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About: pam_script is a PAM that executes a script at the start and end of a session. Any PAM-aware application can use the module to perform arbitrary operations. It was originally written for cleaning up when a user logs out. Changes: A bug in the dropping of privileges was fixed. The option parsing code was rewritten and an initgroups option was added.
About: Speaking Hangman is an educational game to practice and expand your English and Spanish vocabularies. The game is designed for people of any age above 7 years. A free, downloadable version of Speaking Hangman features 2 levels of vocabulary, which are based on statistics about the most commonly-used words. At level 1 you will practice the 450 most common words in English or Spanish. At level 2 you will practice the 1,000 most common words. Level 3, available on-line, features over 7,000 words in English and over 8,000 in Spanish. Changes: After beta testing, major code cleanups and minor bugfixes were made.
About: Worker is a file manager for the X Window System with the classical two panel interface. It features a fully graphical configuration, while still allowing manual editing of the configuration file without the need to restart Worker. Any external program can be integrated easily into the GUI using buttons, hotkeys, and file type actions. Worker uses file recognition by file content or by filename extension (or both). Different actions with completely configurable commands can be assigned to each file type. Changes: This release fixes a small bug introduced in the previous version. A configuration option was not correctly initialized.
About: SEFlow uses the SELinux technology to provide security centered on individual data objects in a running system instead of focusing on static system facilities. Thus it is suitable to prevent accidental linking of code under open source licenses with proprietary code, making a tainting mechanism similar to the one used in the Linux kernel possible in userspace. Changes: To demonstrate the possibility of combining independent policy factors, a factor that blocks network access was created. This way, network access of processes can be disabled without interfering with other constraints.
About: The GoblinX Micro Edition is the smallest version of GoblinX and contains only Fluxbox as the window manager and GTK based applications. This edition is indicated for those users who like to do fast tests, know more about Fluxbox, and rebuild the live CD. Changes: This release upgrades the kernel (2.6.24.3), AuFS, SquashFS, Linux Live, and all GNOME libraries and applications. It upgrades all interfaces, scripts, the Isolinux menu, themes, and more. It adds several more features like Slik, Web mount, better save/restore changes, userspace suspend, file manager actions, and more.
About: Sharity mounts shares exported by Windows, Samba, and other SMB/CIFS servers in the file system of Unix computers. It implements Resource Browsing, which is similar to the Windows Network Neighborhood (Netbios Workgroups and Active Directory), NTLM, NTLMv2, and Kerberos authentication, Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS), and manipulation of Access Control Lists (ACLs). Changes: This release offers numerous bugfixes, improved compatibility with many Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, and an optional automatic check for updates.
About: mod_auth_openid is an authentication module for the Apache 2 Web server. It handles the functions of an OpenID consumer as specified in the OpenID 2.0 specification. Once installed, a simple configuration directive can secure a directory or application on your Web server and require a valid OpenID/XRI identity. You can configure trusted/untrusted identity providers along with a number of other options. Changes: This release adds support for the OpenID 2.0 spec (support for the 1.1 spec is still maintained). Support for BDB has been removed; this release supports SQLite only.
About: SiSU (Structured information, Serialized Units) is a lightweight markup based, text structuring and publishing framework (that features granular search). With minimal markup of a plaintext file, it produces: plain-text, HTML, XHTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX, PDF, and populates an SQL database at an object/paragraph level for granular searches. Prepare documents using your text editor of choice, then use SiSU to generate the desired output formats. SiSU is controlled from the command line.
About: TikiWiki is a Groupware/Content Management System solution with a long list of features to help you build a compelling Web-based community: wikis, forums, blogs, articles, an image gallery, a map server, a link directory, translation, internationalization, and much more. The JumpBox for TikiWiki gives you a chance to try it with minimal effort. The JumpBox has a built-in Web management console to help you manage basic system tasks and a very convenient backup system to make sure your data is safe. Changes: This JumpBox is running on the production release of the v.1.1 platform, and includes several enhancements. Most notably, this includes built-in automated backups to Amazon S3, integrated Web stats for the application, a GUI-based SSL cert configuration tool, a GUI-based method for configuring an email relay, and an update of the underlying OS to Ubuntu Base 8.04 LTS.
