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Ed Sawicki (a professional instructor/lecturer who has used NetWare and NT since their beginnings and Unix since 1982) comments on the state of Open Source software in the corporate world of NT and NetWare. He's also used Coherent, QNX, Linux and *BSD. An assembler is his favorite programming tool. He's an open source advocate and a frequent critic of the existing computer establishment. He is the president of the Accelerated Learning Center. For his editorial, hit the details link. Links: Accelerated Learning Center [Comments are disabled]
About: Gaby is a small personal database manager using GTK+ and GNOME (if available) for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward access to the types of databases a casual user would normally use, while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. It was designed with extensibility in mind and relies heavily on plug-ins. Changes: Rewrote the view plug-ins API in a cleaner way, added support for dBase (III and ~IV) files as well as freshmeat appindex files, improved file loading (more than 10 times faster) and the usual bug fixes.
About: AlsaPlayer is a new PCM player written with the ALSA sound system in mind. It also includes support for JACK, OSS, NAS, and ESD. It makes extensive use of multi-threading and supports OGG, MP3, WAV, CDDA (CD Digital Audio), MOD, S3M, IT, and many other input types. Features include a real- time effects stream, variable speed/pitch control, SHOUTcast/icecast streaming support, multiple active visual scopes, command line mode, playlists, plugin architecture, low-latency mode, and more. Changes: Made CDDA compile only on Linux, reintroduced WAV plugin and removed hardcoded plugin names.
About: The Cistron Radius server is mostly compatible with Livingston's 'radiusd-2.1', except without the s/key or menu support. It has additional features such as multiple DEFAULT entries with fall-through, a session database (who is online), the ability to limit connections on a per-user basis, and much more. Changes: Fixed proxying code, accounting packets now handle Proxy-State, added configuration for /etc/shells support, allowed operator support for huntgroups, and moved dictionary items around to allow complaints about check items in the reply-item list.
About: Orac is a GUI tool for Database Administrators written in Perl, Tk, and DBI. It organizes many useful DBA scripts into a nice graphical interface, for collecting statistics on your database, or diagnosing problems. It currently supports Oracle, Sybase, and Informix. Richard Sutherland's DDL::Oracle Perl module has been integrated with the current version for the Oracle side of things, greatly improving the Oracle developer options on the program. Changes: Database independance, explain plan for Oracle, added more informix and Sybase functionality, better/quicker use of config files, more object-oriented code, addition of generic orac_Shell interface, fixed lock-up on NT, multi-user support, and many bug fixes.
About: Space Racer is a 3D car racing game. The circuit is a road in a galactic environment. It aims to be a clone of the well known Stunt Car Racer developed by Geff Crammond, author of Grand Prix I and II. Changes: Implemented many precomputations, a better gameplay and a gnu install. Because of the precomputations the first startup of Space Racer might take some time,
About: X-Tract is an XML Script processor. XML Script is a fully XML compliant language, specifically designed for handling XML data. XML Script is more powerful than XSL, and can perform many XSL functions more efficiently. X-Tract can be used on the command line, or can be run from a web server to handle CGI queries. Changes: Build 320 contains new POP mailing scripts, that mail an echo server to ensure successful installation, and a search engine written in XML Script to search the documentation included with the release. It also has more powerful command-line options, plus new syntax specifiers, commands and improvements to socket, CGI and CSV-data handling.
About: rcalc is a fast and light symbolic calculator for the GNOME desktop environment which aims to occupy the middle ground between simple point-and-click calculators and full featured mathematical packages. The emphasis is on useability; adding up should be as simple as on a handheld calculator, yet the more complex features should be there as required. Changes: First release.
About: Jonama is a piece of software acting as a relay between a client over the Net and your internal systems. It was developed which security in mind, ie. it makes use of the SSL protocol to identify remotes and crypt channels and uses Unix mechanisms like chroot and setuid to minimize rights and actions. Changes: Rework of autoconf, Apache style log file and checked against OpenSSL 0.9.4.
About: MAVERIK is a system for managing graphics and interaction in Virtual Reality applications. It is designed to address the challenges of highly interactive virtual environments containing many objects with complex geometry. MAVERIK uses either Mesa or OpenGL to perform rendering and runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Windows 98/NT and MacOS. Changes: MacOS and FreeBSD support, mipmapping, better texture mapping on 3Dfx cards, plus others (see change log).
About: Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi. Many new features have been added including multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, commandline history, online help, filename completion, and block operations. It is descended from the vi clone "stevie" and runs on many systems, including Unix, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS, and Amiga. Changes: VIM 5.5a is the latest step towards VIM 5.5, which aims for stability.
