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• "searchable by project name or keyword, results in a list of suggested software."
• "has a profile, beginning with a brief synopsis of what the software does."
• "lists the licenses held for the open-source project, as well as a link to the full text of each license."
• "offers information such as when the project was started, how many developers are actively working on it"
• "the languages it uses"
• "links to the project's home page"
• "a breakdown of current activities"
• etc

They used Suse Linux on the Enterprise?

Yes, they did.

Never worked with it, but interested in hear of any expericnes.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/handyrestaurant/

If you have access to a MacOS X box, Anthracite Web Mining Desktop toolkit http://www.metafy.com/ can do this kind of work for you. It's currently being used by customers on four continents to build daily custom reports from large volumes of web based data, like the SEC Edgar filings. It's based on a visual user interface that allows non-programmers to quickly and easily create high value web data processing systems. If you need to automate running a grip of regexen against thousands of webpages daily, you should definitely check it out. It can possibly save you a lot of time, we've got one customer who quickly eliminated two days per month of this kind of labor intensive work. On FM with great vitality at http://freshmeat.net/projects/anthracite [PS - Yes, I'm definitely biased, I wrote the software ;-)]

Check out Spook an open source, highly customizable or embeddible streaming server. It is best paired with a firewire camera, but those can be had easily for $100; I love my UniBrain Fire-i camera. There is also a Freshmeat page on the project.

Now I think that many of you are overlooking the bigger picture that indeed there are much larger Open Source financial packages such as Compiere (paid support available), ERP5 and ofbiz.org (which has a paid support beta program for their financial module which will be open sourced)
http://compiere.org/
http://www.erp5.org/
http://www.ofbiz.org/
http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/index.ph p

Don't say there aren't any such programs until you've checked out:
http://www.freshmeat.net/

What you want is TKSETI, it's a front-end for the client, start, stops, pauses on command and by schedule and has a starmap in it that'll show the locations in the sky of all the work units you have done while tkseti was running. It also keeps track of your top scores and will connect to seti@hmoe and tell you if your friends made official top users spikes or gaussians. I thought it was what made running seti at home fun. you need Tcl/TK and a seti cient to run it, but I don't know if it works with the new-fangled BOINC clients, it's been a couple years since I used it.

There are a ton of sniping services out there. eSnipe is just one of the more popular ones (don't ask me why).

There's even at least one completely free and no-registration-required sniping service: http://www.cniper.com/

But why give a third party your ebay account information and let them track your bidding habits, when you can run a sniping tool on your own machine?

Here're some sniping tools that'll run on Linux, courtesy of freshmeat:

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=snipe&section=proje cts&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

And here's esniper, a tool that I personally prefer:

http://esniper.sourceforge.net/

It's very no frills and is text-only, but is absolutely reliable, easy to use, and functional enough to get the job done. I set aside a screen session for it, let it run in the background, and go do something else while it snipes for me.

Interestingly, Google's search toolbar will be available only when Shockwave is downloaded for use with Internet Explorer on Windows.

Uh, yeah. Are you talking about the UI? A lot of UI stuff in OS X do not require any coding at all, you just use interface builder. There are a plethora of applications and utilities out there for OS X which interface command line OSS with an Aqua UI.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/itheater
http://www.videolan.org/
http://freshmeat.net/browse/839/
Do a search for OS X on sourceforge, you will find some mac specific applications but also a lot of cross platform projects and projects which merely provide a graphical UI for command line tools Mpegtools.

BTW, that's FS/OS. Not everyone agrees with gun-toting racists and the OSI does not represent those with morals.
What the hell are you talking about? Who are you accusing of being a gun-toting racists? How are you representing the open source movement when you go off on such an insane tangent?

I wasn't naming toy languages. I was naming real, in-use languages. Same reason I didn't include brainfuck, befunge, or my personal favorite, homespring.

I'm amazed, even the title of this story is wrong. For browsing any tool who can display code is sufficient. Sure tools which can syntax highlight or have name reference lookup are better but the real issue is to find the source code first hand.

