Newsletter for Saturday, September 21st 2002

::: L I N K S   F O R   T H E   D A Y :::

Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2002/09/21/
freshmeat.net newsgroup: news://news.freshmeat.net/fm.announce

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::: A D V E R T I S I N G :::

Open Source & Linux Developers!

Register now for the 2002 AMD Developer Symposium. Code: EX8664  This is
your direct access to the experts on AMD's Hammer Technology!  

http://www.developwithamd.com/developerlab

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::: A R T I C L E S (1) :::

Instant Messaging Clients
by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (http://www.vna1.com/)
Section: Category Reviews
Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:00

Somehow, some way, people who are new to Linux have gotten the idea that
Linux has limited IM choices. Since the Unix family was the first to have
popular IM clients (with "talk" leading the way), that's more than a
little silly. It is true that if you want the latest AOL Instant Messenger
(AIM) features or MSN Messenger you're out of luck, but there are many
other clients to choose from, and some will let you talk to your buddies
whether they're on AIM, MSN, or even Yahoo!. 

URL: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/563/

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::: R E L E A S E   H E A D L I N E S (53) :::

[001] - archmbox 4.1.0 
[002] - BINS photo album 1.1.17 
[003] - C-Pec X-ISP 1.0.2 
[004] - Cheap Threads 2.2.1 
[005] - CheckBook Tracker 0.9.0 
[006] - CxxTest 2.6.0 
[007] - DataVision 0.5.0 
[008] - E-Xoops Beta 1.03 
[009] - FetchYahoo 2.0 
[010] - FirePoll 0.1 
[011] - Freeside 1.4.1beta2 
[012] - FTimes 3.1.0 
[013] - FVWM 2.4.11 
[014] - GeekyCode Web System .1 
[015] - gnupoker 0.1.2-pre8-snapshot (Development)
[016] - grsecurity 1.9.7 (Stable)
[017] - hostupd 0.91 
[018] - IzPack 3.0.1 pre1 (Unstable)
[019] - J-Alice 0.3.1 
[020] - Jakarta Cactus 1.4.1 (Stable)
[021] - JReferences 0.7.3 
[022] - Just For Fun Network Management System 0.6.9-2 (Stable)
[023] - K3b 0.7.1 
[024] - Kyro Linux Tools 0.15 
[025] - LBreakout 2.3.5 
[026] - Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20020921a (Development)
[027] - LilyPond 1.7.0 (Development)
[028] - livetools 1.1 
[029] - lm_sensors 2.6.5 
[030] - Modular 0.0.1 
[031] - MyAdvogato 0.9.5 (Stable)
[032] - MyGnokii2 0.57 (Development)
[033] - Navigatrix 0.5 (Latest)
[034] - noatunnonotify 0.1 
[035] - NSS MySQL Library 0.4 
[036] - Odyssey 0.1 
[037] - PHP Layers Menu 2.1.0 (Development)
[038] - Ports4linux 20020921 
[039] - Python FAM 1.0.1 
[040] - References for TeX and Friends 0.1.1 
[041] - RJB's Digital Music Center 1.0 
[042] - schedutils 1.0.0 
[043] - Sketch 0.6.14 (Stable)
[044] - stardork 0.5 
[045] - Stream Transcoder 0.1.1 
[046] - The Manhattan Virtual Classroom 0.93.4 
[047] - tk2 0.1 
[048] - TKAlbum 0.4 
[049] - Tux Paint Default Stamps 2002.09.20 
[050] - wxEmbedded 2.3.3 
[051] - Xid3 0.4 
[052] - XML Indent 0.1.3 
[053] - Zipdy 2.5.0 

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[001] - archmbox 4.1.0 
  by Alessandro Dotti Contra (http://freshmeat.net/users/adotticontra/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 15:53

Communications :: Email
System :: Archiving
Utilities

About: Archmbox is a simple email archiver written in Perl which can
extract email messages from one or more mbox-formatted mailboxes. 

