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Linux and Open Source News for 18th March 2005
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Source: The XML Cover Pages The Mellon-funded Fedora Project has announced Fedora (Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture) v2.0. The Fedora open source digital object model and repository service manages objects which exist within a repository architecture, supporting fine granularity access control, version control, and ingest/export of XML data. Fedora functionality at the object and repository level is exposed as web services with REST and SOAP interfaces.
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Digital Audio
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Source: The Register ISVs get a helping hand
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Enterprise Computing
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Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise Sun Microsystems is losing Danese Cooper, but it won't drop its current open-source focus.
Source: CNET News.com: Enterprise Open-source programmer Harald Welte explains why he's going after companies that may have violated the GPL.
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Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix 19 Mar 2005: "Smart handheld devices or personal digital assistants (PDA) extend our access to the information on our desktops, from addresses to telephone numbers. Unfortunately, when it comes to vendor support for synchronizing this information with a *nix operating system, the options are limited. In this article, we'll review the various GPL-based suites available for synchronizing PalmOS-based devices with Linux." Story
Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix 19 Mar 2005: "Under Linux, a process can execute in two modes - user mode and kernel mode. A process usually executes in user mode, but can switch to kernel mode by making system calls. When a process makes a system call, the kernel takes control and does the requested service on behalf of the process. The process is said to be running in kernel mode during this time. When a process is running in user mode, it is said to be "in userland" and when it is running in kernel mode it is said to be "in kernel
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Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines foobar2k writes "Sony Ericsson is showcasing their Rob-1 bluetooth controlled robot, which interestingly is running Linux. You can control the robot using your bluetooth enable mobile phone!" It's sort of a phone-controlled camera drone. From the product page: "This limited-edition Bluetooth(TM) camera on wheels really has an eye for things! Use your phone or PC to steer it. Bright lights at the front of ROB-1 lead the way."
Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines Ashcrow writes "'Only a day after flaming open source as insecure, unscalable and unfit for Australian consumption in its Agility Alliance, services vendor EDS has revealed it really does have a soft spot for the penguin deep in its heart.' Apparently the 'Linux environment provides a level of security and stability unavailable elsewhere' which differs from that they had said earlier."
Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines TuringTest writes "Security Focus carries an article about a security compromise found on several major distros due to bad default settings in the Linux kernel. 'It's a sad day when an ancient fork bomb attack can still take down most of the latest Linux distributions', says the writer. The attack was performed by spawning lots of processes from a normal user shell. Is interesting to note that Debian was not among the distros that fell to the attack. The writer also praises the OpenBSD policy of Secure by Default."
Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines sebFlyte writes "MIT's Media Lab has written to the Brazillian government (who is looking into a method to get its citizens cheap, high quality PCs) and has urged them to use Linux. From the article: 'Free software is far better on the dimensions of cost, power and quality if the source code is proprietary, it is hidden from the general population. This robs them of a tremendous source for learning.'"
Source: OSNews Scott M. Morris is reviewing SUSE LINUX 9.3 Professional and includes some screenshots.
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Source: Computerworld News The site is aimed at providing the open-source community with software tools developed and used internally by Google, contributing code that external developers might find useful.
Source: Computerworld News The director of MIT's Media Lab is urging Brazilian officials to install open-source software on thousands of computers being sold to the poor, saying proprietary software like that offered by Microsoft may be less attractive.
Source: Computerworld News Turbolinux achieved profitability in Japan and China for the first time last year, and the company's CFO cited changes in the software environment and perception of Linux for the turnaround.
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Lang: Java
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Source: java.net News Sun Microsystems has announced changes to its Java licensing to make access easier. "The changes are intended to smooth out the process by which Java software companies and business customers view the source code and contribute changes, notably bug fixes, said Graham Hamilton, a Sun vice president and fellow Sun has elected not to use an open-source license at this time because its commercial customers are concerned with 'forking,' or the creation of incompatible editions of the base Java software, said James Gosling, chief technology officer at Sun's Developer Products Group." The changes are thought be going into effect with the release of Java Mustang.
