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Today's news on the web: http://freshmeat.net/daily/2008/08/29/
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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (49) :::

[001] - Amahi Linux Home Server 8.24
[002] - awesome 3.0-rc5 (3.x)
[003] - Big Medium 2.0.5 (Stable)
[004] - cdrtools 2.01.01a47 (Development)
[005] - Coreboot 2-3554
[006] - CyrUp 2.2.2
[007] - deco file extraction framework 1.5.3
[008] - Directory Recursive Files 0.4.1
[009] - EJBCA 3.7.0 (Development)
[010] - Elastix 1.2-rc1 (Beta)
[011] - EntityFS 1.0
[012] - FoxTray 0.2
[013] - GCstar 1.4.2
[014] - Gecode/R 0.9.1
[015] - gumnut 0.2.1
[016] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.78 (2008-08-28)
[017] - im-chooser 1.2.2
[018] - IMSettings 0.103.0
[019] - InspIRCd 1.1.21
[020] - InspIRCd 1.2.0a6 (Development)
[021] - ISPConfig 2.2.25
[022] - JShot 0.9.8.4a
[023] - LMS OLAT 6.0.3
[024] - LOVE 0.4.0
[025] - mach 0.9.4
[026] - mididings 20080828
[027] - MoreAmp 0.1.22
[028] - mpg123 1.5.1
[029] - msn-pecan 0.0.15
[030] - nagstamon 0.5.8
[031] - Patch Check Advanced 20080828-01 (Development)
[032] - Performance Application Programming Interface 3.6.1
[033] - PhARoS 0.9.1
[034] - PJSIP and PJMEDIA 1.0-rc1
[035] - pulse 1.2.56
[036] - qooxdoo 0.8
[037] - Qtractor 0.2.1
[038] - Ragel State Machine Compiler 6.3
[039] - runawk 0.14.2
[040] - sawfish 1.3.4
[041] - Spectro-Edit 0.3
[042] - system-config-printer 1.0.7 (Stable)
[043] - Talend Open Studio 2.4.2
[044] - the maker 0.9
[045] - V_Sim 3.4.1 (Stable)
[046] - Web-Based Adult Content Server 0.8.1 (PHP)
[047] - WSO2 Identity Solution 1.5
[048] - XIST 3.4.1
[049] - xjobs 20080824


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::: R E L E A S E D E T A I L S :::

[001] - Amahi Linux Home Server 8.24
by cpg (http://freshmeat.net/users/cpg/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:31

Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules
System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

About: The Amahi Home Server is a Linux Home Server based on Fedora (and
later on Ubuntu). Your machine becomes a "Home Digital Assistant" or HDA
after the installation. Each HDA is a Fedora-based server targeted for home
and home office environments. It provides an iTunes server, calendaring, a
wiki, shared network storage, network backups, a printer server, VPN, and a
plug-in architecture built on Ruby on Rails.

Changes: This release adds a fix for the VPN module for a problem which
caused newer upstream releases of OpenVPN and Amahi's default configuration
to prevent some users from authenticating, denying VPN access to their
Amahi Linux Home Server. The new VPN module contains a more
"production-ready" setup, using the PAM authentication plugin for OpenVPN.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[002] - awesome 3.0-rc5 (3.x)
by Julien Danjou (http://freshmeat.net/users/jdanjou/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:16

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers

About: awesome is a highly configurable, next generation framework window
manager for X. It is very fast, light, and extensible. It is primarily
targeted at the power user, developer, and anyone dealing with everyday
computing tasks who wants to have fine-grained control over a graphical
environment.

Changes: This release fixes memory leaks, improves X performance, fixes
the systray icon background color, includes a new enhanced bash completion
system, and adds a number of build fixes for BSD.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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[003] - Big Medium 2.0.5 (Stable)
by Josh Clark (http://freshmeat.net/users/joshclark/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:46

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management

About: Big Medium is a content management system aimed squarely at Web
designers who want a CMS that enables extremely flexible designs but
remains easy to set up without programming skills. The software does not
impose cookie-cutter layouts: If you bring basic to intermediate HTML/CSS
know-how, Big Medium can manage just about any design you throw at it. Once
the designer configures the templates, he or she can hand the site over to
content editors; no technical know-how is required to add or edit pages.
Big Medium's friendly, humane interface is easy and non-threatening for CMS
newbies.

