Newsletter for Wednesday, August 20th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (47) :::
[001] - AntiVirus Scanner 3.6.1 (OpenSSL Debian)
[002] - Astaro Security Linux 7.290 (Beta)
[003] - Autobuild 4.0
[004] - Autoglade 0.4
[005] - Calf 0.0.15
[006] - Cherokee 0.8.1
[007] - CONSIDEO MODELER 4.5
[008] - Cyan Secure Web Proxy 1.4.5
[009] - Directory Recursive Files 0.4
[010] - Drupal 6.4
[011] - EJBCA 3.6.2 (Development)
[012] - Fakeroot Next Gen 0.14
[013] - gLabels 2.2.3 (Stable)
[014] - Gnu PHP Link Directory 1.0
[015] - GNU SIP Witch 0.3.0
[016] - Grid Resources for Industrial Applications 5.3
[017] - GTK+ 2.13.7 (Development)
[018] - Hastymail 2 beta 3 (Development)
[019] - Help Desk Reloaded 3.6.6
[020] - Java Parallel Processing Framework 1.4
[021] - Joystick control 0.3.5
[022] - JumpBox for Silverstripe 1.0
[023] - Lbunzip2 0.03
[024] - LightWeight Time Tracker 1.2.0
[025] - Mausezahn 0.33
[026] - Mediabird 0.2
[027] - MikeOS 1.4.2
[028] - Mosait 0.4
[029] - msx-emul 1.2
[030] - MyNmap 0.50
[031] - MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.5 (Production (5.1.x))
[032] - nagstamon 0.5.3
[033] - Newsbeuter 1.0
[034] - openModeller 0.6.0
[035] - pdfposter 0.4.3
[036] - pdfrecycle 0.03
[037] - PhpGedView 4.1.5
[038] - PureCM 2008/2
[039] - Python School Alarm Clock 1.2
[040] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.08
[041] - Siege 2.68b3 (Beta)
[042] - system-config-printer 1.0.6 (Stable)
[043] - TUTOS 1.4.20080820
[044] - Vigilo 1.1
[045] - Web Performance Suite 3.5 Update 9
[046] - Zapping VBI library 0.2.32
[047] - [simple | small | shell] web server 1.0
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - AntiVirus Scanner 3.6.1 (OpenSSL Debian)
by Wolfpack Entertainment (http://freshmeat.net/users/learfox/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 04:55
Security
About: AVScan is an anti-virus scanner that uses the ClamAV library
(libclamav). It allows you to create a list of scan items for frequently
scanned locations and features on-demand virus database updating, manual
drag and drop object scanning, and pausing and resuming of scanning, all in
a simple GUI environment.
Changes: The GtkMenuBar layout has been rearranged. The scanner operations
module has been updated for ClamAV 0.93.3.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/avscan/
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[002] - Astaro Security Linux 7.290 (Beta)
by astaro (http://freshmeat.net/users/astaro/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 08:07
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network security gateway
that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam
protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful
packet inspection, deep packet filtering, intrusion detection and
prevention, portscan detection, content filtering, virus detection for
email and Web traffic, profile handling, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN
tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP,
SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. The WebAdmin, the Install Wizard,
and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update.
Changes: Besides some small fixes for remote access, the ACC device agent,
and email backend, most changes were cosmetic in this RC2.
License: Free For Home Use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asl/
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[003] - Autobuild 4.0
by Simon Josefsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jas4711/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:47
Information Management
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Quality Assurance
About: Autobuild is a package that processes output from building
software, primarily focused on packages using Autoconf and Automake, and
generates HTML summaries. The output includes project name, version, build
host types, build host name, and indication of success or failure. The
output is indexed in many ways to simplify browsing.
Changes: The quick summary was enhanced to contain build status. A new
script was added for uploading files to Compaq Testdrive, abput-testdrive.
A new "status" value, "built", was added to indicate that a build
succeeded. autobuild.m4 now use $AB_PACKAGE and $AB_VERSION for
package/versions. The license was changed to the GPLv3.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autobuild/
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[004] - Autoglade 0.4
by dtmilano (http://freshmeat.net/users/dtmilano/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 23:57
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Software Development
About: autoglade is a tool that automagically creates a fully working
application from a GUI Glade definition plus some declarative information
with no programming.
