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The filemanager he mentions seems to be bitroting.

I think it has been taken over and brought into foXdesktop -- I searched high and low for xwc, got it, tried to compile, found out that the fox libs changed enough that it won't compile, cursed, and hit google some more.

I found foXcommander because it mentioned it was based on xwc. It still uses the fox libs but seems to be at least under new management. You need fox and foXdesktoplibs (or sommat like that, it's on that sf.net link) to get it running. There are two lines you have to change in the main .cpp for foXcommander; it complains about not knowing what MENU_DEFAULT is; just remove the reference to it (basically chop off the last argument to the function call in both instances). That's it. It is FAST, looks almost identical to the windows exploder and did I mention it was fast?

It also appears to support some kind of plugin architecture if I'm seeing things clearly. I wonder how much work it would be to port to KDE/qt; both fox and qt seem to be trying for the "write once, compile everywhere" goal, and it's a worthy one. However fox seems to be trying even harder to bring Windows to Linux (API and all, ewwwwww...) so I'd like to keep everything qt if I can. :-)

Here's a snippet of info from top(1) after I tried running a few of the "lightweight" window managers mentioned here (btw, thanks to whoever mentioned fluxbox, looks good):

PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE S %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
26154 pete 10 0 3076 3076 1872 S 0.0 0.5 0:01 sawfish
26009 pete 9 0 1872 1872 1332 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 fluxbox
26124 pete 11 0 1816 1816 1260 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 icewm
26059 pete 9 0 1648 1648 1192 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 blackbox
26094 pete 10 0 1528 1528 1012 S 0.0 0.2 0:01 fvwm2
20798 pete 9 0 944 944 808 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 ratpoison

Sorry if that's not terribly readable, but the important figures are SIZE, RSS and SHARE. Note that fvwm2, interestingly enough, appears even slimmer than blackbox (probably partly due to blackbox being written in C++). And, of course, note that ratpoison is significantly slimmer than any of them.

Of course, you may not be the sort of person that would appreciate ratpoison :) - but if you've used screen(1) and like that, there's a good chance you'll be able to absorb the ratpoison zen.

If you're the sort of person for whom screen real estate is all-important and you tend to use mainly terminals and a few browser windows, then give it a go - it combines extreme minimalism with useful functionality in a very nice way. No bullshit to get in your way.

Plus, it's the only WM I've ever used that I haven't had to configure at all before being productive with it... of course, that could be partly because there's very little about it to configure... :-)

Pete.

• ROX-Filer for the file manager. It manages desktop icons, and has a panel as well if you want one. It's based on Gtk+, but doens't involove any gnome.
  rox.sf.net
• Oroborus for the window manager. It's default theme is beautiful and it is amazingly quick. Uses only xlib for drawing.
  www.kensden.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Oroborus/
• FSPanel, for F*ing Small Panel. The whole app is only 10k under linux! Plus it works and includes a pager (optional patch).
  www.chatjunkies.org/fspanel/

This article is strange for me. While icewm is great choice, I don't understand why he wrote about mtv and xanim. I think that software is bad, very bad.

Thanks to avifile author we have many free and powerfull players today. Please try mplayer and avifile if you don't know it.

How xanim or binary-only mtv can be better than free alternatives? Last time I checked it was even impossible to rewind a movie there!

XWC as fm? Well, ok, but I preffer emelfm , which is much better than mc for me (try to use mc in directory with 10000 files!).

Last but not least - word processing. What about LyX ? OK, there is kword and abiword, but there are fat. IMHO LyX is much more powerfull than real MS Word, and it's fast and light. The only problem with LyX is xforms :-(

So - it's nice to see that kind of article, but I think choices are not best there.

This article is strange for me. While icewm is great choice, I don't understand why he wrote about mtv and xanim. I think that software is bad, very bad.

Thanks to avifile author we have many free and powerfull players today. Please try mplayer and avifile if you don't know it.

