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About: JPPF is a computational grid framework for Java focused on performance and ease of use. It provides a set of tools and APIs to enable the parallelization of CPU intensive applications, and distribute their execution over a network of heterogenous nodes. It features platform independence thanks to Java 1.5, does not require you to deploy your application classes to a server, scales up to millions of nodes, has a built-in fail-over mechanism on all the framework's components, and has a monitoring and administration GUI tool to enable remote monitoring of the server health and server shutdown/restart operations. Changes: Nodes can now be restarted or shut down remotely from the administration console or via the API. Tasks can be executed locally by the client, with automatic load-balancing between local and remote execution. The node security policy can be downloaded from the server for easier deployment. The nodes collect the CPU time used by the tasks.
About: system-config-printer configures a CUPS server. It uses the CUPS API (bound to Python with pycups) to do this. The communication with the server is performed using IPP. As a result, it is equally able to configure a remote CUPS server as a local one. Changes: Several bugfixes. User interface improvements for job authentication and selecting a PPD for a new printer.
About: Fakeroot-ng runs a program while fooling it into thinking it is running with root privileges. When the program does something that only root can do (e.g. create a device file), fakeroot-ng emulates the appropriate system calls so that the program gets a consistent view of its actions. Unlike the original fakeroot, fakeroot-ng uses the ptrace interface, which means that it will (soon) support emulating chroot jails properly. Changes: This release allows attaching to an existing state from a new invocation. There are speedups in the build system and other improvements.
About: Directory Recursive Files is a Java library that finds all files in a root directory and all its sub-folders. It is very easy to use from other Java projects or programs.
About: PhpGedView parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on the Internet in formats and charts. It is designed to be a tool for online collaboration. All it requires to run is a PHP-enabled Web server and a Gedcom file. Changes: This is a maintenance release that includes many bugfixes and important security updates. It is highly recommended that all sites upgrade.
About: GTK, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces. It is designed to be small and efficient, but still flexible enough to allow the programmer freedom in the interfaces created. GTK provides some unique features over standard widget libraries. Changes: Many bugs were fixed. Translations were updated.
About: GNU SIP Witch is a pure SIP-based office telephone call server that supports generic phone system features like call forwarding, hunt groups and call distribution, call coverage and ring groups, holding, and call transfer, as well as offering SIP specific capabilities such as presence and messaging. It supports secure telephone extensions for making calls over the Internet, and intercept/decrypt-free peer-to-peer audio and video extensions. It is not a SIP proxy, a multi-protocol telephone server, or an IP-PBX, and does not try to emulate Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, or Yate. Changes: An RTP proxy engine API in the core library was started. New plugins were started for support of residential VoIP subscriber gateways and transparent RTP proxy for supporting secure calling when behind NAT by peer interconnect classification. Support for reinvite and SIP transaction relaying was added. CGI extraction of call logs was added.
About: Cyan Secure Web Proxy Server is a carrier grade, high performance Internet filtering proxy server for Linux. It includes scalable (user/group/host) Web filter and virus scan utilities for blocking malicious applications at the gateway. It has an advanced URL database, authentication support (Active Directory, LDAP, NTLM), SSL Interception, easy deployment, and remote administration. Changes: An IP cache for NTLM authentication was implemented. User and Group reload handling was modified. Problems with Active Directory authentication were fixed. Problems with non-SSL data tunneling were fixed.
About: Siege is a regression test and benchmark utility. It can stress test a single URL with a user defined number of simulated users, or it can read many URLs into memory and stress them simultaneously. The program reports the total number of hits recorded, bytes transferred, response time, concurrency, and return status. Siege supports HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 protocols, GET and POST directives, cookies, transaction logging, and basic authentication. Its features are configurable on a per user basis. Changes: This release fixes a bug that prevented digest authentication from being set on a realm by realm basis.
