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Source: Freshmeat Daily News xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) is a tool kit that can be used for the deployment and administration of Linux clusters. Its features are based on user requirements, and many of its features take advantage of IBM xSeries hardware.
License: Freeware
Changes:
Enhancements were made to the documentation and
support for Werewolf-style, diskless computation
nodes on PPC64.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BashBurn (Previously Magma) is a bash script designed to make CD burning at the console easier. It supports burning normal data CDs, audio CDs, blanking CD-RWs, multisession, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
DVD support, new translations, and much needed
code cleanups were added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Batrachians is a game where you control a
frog. Your goal is to eat more flies and score
more points than the computer's frog. It is a
clone of the 1982 Frog Bog video game by
Mattel Electronics.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a few compilation and
portability problems and one typo in the displayed
instructions. The principle of the game has not
changed since version 0.1.0. Actual drawings of
frogs and flies still have not been added.
 
Source: Freshmeat Daily News MailArchiva is a full featured email archiving
server for Linux/Windows that integrates with
Microsoft Exchange. It stores all incoming,
outgoing, and internal email messages for
long-term storage.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Sella NMS was created to provide an extendable high
performance network management system with network
discovery, monitoring, and detailed reporting capabilities that
keep up to date with a living network. As new devices and
interfaces are added or removed from your network, the
changes are automatically detected and handled.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release converts modules from threads to individual daemons, simplifying the design and providing enhanced reliability and performance. A state daemon has been created to process state changes, allowing alarms to be persistent though a restart of any daemon. An Administrator's Manual has been written. The performance of the output modules and policy framework has been improved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Conary is a distributed software management system
for Linux distributions. It replaces traditional
package management solutions (such as RPM and
dpkg) with one designed to enable loose
collaboration across the Internet. It enables sets
of distributed and loosely connected repositories
to define the components which are installed on a
Linux system. Rather than having a full
distribution come from a single vendor, it allows
administrators and developers to branch a
distribution, keeping the pieces which fit their
environment while grabbing components from other
repositories across the Internet.
License: Common Public License
Changes:
This release defaults to building packages within home directories. It reports error conditions more helpfully and concisely. It does a better job of finding new troves in certain cases when flavoring has changed. It handles Python dependencies better.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Tntdb is a c++-class-library for database access.
It implements a database-independent layer, which
loads the actual driver dynamically when a
connection is made. The classes use automatic
resource management with reference counts.
Resources are freed when the classes go out of
scope. Error handling is done with exceptions
(derived from std::exception). There are STL-like
iterators for result sets and rows, and also the
cursor is an STL-like iterator. It is written in
standard C++ with Linux. Drivers for PostgreSQL, sqlite3, and MySQL are available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version adds da river for sqlite3, documentation, a connection pool, and a lot of smaller fixes and improvements.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News MOC (music on console) is a console audio player with a simple ncurses interface in playmp3list style. It supports MP3 (with ID3 tag, VBR, and Xing headers), Ogg, FLAC, WAVE, Musepack, SPeex, and some other less popular audio formats. Playlists can be saved and loaded using .m3u files (PLS version 2 can also be loaded). Internet streams (Shoutcast, Icecast) are supported. It achieves gapless playback by employing an output buffer in a separate thread and file pre-caching. The key mapping can be fully customized. The interface can be detached from the server as it plays in background.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Most fixes are related to displaying non-ASCII characters. Problems with character encoding of some MP3 files should be now solved.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News cxxtools is a library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes. It contains an argument-parser, a base-64 encoder/decoder, a C++ interface to iconv, md5-stream for easy MD5 calculation, threading classes, socket classes, a dynamic exception-safe buffer, a wrapper for dlopen/dlsym, a pool template (e.g., for a connection pool in a multi-threaded application), query_params, and a class for easy parsing of CGI parameters (GET and POST) in a CGI program.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The thread classes are slightly improved, and the thread demo is (hopefully) better. The output of log messages is optimized.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News rxvt-unicode is a clone of the well known terminal
emulator rxvt, modified to store text in Unicode (either UCS-2 or UCS-4) and to use locale-correct input and output. It also supports mixing multiple fonts at the same time, including Xft fonts.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release aims at consolidating the big changes in recent releases, and thus contains predominantly bugfixes. Event processing order could create a global grab ("freeze") in conjunction with mouse reporting and ISO 14755 mode. The Shift-Button2 sequence has been moved to Meta-Button2, as it collided with typical uses for mouse reporting. Characters that are too wide for their box will be handled even more carefully. The cutchars resource will be respected by the Perl selection. An experimental xim-onthespot extension has been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Tntnet is a Web application server for generating
Web applications in C++. HTML pages with some
additional tags for inclusion of C++ code are
compiled into shared libraries and served from
tntnet. It resembles PHP, JSP, or Mason, but the
programming language used is C++, and the pages
are compiled into native code before serving.
