Free flavor software for linux

Onyx is a powerful stack-based, multi-threaded, interpreted, general purpose programming language similar to PostScript. It can be embedded as an extension language similarly to ficl (Forth), guile (scheme), librep (lisp dialect), s-lang, Lua, and Tcl.
Main features:
- Onyx provides truly scalable threading that utilizes the operating systems native POSIX threading.
- Onyx can be configured over 1000 different ways, depending on the needs of the program that it is being embedded into. This makes it possible to use Onyx in restricted environments like boot loaders and operating system kernels, without sacrificing functionality that is useful for general purpose programming.
- Onyx is perhaps the most advanced stack-based general purpose programming language in existence (not that there are many others). Here are some examples of how Onyx improves on previous stack-based languages:
- - Stacks are first class objects. This may seem like a basic feature, but neither Forth nor PostScript provide stacks, despite the obvious usefulness in a stack-based language.
- - Stacks are double-ended. This means that one stack can effectively be treated as two stacks, which can simplify stack management considerably.
- - Onyx has superb introspection capabilities. Onyx comes with no debugger per se, because there is essentially no need for one.
- A comprehensive set of operators that provide access to POSIX system functionality, such as file I/O, process creation and control, and signal handling.
- Both UDP/ and TCP/IP networking.
- Perl-compatible regular expressions.
- Loadable module system. Onyx can be extended by modules, which can be written in a combination of C/C++ and Onyx. This provides a clean interface for writing large programs with a modular design, where the performance-critical portions of the program are written in a compiled language.
- Object-oriented programming (OOP) support. Onyxs OOP support has a flavor similar to that of Objective-C, which is highly dynamic and powerful.
- Automatic memory management. Memory is managed by an automatic mark and sweep garbage collector that has very low overhead.
- Onyxs syntax is suitable both for code and data, which means that configuration files and databases can be read, written, and stored as Onyx code.

Ubuntu Studio project is a multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

We provide a suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination.

Audio

Our aim is to assemble suites of applications aimed at creative people. Suites including the best open-source applications available.
For instance, Ardour 2 - A multitrack recorder/editor geared toward people familiar with Pro-Tools.

Graphics

Graphic design and modeling applications including The GIMP, Inkscape and Blender. Along with plugins like dcraw to help with RAW camera files and wacom-tools for people with Wacom drawing tablets.

Video

PiTiVi, Kino, Cinepaint are included for video creation. We hope to provide a creative environment to people as well as give a spotlight to some amazing open-source applications.

Let the creativity fly...

sidux is a desktop-oriented distribution and live CD based on the unstable branch of Debian GNU/Linux. This project was originally created by a group of developers who split from the KANOTIX project and launched their own distribution.
Main features:
- After three months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2007-02 for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a 425 MB lite KDE and a 690 MB full KDE flavor. Our second official sidux release has concentrated on overhauling the early boot sequence and adapting to a wider variety of desktop environments and window managers. While this release only ships in two KDE flavors (lite and full) again, were looking for interested maintainers contributing to special purpose releases or tweaking support for other desktop environments and window managers.
Enhancements:
- After less than three months of development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of sidux 2007-03 Gaia for amd64 and i686 systems, shipping in a 440 MB lite KDE and a 700 MB full KDE flavors. Our third official sidux release concentrates on overhauling the SysV init sequence of the live CD, refactoring the installer backend, and laying the foundation for proper gettext localisations of our toolset, with additional efforts regarding general clean up and obsoleting the GTK+ 1.2 tools, while shipping kernel 2.6.22.3-rc1, using libata for most PATA chipsets, additional support for Intel IPW3945/4965, Realtek RTL8187 and RT2x00 wireless LAN devices has been added.

RemoteJ is an application for adding Bluetooth remote control capability to Sony Ericssons mobile phones such as the K750, W800, Z520, W600, W550, and W900 series.
RemoteJ project offers an extendable, configurable interface system that uses XML configuration files.
It can be used to control your music player, video player, or PC-TV using a menu appearing in your mobile phones menu.
Whats New in 0.1.6 Stable Release:
- Log cleanup (the info level is much cleaner).
- Some bugs have been fixed (global event triggering and event heaping).
- There is some Gnome flavor addition/cleanup in menu.xml.
- build.xml has been added for developers.
Whats New in 0.2.0 Alpha Development Release:
- SE t610 (and alike maybe: T68, T68i, T300, T310, T610, Z600, T230/T238/T226, T630, T290, K700i) support added (alpha testing phase)

DSS also know as Debased Scripts Set project is dedicated to providing you with a "System Development Environment" to create your own DEbian BASED Live Linux System.
Normally youre stuck with the type and amount of applications the creator decided to include, now you can customize the system to fit your needs, by generating on-the-fly compressed modules (layers) including additional software .
The idea is to dont "debase" the Default Debian System, for this pourpose has been designed the USS (The Upstream Salmon Struct).
In this way youll have a knoppix like HW autodetection and autoconfiguration flavor without affecting the standard system.
DSS can be used to:
- create your own live distribution
- put together a demo disk to show off the power of our favourite OS
- build a portable system to install on external USB/FIREWIRE HD and boot it up.
- backup you system and run it from a CD/DVD
- build a morphix base module

