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Source: Freshmeat Daily News rawrec and rawplay are utilities designed to provide the user with a simple way of recording and playing raw audio data. Options exist to control the timing and padding of the run as well as the dsp parameters. The main ring buffer size and buffer fragment size can be set if desired. These programs are particularly useful in conjunction with the sox utility.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
In play.c, record.c, move_au.c, and move_fd.c, a bug that caused root permissions to be dropped before all threads were created has been fixed. In main.c, command line help output and a problem when the program is invoked via the full path name have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News iPeer is an application to develop and deliver
rubric-based peer evaluations, to review and
release student comments, to build progress report
forms online, and to analyze evaluation results.
It features a built-in user management system,
data import/export, and an easy-to-use installer.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release is integrated with TeamMaker to provide Team Making Survey, which helps instructors quickly create cooperative learning teams. It works by surveying students based on a set of questions the instructor picks, and then building teams based on these student responses.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Suspend2 allows you to hibernate your machine without needing APM, BIOS, or ACPI support. It creates an image that is saved in your active swap partitions, swap files, ordinary files or (soon) across a network. At the next system boot, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as if you'd never powered down.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Since 2.2-rc12, there have been further bug fixes and a few enhancements. The software is now in feature freeze, getting prepared for seeking to merge into the vanilla kernel.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News KThinkBat is a laptop battery monitor for the KDE-Kicker. It is inspired by the "Battery Maximizer" included with Levono (former IBM) ThinkPads. Although there are allready some battery monitor applications for the K-Desktop Environment, they ar mostly too small to see the current battery charge at a glance. Features include
display of current battery strength as a percentage, and visually as a gauge, display of the current online/offline state, and display of current power consumption. It has support for a second battery. On ThinkPads, it can use the SMAPI BIOS interface.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release bings support for the KConfig XT system. It fixes a very annoying bug with local variables that prevented all ACPI fuel states/values from showing the correct values if using the proc interface.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Peekko Chat is a Firefox extension that makes
every Web page a location where people can
congregate. It adds a toolbar that shows how many
people are in that page's chat room and allows you
to connect with them instantly.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The most requested feature has been implemented: color and font size preferences.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Joyce and Anne emulate the Amstrad PCW series of computers. Joyce
emulates the 8000, 9000, and 10 series; Anne emulates the PcW16.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Both emulators will now compile and run on Mac OS X. Directories mounted as CP/M drives correctly distinguish user 1 from user 0.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News KPowersave provides battery monitoring and suspend/
standby triggers for KDE. It is based on the powersave
package and therefore supports APM and ACPI.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release contains a detailed information dialog (on the left mouse button at the applet icon). This dialog provides information about: current CPU frequency (supports multi-processor machines), current battery state (supports multi-battery laptops), AC state, selected CPU Frequency policy and scheme, and the powersave daemon state. It also includes some documentation updates.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor
which aims not only to aid in creating Web
pages, but also to provide useful site
maintainance facilities, including automatic link
updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM
has more than just the usual HTML tags, with
features for including Javascript, PHP,
cascading style sheets, etc within your site.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release features new page / site dialogs with improved templating support, the appearence of an --enable-mozilla flag to use gecko instead of gtkhtml2 (not fully complete but works better than gtkhtml2 for CSS pages), and the use of enchant for spell checking by default (disable with --disable-enchant) Due to a change in the startup code, a recent development version of libgnome is required (2.13.7, part of the recent 2.13.5 platform release).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Plasmidb is a database management system for
manipulating, viewing, and storing molecular biology
information rapidly and easily. It is capable of
handling constructed plasmids, clones, standard
vectors, primers, antibiotics, enzymes, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Plasmidb was meant to make interaction between biological sequences stored in the database with bioinformatics tools seamless. This release provides an idea of what the DB can and should do. In this release, molecular weights are calculated from DB protein and RNA sequences. On the Primer page, selecting each oligonucleotide produces output of the protein for which it encodes. More analyses of this type will follow.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Domain Auditor was written to simplify the task of
