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About: news-stat extracts statistics from news posts. Posts must be stored in a spooler, using a news-pull programm. Changes: First release.
About: KWC (Key Width Calculator) calculates the bit count required to represent a specified number of combinations. It additionally calculates key width in platform bytes (C char type), actual number of combinations covered by that many bits, and the difference and ratio of requested and actual coverage. Changes: Major changes were made to the code. Coverage stats are now calculated against rounded byte count, not bit count. The output format was changed.
About: The NetStream2000 Linux driver provides a proprietary user-land driver for Sigma Designs EM8400-based MPEG-2 decoders (i.e. NetStream2000) and GPL'd kernel modules which provide DVD access (without kernel recompilation until 2.2.15). It also includes a GPL'd DVD player with access to all DVD functionality such as menu navigation, fast forward, languages, subtitles, and so on. Finally, this kit provides an API and the documentation necessary to write customized DVD players. Changes: First public beta release.
About: PHPXref is a Perl script that cross-references classes, functions, variables, and SQL tables used in a PHP-based Web site and generates simple HTML output designed to make browsing through code easy. In addition, it can extract phpdoc style comments from the PHP files to provide browsable documentation. Changes: Initial release.
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: More informative exit codes were added which can be triggered either by attachment name policies or the built-in scoring mechanism.
About: gnome-find is an easy-to-use, but powerful, graphical version of the GNU find utility. It features a default, no-nonsense dialog for use in most commonly specified searches. Additionally, a second, more detailed and advanced dialog is available to specify more powerful search parameters. Changes: Final, stable release. Changes include some portability fixes, build fixes, and an updated Spanish translation.
About: Komba is a Samba share browser for KDE. It can mount and unmount shares. Changes: Documentation was added.
About: NetTraf consists of a daemon that gets information from a Linux interface and sends it on the network to NetTraf clients. Clients then can use the information to show to the user how the connection is performing. This program is mostly useful with dial-up connections on a masqueraded server, so all users on the network know when the connection is active, and if there is too much traffic on the line. This package DOES NOT comes with any client applications; you can find them on the homepage. The author needs help to develop a Linux client. Changes: TCP-wrappers support can now be compiled in to add some level of security to the program. New commands were added for really large traffic networks. Instead of sending all the bytes received since the interface came up, now it sends only the number of bytes changed since the previous second. Look for 1.3 clients that use this feature.
About: Jaga is a genetic algorithm package written in Java. Changes: Sequential mutation was added.
About: Wine is an implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix. It does not require Microsoft Windows, but can use native Windows DLLs if they are available. It provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unixes. Changes: DirectSound was restructured and improved. More builtin DLLs were implemented (ws2_32, setupapi, rpcrt4, serialui). Several internationalisation improvements and lots of bug fixes were made.
About: ModLogAn is a modular logfile analyzer that combines speed with flexibility. It parses the logfiles generated by several server-types (HTTP, FTP, mail, streaming, etc.) and other logfile sources (flow-tools, ipchains, PABXs): currently 24 parsers. It features incremental logfile processing and internal resolving, and is able the split (mass-hosting) and combine logfiles (clusters) internally. The output can be based on the internal template engine to generate your own look & feel. Changes: The internal build system was updated from make 3.76.1 to 3.78.1 after some users complained about make errors. The corresponding errors were fixed.
About: FemFind is a crawler and search engine for SMB shares (provided by Samba/Unix or Windows) and FTP servers. The crawler maps the filesystem structure of your shares to a MySQL database. Then, the Web interface or a Windows client can be used to quickly locate any file on the network. Changes: Changes to the command line interface, new search options, a new Web interface, iand small bugfixes.
About: VeePee is aimed at KDE and GNOME application developers and allows you to easily embed Python as a GUI-enabled scripting language in your application. Users benefit from a common scripting language allowing them to develop scripting skills that are re-usable with all their applications. The same VeePee script uses KDE widgets when run from a KDE application, and GNOME widgets when run from a GNOME application. Changes: Initial announcement.
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: Some configure features were added. Fixes were made for a crash on the APOP command when no APOP database exists, several warnings, and for troglodyte OSes without srandom().
