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Source: Freshmeat Daily News TWiki is a flexible, powerful, and simple Web based collaboration platform. It is suitable for dynamic intranets and knowledge bases, and for sharing and managing documents and collaborative projects. It resembles a normal Web site, but every page can be changed from a browser. It features automatic link generation, full text search, group authorization, Web forms, reporting, change notification, file attachments, revision control of pages and attachments, a modular templating system with skins, hierarchical navigation based on the topic parenting feature, and more. Plugins can be used to enhance the program and build groupware applications. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Many bugfixes and documentation work were done since TWiki 4.0.0-beta6. TWiki 4.0 adds a WYSIWYG editor (beta), an enhanced security model, a REST interface, much simpler install and configuration, integrated session support, and a localization framework, localized to Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portugese, and Spanish.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Extended Virtual Synchrony for Java is a pure Java implementation of the totem single-ring protocol, which provides process group membership and reliable multicast with totally ordered messages. Because of its token-based design, this protocol is unique in achieving effective flow control, and is ideal for implementing replication in small clusters. License: The Apache License 2.0 Changes: An exception thrown by the NIC-finding code on Linux 2.6.x with IPv6 support was fixed. When you bring an adapter down on Windows XP, it seem to disappear entirely, so code was added to report this case with more information. A fix was made in SRPRecovery.java regarding delivering messages from the transitional processors only.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DarkIce is a live audio streamer. It records audio from an audio interface (e.g. a sound card), encodes it, and sends it to a streaming server. DarkIce can record from OSS audio devices, ALSA audio devices, Solaris audio interfaces, and Jack sources. DarkIce can encode into MP3, MP2, Ogg Vorbis, and AAC formats, and can send the encoded stream to ShoutCast, IceCast 1.3.x and 2.x, and the Darwin Streaming Server. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: MPEG2 support was added through the twolame library. A configuration parameter was added for POSIX real-time scheduling.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Streber is a Web-based project management tool. Freelancers and small teams can easily use it to set up projects and keep track of tasks, issues, bugs, efforts, etc. Project user rights can be adjusted (e.g., to provide clients a limited view of the current project state). License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Items modified since the last login are highlighted. Timezone warnings in PHP 5.1 were fixed. Grouped display was added to some lists. Lots of minor bugs were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SMBNetFS is a user-space filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD that allows you browse a Samba/Microsoft network much like the network neighborhood in Microsoft Windows. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A rewind() problem was fixed. A stupid error in the auth module was fixed. Some other errors were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Anyterm provides a terminal emulator on a Web page using Javascript and an Apache module. The module forks a shell and communicates with the script using XMLHTTP on port 80, or securely using SSL. This provides you with shell access to your machine from almost any Web browser, even when firewalls are in the way. Experimental features include support for WAP browsers and standalone operation without Apache, and the my.anyterm.org service provides access without the need to install anything on your servers. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release completes a major under-the-hood transition to a new shared memory library, and moves the interprocess communication from signals to condition variables. Some build problems with the last release have also been resolved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Opale is a very simple personal financial account manager for KDE. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The build system was changed from autoconf and automake to scons and bksys. The koffice dependency was removed. A bug tracker was created. A mailing list (for developers and translators) was created. Editors were added for categories and types. An image is used to display checked and unchecked items. Flicker when editing or adding an item has been eliminated. A button was added to display the current date in the list. A new handbook was written.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A sync button added was added to dmix for easy volume control. Wallpaper.lua now has color chooser for background color. pcitable was updated to correctly support the Broadcom b44 module. An extension check is now done upon exit, which will remind/allow the user to save extensions downloaded to ramdisk before shutdown. The French keymaps were updated. For maximum hardware support on older computers, the kernel and modules were changed back to 2.4.26. mc was removed for space reasons. The Ted help/manual has been off-loaded to the current/documentation section of the download site.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DBFW is a PHP-based database framework for rapid application development and rapid prototyping. It allows the creation of almost complete Web/database-based applications in no more than few hours, as well as faster development cycles. It uses automatic DB schema discovery with XML configuration files to automatically implement a basic user interface that can be extended through the use of ad-hoc PHP code. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: An initial version of the User Manual has been added. It contains a few examples and the DBFW's XML DTD reference. There are many fixes for small bugs found in the last two months.
