Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.

Smuxi is based on the client-server model: The core application (engine) can be placed onto a server which is connected to the Internet around-the-clock; one or more frontends then connect to the core. This way, the connection to IRC can be kept up even when all frontends have been closed. The combination of screen and irssi served as example for this architecture.

Smuxi also supports the regular single application mode. This behaves like a typical IRC client; it doesn’t need separate core management and utilizes a local engine that is used by the local frontend client.

Smuxi currently supports the following features

• Detachable Frontend (frontend can be detached from a smuxi-server)
• Multiple Server Support (you can connect to more than one server)
• Unified Nickname Colors (identical color across channels and networks)
• Caret-Mode (keyboard navigation through messages)
• Regular and Bash-Style Nickname Completion
• Full Keyboard Control
• Startup Commands (when Smuxi starts)
• On Connect Commands (when connecting to a server)
• Message / Command History
• Configurable Encoding (ISO-8859-1/15, UTF-8, etc)
• Configurable Command Character
• Auto Connect (automatically connect to defined servers)
• Quick Connect Dialog (simply connect to any server)
• Open / Join Chat Dialog
• Find Group Chat Dialog
• Sorted and Reoderable Tabs
• Colors are checked and adjusted for optimium contrast
• Clickable URLs
• Word Wrapping
• Logging Support
• Fully customizable filters to ignore messages or events
• Configurable Highlight Words
• Markerlines which divide old messages from new messages
• Themeing Support
  • Configurable Font
  • Foreground / Background Color
  • Userlist Position
  • Tab Colors / Position
  • Configurable Timestamps
  • Configurable Tray-Icon Support
• Translations
  • British English
  • Czech
  • Catalan (patial)
  • Danish
  • Finnish (patial)
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish (patial)
  • Swedish
• Multiple Network Protocols
  • IRC Support
    • Stripping Colors and/or Formattings from Messages
    • Showing mIRC Colors
    • Splitting oversized messages
    • Channel List / Search
    • CTCP Support including a Menu
    • Invite To Menu
    • Lag Indicator
  • Twitter Support
    • Reading and Posting Tweets
    • Friends Timeline
    • Replies
    • Direct Messages

Themeing & UI

Love the way it handles tabs and userlist. First of all, userlist can show on left side or right side. Tabs can be showed at upper, bottom, right and left side. My pic above has tabs at left side. Colors and fonts are changeable too. background images and tab colours are changeable.

Download

To download Smuxi for Arch, Foresight, Debian, OpenSuse, Gentoo, FreeBSD… Go to: http://www.smuxi.org/page/Download

Latest Banshee (1.7.3) was released with an issue that made some packagers to either remove gnome-doc-utils or using a patch to current 1.7.3 release.

So from now on, Foresight Linux will ship Banshee built from Git instead. This doesn’t mean we will update it to make it unstable, we will still make sure its stable enough to have in Foresight. As we specify from what Git commit we will build from.

Also read little from creator and developer for Banshee: http://abock.org/2010/07/22/tarballs-why

F-Spot

F-Spot supports 16 common files types, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, and others.

Import your photos from your hard drive, camera (including PTP type), or iPod.
Creating a CD of photos is just clicks away. Simply select the photos you wish to have on CD, and choose “Export to CD” from the main menu.

If you have a Flickr, 23, Picasa Web or SmugMug account, F-Spot can export photos to it, while optionally resizing your selection, and preserving tags and metadata.

You can also export to Gallery or O.r.i.g.i.n.a.l. powered websites, or a nicely themed static webpage.

Shotwell

Shotwell Features:
1. Import: Import photos from folders or from any digital camera supported by gPhoto.

2. Organize: Shotwell automatically groups photos taken at the same time. You can also use tags to organize your photo collection.

3. Edit: You can rotate, crop, reduce red-eye, and adjust the exposure, saturation, tint, and temperature of each photo.

4. Publish: Publish photos to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa Web Albums.

Rapid Photo Downloader

This one isn’t like the 2 others, as this application is a pure import application. So if you only plan to import photos/videos, then i would go for this application. No question about it.

Conclusion

If you need a great feature rich application, then F-spot is the one for you. Specially the version 0.71 that was recently released.

If you only need to grab a few photos and easy to upload them to facebook or flickr, then Shotwell is the one to use. It’s more slimmed, but remember it cant handle as much file types that f-spot do.

If you need a pure import application, then go for rapid-photo-downloader.

To install these ones in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update f-spot

sudo conary update shotwell

sudo conary update rapid-photo-downloader

The version of the applications we got today is:
f-spot 0.7.1
rapid-photo-downloader 0.3.0
shotwell 0.6.1

Eveverything went smooth, just small edits in CSS files to fit my needs for Foresight Linux – SE.

