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Source: The Register

Book review Useful, but



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Source: Playlist News

Music service provider, RealNetworks Inc., on Monday will open its subscription-based Rhapsody streaming music service to users of the Macintosh and Linux operating systems. The company has expanded the service to these platforms by launching Rhapsody.com, a new Web site that company executives said will offer all users the core of the Rhapsody experience.



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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: ZenWalk Size: 477.13 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2005-12-04 23:33:42


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Category: LFS Size: 390.05 MB Status: 11 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2005-12-04 21:32:13


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Category: Kurumin Size: 464.62 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2005-12-04 20:03:48


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Category: Kurumin Size: 420.32 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2005-12-04 20:02:45


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Category: Scientific Size: 2.48 GB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2005-12-04 10:03:25


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Category: Scientific Size: 2.24 GB Status: 6 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2005-12-04 10:02:04


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Source: vector

The SOHO edition of VectorLinux continues its development process with the release of a new beta: "Beta2 of SOHO 5.1 is up and ready for more testing. We made a concerted effort to fix the major stuff in beta1 and hopefully we have done that. Early reports say .


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Source: dynebolic

A new beta of the dyne:bolic 2.0 multimedia live CD has been released: "This new release runs on a Linux kernel 2.6.14.3 patched for low latency desktop use, uses the next generation VESA framebuffer driver, includes FreeJ video scripting interpreter and ogg/theora streamer. Beta 5 introduces several improvements .


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Source: parallelknoppix

A new, security enhanced version of ParallelKnoppix was released over the weekend. From the changelog: "Passwords are reset for 'root' and 'knoppix'; RSA keys are regenerated; the 'knoppix' user is removed from /etc/sudoers. The cluster is secure for connection to the internet using a second network interface on .


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Source: mepis

The first release candidate of MEPISLite 3.3.2-1 is ready for testing: "MEPISLite 3.3.2-1 rc1 has been uploaded to the testing subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber's Site. The updated MEPISLite has been synchronized to Debian Sarge. Some of the included applications are KDE 3.3.2, KOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, Amarok, Kplayer, .


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Source: netbsd

The fifth release candidate of NetBSD 3.0 is out, inclusive of installation ISO images: "NetBSD 3.0 RC5 available. In a message to the netbsd-announce list, Matthias Scheler announced the availability of NetBSD 3.0 RC5 on the FTP server of the NetBSD project. This latest release candidate solves some .


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Source: zenwalk

Zenwalk Linux 2.0.1 has been released: "This release is based on the 2.6.14.2 kernel, with Reiser4 filesystem support and many enhancements and updates. Zenwalk 2.0.1 is the biggest jump in Zenwalk evolution since the beginning of the project. Main software updates are XFce 4.2.3.2, xine 1.1.1, Firefox 1.5, .



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Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix

Good news for people that want a WRT54G to run Linux on."Linux hackers and hobbyists have long hot-rodded their WRT54Gs, adding features such as Radius authentication, bridge capabilities, VoIP QoS (voice-over-IP quality-of-service), and so on. The L model will continue to offer 4MB of Flash, and 16MB of RAM, in order to support the various freely and commercially available alternative firmware images for the devices that depend on those memory capacities. " Linksys courts Linux hackers wit


Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix

Very nice article about some things you can do to improve your SuSE 1 system."When you're done installing SUSE Linux 1., your desktop system is not complete. If you installed the OSS version, you still need support for Java programs, MP3 audio files, and browser plugins for Macromedia Flash, Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, and Windows Media Video. If you installed the commercial edition you might have all of those things, but still not have support for playing DVD videos on your computer. Here's


Source: Slashdot Org latest news headlines

Kadin2048 writes "In an interview with BusinessWeek online, Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy sheds some light on the company's new business model and future direction. In particular, he said that Sun's recent open source moves were part of a new strategy, where 'The software is the razor. The razor blades are the servers.' The move was called a huge risk by BusinessWeek, and it would put Sun at odds with the more traditional Microsoft-esque model with high per-seat or per-server software licensing costs and use commodity PCs and servers, which may not go over well with investors. But after having seen its stock slide and users flee for Linux and Windows, they arguably have little to lose. Perhaps the most interesting development to Slashdot readers is that in an effort to draw new developers to the platform, Sun is offering a deal that seems torn from a cell-phone company playbook: offering a "free" Ultra 20 Opteron workstation if you sign up for a $29.95/mo, 3-year service contract."


