Newsletter for Saturday, September 13th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (27) :::
[001] - Arcadia 0.5.1
[002] - aTunes 1.10.0
[003] - Box 0.1, alpha20080913
[004] - cfunge 0.3.2
[005] - Conquest 8.4.1
[006] - Floola 3.5
[007] - Freeciv Web Client 1.0
[008] - Fusil 1.0 final
[009] - GNU ccScript 4.0.1
[010] - Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.2
[011] - JCards 6.0 (Desktop Version)
[012] - LCD-Linux 0.13.4
[013] - Lincetorrent 1.0-rc2
[014] - OtfBot 0.9
[015] - PhpWebGallery Butterfly 2 (Development)
[016] - Pyfig 1.2
[017] - python-ptrace 0.5
[018] - rst2pdf 0.8
[019] - RubySlippers 1.07
[020] - Schoorbs 1.0.4
[021] - Scriptable Form Editor 1
[022] - Sdictionary 1.5.0 (Libsdict)
[023] - The Castle 0.8.2
[024] - Tickle Tunes 0.7
[025] - Twidge 0.99.0
[026] - view3dscene 3.0.0
[027] - znc 0.060
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[001] - Arcadia 0.5.1
by antonio (http://freshmeat.net/users/agaleone/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:29
Software Development
Software Development :: Debuggers
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
About: Arcadia is a Light Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the
Ruby language written in Ruby using the classic Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit. Some
features include an editor with source browsing, syntax highlighting, and
code completion, debug support, the ability to work on any platform where
Ruby and Tcl-Tk work, a highly extensibility architecture, and support for
RAD GUI building.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arcadia/
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[002] - aTunes 1.10.0
by fleax (http://freshmeat.net/users/fleax/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
About: aTunes is a full-featured audio player and organizer, with some
ripping and encoding tools included. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, WAV, FLAC,
and MP4.
Changes: Some bugs were fixed since the previous release candidate.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atunes/
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[003] - Box 0.1, alpha20080913
by Matteo Franchin (http://freshmeat.net/users/fnch/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:51
Multimedia :: Graphics
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Box is a programming language that puts special emphasis on
graphics. It is intended to be for vector graphics what LaTeX is for
writing scientific documents.
Changes: Variables defined in the upper scope unit are globally defined
and are accessible from procedures. $, $$, ... without depth specification
refer now to the current definition Box. If A = B, then A inherits the
procedures of B. The Str object was added. This object allows you to
concatenate strings and print other types to string. It can be safely used
as Str@MyType, since "ordinary strings" (arrays of char) are automatically
converted to Str (Str = (()Char -> STR)). Window.Hot now returns the last
point it received as argument. Exit status should now be treated more
carefully.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/box/
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[004] - cfunge 0.3.2
by AnMaster (http://freshmeat.net/users/AnTux/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:00
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: cfunge is a fast interpreter for the Befunge98 esoteric language.
It is standard conforming.
Changes: Since the last release, a bug in K in SOCK has been fixed, FING
has been updated to new specs, and checks for certain long double
instructions have been added, with fall backs on double functions. There
have also been a number of smaller bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cfunge/
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[005] - Conquest 8.4.1
by Jon Trulson (http://freshmeat.net/users/jont/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:43
Games/Entertainment :: Real Time Strategy
Internet
About: conquest is a real-time multi-player space warfare game originally
written in ratfor for the vax/vms platform. It was an early predecessor to
netrek.
Changes: This version corrects some issues with conquering players unable
to leave their "Last Words" in the gl client, and adds some aggressiveness
in dealing with ship-slot starvation.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/conquest/
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[006] - Floola 3.5
by floola (http://freshmeat.net/users/floola/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:21
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
About: Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your
Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X,
and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no
installation. It supports all commonly used iPod features including photos,
artwork, podcasts, and smart playlists. It automatically converts any
incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to
it. It even allows adding YouTube and MySpace videos with a single click.
Changes: A new ffmpeg version is used (on Windows only).
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/floola/
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[007] - Freeciv Web Client 1.0
by Freeciv-Forever (http://freshmeat.net/users/freecivforever/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:41
Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy
About: The Freeciv Web Client is a strategy game which can be played
against other players. The game is a fork of Freeciv which is implemented
with a Web-based interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freecivwebclient/
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[008] - Fusil 1.0 final
by Haypo (http://freshmeat.net/users/haypo/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:28
About: Fusil is a fuzzing program. Currently, it's specific to Linux
command line programs, but the code is designed to be used with any project
type (remote process, fake HTTP server, fuzz network socket, etc.). It is
based on a multi-agent system instead of a monolithic architecture.
