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New! Beginner's Guide to Open Source Intrusion Detection Tools
If you aren't already running network IDS, you should be. Whether you need to monitor hosts or the networks connecting them to identify the latest threats, there are some great open source intrusion detection (IDS) tools available to you. This guide provides an overview of some of the most popular Open Source IDS tools, along with pros/cons of each.
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Featured Editor's Review for September
For our September "Editor's Pick" Project of the Month we selected SAP Business One Development Environment, a tool that simplifies the use of SAP Business One's APIs. SAP Business One, a business management software, provides several APIs for building solutions, while the SAP Business One Development Environment (B1DE) is a tool that makes it even easier to use these APIs, and speeds up the development and packaging of add-ons based on these interfaces. Managing a business is made simpler with SAP B1DE's new features, such as cockpit and widgets code generation, and added support for Visual Studio. Download SAP Business One Development Environment now.
Related Projects
Top Downloaded Projects and Call for Your POTM Vote
The vote for November 2015 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until October 15, 2015 12:00 UTC. Here are the candidates:
Manjaro Testbuilds: Manjaro Linux is a Linux Distribution based on Arch Linux. Our aim is to create a light Linux distribution, which is simple, up-to-date, fast, user friendly, and which follows the KISS principle. We are using the Desktop Environment Xfce, which is light but powerful. Download Manjaro Testbuilds now.
Double Commander: Double Commander is a cross platform Open Source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander, and features some new ideas. Download Double Commander now.
FlightGear - Flight Simulator: FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create the most realistic flight simulator possible that is free to use, modify and distribute. FlightGear is used all over the world by desktop flight simulator enthusiasts, for research in universities and for interactive exhibits in museums. Download FlightGear - Flight Simulator now.
Snappy Driver Installer: Snappy Driver Installer is an application for installing/updating drivers on PCs running Microsoft Windows using driver packs or included folders with drivers. It can be used to install drivers on newly assembled PCs at places where Internet isn't available. Users can also use the software to keep their drivers up-to-date. Download Snappy Driver Installer now.
Maxima -- GPL CAS based on DOE-MACSYMA: Maxima is a computer algebra system written in Common Lisp, and is comparable to commercial systems like Mathematica and Maple. It emphasizes symbolic mathematical computation: algebra, trigonometry, calculus and more. Download Maxima now.
Hydrogen: Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It's main goal is professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. Download Hydrogen now.
uniCenta POS: uniCenta oPOS is a multi-lingual POS (Point-Of-Sale) application designed for touchscreens. It supports industry standard hardware and is capable of running on display sizes from as little as 800×600 and upwards. It comes packaged with its own built in Apache Derby Embedded database. It is also multi-terminal, multi-location, and supports a range of proven commercial grade databases. Download uniCenta POS now.
digiCamControl: digiCamControl is a free and Open Source software that allows you to control camera shooting parameters, and also saves time by transferring images directly from your camera to your computer as you take each shot.Download digiCamControl now.
DxWnd: Windows hooker intercepts system calls to make full-screen programs run in a window to support better compatibility, to enhance video modes, and to stretch timing. It is typically very useful for running old Windows games. Download DxWnd now.
Sponsored by Intel
Dive into the World of Parallel Programming
The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Take a look at the most recent posts and join the conversation now.
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Featured SourceForge Deal
proXPN VPN: Premium Lifetime Subscription
With a 4-Star Rating (PC Mag), surf the web with ultimate peace of mind over proXPN's fully encrypted, lightning-fast servers. Your lifetime premium subscription gets you unlimited bandwidth on their ultra-private global server network and complete online anonymity--it even unblocks geo-locked content so you can browse freely around the world. Plus, proXPN never logs your online movements, so no one can ever track you or steal vital personal data.
SourceForge Deals is an online storefront with merchandise that's chosen, stocked, and fulfilled by a third-party with products that are intended to be of interest to you. See more deals.
Projects of the Month
For our September "Community Choice" Project of the Month the community electedPSeInt, a pseudo-code interpreter for Spanish-speaking programming students. PSeInt is a tool to assist students in their first steps in programming. Through a simple and intuitive pseudo-language in Spanish, complemented by a flow diagram editor, it allows you to focus on the fundamental concepts of computational algorithms, minimizing the difficulties of language and providing a work environment with numerous aids and didactic resources. Download PSeInt now.
For our September "Staff Pick" Project of the Month the we selected gnuplot, a portable, command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. This famous scientific plotting package includes such features as 2D and 3D plotting, a large number of outputs, interactive input or script-driven options, and an extensive set of scripted examples. gnuplot is the perfect program to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but it can also be used as a plotting engine by third-party applications for web scripting, and much more. Download gnuplot now.
Community News
Learn How to Migrate from Google Code to SourceForge
As many of you already know, Google Code was set to read-only mode on August 24, 2015 in preparation for Google Code's final farewell on January 25th, 2016. If you just caught the news, SourceForge has been offering Google Code projects a path to easily migrate from Google Code to SourceForge since March 2015, when Google announced their plans to progressively deprecate their free hosting and download service. Our importer, which Google mentioned in a page dedicated tosupport tools, has already been used for over 2000 imports since then.
Site News
SourceForge API docs get a brand new look!
SourceForge is proud to unveil our new, comprehensive API documentation, which covers project info, wikis, forums, tickets, blogs, user profiles, permissions and more! Our goal is to make it easy for you to integrate your tools with ours. View the API overview or jump right into the full interactive docs. We hope you enjoy the newly added ability to try the API from within the docs. Just look for the "Try it" button.
How to Customize Your Project's Tickets, Wiki, and Discussion Forum
SourceForge lets you customize some of its popular developer tools, such as tickets, wikis, and discussion forums. Settings for these tools, which are found under the Admin link in your project's menu, have been relocated to the left side panel of the screen where they are much easier to find. Every tool has a few settings in common. For example, you can change a tool's label; maybe you want to call your wiki "Documentation" for example. You can also set fine-grained permissions to control who can view, edit, and post comments. You can also delete tools that you don't need.
How to Get Your Project Noticed on SourceForge
Since the elements of your SourceForge project page are so important, we've made a few changes that make it easier for you to update your pages and get your project noticed. For example, we've moved the Features edit boxes from the Summary page to the main admin page alongside all the other admin features. We've added tooltips to several admin fields that explain what the fields are intended for. And, finally, we simplified the text for the Icon field and made the upload link more prominent.
Conferences
DrupalCon Barcelona - September 21 -25
It's time for a DrupalCon unlike any other. Come enjoy the final days of summer with us in the sunny, vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain. DrupalCon brings together thousands of people from across the globe who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. DrupalCon is the heartbeat of the Drupal community. It's where improvements to the project are made, where important business connections are built, and where lifelong friendships bloom.
nginx.conf - September 22-24
nginx.conf is the second annual user conference for NGINX, which will be held September 22-24, 2015 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The conference brings together developers, system administrators, network professionals, and IT decision-makers who are passionate about delivering the best application and web performance, and teaches them how to deliver their sites and applications with security, reliability, and scale. The conference agenda includes sessions and activities where you can discover and share trends and best practices using NGINX, meet others interested in tools and tech that accelerates app delivery and improve web performance, and participate in keynotes, breakout sessions, and training classes led by top industry leaders and expert NGINX users.
Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 - October 13-16
Lucene/Solr Revolution is the single largest gathering of Lucene/Solr expertise in the world. Whether you are new to the Lucene/Solr world, or have been working with the technologies since the beginning, there is no better place to learn, collaborate, network, and get inspired by others who are solving hard problems with Lucene and Solr. With the Solr community being distributed across the world and so much collaboration being done online, Lucene/Solr Revolution is the perfect opportunity to learn from and collaborate in person with the thought leaders behind the technologies. Don't miss the annual face-to-face gathering of Lucene and Solr experts, and users of all levels in Austin, TX.
All Things Open - October 18-20
Join the world's top developers, technologists, and decision makers as we explore Open Source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Now in it's 3rd year, ATO brings the top speakers and companies to Raleigh and the Research Triangle to cover the biggest news in our industry. The conference features two traditional conference days of talks, keynotes, and tutorials, and has expanded to include a day of extended workshops.
Help Wanted
GlobaLeaks, an Open Source anonymous whistleblowing software used for anti-corruption, investigative journalism and human rights defense is looking for talented software developers that can work in response to the ever increasing demands of the growing GlobaLeaks adopters around the world.
If you are looking for an Open Source project to contribute your time to or if you are someone who wants to advertise your skills, check out the help wanted page orproject wanted page.
Keep in mind that many projects need the following types of contributors:
Noting that the BlockThis involves all SourceForge users, we'd love to hear from you on our Community Voice forum.
That's it for your September SourceForge Update. Stay tuned for more exciting developments and announcements.
In the meantime, you'll find us on Facebook, Twitter for news, releases and support, and on Google+ for news items and our community.
New! Beginner's Guide to Open Source Intrusion Detection Tools
If you aren't already running network IDS, you should be. Whether you need to monitor hosts or the networks connecting them to identify the latest threats, there are some great open source intrusion detection (IDS) tools available to you. This guide provides an overview of some of the most popular Open Source IDS tools, along with pros/cons of each.
