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It is dedicated to the people who died in Iraq and Afghanistan, the people who actually lived there. abcMIDI 2003_09_21 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136664/ The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways. AdvanceMAME 0.74.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136706/ AdvanceMAME is a port of the MAME and MESS emulators for arcade monitors, TVs, and PC monitors. AdvanceMENU 2.2.12 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136705/ AdvanceMENU is a frontend for AdvanceMAME, MAME, MESS, RAINE and other arcade emulators. It supports extended features like PNG/MNG/MP3 animated snapshots, up to 192 previews at the same time, and many other features. afick 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136656/ afick is another file integrity checker, designed to be fully portable between Unix and Windows platforms. It works by first creating a database that represents a snapshot of the most essential parts of your computer system. You can then run the script to discover all modifications made since the snapshot was taken (i.e. files added, changed, or removed). AntiRight Desktop Environment 1.82 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136747/ 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. ApacheTop 0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136658/ A curses-based top-like display for Apache information, including requests per second, bytes per second, most popular URLs, etc. bandwidthd 1.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136704/ bandwidthd tracks usage of TCP/IP network subnets and builds HTML files with graphs to display network utilization. Charts are built by individual IP. It color codes HTTP, TCP,UDP, ICMP, VPN, and P2P traffic. Unlike MRTG, it tracks each individual IP address, not the status of any particular link. It is easy to install, low overhead, and has few dependencies. Big Sister 0.98c7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136719/ Big Sister is an SNMP-aware monitoring program consisting of a Web-based server and a monitoring agent. It runs under various Unixes and Windows. Bitflux Editor 0.1alpha (NG) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136717/ Bitflux Editor is a browser-based WYSIWYG XML editor which is written in JavaScript and uses XML, XSLT, and CSS for rendering. It is usable with any XML document and features tables, lists, images, special chars, clipboard, undo/redo, and easy customization. bosdl 0.13 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136694/ bosdl is a client for Boss Ogg based on the SDL. It was designed with a TV-out card in mind. Boss Ogg 0.13 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136693/ Boss Ogg is a server-based Ogg, MP3, and Flac player designed for entertainment centers and people that want to use their spare computer for full-time music. It supports a range of clients and includes PHP and SDL interfaces (perfect for TV-out cards). Cayenne 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136643/ Cayenne is a free object-relational persistence framework written in Java. Its goal is to make development of database Java applications faster and more consistent with the Object Oriented Programming concept. Some of the ideas used in Cayenne have been inspired by the persistence mechanism of NeXT's (and now Apple's) WebObjects application server. cdwrite 1.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136696/ cdwrite is a shell for creation of data and audio disks, including compilations. It allows the use of pregaps and recognizes indices. It needs mkisofs and cdrecord for data and cdparanoia, cdda2wav, and cdrdao for audio. Cerberus Helpdesk 2.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136650/ Cerberus Helpdesk is an email response system built to diminish the need for redundant, time-consuming human interaction with your customers. The system is built to allow your support/sales/billing/etc. department to react quickly to inbound customer email inquiries. It was written originally as a trouble ticket system. Change Password Utility 1.4.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136642/ Change Password Utility (CPU) gives system administrators the ability to administer users and groups on a wide range of backends, currently including LDAP and flat files. Simply, CPU is for user and group administration. The commandline is almost completely compatible with existing Linux user and group management tools, so it can easily be dropped in place. It supports several different hashing algorithms and allows existing users to be imported from Unix-style passwd and shadow files into the backend of your choice. ClassiCollect 0.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136662/ ClassiCollect is an SQL schema and data entry frontend specifically designed for cataloging a Classical CD collection. The frontend is designed to require as little typing as possible on the user's part, with reference tables for quick selection of composer, title, label, etc. Clustered JDBC 1.0beta 11 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136715/ Clustered JDBC is to databases what RAID is for disks. C-JDBC provides transparent database clustering (partitioning, replication, etc.) to any Java application through JDBC. It works with any Java application without code modification and with any database engine. C-JDBC has been successfully tested with Tomcat, JBoss, JOnAS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, HSQL, SAP DB, Oracle, Sybase, and more. CodeWorker 2.19.