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Category: Kurumin Size: 483.37 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-01-24 15:09:38


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Category: RIP Size: 30.13 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-24 09:32:10


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Category: Rubix Size: 397.65 MB Status: 4 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-01-24 07:43:11


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Category: Vector Size: 690.19 MB Status: 12 seeders and 12 leechers Added: 2006-01-24 07:31:32


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Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 235.85 MB Status: 11 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-24 03:46:36


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Category: Mepis Size: 692.78 MB Status: 16 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2006-01-24 03:28:54



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Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix

The IPCop project is a GNU/GPL project that offers an exceptional feature packed stand alone firewall to the internet community. Its comprehensive web interface, well documented administration guides, and its involved and helpful user/administrative mailing lists make users of any technical capacity feel at home. It goes far beyond a simple ipchains / netfilter implementation available in most Linux distributions and even the firewall feature sets of commercial competitors.

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Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix

Nice interview about Asterrisk and other things."Asterisk isn't the only notable open-source project which came from Spencer. He is the creator of the better-known GAIM, the cross-platform instant messenger which brings a user's accounts from the major messenger applications (AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Instant Messenger, etc.) under one convenient program. Both Asterisk and GAIM share the idea that merging together multiple communication platforms to operate in one system is a good thing,


Source: Scripting News

I sent an email to Matt Mullenweg the other day and then I realized I sent it to the wrong place. It should be posted publicly so anyone who knows how to work on WordPress and can write production-level code, high enough quality so it could be included in the main distribution, could see it.


Source: internetnews.com: Top News

Microsoft, Linux lead the market but have to contend with consumers asking 'what's a smartphone?'


Source: OSNews

"Selling RISC OS to the general public is always going to be difficult; despite some software developements in the last few years, it still lacks features which have long since been ubiquitous on other platforms - especially what might be termed the big three - Windows (more relevantly, WinXP), Mac OS X and Linux. [RISC OS] clearly has many problems to overcome before it can really gain any wider appeal. But instead of mentioning those in further detail once again, I'd like to cover a topic I hinted at in a earlier article - a ready to go RISC OS demo."


Source: OSNews

"I first demoed Versora Progression Desktop at LinuxWorld Boston in February of 2005, and was impressed by what it could do. Basically it takes all of your essential data and program settings (and even some decidedly nonessential settings) and transfers them to GNU/Linux. I hadn't heard much from the company since then - until Linspire announced a partnership with them recently. The deal is, Progression Desktop will move you from Windows to Linspire without any hassle."


Source: O'Reilly: Contributed Hacks

This is a little longer, but produces a sorted list in "human readable" format.


Source: OSNews

"Coming home after a hard day at work after staring at the monitor continuously for hours on end, the last thing I want to do many days is sit in front of the computer again. At times though, I have this urge to grab a book and do some light reading but often the strain on my eyes dissuades me in pursuing this thought any further. This is where this very nice utility called Festival comes into the picture. Festival is a text-to-speech synthesiser developed by the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh. It is shipped with most Linux distributions and has been released under an X11-type licence allowing unrestricted commercial and non-commercial use alike."


Source: OSNews

"Ubuntu has become increasing popular amongst many Linux users, especially users trying Linux for the first time. Just why is Ubuntu so popular? I'll explore some of its features and distributions this month, including Kubuntu and Edubuntu, and try to find out."


Source: OSNews

The Linux desktop environment KDE is moving a little closer to Microsoft Windows as developers ready a release of QT, the KDE graphical framework, that will run natively on the proprietary operating system. Ralf Habacker, a KDE developer who initiated a project to port the Linux desktop to Windows, said over the weekend that a native Windows port for Qt, the KDE graphical framework, will be released under the General Public License. "The native GPLed port of QT/Win 3.3.3 will reach production state soon," said Habacker.



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Source: Computerworld News

Faced with stiff competition from the likes of Novell and Red Hat, the company is trying to differentiate itself my targeting alternative markets and providing a full stack of open-source software.


Source: Computerworld News

Bob Sutor, IBM s vice president of standards and open-source, expects a number of industries to move toward open-source software, but he also warns that companies will be dealing with hybrid environments for years to come.


Source: Computerworld News

IBM s vice president of standards and open source, Bob Sutor, expects a number of industries to move toward open-source software, but also warns that companies will be dealing with hybrid environments for years to come. Sutor spoke with Computerworld yesterday.