Learn More>>
Featured Editor's Review for September
For our September "Editor's Pick" Project of the Month we selected SAP Business One Development Environment, a tool that simplifies the use of SAP Business One's APIs. SAP Business One, a business management software, provides several APIs for building solutions, while the SAP Business One Development Environment (B1DE) is a tool that makes it even easier to use these APIs, and speeds up the development and packaging of add-ons based on these interfaces. Managing a business is made simpler with SAP B1DE's new features, such as cockpit and widgets code generation, and added support for Visual Studio. Download SAP Business One Development Environment now.
Related Projects
- TortoiseSVN -- An Apache SVN client, implemented as a Windows shell extension.
- 7-Zip -- A free file archiver for extremely high compression.
- SAP GUI -- SAP GUI 7.20.
Top Downloaded Projects and Call for Your POTM Vote
The vote for November 2015 Community Choice SourceForge Project of the Month is now available, and will run until October 15, 2015 12:00 UTC. Here are the candidates:
Manjaro Testbuilds: Manjaro Linux is a Linux Distribution based on Arch Linux. Our aim is to create a light Linux distribution, which is simple, up-to-date, fast, user friendly, and which follows the KISS principle. We are using the Desktop Environment Xfce, which is light but powerful. Download Manjaro Testbuilds now.
Double Commander: Double Commander is a cross platform Open Source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander, and features some new ideas. Download Double Commander now.
FlightGear - Flight Simulator: FlightGear is developed by a worldwide group of volunteers, brought together by a shared ambition to create the most realistic flight simulator possible that is free to use, modify and distribute. FlightGear is used all over the world by desktop flight simulator enthusiasts, for research in universities and for interactive exhibits in museums. Download FlightGear - Flight Simulator now.
Snappy Driver Installer: Snappy Driver Installer is an application for installing/updating drivers on PCs running Microsoft Windows using driver packs or included folders with drivers. It can be used to install drivers on newly assembled PCs at places where Internet isn't available. Users can also use the software to keep their drivers up-to-date. Download Snappy Driver Installer now.
Maxima -- GPL CAS based on DOE-MACSYMA: Maxima is a computer algebra system written in Common Lisp, and is comparable to commercial systems like Mathematica and Maple. It emphasizes symbolic mathematical computation: algebra, trigonometry, calculus and more. Download Maxima now.
Hydrogen: Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. It's main goal is professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming. Download Hydrogen now.
uniCenta POS: uniCenta oPOS is a multi-lingual POS (Point-Of-Sale) application designed for touchscreens. It supports industry standard hardware and is capable of running on display sizes from as little as 800×600 and upwards. It comes packaged with its own built in Apache Derby Embedded database. It is also multi-terminal, multi-location, and supports a range of proven commercial grade databases. Download uniCenta POS now.
digiCamControl: digiCamControl is a free and Open Source software that allows you to control camera shooting parameters, and also saves time by transferring images directly from your camera to your computer as you take each shot.Download digiCamControl now.
DxWnd: Windows hooker intercepts system calls to make full-screen programs run in a window to support better compatibility, to enhance video modes, and to stretch timing. It is typically very useful for running old Windows games. Download DxWnd now.
Sponsored by Intel
Dive into the World of Parallel Programming
The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials, tech docs, whitepapers, evaluation guides, and opinion stories. Take a look at the most recent posts and join the conversation now.
Learn More>>
Featured SourceForge Deal
proXPN VPN: Premium Lifetime Subscription
With a 4-Star Rating (PC Mag), surf the web with ultimate peace of mind over proXPN's fully encrypted, lightning-fast servers. Your lifetime premium subscription gets you unlimited bandwidth on their ultra-private global server network and complete online anonymity--it even unblocks geo-locked content so you can browse freely around the world. Plus, proXPN never logs your online movements, so no one can ever track you or steal vital personal data.
SourceForge Deals is an online storefront with merchandise that's chosen, stocked, and fulfilled by a third-party with products that are intended to be of interest to you. See more deals.
Projects of the Month
For our September "Community Choice" Project of the Month the community electedPSeInt, a pseudo-code interpreter for Spanish-speaking programming students. PSeInt is a tool to assist students in their first steps in programming. Through a simple and intuitive pseudo-language in Spanish, complemented by a flow diagram editor, it allows you to focus on the fundamental concepts of computational algorithms, minimizing the difficulties of language and providing a work environment with numerous aids and didactic resources. Download PSeInt now.
For our September "Staff Pick" Project of the Month the we selected gnuplot, a portable, command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. This famous scientific plotting package includes such features as 2D and 3D plotting, a large number of outputs, interactive input or script-driven options, and an extensive set of scripted examples. gnuplot is the perfect program to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but it can also be used as a plotting engine by third-party applications for web scripting, and much more. Download gnuplot now.
