Assistance Programs

libgnomesu is a library which allows you to run programs as root or another user. Whats New in This Release: - Add gnomesu_spawn_async2(), which allows the developer to customize the user interface a little. - Fix crash on x86_64 (thanks Stanislav Brabec). - Fix crash when consolehelper is...

GNU adns is a resolver library for C and C++ programs. Includes automatic sanity checking and responses that are automatically decoded into a natural C representation. Very easy to use for simple programs that just want to look up MX records or translate names to addresses. Time-to-live,...

acoc is a regular-expression based colour formatter for programs that display output on the command-line. It works as a wrapper around the target program, executing it and capturing the stdout stream. Optionally, stderr can be redirected to stdout, so that it, too, can be manipulated. acoc then...


Platforms: *nix

KInstaller is an application to simplify the compilation and installation of KDE programs shipped as tar packages. In fact KInstaller is an easy to use graphical frontend to the configure; make; make install steps..


Platforms: *nix

PowerTop project detects which Linux programs and kernel tunables are resulting in the largest power consumption and use of battery time. Power usage is a hot topic for computer users everywhere. For some, its a matter of how long a laptop lasts without being plugged in. For others, its...


Platforms: *nix

IOE project is a C/C++ library with a counterpart set of command line programs. Almost all library functions are exposed to the command prompt for the purpose of being able to embed functionality into scripts. The programs provided range in functionality from image editing and xml parsing to...


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MythTV project is a suite of programs that allow you to build the mythical home media convergence box on your own using Open Source software and operating systems. MythTV is a project aiming to create a homebrew set-top box. The end goal is to have a nice interface for watching TV, recording...


Platforms: *nix

pymad is a Python module that allows Python programs to use the MPEG Audio Decoder library. pymad provides a high-level API, similar to the pyogg module, which makes reading PCM data from MPEG audio streams a piece of cake. Using pymad is as easy as: import mad, ao, sys mf =...


Platforms: *nix

furious_tv is a set of tools to take XMLTV TV listings and enable a UNIX system to automatically record programs off of a TV card. It is written in C and uses a SAX parser for maximum speed and efficiency. Whats New in This Release: - This version of furious_tv fixes a few miscellaneous bugs...


Platforms: *nix

Gconfigure is a shell-script that allows for a more easy building of programs for sources. If you want to build a tarball, youll usually execute: tar -xzvf mypackge.tar.gz cd mypackage less INSTALL less README ./configure --help ./configure --prefix=/usr -sysconfdir=/etc/gnome...


Platforms: *nix

Team Foundation for Mono is an implementation of the Team Foundation libraries and related client programs for the Mono .Net platform. Team Foundation is a collection of collaborative technologies that support a team effort to deliver a product from Microsoft that includes bug tracking, source...


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Sfront project compiles MPEG 4 Structured Audio (MP4-SA) bitstreams into efficient C programs that generate audio when executed. MP4-SA is a standard for normative algorithmic sound, that combines an audio signal processing language (SAOL) with score languages (SASL, and the legacy MIDI File...


Platforms: *nix

Tachyon is a multiprocessor ray tracing system which can be used as a standalone program, or as a library within other programs. The project is written in C, uses POSIX Threads and/or MPI for using multiple processors, and can also run on uniprocessor machines. It supports almost any Unix-like...


Platforms: *nix

USB Launcher project is a couple of basic programs to drive the M&S USB Missile Launcher. ctlmissile does all the actual work. Youll need libusb installed to compile it, but assuming you have that typing "make" should do the trick. You can then do: ctlmissile up ctlmissile down ctlmissile...


Platforms: *nix

pppctl is a suite of simple programs of use for controlling a ppp connection. Its ideal for automating internet connections that just connect, pickup and send email and news and then disconnect. It can help manage multiple ISPS and calculate online time for charging purposes. pppctl consists...


Platforms: *nix

OpenAether project is a collection of libraries and programs that let you do cool things with Jabber. Initially focusing on flexible and easy client development, they also support RDBM access and calendaring..


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Asido is an image processing solution for programs written in PHP4 or PHP5. The project features "pluggable" drivers (adapters) for virtually any environment: either GD2, ImageMagick via shell, ImageMagick via the PHP extension, Magick Wand, or others.. Get Asido at SourceForge.net. Fast, secure...


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Genealogy Graph Generator (GGG) is a set of programs for automatically generating academic genealogy graphs. It tells you who your advisor and your advisors advisor and her advisor and so on are..


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scrssfeed is a simple filter to use in mail programs to grab URLs from the messages that state that spamcop "has accepted X mails for processing" and convert them to RSS so they can be used as a "live bookmark" in a browser. scrssfeed is a very simple script that does one thing: convert the...


Platforms: *nix

CBM BASIC Lister is a Commodore related application to convert BASIC programs from their binary form to text. CBM BASIC Lister (formerly C64 BASIC Lister) is a tool to generate an easily readable and printable BASIC listing of any CBM BASIC program (C64/VIC20, etc.) saved as "prg" file. It is...


Platforms: *nix