Changes: This release adds support for a lot of widgets and actions
(button, tool button, font button, cut/copy/paste clipboard actions, etc.).
A new autoeditor example application demonstrating new features.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoglade/
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[005] - Calf 0.0.15
by Krzysztof Foltman (http://freshmeat.net/users/kfoltman/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 23:55
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Sound Synthesis
About: Calf is a set of audio effect plugins compatible with audio
technologies popular in Linux and other open-source operating systems.
Currently, several plugins are available (flanger, reverb, multimode
filter, vintage delay, phaser, simple monophonic VA synthesizer, and
organ/pad synthesizer). All of these plugins are available in versions
compatible with major Linux plugin specifications: LADSPA+LRDF, DSSI, and
LV2. A standalone application using GTK+2 and JACK is provided.
Changes: Usability of knob controls has been improved. A new FM-based
percussive module has been added to Calf Organ. The rotary speaker effect
is more flexible due to added parameters, and sounds more subtle due to a
changed algorithm. A freeze-on-exit bug has been fixed in the JACK host.
The JACK host license has been changed back to the GPL due to use of the
LASH client library.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/calf/
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[006] - Cherokee 0.8.1
by alo (http://freshmeat.net/users/godsmaze/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 08:08
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
System :: Networking
About: Cherokee is a very fast, flexible, and easy to configure Web
server. It supports widespread technologies: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS
and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly
encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. It
also provides an easy to use configuration interface that allows you to
configure the server from top to bottom without editing a text
configuration file.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cherokee/
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[007] - CONSIDEO MODELER 4.5
by kai neumann (http://freshmeat.net/users/kaisilsa/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 23:57
Information Management
Office/Business
Scientific/Engineering
About: CONSIDEO MODELER allows you to mindmap a complex problem, analyse
it qualitatively to discover levers and bottlenecks, and even to simulate
it by automatically building a system dynamics model. One can integrate any
external data and setup a customized management cockpit for playing out
scenarios. It is useful for organizational problems, project management,
financial analysis, production processes, score cards, and much more.
Changes: SQL and Excel import. A model explorer for hundreds of subsystems
and thousands of factors. Mind map import.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/consideo/
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[008] - Cyan Secure Web Proxy 1.4.5
by mko (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkofler/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:53
Internet :: Proxy Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Security
About: Cyan Secure Web Proxy Server is a carrier grade, high performance
Internet filtering proxy server for Linux. It includes scalable
(user/group/host) Web filter and virus scan utilities for blocking
malicious applications at the gateway. It has an advanced URL database,
authentication support (Active Directory, LDAP, NTLM), SSL Interception,
easy deployment, and remote administration.
Changes: An IP cache for NTLM authentication was implemented. User and
Group reload handling was modified. Problems with Active Directory
authentication were fixed. Problems with non-SSL data tunneling were fixed.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cyansecureweb/
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[009] - Directory Recursive Files 0.4
by Azzam ALNIJRES, Kaesar ALNIJRES (http://freshmeat.net/users/kadrf/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 17:49
About: Directory Recursive Files is a Java library that finds all files in
a root directory and all its sub-folders. It is very easy to use from other
Java projects or programs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drf-recurfiles/
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[010] - Drupal 6.4
by bsdunx (http://freshmeat.net/users/bsdunx/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:09
Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and
community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MySQLi
and PostgreSQL. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion
forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue,
content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with
a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error
logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It
is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean
code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application
framework.
Changes: Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been
committed. There are no new features. Sites are urged to upgrade
immediately after reading the security announcement.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drupal/
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[011] - EJBCA 3.6.2 (Development)
by Tomas Gustavsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/anatom/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 10:15
About: EJBCA is a fully functional Certificate Authority in Java using
J2EE technology. It builds on the J2EE platform to create a robust, high
performance, platform independent, flexible, and component-based CA to be
used standalone or integrated in any J2EE app. EJBCA comes with a flexible
and powerful Web-based admin GUI.