About: Autobuild is a package that processes output from building software, primarily focused on packages using Autoconf and Automake, and generates HTML summaries. The output includes project name, version, build host types, build host name, and indication of success or failure. The output is indexed in many ways to simplify browsing. Changes: The quick summary was enhanced to contain build status. A new script was added for uploading files to Compaq Testdrive, abput-testdrive. A new "status" value, "built", was added to indicate that a build succeeded. autobuild.m4 now use $AB_PACKAGE and $AB_VERSION for package/versions. The license was changed to the GPLv3.
About: pdfposter can be used to create a large poster by building it from multple pages and/or printing it on large media. It expects as input a PDF file, normally printing on a single page. The output is again a PDF file, maybe containing multiple pages together, thus building the poster. The input page will be scaled to obtain the desired size. This is much like poster does for Postscript files, but works with PDF instead, since sometimes poster does not like your files converted from PDF. Indeed, pdfposter was inspired by poster. Changes: This version fixes a minor bug: in multi-page documents, rotation was wrong for all pages except the first.
About: Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor with a UI that resides in the GNOME systray or on the Windows desktop. It informs you in realtime about the status of your Nagios monitored network. Changes: The missing licensing information was added. Windows integration was improved.
About: Help Desk Reloaded is a Web-based helpdesk customer support system. Its users can quickly log help desk tickets, and customer support representatives can track calls, assign priorities, etc. Changes: This update corrects problems with the property management system as well as a few minor issues with other files in the help desk.
About: Hastymail is a fast, secure, RFC-compliant, cross- platform IMAP/SMTP client application providing a clean Web interface for sending and reading email. It is designed for speed and is small but offers a useful feature set making for an excellent tool for users when away from their desktop client. No frames, cookies, or javascript support is required, and a wide range of browsers is supported (including text based and even PDA browsers like Blazer). Changes: Hastymail2 is a complete rewrite of the original Hastymail. The code base is completely refactored, has a lightweight AJAX update system, mobile device support, a flexible and evolving plugin API, PHP based templates, CSS themes, and more. Many issues have been resolved.
About: GPLD (Gnu PHP Link Directory) is a DMOZ-style, Web-based link directory application. Gnu PHP Link Directory is a continuation of the PHP Link Directory 2.1 codebase, which was licensed under the GPL, although the 3.x versions are now offered only under a proprietary license.
About: Vigilo is a complete supervision solution based on Nagios, RRDTool, SEC, and Nagvis. All those components have been integrated together. Changes: A Dashboard (events viewer) component has been published. The SupNavigator has been updated, and a few bugs were fixed.
About: TUTOS (The Ultimate Team Organization Software) is a groupware, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planing), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), and PLM (Project Lifecycle Management) suite that helps small to medium teams manage various things in one place. Its features include personal and group calendars, an address book, product and project management, bug tracking, installation management, a task list, notes, files, mailboxes, and useful links between all of the above. Changes: Bugs were fixed. This release introduces some new modules like a counter and a stuff module (i.e. inventory). There is also a new standard way to create backups and to manage the customization of displayed text. A ready-to-run VM appliance was added.
About: msx-emul is a simple MSX(-1) emulator. It currently only supports "screen 0" (the 40/80x24 ascii screen) and "screen 2", memory mappers, msx-dos megarom and konami 5 megarom, printer, rudimentary audio, and almost complete keyboard emulation. It is mainly designed for testing the z80ex ZiLOG z80 emulation library.
About: LightWeight Time Tracker (LWTT) is a very simple time-tracking program. It provides independent real-time tracking of multiple tasks (such as programming, presentations, lectures, etc.). The data are saved to an XML file under the home directory. Changes: Very simple price calculation (based on price per hour) has been added.
