Free ever increasing range software for linux

Long Range ZIP is a compression program that can achieve very high compression ratios and speed when used with large files. It uses the combined compression algorithms of lzma for maximum compression, lzo for maximum speed, and the long range redundancy reduction of rzip.
It is designed to scale with increases with RAM size, improving compression further. A choice of either size or speed optimizations allows for either better compression than even lzma can provide, or better speed than gzip, but with bzip2 sized compression levels.
Enhancements:
- Blocks to be compressed by lzma are now scanned by lzo in advance to find incompressible data and bypass attempting to compress them.
- This speeds up substantially attempting to compress incompressible files, and should fix the "lzma getting stuck on an incompressible block" bug.
- Basic Darwin support was added.
- Compression mode was stratified for lower levels of lzma compression.

Lua Messaging Engine (LuME) is a set of scripts that offer abstract functions for communication via AOLs OSCAR protocol (as used by ICQ and AIM clients), Microsoft Messengers MSNP, and Yahoos YIM protocol. Lua Messaging Engine also includes utility functions for string operations, SHA hashing, and basic HTTPS communication.

An increasing number of software developers are making use of the simplicity and power behind employing a Lua script interface.

Meetroduction, LLC has been using a Lua script interface as a core design concept for the multi protocol messaging component of its proximity based people finder client: Meetro. Beyond that, the interface offers its users a flexible way to vastly extend the clients functionality.

Derbrill Tutorials are Free Tutorials For Writing Games and Multimedia Applications in Runtime Revolution with ArcadeEngine.

The tutorials come in a visually appealing e-book format which is both easy to read and use, the range of topics covered includes:

* The basics of Revolution such as: stacks, cards, scripts, messages and timers
* How to use geometric properties such as distances, angles and intersection rectangles
* Understanding and using different movements including linear, polygonal, circular and elliptic
* Advanced use of images
* Using the built-in collision detection

Virgil projetc is an new, object-oriented, light-weight programming language that is designed for building software for resource-constrained embedded systems at the lowest level. Microcontroller programmers can now develop complete software systems, including hardware drivers and OS services, in one language, without the need to resort to unsafe libraries or native code.
Virgil also provides a whole-program compiler system that applies novel global optimization techniques to produce efficient machine code that runs directly on the hardware, without the need of a virtual machine or a language runtime system.
Why are microcontrollers important?
Embedded computers are everywhere. While the desktop computer revolution has brought computing to millions of users worldwide, the embedded system revolution has been quietly automating the world we live in--everything from the cars we drive to the roadways we drive them on; from factory production to the goods we use every day. In 2005, nearly 6 billion microcontroller units were manufactured. Today, microcontrollers outnumber people on this planet by more than 5 to 1. Soon, most electronic devices will have a software-programmable embedded computer with capabilities ranging from simple arithmetic to wireless communication, and microcontrollers offer a compelling solution for many of these products.
How is software for embedded systems different?
Software in this environment has very different requirements than traditional desktop and server computers. First, embedded programs must control devices that sense and interact with the physical world, in contrast to desktop and server software that is driven by databases, websites, and input from users. Second, embedded systems often operate in safety critical real-time scenarios, where software is tasked with controlling physical processes and actuators that can pose physical danger to people, infrastructure, and the environment. Third, the cost of software update for billions of devices makes it largely infeasible, vastly increasing the importance of software verification.
How can new language technology help?
Advances in programming languages over the past 30 years have yielded demonstrable productivity gains, including better static checking, more expressiveness, and better portability and maintability. Yet these advances have not been put into practical use in developing embedded systems software. The continued use of unsafe, low-level languages that frustrate automated program reasoning and verification poses a significant stumbling block to progress. While no magic bullet exists for software development, we believe that applying modern technology to this problem will produce real, tangible gains in both software quality and efficiency.
Main features:
Object-oriented Features
- Classes and single-inheritance
- Virtual methods
- Constructors
- Orphan classes
- Always pass by reference
Procedural Features
- Components
- Loops
- Switches
- Statements
Functional Features
- Delegates
- Aggressive inlining *
- Tail call optimization *
Other
- Arrays
- Bit-level types
- Compile-time Application Initialization
- Hardware register access
- Interrupt handlers
- Well-defined language semantics
- Heap optimization
- Exceptions *
- = the implementation of this feature is not yet complete in prototype compiler

encdec encodes and decodes a wide range of C objects.

This module may be used to encode and decode C objects such as integers, floats, doubles, times, and internationalized strings to and from a wide variety of binary formats as they might appear in portable file formats or network messages.

These encodings include 16, 34, and 64 bit big and little endian intergers, big and little endian IEEE754 float and double values, 6 time encodings, and the wide range of string encodings supported by libiconv.

The functions are all designed to be ideal for in-situ decoding and encoding of complex formats. The code is licensed under the GNU Library General Public License.

Hyperic HQ project is a distributed infrastructure management system whose architecture assures scalability, while keeping the solution easy to deploy.

HQs design is meant to deliver on the promise of a single integrated management portal capable of managing unlimited types of technologies in environments that range from small business IT departments to the operations groups of todays largest financial and industrial organizations.

fontimage project is a small, portable tool that generates PNG images of text strings directly from outline font files.
Main features:
- only depnends on libpng and freetype, should be very portable
- handles charaters outside of ascii range
- Licensed under GNU GPL
- Tested on Fedora Core 5 and CentOS 4.3

Atomic Tanks project is a multi-platform scorched earth clone for 2-10 players.

Annihilate the other tanks to earn money, then spend it on bigger and better shields and weapons to wipe out the opposition.

Features a wide array of weapons, AI players, destructible landscape, weather, parachutes, teleports and a wide range of other features.