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Slashdot
Linux Beer Hike in Slovakia
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2145241
[0]palfreman writes "The [1]Linux Beer Hike is less than a month away.
This year it is in [2]Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, following last years
success in [3]County Clare, Ireland, and the 2001 event in [4]Bouillon,
Belgium. This year the dates are Saturday, August 9 to Sunday, August
17. There is also [5]registration site and a members mailinglist. I'm
driving from England, a 2400 mile round trip!"
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://www.linuxbierwanderung.org/
2. http://lbw2003.anteus.hu/
3. http://www.lbw2002.draiocht.net/
4. http://lbw2001.ynfonatic.de/
5. http://www.lbwand.org/lbw2003/index.html
Robot Balloon Escapes In Britain
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/0253256
[0]tjake writes "Theres an [1]interesting story running about a
[2]intelligent robot balloon that escaped its handlers while being
transported around the [3]Magna Science Adventure Centre. "The flyborg
has a computerised brain which allows it to avoid obstacles. " It was
freed by "a very strong freak gust of wind which ripped the airship out
of the hands of its handlers". I'm thinkin, is this a random mistake or
the start of the attack?"
Links
0. http://www.darkridge.com/~jake
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/3060297.stm
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/robots/images/home/flyborg.jpg
3. http://www.magnatrust.org.uk/
Grid Computing Coming Of Age
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/016221
[0]ravenousbugblatter writes "The New York Times online has an article
discussing [1]grid computing and recent advances made by [2]Dr. Ian
Foster, among others. The article compares the state of grid computing
over the internet to where the internet was in 1994, which was soon
after the development of the software for the use of URL's, HTML, and
HTTP. Predictions are made in the article that in the near future the
massive power of grid computing will be available to anyone with an
internet connection, not just to big companies that can afford to hire
[3]HP and [4]Sun to run a grid project for them."
Links
0. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. http://nytimes.com/2003/07/15/science/15GRID.html
2. http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/
3. http://www.hp.com/techservers/grid/
4. http://wwws.sun.com/software/grid/
New Linux PVR Box
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/16/008235
An anonymous reader points to this product from Interact-TV, known as
[0]Telly, writing "Cool little box. PVR, stores photos, burns VCDs or
DVDs (if you get a DVD burner), serves up stored content on your home
network, nice gui, works with some satellite and digital cable boxes,
2.4.18 kernel. Freevo or mythTV can do about the same thing but this
one is ready out of the box."
Links
0. http://interact-tv.com/products.php
Torvalds Says Linux IP Is Sound
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2258245
An anonymous reader submits: "In an [0]interview with CRN, Linus
Torvalds says he's confident there won't be any IP problems discovered
in Linux. In fact, Torvalds, says he was extra careful with issues like
the IBM Read Copy Update code."
Links
0. http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=43276
Lycoris Announces Desktop/LX Tablet Edition
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2225209
penguinrenegade writes "[0]Lycoris has announced the release of a new
[1]Tablet Edition of their popular [2]Desktop/LX Operating System.
There are several screenshots in the tour, and it looks like a really
polished system, including some of the things that you'd really need in
a Tablet, like the virtual keyboard, actually working. It appears
according to one page that there are already Tablets in production by
some manufacturer, too. So much for Bill Gates and his vision of only
Microsoft on a Tablet, eh?"
Links
0. http://www.lycoris.com/
1. http://www.lycoris.com/products/tablet/
2. http://www.lycoris.com/products/desktoplx/
Scribus 1.0 Released
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2143210
McShazbot writes "Graphics.com has [0]this article about the release of
Scribus 1.0 ([1]homepage, [2]mirror) desktop publishing software. Check
out some [3]screenshots. If it can even marginally compete with the
[4]industry leader, this is a big deal -- I know a lot of people for
whom Quark is the killer app that prevents them from moving to Linux,
and most of them are tired of [5]paying a grand for the privilege of
using it."
Links
0. http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1780
1. http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/
2. http://scribus.planetmirror.com/
3. http://www.atlantictechsolutions.com/scribusdocs/scriscreen.html
4. http://www.quark.com/
5. http://www.quark.com/products/xpress/purchase/#full_product
Details of Linux-in-Munich Deal Revealed
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1854215
An anonymous reader writes "[0]USA Today is running [1]a piece about
the lengths which Microsoft went to in order not to lose the government
of Munich's account to a Linux-based proposal from SuSE. Interesting to
see how these types of contracts are structured, and just what
Microsoft is willing to give up to prevent losing to Linux."
