Newsletter for Sunday, October 12th 2008
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (40) :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.1.08
[002] - Bacula 2.4.3
[003] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 1.02
[004] - Botan 1.7.17 (Development)
[005] - Bournal 0.9
[006] - eurephia 0.9.1_beta
[007] - FbTerm 1.2
[008] - Floola 3.7
[009] - Font Industry 0.0.9
[010] - Gauche 0.8.14
[011] - GCstar 1.4.3
[012] - Ignuit 0.0.9
[013] - jGnash2QIF 1.6.0
[014] - lirc 0.8.4
[015] - Locked Area 6.4 (Lite)
[016] - Logtalk 2.33.1
[017] - Lyricue 1.9.8
[018] - MiniTicTacToe 1.0.1
[019] - mkvtoolnix 2.4.0
[020] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.2
[021] - Naiocast 1.8
[022] - nmr-relax 1.3.2 (Development)
[023] - nProbe 5.0
[024] - nxtvepg 2.8.1
[025] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 164
[026] - Pauker 1.8RC4
[027] - PrBoom-Plus 2.4.8.5
[028] - pssh 1.4.3
[029] - Rawstudio 1.1.1
[030] - simplus 0.9
[031] - SMI 0.9.9r
[032] - Statfink 2.1.0
[033] - Task Coach 0.71.0
[034] - TEA for Linux 20.0.0
[035] - The Python audio processing suite 0.0.4
[036] - tinyHeb 1.1.0
[037] - Tokyo Cabinet 1.3.12
[038] - TTFSampler 0.4
[039] - Viking 0.9.7
[040] - viPlugin 1.15.6
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::
[001] - Absolute OS 12.1.08
by Paul Sherman (http://freshmeat.net/users/psherma1/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:38
About: Absolute Linux is a lightweight Slackware derivative that uses an
Icewm, pcmanfm, ROX-Filer, ivman, and others to create a lightweight yet
easy to use distribution. Installation is text-based but simplified, and
all packages are installed at once. It can run on a Pentium MMX with 64MB
of RAM (PII 400 with 128MB recommended). It features ease of browsing any
connected device in pcmanfm and an auto-popup menu for inserted playable
media. "Restricted" codecs are available to those eligible via a root-user
installer. Along with CD2 there is a large range of software compiled on
and for Absolute, including OpenOffice, Mplayer, GIMP, and K3B.
Changes: Firefox and xulrunner have been updated (3.0.3 and 1.9.0.3).
Thunderbird replaces Sylpheed for email, and OpenOffice on CD 2 is version
3.0.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/absolute-os/
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[002] - Bacula 2.4.3
by Lev_Arris (http://freshmeat.net/users/LevArris/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:39
System :: Archiving :: Backup
About: Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup,
recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different
computers. It is based on a client/server architecture and is efficient and
relatively easy to use, while offering many advanced storage management
features that make it easy to find and recover lost or damaged files.
Changes: This release fixes bugs with job cancellation and multiple job
migration issues. It also corrects a typo in configure.in and several
director crashes.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bacula/
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[003] - Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer 1.02
by Scarfy (http://freshmeat.net/users/Scarfy/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:02
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade
About: Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer is a 3rd person action shooter. With
the apparent defeat of Galdov and the reclaiming of the Fire, Time, Space,
and Reality Crystals, the Blobs' battle was only just beginning. Bob had
rescued many Blobs and fought many battles, but now he had an ever bigger
task ahead of him. The Blobs' homeworld is still littered with the alien
forces and Bob once again makes it his task to lead the counter attack. But
even without Galdov the aliens are still extremely well organised.
Changes: Saved game files are no longer compressed. A bug where it was not
possible to move Bob after loading a game was fixed. A bug that occurred
when loading or restarting a particular boss battle was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/blobandconquer/
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[004] - Botan 1.7.17 (Development)
by Jack Lloyd (http://freshmeat.net/users/randombit/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:49
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Botan is a C++ library of cryptographic algorithms, including AES,
DES, SHA-1, RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, and many others. It also supports
X.509 certificates and CRLs, and PKCS #10 certificate requests, and has a
high level filter/pipe message processing system. The library is easily
portable to most systems and compilers, and includes a substantial tutorial
and API reference.
