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Source: The Register

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Source: Misc. Gadgets

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
What a great day! We officially kicked off voting
in the 2005 Engadget Awards (being held in 2006, but like the Oscars, only last year's swag is eligible), which may be
the most important vote you cast this year aside from that little Congressional thing in November. We also got word
today that TiVo will be adding an undelete feature to its DVRs, that Red Hat will bring Linux to the new Intel Macs,
and that Wal-Mart and Costco may soon be implementing biometric payment systems. Plus, we had all the usual bots,
gadgets, and PCs that you've come to expect from our little publication.Features

The 2005 Engadget Awards:
get out the vote!
Switched On: A Moving
Experience

News

Keepin' it real
fake, part XVI: Greenhouse's Bose-like GH-SPA-430 dock
Kenwood
HDV-770 GPS/media player
Nabaztag, all singing
JVC Alneo XA-series audio
players
West
Virginia fully adopts Dance Dance Revolution fitness program
Motorola AXPT access point
spreads 3G data access
Wolverine's 60GB MVP 9060
Red Hat to bring Linux to Intel
Macs
Fujifilm FinePix E900 reviewed

Dynamizer hits the slopes
TiVo undelete forthcoming!
Epson Endeavor NT2850
lightweight 15-inch laptop
Alienware's new MJ-12 7500
dual core workstations
Study finds robot pets
as good as live ones
Report:
Wal-Mart, Costco considering biometric payment systems
OriginAE S210: the ultimate home
theater PC?
Government turns up volume on
GPS
Didigo's LCD sporting USB flash
drives
Fujitsu's RFID
and LCD equipped Shopping Navis Wagon
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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 570.26 MB Status: 1 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2006-01-26 21:32:37


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: SUSE Size: 3.29 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-26 20:08:40


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Source: caixamagica

The developers of Linux Caixa Mágica, a Portuguese desktop and server distribution based on SUSE Linux, have released a live CD edition of Caixa Mágica 10 Desktop. Designed as a bootable CD without the need to install it to a hard disk, this product is an excellent way .


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Source: lunar

The the second release candidate of the source-based Lunar Linux 1.6.0 is ready for testing: "Here is the second release candidate for the final 1.6.0-i686 series ISO. As with rc1, this is a testing release and approaches the quality we are looking for in the -final release. A .


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Source: suse

The rapid pace of SUSE development continues with the release of the second beta of SUSE Linux 10.1: "SUSE Linux 10.1 Codename 'Agama Lizard' Beta2 is ready for testing. Among many updates and enhancements, here the most important ones since beta2: fixes for a number of bugs - .



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Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix

Which one will you run?"I think the best Linux desktop is the one that's best for a particular person based on their needs and level of Linux expertise. So, the next time someone asks you that question, I suggest you reply with a couple of questions of your own. " Choosing a desktop Linux distro


Source: OSNews

Imagine a world where you could run both Linux and Apple operating systems on the same high-performance Mac laptop. That day may be coming sooner than Mac fans think. Red Hat has confirmed it is pursuing the development of a Linux distribution for the new Intel-based Macs. Red Hat is no stranger to Macintosh - Fedora and other Linux distributions support the PowerPC architecture once used by Apple - but there are challenges to bringing Linux to the MacBook Pro. It appears the opportunities outweigh the challenges, though, with potential repercussions for Microsoft if the market clamors for Red Hat Linux-enabled MacBook Pros.


Source: OSNews

The second beta of OpenSUSE Linux 10.1 has been released today. Main changes: "Fixes for a number of bugs - but note that most of the bugs reported against beta1 are not fixed yet; further integration and fixing of NetworkManager; SUSE Linux 10.1 Beta1 comes with the Intrusion Prevention framework; AppArmor 2.0 which is started by default in beta2; updated to KDE 3.5.1 release packages." Downloads locations are in the release announcement.


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Source: Scripting News

Dan MacTough asks a few questions. First, I develop in this environment because I designed this environment as the place where I wanted to all my development. That's way I thought of it in the 80s and 90s, when the kernel was in active development -- do it right so you don't have to do it again. It's got most of what I want. I wish there were a Linux version. I wish the back-end was continually being analyzed for performance improvements and bug fixes. I wish there were work going on to remove display glitches in the outliner. I wish there were a version in development that ran on the new Intel Macs in native mode. So it's not perfect, but there's nothing else like it, and at this point, it's the only current development environment I know how to develop in, and at my age, I'm not wanting to learn another. I put at least 20 years into this one, it works the way I want it to. That said, everything we're doing is with open protocols, and the code is all open source (GPL) so what I'm really doing is bootstrapping another defacto standard, like RSS or XML-RPC, and the apps that build on them (podcasting, MetaWeblog API). It could be that most people will eventually use software different from what I use. Programmers like to re-invent. But at least our work will be compatible, if we can avoid some of the mistakes we've made in the past. Hope this helps, Dan. I appreciate the spirit of your questions.


