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About: Gifsicle is a powerful command-line program for manipulating GIF image files. It has good support for transparency and colormap manipulation, simple image transformations (cropping, flipping), and creating, deconstructing, and editing GIF animations. It can also optimize GIF animations for space. Also included is a GIF animation viewer and a program that checks whether two GIFs look the same. Changes: An option for resizing to a given width or height, but keeping the current aspect ratio.
About: Bastille Unix (formerly Bastille Linux) aims to be the most comprehensive, flexible, and educational Security Hardening Program for Red Hat (Fedora Core, Enterprise Linux, and original Red Hat), SuSE, Gentoo, Mandrake, and Debian Linux, as well as HP-UX and Mac OS X. Virtually every task it performs is optional, providing immense flexibility. It educates the installing admin regarding the topic at hand before asking any question. The interactive nature allows the program to be more thorough when securing, while the educational component produces an admin who is less likely to compromise the increased security. Changes: A revamped UI, use of ssh downloading, and small bugfixes.
About: IP Filter is a TCP/IP packet filter suitable for use in a firewall environment. To use, it can either be run as a loadable kernel module (recommended) or incorporated into your kernel. Scripts are provided to install and patch system files as required. IP Filter also supports transparent proxying via packet forwarding, including round-robin forwarding to achieve load-balanced proxy. Changes: Code to address the FTP proxy problem currently being talked about on bugtraq, and the current kernel proxy has been "beefed up".
About: Coyote Linux is a mini distribution designed for setting up network utility services such as Internet connection sharing, firewalling, or wireless access points. The goal is to make it as quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux system with only a minimal amount of Linux knowledge. Changes: This is a development snapshot of the upcoming Coyote Pro distribution of Linux. Coyote Pro is designed to run from a hard drive instead of a floppy like its predecessor. This snapshot is being released in order to obtain feedback on the built-in PPPoE support. This version is not intended for production use and does not yet have a very user-friendly installation method.
About: GTKML (GTK Markup Language) is an XML format for defining GTK user interfaces, including dynamically-bound events. Advantages include easier development, incorporating UI changes without recompiling, interoperability between GTKML-compliant language bindings/frameworks and editors, and end-user customizations/internationalizations. GTKML provides a cleaner organization than GLADE, and is much better suited for use with object-oriented languages. For a C++ binding to GTKML, see the SDPGTK library. Changes: Support for 7 new GTK widget types: GtkCalendar, GtkRuler, GtkHRuler, GtkVRuler, GtkScale, GtkHScale, and GtkVScale.
About: SDPGTK wraps GTK using simple, clean C++ classes and a straightforward hierarchy. It integrates well with existing GTK code, and, unlike existing wrappers for GTK, does not force the developer into a UI "framework". Of particular interest is the sdpGtkObjectContainer class, which implements the proposed GTKML standard, for loading a GTK hierarchy and events from an XML document. Changes: Support for 7 new widgets: sdpGtkCalendar, sdpGtkRuler, sdpGtkHRuler, sdpGtkVRuler, sdpGtkScale, sdpGtkHScale, and sdpGtkVScale.
About: Common C++ is a highly portable C++ class library meant primarily for the development of portable threaded applications. Support is provided both for POSIX platforms and native builds under Win32. The goal is to provide a truly common C++ framework for writing portable threaded applications that do not require a huge amount of runtime overhead to support, and hence can make C++ and threads suitable even for the development of trivial servers and applications. Changes: The APE project has merged with Common C++, and this is the initial release of the new Common C++ based on APE 1.2.3 and Common C++ 0.2. The combined project going forward will be known as Common C++.
About: GNU libiconv provides an iconv() implementation for use on systems which don't have one or whose implementation cannot convert from/to Unicode. It supports all the important encodings in use today. Changes: New converters for UTF-16BE/LE, CP932, CP949, and ISO-8859-16, and a few bugfixes.
About: KWebGet is a KDE based frontend to wget. It can be used to download single files or to mirror whole Web sites to your local hard disk. Changes: Full proxy support for HTTP and FTP, and addition of proxy support to the setup-menu.
About: Juice is a frontend for mpg123 and other players which provides a nifty dialog-based playlist editor, etc. Changes: Quite a few bugfixes, ID3 tags support, display format customization, and a few other bells & whistles.
