OpenNMS : the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed using the open source model

OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform developed using the open source model. The three main functional areas of OpenNMS are service polling, which monitors services on the network and reports on their "service level"; data collection from the remote systems via SNMP in order to measure the performance of the network; and a system for event management and notifications.

FreeNAS : A Free NAS (Network Attached Storage) server

FreeNAS is a Free NAS (Network Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, RSYNC protocols, local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. FreeNAS take less than 16MB when installed on Compact.

• Database Environment : XML-based
• Intended Audience : End Users/Desktop
• License : GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Operating System : OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language)
• Programming Language : Java
• Topic : Project Management, Scheduling
• User Interface : Win32 (MS Windows), X Window System (X11), Eclipse

OCS Inventory ng : An application designed to help administrator keep track of the computers configuration and installed softwares

OCS Inventory ng, Open Computers and Softwares Inventory next generation is an application designed to help administrator keep track of the computers configuration and installed softwares. Low network traffic, works on stand alone computers, Web GUI.

• Database Environment : MySQL
• Intended Audience : System Administrators
• License : GNU General Public License (GPL)
• Operating System : 32-bit MS Windows (95/98), 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language), Win2K, WinXP
• Programming Language : C, C++, Perl, PHP
• Topic : Networking, Systems Administration
• User Interface : Web-based

Kdissert : A mindmapping-like tool to help students to produce complicated documents very quickly and efficiently

Kdissert is a mindmapping-like tool to help students to produce complicated documents very quickly and efficiently : presentations, dissertations, thesis, reports. While targetted mostly at students, Kdissert can also help teachers, decision maker, engineers and businessmen.

Though this application shares some similarities with general-purpose mindmapping tools like Freemind or Vym, the very first goal of kdissert is to create general-purpose documents, not mind-maps.

Prex : A portable real-time operating system for embedded systems

Prex is a portable real-time operating system for embedded systems. The small, reliable, and low power kernel is written in the C language based on microkernel design. The file system, Unix process, and networking features are provided by user mode tasks.

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Handheld
[Intended Audience]		Developers, Other Audience
[License]		OSI Approved :: BSD License (revised)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Other
[Programming Language]		Assembly, C
[Topic]		Software Development :: Embedded Systems, System :: Operating System, System :: Operating System Kernels

Streber : A Web-based project management tool

Streber is a Web-based project management tool. Freelancers and small teams can easily use it to set up projects and keep track of tasks, issues, bugs, efforts, etc. Project user rights can be adjusted (e.g., to provide clients a limited view of the current project state).

[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		PHP
[Topic]		Office/Business, Office/Business :: Groupware, Software Development :: Bug Tracking

xen-tools : A collection of scripts that allow you to manipulate virtual images for the Xen virtualization software

xen-tools is a collection of scripts that allow you to manipulate virtual images for the Xen virtualization software. With the tools installed, you may create new instances of Debian, complete with networking, OpenSSH, and user accounts, with one simple command. Images may also be easily updated, listed, or deleted.

[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: Perl License
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		Perl
[Topic]		System :: Operating System Kernels :: Linux, System :: Software Distribution Tools, System :: Systems Administration

eSpeak : A compact text to speech engine for good quality English, and potentially other languages

eSpeak is a compact text to speech engine for good quality English, and potentially other languages. Its clear articulation and good intonation makes it suitable for listening to long text articles. It can speak text files from the command line, and also operates as a "talker" within the KDE TTS system as an alternative to Festival etc.

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Sound/Audio :: Speech

flpsed : A WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor

flpsed is a WYSIWYG pseudo PostScript editor. "Pseudo", because you can't remove or modify existing elements of a document. But it does let you add arbitrary text lines to existing PostScript documents. Added lines can later be reedited with flpsed. Using pdftops, one can convert PDF documents to PostScript and also add text to them. flpsed is useful for filling in forms, adding notes etc.

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Graphics :: Editors, Printing

CryptoFS : A encryption filesystem for Filesystem in Userspace and Linux Userland Filesystem

CryptoFS is a encryption filesystem for Filesystem in Userspace and Linux Userland Filesystem. Files written to the mount point will be stored encrypted (data and filename) in a directory on a normal filesystem.

[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Security :: Cryptography, System :: Filesystems

EffecTV is a real-time video effector

EffecTV is a real-time video effector. It requires a video camera and video capture card to be useful.

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		Multimedia :: Video

The Horde Application Framework : A modular, general-purpose Web application framework

The Horde Application Framework is a modular, general-purpose Web application framework. It provides an extensive array of classes that are targeted at the common problems and tasks involved in developing modern Web applications.

[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		PHP
[Topic]		Office/Business :: Groupware, Software Development :: Libraries :: PHP Classes

WebCert : A Web application to generate and manage digital certificates in cases where no "full" CA is needed

WebCert is a Web application to generate and manage digital certificates in cases where no "full" CA is needed. It is very handy for those who need a cert quickly and don't have the hang of the OpenSSL command line. It is very easy to deploy and to use.

[Environment]		Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users, Developers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Security, Security :: Cryptography

YaCy : A distributed Web Crawler and Web Search Engine without a central server and no censoring possibility

YaCy is a distributed Web Crawler and Web Search Engine without a central server and no censoring possibility. It's a P2P-based index exchange network based on distributed hash tables. Explicit Web crawls can be done locally or collaboratively, forming a global search and distributed indexing engine for the Web. It also provides a bookmark system, individual Web/servlet page hosting, and a personal file sharing zone. It is easy to install and has its own database engine.

[Environment]		Console (Text Based), MacOS X, No Input/Output (Daemon), Web Environment, Win32 (MS Windows)
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		Java
[Topic]		Communications :: File Sharing, Information Management, Internet :: Name Service (DNS), Internet :: Proxy Servers, Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Indexing/Search, System :: Networking

Torta shows you where your disk space is going

Torta shows you where your disk space is going. It uses the graphical format used by filelight to represent disk usage. Unlike filelight, it can be run on a computer with no graphical environment: it generates a Flash file that can be consulted, locally or remotely, using any browser that has the Flash plugin installed.

[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Programming Language]		Lisp
[Topic]		System :: Diagnostics, Utilities

Workrave : A program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI)

Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of repetitive strain injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses and rest breaks, and restricts you to your daily limit. It currently runs on GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows (using GTK/Win32).

[Environment]		Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications :: Gnome
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows
[Programming Language]		C++
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Gnome

Userful Desktop Multiplier : turns one computer into ten using extra video cards, keyboards, and monitors

Userful Desktop Multiplier is software that turns one computer into ten using extra video cards, keyboards, and monitors. It installs on most popular Linux distributions (Red Hat, Novell/SuSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Xandros, Linspire, Ubuntu, etc.).

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		Free for non-commercial use, Other/Proprietary License with Free Trial
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		System :: Hardware, Terminals

Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) imports and exports various network file formats (pajek, sociomatrix, dot) and displays the network on screen

Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) imports and exports various network file formats (pajek, sociomatrix, dot) and displays the network on screen. It can create random networks (lattice, same degree, etc.). The user can visually modify an existing network or draw a new one using the mouse. Network and actor properties, such as distances, centralities, diameter, etc., can easily be computed.

[Environment]		X11 Applications, X11 Applications :: Qt
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: Linux
[Topic]		Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics, Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization