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::: R E L E A S E H E A D L I N E S (24) :::

[001] - 2-Disk X window embedded Linux 2.0.0
[002] - BitTorrent Queue Manager 0.1.1
[003] - Burr Tools 0.1.9
[004] - C++ expression template matrix library 0.6.1
[005] - ClamTk 2.18
[006] - DBMAIL 2.1.6 (Development)
[007] - dhcp-helper 0.6
[008] - Dnsmasq 2.31
[009] - EtherApe 0.9.5
[010] - FUDforum 2.7.5RC1 (Development)
[011] - GDAL 1.3.2
[012] - Gnofract 4D 2.14
[013] - GNUnet 0.7.0d
[014] - gtk-im-vi 0.1.1
[015] - mesh2hmap 0.3.1
[016] - Open Administration for Schools 1.98
[017] - pmpkg 2006-05-06
[018] - PowerDNS Recursor 3.1-pre1
[019] - ShaniXmlParser 1.3.7
[020] - sync2cd 1.1
[021] - TripleA 0.8.2.1
[022] - TunaPie 0.9.6 (Stable)
[023] - ulxmlrpcpp 1.5.2
[024] - Z-machine Preservation Project 0.90

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[001] - 2-Disk X window embedded Linux 2.0.0
  by mungkie (http://freshmeat.net/users/mungkie/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 12:06

Desktop Environment
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

About: 2-Disk X window embedded Linux is a tiny net-centric Linux that
aims at portable secure remote system usage. It contains many utilities
including: X Windows, vncviewer, rdesktop, a Web browser, a file manager,
a text editor, a terminal, a window manager, a menu system, a dialog
system, X scripting facilities, and many others. It aims to work from 1 or
2 floppy disks in any remote location.

Changes: Script cleanups were done to the build system. Bugs were fixed
concerning HTTPS access with the Mweb browser.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

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

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[002] - BitTorrent Queue Manager 0.1.1
  by Sugree Phatanapherom (http://freshmeat.net/users/xgie/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:17

Communications :: File Sharing
Internet
System :: Clustering/Distributed Networks

About: BitTorrent Queue Manager is a console-based BitTorrent client
running on top of BitTornado that provides built-in queue management
functions. It also provides a remote interface compatible with ABC for
Web-based control. Furthermore, peer information can be queried,
including country and network names, and a built-in crawler can gather
new torrents on specified trackers or catalog sites for downloading
automatically.

Changes: This version focuses on fixing race conditions, handling errors,
and integrating with an external frontend. There is one change that is
highly visible to users: the "resume" command now just changes any state
of a given ID to "waiting" for the next scheduling. If you want to force
it to run immediately, you have to use option "-f". Two commands were
introduced in this version: du (disk usage) and df (disk free). These
commands are to help integration with an external frontend with quota
support.

License: Python License

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

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[003] - Burr Tools 0.1.9
  by Andreas Röver (http://freshmeat.net/users/roever/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:21

Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics

About: Burr Tools is a set of programs for solving a certain kind of
puzzle, namely puzzles that are made out of square or cube-shaped units
and whose solution also contains only rectangular aligned pieces. The
program finds assemblies for the puzzle and also animates how you have to
assemble it.

Changes: Disassembler improvements include better move generation, merging
when x pieces move the same amount in the same direction, and unmerging
when they move a different amount. Lots of interface changes and many new
functions were added to ease the drawing of puzzles. Huge speed
improvements were made for different kinds of puzzles. The ability to
export images of shapes, problems, or solutions with complete assembly was
added. Bugs were removed.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[004] - C++ expression template matrix library 0.6.1
  by Ricky Lung Man Tat (http://freshmeat.net/users/mtlung/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:24

Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics
Software Development :: Libraries
System :: Benchmark

About: exmat is a generic C++ matrix library using expression template and
metaprogramming to provide specialized code for various kind of matrix
operations.

Changes: A cross product bug was fixed. Determinant, minor view, cofactor
view, and adjoint view were added for matrix. Support for column major
memory layout was added. A helper macro was added for deriving ET enabled
sub-class from exmat::Mat easily. An array version was added for
approximated math.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[005] - ClamTk 2.18
  by phenom (http://freshmeat.net/users/phen0m/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 12:13

About: ClamTk is a GUI frontend for ClamAV. It is designed to be a
lightweight, easy-to-use, point-and-click virus scanner.

Changes: This release adds additional translation support (fr, pl, pt,
pt_BR), fixes some column sizing issues in the display, and includes some
other minor tweaks.