Changes: Improvements were made to the External OCSP responder with more
configuration options and Audit and Account logging. A new documentation
feature was added, with on-line documentation deployed in the Web interface
by default. Lots of improvements were made to the Admin-GUI with
configuration for autogenerated passwords. A lot of small GUI bugs and
quirks were fixed. A failover mechanism was added for the LDAP publisher. A
tool for importing certificates from MS CA was added. Lots of small bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ejbca/
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[012] - Fakeroot Next Gen 0.14
by Shachar Shemesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheSun/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 17:57
Adaptive Technologies
Software Development :: Embedded Systems
System :: Installation/Setup
About: Fakeroot-ng runs a program while fooling it into thinking it is
running with root privileges. When the program does something that only
root can do (e.g. create a device file), fakeroot-ng emulates the
appropriate system calls so that the program gets a consistent view of its
actions. Unlike the original fakeroot, fakeroot-ng uses the ptrace
interface, which means that it will (soon) support emulating chroot jails
properly.
Changes: This release allows attaching to an existing state from a new
invocation. There are speedups in the build system and other improvements.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakerootng/
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[013] - gLabels 2.2.3 (Stable)
by Jim Evins (http://freshmeat.net/users/evins/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 04:53
Office/Business
Printing
About: gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business
cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with
various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll
find at most office supply stores.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/glabels/
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[014] - Gnu PHP Link Directory 1.0
by Anthony Ettinger (http://freshmeat.net/users/chovy/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:33
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking
About: GPLD (Gnu PHP Link Directory) is a DMOZ-style, Web-based link
directory application. Gnu PHP Link Directory is a continuation of the PHP
Link Directory 2.1 codebase, which was licensed under the GPL, although the
3.x versions are now offered only under a proprietary license.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpld/
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[015] - GNU SIP Witch 0.3.0
by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:55
Communications :: Telephony
Office/Business
Security
About: GNU SIP Witch is a pure SIP-based office telephone call server that
supports generic phone system features like call forwarding, hunt groups
and call distribution, call coverage and ring groups, holding, and call
transfer, as well as offering SIP specific capabilities such as presence
and messaging. It supports secure telephone extensions for making calls
over the Internet, and intercept/decrypt-free peer-to-peer audio and video
extensions. It is not a SIP proxy, a multi-protocol telephone server, or an
IP-PBX, and does not try to emulate Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, or Yate.
Changes: An RTP proxy engine API in the core library was started. New
plugins were started for support of residential VoIP subscriber gateways
and transparent RTP proxy for supporting secure calling when behind NAT by
peer interconnect classification. Support for reinvite and SIP transaction
relaying was added. CGI extraction of call logs was added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sipwitch/
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[016] - Grid Resources for Industrial Applications 5.3
by IT Innovation (http://freshmeat.net/users/itinnovation/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:11
Communications
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: GRIA is Grid middleware that enables use of the Grid in a secure,
interoperable and flexible manner. It makes use of business models,
processes, and semantics to allow resource owners and users to discover
each other and negotiate terms for access to high-value resources. It
implements an overall business process to find, procure and utilise
resources capable of carrying out high-value, expert-assisted computations.
By focusing on business processes and the associated semantics, it enables
users to provision for their computational needs more cost effectively, and
develop new business models for some of their services. Services from
different providers can be combined together to create applications using a
simple and easy-to-use API.
Changes: Significant enhancements were made to the Client API. Support was
improved for client application integration (e.g. portals) and for client
orchestration of complex federation scenarios. GRIA now supports the
ability to dynamically discover token sources and chain multiple token
issuance requests automatically. .NET client applications can be integrated
directly with the GRIA client's Java API using IKVM. A new Microsoft Active
Directory (Kerberos) single-sign-on service was added to the client
management package.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gria/
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[017] - GTK+ 2.13.7 (Development)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 17:47
Desktop Environment
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Widget Sets
About: GTK, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating
graphical user interfaces. It is designed to be small and efficient, but
still flexible enough to allow the programmer freedom in the interfaces
created. GTK provides some unique features over standard widget libraries.