Source: OSNews

Genesi has announced a new product this weekend. "The Genesi Home Media and Communication System is built on the PegasosPPC platform, utilising the Freescale G4 processor for outstanding media performance. Enclosed in a fully aluminium case which will fit in with your existing Hi-Fi amplifier or TV, and featuring a VFD status display under mirrored acrylic glass." Software-wise, the machine will only feature open-source software. Genesi also made the EFIKA 5K2 available.



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Source: Linux Today

For a look at how SugarCRM has helped businesses with their CRM needs, SearchOpenSource.com went directly to one of its newest customers, San Francisco, Calif.-based Covalent Technologies


Source: Linux Today

I recently installed the open source software (OSS) version of SUSE Linux 10.0 on my Gateway M520CS laptop computer, and would like to share my impressions of the product so far .



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Source: Mac Central latest headlines

Music service provider, RealNetworks Inc., on Monday will open its subscription-based Rhapsody streaming music service to users of the Macintosh and Linux operating systems. The company has expanded the service to these platforms by launching Rhapsody.com, a new Web site that company executives said will offer all users the core of the Rhapsody experience.



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Source: Privacy Digest

10) What's your personal
point of
view about Security?

I think it's important. To elaborate,
security is important for pretty much the same reason software
freedom is important. I believe the user needs to have control over
his or her computing environment. A corporate colossus that won't let
you modify the operation of your machine, and a malicious hacker who
has turned your computer into a "zombie" for sending spam
mail, are both examples of activity that disempower the person who
should have authority over their property.



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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

ttyrpld is a kernel-based TTY shell, screen, and
key logger for Linux, FreeBSD/PCBSD, and OpenBSD.
It has a real-time log analyzer. It supports any
TTY type (vc (console), BSD/Unix98 pty
(xterm/SSH), serial, ISDN, USB, etc.).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for OpenBSD 3.8 and FreeBSD 6.0 was added.
Bugs concerning permission denied, syslog
spamming, CPU hogging, ownership, and symlink
recursion were fixed. The documentation was
updated to reflect advances since the last seven
releases.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Demokritos is a server implementation of the Atom
Publishing Protocol. It also provides a library
that can be used for the development of other
Atom-related applications.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This initial release implements most of
draft-ietf-atompub-protocol-06.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

mp3splt is a command-line utility that splits
MP3 and Ogg files at specified times without
decoding and re-encoding. It works with Mp3Wrap
and AlbumWrap files and has a silence detection split mode and a "cddb source" mode. Libmp3splt is a library created from mp3splt. Mp3splt-gtk is a GTK2 GUI that uses libmp3splt.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is a stable release, and it is mainly a
bugfix release, since many bugs were fixed. Play
preview and split preview were added. A length
column in the "splitted" tab was added. Support
was added for splitting in the same directory as
the song. A search button was added on the freedb
tab. snackAmp should be updated to the latest
testing version, since several bugs have been
solved in it.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Easy DialUp is a simple Web-based dialup/modem
client for Linux. It's the Linux dialup client for
someone who doesn t want to know what a Linux
dialup client is.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The Connection Stats page and the Configuration
page now display on the right of the main page,
instead of in their own separate screen. The Easy
Dialup code that checks if the Internet is
connected no longer depends on PPPSTATUS being
installed. The Connection Stats page is still a
work in progress.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The ccontrol program takes over the roles of the
compiler and linker, and reads a configuration
file to decide what to do before invoking them.
This is particularly useful for centralized
control over commands and options, such as
enabling distcc(1) and ccache(1).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Installation directories are created if required.
Invoking "ccontrol" directly now prints the
version.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GNU CLISP is an ANSI Common Lisp implementation
with an interpreter, compiler, debugger, object
system (CLOS, MOP), sockets, fast bignums, and
foreign language interface which runs on most
UNIXes and Win32.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Many minor enhancements were made to the new-clx,
rawsock, posix, and readline modules. The
NOTSPECIAL declaration was added. The BASE64
encoding is supported.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

SQLiteManager is a multilingual Web-based tool to
manage SQLite databases. It features multiple database management, creation, and connectivity, property and options management, table, data, and index manipulation, the ability to import data from a file, conversion from MySQL queries, view, trigger, and custom function management, and exporting of database structure and data.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release allows you to manage SQLite2 and SQLite3 databases. The database version is automatically detected. Some code was cleaned up.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The Cornfed SIP User Agent is a Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP)-based Softphone for your x86 Linux
systems. It allows you to make Internet phone calls
using an Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) or
Open Sound System (OSS) sound card with speakers
and microphone as your telephone handset.

License: Free for non-commercial use

Changes:
Fixes a bug that would peg CPU usage during a call in progress. Adds an icon to the main window title bar. Adds remembering of the client window size between runs. Separates setting of ringtone file and device functions. Removes the A, B, C, D, and DTMF buttons from the dialpad.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

psync is a distribution mirroring utility. Its
main goal is to be able to update a distribution
mirror but keep it as consistent as possible. One
of the main problems updating a mirror is that if
the mirroring process is stopped for any reason,
the mirror stays inconsistent: either some of the
packages in the old databases were removed or not
all the new packages were downloaded. psync aims
to fix this. It also aims to support as many
distributions as possible.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This initial release only fully supports apt-based
repositories and basic urpmi repositories.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The aim of Ant SVK Task is to create fully
functional support for the SVK SCM tool within Ant
build files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The Gamma state is not yet complete, but it is
functional.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

MailScanner is an email virus scanner, vulnerability protector, and spam tagger. It supports the Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, Qmail, and ZMailer MTAs, and the Sophos, McAfee, F-Prot, F-Secure, CommandAV, InoculateIT, Inoculan, eTrust, Kaspersky, Nod32, AntiVir, BitDefender, RAV, Panda, DrWeb, ClamAV, and other anti-virus scanners. It uses SpamAssassin for highly successful spam identification, and is designed to handle denial of service attacks. It will detect password-protected zip files and apply filename checking to their contents. It is very easy to install, requires no changes at all to your
sendmail.cf file, is designed to be lightweight, and won't grind your mail system to a halt with its load. It can be integrated into any email system, regardless of the software in use.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The major new feature is a rearrangement of how the spam.assassin.prefs.conf is used. This is now linked into the site-rules directory of SpamAssassin, so it is automatically read by SpamAssassin's startup code, and no special file reading code is included in MailScanner any more. The installation scripts should take care of all of this for you. There is also a new feature to reject selected messages with a more polite report than the 1-line error message generated by your MTA when it rejects a message.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version corrects several problems with the exportation of symbols to LaTeX and the display of rubber fonts. The plug-ins for Maxima and Reduce were also updated.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

WebGUI is a content management framework built to
allow average business users to build and maintain
complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and
platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online,
rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions,
forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs,
SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes a style template wizard, a comparison matrix app (like cmsmatrix.org), an in/out board, a dashboard (think Google personalized homepage), stock quotes, weather information, and a lot more.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

cpan2tgz is a utility to create Slackware packages
from CPAN Perl module distributions, inspired by
Erick Calder's cpan2rpm.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes support for Build.PL based modules, more robust handling of perllocal.pod files, and an improved package build script.


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Perl Webmail is a CGI/mod_perl application that interfaces with external POP3 and SMTP services. It provides all the expected functionality of a mail client, such as read, reply, forward, delete, as well as sending and receiving attachments, storage for mail folders, contacts, and calendar notes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release features a rewrite for Template Toolkit support, various code level improvements, and a build script to generate a Slackware package.


