Free bazaar vcs 0.18 software for linux

The Bazaar VCS is a simple decentralized revision control system. Decentralized revision control systems give users the ability to branch remote repositories to a local context.
Users can commit to local branches without requiring special permission from the branches that they branched from.
Whats New in 0.18 Stable Release:
- This release provides over 50 changes, including 15 bugfixes, 16 user-visible improvements, and over 20 enhancements to internals such as test suite enhancements, cleaner APIs, and much more developer documentation.
- Some of the highlights include better criss-cross merging, improved usability, and faster bundle, merge, missing, pull, update, and info operations.
Whats New in 0.90.0 RC1 Development Release:
- Some of the highlights include pyrex implementations of some performance critical functions, algorithm changes giving performance improvements to merging and merge directive generation, a send command that will make contributing changes back easier, and connection sharing to reduce the number of connections that must be made to a remote location in some situations.
- This release includes 10 bugfixes, 25 user visible improvements, and over 20 enhancements to the internals.

Radar Tools in short RAT is a small collection of tools for processing SAR (synthetic aperture radar) remote sensing data, packed together in a nice graphical user interface.
Our motivation to start the development of RAT is that modern remote sensing software like Erdas Image or ENVI include only some basic SAR functionality. Advanced algorithms have to be implemented by oneself.
So we descided to start the development of RAT. RAT should bring modern SAR algorithms to a wider user-base by simplifying in particular the data handling and processing of complex SAR data.
RAT is planned as an ongoing community effort, i.e. there will be no final version with a certain functionality. It is our idea to include more and more SAR tools in future and to make them freely available to the scientific community.
We of course also hope for external contributions. Because of this, the programming interface of RAT is kept quite simple and adding own functions is quite easy. Function templates are included in the distribution and a step-by-step description of how to program a RAT module will appear soon in the documentation.
Main features:
General features
- Cross-platform (Unix, Windows, Linux & Mac OSX)
- Free software, no commercial software license needed (when using the IDL-VM version)
- Availability of the complete source code
- Modular design, easy to extend by own functions
- Small memory footprint even when processing large images (vertical tiling)
- No limitation on the image size
- Keep track of data representation changes during image processing
- Optimised preview on screen while calculations are done in full resolution
- Native import routines for E-SAR (DLR) and ENVISAT-IMS (ESA) data
- Export possibility to generic graphic formats (png, jpg & tiff)
- Undo function for the last processing step
Generic image manipulation
- Resize, presumming & cut region
- Zooming of an area of interest
- Mirror vertical and horizontal
- Binary transforms
Single channel SAR
- SAR speckle filtering (Boxcar, Median, Gauss, Kuan, Frost, MAP Lee, refined Lee, Lee-Sigma)
- Edge detection (RoA, MSP-RoA, Sobel, Roberts)
- Co-occurance texture features, variation coefficient
- Point and distributed target analysis
- Generic slant-to-ground range projection
SAR polarimetry
- Polarimetric point target analysis
- Polarimetric speckle filtering (Boxcar, Lee, refined Lee)
- Polarimetric CFSAR edge detection
- Calculation of interchannel ratios, correlation & phase differences
- Formation of covariance and coherency matrix, span calculation
- Polarimetric basis transforms (linear -> circular ....)
- Decompositions (Pauli, Freman-Durdan, Moriyama, Entropy/Alpha, Eigenvalue, Sphere-Diplane-Helix....)
- Polarimetric classification (Entropy/Alpha/Anisotropy, Wishart, No. of scatterers, physical, Lee category preserving...)
- Polarimetric calibration: imbalance, symmetrisation & crosstalk (Quegan method)
SAR interferometry
- Image pair coregistration (coarse, subpixel & spatially varying)
- Interferogram formation
- Flat-earth removal
- Phase-unwrapping (least-squares only)
- Phase noise filter (Boxcar, Goldstein & GLSME)
- Coherence estimation (Boxcar, Gauss, Region Growing)
- Shaded relief calculation
Polarimetric SAR interferometry
- Formation of POLINSAR covariance and coherency matrices
- Coherence estimation & optimisation
- Extraction of optimised ESPRIT phases
- POLINSAR speckle filtering (Boxcar, Gauss & Lee)
- Coherence analysis in the complex unitary plane