Changes: This version allows advanced users to schedule automated backups
of Big Medium data and site files. It also adds comment counts, provides
more control over the display of tips and announcements, and has a variety
of other changes and bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Source

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

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[004] - cdrtools 2.01.01a47 (Development)
by Jörg Schilling (http://freshmeat.net/users/schily/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:12

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Writing
System :: Archiving

About: cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a
CDR/CDRW/DVD recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications.
It supports CD/DVD recorders from many different vendors; 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, CDRWs (rewritable), DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW,
TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote
SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD writers.

Changes: This release fixes mkisofs problems with multisession on
multi-extent files (greater than 4GB).

License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)

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

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[005] - Coreboot 2-3554
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 20:14

System :: Boot

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

Changes: This release adds support for the Intel EP80579 Integrated
Processor and its built-in LPC, SMBus, USB, and SATA devices. It has
extended libpayload documentation. Documentation errors throughout have
been fixed. Support has been added for an uncompressed payload when
incorrectly labeled as compressed. Definitions have been added for DDR2 SPD
registers.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[006] - CyrUp 2.2.2
by Deniss (http://freshmeat.net/users/slim_lv/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:24

Communications :: Email
Database :: Front-Ends
Internet :: WWW/HTTP

About: CyrUp is a Web-based user management interface for mail systems
based on the Postfix MTA, Cyrus IMAP, and MySQL or PostgreSQL. CyrUp
features multi-domain support in two ways, crypted or clear-text passwords,
and administrative right delegation on a per domain basis. The CyrUp is
well-suited for mail systems with up to 100 mailboxes per domain.

Changes: This release adds filtering on listings and the new option
SYSTEM_ALIASES to auto update system aliases like postmaster@, etc.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - deco file extraction framework 1.5.3
by P. Hartlich (http://freshmeat.net/users/phartlich/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:48

System :: Archiving

About: deco is a command-line program that, together with the deco-archive
package, allows you to extract dozens of popular archive file formats. It
has a consistent interface ("deco 1.tar.bz2 2.rar 3.zip 4.flac 5.deb") and
consistent behavior (never deleting archives after extraction and
extracting relative to the current working directory, just verbosely
enough, all unless explicitly requested otherwise). It creates an
extraction directory if there is more than one file or directory at the
archive top level, and it is able to fix strange permissions.

Changes: A bug was fixed that could cause deco to crash instead of exiting
gracefully when out of memory at a certain point. The code has been
optimized and cleaned up.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/deco-framework/

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[008] - Directory Recursive Files 0.4.1
by Azzam ALNIJRES, Kaesar ALNIJRES (http://freshmeat.net/users/kadrf/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:50



About: Directory Recursive Files is a Java library that finds all files in
a root directory and all its sub-folders. It is very easy to use from other
Java projects or programs. There is a little tutorial online about using
DRF in Eclipse.

Changes: There is one additional sub-class. A little tutorial is available
on the project's home page about using DRF in Eclipse.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drf-recurfiles/

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[009] - EJBCA 3.7.0 (Development)
by Tomas Gustavsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/anatom/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 16:55



About: EJBCA is a fully functional Certificate Authority in Java using
J2EE technology. It builds on the J2EE platform to create a robust, high
performance, platform independent, flexible, and component-based CA to be
used standalone or integrated in any J2EE app. EJBCA comes with a flexible
and powerful Web-based admin GUI.

