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Source: Freshmeat Daily News Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, Reiser4, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS2, SMBFS, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has IDE/SCSI/SATA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/DSL/cable network support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The main reason for this release is a broken GRUB
installation in version 14.6. The programs lynx,
links, and bbe were updated. The ntfscmp program
was added. The section pertaining to booting from
DOS/Win9x/WinXP has been updated in the RIP
readme. If loadlin doesn't work, you can try
grub.exe from the hard drive.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SPyRO is a multilingual Object Request Broker
(ORB). SPyRO uses the most efficient available
connection between peers to minimize the costs of
transport and parsing in the communication. SPyRO
provides transparent and translucent remote object
access.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Authentication support to perform object operations was added. Some kinds of distributed garbage collection were added (but are not enabled). Object deletion may be done using a normal request. Server object operations (in registered server objects) to sending by reference and register results must be removed. These operations are supported by Communication clients. The "warn" package was cleaned up. Several "threadutils" bugfixes and general bugfixes were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Internet DJ console is a graphical shoutcast/icecast client that runs under GTK+ and the JACK audio connection kit. In short, it's an Internet radio app for making a live radio show or podcast. Features include two main media players with a crossfader, a jingle player, microphone signal processing (compressor and noise gate), IRC track announcements with X-Chat, an automatic stream shut-off timer, MP3 or Ogg streaming and recording at various bit rates, aux input for connecting external JACK aware applications, and audio level meters.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Fadeout was added for tracks that you stop early.
(This is off by default.) Ducking reduction was
added on the main and jingles volume controls,
since it is needed increasingly less as the volume
is turned down. The jingles player now shuts down
according to the number of audio samples left to
play rather than from a timer.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News pmpkg provides a script and definitions to build
SysV style binary packages for Solaris from source
tarballs in an automated way, somewhat similar to
ports or ebuilds. It aims for reuse of system
packages where possible and a minimalistic
dependency set.
License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
Changes:
This release fixes problems with PATH when using
sudo for privilege escalation. It also adds new
packages for nasm, snes9x, and gnuboy, and updates
the vice package.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Nagcon is a console application which replaces the
Nagios Web interface. It allows you to quickly
view which services have become troubled.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Services of hosts that are down will no longer be
displayed, but this can be re-enabled. Settings
can be changed at runtime (press 'h' for help).
Column-width can be set from the command line. A
major memory leak was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News wCMF is a PHP Web application framework based on
the MVC pattern. Applications are defined in a
stereotyped UML model, from which the code
generator builds the persistence layer and stubs
for controllers and views. The main field of
application is the building of content management
systems.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release includes a complete visual redesign
of the default application and integration of
FCKeditor with image and link management. wCMF
Generator now supports inheritance for the node
type (one table per concrete class) and has a
default application model for poseidon.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GCX provides a complete set of data-reduction
functions for CCD photometry, with frame WCS
fitting, automatic target identification, aperture
photometry of target and standard stars,
single-frame ensemble photometry data reduction,
multi-frame color coefficient fitting, extinction
coefficient fitting, and all-sky photometry. It
also controls CCD cameras and telescopes, and
implements automatic observation scripting.
