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In a followup to Claudio Matsuoka's "Is it Time to Change RPM?", Alfredo Kojima offers news of Conectiva's APT/RPM integration work, gives the reasons he thinks it's superior to other RPM frontends, and hopes it will provide a means for bringing the various Linux distributions closer together. [Comments are disabled]
About: This is a much updated version of Mike Shanzer's fingerd-1.3. It is almost completely rewritten, well-debugged (i.e., more secure), and quite configurable. It supports ACLs, a message-of-the-day file, the ability to run programs for given user-IDs, and a full set of command-line options that make it mostly compatible with modern BSD versions. It is portable, uses GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake for builds, and it comes with a ready-to-use BSD makefile too. Changes: First freshmeat announcement; fixes for some security problems with version 1.3, depending on how you've got it configured, and some fixes in the build infrastructure and miscellaneous documentation files.
About: Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. It offers a script-driven threaded multi-line state event telephony service on GNU/Linux, xBSD, and Microsoft Windows for building voice response systems, and uses telephony plugins for runtime driver configuration. It also features "TGI" for making Perl applications "telephony aware". It may be used to build telephony-based system administration, home automation, automated attendant, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems. Changes: Fixes for all known problems with the Pika state machine driver, including some where play could cause crashing. Pika callerid has been added and the use of callerid, ani, dnis, and did have been standardized in Bayonne scripting. The contributed French Female voice library is a standard part of the Bayonne distribution.
About: RT is an industrial-grade trouble ticketing system. It lets a group of people intelligently and efficiently manage requests submitted by a community of users. RT is used by systems administrators, customer support staffs, NOCs, developers, and even marketing departments to track issues, outages, bugs, requests, and all kinds of other things at thousands of sites around the world. Changes: Fixes for several bugs in 1.0.5M, removal of bogus code which caused autoreplies sent by RT to not be sent as Precedence: bulk, and the WebUI should no longer hide components of messages that contain embedded series of newlines.
About: GVD is a general purpose graphical debugger frontend. It features advanced data display and visualization capabilities, and allows the debugging of multi-process/multi-threaded applications in the same debugging session. GVD works with native and cross-debuggers and can handle several languages in the same debugging session and the same application. C and Ada are supported. GVD can run on a host different from the machine where the debugger is running and provides friendly support for cross-debuggers (VxWorks, Lynx, etc.). For instance, you can use Linux or Windows to debug an application running on a Power PC board with a debugger running on a Sun workstation. Changes: First release.
About: Uptime Client is a little program that keeps track of your uptime and sends it to a server where you can compare it to many other hosts and browse through various statistical information. Changes: Bugfixes, more syslog() calls, and slightly more readable source code.
About: Gnometoaster is a full CD creation suite for X11 and GNOME. It can be used to copy and create data, audio, and mixed mode CDs on the fly or with precaching in both TAO and DAO mode. Data tracks can easily be created with the built-in file manager. GNOME drag-and-drop is supported throughout the program. Gnometoaster can also write MP3 files on the fly, is fully multisession capable, and can be used to encode all sorts of filetypes directly from audio audio tracks on a CD. Changes: KDE 2.0 Drag and Drop support, filetype conversion, an updated German translation, and reloading disk after writing.
About: MTX is a set of programs for controlling tape drives and the robotic mechanism of autoloaders and tape libraries. Changes: This release adds a FAQ and a COMPATIBILITY list and fixes the spec file for building RPMs.
About: gnochive is a GNOME frontend for all common archivers under Linux. Changes: This release fixes a lot of bugs in the viewing and create functions. It is close to a stable version, but there are more bugs to fix.
About: KDMM is an application to use digital multimeters with serial interfaces (RS 232) with your computer. KDMM displays measurements from the DMM, draws a graph from the measurements, and reads the DMM's measurement memory. Changes: Initial release.
About: MuSE is a user-friendly tool for network audio streaming, making life easier for independent free speech radio stations. It can play, mix, encode, and stream sound from and to the Internet in both MP3 and Ogg/Vorbis format to be listened by the majority of audio players. It can simultaneously mix up to 6 encoded audio channels plus a sound card input signal, sending the result to an Icecast/Shoutcast server. It offers GTK2, ncurses, and Carbon (OSX) interfaces for real-time operation and a full set of command line options. Changes: This release includes use of a 3rd party xaudio library for MP3 stream decoding, a brand new fltk graphic user interface, the ability to encode MP3 to a file, engine bugfixes and optimizations, and icy/x_audiocast login support (for both icecast and shoutcast compatibility).