Changes: Many bugs were fixed. Translations were updated.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtk/
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[018] - Hastymail 2 beta 3 (Development)
by jason munro (http://freshmeat.net/users/sailfrog/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:34
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP
About: Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform
IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending
and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a
useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from
their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is
required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based
and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
Changes: Hastymail2 is a complete rewrite of the original Hastymail. The
code base is completely refactored, has a lightweight AJAX update system,
mobile device support, a flexible and evolving plugin API, PHP based
templates, CSS themes, and more. Many issues have been resolved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hastymail/
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[019] - Help Desk Reloaded 3.6.6
by helpdesksoftware (http://freshmeat.net/users/helpdesksoftware/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:36
Information Management
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
About: Help Desk Reloaded is a Web-based helpdesk customer support system.
Its users can quickly log help desk tickets, and customer support
representatives can track calls, assign priorities, etc.
Changes: This update corrects problems with the property management system
as well as a few minor issues with other files in the help desk.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/helpdeskreloaded/
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[020] - Java Parallel Processing Framework 1.4
by Laurent Cohen (http://freshmeat.net/users/lolocohen/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 18:01
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks
About: JPPF is a computational grid framework for Java focused on
performance and ease of use. It provides a set of tools and APIs to enable
the parallelization of CPU intensive applications, and distribute their
execution over a network of heterogenous nodes. It features platform
independence thanks to Java 1.5, does not require you to deploy your
application classes to a server, scales up to millions of nodes, has a
built-in fail-over mechanism on all the framework's components, and has a
monitoring and administration GUI tool to enable remote monitoring of the
server health and server shutdown/restart operations.
Changes: Nodes can now be restarted or shut down remotely from the
administration console or via the API. Tasks can be executed locally by the
client, with automatic load-balancing between local and remote execution.
The node security policy can be downloaded from the server for easier
deployment. The nodes collect the CPU time used by the tasks.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jppf/
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[021] - Joystick control 0.3.5
by Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) (http://freshmeat.net/users/ruddo/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 04:54
Multimedia
About: Joystick control is a simple tool that lets you control popular
media applications using your joystick. All you need to tell it is which
joystick device you want to use. Optionally, you can specify priorities for
your applications so that when one is not running, the program
automatically directs joystick commands to the running application highest
on the list.
Changes: This release has moved to distutils instead of autotools. It has
been upgraded to PyGTK 2.10 and new status icon code. The window is
resizable. This release has been tested with the latest software stack.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gjc/
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[022] - JumpBox for Silverstripe 1.0
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 04:48
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Silverstripe is a standards-compliant content management system
that allows the user to manage a dynamic content site. Silverstripe
utilizes an MVC architecture and has a desktop feel with its use of
AJAX-based controls. This JumpBox is based on the 1.1 JumpBox Platform and
includes a backup system that supports archiving the state of the JumpBox
to NFS, Windows File Shares, and Amazon S3.
Changes: This is the initial production release of this JumpBox.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/silverstripejumpbox/
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[023] - Lbunzip2 0.03
by lacos (http://freshmeat.net/users/lacos/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 10:46
System :: Archiving :: Compression
About: Lbunzip2 is a multi-threaded bunzip2 filter (a parallel bzip2
decompressor) that doesn't depend on the lseek() system call and so isn't
restricted to regular files. Its only command line argument is the number
of decompressor threads. It should be able to decompress valid bzip2
streams on the fly, i.e. statistically anything that bunzip2 itself can
decompress. Bzip2 streams created with a different block size than 900k
seem to be supported, too. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbunzip2 was 42%
faster (based on wall clock time) than standard bunzip2.
Changes: After running lbunzip2 on the bz2 test material of CERT-FI 20469,
a bug was fixed where a worker (decompressor) thread could get into an
infinite loop, spinning until finally outrunning the multiplexer thread,
then consuming all available memory and exiting.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lbunzip2/
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[024] - LightWeight Time Tracker 1.2.0
by aiken_cz (http://freshmeat.net/users/aiken_cz/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:50
Office/Business :: Scheduling
Utilities
About: LightWeight Time Tracker (LWTT) is a very simple time-tracking
program. It provides independent real-time tracking of multiple tasks (such
as programming, presentations, lectures, etc.). The data are saved to an
XML file under the home directory.