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Lang: Perl
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Source: CPAN Uploads
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OS: Linux
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Source: Linux Today "Daffodil CRM is an open source Customer Relationship Management software that seamlessly integrates all aspects of the customer life cycle - from identifying business opportunities to sustaining existing customers "
Source: Linux Today "So! Selling Linux? How do you sell something people are used to getting for free? How do you justify the "rise in price"? Answer? Give them something they can't get for free! Simple answer, tough execution, especially in the software world! "
Source: Linux Today "In an appeal that will come as a surprise to no one, IBM has asked the Utah district court hearing the SCO case for more time to comply with the court's January 18 order to turn over most of the discovery SCO's been after for almost two years "
Source: Linux Today "NetWare users have arrived at the proverbial fork in the road as they prepare to upgrade their legacy NetWare networks," said Laura DiDio, senior analyst at Yankee Group "
Source: Linux Today "A Linux-based Music Studio is proving a hit for music producers, composers and artists from all around the world "
Source: Linux Today "MIT's Media Lab has recommended Brazil install open-source software instead of proprietary software offered by Microsoft on thousands of computers that will be sold to the poor, according to a letter obtained by Reuters Thursday "
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OS: Windows
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Source: Neowin.net While Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) continues raising Longhorn, rivals are seizing the operating system's extended adolescence to develop competing feature sets of their own. The already scaled-back version of Longhorn is still roughly 18 months from shipping, and with the expected technical advances by Linux competitors during that time, Microsoft's estimable industry influence to sell the product as currently constituted will be severely tested.
Even with the much anticipated WinFS file system chopped out and sent back to its ostensibly eternal beta cycle, Microsoft believes the remaining technology goodies in the Longhorn bag will compel many business users and consumers to upgrade. Microsoft, indeed, has put considerable resources into the Avalon graphics subsystem and Indigo technology for connecting subsystems via Web services. In addition to Avalon and Indigo, the first release of Longhorn is expected to have new information management tools including a built-in desktop search capability, management tools designed to significantly reduce deployments costs (including capabilities for image creation, editing and installation), and better all around reliability through a diagnostic infrastructure that detects and fixes problems faster.
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News source: InfoWorldRead full story
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Security
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Source: Help Net Security
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Server
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Source: ONLamp.com Embedded systems aren't all Linux; microcontrollers still dominate the scene. Erstwhile hardware hackers, rejoice! The tools for programming microcontrollers work just fine under Linux. George Belotsky starts a series on embedded development by demonstrating what you have to do to make Hello World run.
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Software: Game
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Source: 3DGamers News Darwinia Linux demo & retail patch v1.1.2
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Software: Linux
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Source: Freshmeat Daily News m23 is a software distribution system for Debian GNU/Linux that lets you install and administrate hundreds of clients over an existing network easily. It can partition and format clients and install a Debian GNU/Linux operating system and thousands of software packages. The administration is done with a Web interface, which can be accessed from any PC connected to the server.
Changes:
A new and completely adapted administration interface, the ability to do administrative jobs on a series of clients concurrently with the group functions, and mass installation tools, which are helpful for when installing a large number of clients with the same software configuration. A new update function that makes it easier to create patches and update m23 servers was added along with a debug mode for analyzing client problems. You can now log in to the running installation process via SSH. Encryption was implemented for client/server communications. Hardware detection was enhanced, and a script for converting Debian CDs into a installation pool was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News gtmess is a console MSN Messenger client for Linux
and other Unix systems that conform to the POSIX
standard. It supports the MSNP9 protocol version.
Apart from the basics (file transfers and chat
windows), it introduces some advanced features
like spoofing the typing user.
A transparent HTTP gateway is also included.
