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About: SCREEM is a tag-based Web page editor which aims not only to aid in creating Web pages, but also to provide useful site maintainance facilities, including automatic link updating and site upload facilities. SCREEM has more than just the usual HTML tags, with features for including Javascript, PHP, cascading style sheets, etc within your site. Changes: Bugfixes, more upload options, printing support, undo/redo impemented, and more.
About: txt2pdf is flexible and powerful Perl tool to convert txt, text, textual reports, and spools into PDF (form, invoice, report, sale sheet). It can be used alone, or you can use it from other applications to convert your documents on the fly. Changes: Encoding support (WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding and the Unix default) and a Cyrillic note in the contributed directory from Ilya Naumov.
About: gnotepad+ is an easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple HTML and text editor for UNIX-based systems running X11 and using GTK. gnotepad+ was designed to have as little bloat as possible, while still providing many of the common features found in a modern GUI-based text editor. Changes: Some new features, much more GNOME integration (session management, libglade, popt), and various improvements and bugfixes.
About: Portable OpenSSH is a Unix/Linux port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH, a full implementation of the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. It includes sftp client and server support. Changes: Support for ssh 2, plus many other fixes.
About: Sawfish (the window manager formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based extension language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the language. Its aim is to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop backgrounds, application docks, or other things that may be achieved through separate applications. Sawfish is mostly GNOME-compliant; almost all configuration may be made through a graphical interface. Changes: A name change from sawmill to sawfish, some support for Xinerama multi-headed displays, menu accelerators, other minor additions, and many bugfixes.
About: KisoCD is a tool that assists you in creating and copying ISO CD-ROMs. It helps you to compose the contents of the CD while the work itself is done by mkisofs and cdrecord. It supports very easy creation of bootable and multisession CDs. Changes: Compile fixes from 0.6.0, French translations for the help files, and use of two different places for storing images and the directories where it puts symbolic links (needed for multisession and bootable CDs), which enables you to choose a dir on a vfat-system for the (big) imagefile.
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: inetconf updates to use managerpm if available, modem detection in modemconf, and bugfixes for some UI bugs and the testalldomain script for vdomain.
About: id3lib is an open-source, cross-platform software development library for reading, writing, and manipulating meta-information in digital audio files. Currently id3lib supports reading and writing of ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, as well as reading of Lyrics3, Lyrics3 v2.00, and MusicMatch tags. id3lib is written in C++, but provides both C and COM interfaces to the library. Changes: New features, bugfixes, and improvements to the ID3v2 parsing code, synchronized lyrics (SYLT) support, lyrics3 v2.0 support, and interface.
About: SWARM is a software model of the basic ARM processor in C++. Rather than a simple emulator, SWARM attempts to simulate the behaviour of the ARM's datapath. It also provides a model of the memory/cache/registers hierarchy for algorithm analysis. Changes: A fix for a subtle memory leak, a new script to help find such bugs in future, and Debian support in the arch script.
About: TUN provides packet reception and transmission for user space programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical medium, receives them from a user space program and instead of sending packets via physical media writes them to the user space program. Changes: Final stable release; CVS source tree access, merging of Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD drivers into one package, easy compilation and installation without patching a kernel, a smart configure script, autodetection of OS and kernel versions, a stable Solaris driver, rewrites to the locking code, a lot of major fixes and optimizations, support for Solaris 2.6, 7.0, 8.0. Linux driver support for latest 2.2.X and 2.3.X kernels, and FreeBSD driver support for 3.X, 4.X and 5.X FreeBSD releases.
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 notification to the message sender on trapped messages, more minor bugfixes, and new executable extensions (.eml, .wsf, .wsh, and .vbe).
About: TinyCOBOL is an effort to bring a free COBOL compiler to Linux. It generates GNU assembler for the i386 Linux platform. A executable binary is then created using the GNU assembler and linker. The project is approaching the first beta release with many statements already implemented. Changes: An implemented SEARCH statement for tables, and more bugfixes.
About: The Cyrus SASL library is a generic library for easy integration of secure network authentication to any client or server application. It supports authentication via standard plaintext methods as well as CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 shared secret methods and KERBEROS_V4 and GSSAPI Kerberos methods. The SASL protocol framework is used by SMTP, IMAP, ACAP, LDAP, and other standard protocols. Changes: Minor build fixes.
