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Buddi is a simple budgeting program targeted for
users with little or no financial background. It
allows users to set up accounts and categories,
record transactions, check spending habits, etc.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Enhanced performance and bugfixes.
Talend Open Studio is an ETL (Extract, Transform,
and Load) tool. Talend Open Studio can perform
jobs that range from datawarehouse feeding to
database synchronization, as well as file format
transformations. Its graphical interface is made
with Eclipse RCP, and data related scripts are
generated in Perl or Java. The application was
designed to be extended with components written by
users.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Features that were added for both Perl and Java include implicit parallel executions on iterate links, delimited/positional/regex field extractors, and memory usage reduction in SCD ETL components. Features added for Perl include SCD ELT for Sybase/DB2/PostgreSQL, a smart name parser, the ability to pipe an external command to data flow, a smart geographical address parser, a temporary files creator, and Firebird/PostgresPlus connectors. Features added for Java include Apache log reading, file properties, and SCD ELT for Oracle/MySQL.
eHour is a Web-based time registration tool for
project-based businesses. The primary objective is
to keep time tracking as simple as needed while
still being very effective at measuring and
reporting the amount of time your team spends on a
project. It is developed in Java (Spring and
Hibernate) with a MySQL backend.
License: Freeware
Changes:
This release fixes a problem with the list of projects on a timesheet (not all relevant projects were shown on a user's timesheet). This issue was introduced with version 0.8.
phpBMS is a Web-based billing, scheduling, and
client management system. Its features include PDF
generation for printing, mass emailing to clients,
repeatable task and event handling, and
quote/order/invoice tracking.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This is an minor enhancement and bug/security fix release. Enhancements include multiple address support, Google maps integration, and a better clairvoyant field picker.
JumpBox for Alfresco CMS is a JumpBox virtual
appliance for the Alfresco content management
system. Alfresco is an enterprise content
management (ECM) system that provides features for
document management, collaboration, records
management, knowledge management, Web content
management, and imaging. Alfresco has the goal of
providing an ECM system that surpasses commercial
ECMs in terms of features, functionality, and
benefits to the user community.
License: Free To Use But Restricted
Changes:
A backup related bug has been fixed. This bug prevented backups of large application datasets. If you are using an older version and can't back up, a workaround is available. The Xen configuration has been modified to safely accomodate the new disk layout. The target platform is Open Source Xen in HVM mode. HVM is required.
jWorkSheet is a desktop time tracker application
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:
Better performance of data saving thanks to UJO Framework release 0.74.final. Various small improvements (reports, GUI, and parameter descriptions) were made. An exception during "Detail report in a table format" on Java 5.0 was fixed.
MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written
entirely in assembler. It's not intended to to
become a fully-fledged general purpose OS.
Instead, it's designed for learning basic OS
design and x86 assembly language. Consequently, it
runs in 16-bit mode (for BIOS access) and has very
low system requirements. It features rudimentary
DOS compatibility.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
A build script for OpenBSD was added. Various small updates have been made to the Handbook, and cosmetic fixes have been made to the source code and comments.
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:
An iptables bugfix. A himem bugfix. This release uses OpenVPN 2.1_rc4 and a new ethernet bonding module.
p@rdalys provides the full configuration set for
the Kolab Server and is based on puppet. Besides
the configuration data, it provides Ruby
extensions to puppet.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
The initial project release is primarily meant to provide a basic package so that an ebuild for the Kolab2/Gentoo project can be prepared.
WebGraph is a framework for studying web graphs.
It provides simple methods for managing very large
graphs by exploiting modern compression
techniques.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A major bug was introduced for labeled graphs in 2.4. It has been fixed.
DSSH was written as a direct replacement for the
OpenSSH client. It adds SSH over SSH tunneling
capabilities (for example, to log in to a network
hidden by a firewall), scripting support (using
Groovy), an advanced agent (which allows storing
of passwords) and "su -" interactive logging for
machines that have disabled direct root login. All
of this was done to enable automated scripting and
logging to many machines based on a few simple
rules. It uses the Ganymed SSH library (slightly
patched).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a bug in RSA key authentication, and has several portability fixes for new JREs (mainly for Mac OS X).
