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Source: Freshmeat Daily News DIMVisual (Data Integrated Model for Visualization) integrates information from different sources such as MPI traces and Ganglia metrics and allows it to be analysed in the Paj © visualization tool. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release features support for MPE (from MPI communication libraries) traces, Performance Co-Pilot traces, and initial support for Ganglia, DNFSP, and DECK traces.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News RemoteJ is an application for adding Bluetooth remote control capability to Sony Ericsson's mobile phones such as the K750, W800, Z520, W600, W550, and W900 series. It offers an extendable, configurable interface system that uses XML configuration files. It can be used to control your music player, video player, or PC-TV using a menu appearing in your mobile phone's menu. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release removed Linux dependency from the code, making the project usable on Windows or any RXTX-supported platform if appropriate application control scripts/executables are written.
    
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DerMixD is an audio mixing and network-listening daemon that is similar to mixplayd but quite different in its implementation. It supports the playing of music files on a run-time configurable number of input channels, mixing them together and producing output on a run-time configurable number of output channels. It is controlled over a TCP socket and supports pitch shifting, scripting, gapless playing of tracks, including filtering of null samples from padding, use of mpg123's equalizer, flexible input/output connection, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Tjos re;ease added ALSA and Tru64/MME outputs along with mono support, including proper playback of mono files with stereo mixer/output and vice versa. Work has gone into the generalized common multithreaded structure of the outputs. The mpg123 input now also accepts MP2 and MPG files (if they work with mpg123). It is now possible to tune many additional parameters via the command line.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News gloox is a high-level Jabber/XMPP library for C++. It is fully compliant to the XMPP RFCs. It supports all of the XMPP features (including SRV lookups, TLS, SASL, roster management, and privacy lists) and implements several JEPs: Service Discovery, Bookmark Storage, Private XML Storage, Ad-hoc Commands, In-Band Registration, Non-SASL Authentication, Software Version, Jabber Component Protocol, Last Activity, Annotations, and several more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Documentation updates and minor bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News std_utils is a small library of utility functions and classes. It supports string operations such as a tokenizer and a stripper of leading or trailing characters, and a configuration file parser. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A type to throw exceptions on cConfig was added. An isKey() function was added to cConfig. The documentation was completed. cLog was removed as you can get the same behavior using fstream with "flush" at the end, which is more efficient. The deprecated gettok() was removed. A reentrant version of gettok was included to avoid copies. "stdu" was added as an alias to the "std_util" namespace.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Program Guard allows the user of a Linux workstation to specify which applications are allowed to make TCP/IP connections to the Internet. Application program names can be specified by listing them in a file (Static Mode) or by querying the user (Query Mode). In Query Mode, connection attempts by unknown programs result in a Program Guard dialog box being displayed. In addition to providing connection information, this gives the workstation user the option of allowing or blocking the program either for the current instance of the program or for all future instances. It consists of a daemon, a kernel module, and a GUI interface component and makes use of the Linux Netfilter interface.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TaskFreak! is a Web-based task manager and todo list. It lets you organize tasks per project, priority, and deadline and context. It is easy to install and to use, and particular attention has been paid to the design and usability in order to improve the productivity by not spending too much time on the tool itself. It is compatible with PHP 4 and 5 and supports both mySQL and SQLite. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: RSS 2.0 feeds, UTF-8 character sets, and localization of language and date format are now supported. Users can specify a time zone, which is necessary if the server is in a different time zone. A tooltip now appears when the mouse is over context and priority, displaying the full text. An icon is shown when a task has a note. Users can now customize database table prefixes, which is useful when installing multiple instances on a single database. User can also specify that completed tasks are to disappear from the list instantly or after a specific number of days. Version info is now displayed at the bottom of the page.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X) is a Mac OS X application for generating high-quality audio files in various formats from compact discs. Max features an error-correcting audio extraction process using cdparanoia. Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAVE. Many PCM conversions are also possible using Core Audio and libsndfile. Max is integrated with FreeDB to permit automatic retrieval of compact disc information. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Audio can now be generated from pre-existing files in addition to CDs. Multiple CD tracks can be encoded to a single file. AAC/Apple lossless files are now tagged with metadata. VBR mode was enabled for the AAC encoder. Parameters for FLAC/Ogg FLAC encoders are now configurable. A user-friendly interface was added for the MP3 encoder. Simultaneous audio extraction from multiple CD drives is now possible. The program was integrated with the Services menu to allow encoding from other applications.