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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::
Rethinking Business in Light of Open Source: A BRIE/OSDN Symposium
On April 18, 2001 OSDN, Open Source Development Network, in collaboration
with BRIE, Berkley Roundtable on the International Economy, will hold a
one-day symposium in San Francisco, California to examine and debate the
Open Source Movement and how it is challenging our notions of competition,
collaboration and intellectual property.
http://www.osdn.com/conferences/brie
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::: A R T I C L E S (1) :::
The Evolution of OS Design
by James Williams (mailto:virtex@bigfoot.com)
Section: Editorials
Thursday, March 22nd 2001 00:00
With each new generation of operating systems, we are introduced to new
ways of thinking about how our computers work. To simplify things for the
user, we must deploy a consistent interface in which they can do their
work. It is equally important to extend this consistency to programmers, so
they too can benefit. As an operating system ages, it gradually becomes
burdened with a plethora of interfaces which break the simplicity of its
original architecture. Unix originally followed the "everything is a file"
mantra, only to lose sight of that design with numerous task-specific APIs
for transferring files (FTP, HTTP, RCP, etc.), graphics (X11, svgalib),
printers (lp, lpr), etc. Plan 9, introduced in 1989, demonstrated how even
a GUI can be represented as a set of files, revitalizing the "everything is
a file" idea. The purpose of this paper is to describe a hypothetical
operating system called OOS which aims to push this paradigm even further.
URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/237/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S :::
[001] - ACP modem (Mwave) driver 20010315 (Stable)
[002] - Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL drivers 1.3 (Default)
[003] - APCComm 1.1.0 (Default)
[004] - aplus 4.18-4 (Default)
[005] - Arka 0.03 (Default)
[006] - ASPSeek 1.0.5 (Default)
[007] - atool 0.2.0 (Default)
[008] - Automated Password Generator 2.0.0a0 (Development)
[009] - AutoNap 0.1.2a (Default)
[010] - Autopilot 1.2 (Default)
[011] - BitBox 0.1.0 (Development)
[012] - brandgang 0.1 (Default)
[013] - BulkDNS 1.1 (Default)
[014] - CBMS 0.6.2 (Default)
[015] - choad 0.8 (Default)
[016] - CloneIt 1.0 (Default)
[017] - CVSSearch 2.0 Beta 1 (Development)
[018] - CyberCalendar 1.7b (Default)
[019] - dirgroup 1.4 (Default)
[020] - EffecTV 0.1.6 (Development)
[021] - Eternity 0.3 (Default)
[022] - Exted 0.0.2 (Default)
[023] - FreeBIOS 20010321 (Default)
[024] - Freecell Solver 1.4.5 (Default)
[025] - FreeLords CVS-20010321 (CVS Snapshot)
[026] - ftpd-ssl 0.1.1 (Default)
[027] - GDIS 0.70 (Default)
[028] - GnomerMind 0.8.1 (Default)
[029] - Graffiti Server 0.76 (Default)
[030] - GRASS GIS 5.0beta11 (Default)
[031] - halfStats 1.0 Beta 7 (stable)
[032] - incident.pl 1.1 (Default)
[033] - Inflex 1.0.0d (Daily)
[034] - Interoperable MPI Server 1.0 (Default)
[035] - IP Filter 3.4.16 (Default)
[036] - itaSMS 1.0 (Default)
[037] - Jakarta Velocity 1.0b1 (Beta)
[038] - jaquemate 0.9.2 (Default)
[039] - javacmd 0.2 (Default)
[040] - JavaNCSS 10.25 (Default)
[041] - JeruKey 0.5 (Default)
[042] - JFS for Linux 0.2.1 (Default)
[043] - KWvDial 0.7 (Default)
[044] - loggrep 0.1 (Default)
[045] - mergelog 4.4 (Default)
[046] - MID 1.11 (Default)
[047] - mozCalc 0.2.1 (Default)
[048] - mpgcut death (Default)
[049] - mt, an MPEG toolbox 0.1 beta (beta)
[050] - mynotify 0.3 (Default)
[051] - MySQL 3.23.35 (Default)
[052] - newrpm 0.1.0 (Default)
[053] - newsq 0.11.1 (Default)
[054] - nPulse 0.51p1 (Development)
[055] - OSS 3.9.4f (Default)
[056] - PFE 0.30.89 (Default)
[057] - Phaser 1.01 (Stable)
[058] - PHP LetterIt 0.91 (Default)
[059] - phpLittleChat 0-8 Beta (Default)
[060] - proManager 0.54 (Default)
[061] - Pygmy 0.5.3 (Default)
[062] - QUEF - QT Universal Emulator Frontend 0.1 (Default)
[063] - QUEF - QT Universal Emulator Frontend 0.1.1 (Default)
[064] - Red Hat Update 1.3 (Stable)
[065] - Request Tracker 1.3.59 (Development)
[066] - RIMiRadio RiR 0.4 (Enjoy the Silence) (Default)
[067] - rl 0.1.4 (development)
[068] - Rolodap 0.80 (Default)
[069] - Ruby 1.6.3 (Default)
[070] - SakuraPlayer 0.1.0 (Development)
[071] - sawfish 0.38 (Default)
[072] - Sendmail 8.12.0 beta5 (Development)
[073] - Sentinel Groupware 0.8.6 (Development)
[074] - Shibatch sampling rate converter 1.28 (Default)
[075] - SnapSource 0.14 (Default)
[076] - sunclock 3.33 (Default)
[077] - SysOrb Milestone VIId (Default)
[078] - Text::EtText 1.1 (Default)
[079] - tfmx-play 0.35 (Default)
[080] - TFMXcess 2.7.4 (Default)
[081] - tNews 0.95 Beta (Default)
[082] - unixODBC 2.0.5 (Default)
[083] - WebMake 1.1 (Default)
[084] - webredirect 0.2 (Default)
[085] - WML Trivia Game 1.0 (Stable)
[086] - X-Chat 1.7.0 (Development)
[087] - xclip 0.02 (Default)
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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S (87) :::
[001] - ACP modem (Mwave) driver 20010315 (Stable)
by Steve Fox (http://freshmeat.net/users/drfickle/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:55
This is a set of Linux drivers for the ACP modem (Mwave), a WinModem. It is
composed of a loadable kernel module and a user level application. Together
these components support direct attachment to public switched telephone
networks (PSTNs) and support selected world wide countries. This driver
provides support for the IBM ThinkPad 600E. The modem also supports the
standard communications port interface (ttySx) and is compatible with the
Hayes AT Command Set.
