Newsletter for Friday, July 04th 2008

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (38) :::

[001] - advene 0.32 
[002] - afe 20080105 
[003] - AIPS 31DEC08-07-03 (Development)
[004] - Apache SQL analyser 0.9 
[005] - Brasero 0.7.91 
[006] - check_oracle_health 1.4 
[007] - Codestriker 1.9.5 
[008] - Coherence 0.5.8 
[009] - ComboValidation 1.0.14 
[010] - congruity 8 
[011] - diggZ-Et 1.1.3 
[012] - DocBook XSL Configurator 0.61_1740 
[013] - EWItool 0.1 
[014] - Fire.fm 1.0 
[015] - Google C++ Testing Framework 1.0.0 
[016] - gscan2pdf 0.9.25 
[017] - HTTPTunnel 1.2.1 
[018] - JOrtho 2008-07 (Language Resources)
[019] - LinuxBIOS 2-3412 
[020] - Luke-SDK 0.7.3 
[021] - massXpert mass spectrometry package 1.7.7 
[022] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.59 
[023] - Netty 3.0.0.M4 
[024] - Network Simulator 3.1 (Development)
[025] - PCGen 5.14.0 
[026] - PCGen 5.14.1 (RC1) (Development)
[027] - pksh 0.1.0 
[028] - San Le's Free Computational Fluid Dynamics 1.2 
[029] - SchilliX 0.6.7 
[030] - Shadowlands Forum 1.9.6.4 (Stable)
[031] - SpatiaLite 2.0 
[032] - Virtual Universe 0.73 (VR Client)
[033] - Virtualmin 3.59 
[034] - Vortex Library 1.0.15 
[035] - WebGUI 7.5.15 
[036] - Wixer 0.8 
[037] - Wt 2.1.4 
[038] - YaHP Converter 1.2.18 

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[001] - advene 0.32 
  by Olivier Aubert (http://freshmeat.net/users/oaubert/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 20:12

Information Management :: Metadata/Semantic Models
Multimedia :: Video

About: Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the NEt) is aimed at
providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video
documents (movies, courses, conferences, etc.), as well as tools to edit
and visualize the hypervideos generated from both the annotations and the
audiovisual documents. Teachers, moviegoers, etc. can use them to exchange
multimedia comments and analyses about video documents. The project also
aims at studying the way that communities of users (teachers, moviegoers,
students, etc.) will use these self-publishing tools to share their
audiovisual "readings", and to envision new editing and viewing interfaces
for interactive comment and analysis of audiovisual content.

Changes: This release has usability enhancements, new video control
shortcuts (numeric keypad), Braille display support through brltty (if is
it installed and configured), and speech synthesis support through eSpeak.
The workspace can be automatically saved and restored with the package. It
also fixes bugs found in previous Win32 versions.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/advene/

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[002] - afe 20080105 
  by rkd77 (http://freshmeat.net/users/rkd77/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 20:11

About: afe is a simple PSF font editor. PSF fonts are used on the Linux
console, but this program requires X11 to run. Many fonts can be edited
simultaneously. For example, one can copy and paste between different
files.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/afe/

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[003] - AIPS 31DEC08-07-03 (Development)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:38

Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy

About: AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System) handles the
processing and display of data from radio interferometers. Data can be
collected from any radio telescope array. Images can be exported in FITS
format.

Changes: Numerous enhancements and bugfixes were made. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/aips/

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[004] - Apache SQL analyser 0.9 
  by Steve Kemp (http://freshmeat.net/users/skx/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:29

Internet :: Log Analysis

About: asql allows you to run SQL queries against log files formatted in
the Apache common log file format. You may load multiple log files into a
session, then run queries using a full SQL implementation, to find things
such as the most common referers to your site, the greediest downloaders,
and much more. Internally, each log file is parsed and imported into a
temporary SQLite database, so performance is very good.

