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Source: Freshmeat Daily News FBReader is an e-book reader for Linux PDAs and
desktop computers. FBReader currently works on
Sharp Zaurus, Siemens Simpad with Opensimpad ROM,
Nokia 770, and Linux desktop computers. FBReader
supports several e-book formats: plucker, palmdoc,
zTXT, HTML, fb2, and plain text.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A package for Nokia 770 was added. A bug with file
opening on reiserfs was fixed. Support for iconv
was added, which makes it possible to use system
encodings and generally speeds up the conversion.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DataparkSearch is a Web search engine tool. It features support for http, https, ftp, nntp, and news URLs, htdb virtual URL support for
indexing SQL databases, text/html, text/xml, text/plain, audio/mpeg (MP3), and image/gif mime types built-in support, external parsers
support for other document types, the ability to index multilangual sites using content negotiation, searching of all of the word forms
using ispell affixes and dictionaries, stopwords and synonyms lists, boolean query language support, results sorting by relevancy, popularity
rank, last modified time, and importance (a multiplication of the relevancy and popularity ranks), support for various character sets, and
phrases segmenting for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai languages. It has accent-insensitive search, mod_dpsearch for Apache, and support for internationalized domain names.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The Summary Extraction Algorithm (SEA) has been
added. The "robots" table has been added to cache
robots.txt data for a period specified by the
RobotsPeriod command. Some indexing speed
improvements were made. A new "wtime" column has
been added to the "qtrack" table to store the time
spent for search, in milliseconds. More accurate
phrase segmenting has been implemented for queries
in the UTF-8 charset. Language maps were added for
several languages and the UTF-8 charset. Search
query segmenting has been fixed for UTF-8
BrowserCharset. Several bugs were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Wcalc is a very capable calculator. It has standard functions (sin, asin, and sinh for example), many pre-defined constants (pi, e, c, etc.), support for using variables, a command history, hex/octal/binary input and output, unit conversions, bit-shifting, embedded comments, and an expandable expression entry field. It evaluates expressions using the standard order of operations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The biggest bugfix is in file I/O. The rest of the
fixes are relatively minor. Drawers work again,
and the weird resizing behavior in the GUI was
eliminated. The areasinh menu display in the GUI
was corrected.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News RCCrypt for C/C++ is an adapted version of the
RCCrypt function for C/C++. It works both in Linux
compilers (gcc) and Windows (Borland C and Visual
C++ 6 and .NET 2003). There are some PHP
functions converted to C, like URLEncode, that
the function uses, but it can be useful alone.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Anthias is a graphical shell. It integrates the approach of the
traditional Unix console with modern GUI shells like Konqueror.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release is a mockup created to gather feedback from users/developers. Please post your suggestions/feedback on the sourceforge.net forum for this project.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Roadnav is an in-car navigation system capable of
running on a variety of operating systems,
including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It can
obtain a car's present location from a GPS unit,
plot street maps of the area, and provide verbal
turn by turn directions to any location in the
USA. It uses the free TIGER/Line files from the US
Census Bureau to build the maps, along with the
GNIS state and topical gazetteer data from the
USGS to identify locations.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
With this release, the core functionality is available in a separate LGPL'd library, LibRoadnav. Also new in this version is more fine grained control over themes, the ability to change the GPS marker icon, smarter screen repositioning, LCDproc support, and many smaller changes. This version also fixes the stability problems under Mac OS X.
