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Doh! I use slashdot's sister site freshmeat of course.
What kind of question is that to ask on slashdot of all places?
Ohhhhhh.... I see.

Hey! Checkout FreshMeat(freecode).

They launch dozens of projects that no one will ever use, every singe day.

put on your best cookie monster voice and sing along with me!

D is for download, that's good enough for me.
D is for download, that's good enough for me.
D is for download, that's good enough for me,
oh! Download download download starts with D.

hang on why are we singing about downloads again?

oh yeah linux software :)

my damn alzhbergers is playing up :(

Or the fact that practically every major software project is developed using C++?

The page you linked to doesn't really back up that claim. It says right at the top that this page lists only software written in C++. Sure, there is a lot of software being developed in C++, but there is also a lot of software being developed in C (e.g. Linux, most of GNU, most projects on Freshmeat), Java (a lot of commercial development, and a growing number of open source projects, too), and don't forget PHP and JavaScript, which are widely used for programming for the Web (e.g. by Google and Facebook).

Of the applications I use on a daily basis, only my web browser (over time, this has been Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror and Firefox) is written in C++. Most of the rest is written in C, with a handful of things written in Perl and a handful in Ruby. Then again, I don't use Windows. It seems to me that C++ and C# are much bigger there than in the Unix world.

I thought I saw just such a thing on Freshmeat recently — yes, here it is. It appears to need some Perl libraries which aren't available everywhere, though.

I wrote my own electronic filing system software, that OCRs, and analyzes documents using text classification and date extraction, does full text search, etc. Here is the link: http://freshmeat.net/projects/paperless-office

http://freshmeat.net/projects/loonix/

Loonix is a custom Linux distribution meant for server applications.

I'm guessing it doesn't play flash since it's a server distribution. Silly question really.

Apt-cacher (or perhaps apt-cacher-ng ) does this quite well for the Debian/Ubuntu world.

Now that Apple has an internet web-related / social networking product named 'Ping'..... I wonder how long before they start going after software such as fping, and Smokeping, or World Wide Web / Web2.0 / Blogging products such as Ping-O-Matic, or Pingler

And some OSes even include a command called ping. Think of all the settle to get $$$ and licensing / additional stream of revenue opportunities.....

Not only games...Autocad, ProEngineer, Photoshop, Cubase, Altium, AvrStudio, AlteraQuartus...etc..

There are alternatives to some of these. "BRL-CAD is a powerful constructive solid geometry solid modeling system". Architosh: "the leading Internet magazine dedicated to Mac CAD and 3D professionals and students worldwide." Pro/ENGINEER runs on Solaris and Red Hat Linux. There's a version of Photoshop for OSX and Photoshop CS 2 runs in CrossOver. For those who do not need all that Photoshop has they can use GIMP, Cinepaint, or Krita. Cubase runs on OSX. For Linux there's the AGNULA Project and other alternatives.

I'm in a rush now so I won't go through the rest of your list but I bet there are alternatives for them as well.

Falcon

Currently I use imapsync (http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/) to sync all of my email to shared archive folders on a vm with the cyrus imap server installed. I wrote a shell script that syncs all of my mail into an archive folder for the current year, then deletes the email off of the original imap server. From time to time I have searched for a way to write all of the archived mail to an indexed format that can go on a cd/dvd that needs no mail reader to search for, but have found nothing. I worry that 20 years down the road there will be no way to run the vm, the imap server, or a client to access it. So good luck ;)

Finally someone that understands what I am proposing. The only tricky part would be mounting that virtual partition, that would probably require some serious coding somewhere in the Android filesystem to make that work...

Not as hard as you think. All the tools are already there or readily available.

You could easily do this yourself on your rooted Android phone.

As hard as it may be for you to comprehend pretty much every major OSS project(Firefox, Gimp, Blender, Open Office, hell even KDE) has been ported, I've even been playing with a super stripped down Win7 in Virtual Box running nothing but FOSS apps to fill in for anything and everything. There are even OSS projects that ONLY have a windows port like Songbird. Just check out Freshmeat's Windows section http://freshmeat.net/tags/windows

It'd be interesting to see an OEM try selling windows boxes loaded with OSS software.

Don't overlook the protocol used by radio amateurs for location tracking. This is often used with amateur weather balloon and photography. Getting a fix on the landing site helps recovery of the payload.

Auto Position Reporting System (APRS) can be adapted to other communications links besides ham radio.
http://www.cave.org/aprs/
http://www.cave.org/aprs/aprswhat.html
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gpsd/

First Usenet article referencing Shoutcast was on December 31, 1998. It stated that Shoutcast had been released earlier that same day.

Icecast's first public release happened a few weeks later, on January 18, 1999, according to the tarball, which lines up neatly with the same date on the Freshmeat page.

grkellm comes with a bandwidth meter.

