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Gcalctool is the desktop calculator that has been accepted for GNOME 2.4. It has Basic, Financial and Scientific modes. Internally it uses multiple precision arithmetic to produce results to a high degree of accuracy.
The mousetweaks package provides the functions offered by the Accessibility tab of the Mouse control panel. It also contains two panel applets related to the mouse accessibility. More particularly: mousetweaks offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any hardware button. In this context, the Dwell Click panel applet can be used to choose what click type to perform. (more...)
PHProjekt supports communication and management of teams and companies via Intranet and Internet. Components are: groupcalendar with resource booking, time card system, project management, request tracker, mutual filesystem, contact manager, mail client, forum, chat, notes, todo lists, voting system and more. Supports over 25 languages, extensive help system.
Orca is a free, open source, flexible, and extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech, braille, and/or magnification. Orca development has been led by the Sun Microsystems, Inc., Accessibility Program Office via continued engagement with its end users and contributions from wonderful community members.
The open source Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention system is the most flexible and widely deployed solution available. Snort is an open source network intrusion prevention system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks. (more...)
The GNOME project was born as an effort to create an entirely free desktop environment for free systems. From the start, the main objective of GNOME has been to provide a user friendly suite of applications and an easy-to-use desktop. GNOME is a large collection of software, created over the last two years. (more...)
Boxes is targeted towards typical desktop end-user who either just want a very safe and easy way to try out new operating systems , or need to connect to a remote machine. For this reason, Boxes will focus on getting things working out of the box with very little input from user.
GNOME Games is a collection of sixteen small "five-minute" games in a variety of styles and genres for the GNOME desktop. GNOME Games collection includes: Aisleriot: A compilation of over eighty different solitaire card games. Everything from favorites like Freecell and Klondike through to the hopelessly pointless Clock Patience. (more...)
Nautilus is the window to a network user environment that integrates access to files, applications, media, Internet-based services and the Web to deliver a dynamic and rich user experience. Nautilus is an open source project being developed under the GPL (GNU Public License) and is a core component of the GNOME desktop project.
D2X is an enhanced port of Descent 2 to OpenGL. Descent 2 is a pretty old game, and further development has slowed down; so there are a few issues - some still stemming from the original Descent 2 - that have never been adressed or solved in D2X. (more...)
GHex is a simple binary editor. It lets users view and edit a binary file in both hex and ascii with a multiple level undo/redo mechanism. Features include find and replace functions, conversion between binary, octal, decimal and hexadecimal values, and use of an alternative, user-configurable MDI concept that lets users edit multiple documents with multiple views of each.
Armadillo is a C++ linear algebra library combining speed and ease of use. Armadillo can deal with integers, floating point and complex numbers, an supports a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions. Various matrix decompositions are provided through optional integration with LAPACK, or one of its high performance drop-in replacements. (more...)
Chakra Linux is a fast, user-friendly and extremely powerful Linux distribution specially made for the award winning KDE Software Compilation and the Plasma desktop. Chakra Linux is currently under heavy and active development, it features a graphical installer, automatic hardware configuration, and of course some more tools and extras.
Empathy consists of a rich set of reusable instant messaging widgets, and a GNOME client using those widgets. It uses Telepathy and Nokia's Mission Control, and reuses Gossip's UI. The main goal is to permit desktop integration by providing libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries. libempathy-gtk is a set of powerful widgets that can be embeded into any GNOME application.
EmelFM2 is a file manager for UNIX-like operating systems. emelFM2 uses a simple and efficient interface pioneered by Norton Commander, in the 1980s. The main window is divided into three parts, described as "panes" or "panels". Two of those (side-by-side or top-to-bottom) show the contents of selected filesystem directories. (more...)
Midori is a lightweight web browser. Features * Full integration with GTK+ 2 * Fast rendering with WebKit * Tabs, windows and session management * Flexibly configurable Web Search. * User scripts and user styles support. * Straightforward bookmark management. * Customizable and extensible interface. * Extensions such as Adblock, form history, mouse gestures or cookie management. .
Parted Magic is a 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, ddrescue, etc... Parted Magic supports the following: aufs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, ntfs, ocfs2, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, zfs.
File Roller is an archive manager. It lets you open, modify extract archive files sush as tar and zip. With File Roller you can: •Create and modify archives. •View the content of an archive. •View a file contained in the archive. •Extract files from the archive. .
DBSight is a deployable J2EE web application that can create one or several search engines on any JDBC relational databases. It's a highly configurable platform to create search. It can crawl your database, create indexes, display search results. You can customize most of the components, and manage the indexes -- all by web interface.
MonoDevelop is a free GNOME IDE primarily designed for C# and other .NET languages. MonoDevelop's intelligent code completion attempts to complete type, method and field names as you're typing. The IDE will automatically get the class information from your source code files and from the libraries referenced in your project. (more...)
SystemRescueCd is a Linux system available from a bootable CDROM that provides an easy way to perform administrative tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk or backing up data. It contains a lot of system utilities (such as parted, partimage, and fstools) and basic utilities (such as editors, midnight commander, and network tools). (more...)
Gthumb is an Image browser and viewer for the GNOME Desktop.With Gthumb you can view single images ( BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, XPM - including GIF animations), rotated, flipped, in black and white, and in fullscreen mode. (more...)
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable solution offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications. It is particularly suited for web sites crawling under very high loads while needing persistence or Layer7 processing. Supporting tens of thousands of connections is clearly realistic with todays hardware. (more...)

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