This is the official freshmeat newsletter for Monday, January 08th. In
total, 95 articles have been posted and are included in this email.

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  [ article list ]

o gShield 2.0.0 (Console/Firewall and Security)
o Small Linux 0.7.5 (Console/Mini Distributions)
o abcde 1.9.7 (Console/MP3)
o Bind 9.1.0b3 (Daemons/DNS)
o TWIG 2.6.2 (Web/Applications)
o Achilles 0.0.5 (X11/Scientific Applications)
o Etherboot 4.7.17 (Console/Networking)
o LogiTest 0.4.1 (Development/Test Suites)
o YumfK 0.7 (Console/Sound)
o ZThread 1.1.3 (Development/Libraries)
o album 1.10 (Web/Applications)
o CBMS 0.1 (Web/Applications)
o portfwd 0.17 (Daemons/Misc)
o WideStudio 1.20 (Development/Environments)
o wmessage 0.10 (X11/Misc)
o Emptytree Seedy 1.0.0 (GNOME/Sound)
o perdition 0.1.6 (Daemons/POP3)
o nget 0.13.1 (Console/Networking)
o Window Maker 0.63.1 (X11/Window Managers)
o vsep 0.1.5 (X11/Education)
o SmsSend 2.3 (Console/Communication)
o KFontinst 0.9.2 (KDE/System Software)
o Molasses 1.1.0 (GNOME/Applications)
o Visual Molecular Dynamics 1.6 (X11/Scientific Applications)
o sitecopy 0.10.12 (Web/Tools)
o X/RTA 0.43 (X11/Scientific Applications)
o X-SARte 2.01 (Console/Monitoring)
o Linux Progress Patch 0.2.1 (Development/Kernel Patches)
o DBA Companion 1.0.1 (X11/Database)
o mboxgrep 0.5.1 (Console/eMail)
o XMOTD 0.8 (X11/Viewers)
o Amacdys v0.211 (Console/Embedded)
o Kannel 1.0 (Daemons/Misc)
o Pymps 0.8.2 (Web/Applications)
o redir-httpd 0.0.1 (Daemons/HTTP)
o VCDGear 1.6d (Console/Video)
o One-Wire Weather 0.63.0 (X11/Scientific Applications)
o W3Perl 2.77 (Web/Tools)
o StatistX 0.2.2 (X11/Scientific Applications)
o iptables 1.2 (Console/Networking)
o KCAP 2.0B1 (Web/Administration)
o sawfish 0.35 (X11/Window Managers)
o Hotkeys 0.2 (X11/Utilities)
o LDAP Administration Super Tool 0.4-beta (Web/Administration)
o Gtk Netware Client 0.1 (X11/Networking)
o Radar 0.9 beta 1 (Web/Administration)
o GOFAI-WMT 0.9.10 (KDE/Applications)
o CheckInstall 1.2 (Console/Packaging)
o XMMS-Solaris 0.6.4 (X11/MP3)
o PLWM 2.0 (X11/Window Managers)
o MySQL Import 1.5.1 (Web/Database)
o Perlmode 0.3 (Console/Editors)
o rp-pppoe 2.6 (Console/Networking)
o codeBreak 1.1 (X11/Games)
o Viewmol 2.3 (X11/Scientific Applications)
o Python X Library 0.7 (Development/Python Modules)
o AutoConvert 0.3.8 (Console/Text Utilities)
o ether2dns 1.0pl1 (Console/Networking)
o MIX Development Kit 0.2 (Console/Emulators)
o Hissim 2.2 (X11/Games)
o SubNetwork Explorer 0.0.3BETA1-test1-prerelease (Console/Networking)
o Pronto! 2.2.3 (X11/eMail)
o JSX 0.7.2 (Development/Java Packages)
o PlusPlus.pm 1.1 (Development/Perl Modules)
o PHPWidgets! 0.94 PR #0 (Development/PHP Classes)
o ferm 0.0.12 (Console/Firewall and Security)
o tcshrc 0.5 (Console/Shells)
o mpatrol 1.3.3 (Development/Debugging)
o GnoClip 0.1b4 (GNOME/Misc)
o JACL Adventure Creation Language 1.2 (Web/Development)
o FK 0.5 (Console/Firewall and Security)
o Panda PDF Generator 0.3.1 (Development/Libraries)
o PHP StatIt 2.0b (Web/Tools)
o Perlipq 1.20 (Development/Perl Modules)
o authsrvpassword.pl 1.01 (Console/Firewall and Security)
o Echomine Muse Communications API 0.4b1 (Development/Java Packages)
o wmmenu 0.4 (X11/Window Maker Applets)
o knetfilter 2.0.2 (KDE/Networking)
o gmmusic 0.3.0 (GNOME/Applications)
o mp3stream 1.1.0 (Development/Libraries)
o Nasduck 1.0 (X11/Utilities)
o Badge 0.1 (Web/Applications)
o VSH 1.11 (X11/File Managers)
o Arguments 2.0 (Beta) (Development/Libraries)
o RPGD 1.6 (Daemons/MUD)
o Big Brother 1.6d (Console/Monitoring)
o Vide 0.4 (X11/File Managers)
o bplog 0.5.3 (Web/Applications)
o xine 0.3.4 (X11/TV and Video)
o Epona 1.3.0 (Daemons/IRC)
o PHPwebmail 2.0 (Web/Applications)
o nano 0.9.25 (Console/Editors)
o game control program 1.1.0 (Daemons/Misc)
o Hackers 1.0.2 (Console/Games)
o Linux 2.4.0-ac4

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     name: gShield 2.0.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 23:50 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Firewall and Security

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gshield/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gshield/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gshield/changelog/

description:
gShield is an aggressive, modular firewall script for iptables which
features easy configuration through a BSD-style configuration file,
optional NAT support, TCP-wrapper-like functionality for service
access, port forwarding, routable protection, DMZ support, and more.

changes:
Conversion to iptables, adding support for multiple NATs, support for
routable addresses and protection, DMZ support, integrated
port-forwarding, MAC-specific filtering for administrative hosts, and
stateful tracking.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gshield/

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     name: Small Linux 0.7.5
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 23:49 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Mini Distributions

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smalllinux/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smalllinux/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smalllinux/changelog/

description:
Small Linux is is a micro distribution of Linux for Intel machines that
will run on a system with as little as 3 megs of RAM. It comes on 2 or
3 diskettes, can be installed on small hard drives, and is designed to
work with tinyX, slip, and plip.

changes:
Use of Busybox, addition of route and ifconfig, and the boot disk has
additional utilities. A new Unix demo script was added for Unix newbies
to see what is on Small Linux. Linux can boot with a ramdisk in 4M RAM,
and a new beta install script was added for hard drive installation.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/smalllinux/

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     name: abcde 1.9.7
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 23:47 EST
  license: Artistic & GPL
 category: Console/MP3

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/abcde/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/abcde/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/abcde/changelog/

description:
abcde is a frontend to cdparanoia, wget, cd-discid, id3, and your
favorite Ogg/MP3 encoder (Oggenc is the default). It grabs an entire CD
and converts each track to Ogg/MP3, then comments or ID3-tags each
file, all with one command. It supports parallelization, SMP, HTTP
proxies, customizable filename organization and munging, playlist
generation, and remote distributed encoding via distmp3.