About: Mausezahn is a fast traffic generator which allows you to send nearly every possible and impossible packet. Mausezahn can be used, for example, as a traffic generator to stress multicast networks, for penetration testing of firewalls and IDS, for simulating DoS attacks on networks, to find bugs in network software or appliances, for reconnaissance attacks using ping sweeps and port scans, or to test network behavior under strange circumstances. Mausezahn gives you full control over the network interface card and allows you to send any byte stream you want (even violating Ethernet rules). Changes: The tarball supports easier building of the binary via cmake. Furthermore, Mausezahn has now been licensed clearly under the GPLv2 (there was some confusion in the previous version). The Syslog protocol is now supported. Minor bugs have been fixed.
About: PureCM is an integrated version control and defect tracking tool. Based on the concept of changesets that represent tasks, it provides developers with an easy to use and highly transparent GUI to improve teamwork. It outperforms most other SCM tools, uses a reliable transactional database, and is scalable to thousands of concurrent developers. The server, GUI, command line, and Web clients runs on Windows, Linux, Unix, and Mac OS. Changes: An Eclipse plugin was added. A CruiseControl.NET plugin was added. Shelving was improved so that you can checkpoint unfinished work on the server or pass it to colleagues for completion without integration into the codeline. Management of shared components was simplified. Visual diffing and merging of MS Word files was implemented.
About: Reverse Snowflake Joins is a tool that parses SQL Select statements and generates a diagram. In addition to joins, the diagram shows parts of the underlying SQL directly in the diagram. For example x=30, GROUP BY (year), SUM(profit), HAVING MIN(age) > 18. Changes: A simple graphical interface was added.
About: GRIA is Grid middleware that enables use of the Grid in a secure, interoperable and flexible manner. It makes use of business models, processes, and semantics to allow resource owners and users to discover each other and negotiate terms for access to high-value resources. It implements an overall business process to find, procure and utilise resources capable of carrying out high-value, expert-assisted computations. By focusing on business processes and the associated semantics, it enables users to provision for their computational needs more cost effectively, and develop new business models for some of their services. Services from different providers can be combined together to create applications using a simple and easy-to-use API. Changes: Significant enhancements were made to the Client API. Support was improved for client application integration (e.g. portals) and for client orchestration of complex federation scenarios. GRIA now supports the ability to dynamically discover token sources and chain multiple token issuance requests automatically. .NET client applications can be integrated directly with the GRIA client's Java API using IKVM. A new Microsoft Active Directory (Kerberos) single-sign-on service was added to the client management package.
About: Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MySQLi and PostgreSQL. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework. Changes: Only fixes for security vulnerabilities and other bugs have been committed. There are no new features. Sites are urged to upgrade immediately after reading the security announcement.
About: Lbunzip2 is a multi-threaded bunzip2 filter (a parallel bzip2 decompressor) that doesn't depend on the lseek() system call and so isn't restricted to regular files. Its only command line argument is the number of decompressor threads. It should be able to decompress valid bzip2 streams on the fly, i.e. statistically anything that bunzip2 itself can decompress. Bzip2 streams created with a different block size than 900k seem to be supported, too. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbunzip2 was 42% faster (based on wall clock time) than standard bunzip2. Changes: After running lbunzip2 on the bz2 test material of CERT-FI 20469, a bug was fixed where a worker (decompressor) thread could get into an infinite loop, spinning until finally outrunning the multiplexer thread, then consuming all available memory and exiting.
About: EJBCA is a fully functional Certificate Authority in Java using J2EE technology. It builds on the J2EE platform to create a robust, high performance, platform independent, flexible, and component-based CA to be used standalone or integrated in any J2EE app. EJBCA comes with a flexible and powerful Web-based admin GUI. Changes: Improvements were made to the External OCSP responder with more configuration options and Audit and Account logging. A new documentation feature was added, with on-line documentation deployed in the Web interface by default. Lots of improvements were made to the Admin-GUI with configuration for autogenerated passwords. A lot of small GUI bugs and quirks were fixed. A failover mechanism was added for the LDAP publisher. A tool for importing certificates from MS CA was added. Lots of small bugs were fixed.
