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About: The dump package contains both dump and restore. Dump examines files in a filesystem, determines which ones need to be backed up, and copies those files to a specified disk, tape or other storage medium. The restore command performs the inverse function of dump; it can restore a full backup of a filesystem. Subsequent incremental backups can then be layered on top of the full backup. Single files and directory subtrees may also be restored from full or partial backups. Changes: A severe bug in the globbing routines was solved, when restoring device modes, the devices are no longer opened, the location of the dumpdates file can be configured at compile time with a configure flag, backup time estimation corrected, filesystems that are not listed in /etc/fstab can now be dumped, and many other minor fixes. See the Changelog for details.
About: Sitescooper automatically retrieves the stories from news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into Plucker, iSilo, or Palm DOC format for later reading on-the-move. It will avoid stories you've already read, and can handle virtually any news site on the Web. Support for over 300 sites is included. Even if you don't have a handheld, it's still handy for simple website-to-text conversion. Changes: Lots of changes, including pre-packed installable PRC output available for download at the site, multi-page HTML/iSilo output, 81 sites are supported and MacOS support has been implemented.
About: Ted is a text processor running under X on Unix/Linux systems, with the ability to edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a WYSIWYG way. It also converts RTF to PostScript and PDF. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS Word. Changes: Picture files and spelling dictionaries are now read in a machine-independent way (to avoid problems on 64 bit machines), the HTML produced is now simpler, some bugs and peculiarities in the nesting of tags have been removed, support for multiple line spacing and for right and center tabs has been added, hyperlinks are no longer automatically underlined, better support for character sets different from Latin 1 has been added, and various bugs have been fixed.
About: LeoCAD is a CAD application that uses plastic building bricks similar to those found in many toys. This is the Linux port of the original MS Windows version; it uses OpenGL for the graphics and allows the creation of very large/complex models with a library of over 1500 different parts. Changes: First release.
About: QCad is a powerful but easy to use 2D CAD program for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages are often rather complicated to use, QCad tries to stay comfortable, and even an absolute beginner can create professional drawings with a minimum of effort. Changes: First release.
About: The HTML::Template module attempts to make using HTML templates simple and natural. It extends standard HTML with a few new tags for variables, loops, if/else blocks and includes. A file written with HTML and these new tags is called a template. Using this module you fill in the values for the variables and loops declared in the template. This allows you to seperate design (the HTML) from the data, which you generate in the Perl script. While there are many other HTML template systems available, this module is simple and fast. It doesn't try to reinvent Perl CGI, it just augments HTML with a few new and very useful abilities. Changes: Numerous bug fixes, a new FAQ section in the documentation, code cleanup, and improved internal comments.
About: CDXA is an Audio XA file decoder/player that has interfaces for text mode and X windows using the GTK widget set. It enables you to play your favorite non-"Audio CD" music from within your favorite Playstation games' files. Changes: Initial release after three redesigns.
About: trf is an extension library to the script language tcl, as created by John Ousterhout. It extends the language at the C-level with so-called "transformer"-procedures. With the help of some patches to the core the package is able to intercept all read/write operations on designated channels, thus giving it the ability to transform the buffer contents as desired. Existing transforms include Base64, UUencode, Hashes (SHA, MD5, ...), error correction codec, zlib-based compression, script level transforms. Changes: The bug in the 'bzip' (de)compressor has been fixed, and compile time options to statically link zlib (--enable-static-zlib, -DZLIB_STATIC_BUILD) and bzlib (--enable-static-bzlib, -DBZLIB_STATIC_BUILD) have been added.
About: SoundTracker is a pattern-oriented music editor (similar to the DOS program 'FastTracker'). Samples are lined up on tracks and patterns which are then arranged to a song. Supported module formats are XM and MOD; the player code is the one from OpenCP. A basic sample recorder and editor is also included. Changes: Multi-track copy & paste is now possible, file requester paths are now remembered, and i386 Assembly mixing routines and a Spanish translation have been added.
About: FAQ PLAIN is a simple FAQ preprocessor. It generates a single FAQ output page which can be used for HTML PLAIN, or as an include page. It offers a some very useful options such as a hierarchical structure of the FAQ with automatic numbering. The program is easy to use and greatly simplifies the task of creating an FAQ page. Changes: Initial release.
About: acmemail is a multiuser IMAP/POP3 to Web gateway (or webmail program). It reads mail from a mail server and displays it using HTML on a web server. It is written in Perl, has full support for MIME (and mod_perl), is quite pretty, and is GPL'd or distributed under the Perl Artistic License. Changes: Bug fixes.
About: Enlightenment is a themeable, fast, flexible, and powerful window manager that is designed to be as configurable as possible in both look and feel. In addition, Enlightenment provides an applet API that provides functionality somewhere between the GNOME applet system and Dock Apps from Afterstep/WindowMaker. The current design aim is for Enlightenment to become a desktop shell.