Changes: A harmless warning issued if any header of the email  message is
undefined was fixed. The full name for the  archive mailbox is used if
recursion is specified. Reports  for list mode were slightly improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[002] - BINS photo album 1.1.17 
  by Jérôme SAUTRET (http://freshmeat.net/users/zubro/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:24

Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: BINS is a valid HTML 4 photo album generator with support for
internationalization, EXIF, and customizable charset encoding, including
UTF-8 (Unicode). Albums can contains other sub-albums. The appearance of
the album can be fully personalized by using template and configuration
parameters. The number and size of scaled pictures can be chosen in pixels
or percentage of the original image. Several description fields (date,
location, etc.) can be associated with the pictures, and you can add
additional description fields. A command line utility or a GTK+ GUI can be
used to set or edit description fields. BINS can use the EXIF data
structure found in some pictures to automatically fill some fields (most
notably, date and time) and to produce a page providing all information
available on the picture, as well as the DigiCam settings when the photo
was taken. All image meta-data are stored in XML files. 

Changes: joi templates and the Russian translation have been updated. A
new parameter allows the use of an image as a wallpaper. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[003] - C-Pec X-ISP 1.0.2 
  by Limpens (http://freshmeat.net/users/limpens/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 08:12

System :: Hardware

About: C-Pec X-ISP is a KDE application for "in-system programming" of
89x668 and other devices. The application supports blanking chips, reading
and writing bootvector/statusbyte, block erasing and flashing devices with
hex/ihx files. Autobaudrate negotiation from the device works up to 9600
baud. 

Changes: This release adds baudrate negotiation tested to 115200,
detection of "used" memory positions in the hexfile to speed up the
erasing phase, support for resetting the microcontroller and starting the
microcontroller from the software, and an erase/flash time report. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/c-pecx-isp/

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[004] - Cheap Threads 2.2.1 
  by Scott McKellar (http://freshmeat.net/users/mck9/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:14

Software Development :: Libraries

About: Cheap Threads is a collection of portable C routines for
implementing sychronous threads. It includes a scheduler and a facility
for passing messages among threads. Threads may run in a round robin or
according to a priority scheme. Each thread must voluntarily relinquish
control from time, via an ordinary function return, so that other threads
can run. Since the threads are synchronous, i.e. they don't interrupt each
other, they don't need to use semaphores, mutexes, critical sections, or
other facilities to keep from interfering with each other. One version of
Cheap Threads is designed for embedded systems.

Changes: This release fixes a bug. When a thread terminated itself by
calling ct_wait(), its destructor function (if it had one) would be called
twice.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[005] - CheckBook Tracker 0.9.0 
  by Tony Maro (http://freshmeat.net/users/tonymaro/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:58

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

About: In order to leave Windows behind most people need a
fully-functional money management program.  CheckBook Tracker seeks to
solve that problem. It has the feel and features of packages like
Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or
find an RPM for their distribution. Its features include Transaction entry
similar to Microsoft Money, Import / Export QIF files straight from Money
or Quicken, autocomplete payee and category fields, and autocomplete
entire transaction based on recent payee.

Changes: This is a beta release. The file format should not  change before
the finished product is released.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - CxxTest 2.6.0 
  by Erez Volk (http://freshmeat.net/users/e1/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:23

Software Development :: Testing

About: CxxTest is a JUnit/CppUnit/xUnit-like framework for C++ that
doesn't require RTTI, member template functions, exception handling, or
any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, or
graphics libraries). It is distributed entirely as a set of header files
which makes it extremely portable and usable. 

Changes: cxxtestgen.py and a simple self test were added.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[007] - DataVision 0.5.0 
  by jimm (http://freshmeat.net/users/jimm/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 14:39

Database :: Front-Ends
Office/Business
Software Development

About: DataVision is a database reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports,
written in Java. Multiple database backends (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle,
ODBC) and frontends (LaTeX, XML, comma- and tab-separated data files,
DocBook, and HTML) are supported. DataVision uses XML files to describe
reports.

Changes: Translations into Bulgarian, French, Italian, Mexican  Spanish,
and Brazilian Portuguese were made. New  command line options for language
and region were  added. Undo, redo, cut, and copy now work. Paste  almost
works. The XML closing tag for usercol was  fixed. The database
metadata-reading code was made  more robust. The Align and Size menus now
display  correct text. The "Format" popup menu item is only  enabled when
appropriate. Field dragging was fixed.  The database column's text was
fixed when dropped.  An exception is thrown when given a bad column name. 
Creating empty prepared statements is now avoided.

