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Today, we offer an editorial from Bodo Bauer, who writes: "The ethics of OSS development have been on my mind for a while. I never really found an answer, and talking to coworkers brought up the fact that they are having similar issues. That's why I put my thoughts together in this little essay about OSS developers in today's business world." [Comments are disabled]
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: No more special home directory preparation, compile support for BSD/OS and DG-UX, more commands such as REST and ABOR, and improved compatability with Internet Explorer and Netscape.
About: Komba is a Samba share browser for KDE. It can mount and unmount shares. Changes: Minor bugfixes.
About: XML::XPath locates nodes in XML documents using the XPath syntax. It aims to fully comply with the specification while trying to be as quick as possible. It is also extensible for XSLT and XPointer. It is entirely Perl-based to minimize dependencies and ease installation, and does not use XML::DOM, although it can build DOM trees using a SAX event driver. Changes: Major changes to node implementation, a major internal overhaul, and lots of bugfixes.
About: AxKit is a mod_perl-based XML Application Server for Apache. Employing a rich set of standards-compliant techniques as well as extensible scripting options, AxKit provides on-the-fly conversion from XML to a variety of other formats including HTML, WAP, and plain text. AxKit's notable technical features include the introduction of XPathScript, a powerful, Perl-based transformation language, built-in support for XSLT, "smart" caching, and the easy creation of dynamic XML documents. Changes: Bugfixes in XSP and DOM tree usage.
About: NeoMail is a web-based email client written in Perl. It provides access to a machine's local mail spools without requiring a POP3 server to be running, and without giving users shell access. It supports sending and receiving attachments, multiple folders, user themes and preferences, templates for interface generation, quotas, language translations, etc. Changes: No longer requires being run suid root but rather sgid mail, default "real name" grabbed from GECOS, multiple attachment and forwarded attachment support, and more.
About: XFMail is an X11 application for receiving electronic mail. It implements most of its email functionality internally so that it does not depend on a lot of extra packages. It supports POP3, MBOX, IMAP4, sendmail, and SMTP. It has built-in support for interfacing with PGP, GPG, ispell/aspell, faces, LDAP, and esound. It runs on most Unix variants. Changes: An unlimited number of rules, folders, and messages, global password encryption, multiple SMTP gateways with thread support, compile support under OpenBSD, and preliminary pgp 6.5.1 support.
About: This driver provides support for all DMX 512 PC-cards from Soundlight. Changes: First public release.
About: ToutDoux is a project manager for GNOME. The approach of data manipulation is abstract (database free). It's extensible with plugins. Most tasks are and will be subcontracted with commandline frontends. The file format is XML (including a schema, plugins parameters, and datatables). Changes: Library, preferences, a help browser, and a German translation.
About: GTKstereograph is a GTK interface to stereograph, a stereogram generator. This package includes the current renderer but does not yet support all features (i.e. transparency). Changes: Major changes in the graphics preview and the I/O functions.
About: Stereograph is a stereogram generator that renders exclusively truecolor stereograms. It offers different effects to increase the quality of your artwork, including transparency effects. Changes: A linear rendering option, and changes to constants due to GTKstereograph.
About: motion uses a video4linux device for detecting movement. It makes snapshots of the movement which can be converted to MPEG movies in realtime (or later for low CPU usage), making it usable as an observation or security system. It can take actions like sending out email and SMS messages when detecting motion. Changes: Initial release.
About: Ecawave is a simple graphical audio file editor. The user-interface is based on Qt libraries, while almost all audio functionality is taken directly from ecasound libraries. As Ecawave is designed for editing large audio files, all processing is done direct-to-disk. Simple waveform caching is used to speed up file operations. Ecawave supports all audio file formats and effect algorithms provided by ecasound libraries. This includes OSS, ALSA, aRts, over 20 file formats, over 30 effect types, LADSPA plugins, and multi-operator effect presets. Changes: New features including cut, copy, paste, fade-in, fade-out, effect presets, and support for LADSPA plugins.
About: Abook is small and powerful ncurses based addressbook program designed to use with mutt mail client. Abook runs on Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. Changes: Fixes for some bugs and compile warnings, an URL field, and a man page update.
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: A fix to recognize when only the LaTeX document has changed to allow saving, and more configurability.
About: The ENBD (Enhanced Network Block Device) is an industrial-strength version of the Linux kernel NBD. It makes a remote disk look like a local block device, allowing cheap and safe realtime mirrors to be built over the net. It features internal block-journalling and multichannel failover. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement; reconnection protocol states machine changes.