changes:
ID3v2 support, Various Artists heuristics, a remote encoding fix,
documentation updates, and bugfixes.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/abcde/

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     name: Bind 9.1.0b3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:32 EST
  license: OpenSource
 category: Daemons/DNS

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bind/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bind/download/

description:
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name
server for Unix operating systems. The BIND consists of a server (or
`daemon') called `named' and a resolver library. A name server is a
network service that enables clients to name resources or objects and
share this information with other objects in the network.

changes:
Fixes for a number of bugs in 9.1.0b2 and improved query performance,
particularly on multiprocessors.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bind/

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     name: TWIG 2.6.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:31 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twig/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twig/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/twig/changelog/

description:
TWIG is a web-based IMAP client written with PHP3. Its features include
IMAP E-mail, contact management, scheduling, Usenet newsgroups, todo
manager, and bookmark management. Any piece of information can be
shared with other users on the system using TWIG's built-in groupware
functionality. TWIG is written and implemented completely with the PHP
programming language. The author's intention is that it becomes a
simple, cross-platform, fast, and browser-independent way to access or
share almost any kind of information, without the complexity or costs
of other intranet/groupware packages.

changes:
Various bugfixes.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/twig/

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     name: Achilles 0.0.5
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:31 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/achilles/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/achilles/download/

description:
Achilles is a simulation of Darwinian evolution in a virtual world
composed of virtual organisms. It uses Hebbian neural networks, and an
extremely simplified physics model that allows virtual organisms to
interact freely in the simulated environment.

changes:
Autoconf support (it should compile on Linux, Solaris, and Win32).

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/achilles/

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     name: Etherboot 4.7.17
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:30 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/etherboot/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/etherboot/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/etherboot/changelog/

description:
Etherboot is a free software package for making boot ROMS for booting
Linux and other operating systems on x86 PCs over a network using
Internet Protocols, i.e. bootp/DHCP and tftp.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/etherboot/

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     name: LogiTest 0.4.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:30 EST
  license: Apache style
 category: Development/Test Suites

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logitest/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logitest/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/logitest/changelog/

description:
LogiTest is a Java application for functional and regression testing of
Web sites. It currently supports GET and POST methods, HTTPS, cookies,
browser history, XML formatted tests, simple Testlet API for writing
new tests, user-defined HTTP headers and parameters, and regular
expressions. Tests are recorded and played back through a easy-to-use
GUI and can be stored and loaded from XML files.

changes:
A fix for a browser reload bug, reloading of pages for every request,
setting up logging with the log.properties file, and a new "Reset
cookies before playback" option in Test.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/logitest/

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     name: YumfK 0.7
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:28 EST
  license: OpenSource
 category: Console/Sound

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yumfk/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yumfk/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/yumfk/changelog/

description:
Yumfk is a console-based music player using libmpeg3 and libmikmod.

changes:
A complete rewrite from scratch, changing from mpg123 to libmpeg3, and
use of ncurses instead of CDK.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/yumfk/

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     name: ZThread 1.1.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:28 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zthread/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/zthread/download/

description:
ZThread is an advanced object-oriented threading and synchronization
library, implemented in C++ for POSIX and Win32 systems. It provides an
execellent and powerful abstraction from native threads. It includes
interruptable thread objects and several other synchronization control
objects.

changes:
Massive documentation and code updates.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/zthread/

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     name: album 1.10
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 22:27 EST
  license: free for non-commercial use
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/album/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/album/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/album/changelog/

description:
album is a HTML/XHTML photo album generator which recursively descends
directories. It automatically crops your thumbnails so that they are
all the same shape. See the example albums for a good demonstration.

changes:
Removal of the 'thumb' dependency, ability to regenerate sub-trees of
an album without losing album path info, many new options, ability to
clean unused thumbnails, better caption support, and XHTML output.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/album/

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     name: CBMS 0.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 21:17 EST
  license: free to use but restricted
 category: Web/Applications

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/cbms/download/

description:
The CBMS is a full featured client/billing management system designed
from the ground up to cater specifically to hosting providers. The
software is a PHP script package which uses mysql. Notable features
include automated invoicing, client search, multiple customizable
packages for clients, and client viewable real time invoice.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/cbms/

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     name: portfwd 0.17
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 21:16 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/Misc

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/portfwd/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/portfwd/download/

description:
portfwd is a small user-level daemon which forwards incoming TCP
connections and/or UDP packets to remote hosts. Multiple forwarders can
be specified in a flexible configuration file. There is support for FTP
forwarding and transparent proxy.

changes:
Support for transparent proxy has been added.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/portfwd/

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     name: WideStudio 1.20
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 21:14 EST
  license: MIT
 category: Development/Environments

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/widestudio/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/widestudio/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/widestudio/changelog/

description:
WideStudio is a multi-platform integrated development environment for
building windowed event-driven applications. It uses its own
independent class libraries. Automatic source code generation is
provided by the application builder, which also provides project
management and automatic makefile generation. WideStudio can be used to
develop applications on Linux, Solaris, and Windows.

changes:
This release fixes some initialization bugs and replaces the stub
libraries of the Windows version (old stub libraries were included).

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/widestudio/

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     name: wmessage 0.10
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 20:40 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Misc

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmessage/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmessage/download/

description:
wmessage is a message viewer similar to xmessage. It's written in
WINGs, and is intended to be used with the Window Maker window manager.

changes:
This release has been updated to compile with Window Maker 0.63.x.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmessage/

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     name: Emptytree Seedy 1.0.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 20:39 EST
  license: GPL
 category: GNOME/Sound

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/emptytree-seedy/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/emptytree-seedy/download/

description:
Emptytree Seedy is a digital audio ripping, encoding, and listening
system. It is designed to operate in a multi-host, automatic, and batch
manner to simplify the encoding of an entire CD collection.

changes:
First production release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/emptytree-seedy/

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     name: perdition 0.1.6
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 20:38 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/POP3

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perdition/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perdition/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perdition/changelog/

description:
Perdition allows users to connect to a content-free POP3 or IMAP4
server that will redirect them to their real server. This enables mail
retrieval for a domain to be split across multiple real POP servers on
a per user basis. It can also be used as a POP3 or IMAP4 proxy,
especially in firewall applications. It supports arbitrary
library-based map access to determine the server for a user. POSIX
Regular Expression, GDBM, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NIS, and LDAP libraries
ship with the distribution.

changes:
This release includes support for popmaps to be stored in LDAP and NIS.
The internals have been ported to use the Vanessa Libraries.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/perdition/

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     name: nget 0.13.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 20:37 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nget/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nget/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nget/changelog/

description:
nget is a command line NNTP file grabber. It automatically pieces
together multipart postings for easy retrieval, even substituting parts
from multiple servers. It handles disconnects gracefully, resuming
after the last part successfully downloaded, and caching of header data
for quick access.

changes:
This release uses writing to a tempfile then renaming for saving cache
and midinfo, makes some forgotten printfs into PDEBUGs, and uses
$(MAKE) instead of make for making subdirs.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/nget/

