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About: StegFS is a steganographic file system for Linux. It offers security beyond that afforded by a regular cryptographic file system, since it not only encrypts data, but also provides a plausible deniability mechanism by securely hiding the data. It is designed to give the user a very high level of protection against being compelled to disclose its contents. StegFS extends the standard Linux file system (ext2fs), allowing normal and several levels of hidden files to coexist. This allows some data to remain hidden even if some of the keys are compromised. Changes: A fix for a bad 2.2.13-to-2.2.14 patch.
About: Free Reign is a fully-3D city simulator, with advanced features planned such as ore mining, advanced financial models, and other features users request. Changes: A new microsimulator for power simulation (i.e. power lines transmit power), a new toolbox for easier placement of structures, and numerous speedups.
About: gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines running X11R6 or later. It has text and GTK+ 1.2/2.x interfaces and supports the FTP, FTPS (control connection only), HTTP, HTTPS, FSP, and SSH protocols and has FTP and HTTP proxy server support. It supports UNIX, EPLF, Novell, MacOS, VMS, MVS, and NT (DOS) style directory listings, and has a bookmarks menu that allows you to quickly connect to remote sites. The code is fully internationalized and there are currently 45 translations available. Changes: Lots of bugfixes, SSH support, FXP support, improved HTTP parsing, new timeouts in read(2) and write(2), less CPU usage, and SunOS and Digital UNIX fixups.
About: dopewars is a UNIX rewrite of the MS-DOS program of the same name, which in turn was inspired by John E. Dell's "Drug Wars" game. You have one month to buy and sell drugs on the streets of New York, the aim being first to pay off your debt to the loan shark and then to make a fortune. And if you have to shoot a few cops in the process, well... The game includes TCP networking allowing you to meet (and shoot) other human drug dealers. Computer drug dealers are currently in development. Changes: Servers report high scores and current no. of players to metaserver, and bugfixes for the Win32 networking code.
About: LinNeighborhood is a GUI frontend for browsing M$ machines and mounting SMB shares using Samba (and Smbfs on 2.0 kernels). Changes: Support for GNU automake + autoconf, internationalization using GNU gettext, support for global (sysadmin) + local configurationr, separate code modules for GUI and non-GUI code, browsing data storage in memory structures instead of GUI (gtk+) structures, and small bugfixes and improvements in the browsing and mounting code.
About: The Open Source Audio Library Project (OSALP) is a C++ class library that contains everything needed to build an audio application, including a powerful chaining concept so programmers can build by selecting the building blocks they desire and arranging them in a chain. The data will then be processed by pulling the data through the chain. It supports WAV, MP3, au, aiff, and aifc formats, and contains classes for playing, recording, time recording, editing, mixing, sample rate conversion, and spectrum display. Changes: Automatic data conversion, memory caching, and bugfixes.
About: Etach is an Emacs add-on that allows easy management of MIME email attachments in RMAIL and Mail modes. Attachments and detachments are handled simply via commands M-x attach and M-x detach, respectively, and forwarding of MIME mail via M-x mime-forward. Changes: Many changes for compatibility, user customization, and robustness, and a few fixes.
About: JNapster is a Napster client implemented in Java. It allows you to download MP3s over the Internet. It provides a GUI similar to that of the Napster Windows client and has some handy features the original doesn't have: It gets server lists directly from napigator.com and logs you into as many Napster servers as you want, which you can query in parallel. Changes: Ability to ask napigator.com for a list of Napster servers, pinging the Napster servers to determine which of them are really working and how fast they answer, ability to sort the search results, display of transfer speeds (KB/s) and how much time the downloads will still take approximately, a new feedback form, plus the possibility to read the FAQ through the help menu, checking for a new version of itself (after asking for your permission to do so), the server/chat/search/transfer tabs remember their state, some little bugfixes, and deprecated methods are no longer used.
About: ECLiPt Roaster is a GNOME interface to mkisofs and cdrecord which can be used for writing data and audio CDs and ISO images on the fly. Changes: Removal of the -a option (doesn't work with new mkisofs versions), fixes for drag & drop code, a code cleanup, and some new code for CD-RW support.
About: Alkaline is a full-featured standalone search and index server. The spider is a fully remote indexing daemon which includes support for all standards like robots.txt and "skip" meta tags, and allows multiple distinct configurations and search groups (searching many different sites from your server), including complex regexp indexing paths, authentification, filters for various document formats, XML-based online management and statistics, mrtg-compatible perf numbers, and more. Changes: Many new features and bugfixes, including DoS handling, late binding, regexp URL exclusions and inclusions, regexp stop word dictionaries, much faster fully-threaded indexing, self ping, improved search thread pooling, HTML error handling, etc.
