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Source: IceWalkers Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test
cycle required by most software projects to validate
code changes. It builds and tests the tree each time a
change is committed, providing status updates through
a Web page or other protocols.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The 'sendchange', 'stop', and 'sighup' subcommands were broken, and are now fixed. The 'buildbot master' command now uses raw strings to work under Windows again. Other logfile-upgrading bugs were fixed, and the basedir is now prepended to sys.path as it was in earlier versions.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SnortSMS is a highly configurable sensor
management system that provides the ability to
remotely manage Snort [and Barnyard] based
intrusion detection systems, push configuration
files, and monitor system health and statistics
from a simple Web console.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The logging facility has been enabled. "Toggle All" has been added to checkbox forms. A missing config file error in sensor CLI scripts has been fixed. Left over debug output on saved rule responses has been removed. The delete action in the Policy section is finished.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News yawk is a wiki clone written in gawk. It supports the usual text styles, lists, and tables. Additional and optional features are formatting with stylesheet classes, file uploads, and a framed user interface mode. It works on plain text files and does not require a database.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for wikifile comments, edit previews, and HTML charsets. wiki-exporter is now fully working. Development of a simple "knowledge base" CGI has begun. Useless search engine traffic was reduced by robot exclusions and sending the Last-Modified date in the response header. There are some bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JRegexpTester is a standalone Swing application
that helps you test regular expressions with the
Java standard API (java.util.regex). The extracted data can be modified with formatters similar to those used by sprintf, or with standard Java date and decimal formatters. It features RegExLib library
integration with more than 900 patterns. It can also help you manage CSV files.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Fonts can be changed for all text areas. For filters ("split"), new methods can be used (source code changed before it is compiled (preprocessing)). It is a shorter way to write code.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Yahoo! Group Archiver is a command line utility to
interact with Yahoo! Groups. There are currently
four branches available to download the complete
messages, files section, photos section, and a
redundant script to download attachments while
they were available. The hierarchy on Yahoo! is
maintained while downloading the folders.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The HTML pattern has been updated for a new layout. This release now prints Member details, Online status, Yahoo ID, Email ID, and Joining Date in a tab-separated format.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FS.WordFinder is a PHP word search puzzle. You enter your own words, and set the many options to your liking, and it will create the puzzle automatically. You can use many different styles for your puzzle, or create your own using the style toolkit. The puzzle is printable, or you can play it through your browser. Multiple languages are supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version adds the ability for the user to place any or all words in the puzzle manually. It also fixes a bug when words were overlapped.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News iReport is a visual reporting tool based on
JasperReports and written in pure Java. You can
manage charts, images, sub-reports, etc. Data can
be retrieved using JDBC, TableModels, JavaBeans,
and XML. It supports output in PDF, XML, XSL,
CSV, HTML, and Java2D.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Full support for JasperReports 0.6.7. Support for exporter options. New contextual menus and formatting tools. Support for Groovy.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GoFun is an implementation of the Desktop Entry
Specification found at freedesktop.org. It manages Icons that represent applications, links, and devices. So it is a desktop itself and can be used to start regularly needed applications and maintenance tasks. It is more than an application launcher,
since it has many multimedia features and allows
you to have a personalized desktop.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release features countless bugfixes, stability improvements, and improvements to the user interface. It features gcc4 compatibility and general compile fixes. It adds shortcuts, auto-icon-finding, and the ability to emit new XServer special options. Much work under the hood, providing for a cleaner and more flexible codebase, has been done.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Yahoo! Group Archiver is a command line utility to
interact with Yahoo! Groups. There are currently
four branches available to download the complete
messages, files section, photos section, and a
redundant script to download attachments while
they were available. The hierarchy on Yahoo! is
maintained while downloading the folders.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The script has been updated to handle the changes in Yahoo interface, and this release has begun using the enhanced command line handler.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FreeGuide TV Guide is a TV guide program which grabs listings for many countries from the Internet and allows you to view them and construct a personalised guide to print out. It uses the XMLTV tools to grab listings, and requires Java 1.4 or above.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version contains many bugfixes and is close to being declared stable. It contains a new Russian grabber and an experimental export to Palm feature.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Gajim is a Jabber client written in PyGTK. The goal is to provide a full featured and easy to use XMPP client for GTK+ users. It does not require GNOME to run, though it exists with it nicely.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release has the ability for group chat reserved rooms with full affiliations and roles support. It supports popup notification for incoming events, and has protocol icons for contacts from other protocols. Its user interface is now more HIG compliant. It now detects and can send operating system information. It can also informs the user about new version availability. The Jabber library is now xmpppy instead of jabberpy. The plugin system has been rewritten to remove threads and improve latency. It supports Nodes in Service Discovery. Greek and Polish translations have been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News WebGUI is a content management framework built to
allow average business users to build and maintain
complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and
platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online,
rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full
discussion forum with the functionality of phpBB
or FUD Forum, plus events calendaring, a photo
gallery, a Web log (blog), FAQ and Link List
management, and a very configurable user privilege
and profiling system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Over 30 bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PHP2Go is a framework built to help developers and
beginner programmers create Web-based systems.
