Newsletter for Tuesday, October 07th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (53) :::
[001] - APIviz 1.2.4.GA
[002] - ASCEND 0.9.5.116
[003] - AstroCam System 2.7.5
[004] - ASUS G50 OLED 1.0.0
[005] - AtMail 5.5
[006] - BashBurn 3.0 Beta 1 (Pre Release)
[007] - Bazaar VCS 1.8rc1
[008] - bdec 0.4.0
[009] - BlueJ 2.5.0
[010] - Botan 1.7.15 (Development)
[011] - Cherokee 0.9.3
[012] - CLEX 4.0-test10 (Testing)
[013] - dc3dd 6.12.1
[014] - Editra 0.3.80
[015] - Endian Firewall 2.2 RC3 (Development)
[016] - EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.21 (Community Edition)
[017] - Epitome 1.0
[018] - F-Spot 0.5.0.2
[019] - FCCU GNU/Linux Forensic Bootable CD 12.1
[020] - Firewall Builder 3.0.1
[021] - Granite Data Services 1.1.0 GA
[022] - GSmartControl 0.8.0rc3
[023] - jOpenDocument 1.1 final
[024] - JumpBox for Joomla 1.5 CMS 1.1.5
[025] - JumpBox for ProjectPier 1.1.3
[026] - Kelbt 0.13
[027] - LaTeX::Table 0.9.6
[028] - libburnia 0.5.4 (libburn/cdrskin)
[029] - LordsAWar! 0.1.2
[030] - Midgard 8.09.0
[031] - Midgard Components Framework 8.09.0 (Stable)
[032] - MiniUPnP Client and Daemon 1.2
[033] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 162
[034] - PHPDevShell 2.0.0
[035] - phpLogCon 2.5.13 (Beta)
[036] - POCO C++ Libraries 1.3.3
[037] - pymetar 0.14
[038] - RenRot 1.1
[039] - RwdFoldEditor 0.05
[040] - SafeKeep 1.0.5
[041] - Spotter 2.4.1
[042] - storebackup 2.0-rc2
[043] - TangoCMS 2.1.0
[044] - TCPDF 4.0.030 (PHP5)
[045] - TDA 2.0
[046] - The Blue Programming Language 1.6.8
[047] - TimeTrex Time and Attendance 2.2.15
[048] - TRIP 0.99.8
[049] - TTLxMAME 0.1
[050] - Untangle 5.4.1-r19378
[051] - VMware 2.0 (Server)
[052] - VMware 2.5 (Player)
[053] - wbmclamav 0.9.2
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - APIviz 1.2.4.GA
by Trustin Lee (http://freshmeat.net/users/anoripi/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:48
Software Development :: Documentation
About: APIviz is a JavaDoc doclet which extends the Java standard doclet.
It generates comprehensive UML-like class and package diagrams for quick
understanding of the overall API structure.
Changes: A problem in the published Maven pom.xml file has been fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apiviz/
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[002] - ASCEND 0.9.5.116
by John Pye (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdpipe/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 04:42
Scientific/Engineering
About: ASCEND is an interactive environment for modeling, debugging, and
solving large systems of nonlinear algebraic or differential equations.
Oriented towards chemical engineering applications, it includes a large
Open Source thermodynamic properties database. The interactive design
allows users to inspect and solve very difficult nonlinear systems. It
includes plotting abilities and is scriptable using both Python and Tcl/Tk.
Changes: This is generally a bugfix release. There has been some new work
on a rigorous thermodynamics library (see FPROPS in the wiki for more
details). The ASCEND manual (PDF) has been improved in its
formatting/navigation. Note that version 0.9.5.115 was not released; that
release number has been skipped.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ascend/
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[003] - AstroCam System 2.7.5
by Steffen Wendzel (http://freshmeat.net/users/cdpxe/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:53
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
System :: Networking
About: AstroCam is an C-based stepper motor control system including both
a PHP and a Perl based Web interface. You can use it for controlling
webcams over the Internet or an intranet, or for everything else you could
want to do with a stepper motor.
