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AquaLess 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126149/ AquaLess is a text pager for Mac OS X that is intended to replace the less command. It allows you to browse lengthy text output from Unix command line tools in a separate window, so you can keep working in the terminal while you read. Armagetron 0.2.pre4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126122/ In Armagetron, you ride a lightcycle around the game grid. You can only make sharp turns of 90 degrees and a wall constantly builds up after you. Make your enemies crash into your wall, but be aware that they are trying to do the same to you. If you are fast enough, you may be able to trap them, but the only way to speed up your lightcycle is to drive close to the dangerous walls. Prepare for exciting strategic preparations followed by action-packed close combat! BBStatus 2.0RC13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126169/ BBStatus is an IP accounting package, and an SNMP and IP monitoring tool for Linux. It collects, summarizes, and displays the values from its database. It can be used for IP accounting (using iptables, you can design various kinds of accounting filters), SNMP monitoring (collects data making SNMP requests), IP monitoring (using ping, it stores and summarizes values like min, avg, max reply time, and packet loss), and client traffic filtering (using various types of filters). It also provides user based access so that every user can log in and check the traffic from/through his/her IP addresses. It requires PostgreSQL, Apache with mod_auth_pgsql, Perl(Net::SNMP), and RRDTool. cdmp3 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126151/ cdmp3 uses cdparanoia or cdda2wav to extract single tracks or even a whole CD, and converts them on-the-fly into MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files. Using the CDDB database, it is possible to include information like the artist's name or the track's title into the file name or as meta tags in the file content. CheckRDF 36.25 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126164/ CheckRDF is a tool, consisting of a shell script and a Haskell program, for downloading RDF site summaries and showing news in a text file and in an HTML file. It is highly configurable. Code 6 1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126137/ Code 6 is a very powerful assortment of error-correcting algorithms. It includes "code6" for making Gallager codes, "mncN" and "gallager" for sum-product decoding, and "fe" for decoding using variational free energy minimization. crosstool 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126152/ crosstool is a set of scripts that make it easy to build cross-development toolchains based on gcc, glibc, and Linux. The goal is to make it easy to build and test cross-toolchains for all architectures supported by glibc. diradm 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126135/ diradm is a simple bash script for managing POSIX users and groups stored in a LDAP directory, offering the same features as the traditional passwd file utilities useradd/usermod/userdel and groupadd/groupmod/groupdel. It uses the ldapsearch, ldapadd, ldapmodify, and ldapdelete utilities from the OpenLDAP project to perform the needed queries against the LDAP database. disktype 6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126136/ 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. docbook2X 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126175/ docbook2X converts DocBook documents to man pages and Texinfo. doxygen 1.3.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126162/ Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. Easy Funktion 5.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126118/ Easy Funktion is 2D function plotter software with an equation solver. It has an office-like GUI frontend and features a built-in pocket calculator, calculating with complex numbers (with special extensions for electronics, e.g. capacitor/inductor impedance), a function to export to spreadsheet software, and an advanced formula editor with automatic formatting. efarm-project 0.1b http://freshmeat.net/releases/125930/ eFarm is a peer-to-peer server based on eDonkey protocol which will offer optimized functionnalities for eMule clients. eFarm is based on module system which offers to developers the ability to write a specified module for other peer-to-peer networks. Flat Assembler 1.46.9.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126129/ The Flat Assembler is a fast and efficient self-assembling 80x86 assembler for Linux, DOS, and Windows. It supports all 8086-80486/Pentium instructions with MMX, SSE, SSE2 and 3DNow! extensions. It can produce output in binary, MZ, PE, or COFF formats. It has advanced but easy-to-use macroinstruction support, and it does multiple quick passes to optimize the code for size. It is totally written in assembly language. FW1-Loggrabber 1.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126146/ FW1-Loggrabber is a simple LEA (Log Export API) client for Checkpoint Firewall-1. It was developed to access Firewall-1 Logfiles from commandline from any host in the network. Without an LEA client you can only access logs with graphical Checkpoint Tools or via commandline directly on the Firewall-1 machine. The primary goal was to automate reports of FW-1 logs with LIRE. Green Understatement 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126128/ Green Understand is a minimalist green and khaki theme. The background is by liquachu (James Wignall). gtk-gnutella 0.92 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126121/ Gtk-Gnutella is a Unix Gnutella client using GTK+. HardInfo 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126141/ HardInfo displays informations about the system's hardware in a GTK window. Linux 2.4 is officially required, but it might work with 2.2. Hardware lister A.01.