About: SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is a protocol which provides secure conferencing services in the Internet. It can be used to send any kind of messages, in addition to normal text messages. This includes multimedia messages like images, video, and audio stream. All messages in the SILC network are encrypted and authenticated, and messages can also be digitally signed. SILC protocol supports AES, SHA-1, PKCS#1, PKCS#3, X.509, OpenPGP, and is being developed in the IETF. The software is delivered as SILC Client for end users, SILC Server for system administrators, and SILC Toolkit for application developers. Changes: This release adds command lagging support and bugfixes.
About: Pip is a wrapper for programs that won't use stdin and stdout, but require filenames to be given on the command line; it lets you use '-' as a special filename. Now you can build pipelines to your heart's content. Pip takes care of creating and removing the temporary files needed. Also included is pip_latex, which handles the peculiarities of TeX and LaTeX. Changes: This release adds pip_latex, which lets TeX or LaTeX act as filters.
About: ZThread is an advanced object-oriented threading and synchronization library, implemented in C++ for POSIX, MacOS, and Win32 systems. It provides an excellent and powerful abstraction from native threads. It includes interruptible thread objects and several other synchronization control objects. Changes: This first stable release updates thread classes to include better resolution for the sleep functions and basic priority scheduling. All known bugs have been removed and all documentation updated.
About: Soma is an HTTP/1.1-compatible Web server written in Java. It is powerful (capable of handling many thousands of requests simultaneously), configurable, secure, and intelligent. It can run CGI programs, and has good support for Unix systems. Changes: This release adds support for plugging in classes to override the standard HTTP method handlers, and many small bugfixes and improvements in the CGI handler, directory lister, and URL corrector. All the classes have been moved into com.auntfloyd.* packages.
About: The LSB-VSX test suite is a version of The Open Group's VSX-PCTS, being used as part of the Linux Standard Base test program. This version of the VSX-PCTS has been setup to autoconfigure on Linux systems. A front end script install.sh is used to auto install, setup and run the test suite. In theory this should allow running of the test suite by those unfamiliar with POSIX.1 and its myriad of options and thus the associated test suite configurables. Changes: Initial release.
About: gladepyc generates a Python module from a Glade XML GUI description which builds the corresponding GTK+ interface by using the _gtk module of the PyGTK binding. The building module which is output can be used to build as many separate window/widget instances of the same class as you want at run-time, because each window is translated into a UI building class. It can also, on request, generate UI building code for just a subtree of the UI description. Changes: This is the first freshmeat announcement. Only the core is implemented, with some widgets (hopefully the most used). The commandline frontend is not yet decent (images, shortcuts, and tooltips are missing), but it works.
About: sgalaAlive checks the correct running of a pool of configured processes. If they are not running, it will mail the administrator and turn them on. Changes: Initial Freshmeat announcement.
About: User-Mode Linux lets you run Linux inside Linux. It is a safe, secure way of running Linux versions and Linux processes. Run buggy software, experiment with new Linux kernels or distributions, and poke around in the internals of Linux, all without risking your main Linux setup. User-Mode Linux gives you a virtual machine that may have more hardware and software virtual resources than your actual, physical computer. You can assign your virtual machine only the hardware access you want it to have. With properly limited access, nothing you do on the virtual machine can change or damage your real computer or its software. Changes: User-mode linux has been updated to the 2.4.0-test4 kernel. Bugfixes, including removing a crash when run with the wrong stacksize limit and a hang when run on a recent kernel.
About: userman is a simple Perl script for managing user accounts. It can add, delete, and modify users and groups. It also has a 'check' function that checks for common errors in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and /etc/gshadow. Changes: Add, delete, and modify groups has been added. Improved filehandling. Minor bugfixes.