Changes: This release includes a new console based script that helps you
check if your installation works. Some tiny documentation updates were
made. The install script now can find default locations for htdocs.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/astrocam/
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[004] - ASUS G50 OLED 1.0.0
by Costin Grigoras (http://freshmeat.net/users/costing/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:35
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: ASUS G50 OLED is a daemon that controls the ASUS G50/G70 OLED to
display system monitoring statistics such as load, CPU usage, battery
level, total network traffic, CPU core operating frequency, and the current
time and date. The package includes ACPI event handlers that stop writing
to the display when the lid is closed and stop or start the daemon by one
of the blue buttons.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asug50oled/
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[005] - AtMail 5.5
by blackhaze (http://freshmeat.net/users/blackhaze/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 04:44
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
About: AtMail is a fully-featured WebMail server, allowing users to send
and receive email via a Web browser or WAP device. It has full support for
IMAP/POP3 mailboxes, and an optional email-server mode that uses Exim as
the MTA. Features include a scheduler, MySQL backend support, spell-check,
addressbook, user preferences, multiple accounts, Spamassassin support,
migration scripts from other mail servers, a customizable interface, an
attractive DHTML interface, an optional group Calendar/Addressbook, an
Outlook plugin to sync Contacts/Tasks/Calendar data between a desktop
client and Webmail.
Changes: This release provides full Ubuntu installation support, TLS
functionality, DKIM support with Exim for inbound mail, improved Calendar
for FF3 users, updated Bayes support for Spamassassin, and improved Webmail
changes.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Source
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atmail/
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[006] - BashBurn 3.0 Beta 1 (Pre Release)
by Anders Lindén (http://freshmeat.net/users/connyosis/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 11:08
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: BashBurn (Previously Magma) is a bash script designed to make
CD/DVD burning in the console easier. It supports burning of normal data
CDs and audio CDs, blanking of CD-RWs, multisession, data DVDs, and more.
Changes: Major rewrites and cleanups were done. BashBurn should be faster,
smaller, and cleaner.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashburn/
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[007] - Bazaar VCS 1.8rc1
by Martin Pool (http://freshmeat.net/users/bootswork/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 11:06
Software Development :: Version Control
About: Bazaar is a simple decentralized revision control system.
Decentralized revision control systems give users the ability to branch
remote repositories to a local context. Users can commit to local branches
without requiring special permission from the branches that they branched
from.
Changes: This version includes several fixes that improve working tree
performance, display of revision logs, and merges. The bzr testsuite now
passes on Mac OS X and Python 2.6, and almost completely passes on Windows.
The smartserver code has gained several bugfixes and performance
improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an HTTP server.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bzr/
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[008] - bdec 0.4.0
by Henry Ludemann (http://freshmeat.net/users/henryl/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 17:55
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: bdec allows you to write specifications for existing binary formats
in a flexible XML based syntax, and have C decoders automatically generated
for you. It supports decoding to XML or Python objects, as well as
generating quality C decoders.
Changes: This release allows common entries to be given another name. It
improves the readability of generated C code. It will not include
unnecessary data structures in C headers. It has changed to the LGPL. There
are documentation updates, various fixes in C decoders, and a fix for the
MP3 specification.
License: BSD License (original)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bdec/
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[009] - BlueJ 2.5.0
by Michael Kölling (http://freshmeat.net/users/mkolling/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 17:55
Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
About: BlueJ is an interactive Java development environment. It provides a
unique user interface that presents a graphical display of the application
classes and their relationships, and it lets users interactively create
objects of any class. Once objects have been created, users can interact
with them directly. This interaction mechanism allows for much greater
testing and experimentation than in conventional environments. BlueJ is
suited for teaching and learning OO and Java.
Changes: This version contains many improvements, including support for
Java ME development, support for Subversion repositories for team work,
greatly improved unit test recording, and many bugfixes.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bluej/
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[010] - Botan 1.7.15 (Development)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:40
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms. It includes a
wide selection of cryptographic algorithms (including AES, DES, SHA-1, RSA,
and DSA, among many others). It also support X.509 certificates and several
common certificate-related formats and protocols. It has a high level
interface, is easily portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a
substantial tutorial and API reference.
Changes: This release adds an implementation of GF(p) arithmetic, as well
as implementations of the ECDSA and ECKAEG algorithms. Botan has been
further modularized, and much more of the library can be selectively
enabled or disabled at build time. The configure.pl script has been
modified for better autotools compatibility, and the mechanisms for CPU
detection using /proc/cpuinfo have been significantly improved.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/botan/
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[011] - Cherokee 0.9.3
by alo (http://freshmeat.net/users/godsmaze/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 10:50
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.