Changes: Updates to work as a misc. device in order to support the official
mwave device node /dev/modems/mwave (major 10, minor 219) in devfs, an
updated mwaved initialization script (with support for Debian, SuSE,
RedHat, and derivatives), and fixes for build issues on Debian.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/acpmodem/
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[002] - Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL drivers 1.3 (Default)
by yiango (http://freshmeat.net/users/yiango/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:40
These are Linux drivers for the Alcatel SpeedTouch USB ADSL modem.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/speedtouch/
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[003] - APCComm 1.1.0 (Default)
by BOOMERANG (http://freshmeat.net/users/boomerang/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 23:31
APCComm is a program to transfer files between an Amiga and a Linux PC
using a laplink cable. It's able to send one file and receive another file
at the same time.
Changes: This release adds major speed improvements and a new homepage.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apccomm/
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[004] - aplus 4.18-4 (Default)
by ber (http://freshmeat.net/users/ber/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 00:50
A+ is a powerful and efficient programming language. It embodies a rich set
of functions and operators, a modern GUI with many widgets and automatic
synchronization of widgets and variables, asynchronous execution of
functions associated with variables and events, dynamic loading of user
compiled subroutines, and many other features. Execution is by a rather
efficient interpreter.
Changes: There are some source code changes for FreeBSD. The distribution
now contains contributed code (in the contrib directory), and a couple of
test scripts are also included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aplus/
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[005] - Arka 0.03 (Default)
by January Weiner (http://freshmeat.net/users/jw3/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:46
Arka provides a nice GUI for the gp package of command-line utilities for
manipulation and display of DNA/RNA/protein sequences, and additional
graphical tools for various aspects of sequences analysis (e.g., GC plots
and 3D graphs).
Changes: Arka is suitable to serve as a GUI frontend for any command-line
driven program; it's just a matter of writing a spec file. A major bug
causing crashes was also fixed, along with several other minor bugs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arka/
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[006] - ASPSeek 1.0.5 (Default)
by Kir Kolyshkin (http://freshmeat.net/users/k001/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:09
ASPSeek is an Internet search engine, written in C++ using the STL library.
It consists of an indexing robot, a search daemon, and a CGI search
frontend. It can index as many as a few million URLs and search for words
and phrases, use wildcards, and do a Boolean search. Search results can be
limited to time period given, site or Web space (set of sites) and sorted
by relevance (PageRanks are used) or date. ASPSeek is optimized for
multiple sites (threaded index, async DNS lookups, grouping results by
site, Web spaces), but can be used for searching one site as well. Other
features include stopwords and ispell support, a charset and language
guesser, HTML templates for search results, excerpts, and query words
highlighting.
Changes: Fixes were made for a tmlp= bug in s.cgi (introduced in 1.0.4), a
rare bug while searching with st= and spN= parameters, a bug when using
spN=off, a ranks calculation bug, a coredump when using ul= and HTML
section filters together, a compilation problem with
--enable-charset-guesser, and FreeBSD compilation problems. File names in
configs and program arguments can start with "./" or "../". Statistics
(output of index -S) were fixed, and a few non-critical memory leaks were
cured.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aspseek/
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[007] - atool 0.2.0 (Default)
by Oskar Liljeblad (http://freshmeat.net/users/osk/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:13
atool is a script for managing file archives of various types (tar,
tar+gzip, zip, etc). The main command is probably 'aunpack' which extracts
files from an archive. It overcomes the dreaded "multiple files in archive
root" problem by first extracting to a unique subdirectory, and then moving
back the files if possible. aunpack also prevents local files from being
overwritten by mistake. Other commands provided are apack (for creating
archives), als (for listing files in archives), and acat (for extracting
files to stdout).
Changes: Minor bugfixes were made for single compressed files.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/atool/
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[008] - Automated Password Generator 2.0.0a0 (Development)
by Adel I. Mirzazhanov (http://freshmeat.net/users/adel17/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 01:51
Automated Password Generator is a set of tools for random password
generation including a standalone password generator, an RFC972 password
generation server, and a Perl client for the password generation server.
These feature a built-in X9.17 random number generator, and 27 modes of
password generation, including pronounceable password generation.
Changes: A new algorithm to check generated password quality has been
added, called the Bloom filter (activated with -b). A utility to manage the
Bloom filter called apgbfm has been added. There have been some code style
fixes, and APG_TIPS has been added to the documentation.
License: BSD License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/apgd/
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[009] - AutoNap 0.1.2a (Default)
by Tassilo v. Parseval (http://freshmeat.net/users/ParkerPine/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 04:38
Initially intended as a Napster/OpenNap 'robot', AutoNap can be used like
any other console napster client with support for user-specified servers.
In the future, AutoNap will feature a non-interactive mode.
Changes: A little bug caused by the previously added installation routine
concerning the capture of an exception has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autonap/
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[010] - Autopilot 1.2 (Default)
by Signal-X (http://freshmeat.net/users/signalx/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 06:26
AutoPilot monitors the DTR line of /dev/palm, waiting for it to go from LOW
to HIGH, which is used to activate a command automatically to make syncing
easier. It can be used to boot up your favourite Palm mail syncer, or just
play a sound file automatically when the Palm is dropped into the cradle.
Changes: Support for the PILOTPORT environment variable has been added for
compatibility with other pilot-based apps. There are new options to
activate the given command if the hotsync button is pressed (RTS line).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autopilot/
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[011] - BitBox 0.1.0 (Development)
by gizmoNaut (http://freshmeat.net/users/lougrinzo/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:56
BitBox is a file splitter/joiner intended to aid the distribution and
re-distribution of open or free software releases via newsgroups, thereby
avoiding the server gridlock that happens every time a major project issues
a new release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bitbox/
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[012] - brandgang 0.1 (Default)
by Harmen van der Wal (http://freshmeat.net/users/harmenwal/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:42
brandgang is an HTTP tunnel socket for Java applets that uses the
browser-configured proxy (HTTP or Socks). The tunnel server forwards the
connection. No security exceptions are thrown for restricted Java applets
(i.e. applets that have no permission to connect to the proxy host).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/brandgang/
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[013] - BulkDNS 1.1 (Default)
by Steffen Ullrich (http://freshmeat.net/users/noxxi/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:13
BulkDNS provides fast DNS resolving for server logfiles by doing multiple
DNS requests in parallel, using UDP packets. This program is lightweight
and fast and can be used as a filter (e.g. zcat logfiles | bulkdns.pl |
analog).
