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About: Trueprint is a program for printing source code in a variety of languages (C is the best supported) and other text files to postscript printers. It supports a wealth of options to support printing source code, such as diff-marking, line numbers, indentation levels, file and function indices, and many others. Changes: Version 5.0 is the first GNU release. There are no major functionality differences between version 4.2 and version 5.0.
About: This kernel module provides support for the SPASE PCRadio-003 radio card. The card (and the module) has support for volume, balance, bass, treble, stereo/mono, muted and can tune to FM-stations (87.5-108MHz). The module uses the V4L standard. Changes: Initial release.
About: Naken Chat is a port of Javachat to C. Javachat can be directly replaced with this server and the Java chat client or telnet client will talk to it as if it was Javachat. Naken Chat is multithreaded (like Javachat) and has all the features (channels, gagging, squelching, private messages, etc) and has been tested on: Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, and Win32. Changes: Added a time stamp function and cleaned up some code. Also updated the chat client (java applet) to 0.99s. This fixes problems with Microsoft's incompatible version of Java on IE 4 and 5 (see web page for more info on how this was done).
About: GProc is a GTK application which allows you to manage your running processes with only a few mouse clicks. It is very configurable and uses skins for better integration with your desktop. Changes: Now you can send signals to processes, the owner name is shown in the list as well as minor other improvements.
About: King of the Hill (KOTH) is an artillery game in the grand old tradition of little tanks with ridiculously powerful weapons trying to blow each other up while trying to avoid getting blown up themselves. Koth features LibGGI for fast portable graphics, full client/server multiplayer, a few cool weapons, in-game chat, and nice terrain generation algorithm. Open source in the hopes that others will help out and make this a really great game. Changes: This version adds radius damage, falling tanks, and cash awards for killing other tanks. Basically, the stuff people said it needed to be worth playing is there now.
About: LeakTracer is a tiny leak tracer for C++ programs. It uses gdb to show you the lines of code that have memory leaks, together with leak count and size. It does not trace malloc etc., but only operator new/delete. Changes: Improved compatibility with non-glibc/non-Linux systems and other minor changes since 1.0. See homepage for details.
About: UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon whose key features include full SSL support, Trojan protection, a spam filter, advanced flood protection, and WebTV compatibility. It is a highly stable and feature-packed IRC server daemon. Changes: New release with some bugfixes, added user mode +F (shows far connects) and fixes for the /RemGline bug and /Knock bug.
About: Fresco (formerly Berlin) is an experimental windowing system which is a logical extension of the integrated layout and structured graphics model developed in InterViews and the original Fresco project. It makes heavy use of CORBA for transparent inter-process control, and utilizes a loadable module framework to maintain good drawing speed and extensive customizabillity. Changes: Complete rewrite, integration of lots of fresco code, drawing model and constraint-based layout working, a few basic widgets working, image kit working, linear transformations working, enhanced logging and debugging facilities, enhanced concurrency strategies, smaller and fewer corba interfaces, clear MVC separation, abstract drawing kit (no longer explicitly relies on openGL)
About: Yacas is a general purpose, easy to use Computer Algebra System (a CAS is a program that can be used to do symbolic manipulation of mathematical expressions). It is built on top of its own programming language designed for this purpose, in which new algorithms can easily be implemented. In addition, it comes with extensive documentation on the functionality implemented and methods used to implement them. Changes: Small tweaks and bug fixes.
About: Gnofin is a light-weight personal finance application for GNOME. It is designed with simplicity and functionality in mind. Features include multilevel undo and redo, cut/copy/paste, QIF and CBB import, and support for mixed local and foreign currency accounts. Changes: Various improvements have been made. Please see the ChangeLog for details.
About: HTMLPerlSETI uses the SETI::Stats Perl module to gather statistics about the UNIX SETI@home client and formats them as an HTML table. Changes: Fixed bug in Group stats that caused most of the output to not display in Netscape if user is a member of a group AND a founder of a team, fixed the Unit CPU Time to be the time for the unit (was printing total cpu time, although the hours and mins displayed were for the unit) and added INSTALL-NT file (installation instructions for Windows NT clients).
About: bacKgammon is a backgammon program specifically written with the KDE in mind. It offers the opportunity to play backgammon games by using a convenient and intuitive graphical user interface. bacKgammon is the successor of KFibs, and supports all its features such as a graphical board representation, drag and drop with automated move checking, an intuitive interface to FIBS, and eliminates the need for typing and (learning) the commands of FIBS. Changes: Yet another change in the boardstyle setting and even more strings for the handlers. Upgrading is recommended.
About: glFtpD is a multi-platform FTP daemon that has numerous features and is easy to setup and use.
