freshmeat.net announcements (Mac OS X)

FET 5.7.5 (Default branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:07:16 GMT

FET (free timetabling tool) automatically schedules the timetable of a school, high school, or university. It aims to have the same functionality as expensive scheduling programs.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds constraint 2 activities grouped, which is the non-oriented version of constraint 2 activities consecutive (the activities can be placed in any order, but one near the other). It has an additional test to ensure that constraints with the same starting time are not impossible. It has very minor bugfixes.

Wiz Solitaire 1.36 (Default branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:04:35 GMT

Wiz Solitaire is a collection of card games with the ability to use beautiful custom decks. It supports different deck formats, allowing you to choose between thousands of available card sets. You can also easily create your own decks with the included Deck Editor. It includes more than 20 games including Klondike, Free Cell, Spider, Pyramid, Eagle Wing, Baker's Dozen, Seahaven, Rouge et Noir, Scorpion, La Belle Lucie, Golf, and Yukon.

License: Shareware

Changes:
The game is automatically paused when the application is deactivated. In Mount Sunflower, the quality of suggested moves has been improved.

media hive 0.9.2 (Default branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:32:10 GMT

The media hive is a streaming media server and Web-based content/playlist manager. It emphasizes usability by making it easy to manage a media catalog that contains multiple media types (mp3, mp4, ogg, flac, mpg, and avi), and by providing a very full-featured playlist. It also emphasizes extensibility by making it easy to develop new media parsers, playlist actions, event handlers, skins, and more. It has an entire custom tag library devoted to skin development, making it simple for the non-developer to create radically different Web-based user interfaces. It has no installation dependencies and runs on multiple platforms.

License: Free To Use But Restricted

Changes:
This release features a new Web-based user interface that merges all the catalog navigation modes of the previous media hive interfaces into one consistent UI. Field-level view configuration is now supported. Cataloging and on-the-fly reencoding support were added for FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP4/AAC. The ability to run as a Windows service or as a daemon under Linux/Unix/OS X was added.

BitNami phpBB Stack 3.0.3-0 (Default branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:21:41 GMT

BitNami phpBB Stack is an easy-to-install distribution of the phpBB forum software. It includes pre-configured, ready-to-run versions of Apache, PHP, and MySQL, so users can get a phpBB installation up and running in minutes after answering a few questions. Linux, Windows, and OS X are currently supported.

License: The Apache License 2.0

Changes:
phpBB was updated to version 3.0.3.

NTFS-3G 1.5130 (Default branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:16:17 GMT

NTFS-3G is a stable read/write NTFS driver. It is available for over 180 Linux distributions and the default read/write NTFS driver for most major ones. It has been ported to many other operating systems like FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and Mac OS X, and to little/big-endian, 32/64-bit, and MMU-less computer architectures.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Reading a data storage with permanent or temporary physical damage or a partial read system call could result in ignoring the low level hardware error and returning invalid data. This release fixes this issue.

FastFormat 0.2.1 (beta 1) (Default branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:33:20 GMT

FastFormat is a C/C++ output and formatting library whose design parameters are complete type-safety, efficiency, genericity, and extensibility. It is simple to use and extend, highly portable (to any platform or compiler), and it upholds the C tradition of you only pay for what you use. FastFormat supports output and formatting of statements of arbitrary complexity, consisting of heterogeneous types. FastFormat writes to output "sinks", which can be of arbitrary type.

License: BSD License (revised)

Changes:
Per-handler information (both ill-formed and mismatched) was changed to use the paired handler function and the opaque parameter, allowing user-level chaining of handlers. Parameters of type void* (and all cv-forms) are supported. The ignore_unreferenced_arguments_scope scoping class, which causes unreferenced arguments to be ignored in the current thread (or the whole process, in the case of single-threaded operation), was added. Several examples were adjusted to work around the template/namespace defect in GCC.

NoMachine NX 3.3.0-3 (Node branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:28:55 GMT

NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server and desktop virtualization system based on the X11 protocol. NX is an order of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. In addition, NX translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal Server and VNC protocols into X/NX, enabling users to compress and accelerate remote Windows and VNC sessions. The NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11 proxying agents implementing efficient compression and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio and video over the Internet.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version solves some issues which may prevent printing from working correctly when multi-node support is enabled. The package also includes solutions for problems affecting the NX Core. For example, the NX session could fail during the reconnection procedure when a font is missing; NX agent could handle resize at reconnection in an incorrect way; and painting errors may occur when screen areas beyond the current viewport become viewable in NX Client for Windows.

DBsight 2.0.5 (Upgrade branch)

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 09:58:10 GMT

DBSight is a J2EE search platform for instant scalable full-text search on any relational database, for both beginners and experts. It features a built-in database crawler following user-defined SQL, incremental indexing, user-controllable result ranking, the ability to return results with highlights (like Google), and categorized result counts (like Amazon). It can easily integrate with other languages with XML/JSON/HTML. There is a UI for all operations, so no Java coding is necessary. Deleted or updated records in database can be synchronized also.

License: Freely Distributable

Changes:
This release adds index-specific spell checking. It fixes highlighter highlighting without summarizing. It adds an optional classpath for indexing to resolve a Tomcat JSDK classpath issue. It simplifies narrowBy rendering logic. It improves search performance by optimizing on Facet Search.