Changes: A bug which caused reordering of logfile lines in pipe mode was
fixed.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bulkdns/
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[014] - CBMS 0.6.2 (Default)
by boo (http://freshmeat.net/users/boovox/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:37
The CBMS is a full featured client/billing management system designed from
the ground up to cater specifically to hosting providers. The software is a
PHP script package which uses mysql. Notable features include automated
invoicing, client search, multiple customizable packages for clients, and
client viewable real time invoice.
Changes: A Parse Error in list.php was fixed.
License: Voxel Public License (VPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cbms/
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[015] - choad 0.8 (Default)
by pete gamache (http://freshmeat.net/users/gamache/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:31
Choad is a flexible, Perl-based command-line frontend to the CDDB database
(via CDDB.pl), the cdparanoia CD ripper, and the LAME MP3 encoder.
Changes: CDDB submission capability, and bugfixes.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/choad/
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[016] - CloneIt 1.0 (Default)
by Andreas Schiffler (http://freshmeat.net/users/andreasschiffler/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 11:57
The CloneIt system was created to copy and essentially clone harddisks of
identical PCs through a network. This is a common task when installing
server racks or farms or when updating a computer-lab setup where one deals
with identical machines. The system software consists of a Linux boot
floppy and a ramdisk floppy with minimal system utilities that can perform
the task of copying the complete contents of disk devices through a
network.
Changes: Instructions and scripts on how to use CloneIt to backup harddisks
were added.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cloneit/
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[017] - CVSSearch 2.0 Beta 1 (Development)
by Amir Michail (http://freshmeat.net/users/amir/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 00:30
CVSSearch searches for code fragments using CVS comments. Specifically, it
takes advantage of the fact that a CVS comment describes the lines of code
involved in the commit and that this description will typically hold for
many future versions. In other words, CVSSearch allows you to better search
the most recent version of the code by looking at previous versions to
better understand the current version.
Changes: This version is a complete rewrite of CVSSearch, and should be
easily installable, but requires CGI. It can search multiple CVS
repositories and completely, and has a completely new GUI that makes CVS
comment to source code mapping more explicit. There is a demo on the web
page.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cvssearch/
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[018] - CyberCalendar 1.7b (Default)
by Shawn Ewald (http://freshmeat.net/users/shawn1234/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 04:37
CyberCalendar is a calendar of events program for the Web and WAP/Handheld
devices written entirely in Perl. It features creation of an unlimited
number of calendars, ability to receive scheduled event reminders via
e-mail, sending events to friends as e-mail messages, and downloading
events in vCalendar format to your personal scheduling software or your
handheld device. It also supports multiple calendar administrators, is
fully configurable (including images and HTML colors), and runs as a CGI or
mod_perl application.
Changes: This release introduces the first basic implementation of support
for an Access Control List (ACL) -- this means multiple non-administrator
users can now have access to a single calendar as well as having different
permissions. There are many asthetic improvements to the calendar
interface. The HTML output has been cleaned up and extraneous HTML tags
have been removed. The documentation has been brought up to date.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cybercalendar/
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[019] - dirgroup 1.4 (Default)
by Juggler (http://freshmeat.net/users/juggler/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 23:29
dirgroup is a Perl script for merging the contents of a directory,
/etc/group.d, into the file /etc/group. Storing group information in a
directory allows users other than root to own and manage Unix groups. This
minor change to Unix permission semantics provides many of the advantages
of much more complex ACL systems.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirgroup/
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[020] - EffecTV 0.1.6 (Development)
by FUKUCHI Kentarou (http://freshmeat.net/users/fukuchi/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 02:59
EffecTV is a real-time video effector. It requires a video camera and video
capture card to be useful.
Changes: New effect SpiralTV is added and TV tuning is now supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/effectv/
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[021] - Eternity 0.3 (Default)
by dave (http://freshmeat.net/users/drs/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 01:09
Eternity is a multi-document text editor written in Java2 v1.3.
Changes: A find and replace feature supporting regular expressions has been
added, as well as a help system. Some bug fixes and other enhancements have
also been added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/eternity/
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[022] - Exted 0.0.2 (Default)
by astroknot (http://freshmeat.net/users/luc5/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:41
Exted is a text editor developed for programmers. Its philosophy is that
everything should be accomplished through commands. It is also desgined to
be extensible, which means that anyone knowing a little Python will be able
to make Exted fit his needs.
Changes: Syntax highlighting.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/exted/
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[023] - FreeBIOS 20010321 (Default)
by Jeff Garzik (http://freshmeat.net/users/jgarzik/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:14
freeBIOS is designed to be a generic open source firmware for use in any
PC-like system. Firmware initializes a computer and its peripherals, and
then transfers control to the operating system. Firmware also provides
various interfaces which operating systems may call to accomplish certain
system-wide tasks like power management or PCI bus scanning.
Changes: Better mainboard support, new chip support, bugfixes, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freebios/
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[024] - Freecell Solver 1.4.5 (Default)
by Shlomi Fish (http://freshmeat.net/users/shlomif/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:38
Freecell Solver is a 100% ANSI C program that automatically solves games of
Freecell and several similar Solitaire variants such as Forecell, Eight
Off, and Seahaven Towers. It can also be compiled as a library for use
within third-party applications.
Changes: A bug in the Soft-DFS scan was fixed.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freecellsolver/
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[025] - FreeLords CVS-20010321 (CVS Snapshot)
by (2B) - Tobias Mathes (http://freshmeat.net/users/areska/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:40
FreeLords is a turn-based strategy game similiar to W*rl*rds. It can be
played with friends on one computer or via network, and it is written in
C++ using Qt.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/freelords/
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[026] - ftpd-ssl 0.1.1 (Default)
by Rainer Weikusat (http://freshmeat.net/users/rwkst/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 04:08
ftpd-ssl (formerly linux-ftpd-ssl) is a hacked-up version of Debian's
OpenBSD ftpd port that supports control connections via SSLv3. It is useful
for building tunnels.
Changes: A workaround for the globing attack mentionned on BUGTRAQ has been
added, and there are some documentation updates.