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Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

LinClips has put together a screencast of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1.


Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

Edubuntu Linux 6.04 Flight 3 Screenshot Tour


Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

Some coders believe the Linux kernel won't use version 3 of the GPL, but Alan Cox wants developers to stop speculating at this early stage



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Source: Linux Today

The image filter GREYCstoration may not have a name that rolls off the tongue, but it can tackle a variety of image problems


Source: Linux Today

Linux on HPC clusters seems to be an obvious choice. It was not, however, a forgone conclusion that Linux would end up leading the supercomputing parade when Tom Sterling and Don Becker used it to build the first Beowulf cluster


Source: Linux Today

Do you remember back in August of 2003 when SCO first began the chorus of calls for Linux to offer indemnification for end users ?


Source: Linux Today

Cape Town-based Linux solutions provider Redlinx has built a high-end digital video recording appliance based on open source software


Source: Linux Weekly News


Source: Linux Weekly News


Source: Linux Today

As Linux cluster use in the datacenter grows with each passing day, a unique problem has begun to develop, the kind of problem most people like to have: there seems to be just too many Linux clusters out there


Source: Linux Today

Charles Sturt University (CSU) has partnered with Linux vendor Novell to offer a two-year postgraduate Masters degree which includes formal Linux certification


Source: Linux Weekly News


Source: Linux Today

Japanese carrier DoCoMo has decided to dump Linux in its next range of mobile phones and will release it using Windows


Source: Linux Today

Booting other operating systems on Apple Computer's new Intel-based Mac is tough, but Red Hat hopes they'll make it happen with Linux


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

Novell has a new CTO, a position that has gone unfilled for a while. In this article, Jacqueline Emigh finds out about Dr. Jeffery Jaffe and reports on what he is bringing to Novell--and what he thinks Novell will soon be bringing to the world.


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

One of the arguments in Massachusetts against OpenDocument centered on the needs of the visually impaired. In this guest column, a visually impaired PC user explains that not only is using an exclusively Windows solution a crash-prone option, it is also far more expensive than equivalent technologies in OS X and, eventually, Linux. Scott Seder makes the case for more open source development in the Assistive Technology arena.


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

Buffer overflow exploits are one of the most interesting security vulnerabilities and are used in a majority of security attacks against Linux and UNIX-like operating systems. In Part 2, readers will see how DSM guards against such exploits and it is implemented as a Linux module, using an exploit example.


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

64-bit users will be happy to hear that a lot of functionality is ready out-of-the-box with SUSE Linux 10. There are some hurdles to contend with, but rather than just point them out, Rob Reilly shows you how to move past these hurdles and get a 100% efficient Linux laptop.


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

Three organizations--Stanford University, Coverity, and Symantec--recently received a Department of Homeland Security grant to assist open source projects in tightening their code with automated code-checking. The question is, will this help be welcome? LinuxPlanet speaks with Coverity's CTO and founder as well as Linus Torvalds to see just how useful Coverity's defect reports have been.


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

As Linux cluster use in the datacenter grows with each passing day, a unique problem has begun to develop, the kind of problem most people like to have: there seems to be just too many Linux clusters out there. Scali has released a new management application that promises to keep all of a company's clusters under control in one place.


Source: Linux Today

Heartbeat, a free software project, has crashed the price barrier for Linux high-availablity. Redundancy has never been so affordable, thanks in part to the efforts of Alan Robertson


Source: Linux Today

The MediaReady Flyboy is a Linux-based portable media player. It handles video, MP3s, pictures, and doubles as a portable data story device. On paper, it sounds pretty good


Source: Linux Today

Unicon Systems has used Linux in a pair of inexpensive mobile devices aimed at transferring media files between gadgets such as iPods, PSPs, and PMPs


Source: Linux Today

Other system administrators have fantastic toolboxes for their work. My tools consist of two everyday programs: OpenSSH and the GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash)



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Source: Forwarding Address: OSX

Sure, you could scour Sourceforge for hours on end, but Open Source Mac is the fastest way to grab the well-tested essentials.



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Source: Neowin.net

Hiding confidential information with black marks works on printed
copy, but not with electronic documents, the National Security Agency
has warned government officials.

The agency makes the point in a guidance paper on editing
documents for release, published following several embarrassing
incidents in which sensitive data was unintentionally included in
computer documents and exposed. Instead of covering up
digital text with black boxes, it is better to delete any information
you don't want to share, the NSA suggested.