Changes: This release of Botan fixes all known bugs in the new
implementation of the ECDSA and ECDH public key algorithms. Support for DLL
builds was slightly improved.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/botan/
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[005] - Bournal 0.9
by shecky (http://freshmeat.net/users/shecky/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:48
Office/Business :: News/Diary
Text Processing
Utilities
About: Bournal is a bash script that allows you to keep a personal,
minimalistic, password-protected journal, log, or diary. It includes
encryption, regexp searches, and a date-sorted list for editing old
entries. Since Bournal is pure bash, it should be easily editable for the
CLI-savvy.
Changes: A new flag was added to list entries for the current day. Month
and year filters were added to the delete function. Various minor bugs were
fixed. The migration script was removed. Install and uninstall scripts were
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bournal/
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[006] - eurephia 0.9.1_beta
by Dazo (http://freshmeat.net/users/dazo/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:27
Security
System :: Networking
System :: Networking :: Firewalls
About: eurephia is an authentication plug-in for OpenVPN. The plug-in
enhances OpenVPN authentication by introducing user name and password
authentication in addition to SSL certificates. In addition, eurephia will
blacklist IP addresses, user accounts, and/or certificates if too many
failed attempts are registered. On the Linux platform, iptables support is
also included, which can be used to restrict each user's network access
through the VPN channel. For the moment, eurephia depends on a patched
OpenVPN server to provide a secure user name and certificate mapping.
Changes: This is the very first public release after having been tested
through the closed alpha releases. It is considered to be stable for
testing in production environments, but some bugs might still exist.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eurephia/
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[007] - FbTerm 1.2
by dragchan (http://freshmeat.net/users/dragchan/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:06
Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals
About: FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux that uses the frame
buffer. It is mostly as fast as the Linux kernel's terminal when
accelerated scrolling is enabled on the frame buffer device. It allows you
to select fonts with fontconfig, auto-detect and convert text encoding with
support for double width scripts like Chinese and Japanese etc, dynamically
create and destroy up to 10 windows, record scroll-back history for every
window, and copy/paste selected text between windows with mouse the when
the gpm server is running.
Changes: Escape and control sequences compatibility with the Linux console
was improved, and sequences for changing the color palette and cursor shape
are supported. An option to adjust the default cursor shape and flash
interval and an option to modify characters considered as part of a word
while auto-selecting text were added. A freeze issue caused by changing
console winsize under Linux kernel 2.6.26 was fixed. An error was fixed
where the screen was not repainted when switching back to a virtual console
on which FbTerm is running, but in which FbTerm does not have an active
window. Several crash bugs and a buffer overflow were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fbterm/
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[008] - Floola 3.7
by floola (http://freshmeat.net/users/floola/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:20
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video
About: Floola is an application to efficiently manage your iPod or your
Motorola mobile phone (any model supporting iTunes) under Linux, Mac OS X,
and Windows. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no
installation. It supports all commonly used iPod features including photos,
artwork, podcasts, and smart playlists. It automatically converts any
incompatible audio or video file so that you can copy almost any file to
it. It even allows adding YouTube and MySpace videos with a single click.
Changes: Podcast decoding was improved. The user experience when adding a
podcast was made better and faster. An error when adding many podcasts at
the same time was fixed. A video is made to fit to the screen when
converting. A Linux root=nil? error was fixed. A database writing error was
fixed. Some rare problems when adding podcasts were fixed. A visual glitch
when renaming genres, artists, or albums was fixed. Artwork is now properly
embedded in files when copying. Memory usage when adding files was
improved. The Hungarian and Czech translations were updated. Improvements
and bugfixes were made in folder synchronization.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/floola/
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[009] - Font Industry 0.0.9
by hashao (http://freshmeat.net/users/hashao2/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:49
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors
Text Processing :: Fonts
About: Font Industry (字体工业) makes big charset
font creation easier. The program converts a scanned in grid sheet,
containing a lot of glyphs, into a bitmap font. The glyphs will be
automatically indexed by Unicode or with a user-selected charset order. The
bitmap font can then be converted to an outline font like TTF or OpenType
font.
