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John Fremlin writes: "Next week, the French National Assembly will vote on appending a chapter to the law limiting freedom of communication. As written, it would unambiguously prohibit hosting of content of unspecified provenance; that is, sites on which users could post material would be legally obligated to somehow determine the true identities and postal addresses of their users. The free software community is directly affected, as large Open Source projects don't have the requisite information about their contributors and could not legally be made available in France. Incidentally, several Open Source projects are hosted by altern.org (for example, consoletools and all of my programs), which would have to shut down." [Comments are disabled]
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: This version fixes a build problem present with 1.2.1.
About: Guile is a portable, embeddable Scheme implementation written in C. Guile provides a machine independent execution platform that can be linked in as a library when building extensible programs. Changes: Highlights of this release are documentation strings for most procedures, an interactive help function, better performance due to improved garbage collector and other improvements of the evaluator, faster loading speed due to optimizations of the module system, stricter type checking, Guile's native threads can now coexist with POSIX threads, a builtin malloc debugger, plus many bugfixes and improvements.
About: Taglog is designed for anyone who spends most of their day sitting at a computer, working on various projects. You can make notes about what you do, as you go along, associating them with the projects you work on. At the end of the week you can produce a report of how your time was spent, broken down by project for booking purposes. You can view previous entries, by date, or by project. You can enter the actions you intend to take, associate them with a project, and mark them as active, or complete. Changes: Initial Freshmeat announcment.
About: EText Reader (ETR) is a program for reading ETexts from Project Gutenberg texts. It allows selection of font, and foreground and background colors, as well as persistant reading position and bookmarking. It supports browsing, searching, and direct downloading of Project Gutenberg ETexts. It features a built-in online dictionary for instant word definitions while reading. Changes: Initial release.
About: KUPS is an administrator GUI for CUPS (the Common UNIX Printing System). With KUPS, you can add, edit, test, and remove printers (Hyper simple add printer wizard), manage and remove jobs, manage CUPS properties, and configure the CUPS daemon. Changes: The Add printer wizard now lets you choose between 7 types of backend, automatic rebuilding of the driver database, and bugfixes.
About: PRepS is a problem reporting and tracking system similar to Gnats, only simpler to use. Currently, PRepS is best used with smaller projects or projects where all developers have access to the same network. For more "remote" projects, Gnats may be a better choice. Changes: Several minor user interface improvements, fixes for bugs with the project dialog and problem entry dialog, and updates to the configuration and make files to be more robust.
About: Production BASIC is an Open-Source, Multi-user Business Basic compiler/interpreter and run-time environment. This system is intended to be an alternative to commercially available systems, such as Basic/Four, Thoroughbred, and others that have evolved from the original Basic/Four system. It creates meta-code object modules, and uses a run-time interpreter under Linux. The system is under development, and assistance is being solicited. Changes: The most reliable and feature-rich release to date. This version cleans up many of the major and minor issues in the last version, as well as adding garbage collection, user-defined functions, arrays, CALLs that work right, nearly complete support for TEXT and INDEXED files, and extremely improved execution time. Many of the internal structures were completely rewritten from the ground up to allow for these improvements.
About: JAILBAIT's Another Interesting Linux But Also Intimidating Too: a fully-functional Linux distribution that fits into 16 MB. Many modern net-appliance-type products such as the Netpliance iOpener have an internal SanDisk device that is 16 MB in size. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement; new CramFS filesystem layout, dumping ramdisks in favor of RamFS, Netscape Navigator 4.73, ishmail, esd, vncviewer, installation and configuration utility, and many other improvements.
About: Ini.py is a Python module/class that allows developers to utilize Windows .INI files quickly and easily. A developer can access the file through a Windows-like interface (GetProfileString, SetProfileString) or as a common Python dictionary. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system. Changes: libc5 support, the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and telnet, and many bugfixes.
About: BJS is Web-based management software for the German Federal Youth Games, a Germany-wide sports competition for schools. Features include data import, arrangement of groups, result input, and several printing possibilites. Changes: Highly improved printing, and preliminary support for certificate selection.
About: quote is a very short and simple Perl script that retrieves stock quotes from Yahoo! Finance. It's a clean and fast command-line interface for getting snapshot stock market prices. It uses the Perl LWP module if available, or lynx otherwise. Changes: Yahoo! Finance recently changed its stock quote format, breaking 'quote'. This patch fixes it.
About: EPIC SSL-IRC is an attempt to create a fully trusted IRC network, with clients and servers using SSL to communicate (including certificates). It will be later hopefully included in the official EPIC client. Changes: A memory leak was fixed, the isencrypted() function was added, buffering should work now, and the status line now reports whether the session is encrypted.
