The BUZZ - Free/Libre Open Source Software

i-doIT is a CMDB (configuration management database) based on ITIL guidelines. It documents IT systems and their changes, defines emergency plans, displays vital information, and helps to ensure a stable and effcient operation of IT networks. i-doiT allows a rich amount of technical information to be filed for each element from a wall outlet to a mainframe in a structured way. Every employee can access this information easily (and in a selective way) through a Web browser. Due to its modular architecture, it is possible to deploy functionality add-ons or even develop extensions.

Changes: i-doit contacts were technically reorganized to be configuration items. Various storage improvements were made. The san-zone object type was added. New categories were added for local and remote storage. Language selection at login was added. A bookmark link to the current page was added above standard lists. A QR barcode for was added each object. Mandator/client administration was implemented, and is reachable via /admin. Various bugs were fixed.

Tags: Networking, Office/Business, Information Management, Document Repositories

Licenses: Artistic

Geomajas printing plug-in adds user-friendly printing capabilities to the Geomajas GWT face. On the server, it makes use of the iText library for creating PDF files. On the client, it provides widgets for presenting print options, such as format (A1-A4), DPI settings, and more.

Changes: This is the initial version.

Tags: GIS, PDF, printing, Map

Licenses: AGPLv3

The abcMIDI suite consists of programs for turning ABC music files into MIDI and vice versa, typesetting them as PostScript files, and manipulate them in several ways.

Changes: A small bug in abc2midi was fixed.

Tags: multimedia, Sound/Audio, Conversion

Licenses: GPL

123 Flash Chat Server is a full-featured chat server for high-load Web sites. It features a range of customization options, and can be smoothly integrated with the database of almost all leading CMS or forum systems including Joomla!, phpBB, skadate, and vBulletin. It includes plain text chat and video chat options, and is scalable enough to fit the needs of small business and large enterprises. A free 10-user edition is available. It’s based on a Java server and a Flash client, but also has various alternative clients based on technologies such as HTML/AJAX, so it can run on many platforms, including iPhone and iPad. It features avatars, smilies, Flash emotions, voice messages, entering multiple rooms, dynamic skins, loading external avatars and profiles, and a media player.

Changes: Admin and moderator privileges are recovered, so that they can still chat privately even when it’s disabled for regular users, and they will no longer be automatically kicked out when they’re idle. The error in publishing video with Wowza server was fixed. Loaded external avatars in chat window have been fixed.

Tags: Video, Chat, Chat Client, Communication, IRC, conference, Joomla, Web, Internet

Licenses: Shareware

WebGUI is a content management framework built to
allow average business users to build and maintain
complex Web sites. It is modular, pluggable, and
platform independent. It was designed to allow the
people who create the content to manage it online,
rather than content management taking up the time
of busy IT staff. WebGUI comes with a full host of
features including shopping cart, subscriptions,
forums, photo galleries, FAQs, link lists, blogs,
SQL reports, a Web services interface, and a very
configurable user privilege and profiling system.

Changes: This release contains fixes for eight bugs in template attachments, the new Cart, the Manage User Sessions screen, and the upgrade script. New features include a link in the Admin Console to the Addons page of webgui.org and making the label field optional in the addresses in the Cart.

Release Tags: Beta

Tags: Internet, Web, Dynamic Content, Site Management, Office/Business, Software Development, Libraries, Application Frameworks, Widget Sets

Licenses: GPL

massadmin parallelizes multiple system commands to a group of Unix-like remote servers simultaneously using concurrent processes. The supported protocols are FTP, SFTP, TELNET, SSH, and SCP. All non-interactive system commands are supported.

Changes: This release fixes a bug in the scp command on BSD like OSes and adds information on the use of special characters.

Tags: SysAdmin

Licenses: GPLv3

Genius is an arbitrary precision integer and
multiple precision floating point calculator. It
includes its own programming language similar in
some aspects to C, bc, or Pascal. It can deal with
rational numbers and complex numbers. It has
matrix support as well. It uses the gmp library so
it is very fast for calculations of large numbers.
It has a command line and a GNOME interface. The
GNOME interface supports plotting functions and 3D
surfaces.