How xanim or binary-only mtv can be better than free alternatives? Last time I checked it was even impossible to rewind a movie there!

XWC as fm? Well, ok, but I preffer emelfm , which is much better than mc for me (try to use mc in directory with 10000 files!).

Last but not least - word processing. What about LyX ? OK, there is kword and abiword, but there are fat. IMHO LyX is much more powerfull than real MS Word, and it's fast and light. The only problem with LyX is xforms :-(

So - it's nice to see that kind of article, but I think choices are not best there.

This article is strange for me. While icewm is great choice, I don't understand why he wrote about mtv and xanim. I think that software is bad, very bad.

Thanks to avifile author we have many free and powerfull players today. Please try mplayer and avifile if you don't know it.

How xanim or binary-only mtv can be better than free alternatives? Last time I checked it was even impossible to rewind a movie there!

XWC as fm? Well, ok, but I preffer emelfm , which is much better than mc for me (try to use mc in directory with 10000 files!).

Last but not least - word processing. What about LyX ? OK, there is kword and abiword, but there are fat. IMHO LyX is much more powerfull than real MS Word, and it's fast and light. The only problem with LyX is xforms :-(

So - it's nice to see that kind of article, but I think choices are not best there.

Another developer has implemented SCCons.

Both are still in development, but roundup is being used by several organisations already. We hope to have a new release out next week that will fix some problems with 0.3.0 and implement some nice functionality too.

So, use one of the others. ROX (which I develop for) is quite different to Windows, and XFCE is different again.

If he can install and run debian, and can't find the Windows config dialog, then M$ is missing something.

I find windows too hard to use because I can't tweak settings without going through a bunch of dialogs.

Example: all those taskbar apps that start up in windows (kills my roommates' comp)... how do you turn those things off!?... in linux all I have to is emacs .Xsession and comment out the line that loads the dockapp or whatever. That is really simple!

Oh, and flame away for not knowing how to use windows. I must be too stupid

Well, if you have checked the linux-ntfs website, especially the mailing list archives you would see this question comes up a lot.

Here's one reply to why it hasn't been done yet.

TuxRacer is good on two fronts: they are Linux-friendly and they have an Open Source version (although it is older than the commercial one).

If I may be slightly off-topic here, I'd like to see more people involved in creating Linux games. Unlike developing for a console, there are plenty of freely available docs and tools to make it happen. Take a look for example at plib, a portable scene graph/geometry/network enabler/GUI/sound library intended for games. It's Open Source, GPLed, has a great, easy-to-understand C++ interface, and is overall a good thing. I've been using it for nearly six months, and I can't believe the ease with which I've been able to create a couple of little games. I'd love to see more Linux-based Open Source games based around plib.

TuxRacer is good on two fronts: they are Linux-friendly and they have an Open Source version (although it is older than the commercial one).

If I may be slightly off-topic here, I'd like to see more people involved in creating Linux games. Unlike developing for a console, there are plenty of freely available docs and tools to make it happen. Take a look for example at plib, a portable scene graph/geometry/network enabler/GUI/sound library intended for games. It's Open Source, GPLed, has a great, easy-to-understand C++ interface, and is overall a good thing. I've been using it for nearly six months, and I can't believe the ease with which I've been able to create a couple of little games. I'd love to see more Linux-based Open Source games based around plib.

Now is when the open source community should be working hard - to be ready to quickly launch an "open kazaa" type system, with the supernodes p2p searching and indexing, etc. The old protocol has already been reverse engineered. Its a proven protocol, and it works well enough. Just use that protocol and the old giFT client as a starting point.

All that is needed is a "keyless" client and a solid "Windows" version of the client. Why Windows platforms first? To paraphase the alleged Willie Sutton quote, "because thats where the files are". Remember, its the mass of users and files that make this work, so a technically solid and professional looking Windows client must come first, for maximum user gain. This is in additon to the usual and inevitable multiple Linux versions. The replacement client must be made to install and use the files and directories that already exist on the windows users' computers, and to use a similar user interface - so it is instant changeover, apparently seamless and painless - and it will look as if they never "left" the old p2p service except for the centralized login.

