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It's not an exact imitation, and it's not meant to be. The design is based on screenshots of AIAB, using Industrial as the base for the GTK themes. AntiRight Desktop Environment 1.71 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135541/ 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. Application Tools for Extension Services 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135509/ Application Tools for Extension Services consists of WebSphere Studio-based tools that support the development of Web applications targeted for the Extension Services for WebSphere Everyplace (ESWE) platform. These tools are based on the existing WebSphere Studio J2EE development tools and they are part of an emerging suite of tools for the ESWE platform. Arabic Wordlist 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135405/ Arabic Wordlist is a project to deliver an English to Arabic translated word list to be used in translations and/or dictionaries. The word list contains in excess of 83,500 words (and growing), and spans a variety of categories (i.e. it is general in nature). This word list is encoded in UTF-8, and is expected to be used in many online free dictionaries. ARIA Business Management 0.99-5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135476/ ARIA is business class management (ERP) software. It lets you manage inventory levels, maintain payroll, and process orders. It is written primarily in PHP and incorporates the ADODB database abstraction layer. There are currently translations for Chinese, Spanish, Italian, and French. ATLAS 3.5.9 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135503/ The ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) project is an ongoing research effort focusing on applying empirical techniques in order to provide portable performance. It provides C and Fortran77 interfaces to a portably efficient BLAS implementation, as well as a few routines from LAPACK. Atlassian JIRA 2.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135439/ JIRA is a J2EE-based issue tracking, bug tracking, and project management application. It handles all kinds of issues (including bugs, features, enhancements, and tasks) and can be used for bug tracking, development help, project management, or group task cataloging. Bandwidth Management Tools 0-1-1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135501/ Bandwidth Management Tools is a total bandwidth management solution for Linux and can be used for firewalling, traffic graphing, and shaping. It is not based on any currently-available bandwidth management software. Binc IMAP 1.2.2-1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135531/ Binc IMAP is a well designed, modular IMAP server for Maildir. Its goals are to be secure, stable, and fast, yet flexible and easy to maintain. It is designed to be familiar for qmail-pop3d users, uses checkpassword to authenticate, and is very easy to set up. broken.miho F http://freshmeat.net/releases/135446/ broken.miho is a purple and grey theme based on artwork by Megatokyo artist fred [piro] gallagher. It includes an Xwm menu screen (visible in screenshot) and backgrounds for 800, 1024 (default), and 1152 screen resolutions. CATool Certificate Authority 1.2.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135437/ CATool is a Web-based, self-service private Certificate Authority for Unix. It can generate PKI encryption certificates for 802.1x wired and wireless authentication, Web servers, Web browsers, SSL, AOL Instant Messenger, Radiator, and any other PKI-compliant application. It supports Certificate Revocation Lists, email notification, etc. for small to large organisations. CDox 1.0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135442/ CDox is an editor for CD documents like CD covers, back sides, and booklets. It features many image processing options like sharpen, contrast, etc. One can use images and text as elements, and those elements can be flipped/rotated/resized in any way. It has easy-to-use features for previously-made images that are meant to be CD covers. It has also some features for automatic cover creation from MP3 CDs, CDs with filesystems, and CDs with video files. cdvtoc 1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135520/ cdvtoc is a simple utility for creating Solaris VTOC records suitable for building bootable CDs on Sun SPARC systems. The utility will create a VTOC that is aligned to cylinder boundaries and display the padding required for each component of the ISO. If required, the utility will stitch all the components together with the new VTOC to create your ISO file. Clover 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135461/ Clover makes the gathering and analysis of code coverage metrics as painless as possible. It features include tight integration with the Jakarta Ant build tool and accurate, configurable coverage recording. It gathers Method, Statement, and Branch coverage data. Compile-time properties and source level directives allow for precise control over the coverage gathering process. Coverage data can be viewed in XML, HTML, or via a Swing GUI. Report-time options allow for the exclusion of particular statement types from coverage analysis. Plugins for the Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEs are provided. Cluster SSH 1.36 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135449/ Cluster SSH opens xterm windows with connections to specified hosts, and an administration console. Any text typed into the administration console is replicated to all other connected and active windows. This tool is intended for, but not limited to, cluster administration where the same