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About: GCompris is a complete educational suite for children from 2 to 10 years old. It includes more than 60 activities. It offers activities dedicated to little kids like learning the mouse and keybord. It teaches letters, numbers, words, basic algebra training, reading time on an analog clock, vector drawing, and much more. Changes: 4 new boards (animal images to click, letters, small numbers with dice, and full words), and a properties preview that lets the user select the board to play.
About: PostgreSQL Session Handler for PHP is a custom session save handler for PHP4 that uses PostgreSQL as the session cache. This allows multiple Web servers to share a common session storage container, and is useful for allowing Web users to move between machines while maintaining their session state. Changes: Initial public release.
About: LinuxMagic VPN Firewall is a firewall kit that uses built-in 128 Bit Encryption, IPSEC-compatible VPN standards, and a 'no-write' design. It is a complete, standalone mini-distribution designed specifically to act as a VPN to connect two remote locations seemlessly. Changes: The system now uses automatic scripts to set up Virtual Tunnels between two or more LinuxMagic VPNs using floppy disks. It supports most network cards and the 2.2.14 kernel. It can fit on a 1.44 floppy, but plans are in place for using an IKE instead of Manual keys, so the distribution is still in 1743K format. It uses a DOS filesystem for easy configuration. It now uses the FreeSWAN IPSEC system.
About: Libstocks is a C library which can be used to fetch stocks quotes. It is currently able to get quotes from a lot of stock markets like the US, Canada, Australia, European stock markets, and others. It also supports currency exchange rates and historical quotes. Changes: New LGPL licensing, support for currency exchange rates, a fix for a bug in the parsing process when stocks contain commas, and compile support for Windows.
About: Apache-SSL is the original secure webserver based on Apache and SSLeay/OpenSSL. It provides 128 bit encryption, client authentication and a modular API. It is actively maintained, and very widely used. Changes: Updates for Apache 1.3.12 and bugfixes for the SSL interface.
About: WebEvent is a commercial Web calendar and scheduling program written in Perl. It features multiple calendar views and formats, repeating events, email reminders, public event submissions, meta-calendars, event change notifications, searchable calendars, and user authentication. Changes: Fixes for several bugs with events stored in multiple calendars, a new 'busy all day' feature, fixes for some licensing issues, and a fix for a problem with deleting calendars with some versions of Perl.
About: Cons is a Perl-based software construction tool (i.e., substitute for make). It offers a number of features not found in make or other build tools, including integrated dependency analysis (no more "make depend" to generate static lists of .h files), complete dependency analysis across multiple directories, multiple side-by-side variant builds, compilation from code repositories, MD5 signatures instead of time stamps for determining whether a file is up-to-date, and extensibility via Perl. Changes: This is the first separate development release. It includes better error messages, Win32 fixes for binary file contents and case-insensitive drive letters, a fix for command-line directory targets with the -t option, and a fix for whitespace parsing in command-line rewriting via %[-%].
About: Freeciv is a multiuser reimplementation for Unix/X of the famous Microprose game of Civilization. By default, the game is an improved Civ II, but this can be customized; modpacks for near-100% compatibility with Civ I and Civ II are included. Multiuser gameplay is real-time: in each turn, all human players move concurrently. The game is designed to remain fairly playable even on poor network connections. Freeciv can also be played on standalone machines, and its AI players are a good challenge for beginners. The source code comes with the server, two X clients, and non-X clients for MS Windows and Amiga. Freeciv is released under the GNU General Public License. It is maintained by an international team of coders and enthusiasts, and is easily one of the most fun and addictive network games out there. Changes: New additions include readline support in the server, an option to disperse initial units, compressed save files, nuclear fallout, an OpenVMS port, and many bug fixes.
About: Nessus is a remote security scanner for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Windows, and Mac OS X. It is plugin-based and performs over 20,000 security checks. It allows for reports to be generated in HTML, and suggests a solution for each finding. Changes: Various issues that appeared in 1.0.2 were fixed.
About: cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives, audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs, full multi-session support, CDRWs (rewritable), DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD writers. Changes: A buffer overflow vulnerability fixed. New features include better support for the newer Linux sg SCSI driver, support for DAO audio with pregapsize 0 on Sony & Goldstar drives, support for 99 minute CD's, support for C2 error scan. and recognition of high speed CD-RW media by the ATIP decoder. mkisofs now has Eltorito multi boot support, complete integration with mkhybrid, and support for copying audio CD's with illegal TOC entries. Support was also added for Solaris' USCSI transport interface (as fallback).
