Free collective soul software for linux

IRC Collective software contains a parser, with a modular architecture that makes it flexible in the way it can process input and handle output. The output of the parser is primarily used to add to an SQL database that can in turn be queried by, e.g., a Web application (also provided).

The parser can be extended by defining new input formats and output handlers. It can help you stay up to date on the IRC channels that you visit regularly. You can write your own applications on top of the SQL database. You can search past conversations using the Web interface (results will be paged).

The Dead Souls MUD Library is a multi-user, text based adventure creation system.

Dead Souls project allows the user to build adventure games which can be played over the Internet simultaneously by many people. It is designed for both experienced and beginner MUD admins.

electricsheep software owes its name to Philip K. Dicks novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet.
When the screen-saver is activated, the screen goes black and an animated sheep appears. Behind the scenes, the screen-saver contacts a server and joins the parallel computation of new sheep.
Every fifteen minutes 24/7 a new sheep is born and distributed to all clients for display. Each sheep is an animated fractal flame.
The Interpretation of Dreams contains an artistic, conceptual, and technical explanation, or you can watch the streaming video documentary. Also available is a ten page academic paper to appear in EvoMusArt05.
Enhancements:
- The new libpng api is used, and libpng errors are handled properly.
- The window now has a name.
- The documentation was updated.
- The use of AC_OUTPUT was updated.
- Readonly parts of the cache are handled.
- Files partially downloaded by bittorrent are not played.
- The --show-errors option was added.

XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. The library supports major XML security standards:
- XML Signature
- XML Encryption
- Canonical XML
- Exclusive Canonical XML
XML Security Library is released under the MIT License see the Copyright file in the distribution for details.
PyXMLSec was originally developped for the Glasnost project. In 2003, the development of Glasnost is supported by the French Department of Economy, Finance and Industry, as part of the UCIP - Collective Use of Internet by SMEs - programme.
The Python interface has not yet reached the completeness of the C API but currently ~300 functions are already implemented.

Pie is a lightweight content management system for Web-sharing documents, files, and arbitrary pieces of information.
Pie is just another web-based content composition and management environment using the idea of collaborate editing and sharing, an idea that has been taken to great extends lately by a crusade called Wiki.
Although so-called content management systems existed long before, employing both, proprietary as well as standardized means, the Wiki mythos pushed this effort even farther.
As with XML, another internet hype, and one that is still based many illusions upon (careless marketing strategists and clueless mortals have conventionalized XML to be one of those black magic three-letter acronyms that, if inhaled properly, is able to cook coffee, change your kids nappies and, all things considered, makes you a better human being once youve accepted it and freely offer it your untainted soul), Wikis more and more come to the publics attention and you clearly classify yourself as an outsider if you do not embrace the new technologys blessing.
A projects or ideas popularity shares its symptoms with economic growth: once it is unleashed upon the populace, grapping and holding their and all bystanders attention, it can not be stopped anymore until, of course, the climax is reached and everyone turns away, bored to death.
Nevertheless, Pie is another attempt to bore people willing to pay attention, offering its services freely and obendiently to those who are willing to accept them.
Pie has been designed to be tasty and can be served with a variety of ingredients. Basically, it serves you by gladly feeding upon your mental output, this being mostly text, but also graphics, music, programs and other intellectual property.
Before you build up your illusions right away, at the very start, it should be mentioned that Pie is unable to cook coffee. This fact cannot be stressed and overemphasized enough. Being a content management system, Pie does lots of things for you, but it certainly cant cook coffee.
If this was one of your basic requirements, you may cut off here, right now, and go for a secretary instead. (Hopefully, you didnt take this barking of your shin too seriously. Yet, it might have saved you a lot of time, if properly prepared coffee really was what you were looking for.)
Imagine, just for a moment, that youd like to collect your thoughts, on any conceivable matter. You could handle this the conventional way by writing them down in your diary. Still, you are a modern person, always having preferred to employ technology whereever you can.
Consequently, you foreclosed, of course, to make use or your PCs text processing features, thus being able to edit, cut and paste, and move around and modify your text in whatever manner and as often as you like.
Let us take this scenario one step farther: you not only want to be able to manage your thoughts at home or at work, but virtually everywhere and anytime. Sure, you can use a laptop for this purpose. However, being a social being, you want others to participate and take in (or even contribute to) your ideas - again, anytime and everywhere, as long as the participants have access to moderate 20s century technology.
You may send your data and files back and forth, using e-mail, or you could even rely on more sophisicated technology, like CVS, or you could make use of your proprietary publishing softwares distributed auto-update feature to spread your latest thoughts to remote clients, the participants, anywhere in the Net. Alternatively, you might rely on one of the Nets most accepted means: the Web.
Doing so, not only enables you to refrain from ugly, expensive, proprietary software, but also connects you, and those with whom you intend to share your intellectual propery, using a simple, standardized means.
Main features:
- Quick page processing and short run-time latency
- Low system requirements (both, in regard of the running servers performance as well as the complexity of the installed software base)
- Independent of ODBC, SQL and other database systems, both, session-based and file-based
- Multi-user support
- Page locking
- Browsable and revertable page versioning
- Local link/referer verification
- Optional (semi-)automatic page expiration
- Customizable PCRE-patterns for pages and files
- A rather extensive user manual
- Localized user interface
- Optional directory hashing to handle large amounts of files
- Small and simple code library
- Easily adaptable and extendable to personal needs
- Weighs less than 200 blocks (i. e. 100 KB), including online documentation
- Supports many common HTML directives, including tables
- XHTML 1.0 clean output
- Peachy
Enhancements:
- The code library has been completely rewritten, focusing on extendability and abstraction.
- All low-level functions have been implemented as OO classes.
- Both pages and files support an arbitrary number of versions, limited only by the capacity of the underlying file system.
- Usability has been improved.
- Most operations are selectable from drop-down menus via mouse clicks or Editing Mode.
- Editing has been fine-tuned.
- Text can be marked and, by clicking a button, applied various markup properties.