Links
0. http://www.usatoday.com/
1. http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030714/5320229s.htm
Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1847212
gbjbaanb writes "Softbank, in Japan, has [0]built a gigabit ethernet
network to replace DSL over ATM, which costs peanuts to maintain and
run. For $21 a month, Japanese users get 12Mb/sec, free VoIP (without
quality loss) calls to users on the same network, (3c/min to New York),
and DVD-quality movies. The company needs users to stay with the
service for 15 months to break even, given that it is giving modems
away for free."
Links
0. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pipedream.html
Orbital Space Plane Problems
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1811228
[0]FTL writes "NASA's next big step in space (after getting the
remaining Shuttles flying again) is the construction of the [1]Orbital
Space Plane. It is a small vehicle designed to transport people to and
from ISS. Jeffrey Bell takes a close look at OSP in [2]this article and
comes to the conclusion that it will result in yet another crippled
vehicle. Sounds like what people were saying about the [3]Shuttle's
problems back when it was being designed."
Links
0. http://neil.fraser.name/
1. http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/news/2003/news-OSP.asp
2. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/rocketscience-03zj1.html
3. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/8004.easterbrook-fulltext.html
Newsforge Reports
NoMachine offers universal thin client appeal
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2146247
- by Lee Schlesinger - Linux naturally lends itself to thin client
computing -- it's easy to boot remote workstations off a Linux server
with software as basic as an X Window server or as useful as the Linux
Terminal Server Project (LTSP). Rome-based NoMachine is now offering
thin client computing with a new twist. NoMachine's NX Server and NX
Client let you use the same client software on both Windows and Linux
machines. Organizations deploying ...
OGo: No go so far
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/14/1513220
- by Russell Pavlicek - The OpenGroupware.org (OGo) project last week
announced the release of its software under GPL and LGPL licenses. This
new project claims to be the software that can replace Microsoft
Exchange servers with a totally Open Source solution. As I looked at
the press release, I saw quotes like "The release of OGo means the
OpenOffice.org suite is ready for the enterprise complete with
full-featured and mature groupware ...
Open Asia: GNU/Linux gaining visibility across the continent
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/10/2133217
- by Frederick Noronha - Occupying some 30% of the Earth's land, with a
population of 3.7 thousand million, Asia includes 47 countries and
assorted island dependencies. This is a region where resources are
scarce and infrastructure weak, yet GNU/Linux is achieving some
interesting gains in Asia that are not widely being reported.
Newsforge Newsvac
AOL Cuts Remaining Mozilla Hackers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/2332203
It has been learned through public and private sources that AOL has cut
or will cut the remaining team working on Mozilla in a mass firing and
are dismantling what was left of Netscape (they've even pulled the
logos off the buildings). Some will remain working on Mozilla during
the transition, and will move to other jobs within AOL.
Combatting vendor lock-in with open source
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1941216
Jan Stafford writes "In part two of this three-part series,
SearchEnterpriseLinux.com experts detail the harm vendor lock-in can do
to technology development, whether Linux and lock-in ever go
hand-in-hand, and more."
Lycoris targets Tablet PCs with new OS
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1939247
Anonymous Reader writes "Lycoris has announced its new OS for the
tablet PC, Desktop/LX Tablet Edition. Joining the company's award
winning Linux desktop, the Tablet Edition gives OEMs and vertical
markets access to a Linux-based OS for their tablet-based devices."
History of the NeXT Platform
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1913245
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews published an article about the NeXT
Platform, discussing its history and its capabilities back then. The
article has lots of screenshots and it is generally a good introduction
--of the once innovative platform-- for younger readers who are unaware
of the inheritance that lead to Mac OS X."
Philosophical Split Hurts Web Services Adoption
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/190229
There is a serious split in Web services implementation philosophy
that is threatening to stall the benefits of the technology to
businesses and consumers. The WSDL 1.1 specification allows programmers
to choose between remote procedure call (RPC) style and document-style
Web services. The decision is not an arbitrary one as it has
ramifications for both message structure and more importantly the
interoperability of Web services.