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News MAGIC-SMTPD is a drop-in replacement for Dan Bernstein's qmail-smtpd, and was originally designed to be part of the LinuxMagic Magic Mail Server. This opensource version has been released to allow others to benefit from its anti-spam components, and valid user checking to reduce server loads and spam volumes. It is designed to support stock qmail installations, qmail/vpopmail installations, and database connectivity. Designed for ISP service, this will work for all mail servers large and small. License: Freely Distributable Changes: Major changes were made to logging. valid_bounce_check is now disabled if a user is local. Changes made in the commercial MagicMail product were merged. A check_valid_from option was added to check that MAIL FROM is a valid user. Spam can now be logged to a CSV file. Support for a new dynamic_dns_regexes file was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News EveryGui provides two applications. Chameleon is a dynamic GUI for virtually any tool or OS command, which not only executes the commands but can save a batch of commands into a shell script. Designer is a visual environment for editing config files that determine Chameleon's different behaviours for each tool/command. Designer is like a mini cross between QT Designer and Glade, but requires no coding at all to get the functionality working. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release comes with pre-made EveryGUI Definition (.egd) files for cdrecord, lame, map2dif, mkisofs, rpm, tar, webcpp, and a couple of other custom commands.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News YaBook is a powerful PHP 5 guestbook that features easy installation and customization, multi-language support, an administration interface, moderation of new submissions, and URL obfuscation. Various database systems are supported. The script auto-detects a new installation and performs incremental upgrades if required. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release implements a new type of Captcha image verification to fight spambots.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News lMaker is a PHP class designed for Webmasters and programmers who want a simple way to generate complex, dynamic Web sites from easily-maintainable text files. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds an '
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The ccontrol program takes over the roles of the compiler and linker, and reads a configuration file to decide what to do before invoking them. This is particularly useful for centralized control over commands and options, such as enabling distcc(1) and ccache(1). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a bug where the config file wasn't reread if it was a symlink and was changed (the most common configuration).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News IMP, the Internet Messaging Program, allows Web-based access to IMAP and POP3 mail servers and provides a range of features normally found only in desktop email clients. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Virtual Inboxes, Virtual Trash folders, an "Empty Spam" menu item and stationery support have been added. Attaching files has been simplified. A sound is played on new mail. A multiple message view and creating notes from emails have been added. Message previews have been improved. Photo attachments can be imported into galleries. New messages are always sent in "flowed" format. Auto-detection of namespace information from IMAP servers, a permission to restrict folder creation, and support for changing the SMTP server/port on login have been added to the administrator options.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Kronolith is the Horde calendar application. It provides a stable and featureful individual calendar system with integrated collaboration and scheduling features. It makes extensive use of the Horde Framework to provide integration with other applications. It implements a solid, stand-alone calendar system, allowing repeating events, all-day events, custom fields, keywords, shared calendars, iCalendar support, generation of free/busy information, and managing multiple users through Horde Authentication. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A Year view and email notifications for changed events have been have been added. Current alarms are displayed in the sidebar menu. An event status of "Free" and subscription support for desktop calendar clients have been added. Support for meeting planning with clients without iTip/iCalendar support has been added. The side-by-side views for multiple calendars and accessibility have been improved. The MCAL driver has been deprecated. Free/busy URLs have been simplified. Permissions to restrict the number of events and a command line script to batch import iCalendar data have been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JHylaFAX is a platform independent client for HylaFAX. It is purely written in Java and runs on any Java 5.0 enabled platform. It has a small footprint, starts up quickly, and features a sleek user interface. It is capable of sending faxes, displaying server status, editing fax job parameters, and viewing received faxes. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: An import wizard has been added to the address book that can handle SuSEFax address book files. The address book location can now be configured. A parameter has been added to exit JHylaFAX after a fax has been sent. Deletion of received faxes has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Nag is a Web-based application built upon the Horde Application Framework which provides a simple, clean interface for managing online task lists (i.e., TODO lists). It includes strong integration with the other Horde applications and offers shared task lists. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Email notifications for changed tasks have been have been added. A print view has been added to the task list. Dynamic table resorting has been added. Subscription support for calendar clients like iCal or Sunbird has been added. Accessibility has been improved. A Portuguese translation has been added. Permissions to restrict the number of tasks has been added. A command line script to batch import vTodos has been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Mediainlinux is a "live" Debian multimedia distribution. It includes more than 200 graphical applications and hundreds of command line tools for creating and publishing multimedia contents. All packages are up to unstable and experimental versions of the Debian tree and updated often. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Now based on Knoppix 4. Testing new software and many upgrades to already included software. Tools for 2D, 3D, audio, and video production.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Pigalle (PIcture GALLEry) is a slick Web based photo album written in PHP 5. It makes it easy to create and maintain photo albums via an intuitive interface, as users need only upload their files to a server and let the program generate thumbnails for them. Visitors can choose their preferred image resolution and images will be generated on the fly. These generated images are cached and all meta-information such as album descriptions, image information, and user settings are stored in a database. A back-end administration interface helps to manage the files, edit the descriptions, and so on, making it very easy and convenient. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release finally fixes the annoying image order bug.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News IBLS is a mini-Linux server distribution. It is compiled from scratch, and uses its own package management (although it can also load RPMs and debs). It is designed for minimum size and to run on old machines, mainly as a server, but also for other tasks.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal emulator rxvt, modified to store text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4) and to use locale-correct input and output. It also supports mixing multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft fonts. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Systems using openpty (most BSDs) had incorrect permissions on the TTY. Other systems (such as GNU/Linux) were not affected. The meta8 option ("weird alt key behaviour") is no longer forcefully enabled. urxvt now supports an embedded Perl interpreter (max urxvtperl), which can already do useful things and will certainly be extended in the future.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News arch is a modern replacement for CVS, specifically designed for the distributed development needs of open source projects. It has uniquely good support for development on branches (especially good merging tools), distributed repositories (every developer can have branches in their own repository), changeset-oriented project management (arch commits changes to multiple files at once), and, of course, file and directory renaming. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release makes no changes to the underlying infrastructure of tla. The main changes are in the user interface, and the addition of convenience commands: tla lint, tla add, tla branch, tla diff (on multiple files and allowing diff options), tla export, tla switch, and tla tree-id to improve the usability of tla. There is also a "basic mode" help message to show just "basic" commands, useful for people new to tla. It is hoped that tla is now more pleasant to use. Bugfixes from Debian have been incorporated.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BitRock InstallBuilder allows you to create easy-to-use installers for Linux (x86/PPC), Windows, OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris (x86/Sparc), IRIX, AIX, and HP-UX applications. The generated installer for an application has a native look-and-feel and no external dependencies, and can be run in GUI, text, and unattended modes. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: This version adds support for Irix and Solaris x86, and expands Mac OS X support to include version 10.2. Actions during during install can optionally be executed as a different user (if running as root). Substitute actions now support 'exact' mode in addition to regular expressions. This release fixes a number of issues, including command line quickbuild functionality, starting the installer with SELinux extensions enabled, and starting from a directory path containing a non-standard charset.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Cacti is a complete frontend to RRDTool. It stores all of the necessary information to create graphs and populate them with data in a MySQL database. The frontend is completely PHP driven. Along with being able to maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also handles the data gathering. There is SNMP support for those used to creating traffic graphs with MRTG. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release has numerous bugfixes and some minor feature additions. Most of the bugs that have been fixed are related to character validation, the poller, and a few related to SNMP handling. Support for both MySQL 5.x and IPv6 has been added. The 95th percentile functionality has been extended to allow for arbitrary percentile calculations (Nth percentile). In an effort to automate longer tasks, multiple command line scripts have been added to help when managing Cacti from the command line.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Mondo Rescue archives Linux and Lin/Win sytems to tapes or CDs, which may be used to restore some or all of your OS and data in the event of catastrophic data loss. The emphasis is on stability and ease of use. Currently, ext2, ext3, (v)fat, minix, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported, as are RAID and LVM. