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Soothsayers of Linux doom raise the specter of fragmentation and predict that Linux will suffer the same fate that's held back the commercial UNIX flavors. arnim rupp suggests that not only will Linux hold together, but may also be the means to reunite the UNIX factions. [Comments are disabled]
About: LessTif is an implemention of the OSF/Motif standard GUI toolkit for X11. It aims to be source compatible with OSF/Motif. Most Motif apps should compile and run out of the box. Changes: This release is probably not binary compatible with prior releases as some header files have changed. Major changes in this release include many XmText fixes, XmForm fixes, XmList fixes, a general code cleanup, fixes for XBaeMatrix, and many more. Nedit should work much better with this release than prior releases. Netscape-dynMotif should run out-of-the box with this release, but not all functionality is available.
About: The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize the time of a computer client or server to another server or reference time source, such as a radio or satellite receiver or modem. It provides client accuracies typically within a millisecond on LANs and up to a few tens of milliseconds on WANs relative to a primary server synchronized to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) via a Global Positioning Service (GPS) receiver, for example.
About: Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix of equally sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images. Changes: A new, better image-matching algorithm.
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: Support for mmd/mrd, a better UI, progress-bars, warning messages, and lots of bugfixes.
About: FreeType 2 is a high-quality and portable font engine that is capable of supporting several font formats (be they bitmapped or scalable) through a simple and uniform interface. Its design is modular and allows independent "font driver" modules to be added, even at runtime, to support additional formats. It also provides a high-quality anti-aliasing renderer, an innovative auto-hinting engine, and support for the following font formats: TrueType Type1, CID-Type 1, Multiple Masters Type 1 OpenType/CFF, pure CFF, and CEF Windows FNT/FON. Changes: A switch to a new design.
About: Anteater is a log analyser for MTA logfiles (such as those produced by sendmail and postfix). The tool is written in 100% C++ and is very easy to customize. Input, output, and the analysis are modular class objects with a clear interface. Currently, there are modules for reading the syslog format of sendmail and postfix that do up to eight useful analyses and write the result in plain ASCII or HTML, to stdout or to files. Changes: A rewrite of the argument parser to fix various argument-related problems, configuration file support, and an HTML module summary.
About: GNU Portable Threads (Pth) is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms providing non-preemptive priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution ("multithreading") inside server applications. All threads run in the same address space, but each thread has its own individual program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. The scheduling is done in a cooperative way, i.e. the threads are dispatched based on priority and pending events. The event facility allows threads to wait until various types of events occur, including pending I/O on filedescriptors, elapsed timers, pending I/O on message ports, thread and process termination, and even customized callback functions.
About: kicemenu parses your icewm menu config file and displays its content as a tree. It allows creating folders, program entries and separators, and deleting and ordering them within a folder. Changes: Initial release.
About: ECLiPt SSH Shell is a little graphical tool to startup ssh with certain usernames & hosts. Changes: A new sigchld handler, and layout changes.
About: KEasyISDN is a small KDE Application for ISDN users with one or more providers. It depends on a working ISDN configuration and on KDE. It is also a simple onlinecounter and a frontend to netdate. Changes: Multilanguage support (English and German), setup is now integrated into the main program, a completly new setup, netdate support, and display of the total time and costs with information about the last update.
About: Xplanets is a simulator that shows a spaceship moving through the solar system. The spaceship's movements are influenced by gravity from the sun and the planets according to Newton's laws, and by the acceleration that the engines provide. The planets move around is (simplified) round orbits. Changes: The display now shows the velocity vectors of the planets relative to the spaceship.
About: QGEO provides Linux users with a tool that can read and display CDs from the National Geographic Interactive collections. CDs are automatically mounted and can be ejected and new ones inserted without the fuss of the mount command. Changes: A fix for a printing page problem, improved tool button layouts, new accelerators to make life easier, improved zoom to 3 ranges, new icons to navigator for covers, by default issues are now closed, and a qgeo.make file so you may not need tmake.