configuration or commands must be run on each node within the cluster. Performing these commands all at once via this tool ensures all nodes are kept in sync. Currently, this tool is only known to work on Solaris. COnfigurator for Gnome 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135491/ COnfigurator for Gnome is a program for editing advanced GNOME settings in an easy way. coWiki 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135493/ coWiki is a sophisticated but easy-to-use Web collaboration tool that helps you and your coworkers create and organize Web documents, Weblogs, and knowledgebases (or any other document structures) directly in HTML browsers. You can evolve ideas and gain a concomitant XML documentation of your brainstorming without having to concentrate on complicated structural syntaxes. coWiki follows the tradition of loose Wiki Wiki Webs with easy and intuitional markup, adding Unixlike access management, a directory/document hierarchy, and a plugin API for your functionalities and enhancements. It is template-based and multilingual. cqual 0.99 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135533/ cqual is a typed-based analysis tool for finding bugs in C programs. It extends the type system of C with extra user-defined type qualifiers. The programmer annotates their program with the appropriate qualifiers, and cqual checks for errors. Incorrect annotations indicate potential bugs. cqual presents the analysis results using Program Analysis Mode, an emacs-based GUI. Among other applications, cqual can be used to detect potential format-string vulnerabilities and to detect user-space/kernel-space pointer errors. Customer-Touch CRM 1.6pre http://freshmeat.net/releases/135513/ An easy to use and install CRM for small to medium farms. CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse 0.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135471/ CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse is an Eclipse plug-in to allow CVS access on an encrypted session by SSH2 protocol. CVSGnome 0.4.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135542/ CVSGnome is a build environment for the GNOME project which allows a systems administrator to install GNOME from either released source Tarballs or from bleeding edge CVS depending on what is wanted. This script also works as a general building wrapper around other sources. When started, it shows an interactive self-explanatory menu. Cycling 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135445/ Cycling helps you in managing your training. It can display a list of your training sessions, let you define a list of circuits, and manage cyclist information such as weight, height, heart rate, etc. DansGuardian 2.7.3-1 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135478/ DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page). DansGuardian 2.6.1-5 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135477/ DansGuardian is a Web content filtering proxy that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods including, but not limited to, phrase matching, file extension matching, MIME type matching, PICS filtering, and URL/domain blocking. It has the ability to switch off filtering by certain criteria including username, domain name, source IP, etc. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format. It has the option to only log text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information (such as every image on a page). DbModeller 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135436/ DbModeller is a database schema modelling application for building physical database designs. This can connect to an existing database a pull down the schema or create from scratch. It currently allows modelling of tables and referential integrity constraints and generates SQL for the model. It saves the schema in open XML format. DKMS 0.35.01 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135492/ DKMS (Dynamic Kernel Module Support) is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel releases (as a stopgap before the code can make it back into the kernel), while also taking out the guesswork for customers attempting to recompile modules for new kernels. For veteran Linux users it also provides some advantages since a separate framework for driver drops will remove kernel releases as a blocking mechanism for distributing code. Emerging Technologies Toolkit 1.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135527/ The ETTK is a software development kit for designing, developing, and executing emerging autonomic and grid-related technologies and Web services. It provides an environment in which to run emerging technology examples that showcase recently announced specifications and prototypes from IBM's emerging technology development and research teams. In addition, it provides introductory material to help developers easily get started with development of autonomic technologies, Web services, and grids. Epiphany-browser 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135289/ Epiphany is a GNOME web browser based on the Mozilla rendering engine. Its goals are simplicity, standards compliance, and integration with GNOME. EQ 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135538/ EQ is a realtime graphical equalizer that will equalize the audio of everything you play through XMMS (OGG, MP3, WAV, etc.). It features three different bands (10, 15, and 31), all of them with ISO central frequencies, independent gain settings for left and right channels, and more than +-14dB of gain per band. Etherboot 5.3.