License: BSD License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ftpd-ssl/
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[027] - GDIS 0.70 (Default)
by Sean Fleming (http://freshmeat.net/users/sfleming/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 05:11
GDIS is a visualization program for small molecules, crystals, and solution
cells. It is in development, but is nonetheless fairly functional. It has
support for BIOSYM, XYZ, XTL, MARVIN, and GULP files, and assorted tools
for visualization, animation, and model creation. Rendering of molecules
and energy minimization are also possible via Povray and GULP.
Changes: GDIS has been given a slightly different look with models (and
associated properties) displayed using a GTK tree. Crystal unit cells and
space group information is now processed with SgInfo. Crystal habits can
also be displayed (via cdd). Prettier element data display is also
available (via gperiodic). Some sample data files to illustrate the above
are included in the tgz package (*.gin and *.xtl for space groups and *.gmf
for morphology).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gdis/
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[028] - GnomerMind 0.8.1 (Default)
by Germano Rizzo (http://freshmeat.net/users/mano78/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 04:19
GnomerMind is a configurable and attractive looking MasterMind-type puzzle
game for GNOME.
Changes: Added two new configurable rules: possibility to choose whether to
allow repetitions in the field to guess or not, and possibility to choose
to leave some blank `holes' in your guessing row; added --geometry
argument in commandline; Added german locales; Updated various locales;
minor bugfixes and optimizations Two new configuration rules have been
added: the option to choose whether or not to allow repetitions in the
field to guess or not, and the option to choose to leave some blank holes
in your guessing row. The --geometry command-line argument is now
supported. German locales have been added. Various locales have bene
updates, and there are some minor bugfixes and optimizations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnomermind/
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[029] - Graffiti Server 0.76 (Default)
by Ray Yeargin (http://freshmeat.net/users/RayYeargin/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:12
The Graffiti Server is a small C program that allows the posting of
messages and, optionally, HTML. It displays the most recent messages but
has a search function for finding entries with a given keyword or string.
Users can post and delete their own messages, while the administrator can
delete any message. As configured, the server remembers about 2500
messages. The Graffiti Server is a traditional Unix daemon that installs
itself on a port, waits for connections, then forks another copy to handle
the request.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/graffiti/
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[030] - GRASS GIS 5.0beta11 (Default)
by markus (http://freshmeat.net/users/markusneteler/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 07:19
GRASS (the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System) is a software
raster- and vector-based GIS (Geographic Information System), image
processing system, graphics production system, and spatial modeling system.
GRASS operates in the UNIX environment through a shell, and can also work
under the X Windowing System. It contains many modules for raster data
manipulation, vector data manipulation, rendering images on the monitor or
paper, multispectral image processing, point data management and general
data management. It also has tools for interfacing with digitizers,
scanners, and the RIM, Informix, Postgres, and Oracle databases.
Changes: This release adds floating point raster maps and G3D raster volume
maps in zlib/FLATE compression (due to patent restrictions), various point
calculations fixes, and a configure script which has been updated to
detect more libraries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/grass/
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[031] - halfStats 1.0 Beta 7 (stable)
by Scott McCrory (http://freshmeat.net/users/smccrory/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 01:00
halfStats is a Perl program which parses Half-Life server logs and
generates player statistics in HTML files.
Changes: The new Half-Life logging format is now supported. Many irritating
warnings and errors have been fixed, see Changelog for details.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/halfstats/
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[032] - incident.pl 1.1 (Default)
by Viraj Alankar (http://freshmeat.net/users/valankos/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:42
incident.pl is a small script that, when given syslogs generated by snort
or other tools, can generate an incident report for events that appear to
be attempted security attacks, gather information on the remote host, and
report the attack to the appropriate administrators.
Changes: The recipients of reports are now logged in a file. Non-standard
characters were removed from email addresses.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/incident.pl/
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[033] - Inflex 1.0.0d (Daily)
by Paul L Daniels (http://freshmeat.net/users/pldaniels/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 02:04
Inflex is an email scanner which encapsulates your existing sendmail server
setup. It scans both incoming and outgoing email and it does not alter your
current /etc/sendmail.cf file. It can scan for email viruses, unwanted file
types (eg. EXE, BMP, MPEG) and file names (eg. prettypark.exe). It can also
be used to scan for text snippets within emails.
Changes: The install script has been improved for greater portabilitiy,
including to BSD systems.
License: BSD License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/inflex/
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[034] - Interoperable MPI Server 1.0 (Default)
by Jeff Squyres (http://freshmeat.net/users/jsquyres/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:39
This is a stable version of the Interoperable Message Passing Interface
(IMPI) Server. It fully conforms to the Januarry 2000 IMPI Draft Standard.
IMPI is used to join multiple MPI implementations into a single parallel
job. This package is independant of any specific MPI or IMPI
implementation, and is intended for end users as well as IMPI implementors.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/impiserver/
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[035] - IP Filter 3.4.16 (Default)
by ocipio (http://freshmeat.net/users/ocipio/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:33
IP Filter is a TCP/IP packet filter suitable for use in a firewall
environment. To use, it can either be run as a loadable kernel module
(recommended) or incorporated into your kernel. Scripts are provided to
install and patch system files as required. IP Filter also supports
transparent proxying via packet forwarding, including round-robin
forwarding to achieve load-balanced proxy.
License: Public Domain
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipfilter/
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[036] - itaSMS 1.0 (Default)
by sKaBoy (http://freshmeat.net/users/lucaognibene/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:59
itaSMS sends SMS to Italian phones.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/itasms/
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[037] - Jakarta Velocity 1.0b1 (Beta)
by Jon S. Stevens (http://freshmeat.net/users/jons/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 01:30
Velocity is a Java-based template engine. It permits web page designers to
use simple yet powerful template language to reference objects defined in
Java code. Web designers can work in parallel with Java programmers to
develop web sites according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) model,
meaning that web page designers can focus solely on creating a site that
looks good, and programmers can focus solely on writing top-notch code.
Velocity separates Java code from the web pages, making the web site more
maintainable over the long run and providing a viable alternative to Java
Server Pages (JSPs) or PHP.
Changes: Initial Beta Release
License: The Apache License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/velocity/
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[038] - jaquemate 0.9.2 (Default)
by apwingo (http://freshmeat.net/users/apwingo/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 04:31
jaquemate is a turn-based Web chess system that allows users to play as
they have time to do so. Users are notified over email when it is their
turn. The user moves through a frontend that shows possible moves on
mouseover of the pieces, moves the piece, and confirms the move,
resubmitting the board to the server once the move is made.
