Newsletter for Thursday, October 02nd 2008

The freshmeat daily newsletter <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Oct 2008 00:10:03 +0000 (UTC)

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

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/10/02/
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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (52) :::

[001] - abcm2ps 5.9.1 (Development)
[002] - abcMIDI 2008_09_28
[003] - Amahi Linux Home Server 9.a8 (Development)
[004] - Asgard Free Software RPG 0.3.1
[005] - Blosxom 2.1.2
[006] - cloc 1.05
[007] - CoASTaL 0.95
[008] - ConVirt 0.9.5
[009] - Dice3DS 0.10
[010] - Directory Synchronize Pro 1.0b6
[011] - DSI utilities 1.0.7
[012] - Enhanced TightVNC Viewer 1.0.20
[013] - F*EX 20081002
[014] - GADMIN-OpenVPN-Server 0.0.5
[015] - Gallery 2.3 RC2 (2.0)
[016] - GiftedMotion 1.3
[017] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.6 15
[018] - Gutuma Newsletter Management 1.6
[019] - Highlight 2.6.13
[020] - Ion 20081002 (Ion3)
[021] - ipaddr.py 1.0.0
[022] - JLanguageLearn 1.3.0
[023] - JumpBox for Moodle Course Management System 1.1.3
[024] - JumpBox for Wordpress Blogging System 1.1.5
[025] - libkate 0.2.2
[026] - libQGLViewer 2.3.1
[027] - LinuxConsole 1.0.2008 DVD
[028] - Marvim 0.4
[029] - MediaWiki 1.13.2
[030] - Midgard Components Framework 8.09.0RC2 (Development)
[031] - O.H.R.RPG.C.E 2008-10-02
[032] - Open Palmtop Integrated Environment 1.2.4
[033] - phpCAS 1.0.1
[034] - picloader 0.2
[035] - pigrammar 0.1-1
[036] - Pyjamas 0.3
[037] - quagga 0.99.11
[038] - RackTables 0.16.3
[039] - releaser 0.2.4
[040] - Rockbox 3.0
[041] - SAcc 1.81-RC2
[042] - Skulker 0.6.0
[043] - SliderWindow 0.6
[044] - sshpass 1.02
[045] - Tellmatic 1.0.8.0
[046] - Tine 2.0 Summer Release 2008 Beta 1
[047] - Unworkable 0.51
[048] - Visual Spell Demo 1.0.0
[049] - Web Help Desk 9.1.7
[050] - werc 0.9.5.0
[051] - Who? 0.1
[052] - WiKID Strong Authentication System 3.0.5 (Blackberry Wireless
Token)

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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - abcm2ps 5.9.1 (Development)
by Guido Gonzato (http://freshmeat.net/users/goccia/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:14

Printing

About: abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to
PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print
baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more
keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC
language that make it suitable for classical music.

Changes: The decorations +/+, +//+, and +///+ (which place tremolo on one
note) were added. Several major bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/abcm2ps/

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[002] - abcMIDI 2008_09_28
by Guido Gonzato (http://freshmeat.net/users/goccia/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:09

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files
into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and
manipulate them in several ways.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - Amahi Linux Home Server 9.a8 (Development)
by cpg (http://freshmeat.net/users/cpg/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:44

Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based on Fedora (and
later on Ubuntu). Your machine becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA
after the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based server targeted for home
and home office environments. It provides an iTunes server, calendaring, a
wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a
plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails.

Changes: This release has a new home page for the Amahi Slideshow app that
allows users to launch the CoolIris slideshow on their pictures by simply
clicking an icon on the Web page. If the user has the CoolIris plugin
installed, it will launch the 3D wall; otherwise, it will launch a
Javascript-based slideshow.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[004] - Asgard Free Software RPG 0.3.1
by rustushki (http://freshmeat.net/users/rustushki/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:56

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: Join "Hand" in an all new epic adventure to destroy an ancient
sealed enemy. Asgard is a role playing game complete with menus, random
battles, maps, towns, and dungeons.