License: The Apache License

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

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[008] - E-Xoops Beta 1.03 
  by Half-Dead (http://freshmeat.net/users/Half/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:24

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

About: E-Xoops is a content management system  written mainly in object
oriented PHP. It  includes everything you'd expect from a portal  system,
including downloads, links, sections,  polls, forum, news, a FAQ, RSS
feeds,  members lists, and customizable blocks and  themes. It also
integrates XMLRPC and the  ability to manage users as groups with module- 
or block-specific access permissions.

Changes: Seperated the sections for admins and users, made images optional
and added error checking to Partners, and added a preview option for
blocksadmin and a topics page for the news module. The forum now features
a top ten page and extra sub-menu entries, headlines has a manual page, a
new theme was added, and navigation was added to Sections and Partners.
Disclaimer messages are now configurable, and RSS feeds were added to the
FAQ and Sections.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/e-xoops/

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[009] - FetchYahoo 2.0 
  by Smthng (http://freshmeat.net/users/smthng/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:14

Communications :: Email :: Mail Transport Agents
Utilities

About: FetchYahoo is a Perl script that downloads mail from a Yahoo!
webmail account to a local mail spool, an mbox file, or to procmail. It is
meant to replace fetchmail for people using Yahoo! mail since Yahoo!'s POP
and email forwarding services are no longer free. It includes all parts
and attachments within the email. It can also forward the email to a
specified address.

Changes: This release adds support for retrieving messages from external
mailboxes (configured via Yahoo!). It also adds a manpage, some extra
commandline options, an X-FetchYahoo mail header and a patch for the UK
version of Yahoo! . fetchyahoo has also been packaged for Debian.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - FirePoll 0.1 
  by meta (http://freshmeat.net/users/metvacetz/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:05

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: FirePoll is a very simple polling application that use
Firebird/Interbase and PHP. It use many features of Firebird that other
open-source DBs have not. The PHP script is optimized with features of
Firebird in the background.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - Freeside 1.4.1beta2 
  by ivan (http://freshmeat.net/users/ivan420/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:23

Office/Business :: Financial
System :: Systems Administration

About: Freeside is an open-source billing package for ISPs.

Changes: This is intended to be a maintenance release and should be a
drop-in replacement for 1.4.0. The Web interface now has "unprovision"
links for individual accounts, as well as HTTP upload of CSV customer and
charge data. Default external shell commands now update GECOS values and
delete old home directories. vpopmail exporting has been updated, and a
number of minor bugs have been fixed. 

License: Perl License

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

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[012] - FTimes 3.1.0 
  by Klayton Monroe (http://freshmeat.net/users/mavrik/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:00

Security
System :: Monitoring

About: FTimes is a system baselining and evidence collection tool. Its
primary purpose is to gather and/or develop information about specified
directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion analysis. It was
designed to support the following initiatives: content integrity
monitoring, incident response, intrusion analysis, and computer forensics.

Changes: Various files were cleaned up and/or synchronized with  their
WebJob counterparts. The CGI script,  nph-ftimes.cgi, was modified to
ensure that a content  length is always defined. A word size problem in
the  MD5 routines was patched for Linux running on Alpha.  The LaTeX
version of "System Baselining -- A Forensic  Perspective" was added to the
project. New capabilities  added in this release include support for MacOS
X,  block/character device mapping/digging, and  embedding SSL passphrases
inside LRS pools.

License: BSD License

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

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[013] - FVWM 2.4.11 
  by Dan Espen (http://freshmeat.net/users/danespen/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:10

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: FVWM is a multiple large virtual desktop window manager originally
derived from twm. FVWM is intended to have a small memory footprint and a
rich feature set, be extremely customizable and extendable and have a high
degree of Motif mwm compatibility. FVWM is highly extensible through its
module interface.

Changes: The use of mouse buttons other than the first in FvwmWinList are
allowed when invoked as transient. A crash with ssh-askpass was also
fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - GeekyCode Web System .1 
  by powerlinekid (http://freshmeat.net/users/powerlinekid/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 04:39

Communications :: Email
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: GeekyCode Web System is a Python engine  that provides a news,
forum, and messaging  system. It is intended to be similiar to  Slashcode,
but with less reliance on  databases.