Changes: A few caching related bugs have been fixed since the previous
version. This version also fixes a stability issue, so upgrading is
recommended.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cherokee/
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[012] - CLEX 4.0-test10 (Testing)
by Vlado Potisk (http://freshmeat.net/users/vpfm/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:30
System :: Shells
System :: Systems Administration
About: CLEX is a file manager with a full-screen user interface written in
C with the curses library. It displays directory contents (including file
status details) and provides features like command history, filename
insertion, or name completion in order to help the user to construct
commands to be executed by the shell (there are no built-in commands). CLEX
is easily configurable and all its features are explained in the on-line
help.
Changes: In this test release, all parts of the program except the help
subsystem have reached their planned look and functionality.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/clex/
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[013] - dc3dd 6.12.1
by Andrew Medico (http://freshmeat.net/users/amedico/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:29
Security :: Forensics
System :: Recovery Tools
About: dc3dd is a patched version of GNU dd to include a number of
features useful for computer forensics.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dc3dd/
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[014] - Editra 0.3.80
by Cody Precord (http://freshmeat.net/users/cprecord/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:55
Text Editors
About: Editra is a general, extensible, multi-platform text editor with an
implementation that focuses on creating a clean and easy-to-use interface
with features that aid in code development. Currently, it supports syntax
highlighting and variety of other useful features for more than 50
programing languages.
Changes: This version includes a wide range of new text searching features
and file grepping options. Many supported languages received improved
automatic indentation support. A fair number of existing bugs were also
fixed.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/editra/
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[015] - Endian Firewall 2.2 RC3 (Development)
by endian (http://freshmeat.net/users/endian/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 18:01
Security
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: Endian Firewall is an all-in-on Linux security distribution that
turns any system into a full-featured security appliance. It features a
stateful packet inspection firewall, application-level proxies for various
protocols (HTTP, POP3, SMTP), anti-virus support, virus and spam filtering
for email traffic (POP and SMTP), content filtering of Web traffic, and a
"hassle free" VPN system based on OpenVPN.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/efw/
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[016] - EnGarde Secure Linux 3.0.21 (Community Edition)
by Guardian Digital, Inc. (http://freshmeat.net/users/bdthomas/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:49
About: Engineered from the ground-up with specific regard to security,
EnGarde Secure Linux incorporates intrusion alert capabilities, a complete
suite of e- business applications using AllCommerce, improved
authentication and access control, strong cryptography, and complete SSL
secure Web-based administration capabilities. EnGarde protects against many
forms of attack, not just a particular form of vulnerability. It is also
not just a repackaged version of another distribution that claims to be
secure. EnGarde is a collection of best-of-breed applications from many
sources tuned to provide exactly what is necessary to maintain a secure
Internet presence. Featuring the Linux Intrusion Detection System
integrated into its design, as well as Web-manageable Tripwire, tools from
many Open Source security projects including Openwall, snort network
intrusion detection system, and extensive host security improvements,
EnGarde Secure Linux strives to be the most secure, yet functional, Linux
distribution to date.
Changes: This release includes many updated packages and bugfixes and some
feature enhancements to Guardian Digital WebTool and the SELinux policy.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/esl/
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[017] - Epitome 1.0
by Marco Peereboom (http://freshmeat.net/users/slashmarco/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 04:50
System :: Archiving
About: The epitome suite consists of several discrete pieces that provide
storage deduplication services. Deduplication is defined as the elimination
of redundant data. The idea behind epitome is to provide a WORM-based
archive/backup mechanism that is lossless and offers permanent storage with
inherent data protection properties. Additionally, it provides several
metadata formats and back-ends to meet several usage models. It provides a
number of services to enable three major archiving technologies: CAS, SIS,
and DEDUP.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epitome/
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[018] - F-Spot 0.5.0.2
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 10:53
Desktop Environment :: Tools
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Raster-Based
About: F-Spot is a personal photo management application for the GNOME
desktop. It simplifies digital photography by providing intuitive tools to
help you share, touch-up, find, and organize your images. These tools
include editing, color adjustments, tags, Photo CD creation, and exporting
for upload.
Changes: A major memory leak on Export was fixed. The spinning disk effect
when upgrading from pre-0.5.0 versions is now avoided. Therefore, duplicate
detection will only work for newly imported images currently, until a new
Extension is available. Translations were updated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fspot/
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[019] - FCCU GNU/Linux Forensic Bootable CD 12.1
by D-fence (http://freshmeat.net/users/dfence/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 17:52
About: FCCU GNU/Linux Forensic Bootable CD is a bootable CD based on
Debian-live that contains a lot of tools suitable for computer forensic
investigations, including bash scripts. Its main purpose is to create
images of devices prior to analysis, and it is used by the Belgian Federal
Computer Crime Unit.