      
Source: Freshmeat Daily News MoreAmp is an audio player that loads memory or a vdisk with many songs so the hard disk can spin down while playing them (saving batteries and reducing noise). It plays and makes ogg, flac, wav, aif, mp3, and aac files and plays audio CDs and wma, mp1, mp2, m2a, and m4a files. It has an easy-to use 31-band equalizer, variable pitch/tempo, repeat loop, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Alternate Unix/Linux builds, with GTK+1.2 or GTK+2 instead of wxWidgets, are now implemented. Minor GUI improvements were made to the OS X native build. Some minor bugs were fixed. The code was cleaned up (on-going). The documentation was updated.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Multiplication Station will teach your child to add, subtract, and multiply. It is a multi-user application with a simple admin interface. All parameters are configurable, like grid size and the fonts and colors of number ranges. A countdown timer is used to keep the player's attention focused. A list of high scores is maintained. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a numlock problem to eliminate square brackets that wrapped numbers typed from the number keypad.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News wmifinfo is a Window Maker applet showing basic IP network info for all available interfaces. It shows the IP address, netmask, gateway, and MAC address. If used on a wireless (802.11) network card, it also shows a signal strength indicator. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release always switches to new interfaces when they become available. This is handy for newly established PPP links or inserted PCMCIA cards. There is an NWN link quality fix. Tthe '-i' flag (initial interface) was broken; this has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News WmG is a plugin for the Gaim IM client which provides a "dockapp" in Window Maker and similar window managers. It features a convenient list of your 3 best buddies, and allows you to start a conversation with any one of them with a single click. Additionally, it unobtrusively notifies you of changes occurring in your buddy list, such as people signing on and off, going away, coming back, idling, etc. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes a segfault that caused it (and thereby Gaim) to segfault when the latest libdockapp was installed.
        
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Docpile wim's edition (docpile:we for short) is a Web-based document management system that allows multiple people to share documents and keep track of revisions. Users can upload and download documents, grant access privileges for each file, user, or folder, and send notification emails when documents are updated. Administrators can create access groups, each responsible for a different set of folders and users. docpile:we is based on the development of docpile. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Changes include an extended setup to act like a setup wizard, user and group administration merged to an admin section, and small fixes in other sections.

Source: Freshmeat Daily News phptelemeter is a script that can read the Web pages for the Web-based "quota" monitor for the Belgian ISP Telenet. These pages contain both the actual status (which is refreshed nightly), and a 30-day shifting window history. This history is what makes up the used quota. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release has been updated to work with the new telemeter. The documentation was updated, and there are more options for custom output.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Linux Multimedia Box is an application for building multimedia Linux based devices, similar to a PVR or set top box. XML is used for describing the user interface, and events and callbacks are in embedded Tcl. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: A huge memory leak was fixed. HTTP URL retrieval has been improved. Tcl modules support has been improved.
   
Source: Freshmeat Daily News John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. It supports several crypt(3) password hash types which are most commonly found on various Unix flavors, as well as Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP LM hashes. Several other hash types are added with contributed patches. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Major performance improvements, including better MMX support, AltiVec support on PowerPC G4+ (Mac OS X and Linux), bitslice implementation of LM hashes, better generic bitslice DES code, parallel computation of pairs of MD5 hashes on non-x86, and more. Verbose logging of events, better idle priority emulation, system-wide installation support, and AIX, DU/Tru64 C2, and HP-UX tcb files support have been implemented. Many make targets with optimal settings for newer platforms have been added. The documentation, the included charset files, and the common passwords list have been updated.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News OpenVZ is a modified Linux kernel with additional support for OpenVZ Virtual Private servers (VPS). VPSs are isolated, secure environments on a single physical server, enabling better server utilization and ensuring that applications do not conflict. Each VPS performs and executes exactly like a stand-alone server; VPSs can be rebooted independently and have root access, users, IP addresses, memory, processes, files, applications, system libraries, and configuration files. OpenVZ is a subset of Virtuozzo. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Security fixes. Small bugfixes. A hwclock-related hang on some Dell hardware has been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Revelation is a full-featured and secure password manager for the GNOME 2 desktop. It aims to be user-friendly and HIG-compliant, and it is tightly integrated with GNOME. It has several account types which can be grouped in folders, searched, and opened in external applications. It can both test and generate passwords. Accounts are stored in an encrypted file which can be accessed remotely via SSH, FTP, HTTP, WebDAV, and more. It can import and export data files for Password Safe, GPass, Figaro's Password Manager, and others. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release uses an improved search toolbar instead of the find dialog, adds an option to hide the applet search entry, adds icons to password entries to indicate password strength, and improves password strength checking. It also fixes a few bugs, including a crash when undoing some drag/drop operations, stripping of XML entities from passwords when using clipboard copy or drag/drop, allowing building without an X display, and more.