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CRM-CTT allows you to create entities (tickets) to which you can attach files, place alerts, prioritize, etc. It is multi-lingual and customizable. It can be used for any department in which something comes in, must be handled, and goes out, such as bug tracking, systems management (including assets) or helpdesk call tracking. It creates management information and exports in PDF and Excel, and reports and invoices in RTF format. Installation is done using a simple script, and a clear manual is included. It's available in all major languages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version introduces RSS Feeds, which can be used to keep track of entities using every possible RSS-compatible program. Entities can now have parent entities and child entities. This enables the user to organise his/her work more efficiently. Under the hood, this version supports LDAP Authentication support. Users can now be limited (by user or profile) to working with only a given list of customers. All other entities will be hidden. This version is faster, and all known bugs were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

parlement is a threaded forum and a mailing list,
and also a voting system where every one can
propose, vote, or delegate their vote (a
delegation being for one post/mail/poll and its
sub-threads). This results in a mix of Direct and
Participative Democracy, a Web board where any
sort of structured content can be democratically
written: laws, constitutions, newspapers,
petitions, even blogs. Trust can be built through:
PGP signatures so that data can not be tampered
with, P2P servers where the posts/email
messages/polls are replicated, and electoral lists
to compute the results.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Anonymous users doing a quick post (where the subject is not modified) will be marked as "anon". Each person has a public page listing their posts (this page can also be used to post.). The creation times for the most important posts are displayed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

WmG is a plugin for the Gaim IM client which
provides a "dockapp" in Window Maker and similar
window managers. It features a convenient list of
your 3 best buddies, and allows you to start a
conversation with any one of them with a single
click. Additionally, it unobtrusively notifies you
of changes occurring in your buddy list, such as
people signing on and off, going away, coming
back, idling, etc.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes a number of severe memory leaks, including a bad semaphore leak. Additionally, it improves the quality and number of protocol icons included. Finally, this release adds a GTK configuration panel in Gaim's plugin preferences listing, which enables the user to specify a number of central parameters.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Winzig is suite of a PIM style applications written in Python/GTK. It includes an address book, a calculator, a calendar, and a todo list. It was written with small code size and small screen real estate usage in mind and should be suitable for PDAs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Adds support for Windows and a new weather station widget.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Streber is a Web-based project management tool. Freelancers and small
teams can easily use it to set up projects and keep track of tasks,
issues, bugs, efforts, etc. Project user rights can be adjusted (e.g.,
to provide clients a limited view of the current project state).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Assigning (several) person(s) to tasks is possible. Multi-language-support with tools for easy translation tables for other languages. A German translation. Improved stability through automatic unit tests. Project templates. Decent error handling and logging.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Franki and Earlgrey Linux are small but usable Linux distributions designed to demonstrate the full extent of STUBS, the Toolchain and Utility Build Suite. STUBS is a set of configuration files and scripts designed to build (and optionally employ) toolchains from just a list of desired packages, and has scripts capable of downloading sources as necessary beforehand. It is designed to both bootstrap and work within the Franki Linux environment, requiring just kernel headers and working make/gcc/binutils to do so.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This Configurations release updates the build scripts for antiword, binutils, coreutils, e3, fakeroot, frox, httping, libogg, libvorbis, m4, minised, ms-sys, ncurses, and sysstat, amongst others. Additional scripts were added for build balance, lft, and rt-utils.


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:
User-defined palette entries have been cleaned up and improved. They are now graphically separated from Redet-generated entries and have explanatory pop-ups just like Redet-generated entries. The reference manual sections on initialization files and the palette have been updated. A "Macintosh Notes" entry was added to the Help menu. It appears if Redet is run on a Macintosh, and explains possible differences in the interface.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

FIAIF is an Intelligent Firewall. It provides a highly customizable script for setting up an iptables-based firewall. Configuration is done through one configuration file for each network to which the firewall is connected. FIAIF supports masquerading, port forwarding, traffic shaping, and more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Significantly improved traffic shaping.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Beesoft Commander is a file manager (like Norton
Commander) for Linux. It is based on Qt-GUI.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Now you can switch the current panel with tab. Active and inactive panels have different current item colors. The F1 key displays information about navigation keys, and F4 loads the internal text editor. Now all function keys are implemented. The first stage of implementation is finished.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LAT stands for LDAP Administration Tool. It allows
you to browse LDAP-based directories and
add/edit/delete entries contained within. It can
store profiles for quick access to different servers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
UI enhancements, improved Active Directory support, and all views are now customizable.