Changes: The ability to start in non-graphical mode by passing "live 3" as
a boot parameter. An updated version of Guymager (0.3.1). Two Windows tools
to copy Win32 memory (including Vista): win32dd and mantech mdd. The memory
analysis tool Volatility was added. The registry analysis tool regripper
was added. aeskeyfinder and rsakeyfinder were added. A better starting Web
page and a better description of the tools on the CD. An updated version
(0.40) of the Perl library Parse-win32Registry. Version 3.3.4 of afflib.
Many other updates.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fccubootcd/
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[020] - Firewall Builder 3.0.1
by Vadim Kurland (http://freshmeat.net/users/vkurland/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:30
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for
various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects
and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI
and policy compilers are completely independent, which provides for a
consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall
platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf,
Cisco PIX and FWSM, and Cisco routers access lists.
Changes: This release includes numerous usability improvements and
stability fixes. Among others, a fix is provided for the old annoying
problem that caused the program to think that something in the data file
had changed right after opening while there were no changes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fwbuilder/
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[021] - Granite Data Services 1.1.0 GA
by Franck Wolff (http://freshmeat.net/users/fwolff999/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:42
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Object Brokering
About: Granite Data Services (GDS) is an alternative to Adobe LiveCycle
(Flex 2) Data Services for J2EE application servers. The primary goal of
this project is to provide a framework for Flex
2+/EJB3/Seam/Spring/Guice/Pojo application development with full
AMF3/RemoteObject benefits. It also features a Comet-like Data Push
implementation (AMF3 requests sent over HTTP) and ActionScript3 code
generation tools (Ant task and Eclipse Builder).
Changes: Granite Eclipse Builder is a new Eclipse plugin that
automatically runs Gas3 (the GDS ActionScript3 code generator) whenever you
create or modify a Java source file. Tide provides a full alternative for
the Cairngorm + Flex Data Management Service stack (entity caching,
collection paging, and transparent lazy loading). MXML Web Compiler may be
deployed in your servlet container, and it will build your MXML and
ActionScript3 source code on the fly.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gds/
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[022] - GSmartControl 0.8.0rc3
by Alexander Shaduri (http://freshmeat.net/users/alex_sh/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:40
System :: Hardware
About: GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl. It allows
you to inspect the hard drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well
as run various tests on it.
Changes: This release adds support for udevless Linux distributions by
providing a fallback /proc/partitions-based drive detection method. There
are several other minor fixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gsmartcontrol/
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[023] - jOpenDocument 1.1 final
by blueos (http://freshmeat.net/users/blueos/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 18:04
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
About: jOpenDocument is a pure Java library for manipulation of OASIS Open
Document files. jOpenDocument is a library for developers looking to use
Open Document files without OpenOffice.org. You can use jOpenDocument to
generate dynamic documents from Java, XML, or databases; to display and
print files with built-in viewers; to split, concatenate, and manipulate
pages; to automate filling out of templates; and to use your preferred
langage via the standard ScriptEngine interface.
Changes: This release contains small bugfixes in JavaScriptFileTemplate
and convenience methods. It is production ready.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jopendocument/
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[024] - JumpBox for Joomla 1.5 CMS 1.1.5
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 18:06
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS) that
will help you build Web sites and other powerful online applications. The
JumpBox for Joomla saves a lot of time by providing a production quality
Joomla! installation in very little time. This JumpBox is for the Joomla
1.5.x series of releases. A JumpBox is also available for the Joomla 1.0.x
series of releases.
Changes: Joomla has been updated to 1.5.7. Restoring from 1.0 and newer
Joomla 1.5 Jumpbox backups should work. This release no longer requires
registration.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/joomla15jumpbox/
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[025] - JumpBox for ProjectPier 1.1.3
by Grid7 (http://freshmeat.net/users/grid7/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 18:05
Information Management :: Issue Tracking
Information Management :: Workflow Frameworks
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards
About: Project Pier is a self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks,
projects, and teams through an intuitive Web interface. It will help your
organization communicate, collaborate, and get things done. Its function is
similar to commercial groupware/project management products, but allows the
freedom and scalability of self-hosting. With the JumpBox for Project Pier
it just takes a couple minutes to get a fully functional Project Pier
installation to help you manage your projects. 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: A unique SSL certificate for the JumpBox Administration Portal is
generated on initial boot. The expiration date of the self signed
certificate is 10 years from initial boot. An issue that complicated moving
the JumpBox to a new directory with VMware has been resolved. Portability
is still complicated by snapshots and suspends. Consider trying the JumpBox
backup and restore tools where possible.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/projectpierjumpbox/
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[026] - Kelbt 0.13
by Adrian Thurston (http://freshmeat.net/users/age/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 04:41
Software Development :: Code Generators
Software Development :: Compilers
Text Processing :: General
About: Kelbt generates backtracking LALR parsers. A distinguishing
characteristic of Kelbt is that it introduces a class of actions called
undo actions which are invoked as the backtracker undoes parsing. These
allow the user to revert any side effects of forward parsing. Kelbt enables
a user-controlled parsing strategy approximating that of generalized
recursive-descent parsing. This makes it easy to resolve language
ambiguities by ordering the grammar productions of a nonterminal according
to precedence.