About: The VP7 Way Kool Project is a GTK application which simulates a laboratory experiment with radioactive nuclei. The user can choose between many predefined radioactive sources or create new ones. The number of decayed nuclei and the activity of the source can be determined with a built-in counter. The beam can be attenuated with shields of paper, aluminium, and/or lead. Changes: Initial announcement.
About: Bras is a rules-based command execution system, ala 'make'. It includes a powerful rules system supporting foreign directory triggers, multiple rule types, and on-the-fly dependency generation. It is written in Tcl and uses Tcl as its script language. Changes: This release adds better support for bras as a Tcl-package for GUI applications.
About: Build Your Linux Disk (BYLD) helps you build a GNU/Linux distribution on a single floppy disk or a CDROM to use as you want (net client, rescue disk, etc.). Changes: First freshmeat announcement.
About: koffle is a KDE-tool for managing your wwwoffle spools (http and ftp) and your outgoing requests. Changes: KFM support has been added.
About: Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. It offers a script-driven threaded multi-line state event telephony service on GNU/Linux, xBSD, and Microsoft Windows for building voice response systems, and uses telephony plugins for runtime driver configuration. It also features "TGI" for making Perl applications "telephony aware". It may be used to build telephony-based system administration, home automation, automated attendant, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems. Changes: Initial release.
About: PPPstatus is a console-based utility for displaying the status of a PPP link, including connection verification, connecting time, costs calculation, top speed, e-mail check, ip address, graphical statitics, TX and RX leds, interface selection, and more. Changes: Now the graphic shows Ingoing/Outgoing separated, updated every second. Some bugfixes in log function, and a little structure problem in runonboot.
About: Cowsay is the easy way to add speaking and thinking cows (and a few other creatures) to anything. Any message you like, even in large figlet letters, can be rattled off by these ASCII critters. Cowsay comes with over 40 creatures that can be bent to your sick and twisted will. New "cows" can be easily bred by those versed in the appropriate dark arts. Cowsay is more useful than most of the items found in SkyMall catalogues, and a lot less expensive. Changes: One new cow, one renamed cow, and a tweak to get it to work with Perl 5.6.0.
About: Eev.el is a simple Emacs Lisp library that lets you treat portions of a text file as shell commands, chunks of code for programming languages or as hyperlinks; its intention is to let people record into plain ASCII files their interaction with the computer, and to let them edit and play back any block of code in those files easily. The hyperlinks can point to places in manpages, Info pages and text or HTML files, and they are seen as comments by all programming languages; using them you can place pointers to all relevant online sources of information inside the code. Changes: Simpler installation, a way to interact with any program that takes input from stdin has been added, along with documentation improvements.
About: GtkHx is a GTK+ version of Hx, a UNIX Hotline client. Changes: GtkHx has been debianized, added chat input history, text in chat window is now saved when chat window is closed, numerous bugfixes added, file browsing now works, downloads (partially) have been implemented, added ability to create directories, and added ability to get file info.
About: FaxRouter is a script that wraps around efax to take a received fax, convert it to a jpeg, scale it, and send it to you by email. It will also keep your fax spool clean for you and can easily be configured to run from inittab and receive all faxes for you. Changes: Support for using the ID of the sending Fax machine in the subject line of the e-mail added. Better support for receiving 98lpi faxes. Minor bugfixes.
About: Althea is an IMAP email client for X that uses the GTK widget set. It was built with the IMAP protocol in mind in order to avoid many of the pitfalls experienced by POP clients that added IMAP support. Althea allows easy access to a nearly unlimited number of servers, and has a very small memory footprint. As of version 0.5.0 Althea also supports IMAP over SSL. Changes: Minor changes allows compilation under new versions of egcs. Minor changes to work with some IMAP servers that were giving problems.
About: GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared and static libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. Libtool supports building static libraries on all platforms. Changes: Support for mac OS X (rhapsody), *-sequent-sysv4 & Cygwin-1.1.0. Support recent dlltool formats, and the usual round of bugfixes.
About: The OST ccscript package offers a class extensible threaded embedded scripting engine for use with the Common C++ GNU package. This engine is also used in Bayonne (the GNU telephony server), and in TOSI (FreeBSD and GNU/Linux PBX integration servers). This engine differs from traditional scripting systems in that it is used to script near real-time state-event systems through deterministic callback step execution rather than the linear and non-deterministic fashion of embedded script libraries such as tcl, and libguile. Changes: Initial release.
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