Changes: The ability to delete messages was added, and the messaging
system is now about 75% complete. Work is progressing on the forum and
content system.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[015] - gnupoker 0.1.2-pre8-snapshot (Development)
  by titux (http://freshmeat.net/users/titux/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 08:17

Games/Entertainment

About: gnupoker is a poker game, where you can play against AI or over the
network.

Changes: This release adds getopt_long for options, a _gnupoker struct, a
status bar, dialog_boxes(msgbox), and a vfs style in the "ihm" module. All
strxxx functions have been moved to strnxxx functions. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - grsecurity 1.9.7 (Stable)
  by spender (http://freshmeat.net/users/spender/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:27

Security
Security :: Cryptography
System :: Logging

About: grsecurity is a complete security system for Linux 2.4 that
implements a detection/prevention/containment strategy. It prevents most
forms of address space modification, confines programs with least
privilege via its process-based ACL system, hardens syscalls, and provides
many of the OpenBSD randomness features. It has auditing capabilities and
a netfilter module designed to thwart portscans and OS fingerprinting. 

Changes: A segmentation-based implementation of PaX was included, which
provides all the benefits of the page-based implementation and improved
performance. Process-based resource restrictions and IP ACLs were added to
the ACL system, which is now more stable and faster and contains a feature
to stop brute-force exploits and log the IP of the attacker. Kernel stack
randomization was added, and Gradm, grsecurity's ACL administration
utility, was updated to v1.5.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - hostupd 0.91 
  by Mar Garina (http://freshmeat.net/users/margarina/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:53

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)
System :: Systems Administration

About: hostupd is a commandline tool which allows the user to update a DNS
server which supports dynamic updates (RFC 2136), such as bind >= 8. Its
main goal is to simplify the DNS-updating task, but to remain flexible.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[018] - IzPack 3.0.1 pre1 (Unstable)
  by Julien Ponge (http://freshmeat.net/users/JPz/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:22

Software Development
System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Software Distribution

About: IzPack is a powerful Java installer builder. It is able to create
lightweight and modular installers. You have the choice of the installer
panels you want to use (some can do the same job, so that you can select
the one you prefer), and you even have the choice of the kind of installer
that you want to use. IzPack doesn't use any portion of native code, it is
designed to be fully independent from the operating system that runs it.
It is very easy for the end user with a properly installed JVM to use an
installer made with IzPack, since a single "java -jar installer.jar" will
launch it.  

Changes: When InstallPanel is the last panel, it no longer unlocks the
next button. ImgPacksPanel and PacksPanel can now display the total disk
space required. The MacOSX GUI and the GUI frontend have been fixed. A new
Italian langpack is available. File overriding (override or keep the old
version if present) is now supported. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[019] - J-Alice 0.3.1 
  by judge (http://freshmeat.net/users/tarasg/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:09

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

About: J-Alice is an advanced AI chatbot with a powerful matching engine.
It also features an IRC mode, HTTP server mode, and a few other ways of
interacting with people. 

Changes: Several fatal bugs were fixed. Bugs which caused  infinite
reloading of files were fixed. Timing was added,  and further code cleanup
was done.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/j-alice/

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[020] - Jakarta Cactus 1.4.1 (Stable)
  by Vincent Massol (http://freshmeat.net/users/vmassol/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:26

Software Development :: Testing

About: Jakarta Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing
server-side Java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag Libs, Filters, etc.). 

License: The Apache License

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

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[021] - JReferences 0.7.3 
  by EgonW (http://freshmeat.net/users/egonw/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:07

Database :: Front-Ends
Scientific/Engineering
Text Editors

About: JReferences is a program written in Java for managing bibliographic
references in the BibTeXML format. Storage is done in a binary file
database or, optionally, in a MySQL database. A PHP Web frontend is
available. It can input BibTex, RIS, BibTeXML, and DocBook formated
references.

Changes: This release can number references for any DocBook  XML DTD, and
adds some documentation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - Just For Fun Network Management System 0.6.9-2 (Stable)
  by Javier Szyszlican (http://freshmeat.net/users/szysz/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:13

System :: Logging
System :: Monitoring
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Just For Fun Network Management System features an integrated
syslog, Tacacs, TFTP configuration download, SNMP polling, SNMP traps,
journal, autodiscovery, performance graphs (RRD), SLAs, and a lot more.
Everything uses a database MySQL/PostgreSQL) backend. It works in Linux
and Windows.

