Free fun little software for linux

Little cms intends to be a small-footprint, speed optimized color management engine in open source form.
Since the initial release, back in 1998, lcms has been continuously evolving, mostly thanks to contributions done by skilled programmers, who generously donated their valuable time to review the engine and the documentation.
For now, little cms has been ported to a big number of platforms and is currently used in many open source and commercial products, as well as being distributed in major linux environments. Thanks to all for this great support!
Basic Features:
- Widely portable.
- Easy to use.
- Small, tight code.
- Fast, optimized for speed.
- Handles a wide range pixel formats.
- Implements ICC spec 4
- Profile to profile and multiprofile transforms.
- Supports all kind of profiles, including named color
- PostScript CSA and CRD generation
Advanced features:
- Full hi-fi support, including hexachrome restoration.
- Gamut checking
- Softproofing
- Precalculated device link transforms with prelinearization step.
- Virtual Gray, RGB profiles
- CIECAM02 appearance model
- Can write profiles as well.
- Built-In profiles
- Specialized abstract virtual profiles

Little polish is a program that plays Brazilian draughts (classics, 8x8 with international rules). Little polishs main features are a powerful AI (using a fast, bitbase move generator, PVS, quiescent search, aspiration window search, a transposition table, and an end game DB), game analysis tools (a game tree viewer), and a small executable size.
Main features:
- powerful AI (using a fast, bitbase move generator, PVS, quiescent search, aspiration window search, transposition table, end game db)
- game analysis tools (game tree viewer)
- small executable size
- freeware license
Enhancements:
- This release features improved graphics, a full screen mode, square names on the board, and a game cancel button, and fixed a bug in the program exit procedure.

Keen little rabbit ears is a simple ear training program for Linux and Windows. It is free of charge. You can exercise the recogniton of intervalls, chords, scales and chord progressions.
Keen little rabbit ears requires the installation of Perl (Version 5), Perl/Tk, Perl::MIDI and an extermal MIDI player, like timidity (Verion 0.2i). Keen little rabbit ears is written in perl, uses Perl/Tk for the user interface, Perl::MIDI to write MIDI files and timidity to play MIDI files.
This is an early release, which means that there is a number of features which are not implemented. But keen little rabbit ears works pretty fine on my Pentium 90 using Suse Linux (Version 6.1) and under Window 95 too.
I strongly recommend everyone to read a good book on this. There are several ways to train. In general you do it like this. In the first level only select 2 or 3 items you already know or which are
the most common. In the next level you proceed and add the next 2 common items.
Below is are two lists, which can be used as guideline. But it is usually better to ask your teacher which exercises should you train.
Enhancements:
- Quiz mode
- advanced root note selection
- extension to playing direction (both)
- highlighting of selected instrument / root note
- 440 Hz (sing an "a" test)
- bug fix (pitch drill)

HTML::EP is a system for embedding Perl into HTML.
SYNOPSIS
< html >< head >< title >CGI-Env< /title >< /head >
< ep-comment >
This is an HTML document. You see. Perhaps you wonder about
the unknown HTML tags like ep-comment above? They are part
of the EP system. For example, this comment section will
be removed and you wont see it in your browser.
< /ep-comment >
< ep-perl >
# This is an example of embedding Perl into the page.
# We create a variable called time, containing the current
# time. This variable will be used below.
my $self = $_;
$self->{time} = localtime(time());
; # Return an empty string; result becomes embedded into the
# HTML page
< /ep-perl >
< body >< h1 >The current time< /h1 >
Your HTML::EP system is up and running: The current time is $time$.
< /body >
< /html >
NEWS
HTML::EP does now have a homepage, a CVS repository and a bug tracking system. Try
http://html-ep.sourceforge.net/
Have you ever written a CGI binary? Easy thing, isnt it? Was just fun!
Have you written two CGI binaries? Even easier, but not so much fun.
How about the third, fourth or fifth tool? Sometimes you notice that you are always doing the same:
- Reading and parsing variables
- Formatting output, in particular building tables
- Sending mail out from the page
- Building a database connection, passing CGI input to the database and vice versa
- Talking to HTML designers about realizing their wishes
You see, its soon to become a pain. Of course there are little helpers around, for example the CGI module, the mod_perl suite and lots of it more. Using them make live a lot easier, but not so much as you like. CGI(3). mod_perl(3).
On the other hand, there are tools like PHP or WebHTML. Incredibly easy to use, but not as powerfull as Perl. Why not get the best from both worlds? This is what EP wants to give you, similar to ePerl or HTML::EmbPerl. I personally believe that EP is simpler and better extendible than the latter two. ePerl(1). HTML::EmbPerl(3).
In short, its a single, but extensible program, that scans an HTML document for certain special HTML tags. These tags are replaced by appropriate output generated by the EP. What remains is passed to the browser. Its just like writing HTML for an enhanced browser!

ligen project is a little "Lorem-Ipsum" dummy-text generator. For information about to use this tool, start it with comandline-parameter /h.

You can retrieve the output directly in the console and you can redirect it into a file.

GFlame is a cool little graphics hack with GTK that draws colored flames.
It draws a flame on the screen, fully fledged and with some gadgets GTK has to offer.
The GUI is done with Glade, and you can also compile an applet for the GNOME panel
Enhancements:
- minor bugs fixed
- dump of selected color in decimal and hexadecimal

Fishbot provides a clone of the Qnet IRC fishbot service.
Fishbot is an IRC bot service written in PHP. Its a clone of the original fishbot that Qnet uses.
This script is a "clone" of the real fishbot that is used on Quakenet. I dont know if it works exactly like the real fishbot, I just tested the real one on some commands and tryed to make something like it.
Original idea is from the IRCop splidge on Quakenet.
Its a fun-bot and build as a service, so it connets to your ircd as a service and try to do his job.
Enhancements:
- Fixed the on-join-empty-chan bug. When the bot starts at the first time it checks if the channel is empty, if it is, it will part it.
- Added a new command. You can use /msg help , and you should receive a simpel explenation of the given topic.
- Changed a little bit the script structure :)

Mono-Readline is a simple little assembly for .Net (specifically Mono) that provides support for GNU Readline support within Mono applications.

Mono-Readline project is based on the code of Martin Baulig in the Mono debugger. I just took it and made it all nice and autoconf/automake enabled.

Its pretty straight forward, but here is a short sample program:

using Mono.ReadLine;
using System;
using System.Reflection;

public class Test {

public static void Main(string[] args) {
GnuReadLine readline = new GnuReadLine();
Console.WriteLine("Monkeys!");

string the_prompt = "This is a test: ";
string result;
while (true) {
result = readline.ReadLine(the_prompt);
if (result != null) {
readline.AddHistory(result);
} else {
break;
}
}
}
}

You should be able to compile this with mcs -r:mono.readline test.cs and get a little executable program that keeps going until you hit CTRL-D. There is lots of other fun you could do such as setting up continuation prompts and what not. Basically, most of this is ripped from Martins code in the mono debugger.

But wait, odds are youre going to get some funky error saying it cant find the package or something like that. If thats the case, make sure you have MONO_PATH="/usr/local/lib" set before running the program and compiling. For example to compile run:

MONO_PATH="/usr/local/lib" mcs -r:mono.readline test.cs

And then to run type:

MONO_PATH="/usr/local/lib" mono test.exe

Im not a real Mono pro, but my hope is that this could possibly help someone else out. Im thinking that in the future I may also include a patch for IronPython.

As always, if you have comments or patches, please let me know.