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EasyBMP is a simple, cross-platform C++ library designed for easily reading, writing, and modifying Windows bitmap (BMP) image files. You can learn more about the history and goals of the project here. The library is oriented towards the novice programmer with little formal experience, but it... Platforms: *nix

GNU lightning is a library that generates assembly language code at run-time; it is very fast, making it ideal for Just-In-Time compilers, and it abstracts over the target CPU, as it exposes to the clients a standardized RISC instruction set inspired by the MIPS and SPARC chips. GNU lightning... Platforms: *nix

Yaboot project is a bootloader (like lilo or grub) for PPC machines. It is a PowerPC bootloader for Open Firmware based machines including New World Apple Macintosh, IBM RS/6000, IBM pSeries and IBM OpenPower machines. Whats New in This Release: - Netbooting on pSeries, pxelinux-style... Platforms: *nix

Audio::MPEG is a Perl module for encoding and decoding of MPEG Audio (MP3). SYNOPSIS use Audio::MPEG; Audio::MPEG is a Perl interface to the LAME and MAD MPEG audio Layers I, II, and III encoding and decoding libraries. Rationale I have been building a fairly extensive MP3 library, and... Platforms: *nix

Squashfs project is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Squashfs is intended for general read-only filesystem use, for archival use (i.e. in cases where a .tar.gz file may be used), and in constrained block device/memory systems (e.g. embedded systems) where low overhead is needed. The... Platforms: *nix

macstl is a C++ header library designed to bring the world of generic programming to the Macintosh, and deliver the surprising speed of SIMD in an intuitive cross-platform package. For example, a simple loop calculating a trigonometric function over an array can be speeded up 450 times. Generic... Platforms: *nix

MacOSD is a visualization frontend for PBButtonsD, the button and power event daemon used for Apple computers. For PowerPC laptops such as the iBooks and PowerBooks a special daemon named pbbuttonsd can handle the special "multi-media" keys to dim the display and regulate the audio volume... Platforms: *nix

JamVM is a new Java Virtual Machine which conforms to the JVM specification version 2 (blue book). In comparison to most other VMs (free and commercial) it is extremely small, with a stripped executable on PowerPC of only ~130K, and Intel 100K. However, unlike other small VMs (e.g. KVM) it is... Platforms: *nix

dhcpcd is an RFC2131-, RFC2132-, and RFC1541-compliant DHCP client daemon. dhcpcd gets an IP address and other information from a corresponding DHCP server, configures the network interface automatically, and tries to renew the lease time according to RFC2131 or RFC1541 depending on the command... Platforms: *nix

NetBSD LiveCD is a bootable ISO image contains NetBSD 3.99.7 and allows you to boot NetBSD/i386 -current without having to install to a hard disk. The LiveCD was initially intended to be a rescue cdrom, but is now capable of much more. The default desktop environment is KDE. But there is... Platforms: *nix

NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source operating system available for many platforms, from 64-bit Opteron machines and desktop systems to handheld and embedded devices. Its clean design and advanced features make it excellent in both production and research... Platforms: *nix

With T2 you can define targets for various purposes, ranging from embedded linux systems with a few MB of size over server configurations to a full desktop system featuring X.Org foundation, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice.Org and many more. Those targets can be compiled for use on the most common... Platforms: *nix

U-Boot is a Universal Bootloader project that provides firmware with full source code under GPL. Many CPU architectures are supported: PowerPC(MPC5xx, MPC8xx, MPC82xx, MPC7xx, MPC74xx, 4xx), ARM(ARM7, ARM9, StrongARM, Xscale), MIPS(4Kc,5Kc), x86. Whats New in This Release: Support for new... Platforms: *nix

Inferno is a compact operating system designed for building distributed and networked systems on a wide variety of devices and platforms. Inferno was originally developed at Bell Labs (the research division of Lucent Technologies). Inferno Operating System is a well-designed, economical... Platforms: *nix

C/Invoke is a library for connecting to C libraries at runtime. This differs from the typical method of interfacing with C, which involves writing static definitions which are then compiled to a machine-dependant format. C/Invoke provides a runtime facility to build descriptions of C functions... Platforms: *nix

Telnet may be a foreign term to you, but it used to be the way to get around the Internet, and the protocol still holds a special place in the hearts of many techies. BetterTelnet is a highly evolved version of the NCSA Telnet application, which was the tool of choice for many years. BetterTelnet... Platforms: Mac

I Love Native! Pro is an application that enables you to check whether a program or a code resource file was written in PowerPC, 68K, or Fat (both PowerPC and 68K) code. I Love Native! Pro is capable of checking applications, control panels, system extensions, and shared libraries. In addition, I... Platforms: Mac

MemoBlock is a useful notepad utility for OS X. Store as many styled text notes as you require, transfer notes to iPods, save as vNotes for mobile phones and more. Alarm reminders can be set for individual notes, and notes can be categorised as you wish. Best of all, MemoBlock is donationware! Platforms: Mac

MPDD+ is a hardware card solution that allows you to use two monitors with your desktop Macintosh, which is often more cost effective than purchasing one larger monitor. Platforms: Mac

GolfCard allows you to store of all of your golf scores, save the details for your favourite courses and save scores for future analysis. Like all BlockSoft products, GolfCard is donationware. Platforms: Mac