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totalshredder
March 22nd, 2005, 07:09 PM
Hey everyone,

I love going to sourceforge and freshmeat, but it's so hard finding new Open Source projects that are new and profound. I keep running into the same old things, or things that don't intrest me at all. What are some new Open Source projects that look promising\interesting? I'm really interested in knowing!

Luke

jdodson
March 22nd, 2005, 07:37 PM
Hey everyone,

I love going to sourceforge and freshmeat, but it's so hard finding new Open Source projects that are new and profound. I keep running into the same old things, or things that don't intrest me at all. What are some new Open Source projects that look promising\interesting? I'm really interested in knowing!

Luke

to each her/his own, however these i find cool.

http://scourge.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=598
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=80
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=641
http://www.mythtv.org/
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
http://openlegends.sourceforge.net/
http://themanaworld.sourceforge.net/

totalshredder
March 23rd, 2005, 02:06 AM
to each her/his own, however these i find cool.

http://scourge.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=598
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=80
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=641
http://www.mythtv.org/
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
http://openlegends.sourceforge.net/
http://themanaworld.sourceforge.net/

These are some really amazing programs! (minus the games.) I was really impressed by beagle and wired; very amazing programs, expecially beagle. Beagle is going to be one of the main programs that actually keeps linux in with longhorn. The demos on this site (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/) are just really amazing.

Anybody got a repository where I can get this? It's pretty complicated to for me to install 8-[

Also, does anybody have more cool aps that they think are going to soon reign in linux?

Luke

bored2k
March 23rd, 2005, 02:18 AM
These are some really amazing programs! (minus the games.) I was really impressed by beagle and wired; very amazing programs, expecially beagle. Beagle is going to be one of the main programs that actually keeps linux in with longhorn. The demos on this site (http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/) are just really amazing.

Anybody got a repository where I can get this? It's pretty complicated to for me to install 8-[

Also, does anybody have more cool aps that they think are going to soon reign in linux?

Luke
I can't wait for someone to make debs for Beagle, its so freaking complicated [imo] .

TravisNewman
March 23rd, 2005, 03:26 AM
Jerk. Now I can't stop playing Monkey-Bubble

Ok, you aren't a jerk. Sorry ;)

blinksilver
March 23rd, 2005, 03:39 AM
i think the games are pretty amazing, the MANA world sounds really cool,
the project are great, if is was not for ndiswrapper, i would not use linux

poofyhairguy
March 23rd, 2005, 06:34 AM
I can't wait for someone to make debs for Beagle, its so freaking complicated [imo] .

I'm trying, but its hard.

Lovechild
March 23rd, 2005, 09:42 AM
Muine and gstreamer are good projects
xgl is a very cool project, as well as cairo
the kernel.. very cool, but takes a bit of understanding of concepts.

Galago is interesting as well, and I have my eyes on a general user notification framework.

UbuWu
March 29th, 2005, 04:41 PM
Gourmet Recipe Manager http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/
This one will make your mother or girlfriend switch to linux :mrgreen:

Marlin http://marlin.sourceforge.net/
I think this would be a great replacement for the current sound recorder in ubuntu.

Appliworks http://appliworks.jondesign.net/

totalshredder
March 29th, 2005, 05:55 PM
Marlin http://marlin.sourceforge.net/
I think this would be a great replacement for the current sound recorder in ubuntu.


I cannot believe the audacity (audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) of that remark! (oh how witty!) I'm a huge fan of audacity :) Marlin looks kew though

UbuWu
March 30th, 2005, 11:08 AM
Thoggen http://thoggen.net/
Alternative for dvdshrink

Lovechild
March 30th, 2005, 11:11 AM
Thoggen http://thoggen.net/
Alternative for dvdshrink

The best part of that project is the leader developer.. he's just the nicest guy ever.

totalshredder
March 30th, 2005, 01:44 PM
Thoggen http://thoggen.net/
Alternative for dvdshrink

Nice! That'd be a good one for quite a few people. Expecially me :) Open source is definitely something to be excited about.

