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About: LILO is a Boot loader for Linux/x86 and other PC operating systems. It is responsible for loading your Linux kernel from either a floppy or a hard drive and passing control to it. It is capable of booting beyond cylinder 1024 of a hard disk if the BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions to the int 0x13 interface. LILO can also be used to boot many other operating systems, including DOS, Windows (all versions), OS/2, and the BSD variants. The LILO distribution includes full source, documentation and support files. Changes: Updates to support booting from disks > 1024 cylinders using a new lba32 option (-L new command line switch), and a menu-driven user interface to the Linux boot process. This release is fully backward compatible with earlier releases.
About: ToolBot is an easy to use IRC bot which provides various services for IRC channels. ToolBot does not try to compete with infobots or eggdrop-like bots. Rather, ToolBot strives to provide the features that other bots lack. Changes: Fixes for a number of serious bugs in the dcc interface parsing logic and other key routines, and updates to the FAQ and online help.
About: Brag collects and assembles multipart binary attachements from newsgroups. This is a command-line tool, well suited to run as a cron job. It features support for uuencode and MIME base64, and message filtering with accept/reject patterns. Changes: Handling uuencoded parts in MIME wrapping, works with servers not maintaining an internal message counter, and support for NNTP authentication.
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: SOCKS 4 Proxy support was added. The feedback dialog was made multithreaded so that JNapster remains responsive while sending data.
About: MFMail is a simple Python-program to mail one or more files from the command-line as a MIME-multipart message. Changes: This version is a complete rewrite. Options for encoding were added. A few statements which made it fail with older Python versions were removed. The options you can use in the config-file were extended. A lot of other backward incompatible changes were also made.
About: XMail is an Internet and intranet mail server featuring an ESMTP server, POP3 server, finger server, TLS support for SMTP and POP3 (both server and client side), multiple domains, no need for users to have a real system account, SMTP relay checking, DNS based maps check, custom (IP based and address based) spam protection, SMTP authentication (PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5 POP3-before-SMTP and custom), a POP3 account synchronizer with external POP3 accounts, account aliases, domain aliases, custom mail processing, direct mail files delivery, custom mail filters, mailing lists, remote administration, custom mail exchangers, logging, and multi-platform code. Changes: The MAIL_ROOT directory organization has been changed. All new directory domains must be created inside MAIL_ROOT, which simplifies configurations that handle several domains. Existing domains directories must be moved into the new domains directory. SMAIL scheduling times in sending messages has been changed. The file domains.tab has been put under index. The lock procedures were completely rewritten. New CTRL commands have been added.
About: pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text comments) to be inserted or deleted, and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0 as well as the erroneous iCCP chunk written by Photoshop 5.5. Changes: This release restores the "-ext" option that was inadvertently disabled in version 1.4.6.
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: An update for a serious problem in the build configuration for the release that was prventing compilation.
About: GTK Theme Switch is a small and fast command line utility to switch GTK themes on the fly. It also has an optional GUI to preview the requested theme and change the font used with it, an optional GUI dock, and it can install themes downloaded from gtk.themes.org, preview them, or switch to them immediately. Changes: A new dock GUI mode.
About: ncp can copy files between networked computers and accounts without hassles (nor features like compression and encryption), and you do not even have to name the target machine if it is in the same LAN. npush and npoll can copy files (and pipe data) between machines without having the specify or even know the machine name in advance. Changes: Upgrades to IPv6 support to use IPv6 scope ids (and even work around missing glibc support on Linux-2.4).
About: Crash Recovery Kit (CRK) for Linux is a tool which can recover your crashed PC. Changes: Initial announcement.
About: Sms-mail reads SMS messages from a GSM modem and passes them on as email. For those of you who pass email on to your mobile phone via your telco's mail-to-sms gateway, this completes the circuit, allowing you to reply to the email from the mobile phone too. Changes: Initial announcement.
