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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 fatal bug which occurred when a bad filename was passed to the tailbox(bg)) was fixed. Error reporting was improved. The number of items in --menubox, --checklist, --radiolist, and --treeview is now automatically calculated.
About: FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. Changes: Size option to display size of duplicates added. Improved error handling. Proper compilation under g++.
About: outlook2ical is a simple Perl script that converts mail messages produced by MS Outlook Calendar to .calendar file used by the ical program. It handles appointment messages and task requests (with the -task flag). Changes: Improved error handling now creates a TODO item to indicate the problem, instead of just bailing out. Time zone support. Outlook2Ical uses Date::Manip instead of TimeDate for date parsing.
About: ipmkchains reads in a set of firewall rule files, computes the differences between those rules and the rules that are currently in use, and executes the necessary commands to make the rules in use match the rules from the file, using diff and ipchains. Changes: Bugfix in interpreting diff line numbers when multiple sections are output.
About: The Flight Gear Flight Simulator project is a free, open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight sim development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GPL. The Flight Gear project is working to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for the development and pursuit of interesting flight simulator ideas. We are developing a good basic sim that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing. Changes: Numerous cockpit enhancements. Antialiased hud lines on hardware that supports this. Ephemeris code underwent a big overhaul. Autopilot internals overhauled, separating out the gui controls from the actual autopilot code.
About: The Apache JServ is a Java servlet engine, an external process written in Java which runs separate from the web server and handles requests to Java servlets. mod_jserv is an Apache HTTPD module written in C which provides an interface to the Apache JServ engine.
About: JOODA is a Java IDE written in pure Java 1.3, with the look and feel of a Smalltalk IDE. It features syntax highlighting, dynamic execution of code, on-the-fly parsing of source code, support for different languages (German, English, and Bavarian), file-based and class-based editing of source code, and more. Changes: This release includes the begining of the Advanced Copy And Paste (ACAP) implementation. Other noteworthy features are JOODAShell 1st Try, new buttons in options dialog for individual execution, and a new cookie-server.
About: vphotoalb is a PHP-based Web application to display photos organized into collections. It supports dynamic captioning of photos by visitors, user preferences (keyed by cookie), creation of custom photos for visitors, and the display of mini-movies (animated GIF files). Changes: There is a new page to make database table setup/update easier. Categories are now easier to set when adding toc entries. A 'Next Photo' link was added to the photo page. Blank captions can be edited by admin. Several bugfixes, and more documentation were added.
About: Mmucl is an extremely flexible mud client written in Tcl that provides a number of different interfaces. The graphical interfaces use GTK and Tk. Changes: Minor bug fixes and improved pattern matching reliability.
About: Sitescooper automatically retrieves the stories from news websites, trims off extraneous HTML, and converts them into Plucker, iSilo, or Palm DOC format for later reading on-the-move. It will avoid stories you've already read, and can handle virtually any news site on the Web. Support for over 300 sites is included. Even if you don't have a handheld, it's still handy for simple website-to-text conversion. Changes: Version 2.2.8 has 230 sites supported, lots of fixes for esoteric things like URLProcess, redirection, layouts, exclusions, and alt tags.
About: TinyMARE (Multi-user Adventure Roleplaying Epic) is a text-based MUD server completely rewritten for efficiency using TinyMUSH and TinyMUSE as a basis for its game engine. The server is designed for creating an extensive, novelistic role-playing atmosphere supporting real-time combat, day & night, seasons, and global weather. Using a telnet client, players can log on to explore a virtual world, find magical items, learn skills and techniques, and group together to surpass obstacles you create in your own epic adventure. Changes: The Windows 95/98/NT/2000 port was updated based on the latest Cygwin 1.1.1 release.
About: bbkeys is the keygrabber for the Blackbox window manager. bbkeys handles all keybindings and keyboard shortcuts for Blackbox. It uses Blackbox's Image classes for rendering its look and feel, so bbkeys will draw itself to match whatever Blackbox style is used. It is highly configurable via the bbconf GUI utility, the included bbkeysconf.pl perl script, or via hand-editing bbkeys's config file. Changes: bbkeys has new internals, as does blackbox. You MUST upgrade your bbkeys version if you upgrade to the newest blackbox version (0.60.1)
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: TiK is a pure TCL/Tk implementation of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It has most of the features the native Win32 and Mac clients have, plus some extras. It includes a graphical buddy list display, full font support, graphical emoticons, away messages, buddy pounce, buddy ticker, IM/Chat capturing, message broadcasting, a GUI preferences system, and much more. TiK's expandable nature allows the addition of new features through packages. Changes: This release adds bugfixes, menu changes, improved Tcl/Tk 8 .0 compatibility, a keepalive package, and new buttons.
About: SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite. SWISH++ is at least 10 times faster and can handle much larger numbers of files. Additionally, it has unique features such as selective non-indexing, on-the-fly filters, user-selectable stemming, and more. Changes: This beta allows file inclusion, exclusion, and filtering to be done by filename patterns rather then merely extensions. An additional upshot is that now (finally!) files having no extension at all can be indexed. Use the alternate download URL to get the beta.
About: gfontview is a GTK+ font viewer for PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts. It allows you to display any character or string in a particular font as well as all glyphs present in it. It supports antialiasing and kerning. It can also print font samples and font catalogs. Changes: This release adds multiple selection in the font list (and all associated semantic changes to perform an operation on multiple fonts) and support for the Russian language.