Solido Smtp Proxy is an in-memory SMTP proxy which
offers high performance load balancing and
securing of backend mail servers.
License: Other/Proprietary License
Changes:
This release adds a rewrite of buffer handling that provides a lower memory footprint and better performance when dealing with large email messages.
Rats! is a parser generator for C-like languages
(though currently it only generates parsers in Java). It has been designed so that grammars are concise and easily extensible. To this end, grammars are organized into modules that can be easily changed by adding, removing, or modifying alternatives in individual productions and composed with each other through module parameters. Furthermore, it relies on ordered choices to avoid ambiguities, supports syntactic predicates for unlimited lookahead, and integrates lexing with parsing. Finally, it has extensive support for automatically generating abstract syntax trees, thus greatly reducing the need for explicit semantic actions.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a variety of bugs across the entire code base.
Cleverbox provides an interactive command line
shell dedicated to the deployment and maintenance
of Trac and Subversion instances. It can handle
multiple configuration profiles, enabling the
deployment of differently flavored types of
projects (Trac configuration and permissions,
Apache configuration templates, etc). The
project's main objective is to make your life as
simple as possible. Thus, it comes with easy
installation, easy upgrades, and a comprehensive
documentation.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
This release will work if the trac-admin script is in a non-standard location. The Trac version dependency in setup.py has been fixed. For the Debian package, binary-install actions should go in the postinst file, and 'python-setuptools' has been added to build dependencies.
Mylyn-Mantis Repository Connector is an eclipse
Mylyn Repository plugin for the Mantis Bug
Tracking application using the Mantis Connect SOAP
interface.
MOSIX is a management system targeted for high
performance computing on Linux clusters and multi-cluster organizational grids. In MOSIX, there is no need to modify or link applications with any library, copy files or login to remote nodes, or even
assign processes to different nodes. It is all
done automatically, similar to a single computer
with multiple processors; just fork and forget.
License: Free For Educational Use
Changes:
A new "mosctl shutdown" option. "mosrun -[E|M] -i" has been added, improving input redirection for batch jobs. Direct communication supports the writev() system call. There are some bugfixes.
Rank Tracker Enterprise is a rankings monitoring
tool for webmasters and SEOs who need to monitor
keywords in major search engines. It generates
illustrative reports in HTML/PDF format
containing rankings, KEIs, and lots of other
relevant analytical data, tracks an unlimited
number of sites, supports regional versions of
Google, Yahoo!, and MSN, and creates attractive
graphs.
License: Shareware
Changes:
Greatly enhanced search safety. More regional versions of Google, Yahoo!, and MSN. Import from other SEO software. A new keyword suggestion mechanism.
Madagascar (formerly known as RSF) is a software package for geophysical data processing and reproducible numerical experiments. Its mission is to provide a convenient and powerful environment and a convenient technology transfer tool for researchers working with digital image and data processing. The technology developed using the Madagascar project management system is transferred in the form of recorded processing histories, which become "computational recipes" to be verified, exchanged, and modified by users of the system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Multiple structural changes and new "reproducible research" papers.
Eyes Of Lynx is a Web-based application that allows you to share, examine, and manage your photo albums. It's designed to be fast, intuitive, and very powerful. Its key features include an original and innovative interface, zoom
and rotation tools, auto-rotation of photos when an orientation is provided in EXIF data (information stored by digital cameras), a cache of images in a smaller/intermediate size to
increase display and loading speeds, thumbnail image navigation, and more.
License: Affero General Public License
Changes:
New features include a new box in the sidebar to display some information about the current image, a new theme called "Carbon", tooltips for icons and sub-albums in the album "Icon View", multilingual support (currently English and French), scrolling with mouse wheel in the carousel, an option for "mouse wheel action on image" in preferences, and auto-hiding of the navigation bar when there is no mouse activity. The loading of thumbnails was greatly improved. Code was ported to use the 1.2 release of MooTools.
Virt-df is a df implementation for virtual guests.
The program is meant to be run on the host or dom0
to display disk space used and available on all
partitions within all guests. There is no need to
run any software or agent inside the guests. It is
compatible with most Linux and Windows guests.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
This release understands Linux ext2/3, Windows
NTFS, DOS FAT32, Linux LVM, and primary/extended
partitions.