Changes: The uses statement can now reference undefined types. RHS element
reference checking has been fixed. The un-translate code blocks are now
properly balanced with the translate blocks. The graphviz output has been
improved. const correctness warnings have been fixed. The distclean target
has been fixed. There are other updates.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kelbt/
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[027] - LaTeX::Table 0.9.6
by markus (http://freshmeat.net/users/ohulan/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:30
Text Processing :: Markup :: TeX/LaTeX
About: LaTeX::Table is a Perl module that provides functionality for an
intuitive generation of LaTeX tables. It ships with some predefined,
good-looking table styles. This module supports multi-page tables via the
xtab LaTeX package. For publication quality tables, it utilizes the
booktabs package. It also supports the tabularx package for nicer
fixed-width tables. Furthermore, it supports the colortbl package for
colored tables optimized for presentations.
License: Perl License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/latextable/
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[028] - libburnia 0.5.4 (libburn/cdrskin)
by scdbackup (http://freshmeat.net/users/scdbackup/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 10:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for
reading, mastering, and writing optical discs. It provides libburn, a
CD/DVD/BD burn library, libisofs, a manipulation library for ISO 9660
filesystems, and libisoburn, a ISO 9660 multi-session library. On top of
them there is cdrskin, a cdrecord emulator, and xorriso, a all-in-one
application for ISO 9660 multi-session operations which additionaly
provides a limited emulation of mkisofs.
Changes: On Linux kernel 2.4, the block device paths /dev/sr* or /dev/scd*
were accepted as directly usable addresses, but failed to work. This bug
was introduced with version 0.5.2.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libburnia/
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[029] - LordsAWar! 0.1.2
by benasselstine (http://freshmeat.net/users/benasselstine/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:58
About: LordsAWar! is a turn-based strategy game where up to 8 players
strive for control of as many cities as possible. New armies can be
produced in cities to conquer nearby cities to gain more income to make
more armies to take more cities. You can also send a hero to a temple to
get a quest or maybe search a nearby ruin instead.
Changes: Default terrain artwork based on Wesnoth artwork was added.
Z-axis zooming on the game map was added. Random map generation was
improved. Network play was improved (but is still buggy) and some crashing
bugs were fixed. Many game behavior bugs were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lordsawar/
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[030] - Midgard 8.09.0
by Piotr Pokora (http://freshmeat.net/users/piotras/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:52
Database
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Midgard is a freely-available solution for managing content on Web,
Extranet, and Intranet services. It is also a toolkit for building dynamic
applications to power eBusiness and Information Management processes.
Writing applications and functionalities for the platform is done using the
easy-to-learn PHP scripting language. All interfacing with the system is
done via a regular Web browser, and no special tools are needed for
developers or content authors.
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/midgard/
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[031] - Midgard Components Framework 8.09.0 (Stable)
by Piotr Pokora (http://freshmeat.net/users/piotras/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:43
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 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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[032] - MiniUPnP Client and Daemon 1.2
by nanard (http://freshmeat.net/users/nanard0/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:53
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: The MiniUPnP project is a library and a daemon. The library is
aimed to enable applications to use the capabilities of a UPnP Internet
Gateway Device present on the network to forward ports. The daemon adds the
UPnP Internet Gateway Device functionality to a NAT gateway running
OpenBSD/NetBSD/FreeBSD/Solaris with PF/IPF or Linux 2.4.x/2.6.x with
netfilter. One of its most interesting features is to enforce some
permissions to allow or deny redirections, bringing some security to UPnP.
Newer versions also support the NAT-PMP protocol from Apple.
