Free i386 software for linux

Fedora Rescue CD is a rescue CD for Fedora Core based systems.
The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.
The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux.
By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.

miau is a small, fully featured IRC bouncer and IRC proxy.
The biggest difference of miau and HTTP-proxy (forgetting the fact they talk all different protocols) is that when IRC-client disconnects from bouncer, the connection to the server isnt necessarily lost.
This way your nick can stay online and cannot be taken by the others. In case bouncer loses the nick because of netsplit or other disruption, it can try to get it back automatically.
Some people may also like the fact that when using bouncer, your hostname appearing in IRC is the one of the machine the bouncer is running at, not the one you are IRCing from.
miau was written on GNU/Linux (i386), but it should compile on most UNIX-platforms.
Main features:
- Permanent connection to IRC-server
- Can set user away when client quits and can also use users quit-message as away-message.
- Ability to try to get primary nick
- Logging (recent log can be replayed automatically at reconnect like you already had been on the channel)
- Message forwarding
- DCC-bouncing
- Auto-mode (without mode-flood)
- Flood protection
- On-connect sent messages (to keep nickservs etc. happy)
- Ability to survive even if some pings to server are lost
- V-host support
- Preliminary IPv6-support (untested)
- Cats in ASCII
- Support for multiple clients (one at home, one at office)
- Permission-chains
- Portable, written in C
- Compiles (at least) on GNU/Linux (i386/StrongARM/Alpha), HP-UX (HP 9000/C3000), SunOS (sun4m/sun4u/sun4c), Digital UNIX (Alpha) and MacOSX (PPC). Not tested on others.
- Small (my miau is about 50 kB KiB on GNU/Linux on i386)
- Most features can be left uncompiled
- Released under GPL
Enhancements:
- This release fixes several issues with Undernet-like servers, and improves your chances of staying online in case of netsplit and network problems.
- The behaviour of the wildcard "*" is finally predictable, although non-greedy.

tc_config provides a set of scripts for Linux traffic control.

tc_config is set of scripts for Linux 2.4+ traffic control configuration on Red Hat systems and (hopefully) derivatives. It uses cbq qdisc as root one, and sfq qdisc at the leaves.

It includes the snmp_pass utility for getting stats on traffic control via SNMP.

Run: rpm -tb tc-config-0.6.tar.gz (rmpbuild on redhat 8+ systems).

After package will be built, run
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/tc-config-0.6-1.i386.rpm.

KernelKit is a Knoppix GNU/Linux derivative targetting the development of Linux kernel and drivers, as well as Free Sofware embedded systems. It is currently being used in our Embedded Linux Training sessions.
Differences with standard Knoppix GNU/Linux:
- Removed applications not related to Linux kernel, drivers and embedded systems: games, office applications...
- Added tools and libraries for kernel and software development, in particular cross-compiling toolchains for many different architectures
Usefulness
- Embedded Linux trainings: provide all the needed tools in a tested configuration. No need to install a GNU/Linux distribution. No need to check installed package versions prerequisites.
- Embedded Linux demonstration: helps to discover, try and demonstrate useful tools in this technical area.
- Kernel, driver and embedded application development: toolkit to get the job done quickly and efficiently. Useful for support people away from their regular desktop, or for people who are not allowed to install software by themselves.
Cross-compiling toolchains
- uClibc toolchains: cross-compiling toolchains for the following architectures: arm, i386, ppc, m68k, mips, mipsel
Development
- ccache: a C/C++ compiler cache. Can save a lot of time when you compile the kernel over and over again.
- doxygen: a documentation system.
- SCons: a Software construction tool. A strong alternative to autoconf / automake / make.
- Splint: static C code checker.
Cross-compiling toolchains
- uClibc toolchains: cross-compiling toolchains for the following architectures: arm, i386, ppc, m68k, mips, mipsel
Kernel development
- git: the new kernel source management system.
- cogito: a git front-end.
Emulation
- QEMU: a cpu and system emulator for several platforms. Great to experiment with i386 or ppc embedded systems.
- SkyEye. An emulator for several popular ARM boards.
Performance analysis
- Linux Trace Toolkit": user space tools for analyzing system performance. Note that you can only analyse results so far, and not produce data, as the current KernelKit kernel doesnt have support yet for LTT.
- Valgrind: memory debugger and performance analysis tool for x86 Linux.
Lightweight applications for embedded systems
- Dillo: a very light and fast web browser.
- e3: a microscopic editor supporting several interface types (vi, emacs...).
Unix learning help
- fish: the Friendly Interactive SHell makes it much easier to use the Unix command line. The best way to start for beginners (Caution:: strangely broken in the latest KernelKit release)
- vimtutor: part of the vim package. Very nice way to learn vi in 30 minutes!
Misc
- gkermit: a serial communication utility.
- Psyco: a kind of Just In Time compiler for Python. Useful for running the BitBake / OpenEmbedded tool faster.
- xvncviewer: a VNC client. Sometimes useful to display target graphics on the host system.
Enhancements:
- This release adds the texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-4 package (needed to run buildroot).

Sysquake Viewer is an application which lets you load and manipulate interactively graphics developed with Sysquake.

Sysquake Viewer is much more limited than Sysquake LE, which supersedes it on Mac OS and Windows. We still provide it as a preview release for Linux on i386 and for Solaris on Sparc, until we have a robust beta version of Sysquake LE for Unix.

On Unix, files are archived with tar. In a terminal, type tar xzf sqviewer*tgz to un-archive them.

The preview is made available to you so that you can test it and provide feedback, and to have a broader range of platforms where SQ files can be viewed. It has no expiration date.

HTTP Proxy Client is the small set of libraries and scripts, which provides transparent access to Internet via HTTP proxy for programs, which uses TCP/IP for communication.
The list of programs includes: telnet, ftp, licq, cvs, smth else? Project implements dynamic library, that can be preloaded before program run.
The library substitutes some system calls (connect(), gethostbyaddr(), gethostbyname()), with calls, which makes TCP/IP connection through HTTP proxy. This allows client programs behind HTTP proxy work with Internet without limitations.
At the moment tested on i386 Linux, i386/sparc Solaris.
Enhancements:
- While using dotted address, applications will attempt to connect regardless DNS lookup result.