Free 6.1 software for linux

db4o is designed to be a simple, easy-to-use, and fast, native object database. Software developers using popular Java and .NET object-oriented frameworks know that using object databases is a more natural way to get work done. Developers have three ways to storing and retrieving data: relational, non-native object and native object.
Relational databases, such as Oracle, IBMs DB2 and Microsofts SQL server, store data in a tabular, row-and-column metaphor. The organization of traditional data in a relational database is easy to understand. The concept took off and today most data is stored in relational databases.
However, as object-oriented models became popular, developers were spending time trying to map objects into a relational database. Today, developers are forced to rely on relational-to-object mappers, but this technology compromise adds a layer of complexity and degrades performance. It is best suited for organizations that rely on legacy data.
Non-native object databases came on to the market in the early 1990s with great fanfare. But their promise was largely unfulfilled. Developers found the technology expensive, complex and hard to use. The first native object databases had similar shortcomings.
db4o is based on new native object database technology. db4o offers .NET and Java developers the simplest and easiest way to store objects. db4o is the only native object database designed for both Java and .NET, supplied as one single programming library (Java: .jar /.NET: .dll) to be included with developer applications.
Main features:
- One line of code to store objects
- Native Java / .NET
- Class model == database schema
- Smooth production process
- Automatic schema versioning
- Query by example
- S.O.D.A. active queries
- 250kB footprint
- Saves more than 50% costs to develop your application
- Saves more than 50% time to release your application
- No need for training and administration
- Build lean, structured and manageable code
- Improve your software lifecycle with better refactorability and re-use
Enhancements:
- This release comes with an improved client/server protocol, which is now completely asynchronous and able to batch messages.
- Both changes reduce the number of client/server message round trips, and therefore improve client/server performance.

Scid project consists of a chess database.

Scid is a powerful chess database application with many search features.

Its GUI makes entering chess games fast and easy, and you can search games by exact position, material, player names, and many other criteria.

It does not come with any actual file of chess games, but it can convert databases to/from the popular PGN format which is widely used for chess games.

DivX is a codec for Linux, is free and includes DivX Pro features.
Its been a little while (ok.. 3 years ;)) since we last released a version of the DivX codec for Linux.
Following our 6.1 major release for Windows back in December weve been busy fixing all the issues that have been reported to us in order to make 6.1.1 very stable.
Now that work on 6.1.1 is complete, we have decided not only to release the Windows version, but a Linux version too.
Enhancements:
- A faster decoder
- Better support for generic MPEG-4 playback
- Faster, higher quality post-processing
- Improved bi-directional coding (including multiple adaptive B-frames)
- "Fastest" and "High Performance" encoding modes
- Rate-distortion optimized encoding modes ("Better quality", "Extreme quality", "Insane quality")
- Much improved compression for equivelent quality
- Optimizations for newer processors
- Updated VBV for improved support for DivX Certified devices
- Two psychovisual enhancement modes
- Quality optimized H.263 quantization method
- Support for 4MV motion compensation
- New resize methods
- New encoding modes
- .. and lots more!

yaBi (Yet Another Beagle search Interface) is a python-kde-beagle search
interface to find information from beagle.
yaBi uses snappy KHTML to display results, CSS for designing and super-fast beagle-python bindings to retrieve search results. It uses kde preview service to display thumbnails and also shows kde-associated applications for results.
To run, download the file,
$ tar zxvf yabi-0.5.tar.gz
$ cd yabi-0.5
$ ./yabi.py
(Help Wanted: Packaging python applications)
Main features:
- Separation of search results into categories like Music, Pictures, RSS, Webhistory,
- Other files, Mails etc. and showing them in different tabs.
- Summary tab to show the time taken to query, search result summary.
- Formatting of search result done using CSS (and some javascript). Change yabi.css and yabi.js to suit your taste.
- Shows indexed information about results e.g. time when indexed, full path, title (if any), sender (if mail) etc.
- Shows relevant actions (according to the users KDE associations) and standard actions like open in terminal, reveal in konqueror, send as email-attachment.
- Shows thumbnail (on-demand, as thumbnail generation can be slow for certain files).
- Retrieves snippets from beagle in background and displays them when requested.
- Clusters webhistory results into websites and emails into conversations. This helps a lot when the user knows what website/email-conversation might be of interest.
- User can use keyword queries to search specific metadata like extension or sender email-address. Also, allows various specifiers to restrict query by dates, source, type etc.
- It should be clear by now that beagle allows an elaborate query syntax to fetch you just the information you need. There is a easy-accessible help tab which explains the syntax in great detail.
- Information tab to show current beagle status and index information.
- Allow starting/stopping of beagle daemon from the GUI.
- Save queries in bookmarks.