tracking pooled accounts within an AD domain. The
driver behind the tool is compliance with
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements. The tool
simplifies the generation of reports to satisfy
audit requirements. It uses LDAP to obtain
information and has a Web-based installer and a
Web user interface for defining and running reports.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The installation script in 0.3 was totally non-functional. This release fixes those issues as well as a bug in the sysadmin audit code.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News tngCalendar is a Web calendar addon to the TNG software for online
genealogy. It adds a convenient view of your family history,
overlaying anniversaries of births, deaths, and marriages on top of
an easy-to-understand calendar. It can be dropped in-place over a
commercial TNG installation, or installed in a parallel directory.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a bug introduced in 1.2 that caused anniversaries to fail to display. It fixes a bug that caused links to point to the wrong entries in some cases. It adds support for 'nickname', 'lnprefix', and 'suffix' when available.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Flexible Isometric Fallout-like Engine (FIFE) is a
next-generation 2D engine that aims to be modern
and have strong modding support. Fallout 2 graphic
assets are supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
PAL animation support. ACM sound support. A lot of bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DireqCafe is a full featured and complete open-source Internet cafe system for use with the LTSP thin client solution.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This is a maintainance release and most likely the last in the 3.x series. It has been migrated to GTK2. Libdireqcafe now explicitly sets the shell for newly created users for compatibillity with new versions of KDM. Sources now compile under the latest versions of lazarus. There are several small interface enhancements, and several small bugfixes in the installer.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News dvd-slideshow makes a DVD-compatible slideshow video with menus from a batch of pictures. It consists of a set of scripts: dvd-slideshow reads a text file
list of all the pictures you want in one slideshow
and creates a DVD-compatible MPEG movie with your
audio tracks and specified timing. It supports effects such as fades, crops, and the Ken Burns effect. dvd-menu makes a top-level DVD menu
with the output files from dvd-slideshow. dir2slideshow makes a dvd-slideshow input file from a directory of pictures. gallery2slideshow makes the input file from your Gallery album. jigl2slideshow makes the input file from your jigl album. The output is fed through dvdauthor to create DVDs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes many large and small bugs in 0.7.2. Most notably, it should work on Debian Etch now, and small problems with audio files and subtitles should be fixed. Added features include timing accuracy of 1ms, zoom-corrected kenburns effect, manual chapter markers, and an option to improve speed on multi-processor machines. Move to this version as soon as possible.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Adaptive Website Framework (AWF) is a Web content
management system. Most of its code is
object-oriented and very easy to extend. It
features version and link management, basic
staging, support for multiple Web sites and
languages, a modular full-text search engine,
compatibility with Mediawiki code, forums, image
galleries, XML and PDF export, RSS support, and
validated XHTML templates. Fully flexible URLs
allow the replacement of existing static Web
sites.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release features an improved install script and some bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Tilda is a console application taking after such
classic first person shooters as Quake, Doom, and
Half-Life. It is a console with the ability to
slide off of and onto the the screen when the user
needs it with the click of a button.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Many small bugfixes. A new configure backend (use the converter script or delete your old ones). Increased use of glib (glib 2.8 or greater is needed). No more blinking of the screen when hitting backspace, delete, or tab multiple times. Sliding action is added. Shortcuts for addings tabs and moving to the next and prev tab. Ctrl-Shift-T (New Tab), Ctrl-Shift-PageUp (Next Tab), and Ctrl-Shift-PageDown (Prev Tab).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The reacTIVision framework is an open source, multi-platform computer vision application that allows the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers. reacTIVision is a stand alone application for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces. Client application examples are available for various programming environments such as C++, Java, or Processing.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release makes the application more user friendly (on screen fiducial ID, an on screen help message, on screen error messages, and an application icon). All three fiducial engines are included in the binary. The need for a default all.trees file has been removed. Freezing when a camera was removed has been fixed. There is universal binary support for Mac OS X.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The AKFQuiz package lets you easily make your own
quiz games or learning exercises. These can be
used either with grquiz in a graphical environment
(SDL), with crtquiz on a text terminal, or with
diaquiz in a GUI environment. There is also a line
oriented variant, linequiz, which can be used as a