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136666/ CodeWorker is a scripting language for producing reusable, tailor-made, evolving, and reliable IT systems with a high level of automation. An extended BNF syntax allows the definition of new domain-specific languages or parsing existing formats. A template-based syntax like PHP and JSP allows the writing of patterns for generating code. The code generation knows how to preserve protected areas with hand-typed code and offers code expansion, source-to-source translation, and program transformation. These tasks are executed in a straightforward process, with no binding to an external programming language and with no translation of requirements specification in a constraining format. cutmp3 0.9.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136651/ cutmp3 is a small command line MP3 editor. It lets you select sections of an MP3 interactively or via a timetable and save them to separate files without quality loss. It uses mpg123 for playback. It works with VBR files and files bigger than 2GB. doxygen 1.3.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136735/ Doxygen is a cross-platform, JavaDoc-like documentation system for C++, C, C#, Java, IDL, and PHP. Doxygen can be used to generate an on-line class browser (in HTML) and/or an off-line reference manual (in LaTeX or RTF) from a set of source files. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code-structure from undocumented source files. This includes dependency graphs, class diagrams and hyperlinked source code. This type of information can be very useful to quickly find your way in large source distributions. Elk 3.99.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136660/ Elk (the Extension Language Kit) is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It can be used as a standalone Scheme interpreter, or as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++ through the libelk library. Enchant 1.0.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136610/ Enchant is a cross-platform abstract layer for spell-checking. It is a meta spell-checking framework. It recognizes that different languages often require radically different tools and alogrithms to spell-check and correct. It also takes into account that systems often have a radical host of spell- checking software installed. It provides a standard C API/ABI for all of its backends, while allowing multiple backends to be loaded and used at once. Exim 4.24 (Exim4) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136713/ Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. In style it is similar to Smail 3, but its facilities are much more extensive. Exim is in use at many sites around the world. FlatFileSqlDatabase Beta-2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136718/ FlatFileSqlDatabase is an implementation in PHP of a small database using SQL to access and using text files to store the data. gnokii 0.5.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136749/ gnokii is a Linux/Unix tool suite for Nokia (GSM) mobile phones. It provides a virtual Hayes-AT compatible modem to allow data calls to be made to a modem or ISP as well as providing a phone book, and SMS and ringtone management. Phones supported include recent models such as the 6310, 6510, and 6210, and older phones like the 3110, 3810, 8110, 5110, 6110 and their derivatives. GNU Libidn 0.3.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136762/ 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 TeXmacs 1.0.1.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136676/ 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. hackster 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136728/ hackster is an X11 implementation of the 70s arcade game Asteroids with color and extras. HAproxy 1.1.24 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136720/ HAproxy is a high-performance and highly-robust TCP/HTTP load balancer which provides cookie-based persistence, automatic failover, header insertion, deletion, modification on the fly, advanced logging contents to help trouble-shooting buggy applications and/or networks, and a few other features. It uses its own state machine to achieve up to ten thousands hits per second on modern hardware, even with thousands simultaneous connections. It currently lacks SSL and keep-alive, both of which are planned. Hierarchical Data Format 1.7.4 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136722/ 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). Highlight 2.0-10 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136653/ Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database. imgSeek 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136691/ imgSeek is a photo collection manager capable of searching through an image database, in which the query is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches. You may also find duplicate images automatically, generate Web photo albums, edit image metadata including EXIF JPEG data, organize images into a keyword hierarchy, and more. INSERT 1.02 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136692/ INSERT (the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit) aims to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose disaster recovery and network analysis system. It boots from a credit card-sized CD-ROM and is basically a stripped-down version of Knoppix. It features good hardware detection, fluxbox, emelfm, links-hacked, clamav, airsnort, ssh, tcpdump, lcrzoex, chntpwd, and much more. iSQL-Viewer 2.1.6 (Beta) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136761/ iSQL(IndependentSQL)-Viewer is a JDBC 2.0-compliant application that can take advantage of platform features such as transactions, running batch modes, and database abstraction. Even in heterogeneous database environments, it supports all database platforms with a JDBC 2.0-compliant driver, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle. It provides a variety of tools to carry out both simple and complex database activities. IzSound 0.0.