Changes: The zoom image function was added. The family name was updated to
the sfd font. When setting a glyph from text, the selected text is tried
first. The "Set End" button was moved to the toolbar. Miscellaneous bugs
were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontindustry/
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[010] - Gauche 0.8.14
by Shiro.k (http://freshmeat.net/users/shirok/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:42
Software Development :: Interpreters
About: Gauche is an R5RS Scheme implementation that aims to be a handy
tool for daily work. Quick startup, a built-in system interface, and native
multilingual support are some of its goals. It has an OO system similar to
STklos and Guile. It supports UTF-8, EUC-JP, and Shift-JIS multibyte
encodings natively.
Changes: This is a maintenance release, including cumulative bugfixes and
numerous small enhancements. Part of the VM has been rewritten for better
performance and maintainability.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gauche/
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[011] - GCstar 1.4.3
by Tian (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tian_sait/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 13:58
Database
Information Management
About: GCstar is an application that can be used to manage collections of
different types. Users can enter all the items they own, along with
associated information and later perform searches using filtering criteria.
A plugin system allows some information to be downloaded automatically from
Internet sites. Collections can be exported to many formats, including
HTML, XML, CSV, or Tellico file format, or imported from Ant Movie Catalog
or Tellico, among others. It currently manages collections of movies, video
games, books, music, numismatic, wines, board games, and lets users define
their own types of collections.
Changes: A Dutch translation has been added. Performance for plugins
fetching data was improved. The Discogs plugin (Music - EN) supports
searches using an artist or a label. Shortcuts can also be defined on saved
searches. Bugs in image mode were fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcstar/
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[012] - Ignuit 0.0.9
by Timothy Musson (http://freshmeat.net/users/timothym/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:50
Education
About: Ignuit is a memorization aid based on the Leitner flash card
system. It has a GNOME look and feel, a good selection of quiz options, and
supports UTF-8. It can be used for both long-term learning and cramming.
Changes: Card expiry time is now based on the hour of testing. The card
editor's undo and redo feature has been improved. Several bugs have been
fixed.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ignuit/
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[013] - jGnash2QIF 1.6.0
by Jacobo221 (http://freshmeat.net/users/Jacobo221/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:40
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting
Other/Nonlisted Topic
About: jGnash2QIF is a program that converts a jGnash XML file into a QIF
file.
Changes: Support for splitting files. Support for 5 new fincancial
applications. Easy date format configuration. A new parameter that will set
up all the configuration options for one of the following applications:
GnuCash, jGnash, Ascendo Money, Spb Fincance, Quicken, MS Money, and Jabp.
License: GNU General Public License v2
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jgnash2qif/
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[014] - lirc 0.8.4
by Christoph Bartelmus (http://freshmeat.net/users/columbus/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:38
Multimedia
System :: Hardware
System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux
About: LIRC is a package that supports receiving and sending IR signals of
the most common IR remote controls. It contains a daemon that decodes and
sends IR signals, a mouse daemon that translates IR signals to mouse
movements, and a couple of user programs that allow to control your
computer with a remote control.
Changes: This is a maintenance release adding support for kernel versions
up to 2.6.27. A driver supporting ITE8709 CIR ports was added. A new
pronto2lirc converter allows you to convert Pronto files to lircd config
files. lircd.conf now supports including other config files using the
include directive.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lirc/
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[015] - Locked Area 6.4 (Lite)
by Neil Skirrow (http://freshmeat.net/users/skirrow/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:40
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
About: Locked Area is a highly sophisticated password protection and
membership management system. It has been designed to be as secure as
possible while it still runs hands-free with no input from the Webmaster
needed. Locked Area uses Apache's .htaccess and .htpasswd along with DES
randomized salt or MD5 encryption of passwords for increased security. It
also includes a member database that lets the administrator maintain a
mailing list along with the member's area.