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     name: Window Maker 0.63.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 18:16 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Window Managers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/windowmaker/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/windowmaker/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/windowmaker/changelog/

description:
Window Maker is an X11 window manager designed to give additional
integration support to the GNUstep Desktop Environment. In every way
possible, it reproduces the elegant look and feel of the NeXTSTEP[tm]
GUI. It is fast, feature rich, easy to configure, and easy to use. In
addition, Window Maker works with GNOME and KDE, making it one of the
most useful and universal window managers available.

changes:
This release adds es and pt potfiles from conectiva/eliphas, item copy
to the WPrefs menu editor, locale selection code for the menu in
wmaker.inst, updated Hungarian potfiles, updated Danish translations,
an updated Galician potfile, an updated single-click patch, a
GNOME-panel-not-covering patch, and a decreased nice() value in
wmsetbg. It fixes the WindozeCycling config in WPrefs, a crash bug in
the WPrefs menu editor, a bug in built-in xpm support, circular raise
without WindozeCycling, and a compile problem with the SGI compiler.
Plugin support has been removed.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/windowmaker/

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     name: vsep 0.1.5
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 18:06 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Education

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsep/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsep/download/

description:
vsep (very simple education program) performs an IQ test like the ones
for getting a job and runs simple exams. You can practice math and
Spanish.

changes:
New games for practising simple addition, for kids and intelligence
test training.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsep/

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     name: SmsSend 2.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 18:03 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Communication

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smssend/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/smssend/changelog/

description:
SmsSend allows you to send free SMS to any GSM, connecting to Internet
sites using scripts. It is available both for Windows and Unix.

changes:
Some new and updated scripts, a fix for a bug if using the -q parameter
(can't find provider), and a fix for a bug in SkyWeb that may cause a
segmentation fault.

urgency:
high

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/smssend/

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     name: KFontinst 0.9.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:45 EST
  license: GPL
 category: KDE/System Software

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfontinst/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfontinst/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfontinst/changelog/

description:
KFontinst is a KDE-based TrueType and Type1 font installer. Its
features include: the abilty to preview fonts before installing,
generation of a Ghostscript Fontmap file (including aliases for
Qt-generated Postscript), StarOffice configuration, and generation of
AFM files for use with StarOffice & AbiWord.

changes:
A fix for a bug where the "Configure System" menu entry was always
disabled, extra support for Type1 fonts where t1lib has problems (such
as those supplied with Adaobe acrobat), fixes for multiple installing
of programs in the other/ directory and a bug where the user was
allowed to select (and subsequently install) fonts which could not be
loaded correctly, a new ability to enter a custom preview string, and
new Mandrake (i586 & i686) RPMs.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kfontinst/

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     name: Molasses 1.1.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:44 EST
  license: GPL
 category: GNOME/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/molasses/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/molasses/download/

description:
Molasses is a small and light sticky notes program for Gnome. Using it
you can stick useful (or otherwise) notes all over your desktop.

changes:
Various bugfixes, a new feature to insert the current date and time,
and various code cleanups.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/molasses/

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     name: Visual Molecular Dynamics 1.6
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:43 EST
  license: free to use but restricted
 category: X11/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/visualmoleculardynamics/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/visualmoleculardynamics/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/visualmoleculardynamics/changelog/

description:
VMD (Visual Molecular Dynamics) is designed for the visualization and
analysis of biological systems such as proteins, nucleic acids, lipid
bilayer assemblies, etc. It may be used to view more general molecules,
as VMD can read standard Protein Data Bank (PDB) files and display the
contained structure. VMD provides a wide variety of methods for
rendering and coloring a molecule: simple points and lines, CPK spheres
and cylinders, licorice bonds, backbone tubes and ribbons, cartoon
drawings, and others. VMD can be used to animate and analyze the
trajectory of a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. In particular, VMD
can act as a graphical front end for an external MD program by
displaying and animating a molecule undergoing simulation on a remote
computer.

changes:
Built-in Python scripting, ports for more Linux variants, better
rendering and material properties, more than 11 bug fixes, and
significant performance improvements in processing of Tcl commands. It
supports TCL-based collaborative VMD sessions and sequence based
selection and highlighting. The use of TclX was eliminated by adding
necessary functionality in VMD itself, making the program smaller and
easier to build, and mouse capture handling was improved in the Windows
version.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/visualmoleculardynamics/

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     name: sitecopy 0.10.12
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:41 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Tools

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitecopy/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitecopy/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitecopy/changelog/

description:
sitecopy is for easily maintaining remote web sites. The program will
upload files to the server which have changed locally, and delete files
from the server which have been removed locally, keeping the remote
site synchronized. Supports FTP and WebDAV.

changes:
Many bugfixes and a new Turkish translation.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sitecopy/

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     name: X/RTA 0.43
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:39 EST
  license: freely distributable
 category: X11/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xrta/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xrta/download/

description:
X/RTA, written in C and TCL/Tk with BLT, is a constant percentage
bandwidth real time analyzer for acoustical measurements. It uses
digital filters to do octave band and fractional octave band filtering
of the audio spectrum. X/RTA allows you to do 1/1, 1/3, and 1/6 octave
analysis with A and C-weighted SPL, save and recall data files, compare
data files and print results. Thus you can measure and tune a home
theater, commercial cinema, hi-fi, public address system, etc. Data may
also be gathered non-interactively from the command line.

changes:
An improved file compare, filter optimizations, new online help, and
more configuration options. X/RTA is also built using FreeWrap, so
TCL/Tk and BLT are no longer required.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/xrta/

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     name: X-SARte 2.01
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:38 EST
  license: Free Trial
 category: Console/Monitoring

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-sarte/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-sarte/download/

description:
X-SARte, or Systems Activity Reporter and Traffic Examiner gathers
system statistics and displays them on easy-to-read graphs. By using
X-SARte's easy-to-use Web front end, these graphs can be quickly
accessed with any Web browser that supports PNG images. Possible uses
for X-SARte include diagnosing system performance issues, keeping track
of system and network load, detecting possible cracking attempts,
performance tuning of your systems, finding rogue programs, finding
peak and low points of system usage, finding possible problems with
network configuration or hardware, and checking to see when upgrades
are needed.

changes:
Improvements to the overall interface of the program, changes to the
background color, moving key to the bottom of the graphs, and changing
the graph backgounds to pure white for better readability on 8-bit
displays.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/x-sarte/

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     name: Linux Progress Patch 0.2.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:37 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Kernel Patches

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lpp/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lpp/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/lpp/changelog/

description:
The Linux Progress Patch is a kernel patch which displays a full-screen
logo with a progress bar and some informational text while booting. It
hides the normal startup messages printed by the kernel, and is meant
for people that don't care about complicated and possibly confusing
boot messages.

changes:
Fixes for problems with multiprocessor machines and a 15bpp bug, an
updated patch for Linux 2.4.0, some additional info in the end of the
README, and new text window support.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/lpp/

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     name: DBA Companion 1.0.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:35 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Database

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbacompanion/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbacompanion/changelog/

description:
DBACompanion is a graphical administration tool for Oracle databases.
It features browsing the data dictionary, drilling down from one
information to related ones, generation of SQL scripts based on data
dictionary information, and customisation of all the SQL used by the
tool.

