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Last month, Kalin R. Harvey wrote about the i-opener and the lessons it could teach companies about how they can interact with the Open Source community to everyone's mutual advantage. He's since discussed the issues with Netpliance directly, and today tells us how it went. [Comments are disabled]
About: NetPBM (formerly PBMplus) is a package of over 220 programs that convert from one graphics format to another and do simple editing and analysis of images. There are no interactive tools in this package, and nothing that displays graphics of any kind. It is like a non-GUI equivalent of ImageMagick, GIMP, and Adobe Photoshop, etc. Over 100 graphics formats are handled, including JPEG, MPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XWD, XBM, G3 fax, and special formats used by digital cameras and handheld computers. Over 40 editing functions include scaling, cropping, quantization and dithering, colorizing and uncolorizing, blurring, and dimming. Netpbm programs are often invoked by other programs, for example in CGI scripts that manage web site graphics. It also includes a C function library which helps you write programs to process graphics at a lower level than the Netpbm utilities. Changes: A fix for a bug in pbmtext handling of unusual characters, almost builds without modification on Solaris, SunOS, Cygwin, new utilities pbmtoppa (HP Winprinters), pbmpage (printer test page), pbmtomda/mdatopbm, and ppmntsc (change colors to those acceptable for ntsc or pal), compression in pbmtolj, and an upgrade of gemtopbm to gemtopnm.
About: Emacspeak is the first full-fledged speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system. Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once you start emacs with emacspeak loaded, you get spoken feedback for everything you do. Your mileage will vary depending on how well you can use Emacs. Changes: Task-oriented Web tools to exploit the evolving semantic WWW, further enhancements to single-click Web-search, speech-enabled access to CVS, speech-enabled access to the new Java debugger, an RPM package to allow single-click installation, and more.
About: SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements, and is very easy to configure and install. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation. Changes: More optimizations and a bunch of bugfixes.
About: muLinux is a minimalistic, but mostly complete, script-based Linux distribution that fits on a single 1722k floppy. X11, GCC, VNC, and TCL addons are supported on additional floppies. It includes many basic system functions, such as PPP and Ethernet support, mail processing, NFS, Samba, FTP, IRC Finger, ipfw, etc. Changes: New revised mu-* scripts, some new enhanced keymaps, reduced root and usr raw sizes, and addition of the thttpd Web server.
About: Gabber is a Jabber client for GNOME. Jabber is a flexible distributed Open Source instant messaging system. It also happens to allow communication with other instant messaging systems, such as ICQ, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, and even IRC. Gabber aims to implement quite a bit of Jabber's functionality while remaining easy to use. Changes: Fixes for major disconnect bugs and crashes with messages to/from transports, Editing registered agents by clicking "Register...", a fix for the status changing bug, and a new icon when you cannot receive someone's presence due to not being subscribed.
About: MixMagic is hard drive sound mixing program for GNOME that can handle large (larger then system memory) samples. It is able to mix as many waves as your CPU can handle. Changes: Pan and amplitude controls for each track, output plug-ins support (currently only OSS and .wav), and better selection code (selections can be extended by pressing CTRL).
About: Gaby is a small personal database manager using GTK+ and GNOME (if available) for its GUI. It was designed to provide straight-forward access to the types of databases a casual user would normally use, while keeping the ability to easily create databases for other needs. It was designed with extensibility in mind and relies heavily on plug-ins. Changes: A new (better) print plug-in mechanism that uses XML files and Python, an easy way to start new databases, a 'first minute in Gaby' dialogs series, and several bugfixes.
About: GFXIndex creates thumbnails (small representations of the original images) and some HTML-files to make an album that will help you organize your pictures and publish them on a Web page. Changes: Fixes for some coredumps and re-implemented thumbnails for Prev and Next links.
About: AcidIM is an Instant Messenger application written in CGI-Perl. Users can send and receive messages as well make video conferencing (assuming that camserv is running on users' machine). Changes: Initial announcement.
About: TkAntivir is a graphical frontend to the Linux antivirus program H+BEDV AntiVir for Linux written in Tcl/Tk. It makes it possible to use AntiVir without command line switches and provides a scheduler for time-controlled scans and also a scan report viewer. It is available in English, German and Dutch. Changes: The ability to scan ZIP archives, checking the TCL/Tk version, and more.
