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GCompris is an educational software which propose different activities to kids from 2 to 10. Some activities are game oriented, but always educational. You will find some activities in the following topics:
- computer discovery: keyboard, mouse, different mouse gesture, ...
- algebra: table memory, enumeration, double entry table, mirror image, ...
- science: the canal lock, the water cycle, the submarine, ...
- geography: place the country on the map
- games: chess, memory, ...
- reading: reading practice
- other: learn to tell time, puzzle of famous paintings, vector drawing, ...
GCompris project proposes more than 60 activities and it continues to evolves. GCompris is a free software, you have the possibility to adapt it to your needs or to improve it, and, why not, to share your work with the kids of all the world.
GCompris intent is to provide a central location where a user can find different kind of small educational content called boards.
Today there is already a lot of free software that provides a small education content. Unfortunatly, it is difficult to track, intall and use them because they do not evolve at the same speed and offer their own user interface.
GCompris aims to provide a unique user interface that gives access to different boards.
GCompris is part of the GNU project.
Once started, GCompris presents a graphical view that includes from top to bottom:
1. Boards icon list Each icon represent a board. When you move the mouse over them, they are highlighted and the name and description of the board is displayed in the board description area.
2. Boards description area Display a small description of what the highlited board icon is about. Note that the descriptions are internationalized which means translated in a target language (See section Internationalization Issues for more information on Internationalization).
3. Control bar: The control bar is always present in GCompris. This icons are contextual which means that when an icon is not meaningfull in a specific context, it is simply not displayed. The control bar contains the icons from left to right:
1. Help: In some case, a board can be too complex to be described in the Board description area. In this case this will provide access to the additionnal instructions.
2. Level: Some boards provide different level. The number of levels is board dependant.
3. OK: Some boards do not automatically detect that the child has finish the given task. Clicking here is similar to entering RET on the keyboard and thus the RET key is a shortcut.
4. End: End the current board if any, otherwise Exit GCompris. When entered at the board menu level, it will create a dialog window to confirm the Exit of GCompris.
5. About: Display the about box for gcompris with the version number, the author, the licence and links to online resources.
6. Configure: Display the configuration box for gcompris. Configuration can be done at gcompris level when no boards is selected. If a board is selected, it can provides configuration options. Configuration is persistent and saved in the gnome file in the user home directory under .gnome/gcompris.
Whats New in 8.3.3 Stable Release:
- GCompris was asserting when you clicked on the target image in the missingletter activity.
- GCompris was unstable in Spanish and in any locale where there are no spoken congratulation.
- Even if they were present, audio congratulations were not played on Windows.
- All of these problems were fixed.

libburnia is a project comprised of libraries and binaries for reading, mastering, and writing optical discs.
libburnia is a project comprised of libraries, language bindings, and middleware binaries that emulate classic and valuable Linux tools.
The libburnias source code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Enhancements:
- This release is able to cope with the peculiarities of Linux 2.4 USB.
- It will refuse to perform -dummy runs on media which cannot simulate burning.
- A new option modesty_on_drive= may help with hda -> hdb burns.
- The new option minibuf= for cdrskin was introduced as an abstraction over cdrecords modesty_on_drive=.
- The option --adjust_speed_to_drive has been added.
- This release takes precautions against using the burner drive as a track source.

libtiff library provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data. The latest version of the TIFF specification is available on-line in several different formats, as are a number of TIFF Technical Notes (TTNs).
Included in this software distribution is a library, libtiff, for reading and writing TIFF, a small collection of tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images on UNIX systems, and documentation on the library and tools.
A small assortment of TIFF-related software for UNIX that has been contributed by others is also included. The library, along with associated tool programs, should handle most of your needs for reading and writing TIFF images on 32- and 64-bit machines.
Whats New in 3.8.2 Stable Release:
- Along with several cleanups and bugfixes, this release fixes an important regression related to the JPEG-in-TIFF codec introduced in the previous release.

