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Apache Forrest is a publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats.

The modular and extensible plugin architecture is based on Apache Cocoon and relevant standards, which separates presentation from content.

Forrest can generate static documents, be used as a dynamic server, or be deployed by its automated facility.

Forrest is designed with the new user in mind. Much effort has gone into making the process of generating a new site easy and simple:

Step 1: Do forrest seed to populate the directory with template site structure and contents.
Step 2: Add content by editing docs in task-specific, presentation-neutral XML.
Step 3: Do forrest run then use the web browser to immediately review changes at http://localhost:8888/
Step 4: Do forrest to generate the complete website from the XML sources. Various styles (known as skins) are available. Custom skins can be developed.
Step 5: For more information about installation and use, see the Using Forrest guide.

Forrests focus on low "startup cost" makes it ideal for rapid development of small sites, where time and budget constraints do not allow time-wasting HTML experiments. Of course, that same methodology can scale up to large projects. Your development team does not need Java experience, or even XML skills, to use Forrest. The framework lets you concentrate on content and design.

By separating content from presentation, providing content templates and pre-written skins, Forrest is unequalled at enabling content producers to get their message out fast. This separation of concerns makes Forrest excellent to publish project documentation (notably software projects), intranets, and home pages, and anything else you can think of.

Forrest is far from a quick and dirty solution however. Forrest is built on the worlds leading XML application framework, Apache Cocoon, which provides advanced users with extremely powerful publishing capabilities.

* Multiple task-specific source XML formats can be used (How-To, FAQ, changelogs and todo lists supported natively). Source formats include: Apache xdocs xml format, plain html documents, some Wiki formats, a subset of DocBook, ...
* Multiple output formats supported, for example HTML and PDF (using Apache FOP).
* SVG to PNG rendering (using Apache Batik). Simply drop the SVG in the appropriate directory and it will be rendered as PNG.
* Transparent inclusion and aggregation of external content, like RSS feeds.
* Anything else possible with the Cocoon sitemap. Using database queries, charting, web services integration; the possibilities are constantly growing as Cocoon grows. See the Cocoon Features list for the full suite of capabilities.
* Based on Java and XML standards, Forrest is platform-independent, making for a documentation system that is just as portable as the XML data that it processes.

Unique amongst comparable documentation tools, Forrest generates sites that can run both interactively as a dynamic web application, or as statically rendered pages.

This provides a path for site growth: start off small and static, and if dynamic features (user login, forms processing, runtime data, site search etc) are one day needed, these can be accommodated by switching to webapp mode.

Running as a webapp has a major advantage during development: content can be written, and then the rendered output viewed almost instantly in a web browser. This webapp technique enables Forrests edit/review cycle to be faster than command-line transformation tools.

Debian From Scratch is really two systems:

1) a bootable CD for repairing Linux systems or installing Debian;
2) the program that generates the CDs that are used for #1.

You can expect the following from your DFS CD:

* Bootable CD featuring the GNU Grub bootloader. Can be used to boot hard disk partitions even if no hard disk bootloader is present.

* Kernel and userland support for all major filesystems, including ext2, ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, FAT, VFAT, NTFS, ISO9660, CramFS, tmpfs, and more. Userland support for Reiser4.

* Kernel and userland support for different disk layout schemes including standard partitioning, Logical Volume Manager 2 (LVM2), software RAID, etc.

* Full recovery tools runnable directly from CD, including:

- Filesystem utilities for all mazjor filesystems, including undeletion tools for ext2

- Partition editors (fdisk, cfdisk, parted)

- Text editors (nano, joe, vim, emacs)

- C, Perl, Python, and OCaml development environments. Enough to configure and compile a new kernel and build basic .debs. Kernel 2.6.6 sources included on CD.

- Full networking support, including PPP and various Ethernet cards and DHCP

- Network tools including FTP clients, Web client, ssh, telnet, NFS, smbclient, tcpdump, netcat, etc.

- Backup restoration tools such as rdiff-backup, dump/restore, tar, cpio, amanda client, afbackup client, etc.