Changes: This release allows ad-hoc queries to be conducted directly from
the commandline, without launching the interactive shell at all. This is
achieved via a new commandline flag "--execute". 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/asql/

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[005] - Brasero 0.7.91 
  by Luis Medinas (http://freshmeat.net/users/metalgod/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 17:34

Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing

About: Brasero (formerly known as Bonfire) is a application to burn CDs
and DVDs for the GNOME desktop. It is designed to be as simple as possible,
and has some unique features to enable users to create their discs easily
and quickly. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/brasero/

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[006] - check_oracle_health 1.4 
  by lausser (http://freshmeat.net/users/lausser/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 17:31

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: check_oracle_health is a plugin for the Nagios monitoring software
that allows you to monitor various metrics of an Oracle database. It
includes connection time, SGA data buffer hit ratio, SGA library cache hit
ratio, SGA dictionary cache hit  ratio, SGA shared pool free, PGA in memory
sort ratio, tablespace usage, tablespace fragmentation, tablespace I/O
balance, invalid objects, and many more.

Changes: This release fixes some bugs in latch-contention, systats,
roll-extends, and roll-wraps. SQL was tuned for better performance.
Statesdir is now /var/tmp/check_oracle_health by default (if it was /tmp,
migration will be done automatically).

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/check_oracle_health/

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[007] - Codestriker 1.9.5 
  by David Sitsky (http://freshmeat.net/users/sits/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:05

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Software Development
Software Development :: Bug Tracking

About: Codestriker is a Web application that supports online code reviews.
Traditional document reviews are supported, as well as reviewing diffs
generated by an SCM (Source Code Management) system and plain unidiff
patches. There are integration points with CVS, Subversion, Clearcase,
Perforce, Visual SourceSafe, and Bugzilla. There is a plug-in architecture
for supporting other SCMs and issue tracking systems. It minimizes paper
work, ensures that issues, comments, and decisions are recorded in a
database, and provides a comfortable workspace for actually performing code
inspections. An optional highly-configurable metrics subsystem allows you
to record code inspection metrics as a part of your process.

Changes: Syntax highlighting support was added. The appearance of the
application has been updated. The ability to specify just a filename and a
revision number to create a review from a Subversion or Perforce
repository. TestDirector is now supported as a bug tracking system. Reviews
can be created just by entering the bug IDs, and the data can be retrieved
from Scmbug. The edit comment page has been updated to include a link back
to the associated view topic page. Support for LXR 0.9.5 was added. Any
line of any file in the review can be commented on, not just those that are
a part of the diff file. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/codestriker/

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[008] - Coherence 0.5.8 
  by Erwan Velu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ErwanVelu/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 05:54

Communications :: File Sharing
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players

About: Coherence is a set of DLNA/UPnP devices, like MediaServer and
MediaRenderer. In addition, it includes a well-designed framework to extend
other applications with DLNA/UPnP functionality. It also has an emerging
DBus API, enabling these applications to participate in digital living
networks. It supports Playstation 3 (PS3), XBox, and many other devices. 

Changes: A MediaServer backend for DVB-Daemon, a client device and service
implementations for BinaryLight and DimmableLight devices, a plugin for
Totem, and the first set of unit tests were added. A basic reusable PyGTK
based UPnP A/V ControlPoint widget was added, and is used in the Totem
plugin. The D-Bus support was reworked. The XBox 360 support was reworked
(again). A copy of Louie (http://pylouie.org) is included to solve a
setuptools runtime dependency issue. The usual bugfixes and enhancements
were made. 

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/coherence/

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[009] - ComboValidation 1.0.14 
  by Sina Salek (http://freshmeat.net/users/sinasalek/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 18:01

About: ComboValidation is a class meant to validate HTML forms via PHP and
JavaScript in the simplest possible way. All you need to do is to create an
array of form fields' information with the required parameters and then
call a few methods. It is customizable (validation and view), cross-browser
(IE6+, Firefox2+, Opera7+, Safari3+, and all Mozilla based browsers), very
well tested, easily integrated, lightweight, extensible, PHP 4 and 5
compatible, multi-lingual, and XHML valid, and has AJAX support.