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HenchmenResources writes "Late Wednesday a posting from Linus Torvalds appered on the the Linux Kernel Mailing List. In it Linus states that the Linux Kernel will remain under the GPLv2. Types Linus,"The "version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version" language in the GPL copying file is not - and has never been - part of the actual License itself.""



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Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

A start-up specializing in tools that help developers deploy software on Linux-based appliances and virtual machines has received $6.4 million funding. rPath was founded this month by two former Red Hat VPs. Although the principal focus is enterprise software appliances, the company's tools could also be useful to embedded developers.


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Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

Andrew Tridge Tridgell was recognized for his work as originator and developer of the Samba project. Samba reverse-engineered Microsoft's version of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is used for file-sharing and print services. This software enables free operating systems to fit into Microsoft-based environments, encouraging greater use and adoption of free software. Samba has been implemented on millions of servers throughout the world. Tridge also released rsync, a highly respected remote file-distribution system, and contributed code to the Linux kernel.


Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel Macs to its popular distribution. Fedora and several other commonly used Linux distributions support the PowerPC architecture used by Apple in the past, and Red Hat wants to ensure that its software will continue to run on new Apple hardware in the future. The current impediment is the Extensible Firmware Interface, a relatively new BIOS replacement designed by Intel that is not yet commonly used or widely supported.



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Source: Linux Today

The IPCop project is a GNU/GPL project that offers an exceptional feature packed stand alone firewall to the internet community


Source: Linux Today

Today's security advisories: clamav, wine, lsh-utils, and imagemagick (Debian GNU/Linux); Trac (Gentoo Linux); ipsec-tools and mozilla-thunderbird (Mandriva Linux); and phpMyAdmin and nfs-server (SUSE Linux).


Source: Linux Today

Most Americans already use a lot of open source. Their home routers may run Linux. Their TiVo runs Linux. Google runs Linux. Windows programs like Firefox are also open source


Source: Linux Today

It seems like we all agree that Linux on the desktop is getting closer and that there are economic forces driving adoption


Source: Linux Today

Granted the future belongs to Linux, but as a $2 billion market, is Unix dead ?


Source: O'Reilly Network Articles: Linux

Virtualization is an old idea--running multiple distinct operating systems atop a powerful box has a lot of advantages. Xen is a new virtualization platform. Despite its youth, its Linux support is very good. Kris Buytaert explains the basics of virtualization and shows how to configure and install Xen and to create new virtual machines.


Source: Linux Today

As a I entered the workplace, I brought my college perception that Unix workstations are more powerful than PC's with me


Source: Linux Weekly News


Source: Linux Today

Kalibonca is packaging free Linux educational software on disks that let PC owners bypass the Windows operating system


Source: Linux Today

Desktop Linux specialist Xandros Inc is targeting the education sector with Education Edition of its Xandros Desktop OS Linux operating system with prices starting at $10 per seat for student use


Source: Linux Today

Although Microsoft is becoming an increasingly formidable rival in the same space, IBM, Sun, Oracle, and many other vendors are now responding to renewed opportunities for Linux in department store environments, as retail chains like Circuit City, Pep Boys, and Urban Outfitters start to step to 100-percent Linux deployments on their store-level IT systems


Source: Linux Weekly News


Source: Linux Today

Lobby4Linux, that is, several members of the Lobby4Linux website; thought it was time to do something about getting Linux into the mainstream and it looks like many agree


Source: Linux Today

The results are starting to come in for the Linux App Request Survey we first posted at the beginning of January


Source: LinuxPlanet News Tutorials and more for Linux newcomers

Although Microsoft is becoming an increasingly formidable rival in the same space, IBM, Sun, Oracle, and many other vendors are now responding to renewed opportunities for Linux in department store environments, as retail chains like Circuit City, Pep Boys, and Urban Outfitters start to step to 100-percent Linux deployments on their store-level IT systems. Jacqueline Emigh reports from this year's National Retail Federation show.