Also will update few guides to english, as i recieved few mails for explanaition for some settings and so on.

Some may wonder why I dont update www.foresightlinux.org and in their wiki page, the major problem is that users seem to find my site alot easier than official Foresight Linux site.  Iv’e been adding alot of tools to optimize Foresight Linux – SE site for google search engines and so on, that may be why users find my site before official site. Offcourse I will add it in official wiki too, but I need to start somewhere

Unlike Rhythmbox, Banshee or itunes, Xnoise uses a tracklist centric design. The tracklist is a list of video or music tracks that are played one by one without being removed (right side of window). This gives you the possibility to enqueue any track in any order, regardless if they are on the same album or not. The tracks can be reordered at any time via drag and drop.

The media browser (left side of the window) contains all available media in a hierarchical tree structure of the available metadata. It is easy to find a single track, artist or album by going through this tree or by just entering a search term. From the media browser, music or videos can be dragged into the tracklist to every position.

Single or multiple tracks, streams, albums or artists can be dragged onto the tracklist and be reordered. Within the playing track, it’s possible to jump to every position by clicking the position bar.

Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle.

There is a plugin interface available. Plugins are optionally build, if their dependencies are fulfilled. By now there are already some plugins, e.g. a plugin that downloads cover images from lastFm or one that shows notifications, one that monitores file changes in your local media directory, …

A local database (sqlite) is used for caching the metadata and media locations. Song tags are imported via taglib. That gives Xnoise a great speed.

If you hover the album image for a audio track, xnoise will show the image in big size in the video area

To install it in Foresight, open up a terminal and write:

sudo conary update {xnoise,xnoise-plugins-core}=@fl:2-devel

Im referring to: http://vinci.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/i-declare-foresight-linux-as-dead/

Foresight is very alive and active, the only problem is that we don’t have released any official iso lately. Mostly because of PackageKit issues.

The worst part of that blog post above, is that he hasn’t even tried to get any information about Foresigt status today at all. He just looked at when a new iso was released and went from there.

Anyway, new FFmpeg and x264 is now in Foresight. Here is the Changelog from FFmpeg.

x264 site, to get more information what’s been happening lately.

Few other applications that’s also got updated recently:

Transmission 2.0

avidemux 2.5.3

ffmpeg2theora 0.26

xmms2 0.7

ffmpegthumbnailer 2.0.2

aqualung 0.9 Beta 11

empathy 2.30.1.1

whole gstreamer, gst-plugins-**** got updated to latest avaiable versions.

Wine 1.2 rc4

Homebank 4.3

Bluefish 2.0.1

Nvidia 256.35

Upcoming version bumps:

Chromium rev: 50314 or newer.

In the game, players assume the role of Frank, the sugar glider who was the antagonist of the film Big Buck Bunny (Peach Open Movie Project), or Momo, a monkey created especially for Yo Frankie!.

Features include:

• 2 versions with different gameplay:
  • A Furry Vendetta – Blender Game Engine
  • Furry Funny Frankie – Cystal Space Engine
• Pixar-quality animation

To install it in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update yofrankie-bge=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

Thanks Falk Wittwer for packaging for Foresight.

Widelands has single-player, network and internet multiplayer modes, single player campaign missions and an internationalisation system with translations for Czech, German, English, Finnish, French, Galician, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish and Dutch. Players may select one of three different tribes. Widelands provides two tutorial missions. Advanced players can create their own maps with the included map editor and it is also possible to import and play original Settlers II maps.

To install it in Foresight, open a terminal and write:

sudo conary update widelands=gameway.rpath.org@fl:2

LinuxDC++

LinuxDC++ is a Direct Connect client based on DC++. Utilizing the latest DC++ core, LinuxDC++ offers similar functionality to the Windows client like segmented downloading, TTH based file integrity, etc. with a GTK+ user interface.

To install in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update linuxdcpp=@fl:2-devel

FreeDC++

To install in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update freedcpp=@fl:2-devel

EiskaltDC++

• Full-featured chat (parsing magnets, links, emoticons, search in the chat, filtering in users list, chat commands).
• Full-featured search engine and file-browser (lights already shared files, etc.).
• Group transfers in connection manager.
• Separate download manager.
• Download and upload lists.
• Favourite users (autoslots and etc.); Favourite hubs.
• Text (using default Qt tray messages or using standart D-Bus system manager notices) and sound notifications.
• Support of themes, icons and emoticon-packs.
• The ability to not share files by mask.
• UPnP Support.
• Substitution tag in favourite hubs.
• Compulsory indication of external IP-address in favourite hubs.
• Auto-update external IP through DynDNS in favourite hubs.
• Search spy.
• IP-filter.
• Spell-checking using Aspell.
• widget with public hubs.
• Filtering support in basic widgets (Ctrl + F hotkey).
• Away mode support.
• custom scripts examples.
• fast search panel.
• ability to run several instances of client by different system users. Different local ports have to be specified in the settings.
• ability to disable chat during automatic connecting to favorite hub.
• option in preference dialog to limit hashing speed.
• ability to pause hashing process.
• ability to limit upload to users according their own share size.
• search history, their number can be configured.
• ability to use the side dock with list of widgets instead of a one-line panel with tabs.