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126163/ 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. Hocus Pocus 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126109/ Hocus Pocus is a theme with bright colours on black. The background is by d-b-c. Impact 0.3.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126165/ Impact is a finite element program based on an explicit time stepping algorithm. It can be used to simulate dynamic events such as car crashes or other large deformation events. It is written in Java and is kept very simple, to make it intuitive to use and easy to change and extend. It is very flexible and can handle several different input and output formats. Jawa Open Eyes 4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126131/ Jawa Open Eyes is a visual network monitoring tool developed in Java using SNMPv1/2/2c for collecting MIB-II information. The main features include visual monitoring, an enhanced network topology designer, email alert, trap receiver, trap agent, and real time logging to DB and Web. Jin client for chess servers 2.07rc1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126127/ Jin is a Java client for various chess servers. While it currently only supports the Internet Chess Club (chessclub.com) and the Free Internet Chess Server (freechess.org), it is written to be flexible enough to support any chess server. It is based on the Swing UI toolkit and runs on any Java 1.1 compatible JVM. JPluck 2.0 pre3 (2.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126150/ JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld. JPluck 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126148/ JPluck converts Web sites to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld. JSyntaxColor 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126154/ JSyntaxColor is a Java library for coloring in real time user text input. Main features include a standard editor kit, a simple property file for each syntax description, real time switch between syntax descriptions, inner cache for limiting parsing scope, tokens libraries customizable by the user, color, underline, and border attributes support, samples for Java, SQL, and Formula syntax, and many samples for interesting API parts. Large File Btree 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126157/ Large File Btree is a btree routine to store/retrieve keys using files larger than 2GB. m0n0wall pb12r418 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126133/ m0n0wall is an all-in-one firewall software package that is based on FreeBSD. It is geared towards embedded PCs, but the CD-ROM version also works on standard PCs. It includes an easy-to-use Web interface like commercial firewall boxes do. PHP is used instead of shell scripts, and the entire system configuration is stored in a single XML-formatted file. There is support for wireless LAN, VPN, traffic shaping, and more. mkvtoolnix 0.4.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126144/ mkvtoolnix is a set of tools that allow users to display information about, extract streams from, merge several streams into, and split Matroska media files. Supported stream types include video streams from AVIs or Ogg files and Vorbis audio from Ogg files among many others. The resulting files can be played back with mplayer or the Matroska Direct Show filter under Windows. mod_psldap 0.63 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126138/ mod_psldap is an Apache module that performs authentication authorization against an LDAP server using several different means of managing the authentication and authorization processes. The distinguishing features of this implementation include the ability to authenticate against an LDAP server that restricts the user from reading the password and the implementation of Kerberos-based authentication to connect to the LDAP server itself. MozPlugger 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126116/ MozPlugger is a modification of Plugger, a very small multimedia plugin for the Unix versions of Netscape, Mozilla, and Opera which uses external programs to show and play many file formats. This modification fixes bugs which occurred with Mozilla 1.x and allows a player to stream a media file directly from the URL. myStats 1.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126173/ myStats is a full statistics system for Web sites, giving a lot of information about people who visit your site, about search engines, keywords, etc. NewsBro 2.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126180/ NewsBro is a web-based application providing a Usenet newsreader service. It supports multiple users, accessing multiple news groups on multiple news servers. User profiles are maintained in order to allow for individual news preferences. It is implemented as a Java program, and requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Development Kit (JDK) to be installed on the server system. Users only require a standard web browser. Nova Gaming System 0.57 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126112/ The Nova Gaming System is a framework for building online, Web-based, turn-driven gaming systems. Using templates and language files, it is able to power multiple types of games, whether fast-paced space trading or slowly developing post-apocolyptic. The first game hosted on the platform is "The Kabal Invasion", which is in active development. Orpheus 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126178/ Orpheus is a text-mode menu- and window- driven audio player application for CDs, Ogg, and MP3. It can retrieve CDDB information for compact discs with HTTP (even through a proxy), read ID tags from MP3 and Ogg files, and save and load playlists. The color schemes are configurable. OZradio 0.9.6.1 beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/126123/ OZradio is a Linux FM radio player and CD Player for KDE and GNOME. It supports BTTV-compatible FM and TV cards. It features the ability to save up to 10 preset stations, a sound mixer, volume control, a mute button, automatic frequency scanning, on-demand recording and replay of radio, and programmable recording. p(y)layer 0.1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126166/ p(y)layer is a jukebox style front end for mpg321 (or mpg123). Its main feature is the ability to search for songs and queue them up for play. If there are no songs queued, it will play a random song. Perl CD Burning Script 0.