Finally, the forgotten element in the Open Source community, "publicity", must be revved up to get this client into the hands of a lot of people so it can be switched to as soon as Kazaaa/Morpheus et al are shut down. Linux users will take care of themselves, but the Windows herd usually needs to be led, at least initially. A question for the Slahsdot crowd,

How do you "publicize" things to the non-geek Windows crowd without a budget ?

Ok, nows the time to step up to the plate - this is a golden opportunity to put into place a open p2p net that cannot be stopped at a central source, that can permanently rip control out of the hands of central authorities for file-sharing, that will quickly adapt to overcome countermeasures, and a system that will make moot the DMCA and other US-centric bad laws. The question in front of the community now is:

Can Open Source people do things pre-emptively - plan and act in advance to scatch an itch we know is coming, instead of waiting for the itch to appear?

This is certainly a good test case to see if the Open Source community is what we enthusiasts always claim that it can be.

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Neither is IE, so what's your point? Although individual characteristics differ (speed, rendering results, features), I don't think that in total these three browsers differ a whole lot. They are all very usable and pleasant (or not) in their own way.

I must admit that I haven't tried Mozilla or Konqueror under Windows yet, even though both are available (Mozilla by default, Konqueror as part of KDE Cygwin. On the other hand, I haven't tried IE under UNIX either, be it the Solaris/HPUX port or through Wine.

That means making things so that you no longer have to "guess" what percentage of moderation is being done by the editors, nor having to "think" how many mod points you've spent in a given day.

Make that information publicly available. Have moderation history done by the editors listed in their user info. And fix the notification so that it makes a distinction between moderation done by editors and non-editors.

The more open things are, the better.

One form of FEC that even your stereo components might already do is Reed-Solomon encoding; you can look this up in CS textbooks.

For those of us that don't have a CS textbook handy. ;-)

The "Math" they use is called Forward Error Correction (FEC) and is the same stuff that the Swarmcast distributed download system is based off of (http://sf.net/projects/swarmcast/).

I am the creator of Swarmcast, and we at Onion Networks (http://onionnetworks.com/) already have a product that can provide file transfers just as fast as Digital Fountain, but ours is 3-5.5% more efficient and much much cheaper.

On the open source front, we are working on the next generation of the Swarmcast technology which will combine parallel downloads over HTTP, Multicast IP, and UDP (for tunnelling through NAT). We have started work defining a standard for this system called the "Content-Addressable Web" and hope to see it implemented in everything from Apache to Mozilla.

Please mod this up, people shouldn't be paying $150k for these types of technologies.

Second, don't just bitch about IE. If you haven't already, check out the alternatives:

• Mozilla, now in Version 0.9.6, is very feature-rich and fast and the most standard-compliant browser in existence, but not for computers with less than 128 MB of memory.
• kmeleon (Windows) and galeon (Linux) are Mozilla derivatives with smaller footprint.
• Opera, which is closed source adware and requires registration, is a very fast browser that is especially recommended for "information surfers" because of its excellent navigation and caching.
• Konqueror is KDE's built-in browser. Thanks to Qt/Embedded and/or KDE-Cygwin, it might be ported to Windows as well.
• Lynx and W3M are up-to-date text mode browsers capable of displaying most pages which do not depend on images or animations.

Second, don't just bitch about IE. If you haven't already, check out the alternatives:

• Mozilla, now in Version 0.9.6, is very feature-rich and fast and the most standard-compliant browser in existence, but not for computers with less than 128 MB of memory.
• kmeleon (Windows) and galeon (Linux) are Mozilla derivatives with smaller footprint.
• Opera, which is closed source adware and requires registration, is a very fast browser that is especially recommended for "information surfers" because of its excellent navigation and caching.
• Konqueror is KDE's built-in browser. Thanks to Qt/Embedded and/or KDE-Cygwin, it might be ported to Windows as well.
• Lynx and W3M are up-to-date text mode browsers capable of displaying most pages which do not depend on images or animations.

