20080328

Sympa: A scalable and highly customizable mailing list software


Sympa is a scalable and highly customizable mailing list software. It can cope with big lists (780,000 subscribers), and it comes with a complete Web interface for both the user and the administrator. It is internationalized. Sites can customize Web and mail templates, authentication backends, and authorization scenarios. Dynamic mailing lists can use multiple backends (LDAP, SQL, files, lists, or others). Sympa is the only S/MIME enabled mailing list software, and it provides both authentication and encryption.

[Environment] Web Environment
[Intended Audience] System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] POSIX, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language] Perl
[Topic] Communications :: Email :: Mailing List Servers, Communications :: File Sharing

Florence :A scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when you don't need it

Florence is a scalable on-screen virtual keyboard for GNOME that stays out of your way when you don't need it. It is useful if you can't use a real keyboard either because of a handicap, disease, broken keyboard, or tablet PC but you can use a pointing device. It aims at being easy and pretty.

[Environment]
X11 Applications :: Gnome
[License]
OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language]
C
[Topic]
Desktop Environment :: Gnome

GroundWork Monitor Community Edition can give you insight into your computing infrastructure, to see the current and historical states of all computer

GroundWork Monitor Community Edition can give you insight into your computing infrastructure, allowing you to see the current and historical states of all your computers: servers, desktops, and laptops, all of your network devices, all of your services (like TCP/IP and Web services), and all of your applications (like mail servers and database apps). You can choose to be alerted when something goes awry via pager, SMS, email, or phone, and even set up automatic restarts or fall-overs.

[Intended Audience]
System Administrators
[License]
OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2, Other/Proprietary License
[Topic]
System :: Diagnostics, System :: Hardware, System :: Logging, System :: Monitoring, System :: Networking, System :: Networking :: Monitoring, System :: Networking :: Monitoring :: Hardware Watchdog

20080324

Pentabarf: conference planning software


Pentabarf is conference plannig software written in Ruby (using the Rails framework) and PL/pxgSQL.

[License]
OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v2
[Programming Language]
Ruby, SQL

20080322

Vshnu : A visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right

Vshnu is a visual shell for Linux/Unix finally done right. Best used as an optional color visual mode to a regular command line shell, vshnu is handy for powerful directory listing and navigation, Unix command assembly, special actions on file types, and fileset handling. Written in Perl for portability and high configurability, it also provides the advantages of a Perl interpreter as part of your Unix shell environment.

[Environment] Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience] End Users/Desktop
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] POSIX
[Programming Language] Perl
[Topic] Desktop Environment :: File Managers, System :: Systems Administration

Squid: A high performance Web proxy cache

Squid is a high performance Web proxy cache that can be arranged hierarchically for an improvement in response times and a reduction in bandwith usage. Squid runs on all popular Unix and Windows platforms.

[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic] Internet :: Proxy Servers, Internet :: WWW/HTTP, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: HTTP Servers

20080315

IMSpector: A plugin-based transparent IM proxy with monitoring and blocking abilities

IMSpector is a plugin-based transparent IM proxy with monitoring and blocking abilities. It can log to files and databases. It is also able to filter messages using both file and database-driven backends and change their content. Supported protocols include MSN, ICQ, AIM, IRC, Yahoo!, and Gadu-gadu.

[Environment]
No Input/Output (Daemon)
[Intended Audience]
System Administrators
[License]
OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]
POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]
C++
[Topic]
Communications :: Chat

20080312

Open Course Timetabler: free and open source application for university and school course timetabling

Open Course Timetabler is free and open source application for university and school course timetabling. It is written in C# and runs under .NET framework on Windows (and will likely run under Mono on Linux or Mac OS X).

FET (free timetabling tool) automatically schedules the timetable of a school, high school, or university

FET (free timetabling tool) automatically schedules the timetable of a school, high school, or university. It aims to have the same functionality as expensive scheduling programs.

[Environment] X11 Applications :: Qt
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Programming Language] C++
[Topic] Scientific/Engineering :: Artificial Intelligence

NTFS-3G: A stable read/write NTFS driver

NTFS-3G is a stable read/write NTFS driver. It is available for over 130 Linux distributions, including most major ones. Moreover, it has been ported to other operating systems like FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, Haiku, and Mac OS X, and to big-endian and 64-bit computer architectures.

[Intended Audience] Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop, Other Audience, Quality Engineers, System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System] POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language] C
[Topic] System :: Filesystems, System :: Operating System Kernels

The Untangle Gateway Platform: A Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications


The Untangle Gateway Platform is a Linux-based network gateway with pluggable modules for network applications like spam blocking, Web filtering, anti-virus, anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, VPN, SSL VPN, firewall, and more.

Intended Audience] Advanced End Users, Developers, System Administrators
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Network Environment] IP
[Programming Language] C, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Unix Shell
[Topic] System :: Monitoring, System :: Networking, System :: Networking :: Firewalls, System :: Networking :: Monitoring, System :: Operating System :: Linux Distributions

Octopussy: A solution to manage your logs


Octopussy is a solution to manage your logs (also frequently called a SIM/SEM/SIEM Solution). Basically, it stores your logs, produces reports, and raises alerts.

[Environment]
Web Environment
[Intended Audience]
System Administrators
[License]
OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]
POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]
Perl
[Topic]
Internet :: Log Analysis, System :: Diagnostics, System :: Logging, System :: Monitoring