Changes: This release adds support for CV Certificates (CVC) for EU EAC
ePassports, new WS-API calls and better error codes, a new service to
automatically renew expiring CAs, the ability to use IAIK PKCS#11 provider
as well as Sun PKCS#11, and a client toolbox with client CLI tools that are
easy to deploy stand-alone on other machines.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[010] - Elastix 1.2-rc1 (Beta)
by PaloSanto Solutions (http://freshmeat.net/users/palosanto/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 21:18

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: Elastix is a software appliance that integrates the best tools
available for Asterisk-based PBXs into a single, easy-to-use interface. It
also adds its own set of utilities and allows for the creation of third
party modules. The goals of Elastix are reliability, modularity, and
ease-of-use. It also features strong reporting capabilities.

Changes: Roundcube has support for password changes, a fix for a bug with
attachments, and other minor bugfixes. The RPMs for Asterisk, Zaptel, and
Libpri have been updated. There are enhancements to Rhino's RPMs. The
agenda module is now integrated with the address book, so you can send
voice notifications to external numbers. There are bugfixes in the "Batch"
module.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - EntityFS 1.0
by Karl Gustafsson (http://freshmeat.net/users/kargu/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:43

Information Management
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries

About: EntityFS is an object-oriented file system API for Java. It has a
rich set of powerful file and directory manipulation tools that makes it
much easier to work with file system entities from Java. The file and
directory interfaces are implementation-independent, and there is support
for building file systems on disk, in memory, or in Zip or Jar files. File
systems can also be configured to support capabilities such as file data
compression or metadata.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[012] - FoxTray 0.2
by ProgChild (http://freshmeat.net/users/ProgChild/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:22

Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: FoxTray is a tray icon class for the FOX Toolkit. It displayes an
icon in the system tray. FoxTray works under X11 and Windows.

Changes: This release adds some functional enhancements. Changing the icon
and tool tip text (while the icon is displayed) is now possible.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[013] - GCstar 1.4.2
by Tian (http://freshmeat.net/users/Tian_sait/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:00

Database
Information Management

About: GCstar is an application that can be used to manage collections of
different types. Users can enter all the items they own, along with
associated information and later perform searches using filtering criteria.
A plugin system allows some information to be downloaded automatically from
Internet sites. Collections can be exported to many formats, including
HTML, XML, CSV, or Tellico file format, or imported from Ant Movie Catalog
or Tellico, among others. It currently manages collections of movies, video
games, books, music, numismatic, wines, board games, and lets users define
their own types of collections.

Changes: More plugins now use big pictures if the option is checked.
GCstar now imports identifier and media labels from movies collections
created with Ant Movie Catalog. There are new plugins to fetch information
from Web sites: nooSFere (Books -- FR) and TheLegacy (Video games -- DE).
The following problems have been fixed: a rating was sometimes lost when
displayed with stars, problems occurred with the commandline, the title
when opening items in windows was not updated, and the title in the list
was incorrect for some collections when modifying many items together.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - Gecode/R 0.9.1
by Andreas Launila (http://freshmeat.net/users/lokorin/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:49

Software Development :: Libraries :: Ruby Modules

About: Gecode/R is a Ruby interface to the Gecode constraint programming
library. Gecode/R is intended for people with no previous experience of
constraint programming, aiming to be easy to pick up and use.

Changes: This release changes the preferred way of defining a model to
including Gecode::Mixin (a mixin) rather than inheriting from
Gecode::Model. The backend has been updated to fix some rare bugs.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[015] - gumnut 0.2.1
by fooscope (http://freshmeat.net/users/fooscope/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 20:15

Communications

About: gumnut is a program to aid a group of people to perform cooperative
decentralized decision making. The text or GUI client can create, moderate,
and display proposals over a decentralized communication network (currently
gnutella). Proposals are text files with a simple naming convention that
uses the filename to describe field attributes (such as topic and
geographical location). Popular proposals are found by searching on one or
more of these fields and then calculating the support for each proposal
based on the number of occurrences on the network.

Changes: This release displays the contents of a clicked on leaf based on
filename rather than index number. The default sort order for text
interface results has changed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[016] - H2 Database Engine 1.0.78 (2008-08-28)
by ThomasM (http://freshmeat.net/users/ThomasMueller/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 06:36

Database :: Database Engines/Servers
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: H2 is an SQL database engine written in Java that implements the
JDBC API. Embedded, server, and clustering modes are available. A browser
based console application is included. The database has strong security
features. Disk based and in-memory databases and tables are supported.