Changes: .

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/combovalidation/

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[010] - congruity 8 
  by Stephen Warren (http://freshmeat.net/users/swarren/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:52

About: congruity is a GUI application for programming Logitech Harmony
remote controls. Configuration setup is via the Logitech Web site, in the
same fashion as Logitech's own Windows/Mac OS software. congruity will
handle processing the files downloaded from the Web site, which perform
"check connectivity", "configuration update", "firmware update", and soon
"ir learning" operations. It uses libconcord for the underlying remote
interaction, is written in Python/wxPython, and is portable to at least
Linux and Windows.

Changes: Remote "connect" was separated into a separate wizard step, and
advanced details on the detected remote are provided. Significant internal
reorganization and cleanup were done, which should allow for easier
integration of IR learning support later. All command-line parsing and
dependency errors now trigger a GUI error message, instead of just throwing
an exception. This prevents such errors from being invisible if congruity
isn't run from a terminal. A "Next" button focus/sensitivity bug was fixed.
Makefile enhancements were made. Resource cleanup was improved. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/congruity/

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[011] - diggZ-Et 1.1.3 
  by Gorkfu (http://freshmeat.net/users/Gorkfu/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:31

About: diggZ-Et is a WordPress plugin for displaying Digg It buttons. Its
admin settings allow you to customize everything including the skin type.

Changes: A Digg button can now be hidden on a single post or page. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/diggz-et/

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[012] - DocBook XSL Configurator 0.61_1740 
  by swhitlat (http://freshmeat.net/users/swhitlat/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 05:42

Documentation
Information Management
Text Processing :: Markup :: DocBook

About: DocBook XSL Configurator is an umbrella project currently
consisting of three similar Java Swing applications used to create DocBook
XSL customization layers, run external subprocesses that format DocBook
XML, and view the results. Users click through tables, select parameters,
edit those parameters, include the customization layer in a project, write
out the customization layer as an XSL file, and apply the XSL to the
project's XML using the project's specified XSLT processor. DocBook XSL
Configurator then runs a project's FO processor, PDF/PostScript viewer,
HTML viewer, or man page viewer as an external subprocess.

Changes: DocBook XSL Configurator for FO was updated to support DocBook
XSL version 1.74-0. DocBook XSL Configurator for HTML with support for
DocBook XSL version 1.74-0 was added. DocBook XSL Configurator for Manpages
with support for DocBook XSL version 1.74-0 was added. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/db-xsl-cfg/

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[013] - EWItool 0.1 
  by Steve M (http://freshmeat.net/users/merronys/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 05:55

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: EWItool is a controller for the popular Akai EWI4000s wind
synthesizer. EWItool includes a fully graphical sound (patch) editor and
patch library management. 

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ewitool/

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[014] - Fire.fm 1.0 
  by jorge (http://freshmeat.net/users/jorgevillalobos/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 08:09

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Fire.fm is a Firefox extension to access the extensive music
library on Last.fm. It lets you listen to music related to your favorite
artist and discover new artists and music in the process. It can also be
used to listen to your friend's favorite music and to find Last.fm users
with musical taste similar to your own. Your favorite stations can be
accessed quickly by typing a few letters into the location bar. The
auto-play feature begins playing the last station you played when you
closed Firefox. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/firefm/

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[015] - Google C++ Testing Framework 1.0.0 
  by Zhanyong Wan (http://freshmeat.net/users/zhanyong/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:12

Software Development :: Testing

About: Google C++ Testing Framework is Google's framework for writing C++
tests on a variety of platforms. It is based on the xUnit architecture, and
it supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions,
user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, various
options for running the tests, and XML test report generation. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/googletest/

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[016] - gscan2pdf 0.9.25 
  by Jeff (http://freshmeat.net/users/3ra28145/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 23:32

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Scanners
Office/Business

About: gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs from
scanned documents. You scan in one or several pages and create a PDF of
selected pages. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF conversion
is done by PDF::API2. Perl is used for portability and ease of programming,
with gtk2-perl for the GUI.

