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About: GNU Zebra manages IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols. It supports BGP-4 protocol as described in RFC1771 (A Border Gateway Protocol 4) and BGP-4+, RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. GNU Zebra has a good client interface, so the user can change configuration dynamically. Changes: IPv4 and IPv6 configuration separation, ripd and ripngd now support IP prefix-list-based filtering, BGP-4+ configuration is now separate from BGP-4 IPv4 configuraiton, OSPF support is much improved, SNMP support is started (but not yet workable), protocol daemons now try to reconnect to zebra when zebra dies, and ripd will reload the configuration file when it receives a HUP signal.
About: Based on root-tail, Root-Portal allows you to log multiple log files into multiple desktop portals or mix them together in any combination with graphical backgrounds, transient backgrounds, shaded backgrounds, filtering and colourising, and many other features. Changes: Fixed several bugs, advanced the configuration file format more, added a rerun=(1000ths of seconds) options to the [shell] module so you can rerun things like 'users' or the added slashdot.sh script which will download the latest news articles from slashdot.org, added actions= to [gnometext] module so that on a right click on a context sensitive highlighted text you can 'do' things, and beginnings of internal restructuring to improve the ability to add a runtime configuration program.
About: curl and libcurl is a tool for transferring files using URL syntax. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, DICT, TELNET, LDAP, and FILE, as well as HTTP-post, HTTP-put, cookies, FTP upload, resumed transfers, passwords, port numbers, SSL certificates, Kerberos, and proxies. It is powered by libcurl, the client-side URL transfer library. There are bindings to libcurl for over 30 languages and environments. Changes: The location: bug has been corrected, Mac OS X fixes have been added, HTTP header parsing has been improved, --stderr has been added for redirecting stderr, --without-ssl is now working for configuration without SSL, and there's no more double progress-header when ftp-downloading.
About: The Apache JServ is a Java servlet engine, an external process written in Java which runs separate from the web server and handles requests to Java servlets. mod_jserv is an Apache HTTPD module written in C which provides an interface to the Apache JServ engine.
About: Cowsay is the easy way to add speaking and thinking cows (and a few other creatures) to anything. Any message you like, even in large figlet letters, can be rattled off by these ASCII critters. Cowsay comes with over 40 creatures that can be bent to your sick and twisted will. New "cows" can be easily bred by those versed in the appropriate dark arts. Cowsay is more useful than most of the items found in SkyMall catalogues, and a lot less expensive. Changes: Cowsay now includes code that the author isn't totally embarassed to show to the world, as well as many cows and an actual manual page.
About: eXtace is a visual sound display/analysis program. It requires Esound (esd) for its audio source. It includes various fast fourier transforms of the audio data in realtime. Its displays include a 3D wireframe flying landscape, a 3D textured flying landscape, a 16-256 channel graphic EQ, three types of scopes, a 3D "spike" flying landscape, and two forms of spectragrams. The 3D traces can be picked up, manipulated, and displayed at nearly any angle. eXtace also features a 3D direction control widget for controlling the angle and speed at which the trace runs away and a gradient/colormap editor for changing the colormap to suit your needs. No OpenGL is required. Changes: Bugfixes to the color picker to make it more user friendly and added new mode (Wire_3D).
About: NetHirc is a bad pun and a Net::IRC client. It is terminal-based, and it comes with many silly Nethack-inspired messages. NetHirc is very modular and extensible; if you know Perl, you can customize NetHirc, and reload your changes while it's running. If you don't know Perl, you can still customize all the messages and mold the client to look like you want it. If you've become frustrated with other IRC clients that have nasty scripting languages and take themselves too seriously, then NetHirc could be your ticket to enjoying IRC again. Changes: First public announcement.
About: The console-tools package allows you to set-up and manipulate the Linux console (ie. text screen and keyboard), and manipulate console-font files. It was developed from version 0.94 of the standard `kbd' package, and integrates many fixes and enhancements, including new kbd features up to 0.99. Changes: Bugfixes and added more message catalogs.
About: Setedit is a text editor specially designed for programmers. It has a nice interface with mouse support, menus and windows (text mode). The editor is a very good choice for people with DOS background, especially people accustomed to Worstar and Borland editors. The editor has overlapped windows so you can see more than one file at the same time, configurable syntax highlighting, macros, rectangular selection, block indentation, as well as customizable keyboard shortcuts and menus. Changes: Added a configure/make/make install mechanism, pseudo macros from menu, cmcPushCursorPos and cmcPopCursorPos now use a 12 levels (11 usable) circular stack, added cmcToggleCharCase (like vi's '~' command), added possibility to associate a SHL with a file name using regular expressions (PCRE), a rudimentary SHL for Makefiles has been added, implemented jump to prototype command, code page remapping, TeX and TCL syntax highlighting implemented, supports 27 new code pages, a new indentation command that allows to indent with any arbitrary text has been added and various bugs have been fixed.
