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You might want to check out MTG forge, they apparently have some AI now, though if you were stuck on a desert island you might have time to implement a better one yourself :P

BZZZZZZZZZZzz http://lmms.sourceforge.net/ lmms is a faily capable FLSudio clone, as someone who uses both I think while it's no subsitute it's certainly well worth what you'll pay for it.

Runs under Dosbox! http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox

Missing option? VioLet Composer http://sourceforge.net/projects/buzz-like

A few other cool things: Ardour under the 3d window manager, beryl. Jamin - mastering software. Bristol - softsynth.

I have just recorded and mixed a live album with this software on Ubuntu Feisty:

http://ardour.org/
http://jackaudio.org/
http://www.ffado.org/ (aka Freebob) with a Mackie Onyx desk & firewire interface
http://jamin.sourceforge.net/

Very very good indeed, I vastly prefer it to my previous Windows based Cubase setup.

Glad to see interest in education on /. Don't forget about http://schoolforge.net./ A careful and highly skilled group working on both software and texts. We are the coalition of groups interested in FLOSS and Education and our membership is international. Here are the apps I currently see as the stack:

Server-based:

* Open Admin for Schools by Les Richardson in Canada, http://richtech.ca/ (mentioned by someone else, too.)
* KOHA, http://koha.org/, the Library OPAC/ILS from New Zealand
* Manhattan, http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/, the WebCT alternative which is a lot easier than Moodle from New England (in the U.S.)
* Moodle if you like the blog look instead.
* http://atutor.ca/ -- Just great.

We also recommend IMP/Horde and Drupal. Can't go wrong.

I recommend schools use Debian on the server and Edubuntu on the desktop. The latter comes with a great start on what you need in the classroom, including TuxPaint, TuxMath, Open Office, The GIMP, Firefox, etc. The great thing about it is that you can choose whether to set it up as a thin client or a stand-alone box and updating is easy using apt-get.

Joining Schoolforge is something anyone really interested in FLOSS/education can do to help.

--
http://iteachnet.org/

My last uni had a local book exchange site for students and I absolutely loved it! I think every school should have one but I'm not going to hold my breath since schools themselves profit from this scam.

Here's a link to the software: http://bookexchange.sourceforge.net/

Link for the above mentioned US DOE statistics on total K-12 spending:
    http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/index .html
The specific chart:
    http://www.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/10facts/edlit e-chart.html#2

And a related essay by someone else also commenting on Shuttleworth Foundation's SchoolTool project:
    "School system needs revolution, not evolution"
    http://ninjamonkeys.co.za/index.php/2005/03/07/sch ool_system_needs_revolution_not_evolu
From that essay: "The Shuttleworth Foundation has been investing a lot of money in school administration and computer labs. Both of these projects are worthwhile efforts. The former allowing teachers to spend less time administrating and more time teaching, and the latter allowing kids to get involved in computers which are a critical aspect of nearly every high paying job today. But more money needs to be invested in creating engaging learning materials and in creating an environment to help students learn real life skills."

The direct link to SchoolTool itself:
    http://www.schooltool.org/

A related essay by me on this topic:
    "Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools"
    http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTech nologyHasFailedSchools.html
From there: "Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change."

Some guy has been working pretty hard on a new 3D solid modeling CAD program over the past few months called avoCADo. It is geared more towards 3D CAD engineering and design, but I thought it deserved mentioning. Does avoCADo have potential? or is it just another modeling program doomed to sinking in the sea of open source 3D apps? http://avocado-cad.sourceforge.net/

The raised issue is not completely unfounded, but focusing on a more particular sector of the modeling scene the field offer even less choices.
The current panorama of 3D modeling packages is quite tailored towards the needs of the majority of users (low and high poly modelers) and most of these packages offers less than satisfying experiences when used to manage the large unstructured meshes that come from 3D scanning technologies or used for rapid prototyping needs.
The meshes produced by these automatic technologies are typically huge (millions of triangles per object) and not organized into scene graphs; most modeling packages simply sit down on the specs of these objects. 3D scanning and rapid prototyping hardware is becoming more and more popular, devices very low priced are already on the market ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/ 05/144212 ) while on the software side there are almost no alternative to the high end commercial package in the 50k$ range (20 times the HW cost).

