Free limited too software for linux

Mandriva Linux is the operating system of choice for users keen on all things advanced.
Linux power users will welcome the advanced Web experience, enhanced hardware compatibility and expanded development options brought by Limited Edition 2005, along with significant performance gains. Firefox 1.0.2 offers the most advanced Web browsing experience, with multi-tabbed navigation, pop-up blocking, increased speed, and unmatched security.
Limited Edition also offers the RSS reader Akregator. RSS is a format used to simplify the aggregation and syndication of Web content. RSS feeds contain news and updates from websites and blogs, providing personalized access to information.
Limited Edition 2005 is built to optimize and increase performance. It has been developed with x86-64 technology in mind, which allows for the use of more powerful applications. Support for dual-core technology adds to potential performance, allowing the use of advanced new processors.
Developers and power users running demanding multimedia configurations will appreciate the additional power those features provide. Some special optimizations enhance the overall speed delivered by the system. For instance, KDE 3.3 is 10% faster, thanks to special tuning by Mandriva.
Addressing both the x86 and x86-64 architectures, Limited Edition 2005 is the only Linux system to allow the seamless installation and running of 32-bit applications on 64-bit platforms. This will allow users to benefit from all the power and performance of 64-bit technology while continuing to use vital 32-bit applications.
Developers will welcome the ability to develop 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same application on the same machine, without the need to use chroot. Finally, Limited Edition allows you to copy the contents of the DVD to the hard disk during installation, removing the need to use the DVD for subsequent software installation, and so saving even more time.
Limited Edition 2005 provides better support for removable devices such as digital cameras, CD-ROM drives and USB keys through immediate detection of devices as they are plugged in, and by allowing you to boot the installation from a USB key.
Also available is DKMS which allows kernel modules to be dynamically built for each kernel on your system in a simplified and organized fashion.
A special feature that will certainly appeal to gamers and enthusiasts is that the new release from Mandriva has support for the Xbox console, empowering users to bridge the divide between gaming and other computer activities.
Additional hardware enhancements include full support for Adaptec Host RAID controllers (RAID, SCSI, SATA) and extended recognition for the most recent flat screen monitors, including widescreen resolutions.
Main features:
The latest versions of key Linux applications
- Linux kernel 2.6.11.6
- KDE 3.3.2 (with some backports from version 3.4, including Kpdf)
- GNOME 2.8.3
- Firefox 1.0.2
- GCC 3.4.3
- The GIMP 2.2
- cdrecord 2.01.01a21 (with DVD+R dual-layer support)
- OpenOffice.org 1.1.4
- MySQL 4.1.11
Enhanced Hardware support
- Unequalled x86-64 support, including seamless installation of a 32-bit environment on the 64-bit platform, allowing developers to build 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same system
- Full support for Adaptec Host RAID controllers (RAID, SCSI, SATA)
- Improved recognition of removable devices, such as digital cameras, CD-ROM drives and USB keys
- Improved support for the most recent flat screen monitors, including widescreen resolutions
- Simplified handling of drivers thanks to the integration of Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS), enabling the changing of drivers without the need to reinstall the Kernel, and the ability to use the same driver on multiple different kernel revisions
- Support for multimedia keyboards
Faster
- Up to 10% greater KDE performance thanks to compilation with the fvisibility option
- The option to copy all software packages onto the hard disk during the installation, making it unnecessary to use the DVD for subsequent software installation
Advanced Web experience
- Firefox 1.0.2 offers the most advanced Web browsing experience, with multi-tabbed navigation, pop-up blocking, increased speed, and unmatched security.
- RSS reader Akregator to get personalized access to the content of websites from all around the globe.
Enhanced mutimedia capabilities
- ndiswrapper allows for easier wireless networking configuration, thanks to the utilization of installed Windows drivers
- Mandrivas new ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) version includes multiplexing, allowing you to listen to sound from several applications at once, even if your sound card does not perform multiplexing in hardware.

php-sqlite3 project is a PHP extension that lets you access SQLite3 databases within your scripts.
PHP 4 and PHP 5 have already built-in support for this RDBM, but this is limited to the 2.x releases. This extension adds support for SQLite 3.x release.
Please note that this project is still alpha-quality. Please test and report if it works for you and how it can be enhanced.
Current (or planned) features include:
In-memory databases support
UTF-16 encoding
User-level SQL functions
PEAR::DB driver class
Enhancements:
- fix BEGIN...END/ROLLBACK statments queries (thanks to John Morrissey!)
- better support for BLOB columns (thanks to Michal Srajer!)