Changes: Compatibility with ipf under FreeBSD was improved. You can now
run MiniUPnPd and MediaTomb on the same computer. The documentation was
updated. MiniUPnPc installation was fixed. MiniSSDPd is now used
(optionally) by both the client and the server software.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/miniupnp/
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[033] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 162
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:49
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Logging
About: Pantheios is a C/C++ logging API library. It offers an optimal
combination of complete type-safety, very high efficiency, genericity, and
extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (platform
and compiler independent), and it upholds the C tradition of only paying
for what you use. Pantheios supports logging of message statements of
arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogenous types. Pantheios supports
filtering of log messages based on severity level.
Changes: The ability to compile client code with namespace suppression was
(re)assured. Also, a minor compilation bug with MFC compilation (when
pantheios/pantheios.hpp is the first include in the compilation unit) was
addressed.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pantheios/
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[034] - PHPDevShell 2.0.0
by TitanKing (http://freshmeat.net/users/TitanKing/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 10:47
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
About: PHPDevShell is a stable, secure, fast PHP Web administration
framework. It allows rapid deployment of Web based PHP applications. It is
robust, secure, clean, fast, and includes many administrative functions. It
supports an unlimited number of users, user groups, security levels, menu
tree levels, and menus.
Changes: This is a major release with many bugfixes and improvements. The
new XML configuration template and plugin system were introduced.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpdevshell/
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[035] - phpLogCon 2.5.13 (Beta)
by deltaray (http://freshmeat.net/users/deltaray/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 11:04
System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
About: phpLogCon is a Web front-end for syslog and other network event
data. It provides easy browsing and some basic analysis. Data are taken
from databases or plain syslog text files, so phpLogCon does not require
changes to an existing logging infrastructure. Depending on the log data
present, it can process syslog messages, Windows event log entries, and
some more exotic things. Its troubleshooting support enables users to
quickly find solutions to problems seen in the log data.
Changes: The documentation was improved by adding general and search
descriptions. The conversion script now converts the charts as well. A
global warning which will be displayed on all pages if a database update is
pending was added. A button below the searchfield was added, which becomes
visible when you run searches which links to the asktheoracle site. A race
condition in the installer which could cause phpLogCon to fail at step 8
was fixed. A parser for the Apache2 common format was added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phplogcon/
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[036] - POCO C++ Libraries 1.3.3
by Guenter Obiltschnig (http://freshmeat.net/users/obiltschnig/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:32
Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Software Development :: Libraries
About: The POCO C++ Libraries are a collection of class libraries for
developing network-centric, portable applications in C++. The classes
integrate perfectly with the C++ Standard Library and cover functionality
like threads, thread synchronization, filesystem access, streams, shared
libraries and class loading, sockets and network protocols (HTTP, FTP,
SMTP, etc.), including an HTTP server, as well as an XML parser with SAX2
and DOM interfaces and SQL database access.
Changes: This release contains over 60 improvements and bugfixes.
Improvements have been made to the multi-threading classes (user-settable
stack size), to events (simplified syntax based on a new delegate function
template), logging (time-based log file rotation), the reactor framework,
and others. Support for MySQL has been added to the Data library. New
Crypto and Zip libraries have been added. The build system has been
revised, and the POCO C++ Libraries now work with GCC 4.3 and Visual Studio
2008.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpoco/
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[037] - pymetar 0.14
by Tobias Klausmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/klausman/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:35
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
About: PyMETAR is a Python module that provides easy access to NOAA's
METAR weather reports.
Changes: Cloud cover parsing was fixed for an edge case, and minor code
cleanup has been done.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymetar/
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[038] - RenRot 1.1
by Andy Shevchenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/andy_shev/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 10:36
Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Utilities
About: Renrot renames files according the flexible name template (allowing
DateTimeOriginal and FileModifyDate EXIF tags, if they exist; otherwise,
the name will be set according to the current timestamp). It can aggregate
files according to shooting time period. It can losslessly rotate JPEGs and
their thumbnails according to the Orientation EXIF tag or a given angle. It
can put commentary into the Commentary and UserComment tags. Personal
details can be specified via XMP tags defined in a configuration file.
Changes: When verbosity level set to zero, the program is now a lot less
informative when it dies. All messages which are not related to the "info"
or "process" category will be put to the standard error stream.