backend. A CGI-variant can be installed on a Web
server to offer exercises via the Web. A mkquiz
tool that generates an HTML file for to use with
the JavaScript akfquiz5.js is also included. Those
can then be published with any Web-space provider.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The search algorithm to locate quizfiles has been changed. mkquiz saves the quiz in the HTML file in a way that the HTML file can still be used as a normal quiz file. The author, translator, etc. are shown at the top of the HTML file. There are new keywords: "license:" and "licenseURI:". It is easier to exchange the background image for grquiz (must be recompiled). There are some other minor fixes and improvements.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The USAGI Project (UniverSAl playGround for
Ipv6 Project) aims to provide a better IPv6
environment for Linux in conjunction with the
WIDE, KAME, and TAHI projects. It includes
Linux kernel extensions, IPv6 related libraries,
and IPv6 applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Ported to Linux 2.6.15. RFC3542 socket options are used if available.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PEBL is software for creating psychology
experiments. PEBL offers a simple programming
language tailor-made for creating and conducting
simple experiments.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
While the previous release focused on stability, this release brings some substantial changes to the underlying object management system, so a few bugs may have crept in undetected. Major user-visible changes include the ability to create simple shape objects (like Circle(), Ellipse(), etc.), the ability to access object properties directly with a variable.property syntax, and a few new statistical functions. There is a nicely improved 100-page manual in PDF and HTML format, and a wiki is available on the Web site for help and tips.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Winstone is a Java Servlet Container that provides
servlet functionality without the bloat that full
J2EE compliance introduces.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A few important new features, including an expanded JDBC connection pool (with keep-alive queries and block-and-retry behaviour when the pool has been exhausted), name-based virtual hosting, Apache-style customizable access logging, and an all-in-one jar file container + Web app deployment option. There are many performance enhancements and bugfixes, especially for WebDAV support.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News phpMyEdit generates PHP code for
displaying/editing MySQL tables in HTML. All you
need to do is to write a simple calling program (a
utility to do this is included). It includes a
huge set of table manipulation functions (record
adition, change, view, copy, and remove), table
sorting, filtering, table lookups, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release implements custom buttons and multiple triggers, fixes
table JOINs, adds better handling of TABs, adds new prefix variables
for better customization, makes internal performance improvements,
fixes bugs, adds several new translations and updates, and enriches the
documentation with a Hints and Tips section.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, commands to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It allows you to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to display an advance reminder, whether to speak the message or play a sound when it is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Autoclosing of the message windows now works. New From Template when an alarm is saved with no changes has been fixed. Message window positioning is improved in multi-head systems. There are other bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News NeoOffice is a project that is developing a native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org with an Aqua look-and-feel. NeoOffice is under active development and is stable enough for daily use (NeoOffice/C is no longer under development). It provides the foundation upon which the user interface can be redesigned to adhere to the conventions of the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a Java crashing bug where, on rare occasions, Java would crash when updating Aqua menus. It also fixes a crash when closing or saving a document with "uncommitted" text: when inputting text, Mac OS X does not automatically commit or delete uncommitted text, and closing or saving a document with uncommitted text can cause NeoOffice's underlying OpenOffice.org code to crash, so this patch removes any uncommitted text when closing or saving a document.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News MMR is a very simple mailer written as an alternative to PINE. It's not very fancy, but it handles message threading and MIME attachments. The author still uses it daily to read e-mail.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version adds transparent caching to efficiently handle mailboxes with thousands of messages. There are many more improvements.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News collectd is a small daemon which collects system
information every 10 seconds and writes the
results in an RRD-file. The statistics gathered
include: CPU and memory usage, network interface
traffic, and system temperatures (using
lm-sensors). In network mode, clients multicast
their values over the network to servers which
write the RRD-files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Bugs in the signal handling and with syslog have been fixed. The ping plugin has been changed to handle socket errors more benevolently.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JetNuke is a Java version of PHPNuke.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A new "Pictures" module. Users can create their own galleries. (X)HTML and CSS have better standards compliance. Users can post comments about reviews. FCKEditor has been upgraded to version 2.2. A JetNuke Reference Guide has been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Moodss is a modular monitoring application, which