Changes: This release adds vlc and zzuf fuzzers, a replay.py script with
many options (e.g. --valgrind), and a --force-unsafe option (like --unsafe
but without the confirmation). It always uses a null device as stdin for
child processes to avoid blocking the fuzzer if the process reads stdin.
The created process identifier is written in the logs.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fusil/
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[009] - GNU ccScript 4.0.1
by David Sugar (http://freshmeat.net/users/davidsugar/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:02
Software Development :: Interpreters
Software Development :: Libraries
About: GNU ccScript offers a class extensible threaded embedded scripting
engine for use with the Common C++ GNU package. This engine is also used in
Bayonne (the GNU telephony server), and in TOSI (FreeBSD and GNU/Linux PBX
integration servers). This engine differs from traditional scripting
systems in that it is used to script near real-time state-event systems
through deterministic callback step execution rather than the linear and
non-deterministic fashion of embedded script libraries such as tcl, and
libguile.
Changes: Templating was introduced into the core ccscript language. This
allows one to rapidly define and apply commands for common event handlers
easily to multiple scripts.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ccscript/
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[010] - Google Gadgets for Linux 0.10.2
by suzhe (http://freshmeat.net/users/suzhe/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:43
Desktop Environment
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: User Interfaces
About: Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running Google
Gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. It's
compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well
as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. There are two main components to the
application: one is a common gadget library responsible for running and
presenting a gadget, and the other is a host program that allows the user
to choose gadgets and run them on the desktop. Currently it has hosts
written for GTK+ and Qt, with the GTK+ host offering a sidebar similiar to
that of Google Desktop for Windows.
Changes: Lots of bugs have been fixed. Desktop Gadgets compatibility has
been improved a lot. Many gadgets for GDWin can run on GGL now.
framework.system.getFileIcon() has been implemented. framework.openUrl()
now supports opening local files and launching desktop files. The Photos
gadget can handle multiple-level directories now. The ability to adjust the
default font size has been added to the GTK host. Many code cleanups,
refactorings, and optimizations were made.
License: The Apache License 2.0
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ggl/
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[011] - JCards 6.0 (Desktop Version)
by Nick Sydenham (http://freshmeat.net/users/nsydenham/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:52
Database
Information Management :: Records Management
About: JCards is a Java application designed to store and manage data in
any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple
applications/spreadsheets/databases to manage passwords, tasks, shopping
lists, etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the
fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface that
requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon. JCards was
initially developed for PDAs, but has now branched into another version
that is suitable for the modern desktop environment and includes a number
of extra features.
Changes: Major new features and bugfixes were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jcards/
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[012] - LCD-Linux 0.13.4
by Mattia Jona (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjona/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:32
System :: Hardware
About: LCD-Linux is a Linux software abstraction layer to drive LCD
alphanumeric displays. It features complete VT102 console emulation and
aims to be as general and flexible as possible. It consists of two kernel
modules, lcd-linux and the display driver. Currently, only the Hitachi
HD44780 is supported, but drivers for other LCD controllers can be easily
written.
Changes: The HD44780 driver has been heavily optimized. The four HD44780
operation modes (4/8 bit with or without busy-flag check) are now
implemented as four totally separate functions. Modes are selected by way
of a pointer-to-function table. This results in an extremely short
execution time, leading to negligible load on fast computers and acceptable
load on very slow processors. Minor bugs have been fixed in the lcd-linux
module. Compatibility with Linux 2.6.26 has been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lcd-linux/
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[013] - Lincetorrent 1.0-rc2
by icemanf (http://freshmeat.net/users/icemanf/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:12
Communications :: File Sharing
About: Lince is a BitTorrent client that uses libtorrent to handle the
BitTorrent protocol and gtkmm for the interface. It has been designed to be
a light and full-featured client.
