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The DBI interface allows perl programs to use DBD (Database Definition) drivers with a common set of routines. A program can then (theoretically) change from using mSQL to Oracle (for example) without changing the entire program around. This DBI interface is not yet fully specified. The current development work is focused on writing drivers, such as DBD::Oracle, which also implement emulations of old perl4 database interfaces, e.g., oraperl. This strategy enables the DBI and drivers to serve a useful purpose whilst allowing the real interface to evolve with experience behind the emulation interface.

VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from a wide variety of machine architectures.

XRally is a Linux clone of the classic Rally X arcade game. For those who don't know, in Rally X you control a blue (good) car, that has to collect yellow flags around a maze-like map, while avoiding the red (bad) cars. In order to help himself, the blue car can use clouds of smoke through the maze. If a enemy touch any of these clouds, it stops for a while. The enemy cars can also crash one with the other, what gives you some extra time. XRally is written in C using only the basic Xlib and Xpm libraries. It's a project aimed mainly at newbie X11/Game programmers like me (but any experienced help is appreciated! :) )

Aview is powerful graphics viewer which utilize the aalib API and allows viewing netpbm format (and others in the presence of netpbm or ImageMagick) on console (using slang) and X. There are three programs. aview: the main program which could used to view pnm, ppm, pgm and pbm files. It runs under X or slang. asciiview: a shell script wraps around aview to allow wider range of image formats to be viewed. Netpbm package is required for the conversion. aaflip: a program to view flip animation using ascii text. Works under X and slang. You could press h to get help. You may also save the pics in various text format. Thanks to aalib!

Pango is the text rendering engine of GNOME 2.x. SDL_Pango connects the engine to SDL. If you are a game software developer, you should know the difficulties of distribution. So I will start to introduce SDL_Pango from the viewpoint of distribution. In Un*x, SDL_Pango is hard to use as system-independent module, because it depends on fontconfig and Pango which are designed as system-singleton modules. If you use SDL_Pango, your software will require those modules installed to target system. If your software is shipped as shrink-wrap package, it may cause much problem on your support desk. You should carefully design your installation process.

XBellD is a small daemon for replacing the standard X Window System terminal bell with a more interesting set of sounds. This is useful for systems where the terminal bell is handled by the "PC Speaker," or where different sounds are desired for different classes of X clients. XBellD works by intercepting terminal bell requests on the server side, and then playing user-specified sounds through a PCM capable soundcard. The resource class of the client making a terminal bell request is used to match a corresponding sound file which should be played when such a request is made.

KMix is an application to allow you to change the volume of your sound card. Though small, it is full-featured, and it supports several platforms and sound drivers.

Open Sound System for FreeBSD is a audio subsystem that provides a cross platform audio and MIDI API with device drivers for most consumer and professional PCI and USB audio devices.

Ruby DataObjects driver for MySQL The purpose of DO.rb is to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to a single interface. At present, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite adapters are available.

Ruby DataObjects driver for PostgreSQL The purpose of DO.rb is to rewrite existing Ruby database drivers to conform to a single interface. At present, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite adapters are available.