WMND is a dockapp for monitoring network interfaces under WindowMaker and other compatible window managers.
The original author of WMND is Reed Lai. He's pretty busy at the moment so I became the official mantainer. From now on please contact me for any bugs reports, patches or comments.
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Since release 0.3, WMND is now portable to many operating systems by using compile-time defines and an internal driver table (now it should be possible to make WMND monitor just about anything). Current supported OSs/drivers includes:
These files can be found in the lastest release of WMND. Remember that WMND is licensed under GNU GPL and there's no warranty of any kind. Support is offered on a volunteer basis.
WMND was downloaded an innumerable number of times and I'm too lazy to keep track of all downloads. Thanks to everyone (especially who filled those bugreports).
Here's a brief list of the latest 5 available releases of WMND (most recent first):
Many users keep asking about the ability to zoom the interface. Since release ‘0.4.11’, WMND supports zooming its window through an external program named Trend. This program is strictly optional and thus is not distributed with WMND itself. The README contains additional details if you are interested.
Releases are now available (and archived) online via HTTP here. Release announcements are made on FreshMeat.
All the patches are currently integrated into the latest release. You can browse the full historical list here.
A list of wishes and bugs can be found at the Debian WMND bugs page. Special thanks goes to Arthur Korn for updating this list and mantaining the WMND Debian package.
The FreeBSD driver is known to have problems on laptop systems where you can dynamically insert/remove addictional PCMCIA interfaces. This is rather a design problem of the driver. A developer with FreeBSD's MIB knowledge would be helpful.
Certainly there are more. I actually test WMND only on Solaris, Linux and IRIX boxes. You can report bugs at my email (preferred) or use this form. Please be as descriptive as possible and always include at least:
A backtrace of the crash would be helpful, but less essential.
You can help me by submitting new drivers, display modes, patches or by simply contributing new ideas or bug reports. Any kind of feedback is appreciated.
WMND is now using arch as it's main RCS tool, and I really want to support it's development. Please support ‘arch’ development by donating some dollars (even one dollar is welcome!). I accept donations to the ‘arch’ project as incentives to WMND's development. Just be sure to mention “WMND” somewhere (by clicking above to donate) and notify me after donating. The ‘arch’ project really needs founds.
Inside the expanded time of an usual boring day, I started looking around for WMND under some search engines and looking about comments. While searching under Google a nice result appeared: Lindows.com - WMnd Details. Let's ignore the poor quality of this linux distribution for now, and put aside the bad capital letter use in the WMND name and lets take a look at this sentence: *Free to Click-N-Run Warehouse Members. Actually this sentence says that Lindows users can't download this app without paying for support. There are no external links to this site and there are no distribution terms provided. A novice user might think that this app is commercial. Let's paste some text from the GNU GPL license:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program.
Especially, a cut from the second paragraph:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
The users here might not notice that they are paying for packaging and not for the software. Should this release be called free only because it has a “Linux inside” notice somewhere?
Besides that and those lame guys who keeps scanning looking for bad news servers, backdoors and fun stuff, there are a lot of cool places to visit: