FERM is a tool to maintain complex firewalls, without having the
trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. FERM
allows the entire firewall rule set to be stored in a separate file,
and to be loaded with one command. The firewall configuration
resembles structured programming-like language, which can contain
levels and lists.

The changes in this release are as follows:
Variable support, fixing nonexistent parameters for log-[ip|tcp]-,
strict keyword pattern matching, a new NOP action (for
match-counting), a new automodule option for automaticly loading
correct modules, fixing -m for mark in iptables mixo, fixes for
relaxed matching tos values, fixes for mark missing as normal
target, and an updated manual page.

Ferm can be visited at:

http://www.geo.vu.nl/~koka/ferm/

Freescope, a clone of cscope, is a source code browser designed for Unix and Linux operating systems. Read on to for news of the latest additions and changes to version 0.2.0:

This version of the source code browser application includes major new 
features such as 
new queries and new CLI interface.
The CLI interface permits easy integration with the VIM text editor!

Here is a detailed description of all changes:

CHANGELOG
--------------

- Added CLI similar to cscope: INTEGRATION WITH VIM (EMACS?).
- Added "Functions called by" query.
- Added "Change text" query
- If results found, switch automatically to select mode.
- TAB key for switching back to query mode while in select mode.
- Improved speed for loading of symbol table on startup.
- Fixed crash in screen resize handling.
- Added '-d' CLI option: do not update database at startup.
- Added '-f' CLI option: load given database at startup.
- Removed '-s' and '-t' CLI options.
- Fix problems of database corruption with CTRL-R command.
- Added -Z option for dumping database file (debugging only).
- Database is updated when files are removed or added in 
freescope.files.
- Fix bug for opening file when EDITOR environment variable is not set.
- Fixed crash with symbol completion.
- Updated help window.
- Updated man page.
- Fix bug about reading past boundary of input file.
- Added 'q' command to exit freescope (navigation mode)

Find out more at:
http://freescope.sourceforge.net

Version 0.4 of Extended WM Hints for FVWM (fvwm-ewmh) is now available: “fvwm-ewmh is made up of a module, FvwmNetHints, and a patch against
the last stable FVWM source tree (fvwm-2.4.0). With these, FVWM can
handle Extended Window Manager Hints from the “freedesktop group”.
This allows running FVWM with KDE version 2 and get a special
support for applications based on the development version of GTK+
(aka GTK+ version 2).”

NEWS for version 0.4:

* FvwmNetHints detects when a window change its net icon hint (as 
konqueror do)
* Mini Icons management is really faster
* imlib2 can be used in the place of imlib (./configure --help)
* xpm and imlib(2) support can be disabled for FvwmNetHints at 
configure time


For more details:

  Home Page (Download, Installation, Running, FAQ):
    http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/

  ChangeLog:
    http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/ChangeLog.html

  NEWS:
    http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/NEWS.html

  Screen Shots:
    http://fvwm-ewmh.sourceforge.net/screenshots/

Common Lisp is a high-level, all-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic,
functional programming language. CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.

GNU CLISP 2.27 is now available at
 http://clisp.cons.orghttps://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1355ftp://clisp.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/source/latest/ftp://clisp.cons.org/pub/lisp/clisp/binaries/latest/ftp://clisp.sourceforge.net/pub/clisp/latest/
please ask questions about CLISP on clisp-list@sourceforge.net
if you would like to contribute to CLISP development, please subscribe
to clisp-devel@sourceforge.net and send patches there.

CLISP Common Lisp Summary

Common Lisp is a high-level, all-purpose, object-oriented, dynamic,
functional programming language.

CLISP is a Common Lisp implementation by Bruno Haible of Karlsruhe
University and Michael Stoll of Munich University, both in Germany.
It mostly supports the Lisp described in the ANSI Common Lisp standard.

CLISP includes an interpreter, a compiler, a large subset of CLOS, a
foreign language interface and a socket interface. An X11 interface is
available through CLX and Garnet. Command line editing is provided by
GNU ReadLine.

CLISP runs on microcomputers (OS/2, Windows 95/98/2000/NT, Amiga
500-4000, Acorn RISC PC) as well as on Unix workstations (GNU/Linux,
BSD, SVR4, Sun4, DEC Alpha OSF, HP-UX, NeXTstep, SGI, AIX, Sun3 and
others) and needs only 2 MB of RAM.

CLISP is Free Software and may be distributed under the terms of GNU
GPL. You may distribute commercial applications compiled with CLISP, 
see
file COPYRIGHT in the CLISP distribution.

The user interface comes in German, English, French, Spanish and Dutch,
and can be changed at run time.


CHANGES.LOG:

2.27 (2001-07-17)
=================

User visible changes
--------------------

* EXT:GETENV is now setfable.

* Hostname resolution is now optional in
  EXT:SOCKET-STREAM-PEER and EXT:SOCKET-STREAM-LOCAL.

* EXT:SOCKET-STATUS now accepts SOCKET-SERVERs too
  and the direction of the checks can be specified.

* Added install.bat for win32 installation.

* ANSI CL compliance: more conformant pathname handling.

* Fixed handling of circular structs and pointers to functions in the 
FFI.

* Fixed binary I/O for streams with element type longer than one byte,
  but not a whole number of bytes.

Sys Admin Magazine revists its operating system speed tests: “Based on the FreeBSD readers’ statement that “most systems administrators tune FreeBSD before putting it in
production”, we agreed to apply their tuning tips, re-run our tests, and publish the results.”

Debian now has a wiki Web system, currently available for testing and review at wiki.debian.net. Wiki is a collaborate Website project, in which any user can instantly add and update content using a few quick and simple conventions that simplify writing and linking. More information on wiki, check out WikiWikiWeb.

ZDNet reports on Microsoft’s presence at Macworld Expo, taking place this week in New York. Microsoft business unit GM Kevin Browne was on hand to chat about his company’s new flavor of Mac Office and how .Net will take shape on Apple’s operating system. Expect the Mac OS flavor of .Net to have a more consumer-friendly face, with less of an emphasis on enterprise and development applications.

Demudi (Debial Multimedia Distribution) is a new Linux distribution optimized for the needs of multimedia users. Developers collaborate via the Internet with efforts coordinated by three different multimedia research centers including Centro Tempo Reale in Italy, the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, and Austria’s XDV. Get the full details at demudi.org.

Slashdotter Craig Maloney reviews the latest title from Prima Tech, Linux Game Programming. Maloney wasn’t too impressed with this title, saying “It’s very hard to find anything that’s really outstanding in this book,” and that it could have been so much more if the authors had been a little more in-depth on some of the subjects they covered.

Mandrakesoft yesterday got the formal approval from the COB (Commission
des Operations de Bourse — the French regulatory organisation) to be
listed on the Euronext european stock market “Marché Libre”. The listing
should start on the 3rd of August.

After the recent big success of its Mandrake Linux operating system in
term of market penetration, MandrakeSoft’s listing is an important step
for the company to gain still more exposure and more credibility on the
corporate IT markets.

We will soon provide more informations on our web site
(http://www.mandrakesoft.com)

Jacques Le Marois, MandrakeSoft’s CEO, would like to thank everyone who
helped make this listing possible:

all the Mandrakesoft team that helped to build the company

the shareholders who funded it
the contributors who helped to improve the product

the users who helped by spreading the good word about our products