Cameras are controlled through a hardware-specific
server, to which gcx connects through a TCP
socket. The program can control telescopes which
use the LX200 protocol, and refine pointing by
matching images to the GSC catalog position of
stars. It generates FITS files with comprehensive
header information.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds an option to automatically
select or generate recipe files when reducing a
list of different targets. A command allowing
trial photometry of a frame was added to the CCD
reduction dialog. Several bugfixes have been
incorporated.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU GRUB is a Multiboot loader. It was derived from GRUB. It is an attempt to produce a bootloader for IBM PC-compatible machines that has both the capability to be friendly to beginning or otherwise non-technically interested users and the flexibility to help experts in diverse environments. It is compatible with FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux. It supports Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP and OS/2 via chain-loaders. It has a menu interface and a command-line interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Support for LZO version 2 was added. Completion is
supported in the entry editor. VBE support was
added. New commands include "search", "vbetest",
and "vbeinfo". The BOOT_IMAGE option is passed to
Linux. Support for automatic decompression for
gzip was added. Support for terminfo and serial
were added. Support for x86_64 was added. GRUB
itself is a Multiboot-compliant kernel. New
filesystems were added: XFS, SFS, and AFFS.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FFView is a fast OpenGL-powered picture viewer a
la ACDsee. It is aimed at letting you read manga
or other comics onscreen (in either windowed or
fullscreen mode). Its features include fast
prefetching, smooth panning, voice commands, the
ability to browse pictures inside archives
(.rar/.cbr, .zip/.cbz) and persistent per-picture
options.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Many fixes were made for small bugs. For example,
a mouse click in fullscreen always skipped one
(double-) page.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FONTpage is a Python font viewing/image-generating
utility. It displays system fonts and allows you
to change the font size and color, background
color, font face, bold, and italics. It also has
the ability to input the text to be displayed,
which you can choose to save as a PNG file. It is
handy to view fonts and styles quickly, or to make
"logo" graphics. There are source code, binary, and Slackware packages available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A cairo-related dependency that was mistakenly
added in previous version was removed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Asmail is a "mail-checker" like xbiff, but with the
Afterstep look & feel. It indicates the status of
your mailbox. It can be put in the Wharf, execute
program on incoming mail, execute program on
mouseclick, show animations and more
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release removes the unnecessary jpeg and Xt
libraries from the makefiles. This release was
prepared in response to the Debian bug report
334079.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ascpu is an X windows applet with AfterStep look which displays the current CPU load (user/system/nice) and calculates the average load. It features multiple options for customization. ascpu currently supports Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX and AIX. ascpu supports SMP under Linux.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version fixes the problems in which the
program failed to read the stat file on Linux
kernel versions 2.6.10 or above.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Linux4Geeks is a LFS-based small distro which works
around several problems and issues mainstream Linux
distributions have. It offers different versions compiled
for each architecture and has all the packages required
for a slim installation including a firewall and network
administration tools, amongst others.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This is a complete new build that includes GNU
glibc 2.3.5 and GNU gcc 3.4.4. Several security
issues were fixed (in zlib, openssh, openssl, and
other packages).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Useful Traffic Accounting Dragon is a traffic
accounting tool that actually gives useful
information about traffic instead of just counting
incoming/outgoing packets. It accounts for traffic
by user, program, and timestamp.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A caching mechanism is now available for the data,
resulting in a massive speed increase. The Web
frontend now also has graphs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News OpenBIOS is an effort to produce an OpenFirmware
(IEEE 1275-1994) compliant firmware. OpenFirmware
is used by SUN, Apple, and others.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes hex parsing in strings.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News eJourn is a local journal management application
that supports multiple journals, event relations,
concurrent views, searching, and meta information.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A link bug where the highlight region was lost was
fixed. An undo error involving the backspace key
was fixed; the symptoms were more visible upon
redo. The main text right click menu was added,
and the new link button was moved to this. A bug
where removing links caused a loss of undo buffer
was fixed. A bug which prevented the creation of
new users was fixed. The operation for creating a
journal issue was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TTtrigger is a program intended for theater use.
It uses JACK to trigger sound effects and other
sounds to predefined audio ports. A shortcut key
can be assigned to each sound effect or you can
trigger the sounds sequentially.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This is the first stable version.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News RealTimeBattle Team Framework is a C++ framework
and a collection of strategies for robots of the
programming game "RealTimeBattle" in order to play
in a team and communicate in an efficient way. The
whole package depends on rtb version 1.0.6 or higher.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
New strategies and fancier robots are available
now. Cobra and Columbus are totally new. Minor
bugs were fixed in the framework. The design
documents have been released so that new
developers have a better chance to understand the
internals and intentions behind the source code.
