Free couple software for linux

kcurses are some simple widgets and ui abstractions for ncurses, to handle list boxes, vi-like editing fields, mouse selections, and the like.

Why?
Because sometimes gui programs are more annoying than helpful. web interfaces suck, and gtk/qt programs take up too much real estate, require too much mousing, and i find the apis a little too heavyweight for what i often need. i needed a simple curses-based database editor, and, finding no widgets that i needed, had to write my own.

Installation:
get the source
do the usual ./configure --help; ./configure; make; rigamarole
test by running make test. you should see a couple programs float by.
make install, to taste

JavaNativeCompiler (JNC) is a Java to native compiler. The project allows AOT (ahead of time) compilation of your Java applications. With JNC, you can create real standalone native binaries (.exe on Windows) which will no longer depend on a JRE.
This is especially useful when applications have to be deployed to end-users. All vexatious problems of deploying Java applications can be solved by compiling them to native. They will be:
- Easy to deploy
No JRE dependency. Most end-users dont know what they have installed.
No more problems on how to create an executable file out of a JAR or class file.
- Hard to decompile
Java can easily be decompiled. Native compilation will protect your source code.
- Run fast from the start
No more overhead for loading a JRE.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a couple of problems with AWT/Swing and XML.
- It also once again contains a version for Linux.
- The compiler binary downloads are smaller.

Clabbers is an anagram tool aimed towards solving Scrabble racks. Clabbers project consists of a couple of Perl scripts, a word list, and an SQL schema.

It was designed for use with PostgreSQL, though it could be ported to other database backends.

WMCpu is a dockapp CPU monitor resembling Xosview. Displays system/user/nice/idle CPU statistics, and also system uptime. Supports 2.2 or 2.4 kernels.

This is a pretty boring looking CPU monitor dockapp. Its not sexy, not fast, and not really useful either. This is something I started back in 1998 and I guess I really havent had time to play with it since then.

T. Sander sent me a couple fixes for the display problems, so I got motivated to look at this mess and see what I can do with it.

If you havent used XosView, this might be a little puzzling for you. But what you need to do is get XosView and run it for a few minutes and youll understand what this dockapp does.

Installation:

1) % tar -zxvf wmcpu-1.3.tar.gz
2) % cd wmcpu-1.3
3) % make
4) % make install
5) % wmcpu & (or wmcpu -h for help)

Clewarecontrol lets you control the USB-devices made by Cleware GmbH.
It allows you to measure the temperature or humidity, switch on and off and configure switches, control the watchdog, etc.
The package consists of clewaretool - the tool to manage the Cleware devices under Linux.
Also youll find in the examples-directory a couple of scripts:
- a script to generate graphs using RRDtool
- a script for nagios that monitores the temperature and raises an alarm if something goes wrong
- a startup script for RHEL/SLES/Debian/Ubuntu which starts the watchdog functionality
Tested on:
- Debian etch (on a 64 bit cpu)
- Fedora core 7
- RedHat Enterprise Linux 5
- SuSE Enterprise Linux 10
- Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (version 7.04)
- ...but it should also work with other systems running a recent Linux kernel.
Enhancements:
- One can now reprogram switching devices to become a watchdog, autoreset, or switch device.
- Numerous examples have been added on how to use the Cleware devices with this tool on Linux.
- A couple of cosmetic fixes have been made that may clarify how to use the tool with the devices.
- The man page has been updated.

Minicom is a serial communication program. minicom is a Unix clone of the well-known MS-DOS Telix program.
It has ANSI color, a dialing directory, dial-a-list, and a scripting language.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes bugs, cleans up code, and adds a couple of translations.

Menu File Browser Applet is an applet for the GNOME Panel. It lets you browse and open files in your home directory from the panel, without having to open a file manager. The project is not intended as replacement to proper file managers like nautilus. Sometimes you just want to open a file and dont want to have to open a file manager, browse to and open the file, then close the file manager. This Applet just saves you couple of clicks.
Main features:
- Browse and open files in your home directory from the panel
- Respects GNOME mime type options and includes mime icon in menu
- Middle clicking in a directory header will open a terminal in that directory

vpn is a SuperKaramba theme that puts a VPN text on your desktop: in green if the VPN is up, red if it isnt.

Then, clicking the text will start/stop the VPN and change the colour accordingly.

You can change the commands to start/stop the VPN by editing a couple of variables in the python code.