changes:
A fix for a bug that can make DBAComp crash (segmentation fault) when
SQL or Oracle errors occur.

urgency:
high

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/dbacompanion/

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     name: mboxgrep 0.5.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:35 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/eMail

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mboxgrep/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mboxgrep/download/

description:
mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox and displays messages
matching a basic, extended, or Perl-compatible regular expression. It
supports the following mail folder types: mbox, MH, nnmh, nnml, and
maildir.

changes:
Support for qmail-style maildir folders.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mboxgrep/

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     name: XMOTD 0.8
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:34 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Viewers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmessageoftheday/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmessageoftheday/download/

description:
XMOTD shows the message of the day and news items (files in a 'news'
directory) graphically or on the console using Perl::Tk. It supports
showing the news items using hyperlinks, and has a quiet mode to show
only changed xmotd and news items.

changes:
Initial public release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmessageoftheday/

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     name: Amacdys v0.211
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:34 EST
  license: freely distributable
 category: Console/Embedded

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/amacdys/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/amacdys/download/

description:
Amacdys is an MP3 player for CD boot records or bootable floppies. It
works without operating system or hard disk support on the machines.

changes:
Support for CD changes, fixes for test sounds, and UDF support
(untested).

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/amacdys/

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     name: Kannel 1.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:33 EST
  license: OpenSource
 category: Daemons/Misc

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kannel/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kannel/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kannel/changelog/

description:
Kannel is an Open Source WAP gateway that also works as an SMS gateway
for GSM networks. You can use it to provide content and services to
mobile phone users.

changes:
This is the first stable release, with no known bugs.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kannel/

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     name: Pymps 0.8.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:14 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymps/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymps/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymps/changelog/

description:
Pymps (Python Music Playing System) is a Web-based MP3 jukebox.
Features include automatic scanning of MP3 tracks and playlists.

changes:
Initial freshmeat announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pymps/

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     name: redir-httpd 0.0.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 17:08 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/HTTP

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/redir-httpd/download/

description:
redir-httpd is a small and (hopefully) secure HTTP daemon. It responds
to all input by issuing a redirection request, sending the client to
another Web site. It is intended for DSL and cable-modem users who
maintain a Web site that isn't hosted on the home computer, and who
want to ensure potential visitors get where they're going while keeping
the home PC safe from intruders.

changes:
Initial Freshmeat announcement.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/redir-httpd/

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     name: VCDGear 1.6d
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:54 EST
  license: Freeware
 category: Console/Video

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vcdgear2/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vcdgear2/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vcdgear2/changelog/

description:
VCDGear is a program designed to allow a user to extract MPEG streams
from CD images, convert VCD files to MPEG, and correct MPEG errors in a
single step. It is available for most commonly used operating systems.
People requiring transportation of their video materials will find
VCDGear useful in getting the video to play on their computer or Video
CD player.

changes:
Fixes for a lot of the problems associated with the mpg -> bin
conversion to improve playback compatibility in DVD players. Non-CDRWin
users should be able to correctly see the files in the right order.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/vcdgear2/

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     name: One-Wire Weather 0.63.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:53 EST
  license: free for non-commercial use
 category: X11/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/oww/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/oww/download/

description:
Oww (One-Wire Weather) is a client program for the Dallas Semiconductor
1-wire weather station, which monitors wind speed and direction,
outside temperature, and (optionally) rainfall. A graphical (animated)
weather station display is provided. CSV log files may be generated.
Oww supports uploading of weather data to Web servers at Dallas and The
Weather Underground.

changes:
A new output parser (which permits more flexibility in the generation
of log output and command lines), various bugfixes, and an improved
configure script.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/oww/

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     name: W3Perl 2.77
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:52 EST
  license: free to use but restricted
 category: Web/Tools

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/w3perl/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/w3perl/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/w3perl/changelog/

description:
W3Perl is a Web logfile analyser. All major Web stats are available
(referer, agent, session, error, etc.). Reports are fully customisable
via configuration files, and there is an administration interface
control available.

changes:
Better support for W3C IIS format, more daily stats available, easier
virtual host installation, and an improved administration interface.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/w3perl/

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     name: StatistX 0.2.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:51 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/statistx/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/statistx/download/

description:
StatistX is a GUI frontend for the statistics program statist.
Currently, it provides about 20 different statistical tests and
regressions. It is not intended to replace tools like R. Results are
presented either as text or Gnuplot graphs.

changes:
The new version is more stable, yet not stable in the strict sense. It
contains more toolbar buttons and shows a pop-up menu if you click with
the right-hand mouse button into a column. Labels for rows and columns
are also supported.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/statistx/

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     name: iptables 1.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:50 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptables/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptables/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptables/changelog/

description:
iptables is built on top of netfilter: the new packet alteration
framework for Linux 2.4. It is an enhancement on ipchains, and is used
to control packet filtering, Network Address Translation (masquerading,
portforwarding, transparent proxying), and special effects.

changes:
Updates for 2.4.0 final compatibility, various IPv6 fixes, libipq
manpages, ttl match enhancements, BALANCE target for load balancing,
IPv6 mark match and MARK target, eggdrop bot connection tracking, and
big-endian alignment fixes.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/iptables/

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     name: KCAP 2.0B1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:50 EST
  license: OpenSource
 category: Web/Administration

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kcap/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/kcap/download/

description:
KCAP is Web-based software that helps monitor and manage a Beowulf
cluster. This software can monitor and display system resources
interactively. Moreover, KCAP provides many features that helps both
system administrators and users use the system effectively. KCAP is an
additional part to SCMS cluster management system.

changes:
A new, friendly user interface, new system configuration, a new feature
about User status section, better real-time section in graph mode, and
new features such as Disk, Overall, and KCAP Statistic (which will plot
the history graph of all hardware).

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/kcap/

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     name: sawfish 0.35
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:47 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Window Managers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sawfish/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sawfish/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sawfish/changelog/

description:
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:
Support for mouse buttons 6 and 7, much better support for KDE2
(including supporting the final version of the new GNOME/KDE window
manager hints by default), and many other minor improvements and
bugfixes.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/sawfish/

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     name: Hotkeys 0.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:46 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Utilities

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hotkeys/download/

description:
The HotKeys daemon listens for the "special" hotkeys that you won't
normally use on your Internet/Multimedia keyboards. The buttons perform
their intended behavior, such as volume up and down, mute the speaker,
or launch applications. Currently only the Acer wireless keyboard is
supported.

changes:
MS Internet keyboard and Memorex MX3000 support, program launching
support, and experimental APM suspend and standby mode.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hotkeys/

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     name: LDAP Administration Super Tool 0.4-beta
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:44 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Administration

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/last/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/last/download/

description:
LAST (LDAP Administration Super Tool) is a set of object-oriented Perl
CGI scripts that allows you to specify the schema of objects in your
directory, then add/modify/delete/search them. It also allows you to do
things like input validation, input transformation, and setting default
values for fields.

changes:
Addition of a configuration language for creating the LdapObject Perl
modules.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/last/

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     name: Gtk Netware Client 0.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:44 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtknw/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtknw/download/

description:
Gtk Netware Client is a GTK-based frontend to the ncpfs tools supplied
with all Linux distributions. It allows easy mounting of file shares
within the network enviroment.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtknw/

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     name: Radar 0.9 beta 1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:44 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Administration

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/radar/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/radar/download/

description:
Radar is a Web-based administrator for Tomcat. It allows easy
administration of contexts, Web applications, and server settings.
Radar is packaged as a WAR file for easy installation.

changes:
Support for Tomcat 3.2.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/radar/

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     name: GOFAI-WMT 0.9.10
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:41 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: KDE/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gofai-wmt/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gofai-wmt/download/

description:
Gofai-wmt (good old fashioned artificial intelligence with a modern
twist) is an application to organize your free format information into
a semantic network structure. It is similar in spirit to Everything or
TheBrain from the Windows world, and allows a fuzzy querying by simply
dragging relevant nodes into the "context zone".

changes:
This is the first beta version. It contains many bugfixes as well as a
number of new features: a new, XML-based file format, it can be
embedded in Konqueror, and it can control Konqueror or Netscape to
browse (serving as an intelligent bookmark manager).

