Free ms software for linux

pymssql module provides access to MS SQL Servers from Python scripts.
Its the most efficient method of accessing MS SQL Servers data from Python scripts. If you care about performance, you can give it a try.
Supported Platforms
pymssql 0.7.4 has been tested on FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 2.1, 3.0, Linux with kernel 2.6, and Windows XP. It should also run on other platforms.
pymssql 0.7.1 has been tested on FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0, NetBSD 2.0.2, Linux with kernel 2.6, Solaris 10/x86, Mac OS X (thanks Joseph Kocherhans) and Windows XP. It should also run on other platforms.
If you have any experience with other platforms, just let me know and Ill add the info here.
Supported SQL Server versions
pymssql 0.7.4 on *BSD, Linux was successfully tested with SQL Server 2000, all service pack levels.
pymssql 0.7.4 on Windows was successfully tested with SQL Server 2000 RTM, SP3a and SP4, and with SQL Server 2005 RTM (9.00.1399.06).
Main features:
- Supports connecting to MS SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 servers, all editions and service pack levels.
- Supports named instances and non-standard port numbers.
- Great performance: it uses MS SQL DB-Library for C instead of Win32 ODBC.
- Multiple Query/Multiple Result.
- Supports "almost all" of the DB-API 2.0.

MS Word to plaintext converter is a service menue easily converts MS Word documents to plain text files. The generated text file is named *.doc.txt.

I hope it is as useful for you as it is for me.

WMDsweeper project is a 3D minesweeper clone.

WMDsweeper is a 3D/2D-based minesweeper game. It has text-based and graphical interfaces for playing. Saving games, loading games, and configuring different skins are supported.

The game also offers extras such as saving, loading, and customising the games appearance and difficulty. It is currently still a fairly fresh project (under a year old, and not much worked on until recently). There is a MS Windows Binary available, and Linux source code available (with a precompiled binary thrown in).

Due to the age of the project the MS Windows and *nix versions are released independently, so you may have to go to an older release to get the latest Windows Binary.

Notes is a small ViewKit/Motif applet that provides post-it notes for the IRIX desktop. Its designed to integrate with the toolchest, but it can be run from the command-line too.

A "Notes" toolchest menu is included in the "chestrc.notes" file. Notes uses the file format of the excellent MS-Windows post-it note application called "Stickies".

mpeg2videotools is a C library and set of tools for encoding, decoding, verification and analysis of MPEG-2 video. It supports 422 Profile and High Profile bitstreams. A PSNR tool is included for comparing uncompressed video to encoded MPEG-2 video.
The library will provide a C API and be implemented in C. Platforms supported will be popular Unices and Linux, MS Windows and MacOSX. autoconf and automake will be used to achieve portability for most platforms. Decoded bitstreams will be displayed using X11 server for Unix and native Windows API for MS Windows.
Included is an encoder and decoder application which are useful for creating compliant bitstreams and decoding and verifying MPEG-ES, MPEG-PS, MPEG-PES and MPEG-TS bitstreams.
A number of important improvements over the original SSG code have already been made:
display on TrueColor visuals (16, 24, 32 bit displays)
decoding of MPEG-TS streams
decoding of broken streams which do not start with a required start code
autoconf build
MS Windows display
a library API to enable its use in other projects (ImageMagick and the AAF SDK come to mind)
MIAMI is an MPEG-2 video codec library which aims to be a complete implementation of the ISO/IEC 13812-2:2000 standard. The priority is completeness and correctness rather than speed. Included is an encoder and a decoder for MPEG-ES,PS,PES,TS bitstreams.
Enhancements:
- changed function decs to ANSI style
- added const qualifier to suitable function args

Need a Type 3 JDBC Driver for MS Access or SQL Server? Think RmiJdbc!
RmiJdbc project is a client/server JDBC Driver that relies on Java RMI.
All JDBC classes (like Connection, ResultSet, etc...) are distributed as RMI objects, so that you can distribute as you like the access to any database supporting the JDBC API.
In fact, RmiJdbc is just a bridge to allow remote access to JDBC drivers.
Why RmiJdbc?
- You develop a client/server application with databases on Windows (NT)? Use RmiJdbc along with the JDBC/ODBC Bridge, your Windows (NT) databases become remotely accessible in Java.
- You implement a JDBC Driver? Just implement the JDBC classes locally, dont bother with remote access!
- You need serializable JDBC classes? Here they are.
Enhancements:
- Add features/limitations/changes here

sch_log is a patch for Linux kernel that allows qdisc to mirror traffic that pass to a special network device which can be listened to with tcpdump.
This is an example of how to use it :
tc qdisc add dev eth0 root dup gap 1 limit 100
ping x.y.z.t
PING x.y.z.t (1.1.1.2) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from x.y.z.t (1.1.1.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=0.687 ms
64 bytes from x.y.z.t (1.1.1.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=1.07 ms (DUP!)
64 bytes from x.y.z.t (1.1.1.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=0.710 ms
64 bytes from x.y.z.t (1.1.1.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=0.739 ms (DUP!)
Enhancements:
- A possible leak.
- Some fixes in debug code, but also in the main code (related to fragments).