Changes: Support for the unpaper option --output-pages. A checkbox to
disable the option cache. A Bulgarian translation. Updates to the Danish,
Dutch, French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Spanish translations.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gscan2pdf/

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[017] - HTTPTunnel 1.2.1 
  by Richard Mills (http://freshmeat.net/users/richmills/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:34

Communications
Internet :: WWW/HTTP
System :: Networking :: Firewalls

About: HTTPTunnel is a simple client/server application for creating an
HTTP tunnel between two machines, optionally via a Web proxy. This tunnel
can then be used to wrap arbitrary TCP socket traffic in HTTP, thus
allowing communications even through a restrictive firewall that only
allows outgoing HTTP connections. 

Changes: The HTTPTunnel code is now based on a reusable HTTP tunneling
library (libhttptun, included in this source archive). This release
includes improvements for tunneling high bandwidth connections, plus the
usual minor bugfixes. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/httptunnel/

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[018] - JOrtho 2008-07 (Language Resources)
  by i-net software (http://freshmeat.net/users/vberlin/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:54

Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Editors :: Word Processors
Text Processing

About: JOrtho is a spell checker for Java. The library works with any
JTextComponent from the Swing framework and checks as you type. The
dictionary is based on the free Wiktionary.org, and is applicable for
multiple languages. You can select the spell checking language via a
context menu. The Features of JOrtho are the highlighting of potentially
wrongly spelled words, a context menu with suggestions for correct forms of
the word, and a context menu with option to change the checking language.
At the moment there are five languages for spell checking available:
English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian.

Changes: This is a dictionary only release with an up-to-date
wiktionary.org scan. Russian has been added as well. 

License: Free for non-commercial use

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jortho/

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[019] - LinuxBIOS 2-3412 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:33

System :: Boot

About: Coreboot (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) is a project that aims to
replace the normal BIOS with a little bit of hardware initialization and a
payload. Payloads can include a compressed Linux kernel, FILO, GRUB2,
OpenBIOS, Open Firmware, SmartFirmware, GNUFI (UEFI), Etherboot, ADLO (for
booting Windows and OpenBSD), Plan 9, or memtest86. 

Changes: ICH7 SPI support was added. Support for VIA SPI controller on
VT8237S was added. Winbond W39V040FA, W25x80 and SST's SST49LF040, and
SST49LF040B were validated. w39v080fa support was updated. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/linuxbios/

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[020] - Luke-SDK 0.7.3 
  by Christopher Thoday (http://freshmeat.net/users/cthoday/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:35

About: Luke-SDK is a general purpose IDE that supports 15 programming
languages with many additional features not commonly found in many IDEs.
Users can add their own tools, templates, widgets, and snippets. It
contains a Smart Terminal that allows you to do much more with the results
than a simple copy. It has features for Linux administration, such as the
ability to edit configuration files, the ability to search and filter log
files, a local version control system (using Bazaar-VCS), the ability to
install software from source, and a management system for a Web site. 

Changes: This release adds extended support for Bazaar-VCS, better support
for Ruby and Rails-2, improved terminal emulation, Open Source licenses in
the new program wizard, an improved installation script, and the ability to
run commands in an interactive shell. 

License: OSI Approved

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/luke-sdk/

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[021] - massXpert mass spectrometry package 1.7.7 
  by filippo rusconi (http://freshmeat.net/users/FilippoRusconi/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:48

Education
Scientific/Engineering :: Bioinformatics
Scientific/Engineering :: Chemistry

About: The massXpert software package is a mass spectrometry environment
for linear (bio-)polymers. It inherits all the innovations of GNU
polyxmass. It allows the detailed definition of new polymer chemistries in
the XpertDef module. These chemistry definitions are then used in the
desktop calculator-like mass calculator (XpertCalc) and in the
sophisticated polymer sequence editor and (bio-)chemical/mass spectrometric
simulations module (XpertEdit). Available simulations include polymer and
monomer chemical modifications, polymer sequence cleavage, gas-phase
fragmentation, m/z ratio calculations, and more.

