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Source: molinux

MoLinux is an Ubuntu-based distribution developed by the government of Castilla la Mancha in Spain. Version 2.0, based on the recently released Ubuntu Linux 5.10 and code named "Sancho", is now in development; it includes the following major applications: GNOME 2.12, kernel 2.6.12, OpenOffice.org 2.0, Evolution 2.4.1, Mozilla .


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Source: fedora

The development of Fedora Core 5 has finally begun: "The Fedora Project announces the first release of the Fedora Core 5 development cycle, available for the i386, x86_64, and PPC/PPC64 architectures. Beware that Test releases are recommended only for Linux experts/enthusiasts or for technology evaluation, as many parts .



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Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines

An anonymous reader writes "A new free Open Source Enterprise magazine was launched today. The publication was built entirely with Open Source tools, including the GIMP, Scribus and Open Office. It is distributed in PDF format, and focuses on Open Source Solutions related to Enterprise Data Networking. The first issue looks at some interesting stuff include MultiLayer Switching in Linux. A torrent is also available."


Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines

An anonymous reader writes "In a rebuttal to the recent opinion column "Does Slackware still matter?" at Linux Watch, cRaig Forrester provides insight into Why Slackware DOES still matter--and not just to "hard-core group of hobbyists" or "highly professional" Linux server administrators--but desktop users and newcomers too."


Source: InternetNews

Four groups coalesce to push Linux farther into the mainstream,
fortifying themselves against beasts such as Microsoft.


Source: OSNews

"I have been a Linux user way back from the first time I was introduced to an alternate OS than windows. Even though I was aware of other Unixes like FreeBSD and Solaris, I hadn't come around to installing them on my machine. Two days back, things changed when I downloaded the latest FreeBSD version 6.0 from their official website."



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Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

the really exciting action, where billions of consumers will first experience Linux, is in wireless handheld devices. Yes, that means mobile phones. Linux is going small, big time.


Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

Six weeks after Oracle Corp. bought Finnish software developer Innobase Oy, MySQL AB is working to provide its customers with an alternative to the open-source InnoDB database engine often used at the heart of its product, a MySQL executive said Tuesday.


Source: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com

Intel appears to be pushing the Linux operating system for all it's worth - and not just in the server market.



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Source: Linux Today

Embedded Linux play LynuxWorks is tackling migration with a new partnership announced this week with embedded software solutions provider MapuSoft


Source: Linux Today

Recent moves to create an organisation to defend the Linux community from patent infringement cases has been given a cautious welcome by industry analysts


Source: Linux Today

Misconceptions about the purpose and usage of Pantone are to be expected, since very few graphic designers are regular Linux users (much less coders)


Source: Linux Today

It's a dangerous Internet out there, kids. If you are going to work on remotely connected machines, do it safely


Source: Linux Today

How do you run video to four different video rooms at an anime convention without having a staff member change tapes or DVDs at regular intervals ?



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Source: Inside Mac Radio

ROKR II 2 - Burying Microsoft the Linux way - Tiger's Spotlight gets a nod - Front Row gets an update - Girls want iPod for holidays - New dating site for video iPod - Two joke iPods on SNL



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Source: GameDev net

Sun Microsystems recently announced its latest development tool, Sun Studio 11 for Linux and Solaris, and eliminated pricing barriers by offering the product free of charge to all developers.



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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Estoque Inteligente is a Web based application to manage supply, sales, and customers. It can be useful to managers of small stores.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Major changes were made in the authentication
engine. Register globals are turned off in this
version.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LinuxStok is software for managing the life of a commercial store. It is
developed especially for the Brazilian market.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release added access control by user and password, payment methods, postal code searches, the ability to import databases from compufor software, an about dialog, new reports, a progress bar, MySQL support, and several bugfixes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Randomplay allows you to play your music
collection in random order with a memory of
songs played preserved across sessions, so you
don't "lose your place" if you have to shut
down. It also has many features to make
command-line music playing more convenient,
including recursive regexp searching for tracks
and the ability to specify a certain number of
tracks, bytes, or minutes to play. It can also
generate a list of music files to be loaded onto
a portable music player device.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
New keystrokes for pausing and displaying all available keystrokes while playing were added. UTF-8 output for MP3 tags can now be disabled. A bug that prevented randomplay from working with sox was fixed. The documentation was improved.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

