About: IceWM is a window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency. It is able to emulate the looks of Motif, OS/2, and Windows, and allows you to have a customizable look using pixmaps.
Changes: A fix for a fontset loading problem, and MultiByte (config) now enabled by default. Note: if you use an 8-bit character set (most European users), be sure to set $LC_CTYPE correctly for your locale.
About: Bluefish is a programmer's Web development editor written using GTK, designed to save the experienced webmaster some keystrokes. It features a multiple file editor, multiple toolbars, custom menus, image and thumbnail dialogs, open from the Web, CSS dialogs, PHP, HTML, Java, C, and XML support, external program integration (tidy, weblint, make, javac), and lots of wizards.
Changes: Two new features: internationalisation support (currently French, German, and Danish) and a right-click menu which opens the dialog for the tag you're clicking on; a lot of bugfixes, small updates, improvements and cleanups.
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: A major security fix; upgrade strongly recommended.
About: Freebirth is a drum machine consisting of a 3 oscillator bass synth (sine, square, and saw) and an integrated 16 step sequencer that controls the bass as well as the triggering of 5 other samples. It is a GTK+ application and uses OSS drivers. It has only been tested on Linux.
Changes: Choosing samples with a file dialog, improvements to the reverb and square wave, and a return to ongoing development of Freebirth.
About: Linux Logo is a small utility that displays an ANSI or ASCII logo of the Linux penguin, along with some sytem information. Instructions are included on how to add it to rc.scripts to have the logo displayed on login.
Changes: A fix for a rather embarassing typo in the Athlon support.
About: I-Spy grabs and compares contents of FTP directories and Web pages, from which it compiles a report and sends it via e-mail, saves it as HTML, or both.
Changes: Year date stamps are four digits, a frozen Log::File, and other minor code fixes.
About: Vacation is an e-mail auto-responder loosely based on the original by Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen. It is designed to emulate most vacation clones and specifically, the early Solaris version.
Changes: Replacement of generic dbmopen() calls with more portable SDBM_File ties.
About: HTML TIDY is a free utility to fix mistakes made while editing HTML and to automatically tidy up sloppy editing into nicely layed out markup. It also works great on the atrociously hard to read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools, and can help you identify where you need to pay further attention on making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.
About: site-dater.pl is a short script which will scan a web hierarchy and generate a table of web links (sorted by modification date) within that hierarchy.
Changes: Year displays four digits, and other cosmetic tweaks and minor bug fixes.
About: httptype reads a list of http hosts and optionally the port number for each of these. It queries each host, displaying the type of HTTP server running on that host, if any. It reads the http_proxy and no_proxy environment variables to determine whether to use a proxy or not. These options may also be specified through the command line.
Changes: New --debug and --trace switches for better error/bug detection, a --serveronly switch to suppress display of information other than the server type, better error messages, and a man page.
About: php3guest is a Web guestbook written in PHP using a MySQL backend. Entries can easily be edited or removed by the owner via a Web interface. Installation and configuration is easy and well documented. php3guest features modular language support with multiple sample modules (e.g. German, English, Chinese, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, and Danish) provided. The code is fully documented and is a fine starting point to learn PHP.
About: xxdiff is a graphical browser for viewing the differences between two or three files, or between two directories, and can be used to produce a merged version.
Changes: Lots of important bugfixes (tabs, search, more), new features, like display of visible region in overview, better command line parsing, support for empty files, inline help, toggle menus, redo diff with options, and horizontal diffs, and use of STLport and statically linking to it for easier binary distribution.
About: The Yoke driver provides transparant mirroring between disk partitions and other block devices (such as loop and nbd). It differs from the kernel RAID0 facility in that it is a virtual device with no interface of its own. To start mirroring one device to another requires no prior setup, just "yadd /dev/yd0 yet_another_device" and go. The yet_another_device will become another facet of the existing mirror and you can still read and write to it perfectly normally, with the difference that all changes will be seen and reflected in/from all the other mirror facets.
Changes: A manpage, a new clone utility, and minor code and /proc cleanups.
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: Updates for latest ALSA CVS versions, a keyboard mapping fix, and some cleanups.
About: x-wvdial is an X11-based frontend for wvdial, a simple dialer for Linux. No extra libraries are required. It supports both PPP and ISDN. It can also sync your clock to network time, ping your host, fetch your mail, and run slrnpull for downloading news articles right after connecting.
Changes: Aiming for POSIX compliance, a stop button to the dialing panel if a user wishes to abort, cleaner-looking status panels, and the ability to download news for offline reading with slrnpull via the included patch file.
About: CAFire is a small toy that displays a burning trace after the mouse pointer in X. It can work in a normal window or in the root window. A simple background preservation mode enables you to have your favourite background image while running CAFire in the root window. Different effects can be obtained by setting various parameters of the underlying cellular automata, and sample parameter files and colormaps are included.
Changes: Support for 16-, 24-, and 32-bpp Direct or TrueColor displays, and closer support for 8-bpp indexed displays.
About: mnoGoSearch is a full-featured Web search engine that you can use to build search engines over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and NTTP servers, local files, and database text fields. It supports many database systems as backends. It has built-in support for XML, HTML, and text, and external converters can be used to support other document types. An automatic language/charset guesser for more 70 language/charset combinations is included, along with cluster support, making it possible to distribute data over multiple computers and index huge collections with up to several hundred million documents.
Changes: A new DBType indexer.conf command that will allow UdmSearch compiled with ODBC to take in account database specific stuff, recognition of MySQL, Oracle, and Solid types, a new "multidict" mode stores words in different tables depending on word length, some improvements in stopword searching, DeleteBad is now "no" by default, MySQLHost, MySQLUser, MySQLPass commands are no longer supported (use DBHost, DBUser, DBPass, DBName instead), remembering of selected