Tntnet is fully multithreaded and supports http-keep-alive for best performance. Dynamic pages are served about as fast as static pages in other Web servers, while creating Web applications keeps simple.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Components can be compiled into CGI programs and run under a normal Web server. This release has simplified i18n and support for locales.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News XCircuit is a UNIX/X11 program for drawing publishable-quality electrical circuit schematic diagrams and related figures, and producing circuit netlists through schematic capture. XCircuit regards circuits as inherently hierarchical, and writes both hierarchical PostScript output and hierarchical SPICE netlists. Circuit components are saved in and retrieved from libraries which are fully editable. XCircuit does not separate artistic expression from circuit drawing; it maintains flexiblity in style without compromising the power of schematic capture.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Many bugfixes, some extensions, and some minor UI updates.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Pioneers is a faithful GNOME 2 translation of the
excellent board game "Settlers of Catan", with
server-client multiplayer, AI players, and support
for the changes made in the Seafarers of Catan
expansion to the original board game.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A new theme based on Battle of Wesnoth has been added. A Swedish translation is now also available. The length of the chat has been limited in the client and server to safer lengths. Several other small bugs have been fixed, and some old files were removed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News PyNOVAS allows you to calculate the position and
movement of the sun, moon, planets, and stars
with great precision using Python. It is based
on the NOVAS software used by United States
Naval Office (USNO) to produce the 'Astronomical
Almanac' and 'MICA'. Ephemerides are supplied by
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). You can use
this software for Celestial Navigation, and also
as a basis for controlling astronomical
equipment.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This beta release is based on swig 1.3.24 or higher and Python 2.3
or higher. It has more examples, including test.py, eclipse.py, and
almanac.py
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Libptytty is a small library that offers
pseudo-TTY management in an OS-independent way. It
was created out of frustration over the many
differences of PTY/TTY handling in different
operating systems for use inside "rxvt-unicode".
It also offers session database support (utmp and
optional wtmp/lastlog updates for login shells)
and supports forking after startup and dropping
privileges in the calling process. It offers C++
and C-only APIs.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release has been thoroughly tested within rxvt-unicode and has seen
some standalone tests using the C API.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News NuFW is an authentication firewall suite: the
gateway authorizes a packet depending on which
remote user has sent it. It can also set quality
of service on a per-user basis and log user
activities into a SQL database. Furthermore, it
can use an external authentication source such as
an LDAP directory and be the key of a Single Sign
On solution.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The client now works under FreeBSD and MacOS X. Time-based acls are now
possible.
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 check for error values on COW operations and returns errors
to the application with ENOMEM.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Redet is a tool for developing and executing regular expressions using any of more than 40 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:
Support has been added for ici, mysql, numgrep, and zsh. This release checks the availability of all supported programs on startup and disables the Program menu entries for those that are not available. Several palette entries were added, including one for the non-POSIX [:word:] class. A new init file command makes it possible to make font selection dependent on locale.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News boinc can be used as a console tool to display information
about BOINC projects and working units. It can also be used
to start or stop BOINC.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The script was optimized for better speed, some small bugs were fixed, and an Italian translation was added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News nrsTable is a JavaScript script that will allow a
developer to create HTML tables from arrays. The
tables can be automatically sorted simply by
clicking on the heading. A lot of customization
can be done for the tables, such as colors, pages,
captions, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
this release fixes a bug that occurred when the user tried to change the number of entries per row.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is a fast, easy to use, and easy to install GNOME news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports a number of different feed formats including RSS/RDF, CDF, Atom, OCS, and OPML.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes several problems: passing URLs with commas to an external browser, zlib decompression with the Gatling HTTP server, and compiling against Firefox 1.5.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Sporniket Web Site System is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to build and manage a Web site. Two modules are available: Mini File Commander, a Web interface to manage files, and Cabbage, a system to quickly build a Website with organised content without using a database.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