Changes: Variables were renamed in plotting functions. The AskButtons function was added. A couple of fixes and minor enhancements were made.

Release Tags: Stable, Bugfixes, Enhancements

Tags: Utilities, Scientific/Engineering, Mathematics, Desktop Environment, GNOME, education, Visualization

Licenses: GPLv3

Nuttx is a real-time embedded operating system
(RTOS). It has a small footprint that is usable in
micro-controller environments. It is fully
scalable from tiny (8-bit) to moderate embedded
(32-bit) systems. It also aims to be fully
compliant to standards, to be fully real time, and
to be totally open.

Changes: This release adds support for the TI/Luminary LM3S9B96 and LM3S8962. The new on-demand paging now passes its first level of testing (more needs to be done). There are several bugfixes.

Tags: Software Development, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems

Licenses: BSD Revised

JRecord allows you to read legacy, fixed width, and delimited flat files in Java. Files are interpreted via a Record-Layout (file description), which can be COBOL, XML, or CSV. The package provides an editor to edit files using the record layout, a wizard to build XML layouts from a files contents, and a formatted file compare that uses the layout in the compare process.

Changes: This release fulfills a couple of user requests. There is an option for having column names in quotes for CSV files, and an enhanced copy utility.

Release Tags: Very Minor

Licenses: LGPL, GPL

Larceny is a simple and efficient implementation of the Scheme programming language. Created originally as a test vehicle for research on garbage collection and compiler optimizations, Larceny has grown into a major multi-platform system, and is one of the very few implementations that support all four de facto standards for Scheme: IEEE/ANSI, R5RS, ERR5RS, and the R6RS. Development of Larceny has been supported by NSF, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft.

Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.

Tags: programming language, Scheme, compiler

Licenses: LGPL, custom

CBR Server is a light-weight HTTP server allowing you to view Comic Book Archives: CBR, CBZ, PDF, etc. It has purposely been designed to be used with a wireless tablet PC and is highly configurable. XML file-based configuration capabilities. A multi-threaded HTTP server based on JDoc Web Server. Multi-threaded CBR/CBZ/RAR/ZIP extraction. Support for a user-selected splash screen. Customizable HTML/CSS pages. Text-based search capabilities. Displays CBR, CBZ, RAR, ZIp, and PDF-based documents. FMEO (For my eyes only) support. A thumbnail rendition of the cover pages of the query results. A thumbnail rendition of the entire comic book. Zoom in, zoom out, and full size support. 270 degree rotation (a.k.a. iPad emulation). A remember me function (cookie-based). A file explorer interface that enables you to navigate through the directories comprising Comic Books. Multi-language support (i18n). End-users language extension support. Enhanced out of the box HTML forms. Uses ImageMagick and 7-Zip. Icons from www.everaldo.com/crystal. Enhanced navigation capabilities.

Changes: Initial freshmeat announcement.

Tags: CBR, CBZ, comic, XML, Java, http, multi-threaded, imagemagick, 7-zip

Licenses: GPL

Some weeks ago, after reading the Droid X reviews on Ars Technica (here and here), I got myself one. Sure enough, I loved it, and like any good, patriotic smartphone consumer, I started downloading lots of Android apps. How did I find them? I clicked on the Market Store, of course, and typed in a search word.

I’ve written software on Linux, compiled kernels, set up servers, and a whole host of other pretty technical feats. Having been a die-hard Linux user for 10 years, I thought I had handled just about every situation a desktop user is likely to encounter. That is, until I installed Linux for a friend, who then said to me “Ok, so how do I add new fonts?”. Such a simple thing, yet I had absolutely no idea how to answer. It just never came up. To help restore my credibility, I did some research to find an easy way for a Linux newcomer to manage fonts, and came across FontMatrix. It’s a simple and powerful way to add, remove and configure your system fonts.

