FireHOL is a stateful iptables packet filtering firewall configurator. It is abstracted, extensible, easy and powerful. It can handle any kind of firewall, but most importantly, it gives you the means to configure it, the same way you think of it.

SSVNC adds encryption security to VNC. It provides a GUI for Windows, MacOSX, and Unix that automatically starts up an SSL or SSH tunnel for connections to any VNC server. It also supports VeNCrypt encryption. The Unix viewer has many new features.

Dillon's Cron is a multi-user cron written from scratch, similar to vixie-cron but with major differences. Attention is paid less to feature-creep and more to usability and reliability.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Attention, Differences, Dillon, Featurecreep, Major, Multiuser, Reliability, Scratch, Similar, Usability, Vixiecron, Written

Disc-O-Matic is a GTK+ CD/DVD-ROM archiving tool for mastering and burning multiple discs.It can be used in situations where you have a lot of data that you wish to burn to discs (e.g. keeping an MP3 collection synchronized with a set of CD-RWs).


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Archiving, Burning, Cddvdrom, Cdrws, Collection, Discomatic, Discs, Discsit, Gtk, Keeping, Mastering, Multiple, Situations, Synchronized

Kibod is a KDE application for monitoring and controlling a remote ibod (daemon for isdn bandwidth on demand). This can be used to control isdn multilink connections.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Application, Bandwidth, Connections, Control, Controlling, Daemon, Demand, Monitoring, Multilink, Remote

HappyDoc is a tool for extracting documentation from Python source code. It differs from other such applications by the fact that it uses the parse tree for a module to derive the information used in its output, rather that importing the module directly. This allows the user to generate...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Context, Derive, Differs, Directly, Documentation, Extracting, Generate, Imported, Importing, Information, Module, Modules, Output, Python, Source, Special

RelaxBSD is a LiveCD in Traditional/Simple Chinese which is based on FreeBSD. It's also very easy to install into your hard disk and you can use it as a desktop OS.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Based, Chinese, Desktop, Freebsd, Install, It039s, Livecd, Relaxbsd, Traditionalsimple

MRTG-PME is a set of performance monitoring extensions to MRTG that allow historical graphing of OS performance data (CPU, memory, paging, disk, etc.) for Linux, Solaris and BSD. With no SNMP required, PME is arguably more secure than standard MRTG.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Arguably, Extensions, Graphing, Historical, Linux, Memory, Monitoring, Mrtgpme, Paging, Performance, Required, Secure, Solaris, Standard

PP3 creates celestial charts. It generates resolution independent sky maps of very high graphical quality. They can be used for example as illustrations in books or on web pages. Databases are included but you may use own data if you wish.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Books, Celestial, Charts, Databases, Graphical, Illustrations, Included, Pages, Quality

SPECULOOS (for SPECtral Unstructured eLements Object-Oriented System)is a spectral and mortar element analysis software for the numerical solutionof partial differential equations, in particular incompressible unsteadyfluid flow problems.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Differential, Equations, Incompressible, Numerical, Partial, Problems, Software, Solutionof, Unsteadyfluid

BCU SDK is a C based, high level development system for creating programs for EIB/KNX BCU devices. It includes the GNU toolchain for the m68hc05 architecture (m68hc05-gcc, m68hc05-gdb, newlib). Bus access is possible using multiple methods.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Access, Architecture, Gcc, Gdb, M68hc05, Methods, Multiple, Newlib

KoLmafia is a cross-platform desktop tool, written in Java (J2SE 1.4 compliant), which interfaces with the online adventure game, Kingdom of Loathing. Those who are looking to download the latest release: click here. More advanced users familiar with stand-alone Java applications are welcome to...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Advanced, Applications, Build, Click, Community, Compliant, Crossplatform, Desktop, Download, Familiar, Hourly, Latest, Provided, Release, Script, Standalone, Users, Written

XVMSocket is a Linux Kernel Module that provides a new socket family for high throughput (40-70 times better than TCP/IP sockets) between applications running on different guest Linux VMs on the same Xen system. No changes to Xen or Linux required.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Applications, Family, Guest, Kernel, Linux, Module, Required, Running, Socket, Sockets, System, Tcpip, Throughput, Times, Xvmsocket

The Java Gui Builder program is designed to decouple the GUI building code from the rest of the application code, without hand-writing code. It allows one to describe the layout of windows and controls using an XML file. A full DTD was written to allow on-the-fly validation. Using an XML file to...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Application, Building, Components, Controls, Decouple, Designed, Flexibility, Innards, Onthefly, Opening, Program, Rewrite, Users, Validationusing, Written

Calia is a modular Network Management System with modules for Networking (switches, ports, automatic topology discovery, IP/MAC tracking, statistics), Systems (for DNS and DHCP management), Physical (for fiber cable plant tracking) and other utilities.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Automatic, Cable, Discovery, Fiber, Ipmac, Management, Modular, Modules, Network, Networking, Physical, Plant, Statistics, System, Systems, Topology, Tracking, Utilities

Alfandega is a strong and Modular IpTables Firewall. It provides NAT, port-forwarding, spoofing list, blacklist of crackers and spywares sites, protection for tcp/udp scans, DOS/DDOS and Smurf attacks, TCP tuning, DHCP and PPP support and much more.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Attacks, Dosddos, Protection, Scans, Sites, Smurf, Spywares, Support, Tcpudp, Tuning

Yorick is an interpreted programming language for scientific simulations or calculations, postprocessing or steering large simulation codes, interactive scientific graphics, and reading, writing, or translating large files of numbers. Yorick includes an interactive graphics package, and a binary...


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Articles, Binary, Capable, Computers, Formats, Gazette, Includes, Linux, Macos, Modern, Numbers, Numeric, Operating, Overview, Package, Review, Short, Systems, Windows, Written

QTParted is a Partition Magic clone written in C++ using the Qt toolkit. QtParted is back among the living! After seeing the message about QtParted's death, the Ark Linux team have decided to continue maintaining it.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: C2b2b, Clone, Continue, Death, Decided, Linux, Living, Magic, Maintaining, Message, Partition, Qtparted, Toolkitqtparted, Written

Multi Gnome Terminal is an enhanced version of gnome-terminal, with manypowerful new features and extensions, such as: multi tabbing, custom keybindings, font shadowing, xterm emulation, shading and tinting, improved Class handling,and much more.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Class, Custom, Emulation, Handlingand, Improved, Keybindings, Shading, Shadowing, Tinting, Xterm

JavaTB is a Java ToolBox that goes beyond what operating systems provide for file management, networking, system monitoring and many more functions.


Platforms: *nix, Linux

Keyword: Functions, Management, Monitoring, Networking, Operating, Provide, System, Systems, Toolbox