Changes: There are improvements in usability, security, privacy,
administrative, scalability, and aesthetics, as well as a PGN export and a
few bugfixes. CSS support for NS4 has been removed and lynx accessibility
has been improved.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jaquemate/
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[039] - javacmd 0.2 (Default)
by Marshall (http://freshmeat.net/users/marshallfm/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:09
javacmd lets you write quick and simple tests in Java on the command line.
Changes: Support for interface implementations, subclassing (extending),
and a simple "shell" mode for entering Java code straight on standard
input, a new README for more in-depth explanation of command line options,
and a cool new example.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/javacmd/
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[040] - JavaNCSS 10.25 (Default)
by Chr. Clemens Lee (http://freshmeat.net/users/ccl/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:41
JavaNCSS is a source measurement suite for Java. The metrics are collected
globally, for each class and/or for each method.
Changes: Setting JAVANCSS_HOME in javancss.bat automatically, a new -check
option to trigger self tests from the command line, and successful parsing
of super((InputStream)null,null).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/javancss/
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[041] - JeruKey 0.5 (Default)
by Jeru (http://freshmeat.net/users/Jeru/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:30
JeruKey is a small and fast utility that lets you bind actions to the
miscellaneous keys on your keyboard. JeruKey also allows you to transform
your keyboard's LED-indicators (Num_Lock, Caps_Lock, Scroll_Lock) into
monitors which flash to indicate information. JeruKey also comes with an
applet that displays information about the state of the keyboard
indicators.
Changes: Function-keys are no longer blocked, and a redo of jerukey_conf.
JeruKey is composed of two different programs: "jerukey" manages your keys,
and "jeruled" leads to the monitoring of your LEDs. selection-way was
redone for multi-assignation key, and appears as a pop-up window with all
your choices.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jerukey/
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[042] - JFS for Linux 0.2.1 (Default)
by Steve Best (http://freshmeat.net/users/stevebest/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:10
JFS for Linux is IBM's journaling filesystem, ported to Linux.
Changes: File system fixes and cleanups to use standard types.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jfs/
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[043] - KWvDial 0.7 (Default)
by Patrick Patterson (http://freshmeat.net/users/mcalister/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:58
KWvDial is a full featured Intelligent PPP Dialer for KDE. It is still
early in its development, but is however fully functional. Among its
features are intuitive handling of multiple profiles, basic online timer,
and a very mature connection engine.
Changes: Bugfixes and updates to work with KDE2.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kwvdial/
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[044] - loggrep 0.1 (Default)
by Gerhard Khüny (http://freshmeat.net/users/snorre/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 11:48
Loggrep greps kernel logfiles on ipchains firewall log entries and features
the ability to filter against given entries (date, IP, port, etc.). It also
features quasi-detection of portscanning, line counts, and HTML output. It
is currently under heavy development, and only 2.2 kernel logfiles are
supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/loggrep/
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[045] - mergelog 4.4 (Default)
by Bertrand Demiddelaer (http://freshmeat.net/users/cybert/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:35
mergelog is a small and fast C program which merges by date HTTP log files
in 'Common Log Format' from Web servers behind round-robin DNS. mergelog
has been designed to easily process huge logs from highly stressed servers,
and can manage gzipped files.
Changes: A major bug which could break the date sorting of the first log
line entry of each log file has been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mergelog/
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[046] - MID 1.11 (Default)
by WesMo (http://freshmeat.net/users/wesmo/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:37
The Machine Inventory Database (MID) is a Perl-based CGI interface to
manage the machines on and off your network. On top of acting as a
front-end to a simple MySQL inventory database, it handles IP assignment
and acts as a front-end to the configuration files for BIND, YP, and/or
DHCPD to reduce the chance for typos in the configuration files which tend
to bring down service.
Changes: New tables in the database (which resulted in adding and extending
fields within almost all of the tables), cleanups the output, true user
access levels, numerous changes to the codebase to simplify and streamline
it some more, numerous bugfixes, and a bunch of other changes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mid/
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[047] - mozCalc 0.2.1 (Default)
by Martin Kutschker (http://freshmeat.net/users/masi/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 05:30
mozCalc is a desktop calculator for Mozilla-based applications including
Netscape 6 and Mozilla. It is entirey written in XUL and Javascript.
Changes: An 'about' dialog has been added, and there are minor bug fixes.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mozcalc/
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[048] - mpgcut death (Default)
by laureck (http://freshmeat.net/users/laureck/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 07:49
mpgcut was a console-based MPEG audio/video/system file cutter. mpgcut is
no longer maintained, look for 'mt' instead. Following links are still
valid for historians.
Changes: This project is deprecated in favor of 'mt'.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpgcut/
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[049] - mt, an MPEG toolbox 0.1 beta (beta)
by laureck (http://freshmeat.net/users/laureck/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 07:07
mt allows you to split, join and fetch detailed information about a variety
of MPEG files. mt was designed with the good old Unix philosophy in mind:
'do little, but do it well, and provide the end user with an austary yet
powerfull command line interface.'
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mt/
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[050] - mynotify 0.3 (Default)
by Sam Bashton (http://freshmeat.net/users/sbashton/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:42
mynotify is a small script written in perl which is designed to SMS you via
an email to SMS gateway whenever a new Linux kernel version is released. It
can be configured to notify changes to the stable, development and
pre-patch branches.
Changes: Support for notification via smssend, and a new easy-to-use config
file.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mynotify/
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[051] - MySQL 3.23.35 (Default)
by ocipio (http://freshmeat.net/users/ocipio/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:45
MySQL is an SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. It is a
client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and
many different client programs/libraries.
Changes: Tuning of SHOW ANALYZE for small tables, and fixes for setting and
using user variables in SELECT DISTINCT, a bug in SHOW VARIABLES when using
INNOBASE tables, a wrongly-defined CLIENT_TRANSACTIONS, a new bug in ORDER
BY, and handling of arguments in the benchmark script `run-all-tests'.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysql/
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[052] - newrpm 0.1.0 (Default)
by Nico (http://freshmeat.net/users/nicoc/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 11:57
newrpm is a Python script that compares the RPMs available from several
configurable locations (FTP site, local directory, or file) to the RPMs
installed on your system, and prints a table with the new versions/updates.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/newrpm/
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[053] - newsq 0.11.1 (Default)
by Tony Houghton (http://freshmeat.net/users/realh/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:42
newsq allows you to re-edit, view, delete, and postpone messages in your
outgoing news queue after you've composed them but before you've uploaded
them to your remote server. It uses the curses library to provide a
powerful text-based interface. News transports currently supported are
leafnode, slrnpull, and NNTP servers in conjunction with a batch file such
as used by an INN/suck/rpost combination.