About: NRip is a frontend to CDDA rippers and MP3 encoders that makes the process of ripping a record much easier. Changes: A new feature that can shorten the ripping time, default choices on menus, and minor bugfixes and changes.
About: mod_pcgi2 is a module for Apache to handle PersistentCGI protocol. PCGI can be used by itself to speed up CGIs; PCGI is also supported by Zope. The software is considered obsolete, and its further use is discouraged. mod_proxy or mod_fastcgi should be used instead. Changes: A workaround for two Location-related problems.
About: Hissim is a history generator for WorldForge project. It uses simulation to create communities of creatures with realistic relationships and backgrounds. It's distributed with a threaded Tk interface and a simple globe viewer. Hissim can generate GEDCOM so you can edit its output with genealogy programs. Changes: New buildings and related concepts, attributes, improved GEDCOM exporting, and more configurable professions and races.
About: The grep-dctrl program can answer many questions regarding Debian packages, given a useful input file. It is most useful as part of a Debian system, although there are meaningful uses for it in other systems as well. The program allows the user to search for all package records that match a search pattern and output the matching records or selected fields of them. As the program is a filter, it can usefully work together with standard Unixish tools. Changes: A fix for an obscure bug, disabling of the -c option, and updates to the Manual page.
About: Ghemical is a molecular modelling software package with some nice 3D visualization tools. It supports methods based on both molecular mechanics and quantum mechanics (using MOPAC7, and MPQC for QM). The geometry optimization (for MM and QM) and molecular dynamics (for MM) algorithms are included. Ghemical is written in C++, and hopefully offers a good framework for a generic freeware molecular modelling tool. Changes: Implementation of a Tripos 5.2-like all-atoms molecular mechanics force field (a big improvement, since now there is a vast number of organic molecules which can be readily studied), some example files included that might prove helpful when you create and study your own molecules, and a new requirement of gcc-2.95.2 to build this latest release.
About: Pavuk is a Web grabber with an optional GTK GUI, and optional support for downloading with multiple threads. It supports the HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTP via SSL, and Gopher protocols, as well as HTTP GET, and POST requests. It is capable of filling HTML forms while downloading HTML trees, and lets you mirror Web documents for local browsing. You can even synchronize changes to these documents. Recent versions also support processing of Javascript patterns in HTML pages. Pavuk have JavaScript bindings that allow writing of own scripts to perform special tasks. Changes: Fixes for several critical bugs in the previous version, optional support for multithreading using POSIX threads, support for multiple round-robin sheduled HTTP proxy servers, automatic filling of HTML forms during download using data provided by user, and persistant session data in GTK GUI, removal of the Xt GUI, and more.
About: The Castor Submit Spider is a PHP tool for Webmasters to submit an URL on multiple search engines or repositories through a Web interface. Changes: Minor bugfixes in the engines data, submitting your URL to the engine you choose with the 'submitto' parameter, and the $this->return var is now an array of arrays containing the engine name and submission status.
About: Poor Man's Blogger is a quick hack to display news or other items, Blogger-style, on a Web page. It can be used as a CGI or as a standalone script to generate HTML at certain intervals. Changes: Initial release.
About: METAGRAF is a graphical editor for creating figures in MetaPost. It is currently able to draw any kind of figure in b/w or color. METAGRAF outputs a MetaPost file which can then be run through MetaPost by itself or using TeX. The program is written in Java and is thus platform-independent. Changes: The principal changes are related to presentation. Now everything is in English and the User's Manual is totally finished. Sources are available on request (instructions are included in the distribution).
About: Recall is a framework for writing distributed, fault-tolerant, replicated storage servers. Changes: This release adds Perl bindings, puts support for GNU Pth back in, and fixes some portability issues for 64bit architectures and bugs that occurred when serializing writes and releasing thread locks.
About: CTWM is a highly-configurable window manager based on the classic TWM window manager. It supports xpms, multiple workspaces, advanced icon managment, animated icons and backgrounds, 3D titles and borders, etc. It offers rudimentary Gnome support and is backwards-compatible with TWM. Changes: First freshmeat announcement.
