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Source: Freshmeat Daily News SisIYA is a system monitoring tool. You can
monitor your Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windows
machines, switches, Airports, printers, UPSs,
power switches, etc. Main development is done on
Linux.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BFilter is a smart filtering HTTP proxy. It removes ads, webbugs, and popups. Unlike the majority of similar tools, it doesn't rely on a list of blocked URLs, but instead parses HTML on the fly, and detects ads using a set of heuristic rules. BFilter has a built-in JavaScript engine which detects popups and js-generated ads.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Several new features were introduced: a GUI request log, an uninstaller for the Mac OS X version, the ability to reload external filters from the GUI, and a new NOFILTER rule for URL patterns. Bugfixes include a fix for the HTTP/1.0 keep-alive problem, improved compatibility with certain software firewalls, and a fix for a case that caused unnecessary buffering of whole pages.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News CILib (Computational Intelligence Library) is a collaborative research framework for developing Computational Intelligence algorithms in the fields of swarm intelligence, evolutionary computing, neural networks, artificial immune systems, and fuzzy logic.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes the alteration of many of the packages within the source tree. These changes are all in preparation for a large collection of source that will be included. Basic support has been added for EC topology structures, and a division of the Algorithm classes has been committed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Zild C Database Library implements a small, fast, and
easy to use database API with thread-safe connection pooling. The library can connect transparently to multiple database systems. It has zero runtime configuration and connections are specified via a URL scheme.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This is a bugfix and maintenance release.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News eDonkey Fingerprint is a program to identify other clients over the
eDonkey network. It is able to get the following features from an
eDonkey p2p client: Protocol, User Hash, User Id, User Country, eDonkey
Client, Server Name, Server Ip, Server Port, Server Country, Shared
Files (for each file shared, file hash, file name, and file size, if
possible), Amount of shared data.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Code has been ported to C#. A Server List Update function has been added. New options have been added. There is a new interface and some fixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News fotoalbum is a digital photograph/image management
tool and viewer. Additional data is not stored in
a picture file itself, but in an XML file. It
provides an abstraction layer between filesystem
organization and album organization, advanced
search features, symbolic links, hyperlinks, and
much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Additional information can be shown (including EXIF data). Libexif can be used instead of the built-in flexif. Documentation updates. Bugfixes. The list of keyword tags can be shown. Minor changes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Childsplay is a suite of educational games for young children. It aims to be more games-like than gcompris.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A new game was added. It's a game to teach the alphabet to very young children with spoken animal names, initials, and animal sounds and images.
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 comes with KDE 3.5.1 and upgrades to all applications.
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:
This release restyles the interface to be more friendly, adds a Windows package, and has minor bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News dvdrtools is a suite of software based on cdrtools
for writing DVD-R, DVD-RW, CD-R, and CD-RW media.
It also includes basic support for mastering video
DVDs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Devices can now be accessed using their normal names (e.g. /dev/hdc), and a lot of the code has been cleaned up.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News rdup is a utility inspired by rsync and the Plan9
way of doing backups. rdup itself does not backup
anything; it only prints a list of the names of
files that have changed since the last backup.
Auxilary scripts are needed to act on this list
and implement the backup strategy. This way rdup
can be kept lean and mean.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
More options were added and the output format of
rdup was changed. All included shell scripts were
refactored.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Simba is file mirroring tool that allows a great
deal of control over the mirrored content and,
most importantly, more control over reporting. It
allows you to create Web pages with mirror status,
RSS news feeds, Google sitemaps, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The way database connections are handled was
changed. Until now, when the database connection
timed out, the mirror was left in a blocked state
(InProgress flag was set). The issue is now
solved. Also, the RoPkg::DB was updated to 0.1.2,
and Simba alpha5 now depends on this version (or
greater). All the reported bugs have been solved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Morla is an editor of RDF documents that allows
you to manage more RDF documents simultaneously,
visualize graphs, and use templates for quick
writing. You can import RDFS documents and use
their content to write new RDF triples. Templates
are also RDF documents, and they make Morla easily
personalizable and expandable. You can also use
Morla as an RDF navigator, browsing the RDF
documents present on the Internet exactly as you
are used to doing with normal browsers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release has new features like merging more
RDF documents, a new layout for graphs,
portability under Win32, categories in templates,
and so on.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News StreamDownloader is a Web interface to mplayer. It
allows he user to record realaudio and other
mplayer compatible streams from the net for
personal use. Recordings can be scheduled,
stopped, and downloaded.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some AJAX stuff for progress download was added. A
few bugs were closed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Object Shell (osh) is the interpreter for a
Python-like language that supports the composition
of commands through piping, similar to pipes in a
Unix shell. However, the key difference is that
objects are passed through the pipes in osh
instead of streams of text. The objects passed
between commands can be Python built-ins or
complex objects such as dates and times, database
rows, or OS resources. Objects can be
automatically converted to strings for integration
with the conventional Unix environment.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The error handler was fixed to not propagate
errors downstream. The -t option was added to out.
