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About: sdts++ is a free C++ toolkit that can be used to write applications that read and write Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS) files. Currently there is a great deal of free geospatial data stored in SDTS format, including USGS Digital Line Graph (DLG) and USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data. Changes: Fixed bug whereby the final unit terminator in the DDR's file title reserved field wasn't getting written out. This means that any SDTS modules written by earlier versions of sdts++ might not be compliant with the ANSI SDTS specification.
About: The DECnet for Linux project aims to provide the kernel-level socket layer and a set of applications to allow Linux systems to participate in a DECnet phase IV network. It currently has an application library (suitable for building DECnet functionality into X11R6), file and terminal access. Changes: This is a beta for version 2.0. All the major changes are in the servers but there are a few client bugfixes too as well as GTK+ phone client. To get the most out of this you'll need the most recent kernel patch which allows you to have a 'dnetd' super-server that runs all the other servers (a bit like inetd for IP).
About: cvsd is a wrapper program for CVS in pserver mode. It will run 'cvs pserver' under a special uid/gid in a chroot jail. cvsd is run as a daemon and is controlled through a configuration file. It is easy to configure and provides tools for setting up a rootjail and managing repositories. Changes: First release.
About: GNU Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists and e-newsletters. Its integrated Web interface provides easy-to-use access for list members and list administrators. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, topics, Usenet gateways, and more. It is fully internationalized, and supports digests and email commands. It runs on any Linux or Unix-like operating system and is compatible with most email and Web servers, mail readers, and Web browsers. Changes: Many bug fixes, password reminders are now grouped by virtual hosts, envelope sender is no longer used by default, there is a new logo. Barring any show stoppers, this will be the final 1.0 release.
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. Changes: Minor fixes.
About: sblive is a Linux Driver for the Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! which also works for the Live! Value Edition. Modules are provided for kernels 2.0.36-0.7 and 2.2.5, but for non-SMP systems only. Changes: First release.
About: Pavuk is a Web grabber with an optional GTK GUI, and optional support for downloading with multiple threads. It supports the HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTP via SSL, and Gopher protocols, as well as HTTP GET, and POST requests. It is capable of filling HTML forms while downloading HTML trees, and lets you mirror Web documents for local browsing. You can even synchronize changes to these documents. Recent versions also support processing of Javascript patterns in HTML pages. Pavuk have JavaScript bindings that allow writing of own scripts to perform special tasks. Changes: Added -ftplist to use wide listing of FTP directories, added -preserve_perm to preserve options of ftp files, pavuk saves ftp symbolic links as-is, added -preserve_slinks to preserve symbolic links, "Go Bg" button now works properly with GTK+, added -FTPhtml/-noFTPhtml to enable/disable processing of files downloaded via FTP and anchor names for FTP URLs are now parsed right.
About: ArgoUML is a pure Java open source UML CASE tool that provides cognitive support for object-oriented design. ArgoUML provides some of the same editing and code generation features of a commercial CASE tool, but it focuses on features that enhance usability and support the cognitive needs of designers. Uses XML file formats: XMI and PGML. Changes: This release improves launching and project loading speed, now runs under JDK 1.1 or JDK 1.2, diagrams can now be exported as GIF images, "selection-action buttons" make building diagrams much easier on your wrist, case diagrams have been improved, as well as improved pop-up menus.
About: afbackup is a client-server backup system allowing many workstations to backup to a central server either simultaneously or serially. Backups can be started remotely from the server or via cron jobs on the the clients. Any streaming device, including a drive partition acting as a "virtual" tape changer, can be used for storing data. Autochangers can be used, if an appropriate auxiliary program, such as mtx or stctl, is available and working. afbackup has been tested on Linux, AIX, IRIX, FreeBSD, Digital Unix (OSF1), Solaris and HP-UX. The clientside has also been tested on SunOS and OpenBSD. Changes: ACLs supported on Solaris2 and HPUX-10, filesizes > 2GB supported on Solaris >= 2.6, multi stream server, status file on server side, descending into directories is now done like find -depth, hopefully even safer tape error handling, service names allowed wherever port numbers were to be given, -v option for verify, restore and copy_tape, tapes can be set read-only, tapes are no longer overwritten, server keeps track, which tapes are needed for all the clients, admin must explicitely permit overwrite of needed tapes, verify is much faster now, and more.
About: GNU shtool is a compilation of small but very stable and portable shell scripts into a single shell tool. All ingredients were in successful use over many years in various free software projects. The compiled shtool program is intended to be used inside the source tree of free software packages. There it can overtake various (usually non-portable) tasks related to the building and installation of an free software package. Changes: Some minor bugfixes and cleanups.
About: Big Brother is a combination of monitoring methods. Unlike SNMP where information is just collected and devices polled, Big Brother is designed in such a way that each local system broadcasts its own information to a central location. Simultaneously, Big Brother also polls all networked systems from a central location. This creates a highly efficient and redundant method for proactive network monitoring. Changes: Major changes in 1.2 include the ability to create sub-pages for display, escalation for problems not resolved within a fixed amount of time, support for user-contributed extensions, and simplified starting and stopping of BB. The 1.2a release corrects 2 bugs in 1.2, one where network tests could report back OK when they're not, the other affecting the new subpage display.
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: If-Modified-Since supported HTTP-downloads, builds easier on FreeBSD, the @SHELL@-problem might be fixed(?), and a cookie crash was removed.
About: dave's cd player (dcd) is a simple command-line CD player. It plays CDs, loops (sequences of) tracks, plays tracks at random, and so on. Its a full featured, but simple-to-use CD player. It supports libmusicbrainz (musicbrainz.org) for CD information if desired, yet remains one of the leanest CD players out there. Changes: Primarily bug fixes, including the "Phantom Process" bug.