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A mindi man page has been added. This release has USB keyboard support, FHS compliance, RPM builds for Fedora Core 4, SLES 9, Red Hat 7.3, RHEL 3/4, Mandriva 2006.0, and Mandrake 10.2/10.1. PXE mode has been greatly improved. X11 build is disabled by default. There are many code cleanups and small fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Changing the display style crashed the filer with GTK = 2.8.9 because it sent a selection changed event before the view finished initialising. New detail crashed the cleanice theme. These have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News spell-norwegian provides spell checking and thesaurus services for both Norwegian Bokm ¥l and Norwegian Nynorsk for ispell, aspell, and myspell. This project was previously called ispell-norsk and norwegian. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: More nb words are included due to updated frequency information. Minor fixes to the build system. The name of installed ispell dictionaries has been changed, and compatibility symlinks are included. A few new nb words have been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Mp3dings is a Java MP3 tagger and organizer with a clean spreadsheet-style user interface that permits processing many files in parallel. It has powerful automation capabilities. ID3v1 tags and most of ID3v2 are supported. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Usability has been improved in many ways (better copy/paste support, progress monitoring for time consuming tasks, better find/replace, etc.). Data manipulation has become even more customizable (a new "substring extraction" filter, and extraction of meta-data from filenames with custom regular expressions). New possibilities to interact with external applications have been added (export of PLS playlists and playback with a temporary playlist file). Most of the code has been rewritten or restructured, and quite a few bugs have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Wikepage is a 25kb small wiki/personal site builder. It has i18n support, multi-language site support, password protected pages, table support, CSS styling, file upload, and a lot of other features. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release has new features, corrections, and optimizations, new wike released. Features include an upload system, delete file/page support, and an edit confirmation page. A page creation D.O.S. bug has been closed, and there are small corrections in the code and file system.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Audio Transcriber records large audio samples, like a tape or radio broadcast, to your hard drive and splits it into tracks to be burned onto CD-R media. The goal is to make it easy to transfer audio tapes, LPs, or radio broadcasts to tracks on CD-R/CD-RW. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Bugfixes. Should work with newer perlTk versions. Tested on Fedora Core 4.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PTlink IRC Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC Server, it uses modules and includes features like channel roles, nick groups for privilege management, and a Web interface for users. The data backend is a MySQL database. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version adds a user event system that allows you to configure different actions to be executed during specific events (e.g. user connection and channel join). The forbid options were replaced with suspensions. Support has been added for "ALL" on CS ROLE DEL and CS AKICK DEL, and a new option has been added that sets services to use messages instead of notices.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News MOC (music on console) is a console audio player with a simple ncurses interface in playmp3list style. It supports MP3 (with ID3 tag, VBR, and Xing headers), Ogg, FLAC, WAVE, Musepack, SPeex, and some other less popular audio formats. Playlists can be saved and loaded using .m3u files (PLS version 2 can also be loaded). Internet streams (Shoutcast, Icecast) are supported. It achieves gapless playback by employing an output buffer in a separate thread and file pre-caching. The key mapping can be fully customized. The interface can be detached from the server as it plays in background. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A few memory leaks have been fixed. A workaround for the problem with the backspace key on many terminals has been added. Problems with compilation on OpenBSD have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News LetterIt is a Web-based mailing list manager that is simple to install and available In several languages. It can send messages to a mailing list via PHP Mail, sendmail, qmail, SMTP, or pickup mode (only Windows) in HTML/Text or text format with attachments. Messages are delivered in the background, and after starting the browser can be closed. A template system and a WYSIWYG editor are provided, and confirmation mails are sent after subscription and unsubscription requests. It also supports a blacklist, statistics, version checking, user management, and much more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds better session management and a new version of the WYSIWYG editor compatible with Firefox 1.5.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PHP StatIt keeps track of visitor counts and other visitor information such as system, browser, referral domains, screen resolution, color, etc. It features a Web-based statistics page and statistics available in three languages. Installation and configuration are simple. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds better session management.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News kbde is a keyboard emulator. The goal is to provide tools for emulation of keyboard input on keyboardless (x86) computers. It includes a keyboard emulator driver and a user-space program, as well as a library which make it easy to write custom applications able to create keyboard input emulation. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a compilation problem for kernels 2.2/2.4 introduced in 1.1.3.