MySQL Global User Variables UDF is a shared
library that adds simple user functions to MySQL
in order to keep persistent shared variables in
memory. These variables and their values are
available to all clients. Any data can be stored
into these persistent variables, including BLOBs.
Since updates are atomic and much faster than
MEMORY tables, this is an easy and efficient way
to handle counters and sequences.
License: MIT/X Consortium License
Changes:
GLOBAL_STORE() is now an alias for GLOBAL_SET(). The SQL template now loads all available functions. The documentation was updated.
TV-Browser is a TV guide (EPG) that is easily
extensible using plugins. It is designed to look
like a paper-based European TV guide. Included are
over 500 mostly European channels (Germany, UK, Sweden, and Norway). It is possible to add channels yourself using tools offered on the homepage or via the plugin interface. For US viewers, a SchedulesDirect plugin is included.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version resolves a bug in the data processing that led to an overload of the TV-Browser server at about 8 p.m. Additonally, this update provides several minor bugfixes.
Nuttx is a real-time embedded operating system
(RTOS). It has a small footprint that is usable in
micro-controller environments. It is fully
scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded
(32-bit) systems. It also aims to be fully
compliant to standards, to be fully real time, and
to be totally open.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This release adds integrated support for the ZiLOG eZ80Acclaim! processor and code for the the Renesas M16C/s0 processor (which has not yet been tested).
bareFTP is a file transfer client supporting the
FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS), and SSH File
Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes a bookmark system, with a bookmark organizer and an easy-to-access bookmark menu. bareFTP now also supports certain VMS style directory listings and more UNIX style directory listings.
ferm is a tool to maintain and setup complicated firewall rules. It allows one to reduce the tedious task of carefully inserting rules and chains, thus enabling the firewall administrator to spend more time on developing good rules, and less time on the proper implementation of those rules. These rules will be executed by the preferred kernel interface, such as ipchains and iptables, and in one pass. Firewall rules can also be split into different files and loaded at will.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Double negation is detected. Detection of negated arrays was improved. dpkg’s backup/temporary files on @include are ignored. “Flush” hooks were added.
The bad economy may be a boon to relatively inexpensive open-source IP PBXs, which one study says already account for nearly 18% of all PBXs installed last year in North American business networks. Because they are generally less expensive, open source products may become attractive to more corporate users as their budgets are cut, laying the groundwork for a growth spurt, according to the recent study by Eastern Management Group.
HylaFAX is a fax and paging system for Unix. It supports sending facsimile, receiving facsimile, polled retrieval of facsimile, transparent shared data use of the modem and sending alpha-numeric pages. The software is structured around a client-server architecture. Fax modems may reside on a single machine on a network and clients can submit outbound jobs from any machine that can communicate with the machine on which the modems reside. An access control mechanism is included to control which users on which machines may access a server.
License: Freely Distributable
Changes:
Cases where the modem may “ignore” an ATA from HylaFAX are now handled better. A problem involving JBIG attempts using non-JBIG Class 2.0 modems was fixed. The –disable-ldap and –disable-jbig options for configure were added. A divide-by-zero error in additional logging from 5.2.8 is avoided.
ExactImage is a fast C++ image processing library.
Unlike ImageMagick, it allows operation in several
color spaces and bit depths natively, resulting in
much lower memory and computational requirements.
Some optimized algorithms operate in 1/20 of the
time ImageMagick requires, and displaying large
images can be as fast as 1/10 of the time the
“display” program takes.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A PCX and Targe decoder were added. The external API ImageCropRotate was fixed to accept negative values, and the font methods now accept an optional font filename. An off-by-some error was fixed for drawing text on vector paths. An external API was added to create, stroke, and fill arbitrary vector paths. A method was added to directly create synthetic images. The fastAutoCrop method was improved to auto-crop any solidly filled color. The HOCR HTML parser was improved to parse and accept more tags. Support for mirroring of RGBA data as well as setting colors with alpha value was added.
Globulation is an innovative high quality
real-time strategy which minimizes
micro-management by automatically assigning tasks
to the units. The player has to choose the number
of units they want for the different tasks, and
the units will do their best to satisfy the
requests. This allows the player to manage more
units and to focus on the strategy.
License: GNU General Public License v3
Changes:
Many new features were added in offline and online game play, including a priority system and map downloader/rating system.
hdparm is a Linux shell utility for viewing and manipulating various IDE drive and driver parameters. Most drives can benefit from improved performance using a command similar to “hdparm -qm8 -qu1 -qc1 -qd1 /dev/hda”.
License: BSD License (original)
Changes:
The output of “-I” was updated with SATA-2.6 additions, and “form factor” and “rotation” displays were added to it. APM level retrieval is now supported with the “-B” flag. The “-C” output was updated to match ATA8. Logical/physical sector size reporting was added.