Changes:
This version offers, among other things, a new window bar, full console logging, and sound effects.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News CVSNT was started as a port of cvs pserver for NT.
It has since been greatly improved and is now
available under Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac OS X.
Authentication may be done via all standard CVS
protocols, plus Windows-specific SSPI and Active
Directory. Secure transport support is implemented
via sserver or encrypted SSPI. The NT version is
fully integrated with the Win32 system. MergePoint
processing means no more tagging to merge. Atomic
checkouts mean you always get the files you
wanted.
Changes:
This is a major update with a great many bugfixes and enhancements. It has an MSI installer, a Win32 UTF8 server, OS X resource fork support. automatic character set conversion, Rendezvous support, extended commit/trigger functionality, and extended ACL support.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News XEmacs (formerly known as Lucid Emacs) is a powerful, extensible text editor with full GUI support, initially based on an early version of GNU Emacs 19 from the Free Software Foundation and since kept up to ate with recent versions of that product. XEmacs stems from a collaboration of Lucid, Inc. with Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the University of Illinois with additional support having been provided by Amdahl Corporation, INS Engineering Corporation, and a huge amount of volunteer effort.
Changes:
This release used autoconf 2.59 to generate the configure script. The auxiliary scripts config.sub and config.guess were also updated. Please check various configurations on your platform. The changes from the user's point of view are extensive.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Miredo is a Unix daemon program which implements
the "Teredo: Tunneling IPv6 over UDP through NATs"
Internet draft specification. It can serve either
as a Teredo client, a stand-alone Teredo relay, or
a Teredo server. The purpose of Teredo IPv6
tunneling is to provide IPv6 connectivity to users
behind NAT devices, most of which do not support
IPv6, and not even Proto-41 forwarding.
Changes:
This version can run properly on Linux kernels with the grsecurity patch, includes a work-around for a Linux kernel panic bug, fixes some inconsistencies in the configuration file, and prints logging information on the console when run in the foreground.
Source: IceWalkers Easy to use installer for Linux and Windows Applications
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Bastille Linux aims to be the most comprehensive,
flexible, and educational Security Hardening
Program for Red Hat (Fedora Core, Enterprise
Linux, and original Red Hat), SuSE, Gentoo,
Mandrake, and Debian Linux, as well as HP-UX and
Mac OS X. Virtually every task it performs is
optional, providing immense flexibility. It
educates the installing admin regarding the topic
at hand before asking any question. The
interactive nature allows the program to be more
thorough when securing, while the educational
component produces an admin who is less likely to
compromise the increased security.
Changes:
This release has substantial internal changes, so much so that it is called the 2.2.x tree. This transitions the 2.2.x code to a stable release. Outside of the internal changes, a bit more content has been added, including a question to configure the Linux Auditing System (LaUS).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims to be more games-like than gcompris.
Changes:
A bug in the "FindLetters" game that could crash the whole application has been fixed. This only affects GNU/Linux users.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Linux Replicated High Availability Manager
(Linuxha.net) allows the creation of clusters for
application high availability through data
replication. Currently, clusters are limited to
two nodes, but multiple applications can be hosted
and failed-over between the nodes. The software
uses DRBD to provide the data replication
facillity.
Changes:
This is mainly a bugfix release resolving some errors that would occur
during certain fail-over scenarios, and also cluster formation when
missing a node, or with badly defined application information.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News NASLite is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server
operating system designed to transform a basic
computer into a dedicated file server. Utilizing
highly optimized versions of Samba, uCLibc,
BusyBox, and various other Linux tools, it
provides SMB/CIFS, FTP, or NFS filesystem support.
It accommodates multiple client OSes: Windows, Mac
OS X, and Linux. NASLite offers SMART disk
monitoring and large file support, and is
incredibly easy to install and administer.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The arpwatch NG package contains arpwatch and
arpsnmp. Both utilities monitor Ethernet or FDDI
network traffic and build databases of Ethernet/IP
address pairs, and can report certain changes. It
is based upon the original, but old, arpwatch
package.
