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Source: Freshmeat Daily News Ivman is a flexible userspace volume manager for
Linux. Originally an automounter, it can also be
used to run arbitrary commands when certain
devices are added to or removed from the system,
when properties on existing devices change, or
when devices emit conditions. Unlike
gnome-volume-manager, it runs from a console. It
uses D-BUS and HAL to listen for new devices, and
uses pmount for mounting.
License: Q Public License (QPL)
Changes:
Devices or mount points containing spaces will now
mount correctly. A few other very minor fixes
were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News kFlickr is a standalone Flickr uploader for KDE.
It allows for easy upload with drag and drop.
Common attributes can be edited before sending the
photo. Multiple users are supported.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Photos may be rotated. A contextual menu was added
for the photo list. A large preview is shown on
demand. You can now navigate up and down while
editing. Multi-word tags are supported. Unicode is
properly supported for communications. Initial
German and French language support was added. The
available bandwidth is updated after each photo
sent. Photos are uploaded to existing or new
photosets. Bugfixes were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Thousand Parsec is a 4 Xs game (eXplore, eXpand,
eXterminate, eXploit). Unlike commercial alternatives,
it is designed for long games supporting universes as
large as your computer can handle. It allows a high
degree of player customization, and features a flexible
technology system, where new technologies may be
introduced mid-game.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Libtpproto-cpp is a client side networking/protocol library for
the Thousand Parsec game protocol. After a few quiet releases, the
development of libtpproto-cpp is now getting to the point at which
people can start using it to write clients for Thousand Parsec. The API
has not yet stabilized, but is close to what the final version should
be. An example commandline client is available in the TP CVS.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News L4/Iguana is a small operating system developed specifically for safe
and secure embedded systems. It runs on the L4 microkernel and supports
running Linux as an application.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Wombat Linux Server is a port of Linux that runs as an application on
top of L4/Iguana.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Advanced Stock Tracking System (AST) is a
Web-based application for keeping track of stocks.
It features a portfolio with dividend tracking, a
worksheet to keep track of prospects, a stock
comparison utility, and a search engine for the
stock market based heavily on technical analysis.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for multiple currencies (a portfolio is
displayed in a single currency), a view library for sharing views
between multiple users, and many bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Zoem is a macro/programming language. It can be
used as an all-round macro language, but has more
specialized uses as well. One such specific use is its
support for creating small mark-up languages that map
to different devices. It has character filtering
capabilities tailored to this application. Two such
languages come packaged with zoem; one for creating
manual pages that can be output either in troff or in
HTML, the other for creating FAQs again in either troff
or HTML output. It supports arithmetic evaluation,
regular expressions, multidimensional data storage,
iteration, comprehensive IO, control operators,
dictionary stacks, system commands, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Several special-case primitives have been reimplemented as macros, and
the label/reference framework is now encoded in user space. The new
register#2 primitive allows registration of macros to be run after
regular processing. The new whilst#2 primitive outputs immediately
without concatenating intermediate results. The tr interface has been
sanitized, and the multiple output stream implementation has been
cleaned. Several text transformations are supported with textmap#2,
including Roman numerals, upper and lower case, and (for recreational
value) Caesar and Vigenere encryption.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News CACAO is a JIT compiler for Java. It started as a
research JavaVM to explore new implementation
techniques. Currently, it is able to run on Alpha,
MIPS (64-bit), x86, x86-64, and PowerPC (32-bit)
architectures. Other architectures and
optimizations like inlining and linear scan
register allocation are under development.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds JIT code generators for Arm and MIPS (32-bit, -o32),
a JNI local references implementation, Java 1.5 support, a finalizer
thread, a fixed instanceof instruction, integration of a vmgen-based
interpreter (--enable-intrp), lazy resolving fixes, a linear scan
register allocator (-lsra), reflection fixes and access checks (mauve
tests), and an update to Boehm GC 6.6. GNU classpath has been removed;
CACAO now uses upstream releases or CVS head versions,
Source: Freshmeat Daily News K3b is a CD and DVD burning application for Linux systems optimized for KDE. It provides a comfortable user interface to perform most CD/DVD burning tasks, such as creating an audio CD from a set of audio files or copying a CD. While the experienced user can influence all steps of the burning process, the beginner may find comfort in the automatic settings and the reasonable defaults which allow a quick start. The actual burning is done by the command line utilities cdrecord, cdrdao, and growisofs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release loads the index0 value in audio projects, ignores case in
cue files, uses the "eject media" setting properly in all situations,
and fixes a bug in the MP3 decoder which caused it to miss some
perfectly valid MP3 files.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Avahi is a framework for Multicast DNS Service
Discovery on Linux. It allows programs to publish
and discover services and hosts running on a local
network with no specific configuration. For
example, you can plug into a network and instantly
find printers to print to, files to look at, and
people to talk to.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This release fix a segfault which occurred shutting down the daemon,
adds init scripts for ArchLinux and FreeBSD, adds DBUS API versioning,
and builds the HOWL compatibility library as "libhowl.so" instead
of "libavahi-compat-howl.so" (the same for the Bonjour compatibility
library).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Oreka is a modular system for recording and
retrieving audio streams. It currently supports
VoIP SIP, Cisco Skinny (SCCP), raw RTP, and sound
device-based capture. Recording metadata can be
stored in any mainstream database. Retrieval of
captured sessions is Web-based.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A Windows installer and Debian/Ubuntu binary packages are now available.
