Free can support software for linux

LW Support project is a C++ support library for Linux.
Although it has gone through many iterations of design and goal, LW Support is designed to expose C library functionality in an object-oriented manner (for example, by providing classes for POSIX I/O).
In fact, one of its main features is the I/O hierarchy it uses -- objects such as TCP sockets and serial ports share the same base class.
Enhancements:
Major changes:
- IOListen and IOCallback, deprecated for a long time, have now been completely removed.
- The build system has been upgraded.
- Documentation is now packaged separately.
All changes:
- IOListen and IOCallback, which were deprecated, have been removed. The corresponding interface from NetServer was also removed. The I/O loopback example which used these was removed.
- The build system has been upgraded. It now has proper support for shared library naming semantics and an improved pkg-config script.
- A dependency on libutf8++ has been introduced. Over time, the built-in string conversion routines will be deprecated in favour of libutf8++.
- Minor build fixes which came to light with a new compiler/64-bit architecture.
- Pre-built documentation is no longer included in the source tarball, but is available separately.

KVaio sony_acpi support is a patch for kdeutils 3.5.6 to get very hacky support for brightness selection on Sony Vaio Laptops using the sony_acpi module as well as a working eject button on VGN-TX models.

Further information on sony_acpi: http://www.popies.net/sonypi/index.html

KDesktop transparency support is a KDE patch that adds support for real transparency to kdesktop. It adds two new composite manager related features. To activate the features kdesktop has to be started with the "--bg-transparency" option.

The first one allows you to change the opacity of the background image. This works currently with the beryl transparent cube and will also work with compiz once the transparent cube gets applied. To activate the feature add the following to your kdesktoprc:

[Background Common]
BackgroundOpacity=90 (0 = fully transparent / 100 = opaque)

The second feature allows compiz (and later maybe other composite managers) to tell kdesktop not to paint the background image ("_COMPIZ_WALLPAPER_SUPPORTED" x atom). In this case compiz is able to paint a viewport dependent background or to make it even animated. This feature looks for changes to the x atom, so that kdesktop will automatically switch back to normal background if kwin gets started or compiz stops to render the wallpaper.

This patch is against the current kde3 svn.

Libcwd is a full-featured and well-documented library that assists C++ developers with debugging their applications.
C++ Debugging Support library includes support for ostream-based debug output, custom debug channels and devices, memory allocation debugging, run-time sourcefile:linenumber information, and demangled type names of variables. It is thread-safe.
Main features:
- End-users of an application dont need to install libcwd.
- The use of namespaces prevents name collisions between debug channels of different libraries.
- Debug channels and devices can be turned on or off on a per thread basis.
- All debug code can be omitted from the executable by not defining a single CWDEBUG macro.
- Code using libcwd looks clean and is surveyable as a result of using a few well-defined macros, avoiding the need of disturbing #ifdef CWDEBUG ... #endif constructs.
- Debug output is written to an ostream and as such type-safe and customizable as is usual for C++ ostreams.
- An arbitrary number of debug channels and debug devices can be created without any penalty in terms of cpu usage.
- Full support for all forms of iterative and recursive calls.
- Debug output is surveyable as a result of several possibilities to format the output, like a margin string, a marker string, indentation and fixed-width channel labels. All formatting is thread specific.
- Printing the type of arbitrary variables in demangled form.
- Printing addresses in source file:line number presentation.
- Deallocation pointer validation.
- Magic numbers around allocated memory blocks in order to detect buffer overruns.
- Printing an overview of current memory allocations, including start address, size, type of allocated object, source file and line number of allocation and a user definable description.
- Finding allocation information with only a pointer that points inside an allocated memory block, in logarithmic time.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for x86_64.

The UbuntuLiveChatSupport aims to provide an interface to communicate to other ubuntu users with the same language & location, as well as to connect to the official ubuntu channel in Freenode.org. Ubuntu Live Chat Support also aims to get live chat support from ubuntu users right into the desktop menu, via "System > Help > Live Chat Support".
Rationale
People who dont speak english and want local support in their language will face a challenge to gain help in existing documentations, specially when there are just a few documentations for their language. But if they speak to someone that can understand their language, they can talk to an experienced user to provide them with answers. It might as well be positive, because there might be a good chance that they will collaborate on translation of documentations and software for their language, as well as contributing to the Ubuntu work.
Another problem with the current way of getting help in Ubuntu requires the user to read and browse documentations, but what most users really want is getting the right answers to the questions straight. Browsing and reading documentations sometimes require one to research on a particular problem. But to get the right answer from an experience user is the most easiest way.
Scope
This will use Gaim as an IRC client, but will not alter the main Gaim configurations. It will add the IRC channels defined in InternetRelayChat in Gaim buddy list, namely, Localized Channels, Support Channels, and Team Collaboration Channels.
Enhancements:
- Change the name "Auto-Join Default" to "Default"
- Overhaul the Local Channel names
- A new channel will be autojoined based on language.
- Added the language to "Local Languages" group
- Change the name of "Local Ubuntu Channels" to "Local Channels"
- UI improvements, in Nick registration, add a "Passwords do not match" warning.
- Impliment a settings in login page to choose from 2 different layout, the default top channels tab and alternative left channels tab. The static xchat-gnome look is removed.
- Add a new checkbox for privacy, when registration.
- Impliment registration privacy when the checkbox is toggled.