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gofai-wmt/

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     name: CheckInstall 1.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:41 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Packaging

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/changelog/

description:
CheckInstall keeps track of all files installed by a "make install" or
equivalent, creates a Slackware package with those files and adds it to
the installed packages database, allowing for easy package removal or
distribution.

changes:
Fixes for bugs which prevented symlinks to be added to the package and
detection of files created inside scripts run by child shells, and
other fixes and new features.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/checkinstall/

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     name: XMMS-Solaris 0.6.4
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 15:40 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/MP3

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-solaris/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-solaris/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-solaris/changelog/

description:
XMMS-Solaris is a plugin to XMMS that allows the output to be played
through the Solaris audio device. It works on both Sparc and x86
hardware.

changes:
A fix for playback under SB PCI drivers; you only need this if you are
using those drivers.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmms-solaris/

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     name: PLWM 2.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 11:34 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Window Managers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plwm/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plwm/download/

description:
PLWM (The Pointless Window Manager) is a highly modularised window
manager written in Python. It has no configuration files; instead, you
combine Python classes to make the perfect window manager for yourself.
This is not a window manager for non-programmers. The feature list
includes point-to-focus and sloppy-focus, outline move, resizing,
deiconifying, views (extremely powerful workspaces), and multihead
support. PLWM is controlled completely from the keyboard.

changes:
The old plxlib module has been replaced by the Python X Library. PLWM
is now written entirerly in Python, and should run on any platform with
a Python intepreter.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/plwm/

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     name: MySQL Import 1.5.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 11:06 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Database

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysqlimport/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysqlimport/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysqlimport/changelog/

description:
The MySQL Import package consists of an HTML and a CGI script that
allow people to import files into MySQL databases via the Web. Its main
features are ease of use, allowing the user to specify arbitrary field
and line delimiters, and automatic creation of new databases and tables
on the fly.

changes:
This release has more intuitive CSV support and easier access to help.
The "replace data" feature has been fixed, as well as a few minor bugs.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysqlimport/

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     name: Perlmode 0.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 11:04 EST
  license: Artistic
 category: Console/Editors

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlmode/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlmode/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlmode/changelog/

description:
perlmode is a mode for Editing perl files in jed. It does keyword
highlighting, proper indenting, and more.

changes:
This release features many fixes and updates, mostly relating to
keywords and indent behavior.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlmode/

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     name: rp-pppoe 2.6
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 11:04 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rp-pppoe/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rp-pppoe/download/

description:
rp-pppoe is a user-mode PPPoE client and server suite for Linux,
NetBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X Beta. It is fully RFC-compliant and
supports cookies, relay-IDs, and multiple simultaneous PPPoE discovery
phases. It is cleanly coded and fairly efficient.

changes:
Compilation problems on Caldera and Slackware have been fixed. The
Solaris/x86 port now works. There are also minor shell script updates
and fixes.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/rp-pppoe/

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     name: codeBreak 1.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 11:03 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Games

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/codebreak/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/codebreak/download/

description:
codeBreak is a clone of Pressman's Master Mind boardgame written in C++
with the SDL and SDL_image libraries. All the graphics were generated
with PovRay and edited with Gimp. The game pieces are meant to resemble
soapstone objects.

changes:
The "I can't quit the game" problem has been fixed, and the online help
has been cleaned up a little.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/codebreak/

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     name: Viewmol 2.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 11:02 EST
  license: free for non-commercial use
 category: X11/Scientific Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viewmol/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/viewmol/download/

description:
Viewmol is a program for building and editing molecules as well as for
the visualization of outputs from quantum chemical and molecular
mechanics programs. Currently supported are Gaussian 9x, Gamess,
Discover, DMol/DSolid/DMol3, Gulp, Mopac, Turbomole, and PDB files.
Properties visualized include geometry (with various drawing modes),
vibration (animated or with arrows), optimization history/MD
trajectories, MO energy level diagram, MOs, basis functions, and
electron density. Drawings can be saved as TIFF, HPGL, Postscript, and
input files for Rayshade. Viewmol has an embedded Python interpreter
for automation. The program is language independent and currently
"speaks" English, French, German, Russian, or Spanish.

changes:
This release includes an embedded Python interpreter, calculation of
thermodynamic properties for molecules and reactions between them,
display of Miller planes for solids, reworked moving of molecules (no
more molecule fixed coordinate system), changes to the OpenGL/X Windows
integration, a lot of bug fixes, and an input filter for Gamess. The
user interface has been tranlated into Spanish.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/viewmol/

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     name: Python X Library 0.7
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:59 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Python Modules

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pythonxlibrary/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pythonxlibrary/download/

description:
The Python X Library is an object-oriented library for writing XWindows
client applications. It supports all of X11R6, as well as resource
databases and the ICCCM protocol.

changes:
The library didn't work on 64-bit platforms, thanks to the ad-hoc
nature of Python's struct and array modules. A work-around has been
implemented. The library is much faster after some optimizations. A
keymap cache has been implented, as well as ICCCM support.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pythonxlibrary/

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     name: AutoConvert 0.3.8
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:58 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Text Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoconvert/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoconvert/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoconvert/changelog/

description:
AutoConvert is an intelligent Chinese Encoding converter. It uses
built-in functions to judge the type of the input file's Chinese
Encoding (such as GB/Big5/HZ), then converts the input file to any type
of Chinese Encoding you want. You can use autoconvert to automatically
convert incoming e-mail messages. It can also optionally handle the
UNI/UTF7/UTF8 encoding.

changes:
A bug in the unicode fuctions has been fixed.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/autoconvert/

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     name: ether2dns 1.0pl1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:57 EST
  license: OpenSource
 category: Console/Networking

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ether2dns/download/

description:
ether2dns converts a list of hostname-to-ethernet MAC addresses into
DNS AAAA (and reverse) records for IPv6, assuming "stateless address
auto-configuration".

changes:
This patch makes the debug mode (dumping core on syntax errors if -v is
given) conditionally compiled on -DEBUGLEVEL. Also, some debug output
is better formatted.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ether2dns/

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     name: MIX Development Kit 0.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:57 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Emulators

