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It supports multiple output in a single CD read, volume normalization, gapless encoding (with Lame), parallelization, SMP, HTTP proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3. abcm2ps 3.7.5 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135365/ abcm2ps is a package that converts music tunes from ABC format to PostScript. Based on abc2ps version 1.2.5, it was developed mainly to print baroque organ scores that have independant voices played on one or more keyboards, and a pedal-board. It introduces many extensions to the ABC language that make it suitable for classical music. adamoto 0.4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135372/ adamoto is an Application Deployment And MOnitoring TOol. It's a client/server based application for deploying software packages with a Web frontend. The Web frontend in conjunction with the server enables sysadmins to administrate and monitor the deployment of software packages on the computers in a network. It supports Linux RPM and Windows MSI files directly. AdvanceMAME 0.73.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135400/ AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade monitors, TVs, and PC monitors. airoleap 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135314/ This is a utility that performs LEAP logins on aironet cards. It is much like CISCO's utility, except source is included, and it works on more than just X86. AnnotateIt! 0.4.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135353/ AnnotateIt! is an open source electronic response system targeted at composition instructors and students. It allows a user to annotate HTML and provides facilities for group interaction. Annotations may be either hyperlinked or inline, depending on the user's preference. It also features reporting of meta information (annotation types and counts), predefined annotations, community annotations, conversion of documents to HTML for annotation, easy document management, and an assignments calendar. Ant Shell 20030908 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135364/ Ant Shell is a project that extends Apache Ant to provide a command shell that exposes ant tasks. In Ant Shell, you can run ant tasks in an interactive mode much the same way you can run commands in a command shell such as bash, csh, or DOS. Currently, most of the ant core tasks are enabled. Ant Shell is developer code and is not expected to remain stable or consistent. AntiRight Desktop Environment 1.70 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135298/ AntiRight is optimized to work on all POSIX-compatible systems supporting the Motif API. The software consists of a text editor, a clock, a CD player, a sticky notes applet, an internet dialer interface, a filemanager, a calculator, a shell command launcher, a help system, an X backdrop editor, an X resource theme selector, a security control panel, an xhost controller, a disk settings panel, and a graphical pager. Apache::Gallery 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135324/ Apache::Gallery is a mod_perl handler that sits on top of your DocumentRoot and creates an image gallery of the files and directories there. It creates an thumbnail index of each directory and allows viewing of pictures in different resolutions. Pictures are resized on the fly and cached. ArX 1.0pre12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135317/ ArX is a distributed revision control system that features distributed repositories, fancy merging, support for renaming, unobtrusive operation, a Web interface, and revision libraries. It consists of a collection of shell scripts and C code, and brings together many shell utilities, SSH, HTTP, diff, and patch. Asymptopia Flashcard System 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135413/ Asymptopia Flashcard System is a C++/Motif flashcard application which replaces paper flashcards. New flashcard contents are entered in LaTeX via interface and converted to .png format via GS. The high-level interface makes it painless. A timer controls frequency of flashcard popups. Enables you to study while surfing the web and otherwise get more out of your time. Supports color, images and anything that's legal LaTeX. Ideal for students. BadWM 0.03 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135345/ badwm is a minimalistic window manager for the X Window System based on evilwm. It is less evil, but it is still bad. All window managers suck. This one just sucks less. batchgimp 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135344/ batchgimp is a batch processor for rendering of images. It uses a command-line interface, and supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, and PSD file formats. It accesses the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) plug-in structure to provide image processing functions. Images are processed in a batch for an entire directory. batchgimp is written in Perl and interfaces with the Scheme scripting engine provided by the GIMP. BINS photo album 1.1.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135363/ BINS is a valid HTML 4 photo album generator with support for internationalization, EXIF, and customizable charset encoding, including UTF-8 (Unicode). Albums can contains other sub-albums. The appearance of the album can be fully personalized by using template and configuration parameters. The number and size of scaled pictures can be chosen in pixels or percentage of the original image. Several description fields (date, location, etc.) can be associated with the pictures, and you can add additional description fields. A command line utility or a GTK+ GUI can be used to set or edit description fields. BINS can use the EXIF data structure found in some pictures to automatically fill some fields (most notably, date and time) and to produce a page providing all information available on the picture, as well as the DigiCam settings when the photo was taken. All image meta-data are stored in XML files. BlogSpot 0.