The "make install" target now works under Linux. The audio output
location can now be configured (with the "AudioOutputPath" tag in
config.xml). orkaudio now daemonizes by default under Linux. This
release fixes a bug which caused a Skinny session to go undetected and
one which caused an NT service to sometimes crash when stopped by the
user.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Joblist is a script for managing jobs. Jobs have different priorities.
With integrated team management, everyone is able to insert and update
members and jobs. Every job has a deadline and can be marked as done.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds passwords and email addresses for team members, a
login procedure, and a guest account.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Extreme FTP is an FTP daemon created with security as a priority. It
features SSL/TLS and other ways to both secure the end hosts during
connections and transfers.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds add_features() for module developers, auth -lock =
config -lock in auth.c, and a compilation date in eftpd -D. It fixes
NLST (used by the Windows client), a mistake in feat.h, and a typo in
ls.c.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PureAdmin is a graphical tool used to make the management of PureFTPd a little easier. It is not dependent on a specific desktop environment such as GNOME or KDE, but is designed with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines in mind.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds some new tango-based icons in various sizes. Some
minor bugs have been fixed since the 0.3 preview, including startup
notification not working correctly and the status icon not disappearing
when it should.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Bulk Meter Flow and Operations project provides a Web-based
application to manage water meter readings.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds the ability to aggregate meter readings along with
per-user access control. Support for ORACLE 10g XE has been added, along
with a new GMED report. All PDF reports are implemented using servlets
now, and available in Excel format. Several bugs have been fixed, and
the documentation and installation process have been improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Klear is a KDE-based TV viewer for DVB. It includes internal tuners for DVB-S, -T, and -C. It is also able to record video streams in live- and scheduled-mode as MPEG TS and MPEG PS. It shows OSD information, takes snapshots, deinterlaces the video stream, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds I18N support with two languages (German and Italian),
fixes a crash which occurred while deleting EPG data, adds recording
margins, and fixes compilation problems on 64bit systems and some minor
bugs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News 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.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for Chinese (Big5 and GBK) and some updated
documentation. The unofficial Debian package is gone, since there is an
official package now.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News libarxx is a C++ implementation for accessing ARX
archives. ARX archives are compressed and
structured collections of data items with advanced
features like data synchronization, references for
external data items, and merging multiple archives.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
With this release, libarxx is finally independent from libbuffers. The
concept of nested buffers has been integrated in libarxx and cleaned and
improved beyond the scope of libbuffers. The zlib dependency has been
made optional, so you can run libarxx without any library dependencies
at all.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Mupen64 is a Nintendo64 emulator desgined to be
multi-OS. It was developed on/for Linux
originally, but has already been ported
succesfully to Windows and Mac OS X.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Flagedit is a CLI USE flags and package keywords
editor for Gentoo Linux. It lets you edit the USE
flags of /etc/make.conf, as well as the
/etc/portage/package.use file. It also allows you
to easily edit /etc/portage/package.keywords.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds bugfixes and minor features.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PenguinTV is a Python-based RSS reader
specifically designed for downloading and viewing
podcasts and video blog entries.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds gconf support and keybindings for many commands, and
speeds feed filters dramatically. This is the first prerelease for 1.0.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News caui (Configurable Audible User Interface) is a
simple plugin-based audible user interface.
Plugins use speech synthesis software to interact
with a user and perform specific actions. The main
method of input is a keyboard or number pad. This
project is the successor to the Blind MP3 Player.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a backend mode, fixes some bugs, and makes enter plays
songs or directories.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Accelerando is a musical metronome that can speed
up, allowing you to practice your music at
progressively faster tempos. For example, you
could set it to play 60 beats per minute for 4
bars, then automatically speed up by 10 beats per
minute, and so on.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A maximum tempo can now be set, so that as the tempo goes up, the
maximum is approached asymptotically.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Nixory is an innovative, fast, and powerful
anti-spyware program, with a user-friendly
graphical interface. It protects Mozilla Firefox
from dangerous spyware and harmful cookies.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds code and GUI bugfixes and a code cleanup.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News cssed is a CSS stylesheet editor for Web
developers. It lets you write your own (XML based)
CSS definition files and then insert CSS
properties and values in the stylesheet, just by
clicking in a tree view. You can also enable
autocompletion in a document basis, so the CSS
properties and values are selected from pop menus
in the editor to increase speed. While static CSS
values are inserted directly, complex CSS values
are dialog driven. The CSS definition file
included in the release fully supports CSS2.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes various bugs and features internal improvements,
leading to much better modularity and better integration among cssed
modules. It focuses on the management of various documents at one time,
better integration with the document list, and reordering capabilities
on opened documents by simple drag-and-drop operations. An effect of
these improvements is the new Python plugin, which lets you create and
execute Python scripts capable of interacting with the main application.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Mail Avenger is a highly-configurable,
MTA-independent SMTP server. It lets users run messages through filters like ClamAV and SpamAssassin during SMTP transactions, so the server can reject unwanted email before assuming responsibility for its delivery. Other unique features include TCP SYN fingerprint and network
route recording, SPF (sender policy framework) as a general policy language, qmail-style delivery of extension addresses, validation of sender addresses through SMTP callbacks, mail-bomb protection, integration with kernel firewalls, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a rare core dump in asmtpd. While this was not a
security problem, it is recommended that people upgrade for reliability.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News OpenDaemon provides a model of work along with its
supporting APIs that allow anybody to implement a
server of any kind, for any protocol. Its main
goal is to help provide an advanced data storage
solution that is flexible enough to allow its user
to choose from a broad set of parsers, data
extractors, processors, or any other supporting
API. The generic server platform system is meant
to make development of the data storage solution
more open and distributable.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release continues the evolution of the system into a generic server platform so it can support the advanced data storage solution that's intended to be plugged into it in the future. Among the major modifications are generalization of the engine API such that support for any storage format is provided, and a full rewrite of the configuration system.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Prelude-LML is a signature-based log analyzer monitoring your log file and received syslog messages for suspicious activity. It handle events generated by a large set of components, including but not limited to: APC Emu, BigIP, Cisco PIX, Clamav, Dell-OM, Grsecurity, Honeyd, ipchains, Netfilter, ipfw, Nokia ipso, Apache ModSecurity, Ms-SQL, Nagios, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, NTsyslog, Pam, Portsentry, Postfix, Proftpd, SSH, and others.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The rules for linksys-wap11, mssql and p3scan were
updated. Rules were added for the Suse-specific
PAM log format. The Netfilter ruleset was made
simpler, faster, and easier. The ability to have
multiple logfile formats per log source was added.
The ability to start multiple UDP servers and to
filter on any server instance was added. An issue
with Target Node remaining empty on configuration
using no-resolve was fixed. A possible bug where
LML file descriptors were not monitored in daemon
mode was fixed. A crash which occurred if the
machine canonical name could not be retrieved was
fixed. A debug plugin crash was fixed. Static
compilation was fixed. Various bugfixes were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Oxylus Newsletters System is a complex newsletter
system. It allows you to manage multiple groups.