About: MinML-RPC is an implementation of XML-RPC server written in Java. It was designed to be used in embedded systems where storage space is at a premium. The code is quite compact, and it was also designed to minimize the heap space used by the program when executing a procedure call. The distribution includes the parser, the XML-RPC server implementation, and a small, high-performance HTTP 1.1 server. Changes: This release upgrades the included MinML XML parser to 0.7 and fixes a couple of bugs in the parser.
About: MinML is an XML parser written in Java which implements nearly all of the XML language (it ignores DTDs). It was developed for use in small embedded systems and has a code footprint of less than 10Kb. It is designed to minimise the amount of heap space consumed when parsing a document. MinML implements the SAX1 interface. Changes: This release adds minor bugfixes.
About: Think Engine is a PHP news site written from scratch and is used on www.thinkopen.co.uk. Changes: The main change in this release is the fixing of convert.php; the other changes are general bugfixes.
About: wxDesigner is a dialog editor and RAD tool for the wxWindows C++ library and its popular Python and Perl bindings. It includes a visual dialog editor, a bitmap editor, a syntax-highlighting source editor, and built-in mechanisms for automatic generation of file skeletons, GUI classes, event handlers, and getter functions. It provides an identical user interface and identical functionality for C++, Perl, and Python, and it can generate output in C++, Python, Perl, and XML. Changes: This release adds support for the new Perl bindings (wxPerl).
About: plbackitup is a simple Perl script for backing up directories/files to a tarball. It uses a flat file database for selecting what to backup, and features logging, excludes, email notification, FTP backup files, scp files, and removing old tarballs in the backup directory. It can be run as a cron job or manually. Changes: This release adds the option to FTP backup files and cleans up the log output.
About: CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that allows you to use IRC from a Web browser without having to have access to an IRC port. It does not use Java, but it does need a browser capable of rendering frames. It can be used on a Web page to allow users to chat, or it can be used to access chat from behind a firewall. Changes: More commands, IP tracking/access control features, referer checking, JavaScript cleanups, styles to select color schemes, bugfixes, and code cleanups.
About: Moodss is a modular monitoring application, which supports operating systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows, etc.), databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, ODBC, etc.), networking (SNMP, Apache, etc.), and any device or process for which a module can be developed (in Tcl, Python, Perl, Java, and C). An intuitive GUI with full drag'n'drop support allows the construction of dashboards with graphs, pie charts, etc., while the thresholds functionality includes emails and user defined scripts. Monitored data can be archived in a SQL database by both the GUI and the companion daemon, so that complete history over time can be made available from Web pages or common spreadsheet software. It can even be used for future behavior prediction or capacity planning, from the included predictor tool, based on powerful statistical methods and artificial neural networks. Changes: New thresholds functionality, along with many other improvements and bugfixes.
About: LineControl allows you to remotely control the Internet connection of a Linux masquerading server using multiple clients. It takes care with the number of clients using the connection and decides upon this number whether the connection should be up or down. The clients show the time the connection is up and throughput statistics. Different connection types are supported, such as analog modems, ISDN, or even cable modems and ADSL devices. Changes: Linux-PAM authentication support, and a server status report using a CGI program and a Webserver.
About: Sylpheed is a simple, lightweight but featureful, and easy-to-use email client. It has a well-polished and comfortable user interface. It has many features such as multiple accounts, thread display, MIME, powerful filtering, various search interface, spell checking, and junk mail control. It supports common email protocols such as POP3, IMAP4rev1, SMTP, and security features such as GnuPG and SSL/TLSv1. It is also fully internationalized and multilingualized. Changes: A more graphical ruler and some minor updates.
About: PHP Content Management System (phpCMS) makes it possible to need only one template for your whole Web site. It allows you to provide dynamic menus with unlimited levels, and use templates and sub-templates without a database. It is search engine-friendly and proxy-friendly, as the pages it generates can not be distinguished from static HTML pages. PHP code can be added to any template and content file with an optional module. It supports the caching of parsed pages and gzip compression. Changes: GZIP-compression of transfered files (which reduces the bandwidth and speeds up the site), and some bugfixes with path and URLs.
About: Eridu is a Web-based groupware suite written in PHP. It aims to be very flexible as to what type of database, email, calendar, and other servers it will work with. The interface is a clone (with many improvements) of the M$ Outlook Web connector for Exchange. Changes: Initial beta release.
About: XBELette is a client-server solution for managing your bookmarks. It uses the XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange Language) format. Changes: The server gets improvements for user management and HTML/CSS files. The client usability and functionality were improved. A bookmark-hosting service is also publicly and freely available for all XBELette users.
