5 June 2011
Sous-marin Linux is a small, pure, individualized Slackware installation system using only scripts and a minimum of resources. Sous-marin's utilities allow you to create an installer CD and tagfiles, choose the minimum of pure Slackware packages you need, and then FTP/HTTP install the system over the Net. It also includes sous-marin tools, formerly SlackBash scripts. These tools allow you to analyze any Slackware installation for missing libraries, files not in packages, packages dependencies, and so forth.
Release Notes: The xserver version of sous-marin is now smaller (270Mb) than the console version (300Mb). Installation has a minimum of 88 packages for an X server, Vim, ncftp, lynx, SSH, and mailx. Adding a compiler, bootloader, slackpkg, wireless, a printer stack, and a smaller kernel brings it to only 116 packages.
PAGI is a PHP AGI (Asterisk Gateway Interface) facade with CDR (Call Detail Record), call spool and schedule auto dial, send and receive Fax, channel variables, and caller ID management.
Release Notes: Minor bugfixes and improved code coverage.
SpaceZero is a RTS 2D space combat game for two players over a network. The objective is to conquer the space, defeating all enemies. At the starting point, you have only one ship and one planet, but you have money to buy more ships to conquer more planets. All the ships can be controlled by the computer (automatic mode) or by the player (manual mode). You can easily change among your ships, controlling all of them independently.
Release Notes: This is a minor release with several bugfixes. It fixes a pause during order write, an issue where the client nickname was truncated to the last part, Queen autopilot still crashing the ship while landing, and towers always aiming at the enemy even if out of range.
Quarry is a multi-purpose GUI for different board games (at present Go, Amazons, and Othello). It allows users to play against computer players (third-party programs, e.g. GNU Go) and other humans, and view and edit game records. It supports SGF and uses GTP to communicate with game-playing engines.
Release Notes: This release makes the XML documentation follow the DTD properly, and suppresses messages on UGI import unless compiled with -DDEBUG.
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.
Release Notes: This release fixes a memory leak and updates Spanish, Argentinian Spanish, and Czech translations.
Network UPS Tools (also known as NUT) is an extremely powerful and versatile client/server based approach to UPS monitoring. Products from a wide range of vendors (APC, Belkin, Best Power, MGE, Tripp-Lite, etc.) are supported. A shared UPS can be monitored by one host, notifcations being sent to the other hosts via authenticated TCP connections. A Web interface is available, as is a Windows client.
Release Notes: This release definitely fixes the recent USB regression, distributes the Perl module, and adds many new devices, features, and bugfixes. 2.6.0 previously included the complete documentation revamping using AsciiDoc. This includes a new Web site, user manual, developer guide, packager guide, and manual pages, available in various formats (single and multiple pages HTML and PDF at the moment). Augeas support has been added too, along with many new devices, features, and bugfixes.
Mathomatic is a portable, general-purpose computer algebra system (CAS) that can solve, differentiate, simplify, combine, and compare algebraic equations, perform standard, complex number, modular, and polynomial arithmetic, etc. It does some calculus and is very easy to compile/install, learn, and use. The symbolic math application with a simple command-line interface is designed to be a colorful algebra calculator that is reliable, responsive, and convenient to use. The symbolic math library is lightweight and easy to include in other software, due to being written entirely in C with no additional dependencies.
Release Notes: The Mathomatic user documentation and help have been shaped up. The Mac and Windows versions now default to bold color mode. The directory structure was made proper for packaging. Standard debugging is now allowed when using the symbolic math library. Source code and license maintenance was completed.
uthash is a hash for C structures, allowing any C structure having a unique key field to be hashed. Structures can be added, deleted, or removed from the hash in constant time. The key field can have any data type.
Release Notes: This release includes support for MurmurHash v3, new utlist concatenation macros, utarray binary search, new utstring functionality, new documentation, and bugfixes.
QtitanDataGrid provides a complete set of wide range of unique features that cannot be implemented using default Qt components and methods. It is a pure grid for business application in Qt. It enables you to load various types of data from different sources into a fast, flexible, and functional editable grid supporting sorting, grouping, reporting, creation of banded columns, drag’n’drop for buttons, and plenty of other handy functions. This data grid helps novice and experienced Qt developers with Delphi and C++ backgrounds to use the same comprehensive advanced editable grid capabilities that they’ve grown accustomed to in corresponding IDEs and that are not part of the standard Qt library.
Release Notes: This version fixes several mission-critical errors and improves rendering of the grid's UI primitives if the Office2007/Ribbon styles is used.
The massXpert software package is a mass spectrometry environment for linear (bio-)polymers. It inherits all the innovations of GNU polyxmass. It allows the detailed definition of new polymer chemistries in the XpertDef module. These chemistry definitions are then used in the desktop calculator-like mass calculator (XpertCalc) and in the sophisticated polymer sequence editor and (bio-)chemical/mass spectrometric simulations module (XpertEdit). Available simulations include polymer and monomer chemical modifications, polymer sequence cleavage, gas-phase fragmentation, m/z ratio calculations, and more.
Release Notes: This release fixes a serious bug that seems to have appeared while upgrading the Qt library version. That bug would make the program crash when computing cleavage oligomers in "stacking oligomers" mode. It improves the way cleavage and mass calculation options are provided as feedback when selecting oligomers in the list of oligomers. It changes the cleavage oligomer display from a tree view to a table view, which is simpler both programmatically and functionally (for the user).
Eero is a binary-compatible variant of Objective-C 2.0, implemented with a patched version of the Clang/LLVM compiler. It features a streamlined syntax with improved readability and reduced code clutter, as well as new features such as Python-like indentation and a limited form of operator overloading. It is inspired by languages such as Smalltalk and Ruby.
Release Notes: Cast-like conversion operators between primitive data types and objects.
Podcasdl is a CLI application to schedule audio podcast downloads.
Release Notes: Initial freshmeat announcement.
dlib is a C++ library for developing portable applications dealing with networking, threads, graphical interfaces, data structures, linear algebra, machine learning, XML and text parsing, numerical optimization, Bayesian nets, and numerous other tasks.
Release Notes: This release has been focused mainly on usability and documentation improvements.
Seed7 is a general purpose programming language. It is a higher level language compared to Ada, C++, and Java. In Seed7, new statements and operators can be declared easily. Functions with type results and type parameters are more elegant than a template or generics concept. Object orientation is used when it brings advantages and not in places when other solutions are more obvious. Although Seed7 contains several concepts of other programming languages, it is generally not considered as a direct descendant of any other programming language.
Release Notes: Declarations were moved from "seed7_05.s7i" to new libraries. This libraries are included from "seed7_05.s7i", so this causes no change in existing programs. Declarations were moved between some libraries. Documentation comments were added or improved in various files. The function 'read_zip_dir' was added to the "zip.s7i" library. Checks for 'length', 'tell' and 'seek' with STD_NULL were added to "chkexc.sd7". The interpreter, compiler, and runtime library were improved to support searching for a string from a given position to the left. Checks for the function 'rpos' were added to "chkstr.sd7".
The Cainteoir Engine is a library for reading and recording different document formats (ePub, HTML, MHT, RTF, email, and others) to various audio output formats (such as PulseAudio, WAV, and Ogg/Vorbis). It also provides the following command-line tools: cainteoir, a front-end to the Cainteoir text-to-speech library; metadata, which extracts metadata from documents to RDF tuples; and tagcloud, which generates tag clouds and tag cloud data.
Release Notes: Support for email mbox format documents. Extracts title and language metadata from HTML documents. Does not crash when using the default voice (document does not specify a language). Does not output progress when recording audio to stdout.
JBit is small Java application for mobile phones (MIDlet) that gives you a programmable 8-bit microcomputer. With JBit, you can edit, save, run, and debug assembly (6502) programs directly on your phone. You can also develop a 6502 assembly application on your desktop and install it on any MIDP-enabled device.
Release Notes: The monitor now supports breakpoint and step out, and the I/O chip now provides tone generation and vibra.
web2ldap is a full-featured Web-based LDAPv3 client written in Python. It is designed to run either as with stand-alone built-in Web server or under the control of another Web server with FastCGI support (e.g. Apache with mod_fastcgi). It has support for various LDAPv3 bind methods and a powerful built-in schema browser. HTML templates are supported for displaying and editing entries, and LDIF templates can be used for quickly adding new entries. A built-in X.509 parser displays a detailed view of certificates and CRLs with active links.
Release Notes: Many fixes and improvements.
PyroScope is a collection of tools for the BitTorrent protocol and especially the rTorrent client. "pyrocore" is the component providing command line tools for automation of common tasks, like metafile creation, and controlling rTorrent via its XML-RPC interface. It also offers a documented API, with which these tools are implemented.