Changes: This release can select an arbitrary number of regions in the
polymer sequence. This feature is required to make the most out of the
cross-linking simulations available in massXpert. The implications of this
new development are pervasive all through the project and should allow even
more intuitive simulations to be performed in the XpertEdit module. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/massxpert/

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[022] - Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager 1.0.59 
  by Mjrz (http://freshmeat.net/users/mjrz/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 23:32

Office/Business :: Financial
Office/Business :: Financial :: Accounting

About: Personal Finance Manager is a finance and expense tracking tool for
those with limited or no accounting experience. You can use it to manage
expenses and track account balances, generate reports, create and save
complex filters to search the transaction history, create charts and graphs
for assets, liabilities, and daily net worth tracking, view stock
prices/quotes, store contacts, email, and phone numbers, and import OFX
data for banks and credit cards. It supports the latest Quicken format, and
also supports downloading current statement for bank and credit card
accounts. 

Changes: This release has a delete user bugfix.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mjrz/

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[023] - Netty 3.0.0.M4 
  by Trustin Lee (http://freshmeat.net/users/anoripi/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 08:09

Communications
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: The Netty project is an effort to provide an asynchronous,
event-driven network application framework for rapid development of
high-performance, high-scalability protocol servers and clients. It
includes related out-of-the-box protocol extensions and a tool suite. 

Changes: The pipeline package was merged into the channel package for a
more user-friendly API. More interfaces were added to give a clearer view
on the overall class hierarchy and to utilize the Java covariant return
type. netty.jar is now OSGi-compatible. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/netty/

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[024] - Network Simulator 3.1 (Development)
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:35

Education
Internet
System :: Networking

About: Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at  networking research.
It provides substantial  support for simulation of TCP, routing, and 
multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local  and satellite)
networks. It includes an optional  network animator (nam).

Changes: TCP bugs were fixed. Support for packet tags was added. CSMA
NetDevice was cleaned up and documented. Socket::RecvFrom was added. The
tutorial was revised. Assorted other minor bugs were fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ns-2/

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[025] - PCGen 5.14.0 
  by Maredudd (http://freshmeat.net/users/Maredudd800/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 17:32

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: PCGen is a Java (1.5+) -based character generator aimed at
supporting OGL role playing games like those based upon the SRD, RSRD, and
MSRD (such as Dungeons and Dragons). It is highly configurable by the
users, allowing the Game Master to add or remove races, classes, feats,
etc., and to implement house rules such as differing class or race
restrictions. Level advancement is also supported, with configurable
progressions of feats, skills and ability score bonuses. For "at the table"
support, PCGen offers a set of GM plugins. Further options allow the user
to produce a customized character sheet, which can then be viewed in, or
printed from, the user's WWW browser. It can also produce a "party" sheet
with the information needed by the GM.

Changes: There are 282 feature requests (70 code, 99 data, 107 docs, and 6
output sheets), 351 bugfixes (158 code, 107 data, 75 docs, and 11 output
sheets) and 16 new sources included in this release.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pcgen/

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[026] - PCGen 5.14.1 (RC1) (Development)
  by Maredudd (http://freshmeat.net/users/Maredudd800/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 17:31

Games/Entertainment :: Role-Playing

About: PCGen is a Java (1.5+) -based character generator aimed at
supporting OGL role playing games like those based upon the SRD, RSRD, and
MSRD (such as Dungeons and Dragons). It is highly configurable by the
users, allowing the Game Master to add or remove races, classes, feats,
etc., and to implement house rules such as differing class or race
restrictions. Level advancement is also supported, with configurable
progressions of feats, skills and ability score bonuses. For "at the table"
support, PCGen offers a set of GM plugins. Further options allow the user
to produce a customized character sheet, which can then be viewed in, or
printed from, the user's WWW browser. It can also produce a "party" sheet
with the information needed by the GM.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pcgen/

