rdiff-backup. GPL. Linux, Mac

freshmeat.net: "rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special directory so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup can also operate in a bandwidth- efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. It can also handle symlinks, device files, permissions, ownership, etc., so it can be used on the entire file system."

Web application to manage servers remotely. GPL

freshmeat.net: "phpRemoteShell contains a full-featured file manager, the ability to execute shell commands or PHP code, crontab management, and zombie management. It can also host itself into existing files and auto-deploy during their execution. In case it has been previously encrypted, it is able to self-decrypt on the fly."

GUI for managing lampp. GPL

freshmeat.net: "Lampp Panel is a kommander script that provides a GUI for managing lampp. It can start, stop, and restart lampp as a whole or individually do so for Apache httpd, MySQL, or ProFTPd. It can also reload configurations, check the security of the installation, activate or disable SSL in Apache httpd, switch between PHP 4 and 5, and perform many other functions related to lampp."

sysstat. GPL

freshmeat.net: "The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, mpstat, and pidstat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The pidstat command reports statistics for Linux processes. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics."

Label printing application for KDE 3. GPL

freshmeat.net: "KBarcode can be used to print everything from simple business cards up to complex labels with several barcodes, such as article descriptions. KBarcode comes with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG label designer, a setup wizard, batch import of labels (directly from the delivery note), thousands of predefined labels, database managment tools, and translations in many languages. Even printing more than 10,000 labels in one go is no problem for KBarcode. Additionally, it is a simple xbarcode replacement for the creation of barcodes. All major types of barcodes like EAN, UPC, CODE39, and ISBN are supported."

Lampp Panel is a kommander script that provides a GUI for managing lampp. GPL

freshmeat.net: "It can start, stop, and restart lampp as a whole or individually do so for Apache httpd, MySQL, or ProFTPd. It can also reload configurations, check the security of the installation, activate or disable SSL in Apache httpd, switch between PHP 4 and 5, and perform many other functions related to lampp."

Bootable floppy. GPL

freshmeat.net: "Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or CDROM that is oriented towards system rescue, specifically for repairing the booting process. Super Grub Disk is simply a Grub Disk with a lot of useful menus. It can activate partitions, boot partitions, boot MBRs, boot your former OS (Linux or another one) by loading menu.lst from your hard disk, automatically restore Grub on your MBR, swap hard disks in the BIOS, and boot from any available disk device. It has multi-language support, and allows you to change the keyboard layout of your shell."

Video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system. GPL

LiVES 0.9.8.8 is a simple to use yet powerful video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system aimed at the digital video artist and VJ. It uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it works on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It can handle almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.

Web search engine tool. GPL

DataparkSearch 4.49 features support for http, https, ftp, nntp, and news URLs, htdb virtual URL support for indexing SQL databases, text/html, text/xml, text/plain, audio/mpeg (MP3), and image/gif mime types built-in support, external parsers support for other document types, the ability to index multilangual sites using content negotiation, searching of all of the word forms using ispell affixes and dictionaries, stopwords and synonyms lists, boolean query language support, results sorting by relevancy, popularity rank, last modified time, and importance (a multiplication of the relevancy and popularity ranks), support for various character sets, and phrases segmenting for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai languages. It has accent-insensitive search, mod_dpsearch for Apache, and support for internationalized domain names.

The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, mpstat, and pidstat commands for Linux. GPL

sysstat 8.1.1
The sysstat package contains the sar, sadf, iostat, mpstat, and pidstat commands for Linux. The sar command collects and reports system activity information. The statistics reported by sar concern I/O transfer rates, paging activity, process-related activites, interrupts, network activity, memory and swap space utilization, CPU utilization, kernel activities, and TTY statistics, among others. The sadf command may be used to display data collected by sar in various formats. The iostat command reports CPU statistics and I/O statistics for tty devices and disks. The pidstat command reports statistics for Linux processes. The mpstat command reports global and per-processor statistics.

Free multimedia player. GPL

xine: " is a It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications."