Tonight Live: Roblimo talks DevChannel
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1849225
Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: Roblimo talks DevChannel >> on The
Linux Show! Tuesday, July 15th, 2003, from Chicago IL. Tonight LIVE on
www.thelinuxshow.com. At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin
Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff Gerhardt are all
back live tonight. We have a great show lined up for tonight on The
Linux Show!
MontaVista Software and AMD Alchemy Solutions to P
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1628206
Annette Oevermann writes "SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 15, 2003 --MontaVista
Software Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today
announced MontaVistaî Linuxî support for the AMD Alchemy(TM)
Solutions Driver Information Reference Design Kit (RDK). With AMD
Alchemy reference d esigns and MontaVista Linux, automotive OEMS and
Tier 1 suppliers now have an enhanced hardware/software combination to
power the next wave of high performance ...
India group: Outsourcing saves U.S. jobs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1543218
Anonymous Reader writes "Citing statistics from market research firms
such as McKinsey, the body said the United States stands to save over
$300 billion over the next six years by shifting some business
operations overseas."
The politics of open-source software
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1541257
Anonymous Reader writes "The ISC is by far the most vocal opponent of a
growing trend: Legislation that, if enacted, would all but prohibit
government agencies from purchasing proprietary software for their own
use. The ISC asserts that such legislation could jeopardize the future
of the worldwide commercial software industry."
Linux Journal Announces Winners of 2003 Editors' Choice Awards
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/15/1540203
SEATTLE, WA -- SSC Publications, publisher of the award-winning monthly
magazine Linux Journal, is pleased to announce the winners of the sixth
annual Editors' Choice Awards.
Freshmeat
2Pong 0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129377/
2Pong is a pong clone. However, there is one visible difference from
the regular pong--it is played with two balls instead of one. The game
features three modes of play: the regular pong game with 4 difficulty
levels, a kickups like mode with two balls, and a "2 vs 2"
mode. Network support for "1 vs 1" games is also available.
adamoto 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129337/
adamoto is an Application Deployment And MOnitoring TOol. It's a
client/server based application for deploying software packages with a
Web frontend. The Web frontend in conjunction with the server enables
sysadmins to administrate and monitor the deployment of software
packages on the computers in a network. It supports Linux RPM and
Windows MSI files directly.
AdvanceMAME 0.71.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129387/
AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade
monitors, TVs, and PC monitors.
AdvanceMENU 2.2.8
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129388/
AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and other
arcade emulators. It supports extended features like PNG/MNG/MP3
animated snapshots, up to 192 previews at the same time, and many other
features.
Animal Shelter Manager 1.12 PRE 2 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129354/
Animal Shelter Manager is a complete computer solution for animal
sanctuaries and rescue shelters. It features complete animal
management, document generation, full reporting, charts, Internet Web
site publishing, and more.
Argus Monitoring System 3.2.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129403/
Argus is a system and network monitoring application. It will monitor
nearly anything you ask it to monitor (TCP + UDP applications, IP
connectivity, SNMP OIDS, etc). It presents a clean, easy-to-view Web
interface. It can send alerts numerous ways (such as via pager) and can
automatically escalate if someone falls asleep.
AutoDia 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129416/
AutoDia is a Perl application designed to allow the easy creation of
XML diagrams from various data sources. The output is meant for use
with Dia (or any XML parser). AutoDia supports any language through the
use of handlers, and a good handler for Perl as well as a simple
handler for C++ are included.
BEJY 1.2.1.45
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129355/
BEJY is a modular server application. It has functionality similar to
inetd and some helper classes/functions to ease the implementation of
new protocols. It provides a generic multithreaded TPC/IP server
implementation with optional SSL support, covering the complete
connection and thread management. Each supported service provides its
protocol implementation(s), where the protocol dependend handling is
done. The current version comes with HTTP, SMTP, POP3, and IMAP
protocol implementations. The HTTP protocol implementation also
contains a servlet engine, a JSP engine, a handler to invoke CGI, and
other useful things.
