FredPod Program 090920
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This program was produced on September 20, 2009, and today’s topics will include:
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Selections from Recent file releases on SourceForge dot net.
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And Selections from “yum info recent” on the Fedora project.
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In Today’s feature, you have an audio taste of Software Freedom Day as experienced in Fredericksburg, Virginia on September 19th. We had visitors of all ages seeking FOSS alternatives (FOSS as in Free and Open Source Software). Many visitors had great questions, and we were glad to provide great answers! We also gave away lots of Linux installation DVDs and CDs and other open source resources.
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And we’ll close with a Creative Commons work from (short e)
Etherine, entitled Modulation.
Among the Recent file releases on SourceForge are:
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OpenDisc is a high quality selection of Open Source programs for Microsoft Windows users; to educate them about OSS and Linux and provide free alternatives to costly proprietary software.
Find more information at theopendisc.com
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A Linux, Windows & OS-X vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.
Find more information at inkscape.org
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xml2hostconf is a utility for central configuration and automatic installation of networks of Linux computers. Fedora, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu are supported. It makes use of rpm, yum, kickstart, dpkg, apt-get, preseed, dhcpd, tftpd, httpd and pxelinux.
Find more information at xml2hostconf.sourceforge.net
Here are some Selections of updates from “yum info recent” :
Name : ath_info
Summary : Tool to get detailed information from Atheros WLAN cards
Description: ath_info prints some version information of Atheros WLAN modules.
: It furthermore allows to change regulatory domain and PCI ID fields
: in the EEPROM. Since the output of lspci and dmesg is not always
: sufficient to correctly identify chipset versions, it is useful to
: attach ath_info output to bug reports for the ath5k driver.
Name : devio
Summary : Read and write utility for block devices
Description: devio is a command line utility intended to read and write on block
: devices. The primary difference between devio and other command
: line utilities, such as dd and cat, is that it is not stream based
: – it writes directly into the object rather than reading and
: writing a stream of data.
Name : drupal
Summary : An open-source content-management platform
Description: Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content
: Management System written in PHP that can support a variety of
: websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven
: websites. Drupal is highly configurable, skinnable, and secure.
Name : dvisvgm
Summary : A DVI to SVG converter
Description: dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts DVI files, as
: created by TeX/LaTeX, to the XML-based scalable vector graphics
: format SVG. Besides the basic DVI command set, dvisvgm also
: supports various special sets, like color, PostScript and TPIC.
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: Fonts that are only available as Metafont source are automatically
: vectorized so that the generated SVG is freely scalable without
: loss of quality.
Name : gnome-bluetooth
Summary : Bluetooth graphical utilities
Description: The gnome-bluetooth package contains graphical utilities to setup,
: monitor and use Bluetooth devices.
Name : hosts3d
Summary : 3D real-time network visualiser
Description: Hosts3D is a 3D real-time network visualizer, displaying
: hosts and packet traffic. Features include support for
: multiple sensors, analysis of packets to gather hostnames
: and services, configurable layout of subnetworks,
: recording/replaying of packet traffic, and the ability
: to filter packets by host, protocol or port.
: hsen (as in Hosts3D Sensor) is a packet capture daemon which
: reads and sends packet header information to Hosts3D,
: locally or remotely. hsen also equates hostname to IP
: by reading DNS packets (UDP type A class IN standard
: query response). The relationship between hsen to Hosts3D
: can be one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one or many-to-many
: (many Hosts3Ds would be on multiple computers on the
: same subnet, receiving packet header information
: from hsen via broadcast).
Name : kdenetwork
Summary : K Desktop Environment – Network Applications
Description: Networking applications, including:
: * kget: downloader manager
: * kopete: chat client
: * kppp: dialer and front end for pppd
: * krdc: a client for Desktop Sharing and other VNC servers
: * krfb: Desktop Sharing server, allow others to access your desktop
: via VNC
Name : listen
Summary : A music manager and player for GNOME
Description: Listen is an intuitive music player for GNOME written in Python.
: Thanks to it, you can easily organize your music collection.
: It supports many features such as podcats, daap sharing,
: crossfades, access to lyrics and wikipedia, sync with media
: players, Jamendo etc… Listen can be extended with plugins.
Name : me-tv
Summary : GNOME desktop application for watching digital television
Description: Me TV is a GNOME desktop application for watching digital
: television services that use the DVB standard, as in Digital Video Broadcasting. Me TV works with
: DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S and ATSC cards that have kernel driver support.
: Me TV reads the Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data that is
: transmitted over the air to populate a built-in program guide which
: can be used for scheduling recordings.
Name : mono-nat
Summary : .NET library for automatic port forwarding
Description: Mono.Nat is a .NET library used for automatic port forwarding,
: using either uPnP or nat-pmp, as in NAT Port Mapping Protocol.
Name : purple-facebookchat
Summary : Libpurple plug-in supporting facebook IM
Description: This is a Facebook chat plugin for Pidgin and libpurple
: messengers. It connects to the new Facebook Chat IM service
: without the need for an API key.
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: Currently the plugin can log into the Facebook servers, grab the
: buddy list, send/receive messages, add/remove friends, receive
: notifications, search for Facebook friends and set your Facebook
: status.
Name : rfkill
Summary : A tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices
Description: rfkill is a simple tool for accessing the Linux rfkill device
: interface, which is used to enable and disable wireless networking
: devices, typically WLAN, Bluetooth and mobile broadband.
Name : synergy-plus
Summary : Mouse and keyboard sharing utility
Description: Synergy+ (synergy-plus) lets you easily share a single mouse and
: keyboard between multiple computers with different operating
: systems, without special hardware. All you need is a LAN
: connection. It’s intended for users with multiple computers, where
: each system uses its own display. It’s a little like having a 2nd
: or a 3rd desktop. Synergy+ is a maintenance fork for implementing
: bug fixes to the original Synergy, which hasn’t received any source
: updates or new releases since 2006.
Name : tzdata
Summary : Timezone data
Description: This package contains data files with rules for various timezones
: around the world.
Name : vidalia
Summary : GUI controller for the Tor Onion Routing Network
Description: Vidalia is a cross-platform controller GUI for Tor, built using the
: Qt framework. Vidalia allows you to start and stop Tor, view the
: status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor’s bandwidth usage.
: Vidalia also makes it easy to contribute to the Tor network by
: helping you setup a Tor server, if you wish.
Name : virt-v2v
Summary : Convert a virtual machine to run on KVM
Description: virt-v2v is a tool for converting virtual machines to use the KVM
: hypervisor. It modifies both the virtual machine image and its
: associated libvirt metadata. virt-v2v will also configure a guest
: to use VirtIO drivers if possible.
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: virt-v2v also includes the virt-snapshot tool, which will modify a
: guest to use snapshot storage, and later commit the snapshot back
: to the original storage if desired.
Name : vmpsd
Summary : A GPL implementation of Cisco Systems’ VMPS
Description: VMPS (VLAN Management Policy Server) is a way of assigning switch
: ports to specific VLANs based on MAC address of connecting device.
: OpenVMPS is a GPL implementation of VMPS.
The Fredericksburg Linux Users Group, meets on the first Thursday and last Saturday of each month. The meetings take place at the main Library in Fredericksburg, Virginia, on Caroline Street in Meeting Room 2:
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You can find the FredLUG calendar by going to Google Groups and searching on F-r-e-d-L-U-G. Near the top of the page is a link to the Google calendar containing the meeting schedule.
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Besides the FredLUG Google Group, you’re also welcome on the IRC channel Hash FredLUG on irc dot freenode dot net.
