Free adaptive quality software for linux

Adaptive Quality of Service Architecture (AQuoSA) is an open architecture for the provisioning of adaptive Quality of Service functionality into the Linux kernel. The project features a flexible, portable, lightweight and open architecture for supporting soft real-time applications with facilities related to timing guarantees and QoS, on the top of a general-purpose operating system as Linux.
At the core of the architecture there is an adaptive resource reservation layer that is capable of dynamically adapting the CPU allocation for QoS aware applications based on their run-time requirements.
Timing guarantees are provided through an in-kernel reservation based process scheduler, whose services are exposed to applications through a well-designed API.
A supervisor performs admission control, so that admitting into the system new applications with timing guarantees does not affect the timing guarantees of already admitted applications. Also, it takes care of guaranteeing appropriate security policies in the assignment of timing guarantees to users and user groups, as configured by the system administrator.
A feedback-based QoS control layer may be optionally used by applications who want to keep their timing guarantees by using a CPU allocation that is continuously adapted according to their actual needs. This leaverages the programmer, within certain limits, to hard-code any particular reservation amount within the application, because the best allocation is found out automatically at run-time. Also, this enhances the possibilities for the system to host additional QoS controlled applications. The available control algorithms are well founded on formal scheduling models and control theoretical results.
Enhancements:
- This release introduces a couple of flags useful when creating servers. If QOS_F_PERSISTENT is enabled, a server is allowed to exist beyond detach of the last task. If QOS_F_SOFT is enabled, a server tasks are scheduled by the Linux default scheduler/policy, when outside of the server reservation.
- Also, various stability issues in destroying servers have been fixed, also thanks to a new release of the generic scheduler patch for the Linux kernel (gs-2.2).

Liquid Bytes Adaptive Website Framework (AWF) is aimed at software developers and webmasters. Adaptive Website Framework helps you to create dynamical personalized Web sites with community functions, database powered content management, and an administration interface.
AWF includes advanced features like exporting to static HTML, caching, and URL rewriting.
The new AWF 2 introduces many new features like version management and fully flexible URLs. It is currently available as Beta version and requires PHP 5.
Main features:
- Completely dynamical and personalized page creation
- User/group-management
- Built-in Content Management
- Messaging/communiy modules
- Content can be edited without knowledge of HTML/XML
- Supports nearly unlimited languages, documents and users
- Access protection of single pages or site sections possible
- Effective caching, which means more performance and less server load
- Easy to use API functions
- Export options for documents
- Possible to integrate in Unix shell scripts
- Package Installer allows you to easily add new features and share your own extensions with other AWF users
Requierments:
- Apache Web-Server with PHP >= 4.3.0 installed (AWF version 1.04 works with 4.1.0).
- DOM XML support for PHP (optional)
- MySQL server (tested using 3.22.32 and 3.23.36)
AWF was successfully tested with all major browsers (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape Navigator, Opera and Konqueror), as only HTML is used for the core funktions.
Adaptive Website Framework is Free Software. You can use and redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
Enhancements:
- This release features rendering of LaTeX code, a new plugin system for content objects, improved multi-language support, better SEO, a Web shop (alpha version), and new templates.
- The Spaw WYSIWYG editor was removed for security reasons.

Adaptive Contrast Enhancement is a GIMP plugin which can enhance the contrast of images.
The basic "Stretch Contrast" operation takes in the whole image at once, and if there is a white pixel anywhere in the image and a black pixel anywhere in the image, it figures the contrast is already as good as can be. But Adaptive Contrast Enhancement works to increase the contrast locally, and brings out details that most wide-sweeping contrast-enhancements pass over.
Enhancements:
- This is just another development-libgimp-compatibility-thing.
- There is more interesting work going on for the upcoming 0.7, but its not quite ready yet.

The Kernel-Machine Library is a freely available (released under the GPL) C++ library to promote the use and progress of kernel machines. It is both for academic use and for developing real world applications.
The Kernel-Machine Library draws heavily from features of modern C++ such as template meta-programming to achieve high performance while at the same time offering a comfortable interface.
It enables compile-time selection of specialised algorithms on the basis of data types: for example, the specific case of a SVM in combination with a linear kernel can be computed by a specialised efficient algorithm.
The Kernel-Machine Library has implementations for the following kernel machines and their cited algorithms:
- Support Vector Machine [1, 2, 3]
- Relevance Vector Machine [4]
- Kernel Recursive Least Squares [5]
- Adaptive Sparseness using Jeffreys Prior [6]
- Smooth Relevance Vector Machine [7]
Up till now, the focus has been on regression. The handling of classification and ranking problems is being added.

QAA is a XUL Mozilla Firefox extension that performs a user supplied test list on a Web application. Test sessions can be defined by example.
A report is generated when sessions are replayed.
Enhancements:
- This release can load and save .qaa files (Quality Assurance Agent file format), record a journey in the tested site using definition by example, and perform a test bench with a log style report.

Despeckle plug-in provides selectable filters to remove specs, scratches, or other "noise" in an image. The following filters are available:

Non-recursive median,
Recursive median,
Non-recursize adaptive median,
Recursive adaptive median.

Using the Despeckle Plug-In:
Figure 1 shows the despeckle plug-in window. The scrollbars allow you to pan within the image (in this case to the back of the duck in the foreground). The preview window shows the filter output using the current settings.

The Radius control selects the window size used for the filter, from 1 (3x3) to 20 (41x41). Larger values increase the amount of time needed to filter each pixel in the image and can cause blurring.

The Adaptive button selects the adaptive median filter - this filter varies the window size based upon the image content and sometimes improves the clarity of filtered images. The Black Level and White Level controls adjust the levels used by the adaptive filter to adjust the filter radius.

The project aims to develop an intelligent playlist for the KDE media player Noatun. Intelligent in the sense that songs are selected from a (possibly large) repository of audio files in a smart manner. Think of it as your personal radio station that plays your favourite songs all day long.
Main features:
- Fast synchronization of on-disk song libraries
- Multi-level queues
- Automatic and manual rating of songs
- Several song selection stragies
- Preview of selected songs
- Customizable user interface through dockable windows
- Fast incremental searching
- Support for multiple playlists
Enhancements:
New Features:
- Added setting to allow multiline cells for comments which fixes bug
- #1173628.
- Added setting to select the items that show up as search results, so they can be easily enqueued or dragged to a another list.
- Added shortcut F5 for updating a playlist and shortcut Ctrl+F5 for updating all playlists.
- Added setting to remove items from the Preview when they are played or enqueued from there.
- The currently played item is also highlighted in the History where it is
- the topmost item.
Fixed bugs:
- Fixed same item being played twice in a row in "Adaptive Learning" play mode, by commenting out randomness.
- Fixed bug #1281276 which caused an assertion failure in KDE library code.
- Fixed last item before shutdown showing up twice in History.
- Fixed last item before shutdown not being played after startup although the respective setting is set.
Changes:
- Reactivated "Loop in Queue" feature.