BG-Rescue Linux 0.1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129396/
BG-Rescue Linux is a Busybox 0.60.5 and uClibc 0.9.19 based rescue
system with kernel 2.4.21. It is loaded either from two floppy disks or
from one 2.8MB El Torito CD. The system runs entirely in RAM. It has
full IDE/ATAPI support (including disk, cdrom, tape, and floppy). NFS
mounts are possible. Support is included for several recent ISA/PCI,
USB, PCMCIA, and PLIP network adaptors. Supported Filesystems are
ext2/3, Reiserfs, cramfs, devfs, iso9660, minix, MS-DOS, NFS, NTFS
(read), proc, smbfs, tmpfs, UDF, UMSDOS, and vfat. Software raid (0, 1,
4, 5, and linear), LVM, and USB keyboards are supported. Additional
included programs are: e2fsprogs 1.33, reiserfsprogs 3.6.8, lilo
22.5.4, dosfstools, cramfs, umsdos-utils, fdisk, gpart, mdadm, lphdisk,
smbclient, bzip2, cabextract, zip/unzip, loadlin, and pcmcia-cardmgr.
Bob Shaffer's C++ Tools 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129363/
Bob Shaffer's C++ Tools include libraries for working with delimited
text files, MySQL databases, UNIX mail files, and CGI queries.
Build it Fast 0.1.14
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129371/
Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes
that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of
time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It
features Cascade Skins and transparent session management.
BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129335/
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most
of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc.
The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their
full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included
provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU
counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for
any small or embedded system.
Camera Picture Copier 0.0.1-0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129334/
Camera Picture Copier reads files from a source and copies them, making
a directory for each day and renaming all files to the time they where
last modified. This can be used to copy/rename pictures from a digital
camera (USB-mounted) to have them make more sense.
Cerberus Intrusion Detection System 0.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129386/
cIDS is an intrusion detection system, not based on packets, but rather
based on actual intrusion recognition (as in a remote login from root,
etc). It also logs scanning attempts and all remote attempts. It is
good for private users looking for some form of security on their box.
cfperl 0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129380/
cfperl extends the cfengine syntax, preserving compatibility with the
cfengine commands. It also introduces new functionality: user
management (add/delete/modify), crontab management, file deployment
from a configuration hierarchy, and Perl-based file editing. cfperl can
coexist with cfengine, or it can be used as a standalone program.
CGIcast 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129420/
CGIcast is a small collection of scripts designed to give users the
ability to broadcast live audio, in either MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats,
using only a Web server. This is intended for users who have access to
a Web hosting account which permits them to run CGI scripts, but not to
run live streaming daemons like Icecast. This allows cheap hosting of
Internet radio shows without having to spend more on specialist
streaming providers.
ColorDesigner 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129330/
ColorDesigner is a small app which lets the user design a color set.
Conflux Groupware 1.0 (Lite)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129392/
Conflux is a Web-based groupware and file management solution intended
to organise and facilitate the work of the client. The basic
functionality includes shared calendars, tasks, contacts, discussions,
and an email client. Built on open source components such as
PostgreSQL, Python, mod_python, and Apache, Conflux is a stable and
cost-effective solution for optimizing the time you spend on your daily
tasks.
Customer Information Tracker 20030419-1936-jam
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129164/
CIT uses the Eros BBS engine to build a customer information tracker.
It has two tables so far: contact (which stores first name, last name,
pager, email, and an organization id) and organization, which stores a
name for the organization, a billing address, and a shipping address.
You can have as many contacts as you want, and as many organizations as
you want (within the limits of disk space). So far, you can manage
(add/edit/delete) contacts and organizations, and display the list of
contacts associated with an organization.
Cyrus SASL 2.1.15 (SASLv2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129375/
The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for easy integration of
secure network authentication to any client or server application. It
supports authentication via standard plaintext methods as well as
CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 shared secret methods and KERBEROS_V4 and
GSSAPI Kerberos methods. The SASL protocol framework is used by SMTP,
IMAP, ACAP, LDAP, and other standard protocols.
Database of Managed Objects 1.901 Alpha
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129422/
DMO is generic object management, documentation, and inventory
software. It enforces defining an abstract hierarchical structure for
the data stored, making object management very intuitive. All the data
in a company can be stored in a structured manner, from hard disks,
computers, and printers to routers, UPSes, and alarm systems. Powerful
querying and PDF report generation, plugin support, a high level of
customization, and very clean code make DMO a very powerful tool.
dhcp-agent 0.41 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129345/
dhcp-agent is a UNIX Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) suite
that is extendable via Scheme using Guile. The suite currently ships
with a beta quality DHCP client and sniffer.
dione 1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129365/
dione is a Genetic Programming framework written in Python. It takes
advantage of Python's internal compiler to make things simple, and
includes basic genetic operations (rank/roulette selection, crossover,
mutation, steady state, elitistm, etc.).