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135411/ BlogSpot is a small piece of software which you can use as your online diary, blogger, and/or news system. It offers a control panel in which you can add or edit your messages and change your layout and other configuration settings. BottomFeeder 3.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135379/ BottomFeeder is an application that reads and displays RSS formatted feeds. RSS is a syndication format, used by a growing proportion of sites (including Slashdot). BugPort 1.042 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135386/ The BugPort system is a Web-based system to manage tasks and defects throughout the software development process. It is written with the PHP language, using its object-oriented capabilities, and is in use by INCOGEN for internal management of software development and QA. Build it Fast 0.1.19 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135408/ Build it Fast (BIF) is a PHP Framework. It contains several classes that help you develop complex Web applications in a short amount of time. It brings the concept of the 'widget' to Web development. It features Cascade Skins and transparent session management. CheckBook Tracker 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135390/ In order to leave Windows behind most people need a fully-functional money management program. CheckBook Tracker seeks to solve that problem. It has the feel and features of packages like Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or find an RPM for their distribution. Its features include Import / Export QIF files straight from Money or Quicken, autocomplete, check printing, split transactions, balance forecasts, online banking, and more. Chemical Development Kit 20030909 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135347/ The Chemical Development Kit (CDK) classes are Java utitility classes for chemoinformatics and computational chemistry. They are a complete re-write of the CompChem classes that were the basis of JChemPaint, a Java Editor for 2D chemical structures, and of JMDraw, a Java package for the graphical layout of 2D chemical structures. Conexant HCF (controllerless) driver 1.00lnxt03090800 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135341/ This package contains generic Linux drivers for the Conexant HCF (controllerless) modem family used by many modem and computer system manufacturers. They should work on most current Linux distributions, based on the 2.4.x kernels. Some systems may require kernel recompilation with special ACPI patches. Conexant HSF (softmodem) driver 6.03.00lnxt03090800 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135343/ This package contains generic Linux drivers for the Conexant (formerly Rockwell) Softmodem HSF modem family, which are used by many modem and computer system manufacturers. They should work on most current Linux distributions, based on the 2.4.x kernels. A Pentium processor with the MMX enhancements is required. Some systems may require kernel recompilation with special ACPI patches. Preemptible kernels are not yet supported. Conexant Riptide Driver 0.6lnxtbeta03090800 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135340/ The Conexant Riptide Driver package contains Linux drivers for the Conexant (Rockwell) RipTide Audio/Communication Controller found in RipTide HCF and RipTide HSF modems. It is an OSS-compatible sound driver. For the HCF modems, this driver is required as well as the HCF driver. For HSF modems, this driver is optional to get soundcard and game port functionality. Cute PHP Library 0.44 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135396/ Cute PHP library is a small collection of classes for PHP. The purpose of the classes is to simplify functions for daily work with PHP (e.g. conversions, formatting, DB session, and so on). Deranged Raid 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135354/ Deranged Raid is a flight simulation/RTS mixed genre game that features multiplayer support and neat environmental effects like dynamic weather and day/night transitions using OpenGL. Sound is provided via FMOD. DHCP-locator 0.03.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135320/ DHCP-Locator is a pair of programs/scripts that log the switch IP address, port in switch, MAC address, and IP address when a host is getting an IP address from a DHCP server. It uses ISC DHCP server logs as input. It's excellent for abuse issues in large networks. Ebotula 0.1.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135395/ Ebotula is an IRC bot for administration tasks in one or more channels. It has four access levels. The top level is the bot master, where a user has complete access to all functions. The channel owner is the administrator in one channel. The other levels are friends and other users. The bot is a multithread application and can execute more commands simultaneously. The data are contained in gdbm hash files. Enforcer 0.2 Alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/135287/ Enforcer is a Linux security module designed to help improve integrity of a computer running Linux. The Enforcer provides a subset of Tripwire-like functionality. It runs continuously and as each protected file is opened its SHA1 is calculated and compared to a previously stored value. The Enforcer is designed to integrate with TCPA hardware to provide a secure boot when booted with a TCPA enabled boot loader. TCPA hardware can protect secrets and other sensitive data (for example, the secrets for an encrypted loopback file system) and bind those secrets to specific software. Eternal Lands 0.8.