About: JavaFBP is a Java implementation of the concepts described in the book "Flow-Based Programming". It allows a developer to specify an application as a network of "black- box" components, which are implemented as long-running Java threads, connected by bounded buffer connections, over which data objects travel ("information packets"). The network is also specified as a Java program, which maps a visual connection diagram. The black box processes can be reconnected as desired to form different applications without having to be changed internally. Changes: This release adds metadata and a Play Tune component. The network definition notation has been simplified. A couple of deadlock problems have been fixed.
About: Partimage Is Not Ghost (PING) is a live Linux ISO based on LFS (Linux From Scratch). It can be burnt on a CD and booted, or integrated in a PXE/RIS environment. Several tools that make it the perfect choice for easily backing up and restoring whole partitions are included. It supports backups to and from SMB shares, backup of BIOS data, the ability to blank the local admin's password, creation of bootable restoration DVDs, the ability to partition and format a disk before installing Windows, and more. Changes: The Linux kernel has been upgraded from 2.6.24.4 to 2.6.25.7. New SATA (Marvell) and NIC (i82575, intel Pro/1000 and express) drivers have been added. Several NTFS-related components have been upgraded. There are some bugfixes.
About: XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor. Changes: This release introduces a Russian localization, updates the editor component, and fixes a number of bugs.
About: ebook2cw is a command line program that converts a plain text file (like an eBook) to Morse code (CW) MP3 files. Morse parameters like speed and tone frequency, and MP3 parameters such as bit rate, sample rate, and quality can be changed by command line switches. It automatically splits and numbers the output files by chapters. Changes: This version allows the user to define arbitrary character mappings, in order to deal with any symbols that have no common equivalent Morse symbol, without the need to modify the input data. A set of default parameters can now be read from a configuration file.
About: X File Explorer (Xfe) is a filemanager for X. It is based on the popular, but discontinued, X Win Commander. Xfe is desktop independent and is written with the C++ Fox Toolkit. It looks similar to Windows Commander or MS-Explorer, and is very fast and simple. It features file associations, the ability to mount/umount devices, a directory tree for quickly changing directories, the ability to change file attributes, automatic registry saving, the ability to view/create/extract compressed archives, and much more. Changes: This release fixes some minor bugs and annoyances.
About: AcchaNi is a program that assists with learning Japanese. It is cross-platform, requires no special Japanese fonts or encoding, has built-in hiragana input, and supports iterative learning modes. Changes: The Accha Nihongo quiz program now features "leveling" capabilities: after mastering a small group of kanji, you "level up" and are presented with a new group of kanji. When exiting the program, Accha Nihongo automatically remembers what level you were on, and allows you to continue from this point the next time you play. The kanji display has also been completely overhauled, and now includes dictionary definitions of the different readings, as well as radical/element information to aid memorization.
About: Ortro is a framework for enterprise scheduling and monitoring. It allows you to easily assemble jobs to perform workflows and run existing scripts on remote hosts in a secure way using ssh. It also tests your Web applications, creates simple reports using queries from databases (in HTML, text, CSV, or XLS), emails them, and sends notifications of job results using email, SMS, Tibco Rvd, Tivoli postemsg, or Jabber. Changes: The upgrade procedure was updated, and a bug on the deleting shared host was fixed.
About: ViewGit is a git Web repository viewer that aims to be easy to set up and upgrade, light on dependencies, and comfortable to use. Changes: This first public release contains all basic features needed in a revision control system repository browser: project list, summary page with shortlog/tags/heads, commit details and commitdiff, tree (directory) browsing with downloadable trees and individual files, RSS feeds of project changes, checkouts using mod_rewrite and git-update-server-info hook, and GeSHi syntax highlighter support.
About: fs-check checks filesystem sizes to see if they are getting too full. It uses a configuration file that specifies the filesystems to check, email contacts, trigger thresholds (percentage or amount used/unused), and a report program to run. It includes fs-report, which shows things like the largest files, the newest files, the intersection of these and core files. It can be run from cron or as a daemon. Changes: fs-check wasn't parsing DEFAULT OWNER and fs-report wasn't parsing --fast.
