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It supports only single user mode, and is intended as a repair/rescue/emergency distribution. Burgner 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134314/ The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs. Burgner 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134272/ The Burgner project aims to be a complete free burning suite that is written totally from scratch - it does not include any code from cdrtools (cdrecord and mkisofs) or cdrdao, and is not a front-end for these tools. It can generate ISO images with RockRidge and Eltorito extensions, and burn audio, data, and extra CDs. cddb2md 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134286/ cddb2md is a tool for automatically setting the titles of tracks on a NetMD-capable MiniDisc recorder. It fetches the titles from freedb.org and writes them to the disc via a USB cable. Chump 0.0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134288/ Chump is a table-driven assembler and dissembler with a very fast new architecture input format. Both the assembler and disassembler are created using a single description. It comes with descriptions for ARM, MIPS, Stump, and 6809. It is intended for use as a library compiled with other programs to allow line assembly and disassembly. CleanIce 1.2.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134254/ CleanIce is a simplistic, semi-flat theme engine for GTK+ 2.x, based on the ThinIce and Clean engines of old. The GTK+ 2.x engine has many benefits over the original theme. The arrows are more consistent, the colors are slightly revised to be more usable, etc. Cobex 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134269/ Cobex is a small implementation of the OBEX communication protocol for slow serial cables. It's primary use is to communicate with cell phones such as the Sony Ericsson T310 and T300. config-dhcpd 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134265/ config-dhcpd is a graphical DHCP daemon configuration tool written in Python. d 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134297/ d is an alternative to ls's --format=long output. It optimizes the file info on the left to add as many as ~20 extra spaces for the filename on the right, especially on systems with short user/group names. It has two options that ls doesn't have: a --dirs-first option to always print directories before regular files regardless of the current sort option, and the --tree option which prints a tree-like output using line drawing or ASCII characters. It allows for system and user configuration files, where the user file can override the system file, and where several options can be set, including the 'color' option which can be used to customize the colorization of the output. Digital Tester 0.4 ALPHA http://freshmeat.net/releases/134290/ Digital Tester can be used by testers as a cost-effective test management solution. By using the built-in reports and third-party tools like Crystal Reports, it will help you analyze your test results, allowing you to quickly identify areas of your application that have bugs. DSPAM 2.6.5-rc1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134282/ DSPAM is a server-side anti-spam agent for UNIX email servers. It masquerades as the email server's local delivery agent and filters/learns spam using a Bayesian statistical approach which provides an administratively maintenance-free, self-learning anti-spam service. Each email is broken down into its most interesting tokens, each assigned a spam probability. All probabilities are then combined to produce a statistical probability of spam. This approach, applied to a mature corpus of email, has the potential to yield a 99.75% success rate with less than a 0.03% chance of false positives. Entagged 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134319/ Entagged is a Java MP3 tagger and Library which uses the freedb online database. epsutil 0.2-rc3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134299/ epsutil is a PyQt3-based graphical Epson inkjet printer toolbox frontend for the command line utility escputil (available from the gimp-print package). It is able to perform basic maintainance steps: check ink level, test nozzles, and clean heads. fix-mime-charset 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134318/ Fix-mime-charset automatically detects character sets of email message and modifies the Content-Type header appropriately. It can be used as mail filter in mailing lists where users often set the charset of their messages incorrectly. It processes messages fast and accurately, ignoring attachments, and correctly interprets transfer-encodings. None but the Content- Type header is changed. flscan 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134278/ flscan (Fast Light Scan) is a new frontend for the SANE libraries and dlls. It can rotate images by 90° both clockwise and counter clockwise, flip images both vertically and horizontally, correct the horizontal aspect of the image, save aquired images in JPEG or in PNG format, let you view images even at full size after they've been acquired, and potentially supports all the SANE backends. GameQ 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134294/ GameQ is a small PHP class for querying servers and parsing the returned data. It's designed for easy use and modification. Guis widget server 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134321/ Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for widget requests (in the LUA scripting language), and emits widget events using an XML-based protocol or an equivalent S-expr lispy syntax. It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to delegate the user interface to another process. HotSaNIC 0.5.0-pre4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134276/ HotSaNIC is a Web-based information center for Unix-based systems. It gives you a graphical overview about certain network- and system statistics. HotSaNIC is programmed (mainly in Perl 5) in a modular way to give you a great flexibility of which items you like to use, and it can be extended with further modules written by yourself or others. KMD 0.9.