Visifire is a set of data visualization components powered by Microsoft Silverlight. It lets you create and embed visually stunning animated Silverlight Charts within minutes. Visifire is easy to use and independent of the server side technology. It can be used with ASP, ASP.Net, PHP, JSP, ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, or just simple HTML. Visifire’s unique features are visually stunning animated charts, the ability to be embedded into any Web page in minutes, a tiny footprint (140 KB), and enterprise grade features.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Changes in the visifire.js file related to the plugin background property.
Linux LiveCD Router turns any old PC into a router, firewall, QoS traffic control, and VPN appliance and lets you speed up your Internet connection. It does not require installation and supports inexpensive hardware such as USB and PCMCIA WiFi and Ethernet cards.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release updates iptables to version 1.4.0, and shorewall firewall to version 3.4.8. It updates support for multi-ISP, packet shaping, and traffic control in shorewall. The old wondershaper script can still be used as an option.
Lbzip2 is a Pthreads-based parallel bzip2/bunzip2 filter, passable to GNU tar with the –use-compress-program option. It isn’t restricted to regular files on input, nor output. Successful splitting for decompression isn’t guaranteed, just very likely (failure is detected). Splitting in both modes and compression itself occur with an approximate 900k block size. On an Athlon-64 X2 6000+, lbzip2 was 92% faster than standard bzip2 when compressing, and 45% faster when decompressing (based on wall clock time). Lbzip2 strives to be portable by requiring UNIX 98 APIs only, besides an unmodified libbz2.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The decompressor was redesigned: all CPU-bound operations were moved into the worker threads, so that now, besides the muxer, the splitter is purely I/O-bound too. Lbzip2 supports tracing its memory allocation with the new “-t” option. Both the compressor and decompressor were retested.
mididings is a MIDI router and processor for ALSA
or JACK MIDI. It’s implemented as a Python module,
thereby offering a powerful and flexible means to
set up patches, while the actual MIDI processing
code is written in C++.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a bug that caused events to not be processed properly under certain circumstances.
Igelle is a Linux-based operating system
distribution that is designed to run on various
different devices, including desktop/laptop
computers, cellular phones, mobile internet
devices, and other handheld computers. As much as
reasonably possible, it aims to produce the same
user experience across all supported platforms.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release is delivered in desktop, server and handheld editions for Intel x86 and ARM architectures. The usability, feel and functionality of the system have all greatly improved from previous versions, and numerous applications and software components have been added.
Data Crow is a movie, video, book, image, software, and music cataloger/media manager. Data Crow uses MusicBrainz, Amazon, IMDb, and many other Web services to retrieve the information for you. It is highly customizable, easy to use, and feature rich. It helps you to keep track of your loans, allows you to create reports, enables you to create your own modules (using wizards) and, most importantly, enables you to easily manage all your collections.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A loan functionality fix.
bigtinker is overloaded with applets for
rwdtinker, the core application for a Ruby
application framework using the RubyWebDialogs
GUI. Rwdtinker provides a system for developing
programs, and uses a Web-based interface. It
allows a developer to combine and create applets
to implement an application. It features built-in
bug report submission, a test framework, and
context-sensitive help. Bigtinker can run shell
commands under Linux, use a calculator, build
scripts of math commands, run Ruby commands in a
browser, show a calendar, use an address book,
look up word definitions, run a Unix fortune
program, and read Gutenberg books. It includes a
hello world application to help in building your own.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release has fixes for applet loading, is updated for rwdtinker 1.76, and has refactored GUI file locations. The location of rwd files has been changed to the lib folder.
rwdtinker is the core application for a Ruby
application framework using the RubyWebDialogs
GUI. It provides a system for developing programs,
and uses a Web-based interface. It allows a
developer to combine and create applets to
implement an application. It features built-in bug
report submission, remote control with UDP ports,
a test framework, and context-sensitive help.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release has fixes for applet loading. It has been updated for rwdtinker 1.76. It has refactored GUI file locations. The location of the rwd files has changed to the lib folder.
Ember is a 3d client for the WorldForge project.