About: Yams (Yet Another Merchant System) is an e-commerce system. It provides tools for both the shopper and the administrator. Yams is written in Perl and utilizes a MySQL database on the backend. It features a persistent shopping cart, the ability to handle different types of products including various kinds of physical and electronic products as well as the ability to showcase "affiliate" products in your store but still allow the user to buy directly from the affiliate. Changes: A fix has been made for a security hole in which the customer ID was stored in user-modifiable form in some of the order pages, improper quoting of the department in some places has been corrected, and some other minor changes have been made.
About: WeirdX is a pure Java X Window System server. WeirdX handles X protocols directly, so no proxy program is required. Changes: Three mouse button emulation is added.
About: PowerShell is a GNOME/Gtk+-based terminal emulator which supports many terminals in a single window (limited only by available RAM). Each terminal is given a "notebook" tab which makes switching between terminals easy. Changes: A few simple bug fixes which should fix most of the problems that people have been having with the program. The next version will be a complete rewrite with many new features.
About: liblcd is a simple Linux user-space driver for serial-interface LCD alphanumeric and graphical displays. It was written specifically for the Scott Electronics G12032 graphical display, but it should work with most any LCD that can understand ASCII. Even if your display is not a graphical one, you should be able to take advantage of the text functions. Changes: Behavioral changes for more consistency; liblcd and LCDproc can now live together peacefully.
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: xppp-go now forks by default, cursor handling has been improved, and color has been added to the stop button.
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: The big, bad POSIX threads that everyone's been waiting for have been added.
About: RegExplorer is a visual regular expression explorer, it allows for writing regular expressions and visually see the matches, thus making regular expression much easier to write and maintain. Changes: Text split mode, can select all matches, remembers last state, regexp conversion, extra hotkeys, customizable colors, and some bugfixes.
About: Email Security through Procmail (the Procmail Sanitizer) provides methods to sanitize email, removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided. Changes: A fix for a DoS bug in handling of certain quoted strings, and generally improved handling of quoted strings and wrapped header lines.
About: ency reads the data file(s) from the Star Trek encyclopedias & episode guides CD-ROM and outputs search results as text or HTML. It also includes a library for writing your own software. Changes: API-related and media bugfixes, API documentation, and findenc & htmlenc now display related media.
About: Teapop is another RFC1939 compliant POP3-server, however Teapop takes a step further. It has flexible virtual domain support that is remarkable for POP3 servers. Teapop tries to be very flexible, fast and reliable without lowering the security standards. Changes: A fix for the bug which made Teapop refuse access for clients with no reverse DNS, bugfixes for the two incorrect responses that occured when a client connected with incorrect no. of arguments, a new feature which will allow the option of automatic deletion of retrieved mail, and RFC2449 support.
About: This is a Linux driver for the Artec AS6E scanner. It scans on all available hardware resolutions in color, greyscale, and lineart, and functions in EPP, PS/2, and SPP parallel port modes. It can be used as a stand-alone program from the command line, or through the SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) project's software. Changes: First announcement.
About: GNU Zebra manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) and BGP-4+, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. GNU Zebra has a good client interface, so the user can change configuration dynamically. Changes: Drastic improvements of bgpd from its previous version, many bugfixes, MBGP support is now completely integrated, new maximum-prefix, show neighobr advertised-route, and show neighbor routes commands, a new big missing command no aggregate-address, rewritten route selection code, a fix for the route-reflector withdraw problem, and capability negotiation support improvements.
About: Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. It is plugin-based and performs over 20,000 security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, and suggests a solution for each finding. Changes: A major speed improvement, bugfixes, and more reliability when testing networks across a slow link.
About: Osiris is a host integrity management system that can be used to monitor changes to a network of hosts over time and report those changes back to the administrator(s). Osiris takes periodic snapshots of the filesystem, configurations, and logs, and stores them on a central management host. When changes are detected, Osiris will log these events and optionally send email to an administrator. Osiris also has preliminary support for monitoring other system data, including user lists, file system details, kernel modules, and network interface configurations. Changes: Initial release.