Changes:
Non-GNU systems are missing strndup() and were therefore unable to
compile. configure now checks for strndup() and activates a replacement
function if necessary.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FCCU GNU/Linux Forensic Bootable CD is a
bootable CD based on KNOPPIX that contains
a lot of tools suitable for computer forensic
investigatins, 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 brand new SleuthKit 2.0 was added. There is support for
LVM and hfsplus. Tools added include lshw, scsitools, glark,
mdbtools, gpsd, and more.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Turkix is a Mandrake-based live Linux distribution. It brings
a new file hierarchy in which the whole file system is cloned
under one single directory called "/all". "/all" has
subdirectories like "/all/Programs/", "/all/System", "/all/
Personal Files" etc. And "/all/Programs" directory has
subfolders like: "/all/Programs/~programname/
Configuration Files", "/all/Programs/~programname/
Manuals" etc. Apart from this, Turkix features a unique
control panel, embedded into Konqueror (a kioslave
actually), which is a synthesis of Mandrake Control Center,
KDE Control Center, third party configuration tools, and
other additions. The package management system is rpmx.
Other great features are the Linux port of Mac OS X's
Expose, and the graphical installation wizard.
Changes:
This version features English support, full i18n support for
Turkix software, new configuration tools including Turkix
AutoStarter, a new desktop architecture, and Firefox and
Thunderbird as default applications instead of the Mozilla
Suite.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Linux Bridge Utilities is a set of tools for IEEE 802.1d
ethernet bridging (plus Spanning Tree protocol) for the Linux
kernel.
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Software: OpenSource
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Source: SourceForge Project News J-Bird: listing software for birders, written in Java. New to this release: The interface has been converted from a hybrid AWT/Swing interface to purely Swing. Desktop shortcuts have been improved on MS Windows and Linux by upgrading the installer to the latest version.
Existing features: basic ticking, trip reports, ability to count species ticks, ability to generate composite lists of species such as life-lists or region lists, ability to query sightings and display results as tables, web pages or CSV. Local checklists can be created or imported from CSV files or relational databases. They can be used to tick species that have been observed on trips and included in trip reports.
The latest release can be found here:
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=19835&package_id=50797
Source: SourceForge Project News 0. Intro
1. SF.net Site Improvements
2. March Project of the Month (POTM):
3. SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt
4. Stats and Top Projects
Dear SourceForge.net User,
Greetings and thanks for reading the latest news from SourceForge.net.
The last month has been particularly exciting for me, coming into
working more directly with SourceForge.net, and I'm excited about the
path that is laid out before us.
Since you last heard from us, we've added two new developers on to the
project, and are in the process of finalizing another tech support
person as well. We're are committed to following through on the
promises that we made, giving the community the support that it needs
to develop great open source code -- and we're also planning some
(good) surprises for the future, so keep your eyes peeled.
As I write this, we are in the process of syncing up the last of the
new CVS servers; our Site Status page (http://sf.net/docs/A04/)
update gives you the latest information, but I'm very happy to say that
those machines will be coming online very soon. As well, we are
finalizing launch of pervasive search (http://sf.net/subscription.php).
Lastly, with a few bugs still outstanding, the new statistics code is
very close to launching as well. I believe that these features will be
a great boon to our developers and users of the site, and as someone who
does both, I'm eagerly awaiting them.
As well, we've also been fixing some project permissions system issues
that have caused usability problems in the past. If you've encountered
those issues before, I think you'll be happy with the fixes.
Lastly, the team has been doing a lot of work and thinking in regards
to the usability of SourceForge.net; specifically the UI. As we
continue to move forward on this work, we'll be updating you, our users,
in regards to that work -- but I'm excited to see the site moving forward.