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The command-line option -S was fixed to actually work. GC bugs in SQLite bindings and other rare finalization bugs were fixed. The JIT compiler was fixed. More fixes were made for MinGW compilation. Generational GC is now disabled on Alpha. gst-load has a new command-line option -i to build an image from scratch with preloaded packages. URLs can be passed to FileDescriptor class>>#open:mode:ifFail:. New methods were backported from the development versions. A system-installed libffi can be used and the included libffi has been upgraded to version 3.0.4.
GNU Smalltalk is a free implementation of the Smalltalk-80 language.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Bindings to Cairo and LibSDL were contributed. The
order for searching pool dictionaries was changed
to a new one that will have less surprising
results in some cases. Processes support
thread-local variables. To facilitate the creation
of library bindings, CObjects can be backed with
garbage-collected (as opposed to heap-allocated)
storage. The VFS subsystem was rewritten; the new
implementation is inspired by the Ruby Rio
library. Finally, if possible, the installation is
made relocatable.
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:
Several bugs were fixed for interacting with other
CVS clients.
GENPO (GENeral Purpose Organ) is a program which replicates the essential features of any pipe, theatre, or reed organ. It reads a description of an organ (a .org XML file) and presents a suitable user interface for operating that organ. There are a number of high quality organ "SoundFonts" freely available and the .org file maps the stop sounds to organ manuals and stops. Other facilities such and couplers and presets are available. You may connect one or more MIDI keyboards to GENPO to provide the organ manuals, and you can even assign one to be the 'pedalboard' if so desired.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
One bug was fixed where unexpected MIDI Program
Change events from an external source were causing
a crash. Also, notice that the source is licensed
under the GPL 3 now appears in all source files,
so packaging for distributions should now be
possible.
Jubler is a tool for editing text-based subtitles. It can be used an an authoring software for new subtitles or as a tool to convert, transform, correct, and refine existing subtitles. Some of its key features are subtitle preview, smooth cooperation with MPlayer, full subtitle editing, and ASpell support.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The user interface was improved. The preview
interface was integrated inside the main Jubler
window. The subtitle number is now visible, if
desired. Preset file encodings are used. The
affected subtitles are displayed visually with
color. Waveform visualization was maximized. AAC
audio streams are supported.
dotCMS is a complete J2EE Web CMS/CRM system that
is built into a JSR-168-compatible portal. dotCMS
is intended to bridge the gap between the PHP CMS
offerings and the J2EE document management
solutions with bolted on Web CMS. It offers a rich
structured content engine, content widgets and
macros, customer management, user tracking, click
path reporting, eMarketing list management,
eNewsletter/email campaign managers, and a Web 2.0
calendar of events.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Over 300 improvements and fixes were made. The
package now includes a full starter site with
example templates, CSS, widgets, and a Web 2.0
calendar. LDAP integration was improved. Tomcat
was upgraded to 6.0. i18n is supported.
Performance enhancements were made. Sitewide
import/export functionality was made. Numerous new
widgets and macros were added to provide rich
content functionality.
peekabot is a versatile 3D visualization tool
targeted at robotics researchers and developers.
It's multi-platform, general purpose, easily
extendable, scalable, and does not depend on any
other frameworks to function. It also provides
some functionality for interacting with your
robots using the GUI. You can test your algorithms
in both simulated and real environments. The only
requirement is that the device can use TCP/IP.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The biggest change in this release is a wholly new
object-oriented client API which is both more
powerful and easier to work with. It also includes
numerous bugfixes and internal enhancements, as
well as support for concave and self-intersecting
polygons, updated user documentation, and more.
The goal of the Pango project is to provide an Open Source framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text. It uses Unicode for all of its encoding, and will eventually support output in all the world's major languages.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
The behavior of pango_break() for Unicode text was
improved, and a new public API was added for it.
Several bugs were fixed.
svnauthcheck checks the syntax of a subversion
authorization file and generates Apache-like
permission specifications to be used by other
tools such as ViewVC. svnauthcheck, in combination
with subversion pre- and post-commit hooks, can be
used to delegate the administration of a
repository authorization to the end users.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
It is now possible to use the --user option to
check for accidental lock-outs in conjunction with
--subtree.