LanguageTool is an Open Source language checker for the English and German language. This is a rule-based language checker that will find errors for which a rule is defined in its XML configuration files. Rules for more complicated errors can be written in Java.

You can think of LanguageTool as a tool to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect a limited amount of grammar mistakes. It does not include spell checking.

SMServer is a sms frontend to scmxx. scmxx is a command line tool written by Hendrik Sattler for administrating Siemens mobiles. SMSender is limited to scmxx sms sending functionality.

SMSender project has been tested with an Siemens S65, but should work with all mobiles supported by scmxx.

DigiTools project aims to provide full hardware support on Linux for the specialized equipment that comes standard with the ASUS Digimatrix barebones system.
Enhancements:
- Control of most of the Digimatrix hardware is possible in a limited manner, however currently no progress has been made on usage of the front panel buttons.
- This project is currently utilized by the GeeXboX project to provide better support of the Digimatrix as a home theatre system.

Pagetool provides a CMS (content management system) that allows people with limited technical skills to contribute to a website.
What is Pagetool?
Pagetool is a program that allows people with limited technical skills to modify and contribute to an organizations web site via a web browser. There is no need for using an FTP program or for purchasing html editing programs like Dream Weaver or Go Live!. Furthermore, for basic site maintenance, no knowledge of HTML is necessary.
How Does it Work?
Pagetool stores all web pages in a database. To the average web user, it looks and acts like a typical web site. However, it you go to the special admin section and enter the correct username and password, you will be able to see a list of web pages on your site. By selecting a web page and clicking "edit" you will be able to change the content of that particular page.
Was Pagetool designed specifically for Nonprofits?
Media Jumpstart launched the Pagetool project (as a branch of myphpPagetool) with the express goal of making a web content management system appropriate for nonprofit organizations. As the project developed, however, it has attracted diverse developers who have been adapting it to work with for profit organizations, consultants, and universities, making it useful to a wide spectrum of organizations. The Pagetool project has since been taken over by Dave Guerin.
Enhancements:
- Added a link from the first setup page to the README_CGI.txt file for those that might need to do a manual install.
- Added an if !isset for $pt_action in pt_admin.inc. Maybe Pagetool 1.x will run with E_ALL error reporting someday :-)
- The new profile and edit profile admin screens now have valid html, plus a note about changing the colspan values for the header td and footer td thats required if theres no news bar.

File::pushd is a Perl module to change directory temporarily for a limited scope.

SYNOPSIS

use File::pushd;

chdir $ENV{HOME};

# change directory again for a limited scope
{
my $dir = pushd( /tmp );
# working directory changed to /tmp
}
# working directory has reverted to $ENV{HOME}

# tempd() is equivalent to pushd( File::Temp::tempdir )
{
my $dir = tempd();
}

# object stringifies naturally as an absolute path
{
my $dir = pushd( /tmp );
my $filename = File::Spec->catfile( $dir, "somefile.txt" );
# gives /tmp/somefile.txt
}

File::pushd does a temporary chdir that is easily and automatically reverted, similar to pushd in some Unix command shells. It works by creating an object that caches the original working directory. When the object is destroyed, the destructor calls chdir to revert to the original working directory. By storing the object in a lexical variable with a limited scope, this happens automatically at the end of the scope.

This is very handy when working with temporary directories for tasks like testing; a function is provided to streamline getting a temporary directory from File::Temp.
For convenience, the object stringifies as the canonical form of the absolute pathname of the directory entered.