It uses the Ogre 3d graphics library for
presentation and CEGUI for its GUI system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release incorporates the results from the three Google Summer of Code projects. The entity creator is greatly expanded, with scripting functionality, thereÂ’s now proper support for terrain modifiers, and thereÂ’s a working sound system in place.
jammag writes “When Linux journalist Bruce Byfield tried to dig for details about the security breach in Fedora’s servers, a Red Hat publicist told him the official statement — written in non-informative corporate-speak — was all he would get. In the wake of Red Hat’s tight-lipped handling of the breach, even Fedora’s board was unhappy, as Byfield details. He concludes: ‘If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies — especially publicly-traded ones — will act any better?’”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer using multiple
sources like files, folders, Flickr community, and
Yahoo! It runs under Linux and Win32 (Mac OS X
support is in progress). Supported Linux window
managers are GNOME, KDE3, XFCE4, BlackBox,
FluxBox, Window Maker, and FVWM (experimental).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A Panoramio plugin has been added. Flickr images are now rotated correctly, if needed. Sending the quit command immediately before a background change doesn’t generate a segfault anymore. An HTTP transfer aborts if it takes too long. Internal search is now limited by HTTP result count. Play/Pause now works correctly.
Presage (formerly known as Soothsayer) is an intelligent predictive text entry platform. It exploits redundant information embedded in natural languages to generate predictions. Its modular and pluggable architecture allows its language model to be extended and customized to utilize statistical, syntactic, and semantic information sources.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release is able to learn “on the fly” from the context and the text currently being entered. The smoothed n-gram predictive plugin dynamically learns from the current context, while generating new predictions. This release provides better predictions by incrementally increasing the depth of prediction generation, and incorporates several bugfixes to the context changes detection code. It includes a new dejavu predictive plugin, and a new GTK application whose aim is to augment any other application with presage predictive functionality.
The Objective-C Foundation Classes is an Objective-C
library. It contains general purpose classes for easier
development of applications, in areas such as data types,
collections, network, C library wrappers, and compound
classes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
In this release, the library is accompanied by small code examples for most classes. Besides that, there is one new class: a distributed random generator. There are bugfixes in four classes, and two classes are extended with a new method.
Hyperic HQ is systems management software designed for the next generation data center integrating all of the Web infrastructure technologies, including virtualization, Apache, IIS, WebSphere, LAMP, WAMP, JBoss, WebLogic, and more. HQ’s design is meant to deliver on the promise of a single integrated management portal capable of managing unlimited types of technologies in environments that range from small business IT departments to the operations groups of today’s largest financial and industrial organizations.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This major release provides improvements and additions across all the primary activities. IT Operators need to provide the highest availability and performance of their Web applications. There is a new Agent Launcher. The search button allows you to open a search panel on any page in the HQ user interface. An improved Dashboard. A JMX MBean console. A new HQ API. More management plugins: Citrix XenServer, Exchange 2007, IBM MQ, VMware 3i/3.5, and Zimbra 5. Data model changes. Filtered search.
Recovery Is Possible (RIP) is a CD or USB
boot/rescue/backup/maintenance system. It has
support for many filesystem types (Reiserfs,
Reiser4, Ext2/3/4, HFS+, ISO-9660, UDF, XFS, JFS,
UFS2, CIFS, MS DOS, NTFS, and VFAT) and contains
several utilities for system recovery. It also has
IDE/SCSI/SATA, RAID, LVM2, and Ethernet/DSL/cable
network support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Some software was updated, and atl1e and atl2 NIC driver support was added to the kernel.
jWorkSheet is a desktop personal time tracker
for your projects. Data are presented in a
spreadsheet-like format. The application offers
some completed work sheet reports, but you can create your own user reports with XSL transformations.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Application launching for JRE 5.0 was fixed. The library UJO Framework has been upgraded to 0.80 . The JavaDoc documentation was improved. The home page was moved.
dwm is a fast and simple window manager for X11.
It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts.
Either layout can be applied dynamically,
optimizing the environment for the application in
use and the task performed. Windows can be tagged
with one or multiple tags. Selecting certain tags
displays all windows that are accordingly tagged.
dwm is the little brother of wmii.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
This release contains major bugfixes and some code polishing. It fixes aspect ratio handling, and is more strict about result checks regarding various Xlib calls.
m2vmp2cut is frame accurate (currently PAL) MPEG2 video
(M2V file) with accompanied MP2 audio cutter. Frame
accuracy is achieved by re-encoding video around cutpoints.