iptables and netfilter are building blocks of a framework inside the Linux 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel. This framework enables packet filtering, network addresss [and port] translation (NA[P]T) and other packet mangling. It is the re-designed and heavily improved successor of the previous Linux 2.2.x ipchains and Linux 2.0.x ipfwadm systems.
iptables is a generic table structure for the definition of rulesets. Each rule within an IP table consists out of a number of classifiers (iptables matches) and one connected action (iptables target).
netfilter, iptables and the connection tracking as well as the NAT subsystem together build the whole framework.
Main features:
- stateless packet filtering (IPv4 and IPv6)
- stateful packet filtering (IPv4)
- all kinds of network address and port translation (NAT/NAPT)
- flexible and extensible infrastructure
- multiple layers of APIs for 3rd party extensions
- large number of plugins/modules kept in patch-o-matic repository

Audioscrobbler is an XMMS/BMP plugin that builds a profile of your musical tastes by sending the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler server, which updates your musical profile with the new song.

Every person with a plugin has their own page on the site that shows their listening statistics, and the system automatically matches you to people with similar musical tastes, and generates personalised recommendations.

LPRng is an Enhanced Printer Spooler.

The LPRng software is an enhanced, extended, and portable implementation of the Berkeley LPR print spooler functionality. While providing the same interface and meeting RFC1179 requirements, the implementation is completely new and provides support for the following features: lightweight (no databases needed) lpr, lpc, and lprm programs; dynamic redirection of print queues; automatic job holding; highly verbose diagnostics; multiple printers serving a single queue; client programs do not need to run SUID root; greatly enhanced security checks; and a greatly improved permission and authorization mechanism.

The source software compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX systems, and is compatible with other print spoolers and network printers that use the LPR interface and meet RFC1179 requirements.

SVR4 LP and LPSTAT Emultation

LPRng provides emulation packages for the SVR4 lp and lpstat programs, eliminating the need for another print spooler package. These emulation packages can be modified according to local requirements, in order to support vintage printing systems.

Security and Authentication

For users that require secure and/or authenticated printing support, LPRng supports Kerberos V, MIT Kerberos IV Print Support, and PGP authentication. LPRng is being adopted by MIT for use as their Campus Wide printing support system. Additional authentication support is extremely simple to add.

Licensing, Commercial Support, and Y2k Compliance

LPRng is Open Source Software, and the current public distribution is available from the listed FTP and Web Sites. LPRng is distributed under the GPL or Artistic license. Licenses and support agreements for users who do not want to use the terms of the above licenses may be obtained from AStArt Technologies which provides commercial support and enhancements for the LPRng and other network software. AStArt provides network and system consulting services for UNIX and NT systems, as well as real time and network software.

The LPRng software has no known Year 2000 data dependencies. Where necessary, dates are generated using values relative to the UNIX Epoch, and will be consistent to 2034 at a conservative estimate. Details are available in the Y2K Compliance file in the source distribution.

libevnet library provides a suite of interfaces, all built around libevent [http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent] , useful to network daemons.
bufio.h: Non-blocking line and block buffered I/O routines, providing tail recursive behavior so callers cannot overflow their stack with multiple back-to-back I/O issues (i.e. attempting unbounded recursive I/O operations before falling into the event loop).
This feature preserves the natural way to code in an asychronous manner by safeguarding against certain types of pathological behavior and malicious attacks.
socket.h: Asychronous accept(2) and connect(2), supporting IPv4, IPv6 and Unix Domain sockets transparently. Also supports encapsulated host address lookups for "one-shot" connection handling with automatic fallback (for MX and SRV hosts).
tls.h: OpenSSL interface which plugs into the buffered I/O API in bufio.h and socket.h API.
thread.h: Threading implementation for running "blocking" routines asychronously. Run a function in a separate thread, and have the return value collected and passed back asynchronously to the original caller.
lookup.h: Comprehensive DNS resolver with a dead simple interface. Supports PTR, A, AAAA, CNAME, NS, MX, TXT, SOA and SRV records, as well as "compound queries".
A lookup of A+AAAA+SRV first queries the SRV records, sorts them, then resolves each SRV host to an A and/or AAAA host (with a configurable CNAME chaining limit). The response is a linked list of lookup structures, beginning with an SRV record, associated A/AAAA sockaddr structures, the next SRV record, and so on. A+MX has similar behavior. This feature actually reduces network traffic, since most of the time the initial DNS query response contains all the necessary information in the additional section.
DNS SRV records are compliantly sorted according to RFC 2782 [http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2782/]
Enhancements:
- The platform compatibility library was refactored.