Changes: This release adds system components, and adds threading, thread
management, messages, and message routing to system components. There is
now a console available for limited debugging interaction. A number of
infrastructure improvements have been made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[005] - Blosxom 2.1.2
by Axel Beckert (http://freshmeat.net/users/xtaran/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 23:47

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: Blosxom (pronounced "Blossom") is a lightweight yet feature-packed
Weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability,
and interoperability in mind. Fundamental is its reliance upon the file
system, folders, and files as its content database. Users can create, edit,
rename, and delete entries on the command-line, via FTP, WebDAV, or
anything else they might use to manipulate their files.

Changes: This release fixes a cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw that allowed
malicious users to inject HTML and JavaScript code into Blosxom's error
page and possibly also the output of some plugins and non-default
templates. (CVE-2008-2236)

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[006] - cloc 1.05
by Al Danial (http://freshmeat.net/users/adanial/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:57

Documentation
Software Development :: Documentation
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of
source code in many programming languages. It is written entirely in Perl,
using only modules from the standard distribution of Perl 5.6 and higher,
and so is quite portable.

Changes: This release adds the languages ActionScript and D, adds four new
file processing options, and improves language filters for Python (triple
quoted strings are now treated as comments) and JSP (added C/C++ style
comment recognition). A bug in the duplicate file identification code was
corrected, and results sent to STDOUT are now always column-aligned.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[007] - CoASTaL 0.95
by Ben Greslick (http://freshmeat.net/users/bgreslick/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:42

Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: CoASTaL allows users to enter their own computer support tickets,
and to add actions after to keep IT up to date. Admins can manage tickets,
add actions, assign hardware to people, and assign software licenses to
computers (since its installed on computers, not people). It also has a
Library for keeping track of projectors, cameras, and laptops (for
example). It has been in use for 5 years prior to release.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[008] - ConVirt 0.9.5
by meta (http://freshmeat.net/users/metagroboliser/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 20:40

System :: Monitoring
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
System :: Systems Administration

About: ConVirt (formerly XenMan) is an intuitive GUI based virtualization
management tool covering all phases of a virtual machine's operational
lifecycle. It should prove valuable to both seasoned administrators and
those seeking an introduction to virtualization management.

Changes: This release completes support for KVM and adds storage
management. Key features include drag and drop live migration for KVM, and
several critical bugfixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - Dice3DS 0.10
by aerojockey (http://freshmeat.net/users/aerojockey/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:39

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering

About: Dice3DS is a set of Pure Python modules for dealing with 3D Studio
format (*.3ds) files. It maps 3DS chunks into a hierarchical set of Python
objects; it's a lot like how ElementTree works for XML files. Dice3DS
requires Python 2.4 or higher, and Numpy. Note that it is not a wrapper for
lib3ds.

Changes: Dice3DS now parses KFDATA blocks, and the example OpenGL code
(often the only part people use) now takes the keyframe data into account
when rendering models. Substantial improvements were made in loading speed
by using OpenGL vertex arrays.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dice3ds/

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[010] - Directory Synchronize Pro 1.0b6
by Omid Givi (http://freshmeat.net/users/ogivi/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:16

Desktop Environment :: Tools
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring

About: Directory Synchronize is a powerful, easy-to-configure tool to
synchronize the contents of one directory with another. It can compare
files by various attributes, such as size or modified-date. It can
synchronize an unlimited number of directories, and has a detailed logging
function.

Changes: Some bugfixes and some minor enhancements were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - DSI utilities 1.0.7
by Sebastiano Vigna (http://freshmeat.net/users/vigna/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:29

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: The DSI utilities are a mixed collection of classes accumulated
during the last ten years in projects developed at the DSI (Dipartimento di
Scienze dell'Informazione, i.e., Information Sciences Department) of the
Università degli Studi di Milano.

Changes: Some new methods make it possible to store and quickly read bit
vectors. There are a few fixes for LongArrayBitVector.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[012] - Enhanced TightVNC Viewer 1.0.20
by Karl Runge (http://freshmeat.net/users/runge/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:28

Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: The Enhanced TightVNC Viewer package is part of the x11vnc VNC
server project. It provides a native VNC viewer that takes advantage of new
features in x11vnc, e.g. cursor alpha blending and automatic SSL
tunnelling. Some features apply to any VNC server, e.g. automatic SSH
tunnelling. Another goal is to provide a package that conveniently bundles
everything needed for the user to have the enhanced viewer running quickly.
This includes pre-built binaries of the viewer and utility programs for
Windows and many Unix variants, and a GUI to configure and launch the
viewer. The short name for this project is "ssvnc", for SSL/SSH VNC viewer.