Audio is cut from a separate MP2 file at positions that keep
A/V sync as good as possible (maximum sync difference is
around 10-15 milliseconds compared to the source).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes seeking to offset zero (-sb 0) in the m2vtoyuv command.
pjsip is a multimedia communication library based on the SIP protocol.
It is integrated with a rich media and a NAT traversal library
supporting the ICE protocol. It is very portable and has a small
footprint for embedded use.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes some bugs in the previous release candidate 1, such as an error in building the Python module, an error in adding a new buddy in the incoming SUBSCRIBE callback, not enough buffer for the RTCP SDES packet when a very low bitrate codec is being used, and an assertion in ICE when the endpoint is not behind NAT.
SNAKES is the Net Algebra Kit for Editors and
Simulators. It is a Python library that provides
all that is necessary to define and execute many
sorts of Petri nets, in particular those of the
PBC and M-nets family. Its main aims are to be a
general Petri net library, being able to cope with
most Petri nets models, and providing the
researcher with a tool to quickly prototype new ideas.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
PNML is now fully supported (import and export). The module compiler has been completely rewritten in order to provide more generality and flexibility. Several bugs have been fixed, and the code has been cleaned up. Python 2.4 is not supported anymore.
Pronto is a framework consisting of
loosely-coupled layers designed to handle the
mundane elements of Web development without
sacrificing the developer’s overall control of the
project. It is a PHP4/PHP5 MVC framework that
supports robust dispatching, CRUD scaffolding,
transparent data caching, i18n, flexible ACLs, and
much more.
GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copies
data from one file or block device (hard disc,
cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data
in case of read errors. GNU ddrescue does not
truncate the output file if not asked to. So,
every time you run it on the same output file, it
tries to fill in the gaps. The basic operation of
GNU ddrescue is fully automatic. That is, you
don’t have to wait for an error, stop the program,
read the log, run it in reverse mode, etc. If you
use the logfile feature of GNU ddrescue, the data
is rescued very efficiently (only the needed blocks are read). Also you can interrupt the rescue at any time and resume it later at the same point.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
The new option “–domain-logfile” has been added. This release is also available in lzip format. To download the lzip version, just replace “.bz2″ with “.lz” in the tar.bz2 package name.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the
LZMA algorithm, with very safe integrity checking
and a user interface almost identical to the one
of bzip2. Lzip is only a data compressor, not an
archiver. It has no facilities for multiple files,
encryption, or archive-splitting, but, in the Unix
tradition, relies instead on separate external
utilities such as GNU Tar for these tasks.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Some small efficiency improvements and documentation changes have been made.
Data profiling is the process of examining the
data available in existing data sources (e.g.
databases, applications, files, etc.) and
collecting statistics and information about this
data. Data profiling enables the assessment of the
quality level of the data contained in the
information system, according to a defined set of
metrics and goals. Talend Open Profiler allows
business users or data management staff to define
a set of indicators for each data element that
needs to be analyzed or monitored. It produces
sophisticated reports and graphs that let users
gauge at a glance the level of quality of the data
and the status of the indicators that were defined.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
The database structure can be refreshed. Support for DB2 and PostgreSQL has been added. The table analysis menu is now working correctly. The frequency table is now working correctly on Oracle. Indicator selection is easier with the ability to select all columns at once in the indicator selector pop-up window.
Clonezilla is a partition or disk cloning tool
similar to Symantec Ghost. It saves and restores
only blocks in use on the hard drive if the file
system is supported. For unsupported file systems,
dd is used instead. It has been used to clone a 5
GB system to 40 clients in about 10 minutes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The language files fr_FR and ja_JP were updated. There is better support for the Asus Eee PC. Some minor bugs were fixed.
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.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release adds a simple Web app based on CherryPy. An online demo is available.
Patch Check Advanced (pca) generates lists of
installed and missing patches for Sun Solaris
systems and optionally downloads patches. It
resolves dependencies between patches and
installs them in the correct order. It works on
all versions of Solaris and on both SPARC and x86.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
Checks for patches that are only partly installed have been added. A bug with missing patches with multiple versions of the same package has been fixed. Failed patch installs are logged to syslog. Minage option being one day off has been fixed. Certificates for HTTPS downloads from SunSolve and PCA home have been added. The code was simplified in several places. Patch handling has been added for several new patches.