To install in Foresight, open terminal and write:

sudo conary update eiskaltdcpp=@fl:2-devel

To install it in Ubuntu (to make Hund happy), just install it from this PPA:

PPA available for Ubuntu. Here is the tehnick’s PPA, just follow the simple steps mentioned here- how to install software in ubuntu from PPA and enjoy the new EiskaltDC.

PARIS, FRANCE, May 6, 2010 — Winch Gate Properties Ltd, the developer and publisher of massively-multiplayer online science-fantasy role playing games, is proud to announce the release of the source code and artistic assets of the popular MMORPG Ryzom to the Free Software Development Community.

Developers can now access the source code of the end-user client, content creation tools and server in order to make modifications, enhancements or to create their own virtual worlds. This move marks a milestone in Ryzom’s long history and dedication to the free software movement. In order to ensure that Ryzom continues to grow and foster as a free software project, Winch Gate is now releasing Ryzom under the terms of the Free Software Foundation’s GNU Affero General Public License.

Winch Gate is also excited to provide the free software community with high quality professional artistic assets including 3D objects, animation tracks, particle effects and thousands of textures. All of the Ryzom artistic assets will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike to ensure that they and any derivative art will be available to all free software projects. These assets will be hosted in a new online repository in partnership with the Free Software Foundation.

By freeing Ryzom code, Winch Gate is transforming the MMORPG marketplace and is setting a precedent for how gaming software should evolve–in freedom. The source code released totals over two (2) million lines of source code and over 20,000 high quality textures and thousands of 3D objects.

Welcoming the news, Free Software Foundation executive director Peter Brown said, “This is a unique opportunity for the free software movement and the emerging free gaming field to accelerate the production of free games and 3D worlds. We recognize the importance of gaming and the current dominance of proprietary gaming software, so today represents a significant breakthrough from which our community can benefit.” The FSF has published more information about the scope of today’s release, and suggested ways for developers to get involved

Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer of Winch Gate says, “The Free Software community often has a difficult time finding great graphical assets that they can use in their own projects. We are sure that the thousands of textures and 3D objects we are releasing under the CC BY-SA will help a lot of Free Software projects.”

Winch Gate intends to incorporate certain code changes and enhancements into the official version of the Ryzom game. All code developed outside Winch Gate’s in-house development staff will be thoroughly reviewed to ensure quality standards, stability and security. In order to engage and foster growth in the Ryzom project, Ryzom will have a group of community managers who can manage patch submissions and feature requests. Support will continue to be given for the official Ryzom software only, with third-party projects unsupported by Winch Gate.

Initial projects will include bug fixes and porting to operating systems such as GNU/Linux and Apple Mac OS X. Timeframes for these enhancements will vary depending on the scale of the project and the project team. The level and world data associated with Ryzom will not be released as free content and their use will remain exclusive to players of the Ryzom game.

The source code and additional information will be available from the Ryzom Core Development Portal.

The Ryzom’s free media assets are available from Ryzom’s Asset Repository.

About Ryzom
Ryzom is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing or MMORPG Game set more than 3.000 years into the future, on a living, evolving virtual world: beautiful Atys, where after creating your own personal avatar you will guide it through this strange fantastic planet to uncover its mysteries.
The game boasts a unique science-fantasy setting, a distinctive and artistic visual style and a sophisticated plot based upon the conflict of two mysterious supernatural powers. The storyline was awarded “Mmorpg.com Best Story” award. Gameplay is highly adaptive to your personal preferences and the actions/skills system is remarkably unique, sophisticated and profound.
Ryzom Ring is the proprietary innovative free expansion that brings MMORPGs to a new level. Ryzom Ring allows you to create your own role-play and RPG Adventures on the world of Atys.

About Winch Gate
Winch Gate Properties Ltd is the developer and publisher of the massively-multiplayer online science fantasy role playing game Ryzom since 2009. Former employees from Nevrax joined the company to continue to work on Ryzom.

For more information contact:
Vianney Lecroart, Chief Technology Officer
vl@ryzom.com
irc: #ryzom on irc.freenode.net

Links
Announcement
MMORPG Ryzom
Free Software Foundation’s GNU Affero General Public License
Ryzom Core Development Portal
Ryzom’s Asset Repository

Thanks for rettichschnidi from the lgp IRC channel at the freenodes server for the news.

Original source: http://lgn.linux-hardcore.com