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Bruce Perens reviews the recent change of hands of StarOffice to SUN, and how this will affect the licencing, the Linux community, and the general perceptions of users inside and outside of the Open Source community. Hit the details link for the full article. [Comments are disabled]
About: Hypermail 2 is a much enhanced version of the popular tool that converts mails into nicely formatted HTML pages. Version 2 has a lot of new features including MIME support. Perfect for archiving mailing lists and similar. Changes: Lots of bugfixes and a few new features.
About: GProc is a GTK application which allows you to manage your running processes with only a few mouse clicks. It is very configurable and uses skins for better integration with your desktop. Changes: Improvements in clist, right click everywhere for menu and work on layout frames.
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: Color picker support added. You can now change the color-map used in the display on the fly. Saving of user-defined colormaps is not implemented yet.
About: AbiWord is a cross-platform Open Source word processor. The goal is to make AbiWord full-featured, and remain lean. Changes: Improved Word importer, improved RTF support, as well as misc other changes.
About: EzRPM takes one or more RPM packages as parameters and installs them handling all dependencies by installing additional RPMs as necessary. These RPMs are located by scanning all directories in the original list of RPMs to be installed, and by scanning the paths in the RPMPATH environment variable. Changes: Improved interface to minimize scrolling, fixed "out of file handles" problem using popen() in the recursive deps() function, optimized searching for capabilities, files, etc, added in the prompting function for removable media, made the default install *not* attempt to check dependencies on already installed packages, added --forcedeps option to override this and provide the original behavior and added documentation.
About: Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans. Changes: Multipart ordering fixes, added the ability to delete headers, added a Notebook style view, placement is now saved, database layout improved, switched to Gnome menus, preliminary work on logging, colored Message headers, added ability to search in headers and lots of bug fixes
About: MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for many systems, using a curses-based interface. It supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, SOUP, and OPX formats.
About: Paralogger is a script to "tail" the system logs in borderless transparent Eterm(s). Its purpose is to make setting up a "root tail" an easy set and forget. Paralogger makes the placement of the terminals (geometry) more friendly for the user by detecting the screen resolution and calculating the geometry of the terminals automatically. It can also load or save a configuration file. Changes: Initial public release.
About: Sfront compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File Format). Under Linux and Mac OS X, sfront supports real-time, low-latency audio input/output, local MIDI input from soundcards, and networked MIDI input using RTP and SIP. A SIP server hosted on the Berkeley campus manages sessions. The documentation includes a book about SAOL programming. Changes: Soundcard support under Linux.
About: OBM is a groupware, email, LDAP, Windows PDC, CRM, and project management application. It is mainly used as an Exchange or Notes/Domino groupware and mail server replacement, as an LDAP directory, as a Windows PDC, as a contact and customer database, as a project management tool, or as any combination of these functions. It provides groupware (calendars, contacts, and tasks) connectors for Outlook, Thunderbird/Lightning, and PDAs. It supports internationalization and themes. It is highly scalable, and is used by sites from five to many thousands of users. Changes: Company administration feature added, more documentation (LANG and THEME HOWTOS, Known bugs, requested features) and some bug fixes.
About: gentoo is a file manager written in C. It uses the GTK+ toolkit, and the two-pane concept, somewhat inspired by DOpus. gentoo strives to be very configurable, and also to let you do all configuration from a GUI within the program itself. Using advanced file typing and styling systems, gentoo determines how to display files in its listings, and also how to act on them. The package includes a set of over 120 unique handcrafted icons, for many different types of files. Changes: This release fixes bugs in the Move and DirParent commands, various pathname parsing issues, and more. It adds a few new commands, and features a return to the "old" (pre-0.11.8) history system. It also adds a new numerical sorting mode, plus the usual amount of general touch-ups, fixes, and improvements. If you use gentoo, please upgrade.
About: gxsnmp is a SNMP managment frontend that is a part of the GNOME project. It is meant to be an easy and powerful program for network managment. Even though it is still in its early stages it is already useful for some things. Changes: Many bugs squished, new config handling that might just work this time, better debugging infrastructure implemented as well as modular MIB handling.