StartCom Linux operating systems, are initially based on the RedHat Enterprise AS-3 source code with reliability, security and efficiency in mind, modified to fit the various tasks each flavor of StartCom Linux is assigned to.
In order to choose the right StartCom Linux version for your needs, check out our Products and Distributions page for more information.
View the Screenshots to get an idea how StartCom Linux looks.
StartCom Ltd., a small software house located in the south of Israel. The city of Eilat, at the Red Sea, is famous as a tourist resort, but now also, because its the home of StartCom Linux.
StartCom used to develop applications and websites for local and international customers and operates MediaHostï¿1⁄2 since 1999. StartCom is also a specialist for Linux related implementations. The decision to produce StartCom Linux was made in May 2004.
Enhancements:
- Ahead of a busy spring season and in anticipation of new StartCom Enterprise Linux AS-5 and StartCom MultiMedia Edition ML-6 comes an updated release of the Advanced Server 4 series. The fifth release of this enterprise class operating system is the natural combined continuation of the previously released AS-4 distribution, which includes security updates and minor adjustments. Notable are an updated kernel, security updates for PHP, Firefox and Thunderbird, but also some additions and improvements for smart cards and hardware tokens.

polyBSD is a "multi"-purpose (hence "poly") framework for building embedded systems based on NetBSD.

Of the three major *BSD flavors, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are often in the spotlight.
FreeBSD is touted for its stability, while OpenBSD usually claims the title of
the most secure operatin system available.

However, the third flavor (NetBSD) is what many consider to be the unsung hero - it has features that rival those of both FreeBSD and OpenBSD however is not often seen in the news. NetBSD has arguably the cleanest code base of all open source operating systems this fact has unforseen effect on its overall features. The reason for
NetBSDs clean code is the its stated goal to run on as many hardware architecture
as possible. In order to do that, the team behind NetBSD has been forced to write
code that is portable and easy to debug.

Portable code is achieved by using mostly libraries and functions that are likely to compile and run well on most platforms. In addition, in order to be able to reliably port the code to over 40 different architecture, the code has to be well written so that a large group of people can look at and understand it well so they can modify it easily and port it to a new architecture. But how does that translate into stability and security touted by FreeBSD and OpenBSD respectively. Well, clean code usually translates directly into stability - one cant expect a messy code to perform well or be easy to debug.

Clean code also leads to improved security - security bugs are easy to spot and
correct. Also the portability of the code ensures that only standard libraries
and functions are used. However, those standard libarries and functions are the
ones that have been around longer, which means they have been well tested and are
likely to contain the fewest number of security bugs.

The one feature that FreeBSD had long been able to claim exclusively is that in
terms of performance it blows all other *BSD flavors out of the water when it
comes to the i386 architecture.

However, this crown was recently captured by NetBSD thanks to an extensive performance benchmarking, the results of which are referenced on the section "NetBSD tools" on this site. So to sum it all up, NetBSD is no longer simply the portability prodigy on the block. It is a fast, rock-solid and secure operating system that can successfully meet the demands of the modern enterprise. Thats the reason for it being used by the people behind this project to build some tools that will hopefully be useful.

radlib is a C language library developed to abstract details of interprocess communications and common linux/unix system facilities so that application developers can concentrate on application solutions.
It encourages developers (whether expert or novice) to use a proven paradigm of event-driven, asynchronous design.
By abstracting interprocess messaging, events, timers, and any I/O device that can be represented as a file descriptor, radlib simplifies the implementation of multi-purpose processes, as well as multi-process applications.
radlib greatly improves typical process performance through the use of shared memory buffers to avoid costly "malloc" and "free" library calls.
These buffers are also used for interprocess messages. radlib also utilizes shared memory constructs to provide global message queue management and global "Queue Groups" for increased interprocess communications flexibility.
All shared resources are semaphore protected to avoid issues with concurrent access.
In short, radlib is a sincere attempt to provide real-time OS capability on a non-real-time OS. It has been successfully deployed on linux, MacOSX and FreeBSD but there is no reason it would not build and run on any flavor of unix supporting System V IPC.
Specifically, radlib provides fast system buffers, a simple config file utility, events, doubly-linked lists, process logging through syslog, message queues, semaphores, shared memory utilities, timers, stacks, state machine utilities, a process framework, a process management utility to start/stop groups of processes, optional MySQL or PostgreSQL database API, straightforward TCP/streams socket API, and other assorted system utilities.
Enhancements:
- hanged some database field processing to comply with the postgresql changes made in version 8.