About: python-coro provides a low-level interface to coroutines as a dynamically loaded Python module. Coroutines give you the best of both worlds: the efficiency of asynchronous state-machine programming, with the simplicity of threaded programming with straight-line, readable code. Coroutines also don't have the overhead of preemptive threads since nearly everything happens in user-space. Complexity is also reduced because you don't have to worry about locking access to shared state. Changes: A crawler with primitive robots.txt understanding and a more in-depth explanation of coro.py were added. A refcount fix was included for coroutinemodule.c, and other minor fixes were made.
About: Thatware is a Slash lookalike. It is a Web-based news publishing and discussion backend written in PHP that can handle threaded discussions with a minimum of configuration and day-to-day management. It includes Web-based administration, polls, access statistics, user customizable boxes, a themes manager for registered users, the ability to edit or delete stories, a moderation system, search engine, backend/headlines generation (WAP and RSS/RDF format), and support for 7 languages. Changes: A fix for a security hole in admin.php3.
About: centericq is a text mode menu- and window-driven IM interface that supports the ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu, and Jabber protocols. It allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the ICQ server and email gateways supported by Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. An internal RSS reader and a LiveJournal client are also provided. Changes: The key handler was improved and some steps towards a stable release were made.
About: Ksetiwatch is a monitoring tool for the SETI@home distributed computing project, which searches for signals of extraterrestrial life. It displays the state of the Seti@home client(s) running on your computer or in your local network, and logs/manages completed work units. Changes: Gaussian graphs can now be saved to disk. Documentation has been added. Several minor improvements and bugfixes were made.
About: FLTK (pronounced "fulltick") is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X. It provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat, and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation. FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked, and also works fine as a shared library. It also includes an excellent UI builder called FLUID that can be used to create applications in minutes. Changes: This release fixes build problems under UNIX and the latest Cygwin and Mingw development tools for Windows. It also includes some important bug fixes and new timeout and idle procedure methods.
About: xget is a Perl/Tk, C/GTK+, and Perl console utility which acts as a front-end for the wget downloading utility. It provides new users with a user friendly interface while still providing all the powerful features of wget. Changes: New features include recursive downloading, the addition of a menu, the ability to edit and save each user's settings, the addition of a version bar at the bottom of the main window, and a new working installation script. The URL History window now has unlimited URL listing, displays the newest URL at the top, and can now be cleared. The bug where the "continue download" option stuck on even if box was unclicked has been fixed. A major code clean up and internal overhaul was made.
About: guestbook processes input from an HTML form. Options include custom email and HTML templates, required fields, PGP encryption, email attachments, database integration, ezmlm/majordomo subscription handling, and error reporting sends email. Changes: Support for use in a CGIWrap environment, and the ability to specify c onfig file as a FORM element rather than in the URI (necessary for running with CGIWrap).
About: BETL is a test toolkit developed for UNIX platforms to batch test programs accepting input to STDIN and writing their output to STDOUT or STDERR. With it, you can batch run all your test cases, group all tests, print the difference between wanted and received result, get a statistic of all runs, selective run test cases, generate a test program, execute PERL and shell code directly, and more. Changes: Initial release.
About: Rhyming Dictionary is a command-line driven rhyming dictionary that supports about 127,000 words. Changes: Many improvements to the interactive mode through the use of GNU readline, and bugfixes.
About: Exuberant Ctags is a multilanguage reimplementation of the Unix ctags program. It generates an index of source code object definitions which is used by a number of editors and tools to instantly locate the definitions. Exuberant Ctags currently supports the following languages: Assembler, ASP, AWK, BETA, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Eiffel, Erlang, Fortran, HTML, Java, Javascript, Lisp, Lua, Make, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, REXX, Ruby, Scheme, Shell (Bourne, Korn, Z), S-Lang, SML (Standard ML), Tcl, Vera, Verilog, Vim, and YACC. Changes: Bugfixes and inheritance information extraction for C++ and Java.
About: Toolbase is a Perl-based system to maintain download archives without using database systems like SQL. Changes: Simple user accounting has been added. Changes on the database are not necessary, but only the admin user may change items that provide no user information.