The unintended disclosure of metadata, resulting in high-profile leaks
of secrets, has led to red faces at businesses and government bodies in
the past. In March 2004, a gaffe by The SCO Group revealed which
companies it had considered targeting in its legal campaign against Linux users.

The 13-page paper is called: "Redacting with confidence: How to safely publish sanitized reports converted from Word to PDF."

Download: Redacting with Confidence (PDF)

News source: News.com
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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

xRecurseDiff is a small program that can rapidly
traverse entire directory trees to show the
differences between different copies of the same
file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The capability to handle a relative path was added
to rapidly analyze different versions of the same
project. The Windows version no longer opens a DOS
window for the diff command.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

h-inventory provides Web-based hardware and
software inventory management for Windows, Linux,
and BSD machines. It permits incident declaration
(breakdown) both anonymous and not. h-inventory
provides incident and intervention management,
user management, network management, incident
types management, and scripts management.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Management for upgrading from previous versions
was improved. An auditing feature can be used to
scan your network with nmap and determine which
machines are up, which ports are open, and whether
they are in the inventory. Your own incidents
states can now be created. An application to
deploy your packages was added. Multi-language
support was added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. Some of its key features are smooth cooperation with MPlayer, full subtitle editing, and ASpell support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Great speedup improvements were made on subtitle
preview. Alpha channel values in SSA/ASS format
were flipped. MPlayer options may now be edited.
Recent items are sorted according to their call. A
bug with the installer not properly detecting JRE
was fixed. Subtitle preview fixes were done.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

anymeal is a cookbook database front-end. It can
handle more than 100,000 recipes, and can search
recipes for a given set of ingredients. It is
designed to be lean and flexible.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The new import-dialog forces the user to select
the input-encoding. A misspelled header inclusion
was fixed in "src/searchDialog.ui". Two empty
lines were added to Mealmaster output to cause
fewer problems when importing into other recipe
software.


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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

DaDaBIK is a PHP application that allows you to
easily create a highly customizable Web interface
for a database in order to search, insert, update,
and delete records; all you need do is specify a
few configuration parameters. MySQL, PostgreSQL,
Oracle, and MS SQL Server are supported. It is
available in several languages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The main new feature concerns DBMS compatibility:
DaDaBIK now officially supports Oracle and MS SQL
Server DBMS. Among the various bugfixes, the most
important one is the ability to use the required
property with file types without problems.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also find duplicate images automatically, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Major speed enhancements and small bugfixes were
done.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Podget is a simple podcast aggregator optimized for running as a scheduled background job (i.e. cron). It features support for folders and categories, importing servers from iTunes PCAST files and OPML lists, automatic playlist creation, and automatic cleanup.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
An enclosure URL parsing bug was fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Beesoft Commander is a file manager (like Norton
Commander) for Linux. It is based on Qt-GUI.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
It's now possible to start the program with
parameters which determine the starting
directories for one or both panels. When two files
are not identical, the user can run "kompare" or
"diff" to compare the files. The "Ctrl+Backspace"
key combination can be used to go to the root
directory.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Direct Democracy Portal is a portal for online
organizations governed through direct democracy.
It uses Maven 2, MySQL, hibernate3, Spring, Struts
Tiles, and JSTL on JBoss.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The project home page is now generated with Maven.
Reports from JDepend, Junit, PMD Report, and
Source Xref were added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

ccollect does (pseudo) incremental full backups with different exclude
lists, using hard links and rsync.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds support for printing a summary, cleans some spelling,
and cleans the source code.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

KnowledgeRoot is a knowledge base system that lets you structure your content in a tree. It integrates FCKeditor to make adding content easy.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds User and Group rights. You can login now. The actual
FCKeditor is used.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

JDiveLog is a logbook for scuba diving. It manages
all important dive data, as well as the pictures
taken during the dive. Features include the
ability to import UDCF data or data from Suunto
computers, profile generation, and a Web page
generator.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds dive planning with Deco 2000 tables, a slideshow
function, completely-refactored dive site management (including many new
fields), rotation of images, a rewritten Aladin dive computer interface,
improvements in the HTML-Export functionality, and improvements and
bugfixes in the importation functions (WLog and DataTrak).


