Newsletter for Saturday, June 21st 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (25) :::
[001] - AgileWiki 0.0.4 (COWDB2)
[002] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 0.96
[003] - Code Browser 3.3
[004] - Coriander 2.0.0 (Stable)
[005] - Data Storm 1.0.0beta2
[006] - Glossword Requirements Checker 1.0
[007] - hdparm 8.9
[008] - jgnuplot 0.3
[009] - jNetPcap 1.1
[010] - MJPG-streamer revision #63
[011] - Moonlight application framework 0.1.3
[012] - Moonlight|3D 0.2.0
[013] - Nexenta Storage Appliance 1.0.3
[014] - Otk 0.67
[015] - Phuzby 1.42
[016] - Shell Flags 1.0.0
[017] - Standard Portable Library 0.2.7
[018] - Super CSV 1.5beta1
[019] - sysstat 8.1.4
[020] - Tcpreplay 3.3.2 (Stable)
[021] - The Stump Window Manager 0.9.3
[022] - Twitim 0.5
[023] - V6 Thompson Shell Port 20080109
[024] - VT6530 Terminal Emulator 0.2.4
[025] - WiXer 0.6
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[001] - AgileWiki 0.0.4 (COWDB2)
by Bill la Forge (http://freshmeat.net/users/laforge49/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 07:06
Database
Documentation
Information Management
About: AgileWiki is meant to create software systems which are fluid,
easily configured and can be reorganized on-the-fly to meet ever changing
requirements. It includes a COW-based database, the Rolonics programming
paradigm, and semantic inferencing.
Changes: Validate is now working. When initializing a database, the trunk
branch is now created. Aspect factories now take a fully qualified class
name when instantiating a capability. As a result, COWDB2 is now fully
extensible.
License: Common Public License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agilewiki/
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[002] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 0.96
by Scarfy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Scarfy/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:13
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
About: Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer is a 3rd person action shooter. With
the apparent defeat of Galdov and the reclaiming of the Fire, Time, Space,
and Reality Crystals, the Blobs' battle was only just beginning. Bob had
rescued many Blobs and fought many battles, but now he had an ever bigger
task ahead of him. The Blobs' homeworld is still littered with the alien
forces and Bob once again makes it his task to lead the counter attack. But
even without Galdov the aliens are still extremely well organised.
Changes: GNU Gettext support was added. The PAK file is now used for data
storage. There were also numerous miscellaneous mission tweaks and
bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blobandconquer/
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[003] - Code Browser 3.3
by Marc Kerbiquet (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkerbiquet/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:36
Text Editors
About: Code Browser is a folding and outlining editor. It is a
lightweight but powerful tool for structuring and browsing source code
using folders and links. It is especially designed to keep a good
overview of the code of a large project.
Changes: The session is now saved and restored when restarting the editor.
Captured output and search results are now displayed in a docked window.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/code-browser/
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[004] - Coriander 2.0.0 (Stable)
by Damien Douxchamps (http://freshmeat.net/users/ddouxchamps/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:41
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
Multimedia :: Video :: Display
About: Coriander is a GUI that let you control your 1394 digital video
camera interactively. It features SDL display, FTP image posting, file
saving, and Real streaming. It is for IIDC cameras, not for consumer grade
DV cameras.
Changes: Automatic iso control and RECEIVE service was implemented, and is
on by default. Updates were made for libdc 2.0.2. The port/node is shown in
the information frame. The "grab now" and "overlay file entry" features
were removed. The icons were updated. Feature presence and menus were
fixed. Spurious debug messages were removed. A bug in format7 controls was
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coriander/
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[005] - Data Storm 1.0.0beta2
by Dr. Kasper Graversen (http://freshmeat.net/users/kbilsted/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:15
Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Debuggers
About: Data Storm is a database browser that can be embedded in Java code.
It is intended to be used within tests to allow you to inspect why database
dependent tests are failing. It uses SWT for speed and native look and
feel.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/datastorm/
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[006] - Glossword Requirements Checker 1.0
by Dmitry N. Shilnikov (http://freshmeat.net/users/tty01/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:37
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Software Development :: Testing
System :: Installation/Setup
About: Glossword Requirements Checker is PHP script which checks if your
server configuration meets the requirements for running specific PHP
applications.
Changes: This is the first usable version. It features one visual theme,
English and Russian interface languages, and a configuration file for one
application.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/glosswordreq/
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[007] - hdparm 8.9
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:12
System :: Hardware
Utilities
About: hdparm is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating
various IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from
improved performance using a command similar to "hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1
/dev/hda".
Changes: This version is compatible with /sys/block/ symlinks, as seen on
some distributions' kernels.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hdparm/
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[008] - jgnuplot 0.3
by Pander (http://freshmeat.net/users/Pander/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:37
Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: jgnuplot is a Java library for interfacing with the gnuplot
plotting package which outputs to X11, Postscript, PNG, GIF, and other
formats.