About: Blackbox is yet another addition to the list of window managers for X. It is written in C++, sharing no common code with any other window manager (even though the graphics implementation is similar to that of WindowMaker). It features small code size, a fast interface with simple menus, multiple workspaces, decorated windows, built-in graphics code to render solids, gradients, and bevels on the fly, and more. Changes: This release adds image caching, the beginnings of compliance with the new windowmanager spec, new configuration options (look at the menu), and more.
About: Metagroup is a small Perl utility which adds hierarchical structure to Linux groups. It aims to ease group administration by providing better group handling. One can use metagroup to define "groups of groups". Metagroup translates a file in hierarchical format to the customary flat file format understood by Linux. Changes: This release adds proper handling of primary groups.
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: First stable release.
About: Qpopper is a widely used server for the POP3 protocol. It includes TLS/SSL support, very fast start-up times, and reduced I/O at session close. This server is fully compliant with RFCs 1939 and 2449, and supports Kerberos V4, if enabled. Changes: Tweaks to the maillock refresh algorithm to avoid a performance hit; this should help complaints of slow response and some cases of client timeouts with 3.0.
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: Bugfixes in the input modules, and a full modular architecture.
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: Generation of the report in HTML by default, ability to use ScanErrLog as a CGI script, and introduction and removal of various options. Read carefully the NEWS and README files to see incompatibilities with previous versions and new possibilities.
About: Mergeant is a GNOME GUI to view and manipulate the structure and the contents of a database which is accessible through Libgda and Libgnomedb. It works well with PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and Oracle. This project is a replacement of the gASQL project which is now unmaintained. Changes: Bonobo support with gnome-db, views are now taken into account, mentioning owners of objects, a German translation, and various bugfixes.
About: phpMyChat is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room chat based on PHP and a database, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports some IRC-like commands, and has been translated to 37 different languages. Changes: Some minor bugfixes.
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 additional GTK+ widgets: sdpGtkImage, sdpGtkAccelLabel, sdpGtkTipsQuery, sdpGtkTree, sdpGtkTreeItem, sdpGtkCurve, sdpGtkGammaCurve, and sdpGtkInputDialog.
About: Yafc is yet another FTP client which features a directory cache, remote filename completion, aliases, colorized ls, recursive get/put/ls/rm, nohup mode transfers, tagging (queueing), multiple connections, proxy support, and more. It has also support for Kerberos authentication and SSH2 (sftp). Changes: Bugfixes; this is the second release candidate for version 1.0.
About: The OpenLDAP Project is a collaborative effort to provide a robust, commercial-grade, fully featured, open source LDAP software suite. The project is managed by a worldwide community of volunteers that use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop OpenLDAP Software and its related documentation. OpenLDAP Software provides a complete LDAP implementation including server, clients, C SDK, and associated tools. Changes: Several bugfixes.
About: SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism. Changes: Small bugfixes.
About: PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit. Changes: Small bugfixes.
About: PyKDE is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for KDE. Changes: Implementation of KProcess and KShellProcess, plus a number of small bugfixes.
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: This release adds bug fixes and translation updates.
About: XMMS-Shell provides a simple command line interface for controlling XMMS. One can either use the readline-enhanced interactive mode or simply specify commands from the command line (useful for shell scripts or quick manipulation). Changes: This release features the addition of fade, balance, fakepause, and resetdevice commands. Some equalizer control commands have been added, but they only work with a very recent development copy of XMMS from CVS. Some minor changes were made to make installation more portable.
About: bfr maintains a buffer of data collected from stdin, emitting the data to stdout. It will both read and write at the speed each stream can handle, and allows you to set thresholds of when to start outputting and inputting again (after reaching a full buffer), the size of the buffer, as well as monitor content/throughput with an optional progress-bar. It also includes bfp, a variant especially written to play audio data using /dev/dsp. Changes: Documentation additions and clarifications.
About: Arping is an ARP level ping utility. It's good for finding out if an IP is taken before you have routing to that subnet. It can also ping MAC addresses directly. Changes: New -r (raw output) and -c (packet count) switches
About: Sportal is made for people that need to know what is going on in their systems. It monitors files that you select, for "hot words" that you also select, through a graphical interface. When a hot word is found in the file being watched, it will let you know. There is no restriction on the numbers of files or hot words. Changes: Major clean up, Fixed a memory leak. Added option to execute a command when a word is found. Added a Scroll Back buffer. There is now an option to turn off the icons and the window popping up. The configuration file has been made more readable. Debug output has been turned off. Random crash problems have been fixed.
About: The Anomy mail sanitizer is a filter designed to block email-based security risks, such as trojans and viruses. It can scan an arbitrarily complex RFC822 or MIME message and remove or rename attachments, truncate unusually long MIME header fields and sanitize HTML by disabling Javascript, etc. It uses a single-pass pure Perl MIME parser, which can make it both more efficient and more precise than other similar programs. The sanitizer has built-in support for third-party virus scanners. Changes: Bugs fixed in HTML sanitizer, can now sanitize contents of inline uuencoded attachments, can now defang shell scripts, added entries to filename white-list and documented performance test results in the README.
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: New features since 0.7.6 include a task manager, offline reading, article wrapping/filling, the ability to specify where attached files should be saved, smarter downloading and faster decoding of attached files, the ability to delete/download/mark read/unread subthreads of articles, better keyboard navigation, a 'new article' filter, an online/offline preferences dialog, and the ability to set the article viewer colors. Updates include many speedups and memory improvements, and 10 new/updated translations. There is also a very long list of bugfixes; see the Pan homepage for a more detailed list of changes.
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