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About: wavnorm is a simple command line utility to destructively maximize or alter the colume of a stereo .wav file. It's handy for making the volumes of a range of .wav files consistent before or after mp3 conversion, audio CD burning, etc. nplay is a simple .wav player with VU meter and peak meter. nrecord is a simple .wav recorder with VU meter and peak meter. Although simple the VU meter greatly aids getting optimum recording quality. nplay and nrecord use the newt text mode library. Changes: Multiple wav files are now handled on the command line, and nplay and nrecord have been added to the package.
About: eXtace is a visual sound display/analysis program. It requires Esound (esd) for its audio source. It includes various fast fourier transforms of the audio data in realtime. Its displays include a 3D wireframe flying landscape, a 3D textured flying landscape, a 16-256 channel graphic EQ, three types of scopes, a 3D "spike" flying landscape, and two forms of spectragrams. The 3D traces can be picked up, manipulated, and displayed at nearly any angle. eXtace also features a 3D direction control widget for controlling the angle and speed at which the trace runs away and a gradient/colormap editor for changing the colormap to suit your needs. No OpenGL is required. Changes: Minor bugfixes, saving of the window position now works as expected, and Scope has been changed back to "crazy mode." Note: Remove your ~/.eXtace/config file before running the new version, so new version can be written properly.
About: ppstats (Personal Proxy Statistics) is used to help users and administrators participate in the Distributed.Net effort. It provides detailed information related to the Distributed.Net personal proxy, including graphs, charts, totals, and averages. Changes: Initial announcement on freshmeat.
About: LCDproc is a utility to drive one or more LCD (and LCD-like) devices attached to a host. It is comprised of a server, which uses a modular device driver system to control attached displays, and one or more clients to gather data as appropriate and send screen data to the server. The included client displays a multitude of system statistics (CPU/memory/disk usage, uptime, date and time, temperature, etc.). Multiple clients can connect to the server simultaneously, and clients can set priorities on the screens they provide to influence in what order items are displayed. This facility can also be used to "pop" critical screens (such as an entry from syslog from a log-watching client). All functionality is implemented in userland. Support for many display devices and several platforms (Linux, *BSD, and Solaris at least) is included. Changes: Added a new driver for CrystalFontz LCD's backlight control, and improved and Brightness control added.
About: GTK File Browser is supposed to be an Explorer-like tool with network integration. It is under development using GTK. Co-developers and beta-testers are needed. Changes: Working cut, copy, paste, delete, create folder, and symlink. Various visual enhancements. This is still a development stage release.
About: jwhois is an Internet Whois client that contains an extensible configuration file, which defines its operation. The client supports queries to foreign hosts, either through the RFC 954 - NICNAME/WHOIS protocol, the RFC 2167 - Referral Whois 1.5 protocol, or HTTP using an external browser. Upon execution, it searches through its configuration to find the most specific whois server to query. Depending upon the reply from that whois server, it can assume the query was successfull and display the result to the user, or optionally redirect the query to another server to find more specific information. Changes: jwhois-server has been removed from the distribution (it will be distributed as its own package later). The jwhois client is written in C as of version 2.0 which means a much faster operation and a changed configuration file format.
About: mod_ssl provides provides strong cryptography for the Apache 1.3 webserver via the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1). It is based on the SSL/TLS toolkit OpenSSL and supports all SSL/TLS related functionality, including RSA and DSA/DH cipher support, X.509 CRL checking, etc. Additionally it provides special Apache related facilities like DBM and shared memory based inter-process SSL session caching. per-URL SSL session renegotiations, DSO support, etc. Changes: A few minor bugfixes plus experimental support for POST method based requests to URLs using SSL parameter re-configuration.
About: Mp3blaster is an interactive text-based program that plays several audio file types (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, wav, and sid). It is one of the few audio players for the text console that allows full interactive control during playback. One of its key features is the ability to compose a very flexible playlist (while playing!). It plays most MP3 formats and has full mixer support built in. Changes: Fixed a layout bug, added simple mp3 to wav decompression, added genre support to id3tag code.
About: KVirc is a Visual Internet Relay Chat Client based on the Qt library. Features include a MDI user interface, drag & drop, built-in scripting language (aliases, popups and events), customizable backgrounds and colours, DCC (chat, send with resume, voice), CTCP functions, mIRC colour support with preview, notify list, online help and configurable logging. Changes: Popup menu samples now are loaded correctly, documentation updates, links window, recent servers list, channels & nicknames menu, DNS command. See changelog for more details.
About: Apache FOP is an XSL-FO formatter. It is used in conjunction with an XSLT transformation engine to format XML documents into PDF, PostScript, and other output formats. Changes: Lots of internal layout code changes. The actual glyph-height of a font is used and lists within lists now work. Corrected text-align properties to take "justified" rather than "justify".