About: Latte, the Language for Transforming Text, is a simple and powerful text markup language. It has all the same markup tags as HTML but is much clearer. Latte is also a fully general programming language that lets you place oft-used constructs into user-defined functions and give them descriptive names. Functions also serve to separate content from layout. Latte documents are translated into high-quality HTML by the Latte interpreter, making it a better language for writing World Wide Web documents. Changes: A fix for a compile-time problem with gcc 2.95, a speeded-up \while, and the addition of \defmacro and \foreach.
About: NSBD (Not-So-Bad Distribution) is an automated Web-based distribution system that is designed for distributing free software on the internet, where users cannot trust the network and cannot entirely trust the maintainers of software. NSBD authenticates packages with GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) or "Pretty Good(Tm) Privacy" (PGP(Tm)) digital signatures so users can be assured that packages have not been tampered with, and it limits the maintainer to only update selected files and directories on the user's computer. NSBD's focus is on security, leaving as much control as is practical in the users' hands. Network transfers are done with http or rsync. Changes: There have been only minor changes since the last NSBD release. However, there are now NSBD-based automatic binary updates available for 11 packages (apache, jed, lynx, mc, metamail, nmh, rsync, rxvt, slang, xemacs, and xpdf) on up to 7 Unix platforms,
About: farsh is a utility to simplify shell script creation. For example, farsh can replace all #!/usr/bin/perl lines with #!/bin/farsh perl so they never have to be changed again. Changes: Renamed from shelltool to farsh.
About: pftp allows you to send and receive files and directories recursively, send and receive standard input and ouput, filter your connection, set the net buffer size, set the bandwidth, send UDP datagrams unicasted, broadcasted, and multicasted (which is meant for AUDIO and VIDEO streaming), send data to another user and manage that data, perform a network test based on either UDP or TCP, and use optimized buffers for your Gigabit Ethernet links. pftp can start from command line, as a daemon, or by inetd. All features are supported for IPv4 and IPv6. Changes: Found some time to introduce host specific variable settings and to add and improve several features.
About: UAE is a mostly complete software emulation of the hardware of the Commodore Amiga 500/1000/2000. A Commodore Amiga, for those who don't know, is a 16/32 bit computer system based on the Motorola 680x0 CPU and a few specially designed custom chips that provide very good graphics and sound capabilities. Its first incarnation, the A1000, appeared in 1985, followed by the highly successful A500 and A2000 models. But if you didn't know, you probably don't want an emulator. Changes: Bugfixes for FPU emulation, CPU emulation, disk emulation, text-based UI (should compile again), better audio interpolation, and the old set of commandline switches have been brought back in this release.
About: Astronomy for fun (education, science, whatever). Nightfall is an interactive application to simulate eclipsing binary stars, and to produce animated views, synthetic lightcurves and more. Takes into account the non-spherical shape of close binary stars, mutual reflection, and some other effects. Comes with documentation, on-line help, and lots of observational data of real binary stars. Supports the Gnome desktop, but doesn't require it. Changes: Several fatal bugs have been fixed in this release, and a printer dialog has been added.
About: Cfengine is a tool for setting up and maintaining BSD and System-5-like operating system optionally attached to a TCP/IP network. You can think of cfengine as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell: a single statement can result in many hundreds of operations being performed on multiple hosts. Cfengine is good at performing a lot of common system administration tasks, and allows you to build on its strengths with your own scripts. Changes: Configuration fixes for strange platforms, segmentation fault with long hostnames in cfd fixed and made a number of security minded improvements to coding.
About: RFC Util allows you to specify the number of an RFC, or a search string, and it returns all related RFCs. It features command line switches to spawn lynx or w3m to view the RFC, dump to file for offline viewing, or mail to an address. It also allows local and remote lookups of port, service, or proto numbers. Changes: Changed calls from egrep to built in perl methods (there should be zero compatability issues now), added a -p feature to connect to ini's assigned numbers database for daemon/port and protocol/number specifications like IGRP, and added -n feature to do a local lookup for standard and non-standard daemon/ports like BackOrifice NetBus etc.
