“We created LessWatts.org to accelerate technology development and simplify information sharing for effective power management across a broad spectrum of devices and industry segments that are utilizing Linux”

At the Intel Developer Forum on Friday, the company took the wrapper off LessWatts.org, a program to encourage innovations that could drive down the energy requirements of Linux servers, PCs and household … via LinuxInsider

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PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) is a lightweight but powerful editor. Tools for the new and seasoned user alike are included out of the box, including syntax coloring, multiple open documents with tabs, per-document browsable source trees, and many others.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release fixes real-time parsing when Python source contains Unicode characters.

Filed under: Linux , Microsoft I am hesitant to even mention Novell at this point but I saw this article ” Novell credits Microsoft for soaring Linux sales ” wherein Novell gushes about how well they are doing … via Open Resource

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Lekuba is a small text-based Jabber client. The
user interface is built using ncurses, and is kind
of similar to Centericq with some benefits. Lekuba
is capable of basic IM actions like loading
rosters, sending/receiving messages, changing
status, managing subscriptions, etc.

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TuxMathScrabble challenges young people to
construct compound equations and consider multiple
abstract possibilities. There are four skill
levels for practice, from basic addition and
subtraction through multiplication and division.
This software includes a data recorder interface
for student performance assessment.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
The data recorder is now configurable through the administrator GUI. A simulation module was added, the HighScore manager was fixed, a character browser was added, and there are various other small repairs.

Yamon is a very simple program designed to check
whether a server is up and running and to send an
alert to a human when something appears to be
broken. It can also perform some basic
troubleshooting to venture a guess as to why
things aren’t working properly.

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License: Perl License

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Changes:
Multiple improvements were made to the alerting subsystem. Different monitors can now have different alert targets, email alerts can be sent over direct SMTP instead of invoking ‘mail’, and it is now possible to also send alerts to arbitrary external programs, including syslog.

Dialog allows you to present a variety of
questions or display messages using dialog boxes
from a shell script. Several types of dialog boxes
are implemented including: calendar, checklist,
file-selection, gauge, info, input, menu, message,
radiolist, tailbox, text, time, yes/no.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This release fixes a minor bug in the editbox widget. It adds a few new features (a “–no-ok” option and the ability to read the “–file” via a pipe).

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Faith is a cross-platform C++ graphical
application toolkit. It runs natively on
Linux/Unix (Xlib) and Windows. It has an API
strongly inspired by Qt’s and has many features
that are expected from a modern toolkit, including
a variety of common “widgets”, an aesthetically
pleasing appearance, and the many critical
non-portable components such as anti-aliasing and
sockets.

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License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

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Changes:
This version, the first released under the LGPLv3, adds a few new major features. The socket classes now support IPv6. There is now a URL parsing class, support for drawing translucent pictures, affine transformations, and numerous bugfixes.

Logger is a log queueing and optimization utility.
It can handle logs larger than 2GB and perform
automatic nightly log rotation without affecting
services. Any application that writes a log can be
maintained be Logger, including syslogd. It is
light, small, and fast, emphasizes security, and
reduces drive usage through memory queueing.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
Memory allocations have been cleaned up. Memory is now allocated much more effeciently. Code has been added to make every attempt at preventing Logger from crashing on insanely large memory queues. This has been tested with tcpdump. Maximum used memory at 500,000 queued lines was 68 MB. Predefined memory settings have been added to the COMPILE script. Logger will not exceed a total of 16 MB for its memory queues by default now.

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GNS-3 is a graphical network simulator that allows
you to design complex network topologies. You may
run simulations or configure devices ranging from
simple workstations to powerful Cisco routers. It
is based on NS-3, a discrete-event network
simulator for Internet systems, and Dynamips, an
IOS emulator which allows users to run IOS binary
images from Cisco Systems.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
Support for ethernet, ATM, and frame relay switches. Included hub (Bridge of Dynamips) and cloud (external connections) devices. The Dynagen console has been added (nearly all commands are supported). There are new GUI settings, an improved node configurator, support for the Dynagen INI-like configuration file, and multi-language support.