Changes: This release supports the UltraVNC repeater proxy and Single
Click connection modes. SOCKS proxies and proxy chaining now work on
Windows. UltraVNC file transfer is much improved. UltraVNC DSM encryption
and general symmetric encryption modes are supported. Local machine port
protection mechanisms are provided. A new option selects the X11 VNC Viewer
on Mac OS X. The ZYWRLE encoding (a wavelet based extension to ZRLE) was
added. The Unix Viewer's popup window is split into two columns and
includes new actions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[013] - F*EX 20081002
by Ulli Horlacher (http://freshmeat.net/users/framstag/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:05

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: F*EX (Frams' Fast File EXchange) is a Web based service to send
very big files from one person to another. The sender uploads the file to
the F*EX server and the recipient automatically gets a notification email
with a download URL. The files will be automatically deleted after being
downloaded or after an expiration date. The F*EX server itself is installed
on a UNIX system, while the recipient and sender only need an email program
and a Web browser of any kind on any operating system. Sending to multiple
recipients needs storage on the server only once.

Changes: Some bugfixes. Unix and Windows clients have been added for file
upload > 2 GB. There is optional user autoregistration, "I have lost my
auth-ID" requests, and a mailing list.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - GADMIN-OpenVPN-Server 0.0.5
by Magnus-swe (http://freshmeat.net/users/magnusswe/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 21:30

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)

About: GADMIN-OpenVPN-Server is an easy to use GTK+ interface for the
OpenVPN server in bridge mode. It allows generation of five signed
certificates and keys, including HMAC-Firewall and user authentications.
Bridge mode enables SAMBA browsing and printing across physically separated
networks and or full-blown road warrior client capabilities.

Changes: This release adds optional Internet sharing and better support
for Firestarter. It adds help window contents.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gadmin-openvpn-server/

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[015] - Gallery 2.3 RC2 (2.0)
by Chris Kelly (http://freshmeat.net/users/ckdake/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:33

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is
easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the
ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via
an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail
creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums
can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated
user for an additional level of privacy.

Changes: Lots of new features were added and stability and performance
were improved. A new and improved slideshow was added. akismet is used to
guard against spam comments. SnapGalaxy is used as a new printing
affiliate. SQLite 3.x and higher is supported.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - GiftedMotion 1.3
by Patrick Ahlbrecht (http://freshmeat.net/users/PatrickAhlbrecht/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 21:15

Desktop Environment :: Tools
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: GiftedMotion is a small and easy-to-use GIF animator. If you need a
simple way to turn a series of still images into an animation to be
displayed on a Web page without the hassle of learning how to use a
full-blown graphics suite, then GiftedMotion is probably the tool for you.

Changes: GUI improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.6 15
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 21:14

Multimedia :: Graphics

About: GIMP SCRIPT-FUs for 2.6 is a collection of SCRIPT-FUs edited to
work in GIMP-2.6.x. The compiler of this collection is usually not the
original author for most of the scripts, but was able to tweak or get them
working better in GIMP 2.6 and consolidate them in a sane menu hierarchy.

Changes: Adapted to GIMP-2.6.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/script_fu26/

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[018] - Gutuma Newsletter Management 1.6
by Rowan (http://freshmeat.net/users/rowanseymour/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:45

Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries

About: Gutuma is a feature rich PHP newsletter/mailing list management
tool that is designed to be easy to install and use. It doesn't require a
database, yet offers multiple lists, import and export from CSV, file
attachments, drafts, AJAX subscribe gadgets, administrator email
notifications, MD5 protected logins, and batched deliveries that can be
driven by a cron job.

Changes: A few minor bugfixes bring this release from beta to production.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[019] - Highlight 2.6.13
by André Simon (http://freshmeat.net/users/Saalen/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 21:16

Text Processing

About: Highlight is a universal converter from source code to HTML, XHTML,
RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, and XML. (X)HTML and SVG output are formatted by
Cascading Style Sheets. It supports more than 120 programming languages,
and includes 40 highlighting color themes. It's possible to easily enhance
the parsing database. The converter includes some features to provide a
consistent layout of the output code.

