Free in various software for linux

Easy various links manager or Everest Linux Links Manager (evlinks) is a network manager and config toolkit that aims to replace network services and networkmanager.

Tthe design of evlinks:

1. use mac address as config file names to avoid interface name change.

2. multi profile support, for example, you can have a setting for Office and another setting for home.

3. never display info such as "eth0/wlan0/ath0" to users. what is the meaning of this strange words for normal user?

4. coupled loosely, if any component of evlinks crash or can not work, others works very well.

5. policy support: for example, whether start wired at booting time,whether start wireless at booting time,offline or online, if wired line unpluged, shall we switch to wireless?

The components of evlinks:

1. evlinkslo/evlinksboot:

run at system booting.
enable loopback and other interfaces according to config file.

2. evlinksiw, wireless config tool

3. evlinkswireless, a wrapper for evlinksiw to handle multiple wireless adapters. if you only have one wireless adapter, it will start evlinksiw directly.

4. evlinksw, wired config tool, support multiple profiles.

5. evlinkswired, same as evlinkswireless, a wrapper for evlinksw to handle multiple wired adapter.

6. evlinksmonitor, a hal client to monitor the adapter changes. since it use hal, then we can catch the signal when new adapter plugged and removed.

7. evlinkstraffic, network traffic monitor. used in evlinksmonitor and evlinkspppoe.

8. evlinkspppoe, PPPoE clients, used to connect ADSL(no PPPoA support)

9. evlinksdispatcher and evlinksrun. dirty code to help normal user run it easily.that is to say, normal user use evlinksrun to call evlinks utils, they all run as super user. it is not a good design, also had security problem, need change later.

inetrd provides a redirection super server.
inetrd is a super server like inetd (i.e., it listens on many ports).
Clients connecting can then be redirected to other ports or servers in various ways.
Enhancements:
- Whitespace cleanups.
- Support ; as comment char in ini file.
- Fixed up RPM. rpmbuild -ta inetrd-0.0.3.tar.gz to build rpm.

pidgin-hotkeys is a Pidgin (previously known as Gaim) plugin that allows you to define global hotkeys for various actions such as toggling buddy list, fetching queued messages, opening preferences or account dialog.

PureAdmin is a graphical utility used to administer and monitor your PureFTPd ftp server.
PureAdmin is a graphical tool used to make the management of PureFTPd a little easier.
PureAdmin project features a user manager, viewing of activities (uploads/downloads) and logfile viewing (updated in realtime).
It is not dependant on GNOME (only GTK+ 2.x) and it is developed with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines in mind.
Enhancements:
- Fixed a startup-notification bug
- Fixed some bugs with the notification icon
- Added new tango based icons in various sizes.

libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl.
Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework.
The libdbi-drivers project provides the database-specific drivers for the libdbi framework. The drivers officially supported by libdbi are:
- Firebird/Interbase
- FreeTDS (provides access to MS SQL Server and Sybase)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite/SQLite3
The following drivers are in various stages of completion and are supposed to be included into the next release:
- mSQL
- Oracle
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a packaging error in 0.8.2. There are no source code changes.

libbash is a tool that enables bash dynamic-like shared libraries.
libbash library does this by managing bash scripts that contain functions you may want to use in various scripts.
Enhancements:
- getopts.sh: The last getopts change seem to disable the ability to use `-e, `-n and `-E, being valid `echo parameters. Fixed.

Slash::OurNet is a Slash 2.0+ plug-in that allows OurNet connectivity to various BBS and NNTP systems.

Auto-Transcode is a user-friendly GTK2 GUI for Transcode. It allows you to easily convert various audio and video formats that are used by everybody.