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136695/ IzSound is a C++/STL stream-oriented sound processing library. It has been designed around small DSP units that can be chained together to operate on the sound data stream. Jaffm 0.9.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136667/ Jaffm is a lightweight wxWindows (GTK+ interface) file manager for Unix, written in C++. It is aimed at nonsense-free file management. It is mostly inspired by the List View in Mac OS Finder, but does and will have Unix-handy features such as an interactive location bar, and a simple but elegant user interface. Java Binary Enhancement Tool 3r1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136711/ The Java Binary Enhancement Tool (JBET) is a general Java program analysis and manipulation tool. Existing class files can be disassembled, eassembled, or edited programmatically through the JBET API. JBET can also be used to create new Java class files from scratch. It uses a convenient internal representation of all the contents of Java binary (.class) files, allowing the user to edit the classes easily, in a structured manner. JCap 0.7.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136710/ JCap is a Java application for adding captions and descriptions to your digital photograph collection and includes a search dialog for finding photos later. It is completely self-contained; it doesn't require a separate database application or Web server to run. Captions, descriptions, and keywords are stored in plain text files in the same folder as the images they describe and can be read by any application that can read text files. The primary goals are: to help you find photos later, to help share photos with others, and to be able to read photo captions and descriptions thirty years from now on whatever computer you happen to have at the time. Jinzora 0.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136739/ Jinzora is a Web-based media streamer, primarily designed to stream MP3s (but can be used for any media file that can stream from HTTP). It can be integrated into a PostNuke site, run as a standalone application, or be integrated into any PHP Website. JPluck 2.0 beta 3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136680/ JPluck converts Web sites and RSS feeds to Plucker documents for offline reading on your handheld. KlassModeler 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136746/ The KlassModeler is a tool for visually creating and documenting classes. It is not unlike other UML design tools except for four major differences: it focuses only on the class-diagramming aspects of UML and leaves out the use cases, actors, and other things, it generates code, it reads existing C++ header files, and it can create HTML documentation. Knoppix 3.3-2003-09-22 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136741/ KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression. KSalup 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136670/ KSalup allows Linux users to receive and send popup messages to other computers on a local area network (LAN). KSalup is compatible with many other programs such as Microsoft Winpopup, Kurupop, Linpopup, Salup, and any others which use the SMB messaging protocol. Laetitia Nude 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136730/ Laetitia Nude is a dark theme featuring Laetitia Casta nude. Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 0.3.0 (Linux 2.5/2.6 patch) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136736/ 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. Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux 2003-09-22 (Pattern Definitions) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136732/ 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. libprelude 0.8.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136743/ The Prelude Library (libprelude) is the glue that binds all aspects of Prelude together. It is a library which enables Prelude components to communicate with the Prelude Manager. It also makes it easy for third party software to be made 'Prelude Aware' (able to communicate with Prelude components). It provide common, useful features used by every sensor. libtour 0.7.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136755/ libtour is a generic tournament processing library. The rules, participants, schedule, and results of a sporting tournament can be defined in the Scheme programming language and given to the library as input. A CLI application is provided as a reference client implementation. Linux 2.4.23-pre5 (2.4-testing) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136644/ 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. MACCC 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136638/ MP3 Automagic CD Cover Creator (MACCC) creates printable CD covers for MP3 CDs (front and back for full-size cases, front-only for slimline). These covers are great for use with in-dash car MP3 CD players. The covers it outputs are in CDInsert format, CDRLabel format, HTML, and .txt format. MaildirSync 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136657/ Maildirsync is a utility for Maildir synchronization. It is designed to be used in online (live) Maildir folders, be fail-safe, and is optimized for minimal bandwidth. make_cd_label 0.8.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136701/ make_cd_label is a script that helps create stickers for CDs. It is intended to be integrated with your backup scripts, but can also make stickers for audio CDs using CDDB and disc-cover. The output is an XML file that can be read into glabels and then edited or printed. It uses Memorex-style CD label stickers. materm 0.