Changes: Enabling more compiler warnings, and identification of some
potential problems with unsigned/signed comparisons.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/newsq/
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[054] - nPulse 0.51p1 (Development)
by horsburgh (http://freshmeat.net/users/horsburg/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:11
nPULSE is a Web-based network monitoring package for Unix-like operating
systems. It can quickly monitor up to thousands of sites/devices at a time
on multiple ports. nPULSE is written in Perl and comes with its own (SSL
optional) Web server for extra security.
Changes: A bug in the ssh.conf file was fixed. The ability to selectively
delete events associated with a device was added. The event log is now
displayed by default on the Detail Pages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/npulse/
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[055] - OSS 3.9.4f (Default)
by 4Front Technologies (http://freshmeat.net/users/front/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 05:00
OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux
and FreeBSD. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and
mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound
System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the
installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple.
It supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound
card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and
support for full duplex audio.
Changes: This version supports Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD,
BSD/OS, UnixWare and OpenServer. 3D support for the AC97 devices like
Sigmatel and Cirrus which support stereo optimization. Automatic device
support for AlphaLinux has been added. There are Solaris 'devaudio' API
emulation fixes. Multiopen device support for Solaris has been improved
allowing /dev/dsp to be opened by multiple audio applications for recording
and playback at the same time. Intelligent device handling for full duplex
capable devices has been added. OSS now opens /dev/dsp1 by default when
audio is played, leaving /dev/dsp0 free for recording. ESS Maestro3/Allegro
drivers for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris x86, OpenBSD, NetBSD, BSD/OS, UnixWare
and SCO OSR5 has been added. 4front software based sample rate convertors
(included with Virtual Mixer and IMUX drivers) has been added. A beta
driver for LynxONE Pro audio sound cards for Linux and FreeBSD have been
added. An X Window System based GUI configurator and installer is now
available for FreeBSD (GTK required).
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/oss/
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[056] - PFE 0.30.89 (Default)
by Guido Draheim (http://freshmeat.net/users/guidod/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:36
The Portable Forth Environment implements the ANSI Standard of the Forth
programming language. It is fully written in C, and with gcc the virtual
machine can be put into cpu registers. The newer development versions
implement a set of modern features including modularization and
multithreading. The terminal connection itself can be configured to work in
an embedded environment.
Changes: Documentation, portability, bugfixes, and a new CVS area.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pfe/
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[057] - Phaser 1.01 (Stable)
by Accipiter (http://freshmeat.net/users/accipiter/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 16:58
Phaser was written to make CD burning under Linux a lot easier when done
from the console. The program asks a series of questions, and uses the
answers to set up devices, create images, and burn them to CD. Phaser
uses the cdrecord package to do the real work.
Changes: Code cleanups and fixes to the way some variables were handled.
License: Freely Distributable
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phaser/
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[058] - PHP LetterIt 0.91 (Default)
by otterman (http://freshmeat.net/users/otterman/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 07:45
PHP LetterIt is a newsletter script. It features the ability to change all
settings via the admin-script, deletion of emails (direct input or list), a
changeable footer, the ability to display subscribers, the ability to
generate statistics regarding the newsletter, and a backup of the email
list. It does not require MySQL.
Changes: There are some fixes and improvements.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/letterit/
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[059] - phpLittleChat 0-8 Beta (Default)
by Boris (http://freshmeat.net/users/imho/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:43
phpLittleChat is a fast text-file-based chat application with multichannel
support and a userlist of the selected channel. It currently works with
Netscape and Internet Explorer. It was written with PHP 4 (4.0.0 or greater
required). root access is not required to install phpLittleChat.
Changes: French and Italian language support and a fix for a major bug in
the /nick function.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phplittlechat/
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[060] - proManager 0.54 (Default)
by Edson Medina (http://freshmeat.net/users/edsonmedina/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:15
proManager is a PHP-based combination of a mind map, intranet, project
manager, and todo list. It features a recursive task tree, an advanced user
hierarchy, task-related notes and forums, email-like messaging, multiple
language support, and a database abstraction Layer (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and
Oracle).
Changes: This release now works with PostrgreSQL. Current user name was
removed from task slave selector. The missing "email" field in the Postgres
table was added. MySQL inserts were replaced with ANSI92 inserts. A better
emoticon replacement was implemented. A proManager.oracle DB dump was
added. Missing bulgarian translations were added.
License: Freeware
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/promanager/
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[061] - Pygmy 0.5.3 (Default)
by kj (http://freshmeat.net/users/kjetilja/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:16
Pygmy is a GNOME mail client written in Python with MIME support, filters,
and hierarchical folders.
Changes: A fill-paragraph feature was added to the composer. Some bugs that
caused decrypt and signature checking to fail on big messages were fixed.
Other small fixes were made.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pygmy/
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[062] - QUEF - QT Universal Emulator Frontend 0.1 (Default)
by Scott L. Patterson (http://freshmeat.net/users/kashis/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 02:37
QUEF is a universal emulator frontend written in C++ using the QT toolkit.
It provides a common interface shared by all emulators, a graphical
configuration for all emulator features, screenshot support and source code
written in C++ using QT 2.x with the ability to easily support more
emulators.
Changes: Initial release.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quef/
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[063] - QUEF - QT Universal Emulator Frontend 0.1.1 (Default)
by Scott L. Patterson (http://freshmeat.net/users/kashis/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 23:32
QUEF is a universal emulator frontend written in C++ using the QT toolkit.
It provides a common interface shared by all emulators, a graphical
configuration for all emulator features, screenshot support and source code
written in C++ using QT 2.x with the ability to easily support more
emulators.
Changes: This release fixes snes9x disabling joystick support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/quef/
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[064] - Red Hat Update 1.3 (Stable)
by Jon Miner (http://freshmeat.net/users/miner/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 23:29
Red Hat Update lists and downloads (but does not install or upgrade)
RedHat rpms that are available as updates to your installed system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rhupdate/
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[065] - Request Tracker 1.3.59 (Development)
by Jesse (http://freshmeat.net/users/jesse/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 03:23
Request Tracker (RT) is an automated system for monitoring, answering, and
documenting requests which was initially designed as a tool to aid a small
team of systems administrators manage the ever-increasing list of tasks and
requests at a burgeoning web startup. Since then, RT has been put to work
by Helpdesks, Systems Administrators, Development teams and Marketing
Departments, to track requests, tasks, and responsibilities. RT comes with
Web, command line, and email interfaces to its Mysql-backed data store.