Ctrl-c handling was much improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux PDAs and
desktop computers. FBReader currently works on
Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM,
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, and Linux desktop
computers. FBReader supports several e-book
formats: plucker, palmdoc, zTXT, HTML, fb2, TCR
(psion text), and plain text.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Bzip2 archive support was added. Screen rotation
by 90, 180, and 270 degrees was added. Esperanto
hyphenation patterns were added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Checkmate mpck reads MP3 files and tries to
determine if they are correct (i.e. not damaged).
Furthermore, it displays statistics such as the
bitrate. It is fast (0.6 seconds per file on an
800 Mhz computer) and supports recursive checking
of directories.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A rewrite was done which makes the code a lot
cleaner. The checking process is made more
precise, reducing the number of false positives.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The WiKID Strong Authentication System is a highly
scalable, secure two-factor authentication system
consisting of a server, a token client, and
network clients that connect a service such as a
VPN or Web page to the WiKID server to validate
one-time passcodes. The user enters their PIN into
the token client, where it is encrypted and sent
to the server. If the PIN is correct, the
encryption valid, and account active, the one-time
passcode is generated, encrypted, and returned to
the user. It is simple to implement and maintain,
allows users to be validated automatically,
requires no hardware tokens, has a simple API for
application support via a COM object and Java
component, supports multiple domains, and supports
replication for fault tolerance and scalability.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A domain deletion bug was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TreeLine is used to organize and store text data in a tree structure. It is
well suited to keeping track of many different types of information. Each node
of the tree can contain several defined fields, forming a mini-database. The
format of each node can be defined, and the output can be shown on the screen,
printed, or exported to HTML. The tree structure is navigated and edited in the
left pane of the window, while various views of the child data are shown and
editable in the right pane. The data is stored in XML text files. TreeLine is
based on the PyQt library.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Small improvements were made to XSLT export and to
the plugin interface. Problems with non-ASCII
field names and with encrypted autosave were
fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GPixPod is an application for uploading and
organizing photos and photo albums on recent Apple
iPod models.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Now iPod Photo seems to be supported properly. All
gdk-pixbuf image formats are now supported for
photo import. Thus in addition to JPEGs, now also
PNGs, BMPs, GIFs, SVGs, and more can be imported.
A preferences dialog now allows settings to be
changed for automatic detection/opening,
mountpoint, etc. The image conversion functions
were refined to keep the ratio when scaling. Basic
image conversion functions to rotate CCW and CW
were added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News LiVES is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it should work on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, IRIX, and openMosix (and soon OS X/Darwin). It works with almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Parameter defaults for realtime effects can be set
and saved, as can default sizes for generators. A
"Jack integration" tab was added in preferences.
Some fixes were made for gcc 4. Up to 64 "virtual"
real time effect keys can now be used. Updates
were made to the RFX spec and RFX builder to
better integrate with realtime effects. There was
a fix for buggy opening of mono clips. Support was
added for more colorspace conversions, some
palette conversion errors were fixed. A new color
correction filter was added. Finally, you can now
get a preview when setting parameters for rendered
effects.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ackerTodo is a Web-based todo list manager that
supports multiple users, multiple languages, and themes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes some bugs that would ruin
support for MySQL 5.x. There is now also an export
button, but its output is subject to change. Other
bugs have also been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SurrealServices is a full replacement NickServ/ChanServ/BotServ/MemoServ/OperServ. Features are loosely based on Anope and ConferenceRoom/Auspice, as well as NeoStats. Some security features are also available such as a TOR (http://tor.eff.org/) detector/banner, and a country detector (checks IP allocation). It is multithreaded to eliminate lag due to the asynchronous nature of MySQL and DNS lookups.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some minor new features and bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Linux Video Maker is application for generating DVD or (S)VCD structures that are ready to record on CD or DVD. It is a GUI for transcode, mplex, DVDAuthor, and few other programs. It makes the creation of DVDs and VCDs easier, especially for beginners. Linux Video Maker prevents many mistakes, especially in the conversion process, which can take a lot of time.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Multiple input files are now supported. MPG, MOV, ASF, and ASX input file formats are now supported in addition to AVI. A new Unicode character set was provide for subtitles. A new "add chapters" option was added for DVD structures and elapsed and estimated time information was added to the progress window. The GUI was improved and the ability to change to older one was added. A language choice is now available while running the program. Code optimizations were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GIT is a "directory content manager" that was
designed to handle massive projects such as the
Linux kernel with speed and efficiency. It falls
in the category of distributed source code
management tools and is similar to GNU Arch,
Monotone, and BitKeeper. Every GIT working
directory is a fully-fledged repository with full
revision tracking capabilities and is not
dependent on network access to a central server.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
An error is now printed if a HTTP repository is being cloned and NO_CURL is set. More useful/hinting error messages were provided in git-checkout. Additional documentation was provided and fixes were made for combine-diff and checkout.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News cutmp3 is a small command line MP3 editor. It
lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively
or via a timetable and save them to separate files
without quality loss. Silence and ID3 tag
searching are also possible. For playback it uses
mpg123. The program works with VBR files and files
bigger than 2GB. There is also a simple frontend
for it, called xcutmp3.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Support for ID3 2.0 was added. Metadata can now be copied in non-interactive mode. The man page is now installed during "make install".
