20090730

sha_digest : An implementation of the secure hash algorithms SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA 384, and SHA-512 as described in the FIPS 180-3 standard

sha_digest is an implementation of the secure hash algorithms SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA 384, and SHA-512 as described in the FIPS 180-3 standard. It is written in standard compliant C (ANSI C89), thread-safe, and system- and architecture-agnostic. The package can be used as a shared library or its modular components can be integrated directly into other projects. It also comes with an example program that supplies the same functionalities as the GNU coreutils SHA implementations.
  • Licenses : GPLv2
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation : C

Git : A "directory content manager" that was designed to handle massive projects such as the Linux kernel with speed and efficiency

Git is a "directory content manager" that was designed to handle massive projects such as the Linux kernel with speed and efficiency. It falls in the category of distributed source code management tools and is similar to GNU Arch, Monotone, and BitKeeper. Every Git working directory is a fully-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities and is not dependent on network access to a central server.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux
  • Implementation : Tcl, C, Unix Shell, bash, Perl

20090727

Scan Tailor : An interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages

Scan Tailor is an interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, despeckling, and others. You give it raw scans and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or a DJVU file.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Implementation : C++

YAGF : A graphical frontend for the Cuneiform OCR tool

YAGF is a graphical frontend for the Cuneiform OCR tool. It lets you open already scanned image files or obtain new images via XSane (scanning results are automatically passed to YAGF). Once you have a scanned image you can prepare it for recognition, select particular image areas for recognition, set the recognition language and so on. Recognized text is displayed in an editor window where it can be spell-checked, corrected, saved to disk, or copied to clipboard. YAGF also provides some facilities for a multi-page recognition.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : Linux
  • Implementation : C++, Qt 4

Association Subscribers Manager : Software designed to manage members of associations

Association Subscribers Manager is software designed to manage members of associations. An "association" can be a club sport, a music club, etc.; it is highly customizable. It can manage groups of several thousand members. It is written in C++ with Qt 4 as a GUI framework. All generated files are in an XML-based format to guarantee interoperability.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : Mac OS X Windows, POSIX, BSD, Linux
  • Implementation : C++

libQGLViewer : A C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers


libQGLViewer is a C++ library based on Qt that eases the creation of OpenGL 3D viewers. It provides some of the typical 3D viewer functionality, such as the ability to move the camera using the mouse, which is lacking in most of the other APIs. Other features include mouse manipulated frames, interpolated keyFrames, object selection, stereo display, screenshot saving, and much more. It can be used by OpenGL beginners as well as to create complex applications, being fully customizable and easy to extend. It ships with many examples and comprehensive documentation.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation : C++

collectd : A small and modular daemon which collects system information periodically and provides means to store the values


collectd is a small and modular daemon which collects system information periodically and provides means to store the values. Included in the distribution are numerous plug-ins for collecting CPU, disk, and memory usage, network interface and DNS traffic, network latency, database statistics, and much more. Custom statistics can easily be added in a number of ways, including execution of arbitrary programs and plug-ins written in Perl. Advanced features include a powerful network code to collect statistics for entire setups and SNMP integration to query network equipment.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : Mac OS X, POSIX, Solaris, Linux
  • Implementation : C

20090725

LiVES : A Video Editing System

LiVES is a Video Editing System. It is designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It is small in size, yet it has many advanced features.

LiVES mixes realtime video performance and non-linear editing in one professional quality application. It will let you start editing and making video right away, without having to worry about formats, frame sizes, or framerates. It is a very flexible tool which is used by both professional VJ's and video editors - mix and switch clips from the keyboard, use dozens of realtime effects, trim and edit your clips in the clip editor, and bring them together using the multitrack timeline. You can even record your performance in real time, and then edit it further or render it straight away.