About: Samba is an software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. It is freely available, unlike other SMB/CIFS implementations, and allows for interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
About: gnotepad+ is an easy-to-use, yet fairly feature-rich, simple HTML and text editor for UNIX-based systems running X11 and using GTK. gnotepad+ was designed to have as little bloat as possible, while still providing many of the common features found in a modern GUI-based text editor. Changes: Note that this is not the final release for v1.2.0. There have been lots of changes since v1.1.4, and invariably, there will probably be bugs. This is a beta release! Expect several more beta versions to follow as bugs are reported and fixed.
About: The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing GIF/PNG images which provide a live visual representation of this traffic.
About: RegExplorer is a visual regular expression explorer, it allows for writing regular expressions and visually see the matches, thus making regular expression much easier to write and maintain.
About: GNU binutils work mostly behind the scenes of Linux development, largely because GNU make and the GCC frontend does so many things automatically. Utilities include: ld as nm objdump objcopy nm ar ranlib strip c filt size addr2line and dlltool. Changes: A libc5-related bugfix, a typo in the MIPS version of gas has been fixed, a weak symbol bug has been fixed, the fwait fix from the CVS version has been added, and objcopy now uses --only-section=section isntead of --extract-section.
About: GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. It also includes `rmt', the remote tape server (the `mt' tape drive control program is in GNU `cpio'). Changes: Do the delayed updates of file metadata even after a fatal error, also do not chmod unless we are root or the -p option was given. This matches historical practice and bug fixes (1.13.4).
About: Vim is an almost fully-compatible version of the Unix editor Vi. Many new features have been added including multi-level undo, syntax highlighting, commandline history, online help, filename completion, and block operations. It is descended from the vi clone "stevie" and runs on many systems, including Unix, MS Windows, OS/2, Macintosh, VMS, and Amiga.
About: Irssi is a modular, terminal-based IRC client with Perl scripting. Changes: Added Hebrew support, users with the gone flag are displayed with a differnet color in the nicklist, some new status bar information has been added, the away message is displayed differently when it is recieved due to a /whois and a /msg, various window commands and ban types added, different fonts can be used for each channel, color configuration has been changed, and many other changes have been made as well.
About: Gsh is a graphical shell. It integrates a terminal window, a normal shell, and various GUI components into a single package which allows easier and more powerful operations than you can have with a shell and terminal window seperately. Gsh is already fully functional, but there are many avenues of devlopment yet to be explored. Changes: Much faster terminal, embedded command line option to make it look more like a normal shell.
About: Qt is a comprehensive, object-oriented development framework that enables development of high-performance, cross-platform rich-client and server-side applications. When you implement a program with Qt, you can run it on the X Window System (Unix/X11), Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows NT/9x/2000/XP by simply compiling the source code for the platform you want. Qt is the basis for the KDE desktop environment, and is also used in numerous commercial applications such as Google Earth, Skype for Linux, and Adobe Photoshop Elements. Changes: Bug fixes, optimizations and platform workarounds.
About: Mp3blaster is an interactive text-based program that plays several audio file types (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, wav, and sid). It is one of the few audio players for the text console that allows full interactive control during playback. One of its key features is the ability to compose a very flexible playlist (while playing!). It plays most MP3 formats and has full mixer support built in. Changes: This version of mp3blaster contains bugfixes only: It is an intermittent release. New features will be added to 3.0. However, these changes are important since they fix a major memory leak, probably all segmentation faults, allows playback of mp3s with ID3tags at the start of the file, fixes a bug that made mp3blaster wait for a keypress during playback on some systems, and plays variable bitrate mp3s again. Grab it if you are using an older version.
About: J-Pilot is a full-featured desktop organizer application for the Palm Pilot that runs under Linux and UNIX. It includes support for Datebook, Contacts, Address, Memo, Memos, Todos, Expenses, and has plugin support. It uses the GTK+ libraries. Changes: Added Full Backup, a sync output window, the gui does not lock up anymore while syncing, added modify abilities in all 4 main apps, ability to check/uncheck todos, improved deletion of repeating appointments to delete current appointment, or all as well as many GUI improvements.
About: The manpages package contains a large collection of man pages for Linux covering programming APIs, file formats, protocols, etc. Changes: Many new or updated manpages, and typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
About: Util-linux is a suite of essential utilities for any Linux system. It contains the following programs: addpart, agetty, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chfn, chkdupexe, chrt, chsh, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, delpart, display-services, dmesg, elvtune, fastboot, fasthalt, fdformat, fdisk, flock, fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, getopt, halt, hexdump, hwclock, initctl, ionice, ipcrm, ipcs, isosize, kill, last, line, logger, login, look, losetup, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei, need, newgrp, partx, pg, pivot_root, provide, ramsize, raw, rdev, readprofile, reboot, rename, renice, reset, rev, rootflags, script, scriptreplay, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, shutdown, simpleinit, swapoff, swapon, taskset, tailf, tunelp, ul, umount, vidmode, vipw, wall, whereis, and write. Changes: cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk).