goblinhackis a rogue-like game with ASCII graphics, OpenGL, and smooth scrolling.
Goblins hoard in their foul, dark hole, Plotting and digging and hating all things, Theyll gnash on your bones and eat you whole, And deliver your soul to the Goblin King.
Enhancements:
- This release adds animated black, white, and amethyst dragons, jelly molds, evil blobs, knee gnashers, fractal lakes, fate points, acid weapons, fire/cold/acid proof armour, and many bugfixes.

Americas Army is one of the five most popular action games played online. It provides players with the most authentic military experience available, from exploring the development of Soldiers in individual and collective training to their deployment in simulated missions in the War on Terror.
Americas Army: Special Forces is the follow-up to Americas Army: Operations, which was released on July 4, 2002.
In Americas Army: Special Forces, players attempt to earn Green Beret status by completing individual and collective training missions drawn from the Special Forces Assignment and Selection (SFAS) process.
Players who complete the SFAS process have the opportunity to take on elite Special Forces roles and are qualified to play in multiplayer missions with units ranging from the elite 82d Airborne Division to the 75th Ranger Regiment.
Includes the complete game Americas Army: Operations.
Main features:
- Authentic U.S. Army experience Realistic depiction of the values, units, equipment and career opportunities that make the Army the worlds premier land force continually updated to incorporate new occupations, units, technologies and adventures.
- Realistic roles Including Weapons Specialist (18B), Intelligence (18F), Engineer (18C), Communications (18E) and Combat Medic (18D).
- Challenging Green Beret training Complete training missions drawn from the SFAS process at Fort Bragg. Successfully complete SFAS and advance to Special Forces Qualification Course (Q-Course) missions to explore new Special Forces roles.
- Intense Special Forces action Intense Special Forces action Experience multiplayer missions in simulated combat environments. Take part in missions that span the capabilities of a Special Forces detachment, including unconventional warfare, direct action, surveillance and reconnaissance and Combat Search and Rescue.
- Detailed Special Forces equipment and military hardware Building on the equipment available in Americas Army: Operations, Americas Army: Special Forces adds the M4 Carbine featuring the Picatinny rail mod system for attaching laser-aiming devices and sighting systems; the MP5SD6 Remington 870 shotgun for forced entry; the AT4, a shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket and the BDM, a shoulder-fired bunker demolition munition.
- Accurate Soldier behavior Players are bound by the laws of land warfare, Army values (honor, duty and integrity) and realistic rules of engagement as they navigate challenges in teamwork-based multiplayer force vs. force operations. Mission accomplishment standings are evaluated based on team effort and adherence to a set of values and norms of conduct.