‘Attention to detail’ or ‘enhanced UI experience’ are not the kind of terminologies normally used in the Linux world. At least, that is how it used to be. It’s all changing now. KDE 4.0 is a typical example. Developers completely revamped KDE from scratch and gave it a uniform user friendly appearance. Canonical’s flagship Ubuntu is the next candidate. A lot of changes already happening and a ton of innovations are in the pipeline.

Converseen is a batch image converter and thumbnail creator. It supports more than 100 image formats, including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. It features a very simple user interface without strange options.

Changes: This release fixes a crash when deleting photos. It fixes information about images in the "Dimensions" box. Increased performances for previews. Various code improvements.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor

Tags: Graphic, pictures, Conversion, Thumbnail, Image Processing

Licenses: GPLv2

CorneliOS is an easy-to-use and cross-browser "Web Desktop Environment", "Web Operating System", or "Web Office" that comes with a set of cool applications. It includes a Content Management System (CMS) so that you can easily set up and manage your own website as well as a Database Management System that allows you to rapidly build any kind of database application.

Changes: This release offers a large number of CIOS community layer enhancements, an improved malicious host/IP detection API, a new CIOS community admin screen prototype, updated translations, and support for HTML5 audio and video for both CIOS and the main CorneliOS API.

Tags: Internet, Information Management

Licenses: GPL

libspopc is an easy-to-use POP3 client library written in C. It implements the client side of RFC 1939, providing an easy and quick way to support POP3 and POP3s (SSL) access in a program. It can download email headers and delete messages remotely without actualy downloading the message.

Changes: This version adds the ability to build libspopc with POSIX mutex enabled on VMS.

Tags: Communications, Email, Post-Office, POP3, Software Development, Embedded Systems, Libraries

Licenses: LGPL

GLPI (Gestion Libre de Parc Informatique) is an
information resource manager with an
administration interface. You can use it to build
a database with an inventory for your company
(computers, software, printers, etc.). It has
functions to make the daily life of the
administrators easier, including a job/request
tracking system with mail notification and methods
to build a database with basic information about
your network topology. It provides a precise
inventory of all the technical resources (all
their characteristics are stored in a database)
and management and history of the maintenance
actions and the bound procedures. It is dynamic
and is directly connected to the users, who can
post requests to the technicians.

Changes: Several bugs were fixed.

Tags: Systems Administration, Information Management, Issue Tracking

Licenses: GPLv2

Property Binder is a Java library that provides typed access to entries in properties files. It offers such access by allowing a programmer to provide it a Java interface whose methods represent the keys of the properties file. The methods can be annotated to indicate what property the method represents, what default value(s) it should assume if the property is not present, and what pattern separates the individual values of multi-valued properties.

Changes: The @ParsedAs annotation was added for Date-returning PICA methods. PICA methods that accept one or more arguments expect their property values to be string format specifiers as in String.format(). Arguments are substituted into the format specifier in order prior to the result’s conversion to the PICA method’s return type. The constructor of PropertyBinder that the static factory method calls is published, so as to afford those who would use Property Binder a seam for testing purposes. A zero-arg ctor was adding to SubstitutableProperties. A subtle change was made in SubstitutableProperties(Properties): the properties handed to the ctor become the "defaults" rather than hard-and-fast values. The PropertyBinder.bind(Properties) method was published. The PropertyBinder.bind(Map<String, String>) method was added. SubstitutableProperties.substitute() is now an instance method. The internals of Property Binder deal in SubstitutableProperties throughout now. The dependency on commons-io was removed. Internal repackaging and refactoring were done.

Tags: Java library

Licenses: MIT/X

Nodau is a simple console based note taking program, it allows you to easily create, edit, and view notes, and search them by name or date.

Changes: The "show" option was added to display a note without editing. The "open" option was changed to "edit" to differentiate it from "show". "open" has been left for backward compatibility.

Tags: Linux, terminal, Text based, note taking

Licenses: GPLv3