You can import and export users, and public
subscription is allowed. It allows linux users to
schedule newsletters for a specific date using a
crontab job. For each sent newsletter, you can see
its history and whether it was successfully sent.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version is fully compatible with PHP5. The
mails are sent just once to all the users. The SQL
error which occurred when new groups are created
was fixed. Various framework bugfixes were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Crossroads is a load balance and failover utility for TCP-based
services. It is a daemon program running in userspace and features
extensive configurability, polling of backends using "wakeup calls",
detailed status reporting, "hooks" for special actions when backend
calls fail, and more. It is service-independent; it is usable for
HTTP(S), SSH, SMTP, DNS, etc.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This is a maintenance release. Messages are now
logged with priority LOG_NOTICE (which ensures
debug information on default Mac OS X). When the
creation of a listening socket fails, crossroads
will retry after a specific number of
sleep-seconds (this prevents "port steals"). The
stability of the wakeup handler was improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PHP Bookmarks is a simple, easy to configure
PHP/MySQL bookmark system that supports themes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
An RSS feed and Firefox live bookmarks support
were added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News plugmon is a basic system monitoring utility with
minimal configuration requirements. Filesystems,
kernel messages, and daemons are monitored from a
standalone binary that only requires an email
address as configuration. It can be started from
an init script or a cronjob. No central service is
needed. It aims to give a minimum of false alarms.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
plugmon is no longer confused by RPC programs
(such as nfsd). Configuration changes now work
retroactively. Event timeouts now work correctly.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Basilisk II is a free, portable, Open Source 68k Mac emulator. It requires a copy of a 512K or 1MB Mac ROM and a copy of MacOS 7.x or 8.x to run.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Major changes in this release included a just-in-time translation engine that converts 68040 instructions to native code (x86, x86_64), run-time resolution and depth switching, user-mode and TUN/TAP networking, text exchange through the clipboard, and a native port to Mac OS X.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News TopologiLinux is an easy-to-install Linux
distribution that is designed to be run on top of
or inside your Windows computer without requiring repartitioning. It can mount itself using a loop-back device or be run like a traditional distribution, and works with DOS, Windows 9x, or Windows 2000/XP systems with an NTFS or FAT partition. It is based on the latest version of Slackware and
contains some extra packages like OpenOffice.org, Wine, and much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release is based on a 2.6.14.2 kernel and Slackware 10.2. It is now also possible to install the distribution like a traditional Linux distribution, though loopmount and colinuxmode are still supported. Almost all of the packages were updated and GNOME 2.12 was included.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Scmbug is a system that integrates software configuration management (SCM) with bug-tracking. It aims to be a universal tool that will glue any source code version control system (such as CVS, Subversion, and Arch) with any bug-tracking system (such as Bugzilla and Mantis).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A bug that prohibited committing against bug IDs with more than one digit was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News NASLite is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server
operating system designed to transform a basic
computer into a dedicated file server. Utilizing
highly optimized versions of Samba, uCLibc,
BusyBox, and various other Linux tools, it
provides SMB/CIFS, FTP, or NFS filesystem support.
It accommodates multiple client OSes: Windows, Mac
OS X, and Linux. NASLite offers SMART disk
monitoring and large file support, and is
incredibly easy to install and administer.
License: Other/Proprietary License
Changes:
The SMB/CIFS master browser capability was enabled. Minor fixes were made in the status info generator along with a general code cleanup.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News morigin email classifier is a filter that classifies and tags email
messages based on the DNS information of the system submitting the mail
to your organization. This classification can then be used to improve
upon existing spam filters such as SpamAssassin.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
dietlibc is not supported. A new positive feedback function that remembers previously seen email address/IP pairs was implemented. Long mail headers no longer risk being broken.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News quickmail is a PHP script that reads email from an IMAP server and outputs it in RSS format that can be displayed in a browser (as XML, using included CSS) or RSS aggregator or WML for use on WAP devices (like mobile phones or PDAs). The output has been tested and found to be valid CSS, valid RSS, and valid WML.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Major feature enhancements were made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x, WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M recommended).
License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
Changes:
This stable release features full support for 64-bit guest operating systems and improved support for 64-bit host operating systems. Opening and importing of Microsoft Virtual PC and Virtual Server VMs and Symantec LiveState Recovery system images was implemented. A new Ethernet adapter type for 64-bit guests was introduced. Support for wireless Ethernet adapters used in bridged networking for connecting VMs to wireless networks on Linux hosts was enhanced. Support for various 32-bit host and guest operating systems was improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Fedora Project is a community-run Linux
distribution sponsored by Red Hat.
License: OSI Approved
Changes:
This test release features a modular X.org, vastly improved Asian language input support with SCIM, a kernel based on 2.6.15-rc1-git3, GCC 4.0.2, GNOME 2.12, KDE 3.4.92, the Xen 3.0 snapshot for i386, improved open source Java, and major installer changes.
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