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Links:
- http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=221294
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-May/msg00440.html
We have a packaging wishlist with a large number of packages, many of them obsolete. To find out software Fedora users were using and missing out in the repository, a survey was conducted in Fedora forum, mailing lists and some linux user groups. The result is provided here for convenience.
Wishlist
| Software | Description | upstream url | review request/ rpms / comments | |
| ebox | web based administration tool similar to webmin | http://ebox-platform.com/ | debian focused upstream but willing to cooperating with interested developers | |
| CSSC | GNU sccs replacement | http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/cssc/ | actively maintained but stable. Package for slightly old version available at https://cryregarder.com/CSSC-1.1.1-2.src.rpm | |
| remind | reminder - alternative to evolution appointments | http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind | already in Fedora from Fedora Core 6 | |
| qtmess | popups | http://home.att.net/~Tom.Horsley/qtmess.html | small utility | |
| wicd | alternative to NetworkManager | http://wicd.net/ | Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury is working on this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=511204 | |
| mbrowse | a graphical SNMP MIB browser | http://www.kill-9.org/mbrowse/ | ||
| dbacl | Powerful text classifier | http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/ | can be combined with procmail for spam filtering | |
| chan capi | http://www.chan-capi.org/ | chan-capi allows the Asterisk to use ISDN CAPI interface [SRPM] | ||
| JMRI | http://jmri.sourceforge.net/ | OpenJDK needs to have java async communications interface. verify this | ||
| calender server | caldev server | http://calendarserver.org/ | ||
| ferret | Ferret is an interactive computer visualization for oceanographers | http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/ | ||
| analog | www logfile analyser and summary report generator | http://www.analog.cx/ | ||
| tork | Anonymity Manager | http://tork.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php | uses tor | |
| cron-o-meter | exercise calculator | http://spaz.ca/cronometer/ | java software | |
| kxstich | KXStitch is a program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts | http://kxstitch.sourceforge.net/ | KDE 3 application? no plans for KDE 4 port | |
| unknown horizon | 2D real-time strategy stimulation on economy and city building | http://www.unknown-horizons.org/ | http://packman.links2linux.de/package/UnknownHorizon contains Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 sound which is not FSF free | |
| freemind | mind mapping | http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page | java based | |
| arista | video transcoder | Rahul Sundaram has a review request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502477 | ||
| transmageddon | video transcoder | Rahul Sundaram has a spec. waiting on a new release of pyobject2 to fix a bug | ||
| root | data analysis framework | http://root.cern.ch/drupal/ | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451744 | |
| joomla | content management system | http://www.joomla.org/ | ||
| gtapecalc | desktop calculator with paper like output | http://gtapecalc.sourceforge.net/ | Rahul Sundaram is working on this | |
| cmu common lisp | lisp | http://www.cons.org/cmucl/ | is available for Fedora but only for 32-bit systems. code is not ported to 64-bit systems yet. | |
| dans guardian | proxy filter | http://dansguardian.org/ | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500013 | |
| celtx | media pre-production | http://celtx.com/ | Netscape License - acceptable | |
| inform fiction | http://www.inform-fiction.org/I7/Welcome.html or http://gnome-inform7.sourceforge.net// | former license is unclear | ||
| http://naughtysvn.tigris.org/ | seve from fedoraforum has a rpm for this | |||
| nicotine | filesharing | http://www.nicotine-plus.org/ | http://leigh123linux.fedorapeople.org/pub/srpm/nicotine+-1.2.10-1.fc11.src.rpm | |
| shoooes | ruby framework | http://shoooes.net/ | ||
| metasploit | framework for creating security tools and exploits | http://metasploit.com/framework/ | 3-clause BSD license | |
| rasmol | molecular visualization software | http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/ | ||
| gbuffy | mailbox biff program | http://www.fiction.net/blong/programs/gbuffy/ | ||
| JEP | Java Math Expression Parser | http://sourceforge.net/projects/jep/ | ||
| argouml | UML program | http://argouml.tigris.org/ | ||
| tinyuml | UML program | http://sourceforge.net/projects/tinyuml | ||
| phplot | charts | http://sourceforge.net/projects/phplot/ | ||
| linrad | ham radio program | http://www.nitehawk.com/sm5bsz/linuxdsp/linrad.htm | ||
| menumaker | menu generator for small window managers like fluxbox | http://sourceforge.net/projects/menumaker | Gireesh Sreekantan is working on this. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-india/2009-June/msg00002.html | |
| eucalyptus | Amazon EC2 compatible cloud infrastructure | http://open.eucalyptus.com/ | ||
| courier (imap and authlib) | imap server | http://www.courier-mta.org/imap/ | mfleming has packages of both: http://www.thatfleminggent.com/rpm-packages | |
| network stimulator ns-2 | Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research | http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/ | old rpms at http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/2325036/com/ns-2.27-7.i386.rpm.html | |
| qmail | Mail transfer agent | http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html | Some suggested patches at http://netqmail.org/ | |
| djbdns | DNS servers | http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html | Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/ | |
| daemontools | tools for managing daemons | http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html | Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/ | |
| ucspi-tcp | tools for running tcp services | http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html | Some suggested patches at http://sourceforge.net/projects/zinq/ | |
| ezmlm-idx | mailing list software | http://www.ezmlm.org/ | Dependent on qmail. Based on http://cr.yp.to/ezmlm.html | |
| Songbird | Powerful media player, plugin extendible, uses XUL engine, similar to Amarok or iTunes but better ;) | http://getsongbird.com/ | RPMS exist: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Articles/Builds/Contributed_Builds | |
| Navit | GPS navigation system that can use OpenStreetMap maps | http://www.navit-project.org/ | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485652 | |
| BackupNinja | coordinate system backup by dropping a few simple configuration files into /etc/backup.d/. Most programs you might use for making backups don't have their own configuration file format. | https://labs.riseup.net/code/projects/show/backupninja/ | ||
| Ossec | Host-based Intrusion Detection System. It performs log analysis, file integrity checking, policy monitoring, rootkit detection, real-time alerting and active response. | http://www.ossec.net/main/ |