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:
Hopefully fixes a bug that broke integration with Bugzilla 2.18 when integration with Bugzilla 2.20 was introduced.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News AN JEstion LIbre de CArnicas (Anjelica) is an Enterprise Resource
Planning application focused on meat companies. It allows the user to
send faxes and mail, can create impressions of labels, connects to your
tilt, and includes a barcode reader.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version corrects errors in the installer and solves some failures detected in the module of payments.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Python Sudoku is a program to create or resolve
sudoku puzzles. It features both text and
graphical interfaces. It can also print a sudoku
(1 or 4 sudokus in each page) and write an image
file with a sudoku.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release will get the format from the filename extension in image output (--format=FORMAT to force a format). It adds "--print_command" to set the command for printing the sudoku. It adds "Give one number" to the Sudoku menu. It adds "Save as PDF" and "Save as Image" options to the GUI. Some lines not painted in the image output have been fixed. Bug #1370230 (print menu option not working) and bug #1370230 (print not working in Windows) have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PBNJ (Ports Banners N' Junk) is a network tool
that can be used to give an overview of a machine
or multiple machines that includes the details
about the services running on them. It is
different from other tools because it is based on
using a scan from nmap parsed to amap. It parses
the data from a scan and outputs to a CSV format
file for each IP address scanned.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds --fromfile-scan, which takes a list of IPs for the scan. This is useful when scanning machines from a range of classes. It adds --email-type, which includes three options: diff (only emails the diff), alldata (emails the output CSV file), and both (emails both of the other options).
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BlinkFlash is a command line tool for uploading images to winkflash, a mail order digital photo printer. It is a script that automates the Web-based file upload process. It can also create new albums, set photo notes (which are printed on the backs of photos), and download images from the free online account.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds image and album download, and fixes a bug setting notes for USA accounts.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News getmail is intended as a simple, secure, and
reliable replacement for fetchmail. It retrieves
email (either all messages, or only unread
messages) from one or more POP3, SPDS, or IMAP4
servers (with or without SSL) for one or more
email accounts, and reliably delivers into
qmail-style Maildirs, mboxrd files, or through
external MDAs (command deliveries) specified on a
per-account basis. getmail also has excellent
support for domain (multidrop) mailboxes,
including delivering messages to different users
or destinations based on the envelope recipient
address.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Fixes a harmless copy and paste error in the IMAPRetrieverBase class.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BixData is a system monitoring tool. It monitors services (HTTP, ping, POP3, SMTP), performance, and processes. You can create critical notifications and get email alerts for HTTP, ping, CPU, memory, and even SMART diagnostics. A graphical console for Linux and Windows supports real-time dynamic graphs. The runtime clients and server component are lightweight and easy to set up, and run on Linux and Windows.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
This releases fixes an issue in the startup of Client, Server, and Console, where it suggests you upgrade to a newer version.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ProShield is a security program for Debian Linux.
It helps insure that your system is secure and
up-to-date by checking many different aspects of
your system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Several bugfixes. Several small but good improvements to the proshield.sf.net Web site, including an "Easy Install" for newbies. This release has a "debug mode" for troubleshooting.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Contineo is a Web-based document management
system. It assists its users by managing documents
in most popular formats. Contineo aims to fulfill
all phases of the document lifecycle. You can
create and develop documents by using office
software. With contineo itself, you can publish,
search, and manage the versions of documents.
Furthermore, you can communicate with other users
directly or via email.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Searching in MS Word documents is working again. There is a Spanish translation of the user interface. The included JDBC drivers for MySQL, Firebird, MS SQL Server, and Sybase were upgraded. Other core libraries were also upgraded. Even though this release is still beta, it is considered to be much more stable and secure than the 2.0 release.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News IPA Zounds models language sound changes
by applying a given set of sound change rules
to a given lexicon. It has a built-in model of
the International Phonetic Alphabet, allowing
users to write input words in IPA characters
and rules using those characters or the
distinctive features of the model.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for transliterating input and output into and out of non-IPA scripts, using user-defined mappings (IPA and X-SAMPA support built in). It adds a reverse sound change applier to the zounds module and script. It adds a delayedrelease binary feature and alveolar and postalveolar affricates to the IPA model.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The Z-machine Preservation Project is a Java
implementation of the Z-machine (Java version
= 5 is required). The project goal is to
provide a Z-code interpreter in Java that conforms
to the standard and is easy to comprehend,