ImdbPHP provides an API to the movie information
stored at the IMDB.COM sites. As this and the name
suggests, it is primarily targeted at PHP
programmers who want to extend their programs or
their site with this movie information.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
There is a new method to retrieve the reason for
the current rating. The new imdb_person class
allows you to retrieve data for staff members,
like date and place of birth/death and
filmographies. Furthermore, a small fix lets the
staff member methods of the imdb class return the
correct IMDB ID (without the leading "nm").
QtiPlot is a clone of Origin for data analysis and
scientific plotting.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Autocompletion for script editors and the
possibility to display line numbers were
implemented. Confidence and prediction bands for
fits were implemented. The goodness of fit
statistics was improved. The Fit Wizard was
improved. The preferences dialog was improved: the
possibility to customize the background of 2D
plots was added. Integration and linear regression
from multiple table column selection were added.
Opening of Origin 7.5 files was fixed. The Python
scripting engine was improved. Bugs concerning
error bars were fixed. A few other minor bugs were
fixed.
Eltima Flash Optimizer dramatically compress SWF
files and offers total control over each and every
optimization option.
License: Shareware
Changes:
Full Flash 9 support was added. An automatic
update mechanism was added. The minimal system
requirements were updated (now starting from MacOS
10.4). Several image compression improvements were
made. Sound and video optimization was enhanced
greatly.
STSRG (Squid Top-Site Report Generator) is a
script to analyze the previous day's squid
access.log log file and produce a report of the
most frequently visited URLs. It's reasonably
quick, processing about 100,000 lines of log file
in 12 seconds.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The ability to sort by size, rather than
frequency, was added.
ACLbit is a command line tool to backup and restore POSIX ACLs on Linux file systems. The tool uses its backup database to inspect ACLs. The inspection part of ACLbit focuses on providing clear and concise output of effective access rights of a particular user. The main purpose is to make the life of sysadmins easier when finding out current access rights of a particular user when ACLs are in use, especially on systems with tens/hundreds of thousands of inodes. ACLbit is tool to backup ACLs only. It is not an archiver, so it does not backup the files themselves.
License: The PHP License
Changes:
A minor bug was fixed in which --help does not
print anything when the database is not defined
either with --database or in the configuration
file.
uBee512 is an emulator for the Microbee Z80
microcomputers. It emulates all 56-512K FDD,
256TC, and 32K ROM based models. The
emulation includes full Premium/standard model
graphics and sound, has Z80 PIO emulation for
tape, sound, RTC, serial to PC RS232 port, and
printer peripherals with interrupt support. 6545
and 256TC Keyboard emulation is fully supported.
The Microbee display may be viewed in a window or
full screen.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Emulation of the standard Microbee joystick was added. The joystick may also be mapped to keys, permitting games and other applications to use joystick controls. Many joystick options were added. The hot key EMUKEY+J "K" was added to select a joystick key map set, and EMUKEY+J "0/1" was added to disable or enable Microbee and keyboard mapping for joystick. Z80 CPU speed improvements were made to better regulate the execution rate and sound quality. Full screen toggle using the mouse now requires a double clicking action.
gscan2pdf is a GUI to ease the process of producing PDFs from scanned documents. You scan in
one or several pages and create a PDF of selected
pages. Scanning is handled with SANE via scanimage. PDF conversion is done by PDF::API2. Perl is used for portability and ease of programming, with gtk2-perl for the GUI.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Cache options, a crop tool, an adf_mode option
from Epson GT-2500, a --device option, and a
negate tool were added. Various bugs were fixed.
Norwegian Bokmal, Persian, Hungarian, and Japanese
translations were added. The Czech, Dutch, French,
German, Italian, Slovenian, and Spanish
translations were updated.
Links is graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections, and features Javascript. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.
dwemo is an alternative minimal window manager for
X. It has a focus on necessity and functionality.
dwemo uses keyboard control for common tasks and
launching of frequently used applications. Being
minimal in nature, the dwemo binary size should
stay below 30 kB.