About: XMLtp is a tiny XML parser/processor written in Java. It was written at a time when the Java Standard Edition didn't come with its own XML parser. Today it is mostly useful for people working with older Java versions or other editions. XMLtp's main use is in applications that use XML as their storage format for the application's data. Since writing XML is not too difficult, reading XML requires a little bit more effort. XMLtp is intended to simplify this effort. XMLtp is not supposed to replace full-fledged XML processors, it just makes it easy to use a subset of XML in your own Java applications. Changes: A port to Java 2, and some minor corrections in JavaDoc comments.
About: Irssi is a modular, terminal-based IRC client with Perl scripting. Changes: Fixes for runtime loadable modules, /^COMMAND hides the command's output, /BIND changes keyboard shortcuts, joins after netsplit are displayed all in one line, and more.
About: X-CD-Roast is a program-package dedicated to easy CD creation under most Unix-platforms. It combines command line tools like "cdrecord", "cdda2wav", and "mkisofs" into a nice graphical user interface. Changes: A lot of detail fixes, support for SANYO burnproof, and some new translations.
About: FilterProxy is a Perl script that acts as a generic Web proxy. It is unique in that it allows you to install modules that can perform arbitrary transformations on HTML (or any other MIME-type) and HTTP headers. It filters ads by stripping HTML from the page, anonymizes requests by removing Referer and User-Agent headers, compresses HTML content, and de-animates animated gifs. Configuration is done via Web-based forms or editing a Perl data structure. Changes: Passing CGI/1.1 %ENV data to served ePerl scripts, many bugfixes and new/updated ad rules, and many speedups (rewrite is ~4x faster now).
About: GBNBot is a BNet Bot written in Perl to moderate Bnet channels. It can accept commands from Ops, ban users, tag ban users, rejoin if it's kicked/banned, and run from a shell account. This bot is still in development but is very stable and very usable. Changes: A fix for a bug in the install script so that the operators didn't load.
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: Changes from the previous stable release include a new I/O subsystem, FTP load/save, an improved split-window feature, a customizable tool bar, the ability to change editor settings on a mode-specific basis, and many other minor features.
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: Internal operation in seconds rather than minutes, and several minor enhancements and bugfixes.
About: KSI Scheme is an implementation of the Scheme programming language written in C. It can be used as both a stand-alone interpreter and an extension library. However, the documentation is in Russian. Changes: Bugfixes.
About: Cannon Smash is a 3D table-tennis game. This game represents various strategies of tabletennis on the computer. Changes: A new training mode.
About: ObjectArtist is a development tool to create object-oriented software. It uses UML diagrams for modeling and stores the models in XMI, an XML based format. Changes: A rewrite of the Model-View-Controller architecture resulting in a better repainting in JDK 1.2, and a change to Ant as the build tool.
About: gEDA is a suite of electronic design automation (EDA) tools. Currently, the project offers a mature suite of free software applications for electronics design, including schematic capture, attribute management, bill of materials (BOM) generation, netlisting into over 20 netlist formats, analog and digital simulation, and printed circuit board (PCB) layout. Changes: Copy/cut/paste buffers, undo/redo, GUI improvements and fixes, the ability to give components default attributes, plugin component/source libraries, much-improved selection implementation, 3 new gnetlist backends, documentation updates, and the usual bugfixes.
About: tnftp (formerly known as lukemftp) is a port of the NetBSD FTP client to other systems. It offers many enhancements over the traditional BSD FTP client, including command-line editing, command-line fetches of FTP and HTTP URLs (including via proxies), command-line uploads of FTP URLs, context-sensitive word completion, dynamic progress bar, IPv6 support, modification time preservation, paging of local and remote files, passive mode support (with fallback to active mode), SOCKS support, TIS FWTK gate-ftp server support, and transfer rate throttling. tnftp is the default FTP client found in FreeBSD, MacOS X, NetBSD, and SuSE Linux. Changes: Use of 'LIST' instead of 'NLST' with the ls command, addition of fget, which reads a list of files to retrieve from the given file, support for uploading files on the command line with '-u', various fixes to the IPv6 support, and various portability fixes.
About: NDir is a terminal tool to display the contents of directories. It can both provide a brief overview on the present files and display all interesting information associated with the files. NDir is designed to display its output in a more legible and informative way than ls. This includes various degrees of verbosity, a statistics line for each directory, coloured output and intelligent handling of long file names. Changes: Dates can be displayed in world time (UTC), and other minor changes.
