From freshmeat-news-return-512-adam=thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk@freshmeat.net Wed Dec 08 05:01:02 1999 Return-Path: Delivered-To: adam@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk Received: (qmail 9738 invoked from network); 8 Dec 1999 05:01:01 -0000 Received: from linux339.dn.net (HELO freshmeat.net) (209.207.174.200) by thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk with SMTP; 8 Dec 1999 05:01:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 2631 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Dec 1999 04:59:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact freshmeat-news-help@freshmeat.net; run by ezmlm Precedence: list Reply-To: freshmeat-news-help@freshmeat.net Delivered-To: mailing list freshmeat-news@freshmeat.net Received: (qmail 2624 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Dec 1999 04:59:01 -0000 Date: 8 Dec 1999 04:59:01 -0000 Message-ID: <19991208045901.2622.qmail@freshmeat.net> To: freshmeat-news@freshmeat.net From: freshmeat daemon Subject: [fm/news] newsletter for Dec 07th 1999, 23:59 Status: RO Content-Length: 49236 Lines: 1505 This is the official freshmeat newsletter for Tuesday, December 07th. In total, 58 articles have been posted and are included in this email. [ advertising ] Vstore.com lets you open your own FREE online store: - Choose from over one million products to sell - Build repeat business-when customers buy, they buy from you - Earn up to 25% of each sale in commissions -- Open your store today! http://adcenter.in2.com/cgi-bin/click.cgi?tid=24510&cid=vstore-andover_1-0x0&hid+=andover [ article list ] o smtm 0.6.0 (X11/Financial) o fwlogstat 1.0 (Console/Log Analyzers) o asp2php 0.73.3 (Web/Tools) o Public Bookmark Generator 0.5 (Web/Tools) o WebRFM 0.3b (Web/Applications) o QIR 0.2 (Console/Games) o X-Chat 1.3.8 (X11/IRC) o DeleGate 6.0.5 alpha (Daemons/Proxy) o gnome-pilot 0.1.46 (GNOME/Applications) o xastir 0.1.3 (X11/Communication) o ydSLitProg 0.0.2 (Development/Tools) o PyGCS 1.3.8 (Daemons/MUD) o BladeEnc 0.88 (Console/MP3) o Maelstrom 3.0.1 (X11/Games) o KStella 0.1 (KDE/Games) o scdbackup 0.5 (Console/Backup) o Gtkfxp 0.2 (X11/Networking) o GeneWeb 3.01 (Web/Applications) o Debian: New version of sendmail o Linux 2.3.30 o Linux 2.2.14pre12 o XML Hacker Competition o Cosource Out of Beta o Thix 0.3.7 (Development/Kernel) o X-TrueType Server 1.3 (X11/Fonts and Utilities) o Stubby 1.0 (Development/Tools) o VxTools 0.2 (Console/Filesystems) o simscomputing.Test Bed 0.16 (Development/Java Packages) o JX Development Suite 1.0 (Development/Environments) o AUDPBACKDOOR 1.00 (Console/Networking) o termix 0.5 (Console/Networking) o OpenBSD-ftp 1.0 (Console/FTP Clients) o fileutils 4.0k (Console/Utilities) o ACPLTea 0.16 (Development/Java Packages) o jac 0.10 (Console/Sound) o csvdump 1.3 (Console/Administration) o selectwm 0.2 (X11/Window Managers) o HTMLDOC 1.8.2 (Web/Applications) o Disc-Cover 0.9.5 (Console/CD Writing Software) o ToutDoux 1.1.3 (GNOME/Tools) o pngcrush 1.2.1 (Console/Graphics) o FTP4ALL 3.008 (Daemons/FTP) o Kgutenbook 0.4.4 (KDE/Applications) o Doc Toolkit 1.1.3 (Console/Text Utilities) o Pyrite 0.9.0 (Development/Python Modules) o Smurf Sound Font Editor 0.46 (X11/Sound) o Ruby 1.4.3 (Development/Languages) o cdrecord 1.8a34 (Console/CD Writing Software) o Endeavour 1.08 (X11/Viewers) o SML/NJ 110.25 (Development/Compilers) o Gnapster 1.1 (GNOME/Networking) o USBView 0.5.0 (X11/Monitoring) o Generic NQS 3.50.7 (Daemons/Batch Processing) o phpSysInfo 0.6 (Web/Tools) o FtpLocate 1.50 (Web/Applications) o Bastille Linux 0.93 beta (Console/Firewall and Security) o memtester 2.81 (Console/System) o Scinom 0.10 (Web/Applications) [ article details ] subject: smtm 0.6.0 added by: Dirk Eddelbuettel on Dec 07th 1999, 23:47 license: GPL category: X11/Financial homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/943917986/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/943917986/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/943917986/ description: smtm (Show Me The Money) is a configurable Perl/Tk stock ticker and an aggregate profit/loss display that can be used for stocks from around the world. smtm displays the name of the company, the most recent price and both absolute and relative price changes. If the number of shares held is supplied, a net wealth change is also displayed. Foreign currencies are recognised via cross-currency pairs to translate into domestic units. Stocks can be added and deleted, and the selection can be stored. smtm is being used with US, Canadian, British, French and German stocks. changes: Additional specification of number of shares held as well as the (ISO) cross-currency pair to map into domestic monies, use of this info to display net portfolio gain or loss in window title, an additional option --wide and a menu selector for `wide' display with per-share gain or loss and total holdings, underlining of menu shortcuts for ALT-x, and more code cleanups. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944628478.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: fwlogstat 1.0 added by: Rajeev Kumar on Dec 07th 1999, 23:36 license: GPL category: Console/Log Analyzers homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944610590/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944610590/ description: fwlogstat helps system administrators to analyze Checkpoint FW-1 (4.0) Account Logs. The program can run from the command line (to process the raw ASCII account log) and after that a Web interface presents a nice report, based on various selection criteria. changes: Initial release. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944627803.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: asp2php 0.73.3 added by: SnooKer on Dec 07th 1999, 23:33 license: free for non-commercial use category: Web/Tools homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/914302144/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/914302144/ description: asp2php converts WWW Active Server Pages (ASP) files that run on the Microsoft IIS Web Server into PHP3 pages to run on Apache. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944627617.