Changes: Several language definitions were improved. A library build
target was added. Minor bugs were fixed. The API documentation was updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - Ion 20081002 (Ion3)
by tuomov (http://freshmeat.net/users/tuomov/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:05

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: Ion is a tiling (no overlapping windows) window manager that also
has PWM-style tabbed frames which can contain multiple client windows.
These features help to keep windows organized and to switch quickly between
them. Ion was designed primarily as an efficient and unobtrusive window
manager for users who prefer the keyboard.

Changes: This is another maintenance release that fixes some minor issues.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[021] - ipaddr.py 1.0.0
by Michael Shields (http://freshmeat.net/users/mshieldsgoogle/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:42

Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules

About: ipaddr.py is Google's library for manipulating IP addresses in
Python. It supports validation, subnet operations, and summarization. It
works with both IPv4 and IPv6, has a comprehensive test suite, and is one
of the fastest libraries for common operations.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[022] - JLanguageLearn 1.3.0
by Sebastian Parkitny (http://freshmeat.net/users/sparkitny/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:11

Education

About: JLanguageLearn is a generic language course. It is based on Java
and XML. You can define your own lessons in an easy way, and lessons are
displayed in a graphical user interface. An editor is included for creating
lessons.

Changes: This version finally contains the functionality to configure FTP
servers.

License: Free for non-commercial use

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

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[023] - JumpBox for Moodle Course Management System 1.1.3
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:07

Education
Information Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: The JumpBox for Moodle is a production ready installation of
Moodle. Moodle is a course management system that allows educators to
create online learning communities for their students. It has an open
design with a large developer community creating plugins, themes, and
modules. The JumpBox for Moodle is an easy way to get up to speed with
Moodle and requires a minimal investment in time and money. It includes the
JumpBox management tools and backup system to help make operations as
simple as possible.

Changes: Some upstream packages have been updated.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[024] - JumpBox for Wordpress Blogging System 1.1.5
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:07

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: News/Diary

About: The JumpBox for Wordpress Blogging System allows anyone to be up
and running with the Wordpress blogging platform in under a minute.
JumpBoxes require virtualization software to run. They are self-contained
instances that can be moved across OS's and hosting environments, and
because they work as a single unit, they're perfect for offline
development.

Changes: Wordpress has been updated to 2.6.2. Restoring from 1.0RC1 and
newer JumpBox backups should work.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jumpbox-wordpress/

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[025] - libkate 0.2.2
by ogg.k.ogg.k (http://freshmeat.net/users/oggkoggk/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:14

Multimedia
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Kate is a codec for karaoke and text encapsulation for Ogg. Most of
the time, this would be multiplexed with audio/video to carry subtitles,
song lyrics (with or without karaoke data), etc, but it doesn't have to be.
A possible use of a lone Kate stream would be an e-book. Moreover, the
motion feature gives Kate a powerful means to describe arbitrary curves, so
hand drawing of shapes can be achieved. This was originally meant for
karaoke use, but can be used for any purpose. Motions can be attached to
various semantics, like position or color, so scrolling or fading text can
be defined.

Changes: Several memory leaks on error code paths were fixed. Building was
fixed when doxygen isn't found.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[026] - libQGLViewer 2.3.1
by Gilles Debunne (http://freshmeat.net/users/gillou/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 21:16

Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: libQGLViewer is a C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation
of OpenGL 3D viewers. It provides some of the typical 3D viewer
functionality, such as the ability to move the camera using the mouse,
which is lacking in most of the other APIs. Other features include mouse
manipulated frames, interpolated keyFrames, object selection, stereo
display, screenshot saving, and much more. It can be used by OpenGL
beginners as well as to create complex applications, being fully
customizable and easy to extend. It ships with many examples and
comprehensive documentation.