Changes: The support for PostgreSQL is working again, and some minor
bugfixes were also made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - K3b 0.7.1 
  by Sebastian Trueg (http://freshmeat.net/users/trueg/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:18

Desktop Environment :: K Desktop Environment (KDE)
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing

About: K3b is a CD-burning program designed for people who are used to
using Windows to burn CDs. It has a user interface similar to Ahead's
Nero. It currently allows you to create filesystem trees via drag'n'drop,
and to burn audio CDs from WAV and MP3 files.  

Changes: This release adds fixes for MP3 resampling problems, better
handling of newly-added tracks, proper symlink handling, better support of
the mkisofs options, an option for adding hidden files, backup permissions
in data projects, support for symlinks in fstab, a progress display in the
K3b titlebar, and better progress display in systray. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/k3b/

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[024] - Kyro Linux Tools 0.15 
  by TSDgeos (http://freshmeat.net/users/TSDgeos/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 15:18

System :: Hardware
System :: Installation/Setup
Utilities

About: Kyro Linux Tools allows owners of the Kyro 1/2 graphics cards to
configure and tweak it to get the most out of it. It is currently
translated into English, Catalan, Spanish, French, German, and Dutch.

Changes: The option to disable the request for the lspci readout  was
added. A warning is now displayed if you are using  older drivers.
Preliminary Kyro 1/2 recognition was  added. The compiler was changed from
g++2.96 to  g++3.2. The option for specifying the location of the 
powervr_kyro.ini file was removed. Instead of writing  directly to
/etc/powervr_kyro.ini, a temporaly file is  modified and then used to
update the configuration file.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[025] - LBreakout 2.3.5 
  by kulkanie (http://freshmeat.net/users/kulkanie/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:05

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Arcade

About: LBreakout is a breakout game with nice effects, graphics, and
sounds. It's got a menu to configure a lot of things and a high score
chart. It can be played either by mouse or keyboard. New levels can also
be created, and most other aspects of the game can be customized.

Changes: This release features a pseudo levelset, "!Freakout!",  that
allows you to play all 600 levels in a random order  so that no game will
be the same. You can now work  around badly designed levels with the new
'warp'  function that gets you to the next level after you have  cleared
enough bricks. The number of bricks necessary  to warp to the next level
is defined by yourself in the  'Advanced Options' menu. Various bugfixes
were also  made.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - Leafnode 2.0.0.alpha20020921a (Development)
  by MA (http://freshmeat.net/users/mandree/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:09

Communications :: Usenet News

About: Leafnode is a news server, suitable for small, limited-bandwidth
sites with only a few users (and useful for offline news reading).
Leafnode keeps track of which groups are being read and downloads only
articles in those groups. Leafnode has been designed to require no
maintenance and to be easy to set up.

Changes: This version supports local newsgroups, UUCP rnews, moderated
groups, and sports better filtering than leafnode-1.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[027] - LilyPond 1.7.0 (Development)
  by hanwen (http://freshmeat.net/users/hanwen/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 15:45

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Printing
Text Processing :: Markup

About: LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music
using a file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

Changes: Deep integration of GUILE and LilyPond syntax was  implemented.
Lily variables can be used in GUILE and  vice versa.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - livetools 1.1 
  by Stephen (http://freshmeat.net/users/myst564/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:12

About: livetools is a suite of small utilities to help SoundBlaster Live! 
owners duplicate Windows functionality in Linux (and possibly other Unix
environments). It contains utilities to interface with the Live!Drive IR
port and a small XMMS plugin that allows the user to control playback with
an RM-900 found with the SoundBlaster Live! or iR2000 iNFRA remote. 

Changes: The source was cleaned up a little here and there, and the build
system has been completely migrated to GNU Automake (instead of KDevelop).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[029] - lm_sensors 2.6.5 
  by Mark S. (http://freshmeat.net/users/mdsmds/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:09

System :: Hardware
System :: Monitoring

About: lm_sensors provides essential drivers for monitoring the
temperatures, voltages, and fans of Linux systems containing devices such
as the LM78 and LM75. It contains drivers for sensor chips and I2C and
SMBus masters. It also contains text-based tools for sensor reporting, and
a library for sensors access called 'libsensors'. It also contains tools
for sensor hardware identification and I2C bus probing.