Changes: This is considered the most stable release to date. It resolves
all known bugs in the version 6.3 beta.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lockedarea/
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[016] - Logtalk 2.33.1
by Paulo Moura (http://freshmeat.net/users/pmoura/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 21:12
Software Development :: Pre-processors
About: Logtalk is an object-oriented logic programming language that can
use most Prolog implementations as a back-end compiler. As a multi-paradigm
language, it includes support for both prototypes and classes, protocols,
component-based programming through category-based composition,
event-driven programming, and multi-threading programming.
Changes: This release improves support for using Prolog module libraries,
provides several examples of using constraints within objects, optimizes
multi-threading performance, adds support for using the ensure_loaded/1 and
the set_prolog_flag/2 directives in source files, corrects several bugs,
and updates support for the ECLiPSe, GNU Prolog, and SWI-Prolog compilers.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logtalk/
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[017] - Lyricue 1.9.8
by Hybrid (http://freshmeat.net/users/cjdebenh/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:43
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation
Religion
About: Lyricue (previously known as Lyric Display System) is used to
edit/display song lyrics on a second screen/projector for use at singing
events such as church services.
Changes: A bunch of usability fixes and many bugfixes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lyricue/
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[018] - MiniTicTacToe 1.0.1
by Andrew Gray (http://freshmeat.net/users/sweetandy/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:45
Games/Entertainment
About: MiniTicTacToe is a one-or-two player Tic Tac Toe game written for
the console. It has an optional computer player.
Changes: An optional computer player was added. The code was cleaned up.
Comments were added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mttt/
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[019] - mkvtoolnix 2.4.0
by Moritz Bunkus (http://freshmeat.net/users/Mosu/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:44
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Multimedia :: Video :: Conversion
About: mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display
information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and
split Matroska media files. Supported video stream types include streams
from AVIs, Ogg/OGM, RealVideo, MP4 files, and MPEG program streams as well
as verious elementary streams (h264/AVC, MPEG1/2, VC1, Dirac). Supported
audio formats include AAC, (E)AC3, DTS/DTS-HD, FLAC, MP2, MP3, RealAudio,
and Vorbis. Several subtitle formats are supported, including SRT, SSA,
ASS, VobSub, and many others.
Changes: New features include support for VC1 video reading from
elementary streams and MPEG program streams, Dirac video elementary
streams, support for 7.1 channel EAC3 tracks, and the extraction of Theora
video tracks into Ogg files. Bugs that were fixed include the handling of
unknown tracks in Ogg files, the automatic garbage detection for AC3/MP3
tracks, the handling of DTS in MPEG program streams, (E)AC3 files bigger
than 2 GB, and many more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mkvtoolnix/
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[020] - Mobius Forensic Toolkit 0.3.2
by Eduardo Aguiar (http://freshmeat.net/users/aguiar/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:46
Security :: Forensics
About: Mobius Forensic Toolkit is a forensic framework written in
Python/GTK that manages cases and case items, providing an abstract
interface for developing extensions. Cases and item categories are defined
using XML files for easy integration with other tools.
Changes: This release features a Category Manager extension. Extensions
now run in isolated namespaces. Support for SVG icons has been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mobiusft/
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[021] - Naiocast 1.8
by Giangaetano Vituzzi (http://freshmeat.net/users/THEARTOFWEB/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:28
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Utilities
About: Naiocast is a Web based streaming server, similar to SHOUTcast and
Icecast. It currently supports MP3 audio streams only. It can be used to
create an Internet radio station or a privately running jukebox. It
requires neither expensive dedicated servers nor compilation on the target
machine. The project includes: Naiocast Server, which accepts a stream sent
from a computer and sends it to listeners over standard HTTP; and naioSC,
which sends the audio stream to a Naiocast server to broadcast to clients.
