Free improvement software for linux

xmms-agent hides XMMS into system tray and allows controlling it from tray icons popup menu.
This application is written in some minutes for my own need, so dont expect it would some case of great stuff.
Id tried to find similar thing for XMMS, but I couldnt, so once Ive just decided to make my own wrapper.
Ill be glad if youll find this program useful.
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. If youre using `csh on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure instead to prevent `csh from trying to execute `configure itself.
Running `configure takes a while. While running, it prints some messages telling which features it is checking for.
2. Type `make to compile the package.
3. Type `make install to install the programs and any data files and documentation.
4. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory by typing `make clean.
Enhancements:
- Pretty little improvement: now xmms pops up on active desktop.

H-inventory project was developed to meet the needs for a training center of network administrators.
Indeed, the stations are redeployed every week and are not linked to active directory, those are renamed each week so we cannot base us on the name.
The problem is thus the identification of the machine. We thus decided to base us on the concatenation of all the MAC addresses of the machine.
Enhancements:
- Inventory Quick Search Multiple edition of extra fields Cron synchronization Default Location Auto location by script Statistics filtered by locations
- Incidents Quick search Edition and deletion Archiving Multiple incidents types and subtypes
- Monitoring Cron to automate monitoring and audit
- Knowledge Base New
- Deployment Interface and DB improvement New installation method with the 0.2 version of the client
- Admin Maintenance (tar xml files to obtain some space)
- General New installer All interfaces reviewed
- Development (to improve the facility to extend the application) Bug corrections Full php5 object now Comments on code Xhtml 1.0 strict

freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL RedBook.

Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, widely available and highly portable.

GLUT (and hence freeglut) allows the user to create and manage windows containing OpenGL contexts on a wide range of platforms and also read the mouse, keyboard and joystick functions.

freeglut is released under the X-Consortium license.

The original GLUT library seems to have been abandoned with the most recent version (3.7) dating back to August 1998. Its license does not allow anyone to distribute modified library code.

This would be OK, if not for the fact that GLUT is getting old and really needs improvement. Also, GLUTs license is incompatible with some software distributions (e.g., XFree86).

Root Actions servicemenu is a replacement/alternate for the default Edit-as-root servicemenu.
It allows an admin user to perform several root only actions from konqueror (It of course asks for a password)
Usage:
The following actions can be performed (see the screenshot):
Edit as Text: Open file in Kate editor as root (shown with files)
Edit as Hex: Open file in KHexEdit (you may need to install khexedit package from universe) editor as root (shown with files)
Open in Konqueror: Open file/folder in root konqueror window
Change owner to root: Changes ownership to root:root
Change owner to user: Changes ownership to 1000:1000 (the default user)
The menu can be localized by editing the servicemenu .desktop files
Installation:
uncompress the two .desktop files to ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus
Any comments, criticism and improvement suggestions welcomed.
Enhancements:
- As this seems to run as it should (and I havent gotten any show stopper bug reports), I feel courageous enough to remove the BETA status.
- Removed Preferred Applications section from the perl script. To change the default applications used by the menu, edit the desktop files instead. (This allows for different application preferences for different users and easy creation of custom Open with [application] entries to the menu.) See the README for customization howto.
- Fixed a bug with Rename when multiple items were chosen but the batch renamer application didnt start (the simple rename dialog was started instead).
- Added Dutch translation

RAVE 1.9.9 is yet another excellent utility for everyone. RAVE stands for Retrospective Analysis and Visualization Engine which is a framework for generating complex analysis products.

RAVE caches the intermediate results of analytic tasks for later use in the same or different analyses. This improves performance by reducing duplicated effort when generating analytic results. RAVE users need to do nothing special in order to take advantage of this performance improvement.

The RAVE project provides tools to use RAVE interactively in a terminal, or to publish "live" RAVE analyses online as a network service for use in network-enabled applications.

Requirements:

• Python 2.4 or higher

PETALS is an ObjectWeb Java Business Integration (JBI) platform. PETALS provides lightweight and packaged integration solutions, based on JSR-208 specifications, with a high focus on distribution and clustering.
PETALS is part of ObjectWeb ESB initiative, and was launched in June 2005 by EBM WebSourcing and Fossil E-Commerce.
The project leverages ObjectWeb architecture and projects like Fractal, JORAM, JOnAS to provide a JBI container with a focus on :
- JBI specification conformance
- Integrate JBI in JOnAS
- Multi JVM, distributed and clustered platform for JBI components with native transport based on existing ObjectWeb middleware : JORAM and Dream
- Propose packaged solutions for process orchestration (with focus on BPEL engine, Transformation engine, Web Services and JMS binding components) and B2B integration (with focus on Transformation and B2B bindng components like EDI, ...)
Enhancements:
- This release contains all the PETALS elements that are useful for integration solutions.
- New features include static definition of the distributed environment (avoiding multicast auto-discovering), an improvement to the Web Administrative console, IBM JVM compatibility, and more Binding components.

rgen is a library consisting of random number generator and data accumulation classes. Its envisioned purpose is in the development of Monte Carlo simulations where the ability to readily substitute a variety of random generators may be used to assess the influence of the underlying random number sequence on the simulation results.

Interfaces to Tcl and Python are generated using SWIG.

Although its quite a while since I started this project, I have been working on it in a somewhat ad hoc fashion, adding in bits and pieces whenever I come across something interesting which I think I could fit into the existing framework. Working like this means that things are probably not structured quite as they should be, class names are somewhat arbitrary (and a bit too long in some cases) etc. So, realising that there is lots of scope for improvement, Im very open to
suggestions and criticisms.

The FORTRAN interface relies on cfortran.h, which can be obtained from http://www-zeus.desy.de/~burow/cfortran/.

INSTALL:

See generic instructions in INSTALL file.

If you have trouble building the SWIG interfaces then you can disable the culprit(s) using the following configuration options:

--disable-swig-python
--disable-swig-tcl

You will need the Tcl interface to run the testsuite ("make check").

demexp is a client/server system for direct democracies. demexp makes it possible to ask questions in the system, add new answers to those questions, and vote on proposed answers.
The voting procedure used is Condorcet voting. Questions are classified, and a delegation system allows ones vote for certain questions to be assigned to a chosen delegate.
The software is tailored to the needs of the Democratic Experience project.
Enhancements:
- A new configuration file that supports version upgrading.
- Support for client internationalization. Translations of the (English) client into French and Esperanto.
- An experimental Web client in OCaml (using WDialog). Improvement of the Windows installer.
- Simplification of the clients interface.
- Tooltips on column titles.
- Various bugfixes in the client and the server.