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mdk/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mdk/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mdk/changelog/

description:
MDK stands for MIX Development Kit and provides tools for developing
and executing, in a MIX virtual machine, MIXAL programs. The MIX is
Donald Knuth's mythical computer, described in the first volume of The
Art of Computer Programming, which is programmed using MIXAL, the MIX
assembly language. MDK includes a MIXAL assembler (mixasm) and a MIX
virtual machine (mixvm) with a command line interface.

changes:
This release adds the following new functionalities: execution time
statistics, tracing of instructions as they are executed, a new mixvm
command, w2d, which computes the decimal value of a MIX word given as a
series of bytes (e.g. - 01 00 34 32 22), the ability to define symbols
at the mixvm prompt with the new command ssym, a new mixvm command,
weval, which allows the evaluation of MIXAL w-expressions, and correct
evaluation of expressions containing strings of successive '*'. It also
includes the usual batch of bug fixes.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mdk/

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     name: Hissim 2.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:18 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Games

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hissim/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hissim/download/

description:
Hissim is a history generator for WorldForge project. It uses
simulation to create communities of creatures with realistic
relationships and backgrounds. It's distributed with a threaded Tk
interface and a simple globe viewer. Hissim can generate GEDCOM so you
can edit its output with genealogy programs.

changes:
The creatures can now adopt children that have no parents. Events can
have several participants. Hissim is now more flexible to configure.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hissim/

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     name: SubNetwork Explorer 0.0.3BETA1-test1-prerelease
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:14 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/subnetworkexplorer/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/subnetworkexplorer/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/subnetworkexplorer/changelog/

description:
SubNetwork Explorer is a network analyzer tool that scans the subnets
of a network for anonymous FTP, CUPS, Netbios, and SunRPC ports. It
uses 'fork()' to scan all of the subnets at the same time.

changes:
connect_scanner::scan_port(...) has been fixed, as well as a memory
hogging bug. Half-connection scan (still broken) has been added, as
well as web, mail, and CUPS server scans. Everything has been rewritten
in C++, and the code has been improved and undergone a major cleanup.
Also added are single host scanning and more complete Sun RPC
detection.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/subnetworkexplorer/

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     name: Pronto! 2.2.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:05 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/eMail

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pronto!/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pronto!/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pronto!/changelog/

description:
Pronto! is a full-featured mail client written in Perl/GTK+, and a
continuation of the development of CSCMail project in Perl. It supports
multiple POP3/maildir and mbox accounts, imports/exports MBOX, and has
full search features and VFolders, sortable filters, threaded message
list, a nested folder list, drag and drop, and inbound and outbound
attachments.

changes:
Drag and Drop support between the Message List and the Folder Tree has
been added.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pronto!/

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     name: JSX 0.7.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:04 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Java Packages

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/download/

description:
Java Serialization to XML (JSX) is a two-way bridge between XML and
Java. It achieves this mapping by data binding between objects and XML
with reflection, to create XML tags and attributes from classnames and
field names. You don't need to write parsing code; you don't need to
change your classes. So far, it handles circular references, arrays of
arrays, private fields, and classes without a no-arg constructor. It
does not yet handle Collections, or other classes implementing their
own serialization internally. JSX is lightweight.

changes:
The missing no-arg constructor for XMLDeserialize, which defaults to
System.in, has been reinstated.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/jsx/

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     name: PlusPlus.pm 1.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:03 EST
  license: Artistic & GPL
 category: Development/Perl Modules

 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/plusplus.pm/download/

description:
PlusPlus is a transparent syntactical add-on providing some
Delphi/VB/Java-like extensions to Perl5, like a "with" statement, class
definitions, and more.

changes:
Support for OO-syntax has been added.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/plusplus.pm/

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     name: PHPWidgets! 0.94 PR #0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:03 EST
  license: QPL
 category: Development/PHP Classes

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwidgets!/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwidgets!/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwidgets!/changelog/

description:
PHPWidgets! is a tool for building dynamic webpages out of HTML and PHP
code snippets. It provides a means of building pages using reusable
elements. It can be set up to allow users to customise their accounts.

changes:
This Preview Release of the upcoming PHPWidgets! 0.94 includes all of
the source for the new demo site which launched today. The site
features the ability to add,remove,move, and rank widgets on the page
and is compatible with Netscape 4, Netscape 6, and Internet Explorer
5.5

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwidgets!/

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     name: ferm 0.0.12
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:01 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Firewall and Security

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/download/

description:
ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It
allows one to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and
chains, thus enabling the firewall administrator to spend more time on
developing good rules, and less time on the proper implementation of
those rules. These rules will be executed by the preferred kernel
interface, such as ipchains and iptables, and in one pass. Firewall
rules can also be split into different files and loaded at will.

changes:
Several critical bugs present in 0.0.11 have been fixed.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/ferm/

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     name: tcshrc 0.5
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 10:01 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Shells

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/.tcshrc/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/.tcshrc/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/.tcshrc/changelog/

description:
The tcshrc package provides a well-organised set of configuration files
that make full use of the advanced and often unknown features of the
tcsh shell. Features used are a comprehensive prompt setting, advanced
"set"s and "alias"es, bindkey support for the function keys, and
intelligent completion. A Makefile is included for a safe installation
procedure.

changes:
The existing help files have been converted into .sgml format, making
PDF/PS/DVI/HTML help available. F1 through F5 now work under X. F1 now
shows help using "whatis" for the current command.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/.tcshrc/

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     name: mpatrol 1.3.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 09:58 EST
  license: LGPL
 category: Development/Debugging

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpatrol/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpatrol/download/

description:
mpatrol is a link library that attempts to diagnose run-time errors
that are caused by the wrong use of dynamically allocated memory,
including writing to free memory and memory leaks. Along with providing
a comprehensive and configurable log of all dynamic memory operations
(such as malloc(), operator new, etc.) that occurred during the
lifetime of a program, the mpatrol library performs extensive checking
to detect any misuse of dynamically allocated memory and has support
for both memory allocation profiling and tracing. A wide variety of
library settings can also be changed at run-time via an environment
variable, thus removing the need to recompile or relink in order to
change the library's behaviour.

changes:
Support for the -fcheck-memory-usage option of the GNU compiler has
been added, as well as the hexwords command to extract any words from a
dictionary file that can be written as hexadecimal numbers. The mpsym
command can now make use of perl if it is installed rather than using
the slower method of calling awk and sed. The library now allocates
internal memory with mmap() by default, and with sbrk() when the
USEMMAP option is used, but only if the mmap() system call is
supported. The MP_USE_ATEXIT feature macro has been added to force the
mpatrol library to be registered with atexit() instead of using
alternative methods to automatically terminate the library, if they
exist. Two new tests demonstrating the support for -fcheck-memory-usage
have also been added.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpatrol/

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     name: GnoClip 0.1b4
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 09:57 EST
  license: GPL
 category: GNOME/Misc

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnoclip/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnoclip/download/

description:
Gnoclip is a desktop swicher for GNOME, similar to the Window Maker
clip. It has arrows to switch to previous/next workspace, a menu with
all workspaces, and support for workspace names in Sawfish.

changes:
Many bugs have been fixed. This release has a new properties window,
and the ability to display an info window with the workspace name when
you switch workspaces (like in WindowMaker.)

