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In today's editorial, David Symonds shares his views on what's good and what's bad about modularity, and suggests that more tools should take advantage of modular techniques. [Comments are disabled]
About: Petopt is a free command line argument parsing library that handles short (-v) and long (--foo-bar) options. It supports abbreviated long options and should be pretty easy to use. Changes: This release adds boolean variables (--with(out)-X and --(dis)enable-X).
About: The OpenCA Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, full-featured and Open Source out-of-the-box Certification Authority implementing the most used protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. OpenCA is based on many Open-Source Projects. Among the supported software is OpenLDAP, OpenSSL, Apache Project, Apache mod_ssl. Changes: This release fixes some bugs and provides improvements in the installation script. 0.2.3-patch3 had a nasty bug while parsing for certificates' serial numbers. This version anticipates the new upcoming release which will include many improvements -- it has been mostly rewritten since the 0.2.0-xxx versions.
About: Dlint analyzes any DNS zone you specify and reports any problems it finds by displaying errors and warnings. Then it descends recursively to examine all zones below the given one (this can be disabled with a command-line option). Changes: Minor bug fixes have been made.
About: The Seattle Firewall is an ipchains firewall that supports IP masquerading and can be used on a standalone system, on a dedicated firewall system, or on a multi-use gateway/server. It supports VPN via IPIP tunnels, IPSec, and PPTP. It is easily configurable by editing configuration files, and can be extended without modifying the base product. It also includes realtime monitoring with an audible alarm that sounds when suspect packets are detected. Changes: This update allows resticting access to servers based on client IP address, permits changing the default ruleset strength, includes the ability to alter the kernel's dynamic port range, provides for non-masqueraded local interfaces, correctly handles P-T-P devices in the "local" and "dmz" specifications, and supports running the Linux PPTP client on the firewall system.
About: TuxNES is an emulator for the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System that runs under Linux and FreeBSD on i386 machines. It supports a wide variety of graphic displays, sound modes, nifty features, and, of course, NES games. Changes: Nestra v0.66 improvements have been adapted. Experimental support for mappers 13, 19, and 68, GGI support, X11 shared memory pixmap support, W Window System support, scanline simulation, greyscale simulation, more palettes, audio echo/reverb effect, advanced joystick support, and profiling support have been added. Audio synchronization has been fixed.
About: ROBODoc is an API documentation tool. It extracts specially-formated comment headers from a source file and puts them in a separate file. ROBODoc allows you to include the program documentation in the source code and avoid having to maintain two separate documents. ROBODoc can format the documentation in HTML, LaTeX, RTF, XML DocBook, or ASCII format. It is even possible to include parts of the source code. It works with Assembler, C, C++, Java, Perl, LISP, Occam, Tcl/Tk, Pascal, Fortran, shell scripts, HTML, and COBOL; basically any language that supports comments. Changes: Master index file generation for LaTeX output was added. An option was added to prevent the including of source items in the documentation. An option was added to set the title of the master index files. A section was added to the documentation that explains how robodoc can be used if your source code is located in several directories.
About: EJBWizard is a GUI Java app that allows you to fill in forms to create the prototype code for an Enterprise Java Bean. All 4 types of EJBs are supported, and if you have an existing database connection in your JOnAS server, it will allow you to log in to the DBMS and pull field definitions into the bean-generating process. Changes: Allegedly, all the things that got broken when the 2.0 User Interface improvements were made have now been fixed.
About: nvi is a version of the vi editor which supports all the historic ex/vi features except for open mode and the lisp edit option (e.g., it has a fully implemented underlying ex mode). It contains a number of additional features, including an experimental GTK frontend in the development version. Changes: This release requires DB 3.1. It adds some bugfixes, some internal changes that shouldn't be visible, and support for multiple windows in the GTK frontend.
About: help2man is a tool for automatically generating simple manual pages from program output. It is intended to provide an easy way for software authors to include a manual page in their distribution without having to maintain that document. Given a program which produces reasonably standard --help and --version outputs, help2man will attempt to re-arrange that output into something which resembles a manual page. Changes: help2man is now officially a GNU program. A bug reporting address and "GNU" prefix have been added. configure now checks for "perl5" as well as "perl".