maintain, and extend. Architecturally, it consists
of a Z-machine core system that is independent of
a particular user interface technology. The core
system's behaviour is documented and verified
through its test cases.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version adds support for version 4 story files, window splitting, and paging.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Jumping Jack Slack is a Slackware-based Linux
distribution for the kind of people who write
screenplays and fiction, create Web sites, and
develop software in Python. It is around 300
megabytes large, and it includes LyX and TeTeX for
writing; Apache, Firefox, Thunderbird, Elinks, and
mutt for the Web; Python and the standard compiler
tools for programming; and Emacs for religious
reasons.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds exuberant ctags, hacker-docs, libpng, lua, png2ico, ruby, and tidy. It removes mutt (too much UI) and replaces it with nail.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News RLIB is a reporting engine that makes it possible to easily create professional reports in PDF, HTML, text, and CSV from one simple XML report definition
file. It supports direct input from MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, and programmable pluggable inputs. It is written in C and has PHP and Python language bindings built in.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds support for precalculated variable values, multi-line fields (memo fields), and meta data. Precaculated variable values give you the variable value as it would normally be at the end of the report or break footer (if you have reset on breaks). This way, you can have the totals and subtotals in header sections, or use these values in expressions on normal detail lines. Multi-Line Fields allow you to have text span more than one line in a column. An example of this would be comment fields. MetaData allows you to define data field types coming from data sources.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SmartEiffel (formerly named SmallEiffel,) is The GNU Eiffel Compiler. This is a free Eiffel compiler distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is intended to be a complete, though small and very fast, free Eiffel compiler. The current distribution includes an Eiffel to C compiler, an Eiffel to Java bytecode compiler, a documentation tool, a pretty printer and various other tools. Eiffel is an advanced object-oriented programming language that emphasizes the design and construction of high-quality and reusable software.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Optimizer fixes. Some library fixes, particularly (BIT_STRING). Removal of some incorrect warnings.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Contact Form is a Perl script that allows users
to send you email through a Web interface. It
is designed to thwart spammers by not
allowing email to be sent to unknown
addresses, or revealing the addresses that it
knows. In addition to this, it does not contain
cross site scripting vulnerabilities or allow
arbitrary code to be run on the host. It
provides adequate information in the headers
it sends to trace spammers, can check the
validity of all data before sending emails, and
features a customizable interface that allows
for arbitrary fields.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release contains simple templating to make integration with a Web site's look and feel easier.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News fish, the friendly interactive shell is a shell that is focused on
interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design
goal of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in
a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a
user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of
every completion, tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many
completions for specific commands. It also features an extensive and
discoverable help system. A special help command gives access to all the
fish documentation in your preferred Web browser. Other features include
syntax highlighting with extensive error checking, support for the X
clipboard, smart terminal handling based on terminfo, an easy to search,
no duplicates history.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release introduces a more Posix-like syntax for double-quotes and recursive wildcard searches using '**'. It also fixes a few minor bugs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News SDOM is an attempt to provide a complete implementation of
the W3C Document Object Model level 3 API, including event
handling, in Scheme, as an extension of the SXML API. It holds
to SXML's conventions regarding the representation of
structured XML as S-lists and conforms to SXML's grammar
such that SDOM documents are also SXML documents and can
still be fully manipulated using the SXML API.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release increases the number of tests in the test suite by an order of magnitude, and also includes improved DOM conformance, several functions that were previously missing, improvements to performance, and many bugfixes that greatly improve the usefulness of the package. The documentation has been expanded to better reflect the contents of the API.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News AeroMail is a Web-based email client that uses an
IMAP server to read and store messages in one or
more user-defined folders. Features include: HTTP
authentication for login (no cookies) or login
with cookies; Optional IMAP folder manipulation;
optional spam flagging using reverse DNS mapping;
HTML messages and attachments; simple HTML that
can be embedded in a page of your own design;
support for different character sets (e.g. Russian
and Chinese); support for SSL IMAP servers; and
support for sendmail's genericstable (reverse
mapping of users for outbound mail). JavaScript is
not necessary.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a bug in configure.php.
Source: IceWalkers Linux Kernel
Source: Freshmeat Daily News ndisc6 consists of three command line tools
(ndisc6, rdisc6, and tcptraceroute6) that perform
ICMPv6 Neighbor Discovery, ICMPv6 Router
Discovery, and TCP/IPv6 traceroute respectively.