Smeego is a content management system or portal
system that is designed to be easy to install and
use. Smeego comes with modules and themes for you
to start your own dynamic and database driven Web
site. It is appropriate for publishing news and
articles, reviews, surveys, advertising, files,
links, user comments, and much more. It is very
flexible and modular. Smeego supports multiple
languages.
ANSI32 is a complete telnet client for Linux and
Win32 console mode. It supports multiscreen and
emulates the most frequently used terminal types:
VT100, Xterm, ScoAnsi, and Linux.
License: Freeware
Changes:
This is the first version that has been ported to
Linux using ncurses.
Remuco is a duplex remote control system for Linux
media players and mobile devices equipped with
Bluetooth or WiFi. With Remuco, you can remotely
control your favorite media player. You can switch
to the next, previous, or any other media within
the current playlist, browse your media library
and activate other playlists, rate your media,
adjust volume, and more. On the mobile device (the
remote control), it displays information about the
current media, including cover art.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Remuco is now able to manage remote control of
several media players simultaneously. Integration
of new media players has been simplified. Support
for nested playlists in the media library browser
has been added. Support for WiFi equipped mobile
devices has been added.
TimeLeft is a countdown, reminder, clock, alarm
clock, tray clock, stopwatch, timer, sticker,
auction watch, Web countdown, and time
synchronization utility. TimeLeft has many
features and options, and it is user-friendly and
very easy to use.
The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. It is meant to replace the asynchronous event loop found in event-driven network servers.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release contains several small bugfixes,
including epoll timeouts larger than 35 minutes on
older Linux kernels and portability improvements
for Windows and IRIX.
G4L is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool. The created images are optionally compressed, and they can be stored on a local hard drive or transferred to an anonymous FTP server. A drive can be cloned using the "Click'n'Clone" function. G4L supports file splitting if the local filesystem does not support writing files >2GB. The included kernel supports
ATA, serial-ATA, and SCSI drives. Common network cards are supported. It is packaged as a bootable CD image with an ncurses GUI for easy use.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
The development system was moved from Fedora 5 to 8. Busybox was updated to 1.10.1 (with patches to May 2). A telnetd program was added. Newer kernels are used. dd, gzip, and gunzip were moved to busybox. jetcat-mod was compiled with the latest new system. "bs=1M" was added to dd commands in the local menu. telnetd is automatically started if the kernel parameter "telnetd=yes" is given. g4lmenu was added. mdev from busybox is used to dynamically create /dev entries. ntpclient was added.
The Asterisk on IpCop project maintains an Asterisk package as an IPCop add-on and an IPCop ISO already containing Asterisk.
Sockso is a personal music server for everyone.
It's designed to be as simple as possible so that
anyone with a mouse and some MP3s can get their
friends listening to their music across the
Internet in minutes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Important bugfixes were made to the collection
manager. Accuracy of album artwork retrieval was
improved. Flac indexing was sped up. iTunes
compatibility tweaks were made for M3U and PLS
files. Other smaller bugs were fixed.
WebGUI is a content management framework built to
allow average business users to build and maintain
complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and
platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online,
rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions,
forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs,
SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes some issues with the commerce
system, Weather asset, and Calendar.
The SAFMQ (Store and Forward Message Queue)
message queue server provides asynchronous,
round-trip, assured delivery messaging. Message
publishers send or enqueue a message with the
SAFMQ server. The SAFMQ server stores that message
until the point at which the message can be
forwarded on to the client. Message publishers are
assured that the messages are delivered. SAFMQ has
been tested in both Win32 and Linux Java environments.
License: The Apache License 2.0
Changes:
Major performance improvements were made. This was
tested at 12K messages/second on a P4 3.4 GHz
system (in HT mode) with a SATA RAID-5 disk array.
The PHP source was folded into the main source
tree. Support for 64-bit Linux systems was added.
Free YouTube Downloader is a powerful and easy to
use application for downloading videos from
YouTube. It allows you to extract video files
names from the YouTube Web site, perform multiple
downloads during one program session, and produce
HTML format download reports.
License: Freeware
Changes:
Internationalization was added. (English, Italian,
and Polish are supported.) Command line options
support was added. A bug was fixed.
Fmod for Perl is a Perl extension for the FMOD
music and sound effects system. "Fmod for Perl" is
often used in games and software applications to
provide audio functionality.
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