HungSquirrel
March 30th, 2005, 02:10 PM
Beagle is the most exciting new project IMO. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. Search results in BEST yield no hits, and the site doesn't tell you how to manually index stuff.

ubuntu_demon
March 30th, 2005, 02:27 PM
Gourmet Recipe Manager http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net/
This one will make your mother or girlfriend switch to linux :mrgreen:

I like food too! :-D

Anyone know a good recipe database that can be easily imported in this program ? (preferably a dutch database because I don't know american measures)

ubuntu_demon
March 30th, 2005, 02:28 PM
Nice! That'd be a good one for quite a few people. Expecially me :) Open source is definitely something to be excited about.
yeah this rocks. Anyone tested it ? How's the quality ?

totalshredder
March 30th, 2005, 03:37 PM
yeah this rocks. Anyone tested it ? How's the quality ?

I'm working on it now; I'll get back to you on how it works


Beagle is the most exciting new project IMO. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. Search results in BEST yield no hits, and the site doesn't tell you how to manually index stuff.

Same here; There needs to be a better howto. I really, really like the idea of that project!

Luke

UbuWu
March 30th, 2005, 05:28 PM
Have you tried this for beagle:
http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

HungSquirrel
March 30th, 2005, 05:54 PM
That's what I followed to get my non-working Beagle.

totalshredder
March 30th, 2005, 06:57 PM
That's what I followed to get my non-working Beagle.

Same for me... Oh well, maybe someday :-) Definitely a program worth doing a little extra work for. Maybe they'll get a howto up.

Has anybody gotten it to work on ubuntu?

Luke

allans
March 30th, 2005, 08:09 PM
I've just installed it using this guide:

http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

It worked perfectly, but it could still do with some work, for example it's indexed my evolution mail but not my contacts for some reason.

Allan

bored2k
March 30th, 2005, 08:15 PM
I've just installed it using this guide:

http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

It worked perfectly, but it could still do with some work, for example it's indexed my evolution mail but not my contacts for some reason.

Allan
Im going to give that another try now with my reinstalled Hoary, based on it working for you ;)

totalshredder
March 30th, 2005, 08:41 PM
I've just installed it using this guide:

http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

It worked perfectly, but it could still do with some work, for example it's indexed my evolution mail but not my contacts for some reason.

Allan

did you use the CVS one? I never tried that. Did you do anything else differently at all? I want to get this working :-)

Luke

allans
March 30th, 2005, 10:26 PM
Sorry to take a while to reply. I just added "deb http://manno.name/debian/ hoary main" to my /etc/apt/sources.list and installed it from there, I don't think it is from cvs but it is the latest version, 0.0.8.1 I think. I had some problems with apt though, try this:

apt-get update
apt-get install mono mono-jit mono-utils mono-mcs mono-assemblies-arch mono-common
apt-get install mono-assemblies-base
apt-get install beagle

I had a few problems with packages being left unconfigured but installing in that order sorted it out.

Once you've got it installed, run beagled --fg --debug to get everything indexed and the search tool should be in applications > accessories.

Hope that helps, Allan

edit: you also need to add the inotify switch to your kernels, information on that is on the site I gave above

totalshredder
March 30th, 2005, 10:52 PM
Sorry to take a while to reply. I just added "deb http://manno.name/debian/ hoary main" to my /etc/apt/sources.list and installed it from there, I don't think it is from cvs but it is the latest version, 0.0.8.1 I think. I had some problems with apt though, try this:

apt-get update
apt-get install mono mono-jit mono-utils mono-mcs mono-assemblies-arch mono-common
apt-get install mono-assemblies-base
apt-get install beagle

I had a few problems with packages being left unconfigured but installing in that order sorted it out.

Once you've got it installed, run beagled --fg --debug to get everything indexed and the search tool should be in applications > accessories.