The only open source alternative on this sector of 3d modeling is Meshlab http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/.
Sorry for what could seem a shameless plug, but I would like to hear your comment on this side of 3D modeling scene.

...if the author included the correct URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/k3d/

I looked at K3D for a bit...one of the most awesome features I saw was the record/playback used for tutorials. The K3D interface, at the time, also needed some work. However, over the last couple of years, I see it has come quite a ways as well. I think there's room for both- they both use different approaches, and will appeal to different kinds of users. K3D needs something to boost its profile - Blender had the Orange project, as well is the rich history that went with going commercial, and then eventually being released as an open-source project after collecting donations from users over a very short period of time.

Blender also had quite the community - where's the K3D community? Where is that being nurtured/grown?

A program I've been meaning to try since the project was launched.

There's also equinox3d which is free as-in beer.

How is this different than synergy?

http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

They didn't invent squat..

I already ported MidiShare to the GP2X .. but your library looks good .. its an unfortunate fact that very few people know about MidiShare, but its one of the nicest MIDI API's out there ..

There are many free computer algebra systems
Macsyma is one:
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/screenshots.shtml

What your describing is not difficult to do, however does mean some PLC related programming. Planning will need to be done. Since it may be critical to the operation of the place I would recommend making plans to simulate the real world field wiring and make things work before actually making the commitment to put that equipment on line. From past experience with many custom control projects I can attest that modifications usually need to be made several times before and after such a project goes on line. Beside much of the off the shelf PLC hardware there is the MAT PLC project on Source Forge. One of the more interesting small PLCs I have run across (and been very happy with) is made by Tri Logi. If you have not dealt with PLCs or control systems I would highly recommend finding someone that has some experience with them to help. They are not generally difficult, however out of the 15 - 20 various flavors I have worked with in the past all have had some differences that make writing the programs a bit of an art. Different manufacturers have different ways that the logic is processed. Sometimes those minor differences can make what initially looks like a simple task a challenge to debug.

Everyone and anyone is a terrorist threat...
http://sphere.sourceforge.net/flik/images/20071007 .png

There are serveral GPL'ed solution made. http://www.campware.org/en/camp/campcaster_news/ Look here for more: http://ross.sourceforge.net/

I love this software more every day. http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Control many comps with a single keyboard/mouse over your local lan. All they need is bidirectional support... Most of the software on that top ten list has annoyed me at one point in time. Synergy is the complete opposite.

Sure, I'll give you some.

Inconsistent function naming (underscores):

substr_compare() vs.
strcmp()

More inconsistent function naming (verb location):

file_get_contents() vs.
get_html_translation_table()

Even within the same extension:

imagesetstyle() vs.
imagecolorset()

Flipped haystack and needle:

strpos(haystack, needle) vs.
in_array(needle, haystack)

Speed:

Scutigena Computer Language Performance Comparison (see graphs)
There used to be another site that you could compare one language's speed relative to another that also showed PHP as one of the slowest. I can't seem to find it now, though. Also PHP5 might compare a bit more favourably, but this is all I could find after a quick Google search. Perhaps more importantly, PHP drags the speed of other things down (like Apache), since even though the core is supposedly thread-safe, nobody seems to know which extensions are and aren't, so eg. Apache needs to be run in prefork mpm instead of using a threaded mpm.

I think PHP is overall a fairly decent language; I've used it for many years with great success. But it does have major problems, and it would be nice for them to get fixed instead of pushed aside. (I read some minutes from a PHP 6 meeting a while ago where they touched on the issue of consistency, and the PHP Group decided that it wasn't important enough to fix. It's really annoying to me to need a PHP-aware IDE or a manual always handy to program in a language because the arguments and function names are so non-uniform.)