NeoOffice is a project that is developing a native Mac OS X port of OpenOffice.org with an Aqua look-and-feel. NeoOffice is under active development and is stable enough for daily use (NeoOffice/C is no longer under development). It provides the foundation upon which the user interface can be redesigned to adhere to the conventions of the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This features decreased memory and CPU usage, improved performance in some areas, especially drawing, and the ability to print embedded EPS files. It also has improved support for international keyboard layouts, font handling improvements, and enhanced copy and paste support. It is based on the OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 codebase and includes support for reading OpenDocument (aka OpenOffice.org 2.0) file formats. This version requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

OTRS (Open Ticket Request System) is an open source Ticket Request System and email management system with many features to manage customer telephone calls and email. The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries. It is useful for people who receive many emails and want to answer them with a team of agents. It has been tested on Linux, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS 10.x, and Windows.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
RFC quoting for email has been fixed. The Oracle backend is improved. HTML access keys for the customer panel has been added. GPG 1.4.1 is now handled correctly, problems with German "umlaut" and "," in the realname of OE and other small bugs have been fixed. Possible security SQL injections and cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities are fixed now.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Smart DJ lets you find tracks based on how similar
they sound to each other. It can also
automatically add new tracks to your playlist
based on how similar they are to what you've been
listening to.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Fixes an SQL quoting bug that prevented operation for SQLite and PostgreSQL database users.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Spey is an SMTP proxy that sits between your
existing mail server and the outside world,
blocking spam using a greylisting technique. It is
simple, lightweight, easy to install and
configure, requires minimal changes to your
existing mail server, is completely independent of
which mail server you're using, and extremely
effective. The author's spam intake has dropped
from over a hundred messages a day to about 5. It
uses the Sqlite database library as a backend.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release supports dropping root privileges after startup for
added security, fixes a number of major security holes which could
theoretically lead to compromises, and fixes a few other bugs that could
leak to occasional crashes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Redet is a tool for developing and executing regular expressions using any of more than 30 search programs, editors, and programming languages, intended both for developing regular expressions for use elsewhere and as a search tool in its own right. For each program in each locale, a palette showing the available constructs is provided. The properties of each program are determined by runtime tests, which guarantees that they will be correct for the program version and locale. Additional features include persistent history, extensive help, a variety of character entry tools, and the ability to change locale while running. Redet is highly configurable and fully supports Unicode.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release provides a workaround for a critical bug in Tcl 8.4 under
MS Windows. (The bug is fixed in Tcl 8.5.) It fixes minor bugs that
arose under MacOS X using Tk-Aqua. There are some cosmetic improvements
to "this program" popups and program-specific control panels.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Socks Server 5 is a socks server for the Linux and Solaris platforms. It supports the SOCKS protocol versions 4 and 5.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes mod statistics and mod balance.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Drqueue is a distributed rendering queue. It helps manage jobs on a render farm. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, IRIX, and Windows, supports Maya, Blender, Lightwave, Mental Ray, Bmrt (Renderman), 3Delight, and Pixie out of the box, and can support any other renderer or computing task that can be handled via scripting.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A shared memory leaks problem has been fixed. There are fixes in the Python bindings.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Lost Labyrinth is a rogue-like role-playing game.
It uses a Zelda-like graphics engine, and has high
replayability.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Automapping; the "M" Key can be used to see a map of where you have been already. There are buttons to change the level shown by the map. The skills have two lines descriptions now (e.g. the best 3 spells of each spellcircle). Trap animations are added. The new homepage has trait statistics. A throne room has been added. The spells Vacuum (Air Magic) and Poison Protection (Druid Magic) have been added. A new special Level: Swamp of Loneliness. Small traders that have only 2 objects and appear with 30% in each level. Wounded Hero: when you can heal him, he will reward you.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

OpenXMLD is a data storage code base that supports
setting a particular query language and response
format for each of its listening ports using its
configuration file. It supports per-file,
per-directory, and per-MIME selection of the
processing engine.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release continues the evolution of the system into a generic server platform so it can support the advanced data storage solution that's intended to be plugged into it in the future. Among the major modifications are generalization of the engine API such that support for any storage format is provided, and a full rewrite of the configuration system.