Changes: Exceptions have been added to the GPL license to make it
compatible with CGAL. Commercial license are available. There are new
examples and documentation updates.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[027] - LinuxConsole 1.0.2008 DVD
by yledoare (http://freshmeat.net/users/yledoare/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:09

Communications
Games/Entertainment
Internet

About: LinuxConsole is a live and modular Linux distribution that can be
started from CD/DVD, Hard disk, floppy disk, USB disk, or network card
(PXE). The use of "console" in the title doesn't mean that it is started in
"console" mode, but is meant to symbolize the simplicity of using it. This
distribution is as simple to use as a game console: you can start
applications without installing them. It is a live CD, and all hardware
should be auto-configured at first boot. LinuxConsole is modular: there is
a common base (device detection, GUI) and optional modules for multimedia,
communication, and servers.

Changes: A lot of drivers and applications were added, including
ATICatalyst 8.8, nvidia 173.14.12, ntfs-3g 1.2918, and ndiswrapper 1.53.
OpenOffice 2.4.1 is available in English, Spanish, German, and French.
Other new applications include Lyx 1.3.6 and latex 3, Scribus 1.3.3.7,
Evolution 2.12.3, Skype, Linphone, Transmission, Gcompris, tuxpaint,
stellarium, Wine 1.1.5, a beta release of the E17 window manager, the
Freevo and Oxine media centers, and music and MIDI tools. Many 3D and 2D
games were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - Marvim 0.4
by Chamindra de Silva (http://freshmeat.net/users/chamindra/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:46

Text Editors

About: Marvim is a macro storage system for Vim. It enables users to
store, organize, retrieve, and share macros under a structured namespace.
By default, macros are stored under a namespace taken from the file type
(e.g. PHP) and quickly recalled for use through auto-completion on the VIM
command line. It is ideally suited for storing those repetitive tasks that
are performed in a particular programming language or file type. It also
supports templates.

Changes: This release supports auto-completion when searching for macros.
The file type gives the default namespace for storage and retrieval.
Refactoring of functions for namespace to directory mappings. Tested on
both Windows and Unix systems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - MediaWiki 1.13.2
by Tim Starling (http://freshmeat.net/users/tstarling/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:06

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Wiki

About: MediaWiki is a Web-based collaborative editing environment.
Originally built for the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia, it's geared
to support a large number of users and pages.

Changes: An XSS vulnerability has been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - Midgard Components Framework 8.09.0RC2 (Development)
by Piotr Pokora (http://freshmeat.net/users/piotras/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:36

Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: The Midgard Components Framework (also called MidCOM) is an
advanced component architecture which extends the Midgard Web content
management framework. It provides mechanisms for building a Web site using
components without much need for writing code to glue all this together.
The administration site gets built automatically by using those components.
Goodies like a caching engine and subrequests make site building even
easier.

Changes: This version is meant to ease transition from Web services using
the deprecated Midgard 1.x APIs to the new Midgard2 architecture. Because
of this, this release provides both API versions. This means that it can be
used to run both Midgard 1 applications like the version 2.9 of the MidCOM
component framework, and Midgard2 applications like MidCOM3.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[031] - O.H.R.RPG.C.E 2008-10-02
by James Paige (http://freshmeat.net/users/JamesPaige/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 23:45

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: The OHRRPGCE (RPG Construction Engine) is a tool for making your
own retro 2D RPG games, in a style similar to RPGs like the older Final
Fantasy games for the NES, SNES, or GBA. It includes, as an example game,
Fenrir-Lunaris's pixel-art masterpiece "Vikings of Midgard".

Changes: This release adds text-box-related improvements such as character
portraits, customizable borders, and special menu triggering. The limit of
36 unique NPCs per map has been raised to 100. A text box exporter has been
added so you can edit or spell check your dialog in an external editor and
re-import it. A bug that could potentially cause crashes with OGG music has
been fixed. There are various other minor fixes and improvements.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[032] - Open Palmtop Integrated Environment 1.2.4
by Paul Eggleton (http://freshmeat.net/users/BlueLightning/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:58

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Office/Business :: Groupware
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment aims at making a universal
graphical framework for most (embedded) distributions available and
providing a basic platform even for professional applications. As
reference platforms, HP's iPAQ and Sharp's Zaurus PDAs are directly
supported.