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Public Bookmark Generator 0.5 added by: Martial MICHEL on Dec 07th 1999, 22:11 license: GPL category: Web/Tools homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/913426967/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/913426967/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/913426967/ description: Public BookMark Generator (PBM) is a perl script designed to process links (and folders) out of netscape's bookmark file, using the description field to erase some entries in order to create a public bookmark HTML file that people can distribute on their web page. changes: "Fromfile" option added to generate user HTML look was. "Stylesheet" added to use HTML 4.0 Sytle sheet capability. Generated basic HTML was extended to 4.0 Transitional. Convertion support was added to "any2bm" for Opera and Mosaic HotLists. Duplicate recognition was extended. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944622681.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: WebRFM 0.3b added by: Yoram Last on Dec 07th 1999, 22:00 license: GPL category: Web/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/926107265/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/926107265/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/926107265/ description: WebRFM (Web-based Remote File Manager) is a CGI-Perl program aimed at providing a single solution for remote web-based file management. It is suitable for managing websites, as well as for more general-purpose file management tasks. WebRFM combines a "visible" HTML3.2-compliant form-based layer along with a "hidden" direct HTTP layer that implements a class 1 WebDAV server. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944622018.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: QIR 0.2 added by: Ben Turner on Dec 07th 1999, 21:57 license: GPL category: Console/Games homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944438900/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944438900/ description: QIR (Quake 3 IRC Reporter) is an IRC bot that can be instructed to check a Quake3 server's status and neatly print the output to IRC. It can also very easily be modified to support other games such as Half-Life, Quake 2, etc. changes: Fixes various problems with vertain IRC servers and networks. Should now work with all IRC servers. Also various code optimisations. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944621876.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: X-Chat 1.3.8 added by: SnooKer on Dec 07th 1999, 21:56 license: GPL category: X11/IRC homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/904622538/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/904622538/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/904622538/ description: X-Chat is a fully-featured IRC client using the GTK toolkit. Optionally it can be compiled to use GNOME and Perl scripting. changes: Notify Check Interval changed to seconds. URL clicking in the scrollback should work now. Bug fixed so that plugins will load again. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944621817.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: DeleGate 6.0.5 alpha added by: SnooKer on Dec 07th 1999, 21:54 license: freely distributable category: Daemons/Proxy homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/899245712/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/899245712/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/899245712/ description: DeleGate is a multi-purpose application level gateway, or a proxy server which runs on multiple platforms (Unix, Windows and OS/2). DeleGate mediates communication of various protocols (HTTP, FTP, NNTP, POP, Telnet, etc.), applying cache and conversion for mediated data, controlling access from clients and routing toward servers. It translates protocols between clients and servers, merging several servers into a single server view with aliasing and filtering. Born as a tiny proxy for Gopher in March 1994, it has steadily grown into a general purpose proxy server. Besides proxy, DeleGate can be used as a simple origin server for some protocols (HTTP, FTP and NNTP). changes: Major security bugs fixed and new security features added. urgency: high |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944621691.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: gnome-pilot 0.1.46 added by: SnooKer on Dec 07th 1999, 21:53 license: GPL category: GNOME/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/940770267/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/940770267/ description: gnome-pilot is a daemon for pilot synchronization, that includes conduits, a panel applet and control-center applets. changes: Mostly bugfixes. New popup dialogs for when things go wrong. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944621581.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: xastir 0.1.3 added by: mgrennan on Dec 07th 1999, 21:44 license: OpenSource category: X11/Communication homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/940377915/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/940377915/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/940377915/ description: XASTIR is a free APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) program. APRS(tm) was developed to track mobile GPS stations with two-way radio to convey position reports, messaging, weather and more. XASTIR plots this information on a map on your screen where you can see the entire world or zoom down to street level. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944621095.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: ydSLitProg 0.0.2 added by: Yann Dirson on Dec 07th 1999, 21:43 license: GPL category: Development/Tools homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944177609/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944177609/ description: ydSLitProg is an SGML DTD intended to write literate programs. It is only a prototype for now, and comes with an sgmlspl spec file which converts an ydSLitProg file into a CWEB file. A converter from ydSLitProg to FWEB is being written as well. changes: Name changed from SWEB to ydSLitProg. Minor fixes. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944621010.