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jHomenet is a home automation application.
jHomenet uses both X-10 and Dallas Semiconductor
1-Wire network sensors and devices to collect
sensor data and control devices. jHomenet can be
programmed to respond to events, including
particular sensor data values or time-of-day
events.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes some feature enhancements and bugfixes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

YALE (Yet Another Learning Environment) is a flexible
Java environment for machine learning and data
mining. Many nestable learning and preprocessing
operators (including Weka) are provided. It features
an XML-based graphical user interface, a plugin
mechanism, and 2D and 3D plotting, and provides an
easy to use extension mechanism that makes it
possible to integrate new operators and adapt the
system to your personal requirements. A command
line version is also included.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version includes a huge number of minor improvements. Many of them further decrease the amount of memory and/or the total runtime needed for experiments. All classification learners write the confidence of the prediction for both the binary and the multi-class case. Another major improvement is a set of operators performing statistical significance tests. Weka 3.4.6 was also integrated.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Based on PhpNuke and osCommerce, Php-MultiShop is an application Web server to realize an e-commerce market place. It can be used as a portal for any type of content (such as news, forums, events, etc.) and one or many independent shops. Every store will have its own Internet domain, and all the features and the personalization of a typical e-commerce site. Each can be administered in full autonomy by its own administrator.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Changes many files/functions of previous versions. Creates a function to manage the Currencies. Adds functions to increase performance. Upgraded to PHPNuke 7.8 and Security Patch 3.1. Adds a long description of the functions of the Multi-Shop admin module: a guide online to explain how to manage this module. Improves the Web installers. Contains some other minor cleanups, fixes, and improvements.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

aeon is a player that is meant to look nice and
have an interface that is as easy to use as
possible. In contrast to players like XMMS/bmp,
noatun, etc., you can only play files from the
library (akin to RhythmBox/iTunes).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The 0.2.2 release had 2 build flaws. It included bmpx/uri.h instead of uri.h inside src/uri.c. The former was present on the distcheck test system, so distcheck went through without failure, but the build might fail on other systems. Secondly, DBus was disabled by default at make distcheck time, and hence distcheck didn't bother about the file src/aeon-core.xml (DBus Interface definition XML), which was not part of EXTRA_DIST in src/Makefile.am. Therefore, it ended up not being in the resulting dist, which made the dist un-buildable with DBus. This release fixes both errors.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LX is a community-driven Web site program in which
users can share links, post on forums, send
private messages to one another, and more. LX is
written with performance, security, standards, and
usability in mind.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Several theme issues regarding KHTML and Opera have been fixed, and others have been cleaned up. The migration to full database neutrality has moved forward more. A new LXML_Parser class has been made and included in LX for parsing XML data via the xml_parser() functions. Other random bugs have been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Little Wizard is a development environment for
children. Little Wizard can be programmed without
using keyboard, just by using drag and drop. It
works under Linux and Windows 2000/XP (using GTK).
Even children in primary school can understand how
it works.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Major new features include multidimensional tables, a resizable world, new loops, new commands, new math icons, and the the ability to change world via an executed program. Support for variables was completely rewritten. Many bugs were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

gzip_x86 is a distribution of gzip tuned for
faster decompressing when running on Linux/x86.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Fixes minor bugs affecting files that are "stored" uncompressed because they are incompressible (frequently too short.)


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

eDonkey Fingerprint is a program to identify other clients over the eDonkey network. It is able to get the following features from an eDonkey p2p client: protocol, user hash, user ID, eDonkey client, server IP, server port, shared files (including hash, name, and size if possible), and the amount of shared data.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Geographical peer and server localization feature has been added. Support for random nick generation has been added. Improved file size handling. Improved file size view. An improved response buffer to better manage a big shared file list.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Damn Small Linux is a business-card size (50MB) Live CD Linux distribution. Despite its minuscule size it strives to have a functional and easy to use desktop.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The kernel now uses version 2.4.31. Up to 64
cloops are now supported. Prism2 support was
added. ndiswrapper support was updated. LT
winmodems are now autodetected. Naim was patched
for TOC2. bsflite was dropped. A PCMCIA card
control GUI and a floppy tool GUI were added.
Firefox was updated and now includes bookmarks and
MIME handlers for mailto and irc. pcmcia-cs was
updated to 3.2.5. USB hotplug was fixed. iwconfig,
prism2, and ndiswrapper were updated to show the
IP address upon connection. DSLpanel was updated
with the addition of System Stats, Date, Time, and
others. The right-click icons for the super user
were updated on Emelfm, Xterm, and Beaver.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