Hope that helps, Allan

edit: you also need to add the inotify switch to your kernels, information on that is on the site I gave above

Did it all and I'm still stuck with the same problem, when I do beagled --fg --debug it does quite a bit, then it stops at:


DEBUG: Ready to accept requests after 15.41s
DEBUG: Starting main loop
DEBUG: OnNameOwnerChanged: com.novell.BeagleIndexHelper '' ':1.17'

Then I open best and it doesn't give me anything. I think it's because it hasn't indexed everything. Hrrmmm... I guess this is the wrong forum to ask this stuff though;

Unless somebody knows my exact problem, let us continue in the discussion of New Open Source Projects! I must say, the new MySQL is looking really cool! I'm going to compile it soon :smile:

allans
March 30th, 2005, 11:08 PM
Sorry I can't help with that. Another beagle related app is dashboard which I've just tried from cvs and seems to be very unstable although the concept shows promise. I've noticed a fair few of these apps are mono based - tomboy, f-spot, evince, beagle, dashboard etc, I'm assuming we can expect better mono support in breezy badger or whatever they've decided to call the next version.

Allan

UbuWu
March 30th, 2005, 11:11 PM
Evince is nice one as well... but I think it should also support openoffice documents (especially writer and impress)

allans
March 30th, 2005, 11:22 PM
Yeah I can see that in Ubuntu come October, if it's stable enough. With a bit more polish and new apps like these, Ubuntu 5.10 will be a huge leap forward imo. Is evince another novell funded project btw?

edit: dashboard now working, no idea how I managed it mind

UbuWu
March 30th, 2005, 11:48 PM
And one more: gnome-launch-box http://micke.hallendal.net/gnome-launch-box/

totalshredder
March 31st, 2005, 12:16 AM
GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php) is pretty cool too, it will probably become a standard with gnome based distros (looks much better than qtparted)

--THOGGEN REVIEW--
Well, I tried out Thoggen, and, well attached is the product of 6 minutes of computing. I have a 4x DVD drive, and a 1Ghz computer (which is really a 300mhz computer because it's SO INSANELY SLOW). But, anyways, I got 500kbs of pure incredibles game trailer goodness (hehe, closest DVD, smallest file) in 6 minutes. I did the smallest size, really low compression

Verdict: Don't get it unless you have a super speedo computer and you're too lazy to use wine.
-- 4 out of 10 cow turds --

Heh, anyways, it's got quite a bit of potential! I'm looking forward to all of these awesome programs!

Luke

ubuntu_demon
March 31st, 2005, 07:55 AM
GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php) is pretty cool too, it will probably become a standard with gnome based distros (looks much better than qtparted)

--THOGGEN REVIEW--
Well, I tried out Thoggen, and, well attached is the product of 6 minutes of computing. I have a 4x DVD drive, and a 1Ghz computer (which is really a 300mhz computer because it's SO INSANELY SLOW). But, anyways, I got 500kbs of pure incredibles game trailer goodness (hehe, closest DVD, smallest file) in 6 minutes. I did the smallest size, really low compression

Verdict: Don't get it unless you have a super speedo computer and you're too lazy to use wine.
-- 4 out of 10 cow turds --

Heh, anyways, it's got quite a bit of potential! I'm looking forward to all of these awesome programs!

Luke
Maybe it will become really nice.

This lowest quality is really really low :). How big was the original file and how long did it take ?

totalshredder
March 31st, 2005, 04:06 PM
Maybe it will become really nice.

This lowest quality is really really low :). How big was the original file and how long did it take ?

I hope it becomes nice! I'm counting on this thing!

The original file was on a DVD, and it was 32 seconds; I guess it was full DVD quality then, but I'm not all that sure. It was on "the incredibles" DVD, so it wasn't some corny low quality thing (its a 2 DVD set, so they weren't sacrificing quality)

It actually wasn't the lowest quality, it was "6" and the default is somewhere like 16. Wonder what one or two would be like!!

Luke

ubuntu_demon
March 31st, 2005, 05:42 PM
It actually wasn't the lowest quality, it was "6" and the default is somewhere like 16. Wonder what one or two would be like!!