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136646/ materm is a multi-terminal for the X Windows system based on aterm that provides tabbed functionality without requiring KDE or GNOME. Memoria 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136760/ Memoria is a version of the traditional game of memory. It was developed using OnBoardC. It supports one to four players, the ability to play with 16, 36, or 56 cards, 100 different images for the cards, English and Spanish support, and is compatible with monocromatic, grayscale, and color screens. midriff 1.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136725/ MIDRIFF is an easy-to-understand, CGI-based tool for implementing dynamic Web forms, data views, and other content. It includes an embedded SQL database and can also be linked with embedded charting package (ploticus). The result is fast development of active, graphically rich Web content, with low administrative burden. It allows you to download, install (without root privileges), and build real dynamic Web-based database applications and prototypes quickly, and deliver applications with no dependencies on other systems such as MySQL or PHP. It has minimal administration requirements, and requires no control over a Web server and no special server modules. moftpd 1.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136714/ moftpd is a powerful FTP server supporting IPv6, virtual hosts, fine grained permissions, TLS, and much more. monit 4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136697/ Monit is a utility for managing and monitoring processes, files, directories, and devices on a Unix system. It conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. It can be used to monitor files, directories, and devices for changes, such as timestamps changes, checksum changes, or size changes. It is controlled via an easy to configure control file based on a free-format, token-oriented syntax. It logs to syslog or to its own log file and notifies users about error conditions via customizable alert messages. It can perform various TCP/IP network checks, protocol checks, and can utilize SSL for such checks. It provides an HTTP(S) interface for access. MP3Gain 1.4.3 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136729/ MP3Gain analyzes and adjusts mp3 files so that they have the same volume. It does not just do peak normalization, as many normalizers do. Instead, it does some statistical analysis to determine how loud the file actually sounds to the human ear. Also, the changes MP3Gain makes are completely lossless. There is no quality lost in the change because the program adjusts the mp3 file directly, without decoding and re-encoding. Noble Ape Simulation 0.644 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136654/ The Noble Ape Simulation creates a random environment and simulates the ape inhabitants' cognitive processes. It features the Ocelot landscape rendering engine. OpenSymphony PropertySet 1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136716/ PropertySets provide an abstracted way to dynamically store and retrieve typed data from a persistence store. Support for EJB, JDBC, Ofbiz, XML, caching, JavaBeans, and more is included, along with a simple API to write your own PropertySets custom tailored to your needs. Palantir 2.5.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136668/ Palantir is a client-server streaming system designed to transmit live video, audio, and data over a TCP/IP network. The server runs on a Linux box. The supplied Java client can display the live video stream as well as interact with hardware devices connected to the server. A native Windows client also allows full-duplex audio communications with the server. Papyrus 1.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136671/ Papyrus is a XML-based reporting langauge for PostgreSQL and MySQL. It allows you to generate well-formatted reports in LaTeX, PDF, PostScript, HTML, ANSI, and XML. The XML is expressed in a formatting-oriented style to allow you to develop a wide range of reports. SQL is then embedded into the report to give you the desired data. Papyrus is commandline-driven, and data arguments can be passed into the report. Equations and expressions can also be carried out on data. Pen 0.11.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136750/ Pen is a load balancer for "simple" TCP-based protocols such as HTTP or SMTP. It allows several servers to appear as one to the outside. It automatically detects servers that are down and distributes clients among the available servers. This gives high availability and scalable performance. php_lib_login 0-9-2b http://freshmeat.net/releases/136645/ php_lib_login is a library for PHP, designed to allow Web site developers to add login and password protection functionality quickly and easily. Basic login functionality including email-based, question-protected password reminding, user-creation of accounts, password changing, ip banning, and selected page protection can be implemented with about 15 lines of code. php_lib_login is designed to work with numerous different databses, including MySQL, postgreSQL, MSSQL, ODBC, Access, and more through the use of the adodb library, and supports several different human languages as well. plusxauth.pl 0.04 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136724/ plusxauth.pl autodetects the current X11 environment settings and xauth(1) cookies on a local Linux or remote Unix system and can start local X client applications based on the autodetected values. Root privileges are recommended for full operation. Prelude Log Monitoring Lackey 0.8.