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About: LessTif is an implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit for X11. It aims to be source compatible with OSF/Motif. Most Motif apps should compile and run out of the box. Changes: This is a minor/development release. Upgrading to this version is not necessary, unless you are experiencing problems with the current version of lesstif, or wish to try out the new version. The menu system has undergone a complete overhaul in this release. Several serious memory leaks have been plugged which should lead to a smaller memory footprint for lesstif. The text widget has been somewhat optimized so large scrolling text widgets should be faster. Finally, many other widgets have been cleaned up extensively (CascadeB[G] and ToggleB[G], particularly), and many other bugs fixed.
About: Freeciv is a multiuser reimplementation for Unix/X of the famous Microprose game of Civilization. By default, the game is an improved Civ II, but this can be customized; modpacks for near-100% compatibility with Civ I and Civ II are included. Multiuser gameplay is real-time: in each turn, all human players move concurrently. The game is designed to remain fairly playable even on poor network connections. Freeciv can also be played on standalone machines, and its AI players are a good challenge for beginners. The source code comes with the server, two X clients, and non-X clients for MS Windows and Amiga. Freeciv is released under the GNU General Public License. It is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there. Changes: Many enhancements since the 1.7.2 release including civil war, space race, log improvements, two new tiles set, more cities options, and the usual bugfixes.
About: WebMail is a WWW mail application that allows users to manage IMAP or POP3 mailboxes via an easy-to-use WWW-interface. It may be used, for example, to give users access to their mailboxes from anywhere in the world. It is written in Java and should run at least on the most popular Unix platforms. WebMail can run on its own HTTP server (users just have to point their browser to the configured server and port) or can be run as a Java Servlet. On the clientside, only a frames-capable browser is needed, no Javascript or Java. Changes: Completely rewritten from scratch in (serverside) Java, greatly improved speed through improved session management, much easier installation, less bugs and improved testing.
About: PC/SC Resource Manager allows users to write smartcard applications for numerous readers and cards on both the Windows platforms and under Unix using the same API calls. Included are skeleton applications, and others for formatting and copying files to and from your smartcard. Changes: The new resource manager supports a C and C++ API for communicating with the smartcards and readers. It also includes a few new programs for transferring files to and from your card.
About: FastJar is an attempt to create a much faster replacement for Sun's 'jar' utility. Instead of being written in Java, FastJar is written in C and is around 50-100 times faster than its Java counterpart on Linux 2.X systems. Changes: This is the first public release.
About: Pinfo is a hypertext info file viewer with a user interface similar to lynx. It is based on curses/ncurses, and can handle info pages as well as man pages. It also features regexp searching and user-defined colors/keys. Changes: Added support for http:// and ftp:// URLs embedded into man pages/info pages, optional highlight for `quoted' text in info files, support for infos not ending with `.info*' suffix, new feature to key_goto and key_dir, secured the mechanism of tmp file creation, moved to configure (autoconf, automake), fixed sigsegv by regexp searchs and support for xterm mouse.
About: Qps is a visual process manager, an X11 version of "top" or "ps" that displays processes in a window and lets you sort and manipulate them. It displays some general system information, and many details about current processes (such as the TCP/UDP sockets in use by a process). Qps runs on Linux and Solaris. Changes: TTY field width made variable (mostly for Solaris) and Linux cpu usage bug fixed.
About: grepmail searches a normal or compressed mailbox (gzip, bzip2, or tzip) for a given regular expression and returns those emails that match the query. It also supports searches constrained by date and size. Changes: The script is now customizable during installation. Added -M (ignore non-text attachments), -q (suppress warnings) and fixed numerous bugs.
About: xinetd is a replacement for inetd, the internet services daemon. Anybody can use it to start servers that don't require privileged ports because xinetd does not require that the services in its configuration file be listed in /etc/services. It can do access control on all services based on the address of the remote host, time of access, connection attempts, or process limits. Access control works on all services, whether multi-threaded or single-threaded and for both the TCP and UDP protocols. xinetd supports both internal access control, and the use of the libwrap library. IPv6 with access control is also supported. It can redirect service requests to other machines, and has the standard built in services, including tcpmux.
About: The xterm program is the standard terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the window system directly. If the underlying operating system supports terminal resizing capabilities (for example, the SIGWINCH signal in systems derived from 4.3bsd), xterm will use the facilities to notify programs running in the window whenever it is resized.
About: Authen::Smb allows you to authenticate against NT domain controllers from a UNIX environment. It has been tested under Linux and Solaris, but will run wherever smbval (included in the distribution) compiles. Changes: Bug fixes, e.g. resolves a problem that was causing segfaults on some Linux and Solaris platforms. This is a recommended upgrade.
About: kmc_utils is a small package of utilities for downloading images off of and controlling Monochrome and Color Kodak Motion Corder Analyzer fast digital cameras (up to 10000fps). It currently consists of libraries for accessing images on the camera and controlling the camera and two command line programs implementing these functions. Development on GUIs is in progress. Changes: Several changes to Makefile, README, and man pages to make installation easier and clarify a couple issues.
About: cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD writers.
About: squid_redirect uses a list of patterns to zap annoying ad banners from Web pages, inserting a placeholder image. It lives in a Web proxy and so requires no special browser facilities. It's readily customizable, small, fast, and easy to install. Changes: First public release.
About: PySol is an exciting collection of more than 200 solitaire card games. Its features include a very nice look and feel, multiple cardsets and table backgrounds, unlimited undo/redo, loading/saving games, player statistics and log files, a hint system, demo games, support for user-written plugins, sound support (including samples and background music), an integrated HTML help browser, and lots of documentation. Changes: Yet another small bugfix release.
About: ncp can copy files between networked computers and accounts without hassles (nor features like compression and encryption), and you do not even have to name the target machine if it is in the same LAN. npush and npoll can copy files (and pipe data) between machines without having the specify or even know the machine name in advance. Changes: Initial release.
About: WebEvent is a commercial Web calendar and scheduling program written in Perl. It features multiple calendar views and formats, repeating events, email reminders, public event submissions, meta-calendars, event change notifications, searchable calendars, and user authentication. Changes: Added site font and color options, fixed bug in search output, added IP-based security for guest account, added default body text for new events, and modified many color options to use RGB values for more choices.
About: curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, and FILE, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, port numbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings to libcurl for over 30 languages and environments. Changes: Non-beta release, no more HTTP header length limits, "-D -" now supported.
About: PyGCS is a very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python. It has a single "room" and no large database to keep in memory and on disk. PyGCS has no embedded programming language. PyGCS is ideally meant to be a small multi-user real-time chat system for people who have a need to talk to more than one person at a time online. It fits somewhere in between the setup IRC uses (no walking between rooms so to speak) and the MUCK/MUSH/MOO style of server. Changes: Copyright changes (modified BSD now) and a serious bug fixed in cmdclass.py. This should be the last release for a month or two at least. Upgrading from 1.3 is simple.
About: Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient. Changes: The rules option parser has been largely rewritten. The new rules parser gives the rules set a much more consistant interface for both reading rules into the program and writing them as a user. Also added are new rule types to alert on TTL values, and ICMP types/codes. The packet logging code has been unified and rewritten to log/output packet info by OSI layer.
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