You are toying with us. Find better fake names!
http://towel.sourceforge.net/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/ketchup-lksm

man cpulimit. man numactl.

Technical requirements

        * A Fedora GNU/Linux installation
        * python (2.6 or higher preferred, but not 3)
        * python-magic
        * GNU binutils (for readelf and strings)
        * e2tools http://freshmeat.net/projects/e2tools/ (optional)
        * squashfs tools (4.0 highly recommended)
        * module-init-tools (for modinfo)
        * gzip (for zcat)
        * xz (for lzma)
        * PyLucene (latest version possible)
        * OpenJDK, Apache Ant and dependencies to build PyLucene

How do you write code to do PR/create docs? Please, be my hero.

Docs:
Doxygen

PR: /. etc

This works great for reducing the effectiveness of dictionary attacks:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/sshutout

Go to http://freshmeat.net/ search for "Java", find a java project that interests you, download the source -- see if you can understand it & get it to run, contact the author to see if there is anything you can work on or tweak.

Port Nethack (http://nethack.alt.org) from ANSI C to Java?

Build an Android application?

IOW -- find a way to apply your knowledge. Program a little every day -- just for the fun of it.

He did a google search of 'dandaman32' probably and followed the link results. That is what I did and found out a bit more about the project.

Though, it seems that Enano CMS has a professional-looking website, a Freshmeat page, an ohloh page, a BitNami stack page, and a Twitter feed.

Did I miss anything? ;-)

Try posting to freshmeat?

http://freshmeat.net/about

http://freshmeat.net/articles/red-hat-updated-lynx-package-corrects-a-security-flaw-2
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510348

I know this comment will get lost in the sea of other comments, but my recommendation to you would be a hybrid solution.

Create a small partition (1GB would be overkill) and format it FAT32.
Create another partition for the rest of the drive (or however you please) with your choice of FS (I prefer XFS, personally).

Store the drivers(/utilties) for the FS you chose and store them on the FAT32 drive.
Some popular drivers/utilties for Windows are:
ext2fsd for EXT2 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/
rfstool for ReiserFS - http://freshmeat.net/projects/rfstool/
ltools for EXT2/EXT2/ReiserFS - http://www2.hs-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.html/
and so on and so forth (a simple google for "[FS] Windows Compatibility" usually works.)

Just my thoughts. :-)

We have used Eventum for the past two years. Lots of nice features. Users email the helpdesk and it automatically creates issues. Also works great for projects. http://freshmeat.net/projects/eventum/

This should not be on /. - it should be posted on http://freshmeat.net/

I suspect if you had asked "I am looking into a CMS" etc you would have had loads of answers and once you had sifted through all the usual /. bollocks you might have got some useful stuff out of it.

The fatal error was mentioning your own opinion!

The only advice I can suggest is to try it out and see what happens. In any design/eval exercise you should do your research, pick three and give them some time.

I suggest looking at Joomla as well and spending some time at say http://freshmeat.net./ For a laugh, throw in SharePoint as well for comparison.

Don't discount a Wiki either - something like MediaWiki or whatever may do the job nicely for you. That one at least seems to be quite scalable, apparently.

Hey, dude, have you ever compared CPAN and PEAR? And this word - 'Delphi'. http://freshmeat.net/ might give you some insights about usage of programming languages =)

You want vlock.

Everyone I know has at least a few TB of data on burnt CDs and DVDs. It would be nice to be able to consolidate your multimedia stuff into one storage device. I'm running 8 terrabytes of data on 10 1TB hard drives on a ATA over ethernet setup in raid6. So yeah I'm pry not your average consumer but being able to access 1000's of hours of movies, tv and home video without having to pay netflix or watch the ads on hulu is pretty nice.

Ugh, can someone say prior art?

[Citation needed].

FOSS. There are more than 200,000 software projects on SourceForge alone. Freshmeat has thousands more. Now I'll admit I bet most of them are abandonware or are little used but software was being programmed before patents were ever issued on software.

Patent rights are significantly stronger than copyright, which is one of the reasons they're time-limited.

Both copyrights and patents were originally issued for 14 years with one 14 year extension possible in the US. It's only because politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, were in the pockets of the MPAA and RIAA that copyright terms were lengthened. The industries now have a friend as the Vice President, Biden.

Falcon

This is the same Shlomi Fish who wrote some FUD about how he didn't understand the goals of perl 6? And who 'read the GPLv2 originally once and couldn't understand it'?

I'd rather read articles written by people who have an excellent comprehension of the subject they are writing on, thanks.

That has been an evolving thing which was sorted out before Nokia was involved.

Nokia bought TrollTech in 2008. Qt was released under the LGPL license in 2009.

it became clear that Mr Stallman and others refused flatly to read the qt licence changes when there was an attempt to make it more compatible with the GPL.

