October 2007

October 31, 2007

GradeL 0.8.14 (Default branch)

Screenshot GradeL is a gradebook program for teachers. It features an easy-to-use GUI, and produces multiple reports.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release includes some minor enhancements, and includes improved support for weighted grading.

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Absolute OS 12.1.0 beta1 (Default branch)

Screenshot Absolute is a lightweight Slackware Linux derivative distribution that uses an Icewm, ROX-Filer window/file manager combination. It comes with Firefox, The GIMP, MPlayer, K3B, kTorrent, Gaim, Frostwire, Gftp, StarDict, Skype, and many other titles all set up and ready to run. Several utilities are included to ease configuration and management. It is compatible with all Slackware 11 packages and can be installed just like a Slackware disk, except that you cannot choose which packages to install or remove, as it just installs everything.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Based on Slackware-current (hence the Beta), but it is actually the best tested and integrated 12.x release to date. Xorg 7.3, GIMP 2.4 final, recompilation of about half the distribution including Firefox 2.0.0.8 (with headers and IDL included), new mplayer, and mplayerplug-in compiled on the distribution itself. An updated multimedia installer and updated utilities.

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Task Coach 0.66.0 (Default branch)

Screenshot Task Coach is a simple todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things to do consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release adds a translation in Traditional Chinese and a few small feature enhancements, such as an 'overall categories' column that recursively shows the categories a task belongs to, persistent column widths, and keyboard shortcuts for cycling through open viewers.

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Apache authentication and authorization using LDAP

Network administrators frequently use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to implement a centralized directory server. You can use LDAP to authenticate users in Apache. Two popular open source LDAP solutions are OpenLDAP and Red Hat Directory Server. According to the Apache documentation, Novell LDAP and iPlanet Directory Server are also supported. This article focuses on OpenLDAP, but the concepts and examples should be applicable to the others.

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RegexKit 0.3.1 (Default branch)

RegexKit is an Objective-C framework for regular expressions using the PCRE library for Mac OS X Cocoa and GNUstep. It includes an extensive collection of category additions for the NSArray, NSDictionary, NSSet, and NSString Foundation objects.
License: BSD License (revised)
Changes:
This releases is a bugfix/workaround for Safari 3 users downloading .dmg files from sourceforge, which Safari 3 incorrectly identifies as .bz2 files. As a workaround, the .dmg is placed inside a .tar file. Mac Safari 3 users should download this release if they encountered this issue. This release also includes support for Xcode 3.0 DocSet subscriptions to the RegexKit documentation. Once you subscribe, Xcode will notify you and update the RegexKit documentation automatically.

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Simple Settings dialog 0.3.0 (Default branch)

Screenshot Simple Settings Dialog (ssd) enables a script author to easily construct a simple dialog (e.g. for configuration purposes) that can be be presented to the user during script execution. It is build on QT4 and implements the most commonly used widgets from QT. It is intended for sysadmins for scripting purposes. The goals are that creation of a dialog should be done in very few lines, and the output from ssd (when the user has made his/her choice) should be simple and parseable by bash. The code (or markup) for ssd can either be stored in a separate file or embedded in the bash script, allowing one-file scripting.

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Rally 0.1.0 (Default branch)

Rally is a part of the Crow Designer project, and was developed as a sample GuiLoader-based application. This front end provides RPM package management functionality via an intuitive tree-less graphical interface. Users are able to browse available repositories, search for packages, and perform updates, installations, and removals. Rally employs Parallel Installer, which downloads and updates packages simultaneously, potentially reaching a vast performance boost. The name of this application reflects its orientation for speedy and reliable processing.

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