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slimlinux is multi-purpose Linux mini distribution which fits to one floppy or can be installed to FAT partition. slimlinux is available in both floppy (1722k, version 0.7.0) and hard disk versions, latter is installed to DOS/WIN (FAT16/FAT32) partition, both versions run in RAM (16 MB... Platforms: *nix

XParam is a general-purpose tool for parameter handling and object serialization in C++. It allows object serialization and deserialization in a format that is human-readable and -writeable, and is unaffected by issues of word-size and endianity. The XParam format is also not confused by... Platforms: *nix

Open Computer Forensics Architecture (OCFA) is a modular computer forensics framework built by the Dutch National Police Agency. The main goal is to automate the digital forensic process to speed up the investigation and give tactical investigators direct access to the seized data through an easy... Platforms: *nix

Atheism is an extremely flexible and configurable multi purpose Perl script for X-Chat.. Platforms: *nix

Kyra Sprite Engine project is a C++ sprite engine built on SDL. Kyra is a simple, fully featured Sprite engine written in C++. The Kyra engine is suited to 2D, isometric, and quasi-3D games. It is built on top of SDL for cross platform use. It supports tiles, sprites, and user drawn surfaces.... Platforms: *nix

iCam2 is a webcam application built around Video4Linux and Imlib2. The purpose for creating iCam2 was that, after (finally!) getting my parallel-port QuickCam VC operating, I needed some software to make use of it, but the only programs readily available either didnt support all the features I... Platforms: *nix

Maemo Live CD is a Knoppix (in fact Kanotix) based Linux distribution that contains a pre-built Maemo Environment as well as scratchbox for developing applications. Thus the Live CD can be used for demonstrating the Maemo GUI and for developing applications without having to install scratchbox.... Platforms: *nix

Kadet is a multi-purpose server written in C. It is highly extensible, well written, equipped with a great set of libraries including scripting, persistent database, object memory management, etc. Its very easy to develop this application. Although the modules are designed with portability in... Platforms: *nix

GNOME Speechs purpose is to provide a simple general API for producing text-to-speech output. The GNOME Speech 1.0 API is currently under development, and it will provide API for both text-to-speech output as well as speech input. It will be heavily influenced by the Java Speech API, both the... Platforms: *nix

Variable::Strongly::Typed::Validators is Perl module with built-in type validators. SYNOPSIS This class is utilized by Variable::Strongly::Typed - you dont access this directly. This module defines a %conditions hash contained expressions that define the built-in types. If you want to create... Platforms: *nix

SeeYouLater script purpose is to fetch a list of IP of known spammers and to ban them by putting them in /etc/hosts.deny. /etc/hosts.deny is usually read by xinetd of daemons using tcpwrapper. The software is composed of: - the feeder, that looks at SMTP daemon logs for the string... Platforms: *nix

LdapTemplate is a framework to simplify LDAP programming in Java, built on the same principles as Spring Jdbc. LdapTemplate is a framework to simplify LDAP programming in Java, built on the same principles as Spring Jdbc. The LdapTemplate class encapsulates all the plumbing work involved in... Platforms: *nix

Tgreps purpose in life is to grep files for times. Its many possible uses include filtering system log files for entries before or after a specified date.. Platforms: *nix

Window Manager Icons purpose of the wm-icons project is to provide a themeable icon distribution for window managers.. Platforms: *nix

Libgcrypt is a general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GnuPG. It provides functions for all cryptograhic building blocks: symmetric ciphers (AES, DES, Blowfish, CAST5, Twofish, Arcfour) hash algorithms (MD4, MD5, RIPE-MD160, SHA-1, TIGER-192), MACs (HMAC for all hash... Platforms: *nix

libacpi project is a general purpose shared library for programs gathering ACPI data on Linux.. Platforms: *nix

Scalable OGo project (SOGo in short) is a groupware server built around the SOPE application server. Unlike OGo it is focused on scalability instead of depth in functionality. The web interface uses human readable URLs and can be accessed according to REST web service ideas. Notably it requires... Platforms: *nix

Parted Magic is a ~30mb LiveCD/USB with its only purpose being partitioning hard drives. Although GParted and Parted are the main programs, the CD/USB also offers programs like partimage, testdisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, etc... Parted Magic is based on my work from the GParted LiveCD project and... Platforms: *nix

Fork JavaScript project is a general purpose, namespaced JavaScript library with Ajax, Events, DOM manipulation. There are a few bonus lines of code specifically for use with Ruby on Rails but Fork can be happily used outside of Rails also.. Platforms: *nix

The NSCL Data Acquisition system is a general purpose nuclear physics data acquisition system in use at several university labs and, of course, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University. Platforms: *nix