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About: setv4l is a simple command line tool for changing the picture settings of a video4linux device. It was written for managing a remote webcam. Changes: The name has been changed from vidcontrol (which was already in use in FreeBSD), new capabilities and a name field have been added, and the layout has changed.
About: Alien converts between the rpm, deb, Stampede slp, and Slackware tgz file formats. If you want to use a package from another distribution than the one you have installed on your system, you can use alien to convert it to your preferred package format and install it. Changes: Version 7.2 provides several fixes to file permissions in generated packages, and some other bugfixes.
About: gnome-find is an easy-to-use, but powerful, graphical version of the GNU find utility. It features a default, no-nonsense dialog for use in most commonly specified searches. Additionally, a second, more detailed and advanced dialog is available to specify more powerful search parameters. Changes: Initial release. This release features "basic" searching and multiple windows.
About: SIPS is an integrated Weblog and link-indexing system written in PHP. It is aimed at those with access to databaseless, PHP-enabled Web servers who want to run a Weblog site like Slashdot and/or a simple link index like Yahoo!. Changes: Changes include timezone settings for users, topic icons can be of different sizes and file formats, better password generator, better theming, and docs have been improved with regards to security.
About: The CCQ BBS System is a BBS language written in Python. It includes a Web bulletin board system with the features of an outline processor. The BBS allows multiple subtopics whose posts can be viewed together or separately, and ability to intersperse comments within the text of longer posts. The CCQ language can be used to add further interactive views of the BBS object. Ultimately the system is intended to unify classic CGI applications. Changes: First public release.
About: Exult is an open-source game engine for playing Ultima7 on modern operating systems, using the game's original data files. Changes: Since the last release there have been lots of bug fixes, animation improvements, while your party will now follow you, both the windows and linux versions now play Midi files, and you can now read books, scrolls, and signs.
About: Mutt is a small but very powerful text-based MIME mail client. It is highly configurable, and is well-suited to the mail power user with advanced features like key bindings, keyboard macros, mail threading, regular expression searches, and a powerful pattern matching language for selecting groups of messages. Changes: Additions include new variables and SSL support for IMAP.
About: Pan is a newsreader which attempts to be pleasing to both new and experienced users. In addition to the standard newsreader features, Pan also supports yEnc, offline newsreading, article filtering, multiple connections, and more features for power users and alt.binaries fans. Changes: Fixes for all known bugs in 0.8.0 beta 7, the ability to manipulate subthreads of articles, improved memory usage slightly, and a Russian translation for the first time.
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: Improvements to error reporting, documentation, and security.
About: OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed using the open source model. The three main functional areas of OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors services on the network and reports on their "service level"; data collection from the remote systems via SNMP in order to measure the performance of the network; and a system for event management and notifications. Changes: A series of GUI-related bugfixes and new icons/graphics. Note that this is still a functionality/usability test release and the underlying components (poller, database, etc.) are not yet integrated with these tools.
About: Xdialog is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the dialog and cdialog programs. It converts any terminal-based program into a program with an X interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use, and Xdialog adds more functionality such as a help button and box, a treeview, an editbox, file and directory selectors, a range box, and a calendar. It uses GTK+, and will match your desktop theme. Changes: A fix for a problem in 1.4.0; anyone using Xdialog 1.4.0 should upgrade now.
About: ccaudio2 is a simple, highly portable, stand-alone, C++-based framework for manipulation of audio data. Its goal is to be a C++ framework that is as useful as "audiofile" or "sndfile" is for C programming, and to cover various generic and useful manipulations of audio data as well as audio file access. A stand-alone audio processing command line tool is also provided to demonstrate library functionality. ccaudio2 compiles under Mac OS X, POSIX systems, and Win32 systems. Changes: This release adds support for RIFF (.wav) file access and extended pcm linear encoding formats. Also, a generic and portable CDAudio class was created for controlling CDROM audio devices.
About: SendEmail is a lightweight, completely command line-based SMTP email delivery program. If you have the need to send email from a command prompt this tool is perfect. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, Perl programs, and Web sites, but it is also quite useful in many other contexts. It is written in Perl, and is unique in that it requires no special modules, and supports any platform that runs Perl. It has a straightforward interface, making it very easy to use. Changes: You can now pass the body of the email via STDIN, multiple to addresses are now allowed, -v and -vv options have been added for debugging, the program now terminates itself after 15 seconds to avoid dns hangs, etc., and a logging feature is now available.