TaskJuggler is a project management tool for Linux
and Unix system-based operating systems. Projects
can be defined in a simple text format, listing
tasks and their dependencies. Reports are returned
in HTML or XML format. TaskJuggler does not only
honor the task interdependencies but also takes
resource constrains into account. Using its
powerful filtering and reporting algorithms, the
user can create task lists, resource usage tables,
status reports, project calendars, and project
accounting statements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The two graphical front-ends that have been
present in earlier TaskJuggler releases have been
merged into one new front-end, called
TaskJugglerUI. This was done to avoid name clashes
on Windows/Cygwin. The TaskJuggler user interface
now supports printing of high-quality task and
resource reports. Major usability improvements
were made for the GUI. The GUI now supports
multiple project templates. By pressing CTRL+D,
the user can insert or change a date using the
comfortable date picker widget. The GUI editor now
supports search and replace over all files.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Interchange is a mature Web application development environment with a focus on ecommerce and dynamic content management. It offers session and user management, database connectivity (both via SQL and a database abstraction layer), templating, a shopping cart, payment processing, inventory, encryption (via GnuPG, PGP, etc.), tax and shipping calculation, discounts, Web-based administration, localization, event routing, SOAP-based RPC, a custom tag language akin to CFML, and the full power of Perl. It grew out of two earlier projects, MiniVend and Tallyman.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is the first beta release on the way to a new
5.4 stable branch. Numerous new features and
bugfixes were added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LnBlog is a simple Weblog with some basic site
management features that is designed for
flexibility. It has few requirements and works
well in shared Web hosting situations. All data is
stored in text files and the file access module
can be easily configured to work when PHP's safe
mode is enabled. Some of LnBlog's features include
multiple authors, multiple Weblogs, reader
comments, trackbacks, auto-generated RSS feeds,
permanent articles, and file uploads. It also has
a flexible theme and template system, a powerful
event-driven plugin system, and support for
internationalization.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds internationalization support, large amounts of
developer documentation, and lots of bugfixes. It includes a number of
usability improvements, such as a calendar for archive navigation, a
simplified configuration mechanism, and a simplified setup procedure.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

cowdancer allows copy-on-write file access. You can copy a full tree
using hard links, and cowdancer will create a new copy when you need to
write to a file. It's completely implemented in userland, and should run
on most Linux filesystems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds a workaround for the coreutils 5.3.0 change to the
"stat" command. The COWDANCER_DEBUG environment variable can now be used
to obtain debugging messages.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

aLinux is an x386-optimized Linux distribution.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The installer was updated. The desktop GUI was
cosmetically enriched with a cleaner design,
including a fully Crystalized desktop, Crystal
window decorations, KBFX Start/Launch (a K Menu
button replacement that supports animation with XP
style menus, Linspire Crystal Clear (a K Widget
set replacement for both QT/GTK2 unity),
MTaskbar/TaskbarV2 (a K Taskbar replacement), and
translucency support with image tooltips.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading). Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no maintenance and to be easy to set up.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Fetchnews skip processing the current server when posting articles fails. The active file is not marked for complete re-fetch in "post-only" mode or for "noread" servers. A workaround was added for a GNU coreutils 5.92 bug in mkdir. FAQ formatting was changed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd. Among other
features, it offers support for reliable syslog
over TCP and RFC 3195, writing to MySQL databases, fully configurable output formats (including great timestamps), and the ability to filter on any part of the syslog message. It is designed as a drop-in replacement for stock syslogd and thus able to work with the same config file syntax. Of course, some enhanced features require changing the config file, but in general, this should be fairly easy.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version features a much-enhanced message
parser which is capable of better understanding
different syslog message formats. An example is
BSD syslog, which lacks the hostname information
inside the message. Also, threading support for
BSD has been completed and a number of bugs have
been fixed. It is recommended that users of the
development branch upgrade to this release.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

MyHeadlines is module that adds syndicated headline functionality to any PHP and MySQL-based website. Your users may subscribe to multiple RSS feeds from a fully categorized database of over 1,000 sources. It was previously a PHPNuke/PostNuke Addon, but can now be integrated with any Web site.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes database performance tuning
and a new templatable Stock Ticker. A MySQL 4.1.x
issue was corrected and a WYSIWYG Blog Preview was
added.


