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Source: Freshmeat Daily News OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network
management platform developed using the open
source model. The three main functional areas of
OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors
services on the network and reports on their
"service level"; data collection from the remote
systems via SNMP in order to measure the
performance of the network; and a system for event
management and notifications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release contains some new reports and events, some
small bugfixes, and a new GUI for scheduling outages. It
should be an easy upgrade over 1.2.2.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Kwave is a 24-bit sound editor that allows simple operations, such as cut, copy, and paste. Some more effect functions with little complexity (Simple Filtering, Delay) are also implemented. More sophisticated analysis functions (spectrograms, sonagrams, pitch determination) are underway or partially done.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release implements a new playback setup dialog and adds native playback via ALSA. There are some bugfixes in the record plugin. This release builds for SuSE-9.2/9.3, Gentoo, and Debian.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Zapping VBI library provides routines to read
from raw Vertical Blanking Interval capture
devices, to demodulate raw to sliced VBI data, and
to interpret the data of several popular services.
Basically, it offers all the functionality needed
by a VBI application except for the UI.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version adds a new demultiplexer to extract XDS data from a closed caption stream and a work-around for broken Linux saa7134 drivers. It fixes a crash in the HTML export module, a timestamp assertion, and bugs in the test utilities.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Chaos Explorer is a project developed to give users the
ability to investigate fractals, attractors, bifurcations, and
other chaotic functions. The program's focus is on the
freedom to manipulate any possible parameter.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes a few code speed-ups and code clean-up. A Bifurcation Graph type has been added and the logistics map can now be graphed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Geolog is a Perl script that you can use to
download all the information from the geocaching
Web site geocaching.com about your own caches,
your found caches, and the ones you missed. It
also works incrementally, so after having
initially downloaded everything, the next time
only the new caches will be downloaded. The
scripts works under Linux/Unix as well as under
Windows (using ActivePerl). You can also generate
HTML pages from the downloaded information in a
rather flexible way by using templates.
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:
Improvements to reporting mechanisms. Important bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Cygwin is a DLL which provides a Unix emulation environment for Windows. The Cygwin environment provides a complete port of such development utilities as gcc, binutils, gdb, make, etc., as well as a vast number of useful utilities.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes problems with static destructors not being able
to use stdout. It also fixes a spurious "multiple versions of cygwin
detected" error and corrects a problem with Unix sockets not being
detected as sockets. There are also enhancements for the handling of
network drives, and many bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude Hybrid IDS
suite. It is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the
Prelude sensors. It is able to register local or remote sensors, let
the operator configure them remotely, receive alerts, and store alerts
in a database or any format supported by reporting plugins, thus
providing centralized logging and analysis. It also provides relaying
capabilities for failover and replication. The IDMEF standard is used
for alert representation. Support for filtering plugins allows you to
hook in different places in the Manager to define custom criteria for
alert relaying and logging.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a leak in the local configuration message. It defaults to listening on localhost instead of a Unix domain socket. A compilation problem on systems lacking a PRIu64 definition has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Node Director is a system management application for centralized user and host management in heterogenous system environments. It features directory management, software distribution, service configuration, and much more. It includes a command line and a Web based frontend.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The binaries of this release have been built with a patched GCC/GCJ, working around a GCJ runtime library bug causing erratic hangs. Bad file format for a few config files has been fixed. An "sfidirector passwd" command has been added. Memory consumption has been reduced. Please also upgrade to BigClerk 0.07 or higher, since this will dramatically reduce memory consumption (and possible crashes due to memory overload) of the frontend interface.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Solipsis is a pure peer-to-peer system for a massively shared
virtual world. There is no server at all: it only relies on end-
users' machines. It is a public virtual territory. The world is
initially empty and only users will fill it by creating and running
entities. The system architecture clearly separates the different
tasks, so that peer-to-peer hackers as well as multimedia
geeks can find a good place to have fun.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
A more user-friendly Connection dialog. Additional translations (Slovenian, Japanese, and German). The project's own URL scheme, which is registered when launching the navigator. If you click on a URL like "slp://123.45.67.89:4550/", your navigator will jump near the peer who's listening on the said address and port.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Jake2 is a pure Java port of the Quake2 game
engine. Jake2 features OpenGL rendering using jogl
and OpenAL sound using joal. Single player mode is
fully playable. Jake2 comes pretty close to the
performance of the original engine written in C.