License: Perl License

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

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[006] - DBMAIL 2.1.6 (Development)
  by Aaron Stone (http://freshmeat.net/users/SodaBrew/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:52

Communications :: Email
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office
Communications :: Email :: Post-Office :: IMAP

About: The DBMAIL package replaces the normal UNIX mailing system. All
email and user data is stored in a database. You can create an unlimited
number of email accounts, which can be checked using the POP3 or IMAP
protocol. Users can maintain their own set of email addresses. It is more
scalable, more secure, and faster than traditional mail systems. DBMAIL
has storage drivers for PostgreSQL and MySQL, and it has authentication
drivers for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and LDAP.

Changes: Several problems were uncovered in the IMAP envelope code which
have now been fixed. Daemons now detach from the console and redirect
errors to separate logfiles. Unix sockets are now unlinked on termination.
The internal_date field is not set correctly when importing mbox mailboxes.
Zombies are reaped when forking fails. Problems with folder listing on
Solaris were fixed. Documentation has been updated and rewritten using
AsciiDoc. Many bugfixes, cleanups, and speedups were done.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[007] - dhcp-helper 0.6
  by Simon Kelley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simonkelley/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 12:07

Internet

About: dhcp-helper is a DHCP relay agent. It allows the use of DHCP across
multiple subnets. This implementation is simple, small, and easy to
configure.

Changes: This release add a workaround for a bug in some Linux kernels
which have "Classical IP over ATM" enabled.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/dhcp-helper/

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[008] - Dnsmasq 2.31
  by Simon Kelley (http://freshmeat.net/users/simonkelley/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 12:07

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP
server. It is designed to provide DNS and (optionally) DHCP to a small
network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the
global DNS. The DHCP server integrates with the DNS server and allows
machines with DHCP-allocated addresses to appear in the DNS with names
configured either in each host or in a central configuration file. Dnsmasq
supports static and dynamic DHCP leases and BOOTP for network booting of
diskless machines.

Changes: This release adds a workaround for a Linux kernel bug which
breaks DHCP on kernels with "Classical IP over ATM" support compiled in.
Even if not in use, at least some vendor kernels include this option.
There is also a new facility to allow a script to run whenever the DHCP
lease database changes, and a new example configuration file for DBus
integration.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[009] - EtherApe 0.9.5
  by bc (http://freshmeat.net/users/bchiara/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 03:25

Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization
System :: Networking :: Monitoring

About: EtherApe is a GNOME/pcap-based etherman, interman, and "tcpman"
clone. It displays network activity graphically. Active hosts are shown as
circles of varying size, and traffic among them is shown as lines of
varying width. It supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP, and
SLIP. Additional statistics windows will let you concentrate on protocols
or nodes.

Changes: The manual was completely rewritten with docbook-XML. OS X
support was improved. There is now a 'zero-delay' (-z) option for playing
captured files without accounting for timestamps. Several bugs, including
one preventing conversations from expiring properly.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[010] - FUDforum 2.7.5RC1 (Development)
  by ilia (http://freshmeat.net/users/Prottoss/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:44

Communications :: BBS
Communications :: Conferencing
Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content :: Message Boards

About: FUDforum is templatable forum with i18n support based on PHP and
either MySQL or PostgreSQL. It features a user/group management system, a
multi-lingual spell checker, both flat and thread message views, a private
messaging system with mult-iuser forwarding capabilities, poll file
attachments, and much more. It is an extremely fast and scalable forum
that can fulfill the needs of both small and large forum operators.

Changes: Visual representation of next/prev links on the page was
improved. The categories on the userlist toggles now allow up/down sorting
of data. The French translation was updated. The insertion of URLs and
email addresses based on selection was fixed for Mozilla based browsers.
Tool-tips were added to FUDcode formatting tags. The subscribed topic link
on the subscribed page now takes you to the first unread message in the
topic. AJAX is used for threaded message view, topic rating, and category
collapsing. Selected text access was fixed for the Safari browser. Support
for [wikipedia] tags was added. The search term highlighting algorithm was
improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[011] - GDAL 1.3.2
  by Frank Warmerdam (http://freshmeat.net/users/warmerda/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:26

Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion
Scientific/Engineering
Software Development :: Libraries

About: The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL) is a unifying C/C++
API for accessing raster geospatial data, and currently includes formats
like GeoTIFF, Erdas Imagine, Arc/Info Binary, CEOS, DTED, GXF, and SDTS.
It is intended to provide efficient access, suitable for use in viewer
applications, and also attempts to preserve coordinate systems and
metadata. Python, C, and C++ interfaces are available.

Changes: IDRISI, DIPEx, and Leveller raster formats were added. MySQL
Spatial, SDE vector, and DXF/DWG write support were added. OGR date
support was added.