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136745/ The Prelude Log Monitoring Lackey (LML) is the host-based sensor program part of the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite. It can act as a centralized log collector for local or remote systems, or as a simple log analyzer (such as swatch). It can run as a network server listening on a syslog port or analyze log files. It supports logfiles in the BSD syslog format and is able to analyze any logfile by using the PCRE library. It can apply logfile-specific analysis through plugins such as PAX. It can send an alert to the Prelude Manager when a suspicious log entry is detected. Prelude Manager 0.8.8 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136748/ Prelude Manager is the main program of the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite. It is a multithreaded server which handles connections from the Prelude sensors. It is able to register local or remote sensors, let the operator configure them remotely, receive alerts, and store alerts in a database or any format supported by reporting plugins, thus providing centralized logging and analysis. It also provides relaying capabilities for failover and replication. The IDMEF standard is used for alert representation. Support for filtering plugins allows you to hook in different places in the Manager to define custom criteria for alert relaying and logging. Prelude NIDS 0.8.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136744/ Prelude NIDS is the network-based sensor program part of the Prelude Hybrid IDS suite. It provides network monitoring with fast pattern matching (Boyer-Moore) to detect attacks against a network. It includes advanced mechanisms such as a generic signature engine which is able to understand any ruleset as long as there is a dedicated parser, protocol and detection analysis plugins featuring Telnet, RPC, HTTP, and FTP decoding and preprocessors for cross-platform polymorphic shellcodes detection, ARP misuse detection, and scanning detection. It supports IP fragmentation and TCP segmentation to track connections and detect stateful events. procps 3.1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136689/ procps is a package of utilities which includes ps, vmstat, top, w, skill, snice, pgrep, pkill, free, sysctl, pmap, uptime, and kill. These utilities report what is running, who is logged in, how long the system has been running, and what is using up memory. They can be used to kill processes and change run-time kernel configuration values. PyPanel 0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136632/ PyPanel is a lightweight panel and task bar for the WindowMaker X11 window manager that can be easily customized to match any desktop theme. QDBM: Quick DataBase Manager 1.6.18 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136702/ QDBM is an embeded database library compatible with GDBM and NDBM. It features hash database and B+ tree database and is developed referring to GDBM for the purpose of the following three points: higher processing speed, smaller size of a database file, and simpler API. Quick-Join 0.4.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136647/ Quick-Join implements a heuristic for speeding up neighbour joining, making neighbour joining feasible for large sets of taxa. The inferred tree is identical to the tree inferred by the traditional neighbour joining method, but the heuristic will (potentially) construct the tree significantly faster. QuickDownloader 4.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136673/ 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. Radiator Radius Server 3.7 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136756/ Radiator is a radius server that is flexible, extensible, and authenticates from a huge range of auth methods, including Wireless, TLS, TTLS, PEAP, SQL, proxy, DBM, files, LDAP, NIS+, password, NT SAM, Emerald, Platypus, Freeside, TACACS+, PAM, external, OPIE, POP3, EAP, and Active Directory. It runs on Unix, Win95/98/NT/2000, MacOS 9, MacOS X, VMS, and more. Ragel State Machine Compiler 2.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136753/ Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into runnable C code. It allows you to embed actions at any point in your regular language and to control the non-determinism in the resulting machines. It understands concatenation, union (the "or" operator), kleene star, subtraction, and intersection, as well as some helpers like "!", "?" and "+". Ragel's finite state machines are closed under all of its operators. This property allows for arbitrary regular lanuages to be described. It can be used to create a parser for any language that is regular. ReciPants 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136640/ ReciPants is a Web-based recipe manager that features searching, scaling, exporting, emailing, and favorite recipe bookmarks. It also lets users edit their own recipes. The user features include email authentication, profiles, a password changer, password reminders, SHA-1-authenticated user cookies, and user-selectable interface languages. It also supports fully customizable templated output. Recovery Is Possible! 6.4 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136712/ Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or floppy boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has support for a lot of filesystem types (Reiserfs, ext2/3, iso9660, UDF, XFS, JFS, UFS, HPFS, HFS, MINIX, MS DOS, NTFS, UMSDOS, and VFAT) and contains a bunch of utilities for system recovery. It also has PCMCIA, RAID, LVM, and Ethernet/DSL/cable/PPP/PPPOE network support. RemenDeKO 0.2.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136625/ RemenDeKO is a file repair program. You can use it to generate a checksums file for your corrupted file and send it to someone who has the original file. The second person then generates a patch that you can use to fix your file. RetroForth 6.15 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136682/ Retro is a clean, usable Forth-based development system. It currently runs under Linux and DOS, or as an operating system. Salvare 0.