It's an object-oriented, structured, and
hierarchical set of classes and libraries
developed using PHP, XML, and JavaScript. The
main goal of PHP2Go is to turn Web development
into an easier and faster task.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release comes with important new features and many fixes/improvements. Performance improvements were made, the RULE engine was moved from FormField to the new FormRule class, the German translation files were added, a new form component called RANGEFIELD was created, new classes were added in php2go.util and php2go.security packages, a new cache package was created, an array based dataset provider was created, and a package including classes to fetch and parse RSS and ATOM feeds was included. The "beta" indicator means that the new packages and classes were not well tested.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News phpreports is a PHP report generator that uses XML report layout files to generate PHP code and create reports in output formats like HTML and TXT.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a "namespace" to the database interface files, so now if you have a function on your code named (for example) "db_connect", it will not conflict with PHPReportDBI::db_connect. The way PHPReports checks the paths on OS X has been fixed. Some problems with page breaking in some Windows/IE configuration should be fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TinTin++ is a MUD client that runs in console
mode. It compiles on most Linux sytems, including
Cygwin.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a new command #scan {filename}, which allows reading ANSI log files. It is useful to view log files or to save them as HTML.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News nmzmail is a tool to use the namzu2 search engine
from within the Mutt email reader to search email
stored in maildir folders. Based on the result of
the namazu query, nmzmail generates a maildir
folder containing symbolic links to the messages
matching the query. A simple Mutt macro makes it
easy to use from within Mutt.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a problem with getopt on PPC systems. The command line interface for indexing has been simplified, and the build system has been switched to automake/autoconf.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News v9fs provides a Plan 9 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol for the Linux 2.6 kernel. This can be
used to share files, devices, /proc, /sys, etc. It
also works with Plan 9 file servers, and can be
used to mount synthetic file systems from Plan 9
applications (see the plan9port project).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some style errors have been fixed. A multi-user bug has been fixed. /usr/src/linux has been changed to KDIR in the CVS makefile. Bogus copy_to_user error messages have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) Analyzer is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes important new reports, easier data categorization and control, bugfixes, and interface improvements.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News This project provides Linux support for the Aiptek
PocketDV 3300 in webcam mode. It may work for
other JPEG/USB cams based on the Coach chips from
Zoran.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some bugs were fixed and warnings removed. The driver is now compatible with the spcaview project. Support for many Webcams was added: Aiptek PocketDV 5700, Konica Revio 2, Mustek MDC 3000, Digitrex DSC 1300, Concord Eye-Q Duo 2000, Fujifilm EX-10, Genius Digital Camera, Praktica DCZ 1.3 S, Concord EyeQ Go Wireless, CRS Electronic 3.3 Digital Camera, Concord Eye-Q Duo 1300, Praktica Exakta DC 2200, Polaroid iON 230, Maxell Maxcam PRO DV3, Aiptek Fidelity 3200, and Chiphead Megapix V12 with a new kind of chipset.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News imsniff is a pcap-based instant messaging sniffer.
