Watch out Windows and Solaris, says ZemlinWith the new year under way and all of the problems in the old year still largely unsolved, people in the IT sector are looking around for a little good news and some prospects for growth. There are a lot of clouds out there right now, and Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, thinks the rain is going to be good, particularly for Linux.…

The Inspector is a UPnP device and service analyzer and debugging tool based on the Coherence DLNA/UPnP framework. It will host the tests from the UPnP test suite to provide a central place to verify device implementations and hunt down any UPnP anomalies.

FmPro Migrator migrates FileMaker databases to MySQL, Oracle, Access, SQL Server, Sybase, DB2, OpenBase, PostgreSQL and FrontBase. Perl CGI scripts are generated for each FileMaker layout within the database, and include customized data entry and data validation for each layout field. FileMaker to FileMaker 7/8/9 table consolidations are also supported, thus enabling developers to take advantage of the new FileMaker 7+ security model. Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and Bento files can also be migrated to FileMaker 7/8/9.

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License: Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial

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Changes:
This release adds support for FileMaker Pro 10 database scripts and Table Consolidation projects. It adds support for migrating Bento 2 databases to FileMaker Pro, including relationships between Bento Libraries. Bento 2 forms having field labels at the top and side positions are converted into FileMaker Pro layouts having field labels in the same positions. Support has been added for migrating from FileMaker Pro to Valentina databases. An issue that caused the FileMakerDB.fp7 file to not get created in some situations during Step 5 of Table Consolidation projects has been fixed.

UNFS3 is a user-space implementation of the NFSv3 server specification. It is designed to be portable to different operating systems, with built-in Linux and Solaris support.

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License: BSD License (revised)

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Changes:
This release fixes compilation on more recent FreeBSD systems and incorrect filesystem size reporting when using Solaris as an NFS server.

Tiny Core Linux is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux desktop. It is based on the Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, Fltk, and Jwm. The core runs entirely in RAM and boots very quickly. The user has complete control over which applications and/or additional hardware to have supported, be it for a desktop, a nettop, an appliance, or server, selectable from the online repository.

M.A.M.E. Catalog / Launcher II (also referred to as QMC2) is the successor of one of the first XMAME GUI frontends available, QMamecat (derived from MAMECAT, which was text-only). QMC2 has been rebuilt from scratch as a Qt 4 project. Parts of the design and code were inspired by its predecessor. The new design was made as flexible as possible to minimize dependencies from frontend- and CLI-related MAME changes, which was a major deficiency of QMamecat. QMC2 uses a template-based MAME configuration scheme, which can easily be enhanced with additional command line options (defined in an XML template file).

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License: GNU General Public License v2

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Changes:
The SDLMAME options template has been updated to 0.128u7. The options joy_idx1 - joy_idx8 have been added. The template format has been updated to include the template's emulator name. ROMAlyzer determines ROM file CRC identification issues in ZIP files. Several macro definitions have been changed to be consistent within QMC2's namespace. There are new make options, a new SDLMESS options template (see data/opt/SDLMESS/template.xml, initial version 0.128), experimental support for SDLMESS (very basic and no device support yet), and much more.

Papyrus is a 2D C++ scenegraph (canvas) library that utilizes the cairo library to perform drawing operations. Similar canvas libraries are the Gnome Canvas, Diacanvas, and the QT Canvas. Numerous canvas primitives are available, including arcs, rectangles, polylines, and line markers. An optional companion library, Papyrusmm, provides a set of Gtkmm widgets which includes viewports (a canvas display widget similar to Gtk::DrawingArea) and other UI widgets related to drawing interfaces.

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License: GNU General Public License v3

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Changes:
This release fixes the freehand sketcher example, grid segfaults, and virtual destructors on numerous drawables.