About: Remind is a full-featured calendar/reminder program featuring sophisticated date calculation, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, Hebrew calendar, alarms, PostScript output, an X front-end, multilingual messages, and proper handling of holidays. It also includes scripts for making a nice WWW calendar server. Changes: Fixes for compilation problems on BSD, IRIX, and Tru64, a converter from Sun's "cm" format, changed images from GIF to PNG, miscellaneous new features and bugfixes, and dropped support for non-UNIX-like platforms.
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: Commandline-arguments to show the version-number and to start docked into the panel, an option to start minimized in the setup-program, and a new algorithm to get the currencies of the providers.
About: rp-pppoe is a PPPoE client and server suite for Linux. It is fully RFC-compliant and supports cookies, relay-IDs, and multiple simultaneous PPPoE discovery phases. It is cleanly coded and fairly efficient, and supports kernel-mode PPPoE on Linux 2.4 and 2.6. Changes: More debugging information in DEBUG mode, simple canned firewall scripts for extra security, and clean compiling with -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes.
About: Replicator is a set of scripts to automate the duplication of a Debian GNU/Linux installation from one computer to another. Replicator makes an effort to take into account differences in hardware (like HD size, video card) and in software configuration (such as partitioning). After the initial configuration, the scripts will create a bootdisk that allows you to completely (re)install a Debian box by booting from the floppy and answering a yes/no question. It works with Debian 2.1 (stable) and frozen (potato). Changes: Replacement of the missing repli-sync script.
About: The ucspi-tcp distribution contains tcpserver and tcpclient, which are easy-to-use command-line tools for building TCP client-server applications. tcpserver waits for incoming connections and, for each connection, runs a program of your choice. tcpclient makes a TCP connection and runs a program of your choice. This package includes several sample clients built on top of tcpclient: who@, date@, finger@, http@, tcpcat, and mconnect. tcpserver and tcpclient conform to UCSPI, the UNIX Client-Server Program Interface, using the TCP protocol. UCSPI tools are available for several different networks. Changes: A workaround for a portability problem with RedHat's poll() emulation.
About: The MySQL Import package consists of an HTML and a CGI script that allow people to import files into MySQL databases via the Web. Its main features are ease of use, allowing the user to specify arbitrary field and line delimiters, and automatic creation of new databases and tables on the fly. Changes: Initial release.
About: Khrono is a simple timer for KDE. It features a digital watch, a timer, countdown with audio alarm, support for "laps", pause, start/stop, reset, the ability to dock in the KDE panel, the ability to be controlled from the dock icon, themes, custom alarm audio file setup and more. Changes: Day management and better user documentation.
About: Paw (Perl ASCII Widgets) is a widgetset for generating a GUI on ASCII based terminals. It contains button, radiobutton, label, line, listbox, text_entry, pull-down-menu, filedialog, popup-box and more. Examples are included. This software requires Perl::Curses. Changes: A new Progressbar widget, rewritten Textbox, and bugfixes.
About: Lout is a document formatting system which reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. Plain text and PDF output are also available. Lout is inherently multilingual and adding new languages is easy. Changes: Running headers in multi-page tables and indexes.
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: Bugfixes, and a new feature to remind you that you've made some unsaved changes before quitting.
About: djbdns is a collection of Domain Name System tools. Security is one of the primary motivations for the development of djbdns. Every step of the design and implementation has been carefully evaluated from a security perspective. The djbdns package has been structured to minimize the complexity of security-critical code. dnscache is immune to cache poisoning. It is advisable to use the package as a secure alternative to BIND. Changes: A fix for a portability problem, and axfr-get grabs zones when serials drop.
About: The unixODBC project provides Unix applications with the same ODBC 3.51 API and facilities available under Windows. It provides a Driver Manager that supports the full ODBC API and performs the ODBC 3 to ODBC 2 translations with UNICODE to ANSI conversion. It also includes a set of graphical utilities that allow users to specify connections to DBMSes to be used by applications, a collection of ODBC drivers including a simple text based driver, an NNTP driver, a Postgres driver and others, and a selection of templates and libraries that to aid in the construction of ODBC drivers. It works with MySQL, Postgres, StarOffice/OpenOffice, Applixware, iHTML, PHP, Perl DBD::ODBC, and many other applications and drivers. Connection pooling is also provided to increase performance with applications such as PHP. Changes: A new GTK+ based ODBC Admin tool for those distributions that do not include Qt, and assorted bugfixes.
About: wget_worker is a Perl script that uses wget to download from the Web in parallel. It supports URL filtering to download only URLs that match your pattern specified by Perl's regular expression. Changes: A fix for non-English wget, a fix for the bug of "global" pattern matching (~= m/../../g) found in Perl 5.004_04, non-enforcement of forking, executing, file opening, and locking, checks for validity of Perl's regular expression before running, revision of the interpretation of %XX pattern in the URL, and other bugfixes.