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: PyGCS 1.3.8 added by: Jeff Blaine on Dec 07th 1999, 21:42 license: BSD type category: Daemons/MUD homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/922989853/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/922989853/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/922989853/ description: PyGCS is a very stripped down MUD-like chat-server written entirely in Python. It has a single "room" and no large database to keep in memory and on disk. PyGCS has no embedded programming language. PyGCS is ideally meant to be a small multi-user real-time chat system for people who have a need to talk to more than one person at a time online. It fits somewhere in between the setup IRC uses (no walking between rooms so to speak) and the MUCK/MUSH/MOO style of server. changes: Internal Python docstrings added. Other internal code cleanup. Help index fixed to include dirsay. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944620963.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: BladeEnc 0.88 added by: Nerijus on Dec 07th 1999, 21:41 license: LGPL category: Console/MP3 homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/903136605/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/903136605/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/903136605/ description: Blade's MP3 Encoder (BladeEnc) is a freeware MP3 encoder. It is based on the same ISO compression routines as mpegEnc, so you can expect roughly the same, or better, quality. The main difference is the appearance and speed. BladeEnc doesn't have a nice, user-friendly interface like mpegEnc, but it is more than three times faster, and it works with several popular front-end graphical user interfaces. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944620890.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Maelstrom 3.0.1 added by: Sam Lantinga on Dec 07th 1999, 21:28 license: GPL category: X11/Games homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/905363217/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/905363217/ description: Maelstrom is an excellent Asteroids-type game with sound and 3D objects. It is fantastic for casual playing, it plays over a network and has excellent graphics. It compiles easily under both Linux and Solaris and there are binaries for several UNIXs available. changes: Maelstrom has been ported to the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL). It has also been released under the GPL. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944620118.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: KStella 0.1 added by: Scott L. Patterson on Dec 07th 1999, 19:03 license: GPL category: KDE/Games homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944605784/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944605784/ description: KStella is a KDE frontend to the Atari 2600 emulator, Stella. It currently supports the display of snapshots, labels, manuals, the configuration of individual game settings and of course, the ability to play games with just a click of the mouse. All these features are fully customizable to allow maximum flexibility. changes: Initial release. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944611435.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: scdbackup 0.5 added by: scdbackup on Dec 07th 1999, 19:03 license: BSD type category: Console/Backup homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944603679/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944603679/ description: scdbackup is a simplified CD backup program for Linux. It can back up large amounts of data on one or more CDs, with no special tools needed for reading the backup. It supports ISO9660 filesystems and afio archives. Its special features are that it can use multiple CDs (breaking the 650 MB limit), an information script on each CD tells where a certain file may be found, a collision test with renaming avoids aborting of mkisofs, and multiuser safety by use of a locking protocol. changes: Initial announcement. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944611397.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Gtkfxp 0.2 added by: Kristoffer on Dec 07th 1999, 19:02 license: GPL category: X11/Networking homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944603812/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944603812/ description: Gtkfxp is a FXP client for GTK. With it you transfer files from a host to another host without the files ever going through your own computer. changes: Initial release. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944611371.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: GeneWeb 3.01 added by: Daniel de Rauglaudre on Dec 07th 1999, 19:02 license: GPL category: Web/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/904743308/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/904743308/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/904743308/ description: Geneweb is a system for who want to publish their genealogy data (family tree) on the web. It uses very efficient techniques of relationship and consanguinity computing, developed in collaboration with Didier Rémy, researcher at INRIA. It can run in conjunction with an existing webserver, or standalone, using it's own internal server. changes: Detailed trees, and a Finnish translation. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944611324.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Debian: New version of sendmail added by: scoop on Dec 07th 1999, 17:56 category: Debian homepage: http://www.debian.org download: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/ body: The version of sendmail that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has a slight problem in the code to regenerate the aliases database. Sendmail allowed any user to run sendmail with the -bi option to (re)initialize the aliases database. The user could then interrupt sendmail and leave the system with a broken aliases database. This has been fixed in version 8.9.3-3slink1 by only allowing root and trusted users to regenerate the aliases database. An updated package is available from security.debian.org (http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/). |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944607383.