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134289/ KMD is a multi-processor debugger. It can debug with hardware boards over serial ports or with software emulators (ARM and MIPS emulators are included in the project). Using the pipe option you can debug over the network or any other communication medium. It can load many executable formats such as ELF, and display and follow the original source even from multiple source file programs. There is support for breakpoints and watchpoints which can trap on specific data (such as loading or executing specific instructions). Support for other features such as FPGA's is also available, allowing loading or any control required to drive a specific hardware device. The project uses chump to allow disassembly and line assembly. Chump also allows new architectures to be easily added without the need to recompile the system. Communication with the backend is done using two pipes/fifos using a simple set of codes. Back end communication program can be created using very little memory on the target device. LilyPond 1.9.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134320/ LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project. LinSMS 4.07.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134036/ LinSMS allows you to send SMS to Spanish mobile phones from Linux. lyskom-server 2.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134313/ LysKOM is an online, text based, interactive discussion system sort of like a mix between Mail, News, IRC and a BBS system. It's modeled after the KOM system that was available to DECsystems running the TOPS-20 operating system ages ago. The web site for LysKOM is written in Swedish, but the README files on the FTP site are in English. Both the server and (some of) the client(s) can speak both Swedish, English and other languages. LysKOM is a client-server system. This project is the server software itself. Magma 1.4r3 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134279/ 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. Megamek.NET 0.333 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134295/ Megamek.NET allows you to enter the World of Battletech and become commander of a subsection of the forces of one of the 5 big houses or a minor faction. You then use your lances (groups of Meks) to fight against other players online. The game's community is already quite large, and there are 2 major servers set up. One is using the 3025 timeline and the other one is set in the year 3060. mkautosmb 1.1.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134317/ mkautosmb autodiscovers the local SMB (Windows) network using smbclient, sets up an autofs configuration, and can optionally create a "virtual" directory hierarchy with symlinks. This makes the network completely transparent for all applications. Most of the smbfs mount options are supported. MMBase 1.6.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134308/ MMBase is an Open Source Java-based content management system that can be used for publishing Internet content (e.g. Web sites, mailing lists, etc). It covers the whole spectrum needed to import, manage, maintain, export, and publish information. In other words, it contains Web-based editors for editorial people to insert, manipulate, and delete information. MMBase uses a jsp-taglib for Web designers to publish the information dynamically. mooix 1.0rc4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134304/ Mooix is a multiuser object-oriented dimension (a MOO) layered over top of your favorite Unix system. To the user, mooix looks much like any other MOO. To the programmer, mooix objects look like directories full of files: executable methods, properties, and links to other objects. MOOs have historically had poor support for such things as real programming languages, encrypted logins, multitasking, and editors. Mooix inherits all of these things from the Unix system it is based on. At the same time, it's not wedded too tightly to Unix (e.g., it implements its own permissions system that is much more suited to a MOO environment than the historical Unix system). MozPlugger 1.3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134306/ 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. MyOrgBook 2.6 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134285/ MyOrgBook is an Open Source online organizer programmed with PHP and MySQL. Its features include multi-user login, a lost password emailer, contacts, a to- do/scheduler, a calendar, and a profile changer. It allows you to edit, delete, and update contacts, and much more. Natural Docs 1.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134296/ Natural Docs is an extensible, multi-language, source code documentation generator written in Perl. Its syntax is transparent so the source comments read just as easily as the generated documentation. It also focuses on automation and high-quality HTML output. nautilus-thumbnailers 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134266/ Nautilus-thumbnailers provides scripts that generate thumbnails for several file formats commonly used in the GNOME environment. When used with the Nautilus file manager, for example, icons for PDF files will present the same appearance as the document itself. This has long been the case with images, but this package extends this technique to formats like PDF, PostScript, and GIMP XCF. Netcurse 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134307/ Netcurse is a GNU ncurses-based network speed monitor written in C. It can also run over networks because of its client/daemon architecture. It supports multiple network interfaces, also over TCP. NetInstaller 1.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134283/ NetInstaller lets you create setup wizards for Web applications written in PHP. Users only have to upload two files; everything else will be decompressed online on the server, created, and configured. This eliminates the need to perform tedious permission changes (with chmod) or to upload of hundred of files in order to install a PHP application onto a Web server. Newts 0.12.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134298/ Newts is a notesfile program, a news-like program for use as a message board. Newts is designed for UNIX-like systems, and resembles the Notesfiles program written early in the 1980s at the University at Urbana-Champaign. The client program included emulates the look and feel of Notesfiles, and the UIUC backend is compatible with Notesfiles data files. Future versions of Newts will include a separate daemon to manage multiple local and network connections, additional backends, and additional clients. pal 0.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134292/ pal is a commandline utility which displays a color calendar and marks approaching events and holidays. It supports several different types of recurring events (one time, annual, monthly, etc.). Events are defined in text files, and pal is distributed with files for significant holidays and events. pal is similar to both the Unix "cal" command and OpenBSD's "calendar" command. phpOpenTracker 1.2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134268/ phpOpenTracker is a framework solution for the analysis of Web site traffic and visitor behaviour. It features a logging engine that, either invoked as a Web bug by an HTML image tag or embedded with two lines of code into your PHP application, logs each request to a Web site into a database. One installation can track an arbitrary number of Web sites. Through its API, you can easily access the gathered data and perform complex operations on it (for instance, the analysis of your visitors' click paths). PHPX 3.1.2 (PHPX 3.