License: MIT/X Consortium License

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

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[012] - Gnofract 4D 2.14
  by EY (http://freshmeat.net/users/edwiny/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 22:54

Artistic Software
Desktop Environment :: Gnome
Multimedia :: Graphics

About: Gnofract 4D is a Gnome-based program to draw fractals. What sets it
apart from other fractal programs (and makes it "4D") is the way that it
treats the Mandelbrot and Julia sets as different views of the same
four-dimensional fractal object. It contains a Fractint-compatible formula
compiler, allowing it to draw an unlimited number of fractal types, using
numerous coloring options.

Changes: This release fixes a compile error which occurred on some Linux
distributions and a number of smaller issues.

License: BSD License (revised)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnofract4d/

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[013] - GNUnet 0.7.0d
  by Christian Grothoff (http://freshmeat.net/users/grothoff/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 01:08

Communications :: File Sharing
Security :: Cryptography
Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks

About: GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework with focus on providing
security. All peer-to-peer messages in the network are confidential and
authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and
can currently encapsulate the network traffic in UDP (IPv4 and IPv6), TCP
(IPv4 and IPv6), HTTP, or SMTP messages. GNUnet supports accounting to
provide contributing nodes with better service. The primary service build
on top of the framework is anonymous file sharing.

Changes: Areas of improvement in this release included content migration,
routing, content priorities, connection management, internationalization,
and thread signaling. Memory utilization and other cosmetic improvements
were also made. gnunet-gtk now supports sorting.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[014] - gtk-im-vi 0.1.1
  by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
(http://freshmeat.net/users/pclouds/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 11:53

About: gtk-im-vi contains two simple GTK+ input methods, VNI and TELEX,
for those who just want to type Vietnamese in GTK+ apps without
complicated input methods. They're small and just work.

Changes: Files that were missing from the tarball (intltool-*.in) were
added.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/gtk-im-vi/

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[015] - mesh2hmap 0.3.1
  by hessint (http://freshmeat.net/users/hessint/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 00:29

Games/Entertainment
Multimedia :: Graphics :: 3D Modeling
Multimedia :: Graphics :: Graphics Conversion

About: mesh2hmap is a simple command line tool for converting 3D meshes to
raster heightmaps. This tool allows you to create terrains in your favorite
3D modeller and then easily convert to a heightmap image.

Changes: A bug where you had to specify min, max, and bg was fixed. They
now take on their default values if not specified. A numerical error in
the heightmap equations where near vertical polygons could produce very
high or low heights was fixed. Each height is now confined within the
height range of its polygon.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/mesh2hmap/

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[016] - Open Administration for Schools 1.98
  by Les Richardson (http://freshmeat.net/users/richl/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:43

Education

About: Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school
administration package. Open Admin does demographics, attendance,
discipline, report cards, and has an online gradebook and parent viewing
function. It is designed for elementary, K-12, and small high schools. It
generates plain HTML and uses LaTeX for PDF generation. It also includes
special education and division-wide central office modules (all schools
run on the same server with different virtual sites; two sites per school,
one for teachers, and one for the office). Parent functions are by separate
parent/school site.

Changes: Transcripts are now available. Information is stored for
multi-year retention. Customization of the transcript is available. A new
attendance scanning script was added, based on points for particular
attendance reasons. Accumulated points will generate a discipline entry
and also create form letters for mailing. The attendance system has a new
"per student" search/editing function. The SDS system for Sask schools has
an updated course query function and a new course enrollment
synchronization script. Metaedit has new options for leading blank
entries. The gradebook has a new item entry format.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[017] - pmpkg 2006-05-06
  by Patrick Mauritz (http://freshmeat.net/users/oxygene/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:46

System :: Installation/Setup
System :: Operating System

About: pmpkg provides a script and definitions to build SysV style binary
packages for Solaris from source tarballs in an automated way, somewhat
similar to ports or ebuilds. It aims for reuse of system packages where
possible and a minimalistic dependency set.

Changes: This release increases stability of package creation and provides
37 new package descriptions, 17 packages that were updated to reflect
upstream changes, and a couple more that improve package quality.

License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)

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

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[018] - PowerDNS Recursor 3.1-pre1
  by ahu (http://freshmeat.net/users/ahu2/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:55

Internet :: Name Service (DNS)

About: With a small codebase, the PowerDNS Recursor is an advanced
recursor currently serving the DNS resolving needs of over 2 million
Internet connections. Besides high performance (using kqueue or epoll,
over 15 thousand qps on commodity hardware), it provides advanced
anti-spoofing measures. In addition, the program caches server performance
and timeouts, making it both network and user friendly. It also has
built-in hooks for making graphs with rrdtool, providing insight into
nameserver performance.