Source: Linux Today

Linus Torvalds has weighed in on the debate over the draft of version 3 of the GPL in a post on the Linux Kernel Mailing List


Source: Linux Today

This should hopefully fill you in with a basic idea of what's required to stream your own online radio station


Source: Linux Today

You can't simply cp a CD image onto a new disk. For this task, you need the cdrecord program


Source: Linux Today

Pertec Inc. last week introduced UbuntUSB, touted as an easy way to install Ubuntu Linux on a portable USB hard drive


Source: Linux Today

American Arium has updated its flagship debugger for ARM-architecture processors, adding Linux shared libraries debug support for ARM7, ARM9, ARM11, Intel XScale, and TI OMAP cores


Source: Linux Today

This article will walk you through setting up a securing your linux teamspeak server


Source: Linux Today

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



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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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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Source: SourceForge New Releases

wdiag 0.7 released!


Source: NewsForge

In November, Real Networks opened its Rhapsody.com online music service to non-Windows clients, a venture widely touted as the first "legal" online music service available to Linux users. How does it measure up?


Source: NewsForge

If you are an old school Linux or Unix user, you probably remember the System Administrator's Tool for Scanning Networks (SATAN). In 1995, SATAN brought browser-based network auditing to the world. Despite its initial splash, SATAN fell to the wayside due to lack of updates. Thanks to the kind folks at the Advanced Research Corp., SATAN is back, in the form of the Security Auditor's Research Assistant (SARA), a kinder, gentler, easier to use, and more updated auditing tool.



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Source: Web Developer News

Torvalds turned his back on the GPL. Does this mark its end?



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Source: The Doc Searls Weblog

First, Rajesh Setty on Why you can't ignore blogs: it is important for us to adapt to the new world order at a breathtaking speed. The questions, therefore are:How do we know what are the new rules of the game?How to we know how to adapt to these new rules?One answer may be to become an eternal student and keep upgrading our knowledge at a breathtaking speed. Traditional education mediums have a disadvantage here.Second, Mike Warot on Connections:It all adds up to an addictive mix of discovery and learning when blogging works as a system. The ah-ha experience in the mind of a reader gets written down, then edited by the rest of us, and the cycle of life continues. It's fun to be part of this, gosh darn it.Third, Bernie DeKoven on Defending the Playful. In this case, Eric Grohe's mural in Marion, Ohio:There are a lot of people who don't like to have their eyes played with, even for a second. Especially those who have strayed too long and too far from the Playful Path, if you know what I mean. They just can't seem to find delight in it all, in their eyes getting played with like that, their very vision, their understanding of what they are actually looking at, redefined. It says alot aboout the artist, but also something about Marion and whatever mysterious civic forces were engaged to pay for the whole thing.Fourth, The Community Engine says Mass Conversation Tracking Doesn't Work:Just consider technorati. They track 26.3 million sites and 1.9 billion links. That's less than 75 links per site. In a good month of blogging, I can generate that on one site. So, technorati's coverage is not adequate to the task of tracking every link. The same is true of icerocket and Google blog search.Last, but hardly least, I got a call from David Sifry last night asking me to take a look at Technorati's new subject explorer feature (the five boxes on the front page, plus the list of topics in the right column of results pages). [Disclosure.] While those moves by Technorati — and similarly inventive moves by Icerocket, Feedster, Pubsub and other Live Web engines — may not address directly the concerns Community Engine expressed in that post, they also both demonstrate some of what Scoble talked about on Tuesday when he advised Yahoo not to cede search to Google, after reading Steve Rubel saying he no longer uses Yahoo search because I have no interest in using a product that the company doesn't aspire to make best of breed.First, it's clear that search is hardly a Done Thing. Not by a long shot. Second, it's clear there is an awful lot of differentiation happening in search. Which will only increase as the Web itself continues to differentiate and branch off in new directions.Which raises a question for Robert, Steve, and the rest of ya'll: What breeds are we talking about here?I suggest that the two breeds are Static Web Search and Live Web Search. The Static Web is the one with sites that are designed and architected and constructed and are, on the whole, buildings on real estate that front the Web. The Live Web is the one that's written and authored and published and blogged and podcast and tagged and syndicated. There is some overlap, of course. Static Web search engines cover both. They just do a better job with static sites than they do with live ones. Live Web search engines (including Bloglines, Blogpulse, Google Blogsearch, Icerocket, Pubsub, Technorati and Yahoo's blog results sidebar on its news search), by responding to RSS feeds, only follow the Live Web.Here's another difference: The Live Web engines are evolving a lot faster, and a lot more responsively, to a market they can't help following if they do their job.By the way, I intend to write a book about The Live Web by the end of this year. It will be an open process. More about that as the project moves along.



Updated: Wed Jun 28 00:10:32 2006


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