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135399/ Eternal Lands is a multiplatform (Windows/Linux) 3D isometric MMORPG. It requires a hardware-accelerated video card that supports at least OpenGL 1.2. Firewall Builder 1.0.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135378/ Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, and support for a new firewall platform can be added to the GUI without any changes to the program (only a new policy compiler is needed). This provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, and OpenBSD pf. Forest Web Application Builder 0.6-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135384/ Forest is a Web-based IDE for Web applications. It's in the alpha stage, but you can use it to create your XML files already. For now, it has four frames: the "Add Component" frame which allows you to add a new component to your page, the "Object Inspector" which allows you to add/edit properties and delete components, the "Preview" which will show how your XML is looking, and the "Component Tree" frame that show the hierarchy of components in your page. Gambit 0.97.1.0 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135381/ Gambit is a set of tools for doing game theory on finite games. It features a graphical interface as well as a (currently experimental) Python API for doing repetitive or econometric tasks on games. GNU Libidn 0.2.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135283/ GNU Libidn is an implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode, and IDNA specifications defined by the IETF Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) working group. It is used to prepare internationalized strings (such as domain name labels, usernames, and passwords) in order to increase the likelihood that string input and string comparison work in ways that make sense for typical users throughout the world. The library contains a generic Stringprep implementation that does Unicode 3.2 NFKC normalization, mapping and prohibition of characters, and bidirectional character handling. Profiles for iSCSI, Kerberos 5, Nameprep, SASL, and XMPP are included. Punycode and ASCII Compatible Encoding (ACE) via IDNA are supported. GNU Radius 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135387/ GNU Radius is a radius server and an accompanying set of monitoring utilities. It features MySQL and PostgreSQL interfaces for authentication and/or logging (the ODBC interface allows you to use almost any existing DBMS for that purpose), the ability to rewrite RADIUS requests from various NASs to normalize them to a more understandable format, as well as the ability to completely customize the behavior of radius authentication and accounting based on NAS and user attributes. GTick 0.2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135407/ GTick is a metronome application. It features a scale from 30 beats per minute to 250 BPM and arbitrary beat modes (meters). It uses GTK+ and OSS. Gtk2::PodViewer 0.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135373/ Gtk2::PodViewer is a Perl POD document widget for Gtk2-Perl applications. The module also comes with a simple POD document browser. IceWM Control Panel 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135355/ IceWM Control Panel is a full-featured, GTK-based control panel for IceWM. It features an IceWM theme designer, Ice Sound Manager (for sound events), IcePref2, and tools to manage desktop wallpaper, cursors, keys, window options, and more. IceWM Control Panel has a familiar, Windows-like Control Panel user interface. IP Sentinel 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135393/ IP Sentinel is a tool that tries to prevent unauthorized usage of IP addresses within an ethernet broadcast domain by answering ARP requests. After receiving faked replies, requesting parties store the MAC in their ARP tables and will send future packets to this invalid MAC, rendering the IP unreachable. Java SOS 3.55 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135334/ Java SOS is a set of configurable Java servlets for fast site building, including Forums, Chat, and Calendar servlets, etc. JaxMe 1.65 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135367/ JaxMe is a Java/XML binding framework based on SAX2. It consists of a set of code generators that read an XML schema and generate code for parsing conformant XML documents into corresponding Java objects, saving those objects into a database or, vice versa, reading such Java objects from a database and converting them into XML. JaxMe supports namespaces, relational databases, and Tamino. JaxMe comes with an integrated application framework and a generator for EJB entity beans with BMP (bean managed persistence). Jay's Iptables Firewall 1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135374/ Jay's Iptables Firewall is a bash script that allows one to easily install and configure a firewall on a Linux system. It was initially written for use on a home LAN, but can be extend to any type of network. It features support for multiple (external/internal) interfaces, TCP/UDP/ICMP control, masquerading, synflood control, spoofing control, port forwarding from specific interfaces, VPNs, ToS (bandwith managment), denying hosts (IP or MAC address), ZorbIPTraffic, Spyware list IP, Pre/Post scripts, log options, and more. The firewall is able to launch custom iptables rules, and the configuration of the firewall is assisted by an optional, interactive, curses-based Perl script. JChemPaint 1.9.7 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135328/ JChemPaint is a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like those found in most chemistry textbooks. Krystal Drop 0.7.