You need the data files of the Quake2 full game or
of the Quake2 demo version in order to play it as
a game.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Multiplayer client and server functionality, Mac OS X support, a Webstart version, an experimental lwjgl driver, a stand-alone installer, online installation of Quake2 demo data files, mouse wheel support, a very fast screenshot function, reduction of the memory footprint, and bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News HL7 Comm is a stand-alone integration tool written
in Java that allows you to send and receive HL7
messages over a TCP/IP MLLP connection. It offers
a simple mode for testing and a configured mode
for running as a full-fledged integration client,
either with or without a GUI interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release contains updates to file handling that will make several attempts at moving files and halt operation should they all fail. There is also an update that hopefully fixes a very rare disconnection bug.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Changes:
Various bugs have been fixed , and code cleanup was done (Write Ahead Log relic).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Audio Tag Tool is a program to manage the information fields in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files, commonly called tags. It can be used to edit tags one by one, but the most useful features are mass tag and mass rename. These are designed to tag or rename hundreds of files at once, in any desired format.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes the problems some people were experiencing when it was compiled against the latest version of Gnome/GTK (the UI didn't respond to events, and there were many libglade warnings). There are also new translations for Russian, Ukranian, Bulgarian, and Lithuanian.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PBButtons is a daemon to handle special hardware on the Apple iBook/PowerBook/TiBook. It controls the display brightness, the sound volume, mutes the sound, changes the trackpad mode, puts the machine to sleep, or ejects the CDROM on command. It also provides basic power management features. An included client gives the user visual feedback about all actions with nice little popup windows.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes the problem that under certain circumstances caused 100% CPU load. The power key of recent aluminum Powerbooks is now supported, and the ASLA mixer module has improved error management. The evdev module is no longer loaded automatically. The system must be set up properly before using pbbuttonsd.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode, and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group.
It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibition of characters, and bidirectional character handling. Profiles for iSCSI, Kerberos 5, Nameprep, SASL, and XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA are supported.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
The gnulib portability files were updated. The
license template in files were updated with the
new FSF address. Translations were updated.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News phptelemeter is a script that can read the Web
pages for the Web-based 'quota' monitor for the
Belgian ISP Telenet. These pages contain both the
actual status (which is refreshed nightly), and a
30-day shifting window history. This history is
what makes up the used quota.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
phptelemeter is now compatible with
Telemeter4Tools, and features a plugin
architecture for feeding information from other
sources.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU Gadu 2 is a modular instant messaging client
with a GUI written in GTK2. It currently supports
Gadu-Gadu, Tlen.pl, and Jabber. It is able to load
Perl scripts, dock in several window managers,
play sounds, talk to other programs via a UNIX
socket, send SMS messages to Polish GSM operators,
automatically check for updates, and use XOSD for
displaying notices.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The internal libgadu now works with gnutls instead
of the openssl library. A crash while starting was
fixed. New Jabber icons were added. HTML parsing
of links in a chat window was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release once again builds on Python 2.2, and
ZPsycopgDA now works in Zope as expected. All
other known minor bugs have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JGraph is a robust and complete graph component that is better than many of its commercial competitors. With the JGraph zoomable component, you can display objects and relations (networks) in any Swing UI. It can also be used on the server-side to read an GXL graph, apply a custom layout algorithm, and return the result as an SVG image.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
valueForCellChanged() has been added to the GraphModel interface to
enable changing the value of the cell without performing typecasts.
Edge labels that cross into negative coordinate space are moved back
into the visible area, and in-place editing cannot now occur off the
screen. Labels on self-references can now be moved. Various casts and
type checks have been added and various minor bugs fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Conary is a distributed software management system
for Linux distributions. It replaces traditional
package management solutions (such as RPM and
dpkg) with one designed to enable loose
collaboration across the Internet. It enables sets
of distributed and loosely connected repositories
to define the components which are installed on a
Linux system. Rather than having a full
distribution come from a single vendor, it allows
administrators and developers to branch a
distribution, keeping the pieces which fit their
environment while grabbing components from other
repositories across the Internet.
