Free leading software for linux

Speak Good Chinese is a cross-platform application based on GTK technology that allows you or your students to train their Mandarin pronunciation. Our software is based on Praat, leading software in speech analysis. Our speech technology is backed by the Institute of Phonetic Sciences part of the University of Amsterdam.
SpeakGoodChinese software was supported financially by the DU. Questions can be mailed to stefandekonink@xs4all.nl, they will be forwarded to the appropriate project member.
Enhancements:
- This release makes administrative tasks easier for teachers or students that want to manage or distribute their own wordlists.
- Another new feature in this subsystem is the shuffle function.
- Several bugs were solved related to cleaning up old recordings.
- New documentation was added.

Mudawin is weblog client.

Mudawin supports almost all leading blog services: Blogger, Wordpress, Movable Type, Typepad, Dotclear, and more.

A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging".

Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". A blog comprises hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular "area of interest", such as Washington, D.C.s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.

Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services. In the early 21st Century, blogging has quickly emerged as a popular and important means of communication.

ArchAddOn provides a straightforward toolbox of field types, widgets, and validators for Archetypes.
Instruction (only shows description on edit form, for adding sectional
help or other HTML markup to an edit form)
DynamicField. This is a textual field that can contain TALES
expressions which are evaluated. So you can add a "body" field to
a schema that is of this type, and have it be a mix of HTML content
and TALES expressions (just like in a ZPT).
SimpleDataGridField. A lines field with embedded vertical bars for fields. If the
columns property is set, the isValidGrid validator will ensure that
the entered text has exactly that number of columns for each row.
If strip_whitespace is True, the individual cells in the grid will
be stripped of leading and trailing whitespace (that is, whitespace
added around the delimiter).
If column_names is set to a tuple or list of strings, it gives the names
of columns in the grid. The getDataGridRow script and the getRow() method
will return a dict using these column names as keys rather than using the
column numbers (starting from zero).
Fields are just strings, with no internal validation, etc.
Enhancements:
- A long time resident of the collective, ArchAddOn makes its debut on plone.org.

Yellow Dog Linux is the Premier Linux Operating System for PowerPC.
Proven world-wide as the preferred Linux OS for the Power architecture, v4.1 brings Terra Soft into its 8th year of Power Linux development and support. Yellow Dog Linux v4.1 marks a returning point in Terra Softs effort to again provide a leading desktop Linux OS.
Yellow Dog Linux combines the preferred desktops KDE and Gnome with the latest sound and graphic card support, leading (but not bleeding) edge kernels and stable, functional compilers for code development. And of course, the foundation applications and servers expected of all modern Linux operatings systems for web, database, email, and network services.
What will you do with your PowerMac after Apple switches to Intel?
We have an answer--Faster, more stable, and far more efficient as a desktop OS, Yellow Dog Linux is a solid replacement (not just an alternative) to OSX. Breath new life into your PowerPC G3 and G4, giving it a second wind as a personal workstation, or a new function as a web, email, or data server. Want to see how your G5 runs Linux? You may dual-boot both OSX and Yellow Dog Linux or take the leap and run Yellow Dog Linux alone, taking advantage of the multitude of included, freely available, and commercial applications.
Main features:
New or Improved Device Support
- Backlit keys.
- PCMCIA cell phone and modem support.
- Support for Atheros wi-fi cards.
- Dual head config via the GUI.
- Install direct to and boot from FireWire drives.
- USB device auto-mount under both KDE & GNOME.
- Greatly improved sound support.
- Graphical Up2Date package install and update tool.
- Support for the latest Apple Power Books.
- Beta support for Apple G5 PowerMacs with dual core CPUs.
- Beta Extreme driver will be available shortly after release, via YDL.net Enhanced accounts.
Enhancements:
- We are pleased to announce the release of Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2, a single Install DVD with support for the Apple G4 and G5 computers, Sony PS3, and IBM System p servers, including the JS20/21, OpenPower, and current POWER5 systems. Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2 offers: kernel 2.6.22-rc4; SDK v2.0 for Cell BE; more than 70 bug fixes and updates; continued support for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems; beta IBM System p support. The IBM Software Development Toolkit (SDK) for Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is a complete package of tools which allows developers to program optimized applications for platforms built upon the Cell BE. The SDK is composed of development tool chains, software libraries, and sample source.

