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pam_require is a simple Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) for Linux (and maybe other systems which use PAM). pam_require is an account module that allows you to require a special user or group to access a service. Example /etc/pam.d/ssh: auth required pam_nologin.so auth required...

ivrescue is a small Linux rescue CD, suitable for booting systems that have become unbootable due to filesystem corruption or whatever. As an added bonus, everything is loaded into RAM - once the machine has booted, you can remove the CD from the drive. It lies somewhere between minimalist boot...

Plugdaemon is a tool that is inspired by, but not based on, the plug-gw from Trusted Information Systems. It was originally a simpler wannabe, but the connection balancing code and other features makes it a lot more useful (as of 2.3.1 its also a feature-complete replacement for plug-gw)....


Platforms: *nix

XSD/e is a XML Processing for Embedded Systems. CodeSynthesis XSD/e is an open-source XML parser generator for mobile and embedded systems. It provides event-driven, stream-oriented XML parsing, XML Schema validation, and C++ data binding while maintaining a small footprint and portability....


Platforms: *nix

GPAC is an implementation of the MPEG-4 Systems standard (ISO/IEC 14496-1) developed from scratch in ANSI C. The main development goal is to provide a clean (a.k.a. readable by as many people as possible), small and flexible alternative to the MPEG-4 Systems reference software (known as IM1 and...


Platforms: *nix

LcCCD14 is a hardware module for operating the OES LcCCD14 astronomical camera on Linux systems with kernel 2.0.X. At the time of writing only systems with kernel 2.0.x are supported (the authors machine has 2.0.36), so you shouldnt expect it to run with current 2.2.x kernels. But this will...


Platforms: *nix

Virgil projetc is an new, object-oriented, light-weight programming language that is designed for building software for resource-constrained embedded systems at the lowest level. Microcontroller programmers can now develop complete software systems, including hardware drivers and OS services, in...


Platforms: *nix

libMAGE (Multi-Agent Grid Engine) is a C++ library that provides basis for constructing distributed autonomic systems (running on grids and clusters), that are able to adapt to processor and memory load and node failures.


Platforms: *nix

ACL2 is a programming language in which you can model computer systems and a tool to help you prove properties of those models. ACL2 stands for "A Computational Logic for Applicative Common Lisp". It is an "industrial-strength" version of the NQTHM or Boyer/Moore theorem prover, and has been...


Platforms: *nix

logsends main goal is to provide an easy way of receiving e-mail notifications about the changes to the systems (log) files, which makes it suitable for watching mainly the server activity. Logsend acts like a daemon; it watches the specified files and mails the changes (additions) to your...


Platforms: *nix

The Thor Broadcast Video Over Fiber test system is used to determine if the Thor Broadcast Video Over Fiber Transmitter and Receiver systems are working properly. The test system uses a network protocol to determine if the host is up. If the host talks back then the system knows that the Thor...


Platforms: Windows

uucpm provides networked uucp services on older systems that otherwise lack this capability, but do have TCP/IP networking support. This includes systems such as SCO Xenix and NCR Towers. The package includes two programs. The uucpm daemon converts a pseudo-tty (pty) into a device that can...


Platforms: *nix

Dropline GNOME is a version of the GNOME Desktop that has been tweaked for Slackware Linux systems. It is available in Slackware's standard .tgz package format and requires Slackware 11.0 or higher.


Platforms: *nix

Apso project is a framework for adding secrecy to version control systems. Usually, version control systems support transfer of encrypted data between clients and the server (in centralized systems) or between clients (in distributed systems). This, however, does not help one who needs to store...


Platforms: *nix

DCOP::Amarok::Player is a Perl extension to speak to an amaroK player object via systems DCOP. SYNOPSIS use DCOP::Amarok::Player; $player = DCOP::Amarok::Player->new(); $player->playPause(); print $player->getRandom(); This module is a quick hack to get an interface between perl and...


Platforms: *nix

pyNMS is a set of Python modules for network management, network testing, systems management, and general use. It contains a nearly complete implementation of SNMPv2c, a SMI/MIB package, and a MIB "compiler". The package as a whole is currently in development, and much of the top-level NMS...


Platforms: *nix

Dconf is a tool to collect a systems hardware and software configuration. Dconf allows you to take your system configuration with you and compare systems (like nodes in a cluster) to troubleshoot hardware or software problems. It can also be configured to send out configuration changes at given...


Platforms: *nix

Speak Freely is an application for Unix and Unix-like systems (Linux, FreeBSD, IRIX, etc.) with audio hardware, which allows you to talk (actually send voice, not typed characters) over a network. Speak Freely for Unix uses the workstation audio hardware and network to allow conversations of...


Platforms: *nix

Rhapsody is an IRC client for Unix operating systems intended to be displayed on a text console or terminal. It is small, fast, portable and easy to use, yet it is full featured. The thing that separates it from the crowd is its intuitive menu driven user interface. Check out the screenshot...


Platforms: *nix

libferris makes the file system and other hierarchical storage systems easier to use.Other than mounting things as a filesystem, the other core concept of libferris is extraction of interesting metadata from your libferris filesystems. This means that simple things like width and height of an...


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, C/C++, BSD Solaris