Monday, April 08, 2002

freshmeat.net: Linux From Scratch 3.3 (Stable):"The Linux From Scratch project is intended for Linux users who want to build their own custom Linux system. Reasons for wanting to build such a system are diverse. Perhaps you want to get into more detail as to what happens behind the scenes. Perhaps you are fed up with distributions which are often bloated or perhaps you don't want to rely on pre-compiled binaries due to security concerns. There are many reasons why you may want a custom build system, but if you are one of them, this project is for meant for you. " 2:34:26 PM

freshmeat.net: Horde Application Framework 2.1-RC2 (Stable 2.0):"The Horde Application framework is a set of PHP classes providing common ways to handle preferences, browser detection, authentication, help systems, MIME, connection tracking, cross-application communication, and more." 2:33:49 PM

freshmeat.net: IMP 3.1-RC2 (3.0 Stable):"IMP allows universal, Web-based access to IMAP and POP3 servers and provides an addressbook, LDAP directory searches, full support for sending and receiving attachments, and many other features normally only found in desktop email clients. It is being actively developed." 2:33:17 PM

freshmeat.net: NewVideoRecorder 20020408 (Stable):"NewVideoRecorder is a high quality video capture toolkit for Linux. It includes deep buffering of audio and video to reduce frame dropping, a smooth dropping algorithm to keep the video smooth if dropping is required, and dynamic stretching of the audio stream to exactly match the video stream. It can use v4l1 and v4l2 devices as video sources, and OSS devices as an audio source. It can produce QuickTime, AVI, NuppelVideo 0.52 files, MPEG-1 files, and all files supported by ffmpeg (through the ffmpeg library). It also includes tools and utilities for high quality video streaming (multicast and unicast). " 2:25:45 PM

freshmeat.net: tomsrtbt 2.0.9:"tomsrtbt is the most Linux on one floppy disk for rescue recovery panic and emergencies, contains tools to keep in your shirt pockets, is useful whenever you can't use a hard drive and contains about 100 rescue tools." 2:14:20 PM