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnoclip/

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     name: JACL Adventure Creation Language 1.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 09:53 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Development

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webjacl/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/webjacl/download/

description:
JACL is an interpreted language for creating Web-based adventure games.
JACL games run on a FastCGI-enabled Apache server. As all execution
takes place on the server, users require nothing more than a plain Web
browser to play.

changes:
Several features have been added to aid debugging, documentation has
been edited and updated (this includes the addition of several vital
installation steps that were previously missing, sorry about that), the
FastCGI Apache module, FastCGI Development Kit and CGIHTML libraries
required to install and recompile the JACL interpreter are now included
in the tar file, all tags output by the interpreter and library now
adhere to the WML specification, and the save/ restore game function
has been fixed.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/webjacl/

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     name: FK 0.5
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 09:52 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Firewall and Security

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fk/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/fk/download/

description:
fk is an application proxy suite designed for building IP gateways.
Ultimately, the intent is to provide a free software replacement for
the TIS firewall toolkit.

changes:
A semantic weakness in the ACL tools and some embarassing bugs in the
ftp proxy have been fixed. Transfer type and port restrictions for the
ftp proxy have been implemented (SIZE really works now). This release
also features some initial correctness auditing and removal of
unexpected aborts.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/fk/

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     name: Panda PDF Generator 0.3.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:17 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/panda/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/panda/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/panda/changelog/

description:
The Panda PDF Generator is intended to make PDFs on the fly for the
Web, but may be used to generate any PDF document you want.

changes:
Problems with the installer have been fixed, which related to man pages
and include files.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/panda/

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     name: PHP StatIt 2.0b
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:10 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Tools

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/statit/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/statit/download/

description:
StatIt is a PHP script which keeps track of visitor counts and other
visitor information such as system, browser, referal domains, screen
resolution, color, etc. A Web-based statistics page is available. MySQL
is not needed.

changes:
fgetcsv has been replaced with fgets for full PHP3 compliance. A bugfix
with last.log, as in some cases it will be greater than 20 lines.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/statit/

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     name: Perlipq 1.20
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:09 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Perl Modules

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlipq/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlipq/download/

description:
Perlipq is a Perl extension to Linux iptables userspace queueing via
libipq. Packets may be selected from the stack via the iptables QUEUE
target and passed to userspace. Perlipq allows these packets to be
manipulated in Perl and passed back to the stack.

changes:
Updated for iptables 1.2.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/perlipq/

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     name: authsrvpassword.pl 1.01
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:09 EST
  license: Freeware
 category: Console/Firewall and Security

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/authsrvpassword.pl/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/authsrvpassword.pl/download/

description:
authsrvpassword.pl is a cgi type application that allows users to
change their TIS Firewall Toolkit Or Gauntlet firewall Authsrv
passwords using a browser.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/authsrvpassword.pl/

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     name: Echomine Muse Communications API 0.4b1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:09 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Java Packages

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/echominemuse/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/echominemuse/download/

description:
Echomine Muse API is a Java API with the goal of integrating all
network-collaboration services into one. The API will give an
easy-to-use interface that allows you to log on to multiple services
(ie. ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, IRC, Napster, Gnutella, Jabber).
There will be a client GUI Framework API to combine the use of all
these service under one easy-to-access API so that you can write GUI
client with much less effort.

changes:
A bug in the network API has been fixed. Hotlist and User files
browsing support has been added to the Napster Module. File Transfer
now supports remote queuing. As of this release, the napster protocol
specification has been implemented for mostly everything except the
User-management functions and the chatting services. Gnutella protocol
development has also commenced.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/echominemuse/

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     name: wmmenu 0.4
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:08 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Window Maker Applets

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmmenu/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmmenu/download/

description:
wmmenu is a "dock application" for Windowmaker that provides a button
bar to launch applications from. The bar opens automatically when the
mouse enters the button. Multiple instances of the program can run at
the same time; each one provides a menu that it reads from a separate
file, so you can have as many different menus as you want.

changes:
As requested by many users, automatic menu reloading has been
implemented. Additionally the program does not terminate when a
specified icon is not found, but instead uses a default internal icon.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/wmmenu/

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     name: knetfilter 2.0.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:07 EST
  license: GPL
 category: KDE/Networking

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/knetfilter/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/knetfilter/download/

description:
Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables. It is used with Linux 2.4 to
manage the functionality of netfilter. Knetfilter lets you set up most
common firewall configurations, as well as perform more sophisticated
management of a complex firewall. It is also possible to use an
integrated interface to tcpdump and nmap.

changes:
A noisy bug in the save function has been eliminated. A simple
interface to nmap has been included. It is very slow because of udp
port scan. There have been some cosmetic updates to allow knetfilter to
also compile on red hat systems.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/knetfilter/

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     name: gmmusic 0.3.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:06 EST
  license: GPL
 category: GNOME/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmmusic/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmmusic/download/

description:
gmmusic is a GNOME database frontend for PostgreSQL to handle music
collections, consisting of songs on CDs, ROMs, LPs, Singles, audio and
video tapes. Besides managing data, it can also print nice CD trays for
CDs and ROMs.

changes:
This is a "feature complete" release. All outstanding important
functions are implemented and lots of (visual and bug-)fixes were made.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gmmusic/

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     name: mp3stream 1.1.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:06 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3stream/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3stream/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3stream/changelog/

description:
MP3stream is a multi-threaded C library for streaming MP3 data to a
SHOUTcast or Icecast server. It is intended to be an alternative to
libshout. The distribution also contains a Python module.

changes:
A Python wrapper module, more hooks, and new APIs to set/retrieve them
have been added. The mp3stream_send() api has been changed to no longer
block. Various changes and fixes to the error codes, default settings,
and other miscellaneous parts have been included.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3stream/

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     name: Nasduck 1.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:05 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/Utilities

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nasduck/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nasduck/download/

description:
Nasduck is a utility that lets you to read the latest NASDAQ quotes
directly on your desktop. It is fast, soft, good-looking and
user-friendly. It works on almost every unix-like system and win32.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/nasduck/

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     name: Badge 0.1
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 06:04 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/badge/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/badge/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/badge/changelog/

description:
Badge allows users to display a simple graphical "badge" that signifies
membership with a particular group or project in a weblog signature. It
is the digital analogue of an "I Voted" sticker, or the countless other
bumper stickers given out by non-profit groups. Badge is a reasonably
secure system for adding images to weblog singatures in a controlled
way. IMG tags are generated dynamically by the weblog software, and
since IMG tags are not normally allowed in weblog singatures, this
should be pretty hard to forge. The Badge "server" generates the badge
image on the fly.

changes:
Initial release.