About: ROCK Linux is a distribution build kit for creating Linux distributions. You can easily design and build your own distribution by choosing packages, compilers, and optimization options, and optionally enable the GCC Stack-Smashing Protector for enhanced security. It is also possible to choose custom configure options, cross-compile, and much more. Many specialized targets (customized distributions) have already been created, such as a Desktop, Router, or Minimal distribution. A variety of architectures are supported. Changes: This release adds some new packages, a lot of bugfixes, and new features. It's based on kernel 2.4.0-test2 and Glibc 2.1.3, features an improved installation procedure, and contains (and is built with) binutils 2.10.0.9 and gcc 2.95.2. It comes with XFree86 4.0, Perl 5.6.0, GNOME 1.2, and other cool new stuff.
About: Diablo is a backbone news transit system, designed to replace INND on backbone machines. The transit part of Diablo is well established and should work flawlessly. Note that diablo now has a reader part, since version 1.15. Changes: The reader part has had some bugfixes. Support for PGP 6.5i has been added. The 'spool disk full' error handling has been improved. The Message-ID that was supplied is now included due to some problems with INN feeders.
About: libAstronomy provides a set of astronomical routines to ease the calculation of ephemerides. It includes mathematical functions to compensate various astronomical phenomena like precession, nutation, etc. The getconstellation routine finds the constellation for a given coordinate. It also calculates the positions of the sun and moon in two different precise ways. Changes: Two fast routines for the precise calculation of sun and moon positions were added, as well as some basic functions and three sample programs. The documentation has been somewhat redesigned, but needs more work.
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: A small fix has been added for colormap allocation, including 'override redirect windows' in 256 color mode.
About: gdpc is a tool for visualising the output files of a molecular dynamic simulation. It can be customized to read almost any input file format and animate it. It can also be configured to output images of each frame. Changes: Multithreaded reading of the input file has been added. A minor cleanup of the code has been undertaken.
About: Juggle is a modular multi-threaded file transfer program for java2, which can use various file transfer protocols and plugins such as FTP and HTTP. Only FTP is implemented at the moment. It uses a text UI. Its file transfer libraries can be embedded in other applications. Changes: Utilities.getAddress() has been modified to use the socket instead of InetAddress.getLocalhost(). This allows ftp PORT commands for people with dial up (dynamic ip) connections to the net. Passive ftp sessions, and the USER and lcd commands have been added to FTP. The prompt in CommandPrompt.java now shows the session type too.
About: netload_applet is a fully-customizable GNOME applet to graphically display the load of a network device. Changes: Initial release.
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: This release adds optional title bars, keyboard shortcuts to shrink and grow the left track, optional tiling without resizing windows, better support for shaped windows, better handling of desktops with auto retiling off. A few bugs, some quite obscure, have been fixed. A lot of code has been cleaned up.
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: A patch to BuildRoot was merged. It now works with versions of Bash other than 2.0.
About: SIPS is an integrated Weblog and link-indexing system written in PHP. It is aimed at those with access to databaseless, PHP-enabled Web servers who want to run a Weblog site like Slashdot and/or a simple link index like Yahoo!. Changes: A serious security flaw in the generation of new passwords was fixed. The way story search and contribution work was improved. Many bug fixes were made.
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: Drawn rectangles are now updated all at once instead of one of a time. A different random function is now used, and the method of searching for the datadir is now more intelligent. The delay code was rewritten to use SDL functionality. Fixes were made for a bug where the pixels were accessed unlocked, a compiling bug which occurred when not using SDL_mixer, and a bug which caused shield strength and number of bombs to be reset after hitting an astroid. Various BeOS issues were fixed.
About: gxhost is an interface to the command xhost written in GTK. Changes: A new key control and statusbar messages.
About: user-online is a php-script which allows webmasters to include a summary of users online on their websites. It counts the users who have been online since a defined time and shows the total users in a small table, which can be placed anywhere on the website. The contents of the table are sorted by the total users in particular directories. Changes: Many new configuration possibilities (now you can specify many parameters from table-width to color-settings), and an improved database-structure. so the script is much faster.
About: Sunplasma first creates a virtual world that looks somehow like the real world, and then it lets you fly through it. Changes: Initial release.
About: SearchForms is a modular system for creating HTML forms that can generate an arbitrary SQL statement. Using the objects provided by SearchForms, you can quickly and easily create a dynamic user interface for searching a database. SearchForms is part of the Enzyme open-source project. Changes: Initial release.
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