About: ROX-Filer is a fast and powerful graphical file manager. It has full drag-and-drop support and background file operations, and is highly configurable. It can also act as a pinboard, allowing you to pin frequently used files to the desktop background. Changes: The filer can now act as a 'pinboard', allowing you to drop files from filer windows onto the desktop background. Keys bound to menu entries are automatically saved when the filer quits. When using the path entry minibuffer to navigate, starting the leafname with '.' automatically turns on the display of hidden files. There are more displays styles to choose from. A bug which prevented ImLib support from working on some X servers has been fixed.
About: CGI::Application is intended to make it easier to create sophisticated, reusable web-based applications. This module implements a methodology which, if followed, will make your web software easier to design, easier to document, easier to write, and easier to evolve. CGI::Application builds on standard, non- proprietary technologies and techniques, such as the Common Gateway Interface and Lincoln D. Stein's excellent CGI.pm module. CGI::Application judiciously avoids employing technologies and techniques which would bind a developer to any one set of tools, operating system or web server. CGI::Application works exceedingly well under Apache/mod_perl. It is also fully compatible with any other web server (UNIX or NT) which implements the Common Gateway Interface. Changes: load_tmpl() was modified to pass extra params to HTML::Template's new_file() constructor. The docs were fixed up a bit. Minor code clean-up was made.
About: The purpose of zdisk is to have a kernel of your choice and a rescue system on one floppy or cdrom disk. Zdisk copies a kernel of your choice to a floppy and puts a rescue system on the same floppy, creating a boot/rescue floppy. The kernel can't be more than 1070Kb in size. Ramf-117.exe at the same site has a similar rescue system, except it comes with a IDE kernel. Changes: Some of the included software was updated, and bug fixes were made.
About: Alzabo is a two-fold program. Its first function is as a data modelling tool. Through either a schema creation interface or a custom Perl program, it allows a programmer to create a set of schema, table, column, etc. objects that represent a data model. Alzabo is also capable of reverse engineering an existing data model. Its second function is as a RDBMS-to-object mapping system. Once you have created a schema, you can use Alzabo classes to access its data. These classes offer a high-level interface to common operations such as SQL SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE commands. Changes: More bug fixes were made, efficiency was increased, and a useful new method was added to Alzabo::Runtime::Row.
About: Simple network top (sntop) is a curses-based console utility in the spirit of top that polls network hosts at a regular interval to determine their connectivity and displays the results in a pretty format. Advanced features are supported, such as automatic HTML generation of results, secure terminal mode, execution of an external file on connectivity changes, a daemon mode, and user/system configure files. Changes: This new release fixes an evil bug in the HTML generator and has an improved Makefile. Additionally, OpenBSD is now fully supported.
About: PaulA intends to be a (lib)CIM-based administration system for Linux written in Perl. It provides a (very basic) CIM Object Manager (CIMOM), a sample CIM Client for testing purposes, and a repository to store "static" CIM entities. The CIMOM has the ability to communicate with Providers, which supply "dynamic" CIM entities. PaulA doesn't depend on a special distribution, because the Providers have the "knowledge" about the underlying Linux, and they can be exchanged. Changes: First release.
About: libCIM is a collection of Perl modules which serves as a basis for an implementation of the CIM (Common Information Model). It provides classes which "mirror" corresponding CIM entities (such as CIM::Class, CIM::Instance) and an API for use in CIM clients. Changes: First release.
About: Gspy retrieves images from a video4linux device and processes these into a daily MPEG movie on the disk drive. Each image is recorded with a time stamp to ensure accurate real-world correlation. Special motion detection algorithms are used to reduce the size of the daily movies by eliminating pictures with similar content as well as the normal compression obtained by the mpeg process. The result is a time lapse video per day with nonlinear time compression using only the images of interest. Changes: An update was made to include MPEG generation via a menu command.
About: Cannon Smash is a 3D table-tennis game. This game represents various strategies of tabletennis on the computer. Changes: Footwork training mode and wall texture were added.
About: Sablotron is an XML toolkit which implements XSLT, DOM, and XPath. Sablotron is written in C++, and it can be used from C, Perl, Python, PHP, ObjectPascal, and via a command line interface. It supports the XSLT 1.0, XPath 1.0, and DOM Level 2 W3C specifications. It is designed to be as compact and portable as possible, and is maintained as an Open Source project by Ginger Alliance. Changes: Sablotron is now thread-safe. Output recoding can be done if iconv is present. Match predicates work. There are several bug fixes included and some new functions have been added.
About: patentmailer is an easy-to-use CGI and command-line script that fetches the image files for a patent so that you can easily receive a PDF file of the patent by email. This is useful for investigating the patents that a company holds or is trying to claim. Changes: A complete conversion to Perl, with changes to make it much faster and better at reporting source of error to user.