20090721

Unity : A user-friendly development environment for designing and programming 3D games and a 3D game engine


Unity is a user-friendly development environment for designing and programming 3D games and a 3D game engine. Scripting is done using JavaScript, C#, or Boo via an embedded Mono run time. The resulting games can be deployed as stand-alone Mac OS X or Windows applications, Web plug-ins, or as Dashboard widgets. Unity is the tool that was used by Unity Technologies to create their game Gooball, which is available from Ambrosia Software.
  • Operating Systems : Mac OS X, Windows
  • Implementation : C#, C++, Objective C, Other Scripting Engines

20090720

Raptor RDF Parser and Serializer Library

Raptor is a C library providing a set of parsers and serializers for Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples by parsing syntaxes into RDF triples and serializing triples into a syntax. The parsers support RDF/XML, N-Triples, GRDDL, and Turtle, and via RSS tag soup: XML RSS, Atom 0.3, and Atom 1.0. The serializers support RDF/XML (3 flavours), Turtle, DOT, N-Triples, RSS 1.0, and Atom 1.0. Raptor handles RDF/XML as used by RDF applications such as RSS 1.0, FOAF, DOAP, Dublin Core, and OWL. It can use either expat or libxml2 for XML parsing, libcurl when available for URI retrieval, and is portable to many POSIX systems.
  • Licenses : GPL, LGPL, MPL
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation : C

kchmviewer : A CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written in Qt/ KDE


kchmviewer is a CHM (Winhelp) files viewer written in Qt/ KDE. It can be build as a stand-alone Qt-based application or a KDE application. The main point is compatibility with non-English CHM files, including most international character sets. It has the features set of standard viewer: search (including non-English CHMs), bookmarking, font size changing, index/content browsing, codepage support, and more.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : Unix
  • Implementation : C++

20090718

TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) : A set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs


TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs. It collects much more information than is available through prof or gprof, the standard Unix utilities, including per-process, per-thread, and per-host information, inclusive and exclusive function times, profiling groups that allow you to organize data collection, access to hardware counters on some systems, per-class and per-instance information, the ability to separate data for each template instantiation, start/stop timers for profiling arbitrary sections of code, and support for collection of statistics on user-defined events.
  • Licenses : Other
  • Operating Systems : Unix, POSIX, Linux, Windows
  • Implementation : C++, Fortran, Java, C, Python

aria2 : A utility for downloading file

aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. It has a powerful segmented downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple protocols and utilizing your download bandwidth to the maximum. It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from HTTP(S)/FTP is uploaded to the BitTorrent swarm. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunks of data while downloading a file like BitTorrent.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Cygwin, BSD, FreeBSD
  • Implementation : C++

20090716

Fingerprint GUI : A set of GUI tools for the use of fingerprint scanners on Linux systems

Fingerprint GUI is a set of GUI tools for the use of fingerprint scanners on Linux systems. It enables the recording and checking of fingerprints of users and allows login and authentication of users by their fingerprint through its PAM module. An additional "fingerprintIdentifier" application can be used for customized (shell) scripts when users have to be identified or authenticated by their fingerprints. The system is based on device drivers from the "libfprint" project.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux
  • Implementation : C++

20090715

FxMovieManager : A file manager which can display thumbnails of movie files

FxMovieManager is a file manager which can display thumbnails of movie files. It can also manage a playlist of movies and act as a simple front-end to MPlayer.
  • Licenses : Public Domain
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux

XML Security Library : A C library based on LibXML2

XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption.
  • Licenses : MIT/X
  • Implementation : C

Scalable OpenGroupware.org (SOGo) : A project derived from OpenGroupware.Org (OGo) with scalability in mind


Scalable OpenGroupware.org (SOGo) is a project derived from OpenGroupware.Org (OGo) with scalability in mind. The Inverse edition of this project has many feature enhancements: CalDAV and GroupDAV compliance, full handling of vCard as well as vCalendar/iCalendar formats, and support for folder sharing and ACLs. The Web interface has been rewritten in an AJAX fashion to provided a faster UI for the users, consistency in look and feel with the Mozilla applications, and to reduce the load of the transactions on the server.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation : Objective C, JavaScript

20090714

0MQ : A lightweight messaging kernel


0MQ is a lightweight messaging kernel. It achieves 30 microsecond end-to-end latencies and over 3 million messages per second. It can be used from C, C++, Python, .NET/Mono, Ruby, COBOL, Fortran and Java. It runs on AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, MacOS X, OpenBSD, OpenVMS, QNX Neutrino, Solaris, and Windows.