Changes: Column aliases can now be used in GROUP BY and HAVING. Java
methods with variable number of parameters can now be used. MySQL date
functions were added. The Japanese translation has been improved.

License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/h2/

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[017] - im-chooser 1.2.2
by Akira TAGOH (http://freshmeat.net/users/tagoh/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:46

Desktop Environment :: Tools

About: im-chooser is a GUI frontend application featured with IMSettings
to choose the input method you want to use. It can also disable input
methods entirely on the desktop. This allows you to pick an input method
and switch it on demand without restarting either your applications or your
desktop.

Changes: This release supports the IM icon on the list.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/im-chooser/

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[018] - IMSettings 0.103.0
by Akira TAGOH (http://freshmeat.net/users/tagoh/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:46

Desktop Environment
Software Development :: Internationalization
Software Development :: Libraries

About: IMSettings is a framework that delivers Input Method settings and
applies the changes immediately, so it will take effect without restarting
applications and the desktop.

Changes: The applet has been launched. This release adds improved XIM
handling and bugfixes.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[019] - InspIRCd 1.1.21
by Brain (http://freshmeat.net/users/braindigitalis/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:33

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: InspIRCd is a fully modular IRC daemon with modular SSL (gnutls or
OpenSSL), ziplinks (through zlib) support, advanced spam filters, flood
controls, settable operator levels, and SQL login using PostgreSQL, MySQL,
or SQLite.

Changes: This release adds a number of internal fixes for increased
reliability and performance, and is highly recommended. It fixes problems
with Anope support, m_ident sometimes not correctly resolving ident,
OpenSSL connections terminating when they shouldn't, corruption on /map
output, and silent SVSHOLD (no more annoying notices). U:Lines may now
deoper users without resorting to /kill.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[020] - InspIRCd 1.2.0a6 (Development)
by Brain (http://freshmeat.net/users/braindigitalis/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:44

Communications :: Chat :: Internet Relay Chat

About: InspIRCd is a fully modular IRC daemon with modular SSL (gnutls or
OpenSSL), ziplinks (through zlib) support, advanced spam filters, flood
controls, settable operator levels, and SQL login using PostgreSQL, MySQL,
or SQLite.

Changes: Snomasks are now under umode +s, not umode +n. Older operating
systems may now use poll() if a better socket engine isn't available. There
is greatly improved ziplinks support. Windows performance monitoring,
graphs, remote management, and more have been added. The Windows version
now runs as a service. All 1.2 users should upgrade.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[021] - ISPConfig 2.2.25
by Projektfarm (http://freshmeat.net/users/projektfarm/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:12

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
System :: Systems Administration

About: ISPConfig is an ISP management and hosting control panel. It
manages your Web server, email server, BIND DNS, proftpd + vsftpd FTP
server, MySQL databases, SpamAssassin, and disk quotas with an easy to use
Web interface for administrators, resellers, and clients.

Changes: This release adds an interface for creating PTR records.

License: BSD License (revised)

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

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[022] - JShot 0.9.8.4a
by zeroflag (http://freshmeat.net/users/zeroflag/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:14

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Capture
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors

About: JShot is a screen capture and uploader utility which allows you to
capture a part of your screen and publish it in one step. It lets you
upload your screenshot to an FTP server or image hosting server, or send it
to an Instant Messaging partner. It copies the link of your screenshot to
the clipboard, so you can publish your shot in one step. It is possible to
extend the functionality of JShot by installing plugins. JShot also has
drawing and image editing functionalities. It supports drawing shapes on
the picture, cropping, rotating, text annotation, etc.

Changes: Capture type is now selectable on the main window. Default
line/fill colors can be used. The ImageShack plugin now uses direct links.
Dashed line styles are selectable for every shape.

License: Freeware

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

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[023] - LMS OLAT 6.0.3
by Florian Gnägi (http://freshmeat.net/users/gnaegi/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:17

Education
Education :: Computer Aided Instruction (CAI)
Education :: Testing

About: LMS OLAT (Online Learning And Training) is an enterprise class
learning management system. It is 100% pure Java, and designed as a
centralized campus LMS.