About: VuohiMatik is a BBS software designed with large BBS systems in mind. It has filearea operations which work well on tens of thousands of files online, giving the end-user a uniform interface to perform quick selections and searches on the fileareas using various search conditions. Otherwise, it provides similar capabilities to AmiExpress and DayDream. Changes: Various security fixes, miscellaneous bugfixes, and a code and documentation cleanup.
About: tkMOO-light is an advanced chat client suitable for use with muds and especially MOO systems. The client runs on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh platforms. tkMOO-light is the ideal choice if you're looking for a single chat client which is able to run on different operating systems. Changes: Two new plugins display URLs as clickable links and provide access to search engines, more Emacs-like key bindings, support for MouseWheel and 5-button mice, and an improved UNIX Installation.
About: MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for many systems, using a curses-based interface. It supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, SOUP, and OPX formats.
About: POP3-Checker is a POP3 email interface for the Web, written in PHP. It contacts the POP3 server via network sockets. Changes: This release features a new design, bugfixes, and http-post to transfer data between the scripts.
About: Netscape Communicator is the all-in-one web browser and communications suite that makes it easy to send Internet email, read newsgroups, create web pages, and browse the World Wide Web. Changes: Security fixes that address Javascript cookie exploitation and SSL vulnerability. Simplified process for obtaining digital certificates. Various bug fixes.
About: Krio is a graphical interface to your Diamond Rio. It uses the KDE and Qt libraries, and has support for drag'n'drop in KDE. Changes: Krio now complies to the KDE standards. Autoconf/Automake support is now present, as well as some online help. No changes to the code have been made in this release.
About: blade_mailform is a BLADE object to build email reply HTML forms. Changes: Initial Anouncement.
About: IRM is a Web-based asset tracking and help desk/work request system built for IT departments and help desks. It keeps detailed information about each computer, as well as a complete history of work requests. It keeps track of detailed computer information such as CPU type/speed, amount of RAM, Hard Drive Size, serial numbers, etc. The system includes the ability to track networking hardware and any type of software. Also included is support for email notification of both users and technicians, and some support for monitoring computer systems via SNMP. Changes: New DB abstraction class and network port/device/wiring system added. Other additions include the IRM Command Center, an auditing/logging system, a cleaner look and feel, and a bunch of bugfixes.
About: Shadowlands Forum is a flexible, friendly, robust chatroom reachable via any telnet client. It uses UNIX username/password for authentication, and includes the authlocal module to authenticate quickly from localhost. Changes: Guest auto-accept option added, along with some cosmetic and documentation improvements.
About: Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator. It is written almost completely in Python with some modules written in C, combining the flexibility and power of Python with the speed of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip masks, text along a path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and more. Changes: A fix for the file-loading bug introduced in version 0.6.6.
About: bftpd is a very configurable Linux FTP server which can do chroot without special configuration or directory preparation. It will work out-of-the-box with almost no configuration required, and works on all Unix variants tested. Most FTP commands are supported, and user authentication is done via passwd/shadow or PAM. tar/gzip on-the-fly is supported. Changes: Logging, and a fix for a wrong error number for 'Permission denied'.
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: Several bug fixes and minor documentation enhancements.
About: Mondo Rescue archives Linux and Lin/Win sytems to tapes or CDs, which may be used to restore some or all of your OS and data in the event of catastrophic data loss. The emphasis is on stability and ease of use. Currently, ext2, ext3, (v)fat, minix, ReiserFS, XFS, and JFS filesystems are supported, as are RAID and LVM. Changes: Bugfixes, and a less paranoid overhead-list.
About: gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines running X11R6 or later. It has text and GTK+ 1.2/2.x interfaces and supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, FSP, and SSH protocols and has FTP and HTTP proxy server support. It supports UNIX, EPLF, Novell, MacOS, VMS, MVS, and NT (DOS) style directory listings, and has a bookmarks menu that allows you to quickly connect to remote sites. The code is fully internationalized and there are currently 45 translations available. Changes: Various bugfixes.
About: MString is a dynamic string class that is mostly compatible with the MFC CString. It is implemented with linked lists. MStringArray is a dynamic array of MStrings (based on the MFC CStringArray). Changes: A configure script, first release of MStringArray, a new operator() function, additions of ToChar(), Split(), and ToInt(), a a rewrite of Find() for speed.
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