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136698/ Salvare (from the Latin "to rescue") is a small Linux distribution designed for small, credit-card sized CDs which typically hold around 34MB. More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, it aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. In addition to providing a rescue environment similart to tomsrtbt, it adds OpenSSH, a graphical and text mode Web browser (Links), security tools such as chkrootkit, nmap, and tcpdump, the ability to apt-get install additional software from Debian into tmpfs, the ability to run entirely from RAM, and much more to come It's also customisable using a simple source-code based package management system. SEDForth 0.0.4 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136683/ SEDForth is a Forth compiler written as a SED script. It converts Forth code into subroutine threaded assembly language and Linux console applications. shsql 1.23 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136726/ shsql is a a reasonably full-featured, efficient SQL database for Unix/Linux that can be downloaded and installed by a non-privileged user in 5 minutes. It can be embedded directly into applications requiring no persistent server process, has a small code size and memory footprint, uses plain ASCII whitespace-delimited data files which can be modified in a text editor, and is easy to administer. It can be used for rapid prototyping situations, demos, exploratory work, one-developer projects, etc. where full-blown packages like MySQL or Oracle aren't already available or are unacceptable. Simple C Compiler 0.1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136685/ The Simple C Compiler is a port of Small C/386 to Linux. It is designed for use with older systems or rescue disks. It provides a usable C compiler in significantly less space than GCC. Siproxd 0.3.6 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136740/ 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. Slackware Live CD 2.9.0.22 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136707/ Slackware Live CD is a 200MB live Linux distribution on CD that is based on Slackware. It features many add-ons, including the scripts required to create your own live CD. smbldap-tools 0.8.1 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136659/ SMBLDAP-TOOLS is a package containing some useful scripts to manage users/groups when you're using LDAP as source of user/group data (for Unix and for Samba). These scripts are used in the SAMBA-LDAP PDC Howto to add/delete/modify users and groups. SpectrumSCM 1.3.14 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136690/ SpectrumSCM is the first platform-independent, truly integrated enterprise-level Source Configuration and Management solution, which includes version control, process management, release management, advanced branching, issue tracking and much more, all integrated into one tool. Being a 100% pure Java tool, the software can be installed and run on any operating system with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM). In addition, it allows users to construct automated workflow engines and interfaces to external systems through the SpectrumSCM API. The tool also incorporates advanced security features through the Java Security Model, SSL and LDAP. The client software can be run as an application or accessed over the Web as an applet or through Java Web Start. It also includes a full-featured commandline interface. sqlDESKTOP 1.13 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136669/ sqlDESKTOP is a computerized manual filing system arranged just like an ordinary office with pictures of real cabinets and real folders. You can arrange by project, by department or whatever makes sense to you. sqlDESKTOP doesn't tell you how to organize, it lets you do things your own way. Documents are easy to find because you don't have to remember the exact name of the document or where you put it. Instead, you can visually locate what you are looking for in a familiar office environment and click on it. SwenDeleter 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136609/ SwenDeleter tries to identify email messages infected with the Swen worm in POP3 mailboxes and delete them on the server. It applies some heuristics to the headers and size of the messages, in order to avoid downloading the actual email, thus making retrievals less taxing. It has both interactive and nonstop modes. System Rescue CD 0.2.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136688/ SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data. It contains a lot of system utilities (such as parted, partimage, and fstools), and basic programs (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools). It also includes QtParted, a Partition Magic clone that makes editing partitons easy with its Qt graphical user interface. This CDROM aims to be very easy to use and accessible to everybody. tcm2sql 0.9 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136733/ tcm2sql is a tool for generating SQL "CREATE" commands from a tcm static structure diagram (SSD) including constraints and foreign keys. It is currently able to produce SQL for PostgreSQL, but it should be possible to write other renderers. TDHkit 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136727/ TDHkit is a set of programs and filters which are useful in working with whitespace-delimited ASCII data from the commandline or in shell scripts. It was developed to supplement standard Unix utilities such as sort and uniq. Fields can be manipulated by name if data files have a field name header. Two of the utilities are designed to work specifically with tab-delimited exports from Excel spreadsheets. The Dink Project 0.0.3 alpha http://freshmeat.net/releases/136649/ Dink Smallwood is a commercial RPG and game development kit released by Robinson Technologies in 1997. This project is based on the original source code, released by the author, in an effort to clean the code and port it to a multiplatform game. The Figaro 1.0.