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This is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written. Platforms: *nix

Clarion is a Perl extension for reading CLARION data files. ABSTRACT This is a perl module to access CLARION 2.1 files. At the moment only read access to the files are provided by this package. "Encrypted" files are processed transparently, you do not need to specify the password of a file.... Platforms: *nix

Independence is not just one of these commercial distributions who have been appearing daily for the last months. It aims at being a distribution allowing the users to make hear their voice in distribution design. It is built by volunteers who no longer accept having an aristocracy of... Platforms: *nix

libsharedmime is a library for reading freedesktop.orgs shared MIME database. Installation: All that should be required to install this is: make make install Which will put libsharedmime1.so into /usr/local/lib and mime-types.h into /usr/local/include. ToDo: Fix the makefile to have... Platforms: *nix

Slax AoE LiveCD is a bootable CD with AoE target and AoE iniziator programs. It can be used as AoE server/client. It is almost standard Slax Frodo Edition with some modules needed to use AoE. Usage: Boot from a CD. Login as root with password toor. Then you have three possibility: You can... Platforms: *nix

Sunrise project converts websites and newsfeeds for offline reading on your handheld. Offline browser for handhelds (like AvantGO). Sunrise is open-source software released under the BSD license. Getting Started Sunrise requires Java 1.5. (Earlier Java versions will not work correctly due... Platforms: *nix

cwfloppy is a Linux device driver for the Catweasel Advanced Floppy Controller manufactured by Individual Computers. The Catweasel is a versatile Shugart bus controller, i.e., it can control floppy drives. It is extremely flexible and can be programmed to read and write just about any floppy... Platforms: *nix

Trinux is a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies. Trinux contains the latest versions of popular Open Source network security tools for port scanning, packet... Platforms: *nix

IFF Format Library provides header structures and utility functions for reading and writing data files in the Interchange Files. The Interchange File Format is a simple structured binary file format consisting of sized and typed chunks of data, selectively readable without having to know the... Platforms: *nix

KnoSciences is a Knoppix bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KnoSciences is not necessary to install anything. Sciences Software. Platforms: *nix

Network Security Toolkit is a bootable ISO live CD and its based on Fedora Core 2. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the... Platforms: *nix

AFROS Live CD is a bootable CD with a small collection of GNU/Linux software, ARAnyM and the AFROS. AFROS Live CD boots and runs completely from CD, does not write anything to the harddrive and so is safe to try out. It is meant as a demo version of ARAnyM/AFROS. It is not the dreamed... Platforms: *nix

Plan-B is a bootable Linux environment without the need for a hard drive, it runs entirely in ram or from the cd, based on a basic, stripped installation of Red Hat Linux and the fundamental workings of the SuperRescue CD. A list of tools and utilities are also included for projects such as: *... Platforms: *nix

Quantian distribution is a remastering of Knoppix, the self-configuring and directly bootable dvd/cdrom that turns any pc or laptop (provided it can boot from cdrom/dvd) into a full-featured Linux workstation. Recent versions of Quantian are based on clusterKnoppix and add support for... Platforms: *nix

pytags is a Python library capable of reading and writing MP3, FLAC and OGG file tags. Being tired of having to use a different API calls for the main 3 media files in my library I created this library class. It utilizes pyid3lib, python-vorbis and python-flac as backends. None are required,... Platforms: *nix

Jackcess project is a pure Java library for reading from and writing to MS Access databases. It is not an application. There is no GUI. Its a library, intended for other developers to use to build Java applications. Jackcess is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Take a look... Platforms: *nix

Timos rescue CD set provides an easy way to generate bootable CDROMs with a ready-to-use rescue system on them. The system is designed to be fully customizable and easy to build. The rescue system includes reiserfs, parted, partimage, nmap, w3m, bash, sshd, telnetd, ftpd, and nfsd. It is based... Platforms: *nix

Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a 100% free CD bootable Linux distribution aimed specifically at offline operations for Windows and Linux systems such as rescue, repair, password resets and cloning, with the ability to update itself. It has custom tools to easily recover data such as deleted... Platforms: *nix

SLAX is a small bootable CD containing the Linux operating system. SLAX distirbution runs Linux directly from the CD (or USB) without installing. The Live CD described here is based on the Slackware Linux distribution and is downloadable from this website as an ISO image. The primary goal of... Platforms: *nix

WOMP! is a micro linux distribution focussed on multimedia. Basically, it takes only 13 to 30 MB depending on the selected options on a bootable CD, and allow playing a wide range of multimedia files (video/audio/image) without installing any software on the computers hard drive. Additionnally,... Platforms: *nix