Changes: This release adds support for the ASB100 Bach, sis630, and
sis645. It improves support for the VT8231. It fixes minor bugs for the
as99127f, it87, and w8378x. There are several changes made to reduce the
chance of 24RF08 corruption. The p4b_smbus module is fixed. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[030] - Modular 0.0.1 
  by Alexander I. Olefirenko (http://freshmeat.net/users/rupper/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:20

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content

About: Modular is a Web-development framework that  brings component
programming to Web. It also  provides built-in caching, config file
parsing,  template parsing, sessions, CGI, and  database support.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[031] - MyAdvogato 0.9.5 (Stable)
  by fxn (http://freshmeat.net/users/fxn/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:10

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries

About: MyAdvogato is a CGI script which acts as a wrapper for Advogato's
home, recentlog, and personal pages. It adds certification-related
information concerning a user of the Web site. It aims to improve the
certification process providing context.

Changes: An ignore list was implemented, performance was improved using
pipelining, and some bugs were fixed.

License: Artistic License

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

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[032] - MyGnokii2 0.57 (Development)
  by Marcin Wiacek (http://freshmeat.net/users/MWiacek/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 15:33

Utilities

About: MyGnokii2 is manager for the Nokia 3210, 33xx, 3410, 3510, 51xx,
5210, 5510, 61xx, 62xx, 63xx, 6510, 7110, 82xx, 8310, 9110, and 9210, and
other (AT) cellular phones. It currently has a command line version with
many functions for ringtones, phonebook, SMS, logos, WAP, date/time,
alarm, calls, etc. It can also make full backups and restore them. It
works on various Unix systems (like Linux) and Win32.

Changes: Many small internal improvements and cleanups were  made. New
features include many missing features for  the 7110 family,
getting/setting operator logos for the  9110 family, and backup/restore
for voice tag info for  dct4. Improvements were made in the user
interface. A  --makerpm option for the makefile and the first version  of
a .spec file were added. Much progress was made in  the AT module
connected with IPAQ. WAP settings for  DCT3 are now fully supported.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mygnokii2/

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[033] - Navigatrix 0.5 (Latest)
  by David F. Newman (http://freshmeat.net/users/buzzwang/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:13

Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: Navigatrix is a GPS navigational system for KDE.

Changes: A compass widget has been added to display the current bearing.
ESRI shape files that contain polygons can now be read.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[034] - noatunnonotify 0.1 
  by gogo653 (http://freshmeat.net/users/gogo653/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:41

About: noatunnonotify is a plugin which disables DCOP (Destop
COmmunication Process) KDE system notifications when noatun is playing a
file and reenables them when noatun has stopped or paused playing. 

License: BSD License

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

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[035] - NSS MySQL Library 0.4 
  by Cinergi (http://freshmeat.net/users/cinergi/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 04:23

Database
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Operating System

About: The NSS MySQL Library providesMySQL authentication for Unix systems
with NSS, so that Unix accounts can be stored in a MySQL database instead
of /etc/passwd. It features multiple server support, open-ended database
design, flexible logging and debugging, and persistent connections.

Changes: Solaris support was improved, especially for SPARC platforms.
Solaris 2.6 is now supported and tested. Options can now be specified in
your my.cnf file for libnss_mysql. A minor config file format change was
made, and it is advised that the UPGRADING file be read.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/libnss-mysql/

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[036] - Odyssey 0.1 
  by Mark A (http://freshmeat.net/users/marka/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:40

Software Development :: Embedded Systems

About: Odyssey is a PIC programming application which  can erase, read,
and write a variety of PIC  microcontrollers. It was originally written to
 work with the EPIC programmer but it should work  with any parallel port
programmer. 

Changes: Support for the 16C84, 16F84, 16C76, 16F74, and  16C765 has been
tested.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[037] - PHP Layers Menu 2.1.0 (Development)
  by Marco Pratesi (http://freshmeat.net/users/pratesi/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:06

Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: PHP Layers Menu is a hierarchical dynamic menu system to rapidly
choose among the items. It works with both PHP3 and PHP4. It achieves a
compact view and a reasonably small file size for the page with a very
large number of entries. Its behaviour is analogous to the GNOME, KDE and
MS Windows main menus. Menus are dynamically generated from the menu
structures. It supports Mozilla, Netscape 4.x, 6.x, and 7.x, Konqueror,
Opera 5 and 6, and Internet Explorer 4, 5, 5.5, and 6. It also provides
solutions for browsers not supporting Javascript.