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:
phpThumb 1.6.2 was added to the libraries. If GD is installed, the image preview now calls phpThumb to generate thumbnails. A gettext-like __("string") function was added as an alias to $p4a-i18n-messages-get("string"). German and Romanian translations were completed. P4A_Table now supports left/right alignment based on data types. Many improvements were made for hand-held rendering along with some bugfixes for XHTML validation and print CSS. Minor bugfixes and beautifications were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The GeoServer project is a full transactional Java (J2EE) implementation of the OpenGIS Consortium's Web Feature Server (WFS) specification with a completely integrated Web Map Server (WMS). Users who would like to access and modify their geographic data over the Internet using flexible, industry-approved standards should take a look at GeoServer or one of the existing commercial Web Feature Servers. It is built as a thin layer on top of the excellent GeoTools2 GIS toolkit, and includes a STRUTs-based Web administration interface for easy configuration.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This stable release includes a number of improvements to make GeoServer the easiest way to get a powerful standards-based Web mapping solution up and running quickly. Improvements include fully compliant WMS and SLD, which handle the rendering and styling of maps, available as JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, and KML. The release also brings integrated AJAX Web map client preview and adds DB2, Cascading WFS, MySQL, VPF, and MapInfo formats, while improving PostGIS, Oracle, ArcSDE, and Shapefile. The documentation has also had a complete face-lift.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News clapf is a modular network filter for Postfix. It includes a Bayesian anti-spam module, a blackhole feature, anti-virus support using clamav, AVG Linux, and avast!, as well as CGI and command line interfaces for easily training the token database.
License: zlib/libpng License
Changes:
Betwork connection handling was fixed and Postfix communication was moved to a separate file. An exclude_unknown_tokens variable was added to help catch even more spam. The ability to decode QP- or base64-encoded subjects was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ocrad is the GNU OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, implemented as a filter and based on a feature extraction method. It reads images in pbm (bitmap), pgm (greyscale), or ppm (color) formats and produces text in byte (8-bit) or UTF-8 formats. It also includes a layout analyzer that is able to separate the columns or blocks of text normally found on printed pages. Ocrad can be used as a stand-alone console application, or as a backend to other programs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version added the capability to read PPM (color) files. The internal representation is now a 256-level greymap instead of a bitmap. Automatic and adaptive binarization was added, allowing the removal of colored backgrounds. A new "--crop" option was added. "Image Format Conversion" and "Algorithm" chapters were added to the manual and a "check" target was added to the Makefile. Some fixes and small improvements were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings. It has a modeless, user-friendly interface, online help, multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited line length, global search/replace (on all buffers at once), block operations, automatic indentation, word wrapping, filename completion, a directory browser, duplicate removal from prompt histories, and delimiter matching.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A memory leak that occurred when undoing and then not redoing changes was fixed. Some behavioural improvements and fixes were made. A new command that shows the version was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Elektra provides a universal and secure framework
to store configuration parameters in a
hierarchical key-value pair mechanism, instead of
each program using its own text configuration
files. This allows any program to read and save
its configuration with a consistent API, and
allows them to be aware of other applications'
configurations, permitting easy application
integration. While architecturally similar to
other OS registries, Elektra does not have most of
the problems found in those implementations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The user interface is now much more comfortable and has more features like the ability to import and export keys to XML and a more powerful key editor.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News World Domination is a real-time strategy game that
uses the Stratagus engine and was inspired by the
Axis and Allies board game. It is unique amoung
RTSes because it does not require you to havest
resources. Instead, you receive money based on how
much territory you occupy. This allows the focus
of the game to be on combat and not the management
of workers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some AI support was added along with newer graphics and many bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GnomeICU is a Gnome application which allows one to communicate with other GnomeICU users or others who use ICQ (Windows, Java, Mac, etc). With GnomeICU, one can send and receive messages, change online modes, send and receive URLs, and much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release was updated for protocol changes, fixing problems with receiving messages from recent versions of the Windows ICQ client.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News OpenSharePoint is an intra/extranet portal server
similar to SharePoint. It provides a place on the
Web where a team can communicate, share
documents, and work together on a project. A
separate team Website can be created for every
project that is being worked on.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The install script and block files were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News bMail is mailing list/newsletter software. Unique
features such as the ability to email subsets (or
"groups") of subscribers instead of the whole list
set it apart from alternatives.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
New, featureful group management was implemented along with
enhanced install and upgrade scripts. Eyecandy was added. Massive reorganization and file restructuring was undertaken. Heuristics were added to filter creation and multiple bugfixes were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ZK is a Web framework designed to enable Web
applications to have both rich user experiences
and a simple programming model. ZK includes an
AJAX-based event-driven engine to automate
interactivity, a rich set of XUL and XHTML
components to enrich usability, and a markup
language to design user interfaces without
programming.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A generic way to specify browser and locale-dependent URIs was implemented and all known bugs were fixed.
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