src-request is a kit to generate PHP code from an XML description. The generated code is a derived class from a Base class that provide basic methods to retrieve values from the request object. The process use Ant 1.6.2. The PHP code is for PHP v4.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Sporniket Web Site System is a set of PHP scripts that allow you to build and manage a Web site. Two modules are available: Mini File Commander, a Web interface to manage files, and Cabbage, a system to quickly build a Website with organised content without using a database.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
src-linker is a kit for generating PHP code from an XML description. The generated code is a derived class. The purpose is to make a module for the building of internal links of a Web application, so that the rest of the application does not have to know how to construct a link to another page. The process uses Ant 1.6.2 for generating the classes. The generated code is PHP v4.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News fastcgi-gallery is a Web gallery based on
Apache::Gallery, but is hacked for usage with Perl
FastCGI scripts. Therefore, this version is about
10x quicker (with cache turned on) than
Apache::Gallery. With the best template system
(Template-Toolkit) you can customize your gallery
as you wish; for example, you can create a
multi-language gallery. A database is not used;
everything is stored in files. Output and
generated thumbnails are cached for speed
optimization.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This is a performance optimization release. Thumbnails are now downloaded directly from disk cache, not via a FastCGI script. Some documentation has been updated.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Klear is a KDE-based TV viewer for DVB. It includes internal tuners for DVB-S, -T, and -C. It is also able to record video streams in live- and scheduled-mode as MPEG TS and MPEG PS. It shows OSD information, takes snapshots, deinterlaces the video stream, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes problems with exception handling and a crash on startup when configuration is missing. It adds Russian and Spanish translation. All windows should resize correctly. There is some code cleanup in tuners. Some minor problems have been fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News The SMS Server Tools (smstools) were made to send and receive SMS from one or many GSM modems. They include a send/receive daemon and some sample scripts to build an SMS email gateway and for logging into an SQL database. The daemon waits for files in an outgoing spool directory and sends them. It puts all received SMS in an incoming spool directory, and can call any external program for incoming or outgoing notification. This software support text messages in 7 and 16 bits (UCS2), as well as 8 bit binary messages.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release resolves a name conflict with stdio.h in recent Cygwin versions.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Speech Dispatcher is a device independent layer
for speech synthesis, developed with the goal of
making the usage of speech synthesis easier for
application programmers. It takes care of most of
the tasks necessary to solve in speech-enabled
applications. What a very high level GUI library
is to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is to speech
synthesis. The architecture is based on a proven
client/server model. The basic means of client
communication is through a TCP connection using
the Speech Synthesis Independent Protocol (SSIP),
or through an interface library.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The SSIP implementation now supports events notification and index marking. Improved documentation. spd-say client functionality has been expanded (stopping and client name setting). Better performance. A Gnome Speech output module was developed that allows you to use Gnopernicus with Speech Dispatcher, and will shortly be available in the Gnome Speech distribution.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Firebird is a relational database offering many
ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows,
and a variety of Unix platforms. It offers
excellent concurrency, high performance, and
powerful language support for stored procedures
and triggers.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Changes:
This release represents a year of bugfixes. Minor
enhancements were made, many back-ported from the
Firebird 2.0 developments.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Adaptive Website Framework (AWF) is a modern content
management system and development framework. Most of its code is object-oriented and very easy to extend. It features support for multiple Web sites and languages, content versioning, caching, community portal functions (online list, forums, instant messages, newsletters, weblogs, wiki, etc.), image upload and galleries, a lexicon, a modular full-text search engine, an auto repair function for database tables, XML and PDF export, and RSS and LDAP support. Changes can be made on a preview site and published at a later time on the live site. Fully flexible URLs allow the replacement of existing static Web sites.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release features improved community portal
functions, LDAP support, a new module for
scientific publications, a new license and
category management, an improved lexicon
(including glossary function), improved image
management and galleries, an auto-repair function
for database tables, more configuration options,
and many important bugfixes.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU Moe is a powerful, 8-bit clean text editor for ISO-8859 and ASCII character encodings. It has a modeless, user-friendly interface, online help, multiple windows, unlimited undo/redo capability, unlimited line length, global search/replace (on all buffers at once), block operations, automatic indentation, word wrapping, filename completion, a directory browser, duplicate removal from prompt histories, and delimiter matching.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The "load_file" command no longer opens a new
window for an already loaded file. The
"goto_matching_delimiter" command now tries to