Changes: This release has support for exceptions in repeating events in
Datebook; a new storage management applet (cardapplet) with improved safe
removal and support for SD cards and other removable storage devices; basic
support for configuring WPA/WPA2 encryption in Network Settings; a more
flexible display of owner information from the business card during
authentication; usability improvements in File manager (AdvancedFM),
Bluetooth Manager, Voice memo recorder (VMemo), and Text editor; and many
bugfixes and other minor improvements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[033] - phpCAS 1.0.1
by Yann 'Ze' Richard (http://freshmeat.net/users/ze/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:26

Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: phpCAS is a client library for the ITS Central Authentication
Service.

Changes: phpCAS is now PEAR-installable. A handleLogoutRequests() method
was added to handle logout requests incoming from the CAS server. The
setHttpProxy(), setNetworkInterface(), and setExtraCurlOptions() methods
were added. An undesirable notice was removed. The PEAR DB dependency when
storing PGTs to the filesytem was removed.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[034] - picloader 0.2
by Ilia Platone (http://freshmeat.net/users/uruzuki/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 23:46

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

About: picloader is a small bootloader for Microchip (TM) PIC16F88
devices. It means that it loads the program from the serial port and writes
it in program memory. A chip programmed with picloader starts waiting for
about two seconds for the special character '!', and after this it starts
reading the program in machine code format. picloader can be used in
addition of pigrammar, the official picloader programmer.

Changes: This release has switched to "picloader". It is now a bootloader
for PIC16F88 devices and reads directly from the serial port the machine
code. It offers major program memory space for user programs, and the chip
can very often be programmed with minimal hardware requests and time
requirements.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[035] - pigrammar 0.1-1
by Ilia Platone (http://freshmeat.net/users/uruzuki/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 23:50

About: pigrammar is a programmer and assembler for picloader-programmed
PICmicro devices. It reads a PIC-assembler source file from the command
line, translates it, and sends the program in machine code to the serial
device or into a hexadecimal file.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[036] - Pyjamas 0.3
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (http://freshmeat.net/users/lkcl/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 20:41

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development

About: Pyjamas is a Python-to-Javascript compiler and an AJAX widget set
for Web application development (its sister project is pyjamas-desktop). It
is a port of Google's Web Toolkit to Python.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[037] - quagga 0.99.11
by Pilot (http://freshmeat.net/users/infrastation/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:45

Internet
System :: Networking

About: Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of
OSPF 2, OSPF 3, RIP 1 and 2, RIP 3 and BGP 4 for Unix platforms,
particularly FreeBSD, Linux, and NetBSD.

Changes: This release was intentionally prepared as a release candidate
with most regressions addressed. Users of all 0.99.x and 0.98.x branches
are advised to upgrade to 0.99.11, so the next stable branch can be started
as early as possible. Particular changes include initial bgpd TCP-MD5
support (only for IPv4 at the moment), crash fixes in bgpd, another RIB-FIB
syncing attempt in the zebra daemon, and an OpenSolaris SFW update.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - RackTables 0.16.3
by Pilot (http://freshmeat.net/users/infrastation/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:13

Database :: Front-Ends
Information Management :: Records Management
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: RackTables is a tool to manage tens of racks, hundreds of servers,
and thousands of MAC and IP addresses. It will work with a single rack as
well. It features a real-life rackspace model, typed rack objects with
flexible attribute sets, a tagging system, IP address management ready for
NAT, virtual routers and load balancers, accurate network connection
handling, a universal search function, a multi-user access model, and an
extensible dictionary.

Changes: This release fixes a lot of minor bugs and introduces two notable
changes into the user interface. First is that RackCode editing is now more
convenient due to syntax highlighting and an improved semantic checker.
Second is that IPv4 networks aren't a flat list any more, but group
themselves into a tree according to the standard CIDR relations. Several
database structure issues have also been fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[039] - releaser 0.2.4
by Lost Goblin (http://freshmeat.net/users/lostgoblin/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 23:03

freshmeat.net
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Software Development

About: Releaser is a set of scripts to automate and manage the tasks
related to software package releases. It is designed to be modular and to
make it easy to both select a particular set of actions associated with
releases of a particular project (such as changelog generation, uploading
of tarballs, posting announcements to mailing lists), and create new
actions that integrate seamlessly into the process. Its status is still
somewhat experimental, but the most basic functionality is there.