I'm waiting for the day when we start to have tools that allow UI interfaces to be designed on the fly, kind of like a TeX for the UI.

FLTK gets close to the mark. It's the easiest cross-platform opensource gui generator I've seen. http://fltk.sf.net

Check EOF (Everything Over Freenet). Steps are being taken to do what I think you are talking about. If/when Freenet stabilizes things like this will be *very* cool.

My portal only works with Galeon. :-)

• Your signal is intrinsically AC coupled
• Nothing you're interested in is outside the audio band (50Hz to 5kHz or so)
• Up to a second delay for the screen update latency (depending on sound card) is ok
• Your circuit is floating, so you can tie its ground to the computer's ground
• 16 bit digitization (or worse) is enough
• No hardware triggering (all done in software)
• When dual channel, both have the same settings
• Input resistance is unimportant

You need to take a really careful look at what you're trying to do ... it is usually better to buy an oscilloscope or a PCI 'scope card. However, if you want to make measurements in the field and keep costs down, that's a lot of extra stuff to carry around.

Corrosion measurements on aircraft is an application where a sound card is appropriate, because it meets those limitations and carrying extra equipment around the aircraft is a real pain.

I think he means that thre are plenty of other MPEG-4 players out there that are open source, and much better than Quicktime

FFmpeg is an open-source codec/server solution (implementing several popular codecs, like DivX). Decoding works well, but the encoding quality can't compare with the "real" codecs yet. I haven't tried using it as a server.

The current 0.4 snapshots are very impressive, and once a few final bugs are resolved 0.5 will be released.

SpamAssassin is a mail filter to identify spam.

Using its rule base, it uses a wide range of heuristic tests on mail headers and body text to identify "spam", also known as unsolicited commercial email.

The spam-identification tactics used include:

• header analysis: spammers use a number of tricks to mask their identities, fool you into thinking they've sent a valid mail, or fool you into thinking you must have subscribed at some stage. SpamAssassin tries to spot these.
• text analysis: again, spam mails often have a characteristic style (to put it politely), and some characteristic disclaimers and CYA text. SpamAssassin can spot these, too.
• blacklists: SpamAssassin supports many useful existing blacklists, such as mail-abuse.org, ordb.org or others.
• Razor: Vipul's Razor is a collaborative spam-tracking database, which works by taking a signature of spam messages. Since spam typically operates by sending an identical message to hundreds of people, Razor short-circuits this by allowing the first person to receive a spam to add it to the database -- at which point everyone else will automatically block it.

Once identified, the mail can then be optionally tagged as spam for later filtering using the user's own mail user-agent application.

SpamAssassin requires very little configuration; you do not need to continually update it with details of your mail accounts, mailing list memberships, etc. It accomplishes filtering without this knowledge, as much as possible.

We have installed SETI@Home on most of the machines in our office. We're split on the subject of finding a signal, but we all think it is a nice screen saver. We were interested in keeping track of the progress of the work units on several of the machines (in case they failed to upload) and in keeping track of our user statistics, so I wrote up a little utility which can parse the state.sah files on shares and display the progress. It also polls the SETI@Home website to retrieve our group statistics. It's hosted on Sourceforge and you can download it here.

Just a few weeks ago i started my own project for this purpose: vncrypt. It's patched vn(4) driver for FreeBSD-stable that allow transparent encryption. Now it's in beta, encrypting data but with minimalistic and not very secure user level tools.

CFS by Matt Blaze is a good solution, but I don't like NFS idea and directory structure, file sizes, etc are still visible with it.

I wouldnt go that far and call a protocol based on the fixed TCP port 1214 a decentralized network. Less vulnerable, maybe.