About: The ext2fsprogs package contains essential ext2 filesystem utilities which consists of e2fsck, mke2fs, debugfs, dumpe2fs, tune2fs, and most of the other core ext2 filesystem utilities. Changes: Several bugfixes to e2fsck, proper handling of filesystems that have the IMAGIC and INCOMPAT_FILETYPE features turned on, Mke2fs now creates filesystems with the filetype and sparse_superblock features enabled by default on 2.2 kernels, and some additional functions have been added to tune2fs, debugfs, and dumpe2fs.
About: The Linux Memory Technology Device project provides a unified subsystem for handling RAM and Flash cards (Memory Technology Devices), including various flash translation layers to emulate block devices, and filesystems which run directly on flash chips. Changes: Ported to 2.3 kernels, and various bugfixes. NFTL support now appears to interoperate happily with M-Systems' own drivers for the DiskOnChip, and widespread testing of this would be useful.
About: Winie is a W3C network utility (implemented in Java) for saving, getting, and deleting files on the Web using HTTP/1.1. The main feature of Winie is its ability to solve the "lost update problem" by storing ETags. Winie uses the client side API of Jigsaw, the W3C Web Server. Changes: Bugfixes.
About: GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme. Changes: First announcement.
About: wmdctrl is a diald control application which can be used in the windowmaker dock. It displays information about a running diald daemon, including the interface name, state, timeout, size of queue, and TX/RX transfer rate bars. There are also a series of buttons for controlling the connection, including bringing it up, down, and docking as well as a button to launch dctrl for more information. wmdctrl is based loosely on dctrl, and on other windowmaker dockapps. Changes: Several improvements were made, including better functioning buttons, a display of the interface name, and control over TCP. wmdctrl now looks and feels more like it should.
About: MindTerm is a complete ssh-client in pure Java. It can be used either as a standalone Java application or as a Java applet. Three packages of importance are provided (terminal, ssh, and security). The terminal package is a rather complete vt102/xterm-terminal, and the ssh-package contains the ssh- protocol and also "drop-in" socket replacements to use ssh-tunnels transparently from a Java application/applet. It also contains functionality to realize a ssh-server. Finally, the security package contains RSA, DES, 3DES, Blowfish, IDEA, and RC4 ciphers. Changes: Now supports SCP file-transfer, screen-flicker has been removed, and added support for IDEA cipher.
About: PIKT is cross-categorical, multi-purpose software for monitoring and configuring computer systems, administering networks, organizing system security, and much more. PIKT is intended primarily for system monitoring, and secondarily for configuration management, but its versatility and extensibility evoke many other wide-ranging uses. PIKT consists of a sophisticated, feature-rich file preprocessor; an innovative scripting language with unique labor-saving features; a flexible, centrally directed process scheduler; a customizing file installer; a collection of powerful command-line extensions; and other useful tools. Changes: Enhanced ease of use by adding a new simplified configs_starter file set, using macro tricks to reduce config file clutter, introducing preprocessor line indentation, adding more helpful commentary and debugging, introduced a new application for documentation management and text formatting, fixed several non-trivial bugs and made a port to HP-UX.
About: The Easysoft ODBC-ODBC Bridge allows applications on one machine to access ODBC data sources on another. It supports multiple concurrent connections from multiple clients to multiple target databases. The principle application is to enable access from Linux and Unix platforms to remote ODBC databases. For example, Apache/PHP programs on Linux can read/write data held on MS SQL Server on Windows, and Perl programs can read/write data held in a MS Access database. Supported applications include Applixware, Open Office, Python, Rexx/SQL, mnGoSearch, OpenLDAP, and Oracle sqlplus. Supported platforms include Linux, MacOSX, IBM zSeries, Windows and various Unix flavors. Changes: Mostly a bug fix release. Enhancements include faster retrieval of data with bound columns via BlockFetchMode, all possible odbc.ini files are now searched for the requested DSN, improved Windows DSN Setup dialogue, optionally installs the unixODBC Driver Manager, UNIX OOB Server can now run standalone without inetd and now supports an HTTP Server, improved method of detecting the version of the C runtime library on Linux, and implemented autorefresh on the OOB HTTP Server statistics page.
About: gbox_applet is a GNOME applet which monitors several mbox-type mailbox files. Each mailbox can be assigned to a priority between 0 and 2 and it can have its own time interval for checking. For each priority there is a different icon. gbox can also count the mail in the boxes and show the subject/sender of each mail in the applet's menu. A tooltip shows a summary of the information in three different kinds. Changes: Bugfixes, added mail-count support, some new icons which better suit the gnome look and feel, added new tooltips, added menu command update, and using a more stock icon for buttons and menus.