Klear is a KDE application for recording video streams from your DVB device and watching TV with all advantages of digital television (like EPG, OSD, and so on).
Klear project is developed for SWP lectured by Prof. Knabe at the TFH Berlin. We started in October 2004, so this program is currently under heavy development. Have a look at the features to know whats working and whats not.
Main features:
- DVB Playback
- nifty GUI with fullscreen and minimal mode
- Internal (and player-independant) Tuner for DVB-T and DVB-S
- screenshot capability
- Video-Deinterlacing
- Audio-muting
- system preferences
- complete graphical configuration system
- quick-recording system
- full featured scheduled recording
- recording formats: MPEG TS (raw) and MPEG PS (realtime conversion)
Enhancements:
- Added Gnome support
- Added support for recording to other partitions

tplay is a buffered audio player for Linux 2.0 or newer, Solaris and BSDs. RIFF/WAVE (WAV) and Sun audio (AU) file headers are recognized. This is still considered BETA software and may not work as expected. Please mail me for bug reports, opinions or suggestions.

RIFF/WAVE (WAV) and Sun audio (AU) file headers are recognised, too.

Buffer size is defaulted to 512k. It is about 3 seconds CD audio (44100Hz/sample, 16bytes, stereo). If filename is not given, standard input is used. If -x (or --swap) flag is set, the byte order of audio sample is swapped before playing. The default is little endian or big endian according to hardware and it is guessed by configure script.

Option -r (or --raw) forces tplay to handle the sample as an raw PCM audio sample. Sun audio or WAV headers are ignored.

AleVT is a teletext/videotext decoder and browser for the bttv driver (/dev/vbi) and X11.
Theres nothing to configure. A simple make is all. If you do not want png support remove the WITH_PNG in the Makefile. Additionally, if you want a smaller font uncomment the "FONT=neep9" line. It gives you alevt, alevt-date, and alevt-cap and their man pages alevt.1x, alevt-date.1, and alevt-cap.1.
The program can be installed it where ever you want (i.e. /usr/local/bin). The programs are selfcontained and require no other files. Be careful with make install. Its just for me.
I added a little tool to set the system time from the videotext time. The date is not interpreted (not even transmitted on some channels). So it allows only adjustment of +/-12 hours. The default allowed adjustment is limited to +/-2 hours (use -delta to change). Without the -set option it just display the date in the format of the date command. Look at strftime for possible control sequences you may use in the -format option.
Enhancements:
- Removed the bttv-warning from the help pages

Traff sniffs your network interfaces and accounts the IP traffic on an IP basis. The configuration is very flexible, allowing you to create different/multiple accounting rules. The collected data is stored in MySQL, PgSQL, syslog, or files.
The whole thing about Traff, is that you can specify for what IP you want to account the traffic, and even for what IPs talking with which peer. This means, that if you have a big up-link and you want to discover how much each or some hosts on your network are using this up-link, you can do that without caring about the other IP, as other programs do. So much less data will be stored at your database. The program runs as a daemon and periodically will dump all information collected to the database, syslog or a file.
Enhancements:
- Very big changes in this one. First of all, module Data and all external ump-programms are history. All necessary datafunctions where copy-n-pasted to traff.c. The different dump-procedures where intergrated into traff.c as well. Now there is a dump-function (data_mysql_dump, data_stdout_dump etc.) for each functionality. Therefore some changes in the configuration-file where necesary. Option sql does not exists any more.
- Instead od
- dump
- you now have to write
- dump [ stdout | syslog | textfile | binfile | [ { mysql | pgsql } host database table user password ]