The FlightGear flight simulator project is an open-source, multi-platform, cooperative flight simulator development project. Source code for the entire project is available and licensed under the GNU General Public License.

The goal of the FlightGear project is to create a sophisticated flight simulator framework for use in research or academic environments, for the development and pursuit of other interesting flight simulation ideas, and as an end-user application. We are developing a sophisticated, open simulation framework that can be expanded and improved upon by anyone interested in contributing.

There are many exciting possibilities for an open, free flight sim. We hope that this project will be interesting and useful to many people in many areas.

FlightGear is a free flight simulator project. It is being developed through the gracious contributions of source code and spare time by many talented people from around the globe. Among the many goals of this project are the quest to minimize short cuts and "do things right", the quest to learn and advance knowledge, and the quest to have better toys to play with.

The idea for Flight Gear was born out of a dissatisfaction with current commercial PC flight simulators. A big problem with these simulators is their proprietariness and lack of extensibility. There are so many people across the world with great ideas for enhancing the currently available simulators who have the ability to write code, and who have a desire to learn and contribute. Many people involved in education and research could use a spiffy flight simulator frame work on which to build their own projects; however, commercial simulators do not lend themselves to modification and enhancement. The Flight Gear project is striving to fill these gaps.

There are a wide range of people interested and participating in this project. This is truly a global effort with contributors from just about every continent. Interests range from building a realistic home simulator out old airplane parts, to university research and instructional use, to simply having a viable alternative to commercial PC simulators.

Flight Dynamics Models

With FlightGear it is possible to choose between three primary Flight Dynamics Models. It is possible to add new dynamics models or even interface to external "proprietary" flight dynamics models:

1. JSBSim: JSBSim is a generic, 6DoF flight dynamics model for simulating the motion of flight vehicles. It is written in C++. JSBSim can be run in a standalone mode for batch runs, or it can be the driver for a larger simulation program that includes a visuals subsystem (such as FlightGear.) In both cases, aircraft are modeled in an XML configuration file, where the mass properties, aerodynamic and flight control properties are all defined.

2. YASim: This FDM is an integrated part of FlightGear and uses a different approach than JSBSim by simulating the effect of the airflow on the different parts of an aircraft. The advantage of this approach is that it is possible to perform the simulation based on geometry and mass information combined with more commonly available performance numbers for an aircraft. This allows for quickly constructing a plausibly behaving aircraft that matches published performance numbers without requiring all the traditional aerodynamic test data.

3. UIUC: This FDM is based on LaRCsim originally written by the NASA. UIUC extends the code by allowing aircraft configuration files instead and by adding code for simulation of aircraft under icing conditions.

UIUC (like JSBSim) uses lookup tables to retrieve the component aerodynamic force and moment coefficients for an aircraft... and then uses these coefficients to calculate the sum of the forces and moments acting on the aircraft.

Extensive and Accurate World Scenery Data Base

Over 20,000 real world airports included in the full scenery set.
Correct runway markings and placement, correct runway and approach lighting.
Taxiways available for many larger airports (even including the green center line lights when appropriate.)
Sloping runways (runways change elevation like they usually do in real life.)
Directional airport lighting that smoothly changes intensity as your relative view direction changes.
World scenery fits on 3 DVDs. (Im not sure thats a feature or a problem!) But it means we have pretty detailed coverage of the entire world.
Accurate terrain worldwide, based on the most recently released SRTM terrain data.) 3 arc second resolution (about 90m post spacing) for North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Scenery includes all vmap0 lakes, rivers, roads, railroads, cities, towns, land cover, etc.
Nice scenery night lighting with ground lighting concentrated in urban areas (based on real maps) and headlights visible on major highways. This allows for realistic night VFR flying with the ability to spot towns and cities and follow roads.
Scenery tiles are paged (loaded/unloaded) in a separate thread to minimize the frame rate hit when you need to load new areas.