About: The Test Environment Toolkit (TET), is a multi-platform uniform test scaffold, into which non-distributed and distributed test suites can be incorporated. TET supports tests written in C, C++, Perl, Tcl, Shell (sh, bash, and POSIX shell), Python, Ruby, and Korn Shell. Changes: TET3.3a is a major update, incorporating shared library support, additional scenario language extensions, new documentation plus rolling in all bugs reported to date.
About: Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator. It is written almost completely in Python with some modules written in C, combining the flexibility and power of Python with the speed of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip masks, text along a path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and more. Changes: The beginnings of SVG import/export filters, UI improvements and more internal reorganizations, as well as fixes for two bugs related to gcc 2.95 and GTK 1.2.4.
About: Qvwm is a Windows 95 like window manager for the X Window System. It allows Windows 95/NT users to use the X Window System without a hassle and X Window System users to use Windows 95 without a hassle. Changes: Fixed the bug that Gnome pager does not refrect the virtual desktop of qvwm correctly, indicators are now shown in the taskbar, initial states of windows are now registered in Gnome environment and fixed some other bugs.
About: TuxNES is an emulator for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System that runs under Linux and FreeBSD on i386 machines. It supports a wide variety of graphic displays, sound modes, nifty features, and, of course, NES games. Changes: First public release.
About: divine will use ARP requests to look for hosts that are always up in the networks that you frequently use your laptop in and then set the IP configuration including /etc/resolv.conf and write proxy settings in /etc/proxy. A perl script to edit your netscape 4 preferences is included. You can also run a custom script for each network to edit /etc/printcap or /etc/issue or whatever you feel like. The ARP method is much quicker than the "ping" method that other solutions use. Changes: Divine now exits with exit code 2 if it did not receive any answers.
About: Dr Geo stands for 'Dr Geo Refer to Geometry Exploration Observatory'. It is an interactive geometry program which allows you to construct dynamic figures. It's possible to draw basic geometric objects such as points, lines, segments, loci and intersections beetween objects. It also allows you to use geometric transformations such as rotation and translation. The usual geometric tools such as parallel line are also available. Changes: New arc circle object, scale transformation, line commande bug fixes, source cleaning and reordering, etc.
About: XDBM is a database designed specifically to handle XML data. It offers greater speed (since the data is stored in a preparsed format), lower memory usage (since only those parts of the file needed are loaded into memory) and faster searching for XML elements. XDBM can also parse and store plain text XML files. XDBM aims to be as close to the W3's DOM specification as possible. XDBM also comes with utilities for converting between XDBM file format and plain text and for reading XDBM files in less and emacs. Changes: Initial alpha release.
About: GNOME Comics Organizer is a program to help keep track of your comic book collection. It supports a lot of different information for comics and issues. Changes: First release.
About: themeleme.sh will help you package a Window Maker theme for the 'net. It generates a README which can be styled via Rstyles, takes a screenshot of your theme-decorated screen, and makes a tarball of it. Changes: Added a Tcl/Tk GUI.
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: Updated german message catalog, fresh new french message catalog, new very flexible URL - filename mapping routines used to change layout of URL tree, many new cool features, many bug fixes and improvements
About: Cook is a tool for constructing files. It is given a set of files to create, and recipes of how to create them. In any non-trivial program there will be prerequisites to performing the actions necessary to creating any file, such as include files. Cook provides a mechanism to define these. When a program is being developed or maintained, the programmer will typically change one file of several which comprise the program. Cook examines the last-modified times of the files to see when the prerequisites of a file have changed, implying that the file needs to be recreated as it is logically out of date. Changes: More portability fixes, improved parallel behaviour, improved distributed shell behaviour, much improved fingerprint performance.
About: auth_ldap is an LDAP authentication module for the Apache Web server. Auth_ldap has excellent performance, due to its use of aggressive client-side caching algorithms. It also has support for LDAP over SS or TLSL. It also features a mode that lets Microsoft Frontpage clients manage their Web permissions while still using LDAP for authentication. Changes: This is the first production release of the 1.3.x beta series. All auth_ldap users should upgrade to this release.