     
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The MasterShaper is a Web application to control and manage network bandwidth and QoS (Quality of Service) easily with a Web browser. It uses iproute2 and the features of newer 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels (such as HTB, HFSC, CBQ, and SFQ) to manage inbound and outbound network traffic. MasterShaper also displays graphs about the current bandwidth distribution (created with jpgraph). The filtering mechanisms it supports are tc-filter and various iptables modules, such as TCP-Flags, TOS, l7-filter, and ipp2p. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release contains support for ESFQ and NETEM (Network emulation) queuing disciplines. Several bugs like non-working tc-filter target matching and errors with iptables FTP data channel matching have been fixed. tc_collector.pl will now auto reconnect on MySQL problems. It's now possible to shape only on one single direction (Web server mode). Targets are now possible within filter definitions.
   
Source: Freshmeat Daily News CCAPI is a financial application library for Java. CCAPI provides interfaces for automated stock exchange trading through Cortal Consors. In addition, CCAPI provides functions to retrieve online quotes from various data sources, including EUWAX, Consors, Comdirect, and Yahoo!. Furthermore, CCAPI provides a comprehensive library of technical and mathematical indicator implementations, like MACD, SMA, EMA, RSI, Williams %R, Correlation, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release provides real-time stock exchange future quotations in a push manner, means you subscribe to a symbol and will get the quotations when they happen. See the forums for more information.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Libchipcard is a C/C++ framework for easy access to chipcards/smartcards via chip card terminals/readers. It uses the CTAPI library provided by the manufacturer of the reader and provides a filesystem on memory chip cards. It works under Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows, and has been tested with Towitoko and Kobil readers even in parallel. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release makes working with chipcard CryptTokens safer (it now uses functions to report bad pins to the applications). Libchipcard2 works with SCM 33X readers again.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News AqBanking is a modular and generic interface to online banking tasks, financial file formats (import/export) and bank/country/currency information. It provides frontends for Qt, KDE, GTK, and console. AqBanking uses backend plugins to actually perform the online tasks. HBCI, OFX Direct Connect, and DTAUS discs are currently supported. AqBanking is used by GnuCash, KMyMoney, and QBankManager. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes some bugs, improves safety of working with crypt tokens (now a crypt token can report a bad pin), includes a help system, and features hidden visibility for the QT3-depending files and an improved GTK2 frontend. A nearly complete German translation is now provided.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News QBankManager is a home banking program. It is the reference application for AqBanking, AqHBCI, AqDTAUS, and AqGeldkarte, therefore it supports all transfer types and jobs of those projects. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes some bugs in the transaction matcher and features a profile editor for graphic reports. Those reports can now automatically select data using predefined transaction matcher rules (which makes it much easier to draw special reports, like "income of the last 3 months"). A complete German translation is included.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News WWW L-System Explorer is fancy tool for exploring L-S based fractals in your browser while computing takes place on a Web server. A rich command set is provided, along with several examples. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release fixes behavior with register_globals off.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News fish, the friendly interactive shell is a shell that is focused on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of every completion, tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many completions for specific commands. It also features an extensive and discoverable help system. A special help command gives access to all the fish documentation in your preferred Web browser. Other features include syntax highlighting with extensive error checking, support for the X clipboard, smart terminal handling based on terminfo, an easy to search, no duplicates history. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This version contains a fix for a gettext build issue on OS X and *BSD, fixes for bugs in the fg builtin, a workaround for strange sed behavior on OS X, a fallback implementation of the seq commands for platforms that don't have it, many new command specific completions, including completions for emerge, fusermount, sshfs, sudo, and time, several new manual pages, spelling corrections, automatic printing of a shellscript-function stack trace on errors, and many minor tweaks.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Laffer is a Web-based instant messenger client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, Jabber, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user. No file, audio, or video exchange is supported at the moment. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The Web client interface has a German translation. The nasty 'disconnect often without a reason' bug is squashed. There are minor code clean-ups. Everyone using 0.3.2.9 is advised to upgrade.
