Free microsoft software for linux

Brutus is an Open Source connector for Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003, to put it short. Our aim is to scratch one of the most annoying itches that the Open Source community have endured. This particular itch has been experienced for almost a decade.
The problem that we are addressing is the problem of platform independent access for client applications to Microsoft Exchange from version 5.5 onwards.
Our solution to this problem will enable a feature-by-feature compatible Microsoft Outlook replacement for Linux, Microsoft Windows, the BSDs or almost any other platform.
How do we do it?
We have developed a CORBA based framework on top of the Messaging Application Programming Interface commonly known as MAPI.
Our development framework is offering client applications MAPI based access to any MS Exchange server from version 5.5 onwards. We believe that we are providing the Open Source community with a development framework that are superior to any other approach.
Our solution is distributed under the GNU General Public License (commonly known as the "GPL") or a commercial license.
Why do we do it?
We feel that there is a strong customer need for a non-Microsoft client application with full Exchange integration that is feature-by-feature comparable with Microsoft Outlook.
The only technically feasible way to achieve this level of integration is to build a client access framework on top of MAPI.
Out strategy is therefore to provide this framework to the Open Source community free of charge under the GPL and to the any commercial entity under a commercial license.
Enhancements:
- Support for OpenSUSE 10.2 was added.
- brutus-keyring is now used instead of gnome-keyring.
- A thread storm when updating the folder summary is now avoided.

Elisa Media Center project was designed to create an open source cross platform media center solution. While our primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems we also currently support Microsoft Windows and also hope to support MacOSX in the future.

Elisa runs on top of the GStreamer multimedia framework. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, Elisa will also interoperate with devices following the DLNA standard like Intels ViiV systems.

Vista Basic provides a theme similar to Microsoft Vista.

window borders similar to those of Microsoft Vista when using non Aero compatible software (such as JRE 6 or Photoshop CS 2)

KPopup is a program, for sending and receiving Microsoft WinPopup messages.
Its programmed under the GNU GPL2.
Enhancements:
- add sticky bit to KPopup message directory (thanks to Romain Beauxis)
- excecute "make create_kpopup_data_dir" to change the permissions

gfourcc is a tool for changing fourcc in Microsoft RIFF AVI files.

Identifies the codec used in AVI files (*.avi) and allow the user to change the FourCC description code (like fourcc-changer in Windows).

Useful for people working with Microsoft AVI file. A Linux clone of AviC fourcc changer tool

ms-sys is a Linux program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records. The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written.

It is also able to do the same as Microsoft "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy any system files, only the boot record is written.

The program is useful when using Linux to restore a backup of a reference
Microsoft Windows installation.

Installation:

Step 1, unpack the archive:

tar -xzvf ms-sys*.tgz

Step 2, compile:

cd ms-sys
make

Step 3, become root and install

su (and give password)
make install

Gemello is a forms front end for PostgreSQL on GTK. Gemello project is written in Python and uses Python as the trigger language.

Abu combines design concepts of Oracle Forms and Microsoft Access. It is meant to be simple and lean yet powerful enough to support scalable applications.