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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

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.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes a couple of crashes and adds support for SHA-256.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

DConnect Daemon is a daemon that acts as a Direct
Connect hub. It is written in pure C and utilizes
threads. It aims to be very fast, with a very good
protocol implementation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds a few new options, code cleanups, and some minor bugfixes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

mGSTEP is an implementation of the core elements in NeXT's (now Apple) OPENSTEP/Cocoa Objective C class libraries. The principal design goal is the development of a modular application development framework suitable for use in embedded devices and server appliances running Linux, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD. The GUI (AppKit) portion is X11-based.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
This release consists mostly of minor bugfixes to various classes. Also
included is a minor enhancement of the support for scaled views and
scaled vector graphics rendering. This resolves various glitches in the
scrollview example application.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Visopsys is an alternative operating system for PC compatible computers. Under development since late 1997, this system is small, fast, and open source. It features a simple but attractive interface, real preemptive multitasking, and virtual memory. Though it attempts to be compatible in a number of ways, Visopsys is not a clone of any other operating system. You can demo the distribution from a "live" CD or floppy disk.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This preview release introduces a host of new functionality, including
a cleaned-up desktop with icons for browsing the computer, filesystems,
and administrative tasks, FAT defragmenting, ELF dynamic linking, a
built-in chain-boot loader and simple MBR formatting, file browsing
widgets and dialogs, Windows .ico icon file support, a generic file
viewing program, Italian keyboard support, new icons, and a new splash
screen. Some of the documentation has yet to be updated.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Efax-gtk provides a GUI frontend for the efax fax
program. It interfaces with efax directly,
replacing the scripts supplied with efax, and can
be used for receiving and sending faxes, and for
viewing, printing, and managing faxes which have
been received and sent. It also has a socket
interface that provides a "virtual printer" for
sending faxes from word processors and similar
programs, and can automatically e-mail a received
fax to a designated user and automatically print a
received fax.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
efax and efax-gtk now work correctly when the names of files to be faxed
are in locale codesets other than ASCII or UTF-8. Keyboard navigation
of the file selection dialog works correctly when implemented with a
GtkFileDhooserDialog object. The Russian translation has been updated.
Documentation improvements and other minor fixes have been made.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LEAF (Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall) is an easy-to-use embedded Linux
system that is meant for creating network appliances for use in small office,
home office, and home automation environments. Although it can be used in other
ways, it is primarily used as a gateway/router/firewall for Internet leaf
sites.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release updates iptables and shorewall and adds previously-missing
files to the ISO image.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Linux Cluster Manager is a Beowulf cluster setup
and management tool. LCM can run bulk commands,
give real time performance and status monitoring,
search running processes, and provide system
imaging at a file or block level over the network.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This rewrite of most of the manual is hopefully a bit more coherent.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GeSHi is a generic syntax highlighter for PHP that takes any source code and highlights it in XHTML and CSS. It features case-sensitive or insensitive highlighting, auto-caps/non-caps of any keyword, an unlimited scope for styling, the use of CSS in which almost any aspect of the source can be highlighted, the use of CSS classes to massively reduce the amount of output code, function-to-URL capabilities, line numbering, and much more. Over 50 languages are supported, including Java, C, PHP, HTML, CSS, SQL, Pascal, C++, XML, ASP, and ASM.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is a bugfix release, mainly concerning XHTML compliance.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GNOME Colorscheme lets you select a starting color
and generate six different kinds of color schemes.
The colors can then be copied to the clipboard for
easy use in HTML and CSS. It is currently a very
simple but useful utility.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A color palette was added to the main window for
easier color selection. A list of favorite colors
is maintained across sessions (this adds a
dependency on gnome-vfsmm = 2.6). Internal
reworking was done for increased efficiency (this
adds a dependency on boost shared_ptr). Numerous
bugfixes were made. A Russian translation, a
Spanish translation, and a Czech translation were
added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

dvd-slideshow makes a DVD-compatible slideshow video with menus from a batch of pictures. It consists of a set of scripts: dvd-slideshow reads a text file
list of all the pictures you want in one slideshow
and creates a DVD-compatible MPEG movie with your
audio tracks and specified timing. It supports effects such as fades, crops, and the Ken Burns effect. dvd-menu makes a top-level DVD menu
with the output files from dvd-slideshow. dir2slideshow makes a dvd-slideshow input file from a directory of pictures. gallery2slideshow makes the input file from your Gallery album. jigl2slideshow makes the input file from your jigl album. The output is fed through dvdauthor to create DVDs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes support for mjpegtools
versions 1.6.3 or later. The pixel aspect ratio
was corrected. Many more small changes were made.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

BMP is an audio player that tries to maintain a stable audio playback core with a powerful, yet easy-to-use remote API using DBus, while also providing a skinned, yet easy and understandable user interface with the core GUI.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release is mostly a maintenance release. A
few components that BMPx shares with the aeon
project were seperated out in SVN and are now
being used in BMPx as well as in aeon from a
single source. This release features the separated
components, but brings no user-visible changes in
that regard.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

SPyRO is a multilingual Object Request Broker
(ORB). SPyRO uses the most efficient available
connection between peers to minimize the costs of
transport and parsing in the communication. SPyRO
provides transparent and translucent remote object
access.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The format separator was changed to "?", toward
the goal of Apache HTTP integration. Pickle is
used as the default marshaler. Several fixes and
enhancements were made in HTTPClient (chunked
transferences and better error handling).