Community News
Learn How to Migrate from Google Code to SourceForge
As many of you already know, Google Code was set to read-only mode on August 24, 2015 in preparation for Google Code's final farewell on January 25th, 2016. If you just caught the news, SourceForge has been offering Google Code projects a path to easily migrate from Google Code to SourceForge since March 2015, when Google announced their plans to progressively deprecate their free hosting and download service. Our importer, which Google mentioned in a page dedicated tosupport tools, has already been used for over 2000 imports since then.
Site News
SourceForge API docs get a brand new look!
SourceForge is proud to unveil our new, comprehensive API documentation, which covers project info, wikis, forums, tickets, blogs, user profiles, permissions and more! Our goal is to make it easy for you to integrate your tools with ours. View the API overview or jump right into the full interactive docs. We hope you enjoy the newly added ability to try the API from within the docs. Just look for the "Try it" button.
SourceForge lets you customize some of its popular developer tools, such as tickets, wikis, and discussion forums. Settings for these tools, which are found under the Admin link in your project's menu, have been relocated to the left side panel of the screen where they are much easier to find. Every tool has a few settings in common. For example, you can change a tool's label; maybe you want to call your wiki "Documentation" for example. You can also set fine-grained permissions to control who can view, edit, and post comments. You can also delete tools that you don't need.
How to Get Your Project Noticed on SourceForge
Since the elements of your SourceForge project page are so important, we've made a few changes that make it easier for you to update your pages and get your project noticed. For example, we've moved the Features edit boxes from the Summary page to the main admin page alongside all the other admin features. We've added tooltips to several admin fields that explain what the fields are intended for. And, finally, we simplified the text for the Icon field and made the upload link more prominent.
Conferences
It's time for a DrupalCon unlike any other. Come enjoy the final days of summer with us in the sunny, vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain. DrupalCon brings together thousands of people from across the globe who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. DrupalCon is the heartbeat of the Drupal community. It's where improvements to the project are made, where important business connections are built, and where lifelong friendships bloom.
nginx.conf - September 22-24
nginx.conf is the second annual user conference for NGINX, which will be held September 22-24, 2015 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The conference brings together developers, system administrators, network professionals, and IT decision-makers who are passionate about delivering the best application and web performance, and teaches them how to deliver their sites and applications with security, reliability, and scale. The conference agenda includes sessions and activities where you can discover and share trends and best practices using NGINX, meet others interested in tools and tech that accelerates app delivery and improve web performance, and participate in keynotes, breakout sessions, and training classes led by top industry leaders and expert NGINX users.
Lucene/Solr Revolution 2015 - October 13-16
Lucene/Solr Revolution is the single largest gathering of Lucene/Solr expertise in the world. Whether you are new to the Lucene/Solr world, or have been working with the technologies since the beginning, there is no better place to learn, collaborate, network, and get inspired by others who are solving hard problems with Lucene and Solr. With the Solr community being distributed across the world and so much collaboration being done online, Lucene/Solr Revolution is the perfect opportunity to learn from and collaborate in person with the thought leaders behind the technologies. Don't miss the annual face-to-face gathering of Lucene and Solr experts, and users of all levels in Austin, TX.
All Things Open - October 18-20
Join the world's top developers, technologists, and decision makers as we explore Open Source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Now in it's 3rd year, ATO brings the top speakers and companies to Raleigh and the Research Triangle to cover the biggest news in our industry. The conference features two traditional conference days of talks, keynotes, and tutorials, and has expanded to include a day of extended workshops.
Help Wanted
If you are looking for an Open Source project to contribute your time to or if you are someone who wants to advertise your skills, check out the help wanted page orproject wanted page.
Keep in mind that many projects need the following types of contributors:
A Closing Note from Your Community Team...
Last month we announced changes to our BlockThis Ad initiative to simplify the process for reporting problem Ads. The BlockThis program helps us rapidly process actionable complaints and provides a continuous improvement cycle in our advertising standards that helps us better meet community expectations. As such:- Problem Ads are now submitted to a public ticketing queue, increasing transparency. Instructions for submitting problem Ad reports are available at: Report a Problem with Ad Content
- Problem Ad reports are reviewed within one business day and where standards are not met, blocked (direct sold) or escalated for action by our Ad networks (indirect). Our parameters for deciding which ads will be blocked are available at: What Constitutes an Acceptable Ad
- When a reported Ad is determined to be in-spec per our Ad standards, our Community Team will provide additional oversight and may drive discussion within our business about possible changes to those Ad standards.
Noting that the BlockThis involves all SourceForge users, we'd love to hear from you on our Community Voice forum.
That's it for your September SourceForge Update. Stay tuned for more exciting developments and announcements.
In the meantime, you'll find us on Facebook, Twitter for news, releases and support, and on Google+ for news items and our community.
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