About: GX10 is a GTK based program used to control X10 home automation devices via Bottle Rocket. Changes: Code restructuring and added a gnome applet.
About: LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project. Changes: Large cleanups, enhanced design and GUILE integration for smaller memory footprint and more flexible code, direct output to PostScript (optional), PDFTeX or as a GUILE script (default output is still plain TeX), convertors for ABC and MUP formats, font is now available as scalable PostScript, new glyphs: time signature, more note heads, enhanced input: semi-automatic beaming, (nested) tuplets, (nested) repeats, chordnames, automatic Lyrics durations, grace notes, volta brackets, multiple styles for note heads and time signatures, breathing signs, lyric extenders, cross staff beaming and slurring, --safe option for the paranoid, more elegant spacing, and lots of bugfixes.
About: TerminatorX is a realtime audio synthesizer that allows you to "scratch" on digitally sampled audio data (*.wav, *.au, *.mp3, etc.) the way hiphop-DJs scratch on vinyl records. It features multiple turntables, realtime effects (built-in as well as LADSPA plugin effects), a sequencer, and an easy-to-use GTK+ GUI. Changes: This experimental release includes a new realtime resonating lowpass filter, a changed configure script for automatic sox/mpg123 support, and cygwin supprt.
About: ext2resize is a program capable of resizing (shrinking and growing) ext2 filesystems. Changes: More bug fixes.
About: GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions. Changes: Bugfix for sigstack() variant, new uninstall target, and a few cleanups.
About: GAG is a Graphical Boot Manager with a lot of features. It doesn't need a partition, it works with primary and extended partitions in every hard disk, it has a lot of icons, it allows you to put passwords for each operating system, it can swap hard disks and it can be tested from diskette. The SafeBoot feature allows you to boot your hard disk even if GAG is overwritten. It includes extensive support for many languages and keyboard types. Changes: Fixed a bug with hard disks greater than 8GBytes and/or with more than 16 partitions. New icons for Linux (thanks to David Dapena) and OS/2 New languajes availables (English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Galaecian, Portuguese, Brazilian)
About: Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures. Changes: new development release
About: GNU Zebra manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) and BGP-4+, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. GNU Zebra has a good client interface, so the user can change configuration dynamically. Changes: This is the first beta relase which includes (partly) workable ospfd. Now ospfd works as inter area OSPF router. When it works properly route goes into the kernel. Please note it does not support intra area route, AS external route, multiple area, aging of LSA, etc... Please use ospfd only in test environment. BGP serious bug is fixed. ripngd is almost rewritten to conform to RFC2080. ospf6d's LSA data structure is improved. And also many bugs are fixed.
About: TwinTRIS is a multiplayer, portable, french tetris clone. It is a multiplayer game, using the same mode as X-blast (multiple windows on multiple displays but only one main process). It has been succesfully tested under both Solaris and Linux. It works under any resolution and screen depth and you can even "theme" it. Changes: Initial release.
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: Source tree cleanups and enhancements only.
About: IRCtl is a LIRC-compatible driver for the IR remote control in the FlyVideo98 TV card. There is always a newest version of this driver in the Lirc CVS tree. It is a patch against kernel bttv driver plus loadable lirc driver module. The kernel patch also enables support of the FV98 card in the kernel bttv driver. Changes: Initial public release.
About: IglooFTP PRO is the commercial version of IglooFTP, an award winning FTP Client. Its main features are to be easy to use and intuitive when used by novice, but powerful and fully configurable in the hand of experienced users. IglooFTP PRO makes full usage of the GTK+ library and offers much more features than any other graphical client available on Unix based systems including FXP transfers, extensed Firewall support, Drag&Drop, URL clipboard monitoring, Remote Directory Caching, and much, much more.
About: In X ARCHON, much like in the original ARCHON, the light side and the dark side fight over control of a chess-like board. Changes: This is the initial announcement.
About: lando is a command execution system for UNIX. It allows you to run commands as a particular user from somewhere else on your network and see the output on your local machine. It supports authentication via standard /etc/passwd, shadow passwords or PAM. Access control is provided by TCP Wrappers. At present, the only client available is for Win32. Changes: The biggest change is that the protocol now supports optional arguments that may be supplied by the user. This should make it possible to write scripts that do just about anything, such as change passwords. Also added some server side variables that are expanded in the command name and the command itself, the binary RPM now properly adds/removes entries from /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf and fixed some bugs.
About: Bidwatcher is a tool for eBay users that tracks your current bids and listings and has an integrated snipe tool. You can run bidwatcher in the background and it periodically checks your auctions status, and executes any bids that are scheduled. Changes: Several minor fixes, see the changes file for a complete list.