DirectX support for Wine project enables DirectX 9 support for Wine, which is useful for games and 3D graphics.
DirectX support for Wine is a set of patches against Wine to implement DirectX 9. It allows modern games and 3D applications to run under Wine.
The patches include many experimental and beta features that have not yet made it into the stable Wine source tree.
The aim of the project is to provide full support for DirectX 8 and 9 so that all games and 3D applications will run on Linux or any other platform that Wine supports.
Main features:
- Shared wined3d codebase for Direct3D 8 and 9
- Hardware non-power2 texstures
- Improved compressed texture support
- Many more texture formats supported
- Offscreen texture improvements
- Colour corrections for textures
- A tonne of bug fixes and other improvements from earlier releases
Enhancements:
- Reworked support for non-power2 textures
- Support for Vertex buffer objects
- Support for caching
- Hardware vertex shaders
- Partial tidyup of vertex declarations
- Better support for compressed textures
- Fix for texturing problems in Axis and Allies and Evil Genius
- Fix for model corruption in Pirates
- Movies in Pirates
- A Fix for the lines on the landscape in Axis and Allies
- Crash fixes in fixupvertices with indexes data
- Numerous other performance improvements

Support Incident Tracker (or SiT!) is a Web-based application for tracking technical support calls or emails.
Support Incident Tracker project can manage contacts, sites, technical support contracts, and support incidents in one place. You can send and receive email directly from SiT!, attaching files and recording every communication in the incident log.
SiT! is aware of Service Level Agreements, and incidents are flagged if they stray outside of them.
Support Incident Tracker grew out of an application developed by Salford Software since 2000 called Webtrack and is used in-house by Support Engineers to easily track support incidents.
Enhancements:
- Fixed service levels for reopened incidents, service level target opened is now added making the next action initial response
- Fixed regression where mark for closure was ignored and the incident was closed immediately
- Lists number of incidents of each priority a user has on the user listings page.
- Show more accurately who last updated the call on list incidents pages
- Added multiple global signatures, one is choosen at random when email is sent.
- Fixed bug where disabled user accounts would still display as having relevant skills
- Fixed issue where URLs would not be shortened if they contained a % (percent) or $ (dollar) symbol
- Fixed issues with URLs that contain colons
- Incidents page informs you more accuratly who updated the call
- Specified MySQL Engine type to be MyISAM on all table creations
- Call opening notes are shown in tool tip after new incidents logged rather than reassign
- BB Code. Basic set of BB codes supported in incident updates
- Prevent summary and solution from being uncheck from close incident page since these are mandatory
- Fixed bug with not sending closing email
- send_template_email now store emails in the incident log
- Holiday calendar is now functional
- New holiday planner shows when all users are in/out
- Users can now be placed in groups, view users shows just your own group by default
- Users with edit user permission can set users holiday entitlement
- Able to change external escalation details on bulk
- View users now has links to Waiting queues and holiday calendars
- New interface for adding vendors
- Ability to request email notification when a call is reassigned to a user
- Users without valid email address are now prompted on the main page to edit their profile
- Ability for administrators to disable users by editing a profile and setting status to Disabled Account.
- Force username to be unique when adding new users
- Do incident switchover when changing status via edit profie
- New report, average incident duration. Shows the time taken to close incidents over the months.
- When session expires and user logs in again the user is now redirected the the previously accessed page rather than the main page.
- Improved accuracy of SLA calculation
- Added ability to edit/delete software records
- When an inicdent is closed pending-reassignments are remove as necessary
- When an incident is closed any related incidents are notified of the closure.
- Added icons to priority selection dropdown for browsers that support it
- Improved sorting of some tables, you can now click again on the column header to sort in the opposite direction ascending/descending
- Holding queue locks now timeout after $CONFIG[record_lock_delay]
- Ability to delete multiple held emails in one go
- Ability to add resellers
- Escalation can now be configured via a database table, though there is no GUI for this yet
- External escalation partners can be configured via config file
- Edit incident now lets you select an escalation path (assuming paths are configured in the escalationpaths database table)
- Ability to add/edit/view tasks
- Ability to add notes to tasks
- Note owners can now delete their own notes
- Basic incoming email handler now included with SiT, as inboundemail.php
- New report incidents by software shows which software has the most incidents logged
- Tidied more HTML
- Fixed next action field, this is now stored and displayed again
- Interface to configure external escalation partners
- Made holiday booking easier
- Added ability to check which users have been granted each permission

Package SNMP Subagent provides indexed package information via SNMP output.

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) forms part of the internet protocol suite as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force.

The protocol can support monitoring of network-attached devices for any conditions that warrant administrative attention.

The SNMP protocol is extensible by design. This is achieved through the notion of a management information base or MIB, which specifies the management data of a specific subsystem of an SNMP-enabled device, using a hierarchical namespace containing object identifiers, implemented via ASN.1.

The MIB hierarchy can be depicted as a tree with a nameless root, the levels of which are assigned by different organizations. This model permits management across all layers of the OSI reference model, extending into applications such as databases, email, and the J2EE reference model, as MIBs can be defined for all such area-specific information and operations