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Wireshark (formerly Ethereal) is a network protocol analyzer, or "packet sniffer", that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality packet analyzer for Unix, and the most useful packet analyzer on any platform.
Changes: Many interface bugs have been fixed. Support for Windows 2000 has been restored.
Release Tags: Stable, Bugfixes
Tags: Networking, Monitoring
Licenses: GPL
OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features.
Changes: Support for third party music and sound sets, removing the dependency on Transport Tycoon Deluxe’s data files. Full IPv6 support. A rewrite of the window system, adding support for right-to-left languages, bigger font sizes, and making the windows scale to the translation.
Tags: Simulation, Game, Strategy, SDL, allegro
Licenses: GPLv2
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.
Changes: This release sports significant performance improvements in its smoothed n-gram predictor. Runtime execution was sped up by approximately a factor of 5 by tuning some expensive SQL queries to the embedded SQLite database. This release comes with refactored configuration and profile handling subsystems. Configuration is read from system-level, installation-level, and user-level XML profiles and from an optional user-specified profile. Changes to configuration variables made at runtime through the config() API can now be persisted to file by calling the new save_profile() API method.
Release Tags: Major feature enhancements
Tags: Adaptive Technologies, Scientific/Engineering, Artificial Intelligence
Licenses: GPL
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit designed especially for email
scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities, including
a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a commandline scanner,
and a tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an
anti-virus engine available as a shared library.
Changes: This release introduces new malware detection mechanisms and other significant improvements to the scan engine. Key features include the bytecode interpreter, heuristic improvements, signature improvements, support for new archives, support for new executable file formats, support for UPX 3.0, performance improvements and memory optimizations, and native Windows support.
Release Tags: Stable, security fixes, new features
Tags: Utilities, Communications, Email, Filters, Security
Licenses: GPL
view3dscene is a browser for VRML (1.0 and 2.0)
and X3D, and a viewer for other 3D model formats
(3DS, MD3, Wavefront OBJ, and Collada are
handled). It supports viewing the scene in the
"Examine" mode and walking in the virtual world
with features such as collision detection and
gravity. Rendering is done using OpenGL. A
built-in ray-tracer allows the generation of
images with more effects (like shadows and
mirrors) and conforming precisely to the VRML 97
lighting specification. The program can also
convert files from 3DS, MD3, and other formats to
VRML and pretty-print VRML files.
Changes: Support for NURBS curves and surfaces. This release can render and animate NURBS shapes, and animate other geometry along them. There are also major bugfixes to the GTK 2 backend and shadow map handling.
Release Tags: Minor feature enhancements
Tags: multimedia, Graphics, Viewers, Graphics Conversion, 3D Rendering
Licenses: GPL
MOSIX is an operating system-like management software targeted for HPC on Linux clusters, multi-clusters, and clouds. In MOSIX systems 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.
Changes: This release is for Linux kernel 2.6.33.1. It includes both 32-bit and 64-bit evaluation copies.
Tags: Linux, Cluster Operating System, HPC
Licenses: Other
new-words is a script that helps you to control your vocabulary and find unknown words in texts before you start to read them. It is intended to be run in a console; the interactive part of the work is done by means of a text editor (vim by default). It features: words frequency information about words in a text; users vocabulary control; support for several languages; dictionary software integration; and the ability to make notes for unknown words.
Changes: Initial release.
Tags: education, Console, language learning, dictionary
Licenses: GPLv3
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, L2TP, IPSec, SSL, and PPTP VPN tunneling, spam blocking, proxies for HTTPS, HTTP, FTP, POP3, SMTP, DNS, VoIP, SOCKS, and Ident, logging, and reporting. It supports Ethernet, VLAN, PPP, PPPoE, PPPoA, Cable Modem, QoS, Link Aggregation, WAN-Uplink-Loadbalancing in routing, and bridge mode.
The WebAdmin, the Install Wizard, and Up2Date service make it easy to install, manage, and update.
Changes: This V8 BETA snapshot introduces several new features, including: improved hardware support, 64-bit support, IPv6 support, an HTTP Reverse Proxy / Web Application Firewall, a new WebAdmin design, WebAdmin Change Tracking, VPN Remote Access Reporting, and Web Content Filter Override. Minor improvements include: WebAdmin Menu Search, Flash-Based Reporting Charts, and a new Installer.
Release Tags: ASG V8, Public beta
Tags: Firewalls, Networking, UTM, Proxy, Filter, Security
Licenses: Free for non-commercial use
Highlight is a universal converter from source
code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, LaTeX, SVG, BBCode, terminal escape sequences, and
XML. (X)HTML and SVG output are formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports more than 140 programming languages, and includes 40 highlighting color themes. It’s possible to easily enhance the
parsing database. The converter includes some
features to provide a consistent layout of the
output code.
Changes: The code formatting lib was updated, adding new indentation styles Horstmann and OTBS.
Language definitions for ABNF, EBNF, AutoHotKey, BBcode, Clean, and Modula2 were added.
C++0x syntax is supported. A switch to disable trailing newlines was added.
Release Tags: Stable
Tags: Text Processing
Licenses: GPLv3
The GNOME team has released version 2.30 of their open source desktop environment. “The GNOME Project’s focus on users and usability continues in GNOME 2.30 with its hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements. The sheer number of enhancements makes it impossible to list every change and improvement made.”