Changes: There are many bug fixes and new functionality has been added. The
installatio and configuration is now easier.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/requesttracker/
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[066] - RIMiRadio RiR 0.4 (Enjoy the Silence) (Default)
by RIMBoy (http://freshmeat.net/users/rimboy/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 00:42
RIMiRadio is a floppy disk distro of Linux and an Icecast server.
Changes: Icecast 1.3.10 is included due to several security problems in
previous versions of Icecast, and it is suggested users upgrade. The
incorrect version reported in /etc/issue has also been fixed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rimiradio/
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[067] - rl 0.1.4 (development)
by Arthur (http://freshmeat.net/users/tiearthur/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:39
rl is a command-line tool that reads lines from an input file or stdin,
randomizes the lines and outputs a specified number of lines. It does this
with only a single pass over the input while trying to use as little memory
as possible.
Changes: Randomizing complete files and a major fix for platforms with a
small RAND_MAX.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rl/
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[068] - Rolodap 0.80 (Default)
by wintermte (http://freshmeat.net/users/wintermte/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:24
Rolodap is a multiuser contacts managment system that uses an LDAP server
to store all user, group, and contact information. It was developed using
PHP, HTML, and Javascript so that it can be accessed from any OS with a
Javascript capable HTML browser. The Web-based interface provides an
easy-to-use front end to the contacts directory, which allows users to
search and organize their contacts into user-created Address Books. A
single contact can appear in any number of Address Books, yet each contact
only exists in the database one time. This means data for each contact only
needs to be updated one time in order to affect change in all user's
Address Books.
Changes: Code to speed up opening any of the search pages, and a new
feature that will create an HTML page that contains all of the contacts in
a book, formatted so that it can be saved locally and referenced when not
connected to the Internet.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rolodap/
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[069] - Ruby 1.6.3 (Default)
by matz (http://freshmeat.net/users/matz/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 00:23
Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl
and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management,
dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library.
What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where
everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style
iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical
closures.
Changes: Many subtle bug fixes have been performed.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ruby/
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[070] - SakuraPlayer 0.1.0 (Development)
by Neo (http://freshmeat.net/users/neochrome/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 05:31
KDE2-port of TFMXcess, which plays TFMX music files (a popular Amiga game
music format) by using tfmx-play as a backend.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sakuraplayer/
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[071] - sawfish 0.38 (Default)
by ocipio (http://freshmeat.net/users/ocipio/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:07
Sawfish (the window manager formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible
window manager using a Lisp-based extension language. All window
decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled
through the language. Its aim is to manage windows in the most flexible and
attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop
backgrounds, application docks, or other things that may be achieved
through separate applications. Sawfish is mostly GNOME-compliant; almost
all configuration may be made through a graphical interface.
Changes: bug fixes
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sawfish/
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[072] - Sendmail 8.12.0 beta5 (Development)
by ocipio (http://freshmeat.net/users/ocipio/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:11
Sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, which is the program that moves mail
from one machine to another. Sendmail implements a general internetwork
mail routing facility, featuring aliasing and forwarding, automatic routing
to network gateways, and flexible configuration.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sendmail/
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[073] - Sentinel Groupware 0.8.6 (Development)
by NullLogic (http://freshmeat.net/users/nulllogic/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 02:10
Sentinel Groupware is a Web-based groupware package designed for contact
management and event scheduling, which seeks to actively promote
communication between its users via private messaging and public discussion
forums. It includes a simple order processing system, and inventory
tracking. PostgreSQL, MySQL and ODBC are supported, and Linux and Windows
versions are available.
Changes: There are minor fixes to improve printer output, and there are
documentation updates.
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sentinel-groupware/
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[074] - Shibatch sampling rate converter 1.28 (Default)
by Naoki Shibata (http://freshmeat.net/users/shibatch/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 18:18
This program converts the sampling rate of a PCM wav file. It can also
apply dither to its output and extend perceived dynamic range.
Changes: Improvements to the feedback filter of the dithering function, and
some minor bugfixes.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ssrc/
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[075] - SnapSource 0.14 (Default)
by Hans Dulimarta (http://freshmeat.net/users/dulimart/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 03:20
SnapSource is a utility written in Perl to automatically and periodically
take a snapshot (incremental backup) of your source code and display the
modifications in a 2-column (original and modified) format similar to that
of cervisia. Changes, additions, and deletions are displayed in different
colors, customizable per user preference. It is not another CVS, and it is
not a front-end to CVS, but it is supposed to be used in between CVS
commits.
Changes: Directories are manipulted using DirHandle to enable sorted output
of directory entries. 'Search by Date' output is now selectable. Clicking
on the delta files will automatically bring up a 2-column comparison
window.
License: OSI Approved
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/snapsource/
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[076] - sunclock 3.33 (Default)
by Jean-Pierre Demailly (http://freshmeat.net/users/demailly/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:48
Sunclock is a sophisticated clock for the X Window system. It displays a
map of the Earth and shows which portion is illuminated by the sun. In
addition to providing local time for the default timezone, it also displays
GMT time, legal and solar time of major cities, their latitude and
longitude, sunrise and sunset, and the mutual distances of arbitrary
locations on Earth. Sunclock can display meridians, parallels, tropics, and
arctic circles. It has builtin functions that accelerate the speed of time
and show the evolution of seasons.
Changes: The zoom widget has been improved and fixed. Dutch and Italian
localizations have been updated. A new huge 11Mb Earthmap is available on
the FTP site, producing very precise maps with zoom factor as large as 20.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sunclock/
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[077] - SysOrb Milestone VIId (Default)
by oestergaard (http://freshmeat.net/users/oestergaard/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 02:15
SysOrb is a client/server package that can monitor servers remotely (such
as Web servers), or monitor devices on servers (such as disks, memory,
load, etc.). It will alert the administrators via e-mail or pager if a
server is entering a critical condition, and has its own database backend,
allowing for massive collection of system statistics.