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135333/ Krystal Drop is a free clone of NeoGeo's Magical Drop. In it, you play on a field on which lines of gems are being dropped by the top of the screen, at a regular basis or when your opponent makes a combo. You can take or drop gems from the bottom of the screen to make gems disappear. If you move gems in order to create a vertical alignment of at least three gems of the same colour, they will burst and start a chain reaction with all neighbouring matching gems. The aim is to prepare some other chain reactions while the first gems are bursting, in order to make a combo and send lines to your opponent. You lose when some gems reach the bottom of the field. lbdb 0.28 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135394/ The Little Brother's Database (lbdb) consists of a set of small tools which collect mail addresses from several sources and offer these addresses to the external query feature of the Mutt mail reader. libstatgrab 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135357/ The libstatgrab library provides an easy-to-use interface for accessing system statistics and information. Available statistics include CPU, Load, Memory, Swap, Disk I/O, and Network I/O. It was developed to work on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. Libxml 2.5.11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135366/ Libxml is the XML C library developed for the Gnome project. The library code is portable (to Linux, Unix, Windows, embedded systems, etc.) and modular; most of the extensions can be compiled out. Libxml implements a number of existing standards related to markup languages, including the XML standard, Namespaces in XML, XML Base, Relax NG, RFC 2396, XPath, XPointer, HTML4, XInclude, SGML Catalogs, and XML Catalogs. In most cases, libxml tries to implement the specifications in a relatively strict way. To some extent, it provides support for the following specifications, but doesn't claim to implement them: DOM, FTP client, HTTP client, SAX, and DocBook SGML. Support for W3C XML Schemas is in progress. It includes xmllint, a command line XML validator. LilyPond 1.8.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135412/ LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project. Linux 2.6.0-test5 (2.5) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135336/ Linux is a clone of the Unix kernel, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix kernel, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and TCP/IP networking. LON-CAPA 1.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135391/ LON-CAPA (The LearningOnline network with CAPA) is a learning content and course management system. It is similar to BlackBoard and WebCT in many respects, but with a focus on science and math in higher education. Lore 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135318/ Lore is a knowledge base management system that allows users to easily create and maintain a FAQ, documentation system, or complete support knowledge base. It features unlimited articles, (sub)categories, file attachments, article comments, ratings, glossary, full- text search, related articles, WYSIWYG editor, and a completely customizable template/style system which is based on Smarty. A complete Web-based control panel is included, and an installation wizard allows for easy setup. Lorentz 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135348/ Lorentz is a curve fitting program aimed for the fitting of spectroscopic data. The fitting function is specified as a user-extendable list of symbols representing various peak shapes, backgrounds, etc. Mega Upload 1.00 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135377/ Mega Upload provides a progress monitor for PHP file uploads. It is simple to install. moodss 17.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135329/ Moodss is a modular monitoring application, which supports operating systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows, etc.), databases (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, DB2, ODBC, etc.), networking (SNMP, Apache, etc.), and any device or process for which a module can be developed (in Tcl, Python, Perl, Java, and C). An intuitive GUI with full drag'n'drop support allows the construction of dashboards with graphs, pie charts, etc., while the thresholds functionality includes warning by emails and user defined scripts. Any part of the visible data can be archived in an SQL database by both the GUI and the companion daemon, so that complete history over time can be made available from Web pages, common spreadsheet software, etc. Moon Shine 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135284/ Moon Shine is a CGI of the moon reflecting off of a lake. The image is a 1600x1200 PNG file and is suitable for a dark theme. mServe 