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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Etnus TotalView, The World's Best C/C++ Debugger Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. But TotalView shows you hierarchical class derivation, gives you superior support for templates, handles shared libraries and DLLs, lets you test fixes on the fly, and much more. Try TotalView 6 for free at www.etnus.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- March 10, 2003 Freshmeat Latest Updates BitTorrent++ 0.5.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115666/ BitTorrent++ is a client for the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing solution. Based on the original BitTorrent software, it is also written in Python using wxPython for the GUI, thus allowing it to run on Win32 as well as Linux-like platforms. It improves (or will improve) many parts of the original software, like downloading of multiple files at once, configuration of upload and download speeds, as well as other behaviours. The GUI and usability is also to be improved greatly. Catch the Furball 1.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115701/ Catch the Furball is an icebreaker board game intended for friends to play around a computer. It features a freshly-generated board for each game, an eclectic collection of cards, and beautiful pictures of Cambridge University. The distribution is intended both to allow Web masters to quickly set up their own copy of the game, and to allow tinkerers to use the game engine to make their own games. It includes the editor used to create game data. cDonkey 0.8.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115716/ cDonkey is an open source core client for eDonkey without a GUI. It works together with eMule and ed2k_gui. It uses Berkley DB-4.1 for fast List management. The eMule Packet data and source2source exchange was implemented. It currently only works with Linux. Checky 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115682/ The Checky Plugin for Mozilla, Phoenix, and Netscape is a simple interface for Web content and resource developers to free and commercial online validation and analysis services. With Checky, you can easily set up, combine, and use 19 online validator and checker services. Simply choose your services with Checky-Agent, then browse to a Web resource and press F10 to display the results of the selected services in a new browser tab or window. Service interfaces are available for HTML, XHTML, CSS, RDF, RSS, XML, SGML, WAI, 508, P3P, and various viewers, valets, and purifiers. Cherokee 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115699/ Cherokee is a tiny, ultrafast, lightweight Web server. It is implemented entirely in C, and has no dependencies beyond a standard C library. It is embeddable, extensible with plug-ins, and supports on-the-fly configuration by reading files or strings. CIL 1.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115647/ CIL (C Intermediate Language) is a high-level representation along with a set of tools that permit easy analysis and source-to-source transformation of C programs. In essence, CIL is a highly-structured, 'clean' subset of C. dchub 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115656/ dchub is a Direct Connect hub clone. It resembles an IRC server with some extra features dedicated to file sharing. DCTC 0.85.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115650/ DCTC (Direct Connect Text Client) is a library that gives access to the direct connect world, like IRC but more file-sharing oriented. Debt Minder 1.5.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115688/ Debt Minder is a specialized tool for debt management. It is user friendly, complete, functional, and economical, and considers account subtleties such as introductory APRs, varying interest rates, split interest rates, external payments, and more. Its visualization capabilities include pie charts, line graphs, bar charts, area graphs, debt to income ratios, and colored payoff tables. An integrated amortization calculator for American and Canadian methods is included, and payoff schedules can be exported to XML, CSV, and tab delimited files disktype 2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115665/ The purpose of disktype is to detect the content format of a disk or disk image. It knows about common file systems, partition tables, and boot codes. Documancer 0.1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115709/ Documancer is a programmer's documentation reader for Unix which has very fast fulltext searching. It has several advantages over using a Web browser or specialized format-specific viewers (such as info), namely unified access to all documentation formats and a GUI that is better-suited for documentation reading than a generic Web browser. It can display HTML manuals and both info and man pages. Domain Technologie Control 0.10.7-8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115680/ Domain Technologie Control (DTC) is a set of PHP scripts that manage a MySQL database that handles all the host information. It generates backup scripts, statistic calculation scripts, and config files for bind, Apache, qmail, and proftpd, using a single system UID/GID. With DTC, you can delegate the task of creating subdomains, email, and FTP accounts to users for the domain names they own. Dragon Blade 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115655/ Dragon Blade is a theme based on a background made by Larry Elmore. Elmo III 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115600/ Elmo III is a KDE 3.x theme package (pixmap theme, IceWM window decoration, and color scheme) based on the "Elmo III" concept art by Andreas Söllner. It attempts to be as close as possible to the original idea without genuine low level coding efforts. EzSDK 4.62 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115700/ EzSDK is a PHP SDK which includes a PHP source code generator, a library of PHP classes, and an application environment consisting of premade supporting modules. The modules handle user application and data access security, DB compatibility (with MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, etc.), a built-in GUI interface with an