Free comfort suites software for linux

FunkyMD Suite aims to provide Linux users with tools to title minidiscs using a portable Sony minidisc recorder and a self-made interface for the parallel port.

The project is currently run by Thomas Perl and was inspired by the great MDCOM interface (see links below for more information).

Easy Benchmarking Suite is aimed at testing and benchmarking sites. Basically, the suite can:
- Issue requests to a URL. A benchmark typically consists of a given number of clients that concurrently issue a number of requests. A request can be any HTTP request (GET, POST, HEAD etc.) with all necessary HTTP header information (session cookies, basic authentication information, etc.);
- Get a quick overview of the results of a benchmark: how many trials succeeded, what are the average times for connecting and processing, what is the standard deviation of these times;
- Prepare a GnuPlot command file so that the obtained results can be plotted.
This document describes the suite. Furthermore, manual pages are provided for the separate parts of the suite: sitebench, sitecollect, and siteplot.

Meldware Communication Suite is a platform independent groupware package consisting of:
Meldware Mail
Meldware Calendar
Meldware Webmail
Meldware Secure Administration System
Together the package provides support for thousands of users to concurrently send and receive email and schedule meetings. MCS uniquely allows you to store all messages and scheduling events in nearly any database and runs on nearly all popular software and hardware platforms.
Additionally, while the scheduling and calendaring services are able to be installed separately, the integrated featureset provides both a unique and powerful experience to both users and server-side Mail Based Applications and Collaboration Based Application Services.
The MCS platform provides security integration using LDAP sources including Microsoft Active Directory as well as flat-file and Database sources. Additionally, extensible security allows custom authentication/authorization sources.
Enhancements:
- IMAP is now stable with Mozilla Thunderbird and POP/SMTP are production ready.
- New Filestore code was implemented and many improvements were made in mailbox and storage code.

c42 Backup Suite is a simple python program for maintaining a central backup in a small, but distributed environment with a central file share. Basically it is a wrapper around the tar backup facility.
Main features:
- Common, simple configuration of backup tasks.
- Use same configuration for full and incremental backups.
- Provide a network wide index of backups.
- Separates creating and compressing of backup files
- Automatically delete outdated backup files.
- The rules which defines if a backup file is outdated or not are specified in the configuration.
- Provide a configuration mechanism that is strong enough to write general backup configurations, which can be shared between different machines and users.
A task is defined backup template. At invocation of the task it is determined if a full or incremental backup should be done.
The separation of creating and compressing of backup files allow the use on a client machine with low CPU resources. For client machines with big CPU resources or a small network bandwidth the compression can be done also on the client side.

FITpro for Eclipse allows easier creation of FIT tests and suites, more flexible test execution, and more.
Main features:
- Create Fit tests in WYSWIG HTML Editor
- Create suites, ordered collections of Fit tests and sub-suites.
- Execute tests and suites.
- Link from tests to related fixtures.
- Insert Test Template into a Fit test, based on an existing fixture.

The Open CORBA Benchmarking Suite measures several basic performance aspects of various CORBA brokers.
The suite produces an XML output that can be submitted to a searchable database of broker performance data and browsed in a graphical form. The suite is portable to a number of platforms and brokers.
For C++ brokers
Enter the "C++" directory. Then enter the subdirectory of that directory that corresponds to the broker of your choice. Check the README file there for further instructions, usually you will use "make" to compile the benchmark.
For Java brokers
Enter the "Java" and then the "build" directory. Then enter the subdirectory of that directory that corresponds to the broker of your choice. Check the README file there for further instructions, usually you will use "ant" to compile the benchmark "ant run" to execute the benchmark.
Understanding results
The results do not get printed until the benchmark is finished, which can take from 2 to 4 hours depending on the platform. The best way to view the results is to capture them to a file and view them graphically at http://nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz/~bench.
Enhancements:
- Support for system information on Linux 2.6 kernels.
- Slight extensions to the documentation.
- Support for some recent brokers on Solaris (VisiBroker 6.0, omniORB 4.0.5, JacORB 2.2.1).
- Support for some recent brokers on Linux (omniORB 4.0.5, JacORB 2.2.1, JDK 1.5.0, TAO 1.4.3).

Kumula is designed to become a complete software suite for business needs. Started as software for consultants, it is flexible enough to be used by almost any class of business. Kumula Business Suite provides a small CRM (Clients) and a Mini-DMS (Documents), enhanced by some other applications. Everybody is invited to use it or enhance it.
Kumula is written in Qt (http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/), PyQt and Python using the fabulous Eric3 development environment.
Enhancements:
- This is the last stable release before Ill port it to Qt4 (as "Kumula2"), so I feel free to call it "1.0".
- The whole suite is becoming bigger and bigger, so now its time to split it. This is the base package with the central Kumula library and the most important applications. The package contains the following programs:
BizCalc:
- The modular designed calculator tool, coming with a spartanic RPN calculator and an unit conversion module
Clients:
- The client/customer management application, with many improvements (like individual client attributes) and the modules "Info" (logo+description), "Contacts" (for managing contact persones, addresses and communication data) and "Tickets" (for letting the users talk about a client like on a web forum)
Configurator:
- The central configuration utility, to setup the database access and the user interface (menus, icons, ...) of all Kumula applications.
Users:
- A small tool for managing the people using Kumula.
- Further application will be provided in separate packages for easier maintenance and faster bugfixes and updates.