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About: Based on root-tail, Root-Portal allows you to log multiple log files into multiple desktop portals or mix them together in any combination with graphical backgrounds, transient backgrounds, shaded backgrounds, filtering and colourising, and many other features. Changes: Added new module 'shell' to let you run a binary or shell script as a modifier or as an input feed and fixed a couple of minor bugs.
About: Jed is a powerful editor, terminal and X11 interface. Color syntax highlighting is one of its strong suits, along with emulation of GNU Emacs, Wordstar, EDT and Brief. It also supports use of GPM on Linux consoles. Jed has a multitude of programming modes and couples with the Slang library for powerful extensions.
About: S-Lang is a powerful interpreted language that may be embedded into an application to make it extensible. Examples of applications that take advantage of the interpreter include jed, slrn, and mutt.
About: gnome-python is a set of interfaces to gnome-libs. It also contains a copy of PyGTK, so you don't have to worry about gnome-python getting out of sync with your copy of PyGTK. The bindings cover almost all of the APIs in gnome-libs. Changes: Bug fixes.
About: The Gnome Display Manager is a reimplementation of the well known xdm program. GDM consists of a daemon and a graphical login application which runs as an unpriviledged user. The login GUI features a face browser, an optional logo, and language/session type selection support. The daemon includes an XDMCP implementation for managing remote displays. Access control relies on TCPWrappers and PAM. Changes: Bug fixes.
About: Spruce is an X11 email client written in GTK+. It is geared towards being small and fast, supporting all the common features that users want or need without sacrificing usability or functionality. Changes: Attachments, CC text field in the composer window, you can now set it to remember window size and column sizes, message subject shows up as the message reader window's title, major speedups in mailbox reading, fixed a segfault bug with the options dialog, fixed a small memleak with the options dialog, as well as various code cleanups.
About: pyDict is an English-Chinese Chinese-English dictionary written in python/gtk. It has a command-line mode to be used under a console that is capable of displaying Chinese and a GUI mode which can be used in X11. Changes: First release.
About: OpenVerse is similar to other graphical chat systems like Excite Chat and Microsoft Chat, with the main differences being that OpenVerse is open source software, has no advertisements, and also runs on a variety of systems including Windows, Unix, Macintosh, and just about anything else for which you can find a copy of TCL/TK. Changes: Due to a trademark issue. the name of the application has been changed from Metaverse to OpenVerse. This new version contains some bug fixes, many changes to accomodate the new name, server will now limit the size of user's avatars, docs have been started, most features are documented, the text chat window now fully resizeable and contains scroll lock ability.
About: libsigc++ implements a full callback system for use in abstract interfaces and general programming. It is the most complete library of its kind with the ability to connect an abstract callback to a class method, function, or function object. It contains adaptor classes for connecting dissimilar callbacks and has an ease of use unmatched by other C++ callback libraries. Changes: Changes to improve STL complience, notes on porting to riscos and exporting to VC++ DLL as well as bug fixes for gcc 2.95 and egcs 1.1.
About: gtkmm (previously known as Gtk--) is a C++ interface for the popular GUI library GTK+. It provides a convenient interface for C++ programmers to create graphical user interfaces with GTK+'s framework. Highlights include typesafe callbacks, widgets which are extensible by inheritance, and many classes that can be easily combined to quickly create complex user interfaces. Changes: First development release in 6 months containing massive changes in code base, including switch to libsigc++, cleaner source, new code generator, and more examples.
About: GNOME is the GNU Network Object Model Environment. This project is building a complete, user-friendly desktop based entirely on free software. This desktop consists of small utilities and larger applications that share a consistent look and feel. It uses the GTK as the GUI toolkit for all GNOME-compliant applications.
About: XQF is Quake/QuakeWorld/Quake2/Quake3 server browser and launcher for Linux/X11. It's a frontend to QStat, a program by Steve Jankowski. XQF uses the GTK+. For more information, screenshots, source code, precompiled binaries, see the XQF Homepage. Changes: Noticeble changes since 0.9.1 are window geometry saving and a quick hack to enable copying of server addresses to clipboard. GTK+ 1.2.5 is required to use this version.
About: Java Assistant is an on-the-fly class/package browser. It can find sources from a zip/jar file (src.jar) or a path (your development path). The discovery process is dynamic and looks at all the installed classes/packages on a system. It has been designed with simplicity of use and efficiency as its main goals. It now includes a Swing Java source on-the-fly browser. Java Assistant also includes a plug-in interface for decompilers other than mocha. Changes: Dynamic linking to external decompilers/disassemblers, and an on-the-fly HTML Java browser.