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The Linux LiveCD VoIP Router is based on the SIP
Express Router (SER). It runs on Linux LiveCD
Router and can serve as a SIP Proxy or a VoIP PBX,
or both. It has easy Web user administration and
requires no software installation. It can be
connected to multiple A-Z termination providers
and to your own PSTN termination gateway/router.
It supports any SIP soft or hardware phones, such
as XTen, Cisco ATA 186, Grandstream, Sipura,
Mitel, and more. It includes a media server for
conference call bridge and voicemail to email.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
The Linux LiveCD VoIP Server Administrator Manual
contains 140 pages and 15 illustrations. It is
available in PDF format.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The finite element package SyFi is a C++ library
built on top of the symbolic math library GiNaC.
The name SyFi stands for Symbolic Finite Elements.
The package provides polygonal domains, polynomial
spaces, and degrees of freedom as symbolic
expressions that are easily manipulated. This
makes it easy to define finite elements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version contains Lagrangian elements and
element matrices for the Poisson problem.



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Source: NewsForge

Estonia's latest local elections, held online nationwide, included the use of open source software in electronic voting. However, experts caution that the use of Linux on Web servers does not equate to publicly viewable voting code, and the system's reliance on the Internet raises red flags.


Source: NewsForge

EnGarde Secure Linux is a server-based distribution developed with security in mind. It comes with a minimal set of services so that the server is not unnecessarily exposed, and no superfluous software -- including no X Window-based window manager. Even compilers, such as GCC, are not included. Yet EnGarde enables you to run any sort of Web presence, from a simple mail server to a complete e-commerce site.



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Source: The Doc Searls Weblog

Chris Nolan tells me, and the rest of us, to get real. Great stuff, as usual. It's less push-back than a push in a productive direction. A sample: as necessary and timely as Doc Searls' call to action on this issue is right now, his attitude toward what will happen and how, is based, I am sorry to say, in unrealistic thinking about how Washington operates. It is a reflection of how tech has historically fared, not a contemplation of how things have changed since 1996.Read the whole thing, which concludes,Searls is right about one thing: The time to start working on this issue to keep the Internet out of strict corporate control is now. How we tech gets at this problem and manages to secure the world that Searls and others believe is possible - at the same time it makes normal users feel secure - needs more thought and, then, some well-timed action.


Source: The Doc Searls Weblog

If it were printed in paper format, Chris Lydon's Postcard from Tunis would be in 1-point type. Fortunately, you can read it all online, where it shouldn't be shorter, because it's chock full of insightful one-or-more liners. Examples:Yet the friendly chatter (as at all Internet gatherings) is animated by rumors that all the old terms of authority are changing; that an anti-gravitational architecture is taking over; that the liveliest domain on the Web in the long run tilts anti-national, anti-imperial, anti-chauvinist, even anti-commercial; that the god inside the machinery favors the new networks of expressive individuality and the evermore vibrant diasporas of culture and human interest We cocky, loud American Romans are so much better at talking than listening. We are so much more intent on kicking ass than on picking up clue phones. We are NFL obsessives in a soccer-playing world. And we have way too many toys .we come to the Internet space with big hang-ups about ownership and control, with lawyers and a vast system of armaments to protect "intellectual property." The problem is not just the habit of appropriating the cultures of the world as part of the "gift economy." It¹s more that we feel an inherent ³open source² logic in the Internet itself, a universal copying machine, which is itself the engine of a superabundant "gift economy" in culture. One way or another, the property claims will have to go .one would have wished for some grander visions. This apparently last summit on a revolutionary technology did not invoke a revolutionary idea. If we believe in the Internet, we should be implementing, as Andrew McLaughlin of Google said, ³the best connectivity for the most people,² now. From a rural development perspective, Ashok Jhunjhunwala of the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, could barely believe that "nobody has set a goal at this summit: that every village should be connected."Chris's program is one of the best podcasts out there; but it would also be good to hear on more public radio stations.



Updated: Wed Jun 28 00:12:39 2006


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