guess what delimiter to match if the cursor is not
on a valid delimiter.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support
based on PHP and either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It
features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread
message views, a private messaging system with
mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file
attachments, and much more. It is an extremely
fast and scalable forum that can fulfill the needs
of both small and large forum operators.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The Spanish, French, and Finnish translations were
updated. An option to restrict times between login
attempts was added. The email address validation
code was improved. forum_login and fudapi are now
allowed to be used in the same script. The admin
is allowed to choose to store message bodies in
the database. A few minor tweaks and bugfixes were
also done.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News JUCE is an all-encompassing C++ class library for
developing cross-platform applications. It's
particularly good for creating highly-specialised
user interfaces and for handling graphics and
sound. The intended users are developers who are
building large, complex applications in C++ and
who would like to use just one clean, high-level
API rather than a bunch of different libraries for
different purposes or platforms. Its features
include fully lightweight components with
transparency and effects, classes for strings,
containers, XML, streams, file handling,
messaging, and event queues, vector graphics, a
custom font engine, image manipulation, OpenGL
support, low-latency audio I/O using CoreAudio,
DSound and ASIO, audio buffers and nodes, MIDI
file and event manipulation, Internet streams,
undo/redo support, and more.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some eye-candy additions were made to the
look-and-feel. New classes of window are available
to add title-bars and title-bar buttons. New
classes for lassoing objects and file management
were added. Lots of cleanups and bugfixes were
done.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News rdup is a utility inspired by rsync and the Plan9
way of doing backups. rdup itself does not backup
anything; it only prints a list of the names of
files that have changed since the last backup.
Auxilary scripts are needed to act on this list
and implement the backup strategy. This way rdup
can be kept lean and mean.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A port to FreeBSD was completed and signal
handling was implemented.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News xCHM is a cross-platform GUI frontend for CHMLIB, written with wxGTK. It is able to display the topics tree, work with displayed pages history, print the current page, work with bookmarks, change fonts and fast search through all the pages of the loaded .chm document. Being indirectly dependent on GTK+, the possibility of changing GTK+ skins makes xCHM theme-friendly.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Czech and Slovak translations were added. The
Russian and French translations were updated. The
useless mouse scroll patch for Mac OS X was
removed. The wbout dialog on Mac OS X was fixed.
The HTML link to Pabs' chmspec page was fixed. The
"back" button is now allowed to get to the welcome
page. The code compiles on Win32 with MinGW
without patches. Win32 resource and icon files
were added. The code now compiles with GCC 4.1.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News KAlarm lets you configure personal messages to be displayed, commands to be executed, or emails to be sent, at scheduled times. It allows you to choose the message font and color, how often to repeat, whether to display an advance reminder, whether to speak the message or play a sound when it is displayed, and whether to cancel the alarm if it can't be triggered on time (e.g. if you are logged out at the time). As well as using the graphical interface to configure alarms, you can use the command line, and there is a DCOP interface for other applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
kalarmd no longer hangs when a late-cancel alarm
is triggered at startup, if KAlarm is running in
on-demand mode.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News sonic-snap is a Webcam application specifically
suited for the sn9c102 kernel driver.
Distinguishing features include histogram
analysis, normalization, and MPEG output.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Normalization was improved so that it doesn't act
on sporadic isolated extremes. An assertion
failure caused by a buggy videodev2.h was
investigated. The failure of VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL was
made non-fatal.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News unicap is a library to access different kinds of
capture devices. Device drivers are loaded with a
plugin system so that new drivers can be easily
added. Currently, it has support for
video-4-linux, video-4-linux-2, IIDC cameras, and
video-to-firewire converters, and provides GTK widgets for live video display and access to device properties.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds API documentation for libunicap
and libunicapgtk. Some compilation issues with C++
compilers were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Build-time configuration was improved. Video
widget resizing locks were fixed. Window manager
interaction and memory usage were improved
slightly.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News GNU polyxmass features an integrated mass spectrometry framework where users are able to define brand new polymer chemistries (within the polyxdef module), and use these definitions in order to make simple mass calculations (within the polyxcalc module) or perform complex simulations of polymer chemistry with related mass data computations (within the polyxedit module). The framework allows full customization of every aspect of the polymer chemistry being defined, and of the way the polymer sequences are graphically displayed. This program was formerly called "polyXmass".