Changes: This release uses mercurial's "archive" command to build tarballs
instead of doing so with tar. The automatic news item post to werc has been
fixed. This release tries to make changelog-hg work even when no tag is set
in the repository (e.g. for the initial run). If ispell is available, it is
used to spell check the changelog. There is a better usage message. tag-hg
has been moved to post. There are other minor fixes and improvements.

License: Public Domain

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

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[040] - Rockbox 3.0
by Björn Stenberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/bjst/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:37

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: Rockbox is a replacement firmware for MP3 players, written from
scratch. It runs on a wide range of players from manufacturers such as
Apple, Archos, Cowon, Iriver, Olympus, Sandisk, and Toshiba.

Changes: Lots of new targets, lots of new codecs, and loads of new
features were added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - SAcc 1.81-RC2
by slavik (http://freshmeat.net/users/alienvirus/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:32

Internet :: Log Analysis
System :: Systems Administration

About: SAcc is an access control system for Squid. It provides Web based
account managment and restrictions.

Changes: The URL restriction generator was fixed. Error page installation
is now automatic. The logfile is not reopened after the log has been
rotated. Cloning ACLs on saving was fixed. ACL deletions were added. Some
code cleanups were made.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[042] - Skulker 0.6.0
by Simon Edwards (http://freshmeat.net/users/bongo44/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 21:17

System :: Systems Administration

About: Skulker is a rules-based tool for log and temporary file
management. It offers a wide range of facilities to help manage disk space,
including compression, deletion, rotation, archiving, and directory
reorganization. It provides dry-run facilities to test new rules, as well
as detailed space reclaimed reporting.

Changes: Support for "generators" has been added (yet another way of
matching files based on conditions rather than file details). At present,
generators for "files older than latest boot time" and "files with an
invalid UID" are available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[043] - SliderWindow 0.6
by pnp (http://freshmeat.net/users/paolo61/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:43

About: SliderWindow is a widget based on the Yahoo! YUI Javascript
library. A window slides open at the side of the browser's window
displaying the messages to the user. It ensures trouble-free, efficient,
unobtrusive communication with the user. It saves screen space, and can be
controlled programmatically and by the user with clicks and keyboard
shortcuts. It lets the user resize the SliderWindow, closes automatically,
and only takes up 5 px.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[044] - sshpass 1.02
by Shachar Shemesh (http://freshmeat.net/users/TheSun/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:10

Communications
Utilities

About: Sshpass is a tool for non-interactivly performing password
authentication with SSH's so called "interactive keyboard password
authentication". Most users should use SSH's more secure public key
authentication instead.

Changes: This release moves away from Linux-specific functions to POSIX
ones to support more platforms.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - Tellmatic 1.0.8.0
by vizzy (http://freshmeat.net/users/multiart/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 10:11

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office

About: Tellmatic is a tool to manage and create newsletters for
personalized mailing or mass mailing. Addresses and newsletters are stored
in groups to handle different user groups and thousands of addresses at a
time. SMTP is used for sending the newsletter to your subscribers to make
sure you get all error and bounce messages. Bounces can be handled
automagically via a small bounce-management module with POP3 access. It
also has a small form-editor and statistics. You can import and export your
addresses in CSV format.

Changes: Support was added for multiple mail servers using SMTP (for
delivery) and POP3/IMAP (for bounce mamagement). A blacklisting feature was
added, allowing you to blacklist by email address, domain, or regular
expression. The subject and recipients' names in a mailing may be
personalized. Small bugfixes and Web interface enhancements were made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - Tine 2.0 Summer Release 2008 Beta 1
by Lars Kneschke (http://freshmeat.net/users/knecke/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:58

Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Office/Business :: Groupware

About: Tine 2.0 is an effort to create a usable and stable replacement for
eGroupWare. Taking other popular projects like KDE and Typo3 as prototypes,
the Tine 2.0 effort refactors eGroupWare from scratch.

Changes: This release adds strong Asterisk and Snom phone support. You can
manage your Snom phone and dial directly from the Tine address book. This
release is feature complete.

