Free beta software for linux

Ah3 project is an invoicing and inventory system for repair shops. Out of the box it is focused towards autmotive repair shops but can be readily changed for any sort of shop without any knowledge of coding or recompiling the application.
Main features:
- Customer and vehicle database
- Inventory management
- Customizable invoice generation
- Forms which can be redily customized without code changes
- Minimal data changes from Ah2
- Building on MS Windows is possible

Chotha is a blog client written in PyQt4. This is mainly for wordpress, will add support for others later. It is having basic HTML tag editing capabilities with saving blog entries locally in the system.

You can also save it as draft in the server. You can preview your entry either in Firefox or in Konqueror. Or else you can click and go to visual mode to see quick preview (without images).

XTAS provides a Java library for XML.
XTAS (XML Transformation And Storing) XML Java API aimed to *manipulation* XML data from both: non-persistent source that can be generated programmatically (Java stream, DOM, Mapped Java-Object for instance) and persistent source that can be retrieved/stored in/from some XML-enabled "Resource" (XML file or XML enabled DB for instance) with or without validation rules, locally or remotely.
Main features:
- Simple yet powerful XML selection/modification API.
- XSLT/Xpath based query engine.
- Querying both persistent(Resource) and not persistent(generated programmatically) XML sources.
- Pluggable Resources
- XML Validation supporting
- Java Object/XML mapping, [un]marshalling
- Local and Client/Server environment

TorK project is a Tor Controller for KDE.

TorK allows you to configure, run and update Tor. It also allows you to view the Tor network and choose how you would like to interact with the network.

TorK is very much in an alpha state.

Mirro is an application used to find the closest mirror to your connection.

Mirro will find the closest mirror to your connection, given a file containing addresses. It pings every site extremely quickly, and sorts the reponses based on the number of hops and the round-trip time.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Accha is a program intended to help people learn the Hindi alphabet (Devanagari). Accha is written in Java/Swing, and should run equally well on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux computers.
Main features:
- Unicode display of Devanagari
- Audio of correct pronunciation
- Choose which letters to study
- Phonetic textual input (i.e. "sa" for ?)
- Display of previous right answer
Enhancements:
- This release updates Unicode functionality to work in the Windows operating system.
- Previously, it depended on Javas autodetection of the character set of the input file, which Linux and OS X did correctly, but Windows failed to do.
- It now specifically sets the character set to UTF-8 for Windows benefit.

MKSearch provides a Web metadata spider and search engine.

MKSearch is a metadata search engine that indexes structured metadata in Web documents instead of free text in the document body.

The data acquisition system conforms to the Dublin Core metadata in HTML recommendations, and supports other application profiles, such as the UK e-Government Metadata Standard.

It also indexes native RDF formats, including RSS 1.0. The system has five major components: a Web crawler, an HTML document validator and formatter, a set of custom indexers, an RDF storage and query system, and a public query interface, provided through a standard servlet container.

System composition

The MKSearch system is composed of several other free software components. Further details are provided in the MKSearch development plans.

JSpider
JSpider is a Java Web crawler engine that has pluggable interfaces that can be used to add custom processing and content handling. MKSearch uses custom SAX-based content handlers for extracting metadata from Web documents.

Sesame
Sesame is a set of RDF processing and storage APIs and applications that includes RDF data query facilities. MKSearch uses Sesame to store indexed metadata in RDF format and to search the repository via the public query interface.

JTidy
JTidy is a utility for correcting common HTML markup errors and is used to convert HTML documents to XHTML so they can be processed using SAX.

phpDEV project provides a framework for any php development. It includes users, setting, session, elements and template management as a base to build upon. All base functionality has full web based management included, where you take it from there is up to you.
Enhancements:
- Bus fixes and large amount of polishing