Luke
:grin:

macewan
April 1st, 2005, 05:29 AM
Did it all and I'm still stuck with the same problem, when I do beagled --fg --debug it does quite a bit, then it stops at:


DEBUG: Ready to accept requests after 15.41s
DEBUG: Starting main loop
DEBUG: OnNameOwnerChanged: com.novell.BeagleIndexHelper '' ':1.17'

Then I open best and it doesn't give me anything. I think it's because it hasn't indexed everything. Hrrmmm... I guess this is the wrong forum to ask this stuff though;

Unless somebody knows my exact problem, let us continue in the discussion of New Open Source Projects! I must say, the new MySQL is looking really cool! I'm going to compile it soon :smile:


sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

change this
# nonaltoptions=quiet splash

to this
# nonaltoptions=quiet splash inotify

save & exit gedit & then
sudo /sbin/update-grub

UbuWu
April 1st, 2005, 08:27 AM
My personal favorite: Osirix http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/

Even though it is for mac and I don't own a mac and am not planning on buyin one and have only seen this app in action once, I think this is one of the best new o-s aps around. Just have a look at the screenshots! (I am a med student by the way if you were wondering...) Would love to have someone porting it to linux!

totalshredder
April 1st, 2005, 05:21 PM
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

change this
# nonaltoptions=quiet splash

to this
# nonaltoptions=quiet splash inotify

save & exit gedit & then
sudo /sbin/update-grub

Sorry, didn't work, :-? they were in the original tutorial, weren't they?


My personal favorite: Osirix http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/

Even though it is for mac and I don't own a mac and am not planning on buyin one and have only seen this app in action once, I think this is one of the best new o-s aps around. Just have a look at the screenshots! (I am a med student by the way if you were wondering...) Would love to have someone porting it to linux!

That's one dern fine app there!! Expecially if you're a med student, stupid people, I hate mac domination. Everything they make now adays only works on macs, it's just saddening :wink:

Luke

macewan
April 2nd, 2005, 03:48 AM
you rebooted?



Sorry, didn't work, :-? they were in the original tutorial, weren't they?
Luke on the beaglewiki - doubt that it suggested sudo gedit, I did that because not everyone is comfortable with vi plus it's easier for someone to click the 'find' button in gedit to locate the appropriate text.

totalshredder
April 2nd, 2005, 04:00 AM
you rebooted?


on the beaglewiki - doubt that it suggested sudo gedit, I did that because not everyone is comfortable with vi plus it's easier for someone to click the 'find' button in gedit to locate the appropriate text.
Yes, I did reboot :) I agree with the vi and gedit thing, I always do stuff with gedit, because I always forget my VI stuff :-D

macewan
April 2nd, 2005, 05:47 AM
Yes, I did reboot :) I agree with the vi and gedit thing, I always do stuff with gedit, because I always forget my VI stuff :-D
hrm, sorry - can't help beyond that. i had received the same error until I did what I recommended earlier

it now works

good luck

*jab* :roll:

http://www.macewan.org/screenshots/Hoary-Beagle-0.0.8.png

ubuntu_demon
April 2nd, 2005, 09:59 AM
you rebooted?


on the beaglewiki - doubt that it suggested sudo gedit, I did that because not everyone is comfortable with vi plus it's easier for someone to click the 'find' button in gedit to locate the appropriate text.
don't encourage people to reboot this is the windows way :)

The only reason you would want to reboot is :
1) you updated your kernel and you need the features of the new one
2) your kernel is misbehaving
3) your kernel crashed

If you want to reboot because some process is doing something strange and you don't know which one most of the times that particular process is killed by going to init 1. After this just go back to init 2.

macewan
April 2nd, 2005, 03:43 PM
don't encourage people to reboot this is the windows way :)

The only reason you would want to reboot is :
1) you updated your kernel and you need the features of the new one
2) your kernel is misbehaving
3) your kernel crashed

If you want to reboot because some process is doing something strange and you don't know which one most of the times that particular process is killed by going to init 1. After this just go back to init 2.