It runs typically in the place where the audio is generated.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/naiocast/
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[022] - nmr-relax 1.3.2 (Development)
by Edward d'Auvergne (http://freshmeat.net/users/dauvergne/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 21:13
Scientific/Engineering
About: relax is a program designed for the study of the dynamics of
proteins or other macromolecules though the analysis of NMR relaxation
data. It supports exponential curve fitting for the calculation of the R1
and R2 relaxation rates, calculation of the NOE, reduced spectral density
mapping, and the Lipari and Szabo model-free analysis.
Changes: This release solves many major bugs in the final stages of
model-free analysis, especially when using the 'full_analysis.py' script.
It also marks the return of the NOE analysis. Bugs that have been resolved
include problems reading PDB files, a failure of the value.set(), fix(),
and value.write() user functions, non-functional model elimination, model
selection issues in certain situations, and various Monte Carlo simulation
issues.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nmr-relax/
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[023] - nProbe 5.0
by Luca Deri (http://freshmeat.net/users/deri/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 21:05
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
About: nProbe is a Netflow v5/v9/IPFIX probe characterized by portability
to Unix and Windows environments, a small memory footprint, and low CPU
usage. It is designed for running in environments with limited resources.
Changes: A new nProbe architecture for better performance with respect to
previous versions. Major bugfixes. Enhanced IPFIX support. The ability to
natively save flows into MySQL and SQLite, as well as text and binary.
Native PF_RING support for high speed flow generation. Support for
acceleration cards such as Endace, Mutina Technology, and Tilera. The
ability to act as a flow collector and proxy. Support for detect protocols
via DPI and report protocol name in flows. The ability to forge NetFlow
interfaceIds based on MAC/IP addresses. Support for both flow and packet
sampling.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nprobe/
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[024] - nxtvepg 2.8.1
by Tom Zoerner (http://freshmeat.net/users/tomzo/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:29
Multimedia :: Video :: Capture
About: nxtvepg is a decoder and browser for Nextview, a subscription-free
electronic TV program guide in the analog domain. Nextview EPG currently is
broadcast in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, France, and Turkey,
and it covers the schedules of all major TV networks in these countries.
nxtvepg is an X11 application with a GUI based on Tcl/Tk and uses
video4linux or BSD bktr drivers for data acquisition through a TV tuner
card.
Changes: Several bugs in the Linux driver interface were fixed, which
previously made acquisition fail to start on certain Linux installations. A
bug in the Nextview EPG data stream decoder was fixed, which previously
sometimes lead to display of corrupt or entirely blank network names.
Various display bugs (related to changes for Tcl/Tk 8.5 compatibility) were
fixed, such as incorrectly displayed "special" characters in the main
window and configuration dialogs and even a crash upon program start with
thread-enabled Tcl/Tk libraries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nxtvepg/
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[025] - Pantheios 1.0.1 beta 164
by Dr Proctor (http://freshmeat.net/users/DrProctor/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:51
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: Several changes were made to ensure that the suppression of stock
severity levels is complete, and the definition of custom severity levels
may use the pantheios::levels constant generator class template. The
pantheios::util::backends::Context base class was altered to facilitate a
wider range of severity levels than the 8 used by the stock
front-/back-ends. These are breaking changes: any programs that define
custom back-ends based on pantheios::util::backends::Context must be
modified, recompiled, and relinked.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pantheios/
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[026] - Pauker 1.8RC4
by Ronny Standtke (http://freshmeat.net/users/rost/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:36
Education
Games/Entertainment
About: Pauker is a generic flashcard program written in Java. It uses a
combination of ultra-shortterm, shortterm, and longterm memory. You can use
it to learn all the things you never want to forget, like vocabulary,
capitals, important dates, etc.