License: Common Public License
Changes:
The repquery --deps output was fixed, an experimental "updateall" command was added, and AutoDoc and InitialContents policies were added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News EasyBMP is a cross-platform C++ library for reading and writing Windows bitmap (BMP) files. Designed for ease of use, it requires no installation or external libraries, is small in size, well-documented, and is simple enough for the novice programmer to start in just minutes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release supports all architectures, including little-endian and big-endian, on all platforms. However, the support for big-endian architectures is new and there may be bugs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Bersirc is an IRC client written in C.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Context menus that can be accessed by right-clicking on the buffer or taskbar button were added. Scroll wheel support was added and some scrollbar issues, a spacing bug, a couple of crashes, and some redraw issues were fixed. There were also many other fixes and changes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News xlit is a program for converting text from one
writing system into another. It allows the user to
define a transliteration simply by typing the
input strings in one window and the strings to
which they are to be mapped in another. This makes
it suitable for use for dealing with non-standard
transliteration, such as those often necessary
between the language notes made by a missionary,
trader, or other amateur and technical linguistic
notation, or between linguistic notation and a
practical writing system. It also provides some
advanced facilities not found in typical
transliteration and encoding conversion programs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Controls were added for editing the transliteration. The program can now read and write Yudit .kmap files in addition to its own transliteration file format. Display of scrollbars is now optional. The duplication dialog was moved to the top level of the Miscellaneous menu. The accented character entry widget was improved. Users can now define their own charecter entry widgets. An estimate of time remaining is now displayed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News CVSps is a program for generating 'patchset'
information from a CVS repository. A patchset in
this case is defined as a set of changes made to a
collection of files, and all committed at the same
time (using a single 'cvs commit' command). This
information is valuable to seeing the big picture
of the evolution of a cvs project. CVSps allows
you to see history of committed patchsets,
restrict by author, date range, files affected,
branches affected. CVSps can generate a diff of a
given patchset.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version features tracking and reporting of branch ancestry, including for branches-off-branches. Various fixups were made to the patchset detection, which was causing out-of-order patchsets, or patchsets containing multiple revisions of the same file. Many bugfixes from the Debian folks were merged.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News L7-filter is a Netfilter match module which
classifies packets based on application layer (OSI
layer 7) data. This means that it is able to
classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, Kazaa,
etc., regardless of ports. It complements existing
matches that classify based on port numbers,
packet length, TOS bits, and so on. Combined with
Linux QoS, it allows for full layer 7 packet
shaping.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The Counterstrike Source pattern was improved and a pattern for Half Life 2 Death Match was added. Minor bugfixes were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Polygon Puzzle is a tessellation puzzle inspired by Beat The Computer. Pieces of connecting regular polygons are arranged to fit into predefined trays. The mathematical names of the shapes are polyhexes, polyominoes, and polyiamonds.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The pieces are now constrained to the viewable area. Some documentation was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News QtOIDUA is a graphical user interface for OIDUA, an Audiolist clone that generates lists of audio files based on their location in a directory tree. It supports all features of OIDUA, and makes it easy to create fields, add directories, choose colors, and set options. Users can even save list configuration files so that they can easily recreate any previously created list.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The main window now remembers its size when closed and restores it next time it's opened. Message box alerts displayed from the settings window now look the way they should in OS X. New OIDUA options are now supported. The program now checks to ensure that the specified OIDUA executable is actually OIDUA, checks its version number, and enables/disables options accordingly.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ruby/DICT is an RFC 2229-compliant client-side library implementation
of the DICT protocol, written in the Ruby programming language. It can
be used to write clients that access dictionary definitions from a set
of natural language dictionary databases. rdict, a powerful CLI
dictionary client built on Ruby/DICT, is included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A bug where a text response could be mistaken for a numeric status response was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News syslog-ng, as the name shows, is a syslogd replacement, but with new functionality for the new generation. The original syslogd allows messages only to be sorted based on priority/facility pairs; syslog-ng adds the possibility to filter based on message contents using regular expressions. The new configuration scheme is intuitive and powerful. Forwarding logs over TCP and remembering all forwarding hops makes it ideal for firewalled environments.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Minor fixes and a 64-bit compatibility fix.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a