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

gxmessage opens a popup window to display a message obtained from the
commandline, from a file, or from stdin. The window includes a row of
buttons, each of which causes the program to exit with a different
return code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A Swedish language translation has been added, and the program now exits
if the ESC key is pressed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

gqlplus is a frontend to the Oracle commandline utility sqlplus for Unix. It is functionally nearly identical to sqlplus, with the addition of commandline editing and history similar to tcsh and bash, as well as table name and column name completion.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release links with the ncurses library instead of the obsolete
curses, passes the NLS_COMP and NLS_SORT environment variables to
sqlplus, disables table name completion if we cannot parse table
information returned by the ALL_TABLES/ALL_VIEWS query, fixes a /nolog
crash, detects abnormal sqlplus termination after the CONNECT command,
and rescans tables for completion.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique features. Gaim is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL TimeWarner, Microsoft, or Yahoo.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
All the major bugs and UI problems from beta1 have been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

DConnect Daemon is a daemon that acts as a Direct
Connect hub. It is written in pure C and utilizes
threads. It aims to be very fast, with a very good
protocol implementation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes some security bugs: fake nick on private chat, user must be in a registered state to use private chat, and allow_chat also blocks private chats. It removes some chat commands and added few new ones. There are also some internal cleanups.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

QtiPlot is a clone of Origin for data analysis and
scientific plotting.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version improves data analysis by adding convolution/deconvolution, correlation, and FFT from tables. The behaviour of the main menu was improved. The bar plots are improved: the bars can be drawn next to each other when plotting several bar curves having the same x values, by setting an offset. The possibility to enable/disable the autoscaling of fonts and the resizing of 2D layers in the "Preferences|Plots 2D" dialog has been added. The ability to draw smooth mesh lines in 3D plots has been added (this can be disabled using the "Preferences|Plots 3D" dialog). Several bugs in the 2D plots have been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Macao is a framework based on Javascript and DHTML to build animated
interactive homepages. It is intended to build graphic adventures and
other animated interactive fiction. Macao-based games don't need any
plugin and can be hosted on static Web servers. The framework comes with
a step-by-step tutorial and a complete Java-style API documentation. It
has a Road Editor and other useful tools.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes a persistence module. You can use this module to let the user save the game score as a bookmark in the browser, so the score can be saved and reloaded without the need of a specific server. In addition, every page can have its own frameset to show different controllers.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and grids. It is based on a hierarchical design targeted at federations of clusters. Ganglia is currently in use on over 500 clusters around the world and has scaled to handle clusters with 2000 nodes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
New AIX metrics code. NetBSD support has been added. It is now possible to specify the PID file with gmond and gmetad. Bugfixes and backwards compatibility support for gmond. Compile fixes for MacOS Tiger. PHP fixes in the Web frontend. Various other bugfixes and code cleanups.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

XellPlan is a simple and easy to set up Web based system for
managing people (staff) and jobs at events based on
spreadsheet-like plans. It provides an editable free-form
matrix to set up duty rosters. Employees/volunteers can sign
up for job positions via a Web browser.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release implements the "entry end date" and "plan description" features requested by a user.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The MCL (Markov Cluster Algorithm) is a fast and
scalable cluster algorithm for graphs based on
stochastic flow. The flow process employed by the
algorithm is mathematically sound and
intrinsically tied to cluster structure in graphs,
which is revealed as the imprint left by the
process. The threaded implementation has handled
graphs of up to one million nodes within hours,
and is widely used in the field of protein family
analysis. It comes with a wide range of sibling
utilities for handling and analyzing graphs,
matrices, and clusterings.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Numerous cleanups in much of the code. Improvements in caching intermediate results.


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:
Some bugs were fixed (including stabilization of the mono support in zero padding removal) and the configurability was enhanced (more options for mpg123 input tunable). It is now possible to play MP3 HTTP streams using mpg123 thanks to a less strict file existence check, which excludes "file names" starting with http:// . Be aware that trying to load a stream in a format other than MP3/MP2 may yield unexpected results.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Zoph is yet another photo album/gallery/management system, written using PHP and MySQL. It can store lots of information about your photos, including the regular EXIF info, photographer, location, title, description, rating, and the people in the photo. Photos can appear in multiple albums and categories. Additional features include search, slideshows, lightboxes, email, access privileges, and multiple languages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A minor bug that caused the "Rating" links on the "Report" page to fail with an error has been fixed. A bug where using Zoph as a non-Admin user was not possible has been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