About: Analog is a WWW logfile analysis program. It is fast, easy to install and run, very flexible, features multi-language support, produces attractive output, can be run directly or from a form interface, understands any logfile format, and works on any operating system. Changes: Bug fixes, see the changelog for details.
About: GNU C library (glibc) is one of the most important components of GNU Hurd and most modern Linux distributions. It is used by almost all C programs and provides the most essential program interface.
About: RedHat CD Kit consists of a set of scripts to make creating your own Red Hat-derived, bootable installation CDs as easy as possible. Also included is a script for verifying the integrity of the created image, and short descriptions of the file formats used by the Red Hat installers. Changes: Initial release.
About: Libglade is a small library that allows a program to load its user interface from an XML description at runtime. The XML file format is that of the user interface builder GLADE, so libglade acts as an alternative to GLADE's code generation approach. Libglade also provides a simple interface for connecting handlers to the various signals in the interface (on platforms where the gmodule library works correctly, it is possible to connect all the handlers with a single function call). Once the interface has been instantiated, libglade gives no overhead, so other than the initial interface loading time (which is short), there is no performance tradeoff. Changes: Better underline accelerator support, making keyboard navigation of dialogs even easier, drop XML parse trees from the cache if the file has been changed when rebuilding the interface and added support for the new widgets supported by glade-0.5.2
About: Sredird is a serial port redirector that is compliant with the RFC 2217 "Telnet Com Port Control Option" protocol. This protocol lets you share a serial port through the network. Changes: Corrected an important bug where bytes directed to the socket were sent to the modem, then read back through the modem device and finally sent to the socket macking things apparently working.
About: VSX-PCTS is a verification suite for assessing your system's conformance to ISO/IEC 9945-1 (POSIX®)/FIPS 151-2. It is an implementation of IEEE Std 2003.1 (Test Methods for 1003.1). It is available under The Open Group Test Suite License. Changes: The vtools archive has a minor correction to remove a file that should not have been included in the archive (y.tab.c should be created by yacc).
About: The LANdb Network Management Database provides network managers with an N-birds-with-one-stone solution for cataloging all network hardware, hosts, and connections in a MySQL (or Oracle) database. The application provides an easy-to-use, Web-based frontend with multiple levels of access to data in a multi-user setting. The database is searchable by a number of different parameters (switch, closet, building, port, jack, and custom query). Changes: Several changes to nearly all scripts in the package, many improvements in database methods, as well as many new features. This release fixes a few problems and inadequacies I've found along the way, looking through v0.5. Also updated the site with some more documentation.
About: MToolsFM (formerly mfm) is a GUI frontend for mtools. It should make access to floppies a lot easier for beginners. It has the basic functionality of a file manager. Changes: Various bugfixes, tooltips added, RPM available.
About: UDE, the Unix Desktop Environment, is a new GUI for Linux. It has a new look'n'feel. The goals of UDE are to be user friendly, fast and as different from MS-Windows as possible.
About: TmCde JAVA frontend is a JAVA frontend of a timecode calculator. It supports 25, 30 drop frame and 30 non drop frame standards. An online demonstration is available. Changes: Adaptation to changes made on the Epeios libraries.
About: The mcal-drivers package consists of additional calendar drivers that can be plugged into libmcal. Changes: This is the first release.
About: mcal stands for Modular Calendar Access Library. libmcal is a C library for accessing calendars. It's written to be very modular, with pluggable drivers. One of the primary drivers it handles is ICAP, allowing access to remote calendar stores. libmcal is the calendar equivalent of the IMAP c-client library. Changes: This is the first release.
About: Mcal is a replacement for the traditional unix 'cal' program. Mcal is powered by libmcal. Because of this, it has intrinsic ability to emulate the normal unix 'cal' program, and also use the drivers that come with libmcal. This allows Mcal to access both remote calendar servers and local filestores. Changes: This is the first release.
About: mail2sms converts a (MIME) mail to a short message, allowing search/replace, conditional rules, date/time dependent actions, customizing the output format, etc. The output defaults to 160 characters, which is perfectly suitable for sending the text to a GSM telephone as an SMS message. This software does not include any code for actually sending the text to anything else but another program or stdout. Changes: Minor bugfixes and added configure script. mail2sms is now covered by the GNU GPL.
About: kwintv is a KDE 2.x application for watching television or video streams via the bttv driver in Linux. It has more or less the same abilities as xtvscreen or xawtv, but it is based on Qt and KDE.
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.
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