About: The manpages package contains a large collection of man pages for Linux covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc.
About: CALAMAR is an accounting program entirely written in Java. It supports multiple clients, a flexible chart of accounts, multiple currencies and VAT. Calamar has been localized for French, German, Polish, and English. Changes:
About: asmon is a wharfable/dockable application for Linux and Solaris that displays meters detailing CPU, memory, swap, and X mem usage. Also included the exact numbers for load average, mem, swap, and X. Developed to use very little CPU time itself. Changes: A FreeBSD port was made.
About: lsh is a GNU GPL-licensed implementation of the SSH (version 2) protocol. It includes a server, a client, and some utility programs. Changes: Various bug fixes were made. Spelling and grammar fixes were made in the manual. User authentication was hacked to stop asking for a password if the empty password is entered twice.
About: asmem is a X11 application with AfterStep look and feel that acts as a memory utilization monitor. It shows the current amount of memory and swap space, the free amounts of those, and the bars representing graphically the different types of memory. Changes: NetBSD and FreeBSD ports were made.
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: This release fixes a semaphore initialization bug (a thread could be waiting for a semaphore that wasn't initialized), several serious potential buffer overflow bugs, and other minor bugs.
About: GtkAda is an Ada graphical toolkit based on GTK+ 2.2. It allows you to develop graphical applications in Ada using GTK+ and Gnome. Changes: This release adds significant documentation updates, a new tool, Gdialog, which provides an easy way to display dialog boxes from shell scripts, new packages (Gtkada.Intl, Gtkada.Dialogs, Gtkada.Pixmaps, Gtkada.Canvas, Gtkada.File_Selection, Gtkada.Handlers), several improvements in Gate, and support for drag-and-drop and selection handling.
About: a2ps is an Any to PostScript filter. Of course it processes plain text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular languages (66). Moreover it has the ability to delegate the processing of some files to other filters (such as groff, texi2dvi, dvips, gzip etc.), which allows a uniform treatment (n-up, page selection etc.) of heterogeneous files. Changes: Bugfixes, new options, iso 8859-13 encoding, new style sheets, and numerous other improvements have been incorporated.
About: The SMS Server Tools send and receive short messages through GSM modems or mobile phones. Messages are stored as text files in spool directories. External programs or scripts of any language can be used to filter, inspect, and answer messages automatically. Events and alarms can be passed to scripts for integration in monitoring tools. The program generates performance statistics as well. This daemon supports the following message formats: 7bit GSM, 8bit ISO, 16bit Unicode, 8bit binary data (ringtones, logos, wap-push), user data header, flash, delivery report. Changes: Termination of PDU string has been changed from \r to Ctrl-Z. This should solve problems when sending SMS on some GSM modems.
About: The "k" script is a wrapper for kfmclient to open a file, directory or URL in kfm from the the command shell. "k" supports relative paths, automatic guessing of a missing URL protocol (file:, ftp:, http:), and bookmark shortcuts. Changes: If no other match is found, "k" now searches your kfm bookmarks for a kdelnk containing the command line argument.
About: Dial2net is an application that configures a PPP (dialup) connection according to the ISP specified by the user. Both PAP and CHAP protocols are supported. Changes: Initial release.
About: phpMyChat is an easy-to-install, easy-to-use multi-room chat based on PHP and a database, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and ODBC. It supports some IRC-like commands, and has been translated to 37 different languages. Changes: A major revision, with numerous enhancements.
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: This release fixes a build error found on a number of machines. It is functionally equivalent to the previous version.
About: jegl is a set of Eiffel classes wrapping the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). Additionally, it has high-level features like sprites, bitmapped fonts, simple pixel access, and more. It is easy to use and performs quite well. Changes: The event system was improved. Internal optimal videomode selection was added. The examples were updated. Various cleanups were made.
About: EPIC4 is a new direction in ircII development. It was originally built upon the ircII-2.6 client and has maintained faithfulness to remain current up to the 2.8.2 release. EPIC is somewhat larger than the stock client (24%), but that is mostly because of the multitude of new features, the dual ANSI/K&R compliant function headers, and the large amount of re-written code in an attempt to make ircii faster, more efficient, and more powerful. Changes: This is a candidate release for a production version of EPIC. Thorough testing is requested to detect any lingering bugs.
About: GtkSpell provides word-processor-style highlighting and replacement of misspelled words in a GtkTextView widget. Changes: Bug fixes were made, including one for a locking bug. The documentation was updated. |