Divine Intervention 1.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129339/
Divine Intervention consists of two programs. The first is a very
accurate BPM measurement tool. The second is a player which can change
the tempo of music. The player allows nudging, forward and backward
movement by measures, and other nice things.
Dolibarr 0.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129349/
Dolibarr is a small and simple Web interface with ERP and CRM
capabilities. It is designed for small companies and freelancers, and
can be used to deal with the bills and documentation required for
company management.
Drall 1.13.0.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129343/
Drall is a script which allows users to access their directories and
files remotely without the need of using insecure FTP and telnet. It
enables the user to treat the remote file system as if it was on their
local hard disk through a normal Web browser. The interface resembles
the well known Norton Commander and GNU Midnight Commander. Single or
dual-panel views makes it easy to see an overview of the file system
and the modular design means you only use the features you need. Drall
is written in Perl for easy customization and expansion.
EasyTAG 0.28.1 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129381/
EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC,
Ogg Vorbis, MusePack, and Monkey's Audio files. It features a simple
and attractive GTK+ interface.
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook 2.3.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129351/
ELOG Electronic Web Logbook is an electronic logbook with a Web
interface. It can be used to maintain personal or shared logbooks, with
the ability to add attachments to logbook pages. Logbook entries can be
categorized with user-defined classes, and queried using filters on
these classes. Automatic email notifications can be generated on new
entries based on the classes. The ELOG server is a small stand-alone C
program, which runs under Linux and Windows. The logbooks are saved in
plain ASCII files for easy and fast access.
Enca 0.99.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129404/
Enca detects the encoding of text files, on the basis of knowledge of
their language. It can also convert them to other encodings, allowing
you to recode files without knowing their current encoding. It supports
most of Central and East European languages, and a few Unicode
variants, independently on language.
Euphoria 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129407/
Euphoria is a simple, flexible, easy-to-learn programming language. It
lets you quickly and easily develop programs for Linux, FreeBSD, DOS,
and Windows. Although Euphoria provides subscript checking,
uninitialized variable checking and numerous other run-time checks, it
is extremely fast. It also includes a complete reference manual.
Filepp 1.7.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129340/
filepp is a generic file preprocessor designed to allow the
functionality provided by the C preprocessor to be used with any file
type. It supports the full set of C preprocessor keywords (#include,
#define, #if, etc.). filepp is also highly customisable and allows
users to easily add their own keywords or modify the behaviour of
existing keywords.
Fremtris 0.4.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129400/
Fremtris is a J2ME implementation of the well-known Tetris game. It
works on every Java (J2ME) compatible mobile phone and PDA.
GNUstep 20030715 (Daily Snapshot)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129118/
GNUstep is a set of general-purpose Objective-C libraries based on the
OpenStep standard developed by NeXT (now Apple) Inc. The libraries
consist of everything from foundation classes, such as dictionaries and
arrays, to GUI interface classes such as windows, sliders, buttons,
etc.
GProFTPD 8.0.5 (GNOME 2)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129395/
GProFTPD is a GNOME frontend for the ProFTPD standalone server.
gspi 0.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129358/
gspi is a Guile-based interface to the GNOME AT-SPI. It allows querying
of the GNOME desktop via a Scheme evaluator.
GTacToe 0.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129385/
GTacToe is a Tic Tac Toe game that features intelligent AI, network
play, two player local games, and much more.
Hastymail 0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129326/
Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP
client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and
reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a
useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away
from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is
required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text
based and even PDA browsers like Blazer).
iTree Pro-XQ Powertree 6.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129336/
iTree Pro-XQ Powertree is a Java tree menu with drag 'n' drop, tabs,
scalability, and database friendliness. It also features a large
variety of search facilities and runtime editors which are especially
useful for large interactive application interfaces. Menu content can
be fed from an easily written text file or database interface script.
Other features include multi-state user-definable icons, true-type
fonts, pixel-level customizable colors and layout, script triggers,
multiple scrolling logics, checkbox and radio menu items,
line-wrapping, and rollover effects.
Java Email Server 2.0 Alpha 2 (2.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129399/
Java Email Server is a SMTP and POP3 email server written in Java.
Java FileMover 0.6.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129329/
The FileMover is a tool which allows you to mass rename and move files
in your preferred operating system using regular expressions. This
program was inspired by mmv, a famous Unix tool. The files that match a
specified regular expression are renamed. The new name is derived from
a pattern which can include parts of the original name. Pre-defined and
user-defined functions can be applied to the back references of the
original name. The results of renaming can be previewed before actually
being performed.