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[027] - pksh 0.1.0 
  by Rocco Carbone (http://freshmeat.net/users/carby/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 23:38

System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: 'pksh' is a hack of the popular 'tcsh' for packets, bytes hosts,
and protocols counts. It is a shell, a network sniffer, a query language
for network monitoring, and finally a rendering engine to display in a form
readable for humans and network administrators all traffic on LAN segments.
It aims to give on character-based  terminals the same level of information
'ntop' already provides via its embedded Web interface. It does not
continuously fill the terminal with packet/byte/protocol information, but
allows the user to perform his daily job at the shell level and take a look
at network only via a set of commands implemented as extensions to native
tcsh built-ins. Output can be  filtered/sorted/paged/mailed/etc. using
native Unix commands.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pksh/

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[028] - San Le's Free Computational Fluid Dynamics 1.2 
  by slffea (http://freshmeat.net/users/slffea/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 06:02

About: SLFCFD (San Le's Free Computational Fluid Dynamics) is a package of
scientific software and graphical user interfaces for use in computational
fluid dynamics.

Changes: Streamlines were added to go with the pathlines and streaklines.
The graphics code, fdpost, now has an animation mode which will both
display or save the animation for 2D flows. You can also run in off-screen
mode to create an animation without saving it or watching a real time
calculation of the flow. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/slfcfd/

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[029] - SchilliX 0.6.7 
  by Jörg Schilling (http://freshmeat.net/users/schily/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:28

Software Development
System :: Operating System

About: SchilliX is an OpenSolaris-based live CD and distribution that is
intended to help people discover OpenSolaris. When installed on a hard
drive, it also allows developers to develop and compile code in a pure
OpenSolaris environment. SchilliX tries to be as Sun Solaris compatible as
possible and to be the optimum development platform for Solaris and
OpenSolaris.

Changes: This release has been updated to use OpenSolaris Nevada Build 92,
fixes a bug in the IP Kernel implementation that caused a buffer overflow,
and fixes a bug in hsfs that could cause the kernel to panic if someone
attempted to mount a non-hsfs filesystem as hfsf. 

License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/schillix/

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[030] - Shadowlands Forum 1.9.6.4 (Stable)
  by Jeremy Monin (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdmonin/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 14:00

Communications :: Chat

About: Shadowlands Forum is a flexible, friendly, robust chatroom
reachable via any telnet client. It uses UNIX username/password for
authentication, and includes the authlocal module to authenticate quickly
from localhost.

Changes: This release adds a recap of the recent conversation when
connecting, runs on Fedora 9/GCC 4.3, and fixes a potential infinite loop
in banner printing. For PAM support, it now uses the "login" service, not
"slforum", with added logging for PAM errors. For scripting/monitoring, it
now writes a user count file, for checking status from outside the room. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/shadowlandsforum/

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[031] - SpatiaLite 2.0 
  by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:40

Scientific/Engineering :: Geographical

About: SpatiaLite is a library for geographic information systems (GIS)
that implements the core OpenGIS specification. It provides SQLite with
basic support for spatial data is intended for lightweight GIS projects.

Changes: This release adds complete rearchitecturing and refactoring of
the code base, switches to the GNU Automake build system, integrates GEOS,
adds complete spatial analysis, verifies OpenGIS compliance, and adds
standard Spatial MetaData and Spatial Index via RTrees. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spabtialite/

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[032] - Virtual Universe 0.73 (VR Client)
  by Oxygenic (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygenic/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:49

Communications :: Chat
Games/Entertainment
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: The "Virtual Universe" is a realistic, three-dimensional cyberspace
and virtual reality simulation. People can meet, interact with each other,
build houses and whole worlds, simulate workflows, test designs, and much
more. Due to its extensive programming interface, this virtual reality
environment can be used for scientific and engineering tasks such as
simulation and visualization applications. 