Changes: Very simple price calculation (based on price per hour) has been
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwtt/
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[025] - Mausezahn 0.33
by wonko6x7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/wonko6x7/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:48
System :: Networking
About: Mausezahn is a fast traffic generator which allows you to send
nearly every possible and impossible packet. Mausezahn can be used, for
example, as a traffic generator to stress multicast networks, for
penetration testing of firewalls and IDS, for simulating DoS attacks on
networks, to find bugs in network software or appliances, for
reconnaissance attacks using ping sweeps and port scans, or to test network
behavior under strange circumstances. Mausezahn gives you full control over
the network interface card and allows you to send any byte stream you want
(even violating Ethernet rules).
Changes: The tarball supports easier building of the binary via cmake.
Furthermore, Mausezahn has now been licensed clearly under the GPLv2 (there
was some confusion in the previous version). The Syslog protocol is now
supported. Minor bugs have been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mausezahn/
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[026] - Mediabird 0.2
by Fabian Gebert (http://freshmeat.net/users/fabiangebert/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 20:16
Education
Software Development
About: Mediabird is a utility that helps you to learn exactly what you
want and aids long-term memorization of key facts that you need to
remember. This platform allows users to share their ideas, problems, and
solutions in an easy-to-use cooperative learning environment.
Changes: This is the first public release for testers and developers.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mediabird/
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[027] - MikeOS 1.4.2
by Mike Saunders (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheRealMSaunders/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 23:58
System :: Operating System
About: MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written entirely in
assembler. It's not intended to to become a fully-fledged general purpose
OS. Instead, it's designed for learning basic OS design and x86 assembly
language. Consequently, it runs in 16-bit mode (for BIOS access) and has
very low system requirements. It features rudimentary DOS compatibility.
Changes: The minicom-like serial terminal program can now be exited using
the F8 key. A new command, VOL, has been added to the command line
interface to display information about the floppy disk. There were minor
updates to the documentation.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mikeos/
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[028] - Mosait 0.4
by Tangui Morlier (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tangui/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 05:13
Multimedia :: Graphics
About: Mosait creates photographic mosaics from a database of pictures.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mosait/
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[029] - msx-emul 1.2
by Folkert van Heusden (http://freshmeat.net/users/fvh/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:51
System :: Emulators
About: msx-emul is a simple MSX(-1) emulator. It currently only supports
"screen 0" (the 40/80x24 ascii screen) and "screen 2", memory mappers,
msx-dos megarom and konami 5 megarom, printer, rudimentary audio, and
almost complete keyboard emulation. It is mainly designed for testing the
z80ex ZiLOG z80 emulation library.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msx-emul/
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[030] - MyNmap 0.50
by Todd (http://freshmeat.net/users/frameloss/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 05:13
About: MyNmap is a tool that uses Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Perl (designed
to run on Linux, BSD, or other Unix clones) to display nmap network scan
data for large networks. It is/has been used at organizations to regularly
scan thousands of hosts with positive results. It has the ability to show
changes over time (what is new or what has disappeared). It can display
grids of what ports are available based on network, operating system, ports
in common, etc. It can perform scheduled scans and export reports in CSV.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mynmap/
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[031] - MySQL Connector/ODBC 5.1.5 (Production (5.1.x))
by jim winstead (http://freshmeat.net/users/jimw/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 04:47
Database :: API
Software Development :: Libraries
About: MySQL Connector/ODBC is an ODBC driver for the MySQL database
server.
Changes: This release adds an option to work around server limitations in
returning correct types from functions. Other minor bugs in the catalog
functions, setup library, and handling of some parameter types have been
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/myodbc/
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[032] - nagstamon 0.5.3
by Nagiostray (http://freshmeat.net/users/nagiostray/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:43
System :: Diagnostics
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration
About: Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor with a UI that resides in the
GNOME systray or on the Windows desktop. It informs you in realtime about
the status of your Nagios monitored network.
Changes: The missing licensing information was added. Windows integration
was improved.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nagstamon/
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[033] - Newsbeuter 1.0
by Andreas Krennmair (http://freshmeat.net/users/akrennmair/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 20:16
Office/Business :: News/Diary
About: Newsbeuter is an RSS feed reader designed to be used on text
terminals on Unix and Unix-like systems. It was developed with texttools
users in mind, and thus its interface is similar to tools like mutt and
slrn.