Jaxe 1.5.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129374/
Jaxe is a Java XML editor with a graphical document-oriented interface.
It is configurable with an XML schema and a configuration file. It
supports validation at element insertion, and is customisable with Java
modules. There is an HTML preview with an XSLT stylesheet. Examples
include XHTML strict and a Docbook article.
JaxMeXS 1.02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129282/
JaxMeXS is a parser for XML Schema, written in Java. Unlike Xerces or
similar parsers, this one isn't written for validation of conforming
instances, but for schema authors who like to use the schema
information or extend the XML Schema language with private data. An
excellent example is JAXB, the Java/XML binding specification.
Linstall Wizard 1.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129408/
Linstall is a full featured Linux installation wizard for X11. It
allows Linux developers to distribute their programs in a easy to
install and use interface.
Make CD-ROM Recovery 0.7.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129394/
mkCDrec (Make CD-ROM Recovery) makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster
recovery image, including backups of the Linux system to one or more
CD-ROM(s) (multi-volume sets). Otherwise, the backups can be stored on
another disk, NFS disk, or (remote) tape. After a disk crash or system
intrusion, the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore
the complete system as it was. It also features disk cloning, which
allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does
not have to be of the same size, as it calculates the partition layout
itself). Currently, ext2, ext3, minix, MS-DOS, FAT, VFAT, Reiserfs,
XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported. mkCdrec is also able to restore
disks in Software RAID and LVM mode.
MemAid 0.2.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129414/
Memaid is a software designed to predict optimal time of repetitions
(computes best possible intervals between reviews, using an Artificial
Neural Network). It may be used in learning anything. It makes your
learning process much more effective: less time wasted, more things you
remember.
MIDAS NMS 2.0g
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129350/
MIDAS NMS is a highly configurable network monitoring and network
intrusion detection server. It uses a distributed client/server model
that allows it to scale to very large networks, and features highly
optimized Snort support that dramatically reduces the overhead of both
the Snort Sensor and the alert data repository. It also supports
Netsaint/Nagios plugins and Big Brother clients, allowing for easy
migration.
MilterQuota 0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129417/
MilterQuota is a milter (mail filter) for sendmail using libmilter. It
implements quotas for inboxes without any influence of the amount of
disk space the user can fill. There is one central configuration file
where you can enter pairs of user/max.inboxsize and you can also enter
a default value for all users. This makes a site-wide configuration
easy. An additional feature is the override address: as an
administrator you can still send important mail to users with full
inboxes.
Mixmos 0.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129376/
Mixmos is yet another GTK-based OSS mixer program. It's attempt to
create a nice and useful soundcard volume control program for Linux.
Music Player Daemon 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129383/
Music Player Daemon (MPD) is a server that allows remote access for
playing music (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and Flac) and managing playlists. The
design focus is on integrating a computer into a stereo system that
provides control for music playback over a local network. Currently, it
includes a Web interface, phpMp. The goals are to be easy to
install/use, to have minimal resource requirements, stability, and
flexibility.
mvc 0.8.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129327/
MVC is a text mode v4l video capture program that features motion
detection. It is very small and easy to use, and could be used to
monitor and record the people that enter your room.
myServer 0.4.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129338/
myServer is a free and easy-to-configure Web server. It is
multhithreaded and supports multiprocessor machines.
MySource 2.8.0 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129331/
MySource is a powerful, open source Web site and intranet content
management system. It is designed to enable technically unskilled users
to build and maintain their own online solutions securely,
professionally, and inexpensively. It is written in PHP, and requires
both MySQL and Apache. Once installed no programming skills are
required to operate the system.
NetBeans XML Project 3.5 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129372/
NetBeans XML Project is an open source XML editor for the NetBeans
3.3.2 IDE. It provides an XML text editor with coloring and completion,
an XML tree editor, XML entity catalogs support, a DTD documentator,
and Java code generators.
netBeep 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129405/
netBeep is a collection of a few Perl scripts that enable you to make
music using only your computer's internal speaker. It was designed to
work over networks, allowing you to use many computers to play the
music--each one playing a certain (not necessarily, but usually,
different) part. This means you can have a whole orchestra of
computers, and it allows for chords and harmonies! You can, of course,
use a standalone computer if you wish, but it won't show off the full
potential of netBeep. A script is also included that converts
Nokia-style ring tones to netBeep music files (scores). This will help
you get started quickly.
oBR-9x 0.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129292/
oBR-9x is a port of the clean R-9x style/theme to Openbox.