Changes: This is an important maintenance release that everyone should
install. It addresses several layout and display issues and fixes other
bugs.

License: The Apache License 2.0

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

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[024] - LOVE 0.4.0
by prerude (http://freshmeat.net/users/prerude/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 06:41

Games/Entertainment

About: LOVE is a 2D game engine that enables easy cross-platform game
development in the Lua programming language.

Changes: This release adds collision detection, physics, and a few other
minor functions.

License: zlib/libpng License

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

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[025] - mach 0.9.4
by Thomas (http://freshmeat.net/users/thomasvs/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:11

System
System :: Software Distribution Tools
System :: Systems Administration

About: mach allows you to set up clean roots from scratch for any
distribution or distribution variation supported. Currently, this is
limited to RPM-based distributions. This clean build root can be used for
making clean packages, running jailed services, testing builds, or making
disk images of clean roots.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[026] - mididings 20080828
by Dominic Sacré (http://freshmeat.net/users/sacred/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 06:41

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: MIDI

About: mididings is a MIDI router/processor implemented as a Python
module. It's primarily geared towards live keyboardists, but should be
useful for MIDI processing in other settings as well. While the actual MIDI
processing is done in C++ for speed reasons, it is possible to explicitly
call back into Python, allowing you to process MIDI events any way you
want.

Changes: By using Call(), it's now possible for a Python function to
return more than one MIDI event at the same time.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[027] - MoreAmp 0.1.22
by moreforge (http://freshmeat.net/users/moreforge/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:17

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Playing
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: CD Audio :: CD Ripping
Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Conversion

About: MoreAmp is an audio player, transcoder, and CD ripper for Mac OS X,
Mac OS 9, Windows, Unix, and Linux. It plays and creates ogg, flac, mp3,
aac, m4a, mp4, wav, and aif files, and plays wma files. It features a
31-band equalizer, repeat loop, variable pitch/tempo, ram or ramdisk
preload, and more.

Changes: This is a development progress and bugfix release.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[028] - mpg123 1.5.1
by Thomas Orgis (http://freshmeat.net/users/sobukus/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:15

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Players :: MP3
Software Development :: Libraries

About: Mpg123 is a fast, free and portable MPEG audio player for Unix. It
supports MPEG 1.0/2.0/2.5 layers 1, 2, and 3, with CD quality playback even
on relatively slow CPUs.

Changes: This is a bugfix release; the most important fix may be related
to thread safety of the SSE decoder in libmpg123. Also notable is the
beginning of the deprecation period for the misnamed --resync.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpg123/

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[029] - msn-pecan 0.0.15
by Felipe Contreras (http://freshmeat.net/users/felipec/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 06:35

Communications :: Chat

About: msn-pecan is an alternative MSN protocol plug-in for libpurple. It
aims to have a much faster development process, a low barrier for
contributions, and close contact with the user base.

Changes: Support for offline messages was added. Many bugs were fixed.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/msn-pecan/

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[030] - nagstamon 0.5.8
by Nagiostray (http://freshmeat.net/users/nagiostray/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:31

System :: Diagnostics
System :: Networking :: Monitoring
System :: Systems Administration

About: Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor with a UI that resides in the
GNOME systray or on the Windows desktop. It informs you in realtime about
the status of your Nagios monitored network.

Changes: This release fixes a jumping popup, adds and corrects tooltips in
the settings dialog, and adds a Linux Desktop menu entry.

License: GNU General Public License v2

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

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[031] - Patch Check Advanced 20080828-01 (Development)
by Dagobert Michelsen (http://freshmeat.net/users/dagobert/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 21:14

System :: Software Distribution Tools
System :: Systems Administration

About: Patch Check Advanced (pca) generates lists of installed and missing
patches for Sun Solaris systems and optionally downloads patches. It
resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in the correct
order. It works on all versions of Solaris and on both SPARC and x86.

