Free desktop standard software for linux

Desktop Drapes is a wallpaper manager application for the gnome desktop.

It has features (period) Features like, randomly changing your wallpaper every once in a while, or whenever you fell like it.

It can also automaticaly pickup any wallpapers you added to a directory with the ninja magic of inotify. Desktop Drapes is written using C# (mono) with the help of Gtk#/Gnome#.

Asterisk Desktop Manager application interfaces your VOIP telephony with the desktop and Asterisk PBX.
Asterisk Desktop Manager aims to integrate your desktop with the Asterisk PBX and hardware IP phone by providing some useful features such as automatic on-call volume reduction, one click dialling (from the clipboard), BlueTooth presence detection and automatic call redirection when you walk out of the office, a pop up browser on call, and transfer of the current call from the desktop.
Enhancements:
- Automatic on-call volume reduction
- One click dial from clipboard (paste number onto tray icon)
- Integrated phonebook
- List/Redirect/Hangup all active calls
- One click call forward setup
- Bluetooth presence detection to redirect calls when you walk out of the office
- Pop up browser on incoming call (integrate with your CRM to auto load customers details when they call)
- Cisco phone integration (auto speakerphone)
- Slide-in popup on incoming call, with Answer(cisco only), Hold, Busy and Redirect buttons , CallerID and duration

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux (DRBL) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. DRBL Live Standard works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and SuSE. DRBL uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partitioning and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost.

The purpose of DRBL live is to let you run a machine as DRBL server without installation. Its based on Debian Live. DRBL live includes all the DRBL functions, plus Clonezilla. Therefore it can provide PXEBoot Clonezilla, which can be used to do massively clone in a computer classrom or similar environment. Multicast clone is also supported.

Generally speaking, DRBL live is server edition, while Clonezilla live is personal edition. The differece between DRBL live and Clonezilla live is: DRBL live provides DRBL functions (DHCP, TFTP, NFS, NIS services), so client can boot via PXE and be cloned. Since DRBL live includes all the Clonezilla programs, it can be used as an alternative of Clonezilla live.

NicE Desktop is a Debian-based, live Linux distribution. Being a live distribution, it runs from portable storage, such as a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. This operating system can be run in both text mode and graphical mode.

NicE Desktop comes with many programs for both recreational and administrative purposes. Its main goals are to be useful and entertaining while maintaining user-friendliness, as well as to provide a "complete" temporary operating system for any PC user.

Installation: The simplest way to compile this package is:

1. `cd to the directory containing the packages source code and type `./configure to configure the package for your system.
2. Running `configure might take a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
3. Type `make to compile the package.
4. Optionally, type `make check to run any self-tests that come with the package.
5. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and
6. documentation.
7. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean. To also remove the files that `configure created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make disclean. There is also a `make maintainer-clean target, but that is intended mainly for the packages developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came with the distribution.

Gnome Desktop Change is a daemon that changes randomly your GNOME desktop background.

Gnome Desktop Change is a daemon that changes randomly your GNOME desktop background. Its totally written in C++, it uses FAM (File Alteration Monitor) to detect changes into directory that contains picture files, and its multithread.

AMA Desktop Linux is a Linux Distribution for AMA Computer University.
It aims to provide an interface that is comfortable to existing Microsoft Windows users.
Enhancements:
AMA Desktop 2007 had many different exclusive applications and patches designed to make everything work seamlessly. Its a designers Linux with a goal to make everything easy to use, attractive, innovative, powerful and most of all, simple. Most of the applications included are:
- Welcome Center - aims to provide a brief introduction of the basics of AMA Desktop 2007.
- Personal Proxy Wizard - set up squid for personal proxy server, to make internet surfing faster.
- Windows Compatibility Tool - a tool to configure Wine and everything Windows related like NTFS and msttcorefonts.
- Consolidators - Those are the applications that consolidates all other applications into a single window. It aims to make the menus simple. (ie, File Sharing, Network Browsers and Tools, Encryption, Mobile Devices)
- File System Preferences - Make the root file system easy to navigate. This tool offers an option to hide all other directories in the root and provide a symbolic links for them.
- Desktop-Init - This provides the users with the default directories for AMA Desktop 2007, randomly choose a Face picture if its not available, and emblemize the default directories.
- Resource Manager - A tool that detects the system memory and disables some services via gconf if the memory is not met.
- Live Chat Support - An interface to create an account in Freenode and to communicate with other AMA Desktop 2007 users.
- Local Network Messenger - An interface that helps the user to create Bonjour IM service and provide an option to load them automatically upon boot.
- Draw Anywhere - An interface for gromit, that provides annotation capabilities even without Compiz. This is intended for presentations.
- Multicast Filesharing - An interface for udpcast, that sends files to multitude of computers within the network.