Changes: The vertical coordinates of links are obtained as DOM properties,
so the detection of the position of the mouse pointer is needed only for
Netscape 4. This change strongly improves the behaviour of this menu
system.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[038] - Ports4linux 20020921 
  by Damien Szczyt (http://freshmeat.net/users/dszczyt/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:31

About: Ports4linux will download the software you asked to  install,
compile it with the options you specified, create  a package for your
packager, and install the package. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ports4linux/

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[039] - Python FAM 1.0.1 
  by Robert Sander (http://freshmeat.net/users/gurubert/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:07

Desktop Environment :: File Managers
Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
System :: Filesystems

About: Python FAM is a wrapper module around libfam from the FAM project.
It allows Python programs to monitor files and directories. An example
script is included.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/python-fam/

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[040] - References for TeX and Friends 0.1.1 
  by Michael Wiedmann (http://freshmeat.net/users/miwie/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 06:01

Text Processing :: Markup :: LaTeX
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: References for TeX and Friends is an ongoing project which provides
a help file for LaTeX (and its friends like ConTeXt, Metapost, Metafont,
etc.) using a state-of-the-art source format, DocBook/XML. Various output
formats can be generated from the source file. Anyone can write a
converter for any desired output format. Because the source file is XML,
the easiest way to do this might be to use XSLT.  

Changes: Added template sections for 'PiCTeX' and 'Texinfo', made use of
the new V1.55.0 XSL stylesheets, added a missing CSS file to the outfiles
tarball, and corrected an FPI.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tex-refs/

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[041] - RJB's Digital Music Center 1.0 
  by RJB (http://freshmeat.net/users/RJBsDMC/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:02

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: RJB's Digital Music Center (DMC) connects to your  TV via a Nvidia
MX TV/Out card. It's menu driven  and controlled by a X10 RF mouse remote.
It supports playing Monkey's Audio, MP3, and wave files, and can display
CD cover art on the song detail screen (if you provide the cover art).

License: BSD License

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

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[042] - schedutils 1.0.0 
  by rml (http://freshmeat.net/users/rml/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:02

Utilities

About: 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, irqset, lsrt, and taskset. Together
with nice and renice (not included), they allow full control of process
scheduling parameters. 

Changes: Various cleanups and minor fixes.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sched-utils/

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[043] - Sketch 0.6.14 (Stable)
  by Bernhard Herzog (http://freshmeat.net/users/bherzog/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:12

Multimedia :: Graphics
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors :: Vector-Based

About: Sketch is a vector drawing program similar to CorelDraw or Adobe
Illustrator. It is written almost completely in Python with some modules
written in C, combining the flexibility and power of Python with the speed
of C. Advanced features include gradient fills, clip masks, text along a
path, blend groups, convert text to curves, and more.

Changes: This release contains new or updated translations for  Brasilian
Portuguese, Swedish, French, Spanish, and  German. Filters for the CGM
format were added. Quite a  few bugfixes were also included.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[044] - stardork 0.5 
  by ryan kulla (http://freshmeat.net/users/gt3/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:29

Games/Entertainment

About: Stardork is a console-based game in which (.)s represent stars and
are randomly placed on the screen. (X) represents your space ship, and you
move it in all directions, including diagonally, to position yourself to
shoot the goal ( <at> ). You can shoot missiles in all directions. If you run
into a star, you lose power. If you shoot or run into the goal, you move
up a level, and more random stars are plotted. This eventually creates a
more and more complex maze of stars you must navigate through to position
yourself to shoot the goal. Beat all 34 levels, and you are a master
stardork. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[045] - Stream Transcoder 0.1.1 
  by Oddsock (http://freshmeat.net/users/oddsock/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:56