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135361/ mServe is a networked MP3 player. It has potential support for more formats through plugins. All operation is performed through clients over the network, and it is easy to implement new clients using the included client API. MUDMapper 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135351/ MUDMapper is a simple tool that uses Python and DiaCanvas to draw maps of MUD locations. It can save and reload maps and keep descriptions for every room. Muse.Net 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135301/ Muse.Net is a sophisticated network media player allowing users to play audio/video from anywhere to anywhere using an open Web Service as the central control point. It supports MP3, Ogg, WMA, AVI, DivX, and many more file types. NFTP 1.72.b3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135398/ NFTP is a console/X11 FTP client with an interface similar to Norton Commander. It has lots of features for power users, and supports 20 languages. OBM 0.7.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135370/ OBM is an Intranet application written to help manage a company. It can also be used as a contact and customer database or as a shared calendar. It is written with PHP and requires MySQL to work (although support for other databases is possible). It supports internationalization and themes, and it includes: sales force, help desk, time tracking, user, and administration modules. pcmcia-cs 3.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135335/ Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA or PC Card support package. It includes a set of loadable kernel modules that implement a version of the Card Services applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards, and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers on demand. It supports hot swapping of most card types, so cards can be safely inserted and ejected at any time. Perl Oak Component Tree 0.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135383/ The Perl Oak Component Tree is a set of objects designed to provide the maximum reusability to software development. Oak can be used in any development platform, but just the Web platform is implemented. In Oak, you define an XML file to each page and you will implement just the events. Photopub 0.3.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135352/ Photopub is image publication software designed primarily for easily maintaining a Web site of pictures taken with digital cameras (although it can be used for arbitrary images, it has some features which make it most suitable for them). It runs as a CGI script or under mod_perl, and is fully themable and highly customizable. phpMyConferences rc 7.1_37 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135337/ phpMyConferences is a Web-based manager for conference organization. It include features for paper registration, an online meeting for program committee members, registration of conference participators, and some administration tools for the conference organization committee. phpSavant 0.6.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135359/ Savant is a PEAR-compliant template system for PHP. It is non-compiling, and uses PHP itself as its template language so you don't need to learn a new markup system. It accepts variables for parsing by a PHP-based template script via assign() methods (you can assign references and objects as well), allows you to display() and fetch() template scripts, and has a plugin system so you can call convenience methods from within your template scripts using $this->plugin(). phpWebDesk 0.1.0a http://freshmeat.net/releases/135326/ phpWebDesk aims to provide a transparent conversion and compression system for Websites. It aims to provide a simple 'plugin' for a Website so that all files are compressed in the optimum format for both size and the receiving system, and so that the images are converted to the best format from just one file format, even .raw or other less well-used filetypes. Web pages can also be converted to other formats (i.e. WML, PDF) dynamically or validated and any errors corrected if possible. Plone CMS 1.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135315/ Plone is a content management system that is simple to set up, maintain, and modify. It is designed to be a corporate-ready content management system. It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document/Web publishing system, and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities. It can be used in a myriad of ways. Pram 0.0.2 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/135358/ Pram is a Java-based implementation of a hybrid v3 Zmachine interpreter and decompiler for Zork and other Infocom games. Relax log analyzer 2.80 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135332/ Relax is a multi-platform Web server log analyzer written in Perl. It can be used to track which search engines, search keywords, and referring URLs led visitors to the Web site. It can also track down bad links and analyze which keywords to bid for at pay-per-click search engines. The parser module in Relax recognizes several hundred search engines and is capable of extracting the keywords used. Generated HTML reports can be configured to include links to other Web-based keyword analysis tools, making it easier to further improve the ranking of web pages in search engines. rpm-analyzer 1.0 r10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135402/ rpm-analyzer is a graphical tool to help you analyze rpm dependencies. You can easily see