It is primarily meant for IPv6 networking
diagnostics or to detect rogue IPv6 nodes or
routers on an Ethernet segment.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
UDP ports-based probes and TCP/ACK probes have been added to
traceroute6. traceroute source address selection is now supported.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Snortalog is a powerful Perl script that
summarizes Snort logs, making it easy to view any
network attacks detected by Snort. It can generate
charts in HTML, PDF, and text output. It works
with all versions of Snort, and can analyze logs
in three formats: syslog, fast, and full snort
alerts. Moreover, it is able to summarize other
logs like CheckPoint Fw-1 (NG and 4.1), Netfilter, IPFilter, Packet Filter, CISCO PIX, and Lucent BRICK in a similar way.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release brings a lot of big enhancements. The
major ones are code enhancement. The code was
totally revisited to improve performance. The
engine doesn't need swap and can now work with
huge log files. The memory process and performance
aren't amazing. Moreover, an HTML output feature
was added and the GUI brings new functionality
very appreciable. Snort 2.4 and Pix log detection
was improved. Snort Barnyard and Lucent Brick log
detection were added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Quanta is a web editor for KDE supporting HTML and more. It has dynamic preview, project management, context tag editing and context tag reference docs, auto-completion, DTD management, templates, loadable toolbars, document structure tree, and much more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes many bugfixes in the VPL
editor, improvements in detecting external changes
to documents, autocompletion and entity handling,
faster document loading, and the possibility to
preview with Firefox. It also has many
improvements in the PHP debugger, including XDebug
support.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust,
well-documented remote-mail retrieval and
forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP
connections). It supports every remote-mail
protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP
ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The --netsec/-T options were removed. The
--smtphost is now always "localhost". fetchmail
now uses automake. Internationalization now
requires gettext 0.14 to be installed separately.
More than 140 user-visible changes were made, most
of them bugfixes. Some documentation and
translation updates were made to improve stability
and protocol conformance, to improve bounce and
warning messages, and to improve portability.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system
based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also
translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal
Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order
of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth
as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and
RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate
remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work
fluently even across slow links like modems. The
NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11
proxying agents implementing efficient compression
and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the
Internet.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This third maintenance release fixes a number of
bugs, including failure to find the xauth program
on Ubuntu 5.10, Error Unknown caused by NXWin
failure at startup, nxssh processes remaining
running after the user quits the GUI, Copy&Paste
from Windows to X11 sessions with OpenOffice, and
incorrect handling of the keyboard when the shift
key remains pressed. nxcomp now builds with GCC 4.
Compliance with the most recent Linux
distributions was improved. Additional checks are
made on the environment variables to locate NX
directories. VNC/RDP password handling was
improved. Patches were imported from OpenSSH
4.0p1. A readme-info file was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JCards is a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format that the user defines. Instead of having multiple applications/spreadsheets to manage passwords, tasks, shopping lists, etc., JCards allows the user to define a database that contains the fields they want. This is accomplished via an easy to use interface that requires no understanding of SQL or any other database jargon. JCards was initially developed for the Sharp Zaurus SL-5x00 PDA, but will run on any desktop or PDA that has a 1.1 or above version of the Java Virtual Machine on it. The advantage of this is that the user can use the same application on the PDA and desktop to manage their data.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A new French translation was added. A smaller JAR
file is available to help PDAs.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Risk is a Java version of the classic RISK board
game, with a simple map format, network play,
single player mode, hotseat, and many more
features. It works on all operating system that
run Java 1.4 or higher.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A Dutch translation was added. Lots of bugs were
fixed. The game was made much faster on slow
computers.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Fedora Directory Server is a full-featured LDAPv3
compliant server. In addition to the standard
LDAPv3 operations, it supports multi-master
replication, fully online configuration and
administration, chaining, virtual attributes,
access control directives in the data, Virtual
List View, server-side sorting, SASL, TLS/SSL, and
many other features. The transactional Berkeley DB
4.2 is used as its data store and a full plug-in
API allows developers to extend the the
functionality of the server in many ways, and many
of the core
features of the server are already implemented
using this API. The server is very mature, having
started out as Netscape Directory Server.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The code for the console and administration engine
are now available, in addition to the previously
available LDAP engine.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News manix is a desktop environment which aims to provide a full MacOS 8/9
interface, including an implementation of the Carbon API.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Support for transient windows (modal dialogs), a
new look for dialogs, and plain windows were
added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network
security gateway that includes a firewall,
intrusion protection, virus protection, spam
protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway.
