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It's pretty mature by now and can have all of D's features by tomorrow. Just ask for it! freshmeat.net:projects/lwc

Software to manage personal finances or organise digital photos is also missing [from linux].

Either search through the myriad of home-grown document markups yourself, or write something you like. Despite what you may believe, slashdot is still not freshmeat, nor is it google.

We aren't mind-readers either, but based on your request, it sounds like you won't be happy with anything, so you'd better start coding.

That's my suggestion.

The latest version of playfair (0.4) is also available on freshmeat.net (though this is odd, in my opinion, given that it was originally removed from sourceforge, and both belong to the OSDN. Meh).

http://freshmeat.net/projects/playfair/

Politics aside, it's interesting to watch the code progress (and hop around the internet).

Its like a MS interface except not any better. Really it's almost identical in terms of layout and usibility.

Well, for 31337 users like you, there are DEs like GNUStep, ROX, and many more open source alternatives. Or, if you find the entire concept of a premade DE to be objectionable, there are vanilla WMs like sawfish, E, fvwm, blackbox, and many more alternative window managers -- combine one with gkrellm or xload/xclock or an alternative system monitor and maybe something like xbindkeys, and you've whipped yourself up an X11 environment.

I find it somewhat difficult to believe that you've tried the dozens or more choices in each category and simply found that there is *no* combination that suits your fancy.

Its like a MS interface except not any better. Really it's almost identical in terms of layout and usibility.

Well, for 31337 users like you, there are DEs like GNUStep, ROX, and many more open source alternatives. Or, if you find the entire concept of a premade DE to be objectionable, there are vanilla WMs like sawfish, E, fvwm, blackbox, and many more alternative window managers -- combine one with gkrellm or xload/xclock or an alternative system monitor and maybe something like xbindkeys, and you've whipped yourself up an X11 environment.

I find it somewhat difficult to believe that you've tried the dozens or more choices in each category and simply found that there is *no* combination that suits your fancy.

Its like a MS interface except not any better. Really it's almost identical in terms of layout and usibility.

Well, for 31337 users like you, there are DEs like GNUStep, ROX, and many more open source alternatives. Or, if you find the entire concept of a premade DE to be objectionable, there are vanilla WMs like sawfish, E, fvwm, blackbox, and many more alternative window managers -- combine one with gkrellm or xload/xclock or an alternative system monitor and maybe something like xbindkeys, and you've whipped yourself up an X11 environment.

I find it somewhat difficult to believe that you've tried the dozens or more choices in each category and simply found that there is *no* combination that suits your fancy.

Top reporters are earning a lot of money. We can pay the amateur reporters with internet complementary currency (Geek Credit) when news worth this.
This will create a good rating system, I would read the news posted by "wealthy" amateur reporter first, and I am OK to pay for the best articles with complementary currency that is backed with my commitments to community.

There's even a news-over-freenet application. See JTCFrost.

The people at OpenPrivacy have been working on tackling the problem of anonymous news syndication for years. The result of this effort is Reptile, which has both an anonymous RSS syndication system as well as a web-of-trust reputation framework. NewsMonster is a similar application written by some of the same people that has a reputation system but lacks support for anonymous publication.

Also, there's JTCFrost, a freenet client that supports NNTP-style news publication.

there is already a bunch of SIP talking linux soft-phones and supporting software.

kphone
linphone

some other supporting software
galago
sarp
sipimp

look at the freeworlddialup forums for lots of chatter about SIP softphones and using images on cisco hardware.
assorted other softphone downloads here.

http://freshmeat.net/browse/266/

ngrep. it's ethereal/tcpdump/snort built all into one. you can finger print exploits manually and run regex's on normal traffic with the payload converted to ascii/hex chars.


check it out http://freshmeat.net/redir/ngrep/7168/url_homepage /ngrep.sourceforge.net

> but I don't see anyone starting an Open Source _video streaming_ projects.