Changes: This release adds highlighting of text in all views using regular
expressions. It implements a search function in the help dialog. It
implements a config option "show-read-articles" to toggle the displaying of
read articles. It implements a config option "always-download" to configure
a list of feeds that shall always be downloaded. It adds a read progress
display in the article view. The "browser" configuration option now also
supports format strings to provide complete a complete command line. The
config option "reset-unread-on-update" has been added to reset the unread
flag for articles that have been updated.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/newsbeuter/
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[034] - openModeller 0.6.0
by rdg (http://freshmeat.net/users/adamsky/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 04:52
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: openModeller is a C++ framework providing a uniform method to model
distribution patterns using a variety of algorithms. It can be used to
predict species potential distribution based on a set of georeferenced
occurrence points and a set of environmental layers.
Changes: This release contains a new Maximum Entropy algorithm with two
training methods (Generalized Iterative Scaling and Limited-Memory Variable
Metric), new command line tools (om_points to retrieve occurrence data
using any of the available drivers and om_algorithm to get information
about the available algorithms), and new drivers to read occurrence data
from the GBIF REST Web service, TAPIR/DarwinCore providers, or openModeller
serialized XML. The GARP Best Subsets algorithm now accepts the "max
threads" parameter that can be used to speed up the modeling process in
multi-processor machines.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/openmodeller/
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[035] - pdfposter 0.4.3
by Hartmut Goebel (http://freshmeat.net/users/htgoebel/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:44
Printing
Utilities
About: pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from
multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF
file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file,
maybe containing multiple pages together, thus building the poster. The
input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. This is much like
poster does for Postscript files, but works with PDF instead, since
sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed,
pdfposter was inspired by poster.
Changes: This version fixes a minor bug: in multi-page documents, rotation
was wrong for all pages except the first.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdfposter/
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[036] - pdfrecycle 0.03
by fdiesch (http://freshmeat.net/users/fdiesch/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 23:56
Text Processing
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX
Utilities
About: pdfrecycle creates a PDF file by composing pages from other PDF
files. It lets you define PDF bookmarks, scale and rotate pages, put
multiple logical pages onto each physical sheet, and add metadata. It uses
a simple text file format to define the layout and what pages to include.
>From this input file, it creates a LaTeX file and then runs pdflatex to
produced the PDF file.
Changes: Last included pages were included twice; this has been fixed.
There are new features like the ability to scale and rotate pages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdfrecycle/
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[037] - PhpGedView 4.1.5
by Utopiabound (http://freshmeat.net/users/utopiabound/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 17:48
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
About: PhpGedView parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on
the Internet in formats and charts. It is designed to be a tool for online
collaboration. All it requires to run is a PHP-enabled Web server and a
Gedcom file.
Changes: This is a maintenance release that includes many bugfixes and
important security updates. It is highly recommended that all sites
upgrade.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpgedview/
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[038] - PureCM 2008/2
by stephen worthington (http://freshmeat.net/users/stephen_worthington/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:45
Software Development :: Bug Tracking
Software Development :: Version Control
About: PureCM is an integrated version control and defect tracking tool.
Based on the concept of changesets that represent tasks, it provides
developers with an easy to use and highly transparent GUI to improve
teamwork. It outperforms most other SCM tools, uses a reliable
transactional database, and is scalable to thousands of concurrent
developers. The server, GUI, command line, and Web clients runs on Windows,
Linux, Unix, and Mac OS.
Changes: An Eclipse plugin was added. A CruiseControl.NET plugin was
added. Shelving was improved so that you can checkpoint unfinished work on
the server or pass it to colleagues for completion without integration into
the codeline. Management of shared components was simplified. Visual
diffing and merging of MS Word files was implemented.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/purecm/
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[039] - Python School Alarm Clock 1.2
by Matthew Groat (http://freshmeat.net/users/mgroat/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 06:05
About: PySchoolClock is an alarm clock that checks your local school
closing listings on the Internet. If your school is closed, the alarm clock
lets you sleep in.
Changes: This release has a very basic GUI. Most of the source code has
been put inside a class, and reliance on global variables has been removed.