About: OSS provides sound card drivers for most popular sound cards under Linux, *BSD, Solaris, UnixWare, OpenServer, AIX, HPUX, LynxOS, VxWorks, and Tru64. These drivers support digital audio, MIDI, synthesizers, and mixers found on sound cards. These sound drivers comply with the Open Sound System API specification. OSS provides a user-friendly GUI which makes the installation of sound drivers and configuration of sound cards very simple. It supports over 200 brand name sound cards, and provides automatic sound card detection, Plug-n-Play support, support for PCI audio soundcards, and support for full duplex audio. Changes: New support for FreeBSD 4.0, 4.1RC and 5.0SNAP. New drivers for FreeBSD include the MIDIMan M-Audio, DiO 2448 (CMI 8738), VIA AC97 (82C686), Intel ICH(810) and ICH2, Ectiva ES8938 (Gateway Solo), and the ForteMedia FM801. Also, there were general updates and bug fixes with the AC97 mixer, SoftOSS Virtual Mixer, Yamaha DSXG, SBLive, and SB-PCI updates.
About: Hu-Go! is a PC Engine Emulator for Linux/i386 under console and X11. It plays Hu cards and CDs (and various forms of dumps from them). Changes: Ability to use real cd tracks for faking .hcd tracks, new relative research in the cheat engine, and another fix for the bug in the RAM editor which was changing too many bits.
About: PPR is a Unix print spooler expressly designed for operating PostScript printers. Its features are numerous, and it supports printers connected to parallel or serial ports, or over the network through AppleTalk, LanManager, LPD, and TCP/IP protocols. It accepts jobs from Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, and Unix clients. If the input file is not PostScript, it can pipe the input through a filter. PPR has been designed to manage large numbers of printers with minimal operator attention. It has command line and Web interfaces. Changes: Many bugfixes in the 1.40 release, code cleanups, and a functional WWW interface.
About: Bonnie++ is based on the Bonnie hard drive benchmark by Tim Bray. The most notable features that have been added are support for >2G of storage and testing operations involving thousands of files in a directory. This program is used by ReiserFS developers, but can be useful for anyone who wants to know how fast their hard drive or file system is. It now includes ZCAV in the package. This program tests the performance of different zones on the hard drive. ZCAV has been released separately before but will now only be released as part of the Bonnie++ suite. Changes: More portability through the use of autoconf and through some minor patches, and discouraging running as root.
About: Mailreader is the fully-featured, MIME-compliant, Web-based POP3 email client that powers Mailreader.com. It should work with any browser, including Lynx. Changes: A new IP-address based security check was added. A Lithuanian translation of the user interface was made.
About: Paloma is a program to manage an SQL database of digital music files, and facilitate their retrieval and playback in interesting ways. It works with music files of any form -- MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MIDI... whatever you've got a player for. Paloma makes it easy to rip your entire CD collection and store it on your hard disk (or a collection of CD-Rs) for instant random access; playlists can then be generated using arbitrary SQL commands. Changes: Support for Gtk-- 1.2.0 was added.
About: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.
About: TSE3 (Trax Sequencer Engine v3) is a powerful open source sequencer engine written in C++. It is a sequencer engine because it provides the actual driving force elements of a sequencer but provides no form of user interface. Changes: A number of feature enhancements were made, as well as bugfixes and a more reliable OSS platform driver. The improvements include enhanced application support facilities, standardized internationalisable error handling, new Part insert actions, improved documentation, and other API enhancements.
About: myPHPCalendar is an attempt to make a Web-based calendar with all the features needed for a workgroup enviroment. This includes one form acting as both a public and private calendar as well as the ability to show an event to a group of users. Both PHP4 and PHP3 are supported. Changes: This is the first release with new recurrence code. It also includes a new search function. There was a major re-write of the date display code which may contain lurking bugs. Note that this is an experimental release for working out bugs. There are new database updates: the instructions for dealing with such are in the INSTALL file.
About: JEsd is a reimplementation of EsounD in pure Java. Changes: Major bugs were fixed, and a hack for working around a bug in J2SE Plug-in was added.
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: This release features more user customizations, Emacs 19 compatibility, a new spam management feature, cleaner code, and better performance in some cases. One or two minor fixes were also made.