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News This is a Portable Coroutine Library implementation written in ANSI C. Coroutines can be used to implement cooperative threading among many tasks without overloading the OS with threads/processes. Since context switch between coroutines is very fast, certain applications might have performance gain in using this type of threading. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a shared library soname generation error that was missing the library version information.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 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: This sub-release introduces a number of retrospective fixes (backports) to bugs that became apparent and have been fixed in the Firebird 2 tree during the alpha and beta phases of Firebird 2.0 development.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Arudius is a live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware (Minislack/Zenwalk) and Linux Live scripts. It contains an extensive set of software tools used by information security professionals for information assurance and vulnerability analysis. Its goal is to include the most complete set of useful security tools and still maintain a small footprint so it can fit on a 210MB mini-CD. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes bugs which caused boot warning messages and problems recognizing certain USB keyboards and mice.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News STklos is a free Scheme System conforming to R5RS. The implementation is based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine. It can also be compiled as a library, so that one can easily embed it in an application. Its features include an efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS, a simple-to-use module system, implementation of the full tower of numbers defined in R5RS, and easy connection to the GTK+ toolkit. STklos is the successor of STk, a Scheme interpreter tightly connected to the Tk toolkit. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This minor release adds the new primitives string-blit!, print, and printerr, an implementation of SRFI-66 (Octet Vectors), and bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News tenshi (formerly wasabi) is a log monitoring program designed to watch a log file for lines matching user defined regular expressions and report on the matches. The regular expressions are assigned to queues that have an alert interval and a list of mail recipients. Queues can be set to send a notification as soon as there is a log line assigned to them, or to send periodic reports. Additionally, uninteresting fields in the log lines (such as PID numbers) can be masked with the standard regular expression grouping operators ( ). This allows cleaner and more readable reports. All reports are separated by hostname and all messages are condensed when possible. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds uid and gid options for setting the effective UID and GID, colorization of debugging messages, filter and filterargs options for report pre-processing, a [pager:]mail_to syntax for sending pager-friendly reports, a mailtimeout option, and fixes for tail and tailargs being incorrectly treated as dynamic options.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News nrsTable is a JavaScript script that will allow a developer to create HTML tables from arrays. The tables can be automatically sorted simply by clicking on the heading. A lot of customization can be done for the tables, such as colors, pages, captions, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds the ability to sort better, using the natural compare algorithm developed by Kristof Coomans (based on Martin Pool's implementation). Because this adds new functionality to nrsTable, the new version number will be set to 0.2.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News imCMS is a role-based Content Management System. It can be used to create and manage complex Web sites, intranets, and portals, and as a platform for other types of Web-based applications. It can easily share its data with and import data from other systems, and can be controlled through the built-in API. With the aid of the built-in WYSIWYG editor, it is very simple to edit pages in a browser. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: IPv6 addresses are now ignored instead of choked on, non-ASCII characters in image paths are URL-encoded, the database setup is (hopefully) clearer and works better with MySQL 5, and source is now included for the authors' own libraries.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News avelsieve is a Squirrelmail plugin for creating SIEVE scripts on a SIEVE-compliant (RFC 3028) mail server, such as Cyrus IMAP or DBMail. SIEVE is a mail filtering language, intended for server-side filtering of email messages. avelsieve provides a user-friendly interface for adding and manipulating mail filtering rules on a Cyrus IMAP mail server. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds changes in the GUI of the condition of a rule, allowing support for Envelope, Address, and Body Sieve capabilities, miscellaneous other small bugfixes, GUI enhancements, and internal changes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PTXdist is a build system ("executable documentation") for compiling root filesystems for embedded systems. PTXdist is based on a KConfig configuration system in combination with a set of rules which describe how all the source packages out there have to be tweaked to be compiled into a proper root filesystem. Once a configuration has been developed, reproducing it is as easy as "make world". License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This is the last feature release of the 0.7 series. It contains the beginning of native support (compile your embedded system not cross, but for the host and with the User Mode Linux kernel) and has software packet updates.