Perl Audio Converter. GPL

freshmeat.net: "Perl Audio Converter is a tool for converting multiple audio types from one format to another. It supports AAC, AC3, AIFF, APE, AU, AVR, BONK, CAF, CDR, FAP, FLA, FLAC, IRCAM, LA, LPAC, MAT, MAT4, MAT5, M4A, MMF, MP2, MP3, MP4, MPC, MPP, NIST, OFR, OFS, OGG, PAC, PAF, PVF, RA, RAM, RAW, SD2, SF, SHN, SMP, SND, SPX, TTA, VOC, W64, WAV, WMA, and WV. It can also convert audio from the following video extensions: RM, RV, ASF, DivX, MPG, MKV, MPEG, AVI, MOV, OGM, QT, VCD, SVCD, M4V, NSV, NUV, PSP, SMK, VOB, FLV, and WMV. A CD ripping function with CDDB support, batch conversion, tag preservation for most supported formats, independent tag reading/writing, and extensions for Amarok, Dolphin, and Konqueror are also provided."

Super Grub Disk. GPL

freshmeat.net: "Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy or CDROM that is oriented towards system rescue, specifically for repairing the booting process. Super Grub Disk is simply a Grub Disk with a lot of useful menus. It can activate partitions, boot partitions, boot MBRs, boot your former OS (Linux or another one) by loading menu.lst from your hard disk, automatically restore Grub on your MBR, swap hard disks in the BIOS, and boot from any available disk device. It has multi-language support, and allows you to change the keyboard layout of your shell."

GTK+2-based editor with many useful features for HTM editingL GPL

freshmeat.net: Project details for TEA: "It features a small footprint, a tabbed layout engine, support for multiple encodings, code snippets, templates, customizable hotkeys, an 'open at cursor' function for HTML files and images, miscellaneous HTML tools, preview in external browser, string manipulation functions, SRT subtitles editing, Morse-code tools, bookmarks, syntax highlighting, and drag-and-drop support"

Video effects, editing, conversion, and playback system. GPL

LiVES 0.9.8.7 uses commonly available tools (Mplayer, ImageMagick, and GTK+), so it works on most Unix-like systems. It runs under Linux, BSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, IRIX, and openMosix. It can handle almost all types of video, and is fully extendable through plugins and the included plugin builder tool. It can also be controlled remotely using OSC.

Open Movie Editor.GPL

freshmeat.net: "The Open Movie Editor is designed to be a simple tool that provides basic movie making capabilities. It aims to be powerful enough for the amateur movie artist, yet easy to use. It is a non-linear video editor that features several video and audio tracks where clips can be manipulated using the mouse."

Framework is an MVC framework for PHP with a built-in templating engine. GPL

Mac's PHP MVC Framework 0.5.1
It comes with an integrated, AJAX-driven, flat file CMS solution. It was made with future extendability in mind. It is easy to install, easy to use, and has a very short learning curve. It also comes bundled with many PHP and JavaScript libraries. The framework generates SEF (search engine friendly) URLs right out of the box.

Neutralność technologiczna iTVP

List otwarty w sprawie neutralności technologicznej iTVP
Serwis 7thGuard.net rozpoczął zbieranie podpisów pod listem otwartym do członków Krajowej Rady Radiofonii i Telewizji, sejmowej Komisji Kultury i Środków Przekazu oraz Zarządu i Rady Nadzorczej Telewizji Polskiej o zapewnienie neutralności technologicznej projektu Telewizji Interaktywnej (iTVP). W obecnej sytuacji iTVP wymaga od nas korzystania z oprogramowania jednego producenta, co jest sprzeczne z podstawowymi zasadami państwa prawa. Zachęcamy gorąco wszystkich Czytelników do podpisania się pod apelem: http://itvp.7thguard.net/

SUSE 11.0 Alpha0

openSUSE 11.0 Alpha0
Ukazała się pierwsza wstępna wersja Alpha0 dystrybucji openSUSE 11.0 - tym samym oficjalnie rozpoczęte zostały prace nad tym wydaniem.Zmian w stosunku do wersji 10.3 jest sporo, znajdziemy między innymi: GCC 4.3.0, jądro 2.6.24-rc4, X.Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8 i 4.0 RC1, CUPS 1.3.4, ALSA 1.0.15, GIMP 2.4 i YaST 2.16. Akrualne obrazy ISO znajdziemy pod adresem: http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version#Downloads

The streaming solution

VideoLAN - The streaming solution: "includes two programs: * VLC media player which can be used as a server and as a client to stream and receive network streams. VLC is able to stream all that it can read. * VLS (VideoLAN Server), which can stream MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on the network in unicast or multicast. Most of the VLS functionality can now be found VLC. Usage of VLC instead of VLS is advised. Complete details of the streaming features are available."