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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

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 and
BMP players are also supported.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Fixes a bug that could cause a segfault when opening XMMS-crossfade's configuration dialog. Also fixes Beep Media Player detection and another GCC 4 compilation bug.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

PolarViewer is a viewer application for exercise
files recorded with Polar or CicloSport heartrate
monitors (e.g. S710, S720, S610, or HAC4). It
displays all of the recorded exercise data (except
power) and creates diagrams.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The biggest change is the initial support for CicloSport HAC4 TUR files. Minor bugs and dependency issues were fixed, and the Makefile was improved. A Spanish translation was added, and others were updated.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

KBoggle is a Boggle game for KDE. Boggle is a game
in which the players must make words out of the
letters found in a randomly generated grid of
letters. The goal is to find as many words as
possible in the given time.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
No more duplicated entries in the combo box for cubes. File and Game menus have merged. Thinner borders. A French cube set has been added. A Japanese translation has been added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Userexitd for TSM is a configurable handler for
Tivoli Storage Manager events. It allows an
administrator to filter events using regular
expressions and run various actions for TSM
events, such as sending mail and SNMP traps,
writing messages into syslog, and running scripts
and programs. This software consists of two
parts: a simple shared library (userexit.so),
which is dynamically linked to the TSM Server as a
user exit and communicates using a socket with the
userexitd daemon, which runs as a separate
service. The daemon is configured with an XML
configuration file.

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
UDP support has been implemented. Linuxisms has been removed, and this release ported to Solaris. mail has been changed to mailx in the sample configuration. A mailto: example has been added. Compiler warnings have been fixed. A Unix socket path length check has been added. The documentation has been corrected. Porting to AIX has begun.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

xlit is a program for converting text from one
writing system into another. It allows the user to
define a transliteration simply by typing the
input strings in one window and the strings to
which they are to be mapped in another. Transliteration may be restricted to regions bounded by specified delimiters or their complements.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version fixes bugs that interfered with the creation of the various search popups.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

T-ish is a fast OS X Tiger-ish theme. It's based on the Clearlooks
engine with additional buttons from the Expose and GlossyP Metacity
borders. For best results, it should be used with the GnomeApple icons
(or some other OS X icon theme).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The title bar gradient is now much stronger to give windows a more solid appearance. Recommended icons have been changed to OS X icons.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

BitlBee allows users to talk to people on the MSN, ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo!, and AIM networks with any IRC client by emulating an IRC server. A virtual channel is created with all of the user's buddies in it, who can be talked to in the channel or in a query.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Besides a fix for a small DoS vulnerability, mostly bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

pdfTeX is an extended version of TeX that can
create PDF directly from TeX source files and
enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the
help of PDF. When PDF output is not selected,
pdfTeX produces normal DVI output, otherwise it
produces PDF output that looks identical to the
DVI output. An important aspect of this project is
to investigate alternative justification
algorithms, optionally making use of multiple
master fonts.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes bugs with the printing of
included images and a buffer overflow with
\pdfmatch;. xpdf was updated to 3.01pl1.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

WCD is a directory changer for DOS and Unix. Another NCD (Norton Change Directory) clone. This program jumps to a (sub)directory anywhere in the directory-tree. The directory to jump to can be given by only the first characters or an expression with wildcards.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Wcd now supports 8-bit character sets. Non-ASCII
characters are displayed correctly. Two pdcurses
interface problems on Windows have been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME,
MAME, MESS, RAINE and other arcade emulators. It
supports extended features like PNG/MNG/MP3
animated snapshots, up to 192 previews at the
same time, and many other features.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes some bugs for 64-bit platforms,
allowing it to work on these platforms.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