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135443/ Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMs for booting Linux and other operating systems on x86, Itanium, and Hammer machines over a network using Internet Protocols, i.e. DHCP and tftp. Etiquette 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135465/ Etiquette is an interaction protocol construction toolkit. The project's goal is to build a framework for rapid design of network communication code. Etiquette interaction protocols are intended to describe valid communication processes that can occur in networked applications, along with error-handling code. Etiquette provides protocol tracing and single-stepping support. Expect 5.39.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135515/ Expect is a tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect really makes this stuff trivial. Expect is also useful for testing these same applications. And by adding Tk, you can also wrap interactive applications in X11 GUIs. Expect can make easy all sorts of tasks that are prohibitively difficult with anything else. You will find that Expect is an absolutely invaluable tool - using it, you will be able to automate tasks that you've never even thought of before - and you'll be able to do this automation quickly and easily. File Service Protocol 2.8.1 beta 13 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135523/ FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transferring files. It has many benefits over FTP, mainly for running anonymous archives. It is usable on lines with high packet loss ratio (70% WiFi), can go behind firewalls and unoticed by port scans (because of UDP), does not overload networks when hosting ISOs or movies, share files on modem lines without eating all of the bandwidth, and keeps lamers away from your site (they don't know how to get to it). This project is active continuation of the FSP code base (abandoned for the last 5 years). Finomaton 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135424/ Finomaton allows users comfortably draw and typeset finite state machines (automata). The resulting graphs can be exported to plain MetaPost and subsequently be included in TeX and LaTeX documents for excellent typesetting quality. Contrary to many other packages, the mouse can be used to interactively move objects around. States are magnetic to facilitate connection, and any TeX command can be embedded in the labels of states and lines. Flava 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135444/ Flava is a personal video recording system which can be distributed over multiple nodes to perform the actions of recording, encoding, and storing television shows, as well as an adaptive management system, which can, among other things, track a series of programs and allow multiple users to make requests. FSPClient 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135524/ FSPClient is single executable client for the FSP protocol. FSPClient uses an FTP-like user interface. It feels like FTP, but under the hood it uses FSP. FSP is a UDP-based protocol for transfering files around, and was designed for anonymous archives. furious_tv 1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135484/ furious_tv is a PVR backend that uses an SQLite database to hold XMLTV listings data. Using that data, it can automatically execute commands to record TV shows off of a capture device (multiple capture devices are supported). If Shuriken is installed, furious_tv can also automatically power the system on/off for recordings to save power. Galeon 1.3.8 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135528/ 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. GetDCC 0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135456/ The GetDCC project aims to provide a user-friendly interface to downloading files from XDCC fileservers (as found on IRC). The project is written in Perl and uses Perl/Tk for the GUI. gettext 0.12.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135517/ gettext is the GNU internationalization library. glsnake 0.8.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135470/ glsnake is an OpenGL stress toy, based on Rubik's snake. One can use this toy to create extra models for the glsnake XScreenSaver hack. It also includes a large collection of predefined snake models. GNOME NetSelect Applet 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135455/ The GNOME NetSelect Applet is a GNOME applet for launching Netscape or Mozilla. It can jump to the currently highlighted URL or perform a search using the currently highlighted text. GNU Solfege 2.0.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135530/ Solfege is an ear training program for GNOME 2, but can also run with only the GTK+ libs. It even runs in Windows. GNU texinfo 4.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135522/ "Texinfo" is a documentation system that uses a single source to produce both on-line information (info, HTML, XML, Docbook) and printed output (DVI, PDF). GNU TeXmacs 1.0.1.22 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135462/ GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific text editor, which was inspired by both TeX and GNU Emacs. The editor allows you to write structured documents via a "wysiwyg" and user friendly interface. The program implements high quality typesetting algorithms and TeX fonts. It is also possible to use TeXmacs as an interface to computer algebra systems. Finally, TeXmacs supports the Guile/Scheme extension language, which makes it possible to adapt the user interface to specific needs, and even to extend the editor. Gnumeric 1.1.90 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135473/ Gnumeric is a powerful and easy to use spreadsheet using GNOME. Its goal is to provide a full featured spreadsheet