what packages are required to install or remove a specific rpm. It may also help you to maintain a Red Hat-based distribution by providing hdlist and comps.xml analysis tools. S tar 1.5a24 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135338/ Star is a very fast, POSIX-compliant tar archiver. It reads and writes POSIX compliant tar archives as well as non-POSIX GNU tar archives. Star is the first free POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation. It saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes a FIFO for speed, a pattern matcher, multi-volume support, the ability to archive sparse files and ACLs, the ability to archive extended file flags, automatic archive format detection, automatic byte order recognition, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives, and special features that allow star to be used for full and incremental backups. It includes the only known platform independent "rmt" server program that hides Linux incompatibilities. The "rmt" server from the star package implements all Sun/GNU/Schily/BSD enhancements and allows any "rmt" client from any OS to contact any OS as server. Server Status 1.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135371/ Server Status is a server monitor that simply displays a list of servers to monitor and displays whether they are alive on the network or not. SISC 1.8.3-beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/135389/ SISC is an extensible Java-based interpreter of the algorithmic language Scheme. It uses modern interpretation techniques and handily outperforms all existing Java interpreters (often by more than an order of magnitude). In addition, SISC is a complete implementation of the language. The entire R5RS Scheme standard is supported. This includes a full number tower including complex number support and arbitrary precision integers and floating point numbers, proper tail recursion, hygienic macros, and full support for first-class continuations (not just the escaping continuations found in many other systems). Skaringa r2p3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135331/ Skaringa is a framework for Java and XML language binding. It transform Java objects into XML documents and back, and can generate XML schema definitions for a Java class. It is designed for simplicity, supporting a wide range of types, and speed. SOHT 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135410/ SOHT (Socket over HTTP Tunneling) allows you to tunnel socket connections through an HTTP proxy. Restrictive firewalls often prohibit all outgoing trafic except for HTTP. This application allows you to tunnel socket connections over the HTTP protocol. This application consists of a server that serves as a proxy and a client which tunnels a socket connection over an HTTP connection to the server. The current release is written in Java, and a .NET client is under development. splitmastream 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135342/ splitmastream reads an MPEG audio stream from stdin, writes a copy of it to a file named YYYYMMDD.HH-streamname.mp3, and then writes the stream to stdout. You can think of it as a version of "tee" for hour-long chunks of MPEG audio. Files are switched on every hour at a frame boundary so that every file should be playable without noise at the beginning or end. splitmastream is useful for making an archive of an MPEG stream which is, for example, coming from an encoder and going to an icecast transmitter. SQL Load Balancer 2.4.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135368/ The SQLB (SQL Load Balancer) project is used to improve SQL requests to a database. It provides programs that have permanent connections to a DB, a program that checks the integrity of transactions, and a library to link with programs that need to make SQL queries. SQLB supports Oracle8i, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. SSHVnc 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135356/ SSHVnc is a standalone Java VNC viewer that secures VNC access by integrating the popular TightVNC viewer with the SSHTools Java SSH API. It features a clean and easy to use interface, simplifying the complicated processes currently used to secure the VNC protocol through SSH port forwarding. stresslinux 0.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135322/ stresslinux is a minimal Linux distribution that runs from a bootable CDROM or via PXE. It makes use of some utitlities such as stress, cpuburn, hddtemp, lm_sensors, etc. It is dedicated to users who want to test their system(s) entirely on high load and monitor the health of these systems. SuperWaba 4.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135382/ SuperWaba is a Java VM for PDAs. It supports exceptions, threads, lots of user interface controls, double and long 64-bit types, grayscale, color, 3D controls, and JNI and Java libraries, amongst other features. swaret-tools 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135409/ swaret-tools is a set of scripts that can be used by a system administrator to set up a Slackware software repository and/or a mirror of the dependency file for swaret (an updating tool for Slackware). transcode 0.6.10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135362/ transcode is a text console video-stream processing tool. It supports elementary video and audio frame transformations. Some example modules are included to enable import of MPEG-1/2, Digital Video, and other formats. It also includes export modules for writing to AVI files with DivX, OpenDivX, XviD, Digital