Connecting for chat to GTalk is no big deal right now.

What I was interested in, was connecting to GTalk for VoIP. That isn't supported right now.

Not only necessary for lawsuit avoidance, but also necessary for choice. The more we paid in license fees, the more I began to advocate free software.
Example: Everybody(small 25user office) wanted to be able to make PDFs. Instead of buying Acrobat Standard(300x25=$7500), I installed PDFCreator or CutePDF writer or PDF Split-and-merge. When they asked for Photoshop(650x25=$16,250), I installed The GIMP. I'm not saying these free products are better in EVERY way, but they got the job done and made me look good. It's an eye-opener for end-users when they realize that there is so much good free software out there. Standing there and spouting off about how great Linux is won't get you anywhere - delivering results like this will.

This really paves the way for desktop Linux. I'm always hearing horror-stories about the BSA marching in with a search warrant and seizing your servers and half your desktops, as evidence. That could ruin your whole day.

For those of you having trouble reading that, there's a Javascript RC4 decrypter here:

http://shop-js.sourceforge.net/crypto.htm

Not to fan the black helicopters type rumors, but take a look at the Associated Press wire story on this:

http://news.google.com/news?q=ap%20obama%20public

...no mention of the Creative Commons portion of the request letter at all.

I can understand shrinking down mention of something as relatively "obscure" as Creative Commons in an article on another subject, but since the entire article is about copyright license, wouldn't mention of the full story (both options) be better reporting?

I've not been able to find a version which contains only the Obama statement, just several pieced together articles that credit other writers for other portions of the story, so I'm not sure who to write to. (It just says "Washington" in the versions I've found)

Regarding your anger of the spelling checker... don't they use GTKspell to do that? http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/

I remember when I was new to linux, in April 2005, I had to install GAIM on mandrake. It failed due to dependency problems, and the package missing was gtkspell.
I remember it very well.

So, they are not wasting time writing a spell checker. They used an existing one: GTKSPELL.

For those who just can't wait - like myself - since the Pidgin site was slashdotted, just go directly to Pidgin's SourceForge page @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin

Look, ma! I've slashdotted SourceForge :D

Talk to their developers. Most projects would love to have someone^W anyone working on documentation. Talking to them should hopefully give you an indication of a) what documentation they think would be useful, b) their willingness to accept any documentation that you write, and c) whether any such materials already exist that you could start from.

As a starting point, there are a few categories and types of user documentation that I believe all projects should have if they have any semblance of a community following:

• README - Essential overview documentation, for new users that download a source and/or binary distribution
• INSTALL - Instructions on how to install a source and/or binary distribution
• AUTHORS - A historical reference of who worked on what and when (often requires extensive research for larger projects)
• HACKING - Contributor documentation, how to make contributions to the project, conventions established, submission requirements
• COPYING - Legal documentation, hopefully something more than the license(s), an explanation of the legal requirements
• Manual Pages
  • Commands - There should be a overview and usage page for every command installed (sections 1, 6, & 8)
  • Libraries - There should be a summary overview page for every library installed (section 3)
  • File formats - If the app(s) have their own file formats, each format should be a page that describes the format (section 5)
• Overview - Goes into more depth than the README information about the project and functionality provided
• Tutorial(s) - At least one tutorial showing how to use the software

Documentation is a particular aspect of a project that is particularly well suited to a BSD documentation license (a generalized version of the FreeBSD Documentation License) in terms of allowing completely unhindered distribution of content under very simple terms specific to documentation. Documentation benefits your user community no matter what form it exists in, commercialized or otherwise, yet also seems to be one of the hardest for open source projects to generate so making it as easy as possible to produce, modify, and redistribute (legally) is generally a very good thing.