About: BeeCrypt is an ongoing project to provide strong and fast cryptography in the form of a toolkit usable by commercial and open source projects. Included in the library are entropy sources, random generators, block ciphers, hash functions, message authentication codes, multiprecision integer routines, and public key primitives. Changes: The Windows 2000 entropy bug was fixed. More sparcv9 assembler code was added.
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: This is the first production-quality release since 1.1. The user interface is now fairly civilized and code generation is much improved.
About: Handy calc is a small commandline calculator similar to GNU bc. It can be very helpful for random calculations during programming, etc. It supports all arithmetic operations using 64bit unsigned integers, and does bit shifts and conversions from binary to decimal to hex. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
About: pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text comments) to be inserted or deleted, and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0 as well as the erroneous iCCP chunk written by Photoshop 5.5. Changes: In this version, which was built with libpng-1.0.8rc1, the DOS executable runs faster on a Pentium/MMX series CPU.
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: The LIBWRAP library has been disabled in the Makefile due to problems.
About: CoreLinux++ is an initiative to normalize methods and conventions for OOA/OOD/C++ development for Linux, materialized in a set of Open Source C++ class libraries to support common patterns and frameworks and exploit the C++ standards. Changes: RedHat and Debian (RPM and DEB) packages have been added for shared libs and development. A minor bugfix for a gcc 2.96.x compilation error is included.
About: The modutils package contains utilities that are intended to make a Linux modular kernel manageable for all users, administrators, and distribution maintainers. Changes: This release only reads the default config on the first file, adds a /lib/modules/.../kernel directory, fixes modinfo -f, adds a filename to obj_file, and allows %{filename} in the modinfo format.
About: Gutenprint (formerly Gimp-Print) is a collection of printer drivers for Unix/Linux that currently supports over 800 printers. It emphasizes quality and flexibility, offering a wide variety of options to meet most printing needs. It includes a CUPS driver, an IJS-based Ghostscript driver, Foomatic data, an enhanced Print plugin for The GIMP, and other printer maintenance utilities. It can be used equally well for fast printing of text or critical printing of high quality graphics and photographs. Changes: A bug in the GhostScript driver would cause an infinite loop with some printers on some systems. It could also cause generation of completely incorrect output. In addition, there have been substantial improvements in print quality.
About: These are XFree86/X.org drivers for the GeForce and Quadro chipsets. The GLX component is also included. Currently, there are drivers for Linux (IA32, AMD64/EM64T, and IA64), FreeBSD, and Solaris (x64 and x86).
About: mpatrol is a link library that attempts to diagnose run-time errors that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory, including writing to free memory and memory leaks. Along with providing a comprehensive and configurable log of all dynamic memory operations (such as malloc(), operator new, etc.) that occurred during the lifetime of a program, the mpatrol library performs extensive checking to detect any misuse of dynamically allocated memory and has support for both memory allocation profiling and tracing. A wide variety of library settings can also be changed at run-time via an environment variable, thus removing the need to recompile or relink in order to change the library's behaviour. Changes: The NOFREE option takes an argument which specifies the maximum number of freed memory allocations to preserve before returning the oldest to the free memory pool. A regression fix has been added for displaying the summary after an illegal memory access. The signal-handler is now thread-safe. 64-bit support has been added for SPARC Solaris platforms. Other additions include support for the -d option on DYNIX/ptx and support for threads on DYNIX/ptx. The FAQ has been moved into the mpatrol manual.
About: The DNEWS News Server is a (USENET) news server. Installing your own local news server software gives you complete control to create your own discussion forums for communication. DNews News Server software provides many features, including ease-of-use, reliability, and scalability.
About: ModRelocate allows you to create virtual documents that, when selected, transfer you offsite and log the transaction to your access log. All GET arguments are passed along to the remote URL. Triggers can be set to run whenever a virtual document is selected. Changes: A minor correction was made to _URL arguments to handle parameters directly. There are no outstanding bugs.
About: EasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio, and WavPack files. It features a simple and attractive GTK+ interface. Changes: This release adds scan, undo, remove and save tag recursion. The ability to load an ircII file for character translation has been added. An updated French translation, and some bugfixes are included.
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