About: Hodie prints the current date and time to stdout in Roman numerals, with grammatically correct Latin. Complete with Id., Kal., Non., pridie, postridie, bis, and all the other nice annoyances. As an option, it even provides you with current date according to Roman calendar -- that is 'ab urbe condita'; after Rome was built. Changes: A minor string-mangling bug has been fixed.
About: eXtace is a visual sound display/analysis program. It requires Esound (esd) for its audio source. It includes various fast fourier transforms of the audio data in realtime. Its displays include a 3D wireframe flying landscape, a 3D textured flying landscape, a 16-256 channel graphic EQ, three types of scopes, a 3D "spike" flying landscape, and two forms of spectragrams. The 3D traces can be picked up, manipulated, and displayed at nearly any angle. eXtace also features a 3D direction control widget for controlling the angle and speed at which the trace runs away and a gradient/colormap editor for changing the colormap to suit your needs. No OpenGL is required. Changes: The Audio I/O routines have been completely rewritten for better performance.
About: Gnofin is a light-weight personal finance application for GNOME. It is designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. Features include multilevel undo and redo, cut/copy/paste, QIF and CBB import, and support for mixed local and foreign currency accounts. Changes: This release includes various internationalization changes, including the addition of a Brazilian Portuguese translation, and updates to the French translation.
About: AweMUD is a MUD server for use with fantasy-settings. Features include fully dynamic objects and characters, an advanced scripting system, and custom worlds. The engine will eventually have completely interactive rooms (items can be placed under benches, doors can be destroyed), complex magick, and interactive NPCs. Changes: This release includes numerous internal engine improvements.
About: GQmpeg is a frontend to various audio players, featuring themes (skins), playlists, and many configuration options. Supported backends are mpg123, ogg123, xmp, and video4linux radio tuners. Changes: This release introduces version 2 of the skin specification, including a built-in skin editor. Other new features include repeat 1, repeat a-b, adjustable delay between songs, updated French and Japanese translations, and the usual bugfixes.
About: xmms-crossfade is an output plugin for XMMS. Its main feature is automatic crossfading. It also removes the gaps between tracks, to play whole MP3 albums without any audible interruption. xmms-crossfade supports OSS via a builtin driver, and any other platform by using existing output plugins. As of version 0.3.9, the Audacious media player is also supported. Changes: This release fixes two minor bugs in the crossfading engine and the configuration dialog.
About: NewSyslog is an updated version of a package put together by Theodore Tso of MIT Project Athena (which is included in NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.). It manages the rotation and archiving of log files (primarily those written to by syslogd). This version has a mix of features from all of the other versions, and it has been made more portable than any of the others with the help of GNU Autoconf. Changes: This is the initial freshmeat announcement, and though it's marked as a "devel" release, it's been well tested, and this should be the final beta before the 1.1 release. Previous beta releases have been available for some time and have been in use at a number of locations. This beta adds some new features (some from FreeBSD), and fixes various obscure bugs. It's only been tested on BSD recently, so it may suffer some portability problems (which is why it's still a beta release), so please let the author know of any such problems you encounter.
About: Java Anon Proxy attempts to provide a secure and scalable technical infrastructure for anonymous communication.
About: XMLBoard Solo is an alternative to the XMLBoard script, and written by the same author. It has all the features of XMLBoard, but its XML parser is internal, meaning the requirements for running it are much easier to satisfy. It does not require the installation of the perl module XML::Parser, and it does not require the latest Apache version. XMLBoard Solo is for anyone who is intrigued with the features of XMLBoard, but can't install a separate perl module. Changes: This release adds support for extended ASCII characters such as umlauts.
About: XMLBoard is an XML-driven multi-forum message board written in Perl. It stores its posts in XML format, and uses the Perl module XML::Parser to read them and show HTML to the users. It can be easily set up for several forums and several designs, with one administrator per forum. XMLBoard has other nifty features such as cookies to remember the users' names. Changes: This release adds support for extended ASCII characters such as umlauts.
About: Report Magic is an add-on for Analog, a Web site logfile analysis program. Generated reports include a description with tabulated, graphed, and summarized results. All colors, fonts, and background images are completely customizable to help make resulting reports fit the theme of your Web site. Report Magic has translations for several languages. It runs on any platform that will run Perl and pre-compiled versions are available for Win32 and Mac. Changes: This release fixes a number of minor bugs, adds a new feature for hierarchical graphs, and includes new Swedish and Hungarian language files.
About: KICKweb is a Web based Perl tool that creates custom Red Hat Kickstart configuration files. It was created to facilitate the "from scratch" installations of Red Hat Linux. Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
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