Changes: This version can serve authorative zones or forward queries for
domains so configured to external nameservers. IPv6 outgoing nameservers
can now be used if they are faster or as fast as IPv4 nameservers (though
this is disabled by default). Support was added for exporting knowledge
from /etc/hosts to the local subnet, without further zone configurations.
Support for non-UNIX operating systems was improved.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/pdns-recursor/

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[019] - ShaniXmlParser 1.3.7
  by Quentin Anciaux (http://freshmeat.net/users/allcolor/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 03:25

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Software Development :: Libraries :: Java Libraries
Text Processing :: Markup

About: ShaniXmlParser is an XML/HTML DOM/SAX parser that can be
validating. It can parse badly formed XML files. It can parse files with
inverted tags and bad escaped &,< and >. It expands all HTML entities. It
is well suited to parse HTML files. It is up to 3 times faster than the
internal JDK 1.5 xerces parser and as fast as the internal JDK 1.4 Crimson
parser, compliant with the jaxp/w3c DOM interfaces, and very small.

Changes: A problem where attribute parsing was incorrect if an entry
contained \n and \r end of lines was fixed.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[020] - sync2cd 1.1
  by Remy Blank (http://freshmeat.net/users/remyblank/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 12:08

System :: Archiving

About: sync2cd is an incremental archiving tool. It allows backing up
complete filesystem hierarchies to multiple backup media (e.g. CD-R).
Files are archived incrementally, i.e. only new or changed files are
stored during an archive operation. All entity types are supported:
directories, files, symlinks, named pipes, sockets, and block and
character devices.

Changes: Memory usage was drastically reduced.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

URL: http://freshmeat.net/projects/sync2cd/

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[021] - TripleA 0.8.2.1
  by sgbridges (http://freshmeat.net/users/sgbridges/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:33

Games/Entertainment :: Turn Based Strategy

About: TripleA is a clone of the popular board game "Axis and Allies". It
is written in Java, and it supports network play by as many as five
players.

Changes: The main changes since 0.7.3 are better startup screens, a new a
weak AI opponent, the ability to play multiple games without restarting,
new maps, better networking support, improved skin support, hybrid pop up
movement, a new triplea war club PBEM dice roller, and Windows installers
(including optionally bundled Java).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[022] - TunaPie 0.9.6 (Stable)
  by James Stone (http://freshmeat.net/users/lunadog/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:47

Multimedia :: Sound/Audio
Multimedia :: Video

About: TunaPie is a directory browser for Internet radio and TV streams.
As of 0.9.6, it is compatible with the Icecast directory as well as the
Shoutcast (winamp) stream directory service. Tunapie allows you to search
for streams and then launch your audio player (XMMS) or NSV viewer
(Mplayer) of choice. It also allows recording of audio and video streams
using streamripper.

Changes: Tunapie is now compatible with Icecast listing: the user can
select Icecast or Shoutcast from the preferences. Tunapie now lists Ess.tv
channels by their channel number.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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[023] - ulxmlrpcpp 1.5.2
  by ewi (http://freshmeat.net/users/ewi/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 03:23

Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers
Software Development :: Object Brokering

About: ulxmlrpcpp is a library to perform calls via XML-RPC in an object
oriented approach. It is possible to create both client and server
applications in multithreaded environments. Unlike other implementations,
it does not insist on HTTP for transportation, but might also accept other
ways (e.g. a simple serial line with a user-defined protocol). For HTTP as
a transportation protocol, the following features are supported: cookies,
SSL/TLS, proxy, SSL/TLS over a proxy, and chunked transfers. ulxmlrpcpp is
also able to transmit data faster with binary XML.

Changes: The W3C recommendation is now used to represent date and time.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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

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[024] - Z-machine Preservation Project 0.90
  by Wei-ju Wu (http://freshmeat.net/users/weiju/)
  Sat, May 6th 2006 23:33

Games/Entertainment
Games/Entertainment :: Puzzle Games
Software Development :: Interpreters

About: The Z-machine Preservation Project is a Java implementation of the
Z-machine (Java version >= 5 is required) specification 1.0. This is a
Z-code interpreter that can be run either as a standalone application or
as an applet within a Web browser. It runs games created by Infocom as
well as those compiled with Inform. At the moment, story file versions 1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 are supported, including features such as save games
(Quetzal 1.4 format; the applet version saves to memory), Blorb support
(AIFF sound effects and embedded story files), multiple text styles and
colors, undo, and timed input, as well as support for accented languages.

Changes: This change mainly adds support for customized fonts and colors
as well as minor changes for the modifications in Inform metadata
specified in the Treaty of Babel.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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

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