and a smooth migration path for people and organizations currently using proprietary applications. It provides more sheet functions and greatly improved accuracy when compared to Microsoft's Excel. A plugin system lets you extend Gnumeric, adding functions, I/O formats, and real time data capabilities. The existing Python, Guile, and Perl plugins let you define complex functions. Gnumeric is capable of reading and writing MS Excel, and reading Lotus, Applix, Quattro Pro, OpenCalc, XBase, DIF, SYLK, HTML, Psion, MPS, oleo, sc, misc. text formats, and its native XML. It can also generate Latex, HTML, and others. Grinch 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135544/ Grinch is a small Perl script which can be used to check whether a given address is an open mail relay host. It can operate as a daemon, and speaks the tcp_map protocol implemented in Postfix when it runs as a daemon. It can also be used in arbitrary shell script environments where the hostname is read from stdin and the error code is written to stdout, which allows it to be used with qmail and other MTAs. Hierarchical Data Format 1.7.2 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135504/ HDF (Hierarchical Data Format) is a general purpose library and file format for storing scientific data. It arranges data into datasets (multidimensional arrays) and groups (a structure for organizing objects). iClip 2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135526/ iClip is a multiple clipboard/scrapbook application. It lets you quickly store, organize, and access bits of information, and copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop clippings to and from its multiple "clipping bins". The clippings can be text, pictures, URLs, sounds, etc. They can be arranged into unlimited groups called "clipping sets". Information Resource Manager 1.4.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135438/ IRM is a Web-based asset tracking and work request system built for IT departments and helpdesks. It keeps detailed information about each computer, as well as a complete history of work requests. It keeps track of detailed computer information such as CPU type/speed, amount of RAM, Hard Drive Size, serial numbers, etc. The system includes the ability to track networking hardware and any type of software. Also included is support for email notification of both users and technicians, and some support for monitoring computer systems via SNMP. Jabber Gadu-Gadu Transport 2.0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135452/ The Jabber Gadu-Gadu transport provides Gadu-Gadu protocol support (which is a very popular proprietary instant messaging protocol in Poland). JAR Class Finder 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135507/ JAR Class Finder is a WSAD/Eclipse plug-in utility for finding JAR files containing a given class for the Java build path of a project and for helping to fix NoClassDefFound exceptions. This utility helps users to quickly and easily resolve ClassDefNotFound exceptions, which commonly occur during run time. It can also be used to avoid getting such errors if used before run time. jose 1.0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135525/ jose is a graphical chess tool. You can use it to store chess games in a database, view and edit games (including variations and comments), and play against a plugged-in chess engine and use it for analysis. It features a 3D board view. JRxToolkit 2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135534/ JRxToolkit is a GUI written in Java to test and write regular POSIX expressions. jSai Preview-0.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135543/ jSai is a servlet authentication implementation which aims to allow easier to use, more powerful authentication for Java servlets. It is aimed at servlet developers who want more than the servlet spec, but not as much as a full Enterprise Server. It provides a powerful set of authentication and authorization features for user level security in servlet-based Web applications. Lame Node System 0.4-0 (Themes) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135481/ Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input. Lame Node System 0.6-11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135480/ Lame Node System is a Web-based idea repository. It supports files, pictures, external links, and (limited) HTML input. Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-09-10 (Pattern Definitions) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135487/ This project is a filter that classifies packets based on application (or layer 7) data. This means that it is able to classify packets as HTTP, FTP, Gnucleus, etc, regardless of what port the services are run on. It complements existing filters that classify based on route, port numbers, and so on in the existing Linux QoS infrastructure. libgtk++ 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135454/ libgtk++ is a C++ wrapper for GTK 2.x that aims to create a GTK API similar to the API for Qt. libstree 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135475/ libstree is a generic suffix tree implementation, written in C. It can handle arbitrary data structures as elements of a string. It is therefore not limited to simple ASCII character strings, like most demo implementations of suffix algorithms are. libstree can handle multiple strings per suffix tree, including dynamic insertion and removal of strings. It provides various means of obtaining information about nodes in the tree, such as depth-first and breadth-first iteration, leaves iteration, and bottom-up iteration. libwebserver 0.5.