Accurate and Detailed Sky Model

FlightGear implements extremely accurate time of day modeling with correctly placed sun, moon, stars, and planets for the specified time and date. FlightGear can track the current computer clock time in order to correctly place the sun, moon, stars, etc. in their current and proper place relative to the earth. If its dawn in Sydney right now, its dawn in the sim right now when you locate yourself in virtual Sidney. The sun, moon, stars, and planets all follow their correct courses through the sky. This modeling also correctly takes into account seasonal effects so you have 24 hour days north of the arctic circle in the summer, etc. We also illuminate the correctly placed moon with the correctly placed sun to get the correct phase of the moon for the current time/date, just like in real life.

Flexible and Open Aircraft Modeling System

FlightGear has the ability to model a wide variety of aircraft. Currently you can fly the 1903 Wright Flyer, strange flapping wing "ornithopters", a 747 and A320, various military jets, and several light singles. FlightGear has the ability to model those aircraft and just about everything in between.

FlightGear has extremely smooth and fluid instrument animation that updates at the same rate as your out-the-window view updates (i.e. as fast as your computer can crank, and not artificially limited and chunky like in some sims.)

FlightGear has the infrastructure to allow aircraft designers to build fully animated, fully operational, fully interactive 3d cockpits (which even update and display correctly from external chase plane views.)

FlightGear realistically models real world instrument behavior. Instruments that lag in real life, lag correctly in FlightGear, gyro drift is modeled correctly, the magnetic compass is subject to aircraft body forces -- all those things that make real world flying a challenge.

FlightGear also accurately models many instrument and system failures. If the vacuum system fails, the HSI gyros spin down slowly with a corresponding degradation in response as well as a slowly increasing bias/error.

Moderate Hardware Requirements

The intention of FlightGear is to look nice, but not at the expense of other aspects of a realistic simulator. Our focus is not on competing in the "game" market and not on the ultra-flashy graphic tricks.

The result is a simulator with moderate hardware requirements to run at smooth frame rates. You can be reasonably happy on a $500-1000 (USD) machine (possibly even less if you are careful) and dont necessarily need $3000 (USD) worth of new hardware like you do with the many of the newest games.

That said, the more hardware you throw at FlightGear, the better it looks and runs, so dont feel like you have to chuck your expensive new hardware if you just purchased it. :-)

Internal Properties EXPOSED!

FlightGear allows users and aircraft designers access to a very large number of internal state variables via numerous internal and external access mechanisms. These state variables are organized into a convenient hierarchal "property" tree.

Using the properties tree it is possible to monitor just about any internal state variable in FlightGear. Its possible to remotely control FlightGear from an external script. You can create model animations, sound effects, instrument animations and network protocols for about any situation imaginable just by editing a small number of human readable configuration files. This is a powerful system that makes FlightGear immensely flexible, configurable, and adaptable.

Networking options

A number of networking options allow FlightGear to communicate with other instances of FlightGear, GPS receivers, external flight dynamics modules, external autopilot or control modules, as well as other software such as the Open Glass Cockpit project and the Atlas mapping utility.

A generic input/output option allows for a user defined output protocol to a file, serial port or network client.

A multi player protocol is available for using FlightGear on a local network in a multi aircraft environment, for example to practice formation flight or for tower simulation purposes.

The powerful network options make it possible to synchronize several instances of FlightGear allowing for a multi-display, or even a cave environment. If all instances are running at the same frame rate consistently, it is possible to get extremely good and tight synchronization between displays.

Flight Gear and its source code have intentionally been kept open, available, and free. In doing so, we are able to take advantage of the efforts of tremendously talented people from around the world. Contrast this with the traditional approach of commercial software vendors, who are limited by the collective ability of the people they can hire and pay. Our approach brings its own unique challenges and difficulties, but we are confident (and other similarly structured projects have demonstrated) that in the long run we can outclass the commercial "competition."

Contributing to Flight Gear can be educational and a lot of fun. A long time developer, Curtis Olson, had this to say about working on Flight Gear:

Personally, Flight Gear has been a great learning experience for me. I have been exposed to many new ideas and have learned a tremendous amount of "good stuff" in the process of discussing and implementing various Flight Gear subsystems. If for no other reason, this alone makes it all worth while.