Changes: Java 1.6 compliance was implemented. Checkstyle violations were
reduced.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgnuplot/
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[009] - jNetPcap 1.1
by Mark Bednarczyk (http://freshmeat.net/users/Voytechs/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:44
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
System :: Monitoring
About: jNetPcap is a Java library that is a wrapper around the popular
libpcap from tcpdump.org. What makes this library unique is that it is a
comprehensive wrapper around the entire libpcap library. jNetPcap uses the
same style of API as libpcap.
Changes: This is a maintenance release. Packages are provided for Fedora
Core 8 (Linux), Debian 4 (Linux), and Win32 (WinXP/Vista). There are no
bugfixes, since no bugs were reported.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jnetpcap/
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[010] - MJPG-streamer revision #63
by Tom (http://freshmeat.net/users/Torx/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:12
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Video
About: MJPG-streamer takes images from an input plugin and streams them to
several output plugins. It is the successor of the UVC-streamer, so it
supports Linux-UVC V4L2 compatible webcams as input plugins. The most
popular output plugin is the HTTP daemon. It serves the JPEG input as an
MJPEG stream or simple snapshots to a HTTP client like Firefox,
VideoLanClient (VLC), or TCPMP. By using the camozola Java applet, browsers
like Opera and Internet Explorer can also view the stream.
Changes: This release fixes disruption of Firefox while streaming and some
segfaults. LEDs on Logitech (QC 5000, Quickcam Sphere AF, and QC 9000)
webcams can now be controlled.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mjpg-streamer/
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[011] - Moonlight application framework 0.1.3
by Gregor Mueckl (http://freshmeat.net/users/mueckl/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:14
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Software Development :: User Interfaces
About: The Moonlight application framework was originally created as the
runtime framework of Moonlight|3D, but has evolved into a generic
cross-platform application framework for modular applications based on Qt
Jambi.
Changes: This release brings some bugfixes as well as a new color
selection dialog and improvements to the property sheet implementation: it
is now a plugin and each property sheet instance can now take a different
set of default editors overriding the global defaults. Also, it is now
possible to define property labels in sheet definition files, making these
sheets much more user friendly.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mlframework/
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[012] - Moonlight|3D 0.2.0
by Gregor Mueckl (http://freshmeat.net/users/mueckl/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:14
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
About: Moonlight|3D is a modeling and animation tool for three-dimensional
art. It currently supports mesh-based modeling. It's a redesign of
Moonlight Atelier, formed after Moonlight Atelier/Creator died in
1999/2000. Rendering is done through pluggable backends. It currently
supports Sunflow, with support for RenderMan and others in planning.
Changes: It is now possible to animate Moonlight|3D scenes and render
these animations. A split face tool and a new color selection dialog were
added. Additionally, this release brings a collection of small user
interface improvements. Internal changes in the program improve memory
usage and in some cases also performance.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ml3d/
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[013] - Nexenta Storage Appliance 1.0.3
by Erast Benson (http://freshmeat.net/users/Erast/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 04:19
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: This release added the ability to switch transport between HTTP
and HTTPS, improved auto-cdp observability, shows scrub-in-progress, fixed
a bug where the password was not correctly set for a newly created user,
added 'zfs list/get' and 'zpool list/get/status', updated NMC to support
write-cache enable/disable, and fixed many minor bugs.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nexentastor/
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[014] - Otk 0.67
by kindman (http://freshmeat.net/users/kindman/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:51
Multimedia :: Graphics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: Otk is a portable widget library for making graphical user
interfaces for C programs. It emphasizes simplicity for the application
programmer without eliminating capability. Based on OpenGL, Otk supports
Linux, Unix, and other OSs neutrally and efficiently. It is simple and
compact, and it strives for easy compilation and linking to other
applications. In seeking to address several issues associated with earlier
graphics APIs, Otk explores some interesting methods, such as
window-relative layout instead of pixel-based layout.
Changes: A file-browser bug that was introduced in a recent version has
been fixed. The file-browser now appears to operate correctly on all
platforms, once again.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/otk/
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[015] - Phuzby 1.42
by Nige (http://freshmeat.net/users/nigelg/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:49
Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Networking :: LDAP
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions
About: Phuzby will let you search your organisation's LDAP directory (such
as Active Diretory, Novell eDirectory, or OpenLDAP) for the contact details
of colleagues, customers, or suppliers. Phuzby can display a photo for each
person, and can even read the telephone number out loud to help you dial it
correctly. In fact, if your phone system supports TDMF tones, you can hold
your handset near you PC's speaker and phuzby will dial the number for you.
Changes: The code was converted to use JDK 1.6 to enable desktop
integration for email launching and to use Sun's multi-platform task tray
support instead of systray4j.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phuzby/
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[016] - Shell Flags 1.0.0
by Kate Ward (http://freshmeat.net/users/sfsetse/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:38
System :: Shells
About: Shell Flags (shFlags) is a library written to greatly simplify the
handling of command-line flags in Bourne based Unix shell scripts (such as
those run with bash, dash, ksh, sh, and zsh). Most shell scripts use getopt
for flag processing, but the different versions of getopt on various OSes
make writing portable shell scripts difficult. shflags instead provides an
API that doesn't change across shell and OS versions, so the script writer
can be confident that the script will work.