20090711

white_dune : A graphical VRML97/X3DV editor

white_dune is a graphical VRML97/X3DV editor, simple NURBS/Superformula 3D modeller, animation tool, and a very limited VRML97/X3DV commandline compiler in development. VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) is the ISO standard for displaying 3D data over the Web via browser plugins ("HTML for realtime 3D"). X3DV is the direct successor of VRML97. VRML97 and X3DV have support for animation, real-time interaction, and multimedia (images, movies, and sounds). white_dune can read, create, and display VRML97/X3DV files and let the user change the scenegraph/fields. It also has support for stereoscopic view via "quadbuffer"-capable stereo visuals, and support for 3D input devices like a joystick, spaceball, or magnetic tracker.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : Windows, POSIX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, AIX, OpenBSD, HP-UX Tru64, OpenSolaris, Cygwin
  • Implementation : C, C++

Charlix : A desktop assistant that is based on AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language)

Charlix is a desktop assistant that is based on AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) and is compatible with any AIML interpreter with a working tag. It provides Web searching tools, a dictionary, a calculator, weather, translations, and more.

20090710

OBM : A groupware, email, LDAP, Windows PDC, CRM, and project management application

OBM is a groupware, email, LDAP, Windows PDC, CRM, and project management application. It is mainly used as an Exchange or Notes/Domino groupware and mail server replacement, as an LDAP directory, as a Windows PDC, as a contact and customer database, as a project management tool, or as any combination of these functions. It provides groupware (calendars, contacts, and tasks) connectors for Outlook, Thunderbird/Lightning, and PDAs. It supports internationalization and themes. It is highly scalable, and is used by sites from five to many thousands of users.
  • Licenses : GPLv2
  • Implementation : PHP, Java, Perl

gitg targets cases where it is useful to provide a graphical representation of Git data or actions

gitg targets cases where it is useful to provide a graphical representation of Git data or actions. The history view is a good example, where graphical representation helps to get an overview of the repository. gitg does not aim to be an advanced tool that allows access to every feature of Git through a graphical interface. However, it will try to incorporate common actions that might require multiple actions on the command line (like staging, unstaging, reverting, and committing).
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX
  • Implementation : C, GTK/Gnome

20090709

Grub Next Generation : A distributed client/server Web crawling system


Grub Next Generation is a distributed client/server Web crawling system that helps to build and maintain indexes of the Web.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation: Perl, C, C#, Python

20090706

Flash Operator Panel displays information about your Asterisk PBX activity in real time via a standard Web browser with the Flash plugin


Flash Operator Panel displays information about your Asterisk PBX activity in real time via a standard Web browser with the Flash plugin. The display and button layout is configurable, so you can have more than 100 buttons on the screen at once. It also supports contexts: you can have one server running and many different client displays (for hosted PBX, different departments, etc). It can monitor several asterisk servers at once. It can integrate with CRM software, by popping up a Web page (and passing the CLID) when a specified button is ringing. It also can be used to enable click-to-dial for Web-based applications.
  • Licenses GPL
  • Implementation Perl

Aluminium was started as an effort to find a different way of creating web applications

Aluminium was started as an effort to find a different way of creating web applications. It turned out as a visual data-flow based programming language.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation : C++

20090705

Dillo Web browser : A very fast, extremely small Web browser that's written in C and C++


Dillo Web browser is a very fast, extremely small Web browser that's written in C and C++. The source is around 600 KB, and the static binary is about 980KB. It is a graphical browser built upon FLTK2, and it renders a good subset of HTML and CSS, excluding frames, JavaScript, and JVM support.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, GNU/Hurd, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris
  • Implementation : C, C++

AFS : A distributed filesystem


AFS is a distributed filesystem which offers a client-server architecture, transparent data migration abilities, scalability, a single namespace, and integrated ancillary subsystems.
  • Licenses : IBM Public
  • Operating Systems : Windows, POSIX, AIX, IRIX, Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX
  • Implementation : C

'Q' DVD-Author : A GUI frontent for dvdauthor and related tools


'Q' DVD-Author is a GUI frontent for dvdauthor and related tools. The goal is to provide an easy-to-use, yet powerful and complete interface to generate DVD menus, slideshows, and videos to burn on a DVD under Linux.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Implementation : C++

GADMIN-OpenVPN-Server : An easy to use GTK+ interface for the OpenVPN server in bridge mode

GADMIN-OpenVPN-Server is an easy to use GTK+ interface for the OpenVPN server in bridge mode. It allows generation of five signed certificates and keys, including HMAC-Firewall and user authentications. Bridge mode enables SAMBA browsing and printing across physically separated networks and or full-blown road warrior client capabilities.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : POSIX
  • Implementation : C

Endeavour Mark II : A complete file management suite

Endeavour Mark II is a complete file management suite that comes with a file browser, image browser, archiver, recycled objects system, and a set of file and disk management utility programs.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX Unix
  • Implementation : C