#include Freenet.rant

I don't think its functional anymore. At least on the download page it says its not functional anymore. Also I noticed in their screenshot page it looks like they are working on an applet, I think it would be nice to have a full out Java application (like Phex) personly, but it seems they are focusing more so on a c server, at least the only source code I found was in c, and the java applet does not appear to be in 0.9.7. So it doesnt look like its there yet. If I am mistaken let me know.

• A config-file parser, with a syntax similar to pf, but that outputs iptable rules. AGT is a good starting point.
• Adding features to Netfilter, so that things similar to pf's scrub and modulate state are implemented.

Well first, this isn't the issue here. We're talking about compiling from source which isn't the same as deciding how to install a binary once compiled.

As for rpm, etc you just want a graphical front-end, I think.

That said, Window's setup.exe is actually unnecessary complicated for users. With ROX, we're using application directories. There is no setup program because the program can just run in-place. See the example at the bottom of this page for an example. As a bonus, running a source package is done in exactly the same way as running a binary (it just takes a bit longer).

The whole business of installing is terribly arcane if you think about it (hint: the computer already has everything it needs to run the application... why the extra steps?)

Well first, this isn't the issue here. We're talking about compiling from source which isn't the same as deciding how to install a binary once compiled.

As for rpm, etc you just want a graphical front-end, I think.

That said, Window's setup.exe is actually unnecessary complicated for users. With ROX, we're using application directories. There is no setup program because the program can just run in-place. See the example at the bottom of this page for an example. As a bonus, running a source package is done in exactly the same way as running a binary (it just takes a bit longer).

The whole business of installing is terribly arcane if you think about it (hint: the computer already has everything it needs to run the application... why the extra steps?)

Any Emulater or virtualization tool?

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i.e. noise. The only purpose it serves is to faster identify the window you're dealing with. This has become unnecessary with the invention of the taskbar. Further additions to this concept, like window summarization and application-specific taskbars, make it even easier to use. If you want to view a lot of information simultaneously instead of having everything in full-screen mode, a smart window-manager like ion will rearrange windows automatically in useful tiles. Additional usability can be gained with clever hotkeys for application-switching.

But while overlapping windows are stupid, transparent windows are really part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to stupidify the masses by making computers incapable of displaying information. The next step will be window-spectific screensavers, which turn on after a specific period of inactivity in a single window. Just you wait. Thanks to transparency:

• Information becomes unreadable, especially with unfortunate color combinations.
• Information you think is there is actually part of another window -- have fun editing that picture.
• When two windows overlap with the wrong alpha-blending setting, you can no longer be sure which one is on top without looking at the taskbar or focus (in this screenshot, thanks to additional braindead color gradients in the title bars, this is especially hard).
• Even your calculator will use more RAM than Mozilla ..

If you like eye-candy, you may "drool" over this one and get your brain fucked by the Illuminati. A frontal lobotomy may be a quicker solution though.

MkLinux was aimed mostly at pre-PCI systems, where a native kernel wasn't available. There is an alternative now, and with the fact that (to my knowledge) MkLinux is unfathomably outdated, there's really no excuse to use it at this point. Certainly not on a PCI PowerMac, but even on the NuBus systems, you may as well use native kernels.

But Mozilla is now very fast and stable on Windows, and it is clear that the 1.0 release will be one of the best browsers available (memory usage will likely remain unsatisfying, but memory prices these days are negligible) -- and available on all relevant platforms. Then you have spin-offs like K-Meleon and Galeon which use the Mozilla Gecko engine with smaller general overhead and some new features.

Development of Moz & Co. will not stop with the 1.0 release -- they will continue to improve proportionally to the number of people that use and hack them. The same is true for KDE's Konqueror, which is an excellent, fast browser that just keeps getting better, and has some very nice features, especially on the GUI side. I'm not keeping up with IE, but some of the Mozilla/Konqueror features seem to be unmatched by IE: tabbed browsing (Moz), background loading, very flexible window layout, perfect search engine integration etc. etc. None of them are bundled with any specific vendor-services (except for Netscape's "What's Related" in Mozilla). Wonderful cookie management. No smart tags either.