License: Affero General Public License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tine20/

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[047] - Unworkable 0.51
by Niall O'Higgins (http://freshmeat.net/users/niallohiggins/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:54

Communications :: File Sharing

About: Unworkable is a BitTorrent implementation written as an
asynchronous, single-threaded application in ANSI C using libevent and
mmap() for performance. Its goals include efficiency, simplicity, and high
code quality.

Changes: This release fixes a couple of edge-case bugs in the mapping of
pieces to on-disk mmap()'d files. This makes multi-file torrent downloads
more reliable. Mandriva 2008.1 Linux is a known working platform.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[048] - Visual Spell Demo 1.0.0
by Jorge Gonzalez (http://freshmeat.net/users/athenasoft/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:53

Education
Games/Entertainment

About: The objective of Visual Spell is to improve the spelling, reading,
and vocabulary skills of English speaking children in the age 6-10.
However, all ages may find it enjoyable. It challenges players to use
reasoning skills to match a word from their existing vocabulary that best
represents a pictorial scenario. This pictorial scenario or visual puzzle
is not only connected in some way to a designated word but also has the
spelling of that specific word hidden or buried within the very picture.
Additional verbal and visual clues are sequentially provided at different
degrees.

Changes: Minor feature enhancements, minor bugfixes, and code cleanup were
performed after beta testing.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[049] - Web Help Desk 9.1.7
by MacsDesign Studio LLC (http://freshmeat.net/users/tsiddall/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:25

Information Management
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Office/Business

About: The Web Help Desk is a Web-based helpdesk software system that
allows you to dynamically assign, track, and fulfill all of your technical
support trouble tickets and customer service requests with ease, all
through an intuitive Web-based interface and two-way email integration. The
Web Help Desk software also provides seamless asset discovery and remote
control integration with Apple Remote Desktop, LANrev Client Manager, and
JAMF Casper Suite.

Changes: JAMF Casper Suite asset discovery was integrated. A location
importer/exporter was added. Custom tool links were added for integrating
with other asset tools (e.g., Remote Desktop Web Connection). If using an
Oracle database, the application now checks during upgrades for any missing
primary-key sequences, creating them if necessary. The ability to select
client recipients of scheduled reports was added.

License: Shareware

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

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[050] - werc 0.9.5.0
by Lost Goblin (http://freshmeat.net/users/lostgoblin/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 07:52

Information Management :: Document Repositories
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries

About: Werc is a minimalistic content management system implemented as a
collection of shell scripts written in the rc shell and taking advantage of
other Plan 9 tools available on *nix systems as part of "Plan 9 from User
Space". It is designed to be fast, simple, convenient, and easily
extensible (you can easily integrate your own dynamic content with the rest
of the site). It should handle well both small and big sites, including
seamless multi-domain handling. All data is stored as plain text files
without need of a database and there is support for blog directories with
automatic RSS feed generation (including feed aggregation).

Changes: This is a big refactoring that fixes many bugs and provides major
new features. There are also huge improvements in usability and
documentation. It moves .inc and .tpl files to lib/ inside site directories
and _config files and inc/tpl files to _werc/. All configuration is
available via a documented etc/initrc.local. A big refactoring of
blog-related code, fixing many bugs. Dynamic generation of sitemap.txt.
Experimental blog comment support. Many more bugfixes and improvements.

License: Public Domain

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

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[051] - Who? 0.1
by Javier Valencia (http://freshmeat.net/users/jvalencia/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 15:29

System :: Monitoring

About: Who? is a graphical interface for the Unix command "who". With
color codes for user idle times and no need for configuration, it shows in
realtime who logged into your machine and checks if each user is idle or
not.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[052] - WiKID Strong Authentication System 3.0.5 (Blackberry Wireless
Token)
by nowen (http://freshmeat.net/users/nowen/)
Thu, Oct 2nd 2008 17:02

Security
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Networking

About: The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a highly scalable, secure
two-factor authentication system. It is simple to implement and maintain,
allows users to be validated automatically, requires no hardware tokens,
has a simple API for application support (via Ruby, PHP, Java, COM, Python,
etc.), supports multiple domains, and supports replication for fault
tolerance and scalability. It also supports mutual /host and transaction
authentication.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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