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Linux 2.3.30 added by: scoop on Dec 07th 1999, 17:56 category: Kernel download: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.3/ changelog: http://edge.kernelnotes.org/changelist.cgi?show=2.3.30 body: Linux 2.3.30 has been released. It's available from kernel.org (http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.3/) and mirrors. A list of changed files has been attached to this article and a change summary is available at Cutting Edge (http://edge.kernelnotes.org/changelist.cgi?show=2.3.30). o Changelog (http://edge.kernelnotes.org/changelist.cgi?show=2.3.30) |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944607373.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Linux 2.2.14pre12 added by: scoop on Dec 07th 1999, 17:56 category: Kernel download: http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.14pre/ body: Linux 2.2.14pre12 has been released. The patch is available from kernel.org (http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2.14pre/) and mirrors. A change summary is available in the body of this article. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944607362.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: XML Hacker Competition added by: Matthew Parry on Dec 07th 1999, 17:33 category: Press Release homepage: http://www.bowerbird.com.au/competition/ body: To mark the imminent release of version 1.0 of XDBM, an entirely free embedded database for XML, Bowerbird Computing and O'Reilly and Associates have announced a hacker competition (http://www.bowerbird.com.au/competition/). Because Bowerbird Computing pays royalties to everyone who contributes time, code or consulting services to any of their projects, every entrant will receive a share of the revenue earned by Bowerbird Computing. But as an extra incentive O'Reilly and Associates will give a voucher for ten of their excellent hacker manuals to the author of the most creative and usefull entry. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944606031.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Cosource Out of Beta added by: emile on Dec 07th 1999, 17:32 category: Community homepage: http://www.cosource.com body: Cosource.com (http://www.cosource.com) provides a venue for funding free software and open source development. It utilizes the internet's strength in organizing distributed collections of people with a common interest in order to bring together the right developer/sponsor combinations. Cosource makes it possible for users to fund the developer they prefer, to write the free software they need. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944605970.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Thix 0.3.7 added by: Sergey Svishchev on Dec 07th 1999, 16:25 license: GPL category: Development/Kernel homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944598304/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944598304/ description: Thix is an almost complete implementation of the POSIX.1 standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-1988). It is a UNIX-like kernel with many features real operating systems have: virtual memory, demand paging, protection, swapping, etc. The Thix Operating System is fully functional at this time, and many free software packages have been succesfully compiled/run under it, including development tools such as the GNU C/C++ Compiler suite. However, there is no networking support and the only drivers available are for floppy disks, (E)IDE hard disks, printers, virtual terminals, mem, kmem and null. changes: Initial public release. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944601955.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: X-TrueType Server 1.3 added by: cyberdemo da silva on Dec 07th 1999, 15:07 license: BSD type category: X11/Fonts and Utilities homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/904716637/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/904716637/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/904716637/ description: X-TrueType Server is an X server and/or an X font server that can handle TrueType fonts directly. X-TT supports various character sets, ASCII, ISO8859(part 1-10 and 15), KOI8, Big5ETen, GB2312, KSC5601(0, 1, Wansung, Johab), JIS(X0201, 208, 212), VISCII, TCVN, TIS620.2533, and Unicode. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944597277.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Stubby 1.0 added by: Tom Rothamel on Dec 07th 1999, 15:01 license: GPL category: Development/Tools homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944592290/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944592290/ description: Stubby is a tool that enables programmers and packagers to add transparent support for optional run-time dynamic linking of shared libraries. This allows for the creation of applications that can gain additional functionality if a library is present, but that do not fail to load if the library is not installed (unless a function in that library is called). changes: Initial release. Currently, only support for Linux with libdl is implemented, but people willing to port the stub code to other platforms would be welcome. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596893.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: VxTools 0.2 added by: Martin Hinner on Dec 07th 1999, 14:59 license: GPL category: Console/Filesystems homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944591346/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944591346/ description: VxTools allows you to read files from Veritas Journaled Filesystem in Linux, with support for versions 2 and 4. changes: Bugfixes, support for VxFS 4, and typed extents. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596786.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: simscomputing.Test Bed 0.16 added by: david sims on Dec 07th 1999, 14:59 license: LGPL category: Development/Java Packages homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/938202748/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/938202748/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/938202748/ description: simscomputing.Test Bed is a framework for writing tests against your Java code. It supports black box testing, white box testing, unit testing, and regression testing. It includes a GUI tool to automatically run, and re-run, your test cases. A command line interface is also available. changes: New setupCollection() and teardownCollection() methods, called automatically on TestCaseCollections. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596752.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: JX Development Suite 1.0 added by: Glenn W. Bach on Dec 07th 1999, 14:55 license: free for non-commercial use category: Development/Environments homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/943891420/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/943891420/ description: JX Development Suite promises to be the first truly complete applications framework and software development environment for the Linux operating system. Offering all the capabilities of the JX Application Framework, Code Crusader, and Code Medic, JX Development Suite provides software developers with highly advanced and well-engineered tools for high productivity. changes: Online ordering is now available. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596558.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: AUDPBACKDOOR 1.00 added by: M.K. on Dec 07th 1999, 14:54 license: GPL category: Console/Networking homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944589211/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944589211/ description: AUDPBACKDOOR consists of a daemon and a client that commuicate over UDP. The client sends a shell command to the daemon and the daemon executes the command. It's most useful when you've got a firewall that blocks TCP traffic but you also need a telnet like shell account. changes: Initial announcement. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596477.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: termix 0.5 added by: Nate Case on Dec 07th 1999, 14:52 license: GPL category: Console/Networking homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944587412/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944587412/ description: Termix is a DOS terminal-like console telnet client intended for calling telnet BBSes. It supports the standard IBM charset, true ANSI parsing, and DOS linefeed emulation. Zmodem support is planned for the future. changes: Initial announcement. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596351.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: OpenBSD-ftp 1.0 added by: Oliver Kurth on Dec 07th 1999, 14:52 license: BSD type category: Console/FTP Clients homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944586389/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944586389/ description: OpenBSD-ftp is a port of the ftp client from OpenBSD to Linux. This client has more features than the traditional UNIX ftp client. It features command line editing, command history and 'auto fetching' which lets you put the file you want to get directly on the command line. Currently only .rpms are available. changes: Initial release. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944596331.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: fileutils 4.0k added by: Jim Meyering on Dec 07th 1999, 13:44 license: GPL category: Console/Utilities homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/911244471/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/911244471/ description: The fileutils package contains the GNU file management utilities. Most of these programs have significant advantages over their Unix counterparts, such as greater speed, additional options, and fewer arbitrary limits. It includes programs to copy, move, list, etc, files. changes: Minor fixes to mv and touch, and a more efficient color ls. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944592282.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: ACPLTea 0.16 added by: Harald Albrecht on Dec 07th 1999, 13:43 license: Artistic category: Development/Java Packages homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944476399/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944476399/ description: The ACPLTea Java Library is a pure Java implementation of the open and free communication system ACPLT/KS. ACPLT/KS provides easy access in heterogeneous system environments not only to process data and parameters, but also to archived time series, message logs, and especially structure and meta information. ACPLTea also contains a pure Java implementation of Sun's ONC/RPC remote procedure call specification, which can be used stand-alone without the ACPLT/KS package. All the necessary client-functionality of ONC/RPC has been implemented. changes: Minor clean-ups within the source, and completion of the JavaDoc HTML documentation for the org.acplt.oncrpc package (it documents not only all public but also all protected and private classes and members). urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944592189.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: jac 0.10 added by: Vaga on Dec 07th 1999, 13:41 license: GPL category: Console/Sound homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/936613304/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/936613304/ description: jac is a command line CD Player that allows you to play your CDs in any order with looping features (on track, playlist, or entire CD), random playing, backwards playing, exclude from playing, crazy-playing, and many other features. It supports the Italian and English languages and CDDB. changes: A fix forthe DATA TRACK bug. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944592099.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: csvdump 1.3 added by: technologist on Dec 07th 1999, 13:39 license: GPL category: Console/Administration homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/943450136/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/943450136/ description: csvdump is a front-end for dumping a MySQL table, processing that data, and mailing it off. PGP-encryption (using PGP5) of the data is supported. changes: An extensive code rewrite, a new convenient config file, specification of multiple e-mail recipients, better character-escaping within the dump, conversion of PGP encryption from tempfile to streaming, a new '-b' flag to put dump in e-mail body instead of as an attachment, correct MIME type for attached, PGP-encrypted dumps, breaking of logging into separate functions and levels, and better error handling (disconnecting db handles, clean exits). urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944591980.