MediaWiki is a Web-based collaborative editing environment. Originally built for the online encyclopedia project Wikipedia, it's geared to support a large number of users and pages.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A remote code execution vulnerability caused by
bad input validation in the user interface
language parameter has been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Kye is a puzzle game which takes ideas from
Sokoban and the genre of falling-rocks puzzle
games. However, it includes a wider range of
objects, allowing a larger variety of puzzles to
be constructed. It is a clone of the original,
shareware, Kye for Windows, and is compatible with
the large number of existing extra levels designed
for the Windows version of Kye.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A level editor is now included.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade monitors, TVs, and PC monitors.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes some bugs for 64-bit platforms
and other minor problems.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Pixelpost is a photoblog application that is
designed to be easy to install and use.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Spam security against comment form hijacking was
added.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

audiokonverter is a small utility to easily
convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA,
RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV, and movies to
MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV, and FLAC in Konqueror by
right-clicking on them. It needs oggenc, oggdec,
faac, faad, flac, mplayer, wvunpack, and lame to
work. id3lib, metaflac, and vorbis-tools are
optional, but needed for full functionality.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Commandline support was added for importing
optimfrog, shorten, and monkey. Error messages
were added for useless conversions. Support was
added for apetags, oggdrop-lx, and a "-dontask"
mode which uses values from the most recent
encoding or the default values instead of asking
for values. wavpack 4.31 or higher is now
required. Software URLs are now mentioned in the
README.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Nixory is an innovative, fast, and powerful
anti-spyware program, with a user-friendly
graphical interface. It protects Mozilla Firefox
from dangerous spyware and harmful cookies.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Scan function improvements were done. Code bugs
were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Ump is a program in which all sorts of
calculations can be done, from the simplest to the
more advanced. It handles complex numbers and
matrices of those. The complex numbers are built
up by either floating point values or ratios of
arbitrary sized integers. Ump also draws graphs,
ordinary, polar, and parameter, which is done
through an easy to use user interface. It's also
possible to write your own functions using the
built in editor.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The quality of antialiased plots was completed and
improved. Support for 3D plots was added, although
it is still incomplete. The old autoload system
was replaced with a much better and easier one.
History lists are now saved at exit. A lot of code
cleaning and bugfixes were done.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution, an operating system which works directly from the CD without the need to install or change anything on the hard disk. It is user-friendly, recognizes your hardware devices (sound, video, firewire, and USB), and offers a vast range of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3D modeling, photo, peer-to-peer filesharing, Web browsing and publishing, word processing, email, encryption, and networking. It also includes games and a world navigator.
It does automatic clustering, joining the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network, and works on modded XBOX consoles as well.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release includes a kernel upgrade to Linux
2.6.14.3 with the CK6 patch. Desktop usability was
improved, and various fixes were made to printer,
modem, CD, and DVD playing. Bootscripts have been
cleaned up, and hard disk and USB handling were
tightened.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Enblend is a postprocessing tool for creating panoramic images. After you align image features using a program like Hugin, there are often photometric problems that lead to ugly seams in the final composite. Enblend blends away these seams using a multiresolution spline. This technique gives good results on both low spatial frequency objects (sky and clouds) and high spatial frequency objects (trees and houses).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds a few new features. Enblend now
supports the cropped and shifted TIFF files
produced by Nona's "Multiple TIFF" stitching
option. Also, ICC profile data in the input images
are preserved in the output file. Finally, some
minor speed improvements have been made to the
mask generation algorithm.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GNOME Sudoku is a GNOME-based puzzle game based on
Sudoku, a popular Japanese logic game. It provides
a simple interface for playing, saving, printing,
and solving Sudoku puzzles and generates
symmetrical puzzles with unique solutions. It
features support for infinite undo, a rating of
the difficulty of games, and a memory of all games
you play.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The look and feel of the program were improved.
Auto-resizing of the grid as the window resizes
has improved. The menus have been better
organized. Keyboard navigation has improved. In
addition, there have also been some improvements
to the packaging.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Insurrection is a Web interface and RSS and Atom
feed generator for Subversion that uses modern
browser features while being as browser agnostic
as possible. It has some repository rights
administration features and a reasonably
good-looking interface that can be customized. RSS
and Atom feeds of updates to the project are
available.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for log message updating via the
Insurrection Web interface was added. This is only
enabled if the repository has revprop editing
enabled. The browser test pages were made fully
self-contained. They no longer depend on some of
the files that are part of Insurrection. Some
obscure security details were addressed. The old
broken_xslt support was removed in favor of the
stream based support for browsers that are known
to not have funtioning XML/XSLT support.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Karrigell is a Web framework written in Python,
including a Web server and a pure-Python database
(KirbyBase). It can also work with Apache and
Xitami, and any database with a Python interface.
It allows execution of Python scripts and of pages
mixing Python and HTML, easy handling of
authentication and sessions, building pages from
components, and internationalization features. It
comes with a complete documentation and several
demos, including a wiki server, a forum, and a
portal with personalization and news editing.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is the final release of version 2.2. The main
new features are support for Virtual Hosts and the
replacement of gadfly by the pure-Python database
KirbyBase.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

