UbuDSL 1.0 beta 1

  • Posted by Arek
  • 08-08-2008

Ubudsl
UbuDSL 1.0 beta 1 was released. Changes to this version are:

  • Configuration window is displayed complete (previously the corners were cut off)
  • >Corrected graphics (logo, font colour)
  • Adding fonts’ substitutes
  • Breaking connection instead of killing whole process when critical error appears
  • Adding default DNS servers for certain services (only for some services)
  • Default DNS servers setup by each connection (saved in concig file - if user has chosen OpenDNS or there were no default servers set for chosen service, OpenDNS is chosen by default)
  • Minor changes in some PPPoE connections
  • Many patches providing better openSUSE support
  • Updated ‘about’ window

Files are available to download here

UbuDSL helps to connect your *buntu to the internet using the most popular in Poland way: via ADSL. It has predefined configuration for some providers from all over the world.

Kadu team asks users some questions

  • Posted by Arek
  • 02-08-2008

Kadu team with University of Poznan published questionaires to current and not-yet users of Kadu IM. If you do use it already, then follow this link, if not yet - please use this one. Unfortunately it is only available in polish :/

Kadu is polish posix Qt Instant Messenger. As for now it supports only polish protocol - Gadu-Gadu, but users are trying to convince developers to add support for some others (especially Jabber). It seems they don’t want to do it, but are open for help, so if anyone would like to write it… :)

Vallheru

  • Posted by Arek
  • 17-07-2008

From the projects website:

Its turn based, web-browser, fantasy MMORPG written in PHP and MySQL (but may work with many other databases) with Smarty Template Engine, ADOdb and PHP Mailer. Based on Gamers-Fusion ver 2.5 with many modyfications in security, speed and features

So much for now - I hope I could write some revision after using it.

QNapi

  • Posted by Arek
  • 16-07-2008

QNapi is designed to automatically download and adjust movies’ subtitles. It uses NapiProjekt’s database so if the subtitles won’t work properly you can correct it and and upload or just report it. QNapi may also scan your directories to find movies. It works under Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and probably all other operating systems supported by Qt4.

PHP BP

  • Posted by Arek
  • 15-07-2008

PHP BP is the new CMS. The authors claim, that “BP” stands for the Best Portal - decide yourself. I wasn’t sure whether it satisfies the terms of Free / Libre Open Source Software or not - now i know it doesn’t. It is free, but only as free beer - the license says, that you can freely use it, but only in non-commercial purposes, and the section V.3.B. also violates your right to free speech - it says that your page cannot “promote facist or racist content, etc.“, but only PHP BP developers might know what this “etc.” might mean.

In the age, when there are multiple highly developed free content management systems I cannot honestly recommend PHP BP to you.

Infoc - Linux system information utility

  • Posted by Arek
  • 14-07-2008

Information is takien from project’s website.

Infoc was designed to gather maximum amount of information about your system. It is based on PERL and user interface is based on Curses library.

All info is categorized in pages (Memory, Software etc.). Each page contains subcategories window. Each displayed window can be customized with details what kind of information you want to display.

To properly run application terminal window should have minimum 120×50 size. It is necessary to run program and properly display all information window. To get maximum information from your system you should have installed following applications:

    - whereis (obligatory)
    - awk (obligatory)
    - tr (obligatory)
    - find
    - apropos
    - whatis
    - whereis
    - etc …
    - compiled proc and sysfs filesystem.

Linux-EduCD

  • Posted by Arek
  • 13-07-2008

Translation from Linux-EduCD Site:

Linux-EduCDLinux-EduCD is educational-scientific LiveCD distribution. It is complete and wprking OS boot directly from CD/DVD. It doesn’t require installation, which is, nonetheless, possible as in case of every other typical Linux distro.

It aims at possibly simpliest way of using and installing. As a distro based on Debian Testing/SID and Knoppix / Kanotix, it is equipped in tols, wich automaticly configure hardware while booting. Primarily it was only to contain educational and scientific packages, and multimedia, but in the course of time it was expanded by HTTP and database server software. It is also extended by office applications and diagnostic tools. There is also polish manual prepared (description of installation and configuration of system and additional educational software from CD) - and next versions of this manual are distributed (in pdf format) with Linux-EduCD ISO images altogether.

Linux-EduCD’s software are educational, graphic-manipulation, office and multimedia applications. DVD version includes also the ones related to network monitoring and safety, e.g.: Wireshark, Nessus with additional plugins, Nmap, steganography tools… This distro doesn’t require practically any other configuration (of course except for printer or network - if we don’t use DHCP). It starts with ready-to-go  graphical interface (KDE). Polish is the default distro’s language. CD editions have configured LTSP serwer (allows many people to simultaneously use the same computer). Furthermore there is a lot of scientific (e.g. Scilab, GFortran, GAP, Yacas, Celestia, OpenDX, PyMOL) educational (Kalzium, Kstars, Keduca, DrGeo, TuxMath, Stellarium, XDrawChem, GPeriodic) software and developers’ tools (e.g. JDK, Eclipse, Mono with Gtk# and F#, Ada95 and 2005, Fortran, Prolog, Ruby, OCaml, SML, Scheme). There are also available scripts helping to install nvidia and ati drivers and graphic firewall configuration programm (working also from LiveCD).

UbuDSL

  • Posted by Arek
  • 09-07-2008

UbudslUbuDSL helps to connect your *buntu to the internet using the most popular in Poland way: via ADSL. It has predefined configuration for some providers from all over the world. I’ve had some problems with this program, but after I solved it by installing livebox, it appeared that the thing that don’t wants to co-operate (with both Linux and Windows) was my ZXDSL 852 modem :/

AstroKnoppix

  • Posted by Arek
  • 08-07-2008

AstroKnoppix is based on Knoppix - a LiveCD distribution, which has a lot in common with Debian. It focuses on astronomy-related software, and is surprisingly fast on low-end machines.

Minimum requirements:

  • i486 class ( Intel, AMD ) CPU
  • RAM:
    • text console -  20MB,
    • above 64MB for GUI
      • about 84MB for KDE
      • 128MB for OpenOffice.org
  • CD/DVD (floppy in case of machines that do not support CD-boot)
  • SVGA
  • mouse

Recommended configuration:

  • Intel Pentium II 400MHz
  • RAM: 128MB (GUI without OpenOffice.org running)
  • CD/DVD 24x
  • 8MB GPU

LinuxRSS.pl

  • Posted by Arek
  • 08-07-2008

LinuxRSSLinuxRSS.pl - all the linux news in one place. They collect news from following polish Linux/FLOSS websites’ feeds:

You can receive the news by subscribing to just one >>RSS feed<<.

Co-editors wanted!

Hi there! If you ever think about writing, and you know a bit about polish FLOSS community and projects - you're welcomed in here. I'm the only man here, and this site isn't the only thing I do, so I appreciate ANY assistance. If you think you can help me - e-mail me:

or send me a message: batwing@jabberpl.org

Thanks
Arek