Whenever I search for a solution I first go to http://koders.com/ but their index seems a little limited. Still just try once looking up "wxSingleInstanceChecker". There are others like Koders.com but I've forgotten their names. Next I try to think of a most fitting statement for code and feed it to Google (e.g. "class App: public wxApp", but beware of the white space) which at least returns some hints which project might have source code available. Yet the free text search isn't very suited for searching code since it produces too much wrong results.

When I've found a project which might have fitting code I either look into their LXR if it's available or simply download the source tarbal and use a decent editor (e.g. http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/).

It's said that none of the current CVS web tools are searchable, nor that Google is able to restrict results to CVS pages, else it would be much easier to search for source code.

O. Wyss

I wonder what he would prefer, if not Apache?

IIS? CommuniGate Pro? NCSA HTTPd?

lighttpd

http://freshmeat.net/projects/fortune-discworld/

There's a project that does "captcha" with text questions, which makes it usable by the blind, and probably less likely to accidentally deny access to humans. Of course, spammers might be able to attack this as well, but if they can get 90% on an image captcha, then maybe this is worth trying.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/textthacaa/

There are about 130,000 open source programs in http://freshmeat.net/

The Google kid, is a kid with many billions in the bank and the ability to get slashdot articles for every new thing they make. So competing with the other not-so-famous OSS programmers out there and bragging about the new thing they made, does not look so good for them. If their software is good, people will use it. Bragging about how the OSS world should thank google for giving 0.0001% of its assets to get some patches they needed, is funny, laugh.

I agree with these book selections though I think that it's wrong to say "these are must-haves for the Linux/Unix user" if they cost money.

There is also a new web browser called abaco for Plan 9 that is progressing fast.

KROC is here. The other is some long-forgotten package, as opposed to a long-forgotten language.

I don't know if KROC has been ported to Plan9/Inferno yet, but it damn well should be.

As others have already asked, what environment you currently use is critical for any development strategy. Simply switching from C++ to Java will gain you nothing, what counts is what better framework you want to use. Since you only mentioned Windows I guess you just use plain MFC but since you also mentioned Java I guess you need to divert to a cross-platform solution.

In case your future environment has to produce binary applications you are IMHO best of if you switch to the wxWidgets framework (http://www.wxwidgets.org/). Since you already have C++ knowledge and wxWidgets is quite easy for Windows developer it shouldn't be a big problem to become familiar. I'm quite sure with wxWidgets you are equally efficient as with any Java framework but don't have the disavantages of Java.

You can use wxWidgets regardless of any platform consideration, if you just want to stick to Windows or to Linux or whatever, it doesn't matter. But if you also follow the guidelines of wyoGuide (http://wyoguide.sf.net/) you can move your code anytime to another supported platform and just release it. As long as you just use the features of wxWidgets there's no need to recode anything on other platforms ever.

If you want to see how well this approach works try out my samples (wyoEditor http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/, wyoFiler http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/) or look into Audacity. Or look out for the commercial application Xara. There's probably no alternatives for cross-platform development as if you do single-platform development as with wxWidgets/wyoGuide. And keep in mind, no Java disadvantages.

O. Wyss

As others have already asked, what environment you currently use is critical for any development strategy. Simply switching from C++ to Java will gain you nothing, what counts is what better framework you want to use. Since you only mentioned Windows I guess you just use plain MFC but since you also mentioned Java I guess you need to divert to a cross-platform solution.

In case your future environment has to produce binary applications you are IMHO best of if you switch to the wxWidgets framework (http://www.wxwidgets.org/). Since you already have C++ knowledge and wxWidgets is quite easy for Windows developer it shouldn't be a big problem to become familiar. I'm quite sure with wxWidgets you are equally efficient as with any Java framework but don't have the disavantages of Java.

You can use wxWidgets regardless of any platform consideration, if you just want to stick to Windows or to Linux or whatever, it doesn't matter. But if you also follow the guidelines of wyoGuide (http://wyoguide.sf.net/) you can move your code anytime to another supported platform and just release it. As long as you just use the features of wxWidgets there's no need to recode anything on other platforms ever.