Jeff-
Jeff Bates
Acting Site Director, SourceForge.net
hemos@slashdot.org
March 2005 Project of the Month (POTM): OGRE
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OGRE is a multiplatform 3D engine with a focus on strong design, clean
implementation, extensibility, and maintainability. It adheres to
object-oriented principles and clean coding standards, while providing a
blisteringly fast 3D renderer with support for all the latest hardware
features of DirectX 9 and OpenGL, including support for all low- and
high-level shader languages, multiple shadow techniques (including
custom shader-based techniques), and HDR.
Project of the month: http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2005-03.php
Home Page: http://www.ogre3d.org/
Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ogre/
Site Enhancements
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SourceForge.net staff are constantly working to improve the quality of
our service offering. In recent months, a number of large enhancements
have been made to the SourceForge.net site and developer services, as
documented at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/A03/
We have recently added a new section to the Site Status page to cover
strategic projects that are in-progress or upcoming. This listing may
be seen at: https://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/#strategic_projects
The strategic projects list includes timely information about the
statistics system, CVS service, Subversion service plans, Mailman
upgrades, and other major projects which are in-progress or currently
in planning.
SourceForge.net Subscriptions - Free T-shirt
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SF.net subscribers receive a full array of exciting features, including
priority technical support. We have extended our offer for a free
T-shirt from ThinkGeek.com when you sign up for an annual
SourceForge.net subscription. Sign up today for a subscription and
help support SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/subscription.php
Stats and Top Projects.
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Number of Projects: 94,376
Number of Registered Users: 998,041
Daily Stats for Jan 14, 2005
SF.net: 2,747,175 pages served
SF.net project Web space: 9,876,608 pages served
Total pages: 12,623,783
Open source files downloaded in 24-hour period: 1,151,463
Outgoing mailing list emails: 1,431,501
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Top 25 Projects:
1. Gaim
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim
Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports
multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN,
Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features
found in other clients, as well as many unique featur
2. eGroupWare: Enterprise Collaboration
https://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware
eGroupWare is a multi-user, web-based groupware suite developed on
acustom set of PHP-based APIs.Currently available modules include:
email, addressbook, calendar, infolog (notes, to-do's, phone calls),
content management, forum, bookmarks, wiki
3. FCKeditor
https://sourceforge.net/projects/fckeditor
This HTML editor (DHTML editor), for ASP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, PHP and
JavaScript brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of
known desktop editors like Word. It works with Mozilla, Netscape and
IE.
4. MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
MinGW: import libraries and header files for use with GCC to build
native Windows applications; now with added extentions to the MSVC
runtime to support C99 functionality.
5. Azureus - BitTorrent Client
https://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform java BitTorrent
client.
6. Exponent Content Management System
https://sourceforge.net/projects/exponent
Exponent is a fully-featured, modern CMS written in PHP, that enables
non-technical people to manage and update their websites with minimal
effort.Exponent is also an attractive development platform for
traditional and non-traditional web applications.
7. 7-Zip
https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip
7-Zip is a file archiver with the highest compression ratio. The
program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM
and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50%
better than ratio in ZIP format.
8. phpMyAdmin
https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute
any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
9. openCRX - Limitless Relationship Mgmt
https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencrx
openCRX is a professional customer relationship management (CRM)
solution deployable to all major platforms built with state-of-the-art
technology. openCRX is a real enterprise-class CRM-solution,
multi-entity capable, fully scalable. Demo available.
10. WebCalendar
https://sourceforge.net/projects/webcalendar
WebCalendar is a PHP application used to maintain a calendarfor a
single user or an intranet group of users.It can also be configured as
an event calendar.
11. hipergate CRM
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hipergate
Best of breed CRM suite including: sales automation, customer service,
intranet,email marketing, content management, bug tracker, project
manager, groupware, webmail, calendar, forums, file sharing and
directory.
12. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution
https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere
Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global
market covering all areas from order and customer/supplier management,
supply chain to accounting. For $5-500M revenue companies looking for
"brick and click" first tier functionality.
