Free 64 software for linux

Kvdr program lets you watch the output of VDR on a monitor in X11.
Main features:
- anything vdr can do and will do
- handles the overlay of your dvb-cards
- lets you zap through your video devices or display up to for overlays at once (if you have more than one card). However - changing the channel via vdr is currently only supported on the "primary" dvb-interface.
- The picture in picture allows you to follow the movie at the other device in the small image. You can exchange those by a single key-press.
- the Xv-mode lets you zoom the image to larger resolutions and optionally handles deinterlacing by 50Hz half frame upscaling or field1 upscaling.
- fullscreen-mode (mouse, dpms and screensaver automatically handled)
- can be used for "remote" viewing of vdr-recordings if you have 2 dvb-cards and the remote-video-directory mounted
- lets you grab images during viewing, playback or recording in jpg or pnm format, filename is automatically generated out of channel-name, date and time.
- lets you control Brightness, Colour, Hue and Contrast of the overlay (not applied to grab-images!)
- handles 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios corrected with viewport-dimensions (currently at 4:3 monitors only)
- handles PAL and NTSC accordingly (but only PAL tested so far - iam living in Germany ;-)
- stores all configuration to file
- sound-handling: mixer-channel, volume and mute using alsa/amixer
- Front/Rear-volume balance

FreeTDS is an open-source implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) database client access protocol and related libraries used by Sybase and Microsoft.
FreeTDS supports all versions of the protocol from both vendors, and includes DB-Lib, CT-Lib, and ODBC libraries.
Enhancements:
- As with prior releases, this version supersedes all others.
- Db-lib timeout handling was corrected (error handlers can now force the called function to fail).
- For Microsoft servers, support for named instances and for encrypted connections was added.
- Partial placeholder support for ct-lib was added.
- For ODBC, compute-row handling was corrected, support for paramsets and constant parameters was added, and compatibility with DBD::ODBC was improved.

V86-64 project is a simple linux kernel patch which allows legacy 8086 programs to run on modern x86-64 AMD and Intel processors. Currently 64-bit version of linux kernel lacks support of V86 mode because it is not supported in native operating mode (long mode) of these processors. But these processors still have possibility to run 8086 programs in legacy x86 mode. This patch exploits this feature.
Currently only vm86() system call is supported for 32-bit linux programs. Its also possible to add support for 64-bit programs by assigning it a system call number, but this is not done yet. The vm86_old() system call is not currently supported.
DOSEMU 1.4.0 / 1.2.2 (32-bit) works (tested with FreeDOS and PC-DOS 2000, Microsoft Windows 3.1 (DOSEMU 1.4.0)). DPMI also works.
SMP is supported, but has not been tested yet. SMP also has an issue with multithreading on memory area in addresses from 0x00110000 to 0x00113FFF (these 4 pages used by monitor to control V86 program) and can result in segfault on other threads of userspace monitor process. The solution is to avoid using these pages in userspace V86 monitors.
This patch is very experimental. Use it on you risk. It needs to be heavily tested.
Only AMD64 is tested. EM64T might also work, and needs to be tested.
Installation:
To install, apply patch to your kernel source tree.
For example: cd /usr/src; bunzip2
Source tree is expected to be located in directory "linux"
Then go to menuconfig and select "Executable file formats / Emulations ---> Virtual 8086 mode support" and rebuild a kernel.
Your kernel will have vm86() system call for 32-bit programs and DOSEMU will run 8086 code natively.
Direct I/O access and IRQ redirect should also work.
NOTE: You need 32-bit i386 version of DOSEMU, not x86-64!
This patch is for kernel 2.6.21.1. Other not so old kernels also may be patched without problem.
Enhancements:
- V86 monitor now works in a separate address space.
- The device driver interface no longer depends on the VM86_64 option and can be built as a separate module.
- A standalone package for v86dev that does not need the kernel to be rebuilt was provided.
- The kernel patch is now less invasive.
- Some serious bugs were fixed.

libwww-perl distribution is a collection of Perl modules, which provides a simple and consistent programming interface (API) to the WWW (World-Wide Web).
The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW clients, thus libwww-perl is said to be a WWW client library. The library also contains modules that are of more general use.
Enhancements:
Simplified the Makefile.PL:
- the scripts are not longer *.PL files
- dont try to make symlinks for GET, HEAD, POST as that has not worked for a long time
- the GET, HEAD, POST aliases for lwp-request should now work on Windows.
HTTP::Cookies:
- added clear_temporary_cookies method; patch by Mike Schilli.
- trailing space in old cookie parameters not ignored; patch by Ivan Panchenko
- protect against $SIG{__DIE__} handlers; patch by Adam Newby.
LWP::Authen::Digest:
- abort digest auth session if we fail repeatedly with the same username/password.
- MacOS portability patches to the test suite by Chris Nandor.

Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. Task Coach grew out of my frustration that well-known task managers, such as those provided with Outlook or Lotus Notes, do not provide facilities for composite tasks.
Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks.
Currently, Task Coach is at version 0.42. I use it on a daily basis, but there are still a lot of features missing. If theres anything youd like to see included, please let me know.
Main features:
- Creating, editing, and deleting tasks and subtasks.
- Tasks have a subject, description, priority, start date, due date and a completion date.
- Tasks can be viewed as a list or as a tree.
- Tasks can be sorted by all task attributes, e.g. subject, budget, budget left, due date, etc.
- Several filters to e.g. hide completed tasks or view only tasks that are due today.
- Task status depends on its subtask and vice versa. E.g. if you mark the last uncompleted subtask as completed, the parent task is automatically marked as completed too.
- Tasks can be assigned to user-defined categories.
- Settings are persistent and saved automatically. The last opened file is loaded automatically when starting Task Coach.
- Track time spent on tasks. Tasks can have a budget. Time spent can be viewed by individual effort period, by day, by week, and by month.
- The Task Coach file format (.tsk) is XML.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes sorting of tasks by priority and makes sure that Task Coach does not block OS shutdown.

64 Studio is developing a collection of software for digital content creation on x86_64 hardware (thats AMDs 64-bit CPUs and Intels EM64T chips).
Its based on the pure 64 port of Debian GNU/Linux, but with a specialised package selection and lots of other customisations.
64 Studio has Debian Pure 64 with X.org, the Gnome desktop, kernel 2.6.12 with realtime preemption patches and a selection of creative applications. Please note that this release is provided for testing only, and comes with no warranty.
Problems in this release include useful packages missing or not installed by default, confusing Gnome menus and assorted warnings during installation. There are probably plenty of other things wrong with it as well, which is why were calling this an alpha release. But it does actually install and run on our Opteron and Athlon 64 test hardware.
Anyone who is interested in getting involved with the 64 Studio project would be most welcome. Our aim is to create a distribution with full (but completely optional) commercial support, which will generate revenue to pay free software developers.
Enhancements:
- 64 Studio 2.0 is designed to retain compatibility with Debian Etch, to create a long-lived and stable creative desktop. We combine the stability and quality of Etch with a specialised real-time preemption kernel and the latest creative tools demanded by multimedia artists. Our tweaks to Debian include simplified installation and default settings which help get production underway quickly. Its our target that users should be able to get from a blank hard disc to a fully hardware-optimised and usable creative desktop in just half an hour.