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126143/ Perl CD Burning Script is a Perl frontend for cdrtools and mkisofs. It provides a simple and easy-to-use script for creating ISO-files and burning them onto a CD. pork 0.99.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126174/ pork is an ncurses-based AOL instant messenger client. It uses the OSCAR protocol (the one the Windows client uses) to access AIM. Pork features Perl scripting, an online help system, the ability to configure nearly all aspects of the program's look and feel, an alias system, and a powerful, fully configurable key binding system. It supports being logged in with more than one screen name at the same time. The default look and feel of the client is modeled after the ircII IRC client. Anyone comfortable using ircII (or any clients derived from it, e.g. epic, BitchX, etc.) will feel comfortable using pork. Recovery Is Possible! 53 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126139/ Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has Ethernet/DSL/cable network support. Scribus 0.9.11 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126117/ Scribus is a DTP program for Linux. Its goal is to provide an easy-to-use tool for simple Desktop Publishing. It tries be as professional as possible. SendYmail 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126177/ SendYmail allows you to send email through Yahoo! Mail, using your favorite mail client. It works as a gateway between the Yahoo! Mail Web interface and your email program, and can be used in conjunction with FetchYahoo or YoSucker to emulate a POP3/SMTP-like interface. SiteBar 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126130/ SiteBar is a multi-user bookmark server that lets users view, add, and maintain bookmarks from anywhere. It's intended as a Mozilla/Netscape sidebar, but can also be used in a main browser window. SiteBar provides infinite depth of folders, the ability to move anything to anywhere else, and complete sharing of public items between users. It's cross-browser compatible, features a tree-menu and context menus common to file explorers, and supports FavIcons. Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin 0.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126168/ Sylpheed LCDProc Plugin shows the number of new and unread messages in an LCD display controlled by lcdproc. It requires Sylpheed Claws with plugin support (0.8.11 or higher). UDP Ping Logger 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126156/ Uplog is an UDP-based ping program that gives an ASCII graphical log of packet loss. Once per second, it sends a UDP packet to the echo port of the target host and waits for a reply. If it gets a reply an X is written, otherwise a dot is written to the log file. If a packet with an incorrect sequence number arrives, a colon is written to the log file. By examining the log file, one can easily see when and how the packet losses occur. UnrealIRCd 3.2-beta17 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/126160/ UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon whose key features include full SSL support, Trojan protection, and WebTV compatibility. It is a highly stable and feature-packed IRC server daemon. VDRadmin 0.90 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126125/ VDRadmin is a program to administer VDR (video digital recorder) via HTTP. A small HTTP server is included. WebCollab 1.40 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126119/ WebCollab is a collaborative Web site for project workgroups. It aims to be easy and intuitive to use without being complicated or graphically intensive. XMMS Remote 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126172/ XMMS Remote is a two-part software solution that uses Web services to remotely control and display the status of the XMMS media player. Its two parts are a Cocoa application for OS X and a Perl script for Unix. yudit 2.7.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126113/ Yudit is a Unicode text editor for the X Window System. It can do True Type font rendering, printing, transliterated keyboard input, and handwriting recognition with no dependencies on on external engines. Its conversion utilities can convert text between various encodings. Keyboard input maps can also act like text converters. There is no need for a pre-installed multi-lingual environment. The menus are available in many languages. Zero Install 0.1.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126158/ The Zero Install system removes the need to install software or libraries by running all programs from a network filesystem. The filesystem in question is the Internet as a whole, with an aggressive caching system to make it as fast as (or faster than) traditional systems such as Debian's APT repository, and to allow for offline use. It doesn't require any central authority to maintain it, and allows users to run software without needing a root password. Zope Group Calendar 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/126142/ The Zope Group Calendar is an effort to create a standards-compliant group calendar in zope. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