Ogg Theora

I don't know... maybe it's just me but... that looks like Windows XP with a different layout. It's not remarkably different. It doesn't even begin to approach true flexibility in UI layout and functionality. When you can theme AND chrome Windows, call me.

Gnome has a little applet called acme that will let you press a key on your keyboard and have it run any program. You can find it here. It may also be installed already.

AutoZen on.
AutoZen on.

You can't forget FreshMeat.net

Come on...every slashdotter should know that site.

While looking for a better source/package managment system than those recommended by linuxfromscratch.org, I found this: srcpkg

Works with both compiled-from-source and packages. Supports uninstall. Very easy to use.

...that you need to do both. built it from source, then package it so you don't have to build it again. to help with the process of compiling and packaging you can use an app i wrote called autopkg.pl.

The Gnome and KDE provided were extremely weird and nonstandard

Worse than that, though, was that the add/remove programs utility was badly broken and did not list, for example, rpms that you have installed manually--it only lists whether some of the stuff that comes with Fedora is installed

There was no mp3 support out of the box

there was no ntfs support out of the box

There's a list on the SlimDevices website, and there's also an alternative (GPL'd) audio server

2) Assuming that someone does create this device, whoever comes up with a new design for you to download will probably still want to be paid. And will try to influence politians.

Yeah, imagine.. People giving free designs away. Lunacy.

zina is great, it simply requires an apache server and mod_php on whatever server your songs live on. It can stream, create playlists, randomize, and down-sample songs (if you have LAME installed) on the fly. Zina is also listed at Freshmeat. I have only used it as a stand-alone server, but it also plugs into Postnuke and PHPNuke.

There are plenty of these, just look at Freshmeat-search-results.

Generally it is a good idea to look there, before asking this at ./ i think..

MSFT claims that an additional cost of using OO is that it doesn't come with an email client, unlike Office (Outlook), so 'customers may incur a licensing cost associated with buying an email application'. I think it is noteworthy to point out that there are many free email clients, notably Evolution and KMail on Linux, and Mozilla Mail, Scribe, Mahogany, and YAMM for Windows/cross platform.

I always look on freshmeat.net for these solutions...here's a tip...

Linux Bandwidth Arbitrator looks like it was designed for this sort of thing...

If it's displayed on a screen, couldn't it technically be called "graphical"?

Then what do you call Twin?

Of course leto has!

http://freshmeat.net/~letoii/

He in on the projects, just an ad for his company.

After a bit more thinking, maybe the demand for freeware has dropped due to fear of viruses and an increase in technophobic users. The latter is inevitable and isn't meant in a bad way. The former is a problem that is solved by source code liberation - when software has assistants or gaurdians rather than owners.

When I need software? in kinda this order:
$ grep keyword /var/lib/apt/lists/*
(that's for Debian, but I'm sure there are similar package lists with descriptions on the other distros)

If that doesn't work, I try the free software directory, and then freshmeat.

That tenet is still true. If this were not true there wouldn't be some 112 projects on sourceforge with "PHP" and "template".

I personally use PHPLib templates, something I've discussed quite publicly.

Mixing logic and presentation is a no-no for effective software design.

Why be so proper? Why not just call them "underwear?" But, seriously, I'm not at all clear on what should be called "lower," "base," and "middle." Would you say that SDL and DirectX provide interfaces at a similar level of abstraction? I haven't used either of them myself yet, but what I've read suggests that they do.

Freshmeat lists a number of game frameworks, some of which are Free Software. I wonder if any of them provides capabilities similar to Renderware.

I've got news for all you anti-suit types: Marketing isn't trying to BS someone; it's explaining what your product does, who you've designed it for, and what unique qualities make it better than other choices.