About: TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents without requiring external extensions. TCPDF supports all ISO page formats and custom page formats, custom margins and units of measure, UTF-8 Unicode, RTL languages, some HTML code, barcodes, TrueTypeUnicode, TrueType, Type1 and encoding, JPEG, GIF and PNG images, graphic functions, bookmarks, JavaScript, forms, page compression, and encryption. Changes: This release contains dozens of new features and bugfixes. The most important is probably the new HTML engine, which includes better support for tables and inline CSS.
About: The Big Faceless Graph Library is a Java class library for creating graphs and charts. It is backed by a full 3D engine, allowing you to create shaded 3D pie, bar, and line graphs as GIF, PDF, PNG, or other image formats. Its features include transparent backgrounds, extensible axes to graph dates, currencies, custom fonts, and spline curve fitting. It is small, fast, and easy to use. Changes: BFO have released an update to their Graph Library. This release fixes a number of minor rendering problems that could cause some minor visual facets, and is also faster. For output to SVG and PDF, or when plotting many thousands of polygons, this version can be up to 30% faster. It is less so when plotting to PNG (as most of the time is spent in the image compression).
About: Clonezilla-SysRescCD is a Linux multi boot backup/restore and rescue CD, combining "Clonezilla Live" and "SystemRescueCD" in one CD. Clonezilla-SysRescCD provides both a CD ISO and a tar archive of the source code to create and customize it yourself. Changes: Clonezilla Live has been updated to 1.1.0-8. SystemRescueCD has been updated to 1.0.3. Super Grub Disk has been updated to 0.9726.
About: PacketFence is a network access control (NAC) system. It is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions. It can be used to effectively secure networks, from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence provides NAC-oriented features such as registration of new network devices, detection of abnormal network activities including from remote snort sensors, isolation of problematic devices, remediation through a captive portal, and registration-based and scheduled vulnerability scans. Changes: This release fixes an iptables issue with the iptables.post file and adds authentication module error messages and several database optimizations. It also uses Net::Pcap instead of Net::RawIP in the dhcplistener to enhance its stability. Finally, the integration of the VLAN isolation has been taken one step further: PacketFence now automatically starts snmptrapd and pfsetvlan (and opens the necessary ports in iptables) when VLAN isolation is specified in pf.conf.
About: NexentaStor leverages the ZFS file system and is optimized for use in 2nd-tier NAS and iSCSI applications requiring open, low cost, high performance storage as well as dramatically simplified provisioning, expansion, backup, replication, and archiving. It is also used as a primary NAS in businesses that wish to expand at closer to commodity pricing. It supports unlimited snapshots, snapshot mirroring (replication), block level mirroring, integrated search, and easy management of extremely large storage pools. Changes: This release adds support for extremely large LDAP directories (tens of thousands of entries) and enhanced support for volume (ZVOL) management via the NMV GUI. There are various bugfixes.
About: Blitz is an open source JavaSpaces implementation designed to ease development and deployment of JavaSpaces technology. It is Jini 2.0 enabled, and uses established VM principles. It also implements smart indexing, tuneable persistence, and active/passive lease cleanup. It is designed with experimentation and expansion in mind. Changes: Several bugs in *IfExists were fixed. An IllegalMonitorStateException in FIFO notify mode was fixed. A bug in operations statistics was fixed and a threads statistic was added. The MonitorStats tool was modified to accept a loop-time in seconds. A tool to reload lookup settings from a configuration file was added.
About: WDB is a weather data storage system for storage of weather and water observations, forecasts, analysis fields, and models. The system should be compatible with the meteorological standards BUFR and GRIB (version 1 and 2). In addition to generic loading programs, WDB also features a flexible retrieval interface for retrieving weather data in time series or entire fields. WDB is built using PostgreSQL extended with PostGIS. Changes: This release contains minor maintenance of the WDB metadata.
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