Kernels

Safely and easily change your Windows boot screen with BootSkin. It allows you to replace your Windows boot up screen with ones you can download from websites such as WinCustomize.com or create yourself. BootSkin doesn't patch the Windows XP kernel. Nor does it require the user to download... Platforms: Windows

Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box. The solution is here. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is our commercial read/write NTFS software for Mac users. It builds and extends upon the proven stability of Tuxera's popular open source NTFS-3G to deliver a... Platforms: Mac

Picturenaut's consistent multi-threaded architecture makes it the fastest tone mapper in the world. Nothing beats it running Reinhard's Photoreceptor Physiology in realtime on the full image. If you call a new 8 core box your own, you will see it haul through a 32 Megapixel image in realtime,... Platforms: Windows

MMX/SSE instructions can greatly enhance the performance of the following applications: multimedia (audio/video), communications, DSP kernels, 2D and 3D graphics, image processing and speech recognition. But current compilers do not support these instructions. Now there is a better way: Quexal,... Platforms: Windows

A lightweight and fast application firewall. The Mac OS X firewall protects you from connections that come from outside of your computer. But what about the software from your computer that opens new connections to the internet? With TCPBlock you can prevent selected applications on your computer... Platforms: Mac

This program will make a backup of your existing kernel files and modify them according to the color pallet from the (4bit, 16 color) boot screen used. Each time you change your boot screen the backup will be used to be sure a clean kernel will be modified. In case of a restore, the backup... Platforms: All

Driver on demand is an attempt to ease driver installations in linux. Basically, what happens is that a user plugs any device into the computer, and if a driver isnt found, the client connects to a CGI server, to check if the device is known, and if its not in the database, then the driver lookup... Platforms: *nix

genromfs project can create romfs images. romfs is a space-efficient, small, read-only filesystem originally for Linux and used by some Linux based projects. It is a block-based filesystem, that means it makes use of block (or sector) accessible storage driver (like disks, CDs, ROM drives). It... Platforms: *nix

FreeVMS is an OpenVMS-like operating system which can run on several architectures like i386, PPC, Alpha, and many others. FreeVMS consists of a POSIX kernel and a DCL command line interpreter. The only architecture currently supported is i386.. Platforms: *nix

GtkCamShot software is a webcam snapshot utility. It is a quick hack which shows you the view from your webcam, updating ever half-second. Theres a simple button for saving images on the main window. Building: To build the source youll need several libraries installed. If youre running... Platforms: *nix

The fairly fast packet filter (FFPF) is an approach to network packet processing that adds many new features to existing filtering solutions like BPF. fairly fast packet filter is designed for high speed by pushing computationally intensive tasks to the kernel or even network processors and by... Platforms: *nix

i2c-tiny-usb is a open source/open hardware project. Attach any I2C client chip (thermo sensors, AD converter, displays, relais driver, ...) to your PC via USB ... quick, easy and cheap! Drivers for Linux, Windows and MacOS available. The i2c-tiny-usb project is an open source/open hardware... Platforms: *nix

ethtool is a Linux net driver diagnostic and tuning tool for the Linux 2.4.x (or later) series of kernels. You can obtain information and diagnostics related to media, link status, driver version, PCI (or other) bus location, and more. Whats New in This Release: - This release fixes handling... Platforms: *nix

leJOS is a Java-based replacement firmware (OS) for LEGO Mindstorms programmable bricks, including RCX and NXT. It supports threads, exceptions, synchronization, floating point arithmetic, strings, and so on, but there is no garbage collection yet. The project is also designed to be portable to... Platforms: *nix

UDP-Bridge is a transparent proxy for UDP traffic, designed for use with Linux 2.2.x kernels. It provides two-way proxying of UDP packets, to avoid the port number mangling that occurs with Linux IP masquerading. This mangle rule causes problems for some online games. This program was actually... Platforms: *nix

Swinput can fake a mouse and a keyboard by using the Linux Input System. The swinput modules read from a device and fakes hardware event (mouse motion, key presses etc) as commands written on the devices. Swinput presents status etc on the proc filesystem. Swinput project is useful when testing... Platforms: *nix

DKMS comes from Dynamic Kernel Module Support and is a framework where device driver source can reside outside the kernel source tree so that it is very easy to rebuild modules as you upgrade kernels. This allows Linux vendors to provide driver drops without having to wait for new kernel... Platforms: *nix

Ubuntu Linux is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu team is proud to announce Ubuntu 5.10 Server, the first release of Ubuntu designed especially for server environments. Like the standard desktop Ubuntu, it... Platforms: *nix

zr364xx for Linux attempts to bring support under Linux for the Aiptek PocketDV 3300 in webcam mode (also known as "Maxell Maxcam PRO DV3"). All the code is still under developpement... If you just want to get on your PC the pictures and movies on the camera, you need to use the usb-storage... Platforms: *nix

Linux Multilayer Switch is part of a larger project that aims at building a Linux-based Layer 2 and 3 switching appliance. We hope this will be integrated into the official Linux kernel someday, but first our code must reach maturity and then we must prove the kernel team that its ok. This is... Platforms: *nix