VultureNG is reverse proxy based on Apache and
mod_perl. It brings many security-related
features, such as authentication (LDAP, SQL, SSL)
and authentication forwarding (SSO), flow
encryption, content filtering, URL rewriting, and
load balancing.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
ACLs are now linked with applications to keep SSO. Radius authentication, One Time Password management, and misc GUI improvements are also added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Java Memory Profiler (JMP) uses the JVMPI interface to track objects and method times in the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). It uses a GTK+ interface to display statistics. The current instance count and the total amount of memory for each class is shown as is the total time spent in each method.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
GTK handling has been improved. A deadlock has been fixed. Tables can now be sorted both ascending and descending. Preferences are now saved and restored. The build process on MS Windows has been improved.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

db_flay generates a simple but productive Web
interface for databases. The target user is a
secretary, rather than a database administrator.
(You will need a database administrator to
configure the script initially.) It lets users
view data, edit data, copy data, and delete data
in multiple databases.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
db_flay has been totally rewritten, and has been converted from mangled
Perl to fresh, elegant, OOP Python.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

bitkit/MAIL is an easy-to-install Linux
distribution with EXIM and Cyrus. The distribution
will be installed when booting from the CD;
partitioning and software installation is done
automatically. You only have to enter the IP
address, etc. Administration is done via a Web
interface. It has LDAP based user management and preinstalled anti-virus and anti-spam software.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

Changes:
A completely redesigned Web interface with better usability. Kernel 2.6 is now included for better hardware support.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Zengaia Space is a multiplayer game which can be
played over a central Internet server. In the
game, you have to build ships, settle new planets,
build new shipyards, fight your enemy, and conquer
new planets and solar systems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A large bug has been fixed that caused the MySQL connection to crash after about a day running the server. Now the server should be up 24/7 again.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Nuxeo CPS is the collaborative web content management solution for Zope. Users create and manage content in Workgroups and publish them in Publications spaces (Hierarchies) through a dedicated workflow. Managers can easily set global and local roles for users (Workgroup Managers, Members, Visitors, Reviewers, and Readers). All actions are available through simple Web interfaces. Nuxeo CPS also features office document integration, indexing, and conversion to HTML format; versioning; attached comments; interactive services (e.g. mailing-lists); and skinning of hierarchies.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The most important innovation since 3.3.8 is the switch from the imperative installer CPSInstaller to the declarative installer GenericSetup, included in CMF 1.6. Many outstanding bugs and issues have been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to do all kinds of email processing, including anti-virus scanning, anti-spam scanning, replacing parts of messages with URLs, adding boilerplate disclaimers, and so on. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a Perl-based policy filter. It can also bounce messages with unacceptable attachments and modify SMTP response codes on the fly. It works with the Sendmail 8.11 and newer "Milter" API, which makes it more flexible and efficient than procmail-based approaches.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A new option allows you to reserve some slaves for connections from localhost; this helps clientmqueue runs to succeed on busy servers. Modern Vexira anti-virus scanners are supported; versions older than Spring 2005 are no longer supported. A new "filter_helo" callback lets you take action in response to HELO/EHLO. A new "action_insert_header" function lets you prepend headers (rather than just appending them). A new function lets you reject mail from hosts with bogus MX records; for example, MX records that resolve to private IP networks or the loopback address.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GNU CLISP is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation
with an interpreter, compiler, debugger, object
system (CLOS, MOP), sockets, fast bignums, and
foreign language interface which runs on most
UNIXes and Win32.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A security issue in the SYSLOG interface (POSIX module) and an OPEN/:APPEND regression have been fixed. SAVEINITMEM can create standalone executables.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

RText is a fully customizable programmer's text editor.
Some of its features include syntax highlighting, editing
multiple documents at once, printing and print preview, find/
replace/find in files dialogs, undo/redo, and online help.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version adds Python syntax highlighting, fixes a few bugs, and adds a Portuguese translation.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

PyVISA is a Python package with bindings to the
industry-standard VISA library. It is used to
control measurement devices and test equipment via
GPIB, RS232, and USB.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is the first version that is considered stable. The only changes to 0.9.7 are minor documentation updates.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

AlternC is automatic hosting software suite based on the Valentin Lacambre hosting system and Debian. It features a PHP-based administration interface and shell and Perl scripts that manage server contents. It can manage email, Web, and list hosting. It is available in French, English, and Spanish.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes major security and packaging problems. This is the
last version supporting Debian/Woody, and the first offering support
for AMD64 and I386. Many bugs have been fixed, including a MySQL sock
issue and DNS installation problems. The statistic package and the
documentation package have been rewritten.


