Archive for May, 2008

svnpserver 0.7.4819 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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svnpserver is a CVS pserver implementation that
works against an SVN (Subversion) repository. It
can be useful for old build scripts or legacy
application when migrating from CVS to SVN.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
More bugs were fixed. A (non-standard) version
command wsa also implemented to find out the
svnpserver version remotely: simply telnet to the
svnpserver port and type the command “version”
(without quotes). A bug that prevented checkout of
tags and branches was fixed.

DeLi Linux 0.8.0 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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DeLi Linux is a Linux distribution for old computers, from 486 to Pentium MMX 166 or so. It’s focused on desktop usage. It includes email clients, a graphical Web browser, an office package with word processor and spreadsheet, etc. A full installation, including Xorg and development tools, needs no more than 300 MB of hard disk space.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
UTF-8 is now used as the default encoding. GTK1
was dropped in favor of GTK2 (2.10). The pacman
package manager is now used. Netsurf and Skipstone
were included as Web browsers. Abiword 2.4.6 with
the ODT plugin and Gnumeric 1.6.3 were included as
office applications.

Sman 1.03 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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Sman is “The Searcher for Man Pages”, an enhanced
version of “apropos” and “man -k”. Sman adds
several key abilities over its predecessors,
including stemming and support for complex boolean
text searches such as “(linux and kernel) or (mach
and microkernel)”. It shows results in a ranked
order, optionally with a summary of the manpage
with the searched text highlighted. Searches may
be applied to the manpage section, title, body, or
filename. The complete contents of the man page
are indexed. A prebuilt index is used to perform
fast searches.


License: Artistic License


Changes:
Changes were made for Debian 4, Fink, and
RPM-installed versions of Swish-e. The
documentation was cleaned up. Code cleanups and
corrections were done. Error reporting was
improved.

SystemRescueCd 1.0.3 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM
that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your
computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk
or backing up data. It contains a lot of system utilities (such as
parted, partimage, and fstools), and basic programs (such as editors,
midnight commander, and network tools). It also includes GParted, a
Partition Magic clone that makes editing partitions easy with its
graphical user interface. This CDROM aims to be very easy to use and
accessible to everybody, and it also provides advanced personalization
features.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
This is mostly a bugfix and quality improvement
release. The default kernels were upgraded to
Linux-2.6.25.04 and the alternative kernels to
Linux-2.6.24.07. aufs is used instead of unionfs
to improve stability. Booting from a network via
PXE or with docache now works with only 256MB of
RAM. The btrfs filesystem support was updated to
0.14, Xorg-server to 1.4, ntfs3g to 1.2506, and
gparted to 0.3.7. Fonts in the graphical
environment were improved. Support was added for
256-byte inodes in ext3fs in grub-0.97. The
epdfview PDF viewer was added. A shell problem
with the serial console was fixed.

alsaequal 0.2 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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Alsaequal is a real-time adjustable equalizer
plugin for ALSA. It can be adjusted using any
ALSA-compatible mixer, e.g. alsamixergui.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
Some debug messages were removed.

Lasso 2.2.0 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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Lasso (Liberty Alliance Single Sign On) is an
implementation of the Liberty Alliance
specifications. These specifications define
protocols for federated identities, single
sign-on, etc. Lasso supports ID-FF 1.2, SAML 2.0,
and parts of ID-WSF. It provides both a C library
and bindings for several languages (Python, Java,
Perl, PHP 4, and PHP 5).


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
Support for was added encrypted NameIdentifier in
ID-FF 1.2. Various minor issues with ID-WSF
support and several bugs and memory management
issues were fixed. The bindings for Java, PHP 5,
and Python were replaced with new ones, created by
a custom code generator.

ConvertAll 0.4.2 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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ConvertAll is a unit conversion program in which
units can be combined with multiplication and
division operators and can be squared, cubed, etc.
The interface is graphical, allowing the units to be
selected from lists and the conversions to be made
in both directions. Non-linear units (such as
temperatures and gauge sizes) are supported. The
unit data file can be easily modified to add
additional units. ConvertAll is based on the PyQt
library.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
The “liter per 100 km” unit for fuel consumption
was added. The “mach” unit was changed from 331.46
m/s to 340.29 m/s, to be correct for STP
conditions. A bug that could hide messages about
errors in a manually edited unit data file was
fixed.

AtMail Open 1.01 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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AtMail is a webmail client. The project aims to
provide an elegant client for existing IMAP
mailservers, with less bloat and a focus on an
intuitive, simple user interface. Features include
complete Webmail functionality, address-book
support, video mail, an AJAX interface,
drag’n'drop, and more.


License: The Apache License 2.0


Changes:
Missing PHP dependencies were fixed for certain
systems running Atmail Open. A duplicate
folder-name error when unzipping in Windows was
fixed. Some missing images from the first release
were added.

FlowPlayer 2.2 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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FlowPlayer is a video player for Flash Video in FLV and H.264 formats. The UI is clean, simple, and customizable. The player is easy to configure and embed into your home page, site, or blog. The player supports progressive download with HTTP and also streaming with Lighttpd, PHP, and other scripting, Flash Media Server, and Red5. It also supports MP3 audio.


License: GNU General Public License v3


Changes:
New JavaScript tools were added to create
playlists and to embed several videos into your
site easily. The possibility to pause and resume
using the space bar was added. An
initialVolumePercentage configuration variable was
added. The clip-specific start property is now
supported when streaming from lighttpd. The code
was changed to use the new Google Analytics
pageTracker._trackPageview function to send
statistics. There are several enhancements to the
JavaScript API and several bugfixes.

JFlex 1.4.2 (Default branch)

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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JFlex is a flex-like lexer generator for Java with
emphasis on speed and full Unicode support. It
works as a standalone tool or together with the
LALR parser generators CUP and BYacc/J. JFlex has
support for some not so usual features like
negation in regular expressions and nested input
streams. It can also read JLex specifications
unchanged.


License: GNU General Public License (GPL)


Changes:
This release fixes all known bugs of previous
JFlex versions and adds support for Java generics.