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Solid PBX is a multi-platform Soft Switch Class 5 software targeted for home, corporate, and operator level markets.
GETTING STARTED
First, be sure youve got supported hardware (but note that you dont need ANY special hardware, not even a soundcard) to install and run Solid PBX.
Supported telephony hardware includes:
- All Wildcard (tm) products from Digium (www.digium.com)
- QuickNet Internet PhoneJack and LineJack (http://www.quicknet.net)
- any full duplex sound card supported by ALSA or OSS
- any ISDN card supported by mISDN on Linux (BRI)
- The Xorcom AstriBank channel bank
- VoiceTronix OpenLine products
The are several drivers for ISDN BRI cards available from third party sources. Check the voip-info.org wiki for more information on chan_capi and zaphfc.
Enhancements:
- This is a major bugfix release with a simplified chan_h323 build process and many improvements.

Webconverger project is an evolution of the hybrid client for deployments in places like offices or Internet cafes where only Web applications are used.
Unlike thin or hybrid clients, Webconverger is faster and more responsive by providing a Web browser that runs locally.
Main features:
- Ideal just for Web applications
- Free & open software
- Low system requirements
- Good security
- Painless to deploy and setup
- Features a Web standards compliant browser
- Cost effective
- Does not require registration or accounts
- Flash and a PDF viewer installed by default
- Easy for new users to learn and use
- Low maintenance costs
- Long term support
Enhancements:
- This is a 100% Free software version of Webconverger without Adobe Flash is now available for download. Webconvergers main version (trunk) will still include Flash.

Formulas Rendering Plug-In for the Gimp 2 is a simple plugin that allows you to change the values of each color channel of each pixel of a layer by using mathematical expressions. It is able to handle RGB* and Gray* images.

Available operators are: +, -, *, /, ^, and %. There are many functions available, such as sin, cos, sqrt, abs, min, max. A few constants are provided (pi, e, j), and a lot of pre-defined variables are usable (w for images width, h for images height, x and y for cartesian coordinates in the image, etc.).

Fract project is a Web-based fractal zoomer for the Mandelbrot set.

Its using poly-pen for rendering and Araneida for the web support.

There are no advanced features, the goal is to keep the code easy to read for someone interested in fractals.

The package also includes an offline renderer that you can use to generate hi resolution images of your favorite spots.

You can also play easily with the color map.

Netrik is the ANTRIK Internet Viewer/Browser/Explorer/Navigator/whatever. (Tell us which one you like best.

Netrik is Free Source Software published under the GNU GPL, which essentially states that you can do anything with the programm and its source code, as long as it remains free.

There are a lot of reasons to use a text browser.

The first one is that a text mode browser runs almost everywhere, even in environments without a graphical mode. Especially the possibility to use them through Telnet can be very useful. Also, a text mode browser needs very few system ressources, as displaying text needs much less processor time and memory than graphical pages. On a heavily loaded machine it steals less ressources and feels much better.

The second one is that its a very good possibility for web authors to test the usability of their pages. In a text mode browser many flaws of web pages are obvious, which are hidden in Netscape&Co., but could cause problems in other browsers.

The third reason (which seems to be the decisive one for many users) is that the avialable text mode browsers have very quick startup times. Thus they can be used to take a quick glance at a page without having to start a "big" graphical browser, and also without having to start the graphical environment if you do not have one running all the time. (I do not.) This can be very valuable, especially for program documentation in html format.

The fourth reason to use a text mode browser is that it "saves" one from graphically overloaded pages. Many pages are much clearer in a text mode browser, and thus information retrieval is much more efficient. Note that for many pages this is only true if the text mode resolution is high enough. (No problem in an xterm or on a Linux console with an fb-device.)

The fifth reason (the main reason why I use text mode browsers) is that many people generally prefer text mode over graphical mode. There are many reasons for this, but I guess this is more a question of taste... Only please do not make your sentence without having experienced it :-)

Last but not least, a text mode browser is the most reasonable possibility to browse the web for blind users.

Powerbox for Gtk is a patch to Gtk which replaces its GtkFileChooserDialog
Powerbox is a normal file chooser dialog box, except that it dynamically grants the application the right to access the file that the user picks.
This helps provide security because the application can be run without needing access to all the users files. Powerbox-for-Gtk patches Gtk to replace GtkFileChooserDialog with a powerbox.
It is based on Plash, which provides a restricted execution environment on Linux.
Enhancements:
- Add gtk-powerbox.c: an LD_PRELOADed patch to Gtk to replace the GtkFileChooserDialog interface so that it calls Plashs powerbox.
- Rename "plash" executable to "pola-shell".
- fs-operations.c: Add log method. Add an "end" log message when the fs_op object is dropped.
- gettextization
- make.sh: Add "-Wl,-z,relro" when linking ld.so. Fixes obscure problem when dlopen()ing libraries that might require an executable stack.
- Intercept getsockname() so that it returns the correct pathname for Unix domain sockets. Extended the g_fds array in libc so that it can contain these pathnames. It is now an array of "struct libc_fd"s, rather than an array of "cap_t"s. libc-fds.h: New file. libc-misc.c: Introduced fds_resize(), fds_slot_clear(). Changed open(), close(), dup2(), etc. libc-connect.c: Add getsockname() and change connect() and bind().
- Reason: I discovered that gconfd2 (or possibly Orbit) was relying on getsockname() returning the pathname that it earlier passed to bind(). This meant that Gnumeric was unable to spawn a gconf process itself, and it produced loads of errors.
- fs-operations.c, libc-misc.c: Fixed fstat() to return the correct information on directory FDs. Added the fsop_dir_fstat method to implement this.
- build-fs-dynamic.c: Implement link() and rename() methods. This is needed for when GNOME and KDE apps hard link files inside $HOME.
- filesysobj-real.c: Changes to allow rename and hard link calls of the form rename("dir/foo1", "dir/foo2") to work.
- The problem: The real_dir_rename and real_dir_link methods only work in the same-directory case; their test was a pointer comparison on real_dir objects. However, resolving a directory pathname like "dir" always returns a new real_dir object. This meant that the rename() call wouldnt work when you use full pathnames.
- This was causing some failures. eg. Konqueror wouldnt start: some code relied on creating "$HOME/.ICEauthority-l" as a hard link to "$HOME/.ICEauthority-c".
- The partial solution: Change the same-directory check to compare inode and device number of directory, after trying a pointer comparison.