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A Find/Replace feature was added. This addition
required a huge rework of the polymer sequence
rendering mechanisms and a lot of improvements in
the source code.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Nmap is a utility for network exploration or security auditing. It supports ping scanning (determine which hosts are up), many port scanning techniques (determine what services the hosts are offering), version detection (determine what application/service is runing on a port), and TCP/IP fingerprinting (remote host OS or device identification). It also offers flexible target and port specification, decoy/stealth scanning, SunRPC scanning, and more. Most Unix and Windows platforms are supported in both GUI and command line modes. Several popular handheld devices are also supported, including the Sharp Zaurus and the iPAQ.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The new runtime interaction system provides time
estimates and verbosity/debugging setting changes
at the tap of a key while Nmap executes. Reverse
DNS resolution has been parallelized with custom
code to speed up large scans. The new
--max-retries option can also improve performance.
The version detection DB has been updated to 3,153
signatures for 381 different service protocols.
The --badsum option helps you detect tricky
firewall/IDS systems. Dozens of fixes and smaller
features have also been added.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News DVD-Baker generates a DVD consisting of menus and
slideshows from a picture collection stored in a
Menalto Gallery G2 Web site. Each "leaf" album (an
album that does not contain sub-albums) is used to
create a slideshow. The slideshows (and any
DVD-ready MPEG videos) are made accessible on the
DVD with menus that follow the structure of the
Web site. Extra features include random or
sequential autoplay, an options menu, and the
ability to automatically include slideshow and
MPEG DVD leaders. Since dvd-slideshow is used to
produce each slideshow, it supports effects such
as crossfades, crops, and the Ken Burns effect.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The quoted image filename was corrected for
dvd-slideshow 0.7.3. The title post logic was
corrected so that autoplay isn't switched off at
the end of the first run. A basic progress meter
was added. dvd-menu output was switched to null to
clean up the dvd-baker logfile.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News HAVP (HTTP Anti Virus Proxy) is a proxy which
scans downloads for viruses with ClamAV, F-Prot,
or Kaspersky. The main aims are continuous,
non-blocking downloads and smooth scanning of
dynamic and password protected HTTP traffic. It
can be used with squid or standalone, and it also
supports transparent proxy mode.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A security bug in which Kaspersky and F-Prot did
not catch viruses was fixed. The Trophie (Trend
Micro) scanner was added. Some default settings
were optimized.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The cleanup of IMAP4 message caches on exit was implemented. The temporary passwords of IMAP4 accounts are now preserved until exit. "File/Insert signature" now inserts the signature into the current cursor position, and "File/Append signature" was added for the previous behavior. Some dialogs are now placed at the center on the parent window. The confirmation dialog for emptying trash is not displayed anymore if messages don't exist in trash folders. Trash folders are excluded on recursive search. Several minor bugs were fixed.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News BOND (building object network databases) is database development framework for rapidly creating applications. It creates live forms for the Web with AJAX and desktop applications using GTK. Using XML to define widget layouts, it drives the live forms to which SQL statements and methods can be attached.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Bugfixes were made for gcc4 compiling, module
loading, SQL API calls, livesql widget extraction,
dependency for forms, and many other things.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Rubix Linux is a Linux distribution that was
originally derived from Slackware. It is designed
to support mission critical hardware and be very
admin friendly. It uses Arch Linux's pacman for
simplified package management with dependency
resolution. It has a revamped init system,
maintaining the BSD style, but adding modularity.
It compiles packages with SSP (a.k.a. ProPolice)
and PIE (Position Independent Executable) whenever
possible to increase security.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The highlights of this release since rc1 include Linux 2.6.15.1 with reiser4 support, Linux 2.4.32, either vanilla or patched with grsecurity, GCC 3.4.4 patched with stack smashing protection, Heimdal Kerberos support, SKey password support, encrypted partition support through loop-aes, KDE 3.5.0, Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5, and Xorg 6.9.0. Udev has completely replaced hotplug for 2.6 kernels. The boot process was cleaned up and made much faster. An online package browser and a custom live CD were implemented.
Source: Freshmeat Daily News Fetchmail is a free, full-featured, robust,
well-documented remote-mail retrieval and
forwarding utility intended to be used over
on-demand TCP/IP links (such as SLIP or PPP
connections). It supports every remote-mail
protocol now in use on the Internet: POP2, POP3,
RPOP, APOP, KPOP, all flavors of IMAP, and ESMTP
ETRN. It can even support IPv6 and IPSEC.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
CVE-2006-0321, a denial of service attack that
could cause a crash after bouncing, was fixed. A
workaround for Maillennium's truncating TOP
command was added. fetchmail no longer confuses
SMTP and LMTP when bouncing or trying LMTP and
SMTP hosts in mixed setups. Some "verbose"
messages that disappeared in "debug" mode are
back.
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