About: ScanErrLog is a Python module that allows you to parse Apache error_log files and present their data in decreasing order of occurences of error messages. This is particularly useful if you want to quickly solve the most annoying problems Web visitors encounter on your site. You can use it directly from the command line, import it into another Python program and use the classes it defines, or use it as a CGI script. You can produce reports in HTML, PDF, XML, or Plain Text formats. Changes: A -l or --limit
About: GRPN is a RPN calculator for the X Window system built using the GIMP Toolkit (GTK). GRPN works with real numbers, complex numbers, matrices, and complex matrices. Numbers can be displayed in 4 different radix modes, and complex numbers can be displayed in either Cartesian or polar form.
Changes: Forcing keyboard entry to be interpreted as a command when prefixed with a single or double quote.
About: bag is used to buffer data. It was created as a quick hack to make DAT drive work faster when backing up over a network.
Changes: A non-fatal bugfix for the verbose option.
About: irmctl is a utility daemon to control your
favorite non-IRDA infrared receiver. For the
moment, only irman (through libirman) is supported.
Changes: The ability to use virtual number buttons up to 99 .
About: Nmap ("Network Mapper") is a utility for network
exploration, administration, and security
auditing. It uses IP packets in novel ways to
determine which hosts are available online (host
discovery), which TCP/UDP ports are open (port
scanning), and what applications and services are
listening on each port (version detection). It can
also identify remote host OS and device types via
TCP/IP fingerprinting. Nmap offers flexible target
and port specifications, decoy/stealth scanning
for firewall and IDS evasion, and highly optimized
timing algorithms for fast scanning.
Changes: A fix for a commenting issue that could cause trouble for non-GNU compilers, and a few new services to nmap-services.
About: Linuxconf is a sophisticated administrative tool. It is both an activator and a configurator, and can manage quite a few system tasks. It has some unique features, like configuration versioning and multiple machine management. It supports multiples languages (French, German, Italian, etc.) and can be administered from ncurses (text), Web, command line, or X (GNOME or wxxt) user interfaces.
Changes: Updates to the fetchmailconf and inetdconf modules, improved per-distribution versioning, English help files, updates to the French and Swedish translations, support for the text area widget in text mode, per-field help dialog support, and bugfixes for large member list in group edition, module netadm, and timezone in date and time.
About: Unarc unpacks an archive and creates a top-level directory to unpack into if it's needed. Unarc works with lots of archives, not just tarballs (bz2, zip, and even rpm are supported). There is a companion program arcdir which provides a uniform way to archive directories into tarfiles, zipfiles, etc.
Changes: Speed improvements, picking a new directory if the one it tries to unpack into already exists, and sensible handling of archives containing a single file.
About: astime is an analogue clock for X windows. It shows the current time, the date and the day of the week. astime should run anywhere on Unix-like systems in principle but was so far tested on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris only. The command-line options allow to customize colors of every element of the display.
Changes: A minor patch.
About: TiLP is a linking program for Texas Instruments' graphing calculators. It can handle any TI calculator from TI73 to V200 with any link cable (parallel, serial, TI's Black/Gray/Silver Link, AVRlink, and virtual). It features backup and restore, sending and receiving variables, ROM dumping, screen captures, grouping and ungrouping of TI files, and runs on UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS.
Changes: The TIGL file support is finished for all calculators. Some problems due to FLASH apps have been corrected and the ID_list function has been added for TI89. A bug for TI89 screendumps has been removed. The Grey TIGL support has been improved. GtkTiLink can now use the 'tidev' kernel module.
About: kpl is a KDE program for two- and three-dimensional graphical presentation of data sets and functions (plotter). Multidimensional nonlinear parameter fits of functions to data sets can be performed using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. General linear least square parameter fits are also possible. A DCOP interface can be used to control Kpl by other applications and scripts.
Changes: Parameter fits in multidimensions.
About: XDBM is a database designed specifically to handle XML data. It offers greater speed (since the data is stored in a preparsed format), lower memory usage (since only those parts of the file needed are loaded into memory) and faster searching for XML elements. XDBM can also parse and store plain text XML files. XDBM aims to be as close to the W3's DOM specification as possible. XDBM also comes with utilities for converting between XDBM file format and plain text and for reading XDBM files in less and emacs.
Changes: One bug fixed.
About: SUNrand is a Sun Solaris kernel module which provides '/dev/random' and '/dev/urandom' similar to the devices found in Linux. It has been tested on Sparc and Intel platforms running Solaris7 and Solaris8 (32bit and 64bit mode on SparcUltra). It doesn't use good random sources yet. It is rumoured that you can also find a /dev/random in the US crypto extensions for Solaris.
Changes: Initial release.