About: SDL is a library that allows you portable low-level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard. With SDL, it is easy to write portable games which run on many different platforms. Changes: Full automake/libtool support.
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: -F now also accepts stdin, -d can read data from a file or stdin, and curl now uses zlib to enable compressed documents over HTTP and supports multiple URLs on the command line.
About: ZAngband is a single-player rogue-like dungeon exploration game that runs on a wide variety of computer systems. Changes: New options to center the display around the player, always generate unusual rooms, and always generate arena levels, as well as various bugfixes.
About: CodeForge IDE is an advanced integrated development environment that provides full project management and complete edit/compile/debug cycle support for C, C++, Fortran and other compiled languages. Features include a GUI makefile builder (total abstraction of the makefile concept), a class hierarchy browser, graphical configuration for almost all free and commercial compilers, a project manager for visual presentation of project structure and component status using a dependency tree, a separate "desktop" area showing work in progress, a fully configurable programmer's editor with auto-completion, built-in debugger, transparent revision control for SubVersion, CVS, BitKeeper, RCS, SCCS, Perforce, PRCS, and Visual Source Safe, a GUI Revision Control Tool, a Diff/Merge tool, an rc-aware Search/Replace Tool, automatic tags management, and much more. Changes: The online help and tutorials have been updated and many new features and bug fixes have been added.
About: DreamBot is an experimental IRC bot totally written in Perl. Its main features include a totally dynamic user and channel list (no need to deal with text files), a learning ability that's similiar to infobot, built-in seen and topten talkers support, notes/memos, pasting of Freshmeat and Slashdot news, and Babelfish (Altavista) translation. DreamBot doesn't require any extra Perl modules. Changes: A dynamic channel list, logging, bitch mode, op protection, channel mode locking, "place" and "count" commands for top talkers, and various bug fixes and clean ups.
About: LinNeighborhood is a GUI frontend for browsing M$ machines and mounting SMB shares using Samba (and Smbfs on 2.0 kernels). Changes: Support for smbmount 2.0.5, options to run file managers after successful mounts and to memorize successful mounts and remount automatically on the next startup, the ability to export shell scripts including successful mount commands, small bugfixes in the browsing code, removal of the WINS feature, and the addition of command line parameters (-h, -v, -m).
About: PPPOEd is another PPP-over-Ethernet implementation. It splits functionality between kernel and user space and includes a user space program, pppoed, for discovery and connection management. Changes: Initial version.
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: This is a feature freeze release. It has been cleaned up and audited for memory leaks and stability, and many bugs have been removed.
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: The To: line is now searchable and workable, \n, \t, and \r now work in the output string, and more descriptive explanations have been added to the README file about the order of the tests.
About: Enlightenment is a themeable, fast, flexible, and powerful window manager that is designed to be as configurable as possible in both look and feel. In addition, Enlightenment provides an applet API that provides functionality somewhere between the GNOME applet system and Dock Apps from Afterstep/WindowMaker. The current design aim is for Enlightenment to become a desktop shell.
About: Fortify provides full strength, 128-bit encryption facilities to the export editions of Netscape Navigator and Communicator. These facilites are used when connecting to an encrypting web server (with the SSL protocol). Fortify also adds the ability to generate 1024-bit RSA keys internally (these are typically used for client certificates), plus the ability to send and receive e-mail messages using strong 128-bit encryption (with the S/MIME protocol). Changes: Support for Communicator 4.7 on UNIX.
About: AccuRev is a fast, powerful, and easy-to-use Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool with integrated issue tracking based on "Streams" that more efficiently manages complex parallel and global development. Streams are a combination and superset of branches and labels that are first class objects instead of being file-by-file attributes. AccuRev records all merges and patches, so you never have to re-merge the same code. It supports file and directory renaming and merging, follows a client/server model, and is transaction-based. It includes an integrated graphical 3-way diff and merge tool. AccuRev provides an Open API (and SDK) to integrate with any third-party development tool (IBM/Rational ClearQuest, Serena TeamTrack, and more out of the box). It also integrates with Eclipse, the MS SCC API (MS Visual Studio), Sun Java Studio, any diff/merge tool with a command line interface, and more. Changes: AccuRev now includes a cross-platform GUI for Linux/Unix/NT and is faster on large operations.
About: GReceipt will take a receipt or bill and enable you to split the items between multiple users so that they can each pay their share. Changes: Final release.
About: LE has many block operations with stream and rectangular blocks, can edit both unix and dos style files (LF/CRLF), is binary clean, has hex mode, can edit text with multi-byte character encoding, has full undo/redo, can edit files and mmap-able devices in mmap shared mode (only replace), has tunable syntax highlighting, tunable color scheme (can use default colors), tunable key map. It is slightly similar to Norton Editor, but has more features. Changes: A wrong bool type problem in ncurses (RedHat) has been worked around, drag block marking has been improved, and a --config option has been added.
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