See this thread on gaim-encryption's help forum for the gaim-encryption port for Pidgin:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1 725921&forum_id=194059 (pidgin-encryption-3.0beta9.exe)

What did you download? One of these ?

The Windows installer which includes Gtk+ is 11MB, and the one without is 5.5MB. Or it should be anyway. I don't see anything that is 27MB.

There's no such thing as "cretive commons license". It's a whole range of different licenses. Which license are we talking about?

Ok, that's the `keep the nerds happy with something to do with copyright` box checked.

1. WAIVE THE COPYRIGHT AND PLACE IT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN , or barring that,
2. place it under (SPECIFICALLY) the Creative Commons (Attribution) license. (Yes he specified one: http://creativecommons.org.nyud.net:8080/licenses/ by/3.0/ , if it's down, here's Wikisource of v2.5 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Creative_Commons_Att ribution_2.5#English )

Uh oh. The Pidgin server seems to be hammered, but you can still download it from its SourceForge page.

It seems everytime GAIM had a new version, GAIM-Encryption seemed to always be there with a new release of their plugin to work with it. But now that they made all these changes to Pidgin, I don't think Gaim-Encryption has followed suit. Has anyone been able to get the encryption plugin working with Pidgin? The installer for 3.0beta8 doesn't recognize Pidgin and, despite forcing an install, Pidgin won't pick up on the encryption plugin.

I'd say that's the only thing keeping me from embracing Pidgin at the moment. Otherwise, the new UI looks nice.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group _id=235&package_id=230234&release_id=505814 enjoy.

No, version 1 will ship with a excellent, super free license, identical to Windows version, even OS X users will love how fast it works thanks to MS using Quartz etc. Sites will begin to adopt and it will (hopefully not) be widely used as Flash.

Version 2, some "Windows exclusive features" begin to appear using DirectX etc. as apology.

Version 3, they manage to make entire open source community mad on purpose, Miguel posts a public blog about how they got abandoned by MSFT.

Version 4, Some unlicensed, reverse engineered stuff ships for Linux and you enjoy half sites working,half not. OS X users are routed to some third party company if they want SilverLight functionality but it misses a very important feature.

Do I sound paranoid? Well, until I see http://silverlight.sourceforge.net/ along with all sources, we all better be.

Sounds like Tcl's "trace add execution" statement. The interpreter supports an enter and leave callback on every command or procedure (effectively every line of code). The interpreter always checks for the presence of a registered callback (i.e. the check is built in at compile time and is always executed even when the program is not being debugged). Since Tcl is a script language you can add and remove callbacks dynamically.

I ran into the same crashing problem before I finally went through and emptied out the hard drive. This wasn't a big deal for me, since it's not my primary machine... not worth the screws!

By the way, if you haven't tried out Grand Perspective yet, you don't know what you are missing. I've never used a better tool for quickly cleaning out my hard drive - it shows you graphically where all your space is going.

Hell, why not try the link without them spaces??
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php

And yes, obviously it has some Ajax stuff to.
Forgot to mention, i am currently making a specification for some client-server communication to enable a client to make multiple edits, undo:s and whatnot and then posting the changes to the server...You know like a real desktop client.
It should not be as hard as it sounds since JSDC stores edits in its undo-history.
It SHOULD not be much harder than just posting that data to the server and have a stub translating it into simple inserts, updates or whatever.

Ok, so that link's got a space in it. This one works.
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php

I gather some of you haXx0rz# out there already figured that out, though.

It sure ain't bloated and is somewhere between a library and a framework..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsdc/

Docs
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php

It sure ain't bloated and is somewhere between a library and a framework..

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jsdc/

Docs
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php

JSDC - JavaScript Data Components has some(or maybe all, i am not sure) of those things..

Also, it has pretty interesting client-side dataset/database thing going.
Check out the docs:
http://jsdc.sourceforge.net/docs_reference.php

Anyway, it strictly javascript and is made to lessen the load of servers and anything but bloated.