GenReS is a generic reconfigurable scriptable plugin for Mozilla/Firefox. It allows you to use external programs for EMBED or OBJECT tags. The plugin is supplied with a Perl script for embedding mplayer and mencoder in a browser and controlling it with Javascript. It allow you to watch video and to record it to set of files. Manipulations with object variables in Javascript are translated to a Perl program. Status messages from the controlled program (mplayer or mencoder) are translated back to Javascript object variables, and Javascript functions are called for notifications.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release fixes a security bug in which it was
possible to pass a shell command through an URL
using backquotes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database
server. It is a client/server implementation that
consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many
different client programs/libraries.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This is the first public alpha release of the
current MySQL 5.1 development branch, providing an
insight to upcoming features.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

slapt-get is an APT-like system for Slackware
package management. It allows you to search
Slackware mirrors and third-party package sources
(such as www.linuxpackages.net) for packages,
compare them with installed packages, and install
new packages or upgrade installed packages, all
with a few simple commands.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release features a few new enhancements and
bugfixes, including new package description
formatting, improved dist-upgrade to ensure
essential packages are installed or upgraded
first, a new Bulgarian translation, updated
statistics formatting for --show-stats option,
updated Russian and Ukrainian translations, and a
new --prompt option to always ask whether to
proceed. --install-set now correctly ignores
excluded packages.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Gslapt is a GTK version of slapt-get.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release has a few small updates, including a
few Russian and Ukrainian translation updates, a
minor UI update, a new Bulgarian translation, and
a KDE specific .desktop file. The doinst.sh script
now calls update-desktop-database. This release
requires slapt-get 0.9.11 for the new description
parsing functionality.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

autotools-idl is a patch for automake and some
autoconf scripts that adds support for IDL and C++
ORBs. It tries to provide full support for
compiling IDL files to C++ stubs and skeletons.
The autoconf scripts provide unified detection of
different C++ ORBs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Shell portability cleanups were done (according to
the advice from the autoconf manual). One more
aspect of the $IDLCPPFLAGS bug has been fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

moosicWebGUI is a stand alone client program for controlling the moosic jukebox system. It implements not only basic basic player functions but also more sophisticated functions for manipulating the playlist. It incorporates a small Web server based on Python's SimpleHTTPServer library.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Startup was accelerated. An online handbook was
started. Links to the online handbook and to the
manual page were added to the template. The man
page was improved.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

gumnut is a text based client for creating,
moderating, and displaying comments over a
decentralized communication network (currently
gnutella). Comments are text files with a simple
naming convention that uses the filename to
describe field attributes (such as topic and
geographical location). A discussion tree is read
by searching on one or more of these fields and
then downloading and reassembling the individual
comments in order.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The code was cleaned up for readability. The
listhits command was removed. A bug limiting
searching for leaves with names longer than 78
bytes was fixed. A new command, "redisplay", was
added. An "R" or "L" was added to displaytree
output to indicate remote or local. Help output
was cleaned up. Live testing and many minor
bugfixes were done.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Hwrt is a shell script that crawls through a
hypertext web on your local filesystem, replicates
it in a directory of your choice, and syncs the
resulting page set to a remote host. It has
rudimentary support for Apache MultiViews and
access files; it cleans up stale files in local
and remote targets; and it generates plain-text
sitemaps that you can submit to Google. Hwrt tries
to rely only on bare shell essentials for its core
functionality and should run on minimal
installations.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for multiple sites has been added by means
of simple RC files. Caches were moved to a hidden
directory in the user's home directory. Much code
was simplified, fortified, and beautified.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Itlabs is Web-based MySQL/PHP resource accounting software. It enables the accounting of different resources and is intended for school use. It is easy to customize, small, and user friendly.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Slight changes were made to the graphics and some
minor bugfixes were done.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