About: Card Services for Linux is a complete PCMCIA or PC Card support package. It includes a set of loadable kernel modules that implement a version of the Card Services applications program interface, a set of client drivers for specific cards, and a card manager daemon that can respond to card insertion and removal events, loading and unloading drivers on demand. It supports hot swapping of most card types, so cards can be safely inserted and ejected at any time. Changes: Wavelan and netwave driver updates, 3c575 driver updates, added support for the O2Micro pcmcia bridge, setpnp bugfixes, CardBus socket shutdown bug fixed and bugfixes related to PCI interrupts.
About: GTKtalog is an archiver to store a CD file tree structure. It can be used to easily browse a CD-ROM database. Each disk, folder and file has a size, date, category, description, and content parameter and can be completely edited or deleted. The file search module can do searches on filename, foldername with name, category description, date, filesize, and content parameter. Each filetype has its own icon. It possible to use programs like tar, arj, zip, or scripts to extract information from files to include in the database. Gtktalog can mount, scan, umount, and eject a CD-ROM in the background. Changes: Personal config folder (.gtktalog and .gtktalog/temp) creation bug fixed, "Disk in use" bug fixed, umount no longer fails, plugin bug fixed, information viewer bug fixed, and folder list crash with overflow fixed (xlib).
About: TWIG is a Web-based groupware suite written in PHP, compatible with both PHP3 and PHP4. Its features include IMAP and POP3 email, Usenet newsgroups, contact management, scheduling, shared notes and bookmarks, a todo list, and meeting announcements. Any piece of information can be shared with others via group oriented access controls. By using only plain HTML, it is a simple, cross-platform, fast, and browser-independent way to access or share almost any kind of information, without the complexity or costs of other intranet/groupware packages. It is fully internationalized, with 24 translations. Changes: Multiple authentication providers, multiple session data handlers, multiple login storage handlers, multiple security systems for controlling access to various features, multiple language support (both admin settable and user configurable), new pgSQL driver using persistent connections, new file based database driver allowing small sites to use TWIG 2.0.0 without SQL server, new administration module to allow for various configuration settings, expanded field support for contacts, full support for MIME in messages, mail folder overview feature, mail undelete support in the main mail list, and more.
About: libtcp++ allows you to create C++ TCP/IP clients and servers without having to worry about gethostbyname, sockect, connect, bind, listen and accept. It has three classes, TcpClient , TcpServer and TcpIpRuleSet. TcpClient allows you to initiate TCP/IP connections, TcpServer is an abstract class to be used for creating servers by inheriting from it, and TcpIpRuleSet allows you to establish a set of IP-based access rules, and check IPs against them. Changes: SO_REUSEADDR on server socket, user-specified timeout on TcpServer::receive(), user-specified timeout on TcpServer::connect(), clean shutdown of TcpServer on SIGTERM, fixed a bug in TcpClient(), as well as cosmetic changes to the code and file names.
About: Sawfish (the window manager formerly known as Sawmill) is an extensible window manager using a Lisp-based extension language. All window decorations are configurable and all user-interface policy is controlled through the language. Its aim is to manage windows in the most flexible and attractive manner possible. As such it does not implement desktop backgrounds, application docks, or other things that may be achieved through separate applications. Sawfish is mostly GNOME-compliant; almost all configuration may be made through a graphical interface. Changes: A rewritten window maximization, plus the usual bug-fixes and assorted minor improvements.
About: PTlink IRC Services provides channel/nick registration services for IRC networks. Specially developed for the PTlink IRC Server, it uses modules and includes features like channel roles, nick groups for privilege management, and a Web interface for users. The data backend is a MySQL database. Changes: This release fixes a fatal installation bug, the buggy OperControl kill has been replaced by Oper mode bouncing, /NickServ JOIN and a channel log for global messages have been added, and several bugs have been fixed.
About: Powertweak-Linux is a tool to tune your system to its optimal performance settings. It started life as the replacement for the now obsolete kernel option 'tune PCI bridges', and has been extended to provide more features and support more chipsets. It can also tune network/filesystem performance using /proc/sys entries, disk elevator settings, and x86 CPU registers (needs 2.2.18 or 2.4.0test kernel), CDROM speeds, hdparm type features, and Sony VAIO backlight. It has both a GTK GUI and a text-based lister. Changes: This release no longer crashes MVP3 systems, includes new MVP3 tweaks, fixes GTK GUI segfaults, offers more PCI info in the GUI, and fixes a few minor bugs.
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: The WITHOUT-GNOME version now has skins support.
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