supports operating systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows,
etc.), databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2,
ODBC, etc.), networking (SNMP, Apache, etc.), and
any device or process for which a module can be
developed (in Tcl, Python, Perl, Java, and C). An
intuitive GUI with full drag'n'drop support allows
the construction of dashboards with graphs, pie
charts, etc., while the thresholds functionality
includes warning by emails and user defined
scripts. Any part of the visible data can be
archived in an SQL database by both the GUI and
the companion daemon, so that complete history
over time can be made available from Web pages,
common spreadsheet software, etc.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A predictor tool was added which, using sophisticated statistical methods and artificial neural networks, can predict the future behavior of data cells from their history recorded in the SQL database (ideal for capacity planning). The MySQL modules were made compatible with the server version 5 series. Other minor improvements and bugfixes are also included.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News /etc/net represents a new approach to Linux
network configuration tasks. Inspired by the
limitations of traditional configuration
subsystems, /etc/net provides builtin support for
configuration profiles, interface name management,
removable device support, full iproute2 command
set support, interface dependency resolution, and
a QoS configuration framework. /etc/net provides
support for the following interface types:
Ethernet, WiFi (WEP), IPv6/IPv6 tunnels, PSK IPSec
tunnels, VLAN, PLIP, Ethernet bonding and
bridging, traffic equalizer, Pent@NET, usbnet, and
PPP. Due to its modular design, support for new
interface types can be added without overall
design changes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release features a fix for an 0.8.0-specific bug that broke processing of most configuration files.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News AeroMail is a Web-based email client that uses an
IMAP server to read and store messages in one or
more user-defined folders. Features include: HTTP
authentication for login (no cookies) or login
with cookies; Optional IMAP folder manipulation;
optional spam flagging using reverse DNS mapping;
HTML messages and attachments; simple HTML that
can be embedded in a page of your own design;
support for different character sets (e.g. Russian
and Chinese); support for SSL IMAP servers; and
support for sendmail's genericstable (reverse
mapping of users for outbound mail). JavaScript is
not necessary.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Hungarian is back as an interface language. There is an option to switch off the display of full headers. Some small bugs have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Big Sister is an SNMP-aware monitoring program consisting of a Web-based server and a monitoring agent. It runs under various Unixes and Windows.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Performance data is now stored in a database, and new charts provide simple statistical analysis of them. The new SLA-Report generator processes availability data into a management readable document. A few additional health checks have been implemented. The Big Sister Agent MSI for Windows is now considered stable.
  
Source: Freshmeat Daily News phpQLAdmin is an administration tool for QmailLDAP user databases that also has support for UNIX shell accounts, local and remote EZMLM mailing lists, QmailLDAP/Controls management, Bind9/LDAP (using the LDAP SDB driver) management, Samba account management (using the sambaSamAccount object class distributed with Samba), and Apache Web server management abilities (using the mod_cfg_ldap module).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Hard-coded attributes have been removed. This release has more/better logging of missing mhash(), better sorting of attributes, improved schema checking, and allows for 'generate [UG]idNumber' in templates. It will only add the ' -catchall@ ' mail alias if it's a QmailGroup object. 'add domain to QLC objects' when adding a new branch has been fixed. Tthe mailHost addition when adding a user/mail account has been fixed. The addition of PTR records in the BIND 9 manager has been simplified.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News AIM Sniff is a utility for monitoring and
archiving AIM and MSN messages across a network.
It can be used to monitor for cases of harassment
or warez trading. It has the ability to do a live
dump (actively sniff the network) or read a PCAP
file and parse the file for IM messages. You also
have the option of dumping the information to a
MySQL database or STDOUT. AIM Sniff will also
monitor for an IM login and then perform an SMB
lookup on the originating computer in order to
match NT Domain names with IM login names
(handles).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Several bugfixes from the alpha release are included, as well as a few feature enhancements. Daemon mode is now working, and there is a feature to not use a handles file (useful when using the software behind a NAT). In addition, the install will prompt for MySQL admin credentials for creating the database. Issues with the MSN message types crashing the DB and connections to the DB timing out after a period of time have been fixed. Also fixed is "noise" from database SQL statements.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor, simple
NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller and animation tool.
VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the
ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web
via browser plugins ("HTML for realtime 3D"). It has support for animation, real-time interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can read, create and display VRML97 files and let the user change
the scenegraph/fields. It also has support for
stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo
visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a
joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes false rendering of IndexedFaceSet/IndexedLineSet if the colorIndex field is empty. It adds a superextrusion donut example to docs/scriptedNodes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Bzr is a simple decentralized revision control system. Decentralized revision control systems give users the ability to branch remote repositories to a local context. Users can commit to local branches without requiring special permission from the branches that they branched from.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Push over SFTP is added, and there are other major UI improvements. Many Unicode problems have been resolved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Fityk is nonlinear curve-fitting and data analysis software. It allows data visualization, separation of overlapping peaks, and least squares fitting using standard Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, a genetic algorithm, or Nelder-Mead simplex method. It only knows about common bell-shaped functions (Gaussian, Loretzian, Pearson 7, Voigt, Pseudo-Voigt) and polynomials, but more sophisticated formulae can be easily added if necessary. It also enables background substracting, data calibration, and task automation with a simple script language. It is being developed to analyze powder diffraction patterns, but is also used in chromatography, photoluminescence, infrared, and Raman spectroscopy, and can be used to fit analytical functions to any kind of data. The most similar program to Fityk is probably PeakFit.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The syntax used in the program has completely changed. New built-in
functions (e.g., bifurcated Gaussian) have been added. The powder
diffraction module has been temporarily disabled.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News C++ Regex Engine provides a robust regular
expression library for use in C++. The syntax of
the regular expression language is very close to
the Perl 5 standard. The classes given somewhat
mirror those found in Java's regular expression
library, but have several improvements. The
intended audience of this package is anyone who
does a lot of data parsing (e.g. sysadmins),
people tired of trying to decipher Perl scripts,
and regular expression beginners who know C++.
Some knowledge of the STL's vector and string will
come in handy, but isn't necessary.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes critical bugs dealing with non-capturing groups and
backreferences in patterns.
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:
This version includes many bugfixes, the majority of which are related to the batch conversion of files. Other changes include improvement in the batch functionality for CD ripping, and encoding to multiple file formats with the same extension. Additions include a new French localization and the ability to encode and convert from Speex files.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Linux graphical bootsplash allows you to use custom graphics during
early system startup. It makes it possible to place a nice graphic
behind or above the kernel boot messages. It hooks into the fbcon
layer and, if activated, searches the initial ramdisk for a JPEG
picture to show. On any output operations to the console, it takes
care of painting a margin around your text and a background picture
behind the text with a set of special cfb functions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release is for Linux Kernel 2.6.15.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes several layout bugs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News OMake is a build system with a similar style and syntax to GNU make but with many additional features, including support for large projects spanning multiple directories, default configuration files simplifying the standard compilation tasks, support for commands that produce several targets at once, fast, reliable, automated, scriptable dependency analysis using MD5 digests, portability, and built-in functions that provide the most common
features of programs like grep, sed, and awk. It also provides active filesystem monitoring that restarts builds automatically when source files are modified. A companion command interpreter that can be used interactively is included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release improves handling of the ".PHONY" nodes, fixes a bug in
PATH expansion for pipelines, and fixes a few documentation errors.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a !red! command to yaps.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Taprobane is a convenient GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. It can be installed to a hard drive or used as a live CD. The philosophy of Taprobane is to bring in convenience without insulting the intelligence of the user. Its key feature is Saegiri, the configurable build system used to automate the creation of the entire ISO.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The build system was restructured with stages and much better handling of errors.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Initng is a full replacement of the old and in many ways deprecated sysvinit tool. It is designed with speed in mind, doing as much as possible asynchronously, and using the system resources more efficiently.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A problem with circular dependencies was fixed along with problems with having /usr on a diffrent filesystem. There were many optimizations and bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News strongSwan is a complete IPsec and IKEv1
implementation for Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. It
interoperates with most other IPsec-based VPN
products. It is a descendant of the discontinued
FreeS/WAN project. The focus of the strongSwan
project is on strong authentication mechanisms
using X.509 public key certificates and optional
secure storage of private keys on smartcards
through a standardized PKCS#11 interface. A unique
feature is the use of X.509 attribute certificates
to implement advanced access control schemes based
on group memberships.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The fast IPSec starter was completed and now supports recursive includes using the also keyword. This makes modular structuring of the connection definitions in ipsec.conf possible. The following startup commands are supported: ipsec start|update|reload|stop|restart.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News pyDirStat is a small tool to view statistical
information about a directory. It will generate a
view of all files contained in a directory (and
subdirectories) with rectangles. Each rectangular
area is proportional to the file sizes. It's
useful for viewing disk usage with graphics. It's
a non-interactive command-line tool that will
generate HTML or SVG or SWF files. On Windows, it
also runs as a shell extension.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release corrected a critical crash that occurred when the tool was used on POSIX systems (but not Windows) with files containing non-ASCII characters.
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