20100331

Service Guardian aims to protect servers against various things such as resource exhaustion and connection floods

Service Guardian aims to protect servers against various things such as resource exhaustion and connection floods. It can measure the number of connections to servers' ports and, after a grace time period, compares and sees if the host is still in violation of the specified settings. If a host is in violation of the settings, it will be filtered out and dropped via netfilter/iptables.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux
  • Implementation : C

20100322

CVLTonemap : An interactive viewer and tone mapping tool for high dynamic range (HDR) images

CVLTonemap is an interactive viewer and tone mapping tool for high dynamic range (HDR) images. By performing the tone mapping on the graphics processing unit (GPU), CVLTonemap can immediately display the results of method and parameter changes.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : Windows, POSIX, Linux
  • Implementation : C, C++

20100321

Parted Magic OS employs core programs from GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease

The Parted Magic OS employs core programs from GParted and Parted to handle partitioning tasks with ease, while featuring other useful programs including Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, and ddrescue and an excellent set of documentation to benefit the user. An extensive collection of fileystem tools are also included, and the following filesystems are supported: ext2, ext3, ext4, FAT16, FAT32, HFS, HFS+, JFS, Linux-swap, NTFS, ReiserRS, reiser4, and XFS. It loads completely to system memory and requires at least 256MB of RAM to operate.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : Linux

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.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Implementation : C++

20100320

Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) : A script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos

Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and length. It requires MPlayer or FFmpeg and ImageMagick. It is confirmed to work on Linux and FreeBSD, and possibly other POSIX/UNIX systems.
  • Licenses : LGPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux, FreeBSD
  • Implementation : Unix Shell, bash

WOSH (Wide Open Smart Home) : A message-oriented middleware for controlling and automating a smart home

WOSH (Wide Open Smart Home) is a message-oriented middleware for controlling and automating a smart home. It comes with working services and devices. WOSH is an open multi-platform C++ framework. Its architecture is service (bundles) oriented and designed for distributed (cloud) computing. WOSH ships with library source, many services, and some applications (a server, a trayicon remote controller, and a GUI full-controller). Some features provided by its micro-kernel are a multi-user system with access policies, a centralized database manager and system monitor, and automatic network management and masquerading (on TCP). Some of the implemented services are: multimedia audio playback, monitor and control of X10 devices, remote control using instant messaging, and a remote control using SMS and call notification.
  • Licenses : creative commons by-nc-sa 3.0
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X
  • Implementation : Qt4, STL, ANSI C++

20100310

typhon : A slim and themeable OpenGL-based dashboard and program launcher

typhon is a slim and themeable OpenGL-based dashboard and program launcher. It's meant to be easily used on Linux HTPCs. You can customize the colors of the interface. Installed screensavers can be used as the interface background. Optional sound effects can be set. Optional 3D icons can be used, with configurable color and size. Any TTF font can be used for text. A selectionbar can be enabled. It uses real transparency, and can be used with any window manager. It has very few dependencies, and works fine with compiz. It can be controlled with either the mouse or the keyboard (and therefore also with remote controls).
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : GNU/Linux
  • Implementation : C++

20100308

Portable OpenSSH : A Unix/Linux port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH, a full implementation of the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols


Portable OpenSSH is a Unix/Linux port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH, a full implementation of the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols. It includes sftp client and server support.
  • Licenses : BSD Revised, BSD Original

UDAV : A cross-platform program for data array visualization based on the MathGL library

UDAV is a cross-platform program for data array visualization based on the MathGL library. It supports a wide spectrum of graphics, simple script language, and visual data handling and editing. It has a windowed interface for data viewing, changing, and plotting. It can execute MGL scripts, set up and rotate graphics, export to bitmap or vector (EPS or SVG) files, draw TeX-like formulas, and so on.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : OS Independent
  • Implementation : C++

Yet Another Telephony Engine (Yate) : A next-generation telephony engine


Yate is a next-generation telephony engine. While currently focused on Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and PSTN, its power lies in its ability to be easily extended. Voice, video, data, and instant messaging can all be unified under Yate's flexible routing engine, maximizing communications efficiency and minimizing infrastructure costs for businesses. It supports SIP, H.323, IAX, MGCP, Jingle, Jabber, E1, T1, analogic, robbed bit, ISDN PRI, BRI, and SS7.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, BSD, FreeBSD, Linux, Windows
  • Implementation : C++

AFD : A program to automatically distribute files either locally or to remote hosts

AFD is a program to automatically distribute files either locally or to remote hosts. The files are distributed by using FTP or SMTP, and can be sent in parallel and with priority. It provides a GUI to monitor and control the distribution and extensive logging of all activities.
  • Licenses : GPL
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, AIX, BSD, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, SCO, Solaris
  • Implementation : C

20100307

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android

The Android Scripting Environment (ASE) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to handle intents, start activities, make phone calls, send text messages, scan bar codes, poll location and sensor data, use text-to-speech, and more. Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal, started as a long running service, or started via Locale. Python, Perl, JRuby, Lua, BeanShell, and Bourne shell are currently supported.
  • Licenses : Apache 2.0
  • Operating Systems : Android
  • Implementation : Android SDK, Java, Python, Perl, Lua, BeanShell, JRuby

20100304

IndiMail : A mailing solution built upon qmail and other mailing software

IndiMail is a mailing solution built upon qmail and other mailing software. IndiMail also provides management of virtual domains. IndiMail has the ability to distribute the users across multiple hosts. You can have multiple hosts hosting a domain placed anywhere and tied up by IndiMail. IndiMail has multiple queues (called a queue collection). The system IDs and configuration files used by IndiMail are all configurable through a set of environment variables, allowing you to customize IndiMail the way you want. IndiMail does not use hard-coded uid/gid in the executables and hence makes it easy to distribute a binary package. IndiMail has features that any modern email server should have - DKIM, BATV, greylisting, Filtering capability, SPAM/Virus control.
  • Licenses : GPLv3
  • Operating Systems : POSIX, Linux
  • Implementation : C