Note that RealTimeBattle Team Framework is already
included in RealTimeBattle 1.0.8-Ext.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Crimson Fields is a tactical war game in the tradition of Battle Isle. Mission objectives range from defending strategically vital locations to simply destroying all enemy forces in the area. Tools are available to create custom maps and campaigns. The original Battle Isle maps can be played if the player has a copy of the game files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Another tutorial mission and a crystals trigger
for mappers have been added. The mechanism for
loading crystals has been changed, and a major bug
which could make shops inaccessible has been
fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News linuxTheTools is a collection of 38 portable and
uniform SYSOP command-line tools for Linux. They
ease the management of your network and provide
day-to-day tools to make system administration,
scripting, and content management easier.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for
any Linux system. It contains the following
programs: addpart, agetty, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chfn, chkdupexe, chrt, chsh, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, delpart, display-services, dmesg, elvtune, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, flock, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, halt, hexdump, hwclock, initctl, ionice, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, last, line, logger, login, look, losetup, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, need, newgrp, partx, pg, pivot_root, provide, ramsize, raw, rdev, readprofile, reboot, rename, renice, reset, rev, rootflags, script, scriptreplay, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, shutdown, simpleinit, swapoff, swapon, taskset, tailf, tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode, vipw, wall, whereis, and write.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release updates to cramfs-1.1 and removes PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
for {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs, fixes "umount -n -r", adds miscellaneous build
system and code cleanups and fixes, and updates the ca translation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DiscoverStation is a Linux distribution
specifically designed for publicly accessible
computers. It includes over 30 applications,
hundreds of management and security tools, and
Userful's unique "Desktop Multiplier" software. It
features time management, Internet filtering,
privacy protection, automated clean-up, and many
other features. It also includes a Web portal that
lets you customize, manage, and view usage reports
for hundreds of PCs at once from a Web browser.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
This release adds the time of day to the Welcome Screen and the ability
to assign a default printer based on the station.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Userful Desktop Multiplier is software that turns one computer into ten using extra video cards, keyboards, and monitors. It installs on most popular Linux distributions (Red Hat, Novell/SuSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Xandros, Linspire, Ubuntu, etc.).
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
This release supports PCI Express cards (Radeon X300 and nVidia Geforce
6600 GT), enables Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to reset a station, and supports
DualView with nVidia graphic cards.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News html2ps is a PHP equivalent of the popular Perl
script by the same name that accurately converts
HTML with images, complex tables (including
rowspan/colspan), layers/divs, and CSS styles to
PostScript.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds minor bugfixes and feature improvements. The bugfixes
include the following: NewPage commands did not work in the PDFLIB
output method, better image quality is now achieved in the PS2PDF output
method, and several PHP 5 compatibility issues and several table and
floats layout problems have been addressed. The most important new
features are basic support for the "page-break-after" CSS property,
support for "position: fixed", support for @media CSS rules, and the
ability to insert hyperlinks into generated PDF documents.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Photo Organizer is multi-user photo management tool that was designed for professional photographers. It offers a searchable photo database that supports photo version control, client management, photo submission history, EXIF, IPTC, XML, and XMP, user quotas, a datebook, and printing labels and color brochures in PDF and PS formats. It uses PostgreSQL, features a Web interface, and uses ImageMagick and DCRAW to handle over a hundred image formats including several RAW formats.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a rule-based shop item creator tool, a content-based
image retrieval search engine interface, transparent [de]compression
(with browsers that support it), and persistent database connections.
It fixes bugs related to the EXIF parser for TIFF files, colorspace
management, image orientation tracking, the exifier library, sort order,
and timestamps.
Source: IceWalkers Free linux timesheets for project tracking
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GenReS is a generic reconfigurable scriptable plugin for
Mozilla/Firefox. It allows you to use external programs for displaying
EMBED or OBJECT tags. A sample application allows embedding mplayer in a
browser window and controlling it with Javascript.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Issues with the SRC= parameter, with percent signs in the WIDTH tag parameter, and with truncation at an equals sign in the values of tag parameters were fixed. The SRC tag parameter can now be used as an alias for HREF.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.
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