Free mature muscle software for linux

TurboGears project is based on the agile, mature, cross-platform, well-documented, easy and fun Python programming language.
Python makes it super simple to get started with TurboGears, whether youre running Windows, Linux, Mac OS X or even a cell phone. OK, so youre probably not going to want to run a web server on your cell phone.
Any way you slice it, youll be amazed how quickly you get started!
Installation:
Even though you dont have Easy Install yet, you can still take advantage of it. Instead of one-command installation, it will be two-step installation. And, youll have Easy Install for the next update!
The instructions below will install into the primary system locations for Python modules. On many systems, this requires superuser access. So, performing the installation below will require you to enter your password. If your system does not have sudo installed or configured properly, you can su to the superuser account and then run the command.
Note that on some Linux systems (Ubuntu, for example), you may need to install a "python-dev" packages in order for everything to compile correctly.
- Download the ez_setup.py script.
- Run sudo python ez_setup.py -f http://www.turbogears.org/download/index.html --script-dir /usr/local/bin TurboGears
Enhancements:
- Much better on-line documentation was provided.
- Internationalization is now also available for the JavaScript files.
- When using SAprovider for identity management, passwords are now encrypted on the fly if a identity.saprovider.encryption_algorithm is set to md5 or sha1 in app.conf.
- An alternative quick-start model that uses Elixir (using -e switch) is proposed.
- A similar one will become the default in 1.1.

TunesBrowser project is a simple music player, capable of playing music found on iTunes shares.
TunesBrowser can connect to the latest iTunes applications (as of April 29 2004) and is implemented on top of libopendaap.
TunesBrowsers interface is quite similar to that of iTunes. TunesBrowser was written with the purpose of being a prototype front-end for libopendaap. I intend to integrate libopendaap with other, more mature, players.
Main features:
- Play mp3s off other computers running iTunes
- Discovery of hosts over Rendezvous.

Excalibur is an open source software project of The Apache Software Foundation. Our primary product is a lightweight, embeddable Inversion of Control container named Fortress that is written in java.

Inversion of control, also known as the hollywood principle ("dont call us, well call you"), is a simple but powerful concept. The idea is that we dont "wire up" all the pieces that make up an application (the "components") by writing lots of this-component-uses-that-one-like-so code, nor do we use some kind of lookup directory (like JNDI, for example) where each component decides what components to interact with itself. Instead, we instruct a smart piece of software, the container, to tell the components how to interact.

Fortress (and also its predecessor, "ECM") is such a container. It is lightweight, by which we mean that it doesnt need a lot of resources, take a lot of disk or memory, or impose all sorts of demands on its environment. Fortress is also embeddable, by which we mean that you can use fortress inside just about every java environment. More concretely, you can use it as the basis of a large standalone development platform (like the Keel project), at the core of a servlet-based web application (like Cocoon) or even as the basis of a GUI application (like GuiApp).

Fortress knows how to manage components that have been developed using a rigid lifecycle contract called Avalon-Framework. In the next upcoming release, fortress will also be able to manage ordinary javabeans, and support for other kinds of Inversion of Control are planned.

Besides providing fortress, excalibur also provides a small library of very useful components. We also distribute some of the libraries used to build fortress (and some other containers) seperately. This selection of libraries is called containerkit.

So why is excalibur an interesting project?

Heres a few partial answers.

good code. Code that comes from the mature avalon project (everything that used to be branded as "Avalon Excalibur" and "Avalon Fortress"). This includes two lightweight Inversion of Control containers. One of these powers, among other things, Cocoon. The other ("fortress") is the basis of projects like Keel. Excalibur also includes powerful and mature reusable "components" and "libraries", handling tasks ranging from thread management to component pooling to (URI-and-similar-) source resolving.

smart developers. Most of these people are or have been active in the avalon project in various roles. Several of them are apache members. Together they have loads and loads experience under their belts related to inversion of control development. In fact, Im confident to say this list includes some of the biggest experts on inversion-of-control-style container development.

exciting community. Several open source and commercial projects (both at apache and elsewhere) depend on and contribute to the excalibur project. A strong team of enthousiastic developers (with strong ties to several other projects in the same problem domain) has various big and small plans with excalibur. One of the leading open source organisations in the world, The Apache Software Foundation, is hosting the project, providing insight, advice, infrastructure, legal backing, a time- and battle-proven development process, and much more.

RocketSled is a object-oriented, full featured, Web-based application development framework for PHP 5.
Its packages include Active Record and Object Relational Mapping, an advanced XML-based templating language, and a multi-user management suite.
Main features:
- Completely Object Orientated
- Flexible program structure
- Package-centric applications for easy re-deployment
- Integrated XML based templating language (RSML)
- XML based form validation engine (FormML)
- Does not require database for basic install
- Extra packages (currently 2 available) for ActiveRecord and user management
- ActiveRecord package with automated data tainting and universal pagination
- MIT License
Enhancements:
- All packages are now included in the same CVS repository for more basic version numbering, and the system has increased in stability and is more mature.
- It has also had numerous bugfixes and feature enhancements.
- Although the documentation is still very lacking, there is a Getting Started tutorial that will hopefully allow people to start looking at the framework more seriously.