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135472/ libwebserver is a library for adding Web-based remote interfaces to your programs. It is independent of other Web servers, easy to use, and supports HTTPS with OpenSSL. Manageability Services for Linux 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135505/ Manageability Services for Linux are grid services that provide manageability functions for system resources. These services take advantage of self-describing and on- demand features of grid services to control resources in autonomic and/or grid environments. This prototype consists of a Sametime messaging service for notifying users of critical changes, and a collection of manageability services for some of the most commonly used resources, including Linux OS, Linux processes, disk partitions, system statistics, and system services. mdate 1.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135546/ Mdate is a freely-available mayan date utility. It calculates Mayan Long Counts, Julian Day Numbers, and dates of the Mayan Tzolkin and Haab calendars. media-box 0.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135448/ media-box is a program to watch all kind of multimedia files using a computer. It suports playing DVDs and VCDs, various movie files, audio CD, various music files, and watching various still pictures. The main goal is to have a dedicated computer in your living room by replacing your Hi-Fi component (DVD or CD-player). media-box runs in a Linux environment so the need for computer power is very low. It can be also called an embedded distribution for playing all kinds of multimedia. Mindmeld 1.2.1 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135463/ Mindmeld is an enterprise-capable knowledge sharing system designed for any Web community that needs to capture and share information. It is unique in that the knowledge base grows smarter every time it's used. It incorporates terms used in each search into a contextual map of the answer itself, continually improving its ability to derive contextual information from a given search. The system learns how people typically search for an answer by identifying which terms are most valuable in any specific context. mnoGoSearch-php 3.2.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135467/ mnoGoSearch-php is a PHP frontend for the mnoGoSearch free Web search engine (formerly known as UdmSearch). It supports most of all original search.cgi features including cache mode, phrase search, weight factors, spell daemon, and others. Monkey HTTP Daemon 0.7.2 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135464/ Monkey HTTP Daemon is a small, powerful, and fast Web server for Linux written in C. Its features include language support, GET, POST, and HEAD methods, CGI, PHP4 , a config file (optional for every user), a mime.types file, virtual hosts, the ability to deny URLs and IPs, to run as a different user (such as nobody), serve users home directories, resume, and more. Moon Shine 2 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135425/ Moon Shine 2 is a CGI showing a wide view of the night sky just below the moon glow. The image is a 1600 x 1200 JPEG suitable for a dark theme. mosquitotools 0.1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135457/ The mosquitotools allow to read dive profiles from a Suunto mosquito dive computer and to show them graphically, including depth, tissue saturation, and ascend / descend speed vectors. Additional tools are allow to create dive profiles from a few command line options and to create decompression tables. MSL 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135494/ MSL is a real time distributed simulation environment interpreter. MSL scripts can be linked to eachother to create a simulation network. This is a beta development release. MySQL Database Server 4.0.15 (Production (4.0.x)) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135500/ MySQL is a widely used and fast SQL database server. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. Naiban 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135549/ Naiban is a complete standalone Java application and an Avalon/Keel framework classification service. It features Naive-Bayes based algorithms, JDBC backed persistance, and support for text and numerics. Naive Bayes learning classifiers have recently gained popularity in their application to the spam vs. ham problem. Naiban provides a learning classifier service to the Avalon/Keel framework, and comes complete with two text classifiers and a simple numeric classifier. It is easily extendable, and provides two persistance mechanisms for storing trained data. NetBSD Ppbus Project alpha-1-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135441/ The NetBSD Ppbus Project aims to remedy some of the shortcomings of the current printer driver by porting to NetBSD a more modern implementation of parallel port support in FreeBSD called ppbus. It allows faster modes of operation, IEEE 1284 support, and a generic abstract layer that multiple devices such as printer, PLIP (parallel port Internet protocol, similar to SLIP), and Zip drives. It allows bidirectional communication and an abstract parallel port interface that devices can attach to: the many chipset implementations of the parallel port will only have to provide this common interface. Non-Networked File System 2.1.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135450/ NNFS (Non-Networked File System) provides a consistent file system over several non-networked Unix computers (or slow networked). NX 1.2.