Mule is the leading open source ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) and integration platform. Mule is a scalable, highly distributable object broker that can seamlessly handle interactions with services and applications using disparate transport and messaging technologies.
Main features:
- J2EE 1.4 Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Messaging broker
- Pluggable connectivity such as JMS (1.0.2b and 1.1), VM (embedded), JDBC, TCP, UDP, multicast, http, servlet, SMTP, POP3, file, XMPP.
- JBI Integration.
- Orchestration of services using WS-BPEL and Mule components and routers.
- Support for asynchronous, synchronous and request-response event processing over any transport.
- Web Services using XFire (STaX-based) Axis or Glue.
- Flexible deployment [Topologies] including Client/Server, Peer-to-Peer, ESB and Enterprise Service Network.
- Declarative and Programmatic transaction support including XA support.
- End-to-End support for routing, transport and transformation of events.
- Spring framework Integration. Can be used as the ESB container and Mule can be easily embedded into Spring applications.
- Highly scalable enterprise server using the SEDA processing model.
- REST API to provide technology agnostic and language neutral web based access to Mule Events
- Powerful event routing based on patterns in the popular EIP book.
- Dynamic, declarative, content-based and rule-based routing options.
- Non-Intrusive approach. Any object can be managed by the ESB container.
- Powerful Application Integration framework
- Fully extensible development model
Enhancements:
- XFire now supports STaX-based streaming SOAP, JavaSpaces JAAS Security Provider, Spring Remoting, HiveMind, and these transaction managers: Weblogic, Websphere, JRun, JBoss, Resin, and Generic Jndi-based.
- Performance improvements were made and full character set encoding support and internationalization was implemented.
- Transport-specific session handling was added.
- Over 300 issues were closed.
- The Sandbox now has jBPM Transport, specialised Tibco transport, specialised MQ Series transport, a SAP module, and Maven Archetypes for building template projects.

String::MFN is a Perl module to Normalize a string in the manner of the mfn utility.

SYNOPSIS

use String::MFN;

my $sane_string = mfn($retarded_string);
...

Normalizes a string. Normalization, in brief, means modifying the string to resemble a sane UNIX filename while retaining information carried by the original formatting.
Normalization, in specific, consists of characters other than [w-.+] being removed, lowercasing of all letters, separation of internaCaps, separation of leading numerals from trailing non-numerals, replacement of "bracketing" characters ({[()]}), replacement of ampersands, and collapsing (things that look like) repeating extentions.

Some concrete examples (filenames found by googling for "mp3 playlist"):

Frank Sinatra & Count Basie - More.mp3
frank_sinatra_and_count_basie-more.mp3

Cornershop - Heavy Soup [Outro] [*] [*].mp3
cornershop-heavy_soup-outro.mp3

Soundtrack - American Pie 2 5 - Uncle Kracker - (Im Gonna) Split This Room In Half.mp3
soundtrack-american_pie_205-uncle_kracker-im_gonna-split_this_room_in_half.mp3

12. Only You (Bad Boys Remix)(Ft. The Notorious B.I.G.).mp3
12-only_you-bad_boys_remix-ft_the_notorious_b.i.g.mp3

Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown.mp3.mp3.mp3
ultramagnetic_mcs-critical_beatdown.mp3

FUNCTIONS

mfn

Normalizes a string. Returns the normalized string. If no argument is given, mfn operates on $_.

Sort::Versions is a Perl 5 module for sorting of revision-like numbers.

SYNOPSIS

use Sort::Versions;
@l = sort { versioncmp($a, $b) } qw( 1.2 1.2.0 1.2a.0 1.2.a 1.a 02.a );

...

use Sort::Versions;
print lower if versioncmp(1.2, 1.2a) == -1;

...

use Sort::Versions;
%h = (1 => d, 2 => c, 3 => b, 4 => a);
@h = sort { versioncmp($h{$a}, $h{$b}) } keys %h;

Sort::Versions allows easy sorting of mixed non-numeric and numeric strings, like the version numbers that many shared library systems and revision control packages use. This is quite useful if you are trying to deal with shared libraries. It can also be applied to applications that intersperse variable-width numeric fields within text. Other applications can undoubtedly be found.

For an explanation of the algorithm, its simplest to look at these examples:

1.1 < 1.2
1.1a < 1.2
1.1 < 1.1.1
1.1 < 1.1a
1.1.a < 1.1a
1 < a
a < b
1 < 2
1.1-3 < 1.1-4
1.1-5 < 1.1.6

More precisely (but less comprehensibly), the two strings are treated as subunits delimited by periods or hyphens. Each subunit can contain any number of groups of digits or non-digits. If digit groups are being compared on both sides, a numeric comparison is used, otherwise a ASCII ordering is used. A group or subgroup with more units will win if all comparisons are equal. A period binds digit groups together more tightly than a hyphen.

Some packages use a different style of version numbering: a simple real number written as a decimal. Sort::Versions has limited support for this style: when comparing two subunits which are both digit groups, if either subunit has a leading zero, then both are treated like digits after a decimal point. So for example:

0002 < 1
1.06 < 1.5

This wont always work, because there wont always be a leading zero in real-number style version numbers. There is no way for Sort::Versions to know which style was intended. But a lot of the time it will do the right thing. If you are making up version numbers, the style with (possibly) more than one dot is the style to use.

USAGE

The function versioncmp() takes two arguments and compares them like cmp. With perl 5.6 or later, you can also use this function directly in sorting:

@l = sort versioncmp qw(1.1 1.2 1.0.3);

The function versions() can be used directly as a sort function even on perl 5.005 and earlier, but its use is deprecated.