From what I have heard, IE 6.0 only had marginal improvements, reminiscent of a single milestone in Mozilla. This would not surprise me, given the fact that Microsoft no longer needs to invest in the browser market since they already dominate it pretty safely (or so they think). This is completely different to oss, which keeps getting better until its developers are satisfied.

The KDE port to Windows may eventually give Windows users another mature choice for browsing, besides Opera, Mozilla and K-Meleon, Konqueror. The Qt libraries are cross-platform (though there may be licensing issues), so hopefully eventually we'll see a simple to install binary port of Konqueror.

There's lots to say about why choice in the browser market matters, but I'll save that for another rant. Trust Microsoft: They knew why they had to concentrate all of their resources on killing Netscape 5 years ago. Part of their strategy was OEM licensing, telling PC manufacturers not to include Netscape besides IE, or suffer the consequence of prohibitive Windows prices. From what I have gathered, many of these practices are now forbidden, so OEMs should now be legally able to install another browser besides IE. And the choices for them to do so are growing. This gives PC manufacturers potential revenue streams since they can "customize" these browsers in unprecedented ways.

So this should be a wake-up call to OEMs to install browsers besides IE. The time is now, and liberating the browser is the first step to breaking the MS OS monopoly.

But Mozilla is now very fast and stable on Windows, and it is clear that the 1.0 release will be one of the best browsers available (memory usage will likely remain unsatisfying, but memory prices these days are negligible) -- and available on all relevant platforms. Then you have spin-offs like K-Meleon and Galeon which use the Mozilla Gecko engine with smaller general overhead and some new features.

Development of Moz & Co. will not stop with the 1.0 release -- they will continue to improve proportionally to the number of people that use and hack them. The same is true for KDE's Konqueror, which is an excellent, fast browser that just keeps getting better, and has some very nice features, especially on the GUI side. I'm not keeping up with IE, but some of the Mozilla/Konqueror features seem to be unmatched by IE: tabbed browsing (Moz), background loading, very flexible window layout, perfect search engine integration etc. etc. None of them are bundled with any specific vendor-services (except for Netscape's "What's Related" in Mozilla). Wonderful cookie management. No smart tags either.

From what I have heard, IE 6.0 only had marginal improvements, reminiscent of a single milestone in Mozilla. This would not surprise me, given the fact that Microsoft no longer needs to invest in the browser market since they already dominate it pretty safely (or so they think). This is completely different to oss, which keeps getting better until its developers are satisfied.

The KDE port to Windows may eventually give Windows users another mature choice for browsing, besides Opera, Mozilla and K-Meleon, Konqueror. The Qt libraries are cross-platform (though there may be licensing issues), so hopefully eventually we'll see a simple to install binary port of Konqueror.

There's lots to say about why choice in the browser market matters, but I'll save that for another rant. Trust Microsoft: They knew why they had to concentrate all of their resources on killing Netscape 5 years ago. Part of their strategy was OEM licensing, telling PC manufacturers not to include Netscape besides IE, or suffer the consequence of prohibitive Windows prices. From what I have gathered, many of these practices are now forbidden, so OEMs should now be legally able to install another browser besides IE. And the choices for them to do so are growing. This gives PC manufacturers potential revenue streams since they can "customize" these browsers in unprecedented ways.

So this should be a wake-up call to OEMs to install browsers besides IE. The time is now, and liberating the browser is the first step to breaking the MS OS monopoly.

The idea is the source code will be able to be compiled conditionally for many different handheld platforms.

The current ipkgs should work not only on the sharp zaurus device but also should work on recently compiled versions of Qt Palmtop on iPAQs.