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: selectwm 0.2 added by: lucd on Dec 07th 1999, 13:33 license: GPL category: X11/Window Managers homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/940334867/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/940334867/ description: selectwm is a small application which lets you select your window manager when X starts. It looks for a file named .selectwmrc in the user's directory which contains a list of window managers. changes: Editing of the .selectwnrc from within selectwm, and new options for a timeout and a default window manager. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944591581.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: HTMLDOC 1.8.2 added by: Michael Sweet on Dec 07th 1999, 13:28 license: GPL category: Web/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/912604543/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/912604543/ description: HTMLDOC converts HTML "source" files into indexed HTML, PostScript, and PDF files. It can generate a table of contents, title page, and handles different media sizes and duplexing. HTMLDOC can also be used as a filter for web documents, allowing you to automatically generate PostScript and PDF documents from HTML files and reports. HTMLDOC runs on all UNIX platforms as well as Windows 95, 98, and NT 4.0 or higher. changes: Some small formatting problems, and a fix for crashing on systems running Microsoft Windows when converting nested tables. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944591306.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Disc-Cover 0.9.5 added by: Jano van Hemert on Dec 07th 1999, 13:27 license: GPL category: Console/CD Writing Software homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/923891448/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/923891448/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/923891448/ description: Disc-cover provides an easy way to produce covers for audio CDs. It scans audio CDs and uses information from the CDDB database to build a back and front cover for the CD. Output is in Latex, Dvi, PDF, Postscript, plain ASCII or a format suited for cdlabelgen. changes: A new feature to add a picture to the front cover, and improvements in error handling and providing solutions to the user. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944591227.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: ToutDoux 1.1.3 added by: yeupou on Dec 07th 1999, 08:09 license: GPL category: GNOME/Tools homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944433411/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944433411/ description: ToutDoux is a project manager which lets you design a plan of action using a tree structure. changes: First announcement. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944572178.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: pngcrush 1.2.1 added by: Glenn Randers-Pehrson on Dec 07th 1999, 08:09 license: OpenSource category: Console/Graphics homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/937699452/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/937699452/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/937699452/ description: pngcrush is an excellent batch-mode compression utility for PNG images. Depending on the application that created the original PNGs, it can improve the file size anywhere from a few percent to 40% or more (completely losslessly). PNGs created with Photoshop will see some of the largest reductions in file size, those created with the GIMP at its highest compression setting will see little or no improvement. The utility also allows specified PNG chunks (e.g. text comments) to be deleted, and it can fix incorrect gamma info written by Photoshop 5.0. changes: The ability to (manually) truncate a PLTE chunk and to specify sRGB rendering intents other than 0. This release uses libpng beta version 1.0.5f (which is included in the download). urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944572145.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: FTP4ALL 3.008 added by: Senfgurke on Dec 07th 1999, 08:07 license: GPL category: Daemons/FTP homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/897477473/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/897477473/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/897477473/ description: FTP4ALL is an FTP server program for UNIX systems. Unlike existing FTP servers, e.g. WUFTPD, FTP4ALL does not require a root account to install it. Every user that can compile source code can install it, thereby providing a facility to share files with friends. All that you need is a 64-bit-capable C compiler. changes: Three bugfixes, no new features. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944572073.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Kgutenbook 0.4.4 added by: llornkcor on Dec 07th 1999, 08:07 license: GPL category: KDE/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/943900399/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/943900399/ description: Kgutenbook is a KDE port of the Perl script gutenbook, to download and read free e-texts from Project Gutenberg using a booklike interface that contains no scrollbars. Pagination comes from keyboard commands and mouse buttons. changes: Bug fixes for some show stoppers. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944572023.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Doc Toolkit 1.1.3 added by: Rob Tillotson on Dec 07th 1999, 08:02 license: LGPL category: Console/Text Utilities homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/919581974/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/919581974/ description: Doc Toolkit is a set of tools for building e-texts in the "Doc" format which is the de facto standard for large texts on the Palm Computing platform. It includes command-line tools for converting HTML and ASCII to Doc databases, and can be extended in Python. It can fetch its input from the web or FTP, has support for TealDoc tags, and can set bookmarks directly into the output database. changes: Updated to work with Pyrite 0.9.0. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571749.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Pyrite 0.9.0 added by: Rob Tillotson on Dec 07th 1999, 08:02 license: LGPL category: Development/Python Modules homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/897727302/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/897727302/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/897727302/ description: Pyrite is a comprehensive set of modules which allow access to Palm Computing platform devices and their data via Python. It includes APIs for transparent database access, records as Python objects, conduits, and plug-ins for extensability. Pyrite was formerly known as "PalmPython". changes: This is a significant development release with new code for both local and palmtop database access plus new palmtop identification logic. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571725.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Smurf Sound Font Editor 0.46 added by: Josh Green on Dec 07th 1999, 08:01 license: GPL category: X11/Sound homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/937211456/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/937211456/ description: Smurf is a Sound Font editor similar to Vienna SoundFont Studio by Creative Labs. It currently supports SB AWE 32/64 only, but will support other wavetable soundcards such as the GUS and Soft OSS drivers (for software-based wavetable emulation). Sound Fonts allow creation of complex instruments for use in Midi song composition. changes: A fix for a broken external MIDI interface, more SoundFont editing options (accessible by right clicking items in the SoundFont tree), and a new audio sample viewer with zoom/unzoom capability. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571678.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Ruby 1.4.3 added by: matz on Dec 07th 1999, 08:00 license: GPL category: Development/Languages homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/915828413/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/915828413/ description: Ruby is a language for quick and easy programming. Similar in scope to Perl and Python, it has high-level data types, automatic memory management, dynamic typing, a module system, exceptions, and a rich standard library. What sets Ruby apart is a clean and consistent language design where everything is an object. Other distinguishing features are CLU-style iterators for loop abstraction, singleton classes/methods and lexical closures. changes: Several bug fixes and better stability. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571622.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: cdrecord 1.8a34 added by: Thomas Tallberg on Dec 07th 1999, 07:57 license: GPL category: Console/CD Writing Software homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/889803174/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/889803174/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/889803174/ description: Cdrecord creates home-burned CDs with a CD-R/CD-RW recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. Cdrecord supports CD recorders from Acer, AOpen, BTC, Compro, Dysan, DynaTec, Grundig, Hi-Val, HP, Imation, JVC, Kodak, Matsuhita, Memorex, Microboards, MicroNet, Mitsumi, Nomai, Olympus, OTI, Panasonic, Philips, Pinnacle, Pioneer, Plasmon, Plextor, Procom, Ricoh, Smart & Friendly, Sony, Taiyo, TEAC, That's Write, Traxdata, Turtle Beach, Waitek, Wearnes and Yamaha; all SCSI-3/mmc and ATAPI/mmc compliant drives should also work. Supported features include: IDE/ATAPI, parallel-port, and SCSI drives; audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs; full multi-session support, CD-RWs (rewritable), TAO, DAO and human-readable error messages. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571452.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Endeavour 1.08 added by: Taura on Dec 07th 1999, 07:57 license: GPL category: X11/Viewers homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/934793177/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/934793177/ description: Endeavour is basically a graphical file manager and image viewer for Linux/X. It's aimed towards newer Linux/X users who have a strong Windows background. Endeavour requires Imlib for the image browser and image viewer. changes: Fixed cursor handling and resetting for drag and drop operations, and Improved resizing of window panes. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571436.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: SML/NJ 110.25 added by: Matthias Blume on Dec 07th 1999, 07:56 license: BSD type category: Development/Compilers homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/935141271/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/935141271/ description: sml/nj (Standard ML of New Jersey) consists of a compiler, compilation manager, and libraries for Standard ML. Included are CML (Concurrent ML) and eXene (a toolkit for X based on CML). The compiler produces efficient code for most popular architectures (Intel x86, Sparc, Alpha, Mips, HP-PA, PowerPC) and runs under Unix, Linux, or Windows (95,98,NT). changes: This version has a variety of changes to CM, MLRISC, the x86 back end, and the Library, and some crucial bug fixes. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571400.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Gnapster 1.1 added by: jasta on Dec 07th 1999, 07:55 license: GPL category: GNOME/Networking homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944470358/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944470358/ description: Gnapster is a simple client to the napster online MP3 community. Basic search and download functions are included, along with libnapster, a library for communicating with the napster servers. changes: A fix for a major bug that caused the server to disconnect the user, and support for the creation of new users. urgency: medium |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571351.