License: Perl License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/renrot/
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[039] - RwdFoldEditor 0.05
by Gibby (http://freshmeat.net/users/gibsons/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 04:45
About: RwdFoldEditor is a book writing tool. It can be used to build
linked lists of text files, used to edit text files, has context-sensitive
help, and can submit bug reports with one click. This is part of the
rwdtinker framework, using the RubyWebDialogs GUI. Rwdtinker provides a
system for developing programs, and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a
developer to combine and create applets to implement an application. It
features built-in bug report submission, a test framework, and
context-sensitive help. RwdFoldEditor is usable in building your own tinker
applets.
Changes: This release adds HTTP URL launch and has been updated for
rwdtinker 1.80. It also includes the changes in version 0.04 that fixed the
config file to work properly with rconftool, adds next and prev to note
view, and has more error handling in loading fold files and browser opening
of all MIME type documents.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rwdfoldeditor/
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[040] - SafeKeep 1.0.5
by dimi (http://freshmeat.net/users/dimi/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:39
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Mirroring
About: SafeKeep is a centralized and easy to use backup application that
combines the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. It
enhances the power of rdiff-backup with simple, centralized configuration,
while adding support for LVM snapshots, database dumps, and convenient SSH
key management.
Changes: This release allows providing the password for the database user
used for the database dump. It adds a configuration option for passing
additional flags to rdiff-backup. It avvoids backing up special files by
default. It avoids creating multiple LVM snapshots (which avoids some LVM
bugs). A new --cleanup option helps recovery from crashes. It is easier to
package on platforms that don't have asciidoc.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/safekeep/
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[041] - Spotter 2.4.1
by Ben Crowell (http://freshmeat.net/users/bcrowell/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 04:42
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
About: Spotter is software that can check students' answers to symbolic
and numerical problems in math and science. It recognizes an answer
regardless of the form it's in, and the instructor can put in helpful hints
as responses to frequently-occurring mistakes. Symbolic answers can be
input in a notation closely resembling normal human math notation (e.g., xy
rather than x*y, and sin x instead of sin(x)). Spotter runs as a Perl CGI
application on a Web server; the student doesn't need to install any
software.
Changes: This version fixes three bugs. The numerical sampling algorithm
uses more samples, making it more robust. A bug has been fixed that made
the program give incomplete output in cases where variables were defined,
but not given a verbal description, in the XML file. Inverse trig functions
are now rendered properly in mathml.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spotter/
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[042] - storebackup 2.0-rc2
by Heinz-Josef Claes (http://freshmeat.net/users/hjclaes/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 10:52
System :: Archiving :: Backup
System :: Archiving :: Compression
About: storebackup is a backup utility that stores files on other disks.
It includes several optimizations that reduce the disk space needed and
improve performance, and unifies the advantages of traditional full and
incremental backups. Depending on its contents, every file is stored only
once on disk. It includes tools for analyzing backup data and restoring.
Once archived, files are accessible by mounting filesystems (locally, or
via Samba or NFS). It is easy to install and configure.
Changes: This release fixes some bugs which appeared when the directory
names for the sourceDir and backupDir options contained white space.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/storebackup/
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[043] - TangoCMS 2.1.0
by AlexC (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexc223/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:30
Internet
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: TangoCMS is a PHP content management system (CMS). Its ease of use
and powerful feature set allow you to quickly and easily create and manage
an entire Web site. The aim is to create a CMS that anyone with a basic
understanding of content management systems and the Internet can use.
Producing W3C valid HTML, CSS, and JS is another goal.
Changes: This release includes RSS feeds, hooks, and many bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tangocms/
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[044] - TCPDF 4.0.030 (PHP5)
by Nicola Asuni (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicolaasuni/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 18:04
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes
Text Processing
About: TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring
external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page
formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages,
HTML, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, OpenType, Type1, and CID-0
fonts, images, graphic functions, clipping, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms,
page compression, and encryption.
Changes: An internal links bug was fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tcpdf/
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[045] - TDA 2.0
by irockel (http://freshmeat.net/users/irockel/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 17:54
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Software Development :: Debuggers
System :: Monitoring
About: TDA (Thread Dump Analyzer) is a small Swing GUI for analyzing
thread dumps generated by the Sun Java VM. It has been tested with 1.4.2_x,
1.5.0_x, and 1.6.0_x releases. It provides statistics, gives information
about locked monitors and waiting threads, can diff between threads to look
for similarities, and has "long running thread" detection.
Changes: The tool now is available as a VisualVM plugin. It skips broken
thread dumps. Custom thread categories. A new welcome screen. Small
adjustments to support SAP JVM dumps. Small adjustments to support HP JVM
dumps. Icons of monitors with high contention now have a red background.