Straight from the horse's mouth:

Thanks in part to the discussions held here by the freshmeat community, Trolltech has decided to release the next version of Qt under the GNU General Public License. In today's editorial, Eirik Eng and Matthias Ettrich explain the reasoning behind their decision.

We have been in contact with Richard Stallman (President of the Free Software Foundation) on the issue, and he has been kind enough to offer his help and analysis. He has also sent us comments from Professor Eben Moglen, Professor of Law & Legal history and General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation.

That's from the article written about the decision to release Qt under the GPL, by the people who made that decision. If you use Google, you will also find plenty of mailing list threads where people are discussing the QPL's incompatibilities, and Stallman participated in some of those threads.

Yes, I understand that some people in the Free Software community considered a modified QPL to be compatible with the GPL, but disagreeing with them doesn't mean that you haven't read the license, and just because TrollTech attempted to make changes to make the QPL compatible, it doesn't mean that they were successful. Sometimes bugfixes don't fix the entire problem. Complaining about the bug after an incomplete fix doesn't mean you haven't run the software.

Code version control: Git, SVN, CVS,
Text communications: IM, IIRC, Jabber, AIM, whatever. gtalk
Screen Sharing: Skype - video, voice, text chat, desktop sharing all in 1.

Phone and conferences: google voice, & skype. The goal being free conferencing withot any long distance costs.

Interactive Text editing: ACE http://freshmeat.net/projects/ace

Good thing I've never thought about this at all.

Hmm, looks like bridged mode doesn't always play nicely with wireless.

Host-only mode with pptpproxy or parprouted might do the trick - there's a recipe for using the latter here.

So please tell me: how, and more importantly, where do you meet fellow geeks â" preferably including some of the opposite gender â" in meatspace?"

I don't think Freshmeat is the place to meet chix.

search http://freshmeat.net/ for youtube.dl

I guess Tomboy is a nice test-case. But all that junk to install just for a note-taking program? Also, wouldn't it be nice if the Slashdot summary told me what Tomboy does?

The project page is a little more informative:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/tomboy

This reminds me of Jeff Covey's Antidesktop, published back in 2002. It seems to be effective and quite user-unfriendly to anyone who doesn't know how the system has been built.

Well... Stupid as the CueCat was, I finally found use for it years latter. For the price (free), it's a workable barcode scanner with just a little bit of coding.

http://linux.wareseeker.com/Internet/cueact-0.1.1.zip/318832
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cuecat
http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun/archive/2007/03/06/1815618.aspx

Now if I could just find a use for all those damn AOL CDs in the attic.

FYI - copy protected sectors still have to be read by hand. Sorry, you're Ultima V disk isn't (directly) copyable. You'll have to use Neverlock or some other 'helper' software to play it without the disk in DOSBox.

However, I'm open to suggestions about the above...

I think there are already Linux versions of the laser controlled mouse. I remember seeing something where they projected images on the sides of buildings, calibrated the laser colors and for the size of the active region and then put on cool graphic shows from afar.

try searching for "projector" "laser" and "computer" and you might find it. Otherwise, http://freshmeat.net/projects/lasertraq/ is what I have found so far.

LoB

Has anyone looked at Freshmeat lately (owned by the same corporate overlord as Slashdot)? It was a great site and now is completely unusable. Can Taco save ./ from this fate?

What's with the rainbow colours? Each story has a little flash of colour on it, and then top right there's a dropdown with some colours on it, and if I choose a colour the stories all seem to dance about a bit and shuffle around. What. The. Flip? And then on the top left there's an 'Edit' box which has - amongst it's other unexplained options - another colour selector. Which does what? I have no idea. Is it some kind of quality thing? I don't have a map of quality to colour in my head. This is meaningless. And don't try and explain what it all means - I'm trying to read the news here, I don't want to have to read a manual. I'll go elsewhere.

And what do colour-blind people think? At least if you are playing with colour be smart and use Color Brewer palettes.

Honestly, I think slashdot looked pretty good enough in 2002:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020806091841/slashdot.org/

  - go back to that, change the fonts and colours a bit, perfect.

Another recent example of a design-gone-bad - www.freshmeat.net - is the current new implementation:

  http://www.freshmeat.net/

  really better in terms of ease of use than 2002?

http://web.archive.org/web/20020603034258/http://freshmeat.net/

Raaaaage!

B

I use the libpurple-based Mac OS X client Adium, and there is a plug-in available called Challenge/Response. This plug-in will intercept any messages from users not already on my buddy list and ask any question I like; if the user gets it right, I am asked to block/allow the user as if the plug-in wasn't even there. I used to be flooded with spam whenever I used my old MSN/Windows Live! account, but now I never get one bit of spam.

Windows and Linux/*NIX users should check out Adium's sister project Pidgin, and you can use the Bot Sentry or pidgin-privacy-please plug-ins to the same effect.

cant take any report from a pizza guy - http://freshmeat.net/users/tsarkon

check out edukalibre.