Changes: Several pieces of licensed code have been removed. The complete
sourcecode has been moved to the GPL v2 for non-commercial use. 

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualuniverse/

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[033] - Virtualmin 3.59 
  by Jamie Cameron (http://freshmeat.net/users/jcameron/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:51

System :: Systems Administration

About: Virtualmin is a Webmin module that simplifies the  process of
setting up and managing virtual servers.  It can create Apache virtual
hosts, BIND DNS  domains, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and  set up
Sendmail or Postfix to accept email for a  domain. It can also manage
mailboxes and mail  aliases within a domain. 

Changes: This release adds many bugfixes, Plesk 7 migration support, MySQL
permission replication, POD documentation for the commandline API, the
virtualmin API wrapper command, purging of backups on FTP and SSH servers,
a complete Spanish translation, and much more. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/virtualmin/

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[034] - Vortex Library 1.0.15 
  by Advanced Software Production Line (http://freshmeat.net/users/aspl/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 17:40

Communications
Internet
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Vortex Library is a BEEP Core protocol implementation, following
the standard defined in RFC 3080 and RFC 3081. It has a clean and
easy-to-use API that allows you to write new application protocols very
quickly. Vortex Library has been developed within the Af-Arch project, and
it is being used at the data transport layer. However, Vortex Library can
be used independently of Af-Arch. 

Changes: This release includes several fixes, API improvements, memory
cleanups, and a new API to handle MIME formats.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vortexlibrary/

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[035] - WebGUI 7.5.15 
  by Graham Knop (http://freshmeat.net/users/Haarg/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 05:59

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Office/Business

About: WebGUI is a content management framework built to allow average
business users to build and maintain complex Web sites. It is modular,
pluggable, and platform independent. It was designed to allow the people
who create the content to manage it online, rather than content management
taking up the time of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions, forums, photo galleries,
FAQs, link lists, blogs, SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system. 

Changes: Fixes were made to some style templates, character encoding in
mail messages, and the Shop. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webgui/

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[036] - Wixer 0.8 
  by David Crawshaw (http://freshmeat.net/users/crawshaw/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 07:32

About: WiXer is a wiki compiler that uses a fully-specified grammar with a
git repository for versioning and an Ajax interface. It is designed for
those who know nothing about Servlets, and sits easily behind a static
content Web server. Rendering is done with Adam Megacz's WiX.

Changes: A graphical diff has been added to the preview window and many
glitches were fixed. 

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wixer/

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[037] - Wt 2.1.4 
  by Koen Deforche (http://freshmeat.net/users/kdeforche/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 13:50

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: Wt is a C++ library for developing Web applications with an API
that is widget-centric and inspired by existing C++ graphical user
interface APIs. To the developer, it offers complete abstraction of any
Web-specific implementation details. Under the hood, the library uses the
latest techniques (AJAX) to handle user events and update the Web page. 

Changes: Standard layout managers have been implemented for plain Wt
container widgets (WGridLayout, WBoxLayout, and WBorderLayout), an API has
been added for controlling the embedded Web server (WServer), Wt
applications now validate using the W3C (X)HTML validators, preliminary
support for AJAX on old IE Mobile browsers has been added, rendering has
been optimized for fewer DOM manipulations, support classes for integrating
Wt with Qt-based applications have been added, and several bugs have been
fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/witty/

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[038] - YaHP Converter 1.2.18 
  by Quentin Anciaux (http://freshmeat.net/users/allcolor/)
  Fri, Jul 4th 2008 08:01

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: YaHP is a Java library that allows you to convert an HTML document
into a PDF document.

Changes: Clean-up was done. Compatibility with JDK versions earlier than
1.5 was ensured. Samples were updated. 

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yahpconverter/

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