About: Webfs (a.k.a. webfsd) is a simple HTTP server for purely static content. You can use it to serve the content of an FTP server via HTTP, for example. It can also be used to quickly export some files by starting an httpd server in a few seconds, without editing config files first. It knows how to use sendfile() on linux and FreeBSD. There is also sendfile emulation code which uses read()+write() and a userland bounce buffer; this allows one to compile and use webfs on systems without sendfile(). The stripped binary is less then 32Kb, making it great for floppy distros, recycled hardware, embedded systems (cramfs/romfs/flash disk) and other resource-limited environments. Changes: A man page, a few minor fixes, and some performance tuning.
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: .70 starts the .7x development series. Lots of new features and enhancements are planned, several of which have already made it into the tree, including support for multiple port stats, inactive jacks, a wider array of switch configurations, and a new Update switch function.
About: gif2png is a simple command-line utility to convert images from GIF to PNG format. It automatically preserves transparency, interlacing and text comments, and it can do multiple images in one command (e.g., gif2png *.gif). The distribution also includes a web2png script that can be used to convert an entire web tree; it calls gif2png to do image conversions, then patches IMG SRC tags correctly in referring pages. Changes: The gif2png distribution now includes a web2png script which can automatically convert an entire web tree. All GIFs except those with either transparency or animation are converted. Then, IMG SRC tags in associated web pages are automatically fixed. The script can be run in a mode which describes needed actions but makes no changes.
About: The GNU plotutils package contains programs for plotting scientific data and a device-independent function library "libplot" for exporting 2-D vector graphics in many raster and vector file formats. It is written in C and can also do vector graphic animations. Changes: CGM output is now supported, Plotutils is now based on libplot 3.0, which has new thread-safe C and C++ APIs, new functions have been added to libplot and libplotter for creating and manipulating PlotterParams objects, which store Plotter parameters, a new parameter, ROTATION, has been introduced (it applies to PCL, HP-GL, Fig, and PS Plotters), and a new scan-conversion library, called libxmi, can be optionally built and installed.
About: userv is a Unix system facility to allow one program to invoke another when only limited trust exists between them. It is a tool for system administrators, who often find themselves with a program running as one user which needs to be able to do certain things as another user. For example, the author's machine's news system needs to scan its users' newsrcs to ensure that the right newsgroups are fetched. Before userv that part of the news system had to run as root, and clumsily use `su'. Changes: In the client, copy results from getpw* when necessary, fixing what could be a security problem on some platforms, everything except a-z 0-9 - _ must now be prefixed by a colon, and \ now continues lines (and does sensible things with whitespace in `message' and `error' directives).
About: Tcl provides a portable scripting environment for Unix, Windows, and Macintosh that supports string processing and pattern matching, native file system access, shell-like control over other programs, TCP/IP networking, timers, and event-driven I/O. Tcl has traditional programming constructs like variables, loops, procedures, namespaces, error handling, script packages, and dynamic loading of DLLs. Tk provides portable GUIs on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. A powerful widget set and the concise scripting interface to Tk make it a breeze to develop sophisticated user interfaces. Changes: Applied several config patches to get AIX support working again, fixed an expr double-evaluation problem, fixed a static buffer problem that affected megawidget users with long widget pathnames, fixed linsert interpretation of end-integer indexing, fixed core dump when using array set on a variable in a non-existent namespace as well as other minor fixes, see ChangeLog for more details
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: Greater RFC2616 HTTP/1.1 coverage in the test harness, a simple extension hierarchy, a fileHandler with GET, PUT, OPTION, DEL, and MOVE support, impoved UTF8 handling in chunkable input streams. and standard path prefix and suffix mapping.
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: \-codes in the output work now, the output string variables work better, man pages have been added to the archive, very long output texts are now supported, and a few major bugs added in the 0.33 release have been removed.
About: R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is similar to S, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis, classification, clustering, etc.). R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to add additional functionality by defining new functions. For computationally intensive tasks, Fortran and C code can be linked and called at run time. Changes: Bugfixes, automatic update of packages over the Internet, functions to read dates from URLs (instead of the local disk), and changes in some plotting commands.
About: TWIG is a Web-based groupware suite written in PHP, compatible with both PHP3 and PHP4. Its features include IMAP and POP3 email, Usenet newsgroups, contact management, scheduling, shared notes and bookmarks, a todo list, and meeting announcements. Any piece of information can be shared with others via group oriented access controls. By using only plain HTML, it is a simple, cross-platform, fast, and browser-independent way to access or share almost any kind of information, without the complexity or costs of other intranet/groupware packages. It is fully internationalized, with 24 translations. Changes: Upgrade scripts, an improved spell checker, minor mail performance enhancements, fixes for several group-related display issues, additional checks for disabled features, and fixes for an error that occurred when deleting messages and several other minor problems.