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135451/ The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, HTTP, SMB, and arbitrary protocols, like audio, over low-bandwidth links. By translating and embedding RFB and RDP in X protocol, it is also able to compress VNC and Windows Terminal Service sessions. OpenIM 1.1RC2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135536/ OpenIM is a Java implementation of a Jabber server. It is a complete rewrite of the Jaba Server project, and it supports the Jabber server to server communication protocol. It also supports Presence, Message, and Roster. Persistant storage is done in an XML file, using the Apache cornerstone store class. It has been tested successfully with many clients such as Exodus, GAIM, Psi, Greenthumb, and the Kopete. OpenNMS 1.1.2 (Unstable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135547/ OpenNMS is an effort to build a fully distributed network management platform providing both enterprise and element management capabilities, using Java 2, XML/XSL and other open source projects/tools such as RRDTool, Nessus, Tomcat, and PostgreSQL. PeerProtect 0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135459/ PeerProtect is an addon for Jay's firewall that generates a file which contains all IP addresses from the RIAA and MPAA, etc. and will protect peer-to-peer programs from them. PennMUSH 1.7.7p20 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135502/ PennMUSH is a MUD server that is often used for running social or role-playing games, with an extensive internal programming language. It runs on Unix systems, Windows, and MacOS. PHP Doctor 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135490/ PHP Doctor is a Javadoc-style comment parser for PHP code, written in PHP using the PHP tokenizer extension. It is designed with an emphasis on speed and simplicity. ps-watcher 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135550/ ps-watcher periodically a gets a list of process names via ps. A configuration file specifies a list of Perl regular-expression patterns to match the processes against. For each match, a Perl expression specified for that pattern is evaluated. The evaluated expression can refer to variables which are set by ps and pertain to the matched process(es), including the amount memory consumed by the process, or the total elapsed time. If the Perl expression for a matched pattern evaluates true, then an action can be run such as killing the program, restarting it, or mailing an alert. psycopg 1.1.9 (StablePlus) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135458/ psycopg is a PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python programming language. Its main advantages are that it supports the full Python DBAPI 2.0 and it is thread safe at level 2. It was designed for heavily multi-threaded applications that create and destroy lots of cursors and make a conspicuous number of concurrent INSERTs or UPDATEs. The psycopg distribution includes ZPsycopgDA, a Zope Database Adapter. sanity.pl 2003-09-10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135453/ sanity.pl renames all files in a directory to a sane name; it replaces spaces with underscores, removes semicolons, and replaces German umlauts. schedutils 1.3.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135532/ The Linux scheduler utilities take advantage of the scheduler family of syscalls that Linux implements across various kernels. These system calls implement interfaces for scheduler-related parameters such as CPU affinity and real-time attributes. The standard UNIX utilities do not provide support for these interfaces, thus this package. The programs that are included in this package are chrt and taskset. Together with nice and renice (not included), they allow full control of process scheduling parameters. The taskset program allows manipulation of task CPU affinity and the chrt program allows manipulation of scheduling priority and policy. Scribus 1.1.0 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135495/ 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. Sentry Firewall CD-ROM 1.5.0-rc4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135440/ The Sentry Firewall CD-ROM is a Linux-based bootable CD-ROM, suitable for use as an inexpensive and easy to maintain firewall or IDS(Intrusion Detection System) node. The system is designed to be immediately configurable for a variety of different operating environments via configuration files located on a floppy disk or a remote server. SML/NJ 110.43 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135498/ sml/nj (Standard ML of New Jersey) consists of a compiler, compilation manager, and libraries for Standard ML. Included are CML (Concurrent ML) and eXene (a toolkit for X based on CML). The compiler produces efficient code for most popular architectures (Intel x86, Sparc, Alpha, Mips, HP-PA, PowerPC) and runs under Unix, Linux, or Windows (95,98,NT). Solution Enabler 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135508/ Solution Enabler is a framework for creating and deploying solutions locally or to remote machines with different operating systems. The framework helps to simplify the creation and deployment of software solutions by capturing detailed knowledge of a solution package deployed through a common installer. SQua Flux 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135403/ SQua Flux is a simple, square Aqua theme based on artwork from art.softshape.com. Squirrel Jukebox 0.