*Amen*. I have never been able to figure out why, the more companies deal with large clients, the more they feel that an obscure description is necessary. I've started to form a theory, however. I've noticed that vendors that work with large clients *always* want to get the large clients on the phone, talking to a salesman, so that they can figure out how to maximize the amount of money they're sticking them for. My suspicion is that vendors feel that if their website's product description is unclear enough (if it has "solution" or "enterprise class" in it, I'd be uncomfortable already) potential clients will call their sales department. I have been in the position of doing purchasing recommendations for two companies I've been at. Perhaps I'm just younger or like using the Internet more than the other people there, but I don't take the approach of "get a salesman's phone number and sit through his schtick" that a lot of other people do. If I can't figure out what a product is or what someone's pricing scheme is in ten minutes from their website, it goes right to the bottom of my list. I'll call someone as a last resort. It's just not worth hassling with the huge quantities of bullshit that salesmen throw at you, having to worry about jotting down anything important they say instead of having a nice textual record to look at, etc.

It's really funny to look at product descriptions on Freshmeat -- the descriptions for commercial products are almost universally worse than open-source projects, probably because commercial types are worried about accidentally limiting their product's capabilities too much. Compare two Freshmeat-listed backup systems -- the commercial Arkeia and the gratis/libre Unison. While each system is related to backups, after reading the Arkeia description, I have a large quantity of bullshit couched in nice adjectives in my head. Despite the fact that Arkeia does a much simpler set of things than Unison does, I have less of an idea of what its capabilities are than of Unison's, partly because Unison's developer didn't waste time with flag-waving.

I've got news for all you anti-suit types: Marketing isn't trying to BS someone; it's explaining what your product does, who you've designed it for, and what unique qualities make it better than other choices.

*Amen*. I have never been able to figure out why, the more companies deal with large clients, the more they feel that an obscure description is necessary. I've started to form a theory, however. I've noticed that vendors that work with large clients *always* want to get the large clients on the phone, talking to a salesman, so that they can figure out how to maximize the amount of money they're sticking them for. My suspicion is that vendors feel that if their website's product description is unclear enough (if it has "solution" or "enterprise class" in it, I'd be uncomfortable already) potential clients will call their sales department. I have been in the position of doing purchasing recommendations for two companies I've been at. Perhaps I'm just younger or like using the Internet more than the other people there, but I don't take the approach of "get a salesman's phone number and sit through his schtick" that a lot of other people do. If I can't figure out what a product is or what someone's pricing scheme is in ten minutes from their website, it goes right to the bottom of my list. I'll call someone as a last resort. It's just not worth hassling with the huge quantities of bullshit that salesmen throw at you, having to worry about jotting down anything important they say instead of having a nice textual record to look at, etc.

It's really funny to look at product descriptions on Freshmeat -- the descriptions for commercial products are almost universally worse than open-source projects, probably because commercial types are worried about accidentally limiting their product's capabilities too much. Compare two Freshmeat-listed backup systems -- the commercial Arkeia and the gratis/libre Unison. While each system is related to backups, after reading the Arkeia description, I have a large quantity of bullshit couched in nice adjectives in my head. Despite the fact that Arkeia does a much simpler set of things than Unison does, I have less of an idea of what its capabilities are than of Unison's, partly because Unison's developer didn't waste time with flag-waving.

I tried a linux rescue floppy (which I had handy) the freshmeat compact flash linux project, and Pee Wee linux. I had no luck with any of them, and suspected that my two P3 motherboards were not capable of booting off of CF (a suggestion that was common on the forums). I was at the time looking for "Compact Flash" distributions, not "Embedded," but it looks like someone is working on an Embedded Debian project.

Good thing that's not off the ground yet. I don't have much hair left from the last attempt.

Which *BSD did you use?

While I'm not completely familiar with Lilypond, from what I understand it's not trying to be the full, end-to-end solution for music typesetting. It's trying to solve the problem of how you can easily represent musical notation in a textual format and get it to print out into a format as close to human engraving as possible. In otherwords, think of it as TeX for music.

Just as there are GUI frontends for TeX (LyX, for instance), it's completely possible to write a GUI frontend for Lilypond. There are already several projects that might fit the bill on Freshmeat, and I'd be willing to bet that there are several more over at SourceForge (whether or not any of them actually make it past the pre-alpha stage is anybody's guess).