It currently supports the MSN protocol. It can log
conversations, contact lists, and a few events
(such as display name changes).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for non-ethernet interfaces, profile information capture, support for initial email notification, and support for new email notification. It can be configured via the configuration file.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Cherokee is a very fast, flexible, and lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable and extensible with plug-ins. It
supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files
or strings, TLS/SSL (via GNUTLS or OpenSSL),
virtual hosts, authentication, cache friendly
features, PHP, custom error management, and much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds Solaris 10/OpenSolaris event ports support. The server memory footprint has been reduced. The embedded version is now only about 120Kb. This release also fixes some problems with the Linux/PPC version and some minor bugs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News iPodBackup is a tool that backs up your home folder to an
iPod using rsync. You can back up to a plain folder, to an
encrypted disk image, or a regular disk image. You can also
customize a list of items to be excluded.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release is confirmed to work on Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger." It uses the system-supplied version of rsync on Tiger, which fixes an important bug. Now a choice is offered when multiple iPods are present at launch. Ownership is now automatically enabled on the destination volume. Settings no longer have to be redone when creating a new backup. The app is now better qualified to run on OS X 10.2. Slight speed improvements and tweaks were made to the code. The app was built with Platypus 3.1. It now features a slick new icon.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News CMus is a small and fast text mode music player.
Supported file formats include FLAC, Ogg, MP3 (via
libmad), wav, and all module formats supported by libmodplug. Included output plugins are ALSA, ARTS, and OSS.
It can be controlled through a UNIX socket. Background playlist loading and a metadata database make loading files very fast. Playqueue, directory browser and integrated help. Three playlist views are available: artist/album/track, shuffle list, and flat list. Three play modes: all, artist, album. UTF-8 support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a long option parsing bug (--play now works). Support for has been added .m3u and .pls playlist formats (loading only). There is much improved streaming and better error reporting (HTTP errors). It will clear the current track at EOF when there's no next track available, and skip ID3 tags when decoding MP3s. Adding a track to the sorted view has been optimized.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News AntiRSI is an application that helps against RSI
(repetitive strain injury) and other types of
computer related stress. It is based on micro
pauses and work breaks. It is quite configurable,
with a nice dock icon that shows its status.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Drawing when breaking is now smoother. The license
was changed to the GPL.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ciphire Mail is an email encryption tool. It works
in conjunction with your existing email client. It
operates seamlessly in the background and does not
interfere with normal email routines. It encrypts
and decrypts email messages, and can digitally
sign each message to provide authentication and
guard against identity theft. It resides on your
computer, between your email client and your email
server, transparently encrypting/decrypting and
digitally signing your email communication. It
runs on Windows 2000/XP, Linux, and Mac OS X. It
is compatible with all email clients using
standard SMTP, POP3, or IMAP4 (including SSL/TLS
variants and STARTTLS support). It is free for
consumers, non-profit organizations, and the press.
License: Free for non-commercial use
Changes:
A new and improved signature format (which is not
backwards compatible with older versions) was
created. Customizable signature text was added.
Handling of multiple signatures was enhanced. The
entire user interface was redesigned. An account
creation wizard was created. The Ciphire options
(simple mode) were cleaned up. The virus check now
supports decrypted messages. Preview of messages
with IMAP4 and POP3 was improved. Ciphire gateways
and domain certificates are supported. Many
bugfixes, minor improvements, and other changes
were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The vpop-xmlrpc CGI is a simple program based on
xmlrpc-c and vpopmail. It offers an easy-to-use
remote interface to administrative vpopmail tasks,
such as vadduser, vdeluser, vpasswd, and
vsetuserquota.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The user name and clear passwd in vpop.listusers
are encoded with UTF-8. The offset/limit and sort
options were added to vpop.listusers.
vpop.listuser and vpop.listdomain now show single
entities. The password in vpop.adduser and
vpop.passwd is truncated to MAX_PW_CLEAR_PASS
length if CLEAR_PASS is defined. A check for clear
password is made in vpop.auth.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News IPACCO is a software package that helps a
network admin to collect, visualize, and
analyze IP accounting data from the Cisco
routers. It downloads IP accounting data from
the router, stores it in the MySQL database,
provides Web access to the collected data,
presenting it in a convenient graphical form,
and allows the user to specify various criteria
for data selection.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
Many errors were fixed. The way the data collector
can be run was changed. Now it doesn't require an
external scheduler (although it can work with
one). The data collector in this version can run
continuously in the background and perform work
cycles periodically. Some improvements were made
in the Web graphics. An installer script for
Unix/Linux systems was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News EasyBMP is a C++ library for reading and writing
Windows bitmap (BMP) files in Linux and Windows.