Actually, I believe imagery is more universal than text. There is interesting, recent research on this. Google for 'IKU'.

What about cfengine. Although it is meant to administer several computers at once, is that a lot like PowerShell?

There is also an open source PowerShell project in existence for 7+ years. See http://powershell.sourceforge.net/

I created a fix for that gotcha in prototype, and the details are...involved. The framework is on sourceforge and it's called IWF (Interactive Website Framework) http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/iwf/

Anyway, there's tons of crap you'll never need in it -- so rip out what you do! It also has the ability to do basic animation, opacity toggling and dissolving, etc. Of course it adds to the bloat, but it's intended for you to pluck out what you need and can the rest...

To do the toggling you speak of (even when styles are defined in a style sheet / style tag / whatever):

function iwfShow(id, reserveSpace, displayMode){
var el = iwfGetById(id);
if (!el) { return false; }

if (reserveSpace){
var disp = 'visible';
if (iwfExists(displayMode) && displayMode != null){
disp = displayMode;
}
iwfStyle(el, 'visibility', disp);
} else {
var disp = 'block';
if (iwfExists(displayMode) && displayMode != null){
disp = displayMode;
}
iwfStyle(el, 'display', disp);
}
}

function iwfHide(id, reserveSpace){
var el = iwfGetById(id);
if (reserveSpace){
iwfStyle(el, 'visibility', 'hidden');
} else {
iwfStyle(el, 'display', 'none');
}
}

function iwfStyle(id, styleName, newVal){
var el = iwfGetById(id);
if (!el) { return false; }
var ret = '';
if (el.currentStyle) {
ret = el.currentStyle[styleName];
} else {
try {
ret = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el,null).get PropertyValue(styleName);
} catch(e) {
}
}
if (iwfExists(newVal)){
if (el.runtimeStyle){
el.runtimeStyle[styleName] = newVal;
ret = newVal;
} else {
ret = el.style[styleName] = newVal;
}
}
return ret;
}

function iwfExists(){
for(var i=0;iarguments.length;i++){
if(typeof(arguments[i])=='undefined') { return false; }
}

There are experimental shells for Unix that do that sort of thing; most of us just don't see the point.

http://geophile.com/osh/index.html
http://dispatch.sourceforge.net/

save your money.
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
does the same applications space very well, not as polished as Mathematica, but for $300-$600 less and a code base that dates to MIT and has 30+ years of experience in mathematical applications, why fret...

Actually, it looks like you do take a snapshot from the screenshot, and with how some programs are designed, this might be sometimes better if you're going to use it for logs or programs that auto-save every N minutes. I can't get the page to load, and the coral cache isn't NS resolving (?), so I'm not completely sure, but the wikipedia page on Versioning file systems implies that ext3cow is snapshot-based.

I want to put ext3cow together with SELinux and call it Secure Cow---no, better yet, Sacred Cow. How about it?

Under VMS (Files-11 is a versioning FS), there are many ways of opening a file, and I believe appending records to a record-oriented file doesn't actually create a new version (correct me if I'm wrong), which is a good idea for logs; the number of retained versions is also adjustable.

http://n0x.org/copyfs/ and http://wayback.sourceforge.net/ are purportedly two versioning FS's for linux.

if you or your users don't like Swing there are numerous alternatives.

• SWT
  
• Qt/Jambi
  
• Java-GNOME
  
• wx4j (wxWidgets)
  

I've performed with Pure Data on tour and it stood up well on my Debian laptop. At the time I was either using a gamepad or midi-slider interface to drive the instruments I made with this tool, some of which were multichannel. A friend and I have had several hundred people play with our audiovisual instrument Fijuu2 day in day out for a week. This setup runs on Ubuntu and uses PD as a sound server. Several other friends perform with Supercollideron their Linux laptops .

Where sequencing is concerned I've heard some enjoy Hydrogen. For a DAW on Linux it's hard to go past Ardour, though that's hardly an instrument.