If you want to see how well this approach works try out my samples (wyoEditor http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/, wyoFiler http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/) or look into Audacity. Or look out for the commercial application Xara. There's probably no alternatives for cross-platform development as if you do single-platform development as with wxWidgets/wyoGuide. And keep in mind, no Java disadvantages.

O. Wyss

Here are a few of mine:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%25s
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=%25s
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=%25s
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=%25s&section=projec ts
http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=all&query=%25s
http://dir.gmane.org/search.php?match=%25s
http://search.gmane.org/search.php?query=%25s&sort =date

That's strange. AFAIK, all digital camcorders still record everything in (mini-)DV format which is a well-established standard. That's what my camcorder (Sony) uses, and it's well supported in Linux:

The reference for Linux is Kino, but Freshmeat has several projects for software to interact with DV stuff: http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=dv+video

-chris

GLPI is an information resource manager with an administration interface. You can use it to build a database with an inventory for your company (computers, software, printers, etc.). It has functions to make the daily life of the administrators easier, including a job/request tracking system with mail notification and methods to build a database with basic information about your network topology. It provides a precise inventory of all the technical resources (all their characteristics are stored in a database) and management and history of the maintenance actions and the bound procedures. It is dynamic and is directly connected to the users, who can post requests to the technicians. http://freshmeat.net/projects/glpi/

Have you bothered to check Freshmeat or Sourceforge for projects similar to yours? I've been looking for a Point of Sale system, and many of the freely available software systems to something similar to what you ask. The rest is just finding a contract programming team (check your local LUG) to customize the package.

Freshmeat

SourceForge

My career is almost solely attributable to OSS. Of course, I'd like to think I have some talent helping me, too. :)

I started at Borland, as a Perl jockey, mostly. I got in trouble with customers for not using Delphi to power the Web site. But something about OSS made me feel safe -- I had been very poor before the Borland job, and I didn't like the idea of hanging my career onto products that cost $2000 -- what if I became poor again and couldn't afford the next release? It seemed like a way to lock myself out of my own toolset.

I never became poor again, though. I fell in love with PHP & Linux. I started to specialize in LAMP. For a while I ran some OSS teams at SST, Arzoo, and Actuate. I bought more & more into the idea that there you give away the tools and sell the service. I started doing freelancing. I got a reputation for being the guy who fixes the bugs in apps that have lost their original developers.

I partly got that reputation because I have fixed a lot of other people's products for free. And when I create a Web site (for myself, for profit), I package up my enhancements and release them to the community. In return, I get calls from recruiters, from people who will pay me $50 for a quick product install, and from people who see my work and want to hire me for big projects. Some of my Web sites have donation buttons, and they actually get used (not as much as I'd like, but still :)

Anyway, to conclude, by integrating myself into the community, the community has helped me to stay afloat. I can pay my mortgage, and feed my kids. In return, the free products I use to make my living get free patches from me.

My current big freelance project is building the auction for Napa Valley Vintner's charity auction. It's a Flash interface, which I didn't make, powered by a PHP backend, which is where I come in. I'm doing something worthwhile, and they're giving me fair pay. I may not have 10,000 customers downloading my product for $29.95, but I do have 10,000 friends who send me big jobs. They know that if I have paying jobs during the week, I'm patching their products during the weekend. It's a good way to make a living.

-Tony

That's your standard Linux distro ought to include the mystical "tawgo" command.

tawgo: Tell Audience What's Going On

Hey, that shouldn't be hard to whip up, using whiptail or zenity or something!

I've reviewed the following:

Bluecat Networks Proteus/Adonis http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/
Incognito IP/Name/DNS Commander http://www.incognito.com/
INS IPControl http://www.ins.com/
Carnegie Mellon's NetReg http://www.net.cmu.edu/netreg
Lucent VitalQIP http://qip.lucent.com/
Solarwinds IPAM Pro http://www.solarwinds.net/
Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com/
Infoblox http://www.infoblox.com/
IPPlan http://freshmeat.net/projects/ipplan
MetaInfo http://www.metainfo.com/

In hopes of replacing our current in-house developed solution.