It requires no installation or external libraries,
and is small in size, well-documented, and simple
enough for the novice programmer to start in just
minutes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
The awIndex bug in WriteToFile() was fixed. Some
floating point operations were changed to integer
operations on WriteToFile() to speed up writing
8-bit files. CreateGreyscaleColorTable() was
touched up to improve the range of colors for
4-bit files. This release should be stable for
most or all little-endian architectures.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SWTJasperViewer is a JasperReports viewer
component for SWT/JFace-based applications and
Eclipse plug-ins. The component is designed with
reusability in mind, so it can suit as many
projects as possible. It is developed as part of
the JasperAssistant report designer, where it's
used for report preview.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release adds German, Italian, and Croatian translation files and
minor bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News XellPlan is a simple and easy to set up Web based system for
managing people (staff) and jobs at events based on
spreadsheet-like plans. It provides an editable free-form
matrix to set up duty rosters. Employees/volunteers can sign
up for job positions via a Web browser.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release finalizes the English translation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Launch4j is a cross-platform tool for wrapping
Java applications distributed as jars in Windows
native executables. The executable can be
configured to search for a certain JRE version or
use a bundled one, and it's possible to set
runtime options, like the initial/max heap size.
The wrapper also provides better user experience
through an application icon, a native pre-JRE
splash screen, a custom process name, and a Java
download page in case the appropriate JRE cannot
be found. The increase in size of the application
is small.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release allows the addition of version
information to be displayed by the Windows
Explorer. Comments are recognized when importing
1.x configuration files. The resource file is
displayed when a resource error occurs. A bug in
which options on the first tab were always enabled
was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News RIFE offers an alternative approach to web
application development and design. It builds upon
the Java platform, but offers all required tools
and APIs to implement and perform all common Web
site related tasks in a fast, intuitive, and
consistent manner. RIFE is composed out of a large
collection of modular parts, including a Web
application engine, integrated Web continuations,
a customizable multi-format template engine,
support for template content transformation, and
more.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This should be the last release candidate before
the final 1.0 release. Most efforts will now go to
completing missing javadocs, creating a proper Web
site, and writing some tutorials. The highlights
of this release are IoC support, Spring
integration, full support for redeployment, and
template value renderers.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Stendhal is a multiplayer online adventure game (MMORPG) developed using the Arianne game development system. It features a rich and expanding world in which you can explore towns, buildings, plains, caves, and dungeons. You will meet NPCs and acquire tasks and quests for valuable experience and cold hard cash. Your character will develop and grow, and with each new level up become stronger and better. With the money you acquire, you can buy new items and improve your armour and weapons. You can also roam the world in search of evil monsters (and kill them).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixs a severe bug that happens when a
creature respawn over a player, disabled the
attack yourself feature, added reward for player
killing, fixes a bug that only reward XP for a
full size sheep. It also fixs a bug that makes
NPCs to repeat text on zone change. Improved
rendering order so that corpses are now under
everything and improved overall client speed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BitDefender Mail Protection is a powerful mail
filtering solution that provides antivirus and
antispam capabilities to Linux mail servers. Both
sent and received messages are scanned in
real-time, avoiding possible infections and
preventing anyone from sending an infected
message. It claims a 100% detection rate for all
viruses in the wild through its powerful scanning
engines, which are certified by prestigious
testing labs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU Source-highlight produces a document with syntax highlighting when given a source file. At the moment, it handles Java, C/C++, Prolog, Perl, PHP3, Python, Flex, and ChangeLog as source languages and HTML and XHTML as output formats.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Language specifications are now read at run-time,
so that new languages can be easily added
dynamically (without recompiling the sources) by
using a simple syntax.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Nagios PHP is an alternative PHP Web interface for
Nagios, written using SMARTY as its template engine.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The cmd.php XML definitions are cached via
serialize. The naupy function was adapted to read
object definition files. The service commands were
completed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Iron Bars SHell is a restricted Unix shell. The user can not step
out of, nor access, files outside the home directory. Two ASCII