- CD and DVD burning tools

- Basic printing tools (cat for local printers, rlpr for remote ones, and netcat for Jetdirect, plus unix2dos for text files and Ghostscript for emergency conversions)

- Mail reader (mutt)

* Base systems for multiple versions of Debian installable directly from CD, including: woody (i386), sarge (i386), sid (i386), and sid (amd64). Alpha CD can install woody, sarge, or sid for Alpha.

* amd64 support: Enough to install or fix an AMD64 system. Includes 64-bit kernel with 32-bit emulation (to run the 32-bit userland on the CD). Also includes 64-bit package for bootstrapping a new AMD64 support. In short, you can boot a 64-bit kernel and be treated as a first-class citizen in almost all respects.

* i386 or x86_64 (amd64) kernels bootable directly from initial boot menu.

* DFS generation scripts support custom kernels, packages, mirrors, compressed ISO images, and a high degree of flexibility.

FEAR::API is a tool that helps reduce the time you spend creating site scraping scripts and helps you do it in a much more elegant way.
FEAR::API combines many strong and powerful features from various CPAN modules, such as LWP::UserAgent, Template::Extract, WWW::Mechanize, Encode, HTML::Parser, etc.
Enhancements:
- This release adds allow_domains() and deny_domains().

Beyond Linux From Scratch or BLFS in short, is a project that continues where the LFS book finishes. It assists users in developing their systems according to their needs by providing a broad range of instructions for installing and configuring various packages on top of a base LFS system.
Why would I want a BLFS system?
If you are wondering why you would want a BLFS system or dont know what LFS is then you dont want to be here just yet - you should head over to the LFS Project Homepage where all will be explained.
What can I do with my BLFS system?
Nearly anything! An LFS system is primed to become a system that fits whatever need you have. BLFS is the book that takes you down your own custom path. You could build an office workstation, a multimedia desktop, a router, a server, or all of the above! And the best part is you only install what you need.
Enhancements:
- Version 6.2.0 of BLFS has been released. Version 6.2.0 is the complement to the LFS 6.2 book. More time has elapsed between the release of the previous version (6.1) and this one than in any other release cycle. Much of this is due to the fact that LFS 6.2 took much longer to be released than was originally anticipated. Many new packages have been introduced in the 6.2.0 version, as well as many updates, refinements and additions to the existing packages.

gaim-hotkeys is the hotkey plugin for Gaim.

gaim-hotkeys is a Gaim plugin that allows you to define global hotkeys for various actions such as toggling buddy list, fetching queued messages, opening preferences or account dialog.

ferite is a lighweight, portable, threadsafe scripting engine with a language that is very easy to pick up and use.

ferite is a scripting engine and language written in c for complete portability.

ferite is a clean language with influences from various places: objects from Java/C++, functions from C/php, closures from scheme, block calling from ruby, namespaces from C++, as well as its own a sane loose typing mechanism, variant type and set of nice APIs.

Its origins are from one of those "it seems like a good idea", the good idea was provoked by finding perl a real pain in the arse to embed (from what I gather its easier nowadays). It started in the summer of 2000 (with various tries and fails within the pre-ceding two years). It reached version 1.0 in the second quarter of 2005.

WebComp is an experiment on how to compose and configure web-sites from various existing components (static HTML, Java Servlets, Java server pages and other), by scripting. It includes a scripting language, a component model/framework and a set of basic pluggable components to use with it.
The core of the WebComp implementation is a Java servlet that reads scripts and generates web-pages from them, using components referenced in the scripts.
Main features:
- Supports a basic pluggable component type (Functions) which are easily implemented as Java classes and instantiated and configured by scripts, using reflection techniques and functional programming concepts.
- Supports a high level of separation of concerns (aspect oriented design) by allowing flexible chaining of components to handle requests and responses. This leads to more reusable components.
- Supports easy re-use of website designs and components by scripting inheritance.
- Basic function-library supports automatic generation of menus from lists of components given in scripts, filtering of static HTML documents, nice framing of content, stylesheets, layout, composing etc.
- Can generate valid HTML (if components do).