Changes: This release adds Vietnamese localization, has completed
documentation, and fixes many bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pauker/
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[027] - PrBoom-Plus 2.4.8.5
by entryway (http://freshmeat.net/users/entryway/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:06
Games/Entertainment :: First Person Shooters
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Rendering
About: PrBoom-Plus is a modified PrBoom port with uncapped framerate,
variable gamespeed, re-record, walkcam, chasecam, full mouselook, FOV, and
other features without loss of compatibility with the original Doom.
Changes: The processor affinity mask is set under non-Windows platforms
using the POSIX API. This is a workaround for a bug in SDL_mixer that
causes occasional crashes on multicore systems. Strange behavior may result
if a dehacked patch changed the music or sound lump names. A crash which
occurred if a response file (i.e. @myargs.rsp) is used was fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/prboom-plus/
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[028] - pssh 1.4.3
by Brent N. Chun (http://freshmeat.net/users/bnc/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:08
Utilities
About: pssh provides parallel versions of the OpenSSH tools that are
useful for controlling large numbers of machines simultaneously. It
includes parallel versions of ssh, scp, and rsync, as well as a parallel
kill command.
Changes: This release fixes a timeout bug and a typographical bug in
pslurp. It also adds support for comments in hosts files and adds exception
handling and error messages for incorrect command-line arguments.
License: BSD License (revised)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pssh/
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[029] - Rawstudio 1.1.1
by Anders Brander (http://freshmeat.net/users/abrander/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 21:13
Artistic Software
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
About: Rawstudio can read and convert RAW-images from many different
cameras, including Nikon and Canon. Rawstudio uses dcraw.
Changes: This release fixes bugs 221, 222, 223, 227, and 230.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rawstudio/
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[030] - simplus 0.9
by hph (http://freshmeat.net/users/hph/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:37
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries
About: simplus is a C++ library for constructing event-driven simulations
with an abstraction for processes, messages, virtual time, and more. It
features a built-in debugger, support for configuration files, and a
flexible logging mechanism. It is lean, fast, and portable. It can be used
for telecommunication, engineering, for traffic simulations, simulation
based games, or as a framework for your own simulator.
Changes: This release fixes some bugs and has some API changes. The
subsystem for collecting data ("probes") has been significantly improved.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/simplus/
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[031] - SMI 0.9.9r
by Galawa (http://freshmeat.net/users/Galawa/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:37
Office/Business
About: SMI (Services Maintenance Interventions) is a complete free
solution to manage services and technical support to customers with
frontoffice and backoffice modules. It can manage contracts, asset
tracking, repair orders, working time, rentals, tasks, subcontractors, and
has many other functionalities.
Changes: It is now possible to create work orders that can be regularized
later. A summary of the work to be done can now be viewed inside the lists
of files, work orders, and interventions. Some minor bugs have been
corrected.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smiservicesmaintenanceinterventions/
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[032] - Statfink 2.1.0
by StickMan (http://freshmeat.net/users/fewli0/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:35
Games/Entertainment
About: Statfink is a Fantasy (American) Football statistics tracker and
live scoring program that is best suited for working with leagues hosted at
Yahoo!. It is meant to be run by one member of the league so that the rest
of the members can view the output.
Changes: This release has new features as well as bugfixes. The big new
feature is iPhone support. Bugs fixed include field goals blocked for
touchdowns and a few player name discrepancies. Also added is support for
Yahoo PLUS! leagues, and x10hosting.com is supported again.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/statfink/
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[033] - Task Coach 0.71.0
by Frank Niessink (http://freshmeat.net/users/fniessink/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:40
Office/Business :: Scheduling
About: Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and
todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers,
such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide
facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist
of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.
Changes: This release adds task and note synchronization, task templates,
more task recurrence options, more translations, and a whole bunch of
smaller enhancements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/taskcoach/
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[034] - TEA for Linux 20.0.0
by roxton (http://freshmeat.net/users/roxton/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:39
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Text Editors
Text Processing
About: TEA is a modest and easy-to-use GTK+2-based editor with many useful
features for HTML editing. It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout
engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates,
customizable hotkeys, an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and
images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string
manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools, bookmarks,
syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support.