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: A small bug in universal-argument was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Fur is a filesystem based on FUSE which mounts a Windows CE device (connected with the librapi2 from the synce project) onto a directory of the local filesystem in a transparent and user-friendly way. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: FUR is now robust enough to be compiled from source stored on a filesystem mounted by FUR. Seek and truncate were fixed, so read and write operations now work well.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News phc is a compiler for PHP that will translate PHP code directly into Linux assembly code. At the moment it does not yet generate code, but can be used as a (C++) framework for developing refactoring tools, aspect weavers, script obfuscators, and any other tools that operate on PHP scripts. License: BSD License (revised) Changes: The most important difference in this release is the fact that phc is now licensed under the less restrictive BSD license. A unit and regression testing framework were added. Numerous bugs were fixed. A number of minor features were added. The build process was tidied up, and no longer requires bison or flex.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Campsite is a multilingual content management system (CMS) for news Web sites. Campsite's user interface was built with the end user (journalist, editor, publisher) in mind, and it can be configured to suit different profiles of end users. Campsite follows the print-newspaper publishing paradigm, so it structures sites by default as Publications Issues Sections Articles. Campsite works best for medium-to-large-size online news publications, but it is capable of handling nimbler sites too. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The Xinha "Subhead" button didn't work in Internet Explorer. Non-published articles were shown in "List article" when Preview Mode is used. An error appeared when you edit an issue configuration. The "notifyevents" cron job was sending malformed mail messages. Copying an article created by someone else kept the orginal creator. The permissions for "font face" and "font size" did not turn on the corresponding elements in Xinha. Duplicating a template triggered an error. All of these bugs have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Services for IRC Networks (or just Services for short) provides for definitive nickname and channel ownership, automatic channel mode setting, memo (short message) storage and retrieval, and greater IRC operator control over the network. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds the ability to create aliases for NickServ, ChanServ, and MemoServ commands. Support for nicknames using non-ASCII (international) character sets with UnrealIRCd has also been added. Several bugs, mostly trivial, have been corrected.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News netfico is a complete Linux/netfilter (iptables) firewall and gateway configuration tool. It takes over the complete process of brining up the network interfaces, configuring VLANs, setting IP addresses, setting routes, and configuring the netfilter/iptables rules. This also means that there is just one central place where IP addresses and netmasks are configured. A central goal of netfico is to make handling of firewalls respective gateways with dual stacked (i.e. IPv4 and/or IPv6) hosts and a larger number of subnets easy and feasible.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to "Norton Ghost"(c) and (tm) by Symantec. The created images are optionally compressed, and they can be stored on a local hard drive or transferred to an anonymous FTP server. A drive can be cloned using the "Click'n'Clone" function. g4l supports file splitting if the local filesystem does not support writing files 2GB. The included kernel supports ATA, serial-ATA, and SCSI drives. Common network cards are supported. It is packaged as a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI for easy use. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release added new kernels and made some enhancements to the script to allow for file selection.