I'll be honest, they are for the most part simply 'ok'. I wasn't super-impressed with any of them, and the bottom half of the list were definitely not ready for ISP/ASP/MSP-level use. I've listed them in descending order of my preference. All the useable ones are super-expensive, on the order of 'ok you can afford to pay a decent php/mysql coder to code you something from the ground up', or you can take this out-of-the-box thing, and shoe-horn it into your existing network. Which will in most cases take some weeks of programming anyway...

I had some of what I thought were pretty simple requirements...

- unix/linux based
- no single point of failure (clustering)
- handle forward and reverse dns
- api's (mostly to allow us to present a customer access to their zones)
- web-based gui with tiered user-levels
- pref software-based install rather than appliance, due to the shoe-horn prediction i mentioned above

Those are the highlights off the top of my head. I was surprised how few actually had all those features.

After months of doing webcasts, reading white-papers etc we've come to the conclusion that it's going to be developed in-house from the ground up, using bsd/apache/postgres/php/bind and some soap.

After reviewing these, I'm actually dying to know what large enterprises are using. I'm hoping there's some magic bullet IPAM solution that I missed on google. Please someone tell me about it!

Anyway, hope this helps you in your quest.

The only one I'm aware of is FFES (Freehand Formula Entry System)

http://freshmeat.net/projects/ffes/

Not opensource AFAICT is Infty:

http://www.inftyproject.org/en/

William

And you're right. DHCP should work, and I shouldn't have to resort to hacks like this to control it. There is ifplugd, but as far as I can tell, it's not usually included in the default boot process of any major distributions. I may be wrong on that, but I'm talking from the outside looking in - unplugging my network cable during boot time gives me that 60 second wait even in the likes of OpenSUSE.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/speechlion

This sounds great...where can I preorder it?

I noticed it's available for download at http://freshmeat.net/projects/dukeforever/ and it's being written in Perl. I knew Perl was powerful but now I'm really impressed :-)

Some fine stating-of-the-obvious in that article:

"If you are going to share quite a big amount of data over this server, the server itself should have enough storage since it keeps a copy of every file"

  Where else did you think it was going to keep a copy?

  I think its basically an MS Sharepoint-type document sharing solution, of which you will find umpteen other examples on freshmeat.net.

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=document+management &section=projects&Go.x=0&Go.y=0

Several of them even claim to be 'Enterprise-class' or 'professional'. Now an article comparing all of these with 'iserver' and sharepoint would be worth frontpaging on slashdot..

Barry

What can Notepad-plus do better than wyoEditor (http://freshmeat.net/projects/wyoeditor/)?

wyoEditor is also based on Scintilla but runs identically on Windows, Linux and MacOSX. Can you imagine editing in fullscreen mode and not knowing which system you have booted into? Well acutally you just have to look at the window frame but else you won't discover it. Besides does Notepad-plus also have a live class/function browser for C++?

O. Wyss

erhhh.... no that has linux replacements. see here for a list.

http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/269/

some of those are even commercial.

...on whether Negreponte is a novice or not. If he is, then yes, he's very possibly out of luck, since software designed for novices needs more functions by definition, and thus, has to be bigger.

If on the other hand he already knows a thing or two, (or isn't afraid of learning) then he will find that minimalistic systems are actually one of Linux's primary strengths, at least in my observation. He could probably use this as a base, and then for X use apt-get to install ROX Filer, metacity, (as a background for ROX) and fbpanel as his start menu. Or, if he wants most of that done for him, he could install FVWM instead of metacity and fbpanel, and still use ROX as an explorer clone. Mind you, this is only one possible option, and most people reading this would probably think I'm insane and ask why I don't simply advocate fluxbox/xfce etc. This is a problem with myriad possible solutions.

He'd probably also need to install gtk for Abiword etc, but that doesn't necessarily have to be a problem. There are also any number of lightweight image viewers around as well...he should check freshmeat. For web browsing, there's also dillo.