SODE uses long Taylor series to solve systems of
ordinary differential equations. It generates code
to solve the equations in either Icon (or Unicon)
or Maple. Using the Taylor series, estimates are
made of the location and order of poles. An effort
is made to adjust H to control the error. It has
worked well in testing, but needs more testing as
there are so many possibilities. To solve STIFF
equations, MAX_TERMS may be set. Differentiation
done automatically.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Several problems relating to dependent variables
on rhs were fixed. Some tests were added or
modified.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Krecipes is a KDE cooking book that works with
either SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL database
backends, and is designed to be highly
configurable. It features configurable
ingredients, creation of shopping lists, daily
recipe suggestions based on calories/diets, and
much more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Creating a new MySQL database was fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Limph (Limph Is Monitoring Pingable Hosts)
provides both UPD and TCP port checks of grouped
network hosts with email notification. Limph is
completely configurable through its Web interface.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A color key and unreachable hosts were added to
the display. Parent-child hosts, a basic tree
view, and visibility were added. The poller was
altered to check children only if the parent is
up. The bug in which changing a hostname caused
the history to be lost has been fixed. The port,
if any, was added to the host display.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

DMO is generic object management, documentation, and inventory software. It enforces defining an abstract hierarchical structure for the data stored, making object management very intuitive. All the data in a company can be stored in a structured manner, from hard disks, computers, and printers to routers, UPSes, and alarm systems. Powerful querying and PDF report generation, plugin support, a high level of customization, and very clean code make DMO a very powerful tool.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Small bugfixes and a database change were made.
There was a packaging error in release 2.2beta,
which this release corrects. Alternatively, this
error can be corrected in the old release by
applying a database change and replacing the
invalid file, DMO_definition.php.



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Source: The Doc Searls Weblog

Andre Durand asks, Jeez Doc, do you sleep?His point: I seem to be blogging all over the place. This is a little bit true, since I can now blog at Linux Journal in addition to IT Garage, my Podblog and here.But if you look at the posting frequency at those last two links, you'll see my blogging at either is anything but prolific. My podcasting (subject of the last link) ranges between minimal and absent.You want prolific? Try Jeff Jarvis or Mickey Kaus.I think the reason I seem to blog more than I do is that I have lots of aggregation feeds, mostly around subject searches. I just added one for "andre durand" or "ping identity", with Technorati and Google Blogsearch. I have other search feeds coming from Icerocket, Feedster and Pubsub for subjects that include "free software" or "open source", Berkman Center, "lydon" and "source", "syndicate conference" and ugliest dog.That last one is what led me to discover, for example, more evidence that online advertising is, well, less than ideal. The Icerocket search at that last link brought up a sponsored link that reads, Ugliest Dog in the World, SamSam the ugly dog has passed on, but you can remember him with this 2006 calendar. 12 beautiful photos of the world's ugliest dog.www.lulu.comThe link leads to lulu.com, but not to calendars for Sam, the World's Ugliest Dog, who died a couple weeks ago (as we see in this Icerocket trend). A search for Sam inside Lulu does bring us (slowly) to the calendar itself. So I suppose the system works, sort of.But my point is, I got myself a topic, and took a whopping lessee five minutes to research and write the whole thing up. This entire post took half an hour, but that's counting the time I spent caring about the other subject searches (above) for nonblog (mostly work-related) reasons.In other words, the blog is an avocational steam valve on the side of my vocational work.A confession. When aggregators first came out, I took a tiny bit of an interest in them; but didn't develop a dependency on them until subject search feeds came along. Now I don't know how I got along without them.



Updated: Wed Jun 28 00:11:11 2006


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