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News My Blog aims to be simple to use while taking care of many advanced features for the user. This includes automatically resizing pictures when uploaded, pagination of blog entries as specified, and truncating and formatting of text as specified. The admin chooses from posting via the secure online script or via email, making blogging via camera phone possible. The admin is emailed when visitors post comments. Data can be stored using MySQL or flat files. Plugins for the My Photo Gallery and My Calendar scripts are available, and the admin can write his own plugins. The templating scheme is simple, compatible with all of the other scripts, and employs CSS. Visitors can also subscribe to notification of new posts by email or RSS. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds the option to store data using MySQL or flatfile data storage by changing one configuration option, a more comprehensive administration panel, and a fix for a bug that occurred when uploading a picture while editing an entry.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DataparkSearch is a Web search engine tool. It features support for http, https, ftp, nntp, and news URLs, htdb virtual URL support for indexing SQL databases, text/html, text/xml, text/plain, audio/mpeg (MP3), and image/gif mime types built-in support, external parsers support for other document types, the ability to index multilangual sites using content negotiation, searching of all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries, stopwords and synonyms lists, boolean query language support, results sorting by relevancy, popularity rank, last modified time, and importance (a multiplication of the relevancy and popularity ranks), support for various character sets, and phrases segmenting for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai languages. It has accent-insensitive search, mod_dpsearch for Apache, and support for internationalized domain names. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The Neo PopRank has been slightly modified. Compilation with aspell support has been fixed for OpenBSD. The indexer can now conect to cached and stored data via the NAT system. The BodyPattern command has been added. The SEA performance has been improved. A possible trap has been fixed for an incorrect value specified in BASE HREF. The --enable-full-rel switch of configure has ben replaced by --enable-rel. Currently supported methods are full, fast, and ultra. Support has been added for Solaris libidnkit. The Store and NoStore commands were added. Several bugs were fixed.
    
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Paymaster is a payroll and HR database application designed to be flexiable and powerful enough to meet the demands of heavy users, but simple enough that small businesses can use it. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Cleanup of the employee section. Work on default pay and making the user interface make more sense.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SimpleDBM is a relational database manager. Its planned features include support for transactions, write ahead log, multiple isolation levels, B-tree indexes, entry level SQL-92, and system catalogs. It is distinguished by its modular design, in which each module is usable on its own. The two main subsystems of the backend are the data manager (responsible for transactions, locking, tuple management, and index management) and the SQL manager (responsible for parsing SQL statements, producing optimum execution plans, and executing SQL statements). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Several key modules have been implemented. These include the Transaction Manager, Space Manager, BTree Manager, and Tuple Manager. There is also a Weblog for the project at simpledbm.blogspot.com.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News WorldForge::Eris is designed to simplify client development (and avoid duplicating effort) by providing a common framework to deal with server communications for the WorldForge project. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A segfault no longer occurs when moving entities are deleted. Map attributes in SET operations are now merged with existing data. A smart entity pointer class has been added. The timeout code has been refactored to be more efficent. Entity create operations are now processed in accordance with the Atlas spec. A Calendar class has been added. Tool operations are now handled by the Avatar class. The Unseen error response from the server is now processed correctly. The handling of sound perceptions has been fixed. Avatar now provies a helper function for issuing an attack operation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SODE uses long Taylor series to solve systems of ordinary differential equations. It generates code to solve the equations in either Icon (or Unicon) or Maple. Using the Taylor series, estimates are made of the location and order of poles. An effort is made to adjust H to control the error. It has worked well in testing, but needs more testing as there are so many possibilities. To solve STIFF equations, MAX_TERMS may be set. Differentiation done automatically. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Many bugfixes relating to pole finding and adjusting the step size. More work needs to be done to find the correct step size.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Openmailadmin is a little administration interface to every complete IMAP mail server daemon. It supports every feature IMAP provides, and fits in most MTA configurations. A key feature is the non-standard, generic administration hierarchy which not only seperates "normal users" from "administrators", but enables the mailserver-master to create instances between them. You will be able to let other users create their own sub-users and thus either share a single mail server between different organizations or project your company's employee structure. It excels with features such as regex addresses and folder ACL management. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Indentation was rewritten to match the prevalent style, and ADOdb has been implemented. An installer was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Linux Cluster Manager is a Beowulf cluster setup and management tool. LCM can run bulk commands, give real time performance and status monitoring, search running processes, and provide system imaging at a file or block level over the network. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A new event manager has been implemented to handle communications with client nodes. This release also includes numerous bugfixes related to status and monitor information.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Klicker is a KDE/QT based metronome that supports from 30 to 208 beats per minute, duple, tuple, and quartal time, and has DCOP interfaces for interprocess control. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Saner handling of multiple output drivers. A new config widget was added, allowing pitches and durations to be changed. Some cruft has been removed from the download package, which is now much smaller. There are a few miscellaneous fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information, inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you to organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some systems, per-class and per-instance information, the ability to separate data for each template instantiation, start/stop timers for profiling arbitrary sections of code, and support for collection of statistics on user-defined events. License: BSD License (original) Changes: Updated to Linux kernels 2.4.32 and 2.6.14.3. Support for KTAU instrumentation to be enabled or disabled through kernel boot options. Minor bugfixes and code cleanups.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Gestshin is a Web application for administering a bank account. It's like a Web-based version of MS Money or grisbi. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Smarty has been updated to 2.6.11. A bug in session_start() has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. It consists of a POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture currently supported is i386. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A simple analyze/system (SDA) (with show devices), a new librtl get_foreign routine, and DCL qualifier list support. The start of VMS privileges support. A minimal install utility (with add). A minimal authorize utility (with show). Show time is working again. Set process is now working with the qualifiers /name and /priority.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PHP Project is an easy-to-use Web-based project management system. It features multiple user support, and is easy to customize for your needs. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release updates some of the error messages to be more descriptive for the project system.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FreeNIBS is a loadable plugin for the FreeRADIUS radius server. FreeNIBS provides authorization, authentication, and accounting for dial-in (PPP/PPPOE/PPTP) users. It can be used for real-time prepaid and postpaid billing. FreeNIBS can bill users based on service accuration, time, traffic, and both time and traffic. FreeNIBS has very flexible settings for groups, users, and prices. All data is stored in SQL databases such as MySQl, PgSQL, and Oracle. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A compilation bug has been fixed. A possible memory leak has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture is composed of several parts. The first is a fully modularized sound driver which supports module autoloading, devfs, isapnp autoconfiguration, and gives complete access to analog audio, digital audio, control, mixer, synthesizer, DSP, MIDI, and timer components of audio hardware. It also includes a fully-featured kernel-level sequencer, a full compatibility layer for OSS/Free applications, an object-oriented C library which covers and enhances the ALSA kernel driver functionality for applications (client/server, plugins, PCM sharing/multiplexing, PCM metering, etc.), an interactive configuration program for the driver, and some simple utilities for basic management. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Several minor bugs were fixed, notably in the CA0106 driver, in the EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver, in the ES1968 driver, and in the VIA82xx driver.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SurrealServices is a full replacement NickServ/ChanServ/BotServ/MemoServ/OperServ. Features are loosely based on Anope and ConferenceRoom/Auspice, as well as NeoStats. Some security features are also available such as a TOR (http://tor.eff.org/) detector/banner, and a country detector (checks IP allocation). It is multithreaded to eliminate lag due to the asynchronous nature of MySQL and DNS lookups. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: More bugfixes, a README update, and one feature change to NS AUTH.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Olsrd is an implementation of the Optimized Link State Routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs). The protocol is described in RFC3626. The Linux version supports IPv4 and IPv6, while the other versions are IPv4 only. The implementation includes an optional ETX-like link quality routing, and provides a plugin interface allowing development of separate plugins. License: BSD License (original) Changes: A network simulator tool has been added. A new fish eye link distribution algorithm has been added. There are many bugfixes and minor additions.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News dotDefender secures Web sites against a broad range of HTTP-based attacks, including session attacks (e.g. denial of service), Web application attacks (e.g. SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and known attack signatures), as well as requests originating from known attack sources (e.g. spammer bots and compromised servers). dotDefender installs within moments on the Web server along with a predefined, configurable rule-base, enabling it to secure the Web environment from the moment it is deployed, with virtually no administrator intervention. License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial Changes: A major update for Linux users only. If you have installed a previous version, please be sure to uninstall first.
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