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136665/ The "Framework for Implicit Graph Algorithms and Representations by OBDDs" (Figaro) automatically manages experiments with input generator and algorithm plugins. It contains network generators and maxflow algorithms, both explicit and implicit. The Frink Language 2003-09-20 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136623/ Frink is a calculating tool and programming language designed to help you in the real world. It tracks units of measurement throughout all calculations and ensures that answers are correct. It converts between systems of measurement and has a huge library of physical data. It handles conversions between time zones, currencies, and historical values of the U.S. dollar and the British pound, translates between several languages, does date/time math, and more. The Tamber Project 1.9.3 (Numenor) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136687/ The Tamber project is a free, componentised n-tier website engine that uses open languages such as XML and JavaScript. In a nutshell, content is stored in separate XML files, in databases, or other data objects; business functions are carried out by JavaScript and ASP; and presentation is controlled by an XSL transformation, which allows for delivery over multiple channels such as HTML, WAP and email. Currently Tamber contains modules that support; automatic locale detection, search engine tracking and optimisation, e-commerce catalogues; shopping carts and order management, secure sign in, data access and conversion services, advanced session management, content managemt tools and forums. TkPhone 1.0 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136751/ TkPhone is an application that allows you to record telephone numbers in books, select the book you want to browse, select the name of a person you want to call, and call that person's number, assuming you are connected to a modem and you have the right permissions. Ultimate Boot CD 1.6 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136639/ Ultimate Boot CD allows users to run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. UPPAAL 3.4.1 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136672/ UPPAAL is an integrated tool environment for modeling, validation, and verification of real time systems, modeled as networks of timed automata, extended with data types (bounded integers, arrays, etc.). Typical application areas include real time controllers and communication protocols, in particular those where timing aspects are critical. Vector Visuals 2003.09.22-beta http://freshmeat.net/releases/136648/ 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. white_dune 0.25beta91 (Development) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136677/ white_dune is a graphical VRML97 editor. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins. It has support for animation, realtime interaction and multimedia (image, movie, sound). White_dune can read VRML97 files, display and let the user change the scenegraph/fields, and load and store x3d (the next generation VRML XML format) files if configured to work with the nist.gov x3d translators. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker. Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Statistics 20030922 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136679/ Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory Statistics generates various statistics out of ET server log files in HTML format. ETS is single executable utility and only requires Perl. X-Chat 2.0.5 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136678/ X-Chat is a fully-featured graphical IRC client using the GTK toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting. Xmms-Lumi 0.1.2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136759/ XMMS-Lumi is an XMMS plugin that automatically plays new files. Users give the plugin a directory to watch, and if new files are added to this directory, it begins to "intelligently" play them. It is useful for leechers (using P2P clients like lopster, for example). YourAmigo Enterprise Search 2.1.3 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136675/ YourAmigo Enterprise Search is a Website or intranet search engine which is able to index and search content that is often hidden to other search engines. In addition to supporting traditional spidering methods, it implements a novel agent-based architecture to allow Web server-based Java agents to gather information about static, dynamic, and unlinked content from the local Web server and forward it to a central search server. Zaval Light-Weight Visual Components Library 3.5.0 (Stable) http://freshmeat.net/releases/136699/ Zaval Light-Weight Visual Components Library (LwVCL) is a pure Java alternative to humble AWT-based GUI interfaces for a wide range of platforms, including J2SE, PersonalJava, and others. It can be used on wide range of PersonalJava compatible devices, including Sharp Zaurus, Compaq iPAQ, and top models of mobile phones with the same API, as it is used in J2SE applications. zoem 03-265 http://freshmeat.net/releases/136681/ Zoem is a macro/programming language. It can be used as an all-round macro language, but has more specialized uses as well. One such specific use is its support for creating small mark-up languages that map to different devices. It has character filtering capabilities tailored to this application. Two such languages come packaged with zoem; one for creating manual pages that can be output either in troff or in HTML, the other for creating FAQs again in either troff or HTML output. It supports arithmetic evaluation, regular expressions, multidimensional data storage, iteration, comprehensive IO, control operators, dictionary stacks, system commands, and more. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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.
