Free libre software for linux

Tonic Chess project is an online chess software.

Tonic is a graphical interface for playing online chess. It is based on Jin.

From now on Tonic is really open source software (and free as in libre as well) - I managed (I had some problems last time I tried) to import source to cvs sourceforge repository. It is a bridge2 release source with few little modifications. You can read how to get it from cvs here. If you are impatient pastenenter in console:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@tonic-chess.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tonic-chess login

When prompted for password just hit enter. And then:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@tonic-chess.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tonic-chess co -P tonic

You should see a list of files downloaded from cvs repository. If you are a non-console user (i.e. Windows or Mac user) I recommend visiting this site. I myself use Linux for development. And Netbeans sometimes as you could figure out from examining the contents of tonic directory. So, enjoy the opensourceness of Tonic!

I uploaded new screenshot to Tonic project site. It is Tonic in Aero GTK engine tuxedo. Quite a peculiar engine imo, but you can use other GTK engines if you run Tonic in Java 6 aka Mustang (you know you can get it from here, dont you?) I test Tonic with Mustang and Ive problems with tray icon. After some searching Ive realized why Tonic crashed under Java 6 - the problem was tray.jar plugin and its dependencies - tray.so or tray.dll, so if you want to run Tonic on Java 6 move them away from theirs directory. Ive written a class for tray icon using new desktop API from Mustang, but it doesnt work as expected in KDE (tray icon is invisible) ; GNOME is better, but I have to work on the popup menu. Well, what could I say? Mustang is in beta stage, but it has some goodies to wait for (early splashscreen, access to tab component, ...).

Balazar Brother is an amazing libre 3D puzzle game, realized by Jiba and Nekeme Prod.

A 3D platform universe, two characters and two keys, one for each character, and at the end of the road two princesses to free. Just press a key and the corresponding character will jump on the next platform in front of him.

Simple ? Yes ! Easy ? Not sure ! Because nothing will be spared to you : moving platforms, dangerous monsters, vicious traps... will you manage to find your way trough mad levels and free the princesses ? You can count only on your agility, your guile... and the unforgettable acrobatics of the Balazar Brothers !

Aspirin is not included ! (another game coded by pharmacists to sell their medicine, would say the bad tongues...

Balazar Brothers developpers and users can be found on the #nekeme and #soya IRC channel of Freenode.

PicoForges aim is to provide a set of high level libre software applications that are well integrated in order to provide a collaborative "forge". It makes it easy to deploy a collaborative work platform for developing software or hosting other collaborative activities.

Having started (as PicoLibre) in an educational context, PicoForge is now a quite generic platform, comparable (but sometimes less advanced) to other *-Forge software platforms. It groups several high-level applications like phpGroupware, Sympa, TWiki, Subversion, and CVS.

Tiger Envelopes is an easy way to get your email privacy back.
With Tiger Envelopes you use email just like you always have with everyone. And, without you doing anything, your messages are private with people who use envelopes.
The mission of Tiger Envelopes is to make private email easy.
Theres a tradeoff between ease of use and security. For too many years some security professionals have said any privacy thats not perfect is worse than worthless. They say it creates a false sense of security.
No one has a false sense of security about envelopes. Theyre made of paper. But we know theyre much more private than messages without envelopes, such as postcards or email.
Tiger gives you envelopes for your email.
Envelopes comes in two versions, Free and Business.
Tiger Free Envelopes is free in both senses, gratis and libre. It is released under the GPL.
Tiger Business Envelopes is commercial. Its based on Tiger Free Envelopes and adds support plus advanced features businesses need. Source code is included for security audits, but its not GPL.
Enhancements:
- Improved imap support for Thunderbird.
- Start Envelopes from the installer during new installations more reliably.
- Change welcome email message to "what to do" message.
- Save options if installer canceled and options changed.
- Shortened the message in the installers final panel.
- Include how to start the control panel on Linux.
- Removed welcome message from control panel.
- Fixed net.n3.nanoxml.StdXMLParser so searches for dtd in jar files when offline.
- Called closeSession() if user, password, or remote host invalid.
- Improved error messages if remote host not found.
- Ignore files starting with . in the notices directory.
- Created ProxyUser class to manage client and remote user data in proxies.
- Removed thirdparty source that we havent customized.
- Added thirdparty/lib directory with unmodified third party jar files.
- Added setChanged() to envelopes.io classes.
- Delete email accounts from options after theyre anonymized.
- Send notice if Tiger account not defined for a POP3 account.
- Send error message to mail client if POP3 command invalid.
- Validate POP3, IMAP, and SMTP commands from mail client.
- Send 252 response code when VRFY requested of SMTP proxy.
- Send 550 response code when EXPN received by SMTP proxy.

HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility.
It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer.
HTTrack arranges the original sites relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online.
HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.
Enhancements:
- This release fixes previous 3.40 issues such as bogus background download, major memory usage bugs, local file naming bugs, broken configure.in, and several fixes for FreeBSD.

DeuTex is a wad composer for Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife. It can be used to extract the lumps of a wad and save them as individual files. Conversely, it can also build a wad from separate files. When extracting a lump to a file, it does not just copy the raw data, it converts it to an appropriate format (such as PPM for graphics, Sun audio for samples, etc.).
Conversely, when it reads files for inclusion in pwads, it does the necessary conversions (for example, from PPM to Doom picture format).If you like to do wad hacking beyond level editing, DeuTex is a must. In addition, DeuTex has functions such as merging wads, etc. I use it all the time.
Main features:
- Supported platforms
- Unix and DOS. Should not be difficult to port to other platforms.
- Supported iwads
- Doom, Doom II, Ultimate Doom, Doom alpha 0.4 and 0.5, Doom press release pre-beta, Heretic, Hexen, Strife.
- Supported file formats
- .au, .voc, .wav, .bmp, .gif (will go away), .ppm.
Enhancements:
- default transparent colour is (0, 47, 47) instead of (0, 255, 255),
- flats are put between FF_START and F_END,
- Doom alpha 0.4 and Doom alpha 0.5 are supported,
- Doom press release pre-beta is supported,
- Hexen is supported,
- Strife is supported,
- new command -usedidx,
- on Unix (especially Linux), builds much more smoothly,
- on DOS and Windows, builds with DJGPP and Cygwin,
- source available and libre license (GPL + LGPL + Pbmplus),
- GIF is deprecated,
- many bug fixes and small improvements.