interactive desktop, and more. FCKeditor 0.9.0 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/115686/ FCKEditor is an HTML editor that brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of known desktop editors like Word. It's really lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation in the client computer. FlightGear Scenery Designer 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115649/ FlightGear Scenery Designer is an interactive scenery designer/builder for the FlightGear flight simulator project. The user will be able to import map data, draw hypsographic curves, specify land use area, edit taxiway path, and place 3D objects like buildings. FVWM -- Crystal 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115651/ FVWM -- Crystal is a GUI and theme whose goals include finding better ways of using the window manager and providing it with an eye candy interface. Galeon 1.3.3 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115677/ Galeon is a GNOME Web browser based on Gecko (the Mozilla rendering engine). It is fast, has a light interface, and is fully standards-compliant. Hardware lister T.00.07 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115710/ lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. Hspell 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115715/ Hspell is a Hebrew linguistic project. It features a Hebrew spell-checker, and aims to use the databases and algorithms developed as a morphology engine (for example, for search engines), and in the future for advanced things like Hebrew speech synthesis. IaraJS 0.9.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115718/ IaraJS is a set of JavaScript templates for the construction of Web sites, using JavaScript components. ispbs 2.3.b2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115687/ ispbs (internet service provider billing system) is a free user management and billing system designed for ISP, hosting, and voip providers. It uses functions of PHP, Java, MySQL, and shell scripts. Its main features include automated invoicing, client search by name/account name/credit card number/business name, automatic email or paper billing, balance tracking, past due balance reminder, suspend and unsuspend customer, automatic account creation and removal, support for hosting, dial-up, DNS zone, email account, or voip, administration of an unlimited number of Unix servers, a Web-based interface, qmail support, multiple customizable packages, and more. Jabberwocky 1.0.RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115685/ Jabberwocky is a Lisp IDE containing a Lisp-aware editor with syntax highlighting, parentheses matching, a source analyzer, indentation, a source level debugger, a project explorer, and an interaction buffer. It is the replacement for the Lisp Debug project. Jessica Alba theme 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115633/ Jessica Alba is a theme based on the Maxum picture of Jessica Alba. Mbrowser 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115679/ Mbrowse is an SNMP MIB browser based on GTK, and net-snmp. Its features include bookmarks, searching, and viewing MIB variable details. miqser 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115668/ Miqser is yet another mixer device controller. It is written in C and is very small and simple. MisterHouse 2.79 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115697/ MisterHouse is a Unix/Windows home automation program written in Perl. It can respond to voice commands, Web browsers, time of day, serial port and X10 data, external files, etc., and can speak via Text to Speech engines. Movie Indekser 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115681/ MIndekser is a small utility that allows users to manage a movie collection, with the ability to export it to HTML. newfile 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115696/ newfile generates "starting-out" files using a full featured template preprocessor. It can also generate trees of files, for example, a FreeBSD port or a project using automake and autoconf. A user can add their own template files and directories to those supplied with the package. It includes templates for making "empty" files for Ruby, make, shell, C, C++, C & C++ headers, and more. nmaFPS 0.80 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115673/ nmaFPS is a simple, portable 3D first person shooter. The aim is to shoot down as many drones as you can. You lose if the number of drones flying around goes above 10. One-Wire Weather 0.68.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115690/ Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for Dallas Semiconductor / AAG 1-wire weather station kits, providing a graphical (animated) display to monitor outside temperature, wind speed and direction, rainfall, and humidity. Extra temperature sensors may be added. A 1-wire "hub" may be used for improved reliability and range. Weather data may be logged to CSV files, parsed to command line programs, sent to the Henriksen Windows client, or uploaded to Web servers at Dallas, The Weather Underground, and HAMweather. PassGuard Framework 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115705/ PassGuard Framework is a library for the PassGuard suite of programs that is used to manage numerous passwords in an encrypted file. Encryption is managed with a plugin system, which allows easy support for any kind of encrypted file. Percival Network Monitoring System 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115689/ Percival is a network monitoring and capacity planning frontend to RRDtool. It features a themeable Web interface, and support for MIB2, Cisco, Linux, and Windows. Configuration is stored in a hierarchical database, which supports on-the-fly editing, links, and multiple users. PHP Layers Menu 2.2.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115719/ PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x, Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript. PHP Layers Menu 2.3.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115717/ PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly choose among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE and MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the menu structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x, Konqueror, Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript. Python/Tk Empire Interface 1.17.