Dustbuster Replacement Battery

Dstat project is a versatile replacement for iostat, vmstat and ifstat. Dstat overcomes some of the limitations and adds some extra features. Dstat allows you to view all of your system resources instantly, you can eg. compare disk usage in combination with interrupts from your IDE controller,...

KToshiba is a battery and Fn-key monitoring for Toshiba laptops, but it does much more than that. KToshiba lets you configure the Fn-F# combinations with the supported options to let you have a complete and fully customizable setup for your specific model, and lets you use those special...

GNU mcron (Mellors cron) is a 100% compatible replacement for Vixie cron. It is written in pure Guile, and allows configuration files to be written in scheme (as well as Vixies original format) for infinite flexibility in specifying when jobs should be run. Mcron was written by Dale Mellor...


Platforms: *nix

Dial-Up Bot project aims to be a fully functional automated replacement for the /etc/ppp/ip-{up,down}.d hierarchy. Its supposed to be started by cron at night. It cant satisfy the requirements of impatient roots. Its not designed for hosts with a permanent Internet connection. Whats New in This...


Platforms: *nix

wmibam project is a WindowMaker dockapp that monitors the apm status using the intellegent battery monitor (ibam) by Sebastian Ritterbusch to make statistical considerations to determine the currect battery status. Installation: Run $ make install PREFIX=$prefix to build wmibam and...


Platforms: *nix

Metalog provides simple and flexible replacement for syslogd and klogd. Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd. The logged messages can be dispatched according to their facility, urgency, program name, and/or Perl-compatible regular expressions. Log files can be automatically...


Platforms: *nix

Apache2::ModProxyPerlHtml is a mod_perl2 replacement of the Apache2 module mod_proxy_html.c, used to rewrite HTML/Javascript links for a reverse proxy. Apache2::ModProxyPerlHtml is very simple and has much better parsing/replacement of URL than the C code. It also support refresh meta tag...


Platforms: *nix

socklog cooperates with the runit package to create a small and secure replacement for syslogd. socklog supports system logging through Unix domain sockets (/dev/log) and UDP sockets (0.0.0.0:514) with the help of runits runsvdir, runsv, and svlogd. socklog provides a different network logging...


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

Hotplug2 project is a trivial replacement of some of the UDev functionality in a tiny pack, intended for Linux early userspace: Init RAM FS and InitRD. The binary is (x86, dynamically linked against glibc) 15 KiB with -Os (v0.7). Yet it includes ability to parse rules and execute actions...


Platforms: *nix

phpAutoindex is the PHP replacement of apaches mod_Autoindex module. phpAutoindex lists content of directories, processes these informations and sends them back to the user. So it is meant to be a replacement of the apache module autoindex. Contrary to the apache module, phpAutoindex is more...


Platforms: *nix

GlassTaskBar is a Superkaramba theme intended as a Kicker replacement (atleast thats how I use it). GlassTaskBar provides the KDE menu, desktop switcher, task switcher, CPU meter/graph, memory and internet traffic meter and a time/date display with mail notifier. Ive cleaned up the source as...


Platforms: *nix

KBatt is a cute little notebook battery applet for your KDE panel. It uses the APM interface in your kernel to show a cute little display on your panel: you can see the AC status, the battery level, and how much time you have left. Build & install: run ./configure make make install...


Platforms: *nix

DSSH was written as a direct replacement for OpenSSH client for our use. The project adds SSH over SSH tuneling capabilities (for example to log in to network which is hidden by firewall), scripting support (using Groovy), advanced agent (which allows storing of passwords) and "su -" interactive...


Platforms: *nix

kaskpass is a ssh-askpass replacement for Kde. In add, it allows use of kwalletd to manage your passphrase(s). See ssh man pages for more information about ssh system, ssh keys, ssh-agent and ssh-askpass. kaskpass is written in ruby. It depends of ruby interpreter, libkorundum and kwallet....


Platforms: *nix

Tasty Menu project is a KMenu replacement aiming to provide the maximum usability, or at least to be a testbed for usability concepts and ideas for a future kmenu replacement. The left part of the menu is very similar to the Novell idea (http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/preview.html): you...


Platforms: *nix

Data::TreeDumper is an improved replacement for Data::Dumper. Powerful filtering capability. SYNOPSIS use Data::TreeDumper ; my $sub = sub {} ; my $s = { A => { a => { } , bbbbbb => $sub , c123 => $sub , d => $sub } , C => { b => { a => { a => { } , b => sub { } ,...


Platforms: *nix

XStow is a replacement of GNU Stow written in C++. It supports all features of Stow with some extensions. XStow as GNU Stow, are programs for managing the installation of software packages, keeping them separate (/usr/local/stow/emacs vs. /usr/local/stow/perl, for example) while making them...


Platforms: *nix

gqlplus is a drop-in replacement for sqlplus, an Oracle SQL client, for UNIX and UNIX-like platforms. The difference between gqlplus and sqlplus is command-line editing and history, plus table-name and column-name completion. As you know if you have used sqlplus, it is notoriously difficult to...


Platforms: *nix

ADOdb Lite is a small, fast replacement for ADODB that uses 1/6th of the memory and is up to 300% faster, while being compatible with a subset of the most commonly used ADODB commands. ADOdb Lite supports Frontbase, MaxDB, MiniSql, MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Sybase. Whats New in...


Platforms: *nix