Free communication environment software for linux

breve is a free, open-source software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of decentralized systems and artificial life.
Users define the behaviors of agents in a 3D world and observe how they interact. breve includes physical simulation and collision detection so you can simulate realistic creatures, and an OpenGL display engine so you can visualize your simulated worlds.
breve simulations are written in an easy to use language called steve. The language is object-oriented and borrows many features from languages such as C, Perl and Objective C, but even users without previous programming experience will find it easy to jump in. More information on the steve language can be found in the documentation section.
breve features an extensible plugin architecture which allows you to write your own plugins and interact with your own code. Writing plugins is simple and allows you to expand breve to work with existing projects. Plugins have been written in breve to generate MIDI music, download web pages, interact with a Lisp environment and interact with the "push" language.
Enhancements:
- An experimental Python language bridge is now available.
- There were also fixes related to Push language support and fixes for broken demos.

Interactive BDD Environment project is a shell like utility for working with ROBDDs.

IBEN is a tool used for teaching Reduced Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams.

It allows the student to work with ROBDDs without learning a complex C or C++ interface to an ROBDD package.

One can enter the expressions interactively, and view the result as a graph or ask questions about the ROBDD, such as the number of nodes in the ROBDD.

Cell Electrophysiology Simulation Environment (CESE) is a comprehensive framework specifically designed to perform computational electrophysiological simulations, for example, simulations of cardiac myocyte electrical activity.
Cell Electrophysiology Simulation Environment is useful for simulations of action potentials, individual ionic currents, and changes in ionic concentrations.
CESE is a cross-platform program, it runs on any system that has Java runtime environment (JRE) version 1.4 or above. It was tested on Windows, Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, and AIX.
CESE users
CESE is an integrated environment for performing computational simulations using a variety of electrophysiological models.
At this stage CESE allows creation and execution of the single-cell models (containing both Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) and Markovian current formulations). Models of electrical activity of cardiac myocytes with source code are included in the CESE distribution. We hope to extend the number of available models, and add certain neuronal models in the future.
The main strength of CESE is in its uniformity ? a program interface remains the same for different types of models. You can easily switch between models and compare simulation outputs. Model parameters can be modified, selected for output and/or clamped in the same, standard way.
CESE extends the conventional electrophysiological meaning of the "voltage clamp". You can clamp virtually any model variable, including voltage (membrane potential), total or individual ionic currents, ionic concentrations, temperature, gating variables, etc. The clamping commands can be complex piece-wise functions, individually set for the model variable of interest. This opens endless possibilities for the exploration of complex model behavior.
CESE provides simple, but efficient data visualizations. Simulation results can be presented in the graphic and tabulated forms. Plots can be customized, and regions of interest zoomed.
Even though CESE was not designed to be a data analysis tool, you can generate current-voltage relationships (I-Vs) and calculate statistical parameters for a given signal within the program. You can export your data to ASCII, Axon Text File (ATF), and NetCDF formats to continue analysis in your favorite package.
CESE developers
CESE was created from the ground up to incorporate the best programming practices available to Java developers, both in terms of user interface consistency and code clarity and reuse. Wherever possible, CESE rely on available Java APIs (for example Java2D, JavaBeans, JAXP) to simplify the code.
Model creation requires a number of house-keeping functions to be coded ? these include ODE integrators, routines for handling model parameters, saving/restoring model state, visualizing simulation results, etc. CESE provides you with implementation for these routines, hence, you can concentrate on writing the code for concrete ionic current(s), and CESE will handle the rest.
CESE is not trying to create complicated programming frameworks on its own ? rather, it utilizes core Java APIs. For example, models are Java components conforming to the JavaBeans specification. We use XML to specify clamping commands, and Java object serialization to save/restore model parameters.
Enhancements:
- This release improves results printing, adds export to the scalable vector graphics (SVG) format, improves support for continuous simulations, and fixes many bugs in plot rendering and model switching.

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.

Equinox Desktop Environment (shortly EDE) is small desktop environment, builted to be simple and fast.
Comparing to other desktop environments, EDE is much faster and smaller in memory space (EDEs window manager use less memory than xterm).
The word "equinox" comes from the Latin for "equal night". The equinoxes in March and September are the two occasions each year when the day and the night are of equal duration.
For measuring the length of a day, sunrise is the moment when the sun is half-above the horizon and sunset is the moment when the sun is half-under the horizon. Using this definition, the length of the day (and the night) is precisely 12 hours at an equinox.
Main features:
- desktop with icons and wallpaper;
- Xft font anti-aliasing;
- taskbar with configurable menu, cpu status, easy keyboard switching;
- theming;
- localization;
Graphical front-end for:
- xscreensaver configuration;
- software installation (.rpm, .deb, .tgz);
- time and time-zone configuration;
- fast file and directory serch utility;

Inter-Thread Communication (ITC) aims to make it exceedingly easy to call functions in other threads.
The lexer does all the work, so just run the lexer on your headers, then call the stub functions.
In addition, it also provides a complete threading API, with the four threading primitives and a high speed threadsafe FIFO class.
Enhancements:
- It add support for GCC 4.x, and the build system is fixed.