Free investigatory project software for linux

The Aurora Project is an attempt to create a new generation of Linux distributions. It will try to break free from old patterns and establish Linux as a serious world player.
Currently, Aurora Project consists of the Aurora Desktop Environment which, unlike most other Linux-based desktop environments, dont attempts to accomplish everything but to remove the focus from system configuration and desktop customizing by creating an easy-to-use out-of-the-box intuitive and beutiful desktop experience.
The UI is (for now) somewhat Microsoft Windows-inspired. I am satisfied with the general layout of the panel and start menu, currently I am busy designing the core functionality of the desktop with the panel as my number one priority. Also there is the session manager, the desktop manager and the shared library.
The Aurora Project currently consists of two major components - the panel and the shared library.
Main features:
- Windows-like user interface with a start menu.
- Freedesktop-compliant application menu (compatible with GNOME and KDE).
- Frequently used applications are easy to access.

Oreon Project provide enterprise monitoring based on Nagios core. It offers a complete tool from administration to reporting/visualization with the most powerful monitoring and alerting engine.
It ables you to be more efficient in your network monitoring, but also allows you to make your supervision informations readable by a largest range of users. Indeed, a non technical user can now use the Oreon/Nagios couple to easily understand your network infrastructure thanks to charts and graphical representations of the gathered informations.
Although, skilled users still have access to the technicals informations collected by Nagios.
Oreon was released for three years, and has already conviced most of its everyday users. Oreon has became a reference as a Nagios Frontend.
The Oreon/Nagios couple is used by a wide range of users, from novices to skilled users, even if they didnt knew Nagios before.
Main features:
- A highly customizable and intuitive multi-user interface
- An enhanced configuration tool to setup the supervised perimeter
- Configuration wizards
- A frontend to all Nagios configuration files. These configurations are linked to save your working time.
- A Nagios configuration loader module
- A Nagios 1.X and 2.x compatibility
- A Nagios configuration file-checker thanks to Nagios Debugger
- Network devices and servers ID Cards which has all the basic informations about these resources
- A customizable network cartography
- An access manager, including resources as well as interfaces restrictions
- And a lot more to discover

The goal of the Linux WLAN project is to develop a complete, standards based, wireless LAN system using the GNU/Linux operating system.

The linux-wlan package is a linux device driver and subsystem package that is intended to provide the full range of IEEE 802.11 MAC management capabilities for use in user-mode utilities and scripts. The package currently supports the Intersil 802.11b Prism2, Prism2.5, and Prism3 reference designs for PCMCIA, PCI, and USB.

The package includes support for PLX9052 based PCI to PCMCIA adapter
with a few different PCMCIA cards.

Computer History Graphing Project is a computer family tree.

The Computer History Graphing Project is an attempt to graph every computer standard, every piece of hardware, every OS, and every computer language in one big family tree.

RISE Projects goal is to produce software to efficiently manage and publish academic catalog information including programs, courses, and schedules.

RISE means Resources and Information for Success in Education.

The Pawn Project aims to make computing easy for anyone with an easy-to-use desktop environment.

How often have you felt that your computer could be smarter ? Arent you tired of the old drag and drop style desktop and the horribly command promps.

Well Open Pawn Projekt (OPP) is about to change all that. The Pawn shall make it possibly for you to command your computer exactly what you would like it to do.

Order it in plain and simple english or whatever your natural language is.

Pawn is written in Perl, TCL TK and C++. Just to make it so portable as possible. Currently it will run on any Unix/Linux system.

URBI: Universal Robotic Body Interface. URBI is a scripted command language used to control robots (AIBO, pioneer,...). It is a robot-independant API.
URBI Project is based on a client/server architecture and it is designed to be used over a TCP/IP or IPC connection.
Main features:
- URBI is a low level command language. Motors and sensors are directly read and set. Although complex high level commands and functions can be written with URBI, the raw kernel of the system is low level by essence.
- URBI includes powerful time oriented control mechanisms to chain commands, serialize them or build complex motor trajectories.
- URBI is designed to be independant from both the robot and the client system. It relies on TCP/IP or Inter-Process Communication if the client and the server are both running onboard.
- URBI is designed with a constant care for simplicity. There is no "philosophy" or "complex architecture" to be familiar with. It is understandable in a few minutes and can be used immediately.