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134281/ PHPX is a Web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forum, and more. It is designed to allow everyone to be able to have feature-rich, interactive websites even if you do not know a bit of programming. Some key features include fully-integrated forums, downloads, an image gallery with slideshow and auto-thumbnailing, support ticket system, a GUI interface for Web page content management, news with topics and instances, and a whole lot more. It allows you to fully customize the look of your site. Pogo 2.0rc4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134263/ Pogo is a lightweight, elegant, customizable application launcher for X11. QuickDownloader 4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134277/ QuickDownloader is a download manager that accelerates downloads by between 200 and 300%. It provides a resume capability for resuming broken downloads. It supports both HTTP and FTP downloads. RPM Builder 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134271/ RPM Builder is a druid plugin for Anjuta that makes an RPM spec file and RPM packages from projects and user settings. It featutes a configurable user skill level. rpmUpdate 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134302/ rpmUpdate is a Perl script to determine which RPMs on your system are out of date. It currently requires that you mirror an RPM database (such as ftp.redhat.com or ftp.rpmfind.net) locally, but will support FTP in the future. Siproxd 0.3.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134293/ Siproxd is a SIP proxy for SIP based softphones hidden behind an IP masquerading firewall. It includes an RTP data stream proxy for incoming audio data (outgoing RTP data should be handled by IP masquerading by the firewall). Multiple local users/hosts can be simultaneously masqueraded. All configuration is done via one simple ASCII text file. Sisela 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134291/ Sisela is a 1.44MB Linux-based boot disk that allows you to turn any spare PC system into a router, firewall, wireless access point, or any combination of these functions. It supports ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, and CardBus network cards, including wireless adapters. It provides a DHCP client/server, remote access through SSH2, DNS caching/forwarding, and iptables-based firewalling. Software Suspend 1.1-rc7 (2.4 Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134275/ Software suspend (swsusp) allows you to suspend your machine without needing APM, BIOS, or ACPI support. It creates an image that is saved in your active swap partition or swap files. At the next system bootup, the kernel detects the saved image, restores the memory from it and then it continues to run as if you'd never powered down. Stuffed Tracker 1.4.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134270/ Stuffed Tracker is used to track Return on Investment (ROI). It might be very useful for any site that uses advertising to attract visitors and that have some sort of ordering process (registration, selling products, etc.). With the help of the Stuffed Tracker, the site owner can learn how many visitors that came from online advertising were converted into customers, as well as the actual return on investment for every advertising campaign. Stuffed Tracker also provides referrer-based tracking. Tcpreplay 1.4.5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/134267/ Tcpreplay is a set of Unix tools which allows the replaying of captured network traffic in pcap (tcpdump) format. It can be used to test a variety of network devices including routers, firewalls, and NIDS. Timeless Meaning 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134257/ Timeless Meaning is a Java library that supports schema evolution for rapid development. Information stored in an application is encoded as a series of method calls written with method names that are meaningful sentences. The method calls are serialized to create a data dump and then deserialized to reload the data dump into a new version of the application. The semantics of the data dump are grounded in natural language, which makes upgrading relatively painless and robust. Veejay 0.4.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134305/ Veejay is a live performance tool featuring non-linear editing and mixing from multiple sources (to one). It lets you load multiple video clips or Edit Decision lists, cut and paste portions of video/audio, and save it as a (new) Editlist. Also, you can create video samples from clips or tags from (live) streams. With these samples, you can change playback speeds (slow motion/acceleration), set looptypes, and set markers. With both samples and tags, you can edit the effect chain and mix from multiple sources to one. Veejay has 50+ video effects and many frame blending methods. "Gveejay", a graphical interface, maps the control keys to mouse-click buttons and sliders. Gveejay communicates over TCP/IP, and can be invoked from a remote machine. Windmill 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134232/ Windmill is a theme for those living in South Texas, the land of the big iron sunflower. The background image comes from the author's own backyard. Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134280/ Yap2lc (Yet Another Passwd 2 LDIF Converter) is an LDAP migration tool which extracts information from passwd, shadow/passwd, and master.passwd formatted files, combines them with a user specifiable template, and writes an LDIF file you can import into your LDAP server. It supports BSD-like and non-BSD-like systems, and performs sanity checks on user entries to detect invalid fields. Zoinks 0.3.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/134315/ Zoinks is a programmer's editor and development environment for Unix/X11 systems. The editor has features similar to Mac text editors like MPW and CodeWarrior. It also has some features for HTML authoring. Zoinks supports comparing/diffing files and directory hierarchies. It also supports inputting and editing multi-byte text (e.g. Japanese and other Asian languages). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