Hence, what he wants is more than possible. He might have to do a bit of surfing, but then again, with the magic of apt-get, he probably doesn't even need to do that.

getting smaller still than damn small linux
http://freshmeat.net/projects/baslinux/

I really don't get it about linux being fat, for it really is what ever size you want it to be,
and t9o be running live off a cd...

The problem in this case isn't collaboration, it's the sharing of large files needed in the collaboration.

In this case, a simple repository is all that's needed to take care of this problem. Have a large file? Open the repository site, drop in the file, it returns a link to you when it's uploaded. There are commercial document repositories, and there are Open Source repositories, either of which solves the problem of putting documents in a central place for groups to utilize.

The real problem for Collaboration Software Vendors is that, for a group using a CS system, there is usually one and only one way to do things; one way to share documents, one way to organize projects, one way to build plans. All of the members of the group have to adapt to the CS. Groups who use email and calenders for their collaboration don't necessarily get all the features of a CS system, but the "system" they use is maximally flexible. User A can organize and manage things how they are comfortable with them, and user B can do something completely different with the same information.

The problem isn't inertia of users getting out of email and into CS, but a lack of flexibility on the part of the CS systems that users aren't willing to give up.

it's called freshmeat

Like LSH? :)

Thank you slashdot, what would I do without you?

Seriously, why are we seeing product announcements on the front page? OSTG already owns freshmeat, there is no reason to reproduce this information on Slashdot. I hope I'm not marked as a troll on this, and I'll even go as far and NOT post as a coward.

Also we use rsnapshot for hourly/daily/weekly/monthly snapshots of the whole filesystem (rsnapshot is very cool and simple too).

Speaking of OSS, could you enlighten us as to how being an Apple user is incompatible with OSS and what a select few people running XP has anything to do with Apple and OSS other than the fact that the software will be a OSS project?

As for Apple and the OSS communityHere are a few links for you:

Apple's involvement with OSS.
Freshmeat OS X projects
Source Forge Projects

The balance provided in Linux goes far beyond the choice of theme suggested in the article.
The power to choose your own window manager means that these new features aren't a problem at all.

The window manager ecosystem goes far beyond Gnome and KDE battle, and while I was rather impressed by the demo last night of how the latest gnome looked with custom icons and XGL fancyness they aren't features that I find useful and simply aren't features that I would use. That doesn't mean that their existance hurts me, any more than the existance of KDE hurts Gnome.

Freshmeat lists 132 different window managers ranging from the Gnome and KDE environments to the distractingly pretty Enlightenment, Blackbox and all it's forks and the very basic window managers like Ion which is where by preference lies.

Freshmeat listings for Tellico and Alexandria. I took a look at both of them a few versions ago and they were too massive for my needs (a few tens of books).

It seems to me that most of your problems can be solved with a little politcal weight-throwing.

This network is considerably larger, with more name servers. The control of IPs, hostnames and DNS entries is somewhat loose, and it is starting take its toll.

The number of nameservers is irrelevant as long as they're master/slave. Are each of these NS boxen run by a different business unit/department? If so, find the group with the organizational proponency for DNS (probably you) and demand that they be given full control. Assign a hostmaster for your organization and funnel ANY and ALL dns changes through him/her/it. Authority for subdomains can still be given out, but force a signed waiver to cover your ass when they shoot themselves in the foor by running 2k3 AD as a production NS service.

Once this is done you'll probably want to ditch the flat-file approach and run some sort of frontend. It guarantees that when your hostmaster eventually quits you wont have to find another expensive geek. I used to run the webmin plugin for BIND, but stopped once I saw what a security nightmare webmin was. Don't have much experience with anything else besides custom solutions but nictool and oDNS have their supporters.

Sounds an awful lot like Darwine.... Other links: http://darwine.opendarwin.org.nyud.net:8090/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwine/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwine http://freshmeat.net/projects/darwine/

Bah. I use yasql for everything. Who needs a GUI anyway?

271 Projects in Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers

Enjoy!

(Although, admittably, several of those projects are either Mozilla itself or Mozilla based, and quite a few aren't web browsers at all. But it's a nice list to start with.)