Changes: The documentation has been enhanced, so the noheader option is
described better. Failed patch installs are logged to syslog. The apply
check for 119313 119314 has been modified.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[032] - Performance Application Programming Interface 3.6.1
by imipak (http://freshmeat.net/users/imipak/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 16:54

Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Hardware

About: PAPI aims to provide the tool designer and application engineer
with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance
counter hardware found in most major microprocessors.

Changes: This release adds an alias for PAPI_ENUM_ALL to prevent legacy
code from failing and adds support for nanosecond resolution timers, newer
dual and quad core processors from Intel and AMD, new systems from Cray,
Power6 with Linux, and standardized event names. It fixes an identification
problem with some Pentium4 models, overflow support on Intel Core
processors, Fortran headers for large negative numbers, and identification
of POWER5+ and 5++ processors using AIX. It improves support for fork/exec
with overflow and profiling, and improves support for FreeBSD.

License: BSD License (original)

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

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[033] - PhARoS 0.9.1
by MaXPert (http://freshmeat.net/users/maxpert/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:17

Database
Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

About: PhARoS is a PHP library to generate SQL queries using simple method
calls similar to those of active record. Unlike Propel and Doctrine, it
provides the user with a minimal yet powerful set of function calls to get
the queries generated.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[034] - PJSIP and PJMEDIA 1.0-rc1
by Benny Prijono (http://freshmeat.net/users/bulukucing/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:41

Communications :: Internet Phone
Communications :: Telephony

About: pjsip is a multimedia communication library based on the SIP
protocol. It is integrated with a rich media and a NAT traversal library
supporting the ICE protocol. It is very portable and has a small footprint
for embedded use.

Changes: This is an interim release, intended to mark the end of feature
development in the trunk to achieve a stable release for version 1.0. It
contains many new features, including a new Python SIP API, integration
with the Nokia Audio Proxy Server (APS) API to achieve lower latency on
Nokia S60-based mobile phones, and integration with the Intel IPP library
to add codecs such as G.722.1, G.723.1, G.726, G.728, G.729, AMR NB, and
AMR WB.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[035] - pulse 1.2.56
by Jason Sankey (http://freshmeat.net/users/jsankey/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:46

Software Development
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Quality Assurance

About: Pulse is an automated build (or continuous integration) server
designed to work with you to ensure the integrity of your code. Pulse
regularly checks your source code out from your SCM, builds your projects,
and notifies you of the results. Key features include simple setup and
administration using a full-featured Web UI, adapability to existing
environments, distributed building, personal builds (test using Pulse
before committing), and individual developer dashboards and notification
preferences.

Changes: This is a stable build in the 1.2 series. It adds fixes to agent
state management, the ability to configure how test case name conflicts are
resolved for all test post-processors, and minor bugfixes.

License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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

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[036] - qooxdoo 0.8
by Sebastian Werner (http://freshmeat.net/users/wpbasti/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:43

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Build Tools
Software Development :: Libraries

About: qooxdoo is a multi-purpose AJAX framework. It includes support for
professional Javascript development, a state-of-the-art GUI toolkit, and
high-level client-server communication.

Changes: This release adds a completely-rewritten GUI toolkit and
toolchain, impressive new theming possibilities with rounded corners,
shadows, background gradients, etc., and major performance gains in the
toolchain. It now works without Cygwin under Windows.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[037] - Qtractor 0.2.1
by Rui Nuno Capela (http://freshmeat.net/users/rncbc/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 20:37

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio

About: Qtractor is an Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application. The
initial target platform is Linux, using the infrastructure of the Jack
Audio Connection Kit (JACK) for audio and the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA) for MIDI. It is meant to be a fairly-featured Linux
desktop audio workstation GUI, specially dedicated to the personal home
studio.