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 release adds new actions for adding and deleting users and groups
on Unix platforms, waiting a specified amount of time, checking if a
program exists in the search path, and checking whether a TCP/IP port is
already in use. The installer now issues a warning when there is already
an instance of the installer running.


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:
This release adds many small changes to input checking and consistency.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

P4A (PHP For Applications) is a PHP object oriented framework for
building Web-based event-driven applications. It features tableless
HTML, accesskey support, point and click app generator, auto data
type recognition, UTF-8 support, advanced i18n/l10n support, handheld
"zero code" support, "zero code" printing via advanced CSS2, and PEAR
integration.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A bug in the password obfuscator has been fixed. Removing a non-existing
file no longer produces a fatal error. When uploading a file with a
denied extension, you'll now get a fatal error. Some methods have been
documented in the code reference.


Source: IceWalkers

Small linux system for the purpose of system booting or repairing


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Myrinix - Digital Home Edition is meant to be a
smart and centralized OS that can be implemented
in a home environment. It can be connected to a TV
or other large screen to record and play DVD
movies and surf the Internet. It also implements
video sharing with the NX technology, and includes
the videolan program for broadcasting video or
music throughout the network. Diskless client
computers can connect with the server as it
performs other tasks. Myrinix - Digital Home
Edition is a bootable CD derived from Kanotix.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release contains language support for French, Hungarian, Spanish, and the Netherlands.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Klang is a language learning tool that uses a
database to store language structure for building
up topics, a glossary, phrases, and grammar
structure in order to facilitate the learning of
new languages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Klang 1.0.3b have removed it`s dependency on ODBC and compiles with MySQL directly. Major bugfixes and features enchancements; OSS enabled sound support, plugin interface w/support for LingoTeach Vocabulary files.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LinuxBIOS is a project that aims to replace the
normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware
initialization and a compressed Linux kernel that
can be booted from a cold start.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Numerous bugfixes were made, including suome to APIC support and reporting. Opteron dual core support was added.


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:
This release added additional tax rates, superannuation, employee deductions, bonuses, and many general support functions.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Little Wizard is a development environment for
children. Little Wizard can be programmed without
using keyboard, just by using drag and drop. It
works under Linux and Windows 2000/XP (using GTK).
Even children in primary school can understand how
it works.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Various bugfixes were made. A Russian translation was added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

OST-Box (Open Set-Top Box) is (yet another)
set-top box program. Its goal is to provide easy
access to all kinds of media and to be easy to
extend. Its interface is written in XML and
JavaScript (using Mozilla Spidermonkey). The
current features include browsing and editing of
photo collections, playing of video clips, and
control from lirc.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A fancy music collection browser and an embedded player were included. It uses xinelib to support all common kinds of music files such as MP3, Ogg, and WMA. Menu navigation was improved. Event notifications with alpha transparency were implemented. Some major bugs were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Brutus is an Exchange connector and development framework that offers access to all of MAPI and therefore to all versions of Microsoft Exchange from version 5.5 onwards. It is a complete wrapping of all of MAPI into a (large) set of CORBA interfaces. It enables any groupware client to integrate seamlessly into any organization with large Exchange deployments on an equal footing with MS Outlook. Being based on CORBA, it is platform independent, and works equally well on Linux, the BSDs, Windows, or wherever there is a CORBA implementation available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The mail component is now more usable. Sending and receiving mail directly via Exchange is now functional, despite a few small issues that continues to make it unsuitable for production usage. A couple of performance improvements were made in the Brutus Server.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Netcat 6 is a netcat clone with IPv6 support. It is designed to be tiny, extensible, and elegant, and it makes use of the new extended BSD socket APIs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixed several bugs and introduced a -X/--rev-transfer option for reverse file transfer mode.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

DVDStyler is a crossplatform GUI frontend to the DVD
authoring and recording programs dvdauthor and growisofs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for SVG gradients was added. Copy and paste were fixed and some small changes were made.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