About: Cherokee is a very fast, flexible, and easy to configure Web server. It supports widespread technologies: FastCGI, SCGI, PHP, CGI, TLS and SSL encrypted connections, virtual hosts, authentication, on the fly encoding, load balancing, Apache compatible log files, and much more. It also provides an easy to use configuration interface that allows you to configure the server from top to bottom without editing a text configuration file.
About: Astaro Security Linux is an all-in-one network security gateway that includes a firewall, intrusion protection, virus protection, spam protection, URL filtering, and a VPN gateway. Features include stateful packet inspection, deep packet filtering, intrusion detection and prevention, portscan detection, content filtering, virus detection for email and Web traffic, profile handling, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP, SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. The WebAdmin, the Install Wizard, and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update. Changes: Besides some small fixes for remote access, the ACC device agent, and email backend, most changes were cosmetic in this RC2.
About: PySchoolClock is an alarm clock that checks your local school closing listings on the Internet. If your school is closed, the alarm clock lets you sleep in. Changes: This release has a very basic GUI. Most of the source code has been put inside a class, and reliance on global variables has been removed. The documentation has been updated to cover the new GUI. The readme file and the quickstart guide have been merged.
About: The Zapping VBI (zvbi) library provides routines to read from raw Vertical Blanking Interval capture devices, to demodulate raw to sliced VBI data, and to interpret the data of several popular services. Basically, it offers all the functionality needed by a VBI application except for the UI. Changes: This version adds a new tool zvbi-atsc-cc to record Closed Captioning from ATSC digital TV. It supports legacy NTSC captions (EIA/CEA 608-B) and DTVCC (CEA 708-C).
About: sws was born out a project requirement for a small universal Web server that could run on any POSIX platform to serve static content. Since it is written in /bin/sh it should run on any BSD/GNU-Linux/Unix system. It has been tested on FreeBSD, Solaris, and Debian GNU/Linux. Installation consists of putting the program somewhere, making it executable, creating the document directory, and creating an entry in inetd.conf. sws requires /bin/sh, dirname, cat, and date to function. These should be found on any modern POSIX system.
About: Mosait creates photographic mosaics from a database of pictures.
About: MyNmap is a tool that uses Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Perl (designed to run on Linux, BSD, or other Unix clones) to display nmap network scan data for large networks. It is/has been used at organizations to regularly scan thousands of hosts with positive results. It has the ability to show changes over time (what is new or what has disappeared). It can display grids of what ports are available based on network, operating system, ports in common, etc. It can perform scheduled scans and export reports in CSV.
About: AVScan is an anti-virus scanner that uses the ClamAV library (libclamav). It allows you to create a list of scan items for frequently scanned locations and features on-demand virus database updating, manual drag and drop object scanning, and pausing and resuming of scanning, all in a simple GUI environment. Changes: The GtkMenuBar layout has been rearranged. The scanner operations module has been updated for ClamAV 0.93.3.
About: Joystick control is a simple tool that lets you control popular media applications using your joystick. All you need to tell it is which joystick device you want to use. Optionally, you can specify priorities for your applications so that when one is not running, the program automatically directs joystick commands to the running application highest on the list. Changes: This release has moved to distutils instead of autotools. It has been upgraded to PyGTK 2.10 and new status icon code. The window is resizable. This release has been tested with the latest software stack.
About: gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels and business cards for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you'll find at most office supply stores.
About: openModeller is a C++ framework providing a uniform method to model distribution patterns using a variety of algorithms. It can be used to predict species potential distribution based on a set of georeferenced occurrence points and a set of environmental layers. Changes: This release contains a new Maximum Entropy algorithm with two training methods (Generalized Iterative Scaling and Limited-Memory Variable Metric), new command line tools (om_points to retrieve occurrence data using any of the available drivers and om_algorithm to get information about the available algorithms), and new drivers to read occurrence data from the GBIF REST Web service, TAPIR/DarwinCore providers, or openModeller serialized XML. The GARP Best Subsets algorithm now accepts the "max threads" parameter that can be used to speed up the modeling process in multi-processor machines.
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