Multiple selection of threads. Stack line count is now also set in long
running thread result. Reads heap information from Sun JDK 1.6 dumps and
displays them. Thread dumps or log files can be pasted from the clipboard.
Extended help (now uses javahelp). General bugfixes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tda/
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[046] - The Blue Programming Language 1.6.8
by Erik Lechak (http://freshmeat.net/users/elechak/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:50
Software Development :: Assemblers
Software Development :: Compilers
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Blue is a unique multi-purpose dynamic programming language. The
minimalistic syntax is intuitive, easy to learn, and adapts to a broad
range of programming styles and applications.
Changes: This release adds a shell stream for easily communicating with
the command interpreter. The documentation for streams is now up to date.
The source contains the start of a new blue parser using the Lemon parser
generator.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bluelang/
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[047] - TimeTrex Time and Attendance 2.2.15
by IpSo (http://freshmeat.net/users/ipso2/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 09:00
Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: TimeTrex is a complete Web-based payroll and time management suite
that offers employee scheduling, time and attendance (timeclock,
timesheet/timecard), job costing, invoicing, and payroll in a single
package. Employees can use Web browsers or timeclocks to track their time
and attendance, check their own timesheet for missed punches, and respond
to flagged timesheet errors. Payroll administrators can quickly generate
paystubs and process payroll based off timesheet information or export
timesheet data to other applications.
Changes: This release has several bugfixes, including a fix for an issue
that may have caused accrual policies to stop calculating accrued time for
some employees.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/timetrex/
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[048] - TRIP 0.99.8
by gastineau (http://freshmeat.net/users/gastineau/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:48
Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
About: TRIP is a general computer algebra system dedicated to celestial
mechanics. It includes a numerical kernel and has interfaces to gnuplot and
xmgrace. Computations can be performed with double, quadruple, or
multi-precision. Users can dynamically load external libraries written in
C, C++, or Fortran.
Changes: A SCSCP-compliant server and client component were introduced to
communicate with other computer algebra systems. Comparison of strings is
supported and a global variable was added to disable warning messages.
Error messages on a valid code were corrected. Syntax coloring was added
for the editors vim and PSPad. The msg command now works with the
non-default numerical mode.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tripimcce/
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[049] - TTLxMAME 0.1
by aaronl (http://freshmeat.net/users/aaronqyl/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:33
Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
About: TTLxMAME is an SDLmame GUI front end. (It was previously targeted
for Xmame, but Xmame seems to be dead). Its main feature is the ability to
quickly hide or display any of the loaded filters at any time. The filters
can be user-supplied.
Changes: This release groups clones as a tree branch of originals.
License: Free for non-commercial use
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttlxmame/
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[050] - Untangle 5.4.1-r19378
by Untangle (http://freshmeat.net/users/Untangle/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 12:56
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: Untangle is a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules
for network applications like spam blocking, Web filtering, anti-virus,
anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, firewall, and more.
Changes: Major bugfixes were made in the Windows installer.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/untangle/
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[051] - VMware 2.0 (Server)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 16:50
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a
400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).
Changes: This major release introduces VI Web Access, VMware remote
console, USB 2.0 device support, increased RAM support (8GB instead of
3.6GB per virtual machine), improved 64-bit guest support, native 64-bit
host support on Linux, quiesced backups of virtual machines, a VMCI Sockets
interface, and hot add and remove for SCSI hard disks.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmware/
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[052] - VMware 2.5 (Player)
by Moritz Barsnick (http://freshmeat.net/users/barsnick/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 18:03
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It
is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which
can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is
used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x,
WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a
400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M
recommended).
Changes: This release introduces Unity View (integrating guest
applications with the host), an installer bundle for Linux hosts providing
a graphical UI wizard, and accelerated 3D graphics (DirectX 9 accelerated
graphics with shaders up through Shader Model 2.0) on Windows XP guests.
Operating system support was expanded. Several other enhancements and
performance improvements were made.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vmware/
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[053] - wbmclamav 0.9.2
by Emmanuel Saracco (http://freshmeat.net/users/esaracco/)
Tue, Oct 7th 2008 21:41
System :: Systems Administration
About: wbmclamav is a webmin module to manage Clam Antivirus (ClamAV).
Changes: This release should handle both *.cld and *.cvd database files. A
bug in the resend mail function has been fixed. config-* files have been
updated, and "config-ubuntu-file" added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wbmclamav/
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