Changes: New gradient eye candy. A DSSI multi-instance plug-in issue has
been fixed. Clip waveform/piano-roll is now rendered while recording. MIDI
pitch-bend, omni-channel filtering, and recording fixes. Play-head
positioning in the thumb-view and many more.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[038] - Ragel State Machine Compiler 6.3
by Adrian Thurston (http://freshmeat.net/users/age/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:47

Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Ragel compiles finite state machines from regular languages into C,
C++, Objective-C, D, Java, or Ruby code. It allows the programmer to embed
actions at any point in a regular language, and to control non-determinism
in the resulting machines. It understands concatenation, union, kleene
star, subtraction, intersection, epsilon transitions, and various other
common operators. It also supports the construction of scanners and the
building of state machines using state charts. It can be used to create
very fast recognizers and parsers that are also robust.

Changes: Duplicate include prevention was fixed and improved. A false
assertion spurred during the creation of scanners with conditions was
fixed. A crash on the failed lookup of a goto/call target was fixed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[039] - runawk 0.14.2
by Aleksey Cheusov (http://freshmeat.net/users/vle/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 20:33

Software Development
Software Development :: Libraries
Utilities

About: runawk is a small wrapper for the AWK interpreter that helps one
write standalone AWK scripts. Its main feature is to provide a
module/library system for AWK which is somewhat similar to Perl's "use"
command. It also allows you to select a preferred AWK interpreter, to setup
the environment for your scripts. It also provides other helpful features.
runawk makes programming AWK easy and efficient, despite the fact that AWK
is a very simple programming language. runawk also provides many useful AWK
functions and extensions implemented in the separate files/modules.

Changes: The temporary file is removed if runawk is killed by SIGINT,
SIGQUIT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP, or SIGPIPE signals. (The temporary file is
created by 'runawk -e ...')

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[040] - sawfish 1.3.4
by Janek Kozicki (http://freshmeat.net/users/cosurgi/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:46

Desktop Environment :: Window Managers :: Sawfish

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: This version includes numerous bugfixes and improvements. A new
Enter-Click focus mode was added, window property handling was improved,
and a few new themes were added. It's possible to maximize a window over
all Xinerama monitors, and a raise-lower-window bug when using transparent
windows with the xcomposite extension was fixed. Moving a window across
viewports with a key binding no longer causes it to lose focus. A major C
part cleanup was done, and a spec file was updated. A deprecated themer was
removed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[041] - Spectro-Edit 0.3
by Jonathan Fuerth (http://freshmeat.net/users/jfuerth/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 16:50



About: Spectro-Edit reads in regular PCM audio files, then shows the audio
visually in a time vs. frequency plot. The fun part is that you can "paint
out" any part of the visualization and play back the audio subject to your
modifications. When you are happy with the result, you can save your work
back to a WAV file. This could be useful for podcasting (edit out
microphone noise, chair squeaks, phones ringing, and other background
noise), music (make strange and unusual modifications to the sound for
artistic reasons), research (visualize animal calls or noise pollution from
nearby industrial activity), and general purpose geekery (which was the
original purpose).

Changes: This release adds many improvements, including undo/redo and a
continuous readout reporting cursor position (frequency (y axis) and time
(x axis)). The brightness slider is now faster and the user interface more
thoughtfully laid out. The "scale region" tool now uses a slider with
realtime preview instead of two buttons, and the new tool chooser features
several new tools, including "flip" (x or y) and "clip to threshold". The
window is now never wider than the screen when opening a lengthy clip.

License: GNU General Public License v3

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/spectro-edit/

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[042] - system-config-printer 1.0.7 (Stable)
by Tim Waugh (http://freshmeat.net/users/tmw/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:11

Printing

About: system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS
API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the
server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure
a remote CUPS server as a local one.

Changes: This release adds several bugfixes and small user interface
improvements.

License: GNU General Public License v2

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/system-config-printer/

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[043] - Talend Open Studio 2.4.2
by Pierrick LE GALL (http://freshmeat.net/users/z0rglub_pierrick/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:16

Database :: Front-Ends
Software Development :: Code Generators

About: Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) tool.
Talend Open Studio can perform jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding
to database synchronization, as well as file format transformations. Its
graphical interface is made with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl or Java. The application was designed to be extended with
components written by users.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[044] - the maker 0.9
by Gerald Spreer (http://freshmeat.net/users/gerald_spreer/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:28

Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Text Processing :: Markup :: HTML/XHTML

About: The maker is a content management system (CMS) for Web sites. It
runs on your local computer and publishes via FTP after you have made your
changes. All that is required is some Web space with FTP access.