About: Licq includes all the basic features of ICQ, like sending/receiving messages, chat, file transfer, contact list with pixmaps and user status, basic/extended user info, adding/editing users from within the GUI, user history, user groups, and new user registration. All commands and information are available through a simple and convenient tab dialog. Licq also has a completely configurable user interface with Skin and Icon pack support. It is written in C++ and comes with a GUI plugin using the Qt widget set. Other plugins are also available. Changes: Full whitepages information support, better firewall support, full layout management and unicode support, a skin editor, a transparent user list, a graphical plugin manager, a last seen online feature, local time for each user, and bug fixes.
About: XSane is a GTK-based X11 frontend for SANE. It works either standalone or as a gimp plugin. It is an alternative to xscanimage. Changes: Bugfixes, rotate support, and memory allocation routine improvements/fixes.
About: pftp allows you to send and receive files and directories recursively, send and receive standard input and ouput, filter your connection, set the net buffer size, set the bandwidth, send UDP datagrams unicasted, broadcasted, and multicasted (which is meant for AUDIO and VIDEO streaming), send data to another user and manage that data, perform a network test based on either UDP or TCP, and use optimized buffers for your Gigabit Ethernet links. pftp can start from command line, as a daemon, or by inetd. All features are supported for IPv4 and IPv6. Changes: Some minor bugfixes, a new option for optimized file transfer over Gigabit Ethernet, and a port of pftp to NT 4.0 using the cygwin package.
About: Site Studio is an online template-based Web site creation tool. It's easy to use for the beginner, and yet featured enough for the professional Web developer. Changes: A fix for a serious caching bug that prevented pages from being properly removed from a Web site, more functionality for automatic thumbnail generation for all user images, a new option to save/load snapshots of a Web site in progress (ala video games), a number of interface element tweaks, optional pop-up window functionality in edit mode, and improvements to installation scripts for demo downloads on both Unix and NT.
About: MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries.
About: SourceForge is an online Web application to assist in the development of Open Source Software by offering free hosting. It currently includes Bugtracking, Project Management, Forums, Mailing Lists, Surveys, Software Map, File Releases, Top Projects, Site Docs, Project News, Site News, Snippet Library, Registration System, and Individual Account Maintenence. Changes: Initial public release.
About: VoidPOP3 is a POP3 server designed to have many builtin features, while fitting in the smallest space possible. Changes: Bugfixes for libraries and Microsoft Outlook compatibility.
About: WebCalendar is a Web-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors. WebCalendar requires a database such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, ODBC, or Interbase. Features include email reminders, iCal/vCal import/export, remote subscriptions for Sunbird or Apple iCal, LDAP and NIS support, and translations for 29 languages. Changes: Viewing other user's calendar, check for scheduling conflicts, better HTML layout via CSS, optional event approval, navigation changes, and localization of dates.
About: Log4j is a logging package written in Java. Log4j allows you to log to a file, a java.io.Writer, a remote server, or a syslog daemon. The package is designed so that log statements can remain in shipped code without incurring a high performance cost. One distinctive feature of log4j is the notion of hierarchical loggers. Using hierarchical loggers, it is possible to select (at runtime) which log statements are output at arbitrary granularity. Users can choose to implement their own log formats and output strategies. Changes: Logging to a syslog daemon, and the user can choose the log target, e.g. a file or syslog daemon, at run-time.
About: XRally is a clone of the Rally X arcade game. In Rally X, you control a blue car which has to run through a maze-like level collecting flags and avoiding colliding with enemy (red) cars. In order to protect itself, the blue car can discharge clouds of smoke which stun the enemy cars for a while. The enemy cars can also crash into each other, what gives you some extra time. One of the main features of XRally is that it is fully customizable. You can create custom tilesets and levels and load them at run time, changing the entire look of the game. (You could, for instance, create a water tileset, using boats instead of cars.) Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: Yadex is a Doom/Doom II/Heretic level (wad) editor for X. It is available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Changes: A new patch viewer, support for multiple versions of Yadex installed simultaneously, custom patches between PP_START/PP_END, /usr/share/man, Solaris and German edition of Doom II, and the configuration files and game definition files have moved.
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