Apache Portals is a collaborative software development project dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available Portal related software on a wide variety of platforms and programming languages.

This project is managed in cooperation with various individuals worldwide (both independent and company-affiliated experts), who use the Internet to communicate, plan, and develop Portal software and related documentation.

Modern software is complex and expensive, which has motivated many companies to invest in enterprise portals as a mechanism by which they can manage information in a cohesive and structured fashion.

Portals offer many advantages over other software applications. First, they provide a single point of entry for employees, partners, and customers. Second, portals can access Web services transparently from any device in virtually any location. Third, portals are highly flexible; they can exist in the form of B2E intra-nets, B2B extra-nets, or B2C inter-nets. Fourth, portals can be combined to form a portal network that can span a companys entire enterprise system, allowing for access both inside and outside the firewall.

Portals have many advantages, which is why they have become the de facto standard for Web application delivery. In fact, analysts have predicted that portals will become the next generation for the desktop environment.

Portals distinguish themselves from other software systems because they provide the ability to integrate disparate systems and leverage the functionality provided by those systems. As such, they are not mutually exclusive, and do not force you into an either-or decision vis-a-vis existing software systems. This point is of paramount importance, particularly when you consider the fact that Web services are destined to fuel the explosion of Web applications. Since portals can access any Web services, the conclusion is inescapable: portals provide a unique opportunity to leverage the functionality of nascent technologies as well as mature, well-established software systems.

WallFire is a very general and modular firewalling application based on Netfilter or any kind of low-level framework.
It will enable to manage every aspect of a firewall administration, from configuration to monitoring, intrusion detection, etc...
WallFire will provide command line and interactive tools as well as X Window or Web front-ends.
WallFire is "libre" (free as a speech, in English) software. It is mainly written in C++ and is intended to run on every *nix system.
WallFire is a package that is composed of:
a server side:
wfpolicyd, a daemon which can run on any host and centralises the rules and policy management
wfcommitd, a daemon which runs on the firewall(s) itself and commits the firewalling rules, whatever platform it is running on and whatever tools are available on the latter.
So you will need to run a wfcommitd daemon on each firewall, but only one wfpolicyd for a whole site.
a client side:
some libraries (for example wfnetobjs) on which every operation relies
wfconvert, the tool which imports/translates rules from/to any supported firewalling language
wflogs, the log analysis and reporting tool
wfadmin, the administration shell tool
xwfadmin, the X (Qt) administration front-end, which is useful, but not compulsory
webfire, the Web administration interface (in PHP).
Of course, client and server parts can (should?) be run on different hosts. All communications will be authentificated and encrypted (via SSL). Every data (network objects, rules, logs) will be importable/exportable in XML.
So far, the things that have been implemented are: some libraries (wfnetobjs for example), the wfconvert (which is quite functionnal now) and wflogs (which is mature and fully functionnal) commands.
Note that wfconvert and wflogs can be used locally, independantly of other WallFire tools.
Enhancements:
- Improved matching of netfilter and ipfilter input modules.
- Added support for Cisco FWSM (PIX).
- Improved netfilter parsing.
- Compilation fixes for *BSD.
- Added wflogs.dtd.
- Added wfchkintegrity tool, which enables to monitor changes in the firewalling configuration.

Buni Meldware Communication Suite (MCS) is a platform-independent groupware package consisting of:
- Meldware Mail
- Meldware Calendar
- Meldware Webmail
- Meldware Secure Administration System
Together the package provides support for thousands of users concurrently to send and receive email and to schedule meetings. MCS uniquely allows you to store all messages and scheduling events in nearly any database and runs on nearly all popular software and hardware platforms.
MCS commitment to platform and database agnosticism aims to meet increasing business requirements to maximize ease and flexibility of managing and accessing data as well as putting a premium on interoperability.
Additionally, while the scheduling and calendaring services can be installed separately, the integrated feature set provides both a distinctive and powerful experience to both users and server-side Mail Based Applications and Collaboration Based Application Services.
The MCS platform provides security integration using LDAP sources including Microsoft Active Directory as well as flat-file and database sources.
Additionally, extensible security allows custom authentication/authorization sources.
Enhancements:
- This is the first milestone release with WCAP, freebusy for webmail, and mature IMAP all together.
- It has undergone extensive hardening, dogfooding, and QA testing.
- The WCAP protocol for calendaring now works well for Thunderbird and Lightning 0.3.
- Webmail calendaring was greatly improved.
- The abillity to download attachments has been added to the webmail interface.
- Numerous performance improvements have been made in SMTP, IMAP, and MIME parsing since 1.0-M7.