Changes: The value of the ratio was fixed. A crash when torrents are
sorted more than once was fixed. A bug that caused a crash when showing a
torrent tab without a creation date was fixed. Support for banning peers
for a period of time was added. The change name dialog in the load torrent
dialog was changed. A bug when changing the name of a file in a torrent
with several files was fixed. The save directory bug was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lincetorrent/
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[014] - OtfBot 0.9
by Allo (http://freshmeat.net/users/laxu/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:48
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
About: OtfBot is a modular IRC bot. It has modules to respond to
!commands, answer to keywords, post RDF headlines in the channel, kick
users of bad words, interact with the user with an A.I. (megahal, SQL),
display 8-ball quotes, and play nobody is perfect. New modules can be
created in minutes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/otfbot/
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[015] - PhpWebGallery Butterfly 2 (Development)
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:28
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: PhpWebGallery is an image gallery with a very simple installation
interface and administration panel. It features free or restricted access,
user management, groups, access management for each category, multi-server
support, user comments, HTML templates, virtual categories, multi-lingual
support, an RSS notification feed, EXIF and IPTC support, multi-category
support (each picture can belong to more than one category), compliance
with W3C specifications, and simple external authentication.
Changes: The Sylvia theme (dark, pink, and flowers) was added. The ability
to sort photos manually inside a category was added. Security was improved
on session management. IPTC/EXIF metadata synchronization was improved to
avoid overwriting.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebgallery/
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[016] - Pyfig 1.2
by Alec Henriksen (http://freshmeat.net/users/alecwh/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:44
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: Pyfig is a very small and simple configuration file parser. It is
written in less than 100 lines, with support for comments and different
config formats.
Changes: A keys attribute was added. Some documentation was added. The
code was cleaned and organized.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyfig/
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[017] - python-ptrace 0.5
by Haypo (http://freshmeat.net/users/haypo/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:27
Software Development :: Debuggers
About: python-ptrace is a debugger using ptrace written in Python. It's
able to control multiple processes, read/write bytes, perform breakpoint
and step by step execution, use a disassembler, syscall tracer, and parser,
explain why a signal is raised, dump registers, stack, and memory mappings,
etc.
Changes: This release has an example (the most simple debugger) and the
beginnings of code documentation. It has a "dbginfo" command for gdb.py. It
parses socket syscalls on FreeBSD. On invalid memory access (SIGSEGV), the
dereference expression is evaluated to get the fault address on OS without
siginfo (eg. FreeBSD). There are fixes to achieve minimal Windows support
(imports, locateProgram(), etc.).
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-ptrace/
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[018] - rst2pdf 0.8
by Roberto Alsina (http://freshmeat.net/users/ralsina/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:29
Printing
Software Development :: Documentation
Text Processing :: General
About: rst2pdf is a tool to convert Restructured Text to PDF without using
any intermediate formats.
Changes: Support for vector graphics: SVG, EPS, PS, CDR, and others
(requires uniconvertor). Support for stdin and stdout, so you can use
rst2pdf in pipes. Works with reportlab 2.2. Simpler stylesheets (guess
bulletFontName, leading, and bulletFontSize from other parameters). Support
for a config file.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rst2pdf/
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[019] - RubySlippers 1.07
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:54
Desktop Environment
System :: Software Distribution Tools
About: RubySlippers is a GUI frontend to the RubyGems package management
system. It can view gemspec files, list installed files, install gems,
query the RubyGems list, build Gems, and view documentation. This program
uses the RubyWebDialogs GUI, and is built on the rwdtinker framework, so
more applets can be loaded and unloaded. Context sensitive help is
included.
Changes: Version 1.06 has been fully updated for rwdtinker 1.75 and now
completely supports live applet loading and unloading. Old unused schedule
files have been deleted, language files have been revised, and
configuration files have changed locations for gem locations on Linux
systems.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rubyslippers/
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[020] - Schoorbs 1.0.4
by xhochy (http://freshmeat.net/users/xhochy/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 17:53
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Schoorbs is a system to make room and resource bookings through a
Web 2.0 GUI. You can also interact with it through a REST API. It allows
you to book rooms and resources grouped by areas. Activity can be logged
via a simple logging interface. The code is automatically tested by several
unit tests. The interface can easily be styled through the usage of a
template system. Schoorbs produces valid XHTML 1.1 output, has packages for
Debian and Ubuntu, and is well documented online.
Changes: N-weekly repeat was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schoorbs/
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[021] - Scriptable Form Editor 1
by Henrik Theiling (http://freshmeat.net/users/theiling/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:30
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Text Editors
Utilities
About: EditForm is a command line tool for editing forms, simple config
files, query information from shell scripts, passwords, etc. with a nice
graphical GUI. It works like an off-line HTML form editor and is meant to
be used when writing a full-fletched GUI is overkill.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editform/
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[022] - Sdictionary 1.5.0 (Libsdict)
by Alexey Semenoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/swajj/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:18
About: Sdictionary is a dictionary that uses its own dictionary format.
