freshmeat.net/users/intrajp/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:26

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: A small program which pops up when /etc/shadow has been modified
was added. More Japanese translations were added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/segatex/

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[038] - Skaringa r3p8 
  by Skaringa (http://freshmeat.net/users/skaringa/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:12

Software Development :: Object Brokering

About: Skaringa is an API for Java and XML language binding. It transforms
Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema
definitions for a Java class. Typical applications are data exchange,
object persistence, object transformation, and driving XML based
presentation layers. Skaringa is designed for speed and simplicity,
supporting a wide range of types. It works with all Plain Old Java Objects
(POJOs) and is not limited to special cases, like JavaBeans.

Changes: Runtime dependencies on third party libraries, like
commons-logging, have been removed. Production and test code were split.
The binary distribution doesn't contain the JUnit test cases any longer. 

License: BSD License (original)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/skaringa/

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[039] - STUBS and Franki/Earlgrey Linux 0.8.0/0.9.5 (STUBS Configurations)
  by William Towle (http://freshmeat.net/users/etwills/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 05:30

System :: Operating System
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions :: CD-Based

About: The STUBS Toolchain and Utility Build Suite is a set of scripts
designed to build one or more software packages by means of a pre-written
set of configuration files. Each configuration file encapsulates the
necessary build and install commands for a given package, and URLs are
included so source and patches can be downloaded as necessary. STUBS is
designed to both bootstrap and work within the Franki/Earlgrey Linux
environment (an extensible busybox and uClibc-based Linux boot floppy
produced by one of several example STUBS configurations). 

Changes: This release officially kicks off the 0.8.0 stable series. New
and updated packages since 0.6.x include autossh, bzip2, findutils, file,
httping, udhcp, and wget. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freglx/

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[040] - Tux Commander 0.6.36 
  by Tomas Bzatek (http://freshmeat.net/users/tbzatek/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 18:42

Desktop Environment :: File Managers

About: Tux Commander is a GTK2 file manager with two side-by-side panels.
Some of its functions are inspired by Total Commander. The main goal of
this project is to create a powerful user-friendly file manager for Linux. 

Changes: Newly ported to he FreePascal compiler, this version introduces
native x86_64 (AMD-64) platform support as well as standard i386. Coming
with two archiving plugins (RAR and tar.gz/bz2), this version continues to
increase user convenience and usability. RPM packages have been introduced
as well.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxcmd/

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[041] - UDAV 0.4 
  by A.Balakin (http://freshmeat.net/users/aabalakin/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 15:06

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: UDAV is a cross-platform program for data array visualization based
on the MathGL library. It supports a wide spectrum of graphics, simple
script language, and visual data handling and editing. It has a windowed
interface for data viewing, changing, and plotting. It can execute MGL
scripts, set up and rotate graphics, export to bitmap or vector (EPS or
SVG) files, draw TeX-like formulas, and so on.

Changes: A completely rewritten interface using the Qt4 library. Unicode
support, printing, export to C++ and IDTF have been added. There is
extended mouse manipulation (left button for rotation, middle button for
moving, and right button for zooming and perspective). The "Add style"
dialog shows immediately selected line/font style or color scheme. Data
values and graphics can be copied to the clipboard. The editor font and
syntax highlighting colors are customizable now. There is automatic support
for new MGL keywords (including user-supplied). There are many minor
changes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/udav/

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[042] - uGNU/RTOS 0.0.1 
  by plato_UZK (http://freshmeat.net/users/uruzuki/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:51

Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Home Automation
Software Development :: Libraries

About: uGNU/RTOS is a microcontroller-targeted serial real time operating
system. It has been ported to USART capable Microchip PIC16 devices. It
supports I/O operations and some internal registry operations. The user can
interact with the chip through the RS-232 serial cable and a shell. The
user can type a small list of commands and see the results on the chip's
outputs. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnurtos/

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[043] - upoints 0.11.0 
  by James Rowe (http://freshmeat.net/users/JNRowe/)
  Sun, Jun 1st 2008 14:48

Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical

About: upoints is a collection of Python modules for working with points
on Earth or other nearly spherical objects. It allows you to calculate the
distance and bearings between points, mangle xearth/xplanet data files, and
work with online UK trigpoint databases, NOAA's weather station database,
and other such location databases. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/upoints/



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