Free kingdoms software for linux

HuaRongDao project is an ancient Chinese puzzle game.

The puzzle "HuaRongDao" has been the most popular puzzle in China for hundreds years. It came from part of the well-know story "The legend of three kingdoms".

At the end of Han Dynasty (about 200 AC.), China was divided into three kingdoms, Wei, Shu and Wu. "Caocao", the leader of Wei, wanted to unit China, however, was totally defeated at "ChiBi" by the allies of Shu and Wu. Only he and other 30 people escaped from HuaRongDao and came back to Wei.

After about 30 years, China was still united by Wei (named Jin at that time) into one country.

Its aim is to move pieces on the board in order to move the largest one to the center of the bottom. It is a very small game, and it is very challenging. This implementation is based on the curses library.

The game is controlled by keyboard only. Its features include undo, redo, and bookmarks. Custom starting patterns are also supported.

citygen project is a medieval city/kingdom demographics generator.
citygen is a program which creates Medieval city and kingdom demographics. The demographics are completely configurable with options to force certain professions and to limit specific buildings. Its very handy for AD&D and other RPGs.
Shortly after releasing that program, citygen, I was asked if I would make a graphical version. I wanted to learn GTK programming under linux so I started out with a simple program to get the basics, GODR: The GTK Ochre Dice Roller. After finishing that, I wrote the GTK frontend of citygen, now known as GROCK: GTK Reorganized Ochre City and Kingdom generator.
Main features:
- GTK City/Kingdom Generator
- Console based City/Kingdom Generator
- GTK Dice Roller
Enhancements:
- city.c had a bug that would cause it to segfault

Berkeley DB (libdb) is a programmatic toolkit that provides embedded database support for both traditional and client/server applications. Berkeley DB includes b+tree, queue, extended linear hashing, fixed, and variable-length record access methods, transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, database recovery, and replication for highly available systems.
Berkeley DB delivers the core data management functionality, power, scalability and flexibility of enterprise relational databases but without the overhead of a query processing layer. Combined with the stability and lower support cost of open source code, Berkeley DB offers many advantages
DB supports C, C++, Java, PHP, and Perl APIs. It is available for a wide variety of UNIX platforms as well as Windows XP, Windows NT, and Windows 95 (MSVC 6 and 7).
Sleepycat Software makes Berkeley DB, the most widely used open source developer database in the world with over 200 million deployments. Customers such as Amazon.com, AOL, British Telecom, Cisco Systems, EMC, Google, Hitachi, HP, Motorola, RSA Security, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO and VERITAS also rely on Berkeley DB for fast, scalable, reliable and cost-effective data management for their mission-critical applications. Profitable since it was founded in 1996, Sleepycat is a privately held company with offices in California, Massachusetts and the United Kingdom.
Here are the advantajes of "Berkeley DB":
- Zero administration cost ? eliminates the need for a DBA;
- Smaller footprint (less than 500Kb);
- Simplicity of integration into an application;
- More speed and higher performance;
- Less complexity and more reliability.
Berkeley DB is distributed under an open source license that permits its use in open source applications at no charge. Proprietary vendors can purchase a proprietary license for Berkeley DB from Sleepycat Software.
Other important key features of "Berkeley DB":
- Includes complete source code.
- Small footprint ? less than 500 kilobytes.
- Extremely configurable: application controls the memory, disk, and other resource requirements of the database library.
- Easy-to-use APIs for applications written in C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Tcl, PHP.
- Supports full transaction semantics, so that multiple changes can be applied or rolled back atomically.
- Survives software and hardware failures without losing data.
- Fine-grained locking allows thousands of users to work with a database at the same time.
- Replication for high availability keeps copies of the database synchronized across multiple servers. If the master or any replica goes down, one of the remaining replicas can take over.

OpenTaxSolver (OTS) project is a free program for calculating Tax Form entries and tax-owed or refund-due, such as Federal or State personal income taxes.
An optional graphical front-end, OTS_GUI, has been added. Currently, TaxSolver has been updated for the 2005 tax-year for the following forms: US 1040 and Schedules A, B, C, & D.
As well as for California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania State Taxes for 2005 tax-year, thanks to contributors. Updates for the following additional states are expected to be posted soon: North Carolina, New York, Ohio, and Virginia. Preliminary versions for Canada and the United Kingdom were posted in previous years and may be updated with help from volunteers.
Motivations:
- To make tax preparation software available for all platforms.
- To provide insight into how our taxes are calculated in clear unambiguous equations/code.
- To avoid invasive, bloated commercial software packages.
- To avoid rewriting our own individual programs each year by combining efforts.
- To provide a simple reliable tax-package requiring only rudimentary knowledge to maintain.
Enhancements:
- Automatic phone credit was added to US1040.
- It will automatically calculate standard one-time phone credit, if not otherwise specified on US1040 line 71.
- The NJ State form F line 5 was fixed.

ppplag provides a PPP log analyzer.
ppplag reads system logs and shows a table of all found PPP sessions with stats for start times, durations, bytes in/out, and speed in/out.
Dial-up requires no additional infrastructure on top of the telephone network. As telephone points are available throughout the world, dial-up remains useful to travelers. Dial-up is usually the only choice available for most rural or remote areas where getting a broadband connection is impossible due to low population and demand.
Sometimes dial-up access may also be an alternative to people who have limited budgets as it is offered for free by some, though broadband is now increasingly available at lower prices in countries such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom due to market competition. Dial-up requires time to establish a telephone connection (approximately several seconds, depending on the location) and perform handshaking before data transfers can take place. In locales with telephone connection charges, each connection incurs an incremental cost. If calls are time-charged, the duration of the connection incurs costs.
Enhancements:
- Two new features were added: summary by day and filter by user who started pppd.