OpenOffice.org 1.1 Release Candidate 1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129419/
OpenOffice.org is the Open Source project through which Sun
Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice
productivity suite.
OSS 3.9.7l
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129406/
OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under
Linux, *BSD, Solaris, UnixWare, OpenServer, AIX, HPUX, LynxOS, VxWorks,
and Tru64. 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.
OZradio 0.9.6.6 beta
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129348/
OZradio is a Linux FM radio player, CD Player, and CD Ripper for KDE
and GNOME. It supports Video4Linux compatible FM/TV cards. It features
the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume
control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand
recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording.
PeopleLink IM Server 5.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129397/
PeopleLink IM Server is a robust instant messaging server that offers
secure IM, content logging, file transfers, and group chat. It is
simple to set up and can run inside or outside a firewall. It can use
the PostgreSQL database to store login and buddy list information.
PHPChain 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129421/
PHPChain is a secure Web-based password database designed to securely
encrypt and store passwords. Data is encrypted using the Blowfish
algorithm and stored in a MySQL database.
phpIntranet 2.9.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129360/
phpIntranet is a PHP/SQL intranet application. It includes a front end
for managing a staff database, an inventory database, modular
calendars, a tournament engine (round robin, single elimination),
SpamAssassin configuration integration, birthdays, image storing, etc.
phpIntranet also includes a session -> SQL based shopping cart and
an orders database to integrate into an e-commerce Web site.
phpQLAdmin 2.0.15
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129367/
phpQLAdmin is designed primarily for administration of a QmailLDAP user
database, but also has EZMLM and QmailLDAP/Controls management ability.
phpSupport 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129389/
phpSupport allows users to submit trouble tickets through a Web form or
an email gateway. It gives the option of emailing the creator of a
trouble ticket when updating or closing it. All tickets and information
are stored in a MySQL database.
Postfix 2.0.14-20030715 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129413/
Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used
Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and
hopefully secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible
enough to not upset your users.
Prima 1.11
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129378/
Prima is an extensible Perl toolkit for multi-platform GUI development.
Supported platforms include Linux, Windows NT/9x/2K, OS/2, and UNIX/X11
workstations (FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS, Solaris, and others). The toolkit
contains a rich set of standard widgets and has emphasis on 2D image
processing tasks. A Perl program using Prima looks and behaves
identically on X, Win32, and OS/2 PM.
QmailAdmin 1.0.23
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129418/
QmailAdmin is a Web control panel for the administration of
qmail/vpopmail-based POP, IMAP, LDAP, or Web mail accounts, forwarding,
aliases, autoresponders, and mailing lists. It is perfect for ISPs, Web
hosting sites, or companies that want to provide a nice interface for
managing email accounts. It works with qmail, vpopmail, sqwebmail, and
courier-imap.
Reqwireless EmailViewer 2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129390/
Reqwireless EmailViewer is a rich email client for mobile Java (J2ME)
devices. In addition to sending and receiving simple plain text email
messages, it supports advanced features including HTML-based email,
images, links, spam filtering, Hotmail, attachments, and much more.
Users enjoy a rich email experience on any mobile Java device.
ROBODoc 4.0.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129411/
ROBODoc is an API documentation tool. It extracts specially-formated
comment headers from a source file and puts them in a separate file.
ROBODoc allows you to include the program documentation in the source
code and avoid having to maintain two separate documents. ROBODoc can
format the documentation in HTML, LaTeX, RTF, XML DocBook, or ASCII
format. It is even possible to include parts of the source code. It
works with Assembler, C, C++, Java, Perl, LISP, Occam, Tcl/Tk, Pascal,
Fortran, shell scripts, HTML, and COBOL; basically any language that
supports comments.
Sacred 1.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129382/
SACRED is an enhanced version of the ROM 2.4b6 codebase. The
enhancements include new player skills, spells, classes, and races.
Also included are arenas, OLC, Mud Compression Protocol, a Clan system,
new flags, questing, color, automatic auctions, enhanced immortal
utilities, spellchecking, hints, and many more features.