:wink:

just following directions on the Ubuntu Install (http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall) sir

http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

----------------------------------------------
Inotify
You also need to enable inotify kernel support.

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

find a line starting with "# nonaltoptions" and append inotify to it. Mine ends up like this:

# nonaltoptions=quiet splash inotify

then run /sbin/update-grub to apply these options to all kernels.
Reboot.
----------------------------------------------
:roll:

ubuntu_demon
April 2nd, 2005, 03:47 PM
:wink:

just following directions on the Ubuntu Install (http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall) sir

http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

----------------------------------------------
Inotify
You also need to enable inotify kernel support.

Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

find a line starting with "# nonaltoptions" and append inotify to it. Mine ends up like this:

# nonaltoptions=quiet splash inotify

then run /sbin/update-grub to apply these options to all kernels.
Reboot.
----------------------------------------------
:roll:
this isn't necessary for hoary I believe. I installed beagle once and I didn't edit my menu.1st for it.

macewan
April 2nd, 2005, 03:57 PM
this isn't necessary for hoary I believe. I installed beagle once and I didn't edit my menu.1st for it.


this is how I got it to work after getting the same error as totalshredder (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=110550&postcount=25)

UbuWu
April 4th, 2005, 10:04 PM
Gscore http://www.gscore.org/ music notation application

HungSquirrel
April 4th, 2005, 10:23 PM
Gscore http://www.gscore.org/ music notation application
Whoa, that looks really cool! Does it have a MIDI synthesizer built in so you can preview (well, pre-listen) your compositions? Hell, maybe even *I* could make music if it did! :P

allans
April 4th, 2005, 10:40 PM
You have to reboot because you've just added the inotify switch to the kernel. And that notation app looks promising, there's also a gtk guitar tab app around somewhere, think its called gtab but could be wrong.

totalshredder
April 5th, 2005, 12:21 AM
Yes, I rebooted many times :) and I am sure I changed the menu. Don't worry about it; I'll try again next version.

I am going to try it on a fresh version of hoary though; and tell you fellas what happens.

The Gtab thing is something I MUST have; I'm always writing tabs and trying to get my music (or others) writen down. Maybe it'll have a midi preview thing. That would be absolutely gorgeous.

Luke

allans
April 5th, 2005, 01:37 AM
Now that would be a brilliant feature! Last time I tried using it, it was a bit too buggy, I remember the first time it opened it would be about 10,000 pixels wide so took a couple of minutes to shrink the window down lol.

Allan

poofyhairguy
April 5th, 2005, 03:29 AM
I've just installed it using this guide:

http://www.beaglewiki.org/index.php/UbuntuInstall

It worked perfectly, but it could still do with some work, for example it's indexed my evolution mail but not my contacts for some reason.

Allan

What a great site....

totalshredder
April 6th, 2005, 04:09 PM
hey ya'll

On my other NEW ubuntu computer I got beagle working :) It's a fantastic program; I'm going to have fun telling all my windows friends that I've had seach for "years".
Now to get it working on the "other" computer.

Luke

allans
April 7th, 2005, 02:57 AM
hey ya'll

On my other NEW ubuntu computer I got beagle working :) It's a fantastic program; I'm going to have fun telling all my windows friends that I've had seach for "years".
Now to get it working on the "other" computer.

Luke

Good luck, hopefully none of your windows using friend will have heard of google desktop though...

UbuWu
April 7th, 2005, 10:39 PM
Found another great new o-s program:

https://gna.org/projects/gcfilms/

GCFilms to manage your movie collection

totalshredder
April 8th, 2005, 02:40 AM
Good luck, hopefully none of your windows using friend will have heard of google desktop though...
Heh, good call. Poor microsoft; they never should have tried to hype up their operating system; it pretty much made all their competitors copy them. Bwahaha.

Luke