Release Notes: This release provides support for the unstable version 0.8.8 of rTorrent, easier configuration by providing a rtorrent.rc include with standard PyroScope additions, and a build script and patches for an extended distribution of rTorrent (rTorrent-PS). rTorrent-PS adds some new commands, backports of a few 0.8.8 features, and a colorized download list that can optionally be collapsed to a one line per item display.
morituri is a CD ripper that aims for accuracy over speed. Its features are modeled to compare with Exact Audio Copy on Windows. It features support for MusicBrainz for metadata lookup, support for AccurateRip verification, support for cdparanoia, detection of sample read offset of drives, the ability to test and copy a rip, the ability to detect and rip Hidden Track One Audio, templates for file and directory naming, and tagging using GStreamer. Currently, it only supports lossless encoding and only has a command line client.
Release Notes: UTF-8/Unicode handling fixes. Improved error handling. Ignore tags for ALAC and WAV. Workarounds for GStreamer flacparse bugs. A change in how paths are referenced in .cue files. Properly interprets AccurateRip results; no more assertions on unexpected ordering of results. A debug command has been added.
Tyrs is a Twitter and Identi.ca client based on ncurses. It is easily configurable. It allows you all basic manipulations such as searching, directly sending a message, and mentions. Tyrs let you configure all shortcuts, colors, and more parameters.
Release Notes: This is the first release supporting Identi.ca and Status.net, the same way that Tyrs does for Twitter.
Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard is a MIDI event generator and receiver. It doesn't produce any sound by itself, but can be used to drive a MIDI synthesizer (either hardware or software, internal or external). You can use the computer's keyboard or mouse to play MIDI notes. You can use the Virtual MIDI Piano Keyboard to display the played MIDI notes from another instrument or MIDI file player.
Release Notes: This release adds touch screen support (multi-touch) for all platforms, if it is supported by the OS and hardware. New RtMidi classes have been merged, which includes Jack MIDI support and a new network MIDI driver (UDP multicast) compatible with ipMIDI and QmidiNet. A Symbian^3 port has been made. There are new translations to Dutch and Swedish. A bug crashing the program when changing the octave base has been fixed.
fcppt (short for "Freundlich's C++ toolkit") is a C++ library with various classes and functions to make C++ development easier. It tries to fill in some gaps left by the Boost library and even implements some replacements for a few Boost components.
Release Notes: A lot of changes have gone into this release. Some of the most important ones are: container::tree can now use ptr semantics and has a proper copying infrastructure. The find module for cmake has been fixed to conform to cmake's coding standards. fcppt's installation directories can now be fine controlled. make_unique_ptr and make_shared_ptr have been changed to take their arguments by value.
cdrtools (formerly cdrecord) creates home-burned CDs/DVDs with a CDR/CDRW/DVD/BluRay recorder. It works as a burn engine for several applications. It supports CD/DVD/BD recorders from many different vendors; all SCSI-3/mmc- and ATAPI/mmc-compliant drives should also work. Supported features include IDE/ATAPI, parallel port, and SCSI drives; audio CDs, data CDs, and mixed CDs; full multi-session support; CD-RWs, DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, BD-R/BD-RE; and TAO, DAO, RAW, and human-readable error messages. cdrtools includes remote SCSI support and can access local or remote CD/DVD/BD writers.
Release Notes: Mkisofs now supports El Torito multi boot mode. Mkisofs now supports the ability to set arbitrary boot architectures (e.g. EFI) via the new option -eltorito-platform. Mkisofs now supports the ability to manually set the modification time that is recorded in the Primary Volume Descriptor via the new option -modification-date. This allows you to set arbitrary UUID values for grub.
WireframeSketcher is a software tool that helps product managers, designers, and developers quickly create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for desktop, Web, and mobile applications. It’s a standalone application and a plug-in for any Eclipse IDE.
Release Notes: This version adds support for Eclipse Indigo (3.7). It also adds better handling of sub-directories to organize user assets.
Remote Launcher is an easy to use tool that enables you to launch applications remotely on your PC via your Android device with a single click. It can also be used to start your PC up, even if it is turned off, with the built in support for Wake On LAN. It consists of an Android app and a small server program for your PC. You can configure Remote Launcher to start any application on your PC. For example, it can start your mediacenter, shutdown or restart the computer, or run a custom script.
Release Notes: A potential bug that could make the app freeze when the connection is lost was fixed. Links were added to the Market in the free version.
A program that parses METAR, TAF, SYNOP, and BUOY messages and stores them as XML.