Changes: The FreeBSD packages now install properly. FreeBSD 4.2 is
supported instead of 4.0, and 3.5 is supported instead of 3.4. A possible
crash on NT and Win2K has been fixed. Problems with the Linux 2.4.X series
kernels have been fixed. Logging has been cleaned up in both server and
client. Various hard-to-trigger bugs have been corrected in servers and
clients.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sysorb/
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[078] - Text::EtText 1.1 (Default)
by Justin Mason (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmason/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 13:03
EtText is a simple plain-text format which allows conversion to and from
HTML. It provides an easy-to-edit, easy-to-read and intuitive way to write
HTML, based on plain-text markup conventions. Like most simple text markup
formats (POD, setext, etc.), EtText markup handles the usual things:
insertion of paragraph tags, header recognition, and markup. However it
also adds a powerful link markup system, and tries to generate code which
conforms to XHTML.
License: Artistic License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ettext/
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[079] - tfmx-play 0.35 (Default)
by Neo (http://freshmeat.net/users/neochrome/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 05:06
tfmx-play is a player for TFMX (The Final Musicsystem eXtended) music
modules. TFMX is an Amiga game music format developed by Chris Huelsbeck,
which has been used for games like Turrican 1-3, R-Type, Z-Out, Apidya,
M.U.D.S., The Oath and many more.
Changes: Fixed broken 8-bit and mono-modes in the ALSA-compatibility mode -
it should now work perfectly with both ALSA and OSS.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tfmx-play/
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[080] - TFMXcess 2.7.4 (Default)
by Neo (http://freshmeat.net/users/neochrome/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 05:05
TFMXcess (formerly known as kTFXshell) is a KDE frontend for tfmx-play, a
soundplayer for the Amiga game music format TFMX. It supports
drag-and-drop, i18n, KDE color schemes, and more. KDE 1.1 or later and Qt
1.44 are required (it may also run with KDE 1.0). tfmx-play is included.
Changes: The version of tfmx-play this package uses has been updated to
version 0.35, fixing broken 8-bit and mono modes in the ALSA-compatibility
mode.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tfmxcess/
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[081] - tNews 0.95 Beta (Default)
by technomancer (http://freshmeat.net/users/technomancer/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 14:00
tNews is a set of PHP3/4 scripts designed to provide easy-to-use basic news
headline support for Web sites. The system uses MySQL for the backend and
appearance is controlled by HTML templates. tNews is managed by a Web-based
interface allowing addition, deletion, and editing of news items.
Changes: The user interface was revamped for easier navigation. All
documentation was moved to HTML. Data import/export functionality was
added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tnews/
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[082] - unixODBC 2.0.5 (Default)
by Nick Gorham (http://freshmeat.net/users/lurcher/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:29
The unixODBC project provides UNIX applications with the same ODBC 3.51 API
and facilities available under Windows. It provides a Driver Manager that
supports the full ODBC API and performs the ODBC 3 to ODBC 2 translations
with UNICODE to ANSI conversion. It also includes a set of graphical
utilities that allow users to specify connections to DBMSes to be used by
applications, a collection of ODBC drivers including a simple text based
driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgres driver and others, and a selection of
templates and libraries that to aid in the construction of ODBC drivers. It
works with MySQL, Postgres, StarOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP, Perl
DBD::ODBC, Paradox 9, and many other applications and drivers. Connection
pooling is also provided to increase performance with applications such as
PHP.
Changes: Extra autoconf checks for -pthread and -mt compiler options were
added. A Postgres7.1 tree was added for code from new Postgres
development. Retrieval of errors was fixed for SQLTables and SQLColumns
call in isql. A memory leak in DM was fixed. The check for whether
readline needs -lcurses was fixed. A setup lib for SAPDB was added.
Locale fixes were added to the PG7.1 driver. A configure problem on
Solaris with threads was fixed.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/unixodbc/
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[083] - WebMake 1.1 (Default)
by Justin Mason (http://freshmeat.net/users/jmason/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 12:46
WebMake is a simple Web site management system, allowing an entire site to
be created from an optional set of text and markup files and one WebMake
file. It requires no dynamic scripting capabilities on the server, and can
be run entirely offline. It allows the separation of responsibilities
between content editors, page designers, and the site architect. Only the
site architect needs to edit the WebMake file itself, or know Perl or
WebMake code. Perl scripts can be embedded and executed to build pages.
Automatic dependency tracking means that pages will not be rebuilt unless
necessary. Metadata support means that indexes etc. can be built
automatically.
Changes: Tag-definition support was added, similar to JSP's taglibs or
Roxen user-defined tags. A guide for first-time WebMake users was added.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webmake/
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[084] - webredirect 0.2 (Default)
by Rasmus Kaj (http://freshmeat.net/users/rkaj/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 06:28
webredirect is an extremely small Web server that gives the "301 Moved
Permanently" response to all GET, HEAD, and POST responses. All other
requests are unsupported and result in a "501 Not Supported" response.
Changes: Command line arguments are now actually used.
License: BSD License
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webredirect/
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[085] - WML Trivia Game 1.0 (Stable)
by Ken Williams (http://freshmeat.net/users/kenw123/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 23:29
WML Trivia Game uses WAP/WML for WAP-enabled phones to interface with Perl
and MySql on a Linux box.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmlgame/
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[086] - X-Chat 1.7.0 (Development)
by ocipio (http://freshmeat.net/users/ocipio/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 17:06
X-Chat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit.
Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting.
Changes: Updates to German, Spanish, and Japanese translations, a new
Norwegian translation, a fix for a bug in xchat 1.4 server.conf loading,
away status and reason are sent to the server if disconnected, a new option
to have one tab for notices, a meter to measure server send queue, new
options (/FLUSHQ) to flush send queue and (/LAGCHECK) to force a new lag
check, new persist_chans, smooth pixel-based scrolling in xtext, fixes for
compilation errors and warnings, and a few new configure options.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-chat/
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[087] - xclip 0.02 (Default)
by Kim Saunders (http://freshmeat.net/users/snaund/)
Wednesday, March 21st 2001 00:57
xclip is a simple command-line utility which reads input from stdin and
puts it into the X selection of an X server, allowing you to paste this
data into any X application. xclip allows better intergration between
command line software and GUI programs. It's very convenient if you need to
copy and paste the (possibly voluminous) output of a command, or the
contents of a file. It saves you the trouble of selecting the text with
your mouse, which can be slightly tricky if the target text is very long.
Changes: The ability to read input from files as well as stdin has been
added, and it can now fork into the background while waiting for selection
requests.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xclip/
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