Security Filter 1.1-b1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129346/
SecurityFilter is intended for use by Java Web application developers.
It provides robust security and automatic authentication services for
Web applications. It mimics the behavior and configuration format of
container-managed security, but has several important advantages that
make it an ideal solution for single-context, public Web sites, or when
it is necessary or simply desirable to avoid the server configuration
hassles and portability issues associated with container-managed
security.
Sound Juicer 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129328/
Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool that features a clean interface and
automatic tagging of files.
Studycard Studio Lite 1.0.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129332/
Studycard Studio Lite is a program to create and memorize multimedia
flashcards, tests, and tutorials, including picture and sound
identification. It is meant for teachers, students, or anyone who has
something to memorize. Students can create and study their own
flashcards and track their progress. Teachers can create quizzes or
flashcards for their students.
SurakWare Base Library 0.4.0-beta2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129341/
SurakWare Base Library (libswl) is a native C++ multi-platform system
library that provides an abstract layer to the key system routines as
well as utility modules, STL add-ons, and other useful classes for
solving common tasks (multi-threading, I/O streams, networking, etc.).
Tapestry 3.0-beta-2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129384/
Tapestry is a rich, component-based object model for developing
dynamic, robust, highly interactive Web applications. Applications are
constructed in terms of Java objects, methods and properties, instead
of URLs and query parameters. It builds and interprets all URLs,
dispatching directly to application-specific "listener"
methods. It includes complete source code, documentation, tutorials and
a complete example J2EE application.
Tentacles 0.7.0 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129402/
Tentacles is a peer-to-peer networking program for GTK+ 2 with support
for detailed metadata, multi-sourcing, and file integrity control.
Thy 0.6.321 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129344/
Thy is a lightweight HTTP daemon that is designed to be clean and fast,
yet powerful enough to serve many hits a day. Despite its small size,
it supports CGI, IPv6, SSL/TLS, and on-the-fly compression.
Turl 0.1a
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129353/
Turl is a TinyUrl clone that checks the URL to make sure it is valid
and attempts to look up the title for each URL. Links are checked every
day to make sure they are still active. After 10 days, inactive links
are disabled but still checked.
TUTOS 1.1.20030715
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129379/
TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) is a groupware or
ERP/CRM suite that helps small to medium teams manage various things in
one place. Its features include personal and group calendars, an
address book, product and project management, bug tracking,
installation management, a task list, notes, files, mailboxes, and
useful links between all of the above.
vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor 0.9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129352/
vtkFlRenderWindowInteractor is a class which enables you to create
applications with full VTK and FLTK integration and interaction. This
means that VTK renders to your FLTK UI, and your FLTK UI interacts with
the VTK pipelines. Standard VTK interactor styles and picking work by
default. This code has been tested successfully on Linux, SGI Irix, Sun
Solaris, and Windows (NT and 2000).
XML Security Library 1.0.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129366/
XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an
implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature
and XML Encryption.
xmlBlaster 0.849
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129333/
XmlBlaster is XML based MOM (Message oriented Middleware) with a lot of
features. It is a publish/subscribe and point-to-point MOM server which
exchanges XML-encoded messages. Communication with the server is based
on CORBA (using JacORB), RMI, XML-RPC, native socket, or a persistent
HTTP plugin. Subscribers can use XPath expressions to filter the
messages they wish to receive and add their own MIME-based filter
plugins. C/C++, Java, Perl and PHP client demos are included in the
xmlBlaster test suite, and Tcl and Python demo clients are scheduled.
XmlBlaster also provides a browser callback framework, allowing
browsers (Netscape, Mozilla, MSIE) to receive instant callbacks over a
persistent http connection. A security plugin framework allows
authentication/authorization in many ways. Currently there are LDAP-
and passwd-based plugins available.
XPCE/SWI-Prolog 5.2.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/129368/
SWI-Prolog is an implementation of the Prolog language which aims to
provide a free, user-friendly, fast, and scalable platform for learning
Prolog, for doing research in logic programming, and for application
development. With its XPCE graphics library, it provides a development
environment for Prolog and portable (Unix/X11, Windows, and Mac OS X)
graphics to applications. It features a very fast compiler, compliance
to ISO and many de-facto standards, scalability, modules, garbage
collection (even for atoms), fast two-way C and C++ interfaces,
embeddability, last-call optimization, and portability (ANSI-C, 32 and
64-bit platforms).
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