About: Xfce is an easy-to-use and easy-to-configure environment for X11 based on GTK2. A priority is adherence to standards, specifically those defined at freedesktop.org. Changes: New configuration options were added. Important bug fixes were made (users of previous 3.4.x versions should upgrade to this release). Memory management was also improved.
About: FreeMind is Mind-Mapping tool and an intuitive editor for tree-structured data. It features a modular design, and can be used to edit any kind of data, dependent on the current mode. The data is represented as a Mind-Map, while data, behavior, node style, edge style, color, etc. are determined by the mode. It features one-click fold, unfold, and "follow link" operations. Changes: New features include hyperlinking between Mindmaps, multiple Mindmaps at the same time, customization with properties files, basic printing functionality, and internationalization for English and German.
About: libbgrab is a video4linux grabbing library to facilitate use of framegrabber cards and webcams through a few function calls. To implement constant throughput and to avoid frame loss delays, triple buffering is used through local buffer copying in a separate grabbing thread. The many demo and utility programs included can display live video to X, convert live video to ASCII, smoothly zoom live-video (using Glide), do some image processing (using MMX), and provide a stand-alone webcam image server. Changes: Many fixes and additions were made. Additions include SECAM video mode, five more sample programs, tuner channel setup, RGB24 mode, and MMX image processing routines. A fix for tunerless devices was made, as well as optimizations.
About: VDKBuilder is a RAD tool which provides the programmer with an integrated environment for designing GUI interfaces, editing sources, compiling, linking and debugging. All these phases can be accomplished from within builder. VDKBuilder is based on VDK Library, a C++ wrapper of the gtk+ widget set. Changes: A better source editor with word completion, bracket matching, hints, and more was added.
About: aewm is a minimalist window manager for X11. It has no nifty features, but is light on resources and extremely simple in appearance. It should eventually make a good reference implementation of the ICCCM. A few separate programs are included to handle running programs, switching between windows, etc. Changes: Fixes for error handler and track iconification, name changes in palette, and gtk-palette is now oriented horizontally and uses a menu.
About: QUB (the Q Universal Boardgame) is an electronic front-end to any board game, using a scanned game board and pieces. It is intended to be an aid for PBEM gamers, game designers, and (eventually) real-time networked boardgamers. Changes: A fix for a very confusing bug when saving a game, where all pieces would be flipped to their back-most sides. The savegame was not corrupted, but the game had to be loaded directly after saving to be useful again.
About: libgaudio is a C/C++ library to facilitate easy incorporation of sound and sound effects into games. Samples are loaded into memory and playback is then triggered or stopped. The system mixes any number of concurrently playing samples together (up to a predefined maximum). It is also possible to include a background MP3 soundfile in the mix. Changes: Stereo panning and volume control support.
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 adds minor fixes to session invalidation, JDBC transactions, and optional expiry in HtmlFilter.
About: Yacas is a general purpose, easy to use Computer Algebra System (a CAS is a program that can be used to do symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions). It is built on top of its own programming language designed for this purpose, in which new algorithms can easily be implemented. In addition, it comes with extensive documentation on the functionality implemented and methods used to implement them. Changes: This release adds some bugfixes, better documentation, and initial support for dynamic link libraries that can be loaded at runtime.
About: VDK is an easy to use C++ wrapper of Gtk+ GUI library for X. VDK is implemented thinking to moderns RAD tools. It supports properties and an automatic signal/event dispatching feature with a hierarchy visiting pattern. Moreover makes using Gtk+ widgets an easy job to do. The development of a VDK based RAD tool like Borland C++ Builder is in progress. Changes: This release adds minor bugfixes and enhancements.
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: Next File and Previous File menu entries have been added for file navigation without the mouse (using Alt+P and Alt+N). Better visual representation of changed files is now used; there is an asterisk appended to the filename, and the icon in the windows menu has changed. An "Auto Line Selection" option has been added. Basically, this will select any line that you move to. The behavior only works with mouse button 1, Up/Down, and Page Up/Down. Filebar view settings saving has been fixed (it wasn't saving to the right name). Insert GPL (#) has been added for Python and Perl. Work has been done on the Find/Replace, Run Command, and Goto Line dialogs. Default buttons and proper binding of the activate signals from various combo boxes have been added.
About: glFtpD is a multi-platform FTP daemon that has numerous features and is easy to setup and use.
About: SDLRoids is essentially an Asteroids clone, but with a few extra features and some nice game physics. It's based on xhyperoids, an UNIX port of an old Windows game called Hyperoids. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement
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