About: libzdt is a free general library aimed at anyone who wants to use it. It features 17 crypto algorithms, a safer comparison of floating-point numbers, and miscellaneous objects, methods, macros, and typedefs that are useful in their own respects. Changes: This release fixes a failure to add '__host' to ZSocket.c line 57. adds an RC5 crypto algorithm (there are now 17 crypto algorithms in total), and adds 4 more global typedefs.
About: PM2V is a library for parallel encoding of a video sequence in MPEG II. It is mainly based on mpeg2encode v1.2a made by the MPEG software simulation group, and aims to speed up the computing of MPEG video sequence by using multiple processors or multiple computers linked by a LAN. It also uses MPI so it can use SMP architectures or a network of workstations. The speed increase has been tested to be better than 400% for six processors over one. Changes: Initial release.
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: Debugging output accidentally left in 3.7.11 has been cleaned up, and other minor improvements and bugfixes have been made.
About: larswm is a modified version of the 9wm window manager that adds virtual desktops, automatic window tiling, and many other features designed to make it a highly efficient user environment. One of the design goals is that you should never have to manually shuffle windows around on the screen. Another is that it should use as little CPU time, RAM, and screen space for itself as possible. Changes: An app launch menu and configurability through a resource file have been added. All options that used to be command line are now in the rc file. All keyboard shortcuts are configurable. Features better handling of clients that lie about user specified position and more.
About: PeaGnut is a Gnutella client which allows rewriting of requests, so that it acts as a proxy server for Gnutella clients. It is intended to be able to share files and rewrite downloads. Changes: PeaGnut now implements the protocol mostly correctly, although there are probably still some bugs. It now uses (and leaks) conlist_iterator to make the process of going through the connection list much more stable. PUSH is nearly done, routing is basic at best, and flood protection/etc. is nonexistent.
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: Sorting of results by clicking on column headings has been added, as well as minor bug fixes.
About: GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor. Changes: New implementation of the "magic line" code, a new regexp search option (-R), and a new Finnish translation have been added. ^W^T now calls goto line and ^W^R calls replace, for greater Pico compatibility. This should be the approximate feature set for nano 1.0.
About: Glimmer is an all-purpose programmer's editor for Linux. Features include revert, find/replace, goto line, syntax highlighting, multiple-level undo/redo, tear-away windows, quick access popup menu, auto-indenting, Python scripting support, and many other standard editor features. Changes: Font settings stuff in the "Highlight Colors" Dialog, po and SGML language definitions by Frank Jensen, "Indent..." feature/dialog (uses gnu 'indent' program) ",Select Line", "Clear Line", "Clear to Line End" and "Clear to Line Start" functions have been added. Documentation on session stuff and menus has begun. Comment, comment_selection bindings, and the "Comment Selection" menu entry have all been removed. Some cursor size code in GtkExText has been fixed, as well as a nasty GtkExText bug that was messing with the cursor position without the user's permission. Line_start, line_end, freeze, and thaw bindings for python/guile have been added. The position of the Bracket Match stuff has been reversed; the cursor now needs to be on the RHS of the character instead of the LHS.
About: Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. It can perform protocol analysis, content searching/matching and can be used to detect a variety of attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, and much more. Snort uses a flexible rule based language to describe traffic that it should collect or pass, and a modular detection engine. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alert mechanisms for syslog, a user specified file, a UNIX socket, or WinPopup messages to Windows clients using Samba's smbclient. Changes: Two security fixes (specifically, a DoS condition in the ASCII packet logger and the tmp file bug in the SMB alerting code), a great deal of bugfixes and tweaks for a variety of platforms (especially Tru64 and Solaris), and a few major additions including an IP defragmentation plugin, updated and enhanced database logging, an enhanced rules library, and a new -O "IP address obfuscation switch".
About: The kUimlRenderer library aims to be a UIML 2.0 compatitible renderer which renders interfaces using the Qt Widget Set. Changes: Support for basic events.
About: pyftpd is a multithreaded FTP daemon written in Python, featuring an advanced permission scheme, upload/download speed throttling, GUI configuration, an internal database of users, and more. It can run from an ordinary user account. Changes: Initial release.
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