Unlike ptkdic or gtkdic, MySQL isn't needed; you can work with dictionary
files directly. It uses Unicode, meaning that words and articles all are in
UTF-8. There are two index levels, compression, and tools to convert from
text files to .dct and vice versa. A Perl/Tk version, libsdict, a C library
framework, and a Symbian version are available.
Changes: Support for variable short index levels was added. A history API
was implemented. Zlib sources were dropped (dynamic linking with -lz is
done instead). Full support for UTF-8 console and color support were added,
and other changes were made in Sdict CLI. Code cleanup was done.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sdictionary/
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[023] - The Castle 0.8.2
by Michalis Kamburelis (http://freshmeat.net/users/kambi/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:06
Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
About: The Castle is a first-person shooter game in a dark fantasy
setting. Your main weapon is a sword, so the fight is mostly short-range.
Three main levels are included, packed with creatures, items, and sounds. A
couple of bonus levels are also available, like the classic DOOM E1M1 level
reimplemented in VRML. The game engine is based on VRML, OpenGL, OpenAL,
and all shadows are done by the shadow volumes approach.
Changes: Support for the OpenAL-Soft implementation was fixed. OpenAL-Soft
is detected now, new enumeration of available sound devices works, and
everything else works as with older OpenAL implementations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/castlegame/
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[024] - Tickle Tunes 0.7
by tonytraductor (http://freshmeat.net/users/tonytraductor/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:31
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Video
About: Tickle Tunes is a themeable front end to mplayer for playing songs,
playlists, and videos.
Changes: This release adds DVD support and playing of directories
recursively (including sub-directories).
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcltunes/
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[025] - Twidge 0.99.0
by John Goerzen (http://freshmeat.net/users/jgoerzen/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 04:30
Communications :: Chat
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Utilities
About: twidge is a client for microblogging sites such as Twitter and
Identica (identi.ca). It is extremely versatile, can be customized to work
the way you want to work, and can be combined with other tools to do just
about anything. It can be used interactively from the shell. It is useful
directly as-is, and with simple shell aliases can make a highly efficient
system to do exactly what you want. It is perfectly capable of being your
only client for microblogging. It can also be used in an automated way, via
cron(1), or it can even integrate with your email system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twidge/
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[026] - view3dscene 3.0.0
by Michalis Kamburelis (http://freshmeat.net/users/kambi/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:15
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
About: view3dscene is a browser for VRML (1.0 and 2.0) and X3D, and a
viewer for other 3D model formats (3DS, MD3, Wavefront OBJ, and Collada are
handled). It supports viewing the scene in the "Examine" mode and walking
in the virtual world with features such as collision detection and gravity.
Rendering is done using OpenGL. A built-in ray-tracer allows the generation
of images with more effects (like shadows and mirrors) and conforming
precisely to the VRML 97 lighting specification. The program can also
convert files from 3DS, MD3, and other formats to VRML and pretty-print
VRML files.
Changes: The main new features are X3D support and an events mechanism.
Many new nodes related to events were implemented: four basic sensor nodes,
linear interpolation nodes, and X3D event utilities. The implementation of
existing features was improved to take events into account: binding nodes,
routing events to GLSL shaders, controlling Inline and InlineLoadControl,
and prototypes. MovieTexture is handled, with an extension to load image
sequences with full alpha channel. Recording movies is possible. Other new
features include Extrusion, BlendMode, KambiInline nodes, new X3D
triangles/quads primitives, and HAnim nodes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/view3dscene/
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[027] - znc 0.060
by Kuja (http://freshmeat.net/users/Kuja/)
Sat, Sep 13th 2008 18:03
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Internet :: Proxy Servers
About: ZNC is an IRC bounce/proxy with many advanced features like
detaching, multiple users, multiple clients per user, channel/query
playback buffers, SSL, IPv6, transparent DCC bouncing, C++/Perl module
support, party line, and Web administration.
Changes: This is mainly a bugfix release. /msg *status restart was added
and the MaxJoins and JoinTries options were added to webadmin. keepnick and
autocycle were moved into modules and several other small fixes have been
made. It is also now possible to use salted hashes for increased security.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/znc/
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