configuration files are used for more control. The system administrator
can define which commands may be executed by the user. No other
executables are allowed. The admin also has the opportunity to define
what kind of files the user may create. If a file has a certain
extension (such as .mp3, .c, etc.), ibsh automatically erases it.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A format string vulnerability in a syslog call was
fixed. This vulnerability could have allowed users
to access files outside the home directory.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News P4A (PHP For Applications) is a PHP object oriented framework for
building Web-based event-driven applications. It features tableless
HTML, accesskey support, point and click app generator, auto data
type recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support, handheld
"zero code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR
integration.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
All PEAR packages were upgraded. The constant
P4A_FORCE_HANDHELD_RENDERING was added to force
handheld rendering on any device. The handheld CSS
now has a sans-serif font and a nice color for all
the links.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News WindowLab is a small and simple window manager of
novel design. It has a click-to-focus but not
raise-on-focus policy, a window resizing mechanism
that allows one or many edges of a window to be
changed in one action, and an innovative menubar
that shares the same part of the screen as the
taskbar. Window titlebars are prevented from going
off the edge of the screen by constraining the
mouse pointer. When appropriate, the pointer is
also constrained to the taskbar/menubar in order
to make target menu items easier to hit.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Bugs that prevented windows from being made smaller from a side that was at the edge of the screen and that caused the first clients taskbar button to disappear when all clients were hidden were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver.
It saves many files together into a single tape or
disk archive, and can restore individual files
from the archive. It includes command line
interfaces for the "tar", "Sun-Tar", "cpio",
"pax", and "gnutar" command-line syntax. It
includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher,
multi-volume support, the ability to archive
sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive
extended file flags, automatic archive format
detection, automatic byte order recognition,
automatic archive compression/decompression,
remote archives, and special features that allow
star to be used for full and incremental backups.
It includes the only known platform independent
"rmt" server program.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
Changes:
The program now supports efficient and accurate archival of sparse files using the new holey file interface from recent Solaris development kernels (Nevada build 13 or newer). A bug that caused star to list the size of the file in the archive instead of the real size when sparse file handling was used in POSIX.1-2001 mode and the file size was greater than 8 GB was fixed along with a bug that caused star to dump core while extracting a file with more than 10016 holes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News QMail Installation is a small and very practical
script that makes it easy to install qmail and
other related tools, such as vpopmail,
qmailadmin, spamassassin, F-prot, and qmailmrtg.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Versions of software sources were updated, bugfixes were made for RH4, and minor changes were made to clamav's installation and the French translation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Liquid Weather ++ is a superkaramba theme and
desktop applet for displaying weather information
and forecasts. You need superkaramba and the KDE
desktop. It displays weather information in a
compact and easy to read format.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
BBC forecasts now work again. An animstyle bug was fixed. A problem with showing maps when using the roll-up/drop-down animation was fixed. A Russian translation was included.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News webalizer-asn is an autonomous system number (ASN)
extension for Webalizer. It is useful for
high-traffic sites and ISPs that want to know from
which networks visitors are coming from. This
information could be used to plan future peerings
or other things.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release uses the Alligator database format generated by the Piranha/Alligator BGP route collector.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ODK (Objective-C Development Kit) is a library of
objects for creating database oriented
applications. It uses GTK+ 2 to create GUIs and
supports accessing various databases (including
PostgreSQL and MySQL) in a fashion transparent to
the developer.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release featured a totally new object oriented design and easy connection and data fetching from different databases via SQL and a uniform API. Dynamic loading of database plugins was implemented with support for MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL. Async data fetch and On File database support was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The ICMP Hostname Tools for Linux include a
responder daemon, a lookup tool, and a nameswitch
module to handle ICMP host name functions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The various programs now have a combined package that uses automake and autoconf.
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