KMediaFactory is easy to use template-based DVD
authoring tool for KDE. You can quickly create DVD
menus for home videos and TV recordings in three
simple steps. The actual authoring is done with
tools like dvdauthor, ffmpeg, ImageMagick and others.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release added a conversion parameters dialog, a project size widget, an option to disable MMX optimizations in configure, a slideshow plugin, a DCOP interface, a scripting interface, and DVB MPEG import and editing using ProjectX as an example script. Templates can now be used directly from a directory. A "Continue to next title / jump to main menu" option was added along with a 'Use as custom preview' button in the chapters dialog, DVD preview with dummy videos, the ability to change the time manually when adding a chapter, and the ability to import chapters from a text file.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Scribus is a desktop page layout program with the
aim of producing commercial grade output in PDF
and Postscript.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Over 290 requests and bugs were resolved. A major code restructuring was undertaken in preparation for a new modular file load and save system. Support for EXIF and more TIFF and PSD file formats were added. Image tinting and sharpening effects were implemented. Section-based page numbering is now supported. Updates were made for Windows and Mac OS X compatibility. Significant updates were made to the documentation.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

NetXMS is a monitoring system with a modular architecture. It can
be used for monitoring an entire IT infrastructure, starting with
SNMP-capable hardware (like switches and routers) and ending with
applications on servers. The system has a three-tier architecture; the
information is collected by monitoring agents (either its own agents or
SNMP agents) and delivered to the monitoring server for processing and
storing, where it can be accessed by using the management console. It
features centralized configuration and centralized agent upgrades.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Built-in scripting language (nxsl) support was added. DCI transformations and auto-discovery filters were implemented using nxsl. The config editor for the Win32 console was improved. Various issues were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The man page suite, including man, apropos, and whatis consists of programs that are used to read most of the documentation available on a Linux system. The whatis and apropos programs can be used to find documentation related to a particular subject.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A missing format string that did not lead to privilege escalation was corrected. The Bulgarian locale man pages translation, the Italian locale message catalog translation, and the French man pages were updated.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Zile is a small, fast, and powerful Emacs clone. It is useful for small footprint installations (e.g. on floppy disk) or quick editing sessions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Inconsistent reading of line endings and minor bugs in some editing commands were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The Dead Souls MUD Library is a multi-user, text
based adventure creation system. It lets you build
adventure games which can be played over the
Internet simultaneously by many people. It is for
both experienced and beginner MUD admins. It
includes an easy-to-use creation system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Many bugfixes, new and revamped systems for flying, stealing, and lighting, and new features in QCS.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Hierarchical Grid Site Management is a Web
application that is used to manage, update, and
display information about a hierarchical structure
(for example, the sites participating in the
SEE-GRID project).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for localization was added along with other small improvements and bugfixes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The Linux Test Project is a joint project with SGI, IBM, OSDL, Bull, and Wipro Technologies with a goal to deliver test suites to the open source community that validate the reliability, robustness, and stability of Linux. The project consists of well over 2000 individual testcases and a test driver to automate execution of the tests.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Major cleanups and updates and fixes for Coldfire support.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

gjots lets you organize text notes in a convenient, hierarchical way. It can be used for notes, jottings, bits and pieces, recipes, and even PINs and passwords, using encryption. It can also be used to "mind-map" larger compositions like manuals, Web pages, articles, etc. It is a bit like the KDE program "kjots", but uses the GTK library and supports a hierarchy of folders. Files can be output to HTML with an automatic table of contents or to docbook XML. Encryption is supported with ccrypt(1), gpg(1), and openssl(1), so that musings can be kept private.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A Russian language version of the program and manual was provided along with a Norwegian language version of the manual.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

KDbg is a graphical user interface to gdb, the GNU debugger. It provides an intuitive interface for setting breakpoints, inspecting variables, and stepping through code.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Parsing of gdb output that mentions "operator", and "operator" was fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