Video or other codecs. Direct DVD transcoding is also supported. A set of tools is available to extract and decode the sources into raw video/audio streams for import and to enable post-processing of AVI files. uClibc 0.9.21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135346/ uClibc (µClibc) is a C library for developing embedded Linux systems. It is much smaller then the GNU C Library, but nearly all applications supported by glibc also work perfectly with uClibc. Porting applications from glibc to uClibc typically involves just recompiling the source code. uClibc even supports shared libraries and threading. It currently runs on standard Linux and MMU-less Linux (also known as µClinux) systems with support for ARM, i386, h8300, m68k, MIPS, mipsel, PowerPC, SH, SPARC, and v850 processors. uClinux 2.6.0-test5-uc0 (2.6.x) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135313/ uClinux is a set of patches for Linux that supports MMUless processors. It brings a full featured operating system onto platforms that would otherwise run less advanced, simpler operating systems. uClinux gives the programmer a Linux API with remarkably few concessions to the lack of MMU (Memory Management Unit), and in terms of code size and efficiency it has an advantage over standard Linux. Ultimate Boot CD 1.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135310/ Ultimate Boot CD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. ustats 1.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135327/ ustats is a script that replaces the usage of "last", "w", etc. and having to open up /etc/passwd file to see the users on the system. Vector Visuals 2003.09.09-beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/135369/ Vector Visuals provides an easy-to-use, object-based API for creating and manipulating Java2D-rendered shapes and images. It features object embedding, dynamic connectors, and multithreaded task support. Virtual Network Computing 4.0 Beta 4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135309/ VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing "desktop" environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures. Visual Effects Engine 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135319/ Visual Effects Engine is a powerful particle system engine written in C++. It is useful for games, demos, animations, and art. VMWare 4.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135339/ VMWare allows you to run 'virtual machines' inside Linux. It is not an emulator. It provides a virtual computer within Linux which can boot whichever OS you decide to put on the filesystem image that is used as a harddrive. It will run DOS 6.22, Win 3.1, Win95, Win98, WinNT 4, Windows 2000, Linux, and more. The only main requirement is a P-II 266 or better, along with lots of RAM (64M minimum, 128M recommended). VULCAN 4.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135321/ VULCAN (Viscous Upwind aLgorithm for Complex flow ANalysis) offers computational fluid dynamics for subsonic speed through hypersonic turbulent reacting and non-reacting flows on a variety of serial and parallel computational platforms. The computational cost of propulsion flow analysis is reduced through the use of special turbulent wall treatments, multi-grid methods for elliptic and space marching schemes, and conditioning of the governing equations to reduce numerical stiffness. Physical modeling capabilities are improved through the inclusion of models for compressibility, Reynolds stress anisotropies, turbulent diffusivity, finite rate chemistry, and turbulence/chemistry interaction effects. VULCAN can simulate two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or axi-symmetric multi-block problems. wxDialer 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135385/ wxDialer is a simple program written in wxPython/Python that allows you to make and recieve phone calls on your modem. Zoe Intertwingle 0.4.7 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135380/ Zoe is a Web based email client with a built in SMTP and POP3 server and Google-like search functionality that lives on your desktop. It is written in Java and uses Lucene technology to provided instant searching and threading of your email messages. ZVTM 0.9.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135312/ ZVTM is a Zoomable User Interface (ZUI) toolkit, designed to ease the task of creating complex visual editors in which large amounts of objects have to be displayed, or which contain complex geometrical shapes that need to be animated. It features a graphical object model that makes the task of creating, modifying, and animating graphical entities easier, and allows the definition of custom shapes, all through a simple API. It also features smooth zooming capabilities (2.5D/ zoomable user interface), multiple independent layers inside a single viewport, multi-threaded views, and support for exporting SVG documents. ZWarehouse 0.7b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135392/ ZWarehouse is an e-commerce solution with a Web management interface, support for skins, multi-language by default, and well-documented interfaces for extensions. It has multiple user-defined currencies, exchange rates (manual and automatic), custom images to set multiple configurations, intuitive navigation, real time order tracking, unlimited product options, real time UPS shipping calculation, an unlimited number of custom-defined shipping modules, and credit card and PayPal payment modules. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
