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Lightfeather is a 3D engine for Linux, Mac OS X
and Windows. It is designed to be easy to use but
still take advantage of the features of modern
graphics hardware.

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License: zlib/libpng License

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Changes:
The GUI and the GUIdesigner have been enhanced a
lot, many bugs and
memory leaks have been fixed, threading on Linux
has been fixed, and
some minor features have been added.

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VFront is a dynamic Web-based front-end for MySQL
or PostgreSQL databases. It is written in PHP and
Javascript. With it, you can create masks to
manage your data in AJAX style, different rules
and privileges for groups, reports in XML, HTML,
and PDF format, statistics, and much more.

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
This release adds a new “order by” system with
multiple fields for
tables, a Cron system, changes to the English
translation, and bugfixes.

tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunneling and encryption to create a secure private network between multiple hosts on the Internet. This tunneling allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release lets tinc work as a service under
Windows 2003, properly
handles configuration files that do not end with a
newline, fixes
crashes in some situations, fixes a memory leak,
and has better default
settings.

First there was Compiz, a compositing window manager that brought very interesting desktop effects to Linux, and then Beryl came about as a fork of Compiz before it ultimately turned into Compiz Fusion. Today though, on Christmas eve, the world can now meet Compiz++.Compiz++ is a branch of Compiz that brings several new features to the table and there are huge changes…

I was pleased as the proverbial punch to receive a link in the latest Distrowatch Weekly, and I didn’t even have to stoop to my usual begging. (Thanks Caitlyn!) What I also saw in the column was the announcement of a new distribution, CentServer, which is based on CentOS. For those who might not know, CentOS is itself a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

A new center aimed at speeding the development of mobile computing devices around the Linux-based Moblin OS opened in Taipei on Tuesday. The idea is for Taiwanese companies to use the center as a testing ground for new netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), as well as develop more applications around Moblin. The Taiwan government teamed up on the center with U.S. chip maker Intel, which developed Moblin. Intel plans to support the new center by further development of Moblin, which includes open source software with an OS, a user interface, a browser, developer tools and other software. Intel created Moblin software to run on devices that use its Atom microprocessors.

Despite the economy, revenues and income jump as the Linux vendor resigns deals and converts users from free editions.

Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users enter responses to prompts, file names are generated, and commands produce output. Recurring throughout this is the need to determine whether a given string conforms to a given pattern; this process is called pattern matching. The shell has a fair amount of built-in pattern matching functionality.

GNU Mailutils contains a series of useful mail
clients, servers, and libraries. These are the
primary mail utilities of the GNU system.
Specifically, this package contains a POP3 server,
an IMAP4 server, and a Sieve mail filter. It also
provides a POSIX ‘mailx’ client and a collection
of other tools.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release introduces a new configuration file
format, the new “maidag” utility (MAIl Delivery
AGent), the new Sieve action “pipe”, client SMTP
STARTTLS support, support for new protocols: POPS
(pops://) and IMAPS (imaps://), LDAP support,
support for TCP wrappers, PREAUTH mode support in
imap4d, the ESMTP SIZE extension in the library,
the new mailer type “prog”, new mailbox types
handling, and many more improvements and bugfixes.

Logger is a log queueing and optimization utility.
It can completely replace sys/klogd, handle logs larger than 2GB, perform automatic nightly log rotation without affecting services, and transfer logs between machines via TCP connections. Any application that writes a text log can be
maintained by Logger. 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:
A permissions bug when creating the named pipes
was fixed.