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We should get this out of the door now
scoop - January 29th 2000, 23:59 EST

Everyone else is talking about it, so we should announce it ourselves before you start to think it's a government hoax. Server 51 is our new hosting service for Open Source projects, based on Super Cool Space Alien Technology(TM). We hadn't planned to announce it quite so soon, and it's still in the alpha stage as we work day and night at integrating SCSAT with our terrestrial systems, but feel free to take a look around and see what's going on. When we're out of the testing stage and ready to make room for your project, we'll send word via your implants. Be listening.

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Is Linux for Crazies?
jeff covey - January 29th 2000, 23:59 EST

Ray Woodcock writes: "In terms relevant to Linux, this freshmeat editorial glances at the tendency of mainstream viewpoints to dismiss other viewpoints as 'fringe,' the propensity of dissident movements to splinter into factions before they can effectively counter their primary adversaries, and the difficulty of creating stability without squelching curiosity."

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Category: Editorial |

RabbIT 2.0.2
Ernimril - January 29th 2000, 18:29 EST

RabbIt is the mutating, caching webproxy which is used to speed up surfing over slow links like modems. It does this by removing advertising and background images and scaling down images to low quality JPEGs. RabbIT is written in Java and should be able to run on any platform. It does depend upon an image converter if imagescaleing is on. The recommended image converter is "convert" from the ImageMagick package.

Changes: Fixes have been made for a few bugs concerning keep alive and the HTTP response header, a bug with NT and cache directories, a bug concerning requests without a response body, a bug in GZIPHandler that caused it to not gzip already compressed (gzip or compress) streams, a bug in HTTPHeader regarding response phrases that are multiline, and a few bugs in ImageHandler and NCache. GZIPHandler has been built as an intermediate(*) to FilterHandler (this means that it is possible to gzip text/plain, etc., without filtering those streams) uuencoding has been added to the Coder, RabbIT now uses HTTP/1.1, HTMLParser now compiles cleanly with Jikes, and GeneralHeader has been created to allow for HTTPFooter (which is useful when sending chunked data).

Urgency: low

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License: freely distributable Category: Daemons/Proxy |

nmpg 1.1.3 Joel Lindau - January 29th 2000, 18:18 EST nmpg is a small command-driven frontend and network-jukebox for mpg123. Changes: Bugfixes, better memory management, a new .nmpgrc parser, and new options. Urgency: low [ comments (0) ]

License: OpenSource Category: Console/Sound |

mod_dtcl 0.7.3
David Welton - January 29th 2000, 18:11 EST

Mod_dtcl is a free/open source implementation of server-parsed Tcl under Apache. It allows you to tightly integrate HTML with Tcl, a widely-used scripting language with many years of development invested in it. There are also many external Tcl modules that you can load into mod_dtcl, to create images, access databases, etc.

Changes: A major overhaul of header handling and internal buffering, and the addition of the ability to handle binary data.

Urgency: low

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License: GPL Category: Web/Development |

CoreLinux++ 0.4.6
Frank V. Castellucci - January 29th 2000, 18:07 EST

CoreLinux++ is an initiative to normalize methods and conventions for OOA/OOD/C++ development for Linux, materialized in a set of Open Source C++ class libraries (libcorelinux++ and libcoreframework++) to support common patterns and exploit the C++ standards.

Changes: This release adds AbstractFactory and AssociativeIterator analysis, design, implementations, test code, a CVS daily tarball, a Patch Submission facility and updated FAQ, Web Pages, and defect reporting guidelines.

Urgency: medium

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License: LGPL Category: Development/Libraries |

scribe 0.2 ChromeBob - January 29th 2000, 12:12 EST scribe writes functions prototypes for your C code, so you don't have to. It also compares unique functions between source code files and will 'extern' when appropriate. C++ methods support is also planned. Changes: A fix for an fflush() bug and better documentation. Urgency: low [ comments (0) ]

License: GPL Category: Development/Tools |

E theme updater 0.1 Hallvar Helleseth - January 29th 2000, 12:04 EST E theme Updater is a bash script to automatically update all of your Enlightenment themes from e.themes.org. Changes: Initial release. [ comments (0) ]

License: GPL Category: Console/Misc |

Powertweak-Linux 0.1.7
Dave Jones - January 29th 2000, 12:03 EST

Powertweak-Linux is a port of the Microsoft Windows tool of the same name rewritten from the ground up. Its main function is to tune your system to its optimal performance settings. Currently, it tunes PCI chipsets and can set /proc/sys entries.

Changes: A major GUI overhaul, the ability to generate configuration files, extended PCI information tabs, extra information support for the Matrox G200, and numerous other bugfixes & improvements.

Urgency: low

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License: GPL Category: Console/System |

Pexeso Beta Pavol Krigler - January 29th 2000, 11:55 EST pexeso is a simple graphic card game for one or two players. Changes: Initial public release. [ comments (0) ]

License: Freeware Category: Console/Games |

XZX 2.9.2
E. Kunze - January 29th 2000, 11:54 EST

XZX is a portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair) and Pentagon/Scorpion (Spectrum clones made in Russia) for machines running UNIX and the X Window system. XZX is completely written in C and emulates Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion, Interface I with up to 8 microdrives, Multiface 128 and Multiface 3, BetaDisk 128 interface by Technology Research Ltd with 4 disk drives, +D interface by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives, Kempston mouse, Kempston joystick and built-in machine code monitor.