diskless or systemless environment for client
machines. It works on Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat,
and Fedora. Unlike LTSP, it uses distributed
hardware resources and makes it possible for
clients to fully access local hardware. It also
includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk
cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some bugs were fixed. CentOS4 and Mandrake 10.2 (Mandriva LE2005) are now supported.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ultimate Stunts is a remake of the DOS game "stunts", providing modern features like OpenGL graphics, 3D sound, and Internet-based multiplayer games. Players can design their own tracks, choose opponents and try some spectacular stunts.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Players are now penalised when they do not follow the road. The game stops when all cars have finished. The size of the tiles was increased for better gameplay, and many tiles were added or improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Beast is a powerful music composition and modular synthesis application. It offers multiple input methods like multitrack, piano roll, and pattern editing and supports skins. On the technical side, it has a wide range of abilities like sequencing, unlimited undo/redo history, real-time synthesis with multiprocessor support, full duplex 32-bit audio rendering, precise timing down to sample granularity, on demand loading of partial wave files, on the fly decoding of various sample formats, aliasing free oscillators, and full Scheme scripting support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Major bugs were fixed, including some in the BSE file saving mechanism. Updating to this version is recommended to prevent data loss. The dialog messages were improved significantly and updates were made to the Canadian English, Czech, Italian, Spanish, and Basque translations.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Lasso is an implementation of the Liberty Identity Federation specifications defined by the Liberty Alliance consortium. It defines processes such as network identity and single sign-on.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The usage of NameIdentifiers after calls to the Register Name Identifier profile was fixed. Robustness against other Liberty implementations was improved. The loading of metadata was improved and minor bugs and memory leaks were fixed. Work on ID-WSF support was continued, though it is still partial and disabled by default.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SMB for FUSE is a Network Neighborhood (Samba
shares) filesystem. It works like smbfs, but
instead of accessing one share at a time, all
computers and workgroups are accessible at once
from a single filesystem mount, making network
browsing just as easy as it is on Windows.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Fuse 2.2 compatibility, Kerberos authentication support, and password file support were added. Network read timeouts were increased.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ufficio Zero is an Italian live Linux distribution for the office
environment. It has been created for newbies, with simplicity in
mind, and has automatic hardware detection/configuration, automount
for external devices, and the GNOME desktop with Evolution and
the OpenOffice suite. It is based on Arch Linux and is built with
archie-scripts.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The unionfs module was downgraded to 1.0.11.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Getpkg is used to download and install packages
for Slackware Linux. It is menu-driven, allowing
the user to choose program options by entering
menu choices. Its menus are generated using the
dialog utility. It creates the folder ~/.getpkg
and stores configuration options and downloaded
packages within that folder. It requires Slackware
and Python.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A function to sort mirrors by traceroute instead
of ping time was written and integrated into both
offficial and unofficial mirrors. This provides
much better sorting and more a accurate choice of
the fastest mirror. The getpkg-installer file was
removed. If upgrading from an older version, you
should remove ~/.getpkg/mirrors and
~/.getpkg/unofficial_mirrors before running the
program to resort mirrors.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Libquicktime is based on the great quicktime4linux library with several enhancements. All 3rd-party libraries were removed from the sourcetree. Instead, the systemwide installed libraries are detected by the configure script. All original codecs were moved into dynamically loadable modules, and new codecs are in development. Libquicktime is source-compatible with quicktime4linux (i.e., all quicktime4linux apps can be linked with libquicktime). Special API extensions allow access to the codec registry and more convenient processing of Audio and Video data. Libquicktime comes with all original utility programs, and additional tools, like a commandline player and a GTK configuration utility which can configure the parameters of all installed codecs. The configuration is stored in the home directory and is be used by all libquicktime applications.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Many complation fixes were made for gcc-4.x.
Autodetection of CPU-specific GCC flags was
improved.
Source: IceWalkers Linux Kernel
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