About: PHP is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. PHP runs on many different platforms and can be used as a standalone executable or as a module under a variety of Web servers. It has excellent support for databases, XML, LDAP, IMAP, Java, various Internet protocols, and general data manipulation, and is extensible via its powerful API. It is actively developed and supported by a talented and energetic international team. Numerous Open Source and commercial PHP-based application packages are available. Changes: Highlights of this release include support for new Web servers (Zeus, Netscape Enterprise, and the Apache Win32 module), improved portability of the Unix build framework, and tons of bug fixes. The developers expect this to be the final release candidate before PHP 4.0.
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: In certain environments, with inetds not behaving as expected, teapop could start eating up resources. A fix for this is added. The configure flag --enable-percent has been removed in favor of --enable-extra-dividers, which will let people use several different dividers.
About: tkgamma is a tcl/tk front end to the xgamma command to help color calibrate a monitor and X server. Changes: Initial release.
About: jEdit is an Open Source text editor written in Java. It has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. jEdit also includes a powerful plugin architecture that allows more than 80 plugins to be downloaded and installed from within the editor. Changes: You can now use register contents in macros, the user interface has been improved with a new status bar, file dialog boxes have a new 'find file' widget, and split views can now be used to edit more than one buffer at once.
About: YATunnel is a simple tunneling program to bypass firewalls so you can access your computer at work from home. Changes: First public release.
About: SciTE is a GUI-based single-document editor which uses the Scintilla editor component. It rapidly styles most common programming languages with good control over how syntactic elements are displayed, and features folding for C++, C, Java, JavaScript, and Python. Styling of HTML also styles embedded scripts written in VBScript, Javascript, or Python. Changes: Some support for Unicode on Windows 9x and NT, LaTeX lexer, tool bar and status bar on both platforms, and bug fixes.
About: Scintilla is a free source code editing component for Win32 and GTK+. As well as features found in standard text editing components, Scintilla includes features especially useful when editing and debugging source code. These include support for syntax styling, error indicators, code completion and call tips. Styling choices are more open than with many editors, allowing the use of proportional fonts, bold and italics, multiple foreground and background colours and multiple fonts. Changes: Some support for Unicode on Windows 9x and NT, LaTeX lexer, and bug fixes.
About: Ultra Monkey is a project to create load balanced and highly available services on a local area network using Open Source components on the Linux operating system. The focus is on producing a scalable, highly available Web farm, though the technology is easily expandable to other services such as email and FTP. It's intended to be a single point of contact for obtaining software and documentation for network engineers. The documentation provided with Ultra Monkey has example topologies and sample configuration files to aid users in designing and constructing a network. Changes: Minor dependancy and documentaion fixes.
About: mkrdns is a small Perl script that helps automate changes to your DNS zone files. It does this by reading your named.boot/named.conf file to find all the domains/networks for which you are authoritative. It then reads all of the forward zone files and generates PTR records which it inserts in the reverse zone maps. Changes: A misspelling in the BIND 4 mkrdns directive handler which caused directives to not work has been fixed. mkrdns no longer assumes reverse maps have a (lowercase) zone of "in-addr.arpa", which wouldn't match if the zone had capitals in it. Lastly, the storage directory statement (directory) could be matched fairly easily in a comment section causing zone files to, obviously, not be found. This has also been fixed.
About: The net-tools package contains a collection of programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating system. It contains the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel including arp, hostname, ifconfig, netstat, rarp and route. Changes: Bugfix on ifconfig for new kernels.
About: TinyLIB is an emulation layer to make all platforms look the same. It is very small and meant for game development. TinyLIB provides a subset of GLUT/OpenGL, OpenAL, BSD sockets, and the C standard library.
About: Netbiff is an advanced version of the traditional biff (a mail-checking program). Features include BSD mailbox and IMAP4 support, a backend plug-in system (for other protocols), arbitrary numbers of backends, pluggable interfaces (GTK and text-based), and arbitrary actions on biff. Changes: A revamped GTK interface and support for -geometry option processing.
About: Arla is a free AFS client and server implementation. The main goal is to make a fully functional client with all capabilities of normal AFS. Other implemented things are all the normal management tools and a server. Changes: A port to Darwin/MacOS X 10.0, updates for Linux 2.3.x/2.4.x, update for NetBSD-current, fixes for failing readdir on Solaris with 32-bit kernels and Linux/m68k, looping of pts over all db servers, lots of new tests, and some bugfixes.
About: TkMAME is a full featured graphical front end for MAME (The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator). It is written in Tcl/Tk and run |