Changes: Lots of feature improvement and bug fixes. Most parts of the audio support has been rewritten for different UNICES.

Urgency: low

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License: Shareware Category: X11/Emulators |

DistroLib 0.4
PhiR - January 29th 2000, 11:54 EST

DistroLib is an abstraction library designed to make the development of distributed application easier. Its main target is currently compute-bound tasks based on a one server, many clients model (much like distributed.net), but it is quite generic and could be used for any client/server app. It is lightweight, easy-to-use, and relies heavily on threads.

Changes: Important bug fixes and command history support.

Urgency: low

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License: GPL Category: Development/Libraries |

ToutDoux 1.1.7 yeupou - January 29th 2000, 11:54 EST ToutDoux is a project manager which lets you design a plan of action using a tree structure, with translations in French and English. Changes: A new menu and XML standard for save files. Urgency: low [ comments (0) ]

License: GPL Category: GNOME/Tools |

goMP 1.0.3
Gautier - January 29th 2000, 11:52 EST

goMP is a set of CGI scripts that allows you to remotely control, via a Web browser, a computer acting as an MP3 jukebox. This program is very useful for someone who's got a dedicated computer with a lot of MP3 files but that doesn't have any output and input devices except network and sound card. It's main advantages are built-in cataloging, fast access to music, and no special software needed on the client side.

Changes: Bugfixes, a password-protected config page, basic search function, easier installation thanks to an install script, and relocation of HTML docs and CGIs to a subdirectory.

Urgency: medium

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License: Artistic Category: Web/Tools |

APSEND 1.40
M.K. - January 29th 2000, 11:50 EST

APSEND is a TCP/IP packet sender to test firewalls and other network applications. It also includes a syn flood option, the land DoS attack, and a DoS attack against tcpdump running on a UNIX-based system. Future updates will include support for a scripting language to construct TCP packets and a few more options and protocols like UDP and ICMP. A port of APSEND from Perl to C is planned as well.

Changes: The stream attack, bugfixes, and rewrites for parts of the code.

Urgency: low

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License: GPL Category: Console/Networking |

ecasound 1.6.12r10
Kai Vehmanen - January 29th 2000, 11:48 EST

Ecasound is a software package designed for multitrack audio processing. It can be used for simple tasks like audio playback, recording and format conversions, as well as for multitrack effect processing, mixing, recording and signal recycling. Ecasound supports a wide range of audio inputs, outputs and effect algorithms. Ecasound has a chain-based design that allows effects to be easily combined both in series and in parallel. Oscillators and MIDI-CCs can be used for controlling effect parameters. Includes a versatile console mode interface, a Qt-based X-interface and various command-line utils suitable for batch processing.

Changes: Support for 24- and 32-bit audio formats and for ALSA 0.5, multichannel noisegate, a new 2nd order lowpass filter, some ia-mode commands, and various bugfixes and low-level improvements.

Urgency: low

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License: GPL Category: Console/Sound |

SCEZ 20000129
endergone Zwiebeltuete - January 29th 2000, 11:46 EST

SCEZ is a library that should make the handling of smart cards (not memory cards) and card readers as simple as possible and be at the same time small and easily portable. Currently supported are Dumb Mouse, CT-API and Towitoko readers and Schlumberger Cryptoflex, Gemplus GPK4000, GSM SIM and Telesec SigG cards. A PKCS#15 implementation is in the design phase. There are ports to PalmOS and MS-Windows available.

Changes: More card and reader drivers, and an application to read out GSM SIM card (phone book and SMS) and write it to the card.

Urgency: low

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License: BSD type Category: Development/Libraries |

Comicq 0.2.0 Terminal6 - January 29th 2000, 11:45 EST COMICQ is a command line ICQ messaging tool that allows a user to connect to ICQ using your UIN and password, then sends a message to the destination UIN. Changes: Several bugfixes, icq99a compliance, and a new option --ip that allows you to get any user's IP by their UIN. Urgency: low [ comments (0) ]

License: GPL Category: Console/Communication |

senv 0.2
Zbyszek Sobiecki - January 29th 2000, 11:44 EST

Senv allows you to run programs with a specified environment. It can set uid, gid, root directory, working directory, limits, and environment variables. It is useful in init scripts and as a shell for users for setting resource limits and environment variables. You can create sets of configurations and specify the one to use from command line.

Changes: Login shell limits and environment setting for users, permanent resource limits for specified groups of users and environment variables, and other minor bugfixes.

Urgency: low

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License: GPL Category: Console/Administration |

XZX 2.9.2
E. Kunze - January 29th 2000, 10:55 EST

XZX is a portable emulator of ZX Spectrum 48K/128K/+3 (8-bit home computers made by Sir Clive Sinclair) and Pentagon/Scorpion (Spectrum clones made in Russia) for machines running UNIX and the X Window system. XZX is completely written in C and emulates Spectrum 48K, 128K, +2 and +3, Pentagon and Scorpion, Interface I with up to 8 microdrives, Multiface 128 and Multiface 3, BetaDisk 128 interface by Technology Research Ltd with 4 disk drives, +D interface by Miles Gordon Technology with 2 disk drives, Kempston mouse, Kempston joystick and built-in machine code monitor.

Changes: Lots of feature improvement and bug fixes. Most parts of the audio support has been rewritten for different UNICES.

Urgency: low

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License: Shareware Category: X11/Emulators |

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- CADUBI 1.1b1
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- 4XSLT 0.8.2
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