About: CGI Port Scanner is a CGI script written in Perl with CGI.pm. It scans the TCP ports of a range of IPs or a host by name. Additionally, it can perform ping, traceroute, and whois. Scanned information will be saved so you won't have to scan the host(s) again to see the result. Changes: Initial release.
About: ir is an interface program to Chris Dodge's RedRat 2 infrared controller to send and receive infrared signals to/from consumer devices like TV's, VCR's, cable boxes, and stereos. It will not work with any other IR tranceiver, like IrDA. It is written in Perl. It uses only the basic Perl constructs and no external packages, so it should work on any platform that supports Perl and serial communications. It can be accessed via the command line or cron, as an email handler (through aliases), or as a cgi script which will automatically generate a form with all possible codes. It has macro capability so one command can send a series of IR signals. With an X-10's IR543, it can be used to control X10 devices, too. Changes: First release.
About: ssct is a command-line utility, humble of intent, that takes a single word, spell checks it, takes the result(s) and then translates them. It works to/from english only. From/to languages are limited by ispell in the first instance, and by the IDP (Internet Dictionary Project) files in the second. Currently the latter includes Spanish, Portuguese (minimal), Latin, German, French and Italian. These files are included with this package. This utility was originally created to make it easier to decode badly-scrawled postcards from Spain. Changes: Initial release.
About: Insight is a tcl/tk based GUI for GDB, the GNUDebugger. It provides access to most of GDB's features and allows for tcl based extending of GDB if that's your thing. Insight stable releases will happen in tandem with GDB releases. Changes: The first release of Insight under the terms of the GPL.
About: Sticker Book is a children's program which lets you place stickers on a background scene. You can resize, recolour and reorient the stickers that you use, and you never run out. You can even paint with them. The program is intended for the 3-7 year olds, but it's even fun for adults. It is flexible enough to make sophisticated pictures without being as complex as drawing/painting program. Changes: fish stickers (from xfishtank), autoconf script, seg fault fixes, minor control fixes, internationalization support (en, bad fr)
About: TiK is a pure TCL/Tk implementation of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It has most of the features the native Win32 and Mac clients have, plus some extras. It includes a graphical buddy list display, full font support, graphical emoticons, away messages, buddy pounce, buddy ticker, IM/Chat capturing, message broadcasting, a GUI preferences system, and much more. TiK's expandable nature allows the addition of new features through packages. Changes: New Store Config option to backup the config locally but still use the host config, unless the host config is empty then the backup is used, this is now the default storage, Quick Chat can now download a list of AOL chat rooms.
About: Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in Java. It is a full featured HTTP/1.1 server and a Servlet container. It is designed to be small, fast, embeddable and extensible. It supports HTTP/1.1, servlets 2.3, and JSP 1.2. Changes: Jar resources in servlet loader, JDBC wrappers updated for 1.2 and cloudscape, FileHandler passes through more unhandled requests and several medium impact bug fixes.
About: NASD (Network Attached Secure Disk) is a prototype next-generation network storage device. Unlike current data servers, NASD provides a simple object interface to storage over the network with cryptographic support, leaving high-level filesystem details to a separate file manager. NASD is intended to provide a flexible basic level of storage functionality and serve as the base of a complex storage system. Changes: Initial public release.
About: This patch adds the system calls timer_create, timer_delete, timer_settime, timer_gettime, and timer_getoverrun. The user space library adds also clock_gettime, clock_settime and clock_getres. CLOCK_REALTIME and CLOCK_LINUX_COUNTER are supported. Changes: First issue.
About: In XTux, you can play as Tux the Linux penguin, the BSD daemon, or some other open source characters (GNU, Vi, KDE dragon, etc.) and either fight each other over the network or join forces to take on Microsoft, killing MS Henchmen, Bill the Borg, Clippy the Office assistant paperclip, and others. It features 3D-rendered graphics, a wide variety of maps (including a Linux desktop, SLASHDOT!, the street, an office) and a cheesy plot.
About: MyGuestbook is a simple guestbook that uses MySQL/PostgreSQL and PHP. It features an admin script to delete entries. Currently supported languages are German, English, Dutch, French, Norsk, Spanish, Finnish, Portuguese, Icelandic, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Japanese, Italian, Chinese, Bavarian, Turkish, Danish, and Swabian. Changes: Code Cleanup. Added Bavarian, Polish and Japanese language support.
About: pop3check is small, fast mail checking application that queries POP3 servers for new mail. It was written in C and aims to be very configurable. Most notable features include: multiple POP3 server support, header summaries, and command execution upon notification of new mail. Changes: Fixed a bug that only showed one header even if more than one message was present as well as some other minor fixes for ease of use.
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