Tarballs

Decrypt and Extract Here Service Menu installs a service menu for Konqueror that decrypts and extracts the contents of encrypted tarballs. Once install, a "Decrypt and Extract Here" entry is added to the Actions context menu in Konqueror. This entry will only appear for the file extensions... Platforms: *nix

pmpkg provides a script and definitions to build SysV style binary packages for Solaris from source tarballs in an automated way, somewhat similar to ports or ebuilds. pmpkg aims for reuse of system packages where possible and a minimalistic dependency set. Whats New in This Release: - This... Platforms: *nix

Fink is a package manager that downloads source tarballs from mirror sites, builds them and installs them into a separate directory hierarchy managed using dpkg. It is a project that wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. As a result, we have two main... Platforms: *nix

mrjob is a Python package that helps you write and run Hadoop Streaming jobs. mrjob fully supports Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which allows you to buy time on a Hadoop cluster on an hourly basis. It also works with your own Hadoop cluster. Some important features: * Run jobs on... Platforms: *nix

AccountsDialog provides an application to view and modify user account information that is provided by the AccountsService. Runtime dependencies: * The AccountsDialog uses a DBus system service called org.freedesktop.Accounts to obtain user information. Tarballs can be found here * The apg... Platforms: *nix

jhbuild is another set of scripts for building GNOME 2. They are still a little rough around the edges, but may still be useful to you. They don't enforce any particular checkout, build or install directories for your gnome2 setup (this is deduced from the config file). You must have Python >=... Platforms: *nix

Aleph One is an Open Source 3D first-person shooter game, based on the game Marathon 2 by Bungie Software. Aleph One was originally a Mac-only game, but there is now a cross-platform version based on the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library, that should in theory run on all systems supported... Platforms: *nix

Crash Recovery for Linux sounds a bit superfluous. Linux is regarded as one of todays most stable Operating Systems. In the case of some hardware failure like a broken disk it can however be handy. Of course your machine doesnt have to have linux installed to make use of the CRK kit. There are... Platforms: *nix

glucopy-glurestore is a set of scripts for copying and restoring a fully functional GNU/Linux (or other Unix-like) system. The glucopy script will back up all system content (system and user files), while the glurestore script will partition and format an identical system, restore the system... Platforms: *nix

vcs-load-dirs is a tool to automate and simplify the loading of software into version control systems. The project is designed primarily for importing from a non-version-controlled upstream, such as processing release tarballs. While a bit of scripting can help some version control systems... Platforms: *nix

IEEE1394Diag is a GUI application that presents a graphical view of an IEEE1394 network and provides the ability to perform common 1394 operations. You can obtain the latest ieee1394 drivers and libraw via svn as follows to get the driver svn checkout http://svn.linux1394.org/linux1394/trunk/... Platforms: *nix

Sencap is a simple ENCAP software manager. Encapping is a method of installing software from source tarballs into private trees (bin, lib, man, share) and symlinking them to the system tree (e.g. /usr/local). Uninstallation of encapped software is quick, reliable and easy. Encapping is best... Platforms: *nix

Courier Authentication Library is an API toolkit for implementing password validation and account metadata lookups. Copies of this library code used to exist in other tarballs: Courier, Courier-IMAP, and SqWebMail. Building and installing any of these packages wouldve automatically installed this... Platforms: *nix

Unixmail for Windows is a package of unix mail tools ported to MS Windows (Win32), and bundled together with an easy-to-use installer. The bundle currently includes fetchmail, mutt, aspell/pspell, sSMTP, and GnuPG. The existance of this project in effect turns these tools into a cross-platfrom... Platforms: Windows

You know these misformatted mail or news messages, with full quotes, too long signatures, and lots of exclamation marks? They get on your nerves day by day? That's what this script is for. Please see the documentation for the details. TOFU Protection Mini-Howto: * Step 1: INSTALLATION Put the... Platforms: *nix

There you have it everyone. The WebTorrent 0.1 Beta2 has been released. After a kind soul warned me of corrupt tarballs, all releases have been reuploaded and tested. Beta2 includes a fix for a major design flaw whereby WebTorrent eventually stops working because of file oversizing. This has been... Platforms: *nix

IcedTea software provides a harness to build the source code from http://openjdk.java.net using Free Software build tools and provides replacements for the binary plugs with code from the GNU Classpath project. How To Build: We have temporarily made the decision to remove the ECJ support. The... Platforms: *nix

CDBKUP is a professional-grade open-source package for backing up filesystems onto CD-Rs or CD-RWs. Features * Supports full or incremental backups. * Results are stored as GNU tarballs on ISO 9660 filesystems. * Excellent support for multi-session CDs. * Large backups can be split... Platforms: *nix

Markdoc is geared towards managing technical documentation, but can be used for a range of purposes. Markdoc has a few notable selling points: * Wikis are made up completely of plaintext files, so you can easily put them under version control. * Wikis compile into standalone HTML directories,... Platforms: *nix