About: FXPy is a Python extension module which provides an interface to the FOX cross-platform GUI library. With a few minor exceptions, FXPy provides a complete interface to FOX. FOX is a C++-based toolkit for developing graphical user interfaces easily and effectively, and it runs natively under both Unix/X and Microsoft Windows. Some of the significant features of FOX include a rich set of widgets, powerful but easy-to-use layout managers, extensive support for 3-D modeling using OpenGL or Mesa, drag-and-drop (using the XDND protocol) and a registry for persistent application settings. Changes: This is the first official announcement.
About: Libical is an Open Source implementation of the IETF's iCalendar Calendaring and Scheduling protocols. (RFC 2445, 2446, and 2447). It parses iCal components and provides a C API for manipulating the component properties, parameters, and subcomponents. Changes: This is an early alpha release. The parser is demonstrably functional, but not useful.
About: Qscheme is a fast and small implementation of Scheme written in C. QScheme is easy to interface and should be easy to use as an extension language. QScheme currently supports foreign function call and dynamic library. A Perl-like regular expression module is provided as example. QScheme is really fast: benchmarks shows that it is generaly between 2 and 70 times faster than other scheme interpreters. It also features GTK+ bindings, libglade bindings, and native multithread support. Changes: Bugfixes, more I/O primitives added, and documentation updates.
About: Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording, and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. It supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs, and effect algorithms. Effects and audio objects can be combined in various ways, and their parameters can be controlled by operator objects like oscillators and MIDI-CCs. A versatile console-mode user interface is included in the package. Changes: Support for loading and saving chain setups has been added, aiff, au, and snd support have been added using the SGI audiofile library, raw files and standard input/output streams are now supported, a few serious bugs in ALSA support fixed, and the noise gate, compressor and multitap delay effects have been rewritten.
About: A simple GTK-based host file (default of /etc/hosts) editor that can read any space or tab-delimited host table file. This version only supports one alias field, and 100 hosts. Changes: Major bug and functionality fixes. This version is stable and usable.
About: Strip is a password and account management program for the Palm Computing Platform. Designed to fit the needs of both IT professionals and the average user, it combines ease of use with flexibility and security. 128 bit encryption ensures that even if your Palm Pilot is lost or stolen your important account and password information will remain confidential. Strip has a quick and easy to use interface, with many useful features including the ability to beam shared accounts to other Strip users. Changes: Now you can get even stronger encryption by using Strip. A new 0.3 distribution uses the 128 bit Idea cipher (the same algorithm used in PGP). A new 0.3 96 bit 3-way version is also available, as well as Strip Crypt-Switch, a utility that will convert your existing Strip databases to the stronger Idea cipher(and visa-versa), so you dont have to re-enter any accounts if you upgrade. Both 0.3 versions also have improved memory wiping and a few bug fixes.
About: X-Tract is an XML Script processor. XML Script is a fully XML compliant language, specifically designed for handling XML data. XML Script is more powerful than XSL, and can perform many XSL functions more efficiently. X-Tract can be used on the command line, or can be run from a web server to handle CGI queries. Changes: Fixes minor bugs found in the previously released build.
About: auth_ldap is an LDAP authentication module for the Apache Web server. Auth_ldap has excellent performance, due to its use of aggressive client-side caching algorithms. It also has support for LDAP over SS or TLSL. It also features a mode that lets Microsoft Frontpage clients manage their Web permissions while still using LDAP for authentication. Changes: Hopefully the last release before making the 1.3.x series become the stable version.
About: gphoto2 is a command line application which enables you to transfer digital photos from almost any serial-port or USB digital camera. It uses the programming interface provided by libgphoto2. Changes: Minolta support added, and various bugs have been fixed.
About: The Global File System (GFS) is a 64-bit shared disk cluster file system for Linux. GFS cluster nodes physically share the same storage by means of Fibre Channel or shared SCSI devices. The file system appears to be local on each node and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster. GFS is fully symmetric, meaning that all nodes are equal and there is no server which may be a bottleneck or single point of failure. GFS uses read and write caching while maintaining full UNIX file system semantics. GFS supports journaling, recovery from client failures, and many other features. Changes: This version is the 'Antimatter Ant' release. New features include an IP-based Dlock server and client module, a stackable interface for Pool, a FSCK that actually tries to repair the file system, goal-based allocation, and the beginnings of a FreeBSD port.
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