13. ScummVM
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm
ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click
adventure engines. This includes all SCUMM-based adventures by
LucasArts, Simon the Sorcerer by AdventureSoft, and Beneath a Steel Sky
and Broken Sword 2 by Revolution
14. guliverkli
https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli
Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils.
15. PDFCreator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator
PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program.Use it like a
printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
16. MegaMek
https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek
MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi
boardgame for 2+ players.Fight using giant robots, tanks, and/or
infantry on a hex-based map.
17. Dev-C++
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp
Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
18. AMSN
https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn
AMSN (Alvaro's Messenger) is a multiplatform MSN messenger clone.
19. Battletech-Online.org Battletech MUX
https://sourceforge.net/projects/btonline-btech
Battletech MUX's are a text based (w/optional 2D graphical interface)
realtime implementation of the FASA boardgame Battletech. This project
is a merge of the main opensource tree with the original closed
distribution "Exile" tree btech-online.org uses.
20. FileZilla
https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of
features.FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
21. FreeMind
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind
A mind mapper, and at the same time an easy-to-operate hierarchical
editor with strong emphasis on folding. These two are not really two
different things, just two different descriptions of a single
application. Often used for knowledge and content mgmt.
22. HSQL Database Engine
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb
HSQLDB is a relational database engine written in Java, with a JDBC
driver, supporting a subset of ANSI-92 SQL.It offers a small (about
100k), fast database engine which offers both in memory and disk based
tables.This product includes Hypersonic SQL
23. Bochs x86 PC emulator
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs
Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates
enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows,
Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation.
24. MediaPortal
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mediaportal
This program opens the portal to all your media. Listen,record and
organise music, movies,radio, streams, pictures and even Pause TV!.Use
internet sources to enrich your media with albumart or songnames. Enjoy
your mediacenter or htpc as never before
25. WinMerge
https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge
WinMerge is a Win32 tool for visual difference display and merging, for
both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring
editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line
diff and in-line word diff visualisation.
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Weblogs
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Source: The Doc Searls Weblog About BlogMatrix (says here it's "The easy 'one-stop' solution for recording, sharing and listening to podcasts"), Ross Rader says,David Janes just kicked Evan Williams and Adam Curry in the nuts. Hard.This application kicks serious ass. Look out podcasters, this is going to be an interesting ride.Well, I got some hang time with Ev yesterday, and he showed me some of what they're doing at Odeo, and let's just say his nuts are fine.BlogMatrix apparently runs as a client app only on Windows (the download is a .exe that neither my Linux nor my OS X boxes can make sense of). Odeo is um let's just say broader than that. As for Adam's Podshow, I haven't seen more than the website, and that appears to be broader as well, but in a different way — kind of a Live365, without the Live. (And hopefully without the other slow-loading jive.)In other words, three different offerings, three different categories, three different conversations.Chill, folks. Markets are public places where makers and vendors offer users and customers lots of choice. Not coliseums where gladiators kick and stab each other to death while the rest of us cheer over bruises and blood.
Source: Scobleizer The competitive summit continues. I'm bummed that I haven't had much time to make it over there. It's cool that they let the attendees blog.
Here's some of the stuff I've seen:
Java Lobby, report on day one (neutral on Martin Taylor on open source, liked Michael Howard on Security)
Java Lobby, report on day two (disliked Scott Guthrie of IIS and ASP.NET team, loved Rick Rashid of MS Research).
Matt Raible, day one report.
Matt Raible, day two report.
One good thing? I have two new feeds to read. Really great reports. So, now we've got a conversation going. Like many conversations, it's imperfect. We won't always see eye-to-eye (for instance, a few people suggested open sourcing Windows which we've decided isn't in our best business interests so I doubt that would happen).
I learned a lot, though, about what developers on the Java and Linux side of the fence want from Microsoft. Thanks to Javalobby and Matt for taking the time to write up these notes!
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