Features include stateful packet inspection, deep
packet filtering, intrusion detection and
prevention, portscan detection, content filtering,
virus detection for email and Web traffic,
whitelists and blacklists, IPSec and PPTP VPN
tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTP, FTP,
SMTP, DNS, SIP, SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and
reporting. The WebAdmin and Up2Date service make
it easy to install, manage, and update.
License: Free For Home Use
Changes:
This Up2Date adds support for MGE and APC UPS
devices and fixes a remote IPSec DoS (NISCC 273756
- pluto crash). There are also some minor
bugfixes for uplink failover with PPPoE
interfaces, Executive and HTTP Proxy Report
numbers.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News (g)WebcppUI is a Gtk+ port of WebcppUI, an
interface for Webcpp and MkScs2, providing a
unified user environment for creating webcpp
commands and designing webcpp syntax color
schemes. Webcpp is a utility which converts
programmer's source code into syntax highlighted
HTML code. It supports over 30 programming
languages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The user interface was completely redesigned, and
the code was completely rewritten in Python. New
core features include a built-in syntax color
scheme editor, support for batch processing, and
support for the webcpp 0.8.x generation.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News cpm (Console Password Manager) is a small console
tool to manage passwords and other sensitive data and store them in a public-key encrypted file. It also allows you to configure the whole hierarchy yourself, so it's easily adoptable for many requirements.
The encryption is handled through GnuPG, and the data
inside is stored as XML.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A bug in the security checks where some valid
locale settings did not pass the test was fixed.
Moreover, a new option allows the user to be
locked within the defined templates. Some more
user interface cleanups have also been made.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News pppBLOG is a simple Weblog package. It uses plain
text files and does not require any database. It
includes a photo gallery with automatic thumbnail
creation and more. pppBLOG is based on Simple PHP
Blog and TFT gallery.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Simple password protection was added for image
galleries. An RSS feed reader was integrated.
Block management for side menus was improved.
thumbnail navigation was added in image galleries.
Code cleanup and bugfixes were done.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Record Editor is a data file editor CSV (Comma/Tab
delimited values) files and files where fields
occupy fixed positions in a record. This program
uses a record-layout definition to display the
data file in a human readable form. It can handle
PC (text and binary), Unix (text and binary), and
native IBM mainframe (text and binary) file
formats. It is similar to Net-Cobols Cobol-Editor
or Compuwares FileAid.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Support for editing CSV files was added. Exporting
records in CSV format is now supported. The code
has been split into 2 sections: utility record
access routines and GUI editor code. Examples of
using the RecordEditors classes has been added to
the package. These examples include reading and
writing Cobol files from Java, formatting files
with Velocity, and editing program-supplied data.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JInto is a plugin for Eclipse that lets the
developer easily edit and maintain resource
bundles (files that hold the localized strings for
an application). It features parallel editing of
all language versions (side by side), warnings
when no text has been provided for a specific key,
or when the text for one key is identical for
different languages, and a search wizard to locate
unused strings (strings that are referenced, but
not actually defined in the resource bundle). It
has been tested under Windows and Linux.
License: Eclipse Public License
Changes:
A bug in the resource bundle search was fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News suPHP is a combination of an Apache module
(mod_suphp) and an executable which provides a
wrapper for PHP. With both together, it is
possible to execute PHP scripts with the
permissions of their owner without having to place
a PHP binary in each user's cgi-bin directory.
suPHP doesn't need Apache's suExec, and provides a
logging function.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This releases fixes build time problems as well as
some runtime issues, including an annoying
HTTP/500 error when a script sends a
"Last-Modified" header. The only new feature in
this release is support for running scripts in a
chroot() environmnent.
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