Changes: On Windows, after the project has been loaded, the tree view is
at the root of the list. Several bugs have been fixed. Default remote
folders and Auto Complete have been added. Source printing and better menu
logic have been implemented. Some Dialogs now feature "zebra" tables. One
more template is available.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/the-maker/

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[045] - V_Sim 3.4.1 (Stable)
by Damien Caliste (http://freshmeat.net/users/dcaliste/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:46

Scientific/Engineering :: Physics
Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

About: V_Sim visualizes atomic structures such as crystals, grain
boundaries, molecules, and so on It can work with files either in binary
format or in plain text format. The rendering is done in pseudo-3D with
colored spheres to represent the atoms. The user can interact through many
functions to choose the view, the size of the atoms, their color, the
background color, the type of fog, and more. Moreover, V_Sim allows you to
export the view as images in GIF, PS, and other formats.

Changes: This release fixes a crash when exporting to pixmaps when AIGLX
is used, improves the compilation process on Mac OS X, and corrects some
minor crashes in the interactive window dialog.

License: The CeCILL License

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

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[046] - Web-Based Adult Content Server 0.8.1 (PHP)
by Beaky - The WACSip Man (http://freshmeat.net/users/wacsbeaky/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:47

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: CGI Tools/Libraries
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

About: WACS is a tool for building adult Web sites. It is equally suitable
for managing a private collection or building a commercial site. WACS has
many best of breed features, including dynamic filtering, model catalogs,
random sampling, galleries, automatic download, and a powerful search
engine. WACS contains both a full ready-to-run Web environment and an
extensive programming API implemented in both Perl and PHP.

Changes: This version supports the WACS 0.8.1 release; there are many new
API calls including dberror, addratings, and makedbsafe. Support for new
parameters to many existing API calls. Significantly improved and expanded
documentation in the form of the WACS programming manual, second edition.
Availability of RPM packages for Fedora 8 and 9 to ease installation.

License: GNU General Public License v3

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

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[047] - WSO2 Identity Solution 1.5
by Prabath Siriwardena (http://freshmeat.net/users/prabath/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 14:44



About: WSO2 Identity Solution is an identity management solution with
CardSpace and OpenID authentication. It extends SOA governance and ensures
interoperability with CardSpace and OpenID components from different
vendors, allowing easy integration and migration from traditional identity
management to user centric identity management. It supports both Java-based
Web containers and Apache HTTPD.

Changes: This release adds OpenID Provider and relying party component
support, OpenID information cards based on username-token credentials and
self-issued credentials, and SAML 2.0 support.

License: The Apache License 2.0

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wso2is/

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[048] - XIST 3.4.1
by Walter Dörwald (http://freshmeat.net/users/doerwalter/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:48

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management
Text Processing :: Markup :: XML

About: XIST is an extensible HTML and XML generator. It is also an XML
parser with a very simple and Python-esque tree API. Every XML element type
corresponds to a Python class, and these Python classes provide a
conversion method to transform the XML tree (e.g. into HTML). XIST can be
considered 'object-oriented XSLT'.

Changes: Bugs with thread local storage have been fixed, so that various
features that use "with" blocks now work in multi-threaded applications.

License: Python License

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

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[049] - xjobs 20080824
by Thomas Maier-Komor (http://freshmeat.net/users/komor/)
Fri, Aug 29th 2008 17:48

System
Utilities

About: xjobs runs several jobs in parallel and limits the number of jobs
running at once so that every processor of the machine is busy, but not
overloaded. A batch of long-running processes invoked from the shell are
normally executed one after another, no matter how many processors are
available. xjobs allows batching those jobs while still keeping the machine
busy. The interface of xjobs is similar to that of xargs.

Changes: This release adds enhanced support for named pipes, an -e option
to terminate on job error, and resource usage display. It reports time in a
more readable format.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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



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