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion
Utilities

About: The streamTranscoder is a multi-platform utility  which can be used
to transcode media streams from one format to another, and from one server
type to another. It will read in streams of type MP3  and Vorbis from most
servers (Icecast, Icecast2, Shoutcast), convert it into various formats,
and send to various streaming servers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[046] - The Manhattan Virtual Classroom 0.93.4 
  by Steven Narmontas (http://freshmeat.net/users/snarmont/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 10:19

Communications :: Chat
Communications :: Conferencing
Communications :: Email

About: Manhattan is a system for delivering courses via the Web. It
includes a closed Web-based email system, a variety of discussion groups,
electronic submission of assignments, live chat, facilites for delivering
multimedia, and more. Designed for asynchronous Web-based distance
learning, Manhattan can also be used to add a Web-based dimension to
traditional courses.

Changes: This release includes a Greek language translation. Manhattan is
now available in English, Spanish, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Finnish,
and Greek. 

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[047] - tk2 0.1 
  by Bob Parnass, AJ9S (http://freshmeat.net/users/parnass/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 00:20

Communications :: Ham Radio

About: tk2 is a configuration tool for the ICOM IC-R2  portable radio
receiver. It lets you read a  memory image from the radio, manipulate the 
settings using a graphical user interface, and  save the result to a file
or back to the radio.  Memory channel information can be imported  from
CSV file or ICF files downloaded from the  Percon Web database, and
exported to CSV  files.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tk2/

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[048] - TKAlbum 0.4 
  by Bernhard Nebel (http://freshmeat.net/users/nebel/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 06:23

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture :: Digital Camera
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation

About: TKAlbum is a GUI for assisting in the  generation and maintenance
of HTML photo  albums. It uses the "album" script and Image  Magick to
generate hierarchically organized  HTML photo albums, and can download 
pictures from digital cameras supporting the  USB mass storage protocol.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[049] - Tux Paint Default Stamps 2002.09.20 
  by Bill Kendrick, New Breed Software
(http://freshmeat.net/users/billkendrick/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 06:10

Education
Games/Entertainment
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: Tux Paint Default Stamps is a collection of "rubber stamp" images
(and associated descriptions and sound effects) for the childrens' drawing
program, "Tux Paint." Categories include math and music symbols, space and
planets, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and some cartoon Tux penguin
shapes.  

Changes: The Spanish and French translations were updated.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/tuxpaint-stamps/

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[050] - wxEmbedded 2.3.3 
  by Robert Roebling (http://freshmeat.net/users/wxgtk/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 16:52

Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Software Development :: Widget Sets

About: wxEmbedded is a project to bring support for small devices and PDAs
to the wxWindows library. wxWindows itself is a cross-platform GUI written
in C++ with support for most major GUIs including Windows, GTK, Apple's OS
X, IBM's OS/2, plain DOS and plain X11. 

License: Freeware

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

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[051] - Xid3 0.4 
  by Bernhard Nebel (http://freshmeat.net/users/nebel/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 06:29

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Analysis
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Editors
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3

About: Xid3 is a Tcl/Tk GUI for mp3info that allows  you to inspect and
change the ID3 tags of  MP3 files. It tries to guess as many values as 
possible, such as by deriving the artist and  title from the filename, and
assuming that the  album and year are the same as similar files.  The
default format for filenames is also  configurable, as is the option to
bother only  with MP3 files that need editing.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xid3/

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[052] - XML Indent 0.1.3 
  by Pekka Enberg (http://freshmeat.net/users/penberg/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 06:00

Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: XML Indent is an XML stream reformatter written in ANSI C. It is
analogous to GNU indent. 

Changes: Added command line options for indent level selection and for
disabling comment indentation. Start tags beginning with an underscore or
colon are now recognized as specified in the XML specification.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[053] - Zipdy 2.5.0 
  by VAB (http://freshmeat.net/users/alexbrennen/)
  Saturday, September 21st 2002 23:15

Database

About: Zipdy performs great circle distance calculations between two US
zip codes. A database of longitude and latitude points for zip codes
created by the US Census is distributed with zipdy. It is available in C,
PHP, and Perl, and pre-calculated data files are provided for zip codes
within 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 50 miles of each zip code. This allows
proximity searching for database address records within certain distances
of a zip code. 

Changes: Minor bug corrections where made to the C source code. A Perl
module, Python script, and Postgres procedure version where added. A
PL/SQL Oracle version was also added.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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