Source: Freshmeat Daily News ROROX (Ruby On Rails On XAMPP) is a package that provides Ruby, Rails plus dependencies and other gems, the Apache SCGI module, and rails_scgi for an existing XAMPP installation. It aims to get close to being a "one-click" installer for Linux a la Locomotive or Instant Rails. License: MIT/X Consortium License Changes: An upgrade to Ruby 1.8.4 was made. SCGI support was added with mod_scgi, rails_scgi, cmdparse, and highline. FastCGI support was removed. An apply_scgi.sh script was added for setting up an SCGI process for a Rails application along with some instructions in the README. The emaildir demo application was modified to use SCGI. Ruby MySQL bindings were included. rake was upgraded to version 0.7.0. The compilation script now uses less CPU.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News mod_cband is an Apache 2 module that solves the problem of limiting the bandwidth usage of users, virtual hosts, and destinations. When the configured transfer limit is exceeded, mod_cband will redirect all further requests to a location specified in the configuration file. The module can also limit download speeds and maximal requests per second for virtualhosts, users, and remote clients. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This is the first stable version of the module. Some small bugs have been fixed. The requests-per-second speed limiter has been improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News grabslides allows you to capture frames from any v4l device or from Axis camera servers. It offers a lot of configurable parameters and can even generate PDF documents containing all the frames grabbed. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: grabslides can now generate an HTML page containing all slides. XML presentations in the Aristote Association's OTESA format can also be generated. The 2-up mode now works in portrait mode when creating PDF. Finally grabslides can now synchronize itself on another process, and can exit automatically when the other process does. A nice example of PDF output is now available as well.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to "Norton Ghost"(c) and (tm) by Symantec. The created images are optionally compressed, and they can be stored on a local hard drive or transferred to an anonymous FTP server. A drive can be cloned using the "Click'n'Clone" function. g4l supports file splitting if the local filesystem does not support writing files 2GB. The included kernel supports ATA, serial-ATA, and SCSI drives. Common network cards are supported. It is packaged as a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI for easy use. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds the 2.6.15 and 2.6.15.1 kernels, support for cciss and untested support for ataraid and ida, and a bzImagew kernel that has a newer tg3 nic than the one included with 2.6.15.1 kernel source. A filename option that gets a listing of files from a server and allows selections was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News cxxtools is a library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes. It contains an argument-parser, a base-64 encoder/decoder, a C++ interface to iconv, md5-stream for easy MD5 calculation, threading classes, socket classes, a dynamic exception-safe buffer, a wrapper for dlopen/dlsym, a pool template (e.g., for a connection pool in a multi-threaded application), query_params, and a class for easy parsing of CGI parameters (GET and POST) in a CGI program. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: The thread classes are slightly improved, and the thread demo is (hopefully) better. The output of log messages is optimized.
    
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Exiv2 is an EXIF and IPTC C++ library that makes reading and writing Exif and Iptc metadata easy. It provides full Exif makernote and thumbnail support. The Exiv2 command line utility prints Exif and Iptc metadata including Makernote tags in various formats, adjusts Exif timestamps, renames images according to the Exif timestamp, extracts and inserts Exif and Iptc metadata and JPEG comments, or deletes the thumbnail or a specific type of metadata from an image. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release adds Canon CRW write support and new utility features for manipulating image file timestamps and fixing Nikon ISO settings.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News For each File is a script wrapper for repetitive file manipulation tasks. It lets you run arbitrary commands upon files, directories, and more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: In extract.ff, a defect preventing the output directory from being relocated to its proper location was fixed. The "dev" and "user" mailing lists were replaced with a new "friends" mailing list to better suit the size of the user community.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Tiny Tiny RSS is a Web-based news (RSS, RDF, or Atom) feed aggregator designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: This release added suport for linked feeds, various SQL optimizations, an integrated feed browser, and fixes for reported issues.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News KnowledgeTree is a feature-rich document management system featuring knowledge management, document version control, hierarchical document management, support for common file formats (MS Word, MS Excel, PDF, TXT, HTML), extensible meta data, creation of custom document types, application managed document links that guarantees consistent data and eliminates emailing documents, easy publication of documents, subscription agents, archiving according to expiry date, expiry time period, or utilisation for enhanced speed, and much more. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes: Over 100 bugs were fixed. Significant fixes were made to the usability of core features. Help text and various additional features were added.
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