Changes: A new syntax highlighting engine, color palettes, an advanced
documentation browser, and many more features were added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/teaforlinux/
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[035] - The Python audio processing suite 0.0.4
by Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) (http://freshmeat.net/users/ruddo/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 07:47
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
About: The Python audio processing suite is a module that contains a
variety of convenience functions to process audio signals. It can be used
to plot spectral analyses of a song across time and to quickly ascertain
encoding quality, but the instrumental goal of this suite is to robustly
identify duplicated songs, regardless of which album they were released in,
encoding quality, or start time.
Changes: The default parameters were tuned for optimum correlation
coefficients. The library was cleaned up, splitting graphing into a
separate workbench module. More options were added to the command-line
programs. Some functions were documented, and some bugs were fixed. The API
remains unchanged, but it will change in the future.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-audioprocessing/
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[036] - tinyHeb 1.1.0
by Thomas Baum (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomas_baum/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:36
Office/Business
About: tinyHeb is a Web application for midwives in Germany to do the
legal accounting with the health insurance companies. tinyHeb can produce
paper and electronic bills, and meets the legal requirements of §301a, §302
SGB V, resp. tinyHeb is already certified by AOK Rheinland, AOK Bayern, and
ARZ Emmendingen, which means that the midwife is allowed to send electronic
billings to all AOK and the most BKK's in Germany after a very short
testing (three bills). Paper bills can be sent for insurance companies that
are not supported.
Changes: This release fixes a rounding error in paper and electronic
billing. Advisory locking was added to avoid duplicate key errors during
parallel execution.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tinyheb/
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[037] - Tokyo Cabinet 1.3.12
by Mikio Hirabayashi (http://freshmeat.net/users/mikio/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 14:02
Database :: Database Engines/Servers
Software Development :: Libraries
About: Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. It
is the successor of QDBM. Tokyo Cabinet runs very fast. For example, the
time required to store 1 million records is 1.5 seconds for a hash database
and 2.2 seconds for a B+ tree database. Moreover, the database size is very
small. For example, the overhead for a record is 16 bytes for a hash
database, and 5 bytes for a B+ tree database. Furthermore, the scalability
of Tokyo Cabinet is great. The database size can be up to 8EB.
Changes: A script binding interface for Lua was added. Some utility
functions were added to the network server. Concurrency of the hash
database was improved.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tokyocabinet/
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[038] - TTFSampler 0.4
by DLitz (http://freshmeat.net/users/Dwonis/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:38
Text Processing
Text Processing :: Fonts
About: TTFSampler takes a list of TrueType fonts on the commandline and
generates a sample sheet in PDF format. The sample sheet contains several
lines of text with each line demonstrating the appearance of a different
font.
Changes: A Tkinter GUI has been added.
License: GNU General Public License v3
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ttfsampler/
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[039] - Viking 0.9.7
by Guilhem BONNEFILLE (http://freshmeat.net/users/guyou/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 20:39
Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical
About: Viking is a GTK2-based GPS data editor and viewer. It can download
and show Terraserver maps, import and draw tracks and waypoints over them,
add coordinate lines, make new tracks and waypoints, hide different
things, and more. It uses a hierarchical layering system to organize GPS
data, maps, and other layer types with spatial data (such as coordinate
lines).
Changes: This is a new stable release. One of the most notable improves
concern new maps: OpenCycleMap and OpenAerial. This release also contains
many UI changes to improve the first-time-user experience. It also contains
many bugfixes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viking/
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[040] - viPlugin 1.15.6
by Michael Bartl (http://freshmeat.net/users/midramas/)
Sun, Oct 12th 2008 21:06
Text Editors :: Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
About: viPlugin is an Eclipse plugin that adds vi functionality to the
editors that are provided with Eclipse (JDT, CDT, etc.).
Changes: This release implements pasting the clipboard content to the
command buffer. It's also possible to call vim with the currently opened
file. There are some bugfixes.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viplugin/
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