Bowie doesn't just blow smoke, he has real software and very firm opinions and convictions. If you don't agree with his opinions that is fine, but don't slam him for them, and make like he's someone who does nothing for the community.

One of those universe/solar system simulations - I forget the name.
Possibly because there's more than one name to forget... (=

Let's see, for general touring around the Solar system and neighborhood, there's nothing quite like Celestia. Hours of fun, and very pretty to look at.
Noctis is also similar, but set in a fictional universe.
For more pretty pictures, but less interactivity, see The Solar Journey homepage or the Solar System Simulator. Also The Nine Planets for Kids.
Naturally, kids aren't that interested in just flying around. Well, Orbit lets them blow each other up in space, but with realistic physics and visuals. Once that gets boring, you can let them fly a space shuttle to the ISS with Orbiter. Beware, though. Orbiter is no simple game - you actually need to know how space flight works. There's also the Microsoft Space Simulator, which Orbiter has more or less superseded.

If you're not looking to get that far off the ground, FlightGear's an excellent flight simulator in which you can fly everything from the original Wright Brothers' craft right up to concept superplanes.

More links, mainly astronomy related, here, here, here, here, and here.

Finally, you might wish to try browsing the Tucows Games site and Freshmeat's game section (you'll need to login to make full use of Freshmeat).

Good luck, have fun searching.

.....or you could try Mplayer

On the subject of 'cool shell scripts', converting your awk to C and compiling it is pretty damn cool.

The performance improvement was about 6-7X on my project.

awka does that.

On my project it took less time to convert the awk to C, gcc the C and run the binary than it did to run the perl version.

This is not a perl flame. I am old. I use awk.

ezipupdate
ddclient
no-ip
are just a few ...
I'm using ddclient ...

Of course you definitely can't say the same thing about *nix desktops...

I have been using PocketMusic from PocketMind on my Samsung i700 PocketPC/Phone for a while, and it's amazing. I have zero iPod envy (I can't balance a budget, get e-mail, web surf, or make a call on an iPod, but I can play my Oggs on my PocketPC -- even to the extent of dagging them from my Linux box).

I mean this to take nothing away from the exquisitely designed, iPod, but I no longer have the desite to possess a single specialized device for every eFunction in my life. Sure, I sacrifice some sizzle sans iPod, some corporate penis-size sans blackberry, and some cuteness sans the postage stamp-sized phone du jour, but I love just having it *ALL* on my Samsung.

err, I assume you mean this

If you don't like the standard look, you can easily apply a diferent theme. Try browsing through this and see if anything could spice the Gnome desktop up.

Where would they get that idea?

I know you said aside from large companies, but I think Sun's gnome usability study applies here.

I don't use it, but that sounds the same as bug-buddy.

Sorry, I don't know much about KDE, so I couldn't say whether or not they've had anything similar going on. It's not like they couldn't learn from the two cited examples though, that's what OSS is all about, right?

Kinda not a good idea as goinf from one lossy to another makes the end result a file that sounds "less" that the original but......
Here are some MP3 to Ogg Misory one could try

Apparently the person who modded you up didn't check on what you said or just doesn't run Linux.

Ever heard of Firestarter? That's one GUI firewall I can think off the top of my head. Let's see here, how about fwall?

As far as your corporate firewall question, you might check into PF and OpenBSD OpenBSD As far as Smoothwall did you try the corporate version or just a free download? Googling, lookg what I found as far as your remark about outgoing ports and Smoothwall.
Haven't seen such a blatantly uninformed post in a long while.

I'm very fond of it on my desktops, I have one running 2.6 and one running 2.4 (both gentoo sources) and both are very responsive. I have yet to see another vanilla system that can handle running at 100% load without missing a beat handling the desktop.

It's not as easy as Redhat Mandrake et al, but then doing more complex stuff (custom kernels, odd hardware support etc) is much easier, which is really part of the Linux spirit :)

On the other hand I think the people running Gentoo on Zauruses are nuts. Gentoo might be good, but man if there was ever a place for Debian that was it!