pmacct is a small set of IPv4/IPv6 accounting and
aggregation tools. A pluggable architecture allows
you to store collected traffic data into memory
tables or SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 3.x)
databases. It supports fully customizable
historical data breakdown, flow sampling,
filtering and tagging, recovery actions, and
triggers. Libpcap, NetFlow v1/v5/v7/v8/v9, and
sFlow v2/v4/v5 are supported, both unicast and
multicast. Also, a client program makes it easy to
export data to tools like RRDtool, GNUPlot,
Net-SNMP, MRTG, and Cacti.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
L7 packet classification was introduced. The approach is flexible and uses the L7-filter project's regular expression patterns, which are loaded at runtime. A new 'sql_aggressive_classification' directive was added to allow the classification of packets even if they are no longer cached by the SQL plugin by firing negative UPDATE SQL queries. Input/Output interface fields (Pre-Tagging) were set to 32 bits wide to better deal with some sFlow agents. Some flow filtering problems that were noticed while handling MPLS-tagged flows inside NetFlow v9 datagrams were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Tiny ERP is a complete ERP and CRM. The main features are accounting (analytic and financial), production management (MRP), stock management, sales and purchases management, task automation, marketing campaigns, help desk, POS, etc. Technical features include a distributed server, flexible workflows, an object database, a dynamic GUI, an XML-RPC interface, and customizable reports.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version featured a new accounting module that covers general, analytic, and budgetary accounting, a much improved automated migration system, and a module management system for upgrading existing modules or installing extra modules athat are too specific to be shipped in the standard package. These include modules for the dairy product industry, an EDI handler, extended partner relations, and carrier and delivery cost management. Integration with eZ publish was implemented.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Group-Office is a Web-based office suite written that is extensible with modules. It
features user management, module management, an
email client, a file manager, a calendar, project
management, Web site management, and customer relations management. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version has a lot of new useful functions, such as resource booking, event search, more flexible date formats, multiple email messages for contacts, FCKEditor integration, display of holidays in the calendar, calendar grid configurable per calendar, email notification on file upload, filtering of closed tasks, and an appointment email reminder daemon. Event owners get an email if somebody else modifies, deletes, accepts, or declines an event.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

gkII is a Mandelbrot and Julia set image
generator, derived from Osku Salerma's Gfract. It
features unlimited image size, anti-aliasing, and
methods to generate unusual variations of the
Mandelbrot and Julia sets.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release added the ability to save an image's fractal settings for generation at a later date (As a binary file for now). Bugs in dialogues which were not destroyed on cancel were fixed.



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Source: NewsForge

Dianne Ursini, CEO and founder of Technalign, wants to capture the desktop Linux market, and she believes MEPIS is the distribution that will catapult her company to the top. Technalign is the official distributor of the boxed retail version of MEPIS, and while the company hasn't turned a profit selling Linux yet, Ursini says it is "turning around."


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Source: NewsForge

Niels Provos' Systrace is a utility that monitors and controls what an application can access on a system by creating and enforcing access policies for system calls. For the Linux crowd, it's something like the US National Security Agency's SE Linux, but it's more flexible and, if used properly, it can improve a system's overall security by "sandboxing" untrusted applications and users.


Source: NewsForge

Half a year ago, I was in a point in my professional life where I wanted to start over with a completely different developer environment. My Windows XP-based PC simply worked too slowly. Antivirus software, disk fragmentation, network settings, and an ever-growing registry were eating up the performance. As a Java developer, I had about a million small files installed on my computer, and the antivirus software had a hard time. I decided to install Linux on my brand new ThinkPad T43P laptop. Having been a Red Hat fan for many years, the obvious free alternative was Fedora, so I installed Fedora Core 3. Today, with Linux, I have more control over my development environment than I did with Microsoft Windows.



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Source: Web Developer News

A new partnership with Concurrent delivers real-time extensions.



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Source: The Doc Searls Weblog

From The New Economy Hack: Turning Consumers Into Producers, Linux Journal, 9 January 2004:How long before Disney buys Pixar, like Apple bought NeXT, and Steve Jobs takes over Disney? (Trust me, it's a good bet.)From Disney to buy Pixar for $7.4 billion, Reuters, 24 January, 2006Under the agreement, expected to close this summer, Pixar Chief Executive Steve Jobs will join Disney's board of directors.Answer: two years, fifteen days.


Source: ongoing

I ran across a couple of blog pointers to nbextras.org and thought it looked kind of cool and kind of useful and kind of lightweight, and I wondered how it came to be here this week when it wasn’t there last week. So I chatted with Trung Duc Tran (he’s one of the senior people over in our Prague NetBeans shop) who put it together with a couple of other co-conspirators and asked “How’d you do that?” Well, it turns out that they found a cheap hosting service and rented a fake Xen-based server and cobbled together the Jetty server and the Pebble blogging engine. “It’s amazing”, Trung told me, “how much work you can get a servlet engine to do when you have all the data in memory.” I asked whether it was a lot of development time and he seemed surprised, they’d discussed it over lunch one day last week and set it up over the weekend and now it’s up. This Java/Web/Open-Source technology, it’s gonna catch on, you just watch.



Updated: Wed Jun 28 00:10:29 2006


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