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/badge/

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     name: VSH 1.11
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:58 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/File Managers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsh/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsh/download/

description:
VSH is a configurable file manager for UN*X systems. It is coded in
Perl, using the Perl/Tk module.

changes:
The old "Copy" and "Move/Rename" options have been removed in favour of
"Cut", "Copy", "Paste", and "Paste as..." options under Edit. The
clipboard function now work like a stack. Cut or Copy place a file onto
the stack, and Paste, or Paste as pop it back off.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/vsh/

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     name: Arguments 2.0 (Beta)
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:57 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Development/Libraries

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arguments/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arguments/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/arguments/changelog/

description:
Arguments is a small C++ class for command-line argument processing. It
can automatically extract values from parameters sent to your program.
It allows for arguments of most styles, for example: --option:val,
--option=val, --option val, -flag, /flag, and --flag, flag.

changes:
Arguments 2.0 provides simplified command-line argument processing in
C++. This version changes the programming interface significantly: the
get[type]ValueOf functions have been replaced with a generic get()
function that allows default values and argument aliases. Other aspects
of the interface and implementation have also been changed, for an
overall easier to use class.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/arguments/

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     name: RPGD 1.6
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:57 EST
  license: free for non-commercial use
 category: Daemons/MUD

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpgd/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpgd/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpgd/changelog/

description:
RPGD is The Role-Playing Game Daemon which allows telnet users to
explore a medieval fantasy world of monsters, spells, fortune and
glory. It is a Hack & Slash style of play governed by BBS-style access.

changes:
The New User registration has been changed to be more Internet
friendly. The inclusion of an e-mail address field now auto-validates
the account. This makes sendmail a prerequisite. An extensive rewrite
of rpgweb has provided numerous features. An enchanted map feature in
the dungeon has been added. GTK+ sysop has been updated and the cleanup
routines fixed.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpgd/

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     name: Big Brother 1.6d
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:53 EST
  license: free to use but restricted
 category: Console/Monitoring

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bigbrother/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bigbrother/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bigbrother/changelog/

description:
Big Brother is a combination of monitoring methods. Unlike SNMP where
information is just collected and devices polled, Big Brother is
designed in such a way that each local system broadcasts its own
information to a central location. Simultaneously, Big Brother also
polls all networked systems from a central location. This creates a
highly efficient and redundant method for proactive network monitoring.

changes:
Bug fixes have been added to the notification feature. Messages and
syslog test now time out, so there is no need to edit log files to
reset color.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bigbrother/

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     name: Vide 0.4
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:52 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/File Managers

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vide/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/vide/download/

description:
Vide is a file manager with vi key bindings. If you use vi, Vide
enables you to have complete keyboard control over your files without
having to learn a new set of commands.

changes:
A new Gnome interface has been added.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/vide/

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     name: bplog 0.5.3
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:51 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bplog/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bplog/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/bplog/changelog/

description:
bplog is a minimal news/weblog system using PHP, MySQL, and Apache.

changes:
User authentication is now implemented.

urgency:
high

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/bplog/

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     name: xine 0.3.4
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:51 EST
  license: GPL
 category: X11/TV and Video

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xine/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/xine/download/

description:
xine is a free video player which plays mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video, DVDs
(unlocked/unencrypted only), video CDs and AVI files (using Win32
codecs) with synchronized audio and video, and optionally fullscreen
using the Xv extensions in Xfree86 4.x.

changes:
The 0.3.4 release of xine features win32 video codec (divx) support,
improved debian packages, gui bugfixes, build improvements on k6/k7
cpus,and minor speedups via new compiler flags and 3Dnow! support.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/xine/

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     name: Epona 1.3.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:51 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/IRC

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epona/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epona/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/epona/changelog/

description:
Epona is a set of IRC services based on Andy Church's IRC services. It
introduces several bug fixes and improvements. It works with
DreamForge, Bahamut, and Unreal IRCds. It also has an original service
(BotServ) which allows people to have a bot on their channel, and there
are some other services databases converters included.

changes:
A new nickname linking system, more support for latest Bahamut features
(SGLINE/SZLINE), initial support for the upcoming Ultimate 3.0, a
database converter for ircservices 4.4, and many little bugfixes and
improvements have been added.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/epona/

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     name: PHPwebmail 2.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:50 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Web/Applications

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebmail/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebmail/download/

description:
PHPwebmail is a Web-based IMAP and SMTP mail client. Often it is not
possible to make outside mail connections from networks behind strict
firewalls, or to configure a regular mail client (for example in an
Internet cafe). With PHPwebmail a mail client only needs a WWW
connection to the mailserver. Specifically it only needs a connection
to the webserver hosting PHPwebmail. Most of the times the Web and mail
server will be the same machine but PHPwebmail can connect to other
mailservers as well as long as an IMAP connection between these two
machines is allowed.

changes:
New features in PHPwebmail include an improved frame layout, a single
window display, multiple recipients, CC, BCC, default help message,
PHP4 session support, and a central config file (mail.inc).
Furthermore, attachments work (both for sending and receiving), HTML
formatted mail is displayed nicely, create, delete and rename IMAP mail
folders have been added, messages can be moved between IMAP mail
folders, all co recipients ("To" and "CC") are shown, and the icons
have been improved.

urgency:
medium

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpwebmail/

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     name: nano 0.9.25
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:47 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Editors

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nano/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nano/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/nano/changelog/

description:
nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced
clone of the Pico text editor.

changes:
This release contains a new mini file browser for writing and inserting
files, slightly tweaked keypad handlers and a fix for a few rare
segfaults in tab completion.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/nano/

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     name: game control program 1.1.0
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:47 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Daemons/Misc

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcp/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcp/download/
changelog: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcp/changelog/

description:
game control program helps you administrate gameservers (it's written
for Q1 and Q3, but works for others). It is highly modular and
therefore extensible. With the current modules, it can start/stop
servers, create and rotate logfiles, allow remote administration via
telnet, and kick misbehaving players automagically (according to a rule
set).

changes:
The DataBus system is currently a work in progress and will be extended
in the next releases. Merged / renamed some modules, introduced a
clearer package structure. New module: CommandScheduler - allows
sending of commands to the server at specified times (like cron). This
allows servers which are started at specified times and are shutdown at
another time.The internal structure for the DataBus system has been
changed, introducing a component descriptor to describe all components
and provide for a graphical configuration tool. Components can now be
referenced by name, not only by class. Better handling is included for
startup dependencies (startup order, pre- and postStartup methods). The
SataBus system is currently a work in progress and will be extended in
the next releases. Some modules have been renamed, giving a clearer
package structure. The new module CommandScheduler allows sending
commands to the server at specified times (like cron). This allows
servers which are started at specified times and are shutdown at
another time.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/gcp/

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     name: Hackers 1.0.2
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 05:44 EST
  license: GPL
 category: Console/Games

 homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hackers/homepage/
 download: http://freshmeat.net/projects/hackers/download/

description:
Hackers lets you keep a list of NetHack characters and switch between
them easily. It remembers name, race, role, and alignment, as well as
favored pet type, cat, dog, horse name, and favorite fruit. Hackers
also has a new character creation system that displays descriptions of
each role and race.

changes:
This version provides code cleanups, fixes for typos, and a real
Makefile to replace the shell script.

urgency:
low

|> http://freshmeat.net/projects/hackers/

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  subject: Linux 2.4.0-ac4
posted on: Jan 08th 2001, 02:54 EST
 category: Kernel

body:
Linux 2.4.0-ac4 has been released. It's available from kernel.org
and mirrors. Alan's release notes have been attached to this announcement.

o
|> http://freshmeat.net/news/2001/01/08/978940499.html

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