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135512/ Squirrel Jukebox plays all your local MP3 files via its own libmad-based decoder. It allows the tracks to be ranked and grouped in the user-preferred way. It also supports text searches by any ID3 tags or filenames. It is a commandline application. Currently only Linux is supported (OSS). Sylpheed 0.9.5claws (Claws) http://freshmeat.net/releases/135479/ Sylpheed is a GTK+ based, lightweight, and fast email client. Almost all commands are accessible with the keyboard. It also has many features such as multiple accounts, POP3/APOP support, thread display, and multipart MIME. One of Sylpheed's future goals is to be fully internationalized. The messages are managed in the MH format, so you'll be able to use it together with another mailer that uses the MH format. SynCE-KDE 0.6.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135489/ SynCE-KDE is a PC / Windows CE connection service application like ActiveSync. It consists of three sub-projects: a full-featured KIOSlave for browsing the PDA (RAPIP), a panel applet for accessing the PDA (RAKI), and a daemon which listens for PDA connections (VDCCM). Syntext Serna 1.0.b1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135488/ Syntext Sema is an XSL-on-the-fly WYSIWYG XML document editor. During the editing process, it renders XML documents according to XSL stylesheets (e.g., a Docbook XSL stylesheet similar to the Norman Walsh one). As a result, authors constantly see rendered and transformed content which looks similar to the final presentation. It also provides on-the-fly XML schema validation and extensive entity support. The Microsoft Bytecode Engineering Library 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135261/ The Microsoft Bytecode Engineering Library (MBEL) is a tool for parsing, creating, editing, and rewriting .NET executables and libraries. It is implemented completely in the Java programming language, which facilitates portability across different systems. The objects defined closely resemble the metadata structures defined in the ECMA-335 specification. Among the many uses of MBEL are code analysis, optimization, obfuscation, and watermarking. The Squirrel programming language 0.2 pre-alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/135466/ Squirrel is a light-weight programming language (around 6000 lines of code) that features higher-order functions, delegation, tail recursion, generators, exception handling, and automatic memory management through reference counting or garbage collection. It has a C-like syntax. TimesTool 1.2b http://freshmeat.net/releases/135460/ TIMES is a tool suite designed mainly for symbolic schedulability analysis and synthesis of executable code with predictable behaviors for real-time systems. Given a system design model consisting of a set of application tasks (required to meet mixed timing, precedence, and resource constraints), a network of timed automata describing the task arrival pattern and a preemptive or non-preemptive scheduling policy, TIMES will generate a scheduler, and calculate worst-case response times for the tasks. The design model may be further validated using a model checker and then compiled to executable C-code. txt2pdf 6.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135468/ txt2pdf is a very flexible and powerful Perl program that converts files from text to PDF format. Visual Application Builder 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135506/ The Visual Application Builder is a set of WebSphere Studio plug-ins that allow even non-expert programmers to quickly develop browser-based/J2EE applications and application templates that target various devices. The model-based Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment allows easy building of form-based applications that interface with data from various sources, such as RDB and Web services. It allows the use of one project to generate code for various target platforms and for new technologies that will evolve. WOCIES 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135548/ WOCIES (Web Object Change Interval Estimation Simulator) is a simulator for designing and investigating Web robots that estimate the average change interval of objects on the Web. Object change events are modeled as a Poisson process. The simulator has many variable parameters, including presence of last-modified date, visit scheduling algorithm, time period simulated, and estimation formulas used. Using the simulator, you can test various combinations of these parameters and compare the results to determine the most efficient robot configuration. xMule v2 Web UI 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135537/ xMule2 is a file-sharing application that supports several platforms, and is designed with a separated core and highly customizable interface modules. It currently connects to the eDonkey2000 network, and support for other networks is being planned. XSH 1.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135482/ XSH (the XML Editing Shell) is a very powerful command-line shell designed to allow easy navigation and manipulation of XML documents. XSH may be used either interactively or for off-line XML processing (like bash). XPath can be used to select parts of an XML document to be listed or processed. The system shell and Perl are also accessible from XSH in a very natural way. XSH itself is written in Perl using the XML::LibXML bindings of the libxml2 library. Zolera SOAP Infrastructure 1.4.1 RC1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/135486/ ZSI, the Zolera SOAP Infrastructure, is a pure-Python module that provides an implementation of SOAP messaging, as described in The SOAP 1.1 Specification. It can also be used to build applications using SOAP Messages with Attachments. ZSI is intended to make it easier to write Web services in Python. In particular, ZSI parses and generates SOAP messages, and converts between native Python datatypes and SOAP syntax. Simple dispatch and invocation methods are supported. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