The documentation has been updated to cover the new GUI. The readme file
and the quickstart guide have been merged.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyschoolclock/
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[040] - Reverse Snowflake Joins 0.08
by alxtoth (http://freshmeat.net/users/alxtoth/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 11:36
About: Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL Select statements
and generates a diagram. In addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of
the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30, GROUP BY
(year), SUM(profit), HAVING MIN(age) > 18.
Changes: A simple graphical interface was added.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/revj/
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[041] - Siege 2.68b3 (Beta)
by Jeffrey Fulmer (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdfulmer/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 13:50
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Benchmark
About: Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress
test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can
read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program
reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response
time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1
protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic
authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis.
Changes: This release fixes a bug that prevented digest authentication
from being set on a realm by realm basis.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/siege/
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[042] - system-config-printer 1.0.6 (Stable)
by Tim Waugh (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmw/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 17:57
Printing
About: system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS
API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the
server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure
a remote CUPS server as a local one.
Changes: Several bugfixes. User interface improvements for job
authentication and selecting a PPD for a new printer.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/system-config-printer/
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[043] - TUTOS 1.4.20080820
by Gero Kohnert (http://freshmeat.net/users/gokohnert/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 12:13
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
About: TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) is a groupware, ERP
(Enterprise Resource Planing), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and
PLM (Project Lifecycle Management) suite that helps small to medium teams
manage various things in one place. Its features include personal and group
calendars, an address book, product and project management, bug tracking,
installation management, a task list, notes, files, mailboxes, and useful
links between all of the above.
Changes: Bugs were fixed. This release introduces some new modules like a
counter and a stuff module (i.e. inventory). There is also a new standard
way to create backups and to manage the customization of displayed text. A
ready-to-run VM appliance was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tutos/
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[044] - Vigilo 1.1
by Aurélien Bompard (http://freshmeat.net/users/abompard/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 12:30
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Vigilo is a complete supervision solution based on Nagios, RRDTool,
SEC, and Nagvis. All those components have been integrated together.
Changes: A Dashboard (events viewer) component has been published. The
SupNavigator has been updated, and a few bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vigilo/
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[045] - Web Performance Suite 3.5 Update 9
by Michael Czeiszperger (http://freshmeat.net/users/czei/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 20:18
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Software Development :: Testing
About: The Web Performance Suite is a suite of testing tools for Web
servers, including load testing, Web page performance analysis, and
operating system tuning. The statistical analysis in the Load Testing
Module takes your site's performance criteria, and determines the number of
users your Web site can handle. Because data is collected at the URL level,
it not only identifies slow Web pages, but identifies the particular part
of the Web page that caused the problem. It includes hard-to-find features
such as IP spoofing, client certificates, multiple simultaneous test cases,
authentication, SSL recording and playback, automated analysis, AJAX
support, SOAP support, and more.
Changes: This release is very stable. The last three releases have been
minor changes to fix problems for customers with issues not anticipated in
the test lab, i.e. 64-bit processors. If your current version is working
fine for you, it is recommend that you wait until the 3.6 release.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webperformancesuite/
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[046] - Zapping VBI library 0.2.32
by Michael H. Schimek (http://freshmeat.net/users/mschimek/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 06:03
Multimedia :: Video
About: The Zapping VBI (zvbi) library provides routines to read from raw
Vertical Blanking Interval capture devices, to demodulate raw to sliced VBI
data, and to interpret the data of several popular services. Basically, it
offers all the functionality needed by a VBI application except for the UI.
Changes: This version adds a new tool zvbi-atsc-cc to record Closed
Captioning from ATSC digital TV. It supports legacy NTSC captions (EIA/CEA
608-B) and DTVCC (CEA 708-C).
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libzvbi/
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[047] - [simple | small | shell] web server 1.0
by Brett Wynkoop (http://freshmeat.net/users/wynkoop/)
Wed, Aug 20th 2008 05:14
About: sws was born out a project requirement for a small universal Web
server that could run on any POSIX platform to serve static content. Since
it is written in /bin/sh it should run on any BSD/GNU-Linux/Unix system. It
has been tested on FreeBSD, Solaris, and Debian GNU/Linux. Installation
consists of putting the program somewhere, making it executable, creating
the document directory, and creating an entry in inetd.conf. sws requires
/bin/sh, dirname, cat, and date to function. These should be found on any
modern POSIX system.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sws/
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