RBBS is a bulletin board system with Web interface. Users of RBBS can post and response to articles. As the principal purpose of RBBS is to be used as such communication system as BBS, it is useful for individual use and for one-to-many communication. The following are features of RBBS.
Accessibility
Articles is structured into chapters, paragraphs, and so on in the text with XML. The appearance of articles is defined with style sheet. Since document structure and presentation are separated, transmission of information corresponding to various needs in the Web environment is attained. Moreover, because Wiki-style format is supported, you can write and edit articles easily.
Floating Threads
When a response is attached to an article, the order of the article becomes the top of the page. Since articles to which responses are often attached are displayed in an exhibitionist manner, users can catch up popular topics easily. Moreover, because each response is only by one line, lighthearted communication like chat is taken.
Atom Syndication
In order for users to check new articles and responses easily, Atom feeds are delivered. Using a news reader supporting Atom, users can check some news site and RBBS at the same time.
RBBS is available on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows (Cygwin). Other UNIX systems are also. As RBBS is implemented with the C language, no environment for running a scripting language is needed. RBBS is a free software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Enhancements:
- User interface was enhanced.
- The format of the log file was modified.
- Release: 1.0.16

Bazaar-NG (or bzr) is a project of Canonical to develop an open source distributed version control system that is powerful, friendly, and scalable.
Version control means a system that keeps track of previous revisions of software source code or similar information and helps people work on it in teams.
bzr is still at a fairly early stage of development but has been self-hosting since March 2005 with no loss of data.
bzr is the next-generation distributed version control.
Main features:
- Written in Python (but nevertheless fast and easy to install.)
- Runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, or any system with a Python interpreter. (Primarily tested on Ubuntu.)
- Free software, released under the GNU GPL.
- Designed to play well with others: can be called by IDEs, editors, web tools, GUIs, etc through either a Python API or a shell interface, and possibly a C interface in the future. Can support workflow/process tools built on top.
- The user interface is simple and familiar to people with experience from CVS or Subversion: add, mv, diff, status, commit, log, merge, etc all do what you would expect.
- Offers a choice between centralized and decentralized work within a single project: when in the office, you can work on a shared central branch. For experimental changes or offline work you can make a branch on your laptop and merge back in later.
- Preserves history; any previous revision can be recreated. History can be GPG-signed to protect against man-in-the-middle attacks, bad mirrors, server intrusion or data corruption.
- Just one .bzr directory at the top of the tree; it doesnt clutter the tree or get in your face. No wierd ++file--names--0.
- Tracks file and directory renames and merges across them.
- Powerful Python plugin system for adding new commands, protocols, formats, or site policy.
Enhancements:
- merge now takes --uncommitted, to apply uncommitted changes from a tree.
- Moderate performance improvements, particularly on large trees.
- Compatability with diffutils 2.8.4. bzr uncommit preserves pending merges.
- Active FTP support has been fixed.
- TZ=UTC is handled properly when reading/writing revisions.
- GPG_TTY is used to allow gpg --cl to work with gpg-agent in a pipeline (passing text to sign in on stdin).
- External diff does the right thing for binaries even in foreign languages.

PAR::WebStart is a Perl implementation of Javas WebStart.

SYNOPSIS

my $file = hello.pnlp;
my $ws = PAR::WebStart->new(file => $file);
$ws->fetch_pars() or die $ws->{ERROR};

my $tmpdir = $ws->{tmpdir};
chdir($tmpdir) or die qq{Cannot chdir to "$tmpdir": $!});

my @args = @{$ws->run_command()};
die qq{Failed to get WebStart args: $ws->{ERROR}}) unless (@args);
system(@args) == 0 or die qq{Execution of system(@args) failed: $?};

This a Perl version of Javas WebStart technology; see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jws/developersguide/overview.html for details.

PAR-WebStart is a helper application associated with a browser. When a user clicks on a link that points to a PNLP [PAR Network Launch Protocol] launch file (a special XML file), it causes the browser to launch PAR-WebStart, which then automatically downloads, caches, and runs the specified PAR-based application.