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115693/ The Python/Tk Empire Interface (PTkEI) enables you to connect to empire 4.x.x (Wolfpack) servers. Empire is a real-time war game with long tradition. You can find out about Empire and currently running servers and other clients at its homepage. This client is an example for a truly portable cross-platform GUI, known to run on Unix, X11, Win32 and Mac. Additionally you do not give up any command line power as a player, but you have to to learn the empire commands to make use of this GUI client. ReMedial 0.2.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115670/ Remedial aims to be an easy-to-use player for Windows media files under Linux. It is a front-end to the excellent avifile library, and provides a look and feel similar to that of Realplayer. Remote Internet Connect 2.0.92 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115652/ Remote Internet Connect simplifies connecting a Linux box to the Internet from another machine running any operating system. A simple GUI allows the user to quickly connect, disconnect, or see who is online. SerialBridge 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115711/ SerialBridge bridges data across two serial ports across a Palm device. It's mainly aimed at bridging the Wireless Modem and a USB/Serial port on a Treo. shn2make 2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115675/ shn2make works with sets of shn audio files and the make program to automate the process of burning CD-Rs and encoding mp3 and ogg files. shn2make looks for the .nfo or .txt file, and attempts to interpret the song names, CD listing, and other things according to the most common .nfo file formats, it checks MD5 checksums, and, if everything makes sense, outputs the text of a Makefile. The output Makefile fully automates the processing of the set of shn files. SlackCheck 2.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115713/ SlackCheck allows users to keep many Slackware machines up to date with the latest packages. All upgrades are performed from single machine though SSH (or RSH). It generates an upgrade script and list of non-standard packages for every machine. t1lib 5.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115653/ t1lib is a library written in C which implements functions for generating bitmaps from Adobe Type 1 fonts. It uses most internal parts of the Type 1 rasterizer provided with X11R5 and newer but tries avoid the disadvantages known from that rasterizer. TAMS 1.10a1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115704/ TAMS (Text Analysis Markup System) is a qualitative or ethnographic coding and data extraction-analysis system. Ted 2.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115662/ Ted is a text processor running under X on Unix/Linux systems, with the ability to edit rich text documents on Unix/Linux in a WYSIWYG way. It also converts RTF to PostScript and PDF. RTF files from Ted are fully compatible with MS Word. tower toppler 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115643/ Tower Toppler (aka Nebulous) is the reimplementation an old 'jump and run' game. In this game you have to climb to the top of a tower avoiding all kinds of creatures that want to push you down. trickle 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115645/ trickle is a lightweight, portable, per-application bandwidth shaper. It works in collaboration, has peak detection, and does smoothing. trickle works entirely in userland and does not require root to run. It has been developed on OpenBSD and is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. VetTux 2.0-3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115661/ VetTux is a modern animal clinic management and POS system. It aims to provide the veterinarian with a complete solution for running a clinic. Workrave 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115702/ Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32). wv2 0.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115654/ wv2 is a portable MS Word .doc import filter. Currently, it supports Word 97, Word 2000, and Word 2002 (aka XP) documents; support for Word 95 and Word 6 is planned. Older versions like Word 2, 3, 4, and 5 aren't supported for now, but it's quite likely that they will be supported at some point. X11::GUITest 0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115708/ X11::GUITest is a Perl package intended to facilitate the testing of GUI applications by means of user emulation. It can be used to test and interact with GUI applications which have been built (Xlib, GTK, etc.) upon the X toolkit. XElf 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115714/ XElf is a set of modules dedicated to XML processing for Python. It currently features a Python XOM implementation. xine gxine 0.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115659/ 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. xine xine-ui 0.9.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115658/ 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. Yet Another Free RAYtracer cvs20030309 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115721/ yafray is yet another free raytracer, still in development. Some features like caustics, filters, depth of field, etc. are implemented. Zeemo 1.1.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/115683/ Zeemo is an application which combines free advertising, instant messaging, filesharing, chatting, dating, buying and selling, and a lot more. With Zeemo you no longer need to search through a lot of Web pages, you don't have to create different accounts, and no longer have to submit personal data. Zina 0.9.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/115706/ Zina is a graphical interface to your MP3 collection, a personal jukebox, and an MP3 streamer. It can run alone or as a Postnuke or PHPNuke module. It is similar to Andromeda, but is released under the GPL. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to Freshmeat, go to: http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved.