Packages are at:
http://qpe.sourceforge.net/packages/ipaq/unstable/

Installation instructions from Joris on the sharp-linux@yahoogroups.com mailing list:

install the small qpe-quake_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk file like you'd normally do. (The following can be done on your desktop) Now, rename the big qpe-quake-data_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk to qpe-quake-data_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk.tar.gz, and extract it: tar zxvf qpe-quake-data_1.5.0-1_arm.ipk.tar.gz You'll get control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz Somehow get data.tar.gz to you CF (/mnt/CF), for example using ftp or SCP Open a terminal and move the file to your CF: mv data.tar.gz /mnt/cf extract the file tar zxvf data.tar.gz there should be a directory structure like: opt/QtPalmtop/quake/.... create a symlink, so quake knows where it's data is: ln -s /mnt/cf/opt/QtPalmtop/quake /opt/Qtpalmtop/ For questions, please visit #zaurus on irc.openprojects.net

No one bothers to use MkLinux anymore - it's old and out of date, and you can always run a native kernel on the pre-PCI systems now (it's a little old, but it works, I have 3 PowerMac 6100s running Linux, running the distributed.net client - yeah, yeah, I know :). What's the point of converting a monolithic kernel to run on top of a microkernel anyway?

The exception to this is phpMyAdmin

Good software (usually open source) usually won't die if the founder forgets about it. The fact is that most software can be replaced with something else (however difficult that may be) if development stops.

ROX-Filer does something like this, which is really what you should be using to manage files if you liked RiscOS.

The author has written a freshmeat article explaining all this in more detail.

since Kazza changed their protocol to a server-centric model (go read the link you just posted). Besides, QTella kicks Limewire's butt anays.

SourceForge (not SourceForge.net) is a collaborative software development platform.

SourceForge.net is a service provided freely to Open Source software development projects.

The new name SourceForge.net, and the logo with an enlarged dot and a "net" bigger in point size than the "FORGE", remind me too much of Microsoft .NET. Are you porting it to Mono or something? I would have called the code SourceForge Engine and the site SourceForge Projects in keeping with the general policy of following trademarks with a generic noun.

Well, at my last place of eployment, I used SourceForge quite heavily for my main project. Since the employer was (and is) in Sweden, the network latency to SF's servers was often clearly noticeable. Not painful, but noticeable enough to make me think about getting a local CVS mirror/proxy server or something. I guess SF On Site would work, although I'm unsure if it supports mirroring projects to the real thing.

They need a placeholder for all these bootable live cdroms I keep on seeing everywhere now. They are great for quick recovery jobs, and its always handy to have a linux distro that fits in your wallet.

LBT from Linuxcare
LNX-BBC
Portable Linux Auditing CD

I myself am working on software for Traveller. Called travtrack, it is in the middling stages. It's very cool, using gtk+ and glib for data structures, classes, inheritance &c. and guile for its scripting language. Ideally, I'd like it to someday be the emacs of interstellar science-fiction RPGs.

Right now it's surprisingly far along, and is doing fairly well on the SourceForge ratings. It's just me working on it, but I'm hoping that once I get release 1.0 of both travtrack (the actual galaxy-tracking software) and travlib (the library which implements Traveller objects) more developers will pitch in.

Traveller's very, very far from dead.

Agreed, except I can see where a project like mp3kult could be handy for mp3 collectors such as myself. I am right now doing everything by hand, using a combination of id3ed, id3ren, mp3rename, mp3_check, and a couple of others and organizing everything in a directory heirarchy. However, once they are all organized, I'd like to get them into a database so that I can easily do searches and things. If I want to see all files with a a bitrate 128 that's very easy with a database, but not as easy with a flat text file or using xmms :) It's bloat yes, and it's un-needed, but I can see where it can be useful for organization. As an aside, the little I've played with mp3kult it seemed pretty snazzy, built in player, built in editing of tags and filenames from the DB, etc etc. Very sweet.