About: RFC Util allows you to specify the number of an RFC, or a search string, and it returns all related RFCs. It features command line switches to spawn lynx or w3m to view the RFC, dump to file for offline viewing, or mail to an address. It also allows local and remote lookups of port, service, or proto numbers. Changes: Added error handling, added -d switch to dump to file for offline viewing, added $indexpath variable to allow for easier install for non-root users.
About: Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and multiple precision floating point calculator. It includes its own programming language similar in some aspects to C, bc, or Pascal. It can deal with rational numbers and complex numbers. It has matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so it is very fast for calculations of large numbers. It has a command line and a GNOME interface. The GNOME interface supports plotting functions and 3D surfaces. Changes: Last standalone release of genius. Genius will now be a part of Dr.Genius which will be a more complete math suite including Dr.Geo. This is just a minor bugfix release before the restructuring.
About: cdctl is a program similar to eject. Like eject, it can eject your CD-ROM/DVD drive, but it does a whole lot more. Cdctl provides a user interface to the 2.2 kernel's uniform cdrom driver's ioctl calls, and most 2.0 cdrom drivers (ide-cd and scsi). Cdctl is also capable of doing everything a regular console cd player can as well as drive capability interrogation, autoeject setting, maximum/mininum speed cap setting, disc-changer disc selection, disc status readback, MCN querying, table of contents header readback, track header readback, and much more. Changes: Man page, GNU autoconf, i18n infrastructure and beginning of German l10n, "eject" symlink support, drive door locking, autoeject support, documentation updates, and a pile of bugfixes.
About: gcombust is a CD burner GUI. It works as a GTK+ frontend for mkisofs, mkhybrid, cdrecord, and cdlabelgen. It has primitive support for controlling the directory (root) structure and size of an image without copying files/symlinking or writing 10 lines of arguments. It can also maximize disk usage by hinting at which directories/files to use. Changes: cd-to-image copy, French translation, bugfixes (including leaking file descriptors and changed fileselection mode to much requested "paint" like behaviour).
About: Given a URL, Getleft will try to download all links. As it goes, it modifies the original HTML pages so that the absolute links get changed to relative links, and links to active pages get changed to the resulting pages. It supports thirteen different languages. Changes: Added the option to update a download, and fixed a bug with the file filters.
About: TaRT stands for "The Automatic Random Tagline", a versatile, fast and feature-rich email signature generator. TaRT features include random taglines, optional daemon functionality, display of current date, custom layout of signature, and "special date" tagline text. The command line syntax is simple and well explained. LinuxTaRT is designed to be run as a stand-alone daemon, from crontab, or in your login script. Changes: Added support for multiline taglines, custom signatures now default, removed iBeat support as well as small bug fixes.
About: PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit. Changes: The Qt bindings have been separated from PyKDE to form PyQt, added support for disconnect and added 2 new classes.
About: jCIFS is an SMB client library written entirely in Java. It closely follows the CIFS specification supporting Unicode, named pipes, batching, multiplexing IO of threaded callers, encrypted authentication, full transactions, domain/workgroup/host/share/file enumeration, NetBIOS sockets and name services, the smb:// URL protocol handler, a java.io.File like API, RAP calls, NTLM HTTP Authentication, and more. Changes: Preliminary code is available for testing and comments.
About: PyKDE is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for KDE. Changes: The Qt bindings have been split off into a separate PyQt package, the KDE classes have been split into a number of separate modules and 5 new KDE classes have been added.
About: CDR-Toaster is a Tk frontend for writing CDs. It is a graphical front-end for the excelent programs 'mkisofs', 'cdrecord' and 'cdparanoia'. It may be used to burn audio, data, bootable, and combo CDs. It can also rip audio and data tracks. CDR-Toaster can even burn mp3s as audio CDs. Changes: Version 1.02 adds ability to burn audio from MP3 files, and better help.
About: The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire 4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of this GUI client. Changes: Small bug fix.
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