About: SMM++ Mud Client is a mud client with extended and unique features. Aside from all standard mud client functionality like ANSI color support, aliases, action triggers, and tab-completion, SMM++ features a highly-customizable user interface (labels, buttons, and menus) and unique and powerful mapping capabilities, and SMM++ is the only mapping crossplatform (Tcl/Tk based) mud client available. Changes: A fix for a bug related to map names.
About: The rh-isdn package consists of a few scripts and documentation to set up ISDN on Red Hat Linux, written with a little bit of inspiration by isdn4net and the SuSE-startup-files. The scripts have been tested with Red Hat 5.2/6.0 in combination with PAP-PPP, dynamic IP and an Elsa QuikStep 1000 ISA-card (only hisax is supported by these scripts right now, others should work with minor changes). This package is not intended for external modems or Raw-IP. Changes: New documentation in docbook-format, a section for multiple configurations, channel-bundling, some samples, and fixes for some minor bugs.
About: FOX is a C++-based toolkit for GUI development. It includes a rich set of widgets and has powerful yet simple layout managers, MDI widgets, and mega-widgets. FOX incorporates support for XDND for drag and drop, X clipboard and X Selection, watching other I/O channels and sockets, timers and idle processing, object serialization and deserialization, a registry to save persistent settings, and 3D widgets using Mesa or OpenGL. FOX works on Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Tru64 Unix, Windows 9x,NT,2K (VC++, GNUWIN32, Borland, VisualAge C++), FreeBSD, and Sequent. Changes: Mostly bug fixes and performance improvements, some API extensions, and a partly redesigned FXTable widget.
About: knetdump is a packet sniffer and analyzer for visualizing the basic protocols of the OSI layer 1-4. It can show the headers, connections on the net, and a tcp-connection between two hosts.
About: Eqlplus is a Linux modem combining strategy based on IP masquerading and eql. Modern browsers typically open many simultaneous HTTP TCP-based connections to fetch text and images from remote servers. TCP multiplexing distributes these simultaneous connections across several active links, thereby increasing the apparent bandwidth to the Web user. Eqlplus is currently under development and has been recently updated for Kernel 2.4.19. Changes: First public release.
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 is a bugfix release. It fixes, among other things, the infinite loop in Paste, Previous, and Paste Predefined, and the installer now works with MacOS and OS/2. Also, new versions of the JBrowse and QuickFile plugins are included, and a new plugin, BufferTabs, has been bundled. BufferTabs adds a row of tabs to the editor window for quick switching between multiple open files. Finally, the old plugin API has been removed - so plugins that haven't yet been updated for jEdit 2.1 will no longer work.
About: userv is a Unix system facility to allow one program to invoke another when only limited trust exists between them. It is a tool for system administrators, who often find themselves with a program running as one user which needs to be able to do certain things as another user. For example, the author's machine's news system needs to scan its users' newsrcs to ensure that the right newsgroups are fetched. Before userv that part of the news system had to run as root, and clumsily use `su'. Changes: In the client, copy results from getpw* when necessary, fixing what could be a security problem on some platforms, everything except a-z 0-9 - _ must now be prefixed by a colon, and \ now continues lines (and does sensible things with whitespace in `message' and `error' directives).
About: GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. It also includes `rmt', the remote tape server (the `mt' tape drive control program is in GNU `cpio'). Changes: Invalid headers in tar files now elicit errors, not just warnings, `tar --version' output conforms to the latest GNU coding standards, if you specify an invalid date, `tar' now substitutes (time_t) -1, and `configure --with-dmalloc' is no longer available.
About: VMware allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside a Linux host. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within the host which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win9x, WinNT/2000/XP/2003, Linux, Novell, and more. The only main requirement is a 400 MHz or better machine, along with lots of RAM (128M minimum, 256M recommended). Changes: Windows 2000 guest operating system support, experimental RPM install, improved support for common peripheral devices, including scanners, printers, ZIP drives, and MP3 players, and other various improvements & bug fixes.
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: Major bug fixes and changes, channel logging, jabber instant message support, a few new commands, and documentation updates.
About: SybSQL is an easy-to-use X11 (Qt)-based SQL editor that helps you browse database contents, compose SQL commands, and view/save results. SybSQL supports connections to Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise as well as MS SQL 6.5 (not tested on SQL 7). Changes: First release.
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: All of the graphics are now copylefted.
About: Statweb is a CGI program intended to control X10 devices and lirc from the web. In fact you could put any non-interactive UNIX command in the config file, like tail /var/log/messages. You can configure the colors, font size, and title from the web interface as well. Changes: Initial release.
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