About: Apsfilter is a magic printfilter, allowing you to print different document types "automagically" without having to convert them manually into something which is understood by your printer. Apsfilter is a mature and powerful printing solution for any flavor of Unix running lpd or LPRng. It supports the latest GhostScript version and 3rd-party printer drivers (such as hpijs, ijs, hpdj, pcl3, and gimp-print). It autodetects lots of file, archive, and compression types. It supports printing on local as well as on Appletalk, Unix, and Windows remote printers. General and "per printer-queue" based config files allow you to configure the printer for your needs. The lpr command line options allow you to change printing parameters like print quality, orientation, duplex mode, etc. "on the fly" without having to edit any config file. A SETUP script helps you to test various supported ghostscript drivers prior installation, makes the necessary entries in /etc/printcap, creates spool directories, and creates apsfilter default config files as needed. A handbook in HTML is available. Several tools are also included: "aps2file" allows you to print to a file via apsfilter, "apspreview" previews files as generated by apsfilter using gv and friends, and "apsfilter-bug" assists you in doing bug and problem reports. Changes: Some bugfixes, and minor improvements and modifications.
About: GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme. Changes: The font-system has been redesigned in order to prepare the migration towards guile-gtk. The new version features anti-aliased X fonts, improved virtual fonts, and support for Adobe PostScript fonts. The anti-aliasing algorithm has also been improved. The new version of TeXmacs also comes with full Russian language support. A rudimentary compatability with the Emacs control keystrokes is also provided.
About: The Intro to Bash Programming HOWTO is meant for newbies who wish to learn how to write shell scripts for bash, the GNU Boure-Again shell. It contains several samples. It is very early in its development, but it is hoped that some people might find it useful. Changes: Suggestions and corrections were applied.
About: emelFM is a file manager that implements the popular two-pane design. It features a simple GTK+ interface, a flexible filetyping scheme, and a built-in command line for executing commands without opening an xterm. Changes: Configurable buttons, an 'su' shortcut, and interface tweaks.
About: gnu.hylafax implements the HylaFAX client network protocol in pure Java. With it, Java applications can access a HylaFAX server in various ways, such as queueing FAX jobs, checking server/job status, and retrieving FAX files. The gnu.hylafax distribution also includes gnu.inet.ftp, a pure Java implementation of FTP client protocol (RFC0959). Changes: Fixes were made for a bug in passive transfers and a bug in the jobfmt() method. The gnu.hylafax and gnu.hylafax.util packages are now in separate jar files. Implementation of status events has begun.
About: Jetty is an Open Source HTTP Servlet Server written in Java. It is a full featured HTTP/1.1 server and a Servlet container. It is designed to be small, fast, embeddable and extensible. It supports HTTP/1.1, servlets 2.3, and JSP 1.2. Changes: This release contains a partial implementation of the 2.2 Servlet API. It represents a major change in direction, as Jetty3 will now implement the 2.2 API itself rather than use the Jakarta/Tomcat reference container. Also in this release is a new configuration structure based around HandlerContexts, a clarified license for commercial usage, sessions and URL rewriting (from Jetty2), a new log sink mechanism (from Jetty2), HTML generation classes (from Jetty2), and a simplified ClassLoader mechanism.
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: Minor corrections were made in the handling of root Location and SCRIPT_NAME.
About: Mimer SQL is an SQL-based, high-performance RDBMS, targeted at mission-critical client/server environments. It offers scalable performance (including multi-processor support), and is available in all major Unix (including Linux), Windows, and OpenVMS platforms. It offers Optimistic Concurrency Control as the transaction handling method, instead of the more commonly used locking-type. Changes: Initial announcement.
About: tcsysmon is a dock app that monitors Mem/Swap/DiskIO/Uptime and displays blinky lights for your interrupts and page in/outs. Its goal is to display as many real-time system statistics as possible with a minimum of CPU usage. It includes MMX routines for faster updates on newer CPUs. Changes: Support has been added for 2.2 kernels. Small code changes were made.
About: TAF is a multi-user PHP/PostgreSQL-based todo list manager. It offers a priority, category, assigned- user management of a task list, and maintains closed (terminated) tasks with termination date. It's in french. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: capircvd is a voice/fax gateway. It receives fax (G3) and voice-calls using an ISDN-Bus, an AVM ISDN-Card (active or passive) and CAPI20 from isdn4linux, or AVM. It can be used on either P2P (with DDI) or P2M S0-bus. After reception, it can process files (send as mail) using an external handler (included). Changes: Initial announcement.
About: BJS is Web-based management software for the German Federal Youth Games, a Germany-wide sports competition for schools. Features include data import, arrangement of groups, result input, and several printing possibilites. Changes: Preliminary support for calculation of points and printing result lists for groups, a new script to fill the 'disciplines' table, and placing of the COPYING file in the distribution.
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