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: ispell support for the PHP front-end.
About: The Apache/Perl integration project brings together the full power of the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server. With mod_perl it is possible to write Apache modules entirely in Perl. In addition, the persistent interpreter embedded in the server avoids the overhead of starting an external interpreter and the penalty of Perl start-up time.
About: MuX2d is a graphical music notation editor which outputs MusiXTeX files. MusiXTeX is a macro language for typesetting music with TeX. Changes: Changing of general meter and signature.
About: PyleWiki is a WikiClone written entirely in Python that allows a group of people to collaboratively edit a tree of webpages using nothing but their browser and a simple, text-based markup language. This particular WikiClone has a few extensions to the original: attachments to pages, user authentication (primitive), and the use of templates for page styling among others. Changes: A new feature for section-headings and automatic table-of-contents generation, and minor bugfixes.
About: Briefly, FreeBSD is a UNIX operating system based on U.C. Berkeley's 4.4BSD-lite release for the i386 platform (and recently the alpha platform). It is also based indirectly on William Jolitz's port of U.C. Berkeley's Net/2 to the i386, known as 386BSD, though very little of the 386BSD code remains. A fuller description of what FreeBSD is and how it can work for you may be found on the FreeBSD home page.
About: XSkat lets you play the card game Skat as defined by the official international Skat Order. Up to 3 players may be simulated by the computer. You can play via an X display connection or via IRC. Changes: A keyboard-controllable interface, better color allocation on non-True-Color displays, German cards with brown acorns, original Skat is shown after game, replay is still possible after viewing the log, and improved computer players.
About: GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme. Changes: Autosave recovery, TeXmacs.sty file for TeXmacs documents converted to LaTeX, preview with ghostview, nicer recursive dynamic commands, and hybrid LaTeX/TeXmacs commands.
About: GOCR is optical character recognition software. It converts PNM files into ASCII files. Changes: First release.
About: Stella is a freely distributed multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS emulator originally developed for Linux by Bradford W. Mott. Since its original release several people have joined the development team to port Stella to other operating systems such as DOS, OS/2, MacOS, Unix, and Windows 95 & NT. Changes: DOS and Linux support for real Atari 2600 paddles using a special PC game port adaptor, use of the new 1.2.x Linux Joystick API, UNIX support for the "-display" command line option for specifying the display to use and the "-owncmap" command line option to install a private colormap, greatly improved Supercharger single-load and multi-load game support, and improved TIA emulation to support the RESPx multi-sprite trick.
About: PicMonger is a GUI-driven app that scans a specified Usenet newsgroup for binary attachments. Any attachments encoded with uuencode or in MIME-base64 format are decoded into the current working directory. Lists of frequently used servers and groups are saved on a per-user basis and easily accessed/edited via the GUI. HTML preview pages (like contact sheets) can be automatically generated on the fly. PicMonger also remembers where you were between sessions so scanning resumes where you left off. Changes: This release adds newsgroup state memory between sessions (scanning resumes where you last left off in a group), fixes a bug that locked everything up when the connection was lost/timed out, and adds a few other minor code cleanups. The source code is now in CVS at SourceForge.
About: NFC is a chat server and client implemented in Java. Notable features include HTTP-tunneling support and applet compatability across nearly all Java-enabled Web browsers. Changes: Initial announcement.
About: The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a powerful command line driven package management system capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software packages. Each software package consists of an archive of files along with information about the package like its version, a description, etc. It also includes the RPM C library and header files. These development files will simplify the process of writing programs which manipulate RPM packages and databases and are intended to make it easier to create graphical package managers or any other tools that need an intimate knowledge of RPM packages in order to function.
About: IDS is a CGI written in Perl that generates a multi-gallery photo album Web site on the fly. All you need to provide are the images and (optionally) descriptions. Features include support for internationalization, user interface themes, thumbnail generation for JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF images, and the display of whatever other file types you choose. If you allow them to do so, guests can leave comments and order prints. Your files are searchable by name and description, and can be managed via a Web-based administrative interface. Changes: First public release.
About: wmtheme is a Perl program for managing Blackbox, Enlightenment, Golem, GTK+, IceWM, Oroborus, Sawfish, Window Maker, and xmms themes. It can download, install, activate, and remove themes. It handles badly packaged themes and minimizes version mismatches. Changes: Added theme updating, bugfixes for Debian and IceWM.
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