About: XDBM is a database designed specifically to handle XML data. It offers greater speed (since the data is stored in a preparsed format), lower memory usage (since only those parts of the file needed are loaded into memory) and faster searching for XML elements. XDBM can also parse and store plain text XML files. XDBM aims to be as close to the W3's DOM specification as possible. XDBM also comes with utilities for converting between XDBM file format and plain text and for reading XDBM files in less and emacs.
Changes: This version adds file locks and thread safety.
About: Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.
Changes: Various protocol dissectors were updated in Ethereal 0.8.8, including DHIS/DDTP, OSI CLNP, CLTP, and ISIS, PPP, RTSP, IPv6, LPD, RTSP, DNS, FTP, ISAKMP, and SINEC H1. Ethereal now has dissectors for OSI ESIS, RTCP, RTP, and the MS Proxy Protocol. The GUI behavior has been tweaked, the Win32 version now has a program icon, and some internals (for those of you who are interested in hacking on Ethereal) have changed.
About: KWoodhammer encrypts messages in the enigma cypher, and the well-known Caesar method, to help find the keys of codes. A context help gives short information on the history of code breaking and Bletchley park.
Changes: Initial release.
About: KUnit is a tool to convert between different units. It currently supports conversion to and from various units in the following categories: acceleration, angle, angular acceleration, angular velocity, area, bits and bytes, capacitance, charge, colors, current, energy, force, illuminance, inductance, length, luminance, magnetic flux, mass (or weight), power, pressure, shoe sizes, SI prefixes, specific heat, temperature, thermal conductivity, time, torque, velocity, viscosity (dynamic), viscosity (kinematic), voltage, and volume.
About: GnomeICU is a Gnome application which allows one to communicate with other GnomeICU users or others who use ICQ (Windows, Java, Mac, etc). With GnomeICU, one can send and receive messages, change online modes, send and receive URLs, and much more.
Changes: This release includes a new authorization request dialog, a quote button in the "send message" dialog, mass-sending, improved translations, colored headers in history, a search facility in the history, preset away messages, and numerous bug fixes.
About: GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
Changes: Many bugfixes were made in the display routines. More display speedups were made, and new wrapping code was implemented.
About: HP Web JetAdmin is designed for network managers who want to install, monitor, and troubleshoot a wide range of network-connected devices remotely from an intuitive browser interface.
Changes: New features include a new task-oriented user interface, user profiles, alerts on older HP devices, customizable views, improved asset tracking and asset utilization, enhanced help system, and a remote control panel.
About: SciGraphica is a scientific application for data analysis and technical graphics. It pretends to be a clone of the popular commercial application "Microcal Origin", supplying plotting features for 2D, 3D, and polar charts. It features opening several worksheets and plots to work with at the same time, fully-configurable plots using a control panel dialog, a completely WYSIWYG look and feel, and publication-quality PostScript output.
Changes: First public release.
About: Tivoli has released a client that allows people to backup their linux systems to adsm servers. This package comes with the full version 3.7.2 client, X-Windows and console backup/restore clients, and the adsm administrative command line client. The API library and the WEB-Client is also included.
Changes: This release is the first fully supported Linux client by Tivoli. It is based on the current release version.
About: Spong is a simple system-monitoring package. It features client-based monitoring (CPU, disk, processes, logs, etc.), monitoring of network services, grouping of hosts (routers, servers, workstations, and PCs), host-specific contact and downtime information, configuration on a client-by-client basis, results displayed via the Web, history of problems, messaging (via email or pager) when problems occur, and verbose information to help diagnosis problems. It communicates via simple TCP-based messages, and is written in Perl.
Changes: Enhanced debugging output and logging adding to all programs, forking of spong-server program for each incoming connection, a more aggressive mode in sdpong-network to check for service reporting as dow, and new spong-network modules check_snmp and check_interfaces.
About: FXPy is a Python extension module which provides an interface to the FOX cross-platform GUI library. With a few minor exceptions, FXPy provides a complete interface to FOX. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces easily and effectively, and it runs natively under both Unix/X and Microsoft Windows. Some of the significant features of FOX include a rich set of widgets, powerful but easy-to-use layout managers, extensive support for 3-D modeling using OpenGL or Mesa, drag-and-drop (using the XDND protocol) and a registry for persistent application settings.
Changes: A fix for a serious bug introduced in version 0.99.118, and up-to-date compatibility with FOX library version 0.99.121.
About: FAME is a project to bring real-time MPEG encoding to personal computers. It is fast and configurable, and allows encoding to a file or a network stream.
Changes: First public release.
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