Changes: This release has been tested with several OSes (Linux, Solaris,
and Mac OS X) on several shells (bash, dash, ksh, pdksh, sh, and zsh).
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shflags/
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[017] - Standard Portable Library 0.2.7
by John Garrison (http://freshmeat.net/users/necron99/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 04:19
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
About: The Standard Portable Library is a pointer friendly C/C++ STL
substitute. The API is similar to Java or .NET and includes common data
structures, networking, and database support.
Changes: A code cleanup, minor enhancements, and bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spl2/
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[018] - Super CSV 1.5beta1
by Dr. Kasper Graversen (http://freshmeat.net/users/kbilsted/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:47
About: Super CSV is a CSV package for the Java 5+ platform. It operates on
streams rather than file names, so you can read and write files of any
encoding from any kind of source. It operates on maps and POJO beans, so
you don't have to convert to or from String arrays. It has a powerful
notion of a cellprocessor which enables you to regard columns in your CSV
files as real types such as numbers and dates rather than as strings.
Additionally, the processors can also act as a constraint mechanism,
enabling you to naturally specify constraints on your data.
Changes: Seven new cell processors were added. A few cell processors were
deprecated. BeanReader and BeanWriter now support method overloading of
get/set methods. Cell processors now only throw the SuperCSVException.
Handling of lines without the expected number of columns was improved.
Error messages were improved, more context information was added in the
exception and is available to the programmer.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/supercsv/
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[019] - sysstat 8.1.4
by Sébastien Godard (http://freshmeat.net/users/godard/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:49
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, mpstat, and
pidstat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system
activity information. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer
rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network
activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel
activities, and TTY statistics, among others. The sadf command may be used
to display data collected by sar in various formats. The iostat command
reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The
pidstat command reports statistics for Linux processes. The mpstat command
reports global and per-processor statistics.
Changes: sar can now collect and display all CPU fields with its new
option "-u ALL". mpstat can now display per-CPU interrupts statistics.
mpstat now uses a separate option ("-I SUM") to display the total number of
interrupts for each processor. NFS v4 support was added to "sar -n NFS(D)".
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysstat/
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[020] - Tcpreplay 3.3.2 (Stable)
by Aaron Turner (http://freshmeat.net/users/aturner/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 23:47
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 adds some support for non-Ethernet NICs under Linux,
fixes a number of serious bugs in tcpbridge, and improves tcpreplay's
support for older versions of Linux/*BSD.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcpreplay/
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[021] - The Stump Window Manager 0.9.3
by Shawn (http://freshmeat.net/users/sabetts/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 04:30
Desktop Environment :: Window Managers
About: Stumpwm is a tiling, keyboard driven X11 window manager written
entirely in Common Lisp. While it is minimalistic in appearance, its full
customizability, event hooks, and 100% pure Lisp implementation make it
startlingly powerful.
Changes: A few new commands, more documentation, and lots of bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/stumpwm/
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[022] - Twitim 0.5
by Yoshizumi Endo (http://freshmeat.net/users/yendo/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:15
Communications :: Chat
About: Twitim is an XMPP (Jabber) client for Twitter. It features custom
watchlists, sounds, and pop-up notifications.
Changes: Support for auto starting and spell checking was added. Minor
bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twitim/
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[023] - V6 Thompson Shell Port 20080109
by J.A. Neitzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/jneitzel/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 07:05
System :: Shells
About: V6 Thompson Shell Port is a port of the Sixth Edition (V6) UNIX
Thompson shell (circa 1975). The project includes Osh, an enhanced,
backward-compatible port of the shell, as well as Sh6 (a port of the
original shell) and glob6 (a port of the global command). Together, they
provide a user interface which is backward compatible with that provided by
the Sixth Edition Thompson shell and global command, but without the
obvious enhancements found in osh. Of course, this project also includes
the shell's associated external utilities.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/v6shell/
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[024] - VT6530 Terminal Emulator 0.2.4
by John Garrison (http://freshmeat.net/users/necron99/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 04:30
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Terminals
Terminals :: Telnet
About: VT6530 is a C++ implementation of the proprietary terminal used
with Tandem (HP Non-Stop) mainframes.
Changes: This release was updated to compile with the latest SPL.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vt6530/
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[025] - WiXer 0.6
by David Crawshaw (http://freshmeat.net/users/crawshaw/)
Sat, Jun 21st 2008 13:13
About: WiXer is a wiki compiler that uses a fully-specified grammar with a
git repository for versioning and an Ajax interface. It is designed for
those who know nothing about Servlets, and sits easily behind a static
content Web server. Rendering is done with Adam Megacz's WiX.
Changes: The back-end is reasonably stable and the interface supports
editing and basic user management.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wixer/
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