About: WebFetch is a set of Perl5 modules that can download ("fetch") news from other sites for inclusion in a web page, or export your news for other sites to fetch from you and display. It can import news from Freshmeat, Slashdot, LinuxToday, Yahoo Business News, CNN, CNET News.Com, Debian Project News and others. It can export to user-created channels at Netscape's MYnetscape portal. News from WebFetch sites can also be read by EHeadlines (developed separately) for display on an Enlightenment desktop. It can also be embedded into any Perl script to use the news for itself. Changes: Updated WebFetch::CNNSearch and WebFetch::EGAuthors modules due to changes at the CNN and eGroups sites. WebFetch sites who monitor those sites need the upgrade.
About: jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor. Changes: This version adds a key binding editor, a new API that plugins can use to add toolbars to the editor window, several fixes that make it work better with Swing 1.1.1, several optimizations in the syntax colorizing code, and finally fixes for the ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception that HTML and Shell Script mode could throw on certain occasions.
About: Sudo (su "do") allows a system administrator to give certain users (or groups of users) the ability to run some (or all) commands as root while logging all commands and arguments. Sudo operates on a per-command basis, it is not a replacement for the shell. Changes: Added dirfd() macro for systems without it, better check for socket() in -lsocket -lnsl in configure, minor configure fixes, fixed a bug wrt quoting characters in command args, make --without-sendmail works, fixed a segv if HOST_IN_LOG defined and gethostbyname() fails, fixed a parse bug wrt the ! operator and runas specs, use new emalloc/erealloc/estrdup functions, new PAM code that should work on both Solaris and Linux, make sudo's usage info better when mutually exclusive args are given and don't rely on argument order to detect this, in visudo, shift return value of system() by 8 to get the real exit value.
About: KSendFax is an interface to fax packages like HylaFax, E-Fax, and mgetty+sendfax for sending facsimiles. It incorporates a built-in phonebook, but can also use the standard KDE addressbook. It features scanning of new faxes, editing/creating textual faxes directly, previewing the fax to send, user defined fax coverpages, and a filter system that lets you use more or less any file format for the documents you want fax. Everything is configurable through a convenient configuration dialog. It is, however, not intended to configure your whole fax suite, but only to provide a GUI interface for an already configured fax server package. Changes: First announcement.
About: KGoodStuff is a KDE application that provides a button-bar like FvwmButtons or tkGoodStuff, but with a lot more features. Changes: First announcement.
About: Linuxconf is a sophisticated administrative tool. It is both an activator and a configurator, and can manage quite a few system tasks. It has some unique features, like configuration versioning and multiple machine management. It supports multiples languages (French, German, Italian, etc.) and can be administered from ncurses (text), Web, command line, or X (GNOME or wxxt) user interfaces.
About: sn is a small news system for sites which serve perhaps a few dozen newsgroups, and which have a slow connection to the Internet. The target user is a home or SOHO with a single modem connection to the Internet and serving a few workstations. sn also includes a mail-to-news filter. Changes: Too many changes to list.
About: Tac is a pure Tcl version of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). The Tac client began its life as a small add-on program distributed with TiK, the Tcl/Tk client. Tac has only a few of the features found in native Windows and Macintosh clients. It is easy for users to add features to Tac using Tcl. Tac is meant to give users with only console access the ability to use AOL Instant Messenger.
About: Licq includes all the basic features of ICQ, like sending/receiving messages, chat, file transfer, contact list with pixmaps and user status, basic/extended user info, adding/editing users from within the GUI, user history, user groups, and new user registration. All commands and information are available through a simple and convenient tab dialog. Licq also has a completely configurable user interface with Skin and Icon pack support. It is written in C++ and comes with a GUI plugin using the Qt widget set. Other plugins are also available, like basic MSN support. Changes: The docking bug has been fixed, and the ability to automatically load a set of plugins has been added. Users of previous 0.70 versions are urged to upgrade asap.
About: The VK Toolset is intended to aide MPEG developers and hobbyist in understanding and creating conformant MPEG streams. The current version focuses on the MPEG system layer (MPEG-1 System, MPEG-2 Program Stream), and MPEG-2 Transport bitstreams). Changes: Initial implementation of plugin architecture to handle different elementary stream types (e.g. Video, Audio, etc). Also, two sample plugins are included, one that launches an external video viewer and one that prints basic MPEG-1 video header data to a file.
About: Yarec is yet another sample recorder/player. It has support for a curses based UI and both Linux sound drivers. Supported file formats are WAV and AIFF. Changes: Too many to list.
About: GnomeHack is a Gnome port of NetHack, the popular role-playing game based loosely on Advanced Dungeons and Dragons(tm). If you have ever played any role-playing games, you probably know how much fun they can be, and NetHack is the greatest (IMHO) of all the Rogue-like games. Changes: A lot of fixes and useability improvements. See the web page for details.
About: GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc. Changes: This version contains bug fixes and enhancements.
About: Kim is an interactive, user friendly process manager for Linux. Features include process list, process tree, select more process, send all existing signals to one process or more processes, reload, process sort, display /proc/#/maps, display 45 information about all process, search in process list, display still actual uptime or system memory, zombie attention, and Kim allows you to save your settings and your profile definition. Changes: Better ncureses interface, exactly width of tree, save /proc to file, load /proc from file, export /proc to ascii file, mouse support (Gmp), new profile editor, new config file format (.ini format), view more /proc, new sort methods, learn key, more options, non-interactive mode, locale support (native: English,translation: Czech), and hotkeys.
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