July 2007

July 31, 2007

Liblicense 0.3 (Default branch)

Liblicense is a library to assist in the aggregation of license data and the embedding of license data within a file. It also provides the license data of common licenses, such as those by Creative Commons and GNU's GPL and LGPL.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
This is the first version to feature desktop integration. It now features Gnome Nautilus integration: licenses are displayed and can be written from within Nautilus. The integration also takes advantage of emblems to visibly display files as licensed. Additionally, it features new modules supporting reading from and writing licenses to MSOffice (pre-2007), FLAC, Ogg+FLAC, MusePack, and SMIL.

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Safe and SafeDesktop 2.2.6 (Default branch)

Screenshot The idea behind Safe is that a user need not remember all her login names and passwords. Instead, the user utilizes her cell phone to store sensitive data in an encrypted way. Only one root password is required to be remembered to get access to the data. The cell phone in question needs to support J2ME applications. SafeDesktop is a cross-platform desktop application that provides the same features as Safe, and has a mechanism to keep the data synchronized between the two.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
An IPv6 problem has been fixed (no exception will be thrown when the machine uses IPv6). Exception handling has been improved (error messages provide hints as to what went wrong). A minor bug has been fixed (mainly how and when Alerts are shown).

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SmallSQL 0.19 (Default branch)

SmallSQL is a pure Java DBMS, a relational database for Java desktop applications. It has a JDBC 3.0 interface and offers many ANSI SQL 92 and ANSI SQL 99 features. It is very small and fast because it does not have a network interface.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
JOIN performance was greatly improved with a new algorithm. German and Italian translations of the error messages were added, and it is easy to add more translations. Some bugs were fixed.

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parapin 1.5.0 (Default branch)

parapin makes it easy to write C code under Linux that controls individual pins on a PC parallel port. This kind of control is very useful for electronics projects that use the PC's parallel port as a generic digital I/O interface. Parapin goes to great lengths to insulate the programmer from the somewhat complex parallel port programming interface provided by the PC hardware, and comes as a user-space C library, or linked as part of a Linux kernel module.
License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Changes:
Fixes for bugs 1632001 and 1234134. Initial release of the new language-binding infrastructure. First formal release of Pedro's Python language binding and Neil's Java language binding. Small documentation corrections and updates. Handles deprecation of MODULE_PARM with conditional use of module_param(). Support for 2.4 kernels has been deprecated, and deprecation warnings at build time have been added. The documentation has been updated.

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What’s Wrong With Dell Selling Linux PCs

Predictably, it seems that Dell is dropping Ubuntu PC prices which at first pass would seem like fantastic news. But then you have to couple this fact with the realization that they are not exactly promoting their provided Ubuntu PCs. Actually, they are downright difficult to locate without using the “Find” feature in your browser.

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pam_script 0.1.11 (Default branch)

pam_script is a PAM that executes a script at the start and end of a session. Any PAM-aware application can use the module to perform arbitrary operations. It was originally written for cleaning up when a user logs out.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Improved Makefile and Debian packaging scripts. Options to set the home directory and PAM_USER token in the environment.

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Restlet 1.0.4 (Default branch)

Restlet is a lightweight REST framework for Java. The project is composed of two parts, the Restlet API (alternative to Servlet API) and a reference implementation (Noelios Restlet Engine). It supports all REST concepts (resource, representation, data, connector, components, etc.) and is suitable for both client and server REST applications. The server connectors provided are HTTP(S), AJP (via Mortbay's Jetty or an adapter Servlet) and the client connectors are HTTP(S), File, JDBC, and SMTP(S).
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Several HTTP bugs have been fixed. Changes to the ServerServlet have been reverted back to the 1.0.2 behavior. Spring Javadocs have been clarified and fixed. Jetty has been upgraded to version 6.1.5.

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