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: USBView 0.5.0 added by: kroah on Dec 07th 1999, 07:53 license: GPL category: X11/Monitoring homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/938892550/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/938892550/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/938892550/ description: USBView is a GTK application to display information about the topology of the devices connected to the USB bus on a Linux machine. It also displays detailed information on the individual devices. changes: An updated parser that can handle the fact that the interface now dictates what driver is loaded. This release has been tested on kernel 2.3.29. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571233.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Generic NQS 3.50.7 added by: Stuart Herbert on Dec 07th 1999, 07:53 license: GPL category: Daemons/Batch Processing homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/909622828/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/909622828/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/909622828/ description: Generic NQS is the world's leading OpenSource batch processing system. Available for over twenty versions of UNIX (including native 64 bit ports), including special support for high-end multiprocessor systems, Generic NQS is the batch system commercial systems inter-operate with, and which companies can and do deploy right across the enterprise. changes: Numerous bug fixes, including ones for all known Y2K problems; all Generic NQS and Monsanto-NQS users are advised to upgrade to v3.50.7. urgency: high |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944571183.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: phpSysInfo 0.6 added by: Precision on Dec 07th 1999, 02:37 license: GPL category: Web/Tools homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/938188789/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/938188789/ description: phpSysInfo is a customizable PHP Script that parses dmesg, /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, etc., and displays them all nicely. It will display information about system facts like Uptime, CPU, Memory, LM Sensors, SCSI, IDE, PCI, Ethernet, Floppy, and Video. changes: A bug fix for CPUs that don't report clock speed, and a very simple caching system to avoid having to execute commands on the server for every page view. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944552276.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: FtpLocate 1.50 added by: unixer on Dec 07th 1999, 02:21 license: BSD type category: Web/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/942985059/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/942985059/ description: FtpLocate is a fast FTP search engine written with Perl. It supports indexing on multiple FTP servers and generates summaries for them. FtpLocate provides the user two methods for searching: filename search and description search. Filename search groups the results by FTP servers, displaying the server nearest to the client first. With description search, a user can find the files he wants without knowing the filename. Files with same description will be grouped together. changes: A file description generater, file description search support, a user access log, and speed improvements (by using the glimpse as indexer). urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944551268.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Bastille Linux 0.93 beta added by: Jay Beale on Dec 07th 1999, 02:20 license: GPL category: Console/Firewall and Security homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/943861732/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/943861732/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/943861732/ description: Bastille Linux aims to be the most comprehensive, flexible and educational Security Hardening Program for Red Hat Linux. Virtually every task it performs is optional, providing immense flexibility. It also educates the user regarding the topic at hand before asking any question. The interactive nature allows the program to be more thorough when securing, while the educational component produces an admin who is less likely to compromise the increased security. changes: Lots of little bug fixes, and the start of a code freeze. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944551217.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: memtester 2.81 added by: Charles Cazabon on Dec 07th 1999, 00:33 license: GPL category: Console/System homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/942342567/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/942342567/ changelog: http://apps.freshmeat.net/changelog/942342567/ description: memtester is a user-space utility for testing the memory subsystem in a computer to determine if it is faulty. It does a reasonably good job of finding intermittent faults and non-deterministic faults. It has many tests to help catch borderline memory, and generates a verbose report of faults found, tests run, and time taken. changes: A couple of small bits in the documentation were fixed to bring it up to date. One error message was made more informational. urgency: low |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944544811.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - subject: Scinom 0.10 added by: John Garrison on Dec 07th 1999, 00:31 license: freely distributable category: Web/Applications homepage: http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/944542817/ download: http://apps.freshmeat.net/download/944542817/ description: Scinom is a site put together using WWWBoard and BigNoseBird's poll script. It is designed to be a complete and easy-to-install Slashdot clone. All of the CGI has been formatted to match the look of the site. It still has a long way to go, but unlike other Slashdot clones it doesn't require SQL. changes: Initial Release. |> http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/12/07/944